Chapter 680

Among them, five Jin Dan cultivators with relatively strong strength—Song Qingming, Chen Xuanxin, Li Wu, Jin Ziyuan, and Chu Fengping—were responsible for blocking the "Gao Jinhu demon king" and the other three mid-stage Jin Dan demon kings who came to support.

Bai Yuxian, Huang Siyuan, Fang Baixuan, and Xu Ziyuan were focused on besieging the two weakest demon kings among the many, the "White Ox" and the "Green Python."

Not long after this battle started, the "Gao Jinhu demon king" had already sent a letter to notify the many demon kings besieging the west and north sides of the market's formation.

It was just that they were more than ten li apart, and it would still take some time for the demon kings at the other two locations to receive the sound transmission and arrive here.

Now, the time left for the Xiaoyao Sect crowd was about half a quarter of an hour.

If they could not kill the "White Ox demon king" and "Green Python demon king" who were already surrounded during this period, once the demon kings from other locations arrived at the battlefield to support, the Xiaoyao Sect side could only return without success like the previous few times and retreat to the mountain-protecting formation.

Suddenly falling into the siege of four Jin Dan cultivators of the Xiaoyao Sect, including Bai Yuxian, a peak Jin Dan expert with top-tier cultivation, the "White Ox demon king" and "Green Python demon king" immediately felt immense pressure.

Seeing that the four companions, including the "Gao Jinhu demon king," had already been blocked by Song Qingming and the others and could not come to support, the many low-tier demon beasts below were also firmly entangled by the cultivator army that rushed out of "Guiyun Market."

Having been beaten back repeatedly and surrounded by Huang Siyuan and the others, making it difficult to break free, the two demon kings could only helplessly let out bursts of roars for help toward the "Gao Jinhu demon king."

Although Song Qingming's cultivation was still at the sixth layer of Jin Dan, after cultivating the "Green Jade Treasure Refining Art," he held several third-tier top-quality magic treasures, and his fighting strength was no longer inferior to ordinary late-stage Jin Dan cultivators.

Chen Xuanxin, who had broken through after more than a year of seclusion and arrived at "Guiyun Market" not long ago, also had his cultivation successfully break through to the seventh layer of Jin Dan.

Although he had just broken through to the late stage of Jin Dan not long ago, Chen Xuanxin, who practiced the Dao of sword cultivation, now had combat power no less than an eighth-layer Jin Dan cultivator.

Although the "Gao Jinhu demon king" was a peak Jin Dan great demon king and his divine abilities were very formidable, under the joint obstruction of two late-stage Jin Dan combatants, Song Qingming and Chen Xuanxin, he still could not break through their obstruction.

Knowing that the situation of the "White Ox demon king" and "Green Python demon king" was not good, he could only keep sending sound transmissions during the battle, urging the demon kings from the other two directions to come and support quickly.

Cultivated to the Jin Dan level, the physical bodies of demon kings were already extremely formidable; unless they were careless or ambushed, very few Jin Dan cultivators could quickly break through the opponent's defense and kill a demon king of the same realm in a head-on battle.

However, Bai Yuxian's cultivation had already reached the peak of Jin Dan, and the strength gap between her and the "White Ox demon king," whose cultivation was only at the early stage of Jin Dan, was still very large.

Added to the fact that Huang Siyuan was assisting and containing them on the side, the "White Ox demon king," although relying on his thick skin and flesh, desperately used his natal inner core and his powerful physical body to block the attacks of Bai Yuxian and Huang Siyuan.

But in the end, because the strength gap was too large, he did not wait for the demon beast side's reinforcements to arrive before being decapitated by Bai Yuxian on the battlefield.

After taking the natal Jin Dan within the "White Ox demon king's" body, Bai Yuxian and Huang Siyuan did not bother to collect other materials on the "White Ox demon king's" corpse and immediately turned around to join the battle besieging the "Green Python demon king."

The "Green Python demon king" had cultivated a venom divine ability, and his strength was much stronger than the "White Ox demon king's"; at first, facing the attacks of two Jin Dan cultivators, Xu Ziyuan and Fang Baixuan, alone, he fought back and forth without falling behind.

But after Bai Yuxian and Huang Siyuan joined the battle, the "Green Python demon king" suddenly faced the siege of four people and was immediately unable to parry.

