The Great Wild God - Chapter 324
Chapter 324 Zhou Wushan
The disciples of the four sects retreated to the northern Heavenly Pillar Peak to rest in preparation for the fierce battle that followed.
After the demons captured the Old Dragon Lake, they unexpectedly stayed in the Old Dragon Lake for two days. Not only did they not gather their forces to frantically counterattack the Thousand Demon Sand Sea, they instead descended south from the Old Dragon Lake, passed through the Azure Water Great Rift Valley, exited Tu Mountain, and passed through the Wuteng Sand directly into Yuanwu Prefecture.
After the destruction of Yuanwu Prefecture, the defenses of the remaining cities were unable to withstand the combined attack of the six Rakshasa Demon Generals. Millions of demons swept past like swarms of locusts, and it could be said that there was not a single blade of grass along the way.
If the hands and feet of the cultivators of the small and medium sects were slightly slower, they would have been mercilessly devoured by the demons.
The demons in Yuanwu Prefecture only borrowed this path to sweep through the Meng Mountain like locusts from the northeast of the Wuteng Sand Sea, crossing the Gushan Mountain and pouncing straight into the Northern Desolate Region …
Only the remains of the old dragon pond remained.
Ten Dharma Truth Realm experts, over a hundred Origin Core Realm experts, over five hundred Heaven Origin Realm experts, and more than forty thousand Reincarnation Realm cultivators were killed in the Old Dragon Lake. The disciples of the various sects in the Northwest Region accounted for sixty percent of the total.
With the destruction of the Divine Night Sect and the defeat of this old dragon pond, the sects in the Northwest Domain suffered a calamity.
The Yuanwu Marquis Manor had always known the way to protect themselves. After the destruction of the Divine Night Sect, its power expanded rapidly. The number of cultivators under its command and affiliated sects above the Reincarnation Realm had once reached more than 4,000.
In order to control the Governor-General’s Manor, Jiang Jue had placed the three thousand elites of Mansion of Marquis Martial and its affiliated sects under the Governor-General’s Manor’s banner. In the end, less than three hundred people survived.
After Jiang Bin lost the Kui Long Battle Flag, there were less than fifty black-armored generals under his direct command.
Jiang Bin hadn’t stayed in the Thousand Devil Sand Sea for a long time. After the main force of the devil race withdrew from the Old Dragon Lake, he left with the remaining black-armored generals and returned to the Tushan Southern Ridge.
As for what had happened in the Thousand Devil Sand Sea’s Bloody Battle Fiend Formation, no one mentioned it again.
Before the war, the four sects and the Azure Water Marquis Manor had more than 2,000 Reincarnation Realm cultivators, but after the war, there were less than 1,000 left.
Many sects in the Northwest Region only have one or two Origin Core Realm experts to support them. Even if the sect is completely defeated after the battle, many of them are the outer sect forces of the Origin God Night Sect. They intend to directly join the four sects and the Azure Water Marquis Manor …
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By the time Tao Jinghong entered the Northwest Domain with the second batch of reinforcements from the Ce Tianfu, the demons had already stopped fifty to sixty thousand kilometers away from the Northern Desolate Desolate Domain in a desperate area called the Black Yin Ridge.
Darkness Ridge itself belonged to the Extreme Frost Yin Fiend Grounds. Four thousand years ago, it was the headquarters of the Thousand Devil Sect, and also the ancient battlefield where the Ji Clan eliminated the Thousand Devil Sect in the previous dynasty.
Hundreds of thousands of Ji Clan elites and Thousand Devil Sect disciples were buried in Black Yin Ridge. Countless souls and dead souls were unable to enter reincarnation and floated in Black Yin Ridge all day long.
Darkness Ridge had long since evolved into the Absolute Dark Realm. Thousands of mountains and valleys were filled with poisonous mist, devouring souls, killing humans and beasts as soon as they touched it, and even breeding a large number of ghosts. It was the most famous forbidden area in the Northern Region, the Absolute Dark Realm.
