I established the Eternal Immortal Clan by taming beasts.

As the various fronts became deadlocked, the true instigators of the chaos in the Southern Region, the Demon Palace of Rebellion, also began their operation.

Fifty li north of Fen Gu Pass lies the logistics and supply camp.

As one of the most crucial hubs for resisting the beast tide at Burning Bone Pass, it was responsible for a continuous supply of logistical materials.

Thousands upon thousands of transport puppets shuttle between the gate walls and the rear warehouses every day, carrying spirit stones, arrows, pills, and array base materials. They are tireless gears in this war machine, turning day and night without interruption.

But at this moment, those gears begin to turn in reverse.

The first to be involved in the incident was the logistics supply camp at the middle section of Burning Bone Pass, near Demon Slaying Pass.

Dozens of transporting puppets stopped at the same time, and the array patterns engraved on their bodies suddenly turned from blue to red, as if some invisible hand had abruptly reversed their core commands.

Suddenly, a blinding red light shone in their previously dull mechanical eyes. They then turned around and hurled the boxes of spiritual materials they carried at the guards beside them.

"Bang--!"

A three-zhang-tall transport puppet suddenly swept its arms across, smashing two Qi Refining cultivators who were counting supplies away in the middle.

Their bodies slammed against the shelves piled with pills, making a dull cracking sound, scattering the pills all over the floor.

Before the third cultivator could react, the puppet's iron hand had already smashed his skull.

"What's going on?!" A Foundation Establishment squad leader from the logistics team drew his sword and rushed over. The sword light struck the puppet's joints, sending sparks flying.

But the puppet only paused slightly before unleashing a punch that sent the captain and his sword flying, crashing through two shelves.

Immediately afterwards, the second, the third, the fourth... hundreds of puppets in the entire gathering place went berserk at the same moment.

They no longer obeyed commands, no longer distinguished between friend and foe, and began to point their claws and iron fists at all living things around them.

This is not an isolated case.

Inside Burning Bone Pass, along all the logistical routes—puppet workshops, spirit material warehouses, arrow assembly points, and pill dispensing points—the puppets, which were usually docile, reliable, and never resisted, collectively went out of control at the same moment.

They tore apart the array patterns, destroyed the array base, crashed into the warehouse walls, and smashed, ignited, and buried the mountains of war supplies.

The stored spirit stones were crushed, the array base was destroyed, and the spare spirit armor and weapons were buried in the ruins.

The entire logistics system of Burning Bone Pass was completely paralyzed within half an hour.

And this is just the beginning.

As the puppets went berserk, a large number of cultivators at Burning Bone Pass and along the five defensive lines simultaneously drew their weapons, but pointed them at their comrades fighting alongside them.

Some of them were low-level soldiers in the Qi Refining stage, some were backbone members in the Foundation Establishment stage, and some were even captain-level cultivators who had already touched the threshold of the Golden Core stage.

They had been lying in wait among the garrison for years, decades, or even more.

Some were natives of Burning Bone City, some were rogue cultivators who temporarily joined the garrison, and some were family members who entered the garrison through normal selection.

No one remembers their faces, no one doubts their names, and no one questions their loyalty.

But the moment they simultaneously tore off their disguises, the entire battle line came to a standstill.

"puff--!"

On the eastern section of the city wall of Tingfeng Pass, a young cultivator who was delivering arrows suddenly turned the arrow in his hand, channeled his spiritual power into it, and stabbed it fiercely into the back of the neck of the archer next to him.

The archer was intently aiming at the monster below the city wall when, before he could even scream, his neck was pierced. He was then thrown off the city wall, his body hitting the protruding bricks with a dull thud as he fell, finally landing in the pile of monster corpses at the foot of the wall, where he lay motionless.

"What are you doing?!" The fellow cultivator next to him exclaimed in surprise, but before he could finish speaking, the young cultivator had already pierced his chest with a second arrow.

The arrow pierced through the gap between the ribs and precisely struck the heart.

The monk's eyes widened, his mouth opened, and he made a "hoarse, hoarse" sound in his throat, as if he wanted to say something, but only blood and foam came out.

He reached out as if to grab something, but his fingertips only weakly brushed across the empty air before his body fell backward and crashed heavily against the city wall.

On the southern section of the Demon-Slaying Pass, a group of cultivators who had just retreated from the city walls to rest suddenly sprang into action and began attacking their comrades in the same column.

Using short knives, magical artifacts, and their bare hands, they subdued their comrades who were still panting, bandaging their wounds, and taking pills to restore their spiritual power.