However, just as Bai Yuxian and the others had just joined the battle to besiege him, bursts of long roars came from the sky not far from the battlefield, and three streaks of escape light flew rapidly toward the battlefield; it was exactly the few demon kings with faster escape speeds who had learned the news and arrived first.

Seeing that the "White Ox demon king" had been killed by Bai Yuxian, the "Green Python demon king," who was besieged by the crowd, had originally been somewhat desperate.

At this moment, seeing that reinforcements were about to arrive, he was greatly boosted in confidence and breathed a sigh of relief; he spat out his natal inner core and exerted all his strength to release venom to block the crowd's siege, wanting to delay time and wait for rescue.

Facing the large amount of venom spat out by the "Green Python demon king," Huang Siyuan and the others had lower cultivation and simply could not approach the opponent to attack; only Bai Yuxian could raise a shield to block the venom while using means to continue attacking the "Green Python demon king."

However, at this moment, Bai Yuxian needed to expend a lot of energy to block the "Green Python demon king's" venom, and for a time, she was unable to quickly break through the magic power shield released by the "Green Python demon king's" natal inner core.

Just when the "Green Python demon king" had breathed a sigh of relief, he did not expect that just as the three demon kings who came to support approached not far from the battlefield, several golden crossbow arrows with immense power suddenly flew out from above the city walls, heading straight for the few demon kings who were rushing on their way at full speed.

These crossbow arrows were fired by the four third-tier "Flying Cloud Crossbows" that had long been configured in "Guiyun Market," and their power was already close to 70-80% of a Jin Dan cultivator's strength, equivalent to a full-force strike of a False Core cultivator.

Such an attack, although it would not cause too much damage to these mid-to-late-stage Jin Dan demon kings, was still somewhat uncomfortable to take head-on.

Seeing this, these few demon kings also had to stop their footsteps and cast spells to block these rapidly approaching golden flying arrows.

After they solved the trouble before them and started to rush on their way again, in the time it took to delay, all the venom stored in the "Green Python demon king's" body had already been used up.

At this moment, the "Green Python demon king" had also lost his final means to block the crowd's attack and was soon plunged back into the siege of the four Xiaoyao Sect Jin Dan cultivators.

Even if the "Green Python demon king" exerted all his strength to control his natal inner core to block, he still did not escape the fate of being decapitated by Bai Yuxian and died at the hands of the Xiaoyao Sect crowd before the reinforcements arrived.

After taking away the demon king's inner core, seeing that the opponent's reinforcements had arrived, Bai Yuxian immediately issued a retreat signal on the battlefield, leading the crowd to begin retreating as they fought, returning to the mountain-protecting formation.

This time, when they went out to attack the demon beast army, the sect had long warned them that whether it was the Jin Dan elders above or the low-tier Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining cultivators below, everyone was not allowed to linger in battle or be greedy for the demon beast materials on the battlefield.

As long as they received the order to retreat, all participating cultivators had to retreat to the market's formation as quickly as possible.

Although three demon kings with higher cultivation arrived to help, the Xiaoyao Sect crowd, who had successfully killed the "Green Python" and "White Ox" demon kings, did not lose anyone to the "Gao Jinhu demon king" and the others because their Jin Dan cultivator numbers were not inferior to the opponent's.

Watching Song Qingming and the others all successfully escape back into the market's formation, the "Gao Jinhu demon king," standing outside the mountain-protecting formation, was also very annoyed and led the demon beast army to attack the market's formation with all his might, wanting to force Song Qingming and the others out.

However, with the enemy being many and them being few, the Xiaoyao Sect crowd naturally would not do as the "Gao Jinhu demon king" wished and go out to fight these demon kings head-on.

They only let the low-tier cultivators above the city walls who were operating the "Flying Cloud Crossbows" and "Spiritual Light Giant Cannons" attack the demon beasts attacking the market's formation at close range when the demon beasts approached, blocking the demon beast army outside from attacking the city.

After all, the mountain-protecting formation of "Guiyun Market" had already reached the third-tier top-quality; without a Nascent Soul cultivator striking, relying only on those Jin Dan demon kings, it would be difficult to break through the market's formation in a short time.

