ragginovel Chapter 72 Blaming the Demon Clan
Chapter 72 Blaming the Demon Clan
Xuan Yao accepted Yan Yuanzi as his personal disciple, and the strange phenomena of water and fire above the Great Swamp gradually subsided.
However, Xuan Yao frowned slightly as he stood before the enormous primordial tree, secretly making plans in his mind.
It should be known that the fall of a Taiyi Golden Immortal is no small matter in the primordial world, let alone the fact that the Crimson Fiend True Man was the Xuanhua Envoy appointed by the Immortal Court of Zifu Continent.
The True Man Chi Li, acting on the decree of the Eastern King, traveled eastward to plunder spiritual lands, and his whereabouts must have been recorded in Zi Fu Continent.
If the Celestial Court discovers that Chi Li is dead, and that the entire Yan Yuan Clan, along with this extremely conspicuous primordial tree, has vanished without a trace, they will surely follow the remaining traces of energy to investigate.
Even if Xuan Yao does everything perfectly, and Xi Kunlun can protect the overall situation, the secret methods of Zifu Continent will still bring endless trouble to his Qingheishan Dojo.
Xuan Yao knew that in this chaotic world of entangled causes and effects and fraught with danger, the true way to preserve one's life and fortune was to assess the situation, leverage external forces, and follow the natural order to avoid the calamity.
Now, not long after the Daoist Ancestor Hongjun finished his sermon at Zixiao Palace, the workings of Heaven have become increasingly chaotic.
Dongwanggong, relying on his status as the head of male immortals, gathered thousands of immortals in the East Sea and expanded his territory on a large scale, revealing his brilliance, which had long aroused the dissatisfaction of many ancient and powerful beings.
Meanwhile, on the Sun Star, the two supreme demons, Di Jun and Tai Yi, were secretly uniting all the demons under heaven.
One faction represents the orthodox celestial court, while the other is the overlord of the demon race; both harbor grand ambitions to rule over all living beings in the primordial world.
The friction between the two sides is increasing day by day, and sooner or later a fierce battle will sweep across the eastern wilderness.
Xuan Yao was originally a black tiger transformed after birth, so he was extremely familiar with the methods of circulating demonic energy and condensing blood evil.
Taking advantage of the chaos in the heavens, the death of True Man Chi Li is thoroughly entangled in the undercurrents between the demon race and Zi Fu Continent, which is a perfectly logical and ingenious way to escape.
Having understood this, Xuan Yao no longer delayed and immediately began making arrangements.
He first gently touched the Zhenxin Ruyi hanging at his waist.
The shimmering light descended, completely smoothing out and washing away the lingering resentment and poison from the fall of the Taiyi Golden Immortal in the Great Swamp, as well as the sharp aura left by his use of the Xuan Sha Golden Whip and Flying Golden Sword, leaving not a trace.
Then, Xuan Yao turned around and said to Ancestor Yan Heng, who was kneeling on the water:
"Fellow Daoist, please call your clansmen to come closer."
That True Immortal Chi Li planted a meridian-locking restriction on you. Although I broke it, the tracking clues from Zi Fu Continent still remain deep within your bloodlines.
If we don't eliminate them, they can track your whereabouts at any time by following this lead.
Upon hearing this, Ancestor Yanheng turned pale and hurriedly nodded repeatedly, summoning hundreds of thousands of clansmen who were anxiously waiting on the shallows.
With a flick of his sleeve, Xuan Yao unleashed a torrent of gentle, pure energy, which transformed into a fine, continuous rain that gently seeped into the bodies of the Yan Yuan clan members.
As the pure energy circulated, the dark red runes hidden deep within their bloodlines were washed away by this gentle yet resilient power, transforming into streams of black water that dripped from their fingertips and merged into the great swamp.
Then, Xuan Yao activated the thirty-six Zhou Tian Sha Banners.
The black and gold banner spun rapidly in the void, and the array's energy roared, forcibly tearing the already chaotic heavenly secrets of this place into even more fragmented pieces.
After doing all this, Xuan Yao took a deep breath, and the surging blood and qi belonging to the Black Tiger mutant in his body suddenly boiled, and an extremely brutal demon aura of the demon race surged out from his body.
Xuan Yao raised his hand and unleashed several powerful palm strikes into the void.
The fierce and unparalleled demonic energy transformed into ferocious claw phantoms, carving out dozens of terrifying claw marks, each a hundred feet long, on the white and red riverbed and on the black and red stone platforms surrounding the ancient trees. These marks were filled with brutal demonic energy.
Then, he took out some scattered items that he had obtained when he had previously plundered the Qiankun bags of cultivators in Zifu Continent.
Most of these were scattered scales, broken bones, and black blood filled with demonic poison left over from when Zifu Continent hunted down great demons in the East.
