Qinghe Immortal Clan.

"What the ancestor said is true! Those people from Chiyun Mountain are all fickle. They ran away as soon as they saw something was wrong. If Canglong and the others hadn't escaped in advance today, we wouldn't have lost several fellow Taoists."

After hearing the angry rebuke from the "Black Dragon Demon King", the "Flame Tiger Demon King" beside him also hurriedly complained, and then he carefully asked:
"Well, the Chiyun Mountain monster army has all fled. What should we do, ancestor? Should we continue to attack Guiyunfang?"

"Humph! After fighting for so long, Xiaoyao Sect is also at the end of its strength. Now is our last chance to capture Guiyunfang. How can we give up so easily?

Pass on my order, continue to attack the market formation with all your strength tomorrow morning. I don’t believe how long Xiaoyao Sect can hold on! "After the "Molong Demon King" shouted angrily, he issued an attack order with a solemn expression, vowing to capture "Guiyunfang".

At this time, a hundred miles away from "Guiyunfang", the "Chiyun Demon King", who had already retreated northward with his army of monsters, was sitting on a flying car and looking at the direction of Weiguo which was getting later and later. He couldn't help but sigh.

"Ancestor, if we really withdraw like this, how will we respond if Ancestor Molong investigates this matter in the future? Moreover, both White Wolf and Golden Toad were killed in Weiguo this time. If Jinyu Mountain really captures Guiyunfang after we leave, then we won't gain anything and lose so many monsters in vain!"

The "Canglong Demon King" who was guarding on the side carefully looked at the "Red Cloud Demon Emperor" and also muttered something with some reluctance.

"Humph! When we were here, the two families together couldn't defeat it. How could Jinyu Mountain occupy Guiyunfang alone? You underestimate Xiaoyao Sect too much.

If I'm not mistaken, Xiaoyao Sect's reinforcements will probably arrive soon. If Mo Long is unwilling to accept this, he will definitely suffer. Anyway, this is a matter between Jinyu Mountain and Xiaoyao Sect, so we shouldn't get too involved.

And the woman who injured me should not be a cultivator near the Floating Cloud Mountains. She must be of some importance. It is best not to provoke such a person without reason, otherwise it will easily cause us big trouble. "

"Ancestor, are you saying that there is a powerful Nascent Soul cultivator behind that woman?" After hearing what came out of the mouth of the "Red Cloud Demon Emperor", the Mosasaur Demon King at the side asked curiously.

"Anyone who can arrange such a method must have reached the late Nascent Soul stage at least. Although we, the demon race, have no need to fear a late Nascent Soul cultivator, if we really provoke them, we may not be able to live peacefully in the future. Let Mo Long give him a headache!"

After saying this, "Red Cloud Demon Emperor" slowly turned around and retracted his gaze, then closed his eyes and began to practice qigong to heal his injuries.

In the previous battle, facing the spiritual sword energy used by Li Xuanyi, although the "Red Cloud Demon King" relied on the defensive magic weapon on his body to save his life, his entire left shoulder was severely injured by the opponent, and he could not exert half of his strength at this time. This was also the most important reason why he decisively chose to withdraw his troops.

After thousands of years of practice, he finally broke through to the Nascent Soul realm and became the dominant Demon King. Although the "Chiyun Demon King" was also keen on expanding his territory and increasing his own strength, he did not want to put himself in danger.

On the third day, when they saw the army of monsters surging like a tide and appearing outside the market formation, the people from the "Xiaoyao Sect" standing on the city wall did not show any surprise on their faces.

Although they successfully repelled the army of monsters yesterday, the "Guiyunfang" side also suffered heavy losses. Zhenren Guangling died, and Zhao Mengling, Hu Qingyun and Li Xuanyi were unable to join the battle due to recovery. The "Guiyunfang" side lost four Jindan cultivators alone.

However, this time, because there was no help from "Chiyun Mountain", the strength of the monster army led by "Molong Demon King" was also weakened a lot. Even if they tried their best, they only fought a tie with the "Xiaoyao Sect" and failed to move forward and conquer the "Guiyunfang" mountain protection formation.

