Chapter 70: Best Not to Lift the Cultivation Seal
A cultivator must reach the Integration stage before they can fly through the air without relying on magic artifacts.
The fact that this demoness could now stand in the air meant that she had already reached the Integration stage.
She surpassed Lou Yunxiao and the suppressed Ning Ke by a large margin.
Dealing with her would not be simple.
“Go and set up an array to protect the mother and daughter.” Lou Yunxiao stood in front of Ning Ke. “I’ll hold her off.”
“Fellow Daoist Lou, you are only at the Soul Transformation stage…”
“Don’t worry, she won’t win against me.”
Lou Yunxiao interrupted him, his eyes staring at the demoness, with a strong hatred and extreme confidence surging deep within.
Ever since the underground palace, he had vowed to kill all demons.
The pain A-Ke suffered back then, he would make these demons repay a thousand times over!
Ning Ke nodded.
Then he closed the room and performed a hand seal to set up an array.
Inner three layers and outer three layers, a total of six layers of defensive arrays.
To ensure the absolute safety of Madam Liu and Junjun.
After that, he didn’t rush to help Lou Yunxiao, but took out the communication spirit stone and sent a voice message to the other four.
He told them to look for the attribute spirit stones in their respective residences.
If they encountered a demon whose cultivation exceeded theirs, they must avoid its sharp edge, do not engage in battle, and find a place to hide and wait for reinforcements.
Ning Xiaoxiao was the first to find the Metal-attribute spirit stone and tucked it away.
In the next instant, she sensed movement underground.
She flew up on her sword.
Looking again, the piece of land she had been standing on had already been pierced by several long swords made of demonic Qi that emerged from the ground.
“Little girl… since you’ve dared to come, don’t even think about leaving…”
A man with a hunched back emerged from the ground, his figure as thin as a skeleton, yet the intensity of his demonic aura had already reached the Soul Transformation stage.
He licked his lips and chuckled. “This body of yours is truly not bad. I can’t wait to take a bite…”
“Where should I bite first? The head? The chest? Hahaha, there’s more meat on the chest, it’s the tenderest…”
—If you encounter a demon stronger than yourself, do not engage in battle!
Ming Xin’s words rang in her mind.
Ning Xiaoxiao, however, curled her lips in a cold sneer.
The Jinglan Sword was in her hand, sword intent surging as she slashed toward the demon!
“To hell with not engaging!”
“I swore that for you demons, I will kill every single one I see!”
“I will never retreat!”
…
Liu Mansion.
Ning Ke also informed Zhang Chen and Zeng Xi of the situation here.
“Fellow Daoist Ming Xin, we haven’t found any demons here yet,” Zeng Xi said into the communication spirit stone.
While organizing the citizens to leave the city.
Her gaze fell on the ground at the city gate.
She saw the Youhun Grass she had found in the forest during the day actually appearing under the city wall.
Clearly, it wasn’t there when she returned to the city. How could it have grown so fast in such a short time?
Thinking so, she narrowed her eyes and stared at the Youhun Grass, only to find that in the blink of an eye, the grass had actually grown another foot, dancing and attacking a disciple!
Zeng Xi’s pupils trembled. She pulled the disciple back and threw a pill at the Youhun Grass!
Bang, bang, bang—
The pills exploded as they hit the ground.
The sound of the explosion startled the surrounding Dan Sect disciples and citizens.
“Junior Sister Zeng, what are you doing?!”
“Immortal, you can’t blow up the city!”
However, in the next moment, they saw several thick vines suddenly shoot out from the dense smoke raised by the explosion!
It was the Youhun Grass, which had surged several times in size!
“The corpses were stolen!”
Zeng Xi looked over and found that those Youhun Grass vines had picked up the corpses of the living dead that their Dan Sect had used for research.
The grass tips, as thick as a thumb, were inserted into the rotten meat.
Before long, they had sucked the corpses dry, leaving only skeletons that crashed to the ground.
The crowd let out screams of terror.
“All Dan Sect disciples, come with me!”
Zeng Xi shouted, stepping on a magic artifact and signaling the cultivators to fly into the air.
