The Great Wild God - Chapter 222

Chapter 222 End Game
“… I dodged dozens of demonic foxes and escaped into the fork cave. I was separated from Senior Brother Jiang.”

Faced with Jiang Bin questioning Jiang Xingkong’s whereabouts, Chen Xun pushed him aside.

Jiang Bin’s gloomy gaze scanned Chen Xun’s face several times, and his expression was uncertain.

Gu Chengzhuo, Lei Wanhe, and the others could prove that Jiang Xingkong had taken the initiative to stay behind, not even bringing a single subordinate. Even if they knew that Jiang Xingkong and Chen Xun had a deep grudge, Jiang Bin could not pursue this matter.

After replying to Jiang Bin’s question, Chen Xun retreated and squeezed together with Lei Wanhe, Gu Chengzhuo, and the others.

Apart from the disciples who had been killed and were missing, more than 70 people had gathered at the volcanic cave. The majority of them were disciples from Gu Yang Peak, Tian Xing Peak, and Qiyun Mountain. Wei Che and Wei Guan were acquaintances, and a few of Jiang Xingkong’s subordinates wore broken black armor.

The people from Mount Qiyun and Marquis Yuan’s mansion were naturally led by Marquis Yuan’s Crown Prince Jiang Bin, while the Divine Night Sect disciples from Tianxing Peak and Gu Yang Peak were led by Xia Xiangyi and Zhao Chengen.

What to do next? Xia Xiangyi, Zhao Chengen, Jiang Bin, Chang Xi, Zhou Yang, and the others gathered together to discuss. As outer sect disciples, Chen Xun and Lei Wanhe naturally didn’t have the chance to interrupt.

Chang Xi walked over and stretched out her finger to tease the two-tailed cub that was squatting on Chen Xun’s shoulder. However, she was almost bitten. She pretended to be angry and released a green spiritual energy lotus to kill this ignorant firefox.

Chen Xun would frighten the cub and protect it, not letting Chang Xi frighten the cub who was at a loss for what to do.

“The cub is already intelligent. It’s not ripe anymore. Why don’t we kill it and feed it to everyone?” Chang Xi looked at the cub hiding behind Chen Xun with ill intentions and threatened.

Chen Xun ignored Chang Xi and asked, “What are we going to do next?”

“I wonder when the Heavenly Yao’s injuries will heal, or should we find a way out first?” Chang Xi said.

“It’s easy to find the way out,” Chen Xun said. “The dark river is the place with the most demonic fiends. As long as we find the dark river, it won’t be difficult for us to find the original way back to Snake Valley.”

“You still have the confidence to provoke that Snake Valley?” Lei Wanhe came closer and told him to return to the Dark River now. He was unwilling to do so from the bottom of his heart.

“Do you have a more reliable idea?” Chang Xi said.

Previously, the disciples of the various sects and the Eight Desolate Flag were unable to kill the Heavenly Yao. At this moment, Jiang Xingkong was nowhere to be found. The Eight Desolate Flag was most likely destroyed by the Heavenly Yao. If they met the Heavenly Yao in the dark river again, it was unknown how many people would be able to escape from the Heavenly Yao.

The Heavenly Yao didn’t even take back the broken halberd. Chen Xun guessed that the Heavenly Yao had probably already gone into hiding to recuperate. Now that he touched the dark river, he might even be able to take back the Eight Desolate Flag.

After a long time, the Eight Desolate Flag might be taken by the Heavenly Yao.

But when he thought about how he would definitely return to the Marquis Mansion of Yuan Wu after retrieving the Eight Desolate Flag, Chen Xun thought for a moment and didn’t say anything. He said to Chang Xi, “The Firefox lives in this volcanic cave. It must be more familiar with the surrounding terrain than we are. If you don’t scare this little Firefox, it might be able to bring us out …”

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After resting in the volcanic cave for three days, when everyone’s injuries were almost healed, under the guidance of the two-tailed fox cub, they walked out of the underground cavern in the depths of Mount Tu for a day and night.

It would be easy to return to Scarlet Maple Castle after returning to the ground.

Everyone traveled eastward, trekking mountains and wading waters. Two days later, they were out of the Heavenly Flame Coverage Area.

At this time, no one knew what was happening in the Wuteng Sand Sea and Crimson Maple Fort. They didn’t dare to fly in the air for fear of attracting powerful Heavenly Demons.

Along the way, they disappeared, and the corpses of magical creatures and demonic beasts could be seen everywhere. There were also the remains of many disciples of the various sects.