Seeing that the "Red Cloud Demon King" and the monsters of Red Cloud Mountain had not appeared all day, the people of the "Xiao Yao Sect" who did not know that they had already withdrawn thought that the other party was ambushing somewhere. They were nervous all day, but they did not see the "Red Cloud Demon King" come out.

At dusk on the third day, not long after the battle ended, a green light suddenly flew quickly from a distance and landed outside the "Guiyunfang" mountain protection formation, turning into a green flying boat.

A Taoist priest in green standing in front of the flying boat looked at the "Guiyunfang" mountain protection formation still in front of him, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"Haha! Guiyunfang's mountain protection formation has not been broken yet. It seems that Li Mufeng and the others did not choose to withdraw!" The Taoist in green muttered to himself, then reached out and took out a red voice transmission sheet and threw it directly into the formation.

After a while, people from the "Xiaoyao Sect" led by Li Mufeng came out to greet them.

Seeing the middle-aged Taoist in front of him, Li Mufeng hurriedly smiled and walked up to him, bowed and said, "Haha! Fellow Daoist Yang, you are finally here. I have been waiting for you for so long, and it has been very hard!"

In the world of immortal cultivation in the Floating Cloud Mountains, when the monster riots occur once every hundred years, although each country will face attacks from the monster army, after they are able to solve their own problems, the major sects that have good relations nearby will often support each other.

In the past, every time the "Xiaoyao Sect" repelled the monster army on the Wei State side, it would also send out an army of monks to support other nearby countries that were at a disadvantage facing the monster army.

After discovering that the "Red Cloud Demon King" and the Jinyu Mountain monster army had joined forces to attack Wei State, Li Mufeng immediately sent a message to the nearest Nascent Soul Sect, the "Tianji Sect", for help. The middle-aged Taoist priest was none other than Yang Fengyu, the Nascent Soul Supreme Elder of the Tianji Sect who dared to come to support.

Shangyang State, where the "Tianji Sect" is located, is located in the southeast of the Floating Cloud Mountains, tens of thousands of miles away from the Wei State. After receiving the urgent letter for help from the "Xiaoyao Sect", Yang Fengyu immediately set off in a light vehicle with four Jindan monks to provide support.

However, because the two places were far apart, even though Yang Fengyu took turns to urge the flying boat to speed up the journey, it still took him several days to reach "Guiyunfang".

Seeing the arrival of reinforcements from the Tianji Sect, the morale of the many monks defending the city in Guiyunfang was immediately boosted. After Li Mufeng and Yang Fengyu discussed it that night, they quickly came up with a plan to counterattack the army of monsters.

At this time, the "Molong Demon King" still held on to a glimmer of hope to conquer "Guiyunfang", and did not know that reinforcements had arrived from the "Xiaoyao Sect", who led a large army of monsters to besiege the market formation early the next morning.

Not long after the war began, while the "Black Dragon Demon King" was fighting with Li Mufeng, Yang Fengyu and others who were hiding in the mountain protection formation took the opportunity to cleverly break out and besieged the unsuspecting "Black Dragon Demon King" together with Li Mufeng.

Although the "Black Dragon Demon King" was quite powerful, he suffered a loss when facing the siege of two mid-Nascent Soul cultivators. Although he finally escaped the pursuit of the two, the "Black Dragon Demon King" was also injured by Li Mufeng's magic weapon and no longer had his previous arrogance.

After defeating the "Black Dragon Demon King" head-on, the army of cultivators from the "Guiyunfang" immediately went into a counterattack state. As the Golden Core Demon Kings fled in panic, the army of monsters that besieged the "Guiyunfang" soon turned around and fled north.

At this time, a large army of cultivators that had been prepared in advance, led by Li Xuanyi and Song Qingyu, suddenly rushed out from the rear of the army of monsters, catching the monsters off guard. The scene immediately became a scene of defeat.

"The monster army has been defeated. Everyone, follow me to kill the enemy and gain merit!"

Following an order from the Jindan cultivator above, the army of cultivators outside the market town immediately pursued the enemy and did not stop until the army of monsters had retreated hundreds of miles away!

In this battle, the cultivator from Guiyunfang not only defeated the "Molong Demon King", but also killed four demon kings and many low-level demon beasts in the foundation-building and Qi-refining stages, totaling as many as five or six thousand. In one battle, they inflicted heavy damage on the invading army of demon beasts.

