Longevity: My Talents Are a Bit Abundant

Chapter 941: Chapter 698: True Flame Burns Demons

He knew full well that with his current state, his chances of winning against a true Transformed Great Demon were not high.

After all, he had yet to condense a Nascent Soul. Relying solely on Divine Power Realm Body Refining cultivation, he could at best maneuver and hold out for a time.

The odds were not in his favor.

As for killing a Transformed Great Demon, that was even harder than reaching the heavens.

Once it reached Tier Four.

Between killing and defeating, there was a gulf as vast as heaven and earth.

However, even if he could not win, he was confident enough that he could retreat safely.

That was the backing that allowed him to take part in the Demon Beast war.

Combining the encounters of the various family squads of the seven camps of the Left Army, Shen Xuan could conclude that the Demon Beast battlefield had already undergone a drastic change.

The tacit "training through attrition" agreement between the Southern Wilderness Demon Race and the Sects of Qin Country had been completely shattered.

At this moment, the brutal sensations coming from the Southern Wilderness front line further confirmed his suspicion.

Soft footsteps sounded from behind.

Shen Xuan did not turn his head.

The newcomer was True Master Wang Yue.

He walked to Shen Xuan’s side and stopped, likewise staring into the darkness to the south, silent for a long time.

"Fellow Daoist Guo, as you predicted, the rear army main camp has already fallen."

True Master Wang Yue finally spoke.

"Mm."

Shen Xuan was not surprised.

This was something he had already expected.

As a high-ranking member of Bright Flame Sect, True Master Wang Yue naturally had special emergency channels for communication.

Earlier he had simply been chased all the way by that Winged Tiger Demon, with no time to concern himself with anything else.

"Not just the rear army."

Worry deepened on True Master Wang Yue’s face. "The vanguard and central army have both fallen into bitter battles. The situation is far from optimistic."

He paused, his voice strained. "I do not know whether Uncle-Master Chiyan and these one hundred eighty thousand Cultivators can survive this calamity."

Shen Xuan asked, "True Master, what plans do you have?"

True Master Wang Yue turned his head and looked at Shen Xuan. "Fellow Daoist Guo, if we lead the remnants to converge toward the central army and provide support, what do you think?"

"That is impossible."

Shen Xuan rejected it outright.

If they really ran into a Transformed Great Demon, he might be able to protect himself.

But this remnant Cultivator squad would be doomed, ten deaths without life.

"I once promised Ming Liu True Master I would do my utmost to protect the Liu Clan Members."

He gave a reason that no one could fault.

Hearing this, True Master Wang Yue sighed silently.

If Guo Shiyan did not nod, the three families—Liu, Ma, and Xiao—would absolutely not agree to take the risk.

Though subsidiary Sects did indeed need to obey Sect deployments.

When it concerned the life and death of their clansmen, they were unwilling to sacrifice themselves for nothing.

"Then, in Fellow Daoist’s view, what should we do?"

"We go neither south nor west."

Shen Xuan’s tone was calm. "We veer east, circle around, and return to the Sect."

...

One month later.

A Cultivator squad of over a hundred people was trudging through towering mountains and steep ridges.

They had adopted Shen Xuan’s proposal, detouring and circling around, returning to Bright Flame Sect on foot.

In fact, during the full assembly discussion, almost everyone, including the surviving Bright Flame Sect disciples, had raised their hands in support of this plan.

Though the detour was long and the march arduous, it had the advantage of concealment and safety.

The Liu Family’s three young Cultivators of the Golden Body Realm still held the vanguard, opening the way at the very front of the squad.

Xiangcao and Liu Zhifei, one in front and one behind, were responsible for scouting.

"True Master, seven li ahead, a large swarm of Demon Insects is approaching—suspected to be bee-type Demon Insects."

Xiangcao’s cold voice rang out.

This time the one she reported to had changed to True Master Wang Yue.

But her master, Master Guo, was standing quietly at the True Master’s side.

"True Master, allow me, Guo."

Shen Xuan’s figure flickered; he was already at the very front of the squad.

The gray pouch at his waist flashed with Spiritual Light, and over a dozen silver Puppet Divine Eagles flew out soundlessly. They swiftly spread out, hovering in midair.

Very soon, a muffled "buzzing" sounded from the horizon, surging like a rising tide and growing ever louder.

A mass of golden "cloud" rose from within the forest, rapidly spreading outward. It was actually countless colorful demon bees, each with a ghostly blue poisonous stinger lifted at its tail!

Densely packed, they blotted out the sky and sun, the shadows they cast dimming even the mountain forests.

The squad immediately contracted, the Cultivators each gripping their Magical Artifacts, faint Spiritual Light flaring as they prepared in strict formation.

In truth, it was unnecessary.

The hovering Puppet Divine Eagles moved in unison. The black tube at their backs suddenly lit up with bright azure lightning, sharp Spiritual Power buzzing from within.

In the next instant—

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Not a single sound, but a dense barrage of explosions like a downpour!

Over a dozen Puppet Divine Eagles opened fire together; hundreds of Thunder Spirit Pearls turned into a crisscrossing blue-white barrage of death, crashing head-on into the swarm!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Blazing lightning bloomed in cluster after cluster within the swarm, in an instant weaving into a three-dimensional web of thunderous fire covering a radius of several tens of zhang.

Rampaging lightning flashed madly, the air filling with a pungent, scorched stench.

Crackle crackle...

The demon bees touched by the lightning web rustled and fell from the sky.

The vast majority of them were Tier One Demon Insects that roamed the Southern Wilderness by sheer numbers.

Under such wide-area, saturated thunder bombardment, they had no power to resist.

The ground was quickly carpeted with a thick layer of charred bee corpses. The few Tier Two demon bees that managed to cross the first lightning web were mostly covered in wounds, dizzy and disoriented.

"Master, let me help you!"

Liu Yiyun let out a delicate shout, the Spirit Jiao Whip lashing out like a silver serpent exiting its cave, slaying in midair several battered bees that had staggered through the lightning web.

Instinctive fear overwhelmed the bees’ ferocity; the remnants of the swarm let out a chaotic buzzing, retreating in panic like the tide, disappearing rapidly into the forest.

Liu Yiyun’s brows arched as she smiled, pulling out a gray Storage Pouch and beginning to clear the battlefield, collecting the more intact bee corpses on the ground, especially their tail stingers, one by one.

Each alone wasn’t worth much, but with more than ten thousand here, they could be exchanged for some Spirit Stones, making up for the Thunder Spirit Pearls her master had expended.

"Fine methods, Fellow Daoist Guo!"

True Master Wang Yue praised aloud, unable to hide the astonishment in his eyes.

He could naturally tell that these Puppet Divine Eagles were refined with exquisite craftsmanship.

The Artifact Refining and Array attainments involved had both reached at least Tier Two, cleverly fused together—by no means an easy feat.

"Just a trifling trick; I’ve made a poor show before True Master."

Shen Xuan recalled the Puppet Divine Eagles, smiling faintly, his expression composed.

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