Chapter 221: A Small Sect!
In truth, after the Demon Race army arrived, those Great Vehicle sects that were unwilling to abandon their ancestral foundations and mountain gate Blessed Lands all bowed their heads and pledged allegiance once they saw resistance was impossible.
They offered up all kinds of rare resources.
At the same time, they threw open their transmission gates, allowing the Demon Race to quickly reach every region.
This made the Demon Race’s strength flourish ever more.
It so happened that Ao Ye was a dragon with ideals and ambitions.
He naturally knew that not all humans could be killed.
Because of this, Ao Ye accomplished within a single year what the Demon Race had been unable to do in a hundred.
Once I manage this realm into an iron barrel, I’ll have the merit of ascending to the Immortal Realm.
With this merit, I’ll be able to secure my footing among the new generation of the Dragon Clan after ascending. In the future, contending for the position of a General Lord won’t be out of the question either!
After wasting so many years dawdling here, I’m finally about to leave.
If Father hadn’t been banished to the mortal world back then, I wouldn’t have…
Ao Ye sighed inwardly, his thoughts drifting further and further away.
Clearly, he was immersed in memories of the past.
At that moment, an escape light swept over and landed before him.
“This subordinate greets the Honored One.”
It was a middle-aged man, broad-shouldered and stern-faced.
“What is it?”
Ao Ye raised his eyes and asked.
The newcomer was none other than the Heavenly Peng Clan Chief, one of the Five Overlord Clans of the Demon Domain.
“Honored One, word has come from Juhuo.”
“Speak.”
“According to the report, Juhuo and Xuan Li have joined forces and are on their way to punish the true culprit who harmed our Demon Race.”
“And it’s estimated they’ll clash within ten days at most.”
“Ten days?”
Ao Ye frowned, his eyes narrowing into slits that shot out cold light.
That Pseudo-Immortal Puppet likely won’t be a match for those two clans.
“Tell them that once it’s done, they are to return to the Central Region at once.”
“In a hundred years at most, I will completely level the Human Race here!”
“Also, have those few submitted Great Vehicle sects step up their harassment of the Northern Region Great Wall. Look for opportunities.”
“Yes!”
The Heavenly Peng Clan Chief acknowledged the order and withdrew.
Watching the Heavenly Peng Clan Chief’s departing back, Ao Ye murmured to himself, “If only I could bring that Pseudo-Immortal Puppet along as well.”
“But a slaughter like that will surely be brutal beyond measure. Even if brought back, it probably won’t be usable.”
……
“BOOM!”
“BOOM!”
On the Northern Region Great Wall, atop a massive wall covered in sword scars and bloodstains.
Several Foundation Establishment True Persons clad in cotton robes continuously formed hand seals for the Clarifying Spirit Art.
“What rotten luck. The demonic qi on the Northern Region Great Wall is getting thicker and thicker.”
“These days, if I don’t form the seal for half an hour, my dantian feels clogged!”
“Yeah! This demonic qi is practically like poison. Once it enters the body, it erodes the dantian and spirit sea.”
“I can feel my dantian and spirit sea have already turned black!”
The several Foundation Establishment True Persons discussed in low voices, their expressions grave.
Although the Northern Region Great Wall had temporarily held back the Demon Race’s southward advance.
Because of the countless battles, innumerable Demon Race corpses were buried here.
Thus, this stretch of heaven and earth had long been defiled by demonic qi.
Especially at night, when the demonic qi was thickest. Even with Foundation Establishment cultivators casting the Clarifying Spirit Art, it was hard to disperse.
“BOOM!”
Abruptly, a tremendous crash came from the sky, shaking the nine heavens.
Everyone raised their heads at the sound and looked upward.
They saw above them rolling smoke and dust, spiritual power converging, killing intent soaring to the heavens.
“These few have been fighting for three days. How has a victor not been decided yet?”
“Yeah, by rights those Demon Race lackeys aren’t usually this devoted.”
“What’s going on this time?”
