North River Pass had been defended. This caused all the cultivators who had come to reinforce Jade Gate Pass to heave a sigh of relief.
If not a single human city remained in the Outsider Battlefield, then the pressure on them would be too great.
After all, unless they retreated to Jade Gate Pass, the human cultivators would definitely need a rear city for them to rest and recuperate when they moved about in the Outsider Battlefield.
Moreover, if all seventeen human city passes had fallen in a single day, it was easy to imagine how great of a blow it would be to the morale of the human race.
But even if North River Pass had been defended, the news that only one of the seventeen small and medium-sized city passes had survived in a single day was still extremely suffocating.
Therefore, although the Jade Gate Pass did not hide the news of the sixteen cities falling, they focused on publicizing the victory of the weak against the strong in the North River Pass.
On one hand, they wanted to use this great victory to wash away the sorrow of the other sixteen cities, so that all the cultivators could breathe a few breaths of fresh air under the suffocating pressure and slightly relax their nervous heartstrings, so as to prevent them from directly collapsing.
On the other hand, the greatest contributor to the victory at North River Pass was the young master of Jade Gate Pass's Sword Sect. They had no reason not to take advantage of this opportunity to publicize it.
Moreover, the human race had also learned an extremely important piece of news.
Chi Zun, one of the three supreme Demon Exalts of the Soldier Demon Clan, had officially entered the Outsider Battlefield from the Abyss. At this moment, he was supervising the battle at the Seamless City, which was at the rear of the Demons.
In the past twenty thousand years, there had been so many battles of all sizes in the Outsider Battlefield that it was difficult to count them. But no matter what, a supreme Demon Exalt of the Demons had never appeared in the Outsider Battlefield.
This was the first time.
In the eyes of the human race, this was undoubtedly a signal that the Demons were about to start the second Daoist War.
Otherwise, why would Chi Zun personally oversee the battle at the rear for the sake of those seventeen small and medium-sized city passes?
At a time like this, the person who needed the most honor wasn't Lu Qingshan, but the Sword Sect and the countless cultivators of Jade Gate Pass.
There were many similar examples in history.
In war, heroes were needed. Even if there weren't any, one had to be forcefully created, let alone a true 'hero' like Lu Qingshan.
For Jade Gate Pass, Lu Qingshan's appearance was like someone giving them a pillow when they were about to doze off.
They were wild with joy and took advantage of the situation to send Lu Qingshan to the high platform that had been built long ago.
On the Jade Gate Pass Battle Report Tablet of the Fire Beacon Hall, the battle report displayed at the top of the tablet had already changed to the victory of the North River Pass.
In the battle report, Lu Qingshan's contribution to the victory was even more exaggerated.
The events of the North River Pass battlefield quickly spread throughout the entire Jade Gate Pass.
He leaped across three thousand cultivators and took the head of the enemy general in the midst of an army of ten thousand!
The two commanders of the Demons, the top-notch Demon Commander Ku Long and the high-level Demon Commander Xuan Du, were both beheaded by him!
One man formed an army, killing the Demons and Devil Cultivators until they trembled in fear and were utterly defeated!
The cultivators of North River Pass all called out the name of the Sword Sect's Junior Sect Master, Lu Qingshan!
Every single one of these matters was enough to shock and alarm anyone who heard of it.
Not to mention, all of this was caused by one person.
For a time, the entire Jade Gate Pass was shaken.
However, as the "main character" of the halo, Lu Qingshan, was very calm about this.
He had long been different from ordinary people when it came to many things. He stood at a higher point of view and looked at things from a strategically advantageous position.
Lu Qingshan was very calm about Jade Gate Pass's actions of wantonly publicizing his achievements and raising his reputation. He was neither too proud nor too humble.
To Lu Qingshan, this reputation was more of an affirmation of his hard work in cultivation and accumulation over the years.
Behind this reputation, how the Jade Gate Pass cultivators added fuel to the fire and how they had ulterior motives, Lu Qingshan understood and accepted it calmly.
