Demon Sword Sect’s Undercover
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Han Tiangang and his two companions had no regard for Hou Niao’s duo, which might seem heartless, but now was not the time for compassion.

Outside Xunfeng Valley, dozens of expendables had already died, so adding two more was inconsequential.

This time, their preparations couldn’t be said to be inadequate as they had considered various possible scenarios, especially numerous methods and artifacts for breaking the formation.

Therefore, although the stone statues looked bizarre, they were not worried at all.

As long as it wasn’t something from Outer Space, it would not trouble the Daoist Sect.

Time was pressing, with undead creatures already rushing towards their trio.

It was foreseeable that more would arrive soon.

Lou Yue launched a bead named the “Zhou Xing Bead,” an Earth System treasure ideally suited to the current environment.

She threw it in front of her; the bead exploded, sending out shockwaves like ripples from a stone tossed into water, spreading in concentric circles towards the groups of statues, an unstoppable method of detection.

Lou Yue rested her face against the ground, her ear to the soil, listening intently.

A moment later, she said, “After circling thrice, the barren land is flowerless; it neither roots nor propagates…

The link of the Stone Formation isn’t in the Earth Element, nor is it beneath the ground.”

Before the action, they had considered how to swiftly identify the undead creatures’ array methods.

Accuracy and convenience were necessary to apply measures at the first instance amidst chaos.

They had selected several artifacts for quickly identifying arrays, like this Zhou Xing Bead, specifically meant for detecting links of the Earth Element in arrays.

The repeating waves of the Earth Element surged back and forth, uncovering secrets among the twelve statues.

Now, it seemed the key to breaking the formation was not underground.

No sooner had he finished speaking than Huai Liangyou took out a Treasured Seed and hurled it toward the group of statues, shouting “Quick!”

Once the seed hit the ground, it utilized its intrinsic spiritual vitality to grow wildly, tenaciously entwining its robust root system around a statue, pushing upwards with the vital force of the earth