Chapter 758

Whoosh...

Among the high mountains and steep ridges, the wind blew, and the bloodiness that filled the world seemed to have faded a lot.

But on the ground, that terrifyingly huge gully was shocking, making it impossible for people to ignore.

Under the gaze of ten thousand demons, Qixi walked to a large rock.

Stuck on it was a saber, a golden saber that had already broken, with only half left.

It was this saber that had slashed out that gully which spanned hundreds of miles, with no end in sight, as if it had split the earth in two.

"Worthy of being the Ba Dao!"

"The final strike of a desperate counterattack before death actually had such power, taking away tens of thousands of our clan's powerhouses."

Swish! Swish! Swish!

In the sky, several figures fell like shooting stars.

Each of them exuded a monstrous demonic aura; they were clearly fourth-tier Demon Emperor-level existences!

"Commander Qixi, Ba Dao is dead!"

Commander Qixi glanced at them, his tone displeased: "You delayed for too long."

Those few Demon Emperors were a bit embarrassed.

They hadn't expected Ba Dao to be so difficult to deal with; combining the power of four demons, they had fought several times without taking him down.

Especially since the other party had a fierce nature, every time they fought, he used a suicidal, drag-others-down-with-him style, making it even harder for the demons to find a way to start.

Fortunately, Commander Qixi sent help.

A thin man in white floated down in front of the golden broken saber and licked his lips.

"The Nascent Soul of a human powerhouse is indeed the most delicious food in the world, especially such a top-tier powerhouse!"

Qixi frowned. "Gao Chang, the Lord said you cannot take action personally; how could you be so impulsive just now?"

The man in white named Gao Chang sneered. "Who told those four to be useless? I couldn't wait, so naturally, I had to go hunt personally. Don't worry about me; prepare well to attack Lingtian Pass!"

While speaking, he lowered his body and reached out to grasp the hilt of the broken saber.

The master was dead, so this object would be a good souvenir.

Just as he grasped the hilt, he suddenly turned his head!

His body didn't move, but his head turned a full one hundred and eighty degrees, looking straight behind him.

"The scent of food!"

Commander Qixi also reacted instantly, his spiritual sense spreading out, chasing after the spiritual sense that was retreating frantically.

But the other party retreated too quickly, almost without any entanglement, and disappeared.

The direction: Lingtian Pass!

Commander Qixi frowned. "The spiritual sense of a human Nascent Soul, probably at the mid-Nascent Soul level."

"We've been discovered!"

Gao Chang said playfully. Now that he was full, although he felt the fresh scent of food, he didn't have the same impulse as before.

After two sentences, the other four Demon Emperors finally reacted.

"Was someone spying on us just now?"

"Could it be that Ling Fengzi?"

"No, although that person's escape speed is fast, his realm is only at the early Nascent Soul stage; it's absolutely impossible for him to spy on this place silently without us discovering him."

"The two Lords are still sharp, discovering the spy instantly."

Facing the discussion of the four demons, Commander Qixi had no reaction.

He glanced at Gao Chang without a trace; it was the other party who discovered it first!

His own realm, placed in the human cultivation world, was at least at the late Nascent Soul level, yet he was actually slower to discover the spy than Gao Chang.

What level should Gao Chang's realm be at?

"That's a very clever character; I imagine his Nascent Soul must also be delicious and lively. If you meet this person in the future, remember to notify me."

Gao Chang chuckled, and without any movement, his whole body turned into a wisp of white smoke and disappeared on the spot.

After he left, Commander Qixi snorted coldly.

"Just loves to show off this god-playing, ghost-acting escape technique."

He could evaluate Gao Chang, but the other four could not.

In the silence, someone asked: "Commander Qixi, what should we do next? Should we go help An Ming and the others recover Fire Ridge?"

Commander Qixi waved his hand. "No need. Fire Ridge is not to be feared; they are just a bunch of people hiding their heads and showing their tails, and An Ming and the others will take them down sooner or later."