Everyone knew very well that the reason why most of them were able to escape safely after sneaking into the snake’s den was because most of the demonic beasts didn’t stay in the depths of Tu Mountain.

They climbed to the dangerous peak of the Absolute Ridge and could see that the mountain range that was hit by the flames was still trapped in a sea of flames.

Gu Chengzhuo, Lei Wanhe, and the others said, Chen Xun knew that Scarlet Maple Castle knew that there were Heavenly Demon level monsters hidden deep within Tu Shan. He immediately used the Mountain River Shadow Diagram to detect the nearest exit of Tu Shan’s Dark River from the Wuteng Sand Sea. He gathered over ten thousand disciples to set up a defensive formation around the exit of the Dark River in an attempt to block the east exit path of the monsters from Tu Shan.

Judging from this situation, few people would have thought that the Heavenly Yao would actually draw the Heavenly Flame Flowing Fire to blow apart the defensive array, right?

Gu Chengzhuo, Lei Wanhe, and the others hadn’t retreated from Tu Shan, and they didn’t know how heavy the casualties were.

He walked back to Scarlet Maple Fort. Earlier, Scarlet Maple and the oasis covered with green roses had long since disappeared. Even the surrounding stone ridges had been flattened by supreme spells, leaving behind ugly gashes that looked like they had been torn apart.

Some disciples gathered their remains around Scarlet Maple Castle and came over to ask about it. Only then did Chen Xun and the others know that the defensive formation around Tu Shan had been blasted open by the Heavenly Flame Flowing Fire. Tens of thousands of demonic beasts, led by the three Heavenly Demons, charged out of Tu Shan.

The Crimson Maple Castle wasn’t able to defend for long before it was destroyed. Everyone retreated to Meng Mountain. Fortunately, the head of the Divine Night Sect, Daoist Luo, had led his men to help them in time. Only then did they kill two demonic flood dragons, capture a Nine-tailed Demonic Fox, and not destroy the entire army …

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Chen Xun and the others weren’t able to catch up to Scarlet Maple Fort. The Battle of Mengshan was considered lucky.

Xia Xiangyi, Zhao Cheng’en, Jiang Bin, Gu Cheng Zhuo and the others rushed to Meng Shan overnight to see the sect master; Chen Xun and the others stayed in the ruined Crimson Maple Fort to rest and recuperate.

On the third day, Chen Xun met a tired Li Yu and several thousand disciples of the Sword Sect.

Only from Li Yu did Chen Xun know the tragic situation of the Battle of Crimson Maple Fort.

After Chen Xun entered Tu Mountain with the disciples of Gu Yang Peak, Li Yu and the others fell out with the disciples of Qiyun Mountain because of a trivial matter. They were pushed to a sentinel castle at the southern foot of Gushan Mountain by Qiyun Mountain and Yuanwu Marquis Manor.

After the defensive formation around Tu Shan was broken, Li Yu and the others fled to Meng Shan to avoid this calamity.

Ji Lie was currently in Tu Shan.

When the group of demons attacked Meng Mountain, Ji Lie was also the first to rush to the rescue. He cut down a demonic flood dragon, giving everyone some time to defend until the Divine Night Sect’s headmaster, Adept Luo, and the others came to help.

However, there were still heavy casualties among the disciples of the various sects in Meng Mountain. Dozens of disciples of the Thousand Swords Sect had also lost their lives in Meng Mountain.

Hearing Li Yu say this, Chen Xun sighed softly. He didn’t expect that the battle against the demons would be so fierce.

In the next few days, disciples of various sects gathered at Crimson Maple Castle one after another. Zhou Yang and the others also rushed over from Meng Mountain four days later.

Only now did Chen Xun know that when the defensive formation around Tu Shan was broken by the Heavenly Flame Flowing Fire, the Divine Night Sect suffered heavy casualties.

Gu Chengzhuo’s father, Immortal Gu Wenzhen, and Elder Guo Haoyang of Tianji Peak had a dispute when they discovered that there were Heavenly Yao level magical creatures in the depths of Tu Mountain.

Gu Wentian advocated that the disciples of the various sects should withdraw from Mount Tu and plan for a long time, while Daoist Guo Haoyang advocated setting up a defensive formation around Mount Tu to gather the disciples of the various sects that had entered Mount Tu to guard against the Heavenly Yao and thousands of other demonic creatures leaving Mount Tu.

