The news reaching Xi Yu Lake kept changing.
It was not that the news was inaccurate, but that the targets it concerned were simply too unpredictable.
The cultivators on the lake first heard that Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu had gone to Qingfeng Mountain. Yet he had barely lingered there before immediately turning south, following the southbound Demon Tide and delivering a beautiful stab in the back.
He had used the talisman art divine ability he had displayed during the Clear Sky Discourse with the Star Array Method—the Great Sun divine ability—lying in ambush within the sunlight. As the Demon Tide surged southward in layer upon layer, he abruptly struck, killing three Outer Realm Calamity Demons in one blow.
Even among the countless Heavenly Demons, such losses in a single region struck at bone and sinew. It was the finest record achieved by a lone cultivator on the True World side in the past five years. Only Yang Zhu's feat seven years ago, when the Siming Sect was thrown into chaos and he had been surrounded on all sides yet slew five Calamity Demons, could securely surpass it.
Yang Zhu had fought with his back to the river then, while Yu Ci had taken the initiative. Moreover, the latter had accomplished it using only an avatar, making the feat seem all the more calm and unhurried.
Yet his days of "calm and unhurried" vanished from that very day onward.
Heavenly Monarch Yuanxu's high-profile actions had finally enraged the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
The various Heavenly Demon tribes, which had originally fought separately, assembled more than thirty Heavenly Demon Kin at the True Person level and above, diverted a Demon Tide numbering in the millions along with several Calamity Demons, and turned back in pursuit.
That pursuit lasted over two months, from Five