Chapter 491: Reversing the Situation

Under the interception and blockade of the crowd, the results of this battle were also quite astonishing. By killing one mid-stage Core Formation Demon King and nearly two thousand low-tier demon beasts, the Xiaoyao Sect could be said to have achieved a great victory, almost completely annihilating this demon beast army that had wreaked havoc in Gaoyun County for several months.

After this battle, the Xiaoyao Sect not only boosted the morale of the human cultivators but also allowed the Xiaoyao Sect cultivators, who had been heavily suppressed by the demon beasts for more than half a year of turmoil, to finally vent their frustrations.

Although they failed to keep both Demon Kings that had moved south, the Blazing Wind Demon King had been heavily injured by True Person Daoist Guangling, and it was unlikely to be able to return to the battlefield anytime soon.

Having suddenly lost several Demon Kings and the army of several thousand demon beasts that had moved south, the demon beast side had clearly lost its early battlefield advantage. From now on, they could only withdraw completely from the territory of Wei Guo and would be unable to pose a major threat to Mount Guiyun Market.

The White Dragon Demon King, still at Mount Guiyun Market, felt both furious and helpless after learning the news that the two Demon Kings in the south had been almost completely wiped out.

Upon learning the news that the Blazing Wind Demon King and the Nine-Headed Demon King had been ambushed, the White Dragon Demon King had just dispatched several Demon Kings with reinforcements to assist them, but Bai Bai Yuxian and the other Xiaoyao Sect Core Formation Elders in Mount Guiyun Market immediately led their people out to entangle them.

After a fierce battle, they finally managed to repel the opponent, but by the time the reinforcements arrived, it was already too late. Although they rescued the heavily injured Blazing Wind Demon King, the unlucky Nine-Headed Demon King had already been defeated by Song Song Qingming and his companion, falling at the hands of Li Muyun.

In addition, the army of several thousand demon beasts under the two Demon Kings also suffered nearly 80% casualties in one battle, also suffering heavy losses, and the remainder had basically lost their combat capability.

Although the main force of the demon beast army at Mount Guiyun Market still held the upper hand, after several disastrous defeats in recent days and seeing the miserable state of those demon beasts that had fled back from the south, their morale had also been significantly affected.

Like the human cultivators, the spirit veins and various cultivation resources in the demon territory were also limited. Once the number of low-tier demon beasts below multiplied too much, they would divide the cultivation resources and spiritual energy needed by the high-tier demon clans above.

In the two major battles near Zixing Market, the demon beast side lost several thousand demon beasts at once. Their overall strength had been reversed by the human side and they no longer held an absolute advantage.

The two sides thus began to temporarily stalemate north of Mount Guiyun Market. Although there would occasionally be a small number of low-tier demon beasts crossing the border to harass and attack, neither side dared to easily launch a large-scale life-and-death battle like before.

Regarding high-tier combat power at the Core Formation level, although the Xiaoyao Sect side was no longer inferior to the opponent in numbers, after losing Yao Yao Ganshu, the strongest Core Formation cultivator, the Xiaoyao Sect had no advantage over the demon beast side in terms of top-tier combat power. The crowd at Mount Guiyun Market had no confidence in completely defeating the demon beast army to the north in one go.

By the time Song Song Qingming and the others had rested for a few days and led the cultivator army north to Mount Guiyun Market to provide support, the White Dragon Demon King had already driven the demon beast army to a place several hundred miles north of Mount Guiyun Market, actively avoiding the sharp edge of the Wei Guo cultivators.

Core Formation Demon Kings who could cultivate to the third tier already possessed great intelligence. Demon Kings like the Fire Leopard Demon King, who was not only hot-tempered but also relatively straightforward, were after all in the minority. Without absolute certainty, these Demon Kings would also not choose to engage in a decisive battle with the Xiaoyao Sect side.

The White Dragon Demon King was also very cautious in its actions. In its view, the Xiaoyao Sect not only suddenly had an additional late-stage Core Formation expert, Li Muyun, but also the Xiaoyao Sect Sect Master, Yao Yao Ganshu, who had been hiding in the dark. In this turmoil, the demon clan side had gradually fallen into a disadvantageous position.

However, among the many Demon Kings besieging Mount Guiyun Market, there were three powerful Great Demon Kings that could not be underestimated. The most powerful one, the White Dragon Demon King, had already cultivated to the peak of Core Formation, and even Bai Bai Yuxian was no match for it after fighting it several times.

Precisely because of this, every hundred years or so, the Northern Frontier demon clan side would actively provoke this tragic war. Regardless of how much territory they could occupy in the end, once these low-tier demon beasts were consumed, the demon clan side would immediately and actively withdraw their troops to end the turmoil.

For those high-tier Demon Kings with profound cultivation, the main purpose of driving so many demon beast armies south to attack human territory in the demon beast turmoil was to seize more living territory through war with human cultivators, and to consume the many low-tier demon beasts that had already overpopulated their respective territories.

Once the front line at Mount Guiyun Market had gradually stabilized, the Xiaoyao Sect immediately began to organize reinforcements, preparing to rescue Mount Tuoyun Mountain and Mount Tiexian Fortress, where the situation was still quite critical.

Mount Tuoyun Mountain, which had held out for more than half a year, was initially beaten into a retreat by the Cloud Crane Demon King, losing most of its nearby territory and spirit mountains, and falling into a precarious situation.

However, Feng Feng Yangde was a very scheming person. In the early stages, he deliberately showed weakness to make the Cloud Crane Demon King gradually lower its guard against him. Later, in a major battle at Mount Tuoyun Mountain, he finally found an opportunity to take advantage of the Cloud Crane Demon King's carelessness and used a third-tier mid-grade spirit talisman left to him by Chen Chen Jinliang to injure the Cloud Crane Demon King.

