As for Lan Ziyi, she brought out her controlled weapon, a cutlass just a foot long. However, the cutlass glinted with spirit light. It was incredibly fast and deadly. Wherever it passed, the sharp sword flashes penetrated the skulls of demon beasts, bringing out bursts of hot blood.
The few of them targeted the flying demon beasts, as only these were a threat to them, whereas those that could not fly were temporarily ignored.
In the blink of an eye, they covered the distance of a hundred yards. As Xia Qianqian flashed past several people, Lu Ye and the two others hurriedly changed direction, each fleeing in different ways.
Behind them, a large pack of demon beasts pursued, each beast's eyes showing an abnormal blood-red color.
A booming sound erupted. The explosion magic array Lu Ye had set up was triggered, releasing a gigantic burst of flas. Within the range of the Array, the demon beasts were either killed or injured.
The booms were continuous as one Array after another was triggered. Lu Ye, while fleeing, held an array banner in his hand, waving it from ti to ti to activate those Arrays that needed controlling.
Nine arcs of Liu Guang whirled around him, attacking the flying demon beasts hot on his heels.
There were many demon beasts, but their strengths varied. Most were ordinary, on par with cultivators' Spirit Stream Realm, with only a few at the level of a Demon General.
Ordinary Demon General-level beasts could hardly withstand the thods of Lu Ye and others; only those truly powerful Demon Generals posed so threat to them.
Gradually, the booming sounds began to subside. Despite having preemptively set up a large number of Arrays, they were exhausted in less than one incense stick's ti.
However, a huge number of demon beasts were still in sight.
In the chaos of the battlefield, the four of them were completely scattered. Shen Xiaomao and Xia Qianqian had run off to who knows where. Lu Ye could only see Lan Ziyi's figure.
At this mont, the woman was surrounded by a group of demon beasts in mid-air. One could barely see her figure maneuvering and the flashing of her sword light, while occasionally, demon beasts fell from the sky, wailing.
The situation for Lu Ye wasn't very optimistic either, chased by a large group of demon beasts. Among them, two were strong, at least on par with Level 5-6 Cloud River cultivators. They attacked from both sides, causing Lu Ye great difficulty.
Luckily for Lu Ye, these frenzied demon beasts seed to have their spiritual intelligence greatly impaired, becoming extrely bloodthirsty and impulsive. Thus, although they could unleash strength stronger than usual, they were, relatively speaking, not very smart.
Otherwise, Demon Generals usually possess high spiritual intelligence.
Lu Ye tried several tis to eliminate one of those two Demon Generals but didn't succeed. He could only keep circling to flee, while eliminating the weaker demon beasts.
Suddenly, sword light burst into the sky, and the group surrounding Lan Ziyi shattered into pieces, the broken bodies scattering from the sky. The tall woman, wielding two longswords and spinning like a dazzling flower, was now in view.
When Lu Ye had fought against Lan Ziyi during the Spirit Stream Ranking challenge, he had noticed that her attacks were sweeping and her combat style was well-suited for dealing with such encirclents. It seems he was right.
However, after executing that move, Lan Ziyi's chest heaved noticeably a few tis, clearly putting a significant strain on her.
Then, rging with her sword light, she charged directly towards Lu Ye.
With the wild sword light, Lu Ye's pressure was greatly reduced.
People like Lu Ye and Lan Ziyi, when opposing each other, find the other very troubleso, but if they cooperate, they prove to be very reliable partners.
The two figures twisted and dodged in unison. Though it was their first ti collaborating in combat, they were seamlessly coordinated, requiring no communication, as if each could guess the other's thoughts and next move.
Sword flashes and blade lights flickered unpredictably as demon beasts plumted downwards, including the two strongest. Lu Ye and Lan Ziyi together had already slain one, and the remaining one was struggling to survive. It was only a matter of ti before it too would fall to their joint attack.
Suddenly, intense and chaotic spirit force fluctuations ca from one side. Lu Ye turned to look, only to see Shen Xiaomao, who had disappeared earlier, now reappearing, with more than ten figures ferociously following behind her.
Shen Xiaomao rushed to the sides of Lu Ye and Lan Ziyi, saying, "Ye Liu, a lot of people are coming."
She had been chased by a group of demon beasts almost to a dead end and had opted to flee towards Two Worlds City, but midway she encountered a large group of cultivators coming head-on. The demon beasts chasing her were slain, and she turned back.
These cultivators were clearly from the Nine Provinces, joining forces to earn battle rits by heading there. At first sight of so many demon beasts gathering here, they were all overjoyed and imdiately dispersed to kill the enemy.
The cultivators prioritized those flying demon beasts, because by eliminating those, regardless of how many non-flying demon beasts remained, they can both advance and retreat freely.
Magic and spells, along with the light from Spiritual Artifacts, blossod around, and the number of flying-type demon beasts in the sky kept decreasing. With the help of these more than ten people, the speed of clearing the demon beasts significantly accelerated.
