Chapter 78 Thorns On the ridge, there are steps made of blue rocks, pillars made of quartz, and steles made of solid stone, which are stacked layer upon layer, one after another, like a dragon coiling around the mountain and crawling around the ridge. It is so unnatural! A huge monument one hundred feet high was erected in the north of the mountain range, named "Da Feng". Along the broad green rock base on the mountain ridge, pavilions and towers began to be built scatteringly, with curved eaves and painted corners, bracket sets and flying beams, green tiles on the ridges and stacked bricks on the edges, pillars on the corridors and white jade eaves and steps. This style is so different from that of Qingyun Realm and this vast wilderness that it is truly surprising. At this time, an uninvited guest was arriving at the foot of the mountain. To the west of the mountain, hundreds of demon soldiers and generals with tiger heads, wolf brains, and manes on their backs surrounded the mountain, howling and roaring. "Who took that nest of demon cubs?" The two rows of mountain ridges were like arms, and the Qingyan City Wall formed a huge open-air platform under the Nanling Mountains. It was built with granite and bluestone, and after adding earthen traces, it looked like a whole. Wu Xuan stood on the southwest city wall and shouted to the cultivators behind him. "My Lord, the first battalion of scouts is here to fight." The Danyang Rangers, who had hardly fought since coming to Qingyun Realm, were the first to ask for a fight. The Taoist camp got the paper money, and the Taoist Fengfa, who was a direct descendant of the Wu family, got twenty Five-Horse Pagoda statues. Only his ranger scout camp had no military merits. This was absolutely unacceptable to them, a foreign army that had just joined the Wu family.
Wu Xuan glanced at the man named Cui Yaer, and suddenly remembered Wu Yong's instructions, and nodded slightly. "Can!" So a battalion of scouts were formed, who harnessed magical birds and rode on flying clouds to attack the demon army at the foot of the mountain. The two wolf vanguards below initially thought that someone was coming down the mountain to report to each other, so they puffed out their chests and were about to give orders. The one who was first to be greeted by a wave of wind blades, water knives, fireballs and arrows. "Bah! Whose mountain is this? Don't you know how to behave? Don't you know that you should report your mountain before going into battle?" With a roar, he picked up his weapon and rushed forward, fighting with the group of birds. The main peak of Thorn Ridge has now been renamed Dafeng Ridge, with magic arrays and barriers set up, becoming the bridgehead for the Fuyao family. Wu Yong stood on the top of the mountain, his eyes like lightning, flashing with golden light, penetrating dozens of miles away, looking down at the battle below the mountain. At his side were Cangsongzi, Gaojiezi and Qingbaizi, three old spiritual cultivators holding a book on the Dao of Wood and asking Wu Yong questions. He asked Wu Yong as a disciple where the Dantian was, where the Niwan Palace was, what the main and extraordinary meridians were, and what categories the 1,080 traces on the path to immortality belonged to. However, Wu Yong was very patient. He explained all the questions they asked from beginning to end to the three of them, and also gave Cang Songzi a magic weapon - the heavy water bead, which made the three of them respect him even more. "I heard that the 5,000 miles east of this cliff is the Scorpion Tail Peak of the Cliff Mountain Range. Now that I have broken through three levels, is the little demon challenging me from the Scorpion Tail Peak?" Wu Yong stood on the top of the mountain with his hands behind his back, looking straight to the west, as if he could see through the giant mountain thousands of miles away! "Master Fa has a keen eye. The goblins at the foot of the mountain have indeed come down from Scorpion Tail Peak. The two wolf vanguards below are the camp that usually collects taxes on the goblins on the nearby hills." "I recognize it, too." Cang Songzi communicated with the trees on the mountain range slightly. Although many of them were cut down by the immortal cultivators to build palaces, many of them could still be used by them to sense the situation below the mountain. "Demon tax?" Wu Yong raised his eyebrows and became interested. "Exactly!" "The five thousand miles of wilderness are all under the rule of the Cliff Mountain Range. There were originally two demon kings on the Cliff Mountain, one was Cang Qing Tian Zhe Zi, and the other was Qiannian Dog Bear Spirit. They were one in the south and one in the north, and each occupied the Scorpion Tail and Green Bamboo Peaks." "The old bear was alone, occupying the bamboo forest. He was timid, greedy, and fond of stealing and robbing. He was also irresponsible, so all the mountains followed the Purple Ling Lady of Scorpion Tail Peak."
