The Great Wild God - Chapter 323

Chapter 323 Reinforcements Arrive Late
Chen Xun and the others also fought and retreated to ensure that the demons would not be able to surround the Golden Star Fort from the two wings.

A hundred miles away from Golden Star Fort was also the limit of the attack range of the sealing array. The hundred zhang spirit flood dragon gathered by the spiritual energy also gave everyone great support.

The closer they were to Golden Star Fort, the stronger the Spirit Flood Dragon became. Within thirty to forty kilometers, the Spirit Flood Dragon could withstand a Rakshasa Demon General alone. This was also the power of a top-grade sealing formation.

At this time, the demons also stopped their pursuit and did not retreat to the entrance of the Demon Ruins. Instead, they crossed the mountains to the west and headed straight for the Old Dragon Lake to the south.

Although Golden Star Fort was only six hundred kilometers away from the Old Dragon Lake, the valleys south of Golden Star Fort and the mountains on both sides were filled with millions of magical creatures.

Chen Xun and the others were completely cut off from the Old Dragon Lake. Unless someone could pass through the layers of blockades of the demons, it would be possible for them to know about the progress of the war on the Old Dragon Lake.

The next night, a small number of cultivators broke through from the south and fled into Golden Star Castle, bringing news of True Monarch Ku An being heavily injured and the collapse of the Old Dragon Lake.

These cultivators could escape to Golden Star Castle with their lives on the line, and they did not know the details of the Old Dragon Lake’s defeat.

The main forces of the demon race had fallen into the Old Dragon Lake and had not split up their troops to head north. In fact, the reinforcements of the Heavenly Policy Manor had already entered Tu Shan.

Half a day later, more than a hundred airships crossed the mountains to the east and entered the Thousand Devil Sand Sea.

The reinforcements from the Ce Tian Manor had finally arrived, but they were half a beat late and were unable to save Old Dragon Lake’s defeat.

Three two hundred foot long jade ruins floating boats flew directly to the valley entrance to the north of Golden Star Fort. The wind and clouds within a radius of several hundred kilometers surged, and fish-scale-shaped lead-colored dark clouds quickly merged from all directions. Layers upon layers of clouds gathered, and several wind pillars were released first. Mountains collapsed and earth shattered, and several zhang thick giant trees were also snapped in the blink of an eye …

In the next moment, the ice and snow covered the sky like thousands of blades covering a radius of a hundred kilometers, engulfing the tens of thousands of magical creatures monitoring the movements of Golden Star Castle outside the valley entrance. Hundreds of powerful swordsmen rode their swords out of the jade-ruined floating boat, transforming into rays of magnificent flowing shadows and swords that pierced into the snowstorm and killed the fleeing demons.

Looking at the dozens of people led by Jiang Mingtai, the head of the Heavenly Policy Manor, descending from the three jade ruins flying boats, Golden Star Castle also opened the restriction of the sealing array to welcome Jiang Mingtai and the others into Golden Star Castle.

Daoist Golden Wind, Jiang Bin, and the others who had fled to Iron Pine Castle the day before yesterday also hurried to Golden Star Castle and met up with the Heavenly Policy Manor’s Manor Master, Jiang Mingtai.

“We failed to help Old Dragon Lake in time. Please ask the Manor Lord to apologize!” After breaking out of the encirclement, the Fan Clan’s Patriarch, Fan Jindao, who had been resting in Golden Star Fort the entire time, and Crimson Pine Child, Ji Lie, Daoist Chu Yue, Luo Yuze, and the others came forward to apologize to Jiang Mingtai.

Chen Xun, Chang Xi, Song Xuanyi, Zhao Weichu, and the others stood in the queue of disciples, watching all of this.

At this moment, they already knew more detailed information about Old Dragon Lake’s defeat.

Millions of magical creatures poured into the Old Dragon Lake and surrounded it heavily. The Soul Suppressing Mountain and River Array was dismantled. In a hurry, the Governor’s Mansion actually only had two 32-pillar Mountain and River Sealing Arrays. One 64-pillar Mountain and River Sealing Array could temporarily be installed on the three spirit veins outside.

After two days and two nights of fierce battle, although the casualties were extremely heavy, with True Monarch Ku An and over twenty Dharma Aspect experts guarding the Old Dragon Lake, the situation was still barely able to hold on and not collapse.

The situation changed drastically. When True Monarch Ku An knew that reinforcements from God-controller Mansion were coming, he was careless and was assassinated while the cover array mage was setting up the Soul Suppressing Mountain River Array.

