The master went down the mountain

Inside the Sword Pavilion!

Tang Zhan and Luo Shen are cultivating and devouring corpses!

These corpses were originally from the royal court. They were controlled by the Old Monster of Heavenly Secrets and left the royal court to enter the Demon Cave. Tang Ruiwen brought them here!

"Daddy, Demon Ape has emerged from seclusion!"

"I'm coming up here all the way," said Cai Bao, skipping and hopping.

Tang Zhan and Luo Shen's pupils suddenly contracted!

Tang Zhan said in a deep voice, "Although Demon Ape was only at the initial stage of the first rank at his peak, he spent 20 years lying dormant on Earth, so his cultivation level should have improved..."

"Daddy is so amazing!"

Cai Bao interrupted Tang Zhan and said:

"After emerging from seclusion, Demon Ape flew into the air and shouted like a fool that he had recovered his cultivation and even made a breakthrough. Therefore, Bao Bao judged that Demon Ape's current cultivation level should be at the mid-stage of the first rank!"

Tang Zhan pondered for a moment, then released Qingluan from the Spirit Gathering Tower. Before he could speak, Qingluan knelt down with a thud and said:

"I have been promoted to the first rank. Please keep your promise and let me go to the royal court to kill the demon!"

In the past 20 years, it wasn't just Mo Xiao who made progress in his cultivation level; the four Divine Guards also broke through the peak of the second rank and reached the first rank!

Qingluan and Bingyuan had already advanced to the first rank a few days ago!

"The Demon Ape has just emerged from seclusion and has already advanced to the mid-level of the first rank!" Tang Zhan reminded him.

"Even if he advances to the mid-level of the first rank, I might still be able to kill him!" Qingluan said through gritted teeth.

This is no exaggeration!

When Qingluan followed Youming, she was already cultivating the Devouring Heaven Demon Art and the Nine Extremes Pagoda. Youming also enhanced her strength through genetic modification, awakened special abilities, and cultivated some other ultimate techniques and secret arts taught by Youming!

A few days ago, Tang Zhan sent someone to inscribe array patterns on her body. Although it was only the first time it was activated, her combat power could be increased tenfold!

With all these miscellaneous factors combined, Qingluan's cultivation level appears to be at the initial stage of the first rank, but her true strength is far beyond that!

"Take the Buddha Maiden, Ghost Shadow, and Mad Shark with you. I promised you, and I promised her too. Remember, killing the Demon Ape isn't the ultimate goal; killing the Demon Ape and coming back to see me alive is the ultimate goal!"

Tang Zhan tossed Qingluan a spatial bracelet and said.

Qingluan took the spatial bracelet, got up, and went to find the Buddha Maiden!

Seeing this, the Goddess of the Luo River asked, "Can they kill the demon?"

"I can't kill him!" Tang Zhan shook his head.

"Then why did you still send them?" Luo Shen asked.

"Although Qingluan can't kill Moxiao, Moxiao can't kill her either. I need Qingluan to help restrain Moxiao so that the war in the royal court can continue. As for Buddha Maiden, Ghost Shadow, and Mad Shark, although they have all advanced to the third rank, with their strength, they can't help Qingluan at all in dealing with a first-rank mid-level Moxiao. At most, they can help Qingluan kill some minions!" Tang Zhan said.

Luo Shen understood. Tang Zhan sent Qingluan and the other three to the royal court with the real purpose of boosting the morale of cultivators from various countries!

She looked at the vegetable buns and asked, "Do you know what to do?"

"Okay, Mom!"

The vegetable bun immediately wagged its little bottom and ran off!

Soon after, the cultivators from various countries who had fled due to the appearance of the demon all received a text message sent by Cai Bao:

"Tang Zhan has already dispatched Qingluan, who has just advanced to the initial stage of the first rank but whose strength far surpasses that of the initial stage of the first rank, into the royal court to kill Moxiao. In addition, there are three super experts of the third rank assisting her. You all stay where you are and wait until Qingluan and Moxiao start fighting before continuing the mission of attacking the ant nest!"

