Chapter 187: Petrification

"Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox!"

Looking at the huge white fox figure appearing above the crater of the Tang Valley, the expressions of the cultivators gathered at the Qianmen Fortress all changed.

As more and more cultivators gathered, the Qianmen Fortress had long been under martial law, and the city walls were full of Demon-Suppressing Guards ready to fight the enemy at any time, with the posture of killing anyone who broke through the pass.

No one wanted to break into the Qianmen Fortress, and no one dared to face the Demon-Suppressing Guards head-on.

Unable to enter the Tang Valley, naturally, no one could investigate what happened inside, but no one chose to leave.

First, the Soul Star above the Qianmen Fortress was lit. Even if they only gathered near the Qianmen Fortress, they could be nourished by the soul power overflowing from the Soul Star.

For cultivators, naturally, the stronger the divine soul, the better.

Second, most cultivators were concerned about the situation in the Tang Valley. Half a month ago, a black demon energy column like a tornado suddenly appeared on the crater of the Tang Valley. This was formed by the leakage of demon energy.

Everyone could guess that the demon race that sneaked into the Tang Valley had destroyed the array eye.

Nowadays, the demon energy column still had a tendency to grow larger. Once the demon energy could not be controlled, it was very likely to overflow to the human world through the Artifact Saint Palace.

In this regard, the cultivators present were very worried. After all, the place where everyone mainly lived and cultivated in the future was still the human world.

Then again, witnessing the progress of things personally at the Qianmen Fortress was certainly more accurate than listening to second-hand information from others later.

On the side of the Demon-Suppressing Army, Chu Junyi frowned and looked at Liu Chengxiong on the city wall. As the highest commander of the Demon-Suppressing Guards of the Qianmen Fortress, now that there was a demon race sneaking into the array eye center to destroy it, he should go to stop it immediately, instead of standing on the city wall, seemingly guarding the Qianmen Fortress, but actually doing nothing.

Seeing his heavy expression, the Zhonglang General Sheng Pengyun said: "General, don't worry, people from the Xiangguo Temple, Tianshi Mansion, Sanqing Palace, and Taisu Palace have all come. They must have passed the news here."

"If the demon energy really spreads to the human world, it will certainly be controlled in time. Even if the control is not timely, it shouldn't cause too much impact. After all, that demon energy column is not large, and it can't overflow much demon energy."

Chu Junyi's brows did not relax at all: "The prison that holds fierce beasts and demon races, do you know why it is not called a Demon Prison, but a Demon-Monster Prison?"

Sheng Pengyun and others standing beside him really didn't know about this, and they all shook their heads.

Chu Junyi explained: "Since the establishment of the Demon Prison, the fierce beasts and great demons imprisoned within have all been cruel and vicious characters. After being locked into the Demon Prison, their hearts are filled with baleful energy, hatred, and killing intent. By the time these fierce beasts and great demons pass away, this violent energy has already grown to a truly terrifying degree. Any cultivator with an unsteady mind who becomes even slightly tainted by it will have all sorts of evil thoughts birthed within them, subsequently becoming influenced or even controlled."

"Therefore, what overflows from the Demon-Monster Prison is not just demon energy, but demon-monster energy mixed with a large amount of violent qi."

"Demon-monster energy overflows to the human world, not to mention ordinary people, even the vast majority of cultivators can't hold it. Once influenced by the violent qi, it will definitely cause unimaginable turmoil."

"The violent thoughts spawned by demon-monster energy are no less harmful than the evil desires nourished by the black flames of the divine lamp."

The Demon-Suppressing Army heard this, and their expressions became serious.

"What are the Demon-Suppressing Guards of the Qianmen Fortress doing? How could they let the demon race sneak into the center of the array eye?"

"The demon race should have entered from the side of the Soul-Breaking Mountain."

Sheng Pengyun looked at the huge crater behind the Qianmen Fortress and wondered: "The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox has nine tails, why did I only see eight?"

Chu Junyi's eyes flickered: "There must be someone in the Tang Valley resisting the demon race and guarding the array eye." After a pause, "It's mostly people from the Artifact Saint Palace."

Sheng Pengyun: "But the Artifact Saint Palace has always had no news in the human world, how did it suddenly pop up?"

