The Great Wild God - Chapter 497

Chapter 497 Evil Ghost Gorge
It was already the third day since Xuandu Copper City had taken root at the southern edge of Darkness Ridge.

The sixteen tower arrays were directly connected to the earth vein. Copper City was like a mountain ridge that had taken root. There were also many sealing-level arrays placed inside. The protective spirit shield enveloped the black stone ridge around Copper City that was more than ten kilometers in radius.

As a result, the main forces of Dragon Gate Sect, Xuandu Sect, Mountain Parasol, and Prince Qing’s Manor could move north from the northern foot of Zhou Wu Mountain to Copper City, forming a direct offensive against Darkness Ridge.

The valley connecting the spatial rift in the Thousand Demon Realm was called the Evil Ghost Gorge by the various sects of Yunzhou State. Previously, it was the place where Darkness Ridge’s Yin Fiends had the densest growth and gathered the most ghosts.

The Evil Ghost Gorge’s terrain was extremely dangerous. It was also because of this that the spatial profound wall was easily distorted. After tearing apart the spatial profound wall, it was easy to form relatively stable spatial cracks.

From Copper City to Evil Ghost Gorge, there was still a thousand miles to go.

Even though the Yin Fiend Miasma above Darkness Ridge was difficult to dispel, the Golden Scaled Ship, Dragon Fang Ship, and other floating warships could still fly for more than 5,000 kilometers after the spirit energy was fully absorbed by the formation restrictions inside.

The fact that the various sects of Yunzhou State were firmly established in Copper City at the southern foot of Darkness Ridge meant that disciples of the various sects could directly travel from Copper City to Evil Ghost Gorge on a floating warship. There was no need for any transit between them.

If he lost the battle in the Ghost Gorge, he could immediately retreat to Copper City to defend the line.

The reason the demons chose to tear apart the spatial profound wall in the Ghost Gorge was because of Darkness Ridge’s special terrain. It was just like the place where Tu Shan’s Heavenly Flame appeared and the entrance to the Devil Ruins was not accidental.

Although the Evil Ghost Gorge was not located in the depths of Darkness Ridge, it was a place that the demons had to defend. Afterwards, they still hoped to build a relatively stable spatial passage on this basis, so that the hundreds of millions of demons in the Thousand Demons Realm could continuously pour into Cloud Continent.

At that time, they will be able to expand from Darkness Ridge to Zhouwu Mountain in the south, and then devour the Northern Region and the entire Yunzhou Continent …

The demons traveled three to five hundred kilometers south from the Evil Ghost Gorge. They chose the Yin Meridians of the Evil Ghost Acupoints to set up the Evil Gorge Array and built the stone walls in the mountains. This was an obstacle for the disciples of the various sects of Cloud Continent to advance to the Evil Ghost Gorge. No matter what, they would not be able to go around it.

After the spatial rift in the Ghost Gorge opened, a large number of demon fiends poured into Darkness Ridge, causing the demon race to set up a demon array around the Ghost Gorge to be filled with killing intent.

No matter how difficult it was to attack, these obstacles had to be removed. The final plan was for the disciples of the main sects of the Northern Region to follow the Xuandu Sect and advance from the front to the Evil Ghost Gorge. Mountain Parasol, Dragon Gate Sect, and Qing Palace joined forces to advance from the left; Chun Lingjun personally led the reinforcements of the Spirit Heaven Army, the Profound Heaven Sect, and the second largest sect in the Northern Region, the Profound Fire Sect, from the right wing to the Evil Ghost Gorge.

This battle was related to the thousand-year plan of the Northern Region. Apart from the Xuandu Sect and the Xuanhuo Sect, which were the first and second largest sects in the Northern Region, the other sects and clans in the Northern Region also had a total of 200,000 to 300,000 disciples reinforcing Zhou Wushan. They were the main force in this battle.

The demons first came out of the depths of Darkness Ridge, Mainly probing, Devil Weapons and Ghost Soldiers slaughtered from the cramped valleys and caves, The limited scale did not cause much resistance to the disciples of the various sects who had advanced to the edge of Darkness Ridge. However, after confirming that the target of the various sects of Cloud Continent was the Evil Ghost Gorge, a large number of demon soldiers and ghosts began to gather on the south side of the Evil Ghost Lingnan. The intensity of the battle was getting stronger and stronger day by day.

