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Chapter 756: Using Their Own Strategy Against Them, Capturing Bai Yun Valley

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Just as everyone learned that reinforcements had arrived and were preparing to discuss stopping the withdrawal to fight a decisive battle with the demon tribe, Bai Yuxian, who had been sitting on the side and not saying much, suddenly opened her mouth to veto everyone's proposal.

"This... Uncle Bai, the reinforcements have already arrived immediately, why do we still need to continue to withdraw at this time?"

Hearing Bai Yuxian say that they still needed to continue to withdraw, a few looks of confusion appeared on everyone's faces. Jin Ziyuan, whose temperament was somewhat anxious, even blurted out and asked with some doubt.

Although most of the people present did not understand Bai Yuxian's idea for a moment, some people reacted very quickly.

Just as Jin Ziyuan's voice fell, before Bai Yuxian could explain, Song Qingming, who was standing on the side, immediately took over the conversation and replied:

"Uncle Bai wants us to continue to withdraw, could it be that she wants to take this opportunity to lure out the entire demon beast army in Bai Yun Valley, so that we can fight a decisive battle with them outside?"

Bai Yuxian heard this and immediately nodded to Song Qingming with a smile on her face: "Not bad. Now the demon tribe in Bai Yun Valley almost already knows the news that we are preparing to withdraw.

The reason they haven't acted yet is that they want to take advantage of when we start to withdraw comprehensively, strike out from the rear, and entangle us, catching us off guard.

Since the Demon Emperor Molong has this idea of coming out to fight a decisive battle with us, why don't we take this opportunity to use their own strategy against them and pull the battlefield far away from Bai Yun Valley."

Hearing Bai Yuxian's explanation, Li Mufeng, who was sitting on the side, hurriedly nodded in agreement: "Junior Sister Bai's strategy is very brilliant. I think it's worth a try! This time we are not acting for them to see. The Demon Emperor Molong will definitely find it difficult to detect the arrival of our rear reinforcements for a while.

As long as we can lure them to the south, the demon army will not have the protection of the miasma formation. This way, we can not only increase our chances of winning but also reduce some unnecessary casualties in the upcoming decisive battle with the demon tribe."

For Bai Yuxian being able to think of continuing to withdraw to lure the demon tribe out for a decisive battle so quickly, Li Mufeng was also full of praise in his heart at this moment, and he felt much more at ease about Bai Yuxian taking charge of the sect in the future.

Seeing that the two Nascent Soul ancestors of the sect both agreed with this idea, the people below naturally had no objections, and soon nodded one after another to express their agreement.

After discussing it, everyone also quickly began to prepare, sending out all the convoys and large flying boats, and began to accelerate the transport of supplies to the rear.

It's just that these convoys and flying boats, although they looked full, in fact, most of the wooden boxes stored on them were empty, with only a small number of boxes on the surface containing some spiritual items, used to mislead the demon spies that frequently appeared in the sky.

Just like this, after transporting supplies for several consecutive days, the "Xiaoyao Sect" side finally gathered all the sect's flying boats, started to pull up camp, and took the initiative to leave "Bai Yun Valley" and retreat to the south.

Not long after the human cultivators acted, the "Demon Emperor Molong," sitting in the great hall of "Bai Yun Valley," immediately learned of this news and quickly gathered the demon beast army to pursue them to the south.

This time, the demon side not only had the two Nascent Soul Demon Emperors, "Demon Emperor Molong" and "Demon Emperor Qinglu," personally dispatched, but also had sixteen subordinate Demon Kings and tens of thousands of low-tier demon beasts coming out in full force, leaving only a very small portion of demon beasts to continue guarding the valley.

Because the number of large flying boats on the human cultivator side was limited, and there were still many cultivators following the supply-transporting convoys on the ground below, the speed of action was not very fast. After traveling hundreds of miles to the south, the demon beast army in the rear quickly caught up.

Seeing that the demon beast army had already appeared behind, the "Xiaoyao Sect" side immediately began to organize cultivators to resist while urging the team to speed up their movement.

Seeing the human cultivator army desperately fleeing not far ahead, the "Demon Emperor Molong" and the "Demon Emperor Qinglu" high above were also very excited at this moment.

Next, as long as the demon beast side could quickly catch up and entangle the human cultivator army, it would not be so easy for the opponent to shake off the pursuit.

