An Ambush by Fellow Cultivators

Another year passed, and with it came a new year.

That year, the alliance once again assigned the clan a mission to wipe out a Golden Core demonic cultivator force.

Just as he had the previous year, Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong led the nearly fifteen hundred clan members participating in the war, piloting the Lingxiao Flying Boat away from their base at Autumn Yuan Mountain.

After first going to the Merit Hall at Demon-Slaying Marketplace to select a target, the Ling Clan party followed the location recorded in the intelligence, leaving the Orthodox Dao Alliance Territory and heading into the Hundred Demons Alliance Territory, toward a Third Rank demonic vein stronghold belonging to the Golden Core force known as the Sand Demon Sect.

According to the intelligence, the Sand Demon Sect's Third Rank demonic vein stronghold in the Hundred Demons Alliance Territory, like the Poisonflame Sect's stronghold from the previous year, had only one Golden Core Initial or Middle Stage demonic cultivator stationed there, and its Mountain Protection Formation had no array artifact.

Yet who could have expected that the Sand Demon Sect's demonic vein stronghold actually had one Golden Core Initial Stage and two Golden Core Middle Stage demonic cultivators stationed within it.

The Mountain Protection Formation on Sand Demon Mountain also possessed an array artifact.

This caused the Ling Clan, which had attacked this demonic sect stronghold, to suffer a hidden loss. Although Ling Pengyun and Ling Yunhong were exceptionally powerful by relying on the many high-grade magic treasures in their hands, and ultimately led their clansmen in wiping out the demonic sect stronghold—

the Ling Clan still suffered grievous losses. Not only had the Third Rank Middle Grade formation on the Lingxiao Flying Boat, the Gathering Star Astral Cloud Grand Array, been destroyed, making it unusable