"Yuan Ning, accept the order!"
"Yuan Zhao, accept the order!"
The two accepted the Patriarch's Order. Following Yang Lingqing's subsequent instructions, they headed to a small town in the southeast to rendezvous with the local Demon Extermination Squad cultivators.
Ever since Zhuang Xuanji had ascended to the Upper Realm and departed by Treading Void, the Demonic Dao cultivators of the Vast Sea Demonic Land had gradually begun to reveal their ambitions for a counteroffensive.
Without the absolute martial deterrence of this Number One Cultivator in the Human Realm, the Azure Waves Righteous Path had effectively lost a major bargaining chip in this contest between the two paths.
However, even without Zhuang Xuanji holding the fort, the Righteous Path still held an obvious advantage over the Demonic Dao in overall combat strength.
In the most recent great demon extermination battle, the Demonic Dao had indeed used schemes and calculations to strike at a group of Righteous Path cultivators who were expected to enter the Path Enlightenment Realm.
Yet at present, in the Path Enlightenment Realm—that was, in terms of True Intent Cultivators and Profound Insight cultivators—the Azure Waves Righteous Path still had roughly thirty percent more than the Demonic Dao.
Thus, by this day, aside from the daily clashes and spell duels between Mystic Insight Venerables upon the Demon Soil, the friction between Azure Waves' Righteous and Demonic Paths consisted of the demonic cultivator forces controlled by Bai Di secretly contending with the Righteous Path.
This Demonic Path Young Master understood very clearly that with the cultivator strength currently controlled by the Demon Soil, even if he brought out every hidden pawn they had cultivated and directly went to war with the Righteous Path, their odds of victory would not exceed thirty percent.
Only when that estimated chance of victory reached