In their eyes, these "Xiaoyao Sect" cultivators had already become fish on the chopping block, and today they would definitely have to pay a bloody price.

After commanding the demon beast army to catch up with the retreating human cultivators, the two Demon Emperors high above took the lead and, with boundless momentum, directly killed toward the human cultivator side.

Behind the two of them, there were numerous Demon Kings and various bird demon beasts that covered the sky and the sun, looking like they were going to tear apart all the human cultivators ahead.

"Stop being rampant!"

Seeing that the opponent had already started to launch an attack, Li Mufeng and Bai Yuxian immediately jumped out from above the flying boat and directly stepped forward to block the two most powerful Nascent Soul Demon Emperors of the opponent.

"Everyone, speed up the withdrawal. Cultivators above the Foundation Establishment stage, come with us to block the demon beast army."

Song Qingming and the other Jin Dan cultivators were also not willing to fall behind and immediately led more than a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators to follow behind the two ancestors to block the demon beast army attacking from the sky.

Even knowing that the demon beast army behind them was stronger than their side, the "Xiaoyao Sect" crowd who went to block them had no look of fear on their faces.

As soon as they met, the two sides immediately started a fierce battle, trading blows just like a few days ago.

However, unlike before, this time the human cultivator side had no intention of lingering in the battle. Everyone was fighting while retreating, slowly moving backward, and soon let the opponent pursue them for another hundred miles.

In just over a hundred miles, many cultivators below had already been caught up by the demon beast army, and even two of the large flying boats in the mid-air above had been caught up by the demon beast army, and their speed had dropped significantly.

Just as the human cultivator side retreated into a canyon where two mountains faced each other, the human cultivators who were fleeing in front suddenly stopped and turned around to meet the demon side.

Immediately following, a burst of shouting and killing suddenly erupted from both sides of the canyon, and an army of thousands of cultivators instantly killed their way out from both sides of the mountain peaks, directly charging toward the demon beast army that was entangled with the "Xiaoyao Sect" in the canyon.

Seeing this sudden scene on the battlefield below, the demon side was instantly somewhat panicked, not knowing why there were so many human cultivators ambushing here.

Just as several Demon Kings in the sky discovered that the situation was not right and were preparing to go down to see the situation, a flying boat suddenly drove over from one side of the mountain peak below, and five Jin Dan cultivators jumped out and immediately blocked these Demon Kings, not giving them a chance to approach the demon beast army that was entangled with the human cultivators.

Seeing a huge change in the battlefield below, the "Demon Emperor Molong's" expression instantly became somewhat ugly, and he looked directly at his opponent, Li Mufeng, with a serious face.

"There is an ambush here. Li Mufeng, what kind of ghost idea are you playing?"

Seeing that the "Star Sect" cultivators who had come to support had already killed their way out, Li Mufeng did not want to hide it from the opponent anymore and directly laughed loudly:

"Fellow Daoist Molong, you thought that only you could bring reinforcements, and my Xiaoyao Sect couldn't?"

"Where on earth did these reinforcements of yours come from? Even if you asked for help, it would be impossible to arrive so quickly. Who on earth are they?"

Just as the "Demon Emperor Molong" was full of confusion, a streak of cyan light also flew from the distant sky, directly approaching the location where the "Demon Emperor Molong" was.

"If Fellow Daoist has any doubts, let me explain it to you!"

The person had not yet arrived, but the voice had already clearly entered their ears, causing the two Demon Emperors who were fighting to be shocked in their hearts, not knowing where something had gone wrong, and how another Nascent Soul cultivator had come.

Before the "Demon Emperor Molong" could open his mouth to answer, a tall, sturdy man directly stepped through the air and appeared beside the two who were fighting, revealing a smiling face to the "Demon Emperor Molong."

"I am Zheng Zitong of the Star Sect, specifically here to exchange pointers with the two Fellow Daoist Demon Emperors. I hope Fellow Daoist Molong will not hesitate to enlighten me!"

"Zheng Zitong, Star Sect... aren't you in the Zheng Kingdom? How could you suddenly appear here? What on earth is that guy Chiyun doing? He didn't even send any news over."

"Fellow Daoist Chiyun has already exchanged moves with me several times, and both sides have long been tired of fighting. Coming here this time, I can just happen to exchange pointers with Fellow Daoist Molong."