To the demons who were truly as intelligent as humans, they naturally knew in their hearts that once the various sects of Cloud Continent were able to mobilize and unite together, the various divine abilities they possessed would definitely not be something that the demons, who were not proficient in formations, could defend against with just a few deep mountain barriers.

The demon race’s advantage lay in their absolute numbers. They were trapped in a few mountainous barriers that weren’t large in scale, so they couldn’t display their advantage in numbers.

It was often said that the “Million Demons” were separated from Darkness Ridge, but in reality, this was the number of high-level demons that possessed intelligence.

Apart from that, in Darkness Ridge, the number of low-grade magical creatures controlled by the Bloodthirsty Slaughter Will was more than ten times higher than that of high-grade magical creatures.

This was the number of low-grade magical creatures that had been consumed in the Thousand Demon Sand Sea and the Old Dragon Lake.

Apart from that, there were also a large number of ghosts in Darkness Ridge, all of which were controlled by the demons.

Under the influence of the Yin Fiend Miasma, the power of the Profound Thunder Chariot was greatly limited as it advanced into the depths of Darkness Ridge. In the rolling thunderclouds, the lightning density of the lightning serpents was reduced by more than half, but lightning pillars were fiercely released from the thunderclouds, and they were still torn apart by the flood of Demon Weapons and Ghost Soldiers.

However, there were simply too many Demon Weapons and Ghost Soldiers. These low-grade Demon Weapons and Ghost Soldiers were completely controlled by the will to kill. The only way to stop them was to shatter their bones.

No matter how vast and powerful the True Essence magic power within Chen Xun’s body was, it was impossible for him to block the charge of tens of thousands of Demon Weapons and Ghost Soldiers like a rock for a long time.

Ji Lie cultivated the True Body Technique and absorbed spiritual energy from the void to gather the Golden Scaled Sword. It was not restricted by his true essence magic power, but the Golden Scaled Sword Technique would also be shattered if it was under intense attack.

Once the Golden Scaled Sword Technique was forcefully shattered, Ji Lie’s primordial spirit would suffer a secondary injury. In the direction where Ji Lie was responsible, the pressure on the disciples of the four sects would multiply once a short gap appeared, resulting in great casualties.

The Profound Armor, Su Tang, Gu Chengzhuo, Jiang Bingyun, and the others also had restrictions on the Profound Armament Seal they sacrificed. After receiving a fierce attack, the divine soul aura they attached to the Profound Armament Seal would be shattered. If they did not retract it for refining, their divine sense would completely lose control of the Profound Armament Seal.

The easiest one to deal with was the Flamewing Monster Ape.

The Fire-Winged Demonic Ape had cultivated its golden body, and any magical creature below the Little Demon General level was simply unable to deal any damage to it. It moved forward and retreated together with the disciples of the four sects of Mountain Parasol. It was not afraid that its short handle would be used by the demons. It was not afraid that it would fall into the siege of the demons and be unable to escape. It was able to unleash its strongest offensive power without any scruples.

It brandished a scarlet flint rod, like a cloud of fire that covered an area of more than a hundred feet. Ordinary Demon Weapons and Ghost Soldiers would be crushed into pieces if they came into contact with this cloud of fire.

No matter how strong the Fire-Winged Monster Ape was, the area it could control was extremely narrow. It could only guarantee that the Mountain Parasol Four Sect disciple array was less than a hundred feet wide and would not be directly attacked by the Demon Weapons and Ghost Soldiers. After Mountain Parasol’s entire vanguard array entered Darkness Ridge, tens of thousands of magical creatures moved from all directions.

This battle could not rely entirely on a few Celestial realm experts forcefully tearing apart the demon race’s defenses and entering the Evil Ghost Gorge.

Not to mention that after several Celestial Realm experts entered the Evil Ghost Gorge, they had to try their best to avoid interference in order to seal the spatial rift. Even if Celestial Realm experts didn’t fear the attacks of low-grade magical creatures, if they were to be surrounded by Demon Marshal Crimson Flame Brightness and several hundred small demon generals in the depths of Darkness Ridge, it would still be a miserable ending.

