I established the Eternal Immortal Clan by taming beasts.

The Crimson Ape grinned, revealing a row of gleaming white fangs, and dark red spiritual light surged around its body one last time.

Its entire skeleton was emitting a faint creaking sound, and the wounds repeatedly pierced by Lin Che's spear tip were slowly bleeding. Dark red blood dripped down its fur, spreading a small dark wet patch on the ground.

Yet its gaze remained sharp, its crimson-gold vertical pupils surging with murderous intent.

"You want me to surrender? You think you can?"

The battle with Lin Che, especially the final blow, had left him covered in wounds, but his demon core was still intact. He could recover from these injuries in just a few days, and he still had the strength to fight!

The dark red aura surged, leaped, and exploded on its surface like rekindled embers, tearing apart the healing wounds once more, but it paid no heed.

His body suddenly rose higher, and he pounced towards the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Demon Emperor. The last trace of dark red spiritual light gathered on his right fist. Although it was much dimmer than before, it still had the power to tear apart an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator.

The fist left a dark red trail in the night sky, and the scorching wind from the punch baked the gravel along the way until it turned white, cracked, and turned into powder. The ground it stepped on left a string of charred footprints, each footprint radiating steam.

Its form, bathed in the silvery moonlight, resembled a burning meteorite, charging headlong towards the figure standing in the center of the moonlight with reckless abandon.

Those crimson-gold vertical pupils surged with a desperate determination, as if he wasn't charging forward, but rather pouring all his remaining energy into a final punch.

The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Demon King opposite did not retreat.

She didn't even change her posture, still standing with her hands behind her back, her gaze calmly fixed on the approaching dark red figure of the Burning Sky Crimson Ape.

Then, she unfolded a silver moonlight domain with a diameter of three hundred feet, centered on herself.

The expansion of that domain was much faster than the Burning Sky Crimson Ape had anticipated, like a giant bowl filled with moonlight turned upside down on the earth, covering all the space within a radius of three hundred feet in a hazy silver glow.

Within the realm, moonlight flowed as if it were a tangible substance, coating every pebble on the ground with a silvery-white edge, and every speck of dust floating in the air seemed to be a broken star held up by the moonlight, suspended in mid-air and no longer sinking.

The charge of the Burning Sky Crimson Ape suddenly slowed down in that silvery-white area.

It wasn't that its speed was decreasing, but rather that it was traversing a medium like solidified honey, consuming several times more energy with each step than usual, yet only achieving less than half the usual distance.

Under the silvery moonlight, the dark red aura was being neutralized, diluted, and suppressed at a visible speed, like a block of ink slowly dissolving in water, its edges fading and its outline becoming increasingly blurred.

The nine-tailed celestial fox raised its right hand.

The hand was slender and fair, with the five fingers slightly spread and the palm facing outward. Tiny silver specks of light were gathering, rotating, and condensing at the fingertips.

The next moment, a silver moon blade, tens of feet long and solid, descended from the sky like a scimitar forged by moonlight, pointing directly at the head of the Burning Sky Crimson Ape Demon Emperor.

The edge of the moon blade was so sharp it seemed to cut through light itself. Wherever it passed, the air was neatly divided in two, and the cuts, illuminated by the moonlight, appeared as thin as a hair, a silver line that took a long time to heal.

The moon blade fell extremely fast, yet as it fell, it emitted a continuous low hum, like the wind passing through a bamboo forest. The sound was like a string being repeatedly plucked, echoing, entwining, and tightening in the night sky.

Lin Che, who was standing to the side, saw it all clearly.

That magnificent crescent moon contained terrifying power, and it was also imbued with immense spiritual energy!

Without a doubt, this move is specifically designed to counter the divine soul!

The silver moon blades appeared as solidified moonlight on the surface, but deep within their core was a rotating silver-white halo, like the eye of a storm compressed to its limit, vibrating the surrounding divine soul power at a peculiar frequency.

The air that was sliced ​​by the moon blade left behind a very faint layer of silver ripples. As those ripples spread through the air, they were like water droplets falling on the surface of water, creating visible ripples in the invisible space.

The Crimson Ape stopped three steps away from the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Demon Emperor; the moon blade had already pierced through the Crimson Ape.

Its right fist remained in a swinging posture, the dark red aura on its fist like a frozen flame, solidified in the second before it was about to be released.

But the dark red aura had stopped flowing and began to solidify, shatter, and peel off its arm, like weathered rock, piece by piece, peeling away from its skin, crumbling, and dissipating into the air.

