But before doing so, they first needed to conduct an initial round of pursuit against these six Demon Children, lest they charge all the way upward and destroy several key hubs of the grand teleportation array, rendering the subsequent plan impossible to carry out.
Because these six ran rampant through the Southwest without restraint, the righteous cultivators also divided their manpower in order to ensure, to the greatest extent possible, that ordinary people and low-realm cultivators in the Southwest would not be harmed.
First, they had to select six main attackers from among the cultivators to capture the Demon Children.
After some internal discussion, the six main attackers were quickly decided upon.
Nangong Jinghe, Long Yuan, and Yun Xiwu, all of whom possessed the bearing of protagonists, were naturally among them.
Then came Yang Lingrui and Ning Jiu. Both now possessed combat strength comparable to the foremost figures on the second page of the Heavenly Talent Ranking, so dealing with Demon Children who were not among the strongest would pose no problem.
The last was a Gold Ranking genius who had rarely appeared before the public in the past, yet whose strength was deeply recognized by the Dao Academy. When the Heavenly Talent Ranking had last been updated, he had already been placed on the second page of the Gold Ranking.
This man called himself Wo Qingchen, while his name on the Heavenly Talent Ranking was Jiang Fuyuan. He was at the Twelfth Layer of Spiritual Connection, bore the title "Dust-Crosser," cultivated the Mortal Fireworks Art, was proficient in hexagrams and divination, and was on very good terms with Jiang Yinkong, the "Divine Calculator" of Yantian Palace.
Due to the needs of his Dao cultivation, this Gold Ranking genius had spent most of his time among the mortal world, which