Chapter 268 - 268 265 Shadow Transformation Divine Power
Chapter 268: Chapter 265 Shadow Transformation Divine Power Chapter 268: Chapter 265 Shadow Transformation Divine Power The Five Poisons Sect and the Ghost Controlling Sect won.
Once they annihilated the most elite legion under the command of those two Demon Gods on the barren wilderness, they headed straight for the heart of the enemy territory.
Without the defense of the powerful legion, the territory was all but void, and though the main city still housed many of the Demon Clan, and quite a few Demon Clan armies guarded it, some strong ones even left behind to guard the Demon God Palace.
But under the overwhelming pressure of the Five Poisons Sect and the Ghost Controlling Sect, it didn’t take long to occupy the entire Demon God Palace and slay all the guards.
Their victory was relatively easy, and for the other factions, over a million cultivators from various small and medium-sized sects attacking a Demon God territory certainly wouldn’t be difficult.
Although these million-plus disciples belonged to different sects with varying levels of power and strength, with large sects like the Fiery Fire Sect sending tens of thousands of disciples and smaller ones like the Fog Hidden Sect sending only a few thousand, the strength of their forces was uneven.
But no matter, even if each sect was an independent force with its own combat methods and could not unite to fight together, relying on this huge Cultivator Alliance to breach a Demon God territory was still a piece of cake.
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If not for everyone needing the treasures and resources in the Demon God’s main city, just by the Fiery Fire Sect deploying the Fiery Fire Heaven Burning Great Array, they could have burned the vast city spanning dozens of miles to emptiness.
There were simply too many cultivators; though they lacked the countless Spiritual Beasts as vanguards from the Beast Taming Sect, the billions of poison insects from the Five Poisons Sect covering the sky, and the Ghost Controlling Sect’s methods of nurturing a million Fierce Ghosts and Zombies.
But so many cultivators, casting their Magic Artifacts and Spiritual Artifacts together, pinching spells, chanting incantations, and exhibiting Magic Divine Power, still struck terror in the hearts of the Demon Clan.
When had they ever seen an army of over a million mages, ever witnessed such a scene of numerous gigantic Flying Escape Treasures descending from the sky, never imagining that all sorts of strange and bizarre weapons could also fly in the sky to launch attacks on them.
When countless spells rained down from the sky and countless Magic Artifacts attacked from all strange angles, when some powerful Magical Treasures and Spiritual Treasures morphed in shape, turning into enormous objects hundreds of zhangs tall and smashing down, naturally this Demon God Territory would find it hard to escape the fate of being overrun.
Unless all of the Demon Clan gathered together, forming an extremely large legion to confront the expeditionary army of cultivators in direct battle, there might be a chance to fight against the cultivators.
Otherwise, such an independent territory, with but several hundred thousand Demon Clan soldiers, simply couldn’t stand against the cultivators.
Not to mention anything else, just in terms of marching speed alone, the Demon Clan couldn’t compare.
The Winged Demon Clan was considered a large clan, but they mainly lived in the Winged Demon God’s territory, and other places didn’t have many of them.
Apart from the Winged Demon Clan, only those strong ones, mages and warriors with Flying Demon Pets, were able to fly.
However, the numbers of these Demon Clan were even fewer.
It was different for cultivators; all those who had reached Foundation Establishment had the ability to control Spiritual Artifacts to fly, and they also possessed numerous large Flying Escape Treasures that could carry ordinary Qi Refining Cultivators, ensuring their marching speed and leveraging the advantage of flying high in the sky, to wantonly trample those Demon Clan who couldn’t fly beneath them.
Even if they just stood on the Flying Escape Treasures and cast spells, a few rounds of attacks could beat the Demon Clan warriors into a sorry state.
This was a typical scenario of air forces oppressing ground troops.
Even though there were not a few mages among the Demon Clan who could retaliate with magic, and some powerful members of the Demon Clan who were dual magic and martial practitioners could freely use the magic power within their bodies to cast spells, they were ultimately mostly warriors.
There was no way to withstand so many cultivators.
Because aside from Body Cultivators and Martial Cultivators, the rest of the cultivators’ system were Magic Cultivators, or as the Demon Clan termed it, all these enemies were mages.
But these mages were not only capable of striking from afar but also engaging in close combat, which was despairing.
Some highly intelligent Demon Clan knew the battle was lost.