Since the human race needed a hero at this stage, and he happened to do these things at this time, he had the qualifications to become a hero. Then, Lu Qingshan did not mind others using him as a banner to boost the morale of the other human cultivators and increase their confidence.
No matter when, it was always good to have a banner in front of them.
It could let people see the hope of persevering and the confidence of victory.
.....
After launching this large-scale siege, the Demons seemed to be accumulating strength for the next battle. They actually temporarily restrained their actions.
During this period of time, they only sent a large number of Devil Cultivators to occupy the sixteen small and medium-sized city passes that originally belonged to the human race.
Other than that, they did not do anything else. They seemed exceptionally calm.
Of course, calm was only relative.
Because these days, the number of Demons in the wilderness of the extraterritorial battlefield increased at a visible rate. Battles between human cultivators and Demons and Devil Cultivators occurred every day.
However, organized large-scale wars had indeed disappeared for the time being.
The human race had obtained a rare opportunity to rest and recuperate.
The first thing they did was to collect all the resources in North River Pass, gather all the cultivators in North River Pass, and abandon the city.
Yes, although it was not easy to defend North River Pass, there was no way they could keep it.
The reason was simple.
North River Pass was the furthest city pass from Jade Gate Pass. It was the frontline city pass among the seventeen city passes.
If one looked at it on a map, the seventeen city passes were roughly in the shape of a triangle. The further in front, the fewer cities there were.
North River Pass was at the apex of this triangle.
Now, the sixteen city passes in the triangle behind it had all fallen into the hands of the Demons.
The North River Pass had become an isolated city.
If they were not willing to give up North River Pass, once the Demons attacked again, North River Pass would fall into an awkward situation where there were wolves in front and tigers behind. They would not be able to respond even if they cried for help.
The North River Pass cultivators were basically given up for nothing.
Naturally, the human race would not do such a stupid thing.
Hence, they retreated very resolutely and decisively.
From the looks of it, the North River Pass had 'fallen' in the end, and there was no difference.
However, one was given up by the human race, while the other was conquered by the Demons. The difference was still very big.
Moreover, North River Pass did not disappear.
This was because the human race quickly built a new city at the bottom of the triangle formed by the seventeen city passes.
The city was new, but the name was old.
"North River Pass."
The cultivators of North River Pass all retreated to the new North River Pass and used it as a bridgehead. They looked at the Demons from afar and waited for the follow-up movements from the Demons.
Just like that, another month passed.
These days, Lu Qingshan was also resting.
Apart from consuming a lot of energy, the explosive power of the Army Character Formula had some sequelae, just like other explosive secret techniques.
It was roughly equivalent to the Sage's time after the eruption.
In fact, whether it was in his previous life or this life, Lu Qingshan knew that explosive secret techniques had sequelae. The only exception was the power of the Mountains and Seas.
The great power released by the Army Character Formula surged into Lu Qingshan's body in an instant, surging through his meridians. Even though it was just a short 30 breaths, it still caused quite a bit of damage to his meridians.
What was worse was that he had used the Army Character Formula twice in a short span of two days.
Because of this, Lu Qingshan's situation became even worse.
Fortunately, he was the Sword Sect's Young Master.
Therefore, he was able to enjoy the best healing pills and recuperate in the best environment.
Even so, it took Lu Qingshan a full month to completely heal the injuries in his meridians and restore him to his best state.
"Unless I have no choice, I should use the Army Character Formula less." This was Lu Qingshan's biggest feeling after spending a month recuperating.
In addition to recuperating and treating his injuries, he also digested his gains from the North River Pass Battle during this period and prepared for the next battle.
First of all, his experience points had once again broken through the one billion mark and reached the terrifying number of 1,021 billion.
However, he could not break through to the Body Integration stage before the Law Domain Seed was formed. Therefore, he could only save the experience points and wait for the day he opened his Law Domain and advanced to the Body Integration stage.
In addition, his astonishing performance in the North River Pass Battle had also brought him a huge amount of military merit.
