Chapter 1587 - 179: Transmitting Skills and Methods to Repel Demons

Chapter 1587: Chapter 179: Transmitting Skills and Methods to Repel Demons

Two months later, a Spirit Light descended from the north, directly landing at Zhao You Heavenly Pond.

Zhang Yan was in his Cave Mansion, deriving spells, when he suddenly sensed something. He opened his eyes, raised his sleeve and caught the Spirit Light in his hand out of thin air. Upon examining it closely, he found it was a letter sent by Han Zuocheng and his companions.

In recent days, Zhao Chong had infiltrated the Demon Tribe under the guise of a Heavenly Demon Bloodline and discovered that the area around the Two Continent Mountain Border was home to over a thousand tribes, all loyal to a Demon Tribe known as Yu Yuan.

The Demon King of this tribe was called Zhu Bogao, and his followers numbered over a million. Among them, there were more than twenty Powerful Fourth Transformation practitioners. Their cultivation was equivalent to that of Qi Dao Nascent Soul cultivators, and if a Cave Heaven True Master were to oversee them, they would rival the Eight Demon Tribes. Such strength must not be underestimated, thus a report was immediately sent to the sect.

Zhang Yan was somewhat surprised, not expecting such a force to be crouching near the continent’s border. Moreover, it seemed related to the demon tribes’ constant invasions of East Splendor Continent over the past two hundred years. If not eradicated soon, when Mingcang and the Demon Sect go to war, its southward march would inevitably cause great trouble for them.

He thought it over briefly, laid down the letter, and glanced at the piles of bamboo slips stacked high on his desk.

Within the Mingcang Sect, disciples who annihilate demons can earn merits. However, there’s a distinction between the two; Demon Sect practitioners are cunning and ruthless, evading when the situation is unfavorable. They are hard to deal with, whereas killing demon cultivators is much easier. Therefore, upon hearing of the planned assault on the Beiming Continent demon tribes, many elders sent their disciples’ registers to Zhao You Mansion.

Knowing that the time was ripe, Zhang Yan’s gaze flickered, and he said in a deep voice, "Jing You, summon Zihong."

Soon after, Wei Zihong arrived at the mansion and bowed, saying, "Disciple greets Master."

Zhang Yan waved his sleeve, producing a token, and said, "This time, you’ll lead the disciples to attack the Beiming Continent demon tribes. Depart tomorrow and meet your seventh junior brother there. Establish a Cave Mansion and set up a Forbidden Array. I shall arrive soon."

Wei Zihong responded respectfully, "Disciple shall obey the Dharma Decree."

He bowed again and retreated.

The next day, he led over three hundred Mingcang disciples in twelve Star Pivot Palaces toward Beiming Continent.

Han Wangke, Cai Rongju, Peng Yuzhou, and others accompanied them to provide support in case Demon Sect practitioners heard the news and launched secret attacks.

Ten days later, the group arrived in Beiming Continent, connected with Han Zuocheng and his wife via Flying Book, and without delay, Wei Zihong led them to assault the nearby demon tribes.

These Beiming demon tribes never expected Mingcang Sect cultivators to suddenly attack, completely catching them off guard. Over ten demon tribes within a thousand miles of the Two Continent Mountain Border were wiped out in just three days.

Three thousand miles away, a thousand-foot-long boat floated over a roaring river, pulled slowly by countless leaps of Golden Carp, the sound of their splashes heard hundreds of miles away.

This was the Corner Tent King Boat of Yu Yuan Tribe, usually boarded by the clan king Zhu Bogao to patrol his tribe along the nine-thousand-mile Jin Water. However, today, he stood alone atop the Cloud Raft, gazing at the night sky.

Though he had cultivated for eight hundred years, he still appeared as a young Daoist with a sharp posture, graceful and jade-like, his lips adorned with two white Carp whiskers like beautiful jade, sparkling and clear, swaying in the moonlight, occasionally scattering Crystal Pearl silver stars as if facing a direction with soaring tunneling light.

Footsteps rushed from behind, and a scholar-like cultivator approached, saluting and whispering, "Father, news from the front, Mingcang disciples established a Cave Mansion at Drum Collapse Mountain yesterday, setting up a Forbidden Array, indicating their intention to stay long-term."

Zhu Bogao spoke calmly, "Have the envoys been placated?"

The middle-aged cultivator replied, "We persuaded them to return temporarily, but that can only last for so long, and I am at a loss. I ask Father to make a decision."

Zhu Bogao sighed, "What is inevitable has arrived, just earlier than I anticipated. True Master Zhang is indeed extraordinary. Had we waited a few decades longer, the vows made with the Six Great Demon Sects would have been fulfilled, then our tribe would have had a chance to rise. Alas, it was just a step short due to fate."

In ancient times, demon cultivators pursued Power Dao, but after the Great Virtue scholars fought the demon cultivators, most Heavenly Demon bloodlines were severed. Now, those in power are mainly the Qi Dao cultivators from the Eight Divisions, while Power Dao practitioners mostly remain confined to side branches and small tribes, thus becoming subordinates to the Eight Divisions.