Chapter 1597: Casting the Demon

This area had actually been scanned by Ling Shan during her previous advance, but because the distance was a bit far, her divine sense was filled with a sense of burrs, which had prevented her from sensing it.

But now, it seemed she had a feeling. Her expression couldn’t help but be shocked, and she immediately probed that area carefully again.

About a few dozen breaths later, a light flashed in Ling Shan’s hand, and two voice transmission talismans appeared. She quickly whispered a few words into the voice transmission talismans and then threw them out.

And at this time, on her right side, in the two areas closer to the periphery of the Mountain River Diagram, an old man and a handsome but sinister-looking middle-aged man both received a voice transmission talisman.

After they confirmed the news, their eyes both revealed a bright light. They also immediately took out a voice transmission talisman, whispered into it, and threw it out as well.

On Ling Shan’s side, after she received the two voice transmission talismans, she thought for a moment.

The other two elders had still not found any trace of the enemy in their investigation. In that case, it meant that only she had discovered the enemy here.

Ling Shan looked at the dense fog in front of her, took out a voice transmission talisman again, and after activating it, she immediately sent a voice transmission to her team.

“Gather towards me, we need to speed up our advance!”

After thinking, she did not let the two teams come over to join up immediately, but let them continue to advance along the predetermined route.

When they reached a route that was roughly level with the position where she said she had found the formation fluctuations, which was about one hundred and thirty li ahead, if they still hadn’t found the enemy in their own direction, then they should come over quickly to join up and annihilate the grand formation she had discovered.

As for her side, she would go over and take a look first. This was the safest approach, as it could ensure that there would be no more ambush circles in the area behind her and to her right.

Then the enemy would not be able to counter-encircle her side. Although she had received Elder Han’s voice transmission, the other party had only said that she had encountered one or two people, and was not sure of the exact number.

So, there might still be ambushes from the Broken Army Sect in the surrounding area.

And Ling Shan herself was not sure. Although she had scanned the formation fluctuations, what if the other party had only set up an empty formation?

And then she let the two of them come over together. Whether the other party was ambushing them or not, once they broke the formation, all of their own people would be exposed first.

Or if this was just an empty feint formation, then after the Broken Army Sect had figured out their position, they might quietly avoid them, making it even more difficult for the Bright Flame Sect to find them…

So, how much time had passed? What she needed to do was to first confirm whether her detection was correct.

She just needed to be careful of the front and left sides. Anyway, as long as there was any change, she could immediately let the two of them come over.

They were only a few hundred li apart from each other, which was just a matter of a breath.

…

Mu Guyue and Ren Yanyu stood on the hillside. Neither of them spoke, both continuously using their divine sense to probe outside the grand formation.

The two of them had also received a voice transmission talisman from Li Yan earlier.

Li Yan had told them that he had encountered the wind-attribute Han Zhumei and that he would find a way to kill the other party. That was all.

Just like Han Zhumei, Li Yan had also taken advantage of the intense spatial fluctuations caused by the exchange of blows between the two sides to coincidentally activate the voice transmission talisman.

But the difference was that Li Yan could confirm the number of people on the other side, that it was only Han Zhumei alone, unlike Han Zhumei who still had doubts.

Suddenly, at a certain moment, Mu Guyue’s expression moved slightly, and Ren Yanyu also looked at her.

“They’re here!”

Mu Guyue’s cold and arrogant voice sounded softly.

But at this moment, she thought of Li Yan. She hoped that Li Yan could take care of that wind-attribute cultivator.

Otherwise, a lurking wind-attribute cultivator would have an unpredictable impact on their side.

However, Li Yan himself was as cunning as a fox. Even in the Mountain River Diagram, after losing half of his combat power, holding back Han Zhumei should not be a problem.

She even felt that Li Yan, at any time, like a fierce wolf, could possibly rush out from behind the enemy’s team.

“I’m going over. Be careful. According to Junior Brother Li’s jade slip, there should be two more Spirit Transformation cultivators nearby. Junior Sister should still focus on relying on the grand formation!” Ren Yanyu also softly urged.

If Li Yan could hold back that strongest Han Zhumei, then with the two of them against three, relying on the grand formation, there was still a lot of hope.

Mu Guyue just nodded. And at this time, the demonic qi in her body was already surging. The long-lost feeling of commanding the masses had once again returned to her sea of consciousness.

