Yanluo Mountain, eight hundred li wide.
Its waterways crisscrossed, swamps covered the land, and poisonous mists and miasma rose to fill the sky. Wild geese that flew over it were often poisoned to death, falling into the marshes and decaying into foul water. Thus it was named "Yanluo Mountain."
A branch of the Yanshui River flowed through the mountains.
The river water carried a rank, fishy stench.
Deep in the mountains, the terrain was treacherous and complex.
The Demon Sect had been built there.
At this moment, beyond the deep mountains, in that perilous environment, many righteous cultivators had long been lying in wait among the forests and marshes.
This campaign to encircle and suppress the Demon Sect was massive in scale.
The Dao Court Office had deployed fifteen Golden Core Executive Inspectors, along with six hundred Executive Inspectors at Foundation Establishment Late Stage and even Foundation Establishment Peak Stage.
The Void Gate, which had joined forces with the Dao Court Office, had dispatched twenty Golden Core Elders.
After the Three Sects Merger, the Void Gate had many cultivators and many Elders. Thus, it had sent out a full twenty Elders, even more than the Dao Court Office.
But it had not sent many Inner Sect disciples—only one hundred.
Encircling and suppressing a Demon Sect, especially a Third-Grade Demon Sect, meant fighting Golden Core demonheads. Once battle began, it would be exceedingly dangerous.
And in a great sect like the Void Gate, those who could enter the Inner Sect were the cream of the crop among prodigies, the future pillars of the sect. Naturally, they could not be allowed to risk falling in an early life-and-death struggle against the Demon Sect.
Inner Sect disciples were not "cannon fodder." They were "seeds."
Letting them participate in the campaign against the Demon