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

Just as Zhou Ziyang took action to block the beast herd, these several hundred demon bulls actually ignored the obstruction of other cultivators and all rushed toward Zhou Ziyang's side crazily, looking like they were not afraid of death.

Facing the siege of several hundred demon bulls, even a Jin Dan cultivator like Zhou Ziyang was forced to be somewhat flustered for a while and could only take the initiative to retreat backward.

Taking advantage of the excellent opportunity created by the demon beasts under its command, the "Savage Bull Demon King" hurriedly took advantage of the chaos and led several low-tier demon beasts to break through the blockade of the cultivator army, heading straight down the mountain.

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

After all, the crowd's biggest goal was the Jin Dan demon king with the highest cultivation in the demon beast army, so they did not pay too much attention to the small portion of low-tier demon beasts that leaked out.

It was precisely by using 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 here broke through the last line of defense and was secretly rejoicing in its heart that it had escaped from the cultivator army's encirclement, a "Taiyuan Mountain" Huang family cultivator with only Qi Condensation stage cultivation happened to run into it.

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

Seeing the "Savage Bull Demon King" that was much weaker than himself, this Huang family cultivator, who had been guarding at the foot of the mountain, thought that his opportunity to perform meritorious service had come, and carrying his flying sword, he took the initiative to kill toward the "Savage Bull Demon King" in front of him.

Seeing that he had been noticed by someone, 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 well, but did not expect the Huang family cultivator's determination to kill the enemy and perform meritorious service.

Seeing that the other party's speed was too fast and he couldn't catch up at all, the Huang family cultivator directly took out a precious top-grade spiritual talisman, cast a spell to transform it into a wooden prison, and directly trapped the "Savage Bull Demon King," who had not paid too much attention to behind it, inside.

"If you are targeted by me, you still want to run? You wasted a top-grade spiritual talisman of mine. This time, let's see where else you can run." Seeing that the "Savage Bull Demon King" was successfully trapped by himself, the Huang family cultivator was overjoyed and hurriedly rushed toward this side.

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

Seeing this demon beast in front of him with cultivation only at the mid-stage of Qi Condensation actually break free from the restraint of a top-grade spiritual talisman in an instant, the Huang family cultivator halfway there was also shocked and stayed 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 demon beast!"

The top-grade spiritual talisman in his hand was difficult for even late-stage Qi Condensation demon beasts to break free from in a short time, but the demon beast in front of him actually broke free and ran away in an instant. This was at least possible for a second-tier demon beast above Foundation Establishment.

Seeing the "Savage Bull Demon King" in front of him running away rapidly, the Huang family cultivator did not dare to continue chasing and could only shout loudly toward the nearby area, wanting to find Foundation Establishment cultivators nearby to help.

The "Savage Bull Demon King" who was escaping heard the shouting from behind and felt somewhat bad. It hurriedly turned around and spat out a spiritual light with great power, directly killing the Huang family cultivator not far away on the spot.

But this huge movement that happened suddenly also quickly attracted the attention of cultivators nearby, and soon a Foundation Establishment cultivator stepping on a flying sword moved rapidly 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 demon 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.

He hurriedly took out a sound-transmission spiritual 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 the flying sword, which was naturally faster than the "Savage Bull Demon King" who was fleeing in the idea, and before long, he blocked it halfway.

Seeing that he had been discovered, the "Savage Bull Demon King" simply stopped pretending, directly revealed its true form, and topped Li Chengyue, who was blocking it in front, flying, and then rapidly drove the escape light to fly into mid-air and flee toward the distance.

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

Huang Siyuan's cultivation was not as good as the "Savage Bull Demon King," but 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." After chasing out for more than ten miles, she used her magic tool to block it in mid-air.

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

Chen Yuting, who was assigned this object at the time, did not 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 a better "Phantom Boat" on his body and did not need this object either, after returning to the family, he directly gave this flying boat to Huang Siyuan to replace the one she originally used.

It was precisely because of having this third-tier mid-grade flying boat to speed up her escape speed that Huang Siyuan could 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 layer of Jin Dan, the "Savage Bull Demon King" immediately roared and directly urged the spiritual light released from the pair of horns on its head, wanting to rely on its own powerful strength to force back the opponent in front of it.

Huang Siyuan saw this and was not in a hurry, while driving the magic treasure to deal with the "Savage Bull Demon King's" fierce attack, she tapped the "Spirit Beast Bag" at her waist, and soon a palm-sized crimson spirit mouse was summoned by her.