The assassin was none other than the Demonic Fox Heavenly Demon that the Divine Night Sect had captured from the Tu Shandong Ridge more than a decade ago and had been imprisoned in the Heavenly Punishment Peak ever since.

After Shen Xiao Mountain was destroyed by the remaining bones of the demonic dragon, like the hundreds of thousands of disciples, countless rare birds and exotic beasts in the mountain, as well as many demonic beasts and magical creatures suppressed by Divine Night Sect over the years, were all devoured by the demonic dragon. Everyone thought that the nine-tailed demonic fox had long since died.

Afterwards, Chen Xun and the others, True Monarch Crimson Brow and Gu Yangzi, broke up in displeasure, and they were almost gone to search for clues.

No one expected that the Nine-tailed Demonic Fox would escape when Tianxing Peak was destroyed. It even disguised itself as a female disciple of Tianxing Peak who had survived the calamity and followed Lord Crimson Brow, Gu Yangzi, and the others into the Southern Mountain Ridge of Tu Mountain.

Lord Crimson Brow was focused on restoring his cultivation and cultivating in seclusion all the time, but Gu Yangzi and the others were unable to see through the Nine-tailed Demonic Fox’s transformation technique.

After arriving at the Southern Ridge of Mount Tu, and with Gu Yangzi’s intentional indulgence, the female disciple of the Nine-tailed Demonic Fox married Jiang Bin as his concubine and had stayed in the Old Dragon Lake in recent years.

If it weren’t for the Nine-tailed Demonic Fox assassinating True Monarch Ku An and being killed by True Monarch Ku An, revealing its true form, no one would have thought that the mole who leaked the secret would be the person next to Emperor Jiang Bin’s pillow.

Although True Monarch Ku An had killed the Nine-tailed Demonic Fox, the Nine-tailed Demonic Fox was actually at the peak of the Dharma Aspect Realm. It was determined to assassinate True Monarch Ku An, and True Monarch Ku An was heavily injured by it at that time.

True Monarch Ku An was heavily injured, and the situation in the Old Dragon Lake changed drastically. The three sealing formations were torn apart one after another, and even the Soul Suppressing Mountain River Formation that had been deployed in the Old Dragon Lake was destroyed by the demons.

Only Fu Yan, Jiang Jue, Lord Crimson Brow, Gu Yangzi, and more than a hundred others brought along the remnants of the Soul Suppressing Mountain and River Array to protect True Monarch Ku’an, who had suffered heavy injuries, and rushed out of the encirclement to meet up with the reinforcements from God-controller Mansion who had rushed to the East Ridge.

However, tens of thousands of cultivators and tens of thousands of True Yang Realm disciples were thrown into the Old Dragon Lake, becoming the great tonifying pill for millions of magical creatures. It was very likely that more than a hundred Heavenly Yao level magical generals would use this to cultivate into the Demonic Fiend Blood Pill …

Jiang Jue and the others immediately went south with some reinforcements and returned to Yuanwu New City to strengthen their defenses.

The Ce Heaven Manor’s Manor Master Jiang Mingtai met True Monarch Ku An, True Monarch Crimson Brow, True Monarch Fu Yan, and the others. In a hurry, it was difficult to fight to the death with the arrogant devil race. He then circled around the periphery of the East Ridge and rushed to the Thousand Devil Sand Sea to see if the situation could be salvaged.

Jiang Mingtai wore a lightning cloud crown and a python robe embroidered with four-clawed golden dragons. His expression was as sharp as iron. Zhan Zhan’s divine gaze swept across the crowd and said, “You have used your utmost courage to sacrifice yourselves to conquer the Fiend Array and defend the Golden Star, Iron Star, Iron Pine Castle, and the situation in the Northwest Domain has not completely collapsed. You should be the first. It was not your fault that the Old Dragon Lake suffered a miserable defeat. It was truly a late arrival.”

At this moment, Jiang Mingtai was heading towards Tu Shan’s aid. There was also a Celestial Realm expert from God-controller Mansion. He was dressed in dark golden armor and emitted a monstrous aura that was like a ball of purple fireworks rolling in the air around him. However, after entering the hall, he sat on a jade throne carved from green jade and closed his eyes to cultivate his aura. It seemed that he was not interested in anything outside.

Apart from True Monarch Ku An’s golden face, Lord Crimson Brow had spent more than ten years of hard work to recover his cultivation to the middle Dharma Aspect Realm. This time, he was seriously injured.

However, Jiang Mingtai respected his status as a True Monarch of the Celestial Realm and invited him to sit on the throne of the Azure Jade Lotus Platform with True Monarch Ku An. Gu Yangzi sat under the stage with a gloomy expression, not daring to look at Chen Xun and the others.

