Family Cultivation: Evergreen of the Song Family

"Hurry up."

Following the ripples of the great battle, powerful figures from both the human and demon races were desperately rushing towards Qingfeng Mountain.

The Jade Flower Cultivation World, the Cangyuan Cultivation World, the Great Qi Cultivation World, the Gusu Cultivation World, the Dayu Cultivation World, the Daming Cultivation World, and the Great Xiao Immortal Dynasty.

Only one or two low-level Golden Core cultivators were left to guard each battlefield, while all cultivators at the mid-stage of Golden Core and above were mobilized to head towards the same objective.

Such a move is tantamount to voluntarily abandoning all defenses. If the demon race seizes this opportunity to launch a large-scale attack, they can break through in an instant.

A desperate battle with no way out.

This is the unified thought of the Southwest Alliance: to win this battle at all costs.

Success would solve the problem once and for all, bringing hundreds or even thousands of years of peace to the border regions.

If we fail, we may die together. As long as we keep the flame alive, we will always have a chance to make a comeback.

Their roots are here, deep in the earth, impossible to uproot, impossible to sever, impossible to freeze.

Even if it is burned to the ground, new buds will naturally sprout again when spring arrives.

In short, once land is in the hands of humans, there is no reason for it to be given back.

Under other circumstances, they would never have had such a do-or-die courage.

After all, the most complex thing in this world is the human heart. Everyone is scheming against each other for their own interests. Even a small sect has many factions and constant fighting, let alone the Nine Realms of the Southwest.

This includes dozens of Golden Core forces, hundreds of Purple Mansion forces, and countless Foundation Establishment forces.

After the Immortal Dynasty, even if there were powerful rulers who could unify a region of the cultivation world, they were mostly short-lived. After their death, the region would soon fall into war, and after merging with each other, it would stabilize. Most of the time, it was a situation of several forces co-governing.

After the Immortal Dynasty, fragmentation became the norm for this land.

Even uniting one side of the cultivation world is this difficult.

The unification of the nine realms is something that, throughout history, no one in the world, except for the supreme ruler of the human race, has been able to accomplish.

Even the lineages left behind by those immortals could not accomplish this.

Therefore, before this major battle began, no one was optimistic about this so-called Southwest Major League.

No one could have imagined such a scene today. All the forces in the Southwest Nine Realms, including even the rogue cultivators, have joined forces and made a desperate gamble.

The complexities of human nature seemed to vanish at that moment; it was nothing short of a miracle.

Even Song Qingxi, who orchestrated all of this, found the outcome unbelievable.

This decisive battle came too suddenly. When Wang Zaixing contacted her, she was still allocating supplies to send to the front line of Qixia Fortress for support. Suddenly hearing the news that two Nascent Soul level experts of the Blood Demon Sect were about to be revived, her head buzzed and she almost exploded on the spot.

They couldn't even handle one Nascent Soul True Monarch, let alone two.

Moreover, Song Changsheng actually chose to go alone.

She knew her uncle's character all too well. In matters of life and death concerning the Nine Realms of the Southwest, he was always extremely cautious. Every battle required repeated and meticulous calculations to minimize the risks.

The fact that he acted so impulsively this time is enough to illustrate the urgency of the matter.

His move was definitely aimed at a decisive battle.

The battlefield is ever-changing, and no one knows how long Song Changsheng can hold out, so she must secure as much support for him as possible in the shortest amount of time.

Not to mention face-to-face discussions with various Golden Core factions, she wasn't even given time for large-scale meetings.

All she can do now is explain the advantages and disadvantages to the various factions and let them decide for themselves whether to participate in this war.

To be honest, she wasn't very confident about it.

Joining the war means leaving the front lines vulnerable, which is tantamount to putting the entire cultivation world in danger.

The fall of the cultivation world in Lu Kingdom was witnessed by all the major forces. The tragic scenes were so devastating that even the most hardened person would shed tears.

At that time, everyone secretly vowed that they would never let such a thing happen again.

Now, based solely on a piece of intelligence or a single sentence, we are forced to abandon all our defenses and rush into a war.

Is it really worth it?
Song Qingxi felt it was worth it because the entire Song family unconditionally trusted any decision made by Song Changsheng.

But she didn't know what the others would choose.

Do your best and leave the rest to fate. That's all.

She personally wrote letters seeking help and sent them out one by one. Then she stopped paying attention to them and instead plunged into the Song family's treasure vault, searching for any treasures that might be of help to Song Changsheng.

