Chapter 754: Killing the Savage Bull, Luring the Enemy Out (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Just as Zhou Ziyang moved to intercept the herd, these hundreds of demon oxen ignored the interference of other cultivators and crazily swarmed toward his side, looking as if they were desperate and fearless of death.

Facing the siege of hundreds of monster bulls, even a Core Formation cultivator like Zhou Ziyang was forced to be somewhat flustered for a while and could only take the initiative to retreat.

Taking advantage of the great opportunity created by the monster beasts under its command, the "Savage Bull Demon King" hurriedly took advantage of the chaos and led a few low-tier monster beasts to break through the blockade of the cultivator army and headed straight for the foot of the mountain.

There were more than two thousand low-tier monster beasts on the entire "Mount Youyun." Even if the cultivator side tried its best to block them, the battlefield of such a battle between thousands of cultivators and monster beasts was very chaotic, and there would still be many fish that slipped through the net and escaped from the mountain.

After all, the biggest goal of the crowd was the Core Formation demon king with the highest cultivation in the monster beast army, so they didn't pay too much attention to the small number of low-tier monster beasts that were missed.

It was precisely by taking advantage of this point that the "Savage Bull Demon King" restrained its cultivation and lurked all the way, soon arriving at the foot of the mountain smoothly.

Just as the demon king broke through the last line of defense and secretly rejoiced that it had escaped the encirclement of the cultivator army, a Huang family cultivator from "Mount Taiyuan" with only Qi Refining cultivation happened to bump into it.

At this time, the cultivation shown by the "Savage Bull Demon King" was only at the mid-Qi Refining stage, and although this Huang family cultivator's cultivation was not high, he had already broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining.

Seeing the "Savage Bull Demon King" in front of him that was much weaker than himself, this Huang family cultivator, who had been guarding the foot of the mountain, thought it was his opportunity to make a contribution, so he carried his flying sword and took the initiative to kill the "Savage Bull Demon King" in front of him.

Seeing that he was noticed, the "Savage Bull Demon King" did not panic and chose to show its original cultivation to kill this person, but accelerated its pace of escape, wanting to rely on its speed advantage to shake off the other party directly.

However, the "Savage Bull Demon King" thought very well, but didn't expect the determination of this Huang family cultivator to kill the enemy and make a contribution.

Seeing that the other party's speed was too fast for him to catch up at all, the Huang family cultivator directly took out a precious high-grade talisman, cast a spell to turn it into a wooden prison, and trapped the "Savage Bull Demon King," who didn't pay much attention to behind him, directly inside.

"You still want to run after being targeted by me? You wasted a high-grade talisman of mine. This time, let's see where you can run." Seeing that the "Savage Bull Demon King" was successfully trapped by him, the Huang family cultivator was overjoyed and hurriedly rushed over here.

Just as he thought his prey was already in hand, unexpectedly, in the next moment, the "Savage Bull Demon King" broke free from the control of the wooden prison directly and ran out from inside.

Seeing this monster beast in front of him with only mid-Qi Refining cultivation actually break free from the restraint of a high-grade talisman in an instant, the Huang family cultivator who was halfway there was also shocked and stunned in place, somewhat unable to believe the scene that just happened.

"How is this possible? Could it be that this guy is not a first-tier monster beast!"

This high-grade talisman in his hand was something that even late-stage Qi Refining monster beasts would have a hard time breaking free from in a short time, but the monster beast in front of him actually broke free and escaped in an instant. This required at least a second-tier monster beast above Foundation Establishment to be able to do it.

Seeing the "Savage Bull Demon King" in front of him escaping rapidly, the Huang family cultivator didn't dare to continue chasing and could only shout loudly at the nearby area, wanting to find nearby Foundation Establishment cultivators to help.

The "Savage Bull Demon King," who was escaping, heard the shouting from behind and felt that something was wrong, so it hurriedly turned around and spat out a powerful spiritual light, directly killing the Huang family cultivator on the spot.

But this huge movement that happened suddenly also quickly attracted the attention of nearby cultivators. Soon, a Foundation Establishment cultivator stepping on a flying sword moved quickly toward the place where the two were.

The person who came was the head of the Li family in Qinghe County, Li Chengyue, whose cultivation had already reached the peak of Foundation Establishment.

