Rumble!
As the Nascent Soul stage cultivators of the Green Demon Race drew closer, the rumbling outside the city grew even more intense.
Under Ye Qingxuan’s secret manipulation, the protective barrier of the formation outside the city became increasingly unstable, giving off the impression that it could collapse at any moment.
In the face of the approaching Nascent Soul stage powerhouses of the Green Demon Race, Ye Qingxuan had not been idle.
He took out several fourth-tier nuclear explosion pills and hurled them in the direction the Green Demon Race was advancing from.
A fourth-tier nuclear explosion pill packed power comparable to a full-force strike from an early Nascent Soul stage cultivator.
It could pose a certain threat to those Nascent Soul stage Green Demons, but it wouldn’t scare them off.
On the contrary, it would make them drop their guard and feel even more confident in attacking the city.
Sure enough, after easily dodging the few fourth-tier nuclear explosion pills Ye Qingxuan threw at them.
The few early Nascent Soul stage Green Demons at the very front wore a faint sneer of disdain on their faces, and their speed toward Ye Qingxuan’s city increased a notch.
Soon, the few early Nascent Soul stage Green Demons at the front had arrived near Ye Qingxuan’s city.
They began unleashing their full power against the formation shield outside the city, which appeared to be on the verge of collapsing.
The dense demonic energy, drawn by the Green Demons, began to envelop the energy shield in the area not far in front of Ye Qingxuan.
Under the erosion of the demonic energy, the shield began to emit a harsh sizzling sound.
Seeing this, Ye Qingxuan chuckled softly and began fully activating the purification grand formation set up using fifth-tier spirit purification trees.
He guided the demonic energy drawn by these early Nascent Soul stage Green Demons into the purification grand formation, converting it into pure spiritual energy and channeling it into his city.
At the same time, Ye Qingxuan threw out several more fourth-tier nuclear explosion pills, pretending to counterattack.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The explosions of several fourth-tier nuclear explosion pills rang out once again.
As Ye Qingxuan expected, the fourth-tier nuclear explosion pills were easily dodged by the few early Nascent Soul stage Green Demons outside the city, causing them no effective damage.
After dodging Ye Qingxuan’s fourth-tier nuclear explosion pills, one of the Green Demons frowned as he looked at the still-intact energy barrier outside the city, then turned his head and angrily said to those behind him:
“What are you all doing? It’s just a human city at its wit’s end—what are you cowering and hesitating for?”
Hearing this, a late Nascent Soul stage Green Demon twenty or thirty li away from Ye Qingxuan’s city let out a cold snort:
“Hmph!”
A vast pressure of divine sense bore down on that early Nascent Soul stage Green Demon who had spoken out to rebuke them.
Even Xie Yin and Xie Wu’s expressions changed, and they shot him a cold glance.
Feeling the powerful divine sense pressure, that early Nascent Soul stage Green Demon cultivator let out a muffled groan, and finally fell silent with a livid face.
He began venting his fury on Ye Qingxuan’s city, blow after blow.
Behind them, Xie Yin and Xie Wu exchanged a glance, then nodded in unison, deciding to delay no longer.
The two of them arrived in front of Ye Qingxuan’s city in an instant at extreme speed, and the sixth-tier early-stage talismans they had long prepared in their hands were quickly activated.
After probing for so long, the two of them no longer wanted to waste time.
A sixth-tier protective formation required sixth-tier talismans to speed up the process of breaking it.
A quick, decisive battle—they still needed to deal with those hidden human Nascent Soul stage cultivators behind them, and had no time to linger too long at this city.
After the two sixth-tier talismans were activated, two surges of energy far exceeding the peak of the Nascent Soul stage appeared, drawing in demonic energy from a hundred li around at extreme speed and hurling it toward Ye Qingxuan’s city.
At the same moment, Ye Qingxuan rapidly raised the power of the sixth-tier Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Grand Formation to its utmost limit.
The collision of the two sixth-tier talismans and the sixth-tier formation was accompanied by a crackling roar.
The energy fluctuations directly knocked back the few early Nascent Soul stage Green Demons outside the city, and they only barely managed to stop after retreating several li.
The shield outside Ye Qingxuan’s city began to teeter, with faint cracks already appearing.
This time, it was truly on the verge of collapsing.
However, a formation was still a formation, and moreover a special Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Grand Formation set up by Ye Qingxuan—naturally, it couldn’t be destroyed by just two talismans of the same tier.