Then, his gaze swept across the thousands of miles of land, where strange and vicious demon beasts walked on the devastated earth.

They are, after all, demon beasts that haven't transformed and have low intelligence!

Even if they formed a demon beast army, they still couldn't achieve strict discipline.

And in front of them stood the first majestic city of the Eastern Wasteland since ancient times; relying on these stupid creatures, it was impossible to take it down.

Logically speaking, they should settle down on the spot and wait for the other commanders in the rear to arrive before launching an attack together.

But Qixi thought of the words of Lord Di Tian.

"The one who breaks Lingtian Pass gets the first merit!"

Calm as he was, he couldn't help but be eager to move.

His gaze fell on the four Demon Emperors in front of him, and he shook his head secretly in his heart.

"Relying on them is not enough!"

"I must contact a few friends and forcibly break Lingtian Pass. Otherwise, when Huang Man and the others arrive, this first merit won't be my turn."

"Bikuo has been broken, Ba Dao has died miserably, and an unknown powerhouse has witnessed this scene; even if Fire Ridge is still there, Lingtian Pass will only increase its precautions."

"Therefore, this matter must be fast!"

With his thoughts turning, Commander Qixi had already made his plans in an instant.

"You all settle down on the spot and wait for my return!"

On the city wall of Lingtian Pass.

Teams of cultivators came and went.

They were usually quite active, but at this moment, they were as quiet as cicadas in winter, not daring to breathe loudly.

Gazes couldn't help but fall on the white figure that had appeared abruptly at some unknown time.

It was the Alchemist!

For the past two years, he hadn't come to the city wall much.

Although it was rumored that one of his puppets was stationed at the watchtower, it was, after all, just a puppet.

No one expected that he would come personally.

Facing the curious gazes of the crowd, Luo Chen turned a blind eye.

At this moment, he had lingering fears.

"What on earth is that white-clothed demon thing? Not only did it discover my spiritual sense at the first moment, but it even gave me a feeling of being a natural enemy!"

"In front of it, even though my Nascent Soul was thousands of miles away and protected by the Purple Mansion barrier, I was still uneasy."

"It's as if this demon was born to be the natural enemy of Nascent Souls!"

In fear, Luo Chen couldn't help but obtain a piece of intelligence from that fleeting glance.

Ba Dao was dead!

The Ba Dao Domain had completely fallen!

Several Demon Emperors gathered in the Ba Dao Domain, and countless low-tier demon beasts covered the mountains and plains.

In other words, they were only one step away from Lingtian Pass.

"Supreme Elder!"

A greeting came from his ear.

Luo Chen turned his head and saw it was Yang Pingdu, who was leading the patrol.

He nodded and was about to leave.

But just as he took a step, he stopped again and exhorted: "It might not be peaceful next. Patrols inside the city are fine, but if you lead a team outside the city to sweep for demon beasts, you must pay attention to safety. Those talismans, follow the method of the Fairy of Ruthlessness, and keep them ready at all times; don't find them cumbersome."

Yang Pingdu was a bit surprised; he rarely saw the Supreme Elder being so "long-winded" like this.

But the elder's exhortation was full of care, and his heart still warmed.

"I will strictly follow your instructions and inform the disciples of the sect."

"Hmm, be careful in everything!"

Luo Chen exhorted one more time and then hurriedly left the city wall, heading straight for the City Lord's Mansion.

Lingtian Pass was very large; if it weren't for the fact that both the City Lord's Mansion and the area Luo Chen patrolled were in the rear, it would have taken a long time to rush over.

But now, it didn't take long to arrive at the City Lord's Mansion.

Unlike Gu Zuokai, who was given the cold shoulder, after he said he had matters related to the demon race to report, he was soon received by the Lingtian City Lord.

"Ba Dao is dead?"

The Lingtian City Lord looked sad, seemingly quite regretful about the other party's fall.

"I had even reserved a spot for him here, and he had agreed that if the situation looked bad, he would bring his disciples to retreat into Lingtian Pass. I didn't expect that he wouldn't even have the chance to escape."

