Translator: CinderTL
The shattered, jagged rock face ahead rapidly loomed in Qing Lian’s vision, resembling the fangs of a monstrous beast.
Her heart sank; she feared she was doomed.
Suddenly, two blood-colored tentacles appeared in her vision, striking the mountainside before her.
The already crumbling mountain instantly disintegrated, exploding into countless fragments and a billowing cloud of dust.
Having narrowly escaped death, Qing Lian had no time to rejoice before being engulfed by the dust.
Immediately, the two blood-colored tentacles wrapped around her body, catching her.
After absorbing the lingering force that had swept her away, the tentacles lifted her and swiftly carried her out of the dust cloud.
Qing Lian turned to look at the ends of the tentacles.
She wanted to know who had saved her life.
There, a familiar figure was rapidly approaching.
The fear on Qing Lian’s face vanished instantly, replaced by overwhelming joy.
"Ji Yin... it’s you!"
"This place is dangerous. Let’s leave immediately."
Song Wen arrived beside Qing Lian. As he did, the Blood Tentacles completely retracted into his body.
He immediately wrapped an arm around her slender waist and, without a moment’s hesitation or even slowing his escape speed, continued to flee.
However, he changed his course and plummeted toward the ground.
An earth-yellow talisman floated out from the storage ring on Song Wen’s finger.
As the talisman shattered, a brown spiritual light enveloped both Song Wen and Qing Lian.
The two figures then vanished into the rubble-strewn ground without a trace.
Beneath the stones, a Gu insect that had been waiting for some time burrowed into Song Wen’s body as he passed.
Song Wen continued to burrow deeper into the earth.
"Ji Yin, thank you for saving me. This is the second time you’ve saved my life," Qing Lian murmured, pressing herself against Song Wen’s chest, her eyes fixed on him.
Song Wen frowned but continued to flee at full speed, ignoring her words.
"Are you taking me away from the Willow Serpent Clan?" Qing Lian asked.
"The Five Great Demon Clans have launched a surprise attack on the Willow Serpent Clan, and their strongest experts are all involved. This place is too dangerous. With only your sixth-tier cultivation, you can’t influence the outcome of the battle. It’s best you stay far away," Song Wen replied, mistaking her concern for the clan’s situation.
"Mm," Qing Lian nodded slightly.
The next moment, her expression turned solemn as something else came to mind.
"By the way, Ji Yin, have you seen my big brother? He hasn’t shown up at all, even with all the chaos tonight," Qing Lian said, her voice filled with worry.
"Qing Lian, there’s no need to worry. King Jianglin is at the peak of the eighth-tier. Unless a Ninth-Tier Demon Venerable appears, no one can threaten her. She’s likely been held up by something and couldn’t return to participate in the battle. Once this is over, she’ll come to you herself," Song Wen replied.
His words weren’t entirely false.
King Jianglin wasn’t dead, merely poisoned.
As for her shattered bones, that was a minor issue as long as the Bone Blossom Poison could be controlled.
Of course, if the Willow Serpent Clan lost the battle tonight, everything would change.
The Five Great Demon Clans would hunt them down without mercy, digging through the earth inch by inch to search every cultivation cave for surviving Willow Serpents and exterminate them all.
Even the most hidden cultivation cave built by King Jianglin wouldn’t escape destruction then.
This was the law of survival on the Western Rong Continent—the demon races often waged all-out wars to seize living space.
The losers would be utterly annihilated, their very bones denied peace.
After burrowing five hundred li underground, Song Wen stopped his descent and instead burrowed outward towards the periphery of the Willow Serpent Clan’s territory.
He had used a fifth-tier Earth Evasion Talisman, which had reached its maximum depth.
Throughout his subterranean journey, Song Wen kept his divine sense focused on the battle raging above. He monitored the war’s progress and watched for any signs of danger approaching, ready to respond immediately.
The conflict between the Willow Serpent Clan and the Five Great Demon Clans grew increasingly brutal.
Many low-level Willow Serpents perished, most as collateral damage from the battle’s aftershocks.
Meanwhile, the clash between the Demon Kings had reached a stalemate.
The Five Great Demon Clans had deployed twelve eighth-tier experts, while the Willow Serpent Clan had only nine.
Though outnumbered, the Willow Serpent Clan’s Demon Kings clearly held a superior level of power. However, the Five Great Demon Clans had come prepared, having anticipated the Willow Serpent Clan’s tactics and devised countermeasures.
These factors combined to give the Five Great Demon Clans a slight advantage, but they were unable to decisively defeat the Willow Serpent Clan’s Demon Kings in a short time.
Yet, prolonged defense inevitably leads to collapse. Over time, the nine Willow Serpent Clan Demon Kings would inevitably fall under the relentless, wave after wave of fierce assaults from the Five Great Demon Clans.
Just then, Song Wen suddenly noticed several figures fleeing in panic from the depths of the Willow Serpent Clan’s heartland.
The person fleeing at the forefront was none other than Yuanrong.
Only then did Song Wen suddenly realize that Yuanrong had never appeared throughout the night’s great battle. Even the human female cultivators who had come with him had never shown their faces.
Now it seemed clear that Yuanrong had secretly led his group into the forbidden territory at the core of the Willow Serpent Clan’s domain during the chaos of the battle.
So...
Yuanrong’s earlier claim to unite the Five Great Demon Clans to annihilate the Willow Serpent Clan was nothing but a lie.
He only wanted to seize the opportunity to infiltrate the forbidden territory and plunder its treasures.
The Five Great Demon Clans had been deceived, as had the humans within the Willow Serpent Clan like Song Wen and Xuan Chengzi. And the Willow Serpent Clan itself had suffered an undeserved disaster.
Truly a sinister scheme—everyone had been caught in his calculations.
However, judging by the desperate state of Yuanrong and his group’s flight, it seemed they were facing a grave crisis behind them.
Curiosity and vigilance surged in Song Wen’s heart. He unleashed his divine sense to its full extent, extending it toward Yuanrong’s group, and indeed discovered something.
A Willow Serpent with a mangled body was chasing after Yuanrong and his group.
The serpent’s head was missing more than a third of its skull, the wound charred black. Bone and decaying flesh twisted together, layered like melted wax.
The black scar didn’t stop at its head; like a gaping black wound, it stretched down its body, all the way to the tip of its serpentine tail.
The wound was clearly ancient, as if struck by heavenly thunder.
Though it was pursuing Yuanrong and the others, it seemed to pay them little attention, maintaining an air of casual indifference, like a cat toying with its prey.
But when it saw the Willow Serpent Clan’s tragic state, its aura turned icy.
In an instant, a biting chill erupted from its demon body, surging across the land like a tidal wave.
Where it swept, ice crystals instantly formed in the air, the earth cracked and split, and spiderweb-like frost patterns spread wildly.
At that moment, heaven and earth seemed to freeze.
The Demon Kings locked in fierce battle abruptly froze, their reactions varied.
The dozen-plus Demon Kings from the Five Great Demon Clans stared at the mangled body, their eyes filled with disbelief, terror, and panic. Their bodies trembled involuntarily.
But the Willow Serpent Clan’s Demon King was ecstatic. Relief washed over him, the crisis averted, and he felt the thrill of seeing his faith’s embodiment.
(End of the Chapter)
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