Chapter 549: Chapter 69: The Demon Sect’s Annihilation
On the seventh day, Lin Chen, leading an army of over eight thousand martial artists, once again stepped into the Cultivation Realm.
Where only a second had passed in the Cultivation Realm.
After just one week of intense battles, the demonic forces in Qing State’s Five Great Domains had mostly been destroyed, leaving only the demonic forces in the Eastern Domain of Qing State, which was also the headquarters of the Qing State Demon Sect.
In this week, nearly a million demonic cultivators were exterminated, most of whom were at the Golden Core Stage or below, having been mostly blown to death by the Celestial Thunder Master.
Even so, thousands of Golden Core Stage and above cultivators in Qing State’s demon path, including dozens of Nascent Soul Cultivators, were all slain by the martial artist army, greatly weakening the Nether Realm’s forces.
However, Qing State’s Eastern Domain, as the headquarters of the demonic path, had the most demonic cultivators and the most powerful strength, even with the Demon Monarch Huiyue personally guarding it.
Thus, the battles of the past week undoubtedly gave the demonic path in Qing State more time to prepare, and they would definitely have made full defensive arrangements.
Nonetheless, Lin Chen was not worried, because in just one week, his eight thousand martial artists had undergone a significant transformation, with nearly a thousand reaching the Nascent Soul Stage, and the average strength of the others at the late Golden Core Stage.
This army was not only capable of sweeping through Qing State’s demonic path but also the other four states, except Yunzhou.
In terms of absolute strength, Lin Chen undoubtedly had the upper hand, even though the demonic cultivators were numerous, they were nothing more than a mob.
However, Lin Chen was concerned about potential reinforcements from the Spirit Realm.
As a result, he did not make a rash move but instead went alone to the Eastern Domain of Qing State, once again returning to the familiar Yanlai Realm.
This place was already unrecognizable. In the past, while the cultivators in Yanlai Realm weren’t powerful, mortals still lived in peace, with some righteous sects like Changchun Sect. The demonic forces and tribulation cultivators were not many.
However, ever since the Demon Sect began its rampage a century ago, the situation completely changed. The entire Yanlai Realm was now ruled by the demonic path, with the number of mortals less than one-tenth of a century ago. The remaining mortals were penned up to be used for refining Blood Pills for the demonic cultivators’ cultivation.
The demonic forces in Qing State’s Eastern Domain were the most formidable. According to the satellites Lin Chen previously launched, the bases occupied by Qing State’s demonic cultivators numbered no less than a hundred, with demonic cultivators nearly numbering a million, comparable to the total of the other four domains.
However, among this million demonic cultivators, ninety-nine percent were at the Qi Refining Stage and Foundation Establishment Stage, with actual Golden Core Stage and Nascent Soul Stage cultivators being less than one percent.
Though the exact numbers were unclear, there should be over five thousand Golden Core Stage cultivators and over three hundred Nascent Soul Stage cultivators among Qing State’s demonic cultivators.
Despite the vast demonic forces, compared with Lin Chen’s martial artist army, the overall strength was still far inferior.
The only concern for Lin Chen was the potential support from the Spirit Realm and the indiscriminate attack from high-realm cultivators on the martial artist army.
As such, Lin Chen did not act rashly. He spent a day lurking near the demonic cultivators’ headquarters, closely monitoring the Spirit Realm’s movements, wanting to see if they had deployed a large number of high-realm cultivators for support.
If they had, even if they deployed just a few dozen Divinity Transformation Stage cultivators, Lin Chen would immediately abort his plan, because his over eight thousand martial artists would be unable to withstand the attack of dozens of Divinity Transformation Stage cultivators.
Unexpectedly, Lin Chen did not find any signs of Spirit Realm cultivators.
If the Spirit Realm had indeed sent cultivators, Lin Chen’s current Divine Sense would naturally be able to detect them easily.
But since there was no discovery, the problem became more complex.
Firstly, it could not be ruled out that the Spirit Realm had powerful means to stealthily deploy high-realm cultivators to Qing State like Lin Chen, while shrouding Lin Chen’s Divine Sense.
Yet the bigger possibility was that the Spirit Realm cultivators simply did not care about the survival of Qing State’s demonic cultivators, as in their eyes, these millions of demonic cultivators were just pawns.
After waiting for a day and a half, Lin Chen finally couldn’t hold back and decided to bet.
He thought that the Spirit Realm might not care so much about the life and death of Qing State’s demonic cultivators. If a batch died, they could simply cultivate more.
And what Lin Chen needed was precisely this short time window.
Thus, after waiting just a day and a half, Lin Chen took action.
He led the army of eight thousand martial artists to directly charge the demonic cultivators’ headquarters, which was the former site of the Spirit Beast Sect.
At this moment, the sect was crowded with demonic cultivators, with most Golden Core Stage demonic cultivators gathered here.
If they could wipe out the demonic cultivators here, the Foundation Establishment Stage and Qi Refining Stage demonic cultivators scattered in various strongholds would be negligible.
With a series of earth-shattering explosions, over a hundred Celestial Thunder Masters were detonated, striking terror into all the demonic cultivators within the sect. Some of the weaker Golden Core Stage cultivators were severely injured, and the unlucky ones were directly blown to death.
Amidst a series of explosions, the army of eight thousand martial artists charged in.
The battle was exceptionally fierce.
Although Lin Chen’s martial artist army was powerful, the demonic cultivators were not completely unprepared, having set up numerous arrays. Most of the Golden Core Stage and Nascent Soul Stage cultivators retained considerable strength.
The battle was a head-to-head clash, lasting a full day and night.
Lin Chen was inclined to intervene several times, but each time Wang Lishan stopped him.
After all, once Lin Chen intervened, though it could reduce casualties, the huge fluctuations of an Integration cultivator might draw the attention of Spirit Realm cultivators, which would be troublesome.
Meanwhile, Lin Chen was surprised to find that Demon Monarch Huiyue did not seem to be in the sect.
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