The golden flames were also covered by the silvery-white light, like candle flames sealed in amber, no longer flickering, no longer burning, leaving only the last wisp of solidified light.

Its facial features appeared strangely still in the moonlight.

His pupils stopped contracting, his breathing stopped rising and falling, and even the fur that had been fluttering in the wind stopped moving, like a statue frozen in the moonlight.

Then, those crimson-gold vertical pupils slowly lost their luster, and the body leaned backward, crashing its massive form onto the ground with a dull thud.

The dark red aura shattered completely the moment it fell, like broken glass, scattering and flying in the night, gradually fading away.

"Master Lin, this is the first gift I give you. I hope our two families can work together in the future."

Seeing this, Lin Che immediately understood what she meant.

At this moment, the Burning Sky Crimson Ape's soul was slain by her, but the fourth-order demon core within its body remained intact.

A complete fourth-tier demon core is the main ingredient for refining Nascent Soul Pills or Heavenly Demon Nascent Soul Pills, making this a truly significant gift.

With a wave of its hand, the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox caused the fourth-order demon core of the Burning Sky Crimson Ape to slowly rise from its chest, like a dark red gem held up by moonlight, gleaming with a warm and restrained luster in the night sky.

The dark red patterns on the surface of that demon core were still slowly flowing, like a heart that had stopped beating but was still breathing, radiating the last warmth of a fourth-tier demon emperor.

Lin Che did not refuse, but reached out and put it into his sleeve, nodding slightly: "Then thank you very much, Demon Emperor."

But then his gaze sharpened, staring directly into the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox's eyes, and he raised his spear high once more: "But I have another question, why do you want to cooperate with my Lin family? What is your purpose! Don't tell me it's just to annex the territory of the Burning Sky Crimson Ape, I don't believe it."

The bloodline of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Demon Emperor before Lin Che was deeper than he had ever seen before!

Through the system's investigation, Lin Che learned that the fox in front of him possessed a sixth-tier top-grade bloodline and the bloodline of the ancient divine beast, the Heavenly Fox!

Although its strength is only at the fourth level, it can absolutely crush the Burning Sky Crimson Ape in terms of power. The two are not even on the same level. This demon beast is definitely not an ordinary demon emperor!

Their army is no weaker than the demon beast army of the Crimson Ape Territory. There must be another reason why they could choose not to cooperate with the Lin family!

The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Demon Emperor smiled slightly.

"Let's resolve the battle beneath the city first, and then we can discuss this in detail." Her gaze shifted towards the battlefield, her silvery-white pupils reflecting the closing battlefield.

"it is good."

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Beneath the walls of Chuyang City, the battlefield has entered its second half.

The Red Ape Army was taking turns attacking the city walls, and both sides were exhausted after a whole night of fierce fighting.

The array patterns on the city wall were no longer as bright as they had been initially. The repaired patterns flickered in the night wind, like a wound that had been repeatedly stitched up, each breath consuming the little remaining spirit stone reserves.

Just when they thought they only needed to keep attriting until the defense line broke, the horizon to the southeast lit up.

A silvery-white tide of beasts surged from the horizon, like a moonlit sea rising with the tide, silently spreading over the hills and ravines.

Those silvery-white figures left flowing afterimages in the night wind, like a stream of water soaked in moonlight, pressing towards the edge of the battlefield at a speed far exceeding that of an ordinary beast tide.

Their formation was neat and their steps were uniform, like a silver-gray tide pulled by the same thread, pressing in from the flank of the Red Ape Army.

On the city wall, the defenders were the first to notice the change.

The apes that were charging towards the city gate suddenly slowed down and began to look back repeatedly, their eyes filled with confusion and panic that humans could understand.

The formations that were still gathering for the attack began to loosen, and the apes that were still roaring began to emit short and rapid cries, like a pond being stirred up, with ripples spreading rapidly from the edges to the center.

"What are those?" A young garrison monk pointed to the spreading silvery-white beast tide, his voice trembling with barely suppressed emotion, as if he had witnessed a scene that should not appear on the battlefield.

"Monsters! Another army of monsters!"

Under the moonlight, the silvery-white foxes formed a flowing arc, cutting into the flank of the red ape army at a speed far exceeding that of an ordinary beast tide.

Their bodies were light and agile, each leaving a silvery-white afterimage in the night wind, like a fragment of moonlight scattered by the wind, as they plunged straight into the ape lines that were trying to retreat.

