Chapter 491: Reversing the Situation

Under the encirclement and interception of everyone, the results of this battle were also very astonishing. By killing one mid-stage Jin Dan demon king of the opponent, plus nearly two thousand low-tier demon beasts, the Xiaoyao Sect side could be said to have won a great victory, almost completely annihilating this demon beast army that had plagued Gao Yun County for several months.

After this battle, the Xiaoyao Sect side not only boosted the morale of human cultivators but also allowed the Xiaoyao Sect cultivators, who had been strongly suppressed by the demon beasts for more than half a year since the demon beast turmoil, to finally hold their heads high for a while.

Although they failed to keep both of the demon kings that had gone south, the Gale Demon King had already been severely injured by True Person Guangling, and it was afraid that it would no longer be able to return to the battlefield.

Having lost several demon kings and the army of several thousand demon beasts that had gone south all at once, the demon beast side clearly had lost its early advantage on the battlefield. Next, they could only withdraw from the territory of Wei Guo entirely and would no longer be able to pose a major threat to Guiyun Workshop.

The White Dragon Demon King, who was still at Guiyun Workshop, after learning the news that the two demon kings in the south had been almost wiped out, was furious and annoyed, but also felt deeply helpless.

Upon learning the news that the Gale Demon King and the Nine-Headed Demon King had been ambushed, the White Dragon Demon King had just sent several demon kings with reinforcements to support them, but Bai Yuxian and the other Xiaoyao Sect Jin Dan Elders in Guiyun Workshop immediately led people out to kill them and entangle them.

After a great battle, they finally managed to beat back the opponent, but by the time the reinforcements arrived, it was already too late. Although they rescued the severely injured Gale Demon King, the unlucky Nine-Headed Demon King was no match for Song Qingming and the other, and fell at the hands of Li Mu.

Besides this, nearly 80% of the army of several thousand demon beasts under the two demon kings had been killed or injured in one battle, which was also a heavy loss, and the remaining ones had basically lost their fighting ability.

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

Like 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.

The demon beast side had lost several thousand demon beasts in two great battles near Zixing Workshop, and their overall strength had been reversed by the human side, no longer possessing an absolute advantage.

The two sides thus began to temporarily stalemate north of Guiyun Workshop. 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.

In terms of high-tier combat power at the Jin Dan level, although the Xiaoyao Sect side was no longer inferior to the opponent in number, after losing Yao Ganshu, the strongest Jin Dan cultivator, the Xiaoyao Sect had no advantage over the demon beast side in terms of top-tier combat power. The group at Guiyun Workshop had no certainty for the time being to defeat the demon beast army completely in one go by heading north.

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

Jin Dan demon kings who could cultivate to the third tier already had their intelligence fully opened. Like the Fire Leopard Demon King before, who was not only hot-tempered but also relatively straightforward, such Jin Dan demon kings were, after all, a minority. Without absolute certainty, these demon kings would also not choose to fight a decisive battle with the Xiaoyao Sect side.

The White Dragon Demon King also acted very carefully and cautiously. In its view, the Xiaoyao Sect side not only suddenly had an extra late-stage Jin Dan expert, Li Mu, but also the Xiaoyao Sect Sect Master, Yao Ganshu, had been hiding in the dark. In this turmoil, the demon clan side had gradually fallen into a disadvantage.

However, among the many demon kings besieging Guiyun Workshop, there were still three great demon kings with profound strength that could not be underestimated. Among them, the most powerful White Dragon Demon King had already cultivated to the peak of Jin Dan, and even Bai Yuxian was not its match 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. No matter 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 this 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 still to seize more living territory through war with human cultivators and to consume the many low-tier demon beasts that had already expanded in their respective territories.

Once the front line at Guiyun Workshop had gradually stabilized, the Xiaoyao Sect side immediately began to organize reinforcements, preparing to rescue the two places of Tuoyun Mountain and Tiexian Fortress, where the situation was still relatively critical.

Tuoyun Mountain, which had held on for more than half a year, although it was beaten back step by step by the Liu Yunhe Demon King at the beginning, losing most of the nearby territory and spirit mountains, had fallen into a precarious situation.

