Seizing Victory and Striking at the Enemy's Heart
The starlight scattered by the "True Spirit Star" has the effect of influencing and permeating the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
Therefore, in the counties, prefectures, and states controlled by various True Spirit Lineage, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi is influenced and permeated by the starlight of each family's "True Spirit Star," making it more suitable for the bloodline cultivators of that "True Spirit Lineage" to absorb, refine, and cultivate.
This is one of the benefits enjoyed by the various "True Spirit Lineage" in the "True Spirit Realm." It is precisely because of these benefits that all the Bloodline Lineage in the "True Spirit Realm" want to Star Inlaying and advance to the level of True Spirit Lineage. Similarly, it is precisely because of these benefits that the "True Spirit Lineage" are powerful enough to control the entire "True Spirit Realm."
Therefore, at this moment, with the Yao Qi Demon Core exploding and the demonic energy erupting, infiltrating, and stirring the surrounding Spiritual Qi, it is most effective to draw the starlight of these "True Spirit Star" to descend, suppress and purify the Yao Qi, and stabilize the chaotic Spiritual Qi.
Furthermore, according to Kong Wenxuan, the starlight scattered by the "True Spirit Star" of some mid-grade and even high-grade "True Spirit Lineage" can not only influence and permeate the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, purifying the Spiritual Qi polluted by external forces, but can even permeate and influence the Heaven and Earth Origin, purifying the Heaven and Earth Origin that has been influenced and polluted by external forces.
Just like the "Dao Transformation Phenomenon" after the fall of beings of the Fifth Tier or above, it can be suppressed and purified by the starlight of mid-grade and high-grade "True Spirit Star".
At this moment, as everyone took action, the starlight from the various "True Spirit Star" of "Bifang Star", "Peacock Star", and "Fire Crow Star" fell, suppressing and purifying the influence of the Yao Qi, and quickly stabilizing the situation in the ruins of "Black Crane County City".
However, the remaining Demon Race and invading martial artists had already retreated and scattered in all directions under the leadership of Gonggong, a Fourth Tier "water witch martial artist".
Now, in the ruins of "Black Crane County City," only some mindless Demon Beast and birds remain. Instead of fleeing or retreating, they are attracted by the erupting Yao Qi and become even more frenzied, attacking their surroundings indiscriminately.
As the erupting Yao Qi was suppressed, the demonic Demon Beast and birds that had been bewitched and attracted by Yao Qi, and had gone mad and attacked indiscriminately, gradually woke up. Although they had no intelligence, they instinctively sensed that something was wrong and tried to escape one by one.
But at this point, these Demon Beast and birds naturally had nowhere to escape.
Cultivators and soldiers from various factions took action, unleashing sword light, Law Technique, Spirit Artifact, talismans, and formations in unison. They quickly slayed and destroyed all the remaining Demon Beast and birds in the ruins of "Black Crane County City".
In an instant, the ruins of "Black Crane County City" were filled with the severed limbs and corpses of various Demon Beast and birds, as well as shattered scales, feathers, and other flesh and blood.
The scales, feathers, flesh, bones, and other materials extracted from the corpses of these Demon Beast and birds alone are worth a considerable amount of Spirit Stone.
However, this is clearly not the time to clean up the mess.
Bi Yanshu, the head of the Revenue Department of the Prefectural Government and one of the Golden Core True Person of the Bi Yanshu Bi Household was in charge of the battle in Black Crane County, addressed the True Person: "Fellow cultivators, the Demon Race and martial artists who attacked Black Crane County have been repelled, and we have recaptured Black Crane County City, even severely damaging them!"
"Now is the time to press our advantage, strike at the heart of the matter, and capture and sever their invading ' Demon Race Secret Realm '."
"The battlefield of ' Black Crane County City ' and the spoils of war from ' Mystic Crane Secret Realm' —I, Bi Yanshu, guarantee in the name of the ' True Spirit Bi Household' —that they will be distributed according to each family's merits afterward!"
"Press your advantage and strike!"
"Strike straight at the heart of the enemy!"
"Nip it in the bud!"
Upon hearing Bi Yanshu's words and assurances, the cultivators from various factions no longer hesitated and echoed his words.
So, each family took out their treasure boats and Feather Boat, and set off to chase after the Demon Race and invading martial artists who had escaped from "Black Crane County City".
Black Crane County is located in the "Eastern Forest Great Marsh" area, which, as its name suggests, is mostly composed of large rivers, lakes, and Great Marsh, with various swampy terrains being the most abundant, and mountains and plains being rare.
These Great Marsh were covered with numerous trees and wild forests, hence the name "Eastern Forest Great Marsh".
The He Household's "Black Crane County City" was built on a rare plain in the "Eastern Forest Great Marsh," a plain that was no more than 500 li in circumference.
Therefore, shortly after chasing out of the ruins of "Black Crane County City", the group began to pursue them into some rivers, lakes and Great Marsh.
The geographical environment here is very different from the "South Lake Mountains" where the Kong Household lived. There are many swampy areas, which even lead to the generation of swampy poison gas in many places, which permeates the surrounding area.
As for the fleeing Demon Race and martial arts practitioners, they had lived in this environment for a long time and were familiar with, or even adapted to, the terrain, swamp traps, and poisonous gas of the "Eastern Forest Great Marsh".
One specializes in water-based martial arts, which allows them to best utilize their combat power in the "Eastern Forest Great Marsh," a land filled with great rivers, lakes, and swamps.
Therefore, these retreating and scattered martial artists and Demon Race could escape into the surrounding Great Marsh and rivers without any scruples, either hiding on the spot or fleeing to the "Demon Race Secret Realm" deep within the "Eastern Forest Great Marsh".
However, none of the "True Spirit Lineage" such as the Bi Household, Kong Household, Ya Household, Jiao Household, Fu Household who were pursuing them were proficient in the Way of Water, and they were not familiar with the geography and conditions of the "Eastern Forest Great Marsh". Therefore, they could not easily and rashly pursue them.
Therefore, they chose to fly in the sky using "treasure boats" and "Feather Boat" to avoid the influence of terrain such as rivers, lakes, and Great Marsh on the ground. They did not randomly pursue enemies who had infiltrated the rivers, lakes, and Great Marsh, but only chased after the largest group of fleeing Demon Race and martial artists, and attacked directly towards the "Demon Race Secret Realm" deep in the "Great Marsh".
Along the way, they spared no Demon Race or martial artists they could pursue or kill, but they did not pursue those they could not catch or those who fled in other directions. They only chased after those Demon Race and martial Demon Race who fled towards the "Demon Race Secret Realm," with their target being the "Demon Race Secret Realm."
After all, that "Demon Race Secret Realm" is now the main base of these Demon Race and invading martial arts cultivators, and even the most important passage for them to retreat and escape back to the "Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven" and even the "True Martial World".
If they can take over this "Demon Race Secret Realm" and sever its connection with the "Heavenly Demon Grotto-Heaven," they will cut off the escape route for these Demon Race and martial artists.
At that time, these Demon Race and martial artists who have fled and are hiding in various places in the "Eastern Forest Great Marsh" will naturally become turtles in a jar, and can only be eliminated and killed one by one.