Danger Returns to the Bailin Sect's Territory

One month later.

As everyone expected, the Demon Beast in the Boundless Great Swamp began their revenge.

However, the number of Demon Beast that rushed out of the Boundless Great Swamp was extremely large.

Five Demon Beast at the Golden Core Realm stage led hundreds of thousands of other Demon Beast in an attack on Serpent Dragon Lake.

Among the five Golden Core Realm Demon Beast that attacked, there were three Golden Core Initial Stage Realm demonic beasts, one Golden Core Middle Stage demonic beast, and one Golden Core Late Stage Realm demonic king, plus hundreds of thousands of Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment Realm Demon Beast to help.

Even with three Golden Core cultivators and nearly 20,000 cultivators from the Hundred Spirits Sect stationed at Serpent Dragon Lake, it was difficult to repel the horde of Demon Beast for a time, and they even fell into a disadvantageous position.

However, the cultivators managed to hold their ground by relying on the third-tier array set up within the Serpent Dragon Lake, and began a protracted battle with the group of Demon Beast.

The five Golden Core Demon King who attacked the massive horde of Demon Beast in Serpent Dragon Lake were not fools. Just like during the Demon Beast Uprising, they diverted a significant number of troops to bypass Serpent Dragon Lake and invade the heart of the Hundred Spirits Sect.

Once the heartland of the Hundred Spirits Sect is captured, the demon Demon Beast can besiege the Serpent Dragon Lake. Even if the Serpent Dragon Lake is not captured afterward, the Demon Beast can still occupy that huge territory in the heartland of the Hundred Spirits Sect.

After all, it was Hundred Spirits Sect who broke the rules first, so the Demon Beast beasts wouldn't be polite either.

This move plunged the entire Bai Ling Territory into another "Demon Beast Uprising".

Moreover Demon Beast, this Demon Beast Uprising involves several times more Demon Beast Uprising than the one that just ended not long ago, making the situation even more dangerous.

Furthermore, many Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator and even Devil Cultivator who had evaded the Hundred Spirits Sect's call to guard the Serpent Dragon Lake returned to the Hundred Spirits Sect's territory, relying on their Qing Feng.

Taking advantage of the "good opportunity" of the Demon Beast invasion, they seized the chance to cause trouble.

Those Foundation Establishment Rogue Cultivator were alright; they knew their limits and were afraid that the cultivators from these Foundation Establishment Family stationed at Serpent Dragon Lake would retaliate afterward.

They only dared to raid the Low-Order Spirit Vein of various Lineage, robbing the Spirit Plant planted on those Low-Order Spirit Vein, as well as the spiritual objects of the cultivators stationed there.

They'll leave after the robbery; no one will get killed.

However, those Devil Cultivator who usually live in seclusion are not so easy to talk to. Taking advantage of the fact that more than 70% of the cultivators of the Hundred Spirits Sect Hundred Spirits Sect are stationed at the Serpent Dragon Lake, which is hundreds of thousands of miles away.

It's difficult to estimate and take them into consideration.

They then carried out massacres of mortal villages and towns within the territory of the Hundred Spirits Sect, and even deliberately lured groups of Demon Beast into the heart of the Hundred Spirits Sect, attacking the Clan Mountain of various Lineage.

Then, they reaped the benefits, plundered the Lineage's wealth, and annihilated all the mortals of that clan to forge Devil Artifact.

Among them, the most heinous of sins was the infamous "Poison Blood Demon Sect" in the Hundred Spirits Sect territory.

In just half a month, this demonic sect seized the opportunity to annihilate two Foundation Establishment Family in Ning Province, where its headquarters were located, and slaughtered all the mortals of these two Lineage, while also forging numerous powerful Devil Artifact.

This move also increased the strength of the Poison Blood Demon Sect by several times in a short period of time, and the number of followers it absorbed also increased.

