Hou Yi led the others back to the Hou Tu Tribe.
Hou Tu was still in Pangu Temple beneath Buzhou Mountain, so he was temporarily handling all matters within the Hou Tu Tribe.
The Witch Clan squad set down the Elephant Demon Group corpses they had brought back, while the other Witch Clan squads that had gone out gradually returned as well.
Seeing the hundreds of elephant demon corpses behind Hou Yi, everyone's envy was plain to see.
"Great Witch Hou Yi brought back quite a haul this time."
Hou Yi laughed heartily and said brightly, "Yes, we happened to run into an Elephant Demon Group this time. We can finally have a proper feast!"
There was no private ownership of food within the Witch Clan. All prey obtained from hunting had to be placed in the tribe's storehouse and taken out only when it was time to eat.
However, Hou Yi had brought back plenty of prey this time, so he decided to take out a portion first to reward everyone.
Those who had joined the Hou Tu Tribe were under considerable pressure. This would give them a chance to relax.
Indeed, the Witch Clan's recent relative weakness, coupled with the sharp decline in the number of demons on the Primordial Continent, had left the Witch Clan increasingly tense.
After hearing Hou Yi's words, smiles appeared on everyone's faces.
Only Hou Yi, for some reason, suddenly felt a sense of dread.
His gaze unconsciously drifted toward the center of the Primordial Continent.
There stood a majestic peak that pierced through heaven and earth, the sole connection between the two.
It was Buzhou Mountain, which had stood in the Primordial Wilderness for countless years.
It had formed from Pangu's spine. It was the birthplace of the Witch Clan, and the best place for the entire Witch Clan to admire the grandeur of Great God Pangu.
At the foot of Buzhou Mountain lay the Witch Clan's sacred ground, Pangu Temple.
All the Ancestral Witches were there now.
Hou Yi looked toward Buzhou Mountain for a long time, trying to calm the unease in his heart.
Yet after an unknown amount of time had passed, the unease within him only intensified.
"Great Witch Hou Yi!"
A call jolted Hou Yi out of his unease.
Hou Yi looked at the newcomer.
"What is it?"
"The elephant demon meat has been cooked. Aren't you coming to have some, Great Witch?"
"No need. You all eat. I'll take a look around."
Seeing Hou Yi say this, the other Witch Clan members left on their own to enjoy the meat.
Hou Yi, meanwhile, carried his Divine Bow alone as he patrolled around the tribe.
The Hou Tu Tribe did not have many people. This was mainly because the Witch Clan did not reproduce naturally like other races.
They relied on the Blood Pool within Pangu Temple.
Yet the current Witch Clan had not even figured out how the Blood Pool operated.
They only knew that the Blood Pool would periodically produce batches of Witch Clan members.
These Witch Clan members would be assigned by the twelve Ancestral Witches to different tribes.
Ancestral Witch Hou Tu preferred peace and quiet and was unwilling to lead too many Witch Clan members, so whenever Witch Clan members were assigned, she never took too many newborns.
Thus, every Witch Clan tribe had a small population, and the Hou Tu Tribe had even fewer people.
As a result, the territory of the Hou Tu Tribe was not particularly large either.
However, while their numbers were small, every Witch Clan member was among the elite.
Hou Yi made a circuit around the area and found nothing amiss.
Just as he reassured himself that his earlier unease might have merely been an illusion, a streak of firelight flashed across the horizon.
The firelight instantly drew his attention.
As Hou Yi stared at it, he even felt the temperature around him rise considerably.
"Something's wrong!"
Hou Yi immediately shouted loudly.
That shout was meant to warn the others in the Witch Clan.
Hou Yi's voice was highly recognizable. The moment it rang out, the entire Hou Tu Tribe sprang into action.
"What happened, Great Witch Hou Yi?"
A Witch Clan member rushed over. Seeing Hou Yi staring at the sky alone, he hurriedly asked.
Hou Yi had no mood to explain further and directly roared.
