Deliberating the Campaign

The demoness Huan Qianqian's answer cleared up some of Zhou Yang's doubts and let him understand the true way to quell this demonic calamity.

Clearly, the chief culprit behind this demonic calamity was that "Heavenly Corpse Venerable," whose cultivation had already reached the Nascent Soul Ninth Layer, the realm of a "Half-step True Immortal."

As long as this man was dealt with, the remaining demonic cultivators would collapse without a fight and no longer dare come out to commit evil.

Yet even Nie Yushuang, who was likewise at the Nascent Soul Ninth Layer, had repeatedly been defeated by "Heavenly Corpse Venerable." This showed just how difficult it would be to slay this fiend.

At the very least, Zhou Yang felt that before reinforcements from the other Cultivation Worlds arrived, this goal was simply impossible to achieve.

Moreover, he had a feeling that "Heavenly Corpse Venerable" surely still possessed some formidable trump card he had yet to reveal. Otherwise, no matter how extraordinary his methods were, he would not have been so arrogant as to confront cultivators from several Cultivation Worlds head-on.

In fact, after hearing Huan Qianqian's account, he seriously suspected that "Heavenly Corpse Venerable" had already established contact with certain existences in the True Demon Realm and obtained some sort of assurance from them.

After all, for a demonic cultivator at "Heavenly Corpse Venerable's" level, only the temptation of taking another step forward to become a Tribulation Crossing Stage True Demon was worth risking everything for.

But for a demonic cultivator to advance into a Tribulation Crossing Stage True Demon within the Linghuan Realm was nearly impossible.

One only had to consider that even a Nascent Soul Ninth Layer cultivator like Lu Xuanji had needed to rack his brains to enter a Grotto-heaven World with abundant spiritual energy like