After resting at the Sun Moon Sect's headquarters for a month, the Demon-Slaying Army boarded the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle under Liu Changxu's leadership and headed to the Giant Sword Sect's territory to begin a second campaign to eradicate the blood demons.
As before, with the help of Liu Changxu, a late Tribulation Transcendence stage powerhouse, the Demon-Slaying Army's campaign proceeded smoothly.
The Giant Sword Sect's surviving cultivators also took the initiative to join up with the Demon-Slaying Army, led by their Body Integration realm Grand Supreme Elder, Xiao Yan.
Although the Giant Sword Sect's strength was now severely limited, its cultivators were eager to join the Demon-Slaying Army.
Xiao Yan even declared that he wished to bring all five thousand of the Giant Sword Sect's remaining cultivators at the Golden Core stage or above into the Demon-Slaying Army.
Seeing the enthusiasm of Xiao Yan and the other Giant Sword Sect cultivators, Liu Changxu agreed to their request. However, considering that the sect would need many hands to rebuild once the blood demons in its territory had been dealt with, he made it clear that some of their cultivators would be permitted to leave the Demon-Slaying Army after the extermination was complete.
The Demon-Slaying Army had already conducted one sweep against the blood demons in the Giant Sword Sect's territory, so the number that remained to be exterminated had dwindled considerably.
With the formidable support of Liu Changxu, a late Tribulation Transcendence stage powerhouse, the Demon-Slaying Army took only two months to wipe out every last blood demon in the Giant Sword Sect's territory.
After completing that task, the Demon-Slaying Army rested for a few days before boarding the Ruyi Void-Escaping Shuttle and setting out for the Great Brightness Temple's territory to begin its next campaign.
More than twenty days later,