Someone had their throat slit from behind, and blood gushed out, splattering onto the bricks and stones of the city wall and flowing down through the cracks.

Someone was being choked, struggling in vain with their hands, their fingernails scratching deep white marks on the bricks of the city wall.

Inside Zhenyue Pass, two seemingly unrelated retainers simultaneously made their move.

One person destroyed the storage location of the recovery pills, while another person detonated a pre-set rune array on the city wall.

The shockwave from the exploding rune array sent the swordsmen and shieldmen arrayed on a section of the city wall flying, their formation collapsing instantly. The rune patterns on the city wall were also torn open by the explosion.

Five lines of defense, with thousands of Shadow Hall spies striking simultaneously, precisely targeting the weakest and most critical points of the defenses.

Their targets were the base maintenance points, commander's residence, backup supply depots, wounded soldier treatment areas, and the communication arrays that were in operation.

Their goal was not to inflict casualties, but to bring all five lines of defense to a standstill at the same time, throwing the garrison into complete chaos.

These spies came from the Shadow Hall branch in Chuyang City, but many more came from Burning Bone City.

As the core area planned by the Demon Palace of Rebellion, the Shadow Hall's influence in Burning Bone City is far greater than that in Beginning Sun City.

They infiltrated among independent cultivators, among various large and small families, and even among the lower ranks of the garrison.

They joined the ranks of the defenders in the most reasonable way, eating, living, and training with the others, shedding blood and sweating together, and even killing monsters together.

No one was on guard against them, and at that moment, they unleashed their most deadly power.

Large gaps began to appear in the five previously flawless defensive lines.

Chaos spread like a plague.

The defenders' formation was broken, their communication routes were cut off, the reserves were trapped in the camp and unable to provide reinforcements, and the wounded were finished off by their own men.

Some were shouting "Enemy attack!", some were shouting "There's a traitor!", and some were shouting "Don't trust anyone!" The voices mingled together, creating a desperate cacophony.

At the height of this chaos, the demon kings on all five lines of defense launched a full-scale attack simultaneously.

The leading demon kings stopped observing and testing the waters, and instead personally charged to the front lines, their bodies radiating spiritual light and their roars shaking the surrounding wilderness.

Tens of thousands of monsters surged from the horizon like a black tide, covering the sky and making the earth tremble.

All the monsters launched a full-scale, reckless attack.

……

On the main gate of Burning Bone Pass, Fang Zheng, the commander of the White Tiger Camp, and Yu Wenbo, an elder of Chiyang Mountain, were working together to fight against the Demon Emperor Wuyuan Jiaohuang.

Below, a fourth-tier demonic beast and a large number of third-tier demonic beasts were attacking the defensive formation with all their might.

Further away at Zhenyue Pass, the formation was broken by this accident and the fierce attack of the monsters. The monster corpses had piled up to halfway up the city wall, but the monsters behind continued to climb up by stepping on the corpses of their companions.

The defenders had run out of arrows and rolling stones, and now they could only use spirit weapons, magic, or even close combat with monsters.

The battle on the city walls had lost all order and become nothing more than the most primitive and brutal carnage.

Aura and blood mingled, roars and wails resonated, and the corpses of humans and beasts were mixed together, making it impossible to distinguish one from another.

At this time, the five defensive lines were already reinforced by Nascent Soul cultivators, a large number of garrison troops, and the Azure Dragon Camp, so Burning Bone Pass was not directly breached.

The Nascent Soul cultivators guarding the pass acted immediately, forcefully blocking wave after wave of demonic beasts from the city walls.

The elite cultivators of the Azure Dragon Camp swiftly slaughtered members of the Shadow Hall on the city walls, then filled in one temporary defensive line after another, patching up the gaps torn open by the spies.

However, the destruction caused by the rebellion was too precise; every loophole hit its mark, and every instance of chaos perfectly complemented the monsters' offensive.

The defensive formations on three of the lines of defense finally collapsed completely under the multiple attacks.

The light shield shattered, the array patterns dimmed, and the spirit stones were exhausted. The once indestructible array foundations were now like ruins, leaving only a scorched and cracked area.

The horde of monsters surged in through the gaps, instantly unleashing a fierce and brutal close-quarters battle against the city walls.

Half an hour.

The chaos of just half an hour has created irreparable cracks in the centuries-old defenses.

The breaches opened by the spies' lives, the nodes blasted open by the puppets' iron arms, and the array patterns corroded by the poisonous fog turned the entire defensive line from a solid barrier into a bleeding wound.

The fierce battle on the city walls truly began at this moment.

……

"Let's begin."