Even more remarkably, the two Devil Cultivator from the Poison Blood Demon Sect, who had been at the Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer for many years, also refined numerous demonic pills using the flesh and blood of countless mortals and cultivators, and subsequently broke through to the Consummation Realm Foundation Establishment realm.

In an instant, all the major Lineage in the Hundred Spirits Sect territory began to feel uneasy.

They had to guard against hordes of Demon Beast that infiltrated their territory, as well as raids by Rogue Cultivator and rampant Devil Cultivator.

That day, at night.

Ling Pengyun, who was stationed at the Ling Clan Mountain, received a request for help from Huai River Market Town and immediately summoned three high-ranking members of the Lineage —Great Elder Ling Yunhui, Second Elder Ling Yun'an, Sixth Elder Ling Yunqian, Seventh Elder Ling Xiaohua —to the Council Hall.

After reaching the Foundation Establishment, Ling Pengliang, the former Great Elder of the Ling Clan, was promoted to the third Supreme Elder of the Ling Clan.

The position of the Great Elder was vacant and handed over to Ling Yunhui, First Rank High-Grade Alchemist of the Lineage and the tenth member of the Yun Generation.

Ling Yunhui's Pill Refining skills had been stuck at the first-level mid-grade level because his Lineage's Pill Refining lineage only had First Rank Middle Grade.

However, since his Lineage obtained the Second Rank Alchemy Inheritance from the Hundred Spirits Sect, his Pill Refining skills have improved by leaps and bounds. Several years ago, he broke through to the First-Tier Superior-Grade in Pill Refining.

In recent years, Ling Yunhui has been working in various markets and shops, refining elixirs for his Lineage.

Due to his advanced age, he was only recalled to the Lineage Lineage the last two years.

The Second Elder, Ling Yun'an, is a First-Tier Superior-Grade Artifact Refiner.

Back then, this person also taught Ling Pengyun how to refine magical Law Artifact.

Like Great Elder Ling Yunhui, he was also recalled to the clan recently due to his advanced age.

The position of Second Elder, which had been vacant in the Lineage for a long time, was recently handed over to Ling Yun'an.

The position of the Seventh Elder is a newly created position for the Lineage; previously, the Lineage only had six elders.

The Seventh Elder, Ling Xiaohua, was originally stationed in the Sand Soil Mine in Huai River County. However, with a large number of Demon Beast rushing in, the Sand Soil Mine was no longer safe, so he was summoned back to the Lineage Lineage.

Given the shortage of manpower in the Lineage, Ling Xiaohua has broken through to the ninth level of Qi Training Ninth Layer in the past two years.

Over the years, he has made many contributions to the Lineage.

He was then appointed by the Lineage's higher-ups to become the Lineage's seventh elder.

As for the Lineage's Third Elder, Ling Yunfeng, and Fourth Elder Ling Yunfu, they were stationed in Tu Yuan Market Town.

The Fifth Elder, Ling Yunxi, is still stationed in the secluded Dark Ice Spirit Pool within the territory of the Tiger's Roar Liu Clan.

Unlike mineral Dark Ice Spirit Pool, only a small number of Demon Beast crave mineral veins; the Demon Beast don't care about them, treating them merely as relatively hard rocks.

However, that Dark Ice Spirit Pool can nurture Dark Ice Spirit Water, and such a treasure land is just as attractive to Demon Beast.

If no one is stationed at the Netherworld Dark Ice Spirit Pool Dark Ice Spirit Pool, it will most likely be occupied by Demon Beast, and it will be difficult for the Ling Clan to reclaim it.

After all, that place was not within the Ling Clan Territory, but within the territory of the Tiger's Roar Liu Clan.

"Peng Yun, what brings you to us this time?" Great Elder Ling Yunhui.

Ling Pengyun then said.

"Just now I received a message from the two Foundation Establishment Cultivator of the Hundred Spirits Sect stationed in Huai River Market Town. Another wave of Demon Beast has invaded our Huai River County. Among those Demon Beast, there are three Foundation Establishment cultivators and more than five hundred Qi Training Demon Beast."