After the demons captured the Old Dragon Lake, a large number of cultivators and disciples who were unable to break out of the encirclement became the demons’ great tonic pills. The demon race’s subsequent journey from Yuanwu Prefecture to the north was unstoppable. There were many signs that Demon Marshal Crimson Flame Ming and his Heavenly Yao level generals had most likely recovered their cultivation.
As for the Black Yin Ridge, the Profound Yin Absolute Demon that pervaded the entire day could replace the Demon Demon, allowing the Demon Race to survive in Cloud Continent.
A month later, Chen Xun, Chang Xi, Zhao Cheng’en, Gu Cheng Zhuo, and the others rushed to Zhou Wu Shan in a floating boat with more than a hundred cultivators and four profound war chariots.
Zhou Wushan stretched for tens of thousands of kilometers, separated from Darkness Ridge by a desert that was seven to eight thousand kilometers wide.
Zhou Wu Mountain had quite a lot of spiritual veins, but it was an extremely cold place. The surrounding thirty to forty thousand kilometers were sparsely populated, but there weren’t many desolate beasts in the mountains that were exceptionally tyrannical.
Cultivation is a land of wealth.
Zhou Wushan only had spiritual vein resources, and there were no large numbers of people around to provide a large number of talented disciples. Without sufficient contributions from the secular society, it was naturally far from being able to support a powerful sect to gain a foothold here.
Previously, there were quite a few wandering cultivators and dozens of small and medium-sized sects in Zhou Wu Mountain, but under the sweeping sweep of the millions of demons, they were blown away and scattered, leaving only two to three hundred cultivators without a place to stay.
At this moment, Zhou Wushan gathered tens of thousands of cultivators and looked at Darkness Ridge from afar.
Although the demons had paid a heavy price for attacking the Old Dragon Lake, there were no fewer than two million low-grade demons that had retreated to the Absolute Demon Land of the Black Yin Ridge. Among them, there were no fewer than a thousand who had cultivated their primordial spirit, and there were about fifty Heavenly Yao level demons who had recovered their cultivation and were comparable in strength to Dharma Aspect realm experts …
If the Ce Tian Prefecture was not fully prepared, with the seven Empyrean True Monarchs and sixty Aspect Realm Adepts gathered at Zhou Wu Mountain, their chances of winning against Black Yin Ridge would not be higher than 30%.
Zhou Wushan was filled with Heavenly Human Realm and Dharma Aspect Realm experts. Not to mention Chen Xun, even Chang Xi and Zhao Cheng’en had become insignificant little characters.
However, Chen Xun and the others had no choice but to find a valley at the western foot of Zhouwu and lead them to temporarily settle down after receiving the Heavenly Palace Talisman Imperial Edict.
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One day, Daoist Chu Yue of the Xuandu Sect rushed to the Western Foothills Valley to meet Chen Xun.
The Thousand Devil Sand Sea had fought side by side and Daoist Chu Yue had come to visit. Chen Xun was naturally very enthusiastic and invited him to sit down in the beast hide tent to drink tea.
“The Black Yin Ridge is a land of profound Yin Absolute Demons. The demons retreat into the Black Yin Ridge like a fish in water. If the cultivators of the various sects want to forcefully attack the Black Yin Ridge, their casualties will be extremely heavy. I don’t think the Ce Tian Manor and the other sects have the determination to do so.” Daoist Chu Yue said.
Chen Xun revealed a bitter smile. If the Ce Tian Prefecture really had a firm determination, they should have gathered so many Celestial Realm and Dharma Realm experts a year ago to solve the problem at the mouth of the Devil Ruins in one fell swoop. The situation would not have dragged on like this.
However, hundreds of thousands of kilometers away in Cloud Continent, the Celestial Realm experts were mainly concentrated in the six sects. The fire had not yet reached the eyebrows of the six sects, and there was no great temptation for them. Who in the six sects was willing to alert the Celestial Realm experts who had been cultivating for many years to take the risk of slaughtering magical creatures in the Northwest Region?
However, if he wanted to forcefully attack Darkness Ridge, he had to be prepared to sacrifice two to three Celestial Realm experts.
