As he traveled, Yang Che found that the situation in Jiang Country’s Cultivation World was getting worse.
Not only were there Spirit-Level Ancient Blood Corpses, which made people pale at the mention, wreaking havoc everywhere, but also a large number of Demonic Path Cultivators pouring in.
As he got closer to Jiang Huo City, Yang Che gradually heard an astonishing piece of news.
In the Burning Flame Mountain Range, the southern barrier of Jiang Country, countless Ancient Blood Corpses gathered there and established a massive Sect named ‘Ancient Corpse Sect’.
Furthermore, the Ancient Corpse Sect grew stronger and stronger, attacking Jiang Huo City several times, and once almost completely broke through Jiang Huo City’s city-protecting formation.
Loose Cultivators or small Cultivation Families within a radius of several thousand miles were either annihilated or fled entirely to Jiang Huo City, seeking protection.
Stepping on the Dunjxing Shuo, Yang Che quickly smelled wafts of bloody Qi in the air.
The closer he got to Jiang Huo City, the stronger the bloody Qi became.
The sky seemed to be enveloped in a layer of blood mist, obscuring the sun and covering everything in a reddish-gray hue.
Yang Che was completely shrouded in a black robe, and he deliberately smeared his face, leaving only his two eyes exposed.
Relying on the miraculous ‘Stealth Technique’, Yang Che quietly passed through several areas where battles were raging and slowly approached the outskirts of Jiang Huo City.
Outside the city, countless temporarily erected simple shelters were densely packed, almost completely surrounding the four city gates of Jiang Huo City, making them impassable.
Yang Che already knew that these were a large number of Loose Cultivators and members of small Cultivation Families who had fled to this place and could not afford Spirit Stones to live inside the city.
They could only spontaneously band together to build temporary shelters outside the city, while hoping to accumulate enough Spirit Stones to enter Jiang Huo City.
However, none of this concerned Yang Che.
He had already used the secret method left by Tianxie Ziyin to confirm that there was a ‘Land of Extreme Yang’ within Jiang Huo City.
Although Yang Che longed for revenge, he also knew that his current cultivation was insufficient, and the most urgent task was to explore this Land of Extreme Yang to see if a nine-colored fire lotus was growing within it.
When Tianxie Ziyin risked falling into a deep slumber to send him here, it was clear that she had sensed the Qi of the nine-colored fire lotus.
Therefore, Yang Che judged that the ‘Land of Extreme Yang’ in Jiang Huo City most likely had a nine-colored fire lotus growing in it.
After observing carefully outside the city for a long time, Yang Che found that any Cultivator entering the city not only had to pay a large amount of Spirit Stones but was also subjected to extremely strict scrutiny.
It seemed somewhat difficult to sneak into the city easily.
Just as Yang Che was racking his brain on how to enter the city, two extremely powerful Qis suddenly flew from above.
Yang Che’s heart tightened, and he was immediately surprised to find that the newcomers were a Spirit-Level Ancient Blood Corpse and a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator.
This Spirit-Level Ancient Blood Corpse was extraordinarily tall, like an iron tower.
Its height alone was more than double that of the Ancient Blood Corpse ‘Mieh’ in his Magic Stone Space. Not to mention its thick limbs, which resembled four pillars, visually stunning.
On the broad shoulders of this Ancient Blood Corpse stood a Nascent Soul cultivator who appeared quite young and handsome.
Yang Che immediately guessed that this Cultivator either practiced some special Cultivation Technique or, like him, had consumed a Spirit Pill such as a ‘Youth-Preserving Pill’ that could maintain one’s appearance.
The ‘Youth-Preserving Pill’ he had taken was precisely the one Junior Sister Hu Xiaonan had given him to express her gratitude for saving her life.
The arrival of this young Nascent Soul cultivator and the Spirit-Level Ancient Blood Corpse immediately caused countless Loose Cultivators to flee into their shelters, not even daring to poke their heads out.
The Cultivators standing on the city wall of Jiang Huo City all turned pale with horror, looking up at the sky with immense fear.
With a ‘boom’.
The young Nascent Soul cultivator said nothing, throwing a punch. A dazzling bloody Light Shadow instantly converged into a terrifying giant fist that smashed onto the city-protecting formation’s light shield, emitting a thunderous hum.
The entire formation’s light shield trembled violently, visibly collapsing more and more. At this moment, four dazzling and scorching light beams suddenly rose from the four corners—east, west, south, and north—and infused into the city-protecting formation’s light shield, quickly stabilizing the formation once again.
