The green light moved with great speed, following the path it had taken to lure Milliped out last time and directly heading towards where Li Qingshan cultivated.
The path before him was suddenly blocked by mist. Fu Qingjin frowned and stopped.
The daemon actually possessed a thought process like that, knowing how to use formations? But how could a formation like that stop him?
Fu Qingjin brought his fingers together and slowly swept them across the Green Ruins sword. The Green Ruins sword lit up with dazzling light, possessing startling power.
However, Li Qingshan had no idea about any of this. Even if he knew, there was nothing he could do about it. His mind was deeply submerged in cultivation. Time passed bit by bit. His cultivation advanced steadily as a Qi Practitioner. Strands of Gui Water true qi burst through his acupoints one by one.
Suddenly, his mirror clone underground snapped open its eyes. As the person who had set up the formations, he could clearly sense that the formations had been triggered.
Were they here?
"All personal guards, gather!" Li Qingshan leapt up and his voice boomed out, spreading out in all directions. Although it was only his clone here, with twelve powerful night roamers and the geographical advantage, it was more than enough for him to put up a fight. Getting through the formations would take quite a lot of effort.
A while later, twelve black figures flew over. In the lead were Ye Liusu and Ye Liubo. They were in high spirits. The ten princesses were still reluctant to accept this, but they followed behind her.
Ye Liusu and Ye Liubo worked together, facing off against the five princesses one by one in a two-versus-two manner. Although they did not possess overwhelming strength, their teamwork was seamless and close, far surpassing their opponent's seeming unity. Coupled with the assistance of Ye Liubo's supreme grade spiritual artifact, they achieved a complete victory without any mishaps. It was a daunting but not dangerous victory, and they had secured their position as the captain of the guards.
What excited Ye Liusu the most was that she explained her idea of unity to the princesses and obtained the acknowledgement of three of them. Regardless of whether this acknowledgement was real or fake, it was an extremely rare improvement. She developed some respect towards Li Qingshan.
"Master. What can I do for you? "
Li Qingshan raised his hand and gestured for them to be quiet. He concentrated on sensing the array plate in his hand and gradually felt a little strange. The other party seemed to be trapped in a formation. Moreover, he was trapped in the outermost fog formation. This was definitely not Fu Qingjin.
In a flash, he arrived at the edge of the formation. All he saw was a night roamer trapped inside, so he let him in for questioning.
After a while. A strange expression appeared on Li Qingshan's face.
The night roamer was a messenger from Helicoverpa Rosa. Spider Queen urgently summoned him back to Cobweb City for a meeting. The reason was that a human cultivator single-handedly killed four demon generals and nearly a hundred demon soldiers before leaving. The territories of these four demon generals were all around Li Qingshan's territory.
One could almost imagine that the cultivator had encountered the formation. He chose to go around them and kill all the Daemon Generals around him.
"Do you know what that human cultivator looks like?"
"I'm not sure. I heard it was a green light. "
Li Qingshan had no idea whether he should be happy or disappointed.
… …
"You've come?"
In Cobweb City. Helicoverpa Rosa sat on the throne at the back, supporting her chin with her hand as she faced the four strongest Daemon Generals under her. She was at ease. She did not become flustered over the loss of her soldiers, nor did she show any anger or sorrow. Instead, she seemed rather interested as if she found this very interesting.
"You all know what happened, right?"
"Yes."
"North Moon, he originally came for you, right?"
"He's called Fu Qingjin. He's the Demon Slayer's liaison in the Clear River prefecture. I basically killed the Green Vine Elder right in front of him. Originally, I thought he would throw caution to the wind and break through the formation to fight me, but I never thought …"
"Fu Qingjin, a disciple of the Sword Collection palace, really is something else. The four Daemon Generals did not even have the opportunity to blow up their daemon cores. If Blood Shadow had not arrived in time, even more Daemon Generals would have died to his hands."
Li Qingshan could not help but look at Blood Shadow. He forced back Fu Qingjin? I think it's probably because Fu Qingjin doesn't want to become entangled underground.
"If it weren't for the fact that I can't go above ground, I'd definitely keep that Fu Qingjin or whatever underground forever." Blood Shadow was filled with pride. Daemons possessed an extremely vast range of senses, and Blood Shadow was one of the best among them. He changed the topic and asked, "North Moon, everything happened near your territory. You actually couldn't sense it at all?"
"North Moon's daemon qi has never been as great as ours, not to mention that what you see right now is just a clone. North Moon, I'm very curious. Where has your original body gone? "
Before Li Qingshan could even answer, Dragonsnail interrupted him slowly.
"Obviously above ground, observing the Demon Slayer's movements."
"Is this how you observe their movements?" Blood Shadow mocked.
"What's there to argue about? We can just kill our way back!" Strong Stone bellowed out, surging with battle intent.
"Strong Stone is right. North Moon, you kill the four of them, so they kill the four of us. It's very fair. Blood Shadow, from today onwards, the Daemon Generals in the west will be under your command. Strong Stone, the east will be yours. North Moon, you'll continue to manage the night roamers. Dragonsnail, you'll be in charge of managing them. Don't let anyone take advantage of this again. "
Strong Stone and Blood Shadow both beamed with joy. This meant they could both have several dozen Daemon Generals under their command. Dragonsnail's eyes flashed. He did not have any subordinates, but he was the one who carried out Helicoverpa Rosa's orders, so he was particularly important.
