Chapter 126: with translation of chapter title

"Ye Ling'er, Xiao Qiyun, hear the sound crashing toward us!"

Ma Bu Ying and Lin Shuyu, strenuously blocking the swarming monsters behind them, Heng Xian had already shouted three times consecutively.

Ma Bu Ying, puzzled at this moment, said: "Junior brother, is something wrong? Shall we go over and take a look?"

As soon as the words fell, ripples of wave patterns appeared at the corner of the front courtyard wall, and four figures helped each other and ran out.

It was Tong Quezi, Ye Ling'er, Xiao Qiyun, and another inner‑gate female disciple.

But the four were drenched in blood, in a sorry state.

"Are you alright?" Heng Xian asked.

Tong Quezi was surprised that Heng Xian would command here, and gave a slight nod: "It's fine!"

Ye Ling'er shook her head: "Mainly there are too many demons; we can't kill them all. One batch dies, another comes. If Sister Tong hadn't arrived just in time, we would have been unable to hold on!"

Ma Bu Ying turned back and said: "That thing can't be killed; the more we kill, the stronger the ones that appear become!"

Lin Shuyu repelled two "White‑faced Bench Men" and said: "Don't waste time, Junior Brother Heng, think of a way quickly and head to the Western Great Courtyard!"

Tong Quezi and the others also looked in surprise toward Heng Xian.

Heng Xian immediately pointed to a fence to the far west: "There, charge!"

The group instantly cast together, pushing sideways from the middle of the courtyard, flinging a swarm of demons, and upon reaching the fence, without hesitation, they barreled straight through.

In a flash, they arrived at a large courtyard.

In the courtyard, spirit swords fluttered, spirit talismans whistled, monster cries mingled with screams, human silhouettes and demons collided clumsily, the scene was utter chaos.

It was the Western Great Courtyard.

Bai Ziqi, Ye Xiaoyao, Xu Wei, Zhao Ying and the others, six in total, were battling a horde of demons, each nearly wounded and bloodied.

"Help!" Lin Shuyu called, drawing a spirit sword that blossomed like a flower, flashing as it lunged toward a group of demons.

Tong Quezi and the others also pounced.

Ma Bu Ying raised his blade and roared: "Just repel them, don't kill!"

Soon, the scene grew even more chaotic.

Heng Xian stood still; after observing for a while and studying the Xuanhuang Heavenly Hexagram, he realized the demons were right here.

This time the Demon Miasma Realm was purely targeting disciples of the Tianyuan Sect.

Logically, the ancient demon remnants are suppressed in the Abyss of the Wild Realm, and the newly formed demon clans in the gaps of the major sects do not blend well.

This demon actually dared to act brazenly, directly attacking sect disciples—what a huge nerve!

Boom—

At that moment, Lin Shuyu's final sword repelled all the demons.

A string of spirit talismans enclosed everyone in the center, while keeping the demons outside.

Only, Heng Xian was a bit far away.

Ma Bu Ying and several others shouted: "Junior Brother Heng, come here!"

Heng Xian smiled, looked at the massive courtyard gate behind the group, and said: "No need!"

Lin Shuyu, Tong Quezi and the others were stunned: "What do you mean, no need?"

Heng Xian still stared at that gate: "Stay where you are, don't move!"

Lin Shuyu's group finally sensed something wrong and also looked at the gate.

"Oh? Discovered, hehe…"

A sharp, thin voice suddenly came from the gate, its laugh shrill and piercing, soaring into the clouds.

Immediately, the gate visibly transformed into a gigantic fire‑red fox head, the gate itself becoming its fang‑filled mouth!

If anyone approached and entered the gate, it would be like walking into a trap.

Lin Shuyu's group let out a startled cry and instantly retreated toward Heng Xian.

The fox's head lifted gradually, and then the towering and low structures stretching dozens of meters amid the blood mist flipped rapidly, revealing they were its body!