After a resolution, the Jade Gate Pass finally gave him a commendation order that was announced to the entire Jade Gate Pass.
The contents of the commendation order were very simple.
One hundred thousand military merit.
In addition to the military merit he gained from killing those Demons, as well as his original military merit savings …
If one probed Lu Qingshan's identity token with their divine sense, they would see a few lines of glittering golden characters.
The reason why it was glittering was because this was a "special effect" that would appear after the highest "A" level of authority.
Identity — — Lu Qingshan
Sect — — Sword Sect
Authority — — A (accumulated military merit 238924)
Military merit — — 230874
.....
Even if it was a cultivator of the eighth realm, not all of them could accumulate such a terrifying amount of military merit.
After all, in the extraterritorial battlefield, there was an unspoken rule that cultivators of the eighth realm were not allowed to participate in large-scale battles.
And large-scale battles happened to be the place where military merit could be accumulated the most.
Lu Qingshan was still a cultivator of the sixth realm at this time.
This was proof that he had made a huge contribution to the human race in the war against the Demons.
He had unparalleled potential and talent, battle prowess comparable to a peak seventh realm cultivator, plus such a huge contribution … …
In less than two months, Lu Qingshan had firmly secured his position as the Sword Sect's Young Master.
No one had any doubts about this anymore. They all secretly sighed that Xie Qingyun was worthy of being called a Sword Immortal, his eyes were shrewd and ruthless enough.
With such a terrifying amount of military merit in hand, the first thing Lu Qingshan did was to spend one hundred and seventy thousand military merit to exchange for many rare spiritual materials for the peach blossom.
Mountain building, inside a quiet room.
Lu Qingshan sat cross-legged.
The peach blossom floated above, and there were many spiritual materials flashing with various colours below.
Extreme wind fire lava, beginning cold water, chaos pure gold … … there were all kinds of rare treasures of the five elements.
Yellow, crimson, blue, dark green, and dazzling gold light flew out of these spiritual materials and were absorbed by the peach blossom, causing its spirituality to become even more resplendent.
However, these spiritual materials also started to shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The floor beside Lu Qingshan had already been piled up with many remnants of spiritual materials that had lost their spiritual essence.
Finally, after another hour, the last bit of spiritual light from these spiritual materials was absorbed by the peach blossom.
"Hum!" The peach blossom trembled, and the sound of a sword was crisp.
The "satiated" peach blossom was still like before, happily jumping around Lu Qingshan, expressing its gratitude and joy to Lu Qingshan. However, a terrifying light flashed from the sword's edge.
99%。
This was the progress shown in the peach blossom's transformation column.
"The peach blossom has already reached a certain limit, and it's not far from breaking through to become a Pseudo Dao Tool.
However, it's this tiny bit that's the final bottleneck …
No matter how much spiritual materials it absorbs, it'll be useless. It won't be able to complete the final transformation, 'Lu Qingshan thought to himself as he looked at the misty peach blossom.
It was too difficult to nurture a Pseudo Dao Tool.
The first 99% was just a matter of quantity. Although it was difficult, it would at most take a little more time.
However, the final 1% was a qualitative transformation. It required some true natural treasures to help it break through the bottleneck.
Natural treasures of this level had always been priceless. They were definitely not something that could be exchanged for with battle merits. Even the Sword Sect's treasure vault did not have such a divine item.
If one wanted to obtain it, one could only rely on fate.
However, fate had always been a metaphysical thing.
It might appear in the next moment, or it might not appear in one's entire life.
Lu Qingshan shook his head. He stopped thinking about it and slowly got up.
.....
Time passed slowly.
During this period, the human cultivators in Jade Gate Pass had been on guard.
However, although the Demons had frequently mobilized their demonic cultivators, they had strangely ceased all activity and had yet to launch any further attacks.
However, the humans clearly didn't dare to let down their guard.
After all, Redlord was still guarding the Seamless City and had yet to leave.
The calmer the storm was, the more terrifying it would be when it exploded.
Everyone understood this principle.