This made her, under her extremely cold expression, feel the warlike blood of the Demon Clan begin to boil!

Ren Yanyu, after giving her instructions, with a flicker of her figure, turned into a streak of red light and disappeared into the dense fog, entering the formation eye of the grand formation.

…

Ling Shan stood on the hillside. The trees here were not tall. Instead, the bushes were overgrown, and many of the bushes were more than half a person’s depth.

If mortal soldiers were to appear here, let alone advancing, even moving a few zhang would be exhausting.

“Elder Ling, from sensing this formation, this formation is not small. I think it might be all the people of the Broken Army Sect inside. We should summon the other two teams over now!”

A handsome Nascent Soul elder withdrew his divine sense and spoke.

“It should be right. Their number of Nascent Soul and Golden Core is too small, they can’t be separated to weaken their strength!”

Another Nascent Soul elder also nodded in agreement.

“It’s also possible that this is not the case. It’s precisely because they have few people and their strength is not good. I think it’s more likely that they will set up an empty formation and a feint formation here, and hide the rest of their people to delay for five days!”

The last Nascent Soul cultivator, however, shook his head and also proposed his own view.

Ling Shan, on the other hand, did not speak immediately, but continued to use her divine sense to scan the formation in front of her. She wanted to see what kind of formation the other party had.

Regarding the suggestions of the few Nascent Soul elders, Ling Shan felt that none of them were wrong, but this actually did not have too much other meaning for them.

Because, they were originally going to find the other party. Since they had found them, then they should first find a way to break the formation. As long as they attacked, everything would be clear.

Since Ling Shan and the others had just confirmed their target and were heading straight here, the investigation speed of the other two teams on the right side was still a bit slower. They were still investigating at a normal speed, but they were already not far from the parallel position of this place.

Presumably, if their investigation had no problems, they would be here in at most fifty breaths.

And, Ling Shan also had no intention of immediately sending a voice transmission to let the other two teams gather. She wanted to try first to break the restriction of the formation in front of her…

Somewhere inside the grand formation, in front of Mu Guyue, stood the three Nascent Soul cultivators, including Yu Banjiang, and fifty Golden Core sect disciples.

Mu Guyue’s phoenix eyes were slightly closed as she was sensing everything outside the grand formation.

Suddenly, Mu Guyue’s pair of phoenix eyes opened.

“Only one team has gathered outside. Someone is trying to break the formation. This situation is very favorable for us. Open your seas of consciousness now!”

At this moment, Mu Guyue, through the formation’s Gate of Life, had already seen the scene outside the grand formation. A team of the other party had already arrived here.

In her divine sense, nearly two hundred li away to the side, there was another team of Bright Flame Sect cultivators.

After a quick calculation in her mind, she immediately calculated that if based on the number of people in the team outside the formation at present, then the Bright Flame Sect’s side should have divided their cultivators into three teams, at most not exceeding four teams.

The enemy should have dispersed to expand their search range for them. This was exactly the same as her previous guess.

So what the other party had been thinking all along was to use their numerical advantage to directly crush their side.

But in the end, they still had to disperse. With the influence of the dense fog here, the teams of the Bright Flame Sect could not be too far from each other, otherwise they might lose their attack targets.

So at this time, it was a good opportunity for her to make a move.

With this thought, Mu Guyue immediately gave an order to the crowd. And as she spoke, the skin of the dozens of people, including Yu Banjiang, twitched violently.

Although at this very moment, they were all just Mark Incarnations here, the pain that came from the depths of their divine souls was still fresh in their memories.

In that more than a year, in order to quickly achieve a certain strengthening result she wanted, Mu Guyue had made them become neither human nor demon every day.

At this moment, Yu Banjiang and the others also knew that even if they were using Mark Incarnations here, due to the existence of their divine sense, the pain they should have would not be any less.

Just as Mu Guyue’s voice fell, in her pair of phoenix eyes, strange demonic patterns suddenly appeared.

At the same time, on her originally fair cheeks and slender neck, a demonic flower pattern also appeared. This was very similar to when Zhao Min used her demonic arts at full strength.

It was just that the demonic patterns of the Black Demon Clan gave off an even more sinister luster. Those were mutated demonic patterns.

The demonic patterns in Mu Guyue’s phoenix eyes, the moment they appeared, suddenly shot out from her eyes.

These demonic patterns were shaped like black order arrows. With a flash in the air, they shot towards the group of sect disciples in front.