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

Although Feng Yangde failed to kill the Liu Yunhe Demon King directly after using this trump card, it allowed Tuoyun Mountain to temporarily beat back the demon beast army and turn danger into safety.

However, the demon beast army attacking Tuoyun Mountain, although it temporarily stopped the attack because the Liu Yunhe Demon King was injured, still occupied the west of Tuoyun Mountain and did not retreat, always remaining a sharp knife hanging over the heads of the many cultivators of Tuoyun Mountain.

For the past half year, although the cultivators of Tuoyun Mountain were very lucky and did not have to fight desperately with demon beasts frequently like the human cultivators on the other battlefields, the days of Feng Yangde and the others were still lived with fear, 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 Liu Yunhe Demon King had recovered from its injuries and made a comeback, Feng Yangde and the others really had no other good way to deal with it now and could only rely on the mountain-protecting formation to hold on.

Under such circumstances, facing the attack of the demon beast army that occupied an absolute advantage, the Tuoyun Mountain mountain-protecting formation could at most hold on for a dozen days. Once the formation was broken, the thousands of cultivators on the mountain and their mortal family members would surely encounter disaster.

After living in fear for half a year, Feng Yangde on Tuoyun Mountain finally received news from the Xiaoyao Sect that they had won a great victory over the demon beasts at Zixing Workshop. Guiyun Workshop had successfully beaten back the demon beast army and was about to send reinforcements to relieve them.

After receiving the message from the Xiaoyao Sect, Feng Yangde finally let out a long sigh of relief and immediately organized the many cultivators on Tuoyun Mountain to inform everyone of this inspiring news.

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

The Liu Yunhe Demon King's cultivation was only at the early stage of Jin Dan, and its injuries had not fully recovered. After fighting with Chu Fengping for a while, it was soon no match for the opponent. Subsequently, this demon king directly abandoned the demon beast army and fled deep into the Fuyun Mountain Range.

After the Liu Yunhe Demon King, who commanded the demon beast army, was defeated and retreated, the low-tier demon beasts below, under the strong attack led by the two human Jin Dan cultivators, soon had their formation collapse and lost their fighting spirit, beginning to flee in all directions toward the rear.

Seeing that the demon beast army had begun to collapse, the cultivators of Tuoyun Mountain and the Xiaoyao Sect were immediately 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 Tuoyun Mountain for more than half a year and drive them completely back into the Fuyun Mountain Range.

Not long after the war at Tuoyun Mountain ended, Tiexian Fortress, thousands of miles away from Tuoyun Mountain, soon learned of this news.

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

Since the demon beast turmoil, Tiexian Fortress, which had been firmly besieged by the demon beast army, had lost contact with the Xiaoyao Sect for a long time. Ma Hongshan was actually unaware of the several great battles at Jin Shan Workshop and Zixing Workshop, and only learned the important news that Guiyun Workshop had beaten back the demon beasts from Tuoyun Mountain in the last few days.

Seeing that the Xiaoyao Sect had defeated several demon beast armies that had gone south in less than two months and reversed the passive situation of the entire battlefield, Ma Hongshan was also very surprised.

Before the demon beast turmoil, Ma Hongshan had lowered his face several times to ask the Xiaoyao Sect for help, but Tiexian Fortress did not receive any reinforcements. Ma Hongshan also vaguely guessed that there might be some problems within the Xiaoyao Sect.

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

Logically speaking, the Xiaoyao Sect was already unable to turn the situation around on its own this time. If they wanted to survive this demon beast turmoil safely, they could only find ways to move reinforcements from other surrounding countries.

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

Although Ma Hongshan now knew the news that Tuoyun Mountain and Guiyun Workshop had beaten back the demon beasts, he was not very clear about what had happened in Wei Guo in these few months that had caused the situation of this demon beast turmoil to reverse all of a sudden.

"I heard that the Xiaoyao Sect will send reinforcements over soon. Now that Tiexian Fortress is safe, once the reinforcements arrive, you will be able to beat back the demon beast army outside the city and relieve the siege. It seems that Fellow Daoist Ma should not need us anymore, right?"

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

(End of chapter)