After flying at full speed for three days, Xiao Lingyu finally stopped in a barren mountain.
His arm was severely injured, which would affect his overall strength and state. If he wanted to move or cultivate again, he had to heal his injury first.
Fortunately, when he was in Duhu City, Xiao Lingyu bought a lot of materials for his body to transform. At this time, he only needed to refine those materials and make a medicinal soup. It wouldn't take long for his arm to recover to its original state.
Half a year had passed since his injury was healed. After he came out of seclusion, he contacted Xiong Meng and the others. After getting their exact location, he flew at full speed to meet them.
The cultivators of Wildfire were still scattered. After Xiao Lingyu met Xiong Meng and Zou Gen, he asked them to send a message to gather the people of Wildfire.
Now, they definitely couldn't go back to Duhu City, nor could they go back to Tai-an City. Fortunately, Wildfire didn't need to go to these two places. A mercenary group like them could stop in any middle-level or high-level city.
Xiao Lingyu had no intention of managing or developing a mercenary group. He always liked to be alone, unrestrained, and not implicating others.
It was the same for Wildfire. He had no interest in leading this group. Everything that happened before was because he didn't want this mercenary group to be in danger.
Now that Xiao Lingyu had offended the owner of Yong An, Family Jiang, and the Tianchi Mercenary Group, it was indeed inappropriate for him to stay in Wildfire. He didn't want to implicate these innocent mercenaries in the future if they were to take revenge.
Other than Xiong Meng and the others, the cultivators of this mercenary group didn't have deep feelings for Xiao Lingyu.
Originally, Xiao Lingyu was about to leave, but Zou Gen said, "Brother Xiao, if you want to leave, please stay for a while. According to the news from the front line, the Night Demons did not rush into the Family Jiang's encirclement. Instead, they quickly spread out and rushed into Yong An from all directions. If Brother Xiao leaves us now, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold on for long. We will be wiped out by the Night Demons cultivators."
"The Night Demons scattered into Yong An?"
Xiao Lingyu appeared to be in disbelief. He analyzed, "If the Night Demons move together and charge with their army, they might not be able to penetrate deep into Yong An, but at least they'll be much safer and can retreat easily. If they split up and enter Yong An, they'll be annihilated one by one by the Yong An cultivators sooner or later. This is not beneficial to them at all. Why would they make such a choice?"
Zou Gen scratched his head and laughed, "Haha, I really can't answer your questions."
Xiao Lingyu pondered for a moment before replying, "The Family Jiang won't just stand by and watch the Night Demons wreak havoc in Yong An. He'll definitely organize people to wipe them out. I think the scattered Night Demons won't be able to hold on for long. I'll stay for a while longer."
Zou Gen, Xiong Meng, and the others appeared to be very happy. Zou Gen continued, "The Jiang Clan has already issued a bounty mission for the entire realm. Any cultivator or mercenary group that kills a Night Demon can receive a certain amount of reward from the City Lord Manor of each city with the Night Demon's head. The stronger the Night Demon killed, the more there are, the greater the reward. Right now, our mercenary group doesn't have any missions to accept. Why don't we also find a small group of Night Demons, and then …"
Xiao Lingyu wasn't very interested in hunting Night Demons cultivators. However, even if they didn't plan to hunt Night Demons, they would still often be attacked by them.
The Night Demons attacked Yong An this time and made a breakthrough in the swamp. However, their army was blocked by the ambush set up by the Family Jiang. If they marched together, they would be too big of a target. None of their movements would be able to escape the Family Jiang's eyes and ears. If they wanted to go deeper into Yong An, other than attacking the Family Jiang's encirclement, they could only split up and go around the encirclement.
After the Night Demon army split up and broke up, no matter how developed the Family Jiang's eyes and ears were, how could they know the movements of so many Night Demons? They could only let the Night Demons go deeper into Yong An.
However, the Family Jiang definitely wouldn't give the Night Demon army a chance to gather and form an army again. The Family Jiang's intelligence network in Yong An would constantly monitor the entire territory. As long as there was a Night Demon army gathering anywhere, the Family Jiang would definitely send an army to encircle and annihilate them.
The strange thing was that although the Night Demon army had already split up and invaded Yong An, they didn't show any signs of regrouping. They continued to split up and go deeper into Yong An.
These Night Demons slaughtered and pillaged along the way like locusts. They usually moved at night, causing the entire territory to be in a state of panic. Everyone was afraid of their own safety, and very few people dared to go out at night when the Night Demons were mentioned.
The Family Jiang's high reward for killing Night Demons moved many mercenaries in Yong An. Nowadays, large groups of mercenaries and Night Demons cultivators could be seen fighting in the northern part of Yong An. The corpses of cultivators and the headless corpses of Night Demons cultivators could be seen everywhere.