"This wave of Demon Beast is now working together with the five Foundation Establishment Demon Beast and nearly two thousand Qi Training Demon Beast that were already attacking Huai River County to besiege Huai River Market Town."

"The Huai River Market Town has asked me for help."

Upon hearing this, everyone's expressions became serious.

The group of Demon Beast besieging Huai River Market Town Huai River Market Town was quite powerful, while there were only two Foundation Establishment Cultivator stationed there.

Without much thought, everyone understood that without external intervention, Huai River Market Town would surely be destroyed.

Meanwhile, the group of Demon Beast that attacked Huai River Market Town will also rush into the heart of Huai River County.

Meanwhile, the Ling Clan Territory, which is also located deep within Huai River County, will see even more Demon Beast hordes invade in the future, as the Huai River Market Town will no longer serve as a shield.

This makes the Ling Clan even more dangerous.

After a long silence, Great Elder Ling Yunhui frowned and couldn't help but ask Ling Pengyun a question.

"Peng Yun, what are your thoughts on this? To save them or not?"

"We definitely need to save them, but first we have to eliminate the group of Demon Beast that have been occupying the Lingxiao Market, which my Ling Clan has been holding on a First-Tier Superior-Grade Spirit Vein, for the past few days."

"The Lingxiao Market is only a hundred miles away from the Clan Mountain. Once I leave the Clan Mountain to support Huai River Market Town, the three Foundation Establishment Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment and one Early-Stage Foundation Establishment Purple Star Demon Wolf that occupy the gathering will definitely notice and then lead their seven or eight hundred Qi Training Stage Purple Star Demon Wolf to attack the Clan Mountain."

"At that time, even if the Lineage has that Second Rank High Grade Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array to protect them, they probably won't be able to hold out for long against that pack of Purple Star Demon Wolf."

"Therefore, I plan to call back my Pengxing Clan Brother, who is stationed at Falling Dusk Mountain in Falling Rain County, the former territory of the Luo Clan Lineage, and together with him and my Pengxing Clan Brother Peng Lin, a Array Formation Master, we will use the Lineage's Second Rank High Grade Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array and the clan's spare Second Grade Middle Rank Aura Concealing Array to annihilate that pack of Purple Star Demon Wolf."

Ling Pengyun revealed the countermeasures he had already devised.

Half a month ago, several groups of Demon Beast broke into the Ling Clan Territory.

Among them, the strongest was the group of Purple Star Demon Wolf. The other groups of Demon Beast were only Qi Training Demon Beast beasts and were not very strong. They were wiped out one by one by Ling Pengyun and his people.

However, even Ling Pengyun dared not easily confront the powerful Purple Star Demon Wolf.

As a result, the pack of Purple Star Demon Wolf occupied the Lingxiao Market Lingxiao Market, the weakest point in the defenses among the six First-Tier Superior-Grade Spirit Vein in An Yang County of the Ling Clan, and thus established themselves there.

The First-Tier Superior-Grade Spirit Vein surrounding the One City, Four Towns of An Yang County, belonging to the Ling Clan, were all protected by a second-grade formation set up by the Ling Clan because of the numerous mortals there. Even the Purple Star Demon Wolf would find it difficult to destroy them in a short time.

The Ling Clan Ling Clan only had one spare second-tier array, but they spent a lot of money to sell off many Spirit Vein, and even sold the two spare second-tier Spirit Gathering Formation that the Lineage had at the time.

We purchased four second-tier attack formations from a long-established Aristocratic Clan specializing in formations in Jing Province.

Since there were no ordinary people around Lingxiao Market, and it was just a market, and the Ling Clan family had spent too many Spirit Stone, they did not pay much attention to this place.

This allowed the pack of Purple Star Demon Wolf to take advantage of the situation.

"Peng Yun, are you confident in annihilating that pack of Purple Star Wolves?" Ling Yunhui asked, his face growing even more serious.