Although the monks of "Guiyunfang" also paid a certain price in this battle, the "Xiaoyao Sect" was able to successfully defeat the army of monsters that had besieged "Guiyunfang" for more than half a year, resolving their imminent crisis, which can be regarded as a great victory.

Led by the "Black Dragon Demon King", the Jinyu Mountain side fled northward for hundreds of miles before slowly stopping. Looking at the monster army that had suffered heavy losses, the "Black Dragon Demon King" finally recognized the fact and led the remaining monster army to retreat directly northward into the Floating Cloud Mountains.

After defeating the army of monsters under the command of the "Black Dragon Demon King" in one battle, the people of the "Xiaoyao Sect" finally showed a look of relief on their faces.

Over the past half year since the monster riot, the "Xiaoyao Sect" has been suppressed by the monster army almost throughout the riot and faced crises several times. Not only did it lose "Tuoyun Mountain", "Iron Immortal Fort" and the entire northwest of Weiguo, but even the "Guiyunfang", the most important market in the north of the sect, was almost broken by the monster army.

This time they finally repelled the army of monsters head-on, and the patriotic monks who had been suppressed for a long time finally got a chance to feel proud. After returning to "Guiyunfang", almost all the "Xiaoyao Sect" disciples had a look of joy on their faces.

Although this battle of monster rebellion was extremely dangerous at first, the entire patriotic monks showed a unity that was very rare on the battlefield in order to defend "Guiyunfang". The "Xiaoyao Sect" alone lost thousands of disciples outside "Guiyunfang", which was also a devastating loss for the entire sect.

However, although the war was extremely brutal, fortunately, the "Xiaoyao Sect" still fought hard and persevered, and finally waited for reinforcements from all directions, turned defeat into victory and defeated the army of monsters.

A few days after the battle of "Guiyunfang" ended, seeing that the monster army had retreated northward and showed no signs of returning, the monks of "Tianji Sect" and "Zhenyang Sect" also left Weiguo one after another and returned to their own sects' territories. After the monks of the two sects left, the next day, Li Mufeng immediately sent an order to summon all the Jindan monks in "Guiyunfang" to the meeting hall of the market.

Song Qingming, who had just received the sect's order and rushed here, saw that the sect's core monks were basically all here, even Zhang Rong and a few others were here. He probably guessed in his heart Li Mufeng's intention in gathering everyone here, which was probably to prepare to recover other lost territories in the north of Wei State that had fallen into the hands of monsters.

"I have received news from Zheng State, confirming that the monsters from Chiyun Mountain have left our Wei State, and the monsters from Jinyu Mountain have also retreated to the Floating Cloud Mountains. There are not many monsters left in our Wei State now, and it is the best time for us to send troops to retake the northwest territory.

Your troops are swift. I have decided to organize an army of monks to attack Tuoyun Mountain and Tiexian Fort in two days and recapture these two sacred mountains in one fell swoop. I have called everyone here today to discuss this matter with you.

This battle must be fought quickly, otherwise once the Black Dragon Demon King reacts and responds, it will not be as easy for us to recapture these two places as before."

After greeting everyone, Li Mufeng quickly started to talk about the main topic of the meeting. Just as Song Qingming thought, Li Mufeng's move was to recover the northwestern territory of Wei State.

Upon hearing the news that the sect was determined to recover the lost territory, everyone present was very excited and nodded in agreement. Especially Zhang Rong, who was homesick and had long been eager to recover "Tuoyun Mountain". At this moment, he could no longer hide the joy on his face.

Seeing that no one present raised any objections, Li Mufeng announced on the spot the candidates participating in the campaign and the specific time of the deployment.

Chen Xuanxin and Song Qingming were responsible for leading a team of cultivators to recapture "Tuoyun Mountain" together with the "Tuoyun Mountain" cultivators led by Zhang Rong. Bai Yuxian, Jin Ziyuan, and Zhang Tieyang were responsible for recapture the "Tiexian Fort" and the lost land nearby.

