Time gradually passed.
In November of that year.
The Demon Beast Uprising drew near as well. Only one month remained before it began.
The Demon Beast Uprising was a period during which the three factions of the Righteous Path, the Demon Race, and the Demonic Path had agreed they could fight without restraint. Its timing was exceedingly precise—not a day early or late, not even by a hair—and no faction had ever violated it.
At the same time, the forces under Heavenly Star Sect had basically all arrived at Extinguish Bear City.
In addition, Heavenly Star Sect had recruited quite a few independent cultivators from outside.
As a result, nearly two hundred thousand cultivators had gathered within the city.
Heavenly Star Sect accordingly began assigning the many cultivators in the city the tasks they would need to carry out during the Demon Beast Uprising.
Yan Siyi and the others dispatched from the Ling Clan received the safest task of all due to Hou Quan Zhenren, Heavenly Star Sect's Golden Core Ninth Layer body cultivator. During the Demon Beast Uprising, they only needed to remain within Extinguish Bear City, protected by a fourth-rank formation, and rely on the formation to defend the city.
Such an assignment was exceptionally good.
Even ordinary Golden Core forces under Heavenly Star Sect, as well as some Golden Core Elders of ordinary standing within Heavenly Star Sect, could not obtain it no matter how they begged.
The three forces from the Yan Kingdom that, like the Ling Clan, were Hundred Spirits Sect, Pure Heart Daoist Temple, and Medicine King Valley were not so fortunate. Heavenly Star Sect had assigned all three forces to assault certain Golden Core Demon Race forces outside Extinguish Bear City during the Demon Beast Uprising. Heavenly Star Sect cultivators had taken them