Chapter 1634
Shameless
at the same time.
Ancient Ghost Realm.
That small, rocky mountain range.
The rear of the Rock Demon Clan and the countless demon armies under the command of the five superior demon clans who were besieging this place.
On the summit of a desolate mountain, the Rock Demon Lord, who had just retreated from the front lines, temporarily rested and recovered due to excessive consumption of his demonic power.
"That Shadow Leopard clan is truly difficult to deal with."
"We've been besieging this place for decades, yet we've managed to hold it."
"Moreover, given the current situation, it will probably take at least several decades of fighting before we can slowly deplete the power of the various formations they have set up on that rocky mountain range, shatter those formations, and break into them."
"..."
Seeing that his side had been in a favorable position in the distant battle, but the advantage was not significant, the Rock Demon Lord became somewhat worried.
Although several decades is not a long time.
However, the Rock Demon Clan had been entangled with the Five Great Demons for hundreds of years.
During this period, it was inevitable that a large amount of ghostly resources were consumed.
In addition, decades ago, the Rock Demon Clan lost many precious lands such as the Rock Mountain Range in the Ghost Land, and could only temporarily reside in some fifth-grade high-quality Ghost Lands, thus greatly reducing their source of resources.
If this drags on, the Rock Demon Clan's resources may simply not be able to withstand it.
At that time, it will be difficult to get those ordinary evil spirits under his command to help him again.
While the ordinary evil spirits were weak, their numbers were numerous, and the Rock Demon Clan had accumulated many powerful demonic battle formations over countless years.
In this way, they can gather the power of ordinary evil spirits and unleash formidable combat power.
Therefore, ordinary demons are especially important to the Rock Demon clan.
Even without their assistance, the Rock Demon Clan's plan to cooperate with the five superior demon clans to attack the Rock Mountain Range would likely encounter some unforeseen circumstances.
Not to mention, the Rock Demon Clan and the five superior demon clans had previously had a huge feud.
This alliance is only temporary.
No one can guarantee what the future holds.
Therefore, it is necessary to be wary of the five great evil demon clans.
For a time, the Rock Demon Clan found themselves in a predicament.
'We can only go and urge those five superior evil spirits onward.'
With a helpless sigh, the Rock Demon Lord reluctantly sought out a high-ranking member of the Five Superior Evil Demons faction.
"A rare guest indeed."
"Fellow Daoist Pan Shi, what brings you here?"
"..."
The high-ranking members of the Five Superior Evil Demons were somewhat surprised to see that the Rock Demon Lord had taken the initiative to come to them, and at the same time, they had a few mocking smiles on their faces.
Although the two sides have been working together to attack the Shadow Panther clan for a long time.
However, the two sides have actually been secretly competing with each other, and their relationship is extremely strained.
Moreover, the Rock Demon Clan was previously defeated by the five superior demon clans.
The five superior evil spirits did not look down on the Rock Demon clan.
"Gentlemen, I will keep this short."
"I'm sure you all know the extent of our clan's resources. If this battle drags on, it might not be a good thing."
"Moreover, judging from our recent years of killing the powerful members of the Shadow Panther clan and exploring their memories."
"Besides our two sides and the Shadow Leopard clan, which make up the three forces, there seems to be another force with strange methods secretly plotting to disrupt the Ghost Realm."
"Under such circumstances, if our clan suffers excessive losses in the future, and the forces in the shadows act rashly, it is estimated that not only our clan will be in trouble, but the nobles will also be in trouble."
"Therefore, I hope that you will not hold back your methods and will bring out some good things to try to break the formation."
The Rock Demon Lord subtly detected the changes in the expressions of the five superior evil spirits' leaders. After letting out a cold snort, it said in a cold voice.
Neither it nor the five superior evil spirits were fools. In addition, in recent years, during their siege of the Rocky Mountain Range, they killed many powerful members of the Shadow Leopard clan and obtained their primordial spirits.
The powerful figures, including the Rock Demon Lord, used some special methods to explore the memories of the powerful members of the Ghost Leopard Clan and learned some secrets.
For example, in the Shadow Realm where the Shadow Leopard Clan resides, during the battle between the Five Superior Evil Ghosts and the Rock Evil Ghost Clan, the two sides intentionally stopped fighting because they suspected that another force was causing trouble. During this time, a spatial rift inexplicably appeared.
Therefore, they all guessed that there was another force lurking in the shadows.
They even suspected that the force possessed some special methods to break through the terrifying special restrictions of the Ghost Domain, or that the force in the shadows was a Nascent Soul Perfection expert skilled in concealing his presence, and so on.
