Set Up

Demons?

Everyone was startled. Had the Demon Suppression Army soldiers failed to kill them all?

Ding Chen's expression changed drastically. He trusted Chen Xian and could not help asking, "How many?"

"Five, six..."

"What?"

Wang Yan, Qin Fei, and the others' expressions changed dramatically.

"Eight... twelve..."

Chen Xian's face also changed as he shouted, "Brother Ding, twelve of them!"

"Run!"

Without another word, Ding Chen immediately gave the order.

If there had only been one or two, with his and Wang Yan's current strength, plus Chen Xian being at the late stage of the Blood Moving Realm, they could still have killed them.

But twelve demons? He did not even need to think about it.

On average, each of them would have to hold off one demon. To them, that was courting death.

In an instant, Ding Chen thought of something, his eyes brimming with icy killing intent. "Damn it!"

Everyone immediately abandoned the Demonic Beast corpses and fled toward the mouth of the valley.

Yet they had barely escaped a hundred meters when furious roars rang out from the valley, followed by earth-shaking tremors.

"Damn it, we're finished...!"

As Wang Yan ran, he roared furiously, "Old Zhao fucking sent us here to die on purpose..."

No one answered. They fled from the valley with all their might.

Coldness flickered in Ding Chen's eyes. Zhao Tong was merely a Chief Medic; he did not have that kind of nerve. He must have been following orders from above.

Roar, roar, roar...

The roars of the Demonic Beasts behind them rapidly drew closer.

Chen Xian and the other seven were fast, but the other seven cooks could not keep up. Before long, the twelve demons caught them.

Ding Chen ground his teeth. As a Minor Cook Leader, he could not simply flee for his own life and abandon his subordinates.

He saw the seven surrounded. One of them had only just exchanged blows with a demon when he was killed.

"You run! Chen Xian, come with me and save them!" Ding Chen roared at Wang Yan and the other six.

Chen Xian's expression tightened. As he fled, he looked back and saw at least three demons as strong as the tiger demon from before.

The other nine were weaker, but they were still at the Little Demon Realm.

The Demon Suppression Army soldiers had deliberately left behind twelve Little Demon-level demons. Clearly, they wanted them dead.

Chen Xian could not understand it. They were only cooks, making meals for the vanguard every day. They had not offended anyone, so why were they being set up for slaughter?

What had they done wrong?

Seeing that Ding Chen had already rushed back, Chen Xian gritted his teeth, raised his blade, and charged back to save them.

When Wang Yan and the other six saw this, how could they truly run for their lives? In the end, they gritted their teeth and charged back as well.

"Ah!"

A scream tore through the night. Another cook was killed by a demon, flesh and blood flying everywhere.

Chen Xian gripped the hilt of his blade and roared as he slashed at a burly wolf demon.

The wolf demon's face was full of disdain. "Lowly humans, all you know how to do is roar...!"

Slash!

Yet just as it raised its thick wolf claw, cold light flashed in the next instant. Before its claw could touch Chen Xian, it was severed, and blood immediately sprayed forth in torrents.

"Awroo...!"

Its scream was deafening. The wolf demon's face filled with terror as it staggered back again and again.

Chen Xian's gaze was icy. He pressed forward, his blade flashing as it cut toward the wolf demon's neck.

Hearing its scream, the other wolf demons revealed shocked expressions and turned to look at Chen Xian.

At that moment, Ding Chen, Wang Yan, and the others wielded their blades in a mad slaughter.

But the wolf demons possessed powerful bodies.

Chen Xian could sever a wolf demon's arm with one strike, but they could not.

Only Ding Chen, who had reached minor completion in the Blood Moving Realm, could injure the wolf demons.

Wang Yan and the other six were only Blood Moving Beginners. Against wolf demons with the strength of Little Demons, they were still no match.

Slash!

When Chen Xian severed the wolf demon's neck with one stroke, four of the seven trapped cooks had already died.

Sacrificed one Little Demon soul. Obtained 162 experience points.

A prompt appeared on the panel before his eyes.

Chen Xian had no mind to look at it. He immediately charged toward the second wolf demon.