Chu Junyi: "It's not that there is no news, it's just that they don't want us to notice. They have always been there."

Sheng Pengyun: "On the side of the artifact refining workshop, the Demon-Suppressing Army, the Embroidered Uniform Guard, and the Eastern Depot are all staring at it, but they have never found the location of the Artifact Saint Palace. They are hidden deep enough."

"If you ask me, there is actually no need to hide like this. It's better to recruit cultivators openly like the Lingguang Palace. If you want to carry forward the Artifact Saint Palace, it ultimately depends on people. Hiding and tucking, how many cultivators can you recruit?"

"Although the Artifact Saint Palace holds the orthodox artifact refining inheritance and is not afraid of no one to rely on, now is the time when the spiritual energy recovery has just begun, and it is the time to grab people and territory. If you really fall behind at this stage, it will be difficult to catch up in the future."

Sheng Pengyun paused and looked at Chu Junyi: "Speaking of holy lands, the other three holy lands don't seem to have much movement either. General, you say that I can see things clearly, shouldn't the holy land descendants be able to think of it? Watching other forces recruiting cultivators everywhere, why are they so able to sit still?"

Chu Junyi shook his head: "Many things are about timing. Maybe the timing hasn't arrived yet."

Just as everyone was worried about the situation in the Tang Valley, the huge white fox on the crater of the Tang Valley turned into a white light and flew directly into the Tang Valley.

A moment later, the white fox turned into a stunning woman in white and appeared on the boundary stone platform in the center of the Tang Valley.

At this moment, on the boundary stone platform, a hammer emitting red light was floating in the center. Beside the hammer, three people were fighting fiercely, two of whom wanted to seize the hammer, and the other was blocking them.

Further out from the three, there were eighteen human-shaped stone statues sitting cross-legged. These stone statues sat in a circle, protecting the hammer in the middle.

One of the human-shaped stone statues had been smashed into pieces and fell on the platform.

Because of the shattering and falling of this human-shaped stone statue, a crack was exposed where it had been sitting.

At this time, surging and boiling black gas was continuously overflowing from the crack. The black gas dissipated into the air and immediately formed a cyclone column like a tornado.

Far away from the black gas column, four people were fighting fiercely, three of whom were the master and two disciples of Baili Changfeng.

As soon as the white fox appeared, she eagerly said to the three subordinates: "Don't worry about the divine hammer, destroy the array eye with all your strength."

There was actually a strong person sitting at the bottom of the Tang Yu, which completely exceeded her expectations.

At this moment, the white fox was very regretful. She shouldn't have been greedy. She shouldn't have forgotten that the purpose of sneaking into the Tang Valley this time was to destroy the array eye after discovering that there were treasures at the bottom of the Tang Yu, and intended to seize the treasure.

The treasure was guarded by a strong person, and her move seemed to have awakened the strong person at the bottom of the Tang Yu.

After the white fox finished speaking to her subordinates, she rushed directly toward a human-shaped stone statue, and the other three demon race followers also stopped entangling with Baili Changfeng and the four, and all attacked the human-shaped stone statue one after another.

"Evil beast, stop!"

At the same time, at the bottom of the Tang Yu, Hua Changxi looked at the huge fox tail that fell down, frowned, remembered that the demon race people sneaked into the Tang Valley to destroy the array eye, put away the Shennong Cauldron and the fox tail, glanced at the rift connecting the divine tree space, and quickly swam toward the top of the Tang Yu.

When Hua Changxi flew out of the Tang Yu, she heard Xia Xue's shrill cry.

"Master, don't~"

Hua Changxi's expression changed slightly, she drove the clouds and flew toward the direction where the sound came from. Soon, she saw a huge gray stone platform.

On the stone platform, a woman in white smashed a human-shaped stone statue, revealing an opening. In an instant, a large amount of eerie and terrifying black gas gushed out from the opening.

The black gas gushed out and directly formed a black tornado gas column, rising from the ground at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Seeing the black gas column, Baili Changfeng rushed over and sat cross-legged on the opening. The gushing of the black gas was blocked, and the black gas column slowly dissipated. However, Baili Changfeng petrified at a speed visible to the naked eye. ===== CHAPTER 188 =====