This short message contained a great deal of information, and practitioners from various countries quickly analyzed it to extract three key points:

First, Qingluan, one of the four divine guards under Moxiao, was turned by Tang Zhan.

Secondly, Qingluan, who was originally at the peak of the second rank, has now been promoted to the initial stage of the first rank, and her strength is far above the initial stage of the first rank.

Third, with the assistance of Qingluan and three mysterious super experts, even if they cannot kill Moxiao, they will be able to restrain him!

After analyzing these three pieces of information, the cultivators from various countries immediately stopped running and hid on the spot, waiting for the opportunity to return and fight back!

After the cultivators from various countries fled due to the appearance of the demon, the army of the Dark Kingdom did not pursue them. Firstly, there were still countless corpses, bean soldiers, and paper figures on the battlefield; secondly, they were worried that if they pursued the cultivators from various countries, someone would attack the ant nest!

Most importantly, the demon did not order a pursuit!

"The Demon Ape is here; who dares to fight me?"

The demon hovered high in the sky, its roar deafening, utterly arrogant.

"Tang Zhan, You Ming, you two cowards, you cowards who fear death, have the guts to show yourselves and fight me!"

He shouted these words repeatedly for a long time, but no one paid any attention to him, making himself feel awkward!

So he angrily landed on the ground and relieved his embarrassment and vented his anger by slaughtering corpses, bean soldiers and paper figures!

He had been curious for a while about why these corpses, bean soldiers, and paper figures were impossible to kill. The corpses were fine; once their limbs were cut off, they were no longer a threat even if they didn't die. But the bean soldiers and paper figures were impossible to kill no matter what he did!

Especially the paper figures, which are only the size of a palm. Not only are they impossible to kill, but they are also inconvenient to kill. These little things are very sneaky and mainly attack the lower body!

"This seems to be a legendary Taoist cultivation technique: using talismans to control corpses, turning beans into soldiers, and paper doll magic!"

After killing for a while, the demon finally figured out what was going on!

In fact, as the ruler of a nation, Mo Xiao was quite knowledgeable. The main reason was that even on the water planet where cultivation was clearly developed, the pure lineage of Daoist cultivation had long been severed, leaving only legends. Therefore, Mo Xiao did not understand it for a while!

"Spiritual attacks are effective against corpses, fire attacks are effective against bean soldiers, and both water and fire attacks are effective against paper dolls. Shout this to the entire army!" Demon Ape roared!

Upon hearing these words, the army of the Dark Kingdom immediately roared in celebration!

And you know what? This method of shouting to communicate actually worked quite well, and the message quickly spread throughout the entire battlefield!

Now the army of corpses, the army of bean soldiers, and the army of paper figures are in dire straits. They originally didn't have much combat power or destructive force, relying entirely on their numbers and immortality to fight each other. Now that there is a way to counter them, they die in large numbers in a short time!

Instead of continuing to kill, the demon entered the anthill.

"All users of water and fire-based special abilities, go out and fight the enemy!"

In fact, besides the families of the Dark Kingdom's army, the ant nest also contains an army of 300 million special ability users from the Extraordinary Laboratory, as well as cultivators below the fourth rank, a truly astonishing number!

Initially, Mo Xiao established the Extraordinary Laboratory to cultivate a powerful army of special ability users. However, after this army awakened its special abilities for the first time, it could no longer awaken them, and its cultivation level was below the fourth rank. Therefore, Mo Xiao stopped paying much attention to this army!

However, after the spiritual energy was restored, the 300 million-strong army began to awaken again, which gave the demon a glimmer of hope!

Therefore, after the royal court and the ant nest were destroyed, in order to protect the 3 million-strong army and to buy them time to continue awakening, the demon ordered the 3 million-strong army to enter the ant nest.

"All earth-elemental ability users, go out as well. I want you to build a city wall with a radius of 100 miles centered on the ant nest as quickly as possible. The wall should be 1,000 meters high and 300 meters thick..."

Moxiao's goal was simple: he would fight a defensive battle and keep all the enemy troops outside the city walls!