Monts later, Lu Ye, Lan Ziyi, and Shen Xiaomao had already landed. The three ford a triangle, surrounded on all sides by converging demon beasts, but with their cooperation, these demon beasts struggled to breach their front.
Amber also jumped down from Lu Ye's shoulder, revealed its true form, occasionally roaring or pouncing to bite the injured demon beasts to death.
Just now, as Lu Ye fought in the air, besides roaring a few tis, it had no chance to exert itself at all, which truly frustrated it.
Demon beasts were slaughtered one after another, their bodies littering the mountain landscape, blood flowed on the ground with a pungent scent of blood enveloping the entire battlefield.
Even as their companions were continuously killed, these mad demon beasts showed no fear, their eyes red as they kept lunging at the cultivators.
As ti passed, the roars of the demon beasts gradually thinned, and Lu Ye swung his saber numbly, while Lan Ziyi and Shen Xiaomao on the side also turned pale.
Eventually, the chaotic battlefield cald, and Lu Ye, holding the Boulder Mountain Saber, looked around, seeing only demon beast corpses wherever his eyes landed, and the few figures standing were all bathed in blood.
Xia Qianqian seed to erge from nowhere, also drenched in fresh blood, exhausted. She glanced over Lu Ye and the others, "Are you all okay?"
She had wanted to regroup with Lu Ye and the others before, but she had been entangled with several strong demon generals.
Lu Ye slowly shook his head, flicking the blood off his Boulder Mountain Saber, sheathed it, then took out two Origin Spirit Pills and stuffed them into his mouth, chewing slowly.
Lan Ziyi and Shen Xiaomao also hurriedly took elixir pills to recover.
This battle had been imnsely draining for everyone, whether it was Lu Ye's group or the cultivators who joined later, mainly because there were simply too many demon beasts.
Before Lu Ye and the others had arrived, they hadn't expected so many demon beasts to be gathered here; had they known earlier, they certainly wouldn't have agreed to Asi's request.
Luckily, the situation had been handled without danger, and it had been exactly the right ti for those dozen or so cultivators to arrive.
The fight was tough, but the aftermath of tallying the battle presented a reason to smile—every cultivator involved in this battle had earned significant rit.
Lu Ye checked his inscription tablet, which astonishingly recorded more than three thousand battle rits already!
A blue spirit fortune stick was only worth one thousand eight hundred points, and this battle had allowed him to amass almost enough points to exchange for two blue spirit fortune sticks.
He had gained so many rits largely because he had set up several explosion magic arrays with array banners beforehand.
The explosion magic arrays had slain quite a number of demon beasts, and the combined efforts with Shen Xiaomao and Lan Ziyi accounted for this vast accumulation of battle rits.
Shen Xiaomao and Lan Ziyi probably hadn't earned any, even Xia Qianqian, despite her higher cultivation level, wouldn't have acquired as many battle rits.
Suddenly, it beca evident that array cultivators could take too much advantage in such scenarios—it's just too bad the array banners had been completely used up; otherwise, he could have gained even more.
The rewards weren't just limited to battle rits.
The dead demon generals all had demonic pills inside them, and cultivators had begun collecting them amongst the cluttered battlefield. Naturally, Lu Ye was also busy, with Amber helping to search.
It wasn't easy to distinguish between demon generals and common demon beasts, and sotis, despite looking for a long ti, one might not find a demon general's corpse.
Amber really liked eating demonic pills, but considering these dead demon beasts had gone mad for so unknown reason, Lu Ye dared not feed the collected demonic pills to Amber, choosing to keep them all for later instead.
Two hours later, the battlefield had been mostly scavenged, and each cultivator had acquired so demonic pills. Lu Ye had gotten about fifteen, stored in his storage space, varying in size and even color, but without exception, each demonic pill contained massive energy.
These were generally used for Alchemy cultivators to make elixir pills or used in array setup or Artifact Refining—it had many uses and was extrely valuable.
After this brutal battle, the harvest was substantial, and the cultivators all gathered, smiling, discussing whether to join forces for another expedition to clear out more demon beasts, when suddenly, the ground trembled...
Everyone's faces changed, and they looked in the direction from where the disturbance ca—across the horizon, a dark mass appeared, countless flying demon beasts rushing towards them from there.
Lu Ye and several cultivators took to the sky, looking out from their high vantage point, their expressions gradually becoming grim.
In that distance, a sea of demon beasts thunderously charged towards them, their numbers beyond imagination!
The force of such a multitude of demon beasts was not sothing a dozen people could withstand, and everyone realized the severity of the situation.
The Ten Thousand Beasts Domain had set its sights on Two Worlds City, the human race's last stronghold, gearing up for an all-out attack.
"Run!" a cultivator shouted loudly, imdiately turning around and flying towards Two Worlds City.
Seeing this, everyone else took to the air and sped towards Two Worlds City. In the entire Ten Thousand Beasts Domain, perhaps only Two Worlds City could offer a semblance of safety. But facing such an army of demon beasts, whether Two Worlds City could hold, nobody was sure.
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