After seeing the Huang family cultivator who was killed on the spot by the monster beast, Li Chengyue immediately discovered a trace of something wrong. While personally leading the cultivators who came to chase the "Savage Bull Demon King" who was escaping in front.

On the other hand, he hurriedly took out a sound-transmission talisman and cast a spell to inform Zhao Mengling and Huang Siyuan, who were guarding in mid-air, of this news.

Li Chengyue stepped on his flying sword, which was naturally faster than the "Savage Bull Demon King" who was fleeing in a panic. Before long, he blocked it halfway.

Seeing that he had been discovered, the "Savage Bull Demon King" simply stopped pretending, lowered its head, and butted Li Chengyue, who was blocking it in front, away, then quickly drove its escape light and flew into mid-air to flee toward the distance.

This scene also happened to be seen by Huang Siyuan, who came over to investigate after receiving the news. She immediately took out her magic treasure and chased quickly in the direction where the "Savage Bull Demon King" was fleeing.

Although Huang Siyuan's cultivation was not as good as the "Savage Bull Demon King," she still had a third-tier mid-grade flying boat under her feet, and her escape speed was no slower than the "Savage Bull Demon King." She chased for more than ten miles and used her magic treasure to block it in mid-air.

This third-tier mid-grade flying boat of Huang Siyuan was found by Song Qingming together with Luo Li and Chen Yuting from the "Heavenly Corpse Daoist" cave abode back then.

At that time, Chen Yuting, who shared this item, didn't need such a high-tier flying boat, so she took the initiative to exchange it for spirit stones with Song Qingming.

Because Song Qingming already had the easier-to-use "Phantom Boat" on his body, he also didn't need this item. After returning to the family, he gave this flying boat directly to Huang Siyuan to replace the one she originally used.

It was precisely because of this third-tier mid-grade flying boat that accelerated her escape speed that Huang Siyuan was able to catch up with her opponent so quickly and not let this cunning "Savage Bull Demon King" escape easily.

Seeing that Huang Siyuan, who was chasing, was only at the fourth level of Core Formation, the "Savage Bull Demon King" immediately roared and directly urged the double horns on its head to release a spiritual light, wanting to rely on its own powerful strength to force back the opponent in front of it.

Huang Siyuan was not panicked upon seeing this. While driving her magic treasure to deal with the "Savage Bull Demon King's" fierce attack, she patted the "Spirit Beast Bag" at her waist lightly, and soon a palm-sized red spirit mouse was summoned by her.

This red spirit mouse looked somewhat cute and well-behaved, but the aura it emitted was very astonishing. It was actually the same as Huang Siyuan's cultivation, also a third-tier monster beast that had broken through to the mid-Core Formation stage.

After swallowing the "Ten Thousand Spirit Dew" refined by Huang Siyuan a year ago, "Red Flame," which had been in closed-door cultivation for more than half a year, really didn't let Huang Siyuan down. With the help of the spiritual water, it successfully broke through its cultivation and advanced to the mid-Core Formation stage.

After breaking through its cultivation, the momentum emitted by "Red Flame" was also much stronger than before.

Even when facing this fierce-looking "Savage Bull Demon King," it was not afraid of the other party at all. As soon as it came out, it spat a large group of flames directly at the other party, burning the "Savage Bull Demon King" to the point where it had to be distracted to block its attack.

Although its cultivation strength was not as good as the "Savage Bull Demon King," Huang Siyuan also had a mid-Core Formation spirit beast "Red Flame" to help. With the two working together, the "Savage Bull Demon King" couldn't take any advantage at all for a while and found it difficult to get rid of the other party's entanglement.

Discovering that Huang Siyuan had already started fighting with the "Savage Bull Demon King," Zhao Mengling in mid-air, as well as Song Qingming and Zhou Ziyang, who were searching on the mountain, also quickly rushed over to her side one after another.

Unable to get rid of the pursuit, the "Savage Bull Demon King" was soon surrounded by the crowd in mid-air. For a time, it was alone and had no chance to escape.

It was only less than a quarter of an hour before this Savage Bull Demon King, who had been majestic on "Mount Youyun" for nearly a thousand years, was killed on the spot by the four people including Song Qingming, and the demon core also fell into Song Qingming's hands.