Luo Chen was stunned; he had previously thought that the guys from the Ba Dao Sect were reluctant to leave their homeland and didn't want to retreat.

Now it seemed they wanted to leave but couldn't!

After the Lingtian City Lord sighed, he asked for details.

After Luo Chen described the powerhouse he had caught a glimpse of, the Lingtian City Lord fell into deep thought.

After a while, he said slowly: "Four demons, they should be among the ten Demon Emperors under Qixi's command; their realms aren't very high, but to be able to hold back Ba Dao, they must have some ability."

Luo Chen was thoughtful. "In other words, the man with the rhinoceros horn on his forehead is the legendary Qixi Demon Emperor among the nine commanders?"

"It should be!"

The Lingtian City Lord nodded.

He paced slowly in the hall, speaking eloquently.

"According to the intelligence we have investigated, the Eastern Wasteland demon race, under the leadership of the Ancient Demon Di Tian, has already been integrated into a single piece of iron."

"He personally appointed eight late-Nascent Soul demon cultivators as commanders, and coupled with the Azure Frost Demon Emperor from Cangwu Mountain, they formed the nine commanders."

"These nine commanders are all powerful, comparable to the great late-Nascent Soul cultivators of our human race. Moreover, each has at least five or six Demon Emperors under their command, and at most ten, driven by them."

"The scale of their power is a grand occasion unparalleled since ancient times!"

Even though Luo Chen had learned this information from many intelligence reports long ago, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva at this moment.

Nine commanders, each comparable to a great late-Nascent Soul cultivator.

Among them, there was even an peerless powerhouse like the Azure Frost Demon Emperor.

It was no wonder that the Jiuling Yuanjun was not optimistic about the upcoming war at all.

He understood even more why Ling Fengzi was desperately trying to curry favor with him to obtain the Wind Aperture Pill to increase his strength.

Under such a great trend, no one could stay out of it!

Only by increasing one's strength as much as possible could one have a glimmer of survival.

Especially since they still had an ancient demon above them with the Daoist name Pingshan Jun and the real name Di Tian!

Luo Chen couldn't help but ask: "In the great war, will Di Tian take action personally?"

Regarding this question, the Lingtian City Lord smiled.

"You don't need to worry about this. The human and demon races have always had an agreement that Soul Transformation powerhouses are not allowed to participate in the war. Di Tian, as an ancient demon, is comparable to a human Soul Transformation powerhouse and is naturally bound by the agreement."

Luo Chen's eyes were a bit strange.

Soul Transformation powerhouses are not allowed to take action?

Then what was the battle at Cangwu Mountain back then?

The Lingtian City Lord seemed to realize the loophole in his words and explained slightly.

"In this realm, Soul Transformation is the peak of living beings, and every move draws the trend of heaven and earth. When taking action, they manipulate the vast heaven and earth spiritual energy. If they were to engage in a life-and-death battle without restraint, it would surely overturn mountains and seas and sink continents."

"With living beings suffering and the Heavenly Dao enraged, it would either send down tribulation lightning or draw in external demons; in any case, Soul Transformation powerhouses wouldn't have an easy time either."

"Therefore, in previous great wars, there were few cases of Soul Transformation powerhouses fighting each other. They usually let the powerhouses under their command fight each other to decide the outcome."

Having obtained this explanation, Luo Chen felt a bit more settled in his heart.

But it was only a bit.

Thinking of the nine demon commanders, he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I only thought that the human path was prosperous, but I didn't expect the demon race to have such strength silently."

The Lingtian City Lord was also filled with emotion.

Three thousand years of accumulation since ancient times, coupled with the fact that the demon race has a long lifespan.

It was reasonable for so many powerhouses to be born in those million great mountains.

If one really wanted to calculate it, the human race in the Eastern Wasteland was not inferior, but the true top-tier powerhouses were all accumulated in the Mingyuan Sect.

In his view, if they fought with all their might and the Mingyuan Sect came out in full force, their strength would definitely be able to suppress the Eastern Wasteland demon race.

