Mobilizing the Troops to Seize Ming Province!

[Thanks to fellow Daoist "Happy Bird Feather" for the two generous donations and certifications from top-tier authors. I've been busy these past few days and haven't had time for extra chapters, so I'm making up for it with 2/2 today.]

Azure Yang City fell.

White Crane's palm strike not only shattered the Golden Core City Lord, but also destroyed the last line of defense for tens of thousands of cultivators in the city.

Without the protection of the array, Azure Yang City was completely exposed to the fangs of the beast tide.

"Kill." Shi Pan waved his hand coldly.

The Dark Gold giant bear charged first, smashing through the city walls and breaching the city gate.

Countless birds and beasts poured in through the breach, biting anyone they saw and killing them instantly. The largest branch of the Supreme Purity Sect in the central part of Ming Province was instantly turned into a bloodbath for the Demon Race.

The screams rose straight to the Yunxiao.

High above, amidst the rolling clouds, Shi Jian silently observed everything. White Crane to one side, its brow shimmering with cloud patterns, absorbing the wandering Blood Qi and resentment between heaven and earth to stabilize its newly formed nascent Nascent Soul.

At that moment, a streak of azure light streaked from the east, tearing through layers of clouds and landing in front of the man and the bear.

The blue light dissipated, revealing Bi Luo's figure in a gray robe.

He knelt on one knee, his head buried deep in the ground.

"Azure Ape Bi Luo greets the Ancestor and pays respects to the Demon Lord White Crane."

Shi Jian slightly raised his eyelids. "Is the matter with the Liang Kingdom finished?"

"Reporting to the Ancestor, the Sacred Blood Sect has completely spiraled out of control, and the four states of the Liang Kingdom have become a living hell."

"The Supreme Purity, Grand Purity, Liang Kingdom factions, Eight-Tentacled Giant Beast Clan of the East Sea, totaling twenty-two Nascent Soul, are engaged in a fierce battle with the East Sea in the heart of the Liang Kingdom."

"The three major sects are preoccupied with their own problems, and the Grand Purity Sect and Supreme Purity Sect are also deeply mired in difficulties. Seeing that things are going well, I decided to withdraw and retreat."

"Well done."

Shi Jian nodded slightly, purple-gold lightning dancing across the bear's body. "The Sacred Blood Sect has done an excellent job with this fire."

"However, this chaotic situation has only just begun, and we will need you to continue your efforts."

Bi Luo suddenly looked up, her emerald green pupils flashing with a sharp light.

Shi Jian raised his giant claw and pointed east. "I will send a horde of 100,000 beasts eastward to raze the Azure Light Gate to the ground."

"The Azure Light Gate has no value, and therefore no reason to exist."

"From this day forward, the Azure Light Daoist lineage will cease to exist in this world."

"Your subordinate obeys!"

Bi Luo's chest heaved, his murderous intent no longer able to be suppressed.

He kowtowed abruptly, then turned and vanished in a streak of blue light.

Before long, a monkey's cry echoed through the mountains and forests, and hundreds of giant apes of the Azure Ape Line pounded their chests and gathered into an army.

Enveloped by 100,000 low-level Demon Beast, it surged like a dark blue-black whirlwind, heading straight for the Eastern Azure Light Gate to annihilate its lineage!

No sooner had Bi Luo left than a large patch of dark clouds rolled in from the southern horizon.

A thick layer of moisture filled the air, and across the southern land came a series of muffled rumbling sounds.

A muddy waterline, dozens of miles wide, flowed upstream from Abundant Prefecture, forcibly breaking through the river channel and pouring into the territory of Ming Province.

In the vast waters, the Golden Crocodile's enormous Dark Gold body appeared and disappeared, resembling an underwater mountain range.

The Wanxiang carries a tortoise shell as large as a Xiaoshan, riding the wind and waves.

Behind them were hundreds of thousands of near-shore marine beasts and swamp Demon Race.

Instead of participating in the confrontation between Nascent Soul in southern Abundant Prefecture, they quietly withdrew inland by waterway.

"Greetings, Ancestor!"

The Golden Crocodile burst from the water and lay prostrate on the surface. Wanxiang did the same, bowing their heads and prostrating themselves, not daring to look directly at the being in the clouds, and respectfully paying homage.

"The waters of Abundant Prefecture are murky, and those fools from the Sea Race are locked in a fierce battle with the Supreme Purity Sect. We have already followed our ancestor's instructions and made a safe retreat."