Its fire‑red head and fire‑red body were nearly a hundred meters tall, yet it wore a garish patterned robe, looking somewhat comical and out of place.

However, its appearance was not comical at all; from its lofty height it stared down at the crowd, its eyes icy and terrifying like a fox spirit.

Its gaze fixed on Heng Xian, voice sharp and grating: "You actually managed to easily break my demon miasma and even discern my true form; how did you do it?"

Heng Xian smiled and said: "Demons have demon ways, humans have human rules. You are a demon, I am a cultivator; discovering you is perfectly normal!"

"Then you can go die!"

The fire‑red fox suddenly slapped down a palm.

A powerful palm wind, sharp claws, carried a fierce demon wind and a mesmerizing mental illusion.

Lin Shuyu, Ma Bu Ying and the others just as they were about to resist, swayed and their eyes became hazy.

Heng Xian also felt his head spinning, just as he was about to shape the spirit talisman given by Master Nangong Lilu and strike,

a fierce shout came from not far away: "Wretched beast, I've been waiting for your true form to appear for a long time!"

Then came a "teng" sound of a blade.

Everyone felt the illusion vanish, their heads cleared again.

Looking up, they saw Elder Song Rufeng's beard and hair standing on end as he slashed the fox demon's forehead, the whole blade sinking in.

Fresh blood dripped down.

However, the fox demon did not fall; breathing rapidly, it said: "You stinking cultivator, no one has hacked the red‑silver head of my fox clan for a long time; I will have you dead!"

Speaking, it forcefully flicked the blade away and hurled a scorching flame at Song Rufeng.

Song Rufeng, startled, quickly swung his right hand, producing a shoe‑shaped artifact that expanded with the wind to intercept the flame.

The flame sprayed onto the shoe artifact, and for a moment flames danced across the sky.

One person and the fox were suddenly locked in a stalemate.

Song Rufeng, while manipulating the magic treasure, also lowered his head and gave the order: "Form the Big Dipper Exorcism Formation, attack and kill!"

Yes!

Lin Shuyu, Ma Buying, and Tongquezi took the lead; everyone instantly flew on their swords into midair, forming a Big Dipper Star Formation.

Such formations are also basic skills of the Tianyuan Sect disciples; they not only have the Big Dipper Star Formation, but also the Nine Palaces Formation, the Heavenly Circuit Formation, the Earth Palace Formation, and so on.

Even someone as lazy as Nangong Liluo found time to pour a bellyful into Heng Xian.

Seeing the Big Dipper Star Formation completed, Heng Xian, being the last one and still without a position, simply shouted loudly and went to the very front of the formation: "I'll stand at the vanguard, rise!"

Quick!

Everyone shouted in unison, and a massive surge of spiritual power rushed straight toward Heng Xian.

Heng Xian, borrowing the momentum of the great formation, swung his sword and cleaved outward.

A huge blade of light shot straight toward the fox spirit.

Pfft!

With almost no obstruction, a single sword strike severed one of the fox spirit's arms.

Ah...

The fox spirit, feeling the pain, also stopped spewing fire, transformed into a flowery, graceful girl, gave Heng Xian a deep look, wrapped in demonic aura, and rushed into the night, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Song Rufeng put away the "shoes", glanced at the direction the fox spirit fled, then looked at the disciples below and asked: "How?"

Heng Xian and his group had already landed on the ground, he shook his head and said: "Not bad!"

Song Rufeng landed on the ground, flicked his sleeve and said: "Disperse!"

Hum—

The blood moon, red mist, and illusion-dispelling technique all vanished, leaving only the somewhat ruined Ke family manor.

Song Rufeng walked over to the fox's severed arm lying on the ground, picked it up, and said: "This fox spirit is equivalent to a Fake Pill; its demonic power is formidable, yet it has no name on the Demon Subjugation List—strange!"

Ma Buying angrily said: "Uncle Master, never mind whether it's strange or not; we can interrogate Ke Zhenhai!"

(End of chapter)