They yearned to escape, to unite the strength of the entire Demon Clan to combat these formidable invaders from another domain; only then might they have a slight chance of victory.
Otherwise, they would just be picked apart by these powerful enemies flying in the sky.
Sadly, knowing this was one thing, but accomplishing it was quite another.
At the very least, until those Demon Gods took several big losses in quick succession, it would be difficult for them to completely give up their territories, their comfortable Demon God Palaces, and all the treasures and resources to join forces with the other Demon Gods.
After the Fiery Fire Sect and other small and medium-sized sects seized that Demon God’s main city and distributed all the treasures and resources, these sect cultivators were both ecstatic and somewhat unsatisfied.
Because there were simply too many of them.
Although they gained quite a lot here, compared to the income of the Beast Taming Sect, it was still much less.
After all, with so many sects sharing, divided into five or six dozen parts, each sect only obtained a limited amount.
So, after a brief discussion, they decided to split up and head to other smaller towns and fortresses within the Demon God territory, to conquer all castles and thereby access more resources.
Not just them, the Beast Taming Sect, the Five Poisons Sect, and the Ghost Controlling Sect had also begun to divide their forces for battle, sending Elders to lead some of their members to various places to forcefully attack those smaller towns and cities.
Of course, they were limited to the territories of these few Demon Gods; they wouldn’t go further away.
After all, they still had to guard against any unexpected situations.
If those Supreme Elders conducting high-altitude combat happened to be defeated, they would have to quickly reconvene all disciples to prepare for defense and re-plan their combat strategy.
Moreover, they were still unfamiliar with this world and did not know where certain dangerous areas might be; inadvertently stepping in could lead to heavy losses.
The number of cultivators in the expeditionary force, after all, was not that great, so minimizing losses was necessary.
For the larger sects, even with some losses, it was still within the tolerable range, but it was not the same for the smaller sects.
For example, the Fog Hidden Sect, even including the Outer Disciple members, had deployed only eight thousand people, and other slightly stronger small sects had only twenty to thirty thousand at most, truly not able to afford too great a loss.
A slight misstep could lead to the annihilation of the entire sect, so they could not afford to not be cautious.
Even though many disciples were burning with desire to conquer more territories, the higher echelon of Elders still retained their rationality and were not swayed by the benefits at hand, and thus would not act rashly.
Days later, when all the sects returned full to the brim, the leaders of each sect were all smiles, and the ordinary disciples were so happy they couldn’t close their mouths.
The spoils from this expedition were truly tremendous.
Each disciple’s storage bag was stuffed with a variety of spiritual objects.
These disciples were earnest, especially the Qi Refining Realm disciples from the lower echelons; those not from great clans wished they could split a spirit stone into eight pieces to spend.
Now, suddenly arriving in a place where they could freely plunder spiritual objects, they certainly wouldn’t let go of anything useful.
From the weapons, armor, and leather armor of the demon clan warriors, to the magic wands, gemstones, and magic jewelry of the demon clan mages, to the countless demon beast skins, bones, horns, teeth, and so on scavenged from the cities, along with all kinds of ores and materials—anything that had a hint of energy fluctuations was packed into their storage bags and loaded onto the sect’s flying escape treasures.
Even the weapons and armor on those warriors were enchanted, possessing some magic attacks or defenses, which could only be made from special materials.
There were many demon beasts in this realm; many members of the demon clan often went into the wilds to hunt demon beasts.
The materials from these beasts, once brought back by the cultivators, could be used to refine magic artifacts and spiritual artifacts.
Beast skins could be used to make armor or to draw spirit talismans; all were treasures.
And because this realm frequently experienced volcanic eruptions, it had an abundance of mineral resources, various rare materials, element-containing gemstones, and even demon crystal veins were not uncommon.
However, many disciples began to regret it after scavenging for just a short while.
It wasn’t that they regretted taking too much; it was that they realized their storage bags were too small.
Many disciples regretted not bringing several more storage bags before coming; after filling their storage bags, they could only stuff some light and easily carried items into their sleeves and bosoms.
Some even outright carried wooden boxes or slung beast skin pouches, all packed full with various spiritual resources.
There was simply too much to find, leaving them no place to put everything, so they had to carry it themselves, image be damned.
But no matter, once they returned to the Cave Heaven Fortress with their respective sect’s flying escape treasures, they could set all these items down and go back light.