Upon hearing the Golden Crocodile's response, Shi Jian looked down at the two Golden Core demons and nodded slightly.

"Now that you're back, don't just sit around."

Shi Jian turned his gaze to the southern part of Ming Province: " In the Southern Protectorate, there are two Golden Core sects, one named Falling Rosy Clouds and the other Dao Qi Valley."

"Over the years, Dao Qi Valley has captured many of my fellow Demon Race to serve as mounts and slave beasts."

"Golden Crocodile, Wanxiang, you shall lead the aquatic army there and flood its southern border, leaving not a single Human Race alive."

"Follow the law!"

The Golden Crocodile laughed loudly, its massive body turning the spearhead around, causing the floodwaters to change course. Hundreds of thousands of aquatic Demon Beast surged towards the Southern Protectorate along the terrain.

Human Race villages and towns along the way were instantly swallowed by the flood, and before they could even scream, they became food for the water beasts.

"Shi Pan," Shi Jian called out again.

Below, the Shi Pan that was clearing the battlefield of Azure Yang City immediately rose into the air.

"People have gone to the south and the east; the Western Protectorate is now in your hands."

Shi Jian's tone was chilling. "There is an Iron Bone Gate there, a body cultivation sect that has been feeding on the flesh and blood of my Demon Race's myriad beasts for so many years to strengthen its Root Bone."

"Their wickedness is boundless, so you shall lead the five branches of the Bear Clan to crush their bones inch by inch for me."

"Rest assured, Ancestor, Pan will never forget the grudges against his clan."

Shi Pan grinned maliciously, turned around and fell to the ground, causing the earth and rocks to undulate as if the earth were shaking, and the earth and rocks continued to engulf mortals and buildings.

"Dark Gold, Lightning Bear, Boulder, Frost and Snow, Primal! Brave warriors of the Five Bloodlines, follow me on my westward expedition!"

The earth rumbled. The five Bear Race clans were all thick-skinned, strong, and incredibly powerful.

Tens of thousands of giant bears, led by Shi Pan, formed a high wall across the land, pushing towards the Western Protectorate.

On this day, the sky fell over Ming Province.

A grand counterattack by the Demon Race race unfolded simultaneously across the four corners of Ming Province.

To the east, Azure Light Gate.

The sect's protective formation, relentlessly battered day and night by the 100,000 beast hordes, was already on the verge of collapse.

Bi Luo transformed into a giant azure ape over ten zhang tall, wielding a large club made from a hundred-year-old lightning-struck wood, and brought it down with a single blow.

"Boom!"

The formation shattered, and the Foundation Establishment elders left behind by the Azure Light Gate, their eyes bloodshot with rage, were grabbed by Bi Luo just as they rushed into the sky.

"The Azure Light Gate is destroyed today."

Bi Luo spoke coldly, her hand clenching tightly.

Bang!

The Foundation Establishment elders were instantly turned into a pile of minced meat, and then swallowed whole by the Azure Ape. The taste was truly unforgettable for the demon.

The Azure Ape Line surged into the mountain gate, and the once high and mighty sword cultivators and magic cultivators were like lambs to the slaughter under the claws of the Demon Beast.

The thousand-year-old tradition of the Azure Light Gate has been reduced to scorched earth.

To the south Falling Rosy Clouds Sect and the Dao Qi Valley.

The floodwaters were devastating, completely submerging the sacred mountains of both sects.

The Golden Crocodile tumbled in the water, its Dark Gold tail sweeping across and snapping the main peak of the Falling Rosy Clouds Sect in half. Meanwhile, Wanxiang unleashed heavy water, crushing the cultivators in the Taming Beast Valley who attempted to resist into meat patties.

The Demon Beast enslaved by the Taming Beast Valley, upon sensing the presence of their own kind, turned against their masters, even at the cost of their lives.

The Southern Protectorate was completely reduced to a watery, demonic kingdom.

To the west, the Iron Bone Gate.

The physical bodies that the body cultivators were so proud of became a joke in front of the Bear Race.

Shi Mo transformed into a Dark Gold giant bear, withstanding the bombardment of the Law Artifact of more than a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators, and shattered their skulls with a single slap.

Shi Pan even engaged in close combat with the Golden Core Deputy Sect Master left behind by the Iron Bone Gate, tearing his arms apart and crushing his chest.

They dug out the Golden Core from the person alive and swallowed it, then swallowed the whole person and chewed them repeatedly.

Slaughter spread across every inch of Ming Province.