My Beasts Grind Proficiency For Me

Chapter 205 - 107: Red Evil True Demon Array (2)

"Even the best swimmers can drown, and the best riders can fall. People are often ruined by the very things they excel at. That Yang Jing prides himself on his Dharma Eyes, which can perceive Demonic Qi. He would never imagine that right under his very nose, a group of us Demon Cultivators are gathered, preparing to perform a Demon Summoning. A day from now, when he tries to break the array, a Golden Core-level Red Evil True Demon will suddenly leap out from within the Wei Clan Territory. I wonder what will be going through his mind then. Will he regret provoking us in his final moments?"

Wei Dong fanned himself with his folding fan, speaking with immense satisfaction.

His plan wasn’t particularly clever. It merely exploited a psychological blind spot of Yang Jing’s, as well as Bian Shiyin’s considerable wealth.

After all, not just any Foundation Establishment Cultivator could so easily produce two Tier Three Demon Arrays.

Forming the Red Evil True Demon Array required seven Cultivators to hold Demon Banners while standing on Spiritual Qi Nodes, using their Magical Power to perform the Demon Summoning. Wei Dong had already made the preparations; to be safe, he had even contacted eleven Demon Cultivators.

The Demon Cultivators present all burst into laughter.

The Red Evil True Demon was an extremely vicious type of Celestial Demon from the Outer Realm. The weakest among them were at the Golden Core level, and they were considered exceptionally fierce even among the many varieties of Outer Celestial Demons.

If it weren’t for the Red Evil True Demon Array, they would never dare to rashly summon this demon.

Wei Zhongda laughed along with them, but only he knew the bitterness in his heart.

That day, he had chosen to open the array and let these Demon Cultivators in. Most of the younger generation of the Wei Family had been in favor. In their eyes, the Demon Cultivators were business partners. Wasn’t it only natural to join forces with them to fight against that fiend, Yang Jing?

Only a few clan elders, who had truly witnessed the cruelty of Demon Cultivators, vehemently objected. They would rather die and see their clan annihilated than open the Array Restriction for the Demon Cultivators.

"If the array is broken by the Six Sects, our Wei Family’s Mortal Race People might still survive. But if we let these Demon Cultivators in, I’m afraid not a single person in the entire clan will be left alive!"

To prove his resolve with his life, one had even killed himself by smashing his head against the doors of the ancestral hall.

What they never expected was that after their deaths, Wei Zhongda would lead his clansmen to open a corner of the Grand Array’s earth veins and let the Demon Cultivators in.

Yang Jing sat cross-legged in his temporary Cave Mansion, holding the Communication Mirror he used to contact Wei Ying. ’No wonder I’ve been on edge lately,’ he thought. ’My Spiritual Sense has been faintly warning me.’

"Master?"

Yinjiao, having completed a full Circulation of his Magical Power, opened his eyes and asked with concern. He had never seen his master with such a grim expression.

"See for yourself."

Yang Jing handed the Communication Mirror to Yinjiao.

Although Yinjiao was a deep thinker, his heart still skipped a beat upon seeing the message in the Communication Mirror.

Yang Jing said, his expression cold as ice:

"The Seven Illusions of Celestial Demon Array and the Red Evil True Demon Array... These demonic whelps are certainly making a grand play."

These two Tier Three Demon Arrays were worth considerably more than the Taiyin Illusion Demon Banner.

’Even with my proficiency in the Five Elements Escape Technique, Thunder Escape, and Cloud Escape,’ he mused, ’if I run into a Red Evil True Demon, I’ll inevitably suffer some setbacks, even if I can ultimately escape.’

’I never thought a piece I casually placed on the board would end up having such an unexpected effect.’

’Wei Ying hasn’t betrayed me. If those Demon Cultivators knew I was proficient in the Earth Escape technique, they would never have chosen the Red Evil True Demon Array. Vicious as the Red Evil True Demon may be, it can’t touch me once I burrow into the ground. Over the past two days, I’ve helped him eliminate quite a few of his rivals in the Dark Spring Demon Sect. Money moves the human heart, after all. If I hadn’t paid him so handsomely, there’s no way Wei Ying would have tipped me off in advance.’

"Master, what should we do now?"

Iron Head asked.

Yang Jing sighed and shook his head.

"A single Red Evil True Demon isn’t an unsolvable problem. My Celestial Thunder Technique can counter it. I’m afraid there aren’t many people left alive within the Wei Clan Territory’s Five Mountains Spirit Suppression Array. The members of the Wei Family worked for the Demon Sect, trafficking people. They brought this fate upon themselves."

Although the Red Evil True Demon was strong, it was ultimately only at the Golden Core level of Power. To prevent a backlash from the Celestial Demon, the Demon Cultivators wouldn’t dare summon an overly powerful entity.