After attacking frantically outside the formation for several hours, the "Gao Jinhu demon king" not only failed to break through the defense of the market's mountain-protecting formation, but also lost nearly two hundred low-tier demon beasts under the attack of the "Flying Cloud Crossbows" and "Spiritual Light Giant Cannons" operated by the Xiaoyao Sect cultivators.

Finally, the "Gao Jinhu demon king," who failed to force Song Qingming and the others out, helplessly chose to retreat first, stopped attacking the market's formation, joined forces with the other demon kings, and besieged "Guiyun Market" from afar.

Seeing that the demon beast army slowly began to retreat, Bai Yuxian and the others, who were originally somewhat worried in their hearts, also relaxed their tense nerves.

Just as the crowd was preparing to go to the north side of the market to watch the battle between Grand Elder Li Mufeng and the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor," a streak of cyan escape light descended from the sky, passed through the mountain-protecting formation, and landed before the crowd.

"Greetings, Senior Uncle Li!"

Seeing Li Mufeng safe and sound before them, Song Qingming and the others, who were somewhat worried about his safety, were immediately overjoyed and respectfully bowed to Li Mufeng.

Li Mufeng, who had just finished a great battle, still had a look of exhaustion on his face at this moment.

After scanning the crowd, seeing that Bai Yuxian and the others had not encountered any accidents and had all returned here safely, Li Mufeng also showed a trace of relief and nodded toward the crowd.

"I fought to a draw with the Brother Molong Demon Emperor again. How are you all? Did you have any gains in this battle?"

Hearing this, Bai Yuxian immediately took out two glowing, palm-sized demon king inner cores from her body and placed them before Li Mufeng.

"We did not fail Senior Uncle Li's trust; in this battle, we successfully killed two demon kings of the opponent, and now the demon beast army on the east side has retreated and stopped attacking the market's mountain-protecting formation."

"Oh! This is an excellent thing; you all did well. In this way, our hope of holding Guiyun Market is already very great. As long as we persist until the reinforcements from Pei Kingdom arrive, we will have a great grasp of defeating the demon beast army and ending this turmoil.

This is not the place to talk; let's go back and talk slowly!"

Seeing the two demon king inner cores just taken out in Bai Yuxian's hands, Li Mufeng also rarely showed a trace of joy and hurriedly led the crowd back to the market's council hall. In the battle just now, Song Qingming and the others took them by surprise and launched an active attack, not only killing two demon kings of the opponent, but the many cultivators below, cooperating with the "Flying Cloud Crossbows" and "Spiritual Light Giant Cannons" on the city walls, also killed thousands of low-tier demon beasts, which could be considered a heavy blow to the demon beast army on the east side.

Although the Xiaoyao Sect side also paid the price of many spirit stones and more than two hundred cultivators killed in this battle.

But this battle successfully defeated the demon beast army's continuous siege of the market, temporarily resolving the crisis of the "Guiyun Market" mountain-protecting formation being broken by the opponent, which could already be considered a great strategic victory for the Xiaoyao Sect.

After this battle, the demon beast side still had sixteen demon kings left; on paper, their strength was still far superior to the Xiaoyao Sect side, but they wanted to take down "Guiyun Market," which was guarded by nine Jin Dan cultivators, but it would not be as easy as before.

Although Song Qingming and the others did not yet have enough strength to defeat the demon beast army's attack, relying on the "Guiyun Market" mountain-protecting formation, they definitely had the strength to guard this market, "Guiyun Market."

As long as they firmly guarded this most important stronghold in the north of Wei Kingdom, the demon beast army would not dare to easily cross this place to head south into Wei Kingdom; otherwise, once their path of retreat was cut off, they would repeat the same mistakes of a hundred years ago.

This time, temporarily defeating the demon beast army's siege was the first major victory achieved since "Guiyun Market" was besieged by the demon beast army.

Since the demon beast turmoil, for more than a month, "Guiyun Market" had repeatedly encountered dangerous situations, and the morale of the Xiaoyao Sect cultivators guarding this place was also somewhat low.

In order to boost the morale of the many cultivators in "Guiyun Market," Li Mufeng took this opportunity of great victory and let the General Affairs Elder, Xu Ziyuan, take out some reserve materials, held a celebration banquet in the market, and rewarded many spirit items to those cultivators who had meritorious service in this battle.

