“It should not have been exposed,” Dongbo Xueying said.
“Should not have been?” Chi Qiu Bai, Sikong Yang, and He Shan Zhu hesitated for a moment.
Dongbo Xueying explained, “I instantly annihilated all the weaker demons, but still, three fourth-stage demons and two fifth-stage demons survived. Later, in close combat, I eliminated them one by one. I don’t know… whether this ‘linked-heart’ demon was among the final five. If it was, then we might have been exposed!”
“Haha… According to records, linked-heart demons are pitiful. They are cultivated through cruel secret arts by abyssal demon gods, causing many weak demons to die tragically!” Chi Qiu Bai laughed, “Demons have strong vitality, yet they still perish because this cruel art targets their souls! Many demons cannot withstand the strain and their souls disintegrate directly. Even those who succeed bear numerous secret art imprints on their souls. In short— their souls have become tools of connection! Once they activate the secret art imprints on their souls, they can establish contact across different worlds!”
“Their souls becoming tools of connection, although successful, still severely damages their souls,” Chi Qiu Bai continued. “They find it difficult to cultivate and become powerful!”
“Indeed,” He Shan Zhu also smiled. “Linked-heart demons are almost certainly first or second-stage weak demons! The possibility of becoming fourth or fifth-stage demons… is one in a million! The chance of exposure is extremely low. If we were truly exposed, it would just be our bad luck!”
Sikong Yang patted Dongbo Xueying’s shoulder: “Xueying, well done!”
At this moment, Sikong Yang’s mood was both joyful and complex.
Back then, he had been furious at Dongbo Xueying for stubbornly pursuing his own path in cultivation, and his care and attention had turned into anger! But more than ten years later, when Dongbo Xueying displayed astonishing talent on the path to divinity, he realized his mistake. And now, Dongbo Xueying had directly destroyed a demon lair within the Transcendent Small World. Whether or not they were exposed, the greatest life-threatening danger to the Xia Clan’s Transcendents had already vanished!
Because even if they were exposed, the demon generals, upon learning of this, would be shocked enough to immediately evacuate the elite demons from the other four demon lairs.
“It’s nothing,” Dongbo Xueying said. “I merely spent some time fighting. Many people like Ling Shu have sacrificed their lives!”
Chi Qiu Bai, Sikong Yang, and He Shan Zhu fell silent.
In these years, the Xia Clan’s Transcendents had already perished by as much as two-tenths! Whether it was He Shan Zhu’s Black and White Divine Mountain or Sikong Yang’s Water Source Hermitage, many had died— many they were familiar with.
“That’s why I’ve always been proud to be part of the Xia Clan,” He Shan Zhu spoke up. In the past, he had always been calm and detached, but now his eyes shone brightly. “It is precisely because many Transcendents are willing to sacrifice themselves for the Xia Clan that our clan has become the master of this mortal world! Without generations of Transcendents fighting, without our ancestors in the Divine Realm still cherishing their homeland, the Xia Clan would have perished long ago.”
“Indeed.”
Dongbo Xueying nodded. In these years, hearing the news from the communication rings about Transcendents dying one by one, each message felt like a blade piercing his heart! It had also transformed his heart, making him cherish the present even more. He had come to understand that the Xia Clan’s continuity to this day was precisely because of the sacrifices of countless ancestors— sacrifices even of their lives! Without the sacrifices of ancestors, the Xia Clan would have perished long ago! There would have been no Dongbo Xueying at all.
“Let’s hurry up and act!” Sikong Yang immediately said. “The sooner, the better. Once the demon generals try to contact the demons in the Transcendent Small World and fail to reach them, that will also expose us!”
“Indeed,” Dongbo Xueying and the others all nodded.
Eliminating one lair meant eliminating a group of elite demons.
Fifth-stage demons were extremely rare. Missing this opportunity meant it would be difficult to encounter such a large-scale extermination chance again.
“Let’s go, to the next location.”
Whoosh.
Within the spatial rifts, the four of them traversed through voids toward another location.
…
At the Spark Palace, Palace Master Chen stood alone outside his study room, silently waiting. The other members of the Spark Palace had no idea about the tension their Palace Master was feeling at this moment.
Palace Master Chen was waiting for news, waiting for the result!
He feared…
Feared that Dongbo Xueying’s attack had failed! No matter how confident one might be, until the result was clear, anxiety and panic were inevitable!
“It must succeed, the demon formation must be broken!” Palace Master Chen prayed in his heart. “We cannot fail! If we fail, many of our Xia Clan’s Transcendents will face repeated attacks from these fifth-stage demons’ magic avatars in the future!”
Each second felt unbearably long.
Sweat beaded slightly on Palace Master Chen’s forehead. The lives of half the Xia Clan’s Transcendents were enough to make him incredibly anxious!
Suddenly, a message arrived.
“Success! The first demon lair has already been eliminated!” Dongbo Xueying’s message came through.
Palace Master Chen was stunned, then overwhelmed with joy and excitement.
“It succeeded, it succeeded! Hahaha! Excellent, excellent! I knew it, Dongbo Xueying would never disappoint me,” Palace Master Chen was ecstatic.
Then more messages followed.
“Old Chen, Xueying succeeded! And he instantly killed all the weak demons. The demon general probably still doesn’t know!”
“Dongbo Xueying has successfully eliminated the first demon lair, and it should not have been exposed.”
“Success! Xueying is truly remarkable. Palace Master, we should not have been exposed. We’re preparing to head to the second location.”
The messages from Sikong Yang and the other three brought even more joy to Palace Master Chen.
“It seems Xueying’s first plan succeeded!” Palace Master Chen was excited and delighted. Before this operation, only he and Dongbo Xueying had been preparing. He had heard Dongbo Xueying’s two plans. The first plan had the chance to instantly eliminate the weak demons, preventing news from leaking. If the formation was too powerful to infiltrate, they would have to use the second plan—attacking head-on and breaking through forcefully! That would definitely expose them.
“Very good, not being exposed is great! Kill, kill as many of these demons as possible!” Palace Master Chen’s eyes also burned with fighting spirit. “These damned demons dare to invade the world where our Xia Clan survives—they must all be eliminated!”
…
The entire Xia Clan world was very peaceful.
Although hidden demons occasionally sneaked out to attack small places, for the vast Xia Clan world as a whole, the impact was negligible! Countless people lived their ordinary lives, striving for survival, working hard for cultivation, shedding tears for love, hiding for hatred, scheming for ambition… The countless mortals in this world had their own ways of living.
Yet, while living such lives, they didn’t know that behind this world, at this very moment—
There was a transcendent being named Dongbo Xueying, along with three other Xia Clan demigods, attacking demon lairs one by one!
Because of this successful attack!
More Transcendents would survive, and for the next thousand years, the demons’ days would become harder, their rampant activities greatly reduced. Thus, the number of mortals saved would likely be counted in the hundreds of millions!
…
Within one of the Transcendent Small Worlds.
There was also a demon palace here, inhabited by a group of powerful elite demons.
Among them, their leader was the strongest among all the fifth-stage demons participating in this invasion—the demon ‘Ji’erluo’!
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