On an inconspicuous hill three hundred miles outside Burning Bone Pass, Gu Chaoxi's gaze pierced through the night and landed on the pass wall illuminated by firelight and spiritual light. "It's time for us to show our skills."

"Yes, Master!"

Behind him, hundreds of figures bowed simultaneously.

Among them were spies from the Shadow Hall of Chuyang City, array masters from the Zhao family, and several cultivators with indistinct faces and obscure auras—the direct subordinates that Gu Chaoxi brought from the Reverse Fate Demon Palace.

At this moment, they held array plates, spirit pattern carving knives, spirit stones, and runes in their hands, their movements swift and silent, and under the cover of night, they began to build a massive array.

The array base is anchored by a base cast from spirit-patterned steel, buried deep in the ground, and its surface is engraved with intricate array patterns.

The array patterns radiated outward from the center of the base, spreading out like a spider web and slowly covering the top of the entire low mountain.

The array masters bent over, their carving knives tracing intricate patterns of spiritual light on the ground. Each pattern precisely cut into the rock, infusing it with spiritual power, gradually illuminating the array patterns.

At the same time, intelligence was constantly being transmitted from Liu Fang of the Shadow Hall and the Zhao family to Zhi Hei.

The entire formation was discovered by Zhihei the moment it was built.

Following the formation step by step, Zhihei explained each detail to Lin Xuanqing.

The location of the array base, the direction of the array patterns, the arrangement of the runes, and the flow path of spiritual energy were all accurately reproduced on the projection array plate in the command room.

Lin Xuanqing's brain began to race in response.

Her gaze moved quickly across the projection array, her fingertips traced patterns in the void, repeatedly reconstructing, analyzing, and deducing the trajectories of those array patterns in her mind.

Suddenly, Lin Xuanqing realized something.

"Blood Fiend Soul Refining Array!"

Upon hearing this name, Zhihei and Lin Xuanqi exchanged a glance.

Lin Che, who was receiving messages from the command center, narrowed his eyes slightly as he recalled the grand formation that the Zhao family had set up.

Blood Fiend Soul Refining Array – can trap or kill enemies.

Enemies within the formation will have their bodies and souls constantly eroded by the bloodthirsty aura, like being devoured by thousands of ants, making their lives worse than death.

If the trapped person dies, their soul cannot escape and will be refined by the formation into a blood soul, permanently integrated into the formation, becoming part of the formation and continuously increasing its power.

"That's right. According to the intelligence relayed back from the Shadow Hall, the formation set up by Gu Chaoxi is very similar to this one. I did some research on this formation before, and the logic behind its setup is almost identical. Although there are differences, the core effect has hardly changed!"

The group was speechless, realizing what the Demon Palace of Rebellion was up to!

They intend to refine the souls of all the cultivators and demonic beasts who have died in the Burning Bone Pass!

The souls of the defenders who died on the city walls, the rogue cultivators who were torn apart by the demonic beasts, and the spies who fell in the chaos will not dissipate. Instead, they will be absorbed, refined, and condensed by the array that is being built, and will eventually transform into the power of the Blood Fiend Soul Refining Array.

The more deaths occur at Burning Bone Pass, the stronger the formation becomes. This is why a rebellion has broken out at Burning Bone Pass!

The Demon Palace of Rebellion is not there to help the demon beasts break through their barriers, but rather to create maximum slaughter!

"Boom!"

Just then, a booming sound came from Mount Xuanyin within Chuyang City.

The sound was deep and heavy, as if some enormous creature was awakening deep within the mountain, causing the ground to tremble slightly and even the lamps in the command room to flicker.

The three exchanged a glance, and Lin Xuanqi immediately rushed out of the command room, took off on his sword, and sped towards Xuan Yin Mountain.

In that direction, three enormous war golems were slowly rising from the mountain.

Their bodies are forged from obsidian, their joints are made of ancient cold iron, and their cores are molten earth radiating a crimson light, illuminating the runes that have been dormant for many years.

At this moment, they were marching heavily towards the direction of the Lin family's Shattered Star Lake.

Their massive, mountain-like forms caused the ground to crack with every step they took, and the surrounding buildings to tremble violently with every landing.

The Lin family had long been aware of this item in various areas near Chuyang City, but they never expected that it would also exist within the Chuyang City area, right in the Xuan Yin Mountain, which was firmly controlled by the City Lord's Mansion!

The three puppets were covered with the marks of time; their mottled stone surfaces and weathered runes glowed crimson under the night sky, as if silently proclaiming their existence.

At the same time, the Iron-Armed Ape King and his 50,000 elite demonic beasts were about to arrive at Chuyang City.