After Zheng Zitong finished speaking, he quickly began to cast a spell, and immediately after, a flying sword magic treasure that was incomparably sharp flew out from beside him and quickly headed straight for the "Demon Emperor Molong" not far away, wanting to join Li Mufeng in a pincer attack on the opponent.

"Hmph! You dare to show off your petty tricks in front of this old man!"

Seeing this, the "Demon Emperor Molong" immediately shouted loudly and directly spat out a black ball from his mouth, blocking Zheng Zitong's flying sword, and then secretly transmitted his voice to the numerous Demon Kings not far away, telling them to quickly withdraw from here first.

The demon army had come out in full force this time, wanting to take advantage of the human cultivators' comprehensive withdrawal to pursue and beat the underdog. The "Demon Emperor Molong" and the others never expected that the "Xiaoyao Sect" side would also happen to have reinforcements and ambush them here.

Knowing that their side had already fallen into the opponent's trick and that it would probably be difficult to achieve the thoughts in their hearts today, the "Demon Emperor Molong" saw that the situation was not good and immediately decisively issued a retreat signal, wanting to lead the demon army to directly withdraw to "Bai Yun Valley."

Although they received the retreat voice transmission sent by the "Demon Emperor Molong," the demon beast army below had already been tightly entangled by the human cultivator side at this moment and could not easily escape.

Even if they received the news of the retreat, only a small portion of the demon beast army running at the back successfully broke away from the battle, and the remaining demon beasts could only fight while retreating under the pursuit of the human cultivators.

The numerous Demon Kings high above were also tightly entangled by the high-tier human cultivators at this moment and could not withdraw from the battlefield.

Song Qingming and the others, who were originally at a disadvantage in the number of Jin Dan cultivators, because of the sudden addition of five Jin Dan Elders from the "Star Sect," not only reversed the unfavorable battle situation at this moment but also quickly occupied an absolute advantage on the battlefield.

The demon side saw that the situation was not good. Because the dozen or so Jin Dan Demon Kings belonged to different factions, they all started to have their own thoughts at this moment in order to save their lives.

Among them, the six Demon Kings brought by the "Demon King Qinglu" exchanged glances, and while fighting, they took the initiative to slowly get together. Then, taking advantage of their opponents not paying attention, the leader, "Demon King Moya," suddenly cast a spell to conjure thousands of black crows, directly rushing toward the surrounding human Jin Dan cultivators, instantly attracting everyone's attention.

Immediately following, the "Demon King Moya" quickly used a banner magic treasure, transforming it into a violent hurricane to roll up several surrounding Demon Kings and quickly rush out of the battlefield.

The one fighting the "Demon King Moya" was a Jin Dan Elder of the "Star Sect." Although this person was a late-stage Jin Dan cultivator, his cultivation and divine abilities were not very strong, and in the previous battle, he could only contain the "Demon King Moya."

Facing the powerful divine ability suddenly used by the "Demon King Moya," although this person quickly reacted, he rushed out of the obstruction of the crows in front of him and flew to pursue.

However, he was ultimately a step too slow, and despite trying his best, he still could not catch up with the "Demon King Moya" who was fleeing at full speed, and could only watch them gradually disappear into the northern sky.

With the "Demon King Moya" suddenly withdrawing, the remaining numerous Demon Kings also had no intention of continuing to entangle, and one after another used various divine abilities just to escape and save their lives.

Seeing this, Song Qingming and the others naturally did not want to let the opponent escape easily, and they also desperately used their divine abilities, wanting to keep these Demon Kings in front of them completely.

These Demon Kings under the "Jinyu Mountain" were all old rivals of the "Xiaoyao Sect" and were also mortal enemies of the human cultivators. No matter what, they could not be let go easily today.

Because six Demon Kings were missing all of a sudden, the combat power of the demon side, which was already at a disadvantage, was instantly greatly damaged. Facing the numerous human Jin Dan cultivators again, they soon appeared unable to cope.

In less than a quarter of an hour, three Demon Kings with slightly inferior strength on the demon side were accidentally killed, dying under the swords of the human Jin Dan cultivators.

"Bai Long, I have a magic treasure left by the ancestor, which can help us escape. You guys help me block them, and wait for me to cast a spell to take you out together."