After Chen Xun and the others entered five to six hundred kilometers in the depths of Darkness Ridge, the resistance they encountered became enormous. However, working together with the Dragon Gate Sect and Qing Palaces, they managed to advance smoothly from the left wing. Two days later, the Mountain Parasol Forward Array advanced to a stone ridge.

A large swath of dark clouds enveloped most of the stone ridges, and there were faint fiendish lightning floating in the dark clouds. It was no different from the fiendish array that he had seen in the Thousand Fiendish Sand Sea back then.

The only difference was that in the Thousand Demon Sand Sea, the demons could only set up one demon array. Unexpectedly, dozens of years had passed and there were already dozens of such demon arrays in the depths of Darkness Ridge.

To say that the demons weren’t good at spirit formation forging was only a relative matter.

Apart from the Demon Formation, the Demons had also constructed a stable spatial passage between the Thousand Devil Sand Sea and the Thousand Devil Realm. This meant that the Demons’ weapons refinement and formation skills were far above Mountain Parasol’s.

It could only be said that the demons were slightly weaker than the Cloud Continent in terms of formation forging, and could not be compared to the Heavenly Jun Realm.

Seeing the black clouds enveloping the dozens of kilometers of stone ridge, it was completely unknown how many demonic creatures were hidden within the demonic array. Chen Xun had a dark feeling that the demonic array that the demons had set up here was not much inferior to the peak sealing level mountain protection array of the human race.

The demons had already experienced the pros and cons of the Green Flame Lotus Arrow. Naturally, they would not let the disciples of Mountain Parasol easily approach the demonic array. That way, the dense array of the Green Flame Lotus Arrow would be able to destroy the demonic array that they had painstakingly set up.

In the hands of the elite bow that Mountain Parasol was fighting with the vanguard array, 800 disciples had cultivated the Luo Throat Divine Bow Art.

Although their attainments in the Luo Yan Divine Bow Technique were extremely shallow and far from being comparable to Tie Xinmei and other Origin Core warriors, who could shoot a distant object from a distance of one to two hundred kilometers with the Luo Yan Divine Bow Technique, they had already increased the range of the Azure Flame Lotus Arrows by ten kilometers from the previous three kilometers.

The range of the dense arrow formation increased to ten li, which meant that these 800 elite archers could move along with a golden scale ship and be firmly protected at the core of the vanguard formation.

Unless the vanguard array was completely destroyed by the demons, the dense array of Cyan Flame Lotus Arrows would always be Mountain Parasol’s sharpest and most powerful method to break through the array.

The core goal of the four sects in Mountain Parasol was to destroy the demon race barrier in front of them, and then restrain a portion of the demon soldiers from the left wing to ensure that the main forces of the various sects in the Northern Region led by the Xuandu Sect could smoothly advance to the Evil Ghost Gorge.

The four sects of Mountain Parasol had mobilized 3,000 disciples at or above the Reincarnation Realm, but the proportion of them in the alliance army was still small. Naturally, it was impossible for them to take on the main task of this battle.

The Demon God’s body that Chen Xun had transformed into with the Devil Binding Flag of the Capital Heavens had already been torn to shreds.

Even though the Heavenly Seizure Demon Flag had swallowed a large amount of remnant souls, it was not enough to replenish them. The main souls of the Demon Flag refined by the Rakshasa Demon and the Bone Demon Primordial Spirit had become extremely weak.

Seeing that Mountain Parasol’s core goal in this battle was thirty to forty kilometers away, Chen Xun knew that it was time for them to use all of their milk power. He opened his mouth and forced out a large amount of life essence blood, spraying it directly onto the Du Tian Arrest Demon Flag.

Nourished by Chen Xun’s purest fate essence blood essence, the main souls refined by the Rakshasa Demon and the Bone Demon Primordial Spirit all began to roar with ferocious spirits, shattering the heavens and shattering the earth.

The ferocious flames emitted from the broken Demon God’s body suddenly rose, and it was several points stronger than at its peak.

Chen Xun cried out in his heart. The main soul of the Du Tian Devil Banner was fed with life essence blood. The effect was the best, but his cultivation was considered profound. This mouthful of life essence blood would take him several years of hard work to recover.

Seeing Chen Xun like this, Zhao Cheng’en, who was in charge of the battle flag in the vanguard array, didn’t need to remind him. Gu Cheng Zhuo, Lei Wan He, Su Tang, and the others also used their strongest methods at this moment.

