Below the mountain peak, inside the Council Hall of the Crimson Cloud Mountain Marketplace.
Bai Yuxian and Li Mufeng sat in the hall, chatting warmly with a white-haired elder.
This white-haired elder was none other than Yang Fengyu, the Heavenly Pole Sect Grand Elder who had recently rushed over from Shangyang State to support Crimson Cloud Mountain.
As Nascent Soul Sects both located in the eastern Cultivation World of the Floating Cloud Mountain Range, the Heavenly Pole Sect naturally could not remain aloof when the powerful northern Demon Race invaded.
A few days earlier, after receiving the news from Li Mufeng that the Cloud-Parting Mountain Clan was attacking.
Knowing that the situation was urgent, Yang Fengyu immediately gave the order to head north in support. He then took several Golden Core Cultivators from his sect and hurried to Crimson Cloud Mountain ahead of the main force.
Although the several-thousand-strong cultivator army organized by the Heavenly Pole Sect was still on the road and would need several more days to arrive.
With Yang Fengyu, a Nascent Soul Sixth Layer Cultivator, arriving first, Li Mufeng and Bai Yuxian both felt far more at ease. Unbidden, traces of joy appeared on their faces.
"Fellow Daoist Yang, you truly arrived in the nick of time. Had you come any later, I fear we would have had to prepare to withdraw from Crimson Cloud Mountain at once."
"When I heard Fellow Daoist Li say that the Cloud-Parting Mountain Clan was attacking, I thought they had merely come to reinforce the battle. I never expected even Ancestor Boyun to come personally.
"This demon has not shown herself for a thousand years. Now, her strength surpasses even what it was before. She is truly a thorn in our flesh and a nail in our bones.
"Still, the