With the death of the "Savage Bull Demon King," the many monster beasts on "Mount Youyun" at this time were also cleared by the cultivator army for the most part.

The remaining monster beasts at this time also had no fighting spirit when facing the human cultivator army. Apart from a small number who took advantage of the chaos to escape, they all hid in the caves located on the top of the mountain.

Under Song Qingming's arrangement, the crowd immediately began to clean up the battlefield and clear the remaining monster beasts in the caves.

Because the human cultivator side was well-prepared and several Core Formation cultivators took action, this battle was an unexpected complete victory, killing the "Savage Bull Demon King" and wiping out the entire "Mount Youyun."

In addition, more than a thousand corpses of various low-tier monster beasts were left on the mountain. When the law enforcement team cultivators searched the entire spiritual mountain, they also found two third-tier spiritual medicines and countless various low-tier herbs and spiritual items.

These spoils of war were piled up like a mountain, filling an entire flying boat that came to load the spoils, making the many cultivators who participated in this battle show satisfied smiles on their faces.

Although this battle was a complete victory under the leadership of several Core Formation ancestors including Song Qingming, so many monster beasts occupied the geographical advantage and resisted desperately from the beginning, so the losses on the human cultivator side were also not light.

Not only were more than two hundred Qi Refining cultivators killed on the spot, but even four Foundation Establishment cultivators died in battle, and several hundred people were injured in this battle and needed to temporarily withdraw to the rear to recuperate.

Li Chengyue, who went to block the "Savage Bull Demon King" at the beginning, was knocked out on the spot after flying several dozen zhang away under the demon king's head-on blow.

Although he saved his life by blocking the vital parts with a defensive magic treasure on his body, Li Chengyue was also seriously injured in many places on his flesh by the demon king's blow, so Song Qingming could only arrange for someone to send him back to "Qinghe County" first.

Just when the battle was taking place on the "Floating Mountain" side, the White Dragon Demon King in "White Cloud Valley" had already received the call for help from the "Savage Bull Demon King" and knew that the "Xiaoyao Sect" had led a cultivator army north.

However, after receiving the distress letter from "Mount Youyun," the cautious "White Dragon Demon King" did not rush to send troops to rescue at the first time, but informed "Mount Jinyu" of this matter first.

It wasn't until the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor" led people to arrive that the "White Dragon Demon King" began to lead the monster beast army under its command to rush toward the direction of "Mount Youyun" quickly.

Just after they had just set off, they soon encountered an ambush by the cultivator army led by Li Mufeng, Bai Yuxian, and others halfway.

After a big battle between the two sides, the demon race side saw that the human side was well-prepared and couldn't rush over to support "Mount Youyun" at all, so they decisively retreated back to "White Cloud Valley."

This time, although the contact time was short, after a big battle between the two sides, both sides suffered not small losses. The "Xiaoyao Sect" side occupied the initiative on the battlefield because there was one more Nascent Soul cultivator. Precisely because of this, the losses of the monster beast side were also much greater than the human cultivator side, and a Core Formation demon king was killed on the spot by Bai Yuxian.

After the big battle between the two sides, the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor," who had suffered some dark losses, knew that the demon race side had no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation, so he commanded the nearby monster beasts to retreat into "White Cloud Valley."

Since then, the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor," who wanted to preserve his strength, never took the initiative to fight the "Xiaoyao Sect" side again, but just guarded "White Cloud Valley," this dangerous place, and stood in a stalemate with the human cultivators, wanting to wait for reinforcements from other places to arrive.

And the "Xiaoyao Sect" side, after successively wiping out several nearby third-tier spiritual veins and gaining nothing, merged the army into one and arrived outside "White Cloud Valley," wanting to force the demon race to come out for a decisive battle.

But no matter how the "Xiaoyao Sect" crowd lured the other party or insulted and challenged them, the monster beast side remained unmoved and didn't want to come out to fight a decisive battle with the human side at all.

They only occasionally sent small groups of elite monster beasts above Foundation Establishment to harass the flying boats of human cultivators transporting wounded and supplies behind the battlefield.

Seeing that the other party wouldn't come out, and the flying boats and convoys transporting supplies to the rear were often attacked by monster beasts, making it difficult to supply normally, the human cultivators surrounding "White Cloud Valley" were also a bit anxious.