The northern part of the Eternal Peace Realm was already filled with corpses and rivers of blood, and this scene was still spreading to other parts of the Eternal Peace Realm at a rapid speed.
The Night Demons didn't give up on the big and small cities that they passed by. They would only quickly gather when they encountered a city and violently attack the city with the momentum of waves crashing against the shore. Almost every time, the city would fall before the reinforcements sent by the Family Jiang arrived.
Previously, in order to fend off the Night Demons army at the border, the Family Jiang mobilized more than half of the city guards in each city. Now that those city guards had yet to return to their own cities, the weak defenses of the cities couldn't fend off the Night Demons coming from all directions. It was the same even if many of the ordinary residents and merchants in the cities participated in the city's defense.
After quickly looting the cities, the Night Demons would scatter again.
However, every time they attacked a city, the Night Demons would suffer great losses in order to achieve a quick victory.
As a result, there were fewer and fewer Night Demons who could continue to enter Yong An. However, the casualties of the Night Demons weren't too serious.
Under the leadership of Xiao Lingyu, the Wildfire also fought a few battles with the Night Demons. Because they didn't encounter any Godly King Stage experts, they didn't suffer much losses and gained a lot.
The Wildfire also followed the Night Demons into the depths of Yong An. Along the way, they continuously hunted Night Demons and brought the heads of the Night Demons to the City Lord's Mansion in exchange for Godstones.
Xiao Lingyu realized that it was a good choice for him not to leave. At least, the number of Godstones in his Storage Ring was constantly increasing.
In order to deal with the invasion of the Night Demons, the Family Jiang spent a lot of money. The number of Godstones that could be exchanged for after killing the Night Demons was an irresistible temptation for many mercenary groups and cultivators.
The Night Demons invaded on a large scale. Since they weren't familiar with Yong An, it was naturally difficult for them to avoid accidentally entering some dangerous areas. This also caused them to suffer great losses.
In the blink of an eye, dozens of years had passed. The Night Demons scattered into Yong An. Although it seemed that they had achieved their goal, the number of Night Demons that entered Yong An was now less than one-fifth of the original number. However, this one-fifth of Night Demons were the elites and experts of the Night Demon Army.
More than eighty percent of their clansmen's lives were sacrificed. The Night Demon Army also brought unprecedented losses to Yong An. Today, to everyone's surprise, the powerful and wealthy Family Jiang couldn't take out the Godstones to pay the mercenaries' commission. Many small and medium-sized cities under the Family Jiang's control were plundered. The losses of the residents and shops in these cities were also accounted for by the Family Jiang.
In the past, many top clans in Yong An's history were dragged down like this and eventually replaced.
The Night Demons hadn't been completely wiped out. The Night Demons who were still in Yong An would bring even greater losses to Yong An. If the Family Jiang couldn't come up with an effective countermeasure, the master of Yong An would probably change surnames soon.
Now, when the mercenaries brought the heads of the Night Demons to the City Lord's Mansion, they could only exchange them for jade slips that were similar to IOUs. Although the Family Jiang promised to pay the Godstones as soon as possible after the Night Demons' invasion was resolved, this had greatly reduced the Family Jiang's prestige and caused the Yong An's cultivators to lose confidence in the Family Jiang. It also weakened everyone's motivation to continue hunting Night Demons.
However, it didn't take long for the Family Jiang to pay the Godstones they owed. They even increased the commission by 30%.
According to legend, the Family Jiang borrowed a large amount of Godstones from other large regions and many merchants in the God Realm in a narrow sense to support them in dealing with the Night Demons' invasion.
The major clans in the God Realm were generally of the same breath and branch, especially when dealing with an invasion like this. The Family Jiang was a super clan that controlled a large region, so they naturally had the ability to repay the Godstones they borrowed in the future. After all, the daily entrance fee to the large and medium-sized cities in Yong An was an immeasurable amount of income.
The Wildfire, who had originally lost confidence in the Family Jiang, regained their confidence like the other Yong An's mercenaries. They began to search everywhere for the Night Demons, which were no longer large in number.
In the past, as long as they went out at night, they would be able to find the Night Demons after a few rounds in the wilderness. However, if they wanted to find any traces of the Night Demons now, they could only rely on luck.
According to some insiders, there should be no less than ten million Night Demons in Yong An. Although most of them were at the Heavenly God or God Monarch Stage, there were also about a thousand God King Stage cultivators. However, the Yong An was too vast. These Night Demons in Yong An were like millions of grains of sand thrown into the vast ocean. There was no way to show their size.
It was unknown whether they were lucky or unlucky. After searching bitterly for half a year, the Wildfire finally found a group of more than a hundred Night Demons at night. However, there was a God King Stage cultivator in this group.
"Boss Xiao, should we retreat?" Zou Gen asked Xiao Lingyu.
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