"Every mountain under my command must pay a demon tax to Scorpion Tail Peak every year to repay Empress Zi Ling for her protection of us!" Cang Songzi knew everything about this vast wilderness. After all, the huge amount of monster tax he paid every year was not in vain. “Then why did Scorpion Tail Peak react after I occupied half of the Great Wilderness? Does she really not care about the monster tax?” Wu Yong shook his head and chuckled. He raised his right hand, and a silver pot appeared in his palm. Wu Yong gently lifted the silver pot, and immediately purple smoke billowed out, and the silver pot itself turned into a purple and red cloud, spreading towards the battlefield below the ridge. "Fellow Daoist Cangsong, have you heard of the Three Holy Ridges? I heard that there are three old monsters in this ridge, the Green Lion, the Old Elephant, and the Golden Eagle, who call themselves the Great Demon Kings." Seeing that there were two foundation-building firebirds among the group of monsters at the foot of the mountain, Wu Yong waved his hand and let the group of ferocious crows go down the mountain. The red clouds filled the air, and it seemed leisurely, but it only took a few breaths to enter the battlefield. Before the scouts could capture the monsters, a monster with a crow's head and a human body, fire feathers on its ribs, crane claws on its belly, and a body like fine steel rushed into the monsters. Smoke came out of its wings and fire was under its beak. In a short time, it roasted many monsters into jerky and swallowed their spirits. Finally, a ferocious monster turned its claws into hooks and locked the scapula of the surviving wolf pioneer, dragged him up, and flew to the top of the mountain. "do not move!" "Don't!!! Move!!!" Cui Yaer shouted several times and ordered his men not to move. In fact, those dozens of monsters were too terrifying. The demon general who had fought with him for more than ten rounds was unable to be defeated. He was surrounded by the monsters and turned into dried meat in a few rounds. His body was burned and his spirit was swallowed. "Don't panic, that's your master's flame spirit!" "He must have had some new idea." Wu Xuan, You Xue and several Taoists slowly descended from the air, but they frowned slightly. "The fighting style of your scout camp is indeed a bit messy. There are not many bird monsters in the monster group. You have the help of spirit birds and the protection of Xiao Qingyun. Why do you want to go up and fight with them in close combat?" The fighting method of this scout camp is to charge forward in a rush like the rangers. If they encounter a major battle, they will suffer a great loss sooner or later! "Practice your tactics carefully." The Taoist rangers in the scout camp were filled with righteous indignation after hearing these scoldings, but they could not refute them. After all, their first battle had caused the master of the clan to be unable to bear it and had to take action himself! When the three wood immortals on the peak heard Wu Yong inquiring about the details of the old monster from Nanzhou, they couldn't help but panic. "Master Fa! That Sansheng Ridge is not a good place to go." "Three old demons sit in high places, forming their own country on the mountain. The old demons imitate the Demon Country of Xizhou, hoping to become the next Little Saint with Yellow Eyebrows." "Keke, what do those three old demons know about the Demon Kingdom? On that Demon Mountain, there are dry bones everywhere and black blood has turned into a river. The 40,000 crazy demons on the ridge will peel off their skin, pull out their tendons, shave their bones, and throw them into the hot pot no matter if they see a human or a demon." "That's the Mad Demon Cave!" Whenever Gao Jiezi mentioned the three demon caves, his eyes turned red with anger and his teeth itched with hatred. Cang Songzi gently patted the third brother on the shoulder and added: "The three hundred miles east of this cliff are thanks to Lady Zi Ling and the old bear. In the past, the old green lion hunted monsters into the cliff and swallowed up half of the small monsters on the mountain in one gulp, creating a gap in the cliff." "Fortunately, Empress Zi Ling fell on the horse and the poison stake knocked the old monster down. He was thrown into the wilderness and lay there for two days and two nights before he woke up." "Later, the old yellow-fanged elephant, who was looking for a fight, also encountered the old black blind man. The two monsters fought at the bottom of the cliff, and he was stung by the Purple-Ling Lady before being dragged back."