A few months later, Li Mufeng, who had been unable to force the other party out, chose to send troops to forcibly attack the "White Dragon Valley" spiritual vein.

As a result, after entering the miasma array set up by the demon race in advance, the human cultivators were affected by the miasma and couldn't exert their full strength at all. After a big battle with the demon race, the "Xiaoyao Sect" didn't take any advantage, and instead suffered some dark losses, losing a lot of manpower.

Since then, the "Xiaoyao Sect" crowd had no way to deal with the monster beasts in "White Cloud Valley" for a while, and never dared to easily rush to impact the miasma array set up by the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor" again.

In this way, the two sides began to stand in a stalemate outside "White Cloud Valley" for more than half a year. Neither the "Xiaoyao Sect" nor the monster beasts hiding in White Cloud Valley dared to take action easily, each waiting for the reinforcements in their hearts. — On this day, a black escape light suddenly flew from the east of "White Cloud Valley." Not long after, a black strange bird with wings spread wide enough to be four or five zhang wide arrived outside the valley.

This black strange bird scanned the thick miasma permeating the valley, stopped in mid-air, and then spat out a scroll from its mouth and cast a spell to send it into the valley.

After waiting in place for a good while, the miasma in front of the black strange bird suddenly dissipated slowly, and a golden escape light flew quickly from the valley and landed in front of it.

"Fellow Daoist Golden Tiger, long time no see!" Seeing the "Golden Tiger Demon King" who came to his side, the black big bird immediately smiled and greeted him.

The "Golden Tiger Demon King" nodded happily upon seeing this: "Fellow Daoist Ink Crow, you have finally arrived. The Old Ancestor has been looking forward to you for days. Come in with me quickly!"

The "Ink Crow Demon King" nodded in response upon hearing this, and soon followed the "Golden Tiger Demon King" into the valley and came to the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor," who was discussing matters with his subordinate demon kings in a hall.

"Pay respects to Old Ancestor!" After seeing the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor," the "Ink Crow Demon King" hurriedly stepped forward to bow and salute.

After seeing the other party, the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor" hurriedly waved his hand happily: "You came to send a letter today, so Fellow Daoist Qinglu and the others shouldn't be far away, right? I don't know when they can arrive here?"

"Reporting to Ink Dragon Old Ancestor, the army led by my Old Ancestor is less than eight hundred miles away from here, and can arrive outside the valley by tomorrow at the latest."

"I came here this time under the order of the Old Ancestor to ask when you will launch an attack to join us in attacking the human cultivators."

Hearing the other party's answer and confirming that the reinforcements had arrived, the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor" was first happy, and then slowly opened his mouth and smiled gloomily: "Tomorrow is not in a hurry to counterattack. I have a better method here now that might have a chance to severely frustrate the human cultivators."

"After I let Golden Tiger go back with you in a moment, tell Fellow Daoist Qinglu that the army should stop at two hundred miles first and don't approach here to avoid being discovered by human cultivators."

"I will go over personally tomorrow to discuss with him how to fight the enemy. I hope you all will wait a moment and don't be too anxious."

Hearing that the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor" suddenly had a new idea and changed the original combat plan, the "Ink Crow Demon King" showed a trace of curiosity on his face.

But knowing that this matter was very important, it didn't ask more, nodded and responded, and then left the hall with the Golden Tiger Demon King.

Five days later, in mid-air two thousand miles south of "White Cloud Valley," a large flying boat fully loaded with various supplies drove north quickly.

The flying boat was painted with the unique logo of the "Xiaoyao Sect." In addition to various supplies and spiritual items, there were also hundreds of "Xiaoyao Sect" disciples wearing various costumes.

These cultivators were all recently mobilized by the "Xiaoyao Sect" from the rear to support the front line.

Because they knew that they would soon go to the front line to fight the cruel monster beast army, the many cultivators on the flying boat were also slightly nervous at this moment, surrounding each other in groups of three or five to inquire about news from the front line.

Many of them were going to the front line to fight monster beasts for the first time and had no experience in such a large-scale battlefield. Being able to inquire about some useful news on the battlefield from some senior cultivators at this moment was a great comfort to their hearts.