Ji Lie’s Golden Scaled Sword Technique was torn apart by several skeletal demons. He took out a bottle of Essence Gathering Spirit from his bosom and swallowed a large mouthful of Essence Liquid into his stomach. Purple flames flickered all over his body, as if his hundred orifices were about to be pierced through with True Essence magic power. Afterwards, he flew to the front of the formation and a Spirit Sword flew out from his storage bag tied around his waist like a crucian carp. Soon, it formed a Thousand formed a Thousand Sword Formation around his body.

The Minor Thousand Sword Formation was also divided into nine levels. If Ji Lie cultivated for a short period of time, he would only be able to reach the third level. Even so, the power of the Minor Thousand Sword Formation composed of three hundred spirit swords far surpassed that of the Golden Scaled Sword Technique and the Sea of Sword Qi Divine Ability that came with the Great Freedom Sword Technique.

The Little Thousand Sword Formation and the Lightning Sound Sword Formation were of the same lineage, and they were even more powerful. However, the same drawback was that they consumed a great deal of their True Essence magic power.

The elemental liquid refined from Immortal Ao Island had solved the problem of insufficient elemental magic power.

In the past few years, the Immortal Ao Island had only refined twenty kilograms of Essence Liquid, and Du Liangyong had brought it back to Mountain Parasol.

Apart from giving Tao Jinghong five kilograms of primordial liquid, the remaining one was divided into five, Ji Lie three kilograms, Chang Xi three kilograms, Fire Winged Demonic Ape three kilograms, Chen Xun, Zhao Chengen, Hu Taiyan, and Su Tang three kilograms.

On such a crucial occasion, it was up to Ji Lie to unleash his strongest attack.

An extremely majestic snowy radiance soared into the sky from behind Ji Lie. Three hundred spirit swords instantly seemed to boil, and the snowy sword qi sprayed out like a mountain covered with snow, rapidly spreading towards the lightning.

The power of the Little Thousand Sword Formation at a certain point might not be as powerful as the Sea of Sword Qi, but it covered a hundred times the area of the Sea of Sword Qi.

The magical creatures within six to seven kilometers of the vanguard array were like the Kuroshio. In the blink of an eye, they were chopped into pieces by the sword Qi from the snow-covered mountains. Only a dozen little demons were left standing on the spot, startling the first rank magical creatures. They didn’t know what had happened all of a sudden.

The Fire Winged Demonic Ape was shocked by the power of the Little Thousand Sword Formation. Even if it was able to destroy the Red Lotus Flame Sea to the extreme, it might not be able to possess such astonishing power.

Just how many powerful divine abilities did Mountain Parasol have? Why would he scare off others’ chins every time he took them out?

The Fire Winged Monster Ape’s heart itched and hated. What itched was that Mountain Parasol had another powerful divine ability worth cultivating. What it hated was that it didn’t know what Chen Xun would blackmail him for.

In the blink of an eye, the Little Thousand Sword Formation swept out a path that approached the stone ridge. Taking advantage of the fact that the demons did not react, the vanguard formation quickly moved forward.

Even though Mountain Parasol had accumulated hundreds of thousands of Cyan Flame Lotus Arrows over the past few decades, no matter how many of these disposable consumables were stored, they would not be able to withstand a huge amount of consumption.

Previously, unless the vanguard formation was in danger of collapsing, they would only concentrate on using the Cyan Flame Lotus Arrow to block the attack of the demons.

At this moment, he could no longer care about the exhaustion of the Cyan Flame Lotus Arrow. The dozen powerful demons that the Little Thousand Swords Formation could not eliminate were all shot by hundreds of Cyan Flame Lotus Arrows, ensuring that they would be killed in the shortest amount of time possible, so as to ensure that the rapid advance of the entire vanguard array would not be disrupted.

In this way, Mountain Parasol’s vanguard array moved thirty kilometers forward in a very short period of time, directly advancing to the foot of Stone Ridge Mountain.

At this moment, a large number of magical creatures rushed out from the rolling black clouds on the top of the mountain. Zhao Cheng’en gave the order, and the eight hundred elite archers shot the Cyan Flame Lotus Arrows towards the cliff in front of the vanguard array.

