Longevity: My Talents Are a Bit Abundant

Chapter 942: Chapter 698: True Flame Burns Demons

The encounter with the swarm of demon bees was merely a small episode on the return journey.

During this month-long winding trek, the team encountered demon beast attacks no less than ten times.

Fortunately, with True Master Wang Yue and Shen Xuan, two formidable figures, overseeing the journey, although there were twists and turns, it ended up thrilling but without danger.

When they made a move, it was mainly to expel and intimidate, and not to slaughter deliberately.

Ensuring a safe return is the priority, and there was no need to get into life-and-death struggles with these scattered, soldier-like demon beasts.

The most unnerving threat was the ubiquitous presence in the skies above the Southern Wilderness.

Flocks of high-tier demon birds.

Had it not been for fearing them, everyone would have already been speeding along on the spaceship, rather than enduring such arduous trekking.

After more than a month of traveling, the team finally turned toward the northwest, stepping on the path back to the Bright Flame Sect.

Only then did the heavy stone upon everyone’s hearts truly fall.

Liu Minglin personally managed the family spaceship, carrying the survivors swiftly toward the direction of the Bright Flame Sect.

Along the way, they continually saw scattered loose cultivators on the ground, in groups of three or five, with tattered clothes and fearful expressions, desperately waving to the spaceship hoping to board.

Liu Minglin turned a blind eye.

The spaceship was already overloaded.

Adding a few more people would affect both protection and speed.

The Liu family’s spaceship did not slow down, flying at low altitude over them.

An angry chorus of curses erupted from the ground.

Until True Master Wang Yue, dressed in a purple robe and deeply formidable in presence, appeared on the deck, and the curses abruptly stopped.

The cultivators below recognized the garment of the Bright Flame Sect’s True Pill Elder, and their gazes instantly shifted to awe, curiosity, or deep envy, whispering among themselves in low voices.

By this point, they had basically escaped danger.

Not far ahead was the edge of the Southern Wilderness.

Beyond that was the territory of Qin Country, the realm of the Bright Flame Sect.

Everyone had finally walked out alive from that demon beast battlefield.

Assessing the losses.

The Liu family had lost more than twenty people, a sorrow that was still bearable.

The Ma family suffered the most grievously, with all their hundred-plus Qi Cultivation disciples wiped out, leaving only these dozen or so companions.

The Xiao family also suffered great losses, with only a little over thirty returning from the one hundred forty who set out.

On a corner of the deck, Ma Wanquan and Xiao Changsheng faced each other speechlessly, eventually unable to hold back their tears, crying bitterly while holding their heads.

As heads of their clans, the elite they brought out were almost entirely gone.

What face did they have to confront their clansmen upon returning home?

And it wasn’t just the two of them.

True Master Wang Yue stood alone at the ship’s bow, his silhouette sullen.

The Left Army he personally led consisted of seven camps, which were organized so formally when they departed, and now it was all in disarray, with less than one in ten surviving.

Under his Bright Flame Sect, Foundation Establishment disciples also suffered more than half losses, leaving only these few pale faces around him.

The remaining thousand or so cultivators from the seven camps were likely suffering grim fates, buried in the Southern Wilderness.

Nevertheless, when True Master Wang Yue’s group finally stepped back into the Bright Flame Sect’s mountain gate,

they discovered that the atmosphere within the Sect was far more oppressive and sorrowful than they had anticipated.

The bad news pierced them like ice picks, one after another.

"Left Army Commander True Master Hua Yang, Golden Core Late Stage, soul token has shattered!"

"Eighteen thousand cultivator army commander, one of the Sect’s three pillars, True Monarch Red Flame, went missing after a desperate battle with a Transformed Great Demon, his life and death unknown!"

"Of the eighteen thousand cultivators who went out, almost all were wiped out! Less than one in ten came back alive!"

The entire Bright Flame Sect, along with its subsidiary forces, was critically weakened, its foundation shaking.

Every family mourns, every household wears mourning clothes!

The whole Sect weeps.

But this is only the beginning.

The news to come is even more terrifying.

The Southern Wilderness Demon Race has not halted; with their overwhelming victory, they are advancing across the border, invading Qin Country!

Along the border line, several small and medium sects and Immortal Cities have already been breached, with cultivators and mortals slaughtered, houses emptied, rivers of blood flowing!

All human race sects in Qin Country, including the Demon Sect’s Forgetful Sect and Wuji Sect, are mobilizing troops and deploying them, organizing armies of cultivators, rushing to the precarious border frontline.

Each devastating message struck like a heavy hammer, pounding True Master Wang Yue’s heart, making his face pale and his divine soul tremble.

The majestic mountain gate before him seemed to sway slightly amidst these successive waves of bad news.

Everything has changed!

The tide of battle has turned.

The Southern Wilderness Demon Race is invading Qin Country comprehensively!

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