Inside the Nascent Soul-level tribe, the Yin Kui Tribe—
Before the Yin Kui King even had time to think, a series of deafening explosions erupted in rapid succession.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Yin Kui King’s eyes flew wide open as he cried out in alarm:
“Oh no!”
The next instant, he decisively activated every defensive formation within his secret chamber.
At the same time, he produced an ancient talisman and, without a moment’s hesitation, activated it directly.
The very next second, a raging tide of energy surged through the entire interior space of the mountain where the Yin Kui Tribe was housed, and continued spreading outward.
Outside the Yin Kui Tribe—
With a thunderous roar, the once-massive mountain peak was blasted into fragments, shattered in all directions.
Layer upon layer of terrifying energy shockwaves expanded outward indiscriminately, obliterating everything in the surrounding mountain ranges.
The four smaller hills outside the main peak did not escape either—they were leveled flat by the blast wave from the thirty fifth-rank nuclear explosion pills.
The fifth-rank obscuring formation that Ye Qingxuan had set up held for only a brief moment before it was torn apart by that fearsome energy.
And even after shredding Ye Qingxuan’s fifth-rank obscuring formation, the terrifying energy tide didn’t stop—it kept expanding outward.
In the blink of an eye, it reached Ye Qingxuan, who had stopped at a distance to observe everything.
At this sight, Ye Qingxuan was somewhat dumbfounded.
He’d still underestimated the sheer power of thirty fifth-rank nuclear explosion pills detonating together.
Fortunately, by the time the energy tide reached him, the mountain’s bulk and the formations had already absorbed much of its force, reducing its intensity significantly.
Ye Qingxuan simply activated a fifth-rank guardian talisman, forming a barrier around himself, and easily withstood the remaining energy shockwave.
After weathering the first wave of energy, Ye Qingxuan didn’t wait for the energy to settle before heading back to the Yin Kui Tribe to loot the battlefield.
The remaining energy waves could no longer pose any real threat to him.
If he didn’t hurry, all his efforts this time might very well be for nothing.
Such a massive commotion was bound to alert the Green Demon experts in the area—and who knew when a Green Demon Spirit Transformation realm powerhouse might show up.
So as soon as he’d withstood the first energy wave, Ye Qingxuan shot straight toward the mountain where the Yin Kui Tribe had been.
By the time he arrived at the scene, the original mountain had already been razed to the ground. Contrary to expectations, there were no scattered ruins everywhere.
That was because all the Green Demons below the Purple Mansion realm in the Yin Kui Tribe had been reduced to ash by the explosion of the thirty fifth-rank pills.
Even the Purple Mansion realm Green Demons had their bodies blown to bits—pieces scattered here and there, extremely incomplete.
Only the Golden Core realm Green Demon corpses, though missing limbs here and there, remained relatively intact overall.
After a moment’s hesitation, Ye Qingxuan decided to skip the Purple Mansion remains and focus on searching the five Golden Core realm Green Demon corpses and the single Nascent Soul realm Green Demon corpse.
He was running out of time—he had to gather his spoils and get out of there as fast as possible, or he might not be able to leave at all.
Meanwhile, just as Ye Qingxuan arrived at the scene and began collecting his loot—
The disturbance he’d caused had already caught the attention of Nascent Soul realm experts within a radius of several thousand miles, and Spirit Transformation realm experts within ten thousand miles.
And that range was still growing as the energy waves continued to spread.
About three thousand miles from the Yin Kui Tribe, inside a cave—
A Spirit Transformation team from the Earth Mystery Realm was also alerted by the commotion Ye Qingxuan had stirred up.
This Spirit Transformation team consisted of only three members: two men and one woman.
One of the men, who was on the thinner side, couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise:
“Which Spirit Transformation team is out hunting Spirit Transformation Green Demons? They’re making such a huge racket—don’t they know to use a sixth-rank formation to conceal it? Or is it that they just don’t know how? Tsk tsk tsk!”
Hearing this, his other teammate—a burly, imposing man—rolled his eyes and spoke up:
“Alright, Luo Tian. You’re a sixth-rank formation master, fine. You’re impressive, okay?”
Upon hearing his teammate’s words, the thinner man, named Luo Tian—a sixth-rank formation master—couldn’t help but show a smug look, letting out a snicker.
“Heh heh, Junior Disciple Zhao, glad you know.”
The burly man, hearing Luo Tian call him “Junior Disciple,” could only shake his head helplessly. What else could he do? The guy was just that thick-skinned.
Finally, the cold-faced woman who had been resting with her eyes closed slowly opened her eyes and shot a glance at Luo Tian.
Feeling a chill run down his back, Luo Tian gave an awkward smile and wisely kept his mouth shut.
All three of them were core disciples of the Xuan Tian Sect at the Spirit Transformation realm: Luo Tian and Zhao Kui, both at the late Spirit Transformation stage, and their captain, Leng Ning Shuang, at the peak Spirit Transformation stage.
Their team was named the Condensation Frost Team.
Although they’d detected the disturbance Ye Qingxuan had caused, they had no intention of going over to check it out.
At a time like this, rushing over would be walking straight into the line of fire. They had no desire to take that risk.
For Spirit Transformation teams from the Earth Mystery Realm operating in the Demon Domain, the primary rule was always safety first.
Any other reckless teams had long since offered up their merits to the Green Demons and vanished completely.
On the other side, Ye Qingxuan was looting at lightning speed.
He quickly found the corpses of the five Golden Core realm Green Demons, but he still couldn’t locate the Nascent Soul realm Green Demon’s body.
“Could it be that this Yin Kui King wasn’t in the tribe and had gone out?”
Though puzzled, Ye Qingxuan also grew more vigilant.
He quietly pulled a sixth-rank talisman from his storage ring and held it in his hand, then began sweeping through the area of the fifth-rank demon vein where the Yin Kui Tribe had been located.
The fifth-rank demon vein had already been shattered by the terrifying energy impact, with demon stones scattered all around—most of them destroyed.
Only the core region remained, and Ye Qingxuan had yet to see what was there.
While exploring toward the core region of the fifth-rank demon vein, Ye Qingxuan didn’t stop his looting.
Everywhere he passed, all the scattered demon stones were swept into the storage pouch he used specifically for spoils from the Demon Domain.
Finally, he reached the deep interior of what had once been the mountain—the core area of the fifth-rank demon vein.
There, he saw the source of the fifth-rank demon vein, exposed and revealed by the explosion.
But instead of rushing to grab the source of the fifth-rank demon vein—right before his eyes, wreathed in demonic energy—Ye Qingxuan narrowed his eyes and slowly scanned his surroundings.
Though he couldn’t see anyone else around, his primary consciousness was now in control, making him highly sensitive to his surroundings.
Combined with the constant vigilance he’d maintained, the moment he stepped into this area, he sensed hidden watchers and danger lurking in the shadows.
After sweeping his gaze around, Ye Qingxuan pinpointed the direction from which the sensation of being watched and the threat were coming.
He reached out as if to grab the source of the fifth-rank demon vein, but secretly, he quickly activated the sixth-rank talisman he’d prepared and launched it toward the area where he’d sensed danger.
At the same moment, a talisman materialized from that very spot and struck back at him.
As they both sensed the energy fluctuations from each other’s talismans, Ye Qingxuan and the hidden ambusher exclaimed in unison:
“A sixth-rank talisman?”
