Inside the wooden house, the torches burned, occasionally making a crackling sound.
Li Tianyu’s hands and feet had already been untied by Lin Xue.
He sat on the edge of the bed, his eyes dazed, as he muttered, “It’s not logical… This is not logical.”
Lin Xue ignored him, as his worldview had already collapsed.
She was busy passing the Nine-Jointed Mystic Wall Formation to Hong Yanzhi, Xiao Mili, and the other female demons.
She used her voice transmission to inform them of her plan.
Her intention was for everyone to walk out of the wooden houses after one hour and gather around her.
Li Tianyu remained in the room, observing their actions through the crack in the door.
Once the eight of them gathered, Lin Xue would throw seven pieces of jade talismans to the seven girls simultaneously.
At the same time, Li Tianyu would rush out of the house and stand with them.
The nine people would activate the jade talismans together to trigger the Nine-Jointed Mystic Wall Formation.
As long as the formation was successfully activated, Guo Shan Feng would be unable to do anything to them.
The next step was to hold out for half an hour. They had to wait until the Teleportation Spell was ready and for Du Niangzi to kill the Hei Pi Yao Wang.
In the other seven houses, Hong Yanzhi and the others had been hesitating about whether to perform Yin-Yang Harvesting with the human cultivators in their respective rooms.
Some were even ready to start. However, upon hearing Lin Xue’s message, their hearts immediately settled.
They stopped their agonizing and waited peacefully for the hour to pass.
After Lin Xue finished delivering the message, she let out a long sigh of relief.
By now, Li Tianyu had slightly recovered from his shock.
He looked at Lin Xue’s tall, slender, and beautiful back and called out, “Master.”
Lin Xue turned her head to look at him.
Li Tianyu scratched his head sheepishly and apologized, “Your disciple was wrong.”
Lin Xue had not expected this kid to actually call her Master; she had essentially gained a disciple for free.
She smiled slightly, about to say it was fine. After all, she had won using a cheat, which felt a bit like an unfair victory.
To her surprise, Li Tianyu continued, “I shouldn’t have said you were big-chested and brainless, Master. I was wrong. You have a brain. You’re big-chested and have a brain!”
Lin Xue’s legs nearly gave out, and she almost stumbled.
……
After some conversation, Lin Xue learned that Li Tianyu was a younger descendant of the Li family from Jiancheng.
The Li family was famous for their formations. Despite his young age, Li Tianyu was extremely skilled in the craft.
Li Tianzheng, the Deputy Supervisor of the Demon-Slaying Bureau in Yecheng Prefecture, was a close relative of the Jiancheng Li family.
He had recently encountered a difficult problem and needed to borrow a certain formation, so he sought help from the Jiancheng Li family.
The Li family sent several clansmen to protect Li Tianyu while he carried the Nine-Jointed Mystic Wall Formation to assist.
However, just as Li Tianyu and his clansmen reached the borders of Yecheng, they were ambushed by Guo Shan Feng.
Li Tianyu was separated from his clan and captured by Guo Shan Feng, who brought him to Tiger’s Gaping Maw.
He had been kept well-fed and cared for until today.
Li Tianyu had thought he was a dead man, but he hadn’t expected to meet Lin Xue and find a glimmer of hope.
After talking for a while, Lin Xue sat on one side of the room, closing her eyes to rest.
She began to conserve her energy in preparation for the upcoming action.
Li Tianyu looked at Lin Xue sitting cross-legged, his gaze complicated.
Through their chat, he had just learned that Lin Xue was a demon.
Lin Xue had made no attempt to hide her identity.
His elders and the people around him had told him since he was a child that humans and demons were irreconcilable.
This was especially true for female demons; every single one of them loved to suck the Yang Energy of men to advance their cultivation.
Having been kidnapped to this godforsaken place, he had occasionally heard the demons outside mention that they were captured specifically to be handed over to female demons to have their Yang Energy drained.
But the female demon before him seemed very kind and not evil at all.
Furthermore, she was exceptionally powerful. After just one look at the Nine-Jointed Mystic Wall Formation, she had completely mastered it.
Most importantly, she was incredibly beautiful.
Li Tianyu felt that Lin Xue might not be like what others said about female demons.
But he wasn’t certain.
‘Maybe it’s because Lin Xue only has eight people on her side, and she needs one more person to complete the formation? Is that why she’s acting kind because she needs my participation?’
‘Maybe once they don’t need me anymore, they’ll immediately change their tune, pin me to the ground, and drain me on the spot?’
Li Tianyu felt that he should still seek help.
He took out a small, exquisite carving knife from his storage bracelet.
He cut a small piece of wood from a torch and began to carve it with the knife as if he were just passing the time.
Stroke after stroke, a lifelike bee gradually took shape under his hands.
Li Tianyu carved a series of complex formation patterns onto the bee, finally embedding a Spirit Stone fragment into the wooden carving.