"Quick, have someone activate the Clan Protecting Grand Formation!"
Seeing the extremely grave expression on Hou Yi's face, no one dared ask more questions. They hurried back and followed his orders, activating the Hou Tu Tribe's Witch Clan Protecting Formation.
Very quickly, a curtain of light rose from the ground, forming a semicircular dome that enveloped the entire Hou Tu Tribe.
Hou Yi relaxed slightly for the moment.
The Witch Clan's Clan Protecting Grand Formation had been created jointly by the twelve Ancestral Witches. No one below the Quasi-Sage realm could possibly break it!
At the same time, Hou Yi saw the firelight in the sky suddenly stop.
It then split into twelve points of light and flew in different directions.
One of them was heading straight for the Hou Tu Tribe.
Hou Yi's heart skipped a beat.
Sure enough, they were coming for the Witch Clan.
The other eleven points of light were also headed toward Witch Clan tribes!
But Hou Yi could no longer worry about the lives of others.
He had never expected his uneasy premonition to come true. Hou Yi nearly wanted to slap himself twice.
But now that things had come to this, there was no use dwelling on it.
Hou Yi reached behind his back and drew out his Divine Bow, then swiftly fired an arrow toward the approaching point of light!
The Divine Arrow streaked across the sky with golden light.
Yet the Divine Arrow, which had always struck down anything in its path, actually failed this time.
Hou Yi refused to believe it. This time, he fired nine arrows at once.
The golden light of the nine Divine Arrows nearly illuminated the entire sky!
This time, Hou Yi used all his strength!
He stared fixedly at his Divine Arrows and the point of light in the sky.
Very soon, the two collided.
The golden light of the Divine Arrows exploded and mingled with the point of light, making it impossible to tell whose radiance was whose.
This time, the point of light stopped temporarily.
Hou Yi let out a relieved sigh.
But soon, the point of light began moving forward again, and much faster than before, as though it were plunging toward the ground.
Finally, just as the point of light was about to crash into the ground, Hou Yi finally saw its true form.
It was a demon army!
At its head were two Demon Gods!
One had nine heads and a snake-like body.
The other had a sparrow's head, a single horn, leopard markings across his body, a snake's tail, and the body of a deer.
They were Nine Infants and Fei Lian, two of the ten great Demon Gods of the demon race.
After they descended, Hou Yi also saw his ten arrows.
One had struck one of Nine Infants' heads, while the other nine arrows were embedded in the bodies of nine Taiyi Golden Immortals from the demon race.
Those nine Taiyi Golden Immortals had clearly already lost all signs of life.
The moment Nine Infants landed, he immediately cursed furiously, "Which damned brat was it?! Come out and die!"
He then directly pulled Hou Yi's Divine Arrow from his head and tossed it onto the ground.
Nine Infants was now also at the Great Luo Golden Immortal Peak.
Though he had not yet severed his corpse, he was not far from it.
Thus, even after taking one of Hou Yi's arrows head-on, he had only suffered a minor injury, rather than dying instantly like those nine Taiyi Golden Immortals.
Hou Yi naturally knew that these demons had come with ill intent, but he was not afraid in the slightest.
He stepped forward and shouted from afar behind the Witch Clan Protecting Formation.
"It was your grandpa, Hou Yi!"
As he shouted, he secretly had the Witch Clan members in the tribe make preparations and form up for battle.
Although Nine Infants and Fei Lian had brought many demons, with a rough estimate placing their numbers at perhaps five times that of his tribe—
If they truly fought, the Witch Clan might not necessarily lose.
Nine Infants snorted coldly. The pain from the head that had been pierced made him even more irritable.
"Attacking from the shadows—your Witch Clan is truly vicious!"
Hou Yi mocked him without the slightest courtesy.
"Likewise. We can't compare to how sinister and treacherous you demons are!"
Nine Infants was consumed by fury and was just about to continue arguing with Hou Yi when Fei Lian stopped him.
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