Just as the Xiaoyao Sect side was celebrating this victory in the market, on a high mountain where tens of thousands of demon beasts gathered on the north side of "Guiyun Market," more than a dozen Jin Dan demon kings were looking with bitter faces at the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" sitting at the head position.

This time, being suddenly attacked by Song Qingming and the others, losing two demon kings and thousands of low-tier demon beasts at once, the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" was clearly very dissatisfied with the result of the previous battle and the performance of these demon kings below.

After scanning the many demon kings below who were still somewhat trembling, the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" turned and asked the "Gao Jinhu demon king" on the side: "Have you found out clearly? Who exactly are the two Jin Dan cultivators who came to support the Xiaoyao Sect this time?"

"Reporting to the ancestor, the one who blocked me with Chen Xuanxin yesterday was Song Qingming of the Song family in Qinghe County, and the other woman looks like she has just formed her core not long ago; she should be a Jin Dan cultivator who has successfully formed her core in the Xiaoyao Sect in recent years, and not an outsider either."

Hearing the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor's" inquiry, the "Gao Jinhu demon king" hurriedly stepped forward and answered carefully.

Although the "Gao Jinhu demon king" had followed the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" for nearly a thousand years and could already be considered his absolute confidant.

However, he had always been somewhat afraid of his own ancestor's eccentric temper; this time, the demon beast army he led had suffered a defeat, and he had always felt like a thorn in his back, fearing that the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" in front would blame him.

"Song Qingming! Didn't you say last time that this person had disappeared for a long time? Why did he suddenly jump out again? It stands to reason that the Song family people should also be fully guarding Jin Shan Market at this moment. How did this person come here so quickly, and why didn't we receive any news about it beforehand?

Could it be that something happened over at the Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon's side?" Hearing the name Song Qingming, the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" asked again with a calm expression while supporting his chin.

The "Gao Jinhu demon king" heard this and immediately nodded, replying: "Ancestor, I have already confirmed with several fellow Daoists who have fought him; it is indeed this person.

According to the intelligence obtained before, Song Qingming's cultivation was originally about the same as the Cloud Crane's and the others, but this time I fought him and found that this person's divine ability was quite strange, and his cultivation had already reached the peak of the sixth layer of Jin Dan; the Nine-Patterned fellow Daoist should not be his opponent.

Song Qingming suddenly appeared here, I'm afraid... I'm afraid the army attacking Jin Shan Market might be somewhat unfavorable." After the "Gao Jinhu demon king" finished speaking, his eyes glanced carefully at the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor," who was looking at him.

"Hmph! Let him go to Jin Shan Market to contain the Song family people; now that Song Qingming has run over here, he didn't even notice this matter at all. He really is a piece of trash."

The "Gao Jinhu demon king," who had just raised his eyes, heard an angry rebuke from the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" and hurriedly lowered his head again, not daring to say anything more.

"Ancestor! This time Song Qingming and the two came to support, and we lost two fellow Daoists, the White Ox and the Green Python. Now, I'm afraid it will be somewhat difficult to launch a full-scale attack on Guiyun Market.

I think it's better to trap them first, and then divide the troops to head south to harass the human territory; perhaps we can force them out to fight us to the death."

Seeing the "Gao Jinhu demon king" standing in front being rebuked, the "White Dragon demon king" on the side suddenly took the opportunity to speak his thoughts.

Hearing the "White Dragon demon king's" proposal, the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" looked at him with a calm expression and directly shook his head:

"This time I led you south for the sake of taking down the spirit mountain of Guiyun Market in one fell swoop, not to go to the human territory to take some advantage like you did before.

Now we still occupy an absolute advantage; dividing the troops at this time is undoubtedly giving them a chance to catch their breath. If we cannot take Guiyun Market within half a year, once we let the Xiaoyao Sect wait for reinforcements from other places, I'm afraid we will fall into a situation of being attacked from both sides.

Don't treat the Xiaoyao Sect people as fools, thinking that you can force them out by casually killing some mortals. If these human cultivators were all so easy to fool, you wouldn't have failed to take Wei Kingdom for thousands of years.

It has only been a hundred years since you divided your troops to head south last time and ended up in a crushing defeat; how did you forget it so cleanly so quickly?"

Seeing the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" mention the matter of attacking "Guiyun Market" a hundred years ago, the "White Dragon demon king" also immediately lowered his head.