The threat of the Demons was like a shadow that hung over the hearts of all the cultivators of Jade Gate Pass.
Even Sword Immortal Azurecloud couldn't be at ease during this period of time.
Dark clouds pressed down on the city, threatening to destroy it.
The most terrifying thing in the world was the unknown.
To this very day, no one knew what the Demons were planning to do.
… …
… … …
The sun rose in the east, while the rain fell in the west.
During this eventful period of the seventh year of the Tianyuan era, Jade Gate Pass wasn't the only place where swords were drawn.
In the Middle Heaven region, the Titanspirit Demons seemed to want to take revenge for their fallen Mystic Paragon in the Human region.
Their attacks were far more brutal than Jade Gate Pass'.
For the first time, the Titanspirit Demons had mobilized eighth-rank demonic cultivators!
It must be understood that once a seventh-rank demonic cultivator was mobilized, the scale of the war would become unavoidable.
Thus, the Middle Heaven region's Swallow Orchid Pass was currently embroiled in the flames of war. All of the small and medium-sized city passes had been uprooted by the Demons.
The Demons used this as a base to spread out in all directions, wiping out the human cultivators in the Outlander Battlefield.
Even though the imperial clan of the Da Xia Kingdom and the Divination Temple had immediately called back the wandering cultivators in the Outlander Battlefield and ordered them to return to Swallow Orchid Pass as soon as possible, the humans still suffered heavy losses.
Right now, the cultivators of the Middle Heaven region were in a standoff against the Demons at Swallow Orchid Pass.
Both sides used their own methods and engaged in many bloody battles. Gradually, the battle reached a stalemate.
Fortunately, Swallow Orchid Pass's grand formation was sufficiently powerful, and the Titanspirit Demons weren't prepared to fight to the death. Thus, although the battle had escalated, it hadn't reached the point of a second Daoist-Demon War.
Aside from the Middle Heaven region and the Eastern region, there was another region that was similarly in an abyss of suffering.
This was the Middle Spirit Region controlled by the Spirit Huan Sect.
The Mental Demon Clan hadn't started a war, but according to intelligence, they had already dispatched a large number of cultivators to the Outlander Battlefield.
It was only a matter of time before they started a war.
The only fortunate thing was that compared to the Demons' surprise attacks from the Eastern and Middle Heaven regions, the Mental Demon Clan's actions seemed predictable. The cultivators of the Middle Spirit Region could make preparations and respond in advance, so they wouldn't be caught off guard.
The news from the other three regions caused the other four regions, which were temporarily peaceful, to begin to feel insecure and enter a state of war.
No one dared to take the Daoist-Demon War lightly or take it lightly.
The Outlander Battlefield was surging like a storm, and the human territory was similarly not peaceful.
After the Water Moon Observatory Master took over the Zhishou Building, she joined forces with the Divination Temple, the Zhishou Building, and the Da Xia Kingdom. Using the cultivators under King Qing's command as a breakthrough, she launched a bold and decisive purge of the cultivators of the Hades in the Middle Heaven region.
With a thunderous momentum, in a month's time, she had practically wiped out the Hades in the Middle Heaven region. At the same time, she quickly radiated her strength to the other six regions.
The Water Moon Observatory Master's actions seemed to have forced the Hades into a corner.
For a time, the Hades in the other six regions actually erupted at the same time. Like cornered dogs jumping over walls, they stirred up trouble in the human territory.
Although this brought a certain amount of trouble to the human race, it was quickly pacified.
This was because in the human territory, the Hades's strength was really not enough.
The Hades hiding in the dark were the truly terrifying Hades.
Once they disregarded everything and openly exposed their identities to wantonly slaughter, although they would bring some losses to the human race, that was all. They would quickly be suppressed by the human cultivators.
Therefore, in a mere three months, the Hades, a malignant tumor that had developed in the human race for tens of thousands of years, was actually eradicated by the Zhishou Building just like that.
Finally, this eventful period slowly passed.
The seventh year of the Tianyuan Era was about to enter its final season.
Winter.
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