Without needing Ye Qingxuan to activate it, the shield of the sixth-tier Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Grand Formation, which had been violently shaking, began to slowly stabilize.
The cracks on the shield had also begun to gradually heal.
“That’s it?”
Looking at Xie Yin and Xie Wu, the two peak Nascent Soul stage Green Demons outside the city, Ye Qingxuan, who had been standing in midair with his hands behind his back the whole time, tilted the corner of his mouth and couldn’t help but mock them.
At the same time, Ye Qingxuan’s heart was full of anticipation.
If he could hunt down these two peak Nascent Soul stage Green Demons, he would make a huge profit this time.
For a moment, Ye Qingxuan hesitated, wondering whether to take this opportunity to directly activate the sixth-tier killing formation and hunt down the two peak Nascent Soul stage Green Demons not far away.
“Hmph!”
Just as Ye Qingxuan was hesitating.
Hearing Ye Qingxuan’s mockery, Xie Yin and Xie Wu both let out cold snorts.
But after seeing the changes in the formation outside Ye Qingxuan’s city, both of their pupils constricted.
Xie Wu looked back at the other Nascent Soul stage clan members and said coldly:
“What are you all still waiting for? Attack together and break the formation barrier. Don’t give it time to heal.”
Things having come to this point, and with two peak Nascent Soul stage clan members taking the lead.
These Green Demons, who had been maintaining their vigilance all along, exchanged glances, then began rapidly approaching Ye Qingxuan’s city and attacked in unison.
However, a portion of the mid and late Nascent Soul stage Green Demons, though they moved forward some distance, did not fully approach Ye Qingxuan’s city.
To put it plainly, although breaking a human city would earn considerable merit.
With so many people this time, the merit divided among them wouldn’t be enough to make them risk going all out.
Compared to attacking the city, this latter group of shrewd Green Demon cultivators preferred to conserve their strength and, after the city fell, hunt down the Nascent Soul stage human cultivators in the mountain range behind.
At the same time, within the mountain ranges on both sides of the plains.
Many human cultivators had been silently watching this battle from the shadows all along.
When they saw that the Green Demon cultivators had been attacking for a long time, and had even used sixth-tier talismans, yet the newly established human city on the plains still stood firm.
The human cultivators lurking at the edges of the mountain ranges felt their eyes light up.
If this region truly had a human city successfully established, it would be an enormous help to them.
Whether it was entering the city to resupply, or returning to Xuanmu City through the city, everything would be much more convenient.
And even if the city were breached, given this city’s current performance, perhaps before it fell, it could still inflict heavy damage on these Green Demons attacking it.
When that time came, it would be the perfect opportunity for them to strike and hunt the Nascent Soul stage Green Demons.
Before this, these human Nascent Soul stage powerhouses had not foolishly rushed forward to clash head-on with these Green Demon powerhouses.
Right now, the enemy was many and they were few, and the people in the city had a teleportation formation as a retreat route.
But once they were entangled by Green Demon powerhouses, it wouldn’t be so easy for them to withdraw.
This was also the reason these human cultivators had been watching from the sidelines without rashly making a move.
No matter which race’s cultivators they were.
After stepping onto the path of immortality, those cultivators who were brainless and relied only on hot-blooded passion without maintaining rationality had mostly already been eliminated and filtered out.
Outside Ye Qingxuan’s city.
After more than half of the Nascent Soul stage Green Demons had approached the city.
Ye Qingxuan no longer hesitated, and decisively activated the sixth-tier killing formation inscribed on the city walls.
Instantly, a intense killing intent spread from within Ye Qingxuan’s city and enveloped those Nascent Soul stage Green Demons outside.
“Oh no!”
“Retreat quickly!”
Xie Yin and Xie Wu were the first to sense the danger and immediately called out a warning.
Even as they spoke, the two prepared to swiftly flee the area.
But it was too late—they were simply too close to Ye Qingxuan’s city.
The suppression force inherent to the sixth-tier formation slowed their movements, making it impossible for them to quickly escape.
Meanwhile, the seven or eight Green Demon Nascent Soul stage powerhouses who had been staying behind and had not approached, upon sensing the change.
Immediately scattered and fled in lingering fear, not even glancing back as they escaped the area.
However, the direction they fled in was not toward the mountain ranges on either side of the plains.