Li Qingshan sank into his thoughts. With this arrangement, they really were going to start a war!
Helicoverpa Rosa settled the situation underground with a few words. Afterwards, she stood up calmly and said, "By his majesty the dragon king's orders, all daemons under my command are free to move about and hunt humans from today onwards!"
At the same time, Fu Qingjin displayed the hundred daemon cores he had obtained before the many Foundation Establishment cultivators at the Demon Slayer meeting. They were of various sizes, like pearls and glass.
Daemon cores were the crystallization of a daemon's thousands of years of cultivation. They were worth far more than regular spiritual herbs and medicines. Apart from ingesting them, they could greatly increase one's cultivation and allow one to break through. As a matter of fact, they had indescribable uses when it came to forging artifacts and formations. Because they were extremely rare, they were worth even more, and the value of a Daemon General's daemon core was unimaginably great.
Fu Qingjin's actions were like placing a hundred diamonds before regular people. He immediately attracted everyone's attention. They all sighed in amazement at the same time, creating a buzz.
Fu Qingjin stood with his arms behind his back, watching on coldly. For the sake of the bigger picture, he did not choose to attack the formations. Apart from not wanting to waste time and energy, the most important reason was because he actually did not have any grievances with Li Qingshan. Whether it was the three elders or Jiang Shancheng, if they died, then they died. They were not worthy of his special attention.
Although Li Qingshan had forcefully taken down the Green Vine mountain, humiliating him and the Sword Collection palace, he had never cared about the word "dignity". All he did was carry out his revenge according to the Sword Collection palace's instructions, and he took out the daemon core to incite the greed of these people. Since it was the same no matter who he killed, why did he have to choose the most troublesome opponent?
"Fellow Fu, how did you obtain this?" a cultivator asked fervently.
Fu Qingjin could not be bothered to explain, but when he thought about the Sword Collection palace's arrangements, he still explained what had happened, which immediately earned him a series of praises.
"Isn't that going against the Treaty of Kings?"
"From today onwards, all human cultivators within the Clear River prefecture are free to enter the underground and purge daemons!"
After a series of exclamations, everyone rejoiced. The priceless daemon core, the spiritual stone mines buried deep underground, and the various spiritual herbs that had grown for centuries all seemed to be waving at them. Under the temptation of these benefits, daemons did not seem so terrifying anymore.
Only a few people showed deep worry. They looked at the surroundings, but they were unable to say anything. Was it really that simple? There was no such thing as a free lunch.
… …
"Hold on. Ma 'am Spider Queen, I have a different opinion."
In Cobweb city, just as Strong Stone and Blood Shadow were overjoyed and excited, Li Qingshan voiced a different opinion.
"Oh? What do you think?"
"I don't think we should let the daemons do whatever they want!" Li Qingshan could completely imagine the countless daemons suppressed underground pouring out of their nests once Helicoverpa Rosa passed down the order. There were also powerful, bloodthirsty Daemon Generals like Blood Shadow and Strong Stone. Just what kind of disaster would they bring to ordinary people.
"Why?" Helicoverpa Rosa frowned. She found it strange that the most radical Daemon General under her had suddenly said something like that.
"Blood Shadow is doubting my investigation, so let me tell you the results of my investigation. That is, humans aren't united. They're divided into two major organisations, the Demon Slayer formed from various sects, and the cultivators who belong to the empire with the Hundred Schools of Thought as their core. "
"So what? They're all our enemies!" Blood Shadow said.
"You're right, but they're not friends either. If we focus our efforts on only targeting the Demon Slayer, the Hundred Schools of Thought are likely to watch from the sidelines, or at least stall for some time. This way, our overall strength will be far stronger than the Demon Slayer, and we'll have a great advantage. "
"But if we start a massacre and involve ordinary people, we'll force the Hundred Schools of Thought to immediately join the war, and the situation will be disadvantageous to us. All of this is for the sake of the overall situation. Please understand, Your Excellency Spider Queen."
Li Qingshan spoke with confidence and composure. He spoke with reason and evidence. He only wanted to target the Demon Slayer. The war was also instigated by the Demon Slayer. As long as these radicals were eliminated, peace might be restored between humans and daemons.
Blood Shadow was speechless. He had to admit that Li Qingshan's words made some sense. Strong Stone also looked at Li Qingshan from head to toe as if he had never seen him before. A guy who dared to risk his life against him actually had such a meticulous mind.
"North Moon, oh North Moon, this is what's so great about you! I have to praise you for your courage and resourcefulness. "Helicoverpa Rosa clapped her hands lightly.
"Your Excellency is too kind!" Li Qingshan smiled slightly. He believed that this suggestion that was beneficial to the war situation would be accepted by Helicoverpa Rosa.
Dragonsnail lowered her head, and a mysterious smile appeared on her face.
"Then I look forward to your next performance." Helicoverpa Rosa said.
Was this acceptance or rejection? Li Qingshan stared at Helicoverpa Rosa's cruel and vicious smile. He suddenly understood one thing. After underestimating Fu Qingjin, he also underestimated her.
She just wanted to see the world burn!
PS: It's New Year's Day holiday, and all my friends are back. There are some occasions that I really can't avoid. The updates may be a little lacking, please understand. But it's not all bad. Recently, I've been at the bottleneck of the new plot. I feel much better after having some entertainment and meeting people. It can be said that sharpening the knife does not delay the work of cutting firewood. The future will be even more exciting!
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