It was just that it hadn't reached that point yet.

He looked at Luo Chen. "I will report the news you brought to the Nascent Soul Daoists guarding various places; next, please continue to hold Lingtian Pass to the west."

Luo Chen nodded, but before leaving, he still asked worriedly: "Relying on just a few of us, we can't hold Lingtian Pass, right?"

"Yes, we can't hold it."

The Lingtian City Lord smiled slightly, his hands behind his back, saying calmly: "Therefore, the Nascent Soul powerhouses scattered in various places should also be summoned."

Since Luo Chen brought back the news of the fall of the Ba Dao Domain, the entire Lingtian Pass had become visibly tense.

The number of cultivator teams sent out to patrol the surroundings of the city had increased nearly tenfold.

The business of magic treasures and talismans in the city was becoming more and more explosive.

Some powerful treasures that were originally kept as shop-protecting treasures were forcibly bought by people gritting their teeth and paying a huge price.

Everyone was sharpening their weapons, waiting for that battle.

No one held any luck, because the cultivators in Lingtian Pass were all forced to flee here from the east.

They had fought with demon beasts and knew what fate would befall them if they fell into the hands of demon beasts.

And there was no retreat in the rear; they could only survive by fighting to the death!

Of course, even with the determination to fight to the death, everyone was still looking forward to reinforcements from the rear.

The more people, the better, naturally!

However, the arrival of reinforcements would take time, and before that, no one could afford to be careless.

Luo Chen was the same; he visited Ling Fengzi at the first opportunity.

The other party had already come out of closed-door cultivation after refining the Wind Aperture Pill; if he could learn more information about powerful Demon Emperors from the other party, he could be slightly more composed in the upcoming battle.

But clearly, Luo Chen was disappointed.

For several consecutive days, he didn't run into Ling Fengzi.

According to the disciples of the Misty Sect, the Ancestor had gone out of the city to execute a mission.

"Sure enough, in this situation, one can only rely on oneself."

Luo Chen muttered, taking out the scroll that Wang Yuan had given him before he left from his storage ring.

For Nascent Soul cultivators, the cultivation of powerful methods was often counted in years.

Those ordinary third-tier spells, even if he, Luo Chen, could quickly cultivate them to a level not inferior to fourth-tier spells, were still lacking.

In a short time, his realm couldn't reach the mid-Nascent Soul stage; if he wanted to increase his strength, he could only optimize on the existing foundation.

"Wind, Moon, Thunder, Cloud, Stepping on the Immortal Path" was a very good supplement.

He had thoroughly mastered the Thunder Kick, and it could even be counted as a good killing move; he had once kicked apart Feiyunzi's defensive technique with one kick.

Wang Yuan had completed the Moon Step.

This move did not emphasize killing, but excelled in maneuvering during battle.

It was swift, strange, and unpredictable; combined with the high-speed burst of a body cultivator, it could even make it impossible for the spiritual sense of Nascent Soul powerhouses to capture it.

But the above description was limited to the major success stage.

Moreover, cultivating this technique had high requirements for people; magic power flowed through meridians and apertures and could not flow to muscles and bones, so the effect of using magic power to drive the Moon Step was very poor.

It was best to have Qi!

Luo Chen did not understand blood and Qi changes, let alone control the four types of strength: clear, dark, transformation, and pill.

But he had Source Power!

"Source Power spreads to every corner of my body; using it to drive the Moon Step, I imagine the effect will definitely not be weaker than the Qi of an orthodox body cultivator."

Luo Chen pursed his lips, carefully studying the distribution of footprints on the scroll.

He memorized them one by one in his mind, making sure not to miss any changes.

After feeling that he had thoroughly mastered it, he couldn't help but experiment in the spacious cave dwelling.

At the beginning, he stumbled.

Gradually, he made progress and it looked like something.

Later on, the sound of wind and thunder erupted in the cave dwelling, causing the formation light curtain of this place to fluctuate unbearably.

"The place is too small; I'll change to another place to cultivate this technique."

