By this point, how could he fail to see that Ling Pengyun had no intention of killing him, only of stopping him?
"Looks like Yan Kingdom truly does not wish to go to war with us."
"That is a good thing. The sect only ordered us to prevent Yan Kingdom's forces from continuing to expand into the Boundless Great Swamp. As long as the Yan Kingdom cultivators stationed in White Cloud City do not leave the city, things can remain as they are. The task assigned by the sect will be easy enough for me to complete."
Before long, the other demonic cultivators and demon beasts besieging White Cloud City also realized this.
They no longer fought as desperately as before and eased their offensives somewhat.
The more than forty Golden Core combatants defending the city, along with over twenty thousand cultivators from the major factions and more than thirty thousand recruited independent cultivators, were more than happy to see this.
Those forty-odd Golden Core combatants accordingly gave orders not to kill too many demon beasts.
The various factions of Yan Kingdom acted this way because they feared a repeat of the previous Demon Beast Uprising. Having slaughtered too many demon beasts attacking Yan Kingdom back then, they had drawn even more demons and devils into besieging them, plunging themselves into grave danger.
Unless absolutely necessary, neither the Profound Corpse Sect nor the Crimson Gold Bear Race, those two great Nascent Soul powers, would dispatch additional forces to crush a tiny place like Yan Kingdom.
At the very beginning of the Demon Beast Uprising, Ling Pengyun had used the Third Rank Communication Array that Ling Penglin had set up within the family during the previous uprising to establish contact with their superior Nascent Soul Great Sect, the Heavenly Star Sect.