Chapter 1048: Chapter 730: The Demon Saint Appears, the Teleportation Array Is Destroyed

Earth Dragon Valley, with the emergence of the beast tide, the entire vast valley at this moment surprisingly seemed somewhat desolate.

Only the stirred dust revealed that the entire Taihang Mountain Range was not peaceful at this time.

At the center of Earth Dragon Valley, a shadow suddenly appeared, seeming somewhat hesitant and fearful.

His name is Lin Qingxuan, at the Middle Stage of Golden Core, tasked with the command to intercept and kill the escaping members of the Ye Family.

But before he could intercept, the beast tide exploded.

And as a Golden Core cultivator, naturally, he couldn’t outrun the Demon Emperor, so he concealed himself underground. Once the Demon Emperor left, he fled in the opposite direction.

Upon entering Earth Dragon Valley and sensing the absence of a Demon King, he felt at ease to venture in. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Simultaneously, he discovered numerous spirit medicines, though having harvested quite a bit, he remained uneasy.

He also saw the cave mansion previously destroyed by the Celestial Cyan Demon Emperor.

Involuntarily, his gaze lingered.

But before he could carefully inspect, he felt his physical body unable to move.

He was instantaneously drenched in cold sweat, desperately trying to break free, eager to activate his Lifebound Magical Treasure.

Yet at that moment, he seemed to have turned into a mere mortal, unable to sense spiritual energy, nor feel the presence of his magical treasure, even his divine sense barely extended beyond three feet.

His eyesight was even better.

His heart uncontrollably pounded, fearing this might be the only part of his body capable of movement!

"Demon Emperor!" his heart sank instantly.

Besides the Demon Emperor, he couldn’t fathom any other Demon King exerting such immense pressure on him.

He wished to explain, but his mouth remained immobile, and his divine sense couldn’t spread out, rendering telepathy a mere fantasy.

"Thud, thud, thud!" he heard a cane tapping sound, inducing fear alongside immense curiosity.

Then a childish voice sounded:

"Grandma, is this the repugnant human race member? He looks so weak, not even comparable to the fool big tiger grandma taught!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Qingxuan naturally refused to accept it, he was at the Middle Stage.

"No, this one is indeed repugnant, but not as bad as those hiding in the skies; these people are supposedly full of righteousness, committed to the world, yet have not done a single righteous deed," an elderly voice sounded, full of affection.

Lin Qingxuan suddenly felt somewhat confused, perhaps there was a second person here?

Despite his confusion and fear, he was entirely helpless.

For he couldn’t see.

In the sky, a voice finally echoed.

"Fox Saint elder, this junior came under the instruction of my master, Tian De Divine Monarch, to deliver a treasure for elder," the voice was quite gruff, and Lin Qingxuan thought he had heard it somewhere before.

Upon further thought, it was clearly True Monarch Tai Peng.

He was indeed a great cultivator from the Immortal Sect.

Upon hearing the term ’elder’, Lin Qingxuan felt his whole body stiffen.

He couldn’t understand why merely entering the outskirts of the Taihang Mountain Range had drawn the attention of the Demon Race’s great saint.

"Is that so? What treasure? To please my grandma, you’ll have to let me see first. Don’t think you can fool Xiaoyu’Er, or I’ll sock you down!" the childish voice spoke again.

This made Lin Qingxuan feel even more fearful.

The thought of a little girl’s voice threatening to sock down a late-stage Nascent Soul great cultivator was beyond belief for anyone listening.

"Stop pretending, you should be able to move, carrying such a big spirit treasure and still really think the elder can’t see?"

"Fox Saint elder, this was refined by my master, otherwise it could have been gifted to the elder." True Monarch Tai Peng in the void forced a somewhat awkward smile before tossing out a jade box.

"Eight thousand years old, pretty decent, but convey to Tian De that the Western Demon Mountain Domain is beyond his reach. If he tries again to probe or schemes anything, this old self isn’t like that old Flood Dragon, unwilling to let go of his Celestial Flood Dragon Sea, and won’t hesitate to cause a big commotion." A cold voice echoed.

"Please rest assured, elder, once this gift is delivered, I will return to Celestial Saint Island in the Qin Kingdom to report back!" True Monarch Tai Peng humbly replied multiple times, making Lin Qingxuan suddenly have a bad premonition.

He immediately restrained himself from listening further.

The next moment, he felt a breeze lift him, sensing he seemed able to move.

He was instantly somewhat joyful.

But before he could run, he saw a hand reach out from his chest.

Turning around, he saw the righteous appearance of True Monarch Tai Peng.

Once, he looked up to True Monarch Tai Peng as a role model.

Yet at this moment, the Demon Race’s saint hadn’t killed him, but True Monarch Tai Peng had clawed at him.

His thoughts were sparse, and he barely felt any pain.

He was simply regretful that after years of cultivation, he seemed to have not truly relaxed.

...

At the bottom of Half Moon Lake, Ye Jingcheng was still meticulously researching the Five Elements Divine Thunder, currently mastering the Bing Fire Divine Thunder, but had not yet mastered the other four.

After all, the Five Elements Divine Thunder Secret Technique only reaches its maximum power when all five elements are complete.

However, the time it requires is considerable.

His only advantage is that the True Essence derived from the Beast Communication Pattern is comparatively pure, and refining for two to three hours daily equals three to four days of effort for other normal cultivators.

But at this Half Moon Lake’s bottom, danger can arise at any moment, so he dared not immerse himself too deeply in cultivation, otherwise, if someone or a Demon King discovered this place, not only could the cultivation technique backfire, even if stabilized, he might lose the chance to escape.