Not to mention that these Celestial Realm experts were standing on top of all living beings. A god-like existence might not necessarily have the intention of protecting the living beings in their hearts. To the six sects, the death of any Celestial Realm expert was a fatal loss, and it could cause the entire sect to collapse and decline. It was unlikely that anyone would be willing to take the risk of a battle.
After the Grand Elder of the Xuandu Sect, True Monarch Ku An, returned to the Xuandu Mountain to cultivate, the other two Heavenly Human Realm True Monarchs of the Xuandu Sect, as well as the Sect Leader, True Monarch Yang Kun, followed the Heavenly Palace Talisman and rushed to Zhou Wushan.
With so many experts from the Xuandu Sect gathered at Zhou Wushan, it was obvious that they did not want to take down Darkness Ridge and kill the demons regardless of their casualties.
From what Daoist Chu Yue had revealed, Chen Xun could guess that the Ce Tian Prefecture and the various sects most likely wanted to use the Profound Capital Sect as the core and construct a defensive line in Zhou Wu Mountain to seal off the millions of demons in Black Yin Ridge as much as possible.
The Xuandu Sect was the first sect in the Northern Region. From Zhou Wushan to the southeast was the Xuandu Sect’s sphere of influence. After being crippled in the Northwest Region, only the Xuandu Sect in the Northern Region had the strength to transfer one or two True Monarchs of the Heavenly Human Realm to guard Zhou Wushan.
Chen Xun asked Daoist Chu Yue, “Has the Ce Tian Prefecture considered why the demons chose to retreat to the Black Yin Ridge? The battles in the Thousand Devil Sand Sea and the Old Dragon Lake all showed that the demons’ plans were quite thorough, but Yunzhou was always passive …”
“Ce Tianfu over there have considered a variety of possibilities. The Black Yin Ridge was originally the gate of the Thousand Devil Sect. After the Ji Clan captured the Black Yin Ridge, it quickly declined and was replaced by the Xi Martial Emperor Dynasty. After hundreds of years of chaos, the anecdotal order was reestablished. When everyone had the time to turn their gazes to Black Yin Ridge, it was already filled with poisonous mist and evil miasma, breeding powerful ghosts. Within the Black Yin Ridge, there might be a secret cave of the Thousand Devil Sect that the Ji Clan had not discovered. The spatial rift that was sealed by the Ji clan four thousand years ago is located deep within the Black Yin Ridge. The demons have retreated past the Black Yin Ridge. Perhaps they want to remove this seal and open a second passageway to the Thousand Devil Realm in Cloud Continent … ”
Chen Xun nodded. He thought to himself that below Jiang Mingtai, the Heavenly Policy Palace Master, there was not a single one of the experts from the six sects who didn’t have a good plan. There was really no need for him to worry that the Empyreans of the Heavenly Policy Palace wouldn’t be able to guess the intentions of the demons.
From the looks of it, the second possibility was extremely high, but it was not an easy task for the demons to remove the seal of the Heaven and Earth Array laid down by the Ji clan back then.
Even if the demons were able to remove the seal of the Heaven and Earth Array set up by the Ji clan back then, it would not be easy for them to set up another Heaven and Earth Array of a different nature in order to form a stable spatial passageway through this spatial rift.
The Ce Tian Manor hoped that the Xuandu Sect would set up a defensive line in Zhou Wushan and defend it for a long time. It would consume the demons to a certain extent before launching a forceful attack. This was a safe and expedient plan.
Gu Chengzhuo borrowed his waist and said, “Looks like we can go back immediately …”
Seeing Daoist Chu Yue hesitate, Chen Xun asked, “Senior Chu Yue, what else do you have to say to show Chen Xun?”
“In the Battle of the Thousand Devil Sand Sea, the Profound Thunder Chariot and the Mountain River Chariot used their divine might and left a deep imprint on everyone. The Profound Capital Cult wants to change the refining method. May I know what is urgently needed by the Kui Dragon Pavilion?” Daoist Chu Yue asked.