Luo Chen moved his mind, left the cave dwelling directly, and went straight to an open space outside the city.

Time passed day by day.

There were more and more cultivators in the city.

But the demon beast army didn't appear under the walls of Lingtian Pass for a long time, which made many people doubt the accuracy of Luo Chen's news.

Regarding this, Luo Chen didn't argue at all.

When his spiritual sense spread to the limit and he caught a glimpse, it was definitely not an illusion.

Especially the feeling of danger that the white-clothed demon thing brought him was even greater than that of Commander Qixi!

He had also privately asked the Lingtian City Lord, but the other party couldn't explain it clearly either, only saying that it might be some powerhouse that had just emerged from the million great mountains.

Luo Chen had to let it go.

This day.

The weather was not good; thick dark clouds gathered, a strong wind blew, and thunder and lightning flashed, looking like a heavy rain was about to fall.

Dozens of miles away from Lingtian Pass, a figure stood still for a long time, looking up at the sky.

"The moon has its waxing and waning, and the sky has unexpected storms. Worldly affairs are impermanent, and people's hearts are uncertain."

"The so-called Moon Step takes this meaning of uncertainty."

"If I follow the map and learn the steps completed by Wang Yuan based on his own experience, it would be like trying to draw a tiger and ending up with a dog."

"Wrong! Wrong!"

Amidst the shouts of "wrong," Luo Chen laughed loudly and stepped into the sky.

As he took steps, his figure gradually became uncertain.

Sometimes like a weak willow in the wind, swaying with the wind.

Sometimes like a lightning bolt, swift as thunder.

Occasionally stepping heavily on the void, his figure suddenly dissipated, turning into several afterimages flying in all directions.

When he landed lightly on the ground, the several afterimages suddenly merged, revealing Luo Chen's face.

He glanced casually at the system panel.

【Moon Step Perfect 301/500】

In just over a month, under his tireless practice, this body technique reached the perfect level!

Compared to the major success stage in the traditional sense, it was only one step away.

Even Wang Yuan, who completed this technique, probably hadn't reached this level yet!

The reason it was so fast, besides Luo Chen's sufficient effort, was also related to his inherent skill in body techniques.

Especially the two most important points for cultivating this technique—physical strength and driving energy—were both much higher than Wang Yuan's assumptions, so as long as he understood the knack, he reached the perfect level in an instant.

"In this way, when I fight, I have the Bursting Void Step for straight-line sprinting, the Moon Step for maneuvering, the Thunder Kick for close-quarters bursts, and the Ninety Thousand Miles for long-distance raids. As far as escape techniques are concerned, there are almost no shortcomings left!"

"I have one more point of certainty for the upcoming war!"

Luo Chen muttered to himself with a smile.

His legs felt slightly sore; this was caused by the high-intensity cultivation of this technique recently, and it would be fine after resting for a few days.

However, being able to make his physical body, which was comparable to a desolate beast, feel sore also showed that the cultivation intensity needed to be reduced.

"Let's stop here for today!"

Luo Chen looked at the sky; large raindrops had already begun to fall.

He walked toward Lingtian Pass at a moderate pace, while constantly thinking about when the demon beast army would start attacking the city.

"I was a bit nervous before; Lingtian Pass has high walls and deep moats, and contains millions of cultivators, which can be called powerful."

"Although the demon race army is numerous, they are scattered in various places, and the Ba Dao Domain was just one of them. As long as the leading Demon Emperor is calm, they won't rashly provoke Lingtian Pass; they will wait for the other demon race armies to arrive before launching an attack."

"In this way, I can survive the remaining half a year."

Luo Chen thought very well.

But just as he arrived outside the city gate, a sudden change occurred.

Luo Chen looked up abruptly, his deep eyes penetrating the heavy rain curtain and breaking through the heavy dark clouds.

Those who are good at attacking move above the nine heavens!

Rumble!

Amidst the deafening thunder, a huge figure fell with a crash, carrying the momentum of wind and thunder.