Clearly, they had also guessed something about the human Nascent Soul stage powerhouses’ plans within the mountains.
Within the mountain ranges on both sides of the plains, many human cultivators were stunned by the scene unfolding on the plains.
One cultivator even exclaimed:
“This fellow daoist is amazing—a sixth-tier protective grand formation AND a sixth-tier killing grand formation. This city might really be able to stand firm in the Xuanmu Realm.”
There were also quite a few human Nascent Soul stage powerhouses who were itching to move as they watched the few fleeing Nascent Soul stage Green Demons.
But seeing the direction they fled in, they all sighed with regret:
“What a pity! Why didn’t they flee toward the mountains?”
This batch of fleeing Green Demon cultivators was uninjured, so the success rate of pursuing them was clearly too low, and thus the human Nascent Soul stage cultivators did not act rashly.
Afterward, they once again turned their gazes toward the still-unfinished battle on the plains.
On the plains.
“No!”
The few early Nascent Soul stage Green Demon cultivators at the very front were the first to be struck by the formation’s attack, falling on the spot.
After annihilating the few Green Demons at the front, the attacks of the sixth-tier killing formation did not stop.
Under Ye Qingxuan’s control, the blade lights, sword shadows, and spear radiance condensed by the sixth-tier killing formation began to gather and spin, forming a tornado filled with destructive force.
This tornado rapidly expanded and swept toward Xie Yin and Xie Wu.
Seeing this, Xie Yin and Xie Wu’s pupils constricted.
The two exchanged a glance, instantly understanding each other’s meaning. Xie Yin shouted to the other Nascent Soul stage clan members around them:
“If you have trump cards, when will you use them if not now?”
After saying this, he and Xie Wu both took out a sixth-tier mid-grade talisman, and with pained expressions, activated the sixth-tier mid-grade talismans in their hands.
At the same time, the other Green Demon Nascent Soul stage powerhouses also activated their own trump cards.
Various mid-grade spirit artifact shields, fifth-tier protective talismans, and fifth-tier attack talismans were activated one after another on the field.
Some late Nascent Soul stage Green Demon cultivators even directly used sixth-tier low-grade space traversal talismans to escape the scene.
For a moment, various colored energy light clusters lit up outside Ye Qingxuan’s city.
The two sixth-tier mid-grade talismans activated by Xie Yin and Xie Wu.
One headed toward the energy tornado formed by the sixth-tier killing formation controlled by Ye Qingxuan.
The other headed toward the formation barrier of Ye Qingxuan’s city.
The instant the two sixth-tier mid-grade talismans were unleashed, they immediately broke through the suppression force of the sixth-tier killing formation in this area.
A few extremely alert late Nascent Soul stage Green Demon cultivators sensed the change, their faces lighting up with joy, and without any hesitation fled the area, disappearing without a trace.
Seeing this, the other Green Demons showed excitement on their faces and were about to flee the area.
But the next second, a suppression force even stronger than that of the sixth-tier formation reappeared, instantly enveloping the entire field.
“Impossible? A sixth-tier supreme-grade talisman?”
“A sixth-tier supreme-grade talisman?”
That’s right—when Xie Yin and Xie Wu activated their sixth-tier mid-grade talismans, Ye Qingxuan had already sensed it.
Almost immediately after Xie Yin and Xie Wu activated their sixth-tier mid-grade talismans, Ye Qingxuan likewise activated his own sixth-tier supreme-grade talisman.
The appearance of the sixth-tier supreme-grade talisman drew gasps of shock from both the Green Demons and the watching human cultivators.
The higher the tier of a product, not only was it rarer, but the gap between even a single minor grade became greater.
A sixth-tier supreme-grade talisman was already comparable to a full-force strike from a peak Spirit Transformation stage cultivator.
Don’t think Ye Qingxuan didn’t take sixth-tier talismans seriously.
That was because he had the Tianfu Shop, a treasure trove, within the Xuantian Sect, and didn’t lack spirit stones.
And with the Xuantian Sect behind him, he could easily obtain sixth-tier resources, which was why he could use sixth-tier talismans so freely.
But for ordinary cultivators in the cultivation world, whether human or Green Demon.
Being able to obtain cultivation resources one tier above their own was already a stroke of great fortune—who wouldn’t hide them away as their strongest trump card?
Who else was like Ye Qingxuan, who had casually used fifth and sixth-tier resources even back when he was still at the Golden Core stage?