“Xiao Moshan, you, as one of the esteemed Old Ancestors of Lingxia Palace, have actually betrayed Lingxia Palace! You are truly a disgrace to us Cultivators!”
Accompanied by a cold voice filled with undisguised mockery, an old man with single-line eyebrows, dressed in a fiery red robe, flew into the sky.
He confronted the young Nascent Soul cultivator and the Ancient Blood Corpse from a distance.
As if touched on a raw nerve by the old man with single-line eyebrows, Xiao Moshan’s face twitched slightly.
However, he quickly regained his composure, saying with a hint of disdain, “Jiang Yuan, how has Jiang Wudao considered it? It’s still the same: if he is willing to submit to my Ancient Corpse Sect, Jiang Huo City can be preserved. If not, today will be the day Jiang Huo City falls and its people perish.”
“Hahahaha.”
The old man with single-line eyebrows, dressed in fiery red, burst into several loud laughs, then said seriously, “What big words. I’d like to see just how capable your Ancient Corpse Sect truly is.”
Saying that, the old man directly took out a crimson long saber.
As the old man poured his magic power into it, the saber’s body instantly became wreathed in raging flames.
Its terrifying high temperature seemed to subtly distort the space in front of him.
The old man manipulated the fire saber to dance, and instantly, a sky full of crimson saber blades were released and split from the fire saber, overwhelming Xiao Moshan and the Ancient Blood Corpse.
Yang Che sensed that almost every one of these countless fire blades contained incredibly powerful strength.
He secretly mused that with his current cultivation, he probably couldn’t even withstand a single fire blade.
Nascent Soul cultivators were truly ‘terrifying to this extent’.
Yang Che couldn’t help but secretly clench his fists, his eyes filled with determination.
Then, his pupils suddenly contracted, staring intently at a certain spot in the sky.
He saw the Spirit-Level Ancient Blood Corpse beneath Xiao Moshan’s feet emit a strange, cold snort from its nostrils.
Its iron-tower-like body suddenly rushed several feet forward, shielding Xiao Moshan behind it.
It was unclear how this Ancient Blood Corpse swung a few punches around, and then all those dense saber blades were sucked in by this iron-tower-like Ancient Blood Corpse.
At this moment, this iron-tower-like Ancient Blood Corpse was as if magnetic; all the saber blades flew towards it.
A series of dense ‘clinking’ sounds rang out, and these crimson saber blades shattered completely upon striking the Ancient Blood Corpse’s body.
Jiang Yuan, the old man with single-line eyebrows, immediately frowned, his eyes narrowing slightly.
Suddenly, he moved, and then he disappeared.
The next moment, the handsome young man Xiao Moshan’s figure also disappeared.
‘Bang’ ‘Bang’ ‘Bang’
Light Shadows intertwined, and flying lights shot out.
Jiang Yuan and Xiao Moshan quickly clashed in teleportation, and the aftermath of their battle landed on the city-protecting light shield, causing it to tremble again.
“Qiang, go break the formation.”
Xiao Moshan issued a command to the iron-tower-like Ancient Blood Corpse.
The Spirit-Level Ancient Blood Corpse named ‘Qiang’ immediately plummeted, then took out a completely black circular Formation Plate and smashed it onto the city-protecting light shield.
‘Buzz’ ‘Buzz’ ‘Buzz’
A series of teeth-grinding strange sounds rang out, and the black circular Formation Plate emitted a sky full of black light, rapidly beginning to cover the entire city-protecting formation’s light shield.
And at this moment, three more Spirit-Level Ancient Blood Corpses suddenly flew in from afar.
Each of them held identical black circular Formation Plates, and after flying to the city-protecting formation’s light shield, they unhesitatingly smashed the Formation Plates in their hands onto the formation’s light shield.
‘Crack, crack, crack…’
The city-protecting light shield rapidly cracked, and the cracks spread like ripples in water.
The cracks grew more and more numerous, and the entire city-protecting light shield was on the verge of shattering.
If not for the continuous spiritual energy filling the formation from the four corners—southeast, northwest—this city-protecting light shield would have probably already collapsed.
Yang Che recognized that the black circular Formation Plates held by these Ancient Blood Corpses were indeed precious Formation Plates.
With these Formation Plates in hand, he knew that Jiang Huo City’s city-protecting formation would likely not be preserved.
Indeed, when another Cultivator with a Nascent Soul Stage aura flew out from Jiang Huo City and soared into the sky to the battleground, before he could even act, the entire city-protecting formation’s light shield let out a crisp ‘bang’ and completely shattered.