Hearing that Li Mufeng had actually arranged for Zhang Tieyang to participate in this operation, the many Jindan elders of the "Xiaoyao Sect" present felt a little surprised. They didn't understand why Li Mufeng would specially arrange for him to help recapture the "Iron Immortal Castle". They all cast a puzzled look at Zhang Tieyang, who was standing aside with a smile on his face.

Like Li Xuanyi, Zhang Tiecheng was invited to help guard the "Guiyunfang" market town. Now that the sect has repelled the army of monsters, his mission should have been completed. He only needs to stay and wait to celebrate and receive his reward. There is no need for him to continue to interfere in the matter of "Xiaoyao Sect" recovering the lost territory.

Now Li Mufeng specifically asked him to help the sect recapture the "Iron Immortal Castle", obviously he has different intentions, but the people present are not clear about the specific situation.

Seeing this, the head of the sect, Bai Yuxian, who was standing nearby, immediately explained, "You may not know that Fellow Daoist Zhang has accepted our sect's invitation not long ago to become a guest elder of the sect. However, due to the urgency of the war, we did not have time to announce this to the public. Now I would like to take this opportunity to say hello to everyone in advance.

After the war in the north is over, the sect will find time to hold an initiation ceremony for Junior Brother Zhang and publicly announce the matter."

As soon as Bai Yuxian finished speaking, Zhang Tieyang on the side immediately put on a smile and bowed to everyone in the hall, saying: "Haha! Thank you for the advice, head sister. I am new here, and I hope that all the brothers and sisters will take care of me in the future."

"Congratulations, Junior Brother Zhang!"

After hearing Bai Yuxian's explanation, everyone, who were still a little surprised, hurriedly bowed to Zhang Tieyang in return.

Upon learning that Zhang Tieyang was going to join the sect as a guest elder, Song Qingming was also very surprised. When he first saw Zhang Tieyang coming to support "Guiyunfang", Song Qingming thought that he was just like Li Xuanyi, and was moved by some precious spiritual objects the sect had provided, so he came to help them fight against the army of monsters.

Song Qingming had never expected that in order to win over this person, the "Xiaoyao Sect" would actually agree to let him join the sect as a guest elder.

You should know that large Nascent Soul sects like the Xiaoyao Sect are very strict in recruiting disciples. Those who are able to join the sect halfway and become guest elders are basically cultivators like Song Qingming or Hu Qingyun who are from the native Wei country with a clean background. They generally will not accept foreign Jindan cultivators to join.

This is also to prevent some hostile sects from sending people to infiltrate the sect and steal the sect's secrets. There are also some bandits or demon cultivators of unknown origin. Once they sneak into Guyang Mountain, it will also be a very dangerous thing for the sect.

Although he was a little surprised, it was understandable that they would make an exception and agree to let Zhang Tieyang join the sect when he thought about how the "Xiaoyao Sect" had been forced into a desperate situation by the army of monsters and had been trying to win over monks to help guard the "Guiyunfang".

However, Zhang Tieyang joined the "Xiaoyao Sect" not just to be a guest elder.

Decades ago, Zhang Tieyang came to Weiguo and wanted to ask for a third-level spiritual vein to live in. At that time, in order to obtain "Tuoyun Mountain", he took the initiative to visit Song Qingming, but he was not able to do so because of the obstruction of the former head Yao Qianshu.

This time he risked his life to come to Weiguo to help the "Xiaoyao Sect" resist the army of monsters. It is estimated that he might have come here for this purpose. However, Song Qingming is not very clear about what conditions the sect agreed to Zhang Tieyang.

"Tuoyun Mountain" and "Iron Immortal Castle" have only been in the hands of monsters for a month. Although the main sacred mountains have been swept by the monster army, there are still many mortals and low-level cultivators hiding in the nearby barren mountains.

At this moment, they are facing the threat of monsters all the time. In order to minimize some losses, the "Xiaoyao Sect" must hurry up and drive out the monster armies in the two places.

After receiving the order from Li Mufeng, the sect elders including Song Qingming, Bai Yuxian, Li Wutong and others immediately began their preparations. Two days later, they boarded a large flying boat and split into two groups to attack "Tuoyun Mountain" and "Iron Immortal Fort". While the army of monsters in the north had not yet reacted, they launched an operation to recover the lost territory in the northwest of Wei State.