Large amounts of magical creatures surged out. If the vanguard array wanted to reach a range of 4,000 feet, it would be very difficult and dangerous to directly attack the main body of the Demon Array.

They couldn’t figure out how many magical creatures were hidden in the dark clouds’ demonic array. If they were to be rushed over by an unimaginable flood of magical creatures at too close a distance, their situation would become extremely dangerous.

If he didn’t directly attack the main body of the Demonic Array, then destroying the Stone Ridge and destroying the Yin Meridians of the Demonic Acupoints deep underground would also have the same effect.

When the yin veins of the fiend acupoints were destroyed, the fiend array placed on the yin veins of the fiend acupoints would naturally lose its function, and the demons hidden in the fiend array would naturally be exposed.

The Little Thousand Sword Formation’s sword Qi was like snow covering mountains. It was very difficult to gather the attack points at one point. It formed a violent impact that was several thousand feet deep or even more than ten thousand feet away from the Earth’s rock stratum. When the Cyan Flame Lotus Arrow shot at one point, it had this kind of power.

The 10,000 foot cliff collapsed like a building block, and the hundred-mile-long stone ridge shook the Earthquake Mountain.

The azure flame lotus arrows shot out in unison, and the power it displayed at this moment was no weaker than the most authentic Tunnel Shaking Talisman.

In terms of convenience, the Earth-shaking Dao Talisman that could directly penetrate deep underground spirit veins was much more convenient to use. However, it was extremely difficult to refine and required a large amount of extremely precious materials. It was not something that any sect could possess.

Although the Azure Flame Lotus Arrow needed to nurture a large number of elite archers and protect itself at the core of the array when fighting against the enemy, there were many troubles, but the Azure Flame Lotus Arrow could not only attack the Spiritual Vein Rocks deep underground.

Waves of Cyan Flame Lotus arrows shot out. There were broken cliffs and rocks everywhere. Chen Xun and the others were temporarily unable to find out how deep the underground strata had been destroyed. However, he, Ji Lie, Zhao Cheng’en, and Chang Xi could sense the Yin meridians of the entire Stone Ridge, and the Yin Fiend Miasma that they could gather was rapidly weakening.

Fiend formation is difficult to break, first cut its source.

At this moment, Ji Lie and the Fire-Winged Demonic Ape were using large amounts of Essence Liquid to replenish their True Essence magic power, and they didn’t hesitate to destroy the Lesser Thousand Sword Formation and the Red Lotus Flame Sea to the extreme, blocking off the large amount of magical creatures that had surrounded them from both wings. The three Golden Scaled Ships also split into two wings from the vanguard, opening up their defensive spirit shields to block the huge rocks that flew over from the black clouds on the mountain peak like a rainstorm.

Although the demon formation on the mountain top was weakened, it was activated at this moment. Dozens of giant black scale claws shot out from the void and grabbed towards the vanguard formation.

The demon race had set up a demonic array, and its power was not small. Dozens of giant black-scaled claws shot out from the void, just like a dozen Aspect warriors. The protective spirit shield of a single golden-scaled ship could not hold on. However, the vanguard array was already prepared. Zhao Cheng’en waved his banner, and more than a hundred spirit swords shot out from the array, immediately crushing half of the giant black-scaled claws into pieces.

Even though half of the giant black-scaled claws still passed through the sword web and transformed into an incomparably violent stream of black flames that flew down, they were still unable to break through the protective spirit shield of the Golden Scaled Ship.

Seeing this scene, Chen Xun sighed with particular emotion.

Back then, in the Thousand Devil Sand Sea, in order to ensure that the arrow formation would not be destroyed, they could only use their lives to fill in the black flames from the fiendish formation. The Grandpa Sect Diagram was killed by the black flames, and not even the corpses were left.

“Boom!”

Another wave of Cyan Flame Lotus Arrows shot out. The ten-mile-wide cliff on the south slope of Shi Ling collapsed, and a corner of the Demonic Array was destroyed.

As the black clouds dispersed, more than a dozen giant black-scaled claws that vaguely stretched out from the void instantly turned invisible. The main ridge of the Stone Ridge that stretched for hundreds of kilometers was completely exposed. It was unknown how many demon soldiers and ghost soldiers had gathered in the darkness.