This crimson spirit mouse looked somewhat cute, but the aura it emitted was very astonishing. It was actually the same as Huang Siyuan's cultivation, and it was also a third-tier demon beast that had broken through to the mid-stage of Jin Dan.

After swallowing the "Wanling Dew" refined by Huang Siyuan

After breaking through in cultivation, the aura radiating from "Chi Yan" was also much stronger than before.

Even when facing this fierce-looking "Bull Demon King," he was not the least bit afraid; as soon as he emerged, he spat a large ball of flames directly at the opponent, forcing the "Bull Demon King" to divide his attention to block the attack.

Although his cultivation strength was still somewhat inferior to the "Bull Demon King," Huang Siyuan had the help of her mid-stage Jin Dan spirit beast "Chi Yan." With the two of them joining forces, the "Bull Demon King" could not gain any advantage for a time and found it difficult to shake off their entanglement.

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

Unable to shake off the pursuit, the "Bull Demon King" was soon surrounded by the group in mid-air; isolated and helpless, he no longer had any chance to escape.

In less than a quarter of an hour, this Bull Demon King, who had reigned supreme on "Mount Youyun" for nearly a thousand years, was killed on the spot by the joint efforts of Song Qingming and the other three, and the demon core fell into Song Qingming's hands.

With the death of the "Bull Demon King," the numerous demon beasts on "Mount Youyun" were also mostly cleared out by the army of cultivators.

The remaining demon beasts, now facing the human cultivator army, had long since lost their will to fight; apart from a small number who fled in the chaos, they all hid in the caves located at the mountain peak.

Under Song Qingming's arrangement, the group immediately began to sweep the battlefield and clear out the remaining demon beasts in the caves.

Because the human cultivator side was well-prepared and multiple Jin Dan cultivators had taken action, this battle was, unsurprisingly, a complete victory, resulting in the killing of the "Bull Demon King" and the extermination of the entire "Mount Youyun" force.

In addition to this, over a thousand corpses of various low-tier demon beasts were left on the mountain. When the law enforcement team searched the entire spirit mountain, they also discovered two third-tier spirit herbs and countless various low-tier medicinal herbs and spirit items.

These spoils of war were piled up like a mountain, filling an entire flying boat that had come to collect them, causing the faces of the many cultivators who participated in the battle to beam with satisfied smiles.

Although this battle was a complete victory under the leadership of Song Qingming and several other Jin Dan ancestors, the many demon beasts had occupied the favorable terrain and resisted to the death from the start, so the casualties on the human cultivator side were also not light.

Not only were over two hundred Qi Refining cultivators killed on the spot, but four Foundation Establishment cultivators also died in battle, and several hundred others were injured and needed to be temporarily withdrawn to the rear to recuperate.

Li Chengyue, who had gone to intercept the "Bull Demon King" at the beginning, was sent flying dozens of zhang away by the demon king's head-on strike and was knocked unconscious on the spot.

Although he saved his life by using a defensive magic treasure to block the vital parts, Li Chengyue's physical body suffered severe injuries in many places from the demon king's strike, and Song Qingming could only arrange for someone to send him back to "Qinghe County" first.

Just as the great battle was taking place at "Mount Fuyun," the White Dragon Demon King located in "Bai Yun Valley" had already received the "Bull Demon King's" plea for help and knew that the "Xiaoyao Sect" had led an army of cultivators north.

However, after receiving the distress signal from "Mount Youyun," the cautious "White Dragon Demon King" did not rush to send troops to rescue him, but instead informed "Jin Yu Mountain" of the matter first.

It was not until "Demon Emperor Molong" arrived with his men that the "White Dragon Demon King" began to lead his army of demon beasts to quickly provide support in the direction of "Mount Youyun."

Just shortly after they set off, they were quickly ambushed midway by the army of cultivators led by Li Mufeng, Bai Yuxian, and others.

After a great battle between the two sides, the demon race saw that the human side had been prepared and could not break through to support "Mount Youyun," so they decisively retreated back to "Bai Yun Valley."

Although the contact time was short this time, after a great battle, both sides suffered significant losses. Because the "Xiaoyao Sect" side had one extra Nascent Soul cultivator, they remained on the offensive on the battlefield. Precisely because of this, the losses on the demon beast side were much greater than those of the human cultivators, and a Jin Dan demon king was killed on the spot by Bai Yuxian.

After the great battle, "Demon Emperor Molong," having suffered some secret losses, knew that the demon side had no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation, so he ordered the nearby demon beasts to retreat into "Bai Yun Valley."