The reason for cultivating the secret technique is, first, because understanding the secret technique suddenly stopping is not a problem.

Secondly, because the beast tide cannot be ended in a short time, the current situation is beyond his influence.

Rather than constant worry, it’s better to enhance one’s strength.

Of course, while Ye Jingcheng is comprehending, the Stone Spirit Grotto Heaven is constantly sensing.

Furthermore, deploying the Void Concealment Skill covered most of the nearby space.

Even if the Demon Emperor sees it, they would only think it’s a small secret realm.

But at this moment, the Stone Spirit suddenly spoke to Ye Jingcheng’s Divine Soul.

"Master, an extremely terrifying Divine Sense just passed by, I feel it might have discovered me." The Stone Spirit now expressed far more than before, otherwise, Ye Jingcheng wouldn’t have let the Grotto Heaven Stone Spirit bring the Malachite Stone Spirit.

And at this moment, the words of the Stone Spirit were extremely fearful, something Ye Jingcheng had never felt before.

You must know, the Void Concealment Skill is being used now.

Ye Jingcheng instantly felt a chill, and immediately activated the transmission array. As the teleportation aura emerged, both Ye Jingcheng’s body and the Stone Spirit Grotto Heaven vanished from the bottom of Half Moon Lake.

Once transported to the Desert Sea, Ye Jingcheng also directly destroyed the transmission array there.

Thus, even if the opposite party wants to teleport, they definitely cannot.

At this moment, when Ye Xingyu saw Ye Jingcheng appearing here, he was extremely puzzled.

"Jingcheng, what have you discovered?" Ye Xingyu, for the first time, saw Ye Jingcheng so nervous.

"Discovered by the Demon Emperor, almost couldn’t escape!" Ye Jingcheng’s complexion was extremely ugly, despite his carefully laid plans seemingly still failing.

They had no choice but to escape into the Desert Sea.

Moreover, the teleportation array might have been lost.

The only thing he could hope for was that the Demon Emperor wouldn’t stay at that Tier Three Spiritual Vein.

After all, the Demon Race cannot relocate spirit veins, nor refine and repair transmission arrays, so they wouldn’t move the transmission array either.

But Ye Jingcheng knows this is just wishful thinking, should the Demon Race reach the Demon Emperor, they could relocate the transmission array or even thoroughly destroy it.

Then the Ye family’s possibility to return to the Taihang Mountain Range would be gone.

"I’ll go talk to Fourth Uncle!" Ye Jingcheng was quite helpless at this moment. If it’s truly destroyed, the Ye family can only explore the Celestial Departure Grassland and Hundred Thousand Mountains.

...

While Ye Jingcheng was contemplating, outside Half Moon Lake, an elder and a youngster arrived.

"Grandmother, why come here? The Silver Moon Python here has a terrible temperament, not adorable at all!"

"There’s a rare Stone Demon, which can hide in the void!" The Fox Saint replied.

"Oh, there’s also a Human Cultivator and a transmission array!"

The elder and youngster soon appeared on the island at the heart of Half Moon Lake.

It observed that a spirit pattern at the center of the transmission array has dimmed down.

"That transmission array over there has been destroyed!" The Fox Saint couldn’t help but say.

"Truly cunning humans!" it remarked.

"Then break their transmission array, always planting transmission arrays in the mountain, it’s really troublesome!" The young Fox Girl unleashed a palm strike, instantly collapsing a corner of the transmission array.

The Fox Saint did not speak, directly rubbing the young Fox Girl’s head.

"Let’s go back, cultivate well, the Earth Immortal Realm will soon open again. We must give them a good lesson!"

...

Beside Cyan Willow Mountain, at Cyan Willow Lake, the Jin Family’s branch patriarch is now Jin Yurong.

He looked at a group of Jin Family Elders, all somewhat wishing to cry.

If they had known the beast tides in Taihang Commandery were so frequent, they wouldn’t have established the Taihang Branch.

The speed of loss in this mortal area within several years exceeds that of Taichang Commandery in several centuries.

The most crucial point is whenever Taiyi Sect sets up arrays here, they forcibly extract the spiritual vein of Cyan Willow Mountain.

This low-tier spirit vein coupled with high-tier arrays only causes the spiritual vein to shrink, even causing the vein to rank downward.

The spiritual vein at Cyan Willow Lake had fallen once during the previous beast tide.

Now it’s even worse, replaced with a Tier Five Mountain Protection Array.

They can foresee what will happen to the spiritual vein in the future.

Yet they cannot speak, as this is Taiyi Sect helping the Jin Family resist the beast tide.

"Several Upper Sect seniors are present, Yurong, bear it for now. After this event passes, I’ll propose to change the Jin Family Branch into a Foundation Establishment Clan, then you can return to the main family, where there’s more resources!" Next to him, the elder was also helpless.

After all, the situation in Taihang Commandery wasn’t this dire before.

But now, it’s indeed not suitable for substantial development, not considering the Ye family has the support of Taiyi Sect, the rate of loss is rather unworthy.

"Might as well take advantage of the Golden Core Ancestors within the family and make a move to the Outer Sea; it’s said that once the Cyan Cloud Sea Domain reopens, the Upper Sect will also open the transmission array with the Outer Sea to establish a branch sect. Then we should set out to the Outer Sea!"

Jin Yurong felt extremely helpless hearing this.

But he didn’t dare speak much, just disbanded everyone, directing them to the city walls to face the beast tide.

Once the array is activated, the few whose faces were filled with worry quickly transformed into a look as though ready to heroically sacrifice at any moment.