The Rock Demon Clan and the Five Superior Demons were extremely wary of the other force.
Fortunately, they are now united, making them exceptionally powerful, which gives them more confidence.
This is also the main reason why, even after they had guessed something, they still dared to attack the small rocky mountain range occupied by the Shadow Leopard clan.
In addition, the five superior evil spirits are old enemies of the Rock Demon clan.
They were quite familiar with the Rock Demon clan, and they knew early on that the Rock Demon clan had few resources.
They even have some ulterior motives regarding this.
However, what the current Rock Demon Lord said immediately dispelled their ulterior motives.
The methods employed by that fourth-party force operating in the shadows are truly bizarre and must be guarded against.
The high-ranking members of the five superior evil spirits' faction immediately discussed the matter privately via telepathy.
But conquering that rocky mountain range in a short time is no easy task.
Moreover, in the early years, when the five superior evil spirits attacked the Rock Demon Clan, they obtained many treasure lands from the Rock Demon Clan, which greatly increased their source of resources.
However, the number of ordinary demons under their command is far greater than that of the Rock Demon race.
Ordinary evil spirits also consume more resources.
The resources and foundation of the five superior evil spirits were not much better.
In addition, in previous years, during the clash between the five superior evil spirits and the Rock Evil Spirit Clan, a large number of formation-breaking methods were already consumed in order to attack the Rock Mountain Range.
They are unlikely to come up with any means to break through the formation now.
"However, we do have a solution, which is resource integration."
"With the joint efforts of both sides, we will collect all the spirit items that can break the formation in the entire Ghost Domain, or the spirit materials that can be used to refine high-level spirit items that can break the formation, and find some experts who are good at refining such spirit items and have a high success rate in refining them."
"Indirectly, we can hope to obtain a large number of methods to break the formation in a short period of time."
Among the five superior evil spirits, the Heavenly Thunder Ghost Lord, who possessed the highest cultivation level, represented the other ghosts and made a suggestion.
"This method is good, but the value of those high-level array-breaking spiritual items and materials is extremely high."
"Our clan's foundation is in a bad state, so it's difficult for our clan to offer much profit for acquisitions."
"The Rock Demon Lord said coldly."
"Fellow Daoist, you are overthinking it. With our two sides joining forces, apart from the invading Shadow Leopard Clan, the other forces in the Ghost Realm are hard to match, and are not even a match for us on their own."
"Under these circumstances, we can simply borrow spiritual items from the other forces in the Ghost Realm first... and return them later!"
Heavenly Thunder Demon Lord said with a smile.
“You five superior evil spirits... you really have a lot of nerve.”
"Aren't they afraid of provoking public outrage with this move?"
"Moreover, many of our troops were drawn from those forces." "If those forces rebel, our forces will be greatly reduced."
The Rock Demon King was immediately startled.
"We borrowed the money precisely because we were afraid of such a situation, and we will repay it in the future."
The Thunder Demon Lord had already anticipated that situation, so his expression remained unchanged, and he spoke calmly and casually.
"What a brilliant plan!"
Upon hearing this, Rock Demon Lord truly underestimated the shamelessness of Thunder Demon Lord and the other five superior evil demons.
While it has done some shameless things in the past, it has never been this shameless.
However, it does agree with the idea of borrowing spirit objects, since this matter does not require any immediate expenditure of resources.
Moreover, after joining forces with the five superior evil spirits, its prestige is extremely high, and this matter is expected to be accomplished.
And that's exactly what happened.
As they all spoke in unison, and based on the resources and capabilities of each faction, they stipulated the required spiritual objects for breaking the formation and the quantity of spiritual materials needed to refine those objects.
Due to the power imbalance between the two factions of the Rock Demon Clan and the other faction, those forces, though somewhat unwilling, had no choice but to obediently lend out the batch of rare ghost-path spiritual items they had painstakingly accumulated.
Those forces, after all, have considerable resources and are numerous.
The number of high-level array-breaking spiritual items they brought out was extremely large, nearly a thousand, and all of them were of the fifth rank or higher.
There are also plenty of spiritual materials for refining array-breaking spiritual items, enough to refine at least a thousand array-breaking spiritual items of the fifth rank or higher.
Subsequently, the two factions of the Rock Demon Clan, both skilled in crafting such spiritual items, had a success rate of over 50% in crafting them.
……
As the time goes.
More than a decade later.
Those evil spirits, skilled in all kinds of arts, actually used those materials to refine nearly five or six hundred spirit items of the fifth rank or above that could break through formations.