Xuan Yao casually scattered these demon beast materials across the battlefield, even burning a patch of scorched earth into a mountainside with pure demon fire.
With this arrangement, the ruins look as if a powerful demon clan, who had been cultivating in the eastern wilderness, had accidentally discovered that True Person Chi Li was using evil magic to wear down the restrictions of the primordial ancestral tree.
Seeing the treasure, the demon clan seized the opportunity when True Immortal Chi Li was at his weakest, suffering from the backlash of the Ancestral Tree's restrictions, and launched a sudden attack.
The two sides engaged in a fierce and chaotic battle deep within the Fiery Swamp, resulting in the fall of a Taiyi Golden Immortal and the complete destruction of several Zifu Golden Immortals.
After the demon race achieved a pyrrhic victory, they did not bother to clean up the battlefield properly. Instead, they forcibly took away the treasures of the Yan Yuan clan and the Great Swamp, and fled in panic into the depths of the wilderness.
Lingxiao stood in mid-air, watching his master so methodically set up the illusion. His cold, bird-like eyes were filled with shock and awe.
She descended from the clouds and asked softly:
"My lord, although this plan is ingenious, there are countless powerful figures in the Purple Mansion Continent of the East Sea."
"What if one of them is a master of cause and effect, and their calculations implicate those innocent Eastern demons, attracting powerful demon figures to confront them? Could they eventually uncover the truth and trace it back to our Western Kunlun?"
Xuan Yao remained calm and smiled faintly:
"It's alright. What I left behind was nothing more than ordinary demonic energy."
Nowadays, the Eastern King Duke and the Sun Star are irreconcilable enemies.
The cultivators of Zifu Continent have always been arrogant. As long as they see the claw marks all over the sky and the relics of the demon beasts, even if they have a thousand doubts in their hearts, most of them will still hold the demon race accountable for this blood debt in their anger.
Even if a powerful figure from Zifu Prefecture deduced the cause and effect and knew that this matter was not the work of the demon race, it would not cause us any harm.
As for whether those demons are innocent, in the face of the great forces of heaven and earth, the two sides will inevitably have a battle sooner or later.
Today, I have merely followed the cycle of Heaven, lighting this spark of war for them ahead of time.
Lingxiao was completely convinced after hearing this, and had no more doubts.
Having laid out the cause and effect of the battlefield, Xuan Yao turned to the waiting Ancestor Yan Heng and instructed him:
"Fellow Daoist Yan Heng, you should gather your entire clan and collect all the spiritual materials and divine iron accumulated in this fiery swamp that you can take with you. We will be setting off westward soon."
"I understand, I will take people to do it right away." Ancestor Yan Heng did not dare to delay, and immediately led dozens of elite cultivators from the clan to retreat in a hurry to appease and gather the Yan Yuan clan members who had survived the calamity.
The newly born Yan Yuanzi was sitting cross-legged properly under the Primordial Ancestral Tree.
This ancient tree has been rooted deep within this vast expanse of Yin and Yang, water and fire for countless eons, its roots long since intertwined with the earth's veins for millions of miles.
If it were forcibly pulled out by brute force, it would not only greatly damage the original vitality of this spiritual root, but would also more likely directly shatter the yin and yang veins of this place, ruining the blessings and fortune that Xuan Yao had painstakingly accumulated.
Although Yan Yuanzi was born with a delicate and beautiful appearance, he had a serious expression on his face at this moment.
He clutched the red copper fire gourd tightly in his arms, and the red and blue Dao patterns between his brows emitted a faint but extremely pure water and fire spiritual light.
He drew upon the life force of the wood and fire within the fire gourd, combining it with his own unique Daoist body, which was naturally endowed with the harmony of water and fire, and slowly infused his magical power and divine consciousness into the majestic ancient tree, soothing its remaining fear.
Guided by the little creature, the towering ancestral tree's roots, which crisscrossed like a dragon, began to slowly retract from the hard rocks and the depths of the dried-up riverbed, emitting muffled thuds.
Xuan Yao watched as his eldest disciple acted methodically and with a style reminiscent of his own, and a smile involuntarily appeared on his lips.
He turned to look at Lingxiao and the obedient-looking old dragon, and gave the order:
"Lingxiao, Old Jiao, you two stay here and guard the Dharma well."
While the Yan Yuan clan was sorting out their belongings, I took the opportunity to go to the hundreds of millions of miles east of the Fire Marsh and take down the other secret outposts set up by the Zi Fu Continent to plunder spiritual lands.
In this way, we can not only replenish the reserves of Qingheishan Mountain, but also completely draw the attention of Zifu Continent to the Eastern Pole, buying some time for our entire clan to return west.