Time drifted on, and a month passed in a flash.
Over that month, Tushan Huanhuan led her team in sweeping through every Demon Fox Nest within ten million li, dozens large and small. Wherever they passed, the Five Elements Demon Foxes were all but wiped out.
Throughout that month, Li Qingyuan and his two companions followed Tushan Huanhuan into battle everywhere, progressing from harvesting Immortal Domain Realm demon foxes in easy victories to challenging Late-Stage True Immortal and True Immortal Peak Stage demon foxes.
Their gains far exceeded their expectations.
Now.
Inside a medium-sized Demon Fox Nest, a battle had just ended.
"It's been a month."
"We've finally hunted down a True Immortal Peak Stage demon fox."
Li Qingyuan and Er Yuan stood shoulder to shoulder, their chests heaving, their Law Power "greatly depleted." Before them lay the corpse of a True Immortal Peak Stage demon fox.
This Earth Element Demon Fox was ocher all over, with bloodline purity at the level of a Six-Tailed spirit fox. It had cultivated for hundreds of thousands of years by absorbing the residual bloodline power at the site of a Heavenly Immortal's passing. Its flesh was as hard as iron, its Law Power as deep as an abyss.
Only after twenty exchanges of joint effort had the two killed it.
Li Qingyuan's Four Seasons Sword Intent had peeled away the demon fox's Earth Element Principle defenses layer by layer, while Er Yuan's Manifestation of Heaven and Earth had overcome finesse with brute force. The Heaven-Burning Divine Fire Art had countered its earth element, and finally, with his Nine Revolutions Profound Technique, Er Yuan had punched through a vital point in the demon fox's Dharma Body.
In this battle, both had "given their all."
Buzz!
An Earth Element Divine Stone flew over and landed