Seeing that their side was trapped in the heavy encirclement of the human cultivators and that the encirclement was getting smaller and smaller, making it difficult to escape, the "Demon King Jinhu" could not care about anything at this moment. After transmitting a voice to the "Demon King Bai Long" not far away, he directly took out a round bead magic treasure from his body.

This magic treasure was specially bestowed by the "Demon Emperor Molong" to his trusted aide, the "Demon King Jinhu," for self-defense after coming to the Fuyun Mountain Range. It was refined from the original pill liquid within the Nascent Soul Demon Emperor's own Jin Dan, and its power far exceeded that of ordinary third-tier magic treasures.

However, this magic treasure, like the spirit talismans of human cultivators, was also a one-time use spiritual item. If it weren't for such a crisis today, the "Demon King Jinhu" would not have easily taken it out to use.

Seeing the round bead magic treasure that the "Demon King Jinhu" was activating, the "Demon King Bai Long" and the other remaining Jin Dan Demon Kings immediately understood the other's meaning and directly moved toward the location of the "Demon King Jinhu" to cover his spellcasting.

"Quickly stop him, don't let them run away."

Seeing such an unusual move by the demon side, the surrounding human Jin Dan cultivators also knew that the opponent wanted to take the opportunity to escape, and all used their divine abilities to attack the "Demon King Jinhu" with all their might, wanting to interrupt the magic treasure he was activating.

However, although there were many cultivators on the human side, the "Demon King Bai Long" and the other numerous Demon Kings were already in a desperate situation. At this moment, even if they were injured, they did not dare to take a step back and give up this last chance to escape.

Under the desperate cover of these Demon Kings, the "Demon King Jinhu" successfully completed the spellcasting and activated the black round bead magic treasure in his hand.

As the magic treasure in his hand emitted a dazzling spiritual light, the "Demon King Jinhu" immediately threw it into the air, and then a white light flashed above the round bead magic treasure, transforming it into a black dragon composed of spiritual light.

As soon as this black dragon appeared on the battlefield, Song Qingming and the others who were surrounding the Demon Kings immediately felt a very powerful aura coming from it, which faintly exceeded the scope of Jin Dan cultivators.

Hearing the sudden roar of the black dragon in front of them, the human cultivators around who felt the powerful aura on it could not help but take a few steps back.

Then, under the drive of the "Demon King Jinhu," the black dragon directly rushed toward a corner of the encirclement.

Facing this powerful black dragon, Jin Ziyuan and several other Jin Dan cultivators blocking in front of it still wanted to use their magic treasures to step forward and stop the opponent.

But the magic treasures and spirit talismans they usually used to fight the enemy were like paper in front of this black dragon, and were quickly broken through. Several people nearby were also directly knocked away by the impact of the dragon.

Seeing that the black dragon was so powerful, the "Demon King Bai Long" and the other numerous Demon Kings were overjoyed. Without waiting for the "Demon King Jinhu" to remind them, they immediately and decisively followed the black dragon and rushed out of the encirclement.

"Quickly stop them!"

Seeing that these Demon Kings were about to break free and escape, Li Wu immediately shouted to remind everyone to pursue and block the opponent.

Seeing that the human cultivators in the rear had pursued again, the "Demon King Bai Long" also did not dare to hide anything at this moment and directly took a flying boat used by human cultivators and jumped on it with several Demon Kings beside him.

"Brother Bai Long, wait for me!"

Although the "Demon King Jinhu's" cultivation had reached the peak of Jin Dan, because he had just activated the round bead magic treasure to open the encirclement, he had consumed a large amount of magic power in his body.

At this moment, his magic power was somewhat insufficient, and his escape speed fell to the very back, being pulled away by a large distance by the "Demon King Bai Long" and the others.

Seeing that the "Demon King Bai Long" and the others had all jumped onto the flying boat, the "Demon King Jinhu," who was a step late, was somewhat anxious and directly shouted loudly, wanting the other side to wait for him to escape together.

However, facing the "Demon King Jinhu's" plea for help, the "Demon King Bai Long" did not pay any attention. As soon as he jumped onto the flying boat, he did not dare to delay for a moment and desperately activated this flying boat magic treasure, directly fleeing rapidly to the north.

