Nascent Soul Heavenly Corpse, Human-Beast Unity (3,200 words, please subscribe)

Several days later.

Ling Pengyun's group crossed more than ten million li of territory before finally leaving the Orthodox Dao Alliance's domain and entering the Demon Dao Alliance's territory east of the Yuan Kingdom.

This region was exceedingly strange. The moment Ling Pengyun entered it, he felt the surroundings grow noticeably colder.

Above the Demonic Veins throughout this region, dark clouds blanketed the sky all year round, painting a scene steeped in deathly stillness.

Yet the Demonic Veins they passed were completely deserted, leaving only vein after vein standing lonely upon this land.

This made things much more convenient for Ling Pengyun's group, and they pressed straight ahead.

Before long, they arrived ten thousand li outside Demon Dao Mountain, the core stronghold of the Demon Dao Alliance.

Demon Dao Mountain stood more than three thousand zhang tall, and it was now covered by an enormous black barrier.

The mountain was packed with demonic cultivators, numbering roughly fifty or sixty thousand.

These demonic cultivators did not belong solely to the Yin Poison Sect. Virtually every force from the Eastern Demonic Domain had dispatched some low-level demonic cultivators here.

Although the Li Clan and Heavenly Star Sect had brought only around forty thousand cultivators, that was because the majority of their low-level cultivators could not be brought into battle.

Furthermore, Demon Dao Mountain had originally possessed a Third Rank High Grade Spirit Vein. It had once been the stronghold of a sect under the Yuan Kingdom's Li Clan, one that boasted seven or eight Golden Core cultivators.

Unfortunately, that Golden Core sect's stronghold had been situated along the eastern border of the Yuan Kingdom, relatively close to the Eastern Demonic Domain.

When the Righteous-Demonic War began, that sect fell prey to the Demon Dao Alliance. Not only was its stronghold occupied, but