Since then, "Demon Emperor Molong," intent on preserving his strength, never again took the initiative to come out and fight the "Xiaoyao Sect" side, but merely guarded the dangerous terrain of "Bai Yun Valley" and stood in a stalemate with the human cultivators, waiting for reinforcements from other places to arrive.

As for the "Xiaoyao Sect," after successively exterminating several surrounding third-tier spirit veins without much gain, the army merged into one and arrived outside "Bai Yun Valley," wanting to force the demon race to come out for a decisive battle.

But no matter how the "Xiaoyao Sect" members tried to lure or insult them to provoke a battle, the demon beast side remained unmoved and simply did not want to come out to fight the human side.

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

Seeing that the opponent would not come out, and that the flying boats and convoys transporting supplies to the rear were frequently attacked by demon beasts and could not be supplied normally, the human cultivators surrounding "Bai Yun Valley" became a bit anxious.

A few months later, Li Mufeng, unable to force the opponent out, chose to send troops to forcibly attack the "White Dragon Valley" spirit vein.

As a result, after entering the miasma formation laid out in advance by the demon race, the human cultivators were affected by the miasma and could not exert their full strength. After a great battle with the demon race, the "Xiaoyao Sect" not only failed to gain any advantage but also suffered some secret losses, with many men lost.

Since then, the "Xiaoyao Sect" members were also at a loss for what to do about the demon beasts in "Bai Yun Valley" and dared not easily rush into the miasma formation laid out by "Demon Emperor Molong" again.

Thus, the two sides began to stand in a stalemate outside "Bai Yun Valley" for more than half a year. Neither the "Xiaoyao Sect" nor the demon beasts hiding in Bai Yun Valley dared to act easily, each waiting for the reinforcements they had in mind. — On this day, a black streak of light suddenly flew in from the east of "Bai Yun Valley." Not long after, a strange black bird with wings spanning four or five zhang wide arrived outside the valley.

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

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

"Fellow Daoist Jinhu, long time no see!" Seeing the "Demon King Jinhu" who had come to his side, the large black bird immediately smiled and greeted him.

"Demon King Jinhu" saw this and nodded happily, saying: "Fellow Daoist Moya, you have finally arrived. The Ancestor has been looking forward to you for days. Come, follow me inside!"

"Demon King Moya" nodded slightly upon hearing this and soon followed "Demon King Jinhu" into the valley, arriving before "Demon Emperor Molong," who was discussing matters with his subordinate demon kings in a great hall.

"Greetings, Ancestor!" After seeing "Demon Emperor Molong," "Demon King Moya" hurriedly stepped forward and bowed in greeting.

Seeing him, "Demon Emperor Molong" hurriedly waved his hand happily and said: "You came to deliver the message today; Fellow Daoist Qinglu and the others should not be far away, right? I wonder when they will arrive here?"

"Reporting to Ancestor Molong, the army led by my Ancestor is already less than eight hundred li away from here and can arrive outside the valley by tomorrow at the latest.

I came this time under the orders of my Ancestor to ask when you, Ancestor, will launch the attack to join us in pincer-attacking the human cultivators."

Hearing the answer and confirming that reinforcements had arrived, "Demon Emperor Molong's" expression was first joyful, then he smiled slowly with a gloomy face: "There is no rush to counterattack tomorrow. I have a better method here that might have a chance to deal a heavy blow to the human cultivators.

After I let Jinhu go back with you in a moment, tell Fellow Daoist Qinglu to have the army stop two hundred li away first. Do not approach here to avoid being discovered by the human cultivators.

Tomorrow I will go over personally to discuss how to deal with the enemy with him. I hope everyone will wait a little longer and not be too anxious."

Hearing that "Demon Emperor Molong" suddenly had a new idea and changed the original battle plan, a trace of curiosity appeared on "Demon King Moya's" face.

But knowing that this matter was very important, he did not ask more, nodded directly in response, and then left the great hall with Demon King Jinhu.

Five days later, in mid-air two thousand li south of "Bai Yun Valley," a large flying boat fully loaded with various supplies sailed rapidly toward the north.

The flying boat was painted with the unique emblem of the "Xiaoyao Sect." Besides various supplies and spirit items, there were hundreds of "Xiaoyao Sect" disciples wearing various attires.

These cultivators were all recently summoned by the "Xiaoyao Sect" from the rear and transferred to the front line to provide support.

