Outside the Cold Moon Pavilion, activity was already in full swing.
With the Cold Moon Pavilion at the center, the Three-Eyed Wolf Demons erected Spirit Wood watchtowers and all manner of offensive machinery, one after another.
They also made rows of barbed barricades, coated them with Spirit Beast venom, and laid them across the roads leading to the Cold Moon Pavilion.
The few high-ranking wolf cultivators capable of taking human form set up siege crossbows.
They aimed them beyond Wolf King Valley.
The remaining wolf cultivators, whose cultivation was too low to assume human form, practiced pouncing and biting under the Wolf Queen's leadership.
Some wolf cultivators had also learned the Stealth Avatar Technique taught by Dongfang Yao, allowing them to improve their clones' disguises.
It also made them as hard to kill as cockroaches.
Zong Ya and Nan Shang stood before the Cold Moon Pavilion behind the layers of defenses, their expressions grave, each instructing a partially transformed wolf cultivator with a wolf's head and a human body in the use of a Royal Family Crossbow.
After Nan Shang, Lin Ke, and the others had slain Demon Beasts in the outside world, the Gu Insects within them had already reached the boundary between Gu Soldier and Gu General.
They were only a tiny step away from breaking through to the Gu General level, so their ability to detect other Gu Insects had more than doubled.
At that moment, she lowered the crossbow in her hands and told everyone, "They're here! The Illusionless Gu Sect's people are coming!"
Sure enough, everyone looked toward the entrance to Wolf King Valley.
At first, there was nothing, but gradually, one or two Spirit Beast specters appeared, roaring as they charged toward the Cold Moon Pavilion.
Yet they were clearly Spirit Insects without intelligence,