In total, the two sides of the Rock Demon Clan obtained nearly 1,500 fifth-order formation-breaking spiritual items through borrowing spiritual objects.
In addition, to avoid trouble, the two sides of the Rock Demon Clan divided it equally.
Each side takes more than seven hundred moves.
Once unleashed, even a top-tier fifth-order formation would likely be unable to withstand it.
'With these magical artifacts for breaking formations, there's now a better chance of breaking through the special ghost formations of the Rocky Mountain Range in a short time.'
The Rock Demon Lord stared at the nearly five hundred array-breaking techniques he had been allocated, his eyes gleaming with brilliance.
Then, it and the other evil spirits began to conserve their energy, planning to launch a final attack later.
……
at the same time.
Those evil ghost forces that had been forcibly taken away in large quantities of ghost-path breaking formations were filled with worry after learning of the impending decisive battle.
"I only hope that the Rock Demon clan and the five superior demon factions can lead us to break through that small rock mountain range."
'And they annihilated the Shadow Leopard clan among them.'
'In this way, the Ghost Realm can regain some peace, and both sides of the Rock Demon Clan can slowly accumulate resources to pay off their debts.'
'Otherwise, if the great war continues, even if both sides of the Rock Demon Clan are wary of us, I'm afraid they will find it difficult to come up with the resources to repay their debts.'
'...'
All those forces knew that the Rock Demon Clan was currently in dire need of resources, so they all secretly prayed that the great war could end smoothly.
However, some evil spirits were unwilling to let the battle end and intended to drag it out so that they could take advantage of the chaos and make a profit.
However, there is one exception: Ling Pengxing, the master of the Ghost Immortal lineage in the Ghost Realm.
'Those two factions of the Rock Demon clan are shameless; I never expected them to find a way to break the deadlock in such a short time.'
'But this is not good news for the plans of my Cangxuan lineage.'
'I just hope that the Shadow Leopard clan can provide some assistance.'
'Also, we need to send a message to my cousin Pengyun and the others to make preparations.'
Ling Pengxing, who was in the army of the Rock Demon Clan, frowned slightly after learning that the decisive battle was about to begin and looked at the place where the Rock Demon Lord and other powerful figures were temporarily resting in the distance.
Then, he quietly used a special restriction that Ling Pengyun had left on him years ago, using the Netherworld Blade as its source, to send a message.
The restriction was extremely obscure, and the powerful figures like the Rock Ghost Lord did not pay much attention to Ling Pengxing.
His message did not alarm any powerful figures.
……
the other side.
Heavenly River Boundary.
In a cave within the scorching forest.
'I truly never expected that so many changes would occur in that ghost realm.'
'The fact that the two factions of the Rock Demon Clan seem to have acquired numerous spiritual items for breaking formations is indeed something we need to be wary of.'
After receiving the message from Ling Pengxing, the Ghost Dao Nascent Soul cultivator of his family, Ling Pengyun immediately used the Netherworld Blade to lead many Nascent Soul experts from the Cangxuan lineage, including the Star Sea Ancestor, to lie in ambush near the battlefield of the small rocky mountain range in the Ancient Ghost Domain.
However, the Netherworld Blade was powerful and could invoke the special restrictions of the Ghost Realm.
Ling Pengyun and the others concealed themselves in the void, remaining extremely hidden and not alerting any powerful figures.
……
And as time goes by.
A few days later.
Once both sides of the Rock Demon Clan had recovered to their peak condition, they immediately gathered all their forces that had been resting for many days and began to simultaneously besiege the Rock Mountain Range.
A massive wave of attacks suddenly erupted.
Meanwhile, the Shadow Leopard clan within the Rocky Mountain Range fought back fiercely, though they could only block about 70-80% of the attacks.
The remaining 20-30% cannot be resisted.
However, they had set up a large number of formations in various ghostly places throughout the rocky mountain range.
They used those formations to resist them.
"Fellow Daoists, those formations are really an eyesore. We should also use our methods to break them."
Rock Demon Lord addressed the powerful figures of the five superior evil spirits.
"to make!"
The powerful members of the five superior evil spirits especially agreed with this.
However, they all held back, not unleashing all the methods they had to break the formation.
They simply unleashed nearly five hundred high-level formation-breaking techniques, totaling a thousand.
While those methods of breaking the formation were extremely conspicuous among the various attacks.
Soon, the Shadow Panther clan within the Rocky Mountain Range discovered it and used various means to try and destroy it.
However, the Rock Demon Clan was prepared for both sides and immediately took action to stop them.
Finally, all the methods used to break the formations struck the formations simultaneously. (End of Chapter)