Yu Banjiang and the other Broken Army Sect disciples had long been standing in place with their eyes closed, having opened their seas of consciousness.

Streaks of order arrow demonic patterns instantly landed on everyone’s forehead and drilled directly into their bodies, disappearing in an instant.

And in the instant a certain demonic pattern entered a forehead, that disciple would suddenly open his eyes and, with a sudden opening of his mouth, spit out a large mouthful of black demonic qi.

At this moment, their eyes had no pupils and had turned completely black.

As the muscles on their faces became somewhat distorted due to pain, whether male or female, the muscles on their bodies began to swell at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It was just that the men’s muscles would bulge high, while the female disciples’ muscle lines, while bulging, became clearer and more fluid.

But without exception, it gave people a feeling that power was about to erupt, like a volcano on the verge of eruption.

This was exactly a method Mu Guyue had thought of to make these human cultivators quickly become stronger. It was just that this method required an extremely painful process to adapt to and to be able to activate the potential power.

This was the “Casting the Demon” art of the Black Demon Clan, a method cultivated by high-level demons.

Through this method, ordinary demonic beasts and cultivators could be turned into half-human, half-demon monsters in a short period of time.

Thus allowing them, in a short period of time, besides possessing their own arts, to also possess the terrifying power of the Demon Clan. It would increase their combat power by about double.

This was to forcefully squeeze the power of the other party’s bones and magical power through demonic qi and demonic clan secret arts.

But once this art disappeared, the cultivator who had been subjected to “Casting the Demon” would become extremely weak.

They would be in extreme pain all over, and their bones and meridians would also become very fragile. It was even possible for them to die suddenly.

During the subsequent healing, they would need to use the medicinal liquid refined by Mu Guyue and soak in it for one to two days before they could return to normal. The specific situation would depend on the strength of that cultivator’s bones and meridians.

But the “Casting the Demon” divine ability basically needed to be cultivated to the late-stage Nascent Soul before it could be truly cast and controlled. It could probably control about fifty Golden Core level cultivators.

Although an initial-stage Nascent Soul demonic cultivator could also cast the “Casting the Demon” art, they could at most have about ten people. And with a great loss of their own demonic qi, if the time was a little longer, their realm might even drop.

Back then, during the great battle at Windy Cool Mountain on the Desolate Moon Continent, very few people from the Demon Clan had used this art.

There were two reasons:

First, this art had to be controlled by a high-level cultivator over a low-level cultivator. The chance of backlash between those of the same rank would almost instantly cause one to lose their combat power.

That was simply not worth the loss. Two good combat forces would instead become one person’s combat power.

Second, this art had a limited increase in combat power for the demonic cultivators themselves. Their own combat power was already very strong, and the stimulation of that demonic qi would not be able to stimulate more potential after “Casting the Demon.”

The use of this art was usually a means for the Demon Clan to control other races as battle slaves after conquering them.

So why wasn’t this art used on the South Sea cultivators back then?

The main reason was that the number of cultivators from the Demon Clan who had entered the Desolate Moon Continent that time was already limited, especially the high-level cultivators of the late-stage Nascent Soul and Spirit Transformation realms, of which there were only a few.

If those few were to use this art, their own rapid consumption would also be extremely great, unless the battle could be ended in a short period of time.

Otherwise, when they faced the cultivators of the Desolate Moon Continent, who had gathered the strength of the entire continent to fight to the death, as long as the time was dragged out a little, they would be completely at a disadvantage.

Even the Demon Marshal, Tu Tai, would probably be doomed. They certainly had to first ensure that their top combat power won, and then they could control everything.

What’s more, First Sir and the others were also nearby. The Demon Clan also had to prevent the other party from suddenly launching a fatal attack on them when the overall situation was already decided.

And after Mu Guyue had cultivated to the Spirit Transformation realm, she could barely control Yu Banjiang and the other two while controlling a hundred Golden Core cultivators.

It was just that the increase for these three was only about twenty percent, and the time Mu Guyue could last was not very long. Originally, she could barely reach a hundred breaths.

But she herself could not attack. However, because the Broken Army Sect’s combat power was not enough and the number of Golden Core cultivators had been halved, the time Mu Guyue could control had become much longer.

At the same time, she herself could also attack at the same time. But in this way, the time she could use “Casting the Demon” was at most only forty-three breaths. This was something they had repeatedly tested.