So, the moment the sixth-tier supreme-grade talisman appeared, both human cultivators and Green Demon cultivators were utterly shocked.
With seventh-tier cultivators absent, the sixth-tier supreme-grade talisman was already at the highest level in the Xuanmu Realm.
As for seventh-tier resources?
Even Ye Qingxuan, with the Xuantian Sect behind him, could not easily obtain seventh-tier resources.
Let alone these Nascent Soul stage cultivators of the Xuanmu Realm?
Perhaps among the Nascent Soul stage cultivators who had descended to the lower realm for training, there were those carrying seventh-tier treasures for protection, but such beings were absolutely rare.
As long as Ye Qingxuan didn’t encounter these rare few, establishing a city in the Xuanmu Realm would still be a piece of cake.
“Damn it!”
The descent of the sixth-tier supreme-grade talisman plunged these Green Demons besieging Ye Qingxuan’s city back into a suppressed state.
Although the sixth-tier supreme-grade talisman was only a single strike, incomparable to the endurance of a sixth-tier formation.
The single strike of a sixth-tier supreme-grade talisman was, for Nascent Soul stage cultivators, already a devastating blow.
Sensing the dense aura of death, Xie Wu could no longer concern himself with anything else and shouted:
“Xuanmo Shield!”
A pitch-black mysterious shield instantly appeared before Xie Wu, firmly protecting him.
Beside him, Xie Yin also hurriedly deployed a secret technique:
“Earth Demon Protection!”
In an instant, an endless surge of majestic demonic energy poured from the earth, wrapping Xie Yin tightly and forming a demonic cocoon.
The other Nascent Soul stage Green Demons also displayed their various abilities, each bringing out their most proficient life-saving methods.
Boom! Rumble!
Violent energy roars rang out one after another, deafening, stirring up wave after wave of energy tides that swept in all directions.
First, one of the sixth-tier mid-grade talismans activated by Xie Yin collided with the tornado formed by the sixth-tier killing formation.
As the tornado was shattered by the energy of the sixth-tier mid-grade talisman, various energy weapons scattered in all directions, creating indiscriminate attacks.
Several early and mid Nascent Soul stage Green Demons who couldn’t dodge in time under the suppression instantly perished under these flying energy weapons.
Then, the sixth-tier supreme-grade talisman activated by Ye Qingxuan collided with the sixth-tier mid-grade talisman activated by Xie Wu.
Xie Wu’s sixth-tier mid-grade talisman attack only held out for a moment before being instantly shattered.
However, after shattering Xie Wu’s sixth-tier mid-grade talisman, the sixth-tier supreme-grade talisman attack unleashed by Ye Qingxuan was also affected by the energy explosion of the sixth-tier talisman and instantly burst apart.
For a moment, the energy of three sixth-tier talismans and one sixth-tier formation instantly swept across the entire field, and the early Nascent Soul stage Green Demons on the field almost all perished.
Fortunately, at the moment the sixth-tier talisman attacks burst apart, the suppression force on the Green Demon Nascent Soul stage powerhouses had also been lifted.
After enduring the first wave of energy tides stirred up by the sixth-tier energy collision, many mid and late Nascent Soul stage Green Demon powerhouses coughed up blood and fled into the distance.
Even Xie Yin and Xie Wu, who were at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, were no exception.
It was just that compared to the others, Xie Yin and Xie Wu’s injuries were somewhat lighter.
But most of the early Nascent Soul stage and a small portion of mid Nascent Soul stage Green Demons who had entered within ten li of Ye Qingxuan’s city all perished under Ye Qingxuan’s counterattack.
At the same time, the human cultivators within the mountain ranges on both sides of the plains.
Although they were still shocked that the city lord of this newly established human city actually had a sixth-tier supreme-grade talisman, their actions did not stop.
As these injured Nascent Soul stage Green Demons fled, the human Nascent Soul stage cultivators, without the slightest hesitation, instantly chose their respective targets and gave chase.
Among them, the peak Nascent Soul stage human cultivator carrying a long saber on his back, expressionless, headed in the direction Xie Wu had fled.
Ye Qingxuan, within the city, also noticed the movements of the human cultivators in the mountains.
Seeing that Xie Wu already had a peak Nascent Soul stage human cultivator pursuing him, Ye Qingxuan turned his gaze toward Xie Yin, a peculiar smile appearing on his face.