Chen Xun’s scalp went numb. Fortunately, he didn’t think of saving the Green Flame Lotus Arrow. Although he wouldn’t waste 30,000 to 40,000 more if he used the Green Flame Lotus Arrow when he approached the main body of the Demon Array, how powerful would it be if so many Demon Soldiers and Ghost Soldiers rushed down the mountain together?

Not to mention those low-grade demonic creatures, there were as many as seven Heavenly Demon Generals with a body size of more than seventy to eighty feet.

Although Chen Xun and the others also expected that the demons would not be able to place their main force on the left wing, they were shocked to see that there were actually seven Heavenly Yao level demon generals on the ridge. Hundreds of small demon generals who had cultivated to the Origin Core realm were also shocked, a portion more than they had predicted.

Apart from the Heavenly Yao level generals like Rakshasa Demon that he had seen before, there were also four ferocious looking Skeletal Ghost Generals. These Skeletal Ghosts were much shorter than Rakshasa Demon, but the green flames emanating from their bodies were no weaker than Rakshasa Demon’s. Chen Xun even had a headache intuition.

Could it be that these were ghosts that the Ji Clan General had turned into after he had killed Darkness Ridge in battle?

These demon generals and ghost generals obviously didn’t think that Chen Xun and the others would directly destroy the Fiend Vein Rock Layer at any cost in order to achieve the goal of destroying the Fiend Array.

The process was very complicated, but in fact, the time it took for twenty to thirty arrows to shoot together was extremely short.

After the ghostly clouds of light dispersed and the situation on Shi Ling was completely exposed, these Heavenly Yao level demon generals and ghost generals finally regained their senses and commanded the hundreds of thousands of demons and ghost creatures within the formation to pounce towards the foot of the mountain.

A snowline swept over from the distant horizon, instantly transforming into heavy goose-feathered snow that covered the entire mountain range.

Many magical creatures did not know where this heavy snow came from. Intuitive snowflakes fell down like thousands of blades, sweeping towards them. The scales, bones, and skeletons they were exposed to were all injured unimaginably.

Darkness Ridge was already an extremely cold place. Even the slightly taller ridge ridge was blown by the Profound Frost Dipper Demon. However, the coldness emitted by the snowflakes was a hundred times more intense than the Profound Frost Dipper Demon at the peak of Darkness Ridge’s highest peak.

Thousands of low-grade magical creatures were directly frozen into ice sheets and rolled down the mountain. Once they collided with the cracked rocks, they shattered into a pile of ice residues.

Tao Jinghong appeared in the air in front of the Mountain Parasol Forward Array as if he had stepped out of the void. Dozens of snow threads swept out from behind him like snow dragons, turning into goose-feathered snow that covered the southern slope of Shi Ling, which was dozens of kilometers away.

“True Monarch Tao has shown his divine might. There’s no need for us to attack!” Chen Xun laughed heartily. He had been very nervous just now, but he hadn’t expected Tao Jinghong to come to help him at the first possible moment.

“We’ve broken through the Demon Array. I didn’t see how many demons are guarding it. I just thought that there might be some problems on your side and the Crown Prince’s side.” Tao Jinghong retreated back to Mountain Parasol’s vanguard array and met Chen Xun and Ji Lie to talk about the battle in Dragon Gate Sect two hundred miles away.

Mountain Parasol, Dragon Gate Sect, and Prince Qing’s Mansion were responsible for the siege from the left wing. The battlefront was also 600 to 700 kilometers wide. Darkness Ridge’s Yin Fiend Miasma was extremely dense, and divine sense exploration was extremely limited.

The direction that the Dragon Gate Sect was responsible for could only be seen after they had broken through the Demon Array.

Suddenly, the slightly slower Luo Yuze, Song Xuanyi, and other Dragon Gate Sect disciples also rushed over to meet up with the Mountain Parasol Forward Array to kill the current demons.

Tao Jinghong alone was enough to reach half of Mountain Parasol’s vanguard array. Just now, Qianqiu Xue had already killed tens of thousands of low-grade magical creatures. Heavenly Yao level magical generals and ghost generals were not idiots. Seeing that the situation was not right, black flames surged from his entire body and he flew towards the Evil Ghost Gorge.