Back then, he gained the trust of the "Golden Feather Demon Emperor" and confidently led ten thousand demon beasts from Golden Feather Mountain to head south to attack "Guiyun Market," but ended up failing to take this place after spending more than half a year.

In the end, the "White Dragon demon king" helplessly chose to divide his troops to head south to attack Gao Yun County in Wei Kingdom, wanting to force the Xiaoyao Sect side to take the initiative to walk out of "Guiyun Market" and fight them to the death.

It was just that this "luring the enemy into the trap" strategy of the "White Dragon demon king" was somewhat vicious, but the Xiaoyao Sect did not fall for the demon beast side's trick.

Even though Gao Yun County lost millions of mortals in the subsequent demon beast invasion, the Xiaoyao Sect cultivators guarding "Guiyun Market" did not choose to rashly walk out of the market to fight the demon beast army to the death.

In the end, his move of dividing the troops to head south instead gave the Xiaoyao Sect a chance to gather strength and defeat them one by one.

Although the "Golden Feather Demon Emperor" did not blame him too much after retreating to Golden Feather Mountain last time, the "White Dragon demon king" had always been brooding over his failure to take "Guiyun Market" last time, which was why he took the initiative to mention his division-of-troops strategy that had not succeeded back then to the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor."

In the "White Dragon demon king's" view, the reason why the division of troops failed back then was because the demon beast side's strength was somewhat insufficient at that time.

Now that the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" had gone out to fight in person and there were so many demon kings on the scene, as long as they could take Gao Yun County in one fell swoop and arrive at Yangshan County, the core hinterland of the Xiaoyao Sect, the Xiaoyao Sect would definitely choose to divide their troops to rescue, and it would be simpler for them to take "Guiyun Market" than it was now.

However, the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor," whose temper was relatively eccentric, clearly did not like his complicated strategy very much; he still wanted to defeat the Xiaoyao Sect directly from the front to achieve his goal of taking the entire Wei Kingdom in the future.

After rejecting the White Dragon demon king's proposal, the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" turned to the many demon kings on the scene and ordered: "Black Ape, you first send someone to hurry to Jin Shan Market to see what's going on with the Nine-Patterned Flood Dragon.

Others, after going back, restrain the demon beasts under your command well so that no trouble occurs; stop and rest for two days before continuing to attack Guiyun Market. At this time, you cannot give them too many chances to catch their breath.

Don't worry, everyone; it's not only the Xiaoyao Sect that can invite reinforcements. This time I have already agreed with the Brother Chiyun Demon Emperor that after he takes the north of Zheng Kingdom, Red Yunshan will immediately send people to support us.

As long as we can consume some of the Xiaoyao Sect's strength, once the Red Yunshan reinforcements arrive, we will definitely be able to take this market, so we don't need to be too anxious."

"We will strictly follow the ancestor's orders!"

Hearing the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" issue the order to continue attacking "Guiyun Market," the many demon kings on the scene did not dare to say anything more and hurriedly responded in unison and retreated.

After the other demon kings left, the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" stood up and said to the "Gao Jinhu demon king," who had been left behind by him: "Tomorrow, you go to Red Yunshan and help me send a letter to that old guy Brother Chiyun, telling him to move faster and hurry up and send people to join us."

"Ancestor, what if Red Yunshan makes excuses to shirk like last time and doesn't send troops to support immediately?" Hearing the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor's" words, the Gao Jinhu demon king responded and then asked.

The "Brother Molong Demon Emperor" heard this and responded with a cold snort with a smile: "Hmph! I know this old guy definitely wants to wait for us and the Xiaoyao Sect to fight until both sides are heavily wounded before he strikes to gain more benefits. The reason I rejected the White Dragon's proposal is that I don't want to fight the Xiaoyao Sect too hard at this moment, which would cause us too much loss.

After you go, just urge him; if they ask about the battle situation on our side, just say that we have already fought several great battles with the Xiaoyao Sect and both sides have suffered heavy losses. Remember, don't let that old fox see any clues."

"Hehe! The ancestor is still the most thoughtful. Don't worry, I understand how to do this."

After hearing the "Brother Molong Demon Emperor's" explanation, the "Gao Jinhu demon king" immediately nodded with a smile and then turned and left lightly. (End of chapter)