Under normal circumstances, Gu An had no interest in Demonic Path cultivators and avoided them whenever possible, but one person was different.
That was Xu Jue!
Xu Jue had previously led an army of demons to besiege Ji Xiaoyu, allowing Gu An to harvest over fifty thousand years of lifespan. Gu An remembered him deeply.
After leaving Mystic Valley, Gu An flew toward Outer Sect City. Only after flying a great distance did he use the Great Yin-Yang Transformation, turning into a Demon Shadow and vanishing into the mountain forest with the Boundless Traceless Profound Heaven Step beneath his feet.
Within a dense forest two hundred li away from Mystic Valley, Xu Jue was meditating beneath a tree. His hair hung loose, his black robe was torn to shreds, and he cut a sorry figure.
Small flags had been planted around him, and a faint barrier shielded him.
The Vice Sect Master of the Ten Thousand Yin Sect suddenly changed expression, then spat out a mouthful of black blood. It splattered across the grass, withering the weeds and raising wisps of black smoke.
"Damn Ji Family..."
Xu Jue gritted his teeth, his tone brimming with hatred.
During Ji Chen's pursuit, he had also encountered the siege of other great Ji Family cultivators and had nearly lost his life. Even recalling it now left lingering fear in his heart.
The Demonic Path had gathered the strength of five sects—Thousand Autumn Pavilion, Ancient Hao Sect, Ten Thousand Yin Sect, Heavenly Absolute Sect, and Cold Poison Valley—yet they had been driven back in merely a day. Taixuan Sect's strength chilled Xu Jue to the bone.
Thinking of the Ji Family members within his own sect, Xu Jue suddenly wanted to return and slaughter every Ji Family cultivator.
Yet when he considered the Ji