Because they knew they would soon be going to the front-line battlefield to fight the brutal demon beast army, the many cultivators on the flying boat were also slightly nervous, gathering in groups of three or five to inquire about news from the front-line battlefield.

Many of them were going to the front line to fight demon beasts for the first time and had no experience with such a large-scale battlefield. Being able to hear some useful information about the battlefield from some senior cultivators was a great comfort to them.

Just as the flying boat was moving slowly, on a high mountain in the distance, "Demon Emperor Molong" stared at the flying boat in front and said happily to a man in green clothes beside him: "Fellow Daoist Qinglu, in the past few months, I have constantly sent my subordinates to harass their supply-transporting flying boats, and several times I have alarmed them into sending Nascent Soul cultivators to support them.

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

In this way, the Xiaoyao Sect will only have Li Mufeng left. By then, I'm afraid they will obediently withdraw their troops even without us taking action. The next step should be the time for our counterattack."

Having stood in a stalemate with the human cultivators at "Bai Yun Valley" for more than half a year, "Demon Emperor Molong" had sent small forces to harass the rear many times and had long since roughly figured out the routes and times for the "Xiaoyao Sect's" supply transport.

This time, after joining forces with the reinforcements led by "Demon Emperor Qinglu," "Demon Emperor Molong" did not rush to fight the human cultivators head-on, but secretly came to the rear of the battlefield with "Demon Emperor Qinglu."

He intended to use the attack on the "Xiaoyao Sect's" supply transport to lure them into sending reinforcements, first weakening a portion of the opponent's strength. This was also a strategy of "besieging a point to strike reinforcements" that the "Xiaoyao Sect" had used once when attacking Mount Youyun.

"Haha! Brother Molong's plan is excellent. Regardless of whether the opponent will dispatch Nascent Soul cultivators, as long as they dare to send reinforcements, we can at least kill several of their Jin Dan cultivators and weaken their strength.

As long as we can deal them a heavy blow this time, we can still directly send troops to crush them head-on and relieve the siege for you, brother." Hearing what "Demon Emperor Molong" said, the Demon Emperor Qinglu on the side also immediately agreed.

After getting the nod from Demon Emperor Qinglu, "Demon Emperor Molong" gave an order, and the four demon kings led by "Demon King Jinhu" behind him immediately took the order, leading over a hundred accompanying second-tier demon beasts to pounce directly toward the "Xiaoyao Sect" flying boat not far away.

"There are demon beasts, demon beasts are attacking."

"Everyone stand still, what are you panicking about! Quickly go notify Uncle Jin and start the flying boat formation first."

"..."

Seeing the black mass of demon beasts chasing from the horizon in the distance, the young cultivators on the flying boat were suddenly in a panic and chaos, 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 group quickly stabilized, directly activated the third-tier formation on the flying boat, and began to operate the large city-defending equipment installed on it, preparing to meet the upcoming battle.

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

After approaching the flying boat, "Demon King Jinhu" immediately directed the numerous demon beasts under his command to besiege the formation above the flying boat, soon forcing the entire flying boat to slowly reduce speed and stop.

"Uncle Jin, why are there so many demon beasts this time? The formation probably won't last long. What should we do?"

Looking at the over a hundred second-tier or higher demon beasts in front of them, as well as the four powerful Jin Dan demon kings, the many cultivators above the flying boat were also very nervous, not knowing if the formation could last until reinforcements arrived.

However, Jin Ziyuan, standing at the front of the flying boat, did not seem too worried when he saw so many demon beasts coming at once; instead, a hint of excitement faintly appeared on his face.

"Tell everyone that reinforcements will arrive soon. Use the formation with all your might and don't be stingy with spirit stones. Qi Refining cultivators stay behind to operate the flying cloud crossbows. You come with me to go out and try to block them to buy a little more time."

After Jin Ziyuan finished speaking, he took the only dozen or so Foundation Establishment cultivators on the flying boat and leaped out of the formation to begin blocking the demon beasts attacking the flying boat's formation.

And "Demon King Jinhu," seeing Jin Ziyuan and the others run out, did not rush to besiege them, but only split off a portion of the demon beasts to entangle them, while the other demon beasts focused on blocking the flying boat, the goal being not to let this flying boat escape.

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

It was not until about a quarter of an hour later that a white streak of light suddenly flew in from the northern horizon of the flying boat, and soon a small, fast-moving flying boat carrying a dozen or so cultivators appeared in everyone's eyes, which finally caused the entire battlefield to change again.

"Haha! Fellow Daoist Qinglu, the big fish has arrived!" (End of chapter)