Chapter 3355
The four demonic beasts in Ao Yan’s possession were a demonic dragon, a demonic tiger, a demonic wolf, and a demonic fox, all at the mid-stage of the ninth level of the Return to One Realm.
These demonic beasts all possessed pure bloodlines, and every one of them was tremendously powerful. The demonic fox’s soul power was especially formidable—even stronger than Lei Ming, the Nine-Headed Demonic Dragon, and the Demonic Lion, and enough to rival the Vermilion Bird.
However, Ao Yan did not release all these demonic beasts. It merely had them prepare for battle, so Ye Liuyun did not see them.
While Ao Yan was carefully observing Ye Liuyun and the others, both avatars concealed themselves with Spatial Force and the power of heaven and earth, quickly departing the planet through the void.
Ao Yan did notice some spatial fluctuations at the time. However, its divine sense was focused on Ye Liuyun and the others, and both avatars had traversed space extremely quickly. After sweeping the area and finding no one, it did not pay the matter much attention.
After leaving, the two avatars both transformed into demonic forms, displaying cultivation realms at the early ninth level, and entered the planet where Ao Yan was stationed together.
Whenever they encountered demonic cultivator soldiers conducting inspections, they simply said they were demons who had come to reinforce the army and had merely been delayed on the way. The second avatar used the red eyes of his soul to control the demonic cultivator soldiers, allowing them to pass without a thorough inspection.
The demonic cultivator soldiers already dared not offend these demons, and no one dared to stop them. They could never have imagined that a human martial cultivator could transform into a demon’s appearance.
Thus, the second avatar smoothly infiltrated the army and stayed at the very rear, quietly waiting for the battle to begin. He did not launch a soul attack against any demon or demonic cultivator either, lest anyone discover him.
He merely used his soul’s red eyes from time to time to control with illusions any demon who grew suspicious of him.
The first avatar, meanwhile, secretly released Little Lanbing and Chilian, allowing them to reveal their true forms and launch a surprise attack from underground against the demons hiding beneath the ground.
One was blue and the other red. The two little snakes burrowed into the earth without attracting much attention. The first avatar then hurried toward the dense forests on both sides, bringing two invisible Black Tortoises to ambush the powerful demons concealed within the formations.
𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦
His mission was also the most dangerous, as he could be exposed at any moment. Given Ao Yan’s soul power and the range of its divine sense, it would certainly discover him as soon as it noticed him.
After observing the battle on Ye Liuyun’s side, Ao Yan withdrew its divine sense. It no longer investigated Ye Liuyun and the others, instead focusing on examining the planet where it was stationed.
It had not paid much attention when it first saw the first avatar. Its main concern was still the human martial cultivators. But after discovering that the demon the first avatar had transformed into was approaching the formation concealing the powerful fighters, it began to take notice.
As for Little Lanbing and Chilian underground, it had not noticed them at all.
Only after Little Lanbing and Chilian had infiltrated deep underground did they begin, following the locations Ye Liuyun had detected, to eliminate the ambushing demons one by one.
At first, even when those powerful demons discovered them, they assumed they were merely two ordinary feral beast. They released demonic aura underground, attempting to scare them away.
But the two of them rapidly closed in. Little Lanbing opened her mouth and unleashed the power of the Soul-Fixing Pearl, pinning down the demon’s soul. At the same time, she used Spatial Force to release icy force, freezing the opponent from the inside out without allowing ice to form on its surface, lest the aura of ice expose them.
Chilian, meanwhile, exerted herself to absorb the demon’s power of bloodline, hindering its recovery and combat strength. Before long, she could drain a powerful demon into a dried corpse.
The two of them were almost completely unrestricted underground, making it easier for them to launch attacks than the demons hiding there. Moreover, they attacked the soul, body, and bloodline simultaneously. Those powerful demons had no time to react before being completely buried underground.
The first avatar also discovered that Ao Yan was monitoring him with its divine sense. He immediately pretended to be heading out to ambush Ye Liuyun’s army, found a concealed spot in the dense forest, dug a pit, hid himself inside it, and then covered himself with soil.
When Ao Yan saw that this demon had actually come up with the same idea as it had, it considered him a talent. It even thought that if he survived the battle, it would make good use of him and promote him.
Therefore, it stopped paying special attention to the first avatar and instead set its sights on the two Black Tortoises.
Both Black Tortoises were invisible. Ao Yan only vaguely sensed that someone was there, but after sweeping the area, it found nothing and began searching back and forth with its divine sense.
The two of them also received notice from the first avatar. They moved even more cautiously and did not rush to attack, instead observing the powerful demons within the formation.
At the same time, Little Lanbing and Chilian finally encountered a formidable opponent.
A demon with ocher-yellow scales was the leader of the powerful demons lying in ambush underground. This demon possessed earth-attributed power and was especially skilled at drawing upon the power of the land.
Before Little Lanbing and Chilian could even approach, it discovered them. It immediately used the surrounding earth to lock the two of them in place.
Little Lanbing and Chilian suddenly found themselves unable to move, while the earth around them continued squeezing toward their bodies. If this continued, they would likely be crushed apart by the pressure.
Moreover, they were still far from the demon, so the effects of the Soul-Fixing Pearl and bloodline absorption were negligible. In the crisis, each of them released a soul carrying a Poison Soul Flower and sent it rushing into the demon’s sea of consciousness.
The demon’s soul power was not much weaker than theirs, and it could originally have held out for a while longer. However, it had almost no means of defending its soul, and in an instant, the deadly poison carried by the Poison Soul Flowers contaminated its soul.
Startled, it immediately increased its strength, attempting to crush Little Lanbing and Chilian’s bodies.
Fortunately, time passed very quickly in the soul world. By the time the demon’s soul had been completely poisoned to death, they had only been subjected to a brief bout of intense pressure in the real world. They used the power of the spatial world to block it, and it did not last long. The force pressing against their bodies immediately vanished as well.
The two of them immediately burrowed deeper underground to avoid being discovered by Ao Yan.
Ao Yan’s divine sense also sensed the disturbance in the ground here and immediately directed its attention over to investigate.
Its ability to probe with divine sense was clearly far inferior to Ye Liuyun’s, probably because it did not practice often. Whenever it focused on examining one location, its probing of other areas weakened.
“The opportunity is here! Attack!”
Hiding underground, the first avatar first used the power of time to freeze time so that Ao Yan would not detect him. He then condensed a massive thunder dragon beast from spiritual energy and directly bombarded the formation where the powerful fighters were located.
This formation possessed a certain degree of defensive and offensive power, so it had to be destroyed first before they could attack without worry.
The two Black Tortoises then changed positions and fired black rays in succession, instantly killing several powerful demons. Working together with the lightning bombardment of the spiritual-energy thunder dragon beast, they killed those demons.
Ao Yan’s divine sense had just detected that the demons underground had been killed and was about to investigate the condition of the other demons when it was drawn to the suddenly appearing giant thunder dragon beast. It immediately used its divine sense to investigate what was happening there.