Everyone was puzzled.
Every few dozen days, a small-scale battle between Venerables would break out at the Northern Region Great Wall.
Sometimes it was Human Race Venerables against several Demon Venerables.
Other times it was several Human Race Venerables against several Human Traitor Venerables.
Both sides probed each other.
But these past few times, these Venerables — who knew what had gotten into them.
They had actually fought for three or four days straight and still refused to stop.
“Weng~”
Suddenly, a breeze blew past.
The several True Persons all shut their mouths in unison, looking up with expressions of shock.
They saw, amid the spreading smoke and dust.
Several Human Race Venerables of the Northern Region Great Wall abruptly spewed blood and were sent flying backward.
Clearly, they had already been wounded.
“Hisss!”
Everyone gasped a sharp breath, crying out in alarm:
“My god!”
“Have these Venerables gone mad? They actually dare to strike lethally!”
“Aren’t they afraid Council Lord Li will come settle accounts with them?”
“Hmph, when have those beasts ever cared about that?”
Everyone was shocked beyond measure, then prepared to seek reinforcements with grave expressions.
But who would have thought that those few Human Traitor Venerables would then withdraw and flee toward the other side of the Northern Region.
“Swoosh!”
At that moment, a Skyrend sound suddenly rose. A golden light tore across the horizon, racing toward the Northern Region Great Wall.
In the blink of an eye, it landed atop the wall, transforming into a man in a white robe with a transcendent countenance.
“Beasts! How dare you bully us like this!”
Li Tianxuan roared in fury.
Looking at the miserable state of his comrades around him, how could he hold back? He was about to give chase.
“Council Lord, do not be impulsive!”
Beside him, several already-wounded Human Race Venerables hurriedly held him back.
“Let me go!”
Li Tianxuan roared, his eyes about to split.
As the Lord of the Sect Management Council, governing countless humans.
He would not sit by and watch these Demon Race running dogs trample the Human Race.
“Council Lord! This might well be a Demon Race scheme. Otherwise those few dogs wouldn’t be so devoted!”
“Indeed, the Demon Race is treacherous. If anything happens to you, what will become of the Northern Region Great Wall…”
The several of them clamored, urging Li Tianxuan to calm down.
“But…”
Li Tianxuan’s fury was still hard to dispel.
But for the sake of the Northern Region Great Wall, he had no choice but to forcibly suppress the anger in his heart.
“Enough.”
He took a deep breath, suppressing the rage within.
“You tend to your wounds first.”
“I will guard the pass myself!”
“As you command!”
The several of them bowed respectfully, then withdrew.
Li Tianxuan stood atop the wall.
Gazing far off in the direction those Human Traitor Venerables had fled, his eyes terrifyingly gloomy.
His brow was furrowed with worry.
At present, the Human Race seemed to be relying on the Northern Region Great Wall to hold the Demon Race north of the Central Region.
But with the Demon Race’s current strength, combined with the aid of those Human Traitor Venerables.
If they attacked with all their might, the Northern Region Great Wall would likely fall sooner or later.
Yet the Demon Race had not done so.
It seemed they were waiting for something.
And Li Tianxuan naturally knew what they were waiting for.
“Rumor has it there’s a Human Race force active within the Demon Domain, disrupting its order.”
“It has even pinned down two of the Overlord Clans within the Demon Domain.”
“Such a force is truly a pillar of our Human Race.”
“It’s just that I don’t know how much longer they can hold. If we wait until those two Overlord Clans return to the Central Region, that will likely be the day the Northern Region Great Wall falls.”
Li Tianxuan’s eyes flickered.
As for this Human Race force lurking in the Demon Domain, no one within the Human Race knew anything about it.
Because they never contacted the Human Race on their own initiative.
Only the president of a small guild beneath the Vast Sea City knew that the other party was called the Chaotian Sect.
A small sect that made its living refining Puppets.
But this couldn’t help but make Li Tianxuan doubt.
“A single small sect — can it truly pin down two Overlord Clans?”