Chapter 62: Shattering the Demon Cave, the Bloody Battle Begins!
Devil Cloud Ridge.
In its depths.
The miasma was overwhelming, with visibility limited to only a few steps. The dense miasma was also mixed with violent demonic qi. In such an environment, human cultivators below the Void Cauldron Realm would find it impossible to move an inch.
This environment severely restricted human cultivators, while allowing the Demon Race to move as if they were in their element.
At this moment, Lin Xuan, who was within a spatial crevice, looked at the gray-green miasma, a hint of excitement in his eyes.
The closer he got to the spatial node he had predicted, the more miasma there was, which also served as proof from the side that this final location was correct.
Several li away from this location.
Between several towering mountain peaks, silver ripples would occasionally appear in the void. Wherever the ripples passed, many demon creatures would struggle to leap out, ranging from Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment Realm demon creatures to Golden Core and Nascent Soul Realm ones.
Of course, from within a few of the larger ripples, Void Shattering Realm demon creatures also emerged.
On the mountain peaks, thousands upon hundreds of giants as massive as Titans were cutting down mountains and forests, constructing numerous buildings that resembled military camps. At the same time, large quantities of stones from the Demon Realm were being transported out from the randomly appearing ripples.
If one were to look down upon these five sword-like peaks now, they would see that altars of the same design had been built on the summits of each peak.
The five altars had now entered the final stage of completion.
Demonic flying airships, several dozen zhang in size, sailed out from a ripple spanning a hundred zhang.
In less than three days, the Demon Race had already amassed a considerable fighting force.
Once the five altars were completed and stabilized this spatial node, they would be able to transport their demonic forces to the Devil Cloud Ridge without end, turning the Devil Cloud Ridge into their frontline stronghold.
Shua!
Lin Xuan flew swiftly from a distance.
He cast a somewhat heavy gaze upon the massive demonic army.
If this force were to attack with all its might, the small Coiling Dragon City would likely be leveled in less than a quarter of an hour.
"For the Heavenly Demon Palace to deploy a spatial node within a territory governed by the Nine Heavens Holy Land is a move tantamount to discarding this piece. Could it be that their sole purpose is to threaten the Nine Heavens Holy Land!?"
Lin Xuan pondered for a moment, but remained puzzled.
From within the spatial crevice, Lin Xuan could clearly sense an extremely violent spatial fluctuation three hundred meters away. That was the spatial node of this large Spatial Demon Cave.
He locked onto the target with his divine sense.
"Aura Suppression Art!"
With a thought, Lin Xuan cast the Aura Suppression Art, suppressing his own aura to its lowest point. He also placed Xiao Yu into his storage ring.
It was difficult to determine whether a Dao Union Realm demon creature was already guarding this large Spatial Demon Cave, so he had to be extremely careful within this demonic nest.
Furthermore.
Lin Xuan knew that among the many types of demon soldiers, there were several that were skilled in spatial probing.
It was fortunate that Lin Xuan's cultivation had reached the second heaven of the Void Cauldron Realm, and his control over the Great Void Art and the Aura Suppression Art had improved significantly.
The spiritual qi he mobilized now had a high chance of evading the divine sense detection of an ordinary Dao Union Realm demon creature.
Lin Xuan moved forward gently on the wind, closing the distance step by step.
Two hundred and ninety-nine meters!
Two hundred and ninety-eight meters!
...
Two hundred meters!
Just as Lin Xuan entered the two-hundred-meter range of the spatial node, he could clearly sense a powerful divine sense sweep up from below, covering an area of several li around him, as if searching for something.
Lin Xuan, however, suppressed his own aura to its absolute limit, even ceasing his breathing.
At this moment.
Inside a building on a mountain peak below Lin Xuan, the demon commander Niu Sanfu, who had black spiral ox-horns on his head, was clad in a deep black long robe. On his fair, scholarly face, a pair of demonic purplish-red pupils slowly opened.
A greenish iron ring floating before him suddenly extinguished the green light it was emitting, hanging silently in the void.
"Hmm?"
"Could it have been my imagination?"
Doubt arose in Niu Sanfu's eyes.
Just now, while he was refining a magic treasure, he had felt a sudden flash of alarm.
But after scanning the area with his divine sense, he found nothing unusual.
As the commander of this large Spatial Demon Cave, he could not let this pass casually. If any accident occurred and destabilized the spatial node, his own head would be on the line.
Niu Sanfu did not dare to be careless. He rose and left the palace.
Immediately, he summoned a gust of demonic wind, instantly crossing several hundred zhang to ascend high into the sky.
A demonic glint appeared in his purplish-red pupils as he carefully scanned the five peaks below, but still found nothing.
"Phew!"
Seeing that there was no incident, Niu Sanfu relaxed.
He was well aware that establishing a Demon Race stronghold in the Devil Cloud Ridge was completely unrealistic. They were surrounded by enemies. If one of the old monsters of the Nine Heavens Holy Land were to appear, his stronghold would be finished in an instant.
However, the reason their Heavenly Demon Palace was able to cross the human-demon border and bypass the blockade of the human Tribulation Realm experts to deploy a spatial node here was because Yu Zhenlong had joined forces with four other Tribulation Realm experts of the Heavenly Demon Palace to set up a grand formation. This formation temporarily shifted the human Tribulation Realm Supreme expert to another space.
Although the time was very short, it was sufficient to deploy a spatiotemporal node.
But this node was also a sacrificial piece. Yu Zhenlong wanted to use this large Spatial Demon Cave to try and find the reason why the Demon Race spies within the Nine Heavens Holy Land were wiped out.
Of course, there was also the plan to lure and capture the younger generation disciples of the Nine Heavens Holy Land.
Thinking of this.
Niu Sanfu sighed, hoping that the old human monsters would arrive a little later. Once he finished building the five altars, he could construct a spatiotemporal gateway for travel, giving him a way to retreat.
After that, Niu Sanfu returned to his residence.
At the same time.
Three steps behind Niu Sanfu was Lin Xuan, who was within the spatial crevice.
At such a close distance, Lin Xuan had his teleportation talisman ready at any moment. If Niu Sanfu made any unusual move, he would activate the talisman without hesitation.
But after waiting for a moment, it seemed Niu Sanfu had not discovered him. After he returned to his residence, Lin Xuan continued to move forward slowly.
The distance between them shrank rapidly.
Soon, only a few steps remained.
Within Lin Xuan's line of sight, the true form of the spatial node was revealed.
It was a twelve-sided crystalline body, constantly emitting spatial power toward its surroundings. This caused the spatial energy within a radius of several li to converge to a peak, temporarily constructing a channel between the two realms.
When he was three steps away from the spatial node.
Lin Xuan summoned the Sun and Moon Golden Wheel, pouring his own spiritual qi into it frantically.
"Great Wind Blade Art!"
Spiritual patterns on the Sun and Moon Golden Wheel lit up. At the same time, a deep azure light enveloped the wheel. A remnant shadow instantly tore through the void, shattering the spatial node into a pile of fragmented crystals.
Several silver ripples in the void abruptly stopped and slowly dissipated into nothingness.
Furthermore, several demon creatures that were halfway through the portal were violently severed in two, their blood spraying across the sky in a horrifying sight
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