Even without reinforcements, the Song family will resolutely step up.

What she didn't know was that she received more than a dozen replies immediately after sending her plea for help, and the number continued to increase over time.

Some replies were very long, while others were very short.

But they all meant the same thing, which can be summed up in one word: "War!"

This is the common answer from the nine realms of the Southwest.

The complexities of human nature have never disappeared. When they saw this letter seeking help, they hesitated and worried just as much.

In the end, however, they set aside all doubts and selfish motives and chose to believe.

Trust in Song Changsheng's judgment as a leader, and trust in his abilities.

There was no prior communication or exchange; all forces made their choices independently. Yet, no one chose to cower in fear. Even the lone Golden Core cultivators rushed to the battlefield without hesitation after learning the news.

Before the war even began, they were prepared to sacrifice everything.

They just didn't expect that the time left for them would be so short.

That was enough, because making this decision only took a moment. They knew that the longer they delayed, the more dangerous Song Changsheng's situation would become.

As a result, everyone had only one word in their minds: "fast"!
However, since the fall of the cultivation world of Lu, all the spatial teleportation arrays have been destroyed. No matter how fast they react, how can they be faster than the demon race that has stationed a large number of troops in the cultivation world of Lu?
Less than half an hour after the start of the battle, the first batch of demon reinforcements arrived at Qingfeng Mountain and began a frenzied attack on the spatial blockade set up by Song Changsheng.

If the support from the major human factions was a voluntary choice made from the heart, then these others were forcibly pushed forward with a knife to their throats.

If they dare to retreat even a step, not only will they die, but the tribes left behind will also be implicated.

No one would doubt a demon lord's determination to achieve victory.

Unbeknownst to many, this battle has evolved from a war of invasion and defense into a war for survival between humans and demons, and every human or demon has a reason to fight desperately.

This is destined to be a war of no return, a war that is extremely brutal.

Even with two powerful treasures crafted by the Demon Lord protecting him, Song Changsheng still managed to forcefully kill seven Demon Kings after a fierce battle. Even so, the remaining Demon Kings chose to fight to the death, making it impossible for him to advance.

All this was because the tortoise shell's defensive power was too astonishing, weakening the divine power by at least half. The three top-grade demon kings at the forefront used this to their advantage, employing the "delaying" technique to its fullest extent.

Since there was still no news from Hun Wugui, he had to fight his way out as soon as possible.

"【The Third Killing Formation Under Heaven】, activate!"

At this point, Song Changsheng couldn't care less about anything else. After using the high-consumption divine power [Thousand Shadows Illusion], he once again used the formation inscribed with his own body.

In an instant, a vast and pure killing intent swept in all directions, condensing into a hazy gray sword in the air.

"scoff"

The sword energy pierced the air, and the sword light shone in all directions. All the demon kings present felt as if their skin was being pricked by needles, and no one dared to look directly at this sword.

"Concentrate and block this sword!"

Feeling the earth-shattering power contained in this sword, the Xuan Yu Demon King's roar trembled slightly. He was a veteran of countless battles, but he had never faced such a powerful force before.

If this sword strike cannot be blocked, someone could die; no one wants to become a victim of that sword.

The other demon kings were equally aware of this, and poured all their demonic power into the tortoise shell.

If they had been outnumbered at the beginning of the battle, they might have been able to withstand this sword strike. But now, with nearly half of their men gone and almost everyone remaining wounded, how could they possibly withstand the overwhelming killing intent containing the Daoist essence of the "Third Killing Array in the World"?
"Snapped"

To the astonishment of the demons, the tortoise shell was shattered after only a short time.

"scoff"

A flash of blood appeared, and the two high-grade demon kings at the front were unable to dodge in time and were cut in half at the waist, their blood splattering across the sky.

The sword energy remained undiminished, slashing directly at the Thunder Demon King's physical body.

"Do not--"

Faced with this sword, even as a supreme demon king, it couldn't muster the slightest will to resist and could only watch helplessly as the sword fell.

"laugh"

Blood mist filled the sky, and the enormous demon king's true form was directly cut in two, with even the demon core unable to escape.

The residual force of the sword energy left deep and shallow sword marks on the surrounding demon kings, and even the flame in the glass lamp was almost extinguished.

The demon kings present were all shaken to their core, their eyes filled with fear as they looked at Song Changsheng. It was as if they were facing not a person, but a god of slaughter, whose pure killing intent must have been stained with countless amounts of blood to condense.

