CHAPTER 421: CHAPTER 68

"Revenge!"

Looking at the male cultivator whose eyes would not close in death, Chen Jiuge reached out to close them and sighed deeply. The strength of the True Demon Clan was terrifyingly formidable.

Though Chen Jiuge was not among the very top tier in the Heavenly Immortal realm, he was still considered superior. Fighting two of the most ordinary members of the True Demon Clan required his full effort, and his limit was probably against three to five of them.

To put it in perspective, at least three to five ordinary Heavenly Immortals would be needed to combat a single ordinary True Demon, and there would still be heavy casualties. The gap was simply too vast.

We can only hope for what Yue Meng and Da Bai have concocted.

Three days after Chen Jiuge returned to the valley, a troop equipped with cannons left, with Chen Jiuge among them.

Originally, Chen Jiuge had planned to rely on the valley’s seclusion, but after receiving Luo Wencheng’s message, he had no choice but to change his battle plan.

Because the greater the number of True Demons in this land, the faster the barrier set up by the Heavenly Dao degraded. Conversely, the more Heavenly Demons killed, the longer the barrier would last.

This discovery had led the Dao Yi Great Powers to continuously issue orders, not only forcing the cultivators within the barrier to fight the True Demons but also beginning to transport large numbers of cultivators from outside into the battle.

Li Kui squatted awkwardly in the dense trees, cradling a cannon as he muttered, "I always feel a bit sleazy doing this."

"Master, I’ve warned you, Li Kui. You mustn’t mess around," Black Eye cautioned.

"I know. Let me fire the cannon," Li Kui said, a bit sullenly.

Silently, several pink elixirs merged into the bodies of the nearby True Demons.

This squad consisted of seven people: two Heavenly Immortals and five True Immortals. Li Kui fired three elixirs, hitting the two Heavenly Immortals and one True Immortal.

Previously, Luo Zhitian had experimented on a Golden Immortal True Demon, but now, as new rules were set, there were no Golden Immortals left on the battlefield.

If a Golden Immortal could withstand it for fifteen minutes, then the time for a Heavenly Immortal would be even shorter; for True Immortals, it would be almost instantaneous.

The True Immortal True Demon hit by an elixir pounced on a fellow clan member. Noticing this, one of the Heavenly Immortal True Demons shouted, "Have you gone mad?"

Seeing the frenzied look in its eyes, that Heavenly Immortal exclaimed in alarm, "Be on your guard! There’s an enemy!"

With that, he slapped the True Immortal to death, much to the surprise of Li Kui and the others. These True Demons are so ruthless! they thought. After all, the Yin Yang Immortal Pill was, to put it bluntly, just an aphrodisiac. There were female True Demons in their group; if they had "contributed" a little, the affected male could have been saved.

Soon after, the two wary Heavenly Immortal True Demons suddenly felt their bodies heat up intensely, and their eight large eyes began to slowly redden.

Afterwards, in this small True Demon encampment—though not all True Demons had been struck by the Yin Yang Immortal Pill this time—most were still alive, except for the female True Demon. However, the True Immortals were largely crippled, and the Heavenly Immortals lay weakly on the ground.

Li Kui and the others slowly approached, seeing the utterly listless expressions in the eyes of the two Heavenly Immortal True Demons. Li Kui exclaimed in fear, "Yue Meng is getting more and more terrifying! This elixir’s after-effects are really strong!"

"Don’t waste time. Let’s finish this quickly."

The lowest-grade immortal artifact saber, forged by Da Bai, was fiercely brought down on a paralyzed True Demon lying on the ground. CRACK! A tiny fissure appeared on the blade, while only a faint mark materialized on the Heavenly Immortal True Demon’s body.

Li Kui swallowed hard. "Such strong defensive power!"

On the other side, Black Eye, spewing Black Flames, had already half-cooked the Heavenly Immortal True Demon on the ground. The pain made it utter moans and squeaks, but having exhausted too much energy, it now had no ability to resist and could only wait for death.

The effects of the Yin Yang Immortal Pill were potent, but not every True Demon affected by it completely lost their ability to resist.

Gob looked at the chaotic camp, thinking of what he had just done. His eight eyes grew increasingly bloodshot, as if they were about to burst. This is the greatest shame of my life!

Seeing his subordinates whimpering in agony, Gob’s eyes darkened. He swung his great sword repeatedly, killing them all.

After finishing, Gob slowly turned his head toward the nearby treetops, having sensed subtle fluctuations from above while he was... preoccupied.

The cultivator hiding in the treetops saw Gob look their way and panicked. This is bad!

Before they could notify their teammates to retreat, Gob had already charged over. His great sword, seemingly unmatched, cleaved through the oncoming Divine Skills. The five-person squad perished under the weakened Gob’s hands in an instant. It was hard to imagine how powerful he would be at his peak.

Looking at the corpses on the ground, Gob stuffed one of their arms into his mouth and said disdainfully, "Livestock are just livestock, only fit to use such unseemly tactics."

Seeing the True Demon who had endured three of his Netherworld Eight Extremes Judgments before finally collapsing, Chen Jiuge’s expression darkened. "My judgment was wrong."

Mo Yu, responsible for recording, also showed a hint of fear. "Yue Meng already dosed it with enough for ten Golden Immortals. It’s merely a Heavenly Immortal; how can it still possess such formidable combat strength?"

"Mo Yu, try to notify the teams outside to return to the valley first. We might have lost quite a few people this time."

Despite the boost from the Spring of Laws, the number of True Immortals under Chen Jiuge’s command who had advanced to Heavenly Immortal was only around five thousand, and this included those from the Asura Clan.

These newly advanced Heavenly Immortals were not very strong. To put it bluntly, the True Demon Chen Jiuge had just encountered, in its prime, could have faced dozens of such Heavenly Immortals head-on. If it resorted to ambushes or sneak attacks, even a hundred wouldn’t have been enough to stop it.