Five Thousand Merits

Myriad Demon Mystic Realm, Yi-4 Forest, Liang Family stronghold.

At this moment, the forest surrounding the Liang Family stronghold was already shrouded in a hazy blue mist, its interior impossible to make out.

Liang Zhaohuang and Liang Ruijian rode the Azure Roc as they flew over. Without the slightest hesitation, they charged directly into the blue mist, stirring the surrounding vapors into rolling waves and faintly revealing the family stronghold below.

Less than half an hour after they entered the mist, the Demon Country's demon army arrived in hot pursuit, along with the Winged Demon contingent led by the Eagle Demon.

Seeing the forest below blanketed in blue mist, the Eagle Demon did not rashly give chase and plunge into it.

Instead, it let out an eagle cry. The Winged Demon force behind it immediately beat their wings in response, unleashing cries of their own.

Under the Eagle Demon's command, the many Winged Demons flapped their wings, raising a tempest of fierce winds that swept toward the mist-shrouded forest below.

Wherever the storm passed, the blue mist filling the forest was immediately blown apart, exposing the camp within.

The Eagle Demon's sharp eyes instantly caught sight of Liang Zhaohuang, Liang Ruijian, and the Azure Roc within the camp.

It no longer hesitated. With another eagle cry, it led the Winged Demon force behind it in a diving assault upon the camp in the forest below.

Yet the moment those avian demon beasts plunged into the forest, the scattered blue mist swiftly surged back, swallowing the camp, the forest, and the entire Winged Demon force.

The next moment, it was as though dragons and serpents had risen from the land. Thick, indistinct black shadows stirred the blue mist until it rolled like tidal waves, yet never dispersed.

Within that tide-like rolling