If it weren't for the six demon lords using their clans as leverage, they wouldn't want to stay a moment longer, because this was an opponent that was almost impossible to defeat, and they were being sent to their deaths!

For a moment, none of the demons dared to step forward.

This attack was remarkably effective, not only killing the leader of the Thunder Swamp Demon Kingdom but also destroying the tortoise shell. However, Song Changsheng himself was in a very bad state.

After absorbing the concepts of the Array Dao Academy, he improved He Yunxuan's original cultivation method. Now, using the formation to inscribe the array with his body will not directly exhaust him as before, but the consumption is still considerable. After all, what he is inscribing is a fragment of the [Third Killing Array in the World], which only his extraordinary talent can afford.

In addition, the impact of the killing intent bursting forth from the great formation should not be ignored. As the vessel, he was the first to be affected, with direct effects on his internal organs and soul.

If it were anyone else, someone with a slightly weaker will, they would probably be turned into an idiot by the terrifying killing intent.

However, it was all worth it. Now that the incredibly defensive tortoise shell is gone, with just a glass lamp that is not good at killing and the two top-grade demon kings, Devouring Yuan and Profound Feather, they will no longer be able to confront him head-on. Defeating the enemy will only take a moment!
"boom--"

Just then, a loud bang suddenly came from outside the spatial blockade, like a heavy hammer crashing down with the force of a mountain collapsing. The surrounding space trembled violently, and the spatial iron pestle and array flags that were originally hidden in the void were forced to appear.

"Click"

The spatial chains in the air shattered inch by inch, ultimately unable to withstand the force, and dissipated into countless streams of light.

After the spatial blockade shattered, several imposing figures descended from the sky. All six figures were demon kings with cultivation levels of at least the fourth rank. Almost all the elites of the six major demon kingdoms stationed in the cultivation world of Lu Kingdom had arrived.

Despite their geographical advantage, they were ultimately one step ahead of the various human factions.

Song Changsheng's expression hardened slightly. Although these six demon kings were quite powerful, it was absolutely impossible for them to break through the spatial barrier he had set up using both the spatial iron pestle and the array flags in one strike. They must have used some incredibly powerful secret treasure.

He immediately spotted the fourth-tier top-grade demon king in the middle of the six demons, who had striking purple hair. The man had a bracelet made of white bone with only a few scattered beads, but he could clearly sense the astonishing power contained within it.

It is yet another secret treasure personally refined by the Demon Lord.

"Song Changsheng, you have a path to heaven but choose not to take it, and you have no way to hell but choose to barge in. Do you really think you are invincible?" The Purple Illusion Demon King's eyes flashed like lightning, and with a thought, a crystal-clear bead, as white as jade, fell off on its own.

In an instant, the power of laws from all directions was drawn in and surged forth, and the string of beads transformed in the air into a giant claw that blotted out the sky, mercilessly slamming down.

Wherever the giant claw passed, the spatial barrier cracked under its strain, and the universe seemed to tremble.

"Such powerful strength."

Song Changsheng's pupils contracted slightly. Unlike the tortoise shell and the glass lamp, this was a weapon of slaughter, its power comparable to a full-force attack from a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

With his cultivation level, if he were to engage in a direct confrontation, injury would be inevitable.

In the current situation, being injured is almost equivalent to a slow death.

Fortunately, the spatial blockade has been broken, giving him more options.

The moment the giant claw struck, a spatial black hole appeared beneath his feet, swallowing him whole.

"boom!"

An invisible shockwave spread, causing the already strained spatial barrier to collapse on a large scale. Song Changsheng managed to escape the affected area in time, narrowly escaping danger.

The ones who suffered were the demon kings who had fought him to the death. They fell like dumplings being dropped into a pot, and several of them were severely injured by the burst of spatial blades. One of the demon kings, who was already injured, was swallowed up by the spatial rift and banished to the boundless void.

"Space travel!"

Seeing Song Changsheng reappear in his sight unharmed, he almost ground his teeth to powder.

They thought they could deal a heavy blow to the opponent, but unexpectedly they lost both their wife and their army.

But we can't blame him. Although they had this information, they had no idea that the other party could use it so skillfully. After all, those who had witnessed it were all dead, and leaving behind a secret technique was no different from being dead.

"I don't believe you're really that monstrous!"

Just as the Purple Illusion Demon King was preparing to use the remaining two beads together to kill Song Changsheng in one fell swoop.

Suddenly, he heard a series of sharp whooshing sounds coming from behind him...

...(End of this chapter)