Because the main force of the monster army went to the front line of "Guiyunfang" to help attack the market formation, there was only an average-sized "Yunhe Monster King" and many low-level monsters under his command left in the "Iron Immortal Castle".

This monster has always been slippery when dealing with human cultivators. When it saw from afar that Bai Yuxian and several other Jindan cultivators of the "Xiaoyao Sect" were aggressively surrounding the Lingshan of "Iron Immortal Fort", the "Yunhe Monster King" who saw the bad situation immediately chose to abandon the many low-level monsters around him and fled north alone.

“The Cloud Crane Demon King has cultivated a very powerful speed-escaping ability, which is difficult for ordinary late-stage Jindan cultivators to catch up with. Seeing the demon king’s figure quickly disappearing into the sky, Bai Yuxian and others who were eager to recapture Lingshan did not choose to chase after him, but directly commanded the army of cultivators to charge into the “Iron Immortal Castle”.

In just over half an hour, they eliminated the remaining monster forces in the "Iron Immortal Castle" and recaptured the sacred mountain in the northwest of Wei State that had been occupied by a monster army not long ago.

The situation at "Tuoyun Mountain" was also very smooth. Under the leadership of Chen Xuanxin, Song Qingming and Zhang Rong, they quickly defeated the army of monsters entrenched here and drove all the monsters on the mountain out of "Tuoyun Mountain". The human cultivators also recaptured the place.

The demon king in the early Jindan stage who occupied this place had relatively average strength. Under the siege of three Jindan cultivators, he died under Chen Xuanxin's sword without even a chance to escape.

After retaking "Tuoyun Mountain", Song Qingming immediately took a dozen second-level formation masters specially brought by his command to repair the mountain protection formation that had been damaged by the army of monsters.

Compared to the time when the Ma family broke through "Tuoyun Mountain" and only looted many spiritual objects in the market town without causing much damage, this time after the army of monsters broke through the spiritual mountain, almost the entire mountain was destroyed by monsters everywhere, and the losses were much greater than last time.

The third-level mountain protection formation that Song Qingming had reinforced had several critical points damaged. Everyone worked together for nearly a month and spent a lot of high-level materials from the sect before they managed to repair the mountain protection formation.

Looking at the severely damaged "Tuoyun Mountain", Zhang Rong and others who have lived here for many years were filled with grief, but they seemed helpless. They could only lead the monks of the "Jinyun Pavilion" to rebuild and repair the houses on the sacred mountain, while searching for the low-level monks and mortals who were lost in the surrounding barren mountains.

Unfortunately, among the hundreds of cultivators and mortal martial artists who stayed with Lin Yutang to break out, only a few were lucky enough to escape the encirclement of monsters and survive. Most of them died in the battle and had no chance to return to "Tuoyun Mountain".

Fortunately, the army of monsters did not occupy the nearby area for long, and the mortals who were moved away in advance by Zhang Rong and his team were not discovered by the ferocious monsters. They survived and have gradually returned to the "Tuoyun Mountain" where they have lived for many years and started to rebuild their homes.

Compared with the "Tuoyun Mountain" which was severely damaged by the army of monsters, the overall loss of "Iron Immortal Castle" was even greater. This place has been developed by the "Xiaoyao Sect" and the Ma family for many years. The resources such as markets and mineral veins in the territory are very rich, and the number of mortals is much more than that in the northeast of Weiguo controlled by the Song family.

After being captured by the army of monsters, "Iron Immortal Castle" is now in ruins. The numerous mines, markets, and sacred mountains of hundreds of large and small immortal cultivation families scattered around the territory have almost all been swept away by the army of monsters. The overall loss has exceeded that of Gaoyun County back then.

I am really sorry. Xiaomeng's computer suddenly broke down yesterday, so I wrote this on my mobile phone today. I am not used to it, so there may be some problems with punctuation and sorting. Please understand. When the new computer arrives in two days, I will make changes and corrections immediately.

Today is Chinese Valentine's Day. Xiao Meng is here to wish everyone a happy Chinese Valentine's Day. PS: This is a sincere blessing to all book friends, not just a waste of words. (End of this chapter)