The biggest responsibility for this defeat rested with them and the Marquis of Yuan Wu Manor. At this moment, the Heavenly Policy Manor’s Manor Master did not intend to pursue the responsibility, but Gu Yangzi knew that this trick could be seized by someone and beaten to death at any time.

The Xi Martial Emperor Dynasty’s territory was hundreds of thousands of kilometers long, and there were less than twenty Celestial Realm experts. At this moment, there were four of them. The Emperor Dynasty did not neglect the situation in the Northwest Region, but Jiang Mingtai and the others were still a step late.

The four Empyrean True Monarchs and the two of them suffered heavy injuries. Jiang Mingtai and the golden-armored battle general were strong enough, but they hurriedly set off. There were less than ten thousand cultivators above the embryonic realm gathered in the hundred airships. After the fall of the Old Dragon Lake, they did not have a large-scale formation to rely on, nor did they have the strength to fight to the death against the millions of Demon Race’s main force.

The only fortunate thing was that the disciples of the four sects had sacrificed their lives to break through the Demon Formation. Apart from cutting off the connection between the millions of demons and the Thousand Demons Realm, God-controller Mansion’s reinforcements were also able to temporarily establish themselves in the Thousand Demons Sand Sea. They would not even have a place to stay after entering Tu Shan.

Chen Xun, Chang Xi, and the others sat together with the cultivators of the various sects, washing their ears and listening to Jiang Mingtai and the others arrange the next battle in the main hall.

The strength gathered at this moment was not enough to fight to the death against the millions of demons. The so-called arrangement was for the disciples of the four sects to retreat to the Heavenly Pillar Peak and give up the Golden Star Fort, Iron Star Fort, and other sealing formations to be garrisoned by the reinforcements of the Heavenly Policy Manor.

At present, we can only temporarily use the spirit vein formation on the periphery of the Thousand Demon Sand Sea to block the entrance of the Demon Ruins, cut off the connection between the millions of demons and the Thousand Demon Realm, and wait for the Ce Tian Manor to organize a second wave of reinforcements to enter the Northwest Region …

Of course, Jiang Mingtai also took out a large number of magic tools and pills to reward the disciples of the four sects for their hard work in breaking through the fiendish formation.

Although Jiang Mingtai had no intention of emphasizing it over and over again, everyone understood just how significant it was for the disciples of the four sects to pay such heavy casualties to break through the Demon Array.

Chen Xun stood up and followed Ji Lie and Scarlet Pine Master to bid farewell to Ce Tian Prefecture Master Jiang Mingtai and the others, so as to arrange for the withdrawal of the disciples of the four sects from Golden Star Fort.

“Chen Xun, how many Green Flame Lotus Arrows are left from the Kui Long Pavilion?” Jiang Mingtai’s divine gaze swept over.

“The Kui Dragon Pavilion has refined 100,000 Cyan Flame Lotus Arrows for ten years, consuming 3.6 million jin of Nine Nether Iron. All of them have been exhausted and there are only 2,000 left. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have waited until the last moment the day before yesterday to help Crown Prince Jiang, Daoist Golden Wind, and Master Golden Saber break out of the encirclement.” Chen Xun said calmly, glancing at Jiang Bin who was sitting beside him.

Hearing that the Kui Dragon Pavilion had spent more than three million jin of Nine Nether Iron in ten years to refine the Green Flame Lotus Arrow, everyone present gasped and couldn’t help but look at Luo Yuze. They all guessed that without the secret support of the Dragon Gate Sect, how could the four sects have collected so much Nine Nether Iron from Cloud Continent without making a sound?

Luo Yuze smiled bitterly in his heart. True Monarch Tao Jinghong indeed wanted him to take care of Wu Shan, but most of the Nine Nether Iron was secretly traded between the Kui Dragon Pavilion and the various artifact refining sects of Cloud Continent. It had nothing to do with the Dragon Gate Sect.

Even the Dragon Gate Sect did not have so much Nine Nether Iron in their storage.

Although the Nine Nether Iron was a thousand times more precious than the Scarlet Essence Copper, its use in forging swords and artifacts was not as extensive as the Scarlet Black Gold, and it had not received any special attention before.

However, after this battle, regardless of whether the other artifact forging sects had secret techniques to refine the Cyan Flame Lotus Arrow or not, the importance attached to the Nine Nether Iron would definitely increase significantly.

Jiang Mingtai nodded, signaling for Chen Xun to retreat. In his heart, he thought, ‘I’m afraid that we’ll have to strictly control all the ore veins that produce the Nine Nether Iron in Cloud Continent before we can talk about it.’