"Yes!" Ling Pengyun said.

"Since you are confident, then let's do as you say. If we can get rid of this cancer, the Ling Clan can have some peace," Ling Yunhui a deep voice.

With this matter resolved, the meeting came to an end.

After the meeting, the Seventh Elder, Ling Xiaohua, rode Ling Pengyun's Wind Shadow Peng to find Ling Pengxing, who was stationed at Falling Dusk Mountain, thousands of miles away.

Half a day later.

Ling Pengxing rode the Wind Shadow Peng back to the Lineage alone, while the Seventh Elder, Ling Xiaohua, temporarily took over Ling Pengxing's duties at Falling Dusk Mountain, which was protected by a second-order formation.

To prevent the Demon Beast hordes that occupy the other Spirit Vein of Falling Rain County, where Falling Dusk Mountain is located, from taking the opportunity to attack Falling Dusk Mountain.

Ling Pengxing returned to his Lineage and reminisced with Ling Pengyun. The two then took Ling Penglin, Array Formation Master who was about to enter the First-Tier Superior-Grade level, as well as the Ling Clan's new protective formation, the "Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array," and a Second Grade Middle Rank Aura Concealment Array. Together, they rode the Wind Shadow Peng away from the Clan Mountain.

Half an hour later, Ling Pengyun, Ling Pengxing, and Ling Penglin rode the Wind Shadow Peng and landed in a dense forest several miles away from the Lingxiao Market.

The three of them also jumped off the Wind Shadow Peng and together helped Ling Penglin set up the Second Rank High Grade Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array they had brought in this dense forest, using a thousand Spirit Stone as energy.

Setting up the Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array was not difficult, and with enough manpower, it was completed in less than half an incense stick's time.

The twelve array flags of the Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array also supported a huge blue light curtain that stretched for a full mile.

If it weren't for Ling Pengyun and the others trying to make the formation even more powerful, this formation could have completely covered the surrounding ten miles.

However, this would also dilute the power of the formation.

As soon as the blue light screen appeared, Ling Penglin, who was in control of the Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array, removed it to prevent the four Foundation Establishment Purple Star Demon Wolf in the Lingxiao Market from noticing it.

As for the four missing array flags of this Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array, they were repaired by the Ling Clan long ago, and the array was then set up on Lingxiao Mountain, becoming the Ling Clan's new protective array.

However, because the four repaired array flags were not crafted by the same person as the other eight array flags, the power of this array was about 10% weaker than before.

Of course, the materials used to refine this array flag are all extraordinary. In addition, this array was originally the natal array of Wang Yun, Second Rank High Grade Array Formation Master, and is a Middle Vehicle Lifebound Magic Item.

Even though its power is now reduced by 10%, it is still several times stronger than an ordinary Second Rank High Grade attack formation.

Afterwards, the three of them set up the Second Grade Middle Rank Aura Concealing Array around the Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array, using this array to shield the Frost Ice Cloud Grand Array from its aura.

"Tenth Sister, Third Brother, you two quickly enter the formation and use the formation to conceal yourselves. I will ride the Wind Shadow Peng to the valley where Lingxiao Market is located and lure the pack of Purple Star Demon Wolf here."

Ling Pengyun greeted Ling Penglin, and then he and Ling Pengxing rode the Wind Shadow Peng towards the Lingxiao Market, which was several miles away.

Half an incense stick later.

When the traces of the Wind Shadow Peng reappear on the horizon of this plain.

Below them, seven or eight hundred Purple Star Demon Wolf were still chasing them.

Among them, the three Middle-Stage Foundation Establishment and one Early-Stage Foundation Establishment Purple Star Demon Wolf that led the pack had many wounds on their bodies, and their eyes were filled with rage as they glared fiercely at Ling Pengyun, who was riding the Wind Shadow Peng in the sky.

Clearly, those four Foundation Establishment wolf demons had just fought with Ling Pengyun and had suffered a hidden loss.