My Beasts Grind Proficiency For Me

Chapter 636: Chapter 2: Before the Battle

Iron Head rode the clouds, using the Nine Steps of Spiritual Void to catch up to the desperately fleeing Cui Yizhou. With a thrust of his long spear, he easily broke Cui Yizhou’s shoulder blade, yanking him right out of his tunneling light and sending him plunging into the sea.

The few Golden Core Cultivators pursuing him immediately fished him out of the sea. They cast restrictions to lock down all the demonic qi in his body, preventing him from either fighting like a cornered beast or taking them down with him.

In truth, after taking a blow from the Celestial True Gang, all of Cui Yizhou’s demonic qi had been forced back into his dantian. It was as if his qi had gone haywire during cultivation; at this moment, aside from his robust physical body, he was little different from a mortal.

The Golden Core Cultivators’ rough methods of planting restrictions in his body nearly cost him his life.

All the captured demon cultivators were escorted to the flagship, the Fubo. As for the flying boats they had been piloting, they were stripped of all valuable spiritual materials before several other flying boats activated their arrays in unison to sink the hulls completely beneath the sea.

The demon cultivators collapsed to the ground, utterly grief-stricken. The animosity between cultivators and demon cultivators was irreconcilable; falling into the other’s hands meant certain death.

Yang Jing didn’t stand on ceremony. After dismissing all unnecessary personnel, he directly brought out the Demon-Catching Tripod. The Wanhua Child knew it was his time to shine and let out a sinister cackle.

Ever since being reforged, he had been kept inside Yang Jing’s inner world all day and was getting restless. Now that he had a chance to show what he could do, he was naturally impatient to begin.

"The Demon-Catching Tripod!"

With his Golden Core cultivation, Cui Yizhou naturally held a high position in the Demon Sect. He recognized the tripod at a single glance.

The next moment, he was swept into an illusion realm by the spreading Nine Illusion Mirage Demon Qi.

When Yang Jing was crossing the Demon Tribulation, he had killed a Nine Illusion Mirage Demon that came to cause trouble. After taking some materials he might use later, he had given the rest of it to the Demon-Catching Tripod for refining.

The Demon-Catching Tripod’s power had already increased greatly after he reforged it. Now, having refined the Nine Illusion Mirage Demon, it took complete control of all the demon cultivators in the blink of an eye.

Inside the illusion realm, these demon cultivators spilled every last bit of information they knew.

Yang Jing lowered his gaze and had the Wanhua Child continue maintaining the Nine Illusion Mirage Demon Qi to keep the demon cultivators trapped in the illusion realm.

The army of the Four Great Demon Sects and the demons was about the size he had estimated. There was only one Tier Four flying boat, but a considerable number of Tier Three flying boats—over forty in total. As for the Tier Two flying boats that served as support vessels in the fleet, there were more than a hundred.

The Rescue Army had an advantage in high-tier flying boats but was at a disadvantage in overall numbers. However, based on the estimate that Central Continent flying boats were a cut above Demon Sect flying boats of the same tier, the Rescue Army’s fleet was still more powerful than the Demon Sect Alliance Army.

They had a good chance of winning even in a direct confrontation, not to mention that he now knew the Demon Sect fleet’s intelligence and position in advance. For the Demon Sect, however, the Rescue Army was completely shrouded in fog.

Yang Jing glanced at Cui Yizhou, whose eyes were vacant, completely lost in the illusion realm. The Baleful Blood Demon he was suppressing craved blood and was showing faint signs of losing control. That was why he had hurriedly piloted his flying boat away from the Demon Sect fleet to hunt demons and demon monsters at sea, hoping to quell the Blood Demon’s agitation.

He never expected that by straying too far, he would run right into the Rescue Army.

Golden Core Demon Cultivators like him all had their Soul Tokens recorded. If they died, it would certainly alert the Demon Sect fleet, so Yang Jing spared their lives for the time being.

Yang Jing turned and said to Yinjiao,

"Immediately command the entire army. Everyone is to conceal their magical power and cast no magic without reason. All flying boats are to activate their concealment arrays, increase altitude, and climb directly to Taixiao Heaven!"

According to Cui Yizhou’s memories, the Demon Sect’s main army was nine thousand li to the west.

But as the army’s commander, Yang Jing would not bet everything on a single piece of intelligence.

The Nine Heavens above the West Sea were thin, but in the Taixiao Heaven, there was still a faint layer of Taixiao True Thunder. This thunder was the bane of Outer Celestial Demons. Although it was too thin to have much effect on Great Demons equivalent to Foundation Establishment Cultivators, smaller demons equivalent to Qi Refining Cultivators would be killed instantly upon contact.

Unlike Central Continent flying boats, which preferred to use water mirror-type magic to scout their surroundings, the Demon Sect’s boats often used Banishment to deploy One-Eyed Demons, sometimes releasing hundreds of thousands of them at once.

The advantage of this method was that the One-Eyed Demons, unlike Water Mirror magic, could not be blocked by various magic spells. Furthermore, the One-Eyed Demons could also track spiritual qi and blood qi, providing multi-directional reconnaissance.

But no matter the advantages, they could not cover up one major flaw of the One-Eyed Demons. In the thunder realm in the sky, the weak One-Eyed Demons simply could not survive.

Although Multi-Eyed Demons could operate in the Taixiao Heaven above the West Sea, their movements were greatly restricted. Besides, Multi-Eyed Demons were not as easy to cultivate as One-Eyed Demons. If their losses mounted, even the supply of One-Eyed Demons would be unable to keep pace.

To conserve spiritual qi, all the flying boats were flying at a low altitude, maintaining a position about one li above the ocean’s surface. At this height, the Primordial Magnetic Power was strong enough that the Elemental Magnet Array could maintain the flying boats’ operation without consuming large amounts of spiritual qi. It was also high enough to provide sufficient reaction time against surprise attacks from demons in the sea.

Following Yang Jing’s order, the grand arrays of all the flying boats began to draw massive amounts of spiritual qi from their Spiritual Eye Objects. The Elemental Magnet Arrays started operating at full power, pushing the flying boats into a direct climb.

WHOOSH!

The entire fleet plunged directly into the clouds.

The clouds over the sea were turbulent, completely obscuring all lines of sight. The helmsmen on the flying boats could only navigate by using Water Mirror magic to track the positions of the other vessels.

A few quarters of an hour later, faint purple lightning began to flash within the clouds. The fleet had reached the lower levels of Taixiao Heaven.

The Taixiao True Thunder bombarded the flying boats’ shields, creating a low rumble.

The True Thunder of Taixiao Heaven did not distinguish between friend and foe; it wouldn’t spare these flying boats just because they belonged to the Central Continent.

"Master, the fleet can only remain in Taixiao Heaven for seven days. Any longer, and the spiritual qi in the Spiritual Eye Objects will be insufficient. At that point, the flying boats’ combat effectiveness will be severely diminished."

Yinjiao had each ship in the fleet estimate their spiritual qi consumption before reporting to Yang Jing.

For behemoths like flying boats, only miniature spirit veins like Spiritual Eye Objects could support their spiritual qi consumption. If they used spirit stones, even upper-grade spirit stones wouldn’t last long.

Yang Jing nodded.

"Seven days will be more than enough."

’Cui Yizhou’s Tier Two flying boat was navigating the West Sea alone, which was extremely dangerous. Even though he needed to hunt for blood to suppress the Celestial Demon, he didn’t dare to stray too far from the fleet.’

’Even if he was just bait set by the Demon Sect for us to swallow, it still indirectly proves one thing: the Demon Sect’s main army is not far away.’

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