CHAPTER 480: CHAPTER 450 DEMON-LOCKING ARRAY

"This flying sword?"

Upon seeing the demon beast group, Lu Yuanshan focused his eyes and spotted a golden sharp sword weaving and charging through the demon beast group.

Looking around again, there were no cultivator figures in sight.

Lu Yuanshan found this golden sharp sword very familiar.

Wasn’t this the talisman flying sword his father had used before?

Back then at Bone Demon Cliff, when dealing with the Black-striped Carving, his father had wielded this flying sword.

Others, seeing the golden flying sword, assumed that an ally was making a move, and promptly some of them summoned their magical artifacts.

"Everyone, join me in eradicating these demon beasts!"

Lu Yuanshan took the lead, summoning the Golden Crow Sword, slashing toward the head of a Tier Two demon beast.

These were all battle merit points.

Although the number of demon beasts was quite high, they weren’t overly difficult to handle.

Roar!

The Tier Two demon beast Lu Yuanshan was dealing with was a tiger demon, its strength at the Tier Two high-grade level.

Even so, for Lu Yuanshan, this beast was still not worth mentioning.

With his Ninth-Layer Foundation Establishment strength, not to mention a Tier Two high-grade demon beast, even ten of them wouldn’t be his match.

On the side, Zhiwei summoned the Cyan Cold Mirror.

As soon as the Cyan Cold Mirror was summoned, it shone with a brilliant treasure light, instantly releasing a cyan stream of light.

This stream of light was incredibly fast, hitting a demon beast the moment it was released, killing it in one blow.

Xuu Qingci, meanwhile, wielding her moon wheel-shaped artifact, joined the ranks.

Xuu Qingci’s strength in this team was somewhat weaker than Lu Yuanshan’s, but she could handle these demon beasts easily.

The Cold Moon Spirit Wheel, once released, swiftly slashed towards a mid-stage Foundation Establishment demon beast.

This beast was a wolf demon, and upon appearing, it launched an attack on Xuu Qingci.

Its lifebound divine technique was a physical stream of light attack.

Facing Han Yuelun’s attack, the wolf demon didn’t choose to dodge but met Xuu Qingci’s Cold Moon Spirit Wheel head-on, intending to block her strike.

However, it underestimated Xuu Qingci’s strength.

The Cold Moon Spirit Wheel was cold and sharp, truly like a moon hook hanging in the midnight sky, emitting a chilling brilliance. It swiftly sliced open the wolf demon’s lifebound divine technique, the black stream of light.

The shattering of its lifebound divine technique took the wolf demon by surprise.

In the next moment, the remaining power of the Cold Moon Spirit Wheel continued unabated, reaching the wolf demon’s head, leaving it with no time to dodge, splitting it in two.

At this time, Han Youdao and Xu Shouye also activated their magical artifacts, attacking the demon beast group.

Han Youdao’s artifact was a gourd spiritual artifact.

Summoned, the gourd artifact was only the size of two palms.

At the mouth of the gourd, bright yellow lights gathered and flickered.

This was a Tier Three top-grade artifact, named Red Sun Gourd, a fire attribute artifact.

Whoosh!

The Red Sun Gourd activated, unleashing a burst of flame, spreading out quickly and surging towards the demon beast group.

Han Youdao, using the Red Sun Gourd, launched a group attack, directly attacking the nearby demon beasts.

Under the Red Sun Fire’s assault, three or four Tier One demon beasts, upon contact, became engulfed in flames, turning into charcoal.

Nearby, a Tier Two demon beast also activated its lifebound divine technique, a demonic power defense spiritual shield, under the Red Sun Fire’s attack.

The appearance of this demonic power shield successfully blocked the Red Sun Fire’s attack.

This caused the Red Sun Fire, scattered by the shield, to rush around along its barrier outline.

Whoosh, whoosh.

In an instant, some nearby demon beasts, experiencing collateral damage, were set ablaze by the Red Sun Fire.

The intense scorched odor spread, and the weaker Tier One demon beasts were instantly burned to death.

Looking to the other side, Xu Shouye’s artifact was a flying sword, causing havoc among the demon beast group.

In addition, over two hundred Qi Cultivation Stage disciples began to take action, summoning flying swords, mountains, silk, rings, and spirit blades, launching them at the demon beast group.

Notably, aside from Xuu Qingci, the sixty-plus disciples of Cold Moon Palace did not act individually.

Instead, they formed a Tier Two high-grade array.

This array was called the Demon-locking Array.

As the name implies, it was an array to lock the movement of demon beasts.

Once the Demon-locking Array was deployed, it gathered a boundary extending a radius of thousands of feet, encapsulating the demon beast group and Lu Yuanshan’s team.

Although it seemed like locking everyone inside, recklessly fighting to the death, actually this Demon-locking Array only affected the demon beasts.

In other words, human race cultivators or other creatures outside the demon race could freely pass through the array barrier.

Cold Moon Palace arranged this array to assist their teammates in demon extermination.

This way, they gathered the demon beasts for people like Han Youdao to launch group attacks, earning massive battle merit points.

Secondly, it confined the demon beast group here to prevent them from scattering and spreading to other areas.

"Fellow cultivators, the number of demon beasts is indeed quite large, from my preliminary exploration, at least one hundred and twenty Tier Two demon beasts."

"Given the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators on our side, on average each would need to kill twenty-four Tier Two demon beasts!"

"And among these, ten demon beasts are at the ninth layer of the Foundation Establishment!"

While wielding his flying sword, cleaving a Tier Two lower-grade demon beast, Xu Shouye shouted to Lu Yuanshan and the others.

Thanks to the amplification of his magical power, Xu Shouye’s voice was extremely loud, clearly reaching every cultivator present.

Upon hearing this, Han Youdao was the first to respond: "Daoist Xu is right."

"There are indeed too many of these demon beasts; if we find ourselves exhausted after a hard battle, it’s best to retreat first."

"We certainly don’t need to eliminate this batch of demon beasts today by any means."

As Xu Shouye finished speaking, Xuu Qingci from not too far away also responded.

"Yes."

She nodded. "If we can’t finish them in a day, we will spend a few more days clearing them out."

"With our Cold Moon Palace’s Demon-locking Array, keeping these demon beasts confined here for several days won’t be an issue. It’s just that our disciples will have to expend more effort and magical power."

"Very well, let’s do our best then."

Lu Zhiwei, picking up after Xuu Qingci, felt that Xuu Qingci’s idea was feasible.

Seeing everyone in agreement, Lu Yuanshan pondered for a moment without speaking, implicitly agreeing with Xuu Qingci’s plan.

However, after Lu Yuanshan slew a Tier Two demon beast, Lu Ping’s voice echoed simultaneously in the minds of Lu Yuanshan and Lu Zhiwei.