Although Feng Feng Yangde failed to kill the Cloud Crane Demon King directly after using this trump card, it allowed Mount Tuoyun Mountain to temporarily repel the demon beast army and turn the danger into safety.

However, the demon beast army attacking Mount Tuoyun Mountain, although it temporarily stopped attacking because the Cloud Crane Demon King was injured, had been entrenched west of Mount Tuoyun Mountain and had not retreated, remaining a sharp knife hanging over the heads of the many cultivators at Mount Tuoyun Mountain.

Over the past half year, although the Mount Tuoyun Mountain cultivators were very lucky and did not have to fight to the death with demon beasts as often as the human cultivators on other battlefields, the days of Feng Feng Yangde and the others were still filled with trepidation, often worrying that the demon beast army that had just retreated would strike again.

The most important trump card in his hand had already been used. If the Cloud Crane Demon King had recovered from its injuries and staged a comeback, Feng Feng Yangde and the others truly had no other good way to respond and could only rely on the protection of the mountain-guarding formation to hold on.

Under such circumstances, facing the attack of the demon beast army that held an absolute advantage, the Mount Tuoyun Mountain mountain-guarding formation could only hold out for at most ten days or so. Once the formation was broken, the thousands of cultivators on the mountain and their mortal families would surely meet with disaster.

After half a year of fear, Feng Feng Yangde at Mount Tuoyun Mountain finally received news from the Xiaoyao Sect that they had achieved a great victory over the demon beasts at Zixing Market. Mount Guiyun Market had already successfully repelled the demon beast army and was about to send reinforcements to relieve them.

After receiving the message from the Xiaoyao Sect, Feng Feng Yangde finally breathed a sigh of relief and immediately organized the many cultivators on Mount Tuoyun Mountain, relaying this heartening news to everyone.

More than a month later, the Xiaoyao Sect cultivator army led by Chu Chu Fengping finally appeared near Mount Tuoyun Mountain. After the Xiaoyao Sect and Mount Tuoyun Mountain cultivators joined forces, they immediately launched a joint counterattack against the demon beasts north of Mount Tuoyun Mountain, catching the demon beast army off guard.

The Cloud Crane Demon King's cultivation was only at the early stage of Core Formation, and since its injuries had not fully recovered, it was quickly defeated by Chu Chu Fengping after fighting for a while. Subsequently, this Demon King abandoned the demon beast army and fled deep into the Fuyun Mountain Range.

After the Cloud Crane Demon King, who commanded the demon beast army, was defeated, the low-tier demon beasts below, under the strong attack led by the two human Core Formation cultivators, quickly collapsed in formation and lost their will to fight, beginning to flee in all directions toward the rear.

Seeing that the demon beast army had begun to collapse, the cultivators of Mount Tuoyun Mountain and the Xiaoyao Sect were greatly boosted in morale and began to pursue and kill these demon beasts. It took less than a day in total to defeat this demon beast army that had threatened Mount Tuoyun Mountain for more than half a year and drive them completely back into the Fuyun Mountain Range.

Not long after the war at Mount Tuoyun Mountain ended, Mount Tiexian Fortress, several thousand miles away, soon received the news as well.

Ma Ma Hongshan, sitting in the family council hall, saw the news he had just received from Mount Tuoyun Mountain about the counterattacks at Mount Guiyun Market and Mount Tuoyun Mountain repelling the demon beasts, and a look of surprise and ugliness appeared on his face.

Since the demon beast turmoil, Mount Tiexian Fortress, which had been firmly besieged by the demon beast army, had lost contact with the Xiaoyao Sect for a long time. Ma Ma Hongshan had actually been unaware of the major battles at Jinshan Market and Zixing Market, and had only learned the important news that Mount Guiyun Market had repelled the demon beasts from Mount Tuoyun Mountain in the last few days.

Seeing that the Xiaoyao Sect had managed to defeat several demon beast armies moving south in less than two months, reversing the passive situation of the entire battlefield, Ma Ma Hongshan was also very surprised.

Before the demon beast turmoil, Ma Ma Hongshan had lowered his face several times to ask the Xiaoyao Sect for help, but Mount Tiexian Fortress had not received a single reinforcement. Ma Ma Hongshan had also vaguely guessed that there might be some problems within the Xiaoyao Sect.

But he still did not expect that the Xiaoyao Sect would fall into an all-out disadvantage so quickly in this demon beast turmoil, and that even Gaoyun County, which had not been invaded by demon beasts for hundreds of years, would be completely abandoned to the demon beast army just a few months after the war started.

Logically speaking, the Xiaoyao Sect could no longer rely on itself to turn the situation around this time. If they wanted to safely survive this demon beast turmoil, they could only find a way to ask for help from other surrounding countries.

Now that the demon beast turmoil was far from over, several countries around Wei Guo were also fighting against demon beasts invading from other places. If they wanted to free up their hands to support Wei Guo, it would certainly not be so quick.

Although Ma Ma Hongshan now knew the news of Mount Tuoyun Mountain and Mount Guiyun Market repelling the demon beasts, he still did not know very clearly what had happened in Wei Guo in these few months to suddenly reverse the situation of this demon beast turmoil.

"I heard that the Xiaoyao Sect is about to send reinforcements over. Now that Mount Tiexian Fortress is safe, once the reinforcements arrive, you will be able to repel the demon beast army outside the city and relieve the siege. It seems Fellow Daoist Ma doesn't need us anymore, right?"

Just as Ma Ma Hongshan was sitting alone in the council hall thinking about this, two blue-robed cultivators wearing the same attire suddenly walked in from outside, looking at Ma Ma Hongshan sitting in the head seat with a smiling face.

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