"Since then, the area east of the Cliff Mountains has been peaceful for more than a hundred years." Wu Yong was amazed when he heard such a strange thing. The red clouds in the sky were like fog, and suddenly condensed into one place, turning into a silver pot, which fell steadily into Wu Yong's palm. Along with it, a wolf demon with burn marks all over its body fell down. Glancing at the wolf demon, Wu Yong asked again: "So the Purple Diamond Demon King is stronger than the Great Demon King of the Three Sacred Mountains? Then, we need to be more prepared so that we can kill him with one strike." After hearing Wu Yong's plan, Muxian Sanda didn't know how to respond. Only then a girl in red jumped out from behind him. "No. The big scorpion is just a little bit poisonous. None of the three old monsters want to be hit by it. If they really fight, the old golden eagle will peck her to death. Even if the old yellow-fanged elephant hits her, she will lose some limbs." "That big black bear was even worse. If the big scorpion hadn't stung the yellow-fanged old elephant, the black bear would have been trampled to death." "For you, sir, just don't get stung by that big scorpion. That black blind creature doesn't know any magic, he just has thick skin and sneaks into caves everywhere. I think we can catch him even if we set a trap!" Feng Ji pursed her lips and began to expose the shortcomings of the two old demons to Wu Yong. When she first became a spirit, she suffered a lot under the cliff and almost became a snack for the little demons on the mountain several times. She had no respect for the two demon kings like she had for her brothers. She just wished they were caught by the immortal master and whipped every day. Wu Yong certainly didn't take Feng Ji's angry words seriously. He smiled and comforted her: "Great! It won't take long to capture those two monsters and let Xiao Feng vent his anger." What he cared more about were Feng Ji and Xing Ji themselves. These two youngest wood spirits were adopted by the three wood immortal friends after they traveled to various demon mountains in the wilderness. Although they were called siblings, they were more like father and daughter. If one wants to make great use of the three friends of the Wood Fairy, the three evil old spiritual practitioners must start with the two gentlemen of Peach and Plum, and the two ladies of Apricot and Maple. After all, the brothers and sisters who had been nurtured for half their lives all followed Wu Yong, and the three of them had no other choice but to follow Wu wholeheartedly. The wolf demon lying on the ground ignored the burning pain on his body and the two big cuts on his scapula, and closed his eyes tightly with all his strength. Especially when he heard the people above suggesting how to kill King Zi Ling, he held his breath and didn't dare to breathe. "Little wolf demon, what do you want to do by coming to my mountain? Are you a vanguard? Or a scout?" Hearing this question, Wolf Vanguard felt dizzy and then his body lost control and was lifted up by a huge force. This little demon had never seen such strange magic before, his eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost. The fights between monsters in the mountains involve breathing fire and wind, controlling lightning and water, and destroying mountains and splitting rocks. Where has he ever seen such magic? The pair of big mouths that were split to the ears trembled in fear and could not utter a word for a long time. "My Lord, my queen asked me to deliver a letter. You know that this five thousand li area is the territory of Scorpion Tail Peak. My Lord, you have seized the two sacred mountains of Scorpion Tail Peak. Are you trying to taste my Lord's horse-turning poison stake?" "This is what my king asked himself!" (End of this chapter)