When the Heavenly Flame Flowing Fire attacked, nearly ten thousand Divine Night Sect disciples, including over a thousand Divine Night Sect disciples, died in the sea of flames. Daoist Guo Haoyang also died. Only Jiang Ke and a few others escaped with powerful magic tools when the defensive array was broken by the Flowing Flame.

When Crimson Maple Castle was destroyed, the situation was quite good. At that time, Gu Wentian and the other four Origin Pill Taoist resisted three Heavenly Yao and bought some time for the disciples of the various sects to retreat.

However, in the battle at Scarlet Maple Castle, another Primordial Pill Reverend from the Divine Night Sect and Scarlet Flame Peak had unfortunately died.

Together, nearly two thousand people had died in the Divine Night Sect this time.

In order to boost their morale, the sect leader decided that all the outer sect disciples of the Divine Night Sect who participated in the slaughter would be given a Nine Revolutions Golden Pill at the late True Yang Realm, while the outer sect disciples at the early Reincarnation Realm would be given top grade magic tools and the divine Night Sect would cultivate the Correct Technique. All 200 outer sect disciples above the middle Reincarnation Realm would be recorded as inner sect disciples …

Chen Xun hadn’t expected that he and Lei Wanhe would become inner disciples of the Gu Yang Peak of the Divine Night Sect.

As the Giant Snake Heavenly Demon and tens of thousands of demonic beasts had not been completely annihilated, the various sects still needed to reorganize Crimson Maple Castle and use Crimson Maple Castle as a front base to defend against the monsters of Mount Tu.

At the same time, the various sects would use Crimson Maple Castle and Meng Mountain as their core, and construct a sealing channel based on some spirit veins and spirit acupoints to seal off the passage into and out of Gushan and Yunzhong Prefectures, so that the disciples of the various sects could easily slaughter the magical creatures in Gushan and Yunzhong Prefectures and eliminate future troubles as much as possible.

Zhou Yang and the others had rushed over first to reorganize the disciples who had stayed in Crimson Maple Fort.

In two days, Gu Wentian, the chief disciple of the direct disciples, Fang Xiaohan, and the others would also rush over and re-set up defensive formations on the Scarlet Maple Fort’s spirit veins that had not been completely destroyed.

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The Wuteng Sand Sea, Mengshan Mountain, and the narrow region extending northward to the southern foothills of Gushanxi Province was about 2,000 kilometers long from north to south, and 600 to 700 kilometers wide from east to west. There were roughly 20 to 30 spirit veins and spirit acupoints.

Apart from a few spirit veins and spirit acupoints like Crimson Maple Fort, the spirit veins and spirit acupoints in this area were almost all small and medium-sized sects and clans’ gates and habitats. This time, the demonic calamity was also destroyed to the point of being muddled.

To construct a blockade line according to these spirit veins and spirit acupoints was actually to re-divide Mengshan, the southern foothills of Gushanxi, and the forces that extended south to the northern border of the Origin realm.

Under the auspices of the Divine Night Sect, the small and medium-sized sects whose strength had been greatly damaged and almost annihilated naturally did not dare to complain at all. They obediently let the mountain gate out and moved their clans inside.

A dozen days later, Li Yu and the others also bid farewell and left Scarlet Maple Castle.

Originally, the three small spiritual veins in the southern foothills of Gu Xi were inhabited and reproduced by the three clans attached to the Thousand Sword Sect. Among them was the Li Clan that Li Yu came from.

The defensive formation deployed on the spirit veins and spirit acupoints required a Heaven Origin Realm expert to be in charge in order to exert its maximum power. Only then would it be possible to support reinforcements under the attack of the Giant Snake Heavenly Demon.

Apart from Ji Lie, there were no experts above the Heavenly Yuan Realm in the Thousand Sword Sect. In the overall situation, they were also forced to give up the three spiritual veins at the southern foot of Gushan. All three families would follow Ji Lie to settle near the Thousand Sword Sect’s mountain gate.

Of course, Chen Xun was clear on the significance of spirit veins and spirit acupoints to clans and sects.

Regardless of whether it was disciples cultivating or artifact forging, cultivating spirit medicines, spirit valleys, or raising spirit birds, they were all inseparable from spirit veins. Spirit Void provided sufficient spirit energy. Once they lost their spirit veins and spirit acupoints, it would usually mean the demoiselle of their clan.

In other words, the Thousand Sword Sect’s Ji Lie had contributed a lot to this battle, and the Thousand Sword Sect had suffered the greatest losses.

However, it wasn’t Chen Xun’s turn to interrupt. Who called the Thousand Swords Sect weak?