And when they returned, they could also exchange all of their spoils for sect achievements, or take them to the market established by the united sects to exchange for various spiritual objects.
Although the prices of useful spirit elixirs, magic artifacts, and spirit talismans were several times more expensive than before, the disciples didn’t mind.
This wasn’t their original world, after all, so it was normal for prices to be higher.
Moreover, they just needed to continue to work hard, to plunder more treasures and exchange them for more spiritual objects suitable for their cultivation, so they could quickly advance to a higher cultivation realm.
Now they had only occupied the territories of four demon gods; there were still many more demon god territories awaiting them to claim treasures.
Even if they plundered all the demon god territories, countless rare veins and demon crystal mines awaited them to be mined; there were innumerable demon beasts and various resources in the wilds to be hunted – there was no lack of items to exchange for cultivation resources.
And with the existence of artifact refiners, alchemists, talisman makers, and the like in each sect, they were all busy researching how to best utilize the resources of this realm.
Talisman makers had it easier, as they only needed demon beast skins to refine talismans and demon beast essence blood to prepare cinnabar.
Artifact refiners had it much harder; after all, they needed to deal with too many artifact refining materials.
However, as long as the characteristics of those ores and the bones, claws, and teeth of demon beasts were understood and the demonic Qi within them was eliminated, they could be refined into Magic Artifacts and Spiritual Artifacts that cultivators could use, or even Magical Treasures and Spiritual Treasures.
The most difficult task belonged to the alchemists.
Alchemy was the most energy-consuming task.
The alchemists not only had to distinguish the properties of each kind of material suitable for alchemy but also had to carefully validate them to see what they could refine in combination with other ingredients.
They certainly did not want to accidentally produce Poison Pills, as that would harm the disciples of various sects.
Fortunately, among these people were many Alchemy Masters, who were very accurate in identifying various materials.
After a few tests, they could begin to preliminarily start refining Elixir Pills using the materials of this realm.
However, the Red Flame Demon Realm was, after all, a world abundant in Fire Element, and many places were not suitable for the growth of plants and herbs.
Therefore, the materials genuinely suitable for alchemy in this realm were not too abundant and were mostly Fire Attribute in nature.
This result left the elders from various sects somewhat helpless, but it was an unavoidable situation.
In the Void Ten Thousand Realms, worlds biased towards a certain element were very numerous; some worlds were purely of the Water Element, others were vibrant with plant life, and such phenomena were quite common.
Of course, worlds with all-around development were more common.
It was just that, in the process of evolution, each had its own preference.
For this realm’s situation, the Fiery Fire Sect and another minor sect that primarily cultivated Fire Element Techniques were overjoyed.
With so many Fire Element Spiritual Items, it was sure that their disciples could achieve the greatest improvement.
After this battle, it was very likely that a large number of outstanding disciples would emerge, thus enhancing the overall strength of their Sects.
In addition, there were cultivators who specialized in exploring various veins, who went everywhere in search of the best mining resources, preparing to make use of them.
Also, the Array Masters from various Sects were scouting around these various Demon God territories, preparing to set up various Arrays in certain places.
Since this would be an unusually prolonged battle, after the Supreme Elders above and the Demon Gods had determined the victor, they too would need a stable rear area to digest their gains and improve the strength of their disciples.
This required setting up more Arrays to guard against stealth attacks by the Demon Clan.
Therefore, they needed to find various suitable veins and Spirit Veins for Array setting.
There were many volcanoes here, which were most suitable for guiding underground Fire Veins and setting up various Fire Element Formations.
Even though the Flame Demon Clan and many other Demon Clans were very close to flames, they had no knowledge of the cultivators’ Arrays.
If they really stepped into it, they would definitely suffer a great loss.
While disciples from all sects were celebrating their gains, Qin Feng was in closed-door Cultivation.
Of course, the closed-door cultivation was just a pretext; his real intention was to use this free time to quickly integrate the Shadow Transformation Technique of the Shadow Demon Snake into the body of the Ruyi Golden Snake, so that he could master one more Divine Power.
This Shadow Transformation Technique was very useful; whether used for lurking or for hidden escapes, it was considered an excellent method.
Given the strength of his Divine Sense, he had initially failed to detect the Shadow Demon Snake lurking in his own shadow.
Although this was related to him being busy dealing with the attacks of other Demon Clans at the time, it also highlighted the extraordinary abilities of this Divine Power.