"Bai Long, you... you actually dare to abandon me, the ancestor will not let you off..."

Seeing that the "Demon King Bai Long" did not care about him and just ran away, the "Demon King Jinhu" was instantly so angry that his face turned blue, and he roared desperately toward the distance.

However, no matter how he cursed, the "Demon King Bai Long" and the others acted as if they hadn't heard it at all, without any intention of looking back, and instead accelerated the speed of the flying boat.

The "Demon King Jinhu," whose magic power was already insufficient, did not escape very far before he was quickly caught up by Song Qingming and the others who were pursuing from behind.

At this moment, the "Demon King Jinhu," who was at the end of his rope, had no power to resist facing the siege of more than a dozen human Jin Dan cultivators, and in just a moment, his head was cut off by Chen Xuanxin with a sword.

Seeing this peak Jin Dan Demon King, who had dealt with the "Xiaoyao Sect" for many years, fall and perish, Song Qingming and the others on the side all breathed a sigh of relief.

Although they did not solve all the opponents in the battle today, being able to kill four Demon Kings under the "Jinyu Mountain" at once, and also leaving behind the peak Jin Dan Demon King, the "Demon King Jinhu," the battle results could be considered quite significant.

Just as the battle ended, Song Qingming turned and came to the side of Huang Siyuan, who was healing not far away, and escorted her back to the flying boat in the rear first.

In the great battle just now, Huang Siyuan, Jin Ziyuan, and two other "Star Sect" Elders happened to be at the position where the "Demon King Jinhu" cast the spell to rush out of the gap.

In order to stop the opponent from escaping, several people released their magic treasures and desperately resisted the black dragon's attack. As a result, several people did not succeed as they wished, but were instead injured by the black dragon and temporarily withdrew from the battle.

Fortunately, Huang Siyuan and the others were all shaken and injured in their meridians, and the injuries were not too serious, but each of them damaged a magic treasure, which made them feel a bit of heartache at this moment.

By the time Song Qingming returned to the battlefield, the battle on the ground below had already entered a one-sided situation with the participation of numerous Jin Dan cultivators, and the remaining numerous low-tier demon beasts had no intention of lingering in the battle and scattered to flee without any goal.

The human cultivator side also started to pursue with all their might at this moment.

Having been pursued by the demon beast army all the way, everyone had long been holding a fire in their hearts, and naturally did not want to give up such a good opportunity to make a contribution, so they all picked up their magic tools and desperately pursued the demon beasts in front of them.

As for the high sky, the several Nascent Soul cultivators who were originally fighting had long since disappeared because they had started to retreat to the north while fighting, and the battlefield, which was full of killing sounds just now, gradually became quiet.

Seeing this, Song Qingming and the others immediately arranged for a portion of the cultivators to start cleaning up the battlefield, while the remaining main army all boarded the sect's large flying boats and started to kill their way back in the direction of "Bai Yun Valley" in a mighty manner.

At this moment, the main force of the demon beast side had been almost completely annihilated. Relying only on the few remaining garrison troops and the remnants who had fled back, even if they had the help of the miasma formation, it was already impossible to hold "Bai Yun Valley."

Everyone boarded the flying boats and accelerated, and before long, they arrived outside "Bai Yun Valley." At this moment, the demon beasts in the valley already knew the news of the defeat at the front line and were already in a complete mess.

The "Demon King Bai Long" and the "Demon King Moya," who had just withdrawn from the front line, did not see their own ancestor return for a long time and did not know what to do for a while.

Facing the pressure of the human cultivators' strong army, the two late-stage Jin Dan Demon Kings discussed and chose to directly abandon "Bai Yun Valley" and retreated all the way north to "Jinyu Mountain."

By the time the human cultivators had prepared and started to attack "Bai Yun Valley," they discovered that the vast majority of the demon beasts in the valley had already withdrawn, and in the end, they captured "Bai Yun Valley," this third-tier top-quality spirit vein, without much effort.

As for Li Mufeng and Bai Yuxian, after fighting a great battle with the two Demon Emperors outside.

Although they successfully defeated the opponent, they failed to keep these two seasoned Nascent Soul Demon Emperors, only destroying a powerful magic treasure of the "Demon Emperor Molong," and still let them successfully withdraw to "Jinyu Mountain." (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 757 =====

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