Just as the flying boat was moving slowly, on a high mountain in the distance, the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor" stared at the flying boat in front and said to a man in green clothes beside him happily: "Fellow Daoist Qinglu, I have been sending subordinates to harass the flying boats transporting supplies for the past few months, and have been alarmed several times to send Nascent Soul cultivators to support."

"If we can lure Bai Yuxian over this time, we can take the opportunity to kill her."

"In this way, the Xiaoyao Sect will only have Li Mufeng left. At that time, I am afraid they will obediently withdraw their troops without us having to take action, and it will be time for us to counterattack."

Having stood in a stalemate with human cultivators in "White Cloud Valley" for more than half a year, the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor" had roughly figured out the route and time of the "Xiaoyao Sect" transporting supplies.

After joining forces with the reinforcements led by "Qinglu Demon Emperor" this time, the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor" didn't rush to fight the human cultivators head-on, but secretly came to the rear of the battlefield with the "Qinglu Demon Emperor."

Intending to take advantage of the attack on the "Xiaoyao Sect's" transport of supplies to lure them into sending people to support, and first weaken a part of the other party's strength. This was also a strategy of besieging the point to strike the reinforcements that the "Xiaoyao Sect" had used once when attacking Mount Youyun.

"Hehe! Brother Ink Dragon's plan is excellent. No matter whether the other party will send Nascent Soul cultivators, as long as they dare to send reinforcements, we can at least kill several of their Core Formation cultivators and weaken their strength."

"As long as we can severely damage them this time, we can still directly send troops to crush them head-on and relieve Brother's siege." Hearing what the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor" said, the Qinglu Demon Emperor also immediately agreed.

After getting the nod from the Qinglu Demon Emperor, the "Ink Dragon Demon Emperor" gave an order, and the four demon kings led by the "Golden Tiger Demon King" behind him immediately took orders, led more than a hundred second-tier monster beasts that came with them, and rushed directly toward the "Xiaoyao Sect" flying boat not far away.

"There are monster beasts, monster beasts are attacking."

"Stand still, what are you panicking about! Go and notify Senior Uncle Jin, start the flying boat array first."

"..."

Seeing a black mass of monster beasts chasing from the sky in the distance, the young cultivators on the flying boat were a little panicked and chaotic for a while, until several Foundation Establishment cultivators shouted angrily a few times, which made the scene much quieter.

Under the leadership of several leading Foundation Establishment cultivators, the crowd soon stabilized, directly started the third-tier array on the flying boat, and began to control those large city-defending tools installed on it, preparing to welcome the upcoming battle.

"Surround them, make the flying boat stop, don't let them run!"

After approaching the flying boat, the "Golden Tiger Demon King" immediately commanded the many monster beasts under its command to besiege the array above the flying boat, soon forcing the entire flying boat to slowly lower its speed and stop.

"Senior Uncle Jin, why are there so many monster beasts this time? The array is afraid it won't last long. What should we do?"

Looking at the more than a hundred monster beasts above the second tier and four powerful Core Formation demon kings, the many cultivators above the flying boat were also very nervous at this moment, not knowing if the array could last until the reinforcements arrived.

However, Jin Ziyuan, standing at the front of the flying boat, was not too worried after seeing so many monster beasts coming at once, and instead showed a bit of excitement on his face.

"Tell everyone that reinforcements will arrive soon. Use the array with all your strength and don't be stingy with spirit stones. Qi Refining cultivators stay behind to control the flying cloud crossbows, and you come out with me to block them and fight for a little more time."

After Jin Ziyuan finished speaking, he took the more than ten Foundation Establishment cultivators left on the flying boat, jumped out of the array directly, and began to block the monster beasts attacking the flying boat array.

And when the "Golden Tiger Demon King" saw Jin Ziyuan and the others run out, it didn't rush to besiege them, but only separated a part of the monster beasts to entangle with them. The focus of other monster beasts was still on blocking the flying boat, the purpose of which was not to let this flying boat escape here.

This time, the two sides fought very fiercely outside, but they seemed to be somewhat distracted and didn't use their full strength. After fighting for a good while, neither side had any major casualties.

It wasn't until about a quarter of an hour later that a white escape light suddenly flew from the northern sky of the flying boat. Soon, a small flying boat carrying more than ten cultivators appeared in everyone's eyes, which made the entire battlefield change again.

"Hehe! Fellow Daoist Qinglu, the big fish has arrived!"