Awroo! Awroo!

However, the two burly wolf demons charged Chen Xian together, attacking from the front and rear.

Ding Chen and the other seven held back seven demons.

The remaining two demons savagely slaughtered the last three cooks. One of them even had his arm torn off by a wolf demon, blood dripping everywhere.

Listening to the cook's shrill screams, Ding Chen and the other seven's eyes turned bloodshot. Even after being beaten until they vomited blood, they rolled to their feet and continued hacking at the wolf demons.

"Damn it, let's fight these beasts to the death...!" Wang Yan roared, looking like a madman.

Chen Xian held off the two powerful wolf demons. Seeing that the cook whose arm had been torn off was about to die at the claws of a smaller wolf demon, he suddenly hurled his longsword and sprinted over at full speed.

Thud!

The longsword glowed with blood-red light and, in an instant, pierced the wolf demon through the back and killed it.

Sacrificed one Little Demon soul. Obtained 105 experience points.

Chen Xian grabbed the hilt, kicked the demon wolf away in passing, then turned and slashed at the two powerful demon wolves charging toward him.

At that moment, two more screams rang out.

Chen Xian's heart sank. He could save one man, but not the other two.

Facing two powerful demon wolves, he did not dare lower his guard.

Slash, slash...

Blade after blade cut across the wolf demons' bodies, blood streaming down as the two wolf demons counterattacked Chen Xian madly.

Meanwhile, Wang Yan, Qin Fei, and the others were sent flying by the wolf demons, each of them coughing up blood.

Ding Chen was slightly better off, but blood still hung from the corner of his mouth. Aside from his armor, his arms and thighs bore bloody wounds that were still bleeding.

"Xianzi, if I die in battle, remember to visit my mother and younger brother for me!" Wang Yan shouted himself hoarse. Chen Xian was the only one in the field who had not been injured. He was the strongest, and he would surely survive.

"Stop talking nonsense. All of you stay alive!" Chen Xian roared. He fully activated all forty-six acupoints, power surging through him as he struck one wolf demon across the neck and chopped off its head.

Blood splattered across his face, but the other wolf demon's claw also landed on him, sending him flying.

Sacrificed one Little Demon soul. Obtained 193 experience points.

Chen Xian rolled away and used the momentum to charge toward Wang Yan.

The wolf demon Wang Yan was fighting was also formidable. Chen Xian swept past, and his longsword struck its neck with unerring precision.

Sizzle...

The wolf demon's head flew up, and scalding blood sprayed across Wang Yan's face.

Wang Yan propped himself up with his blade, panting heavily. Watching Chen Xian race away once more, his gaze became incomparably resolute.

If he made it back alive this time, he would definitely cultivate with all his heart.

The wolf demons' howls intertwined with the pained cries of the cooks, Qin Fei, and the others.

Chen Xian kept darting about, avoiding the strongest wolf demon while first killing the weaker ones.

The panel flashed continuously. In the blink of an eye, only three wolf demons remained in the clearing.

Yet of those still alive, only Chen Xian and the other seven remained. All seven cooks had stopped breathing.

The scene was utterly tragic.

Cao Fang and Zhao Yu were in miserable condition as well. They lay on the ground, blood constantly bubbling from their mouths, already unable to stand.

Wang Yan, Qin Fei, and the others rushed over. Without caring whether the Body Refinement Pills would work, they stuffed them directly into the two men's mouths.

"Brother Yan, what a waste!"

Cao Fang pulled his lips into a bitter smile, his teeth covered in blood.

"Stop talking nonsense and absorb it!" Wang Yan roared.

Awroo!

Another scream rang out.

Chen Xian helped Xue Qishan kill a wolf demon.

Only two wolf demons remained. Ding Chen was holding one back, while the other was the one chasing Chen Xian.

"Together!" Ding Chen shouted.

Wang Yan and the other four charged over with their blades.

Chen Xian relaxed slightly and turned, his cold eyes fixed on the wolf demon pursuing him.

"Beast, die!"

Blood energy coiled around his longsword, blazing into flames as he swung it fiercely at the wolf demon.