“Set them on fire!”
Most Dan Sect disciples were of the Fire spiritual root. Hearing the command, they raised their hands to release fire.
But what was terrifying was that their fire could only slightly slow down the growth rate of the Youhun Grass and couldn’t completely eliminate it.
“Do your best to buy time!” Zeng Xi said. “Get everyone out!”
The cultivators all nodded and condensed all their spiritual Qi to release flames.
The citizens also quickened their pace and ran out.
But the Youhun Grass seemed to have eyes. After eating the corpses, it turned to catch people.
The city guards stepped forward to chop at them but were pierced through their bodies, instantly becoming nourishment for the Youhun Grass.
“Damned things!” Zhang Chen said to Zeng Xi, “Senior Sister, you hold on here, I’ll go down and save people!”
After saying that, he landed and performed a seal.
The circular lenses actually fell off, transforming into two serrated hand discs. Fire was attached to them, controlled by his hands, and they spun rapidly.
He cut down several Youhun Grass vines and fought alongside the city guards against the ones that had escaped the flames released by the Dan Sect disciples.
But there were too many Youhun Grass vines.
And they were extremely dense.
Zhang Chen was careless for a moment and had his foot pierced by a grass tip.
The young man’s body shook. He immediately cut off the vine, only to find that the grass tip had already gone deep into his flesh and was actually frantically absorbing his spiritual Qi and burrowing upward!
Zhang Chen gritted his teeth, raised his hand, and the serrated hand disc cut off his left foot. He quickly took a blood-stalling pill.
He blocked the Youhun Grass for the crowd again.
He didn’t care about his severed left foot at all.
“Junior Brother…” Zeng Xi’s eyes turned red.
But she didn’t dare to be negligent at all, exhausting all her spiritual Qi to release flames.
By the time the crowd had completely evacuated, the Youhun Grass had covered the entire city tower.
The crowd retreated and found that after completely leaving the city and reaching a certain distance, the Youhun Grass did not pursue them anymore.
Instead, it tightly wrapped around the city gate and continued to extend upward.
Until it formed a huge cover.
Zeng Xi supported Zhang Chen and channeled spiritual Qi to him. She solemnly took out the communication spirit stone and said to Ning Ke, “Fellow Daoist Ming Xin, we can’t enter the city anymore. We can’t help you. Please be careful!”
Through the spirit stone, Ning Ke already knew roughly what had happened outside the city.
At this time, he responded, “Understood.”
“You must also observe carefully outside the city to see if there are any demons mixed in the crowd.”
Putting down the spirit stone, Ning Ke knew.
At this moment, in this vast Beiyou City, the only combat power left to fight the demons was the six of them guarding the Five Elements Array.
The situation was very difficult.
At the necessary moment, he would need to consider lifting the seal on his true body…
But it would be best if he could avoid this option.
Otherwise, if his identity were exposed and the mission was judged a failure, these three plus years of hard work would be for nothing. He would have nowhere to cry.
Boom!
The stone wall beside Ning Ke was collapsed by a ray of light.
Looking again, the demoness in mid-air showed a proud expression. “One down…”
“Now for the next one!”
As she spoke, her hand formed a claw shape, coming straight down from the sky, attacking Ning Ke!
Ning Ke was about to react.
In the next instant, an afterimage suddenly appeared in front of him.
Sword and claws collided, making a clanging sound.
Lou Yunxiao held Hongyun and Cangyin, blocking in front of Ning Ke.
The silk ribbons on his wrists fluttered.
Blood seeped from his forehead, which had been cut by a stone when he fell just now, and dripped down.
He said coldly:
“Before I die, don’t you even think about harming him one bit.”
Translator’s Note:
Cultivation Stages Mentioned: Huashen (化神 – Soul Transformation/Deity): Higher stage. Hetian (合体 – Integration/Body Integration): Even higher than Huashen.
Zhang Chen cutting off his own foot to prevent the grass from burrowing into his body is so hardcore. This isn’t just a romance novel; the stakes are real! And Lou Yunxiao… even when he’s outclassed, he’s still a total badass protecting his “A-Ke.”
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