The wooden bee immediately began to move its legs as if it were alive.
Li Tianyu threw the carving onto the floor.
The tiny wooden bee crawled out through the crack in the door and then spread its wings to fly away.
……
One hour passed.
Guo Shan Feng arrived at the open space and shouted loudly, “Time’s up! Everyone come out!”
The doors of the wooden houses opened one by one.
The female demons walked out in succession.
However, they did not gather toward Guo Shan Feng. Instead, they turned their heads to look for Lin Xue.
Lin Xue had also pushed her door open and stepped out.
The moment she appeared, Hong Yanzhi, Hua Yingying, Xiao Mili, and the others quickly gathered around her.
Lin Xue flicked her wrist, and seven jade talismans accurately flew into the hands of the seven female demons.
Guo Shan Feng was stunned, not knowing what tricks Lin Xue was playing.
Then, he saw the door behind Lin Xue open again. A human cultivator rushed out of the room and stood together with Lin Xue and the others.
Nine people, each holding an identical jade talisman in their hands.
Guo Shan Feng’s eyes immediately widened, and his rage soared into the clouds.
In each room, there was only one male cultivator.
If a female demon successfully absorbed all of a male cultivator’s Yang Energy, the man would most likely die on the spot.
Even if the female demon’s strength was limited and she couldn’t drain all of it, the male cultivator would be left gasping for breath, half-dead and unable to move.
Yet the human male who came out of Lin Xue’s room was physically healthy and walked with a steady gait. He showed no signs of losing his Yang Energy at all.
There was only one explanation: Lin Xue had not absorbed his Yang Energy and had released him.
Guo Shan Feng was furious.
This Snake Spirit, relying on her beauty and her ability to improve the strength of lesser beasts, actually dared to openly defy the orders of the Great Chief under his very nose! She had failed to carry out the task he arranged.
She was truly audacious and lawless!
He decided he had to severely punish this Snake Spirit.
What if the King favored her looks? What if she could enhance the strength of the mountain’s lesser beasts? If she made a mistake, she still had to be punished!
‘Since she’s unwilling to absorb Yang Energy for the King’s harvesting, I’ll just cut off her limbs, turn her into a human stump, and give her to the King as a toy!’
‘As for the cultivation technique that enhances lesser beasts, at most, I’ll force it out of her and teach it to other demons! If a Snake Spirit knows it, other demons can surely learn it too.’
Thinking of this, Guo Shan Feng immediately drew Lieyun.
He roared, “You Snake Demon, you actually dared to openly defy orders! Do you really think I have a good temper? I shall slay you right now as a warning to others!”
Having spoken, he drove Lieyun with his Demon Power.
Lieyun flew out of his hand, hovering in the air, its tip pointed directly at Lin Xue.
Then, with a whistle, Lieyun acted like a streak of rainbow, slicing through the air with the sound of a sonic boom as it slashed toward Lin Xue.
Seeing the tip of Lieyun pointed at her, Lin Xue instinctively felt a strong sense of threat.
The hair on her neck stood on end.
Li Tianyu shouted, “Activate the formation!”
Lin Xue immediately injected her Demon Power into the jade talisman according to the formation’s operating method.
The other female demons, thanks to her instruction, had also mastered the formation skillfully and activated their jade talismans alongside her.
A massive amount of spiritual energy instantly began to flow between the nine jade talismans.
Lieyun had already reached Lin Xue, and the sword slashed down at her fiercely.
The surrounding air trembled.
The blade seemed to strike an invisible barrier, halting a few feet away from Lin Xue. It could no longer advance an inch.
A faint, shimmering protective shield appeared over the heads of Lin Xue and the others.
The Nine-Jointed Mystic Wall Formation had taken effect.
Lin Xue breathed a sigh of relief.
A formation formed by eight Grand Demons and one Li Tianyu at the Qi Refinement Stage was something Guo Shan Feng would never be able to break.
They had passed this hurdle.
The Teleportation Spell would be ready in less than half an hour.
Du Niangzi and the Hei Pi Yao Wang were still at a stalemate, but the Hei Pi Yao Wang was already at the end of his rope and was about to break.
The dawn of escape was right before their eyes.
……
Within the Qian Si Yuan.
The Hei Pi Yao Wang was still in the posture of harvesting Du Niangzi, yet he didn’t dare to move a muscle.
Sweat poured down from him like rain, dripping onto Du Niangzi’s face.
He was about to lose his grip.
He never imagined that he, a dignified Demon King, would one day die so disgracefully at the hands of a female demon. Instead of harvesting her, he was about to be sucked dry by her.
His entire cultivation was about to become hers.
After Du Niangzi absorbed his cultivation, she would immediately rise to the peak of the Condensing Core stage. After a few more years of cultivation, she would be a new Demon King.
The Hei Pi Yao Wang was filled with regret; he was truly devastated.
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