“The Northwest Region Governor’s Mansion has broken through the Spirit Gathering Restriction’s refining method. How can the Xuandu Sect be willing to go far and near if it can refine a complete mountain and river war chariot?” Chen Xun asked curiously.
Although several artifact forging grandmasters from the Northwest Governor’s Mansion were not spared, the Marquis of the Origin realm, Jiang Xu, was the artifact forging grandmaster himself. He must have mastered all the refining methods of the Eight-Pillar Mountain and River Chariot.
At this moment, the Ce Tian Manor was counting on the Xuandu Sect to establish a defense line in Zhou Wushan. As long as the Xuandu Sect made a request, the Ce Tian Manor would hand over a complete set of refining methods for the Eight-Pillar Mountain and River Chariot. Chen Xun didn’t know why the Xuandu Sect was willing to sacrifice everything to the Kui Dragon Pavilion for the refining methods for the Chariot.
“Ancestor Ku An also said that he hoped to cooperate with the Kui Long Pavilion before returning to the sect to cultivate,” Daoist Chu Yue said. “In addition, when the Old Dragon Lake fell, including our Xuan Du Sect, more than a dozen artificers were not spared. In the years to come, we might need the Kui Long Pavilion to help refine a batch of magic array chariots …”
The Old Dragon Lake suffered a terrible defeat, causing great losses in all aspects.
Marquis Jiang Jue said, He wanted to monopolize the north and south ridge of Mount Tu, Moving the only Heaven and Earth Array in the Northwest Region to the Old Dragon Lake and laying it out, he wanted to turn the Old Dragon Lake into the core of the Marquis Yuan Palace. In the late stage of the Refining of Mountain and River Chariots, magical artifacts, and magical arrays, almost all of the artificers and disciples of the Northwest Region’s Marquis Yuan Palace had lost their lives in the Demon Abdomen …
The Kui Dragon Pavilion had become the number one sect in the Northwest Domain for artifact forging, even though it couldn’t even forge an Earth-ranked magical artifact.
Chen Xun planned to focus on refining the Profound Thunder Chariot and the Green Flame Lotus Arrow in the future. Other magical artifacts and formations could be exchanged with other sects using the Profound Thunder Chariot.
If that was the case, Kui Long Pavilion would be able to refine eight to ten Profound Thunder Chariots in a year.
Although this speed wasn’t as fast as when the Governor’s Mansion was at its peak, it was still quite impressive.
The Xuandu Sect was like the other sects. The number of disciples and elders above the Heaven Origin Realm was very small. In total, there were less than 400 of them. Even if one person died, it would be an irreparable loss. However, there were more than 20,000 disciples at the Reincarnation Realm.
If there were enough mountains and rivers war chariots and profound lightning war chariots, this would actually mean that the total combat strength of the Xuandu Cult above the Heavenly Yuan Realm would explosively increase by five to six times …
In the Battle of the Thousand Devil Sand Sea, if the disciples of the four sects didn’t have forty Profound Thunder Chariots to cover their flanks, it would be extremely difficult for them to get close to the Fiend Array without using the Cyan Flame Lotus Arrow.
Chen Xun naturally agreed to all the requests for cooperation from the Xuandu Sect. Daoist Chu Yue gathered six secret seals that resembled soul locking seals from her bag of holding and handed them to Chen Xun. She said, “If you cultivate the puppet technique, these six demon generals’ primordial spirits might be of great use to you. Even my Xuandu Sect has paid a deposit!”
Of the six secret seals, four were Little Demon General Primordial Spirit, and two were Heavenly Demon level Primordial Spirit.
The Thousand Demon Sand Sea had captured the Demon Array. The disciples of the four sects had obtained a total of eleven Little Demon Generals’ Primordial Spirit, all of them gathered in Chen Xun’s hands. However, Chen Xun had not captured a single Heavenly Demon level Demon General’s Primordial Spirit.
Seeing that Daoist Chu Yue had actually taken out two Heavenly Yao level Demon Generals’ primordial spirits, Chen Xun knew that it must be True Monarch Ku An’s harvest in the Old Dragon Lake. He did not refuse immediately and happily accepted it.