Lin Xuanjing, on the city wall, received the message from command immediately and simultaneously began relaying it to all the defenders: "Don't worry, these are our allies. Our reinforcements have arrived. Prepare to leave the city and encircle them!"

The soldiers were all somewhat surprised.

How could an army of demonic beasts actually come to their aid?

Judging from the other side's movements and the panic of the demon beast army in the Crimson Ape Territory, this is indeed true!

The silvery-white foxes were cutting through the apes' lines at an astonishing speed, severing, dividing, and compressing them like a slowly tightening silver rope, each loop shrinking the apes' living space.

The city gates were opened at the same time.

The heavy ironwood gate creaked open and parted to the sides, through which the city's spiritual light and sounds poured out.

Holding a long spear, Lin Xuanjing charged out of the city gate first. The garrison behind him surged out of the city gate like a blazing orange tide, forming a narrowing pincer shape with the closing silver-white beast tide.

At this moment, the array patterns on the city wall were redirected, no longer for defense against external enemies, but for amplifying the spirit beasts.

The crocodile turtles that had been waiting behind the city gate took heavy steps, enveloped in a layer of warm spiritual light, and moved back towards the city gate. Each step they took caused the ground to sink slightly, like a war drum being struck. The vibrations spread outwards along the ground, causing the gravel under the feet of the retreating apes to tremble slightly.

The golden lions spread out on their flanks, like a closing golden arc, gradually narrowing the left flank of the red ape army. Each charge created new gaps on their flanks, and each retreat widened those gaps further.

The petrified lizards lined up in the shadows of the city walls, silently filling the gaps torn open by the apes.

The Red Ape army's lines began to crumble at this moment.

Those apes who were originally retreating and looking for a way out found that they had no way out.

Their left flank was the cutting line of the Golden Lion Beast, their right flank was the blockade of the wolf pack and fox pack, their rear was the closing silver-white beast tide, and their front was the garrison and spirit beast formation that was leaving the city.

Those ape troops that were able to maintain their formation are now being compressed by one encirclement after another.

Then came the final straw that broke the camel's back.

Lin Che held the corpse of the Burning Sky Crimson Ape aloft, his dark red figure casting a huge shadow in the moonlight. His voice came from the night sky, clear and cold: "The Burning Sky Crimson Ape is dead. Do you still want to struggle?"

The ape leaders stood amidst their remaining forces, their gazes darting back and forth between the silver-white beast tide and the orange-clad defenders, still hesitant.

But when they saw their Demon Emperor, the Burning Sky Crimson Ape, its enormous corpse being raised high, its once-familiar head drooping in the moonlight, no longer breathing, no longer burning, no longer bearing that volcanic oppression that weighed on the heads of all the apes, they no longer had any thought of resistance.

"Kneel down and you won't be killed!" Lin Xuanjing's voice came from the front of the battle formation. With the help of the Qingpu Mingchan's sonic power, it spread clearly in the night sky, like an invisible net covering the entire battlefield.

Upon hearing this, the entire army of demon beasts from the Crimson Ape Territory knelt on the ground.

Heavy knees slammed into the ground one after another with dull thuds. The kneeling figures formed a dark patch under the moonlight, thickening the already paved background of corpses.

Lin Xuanjing stood before the city gate, his spear pointing diagonally at the ground, dried blood still clinging to its tip. He looked up at the receding night and the first hint of dawn on the horizon, his voice echoing throughout the garrison: "Victory! Chuyang City, we have held it!"

"We held on? We really held on?"

"Did they really win?"

"Haha, we held on!"

Excitement immediately spread.

They actually accomplished that impossible task.

They actually managed to defend Chuyang City!

Excitement erupted simultaneously on the city walls, beneath the city gates, and across the plains, like a volcano that had been suppressed for too long finally finding its outlet.

Some people hugged their comrades who were fighting alongside them, some raised their spears high, and some lay on the blood-stained ground, panting heavily.

The spirit beasts also let out their own cries and growls, which intertwined in the morning light to form a scorching symphony, as if drawing a complete period to this long battle.

As dawn slowly rose from the eastern horizon, it bathed the walls of Chuyang City in a warm golden light.

The flags that had fluttered in the night wind all night were now unfurling again in the morning light, the Lin family emblem on them gleaming with a warm glow.

That remote border town, once considered by countless people to be undefendable, finally saw its first dawn.