As Celestial Thunder Techniques, the Taixiao True Thunder and Great Cave True Thunder could do more than just summon Celestial Thunder.

During these seven days, it wasn’t just the Demon Cultivators who were making moves; the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion was as well.

After Yang Jing had slain numerous wicked True Disciples of the Demon Sects, the Demon Suppression Army, which had been stretched thin, finally had some breathing room. They no longer had to rush around nonstop, suppressing and exterminating Celestial Demons as they had before.

The next day, at the Wei Clan Territory, a palpable killing intent drove the local snakes, insects, and vermin to flee in terror, leaving the entire mountain range eerily silent.

Yang Jing stood upon a stone platform three hundred zhang away from the hollow where the clan territory lay. He was dressed in the robes of an Inner Sect disciple of the Five Elements True Spirit Sect, his expression solemn.

Wenshu and the Law Enforcement Team from Longwu Marketplace surrounded him, trembling.

"Inspector Yang, these are the instruments you instructed me to prepare."

Wenshu cautiously ordered the Cultivators of the Law Enforcement Team to place several large chests one by one onto the stone platform.

Yang Jing raised an eyebrow and looked at Wenshu.

"Oh? You’re quite knowledgeable for a clerk. You actually know that these are the instruments needed to build an altar and summon thunder for the Celestial Thunders Technique."

Wenshu wiped the sweat from his brow.

"My ancestors were from the Supreme Profound Upper Yang Sect, so this humble one knows a thing or two."

Yang Jing nodded.

"Then what about these Yin Death Demons hidden in the banners?"

His words caused Wenshu’s expression to change drastically. With a flick of his wrist, a short dagger brimming with sinister Demonic Qi appeared in his hand. The dagger let out a sharp whistle as it shot straight for Yang Jing’s face.

The chests containing the instruments exploded, and countless Demon Shadows formed from Yin Death Demons let out demonic wails as they lunged at Yang Jing.

Yang Jing simply took out the Demon-Catching Tripod. Countless chains shot out, binding the Yin Death Demons as easily as if catching chicks and dragging them into the tripod.

Even the few that slipped through the net were blasted to ashes by the Five Elements True Thunder that automatically activated from Yang Jing’s body.

Wenshu, however, paid no attention to the Yin Death Demons. They were merely cannon fodder meant to distract Yang Jing; his true killing move had always been the dagger.

This dagger had been refined from Nine Deaths Evil Iron mixed with Illusion Demon True Blood. It was not only incomparably sharp and specialized in piercing Protective Spirit Light, but it also possessed illusory powers. To one’s Divine Sense or Dharma Eye, the visible dagger was merely an illusion, located three chi away from the real blade.

According to rumors, Yang Jing was a master of Sword Techniques. But even if he tried to intercept it with a Flying Sword, he would fail miserably due to that three-chi discrepancy.

A victorious smile spread across Wenshu’s face, but in the next instant, it froze. Yang Jing had simply extended two fingers and effortlessly caught the real dagger between them.

"How is that possible!"

He let out a cry of disbelief. An instant later, a pair of Flying Spiritual Artifacts that looked like flesh wings tore through the clothes and skin on his back and unfurled.

With a single flap of the flesh wings, the Demon Cultivator shot thirty zhang away at an astonishing speed.

"Yang Jing, you brat! So what if you blocked my assassination attempt? You don’t have the Magic Altar Instruments to summon thunder anymore, so how will you call down the lightning? You’re nothing but a big joke today!"

Wenshu flapped his wings and fled, taunting Yang Jing as he went.

In the next instant, Yang Jing executed Man and Sword as One, transforming into a streak of red Sword Light. Though he moved second, he arrived first, slicing the Demon Cultivator in two at the waist.

Crimson blood rained down. Relying on his powerful Life Force, the Demon Cultivator barely managed to use his Magical Power to seal the wound. He stared fixedly at Yang Jing, his eyes filled with disbelief.

His greatest pride was the pair of Flesh Wings Spiritual Artifact on his back. After refining them, he could fly and even possessed a hint of the Spiritual Charm of Wind Escape. After he unfurled his wings, ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivators could only eat his dust.

"Impossible! Since when could you use the Sword Escape Skill of Man and Sword as One?!"

The Demon Cultivator continuously spat out blood. As the skin on his face became soaked with blood, it began to wrinkle and peel away, revealing the Demon Cultivator’s true, sharp-chinned and hollow-cheeked face beneath Wenshu’s human skin.

"When was I ever unable to use it? There are just very few opponents worthy of me using the skill of Man and Sword as One."

Yang Jing said coldly, then with a single slash of his sword, beheaded the Demon Cultivator, whose eyes remained wide open in death.

’This Demon Cultivator secretly skinned Wenshu and wore it. A pity. He overdid it by hiding so many Yin Death Demons in the chests, which gave his identity away.’