176: Chapter 166 176: Chapter 166 Ye Tian angrily surveilled the people below; even ordinary craftsmen were not spared from their killing spree.
Those people were truly heartless and must be eradicated in one fell swoop.
These people kept talking here without any other actions.
He knew their plan but had no idea where their secret exit was.
Ye Tian used his mental power again to observe the movement in the courtyard.
For days, he hadn’t been able to deal with them and, to avoid alarming them, he secretly watched over them from high above.
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The Golden Core Elder who had escaped fled into the Hell Palace Magical Treasure, thinking himself beyond reach and smugly reveling in secrecy.
Using his spiritual power, he formed a ring of light around himself.
In this space, under the red moon, he discovered that the ring could soak up the moonlight and powerful spiritual energy poured into it.
Delighted, he sat in meditation within the ring to cultivate.
At this moment, he had no intention of causing chaos.
Having used too much spiritual power just before, he was in the middle of recovery when he noticed demonic beasts moving not far from his light ring.
He could only close his eyes and resist the urge to annihilate them.
“What’s that?” The Lion King, having reached the Transformation Stage, was more sensitive than other demonic beasts and sensed something unusual in the space.
“It seems like someone has come in,” the Tiger King said, more acutely sensing a presence, and felt an urge to devour this person.
“Why do I sense a very familiar scent?” remarked the Lion King again.
“Hmm, I’m thinking the same.
It seems like the ringleader who sent those ghost cultivators to create havoc these past few nights.”
“Tiger King, now that you mention it, I believe it’s true.
They’ve only been the ones to persecute our environment and attack us.
It’s time for us to strike back.”
“Right, they’ve made us suffer greatly these last few days.
We must also let them witness our ferocity.”
After the two Demon Beast Kings reached an agreement, they began to inform the demonic beasts with lower cultivation below them, no matter if they were of the same kind or had allied with other types of demonic beasts.
The lower-cultivation beasts heeded the call of those with higher cultivation and those that had been quietly practicing started stealthily moving towards the direction from where they smelled the scent.
The Lion King let out a Lion’s Roar.
The Tiger King clawed at a particular direction and let out a massive cry, “Awoo.”
“Awooo,” the Wolf King attacked as well, as his descendants joined in with loud howling.
The Golden Core Elder, who was meditating, was startled by the sudden attack.
He bounced up inside the ring, whipping out his magical treasures for defense against the demonic beasts’ assault and chanting curses, hoping to summon ghost cultivators for aid in battle.
The Golden Core Elder had forgotten one thing; it was the time of the red moon’s appearance, and even high-cultivation ghost cultivators dared not show themselves in such moonlight, let alone those with lower cultivation.
They were all underground within the space.
The Lion King’s roar almost deafened him, the claws of the Tiger King and the Wolf King shattered his light ring, and as the elder attempted to dodge, he sustained injuries, his skin torn open by the beasts, blood flowing out.
Sensing the smell of blood, the expressions on the faces of the demonic beasts were ones of excitement.
“Ha-ha, this is for causing chaos, for harming us, die!” The Lion King clawed out once more.
“Today he must die, and once he is dead, we will live better days.
Charge, my young ones!” The Tiger King too was riled up, having never tasted human flesh, he was eager for it at this moment.
While the panic-stricken Golden Core Elder frantically used all his strength, unleashing all his talismans and magical treasures to narrowly escape the attacks, he was solitary and weak amid the assaults of countless demonic beasts, and his injuries became even more severe.
“Huang Chen, come save me!” In his fear, the only one the Golden Core Elder could think of was Huang Chen.
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In the Primordial Treasure Lingtian Space, Eryao sensitively felt that turmoil was starting outside once again, and spoke loudly to Jiang Tang, who was cultivating with his eyes closed:
“Daddy, come and look, why are there people here?”
“Moo…” As Eryao called out loudly, Little Blue Ox had also bounced up from his cultivation when he heard the calls of his own kind from outside the space, excitedly bellowing towards the space outside.
The implication seemed to be one of cheering on its own kind.
“What’s going on?” Jiang Tang saw that a demonic beast was attacking a man in a daoist robe, who appeared to be in his forties or fifties and had a higher cultivation level than himself.
“Daddy, don’t you realize?
This man is the one controlling the ghost cultivators to attack the demonic beasts.”
“What?
Is this the main culprit behind the murder of my parents and the villagers?”
“Why don’t we capture him and interrogate him?
Even if he’s not the main culprit, he might be an accomplice.”
“Eryao, his cultivation is higher than mine, and the demonic beasts are attacking him, isn’t it bad for me to intervene?” Jiang Tang felt his own cultivation was quite poor, and he didn’t want the demonic beasts to attack him instead, mistaking him for the man’s accomplice.
Wouldn’t that make him the enemy’s helper?
“Hmm, Daddy, I understand what you mean.
Let’s just watch for a bit.
We can take advantage of the situation,” Eryao suggested.
Eryao and Jiang Tang were bonded by contract, allowing many of their thoughts to be communicated telepathically.
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Huang Chen, inside his Magnet Magic Treasure Soul Conqueror, had already noticed his master entering and had also seen the demonic beasts attacking his master.
When his master cried out for help, Huang Chen pretended to be dead inside the magical treasure.
Little did he expect his master to call out his name, leaving him no choice but to feign death no longer.
Utilizing the Magnet Magic Treasure Soul Conqueror, he emitted poison gas and extended a hook that dragged his struggling master, engaged in combat with the demonic beasts, underground.
The demonic beasts, while attacking the Golden Core Elder, suddenly smelled the poison gas—a scent they were all too familiar with.
Caught in fear and on guard, they hesitated for a second, which Huang Chen used to rescue the man.
“Not good, poison gas, quickly drink the water of the Vitality Flower.”
The Tiger King commanded the demonic beasts to leap into the river, and as they did, they agilely plucked the green flowers of the blooming Vitality Grass.
Some green flowers floated in the water, and the beasts that leaped in frantically drank the water to detoxify.
“Damn it, he got away.
Daddy, I told you we should have captured him,” Eryao said, glaring at Jiang Tang with resentment.
Eryao was also annoyed with the master of the space control, having expended a lot of energy in previous occasions to maintain control.
“I didn’t know it would turn out like this.
Was he rescued by an accomplice?” Jiang Tang watched blankly as the enemy escaped.
“Daddy, I think I heard a familiar name.
Do you remember Huang Chen, the main culprit who trapped us in this space?”
“Him?
I’d recognize him even if he were ashes.
Is he the one behind this?” Jiang Tang hadn’t expected Huang Chen to have such a far reach.
Could the evildoer be from the Mount Tai Sect?
“It must be him and his accomplices, but I only sensed the Qi of one living person outside in the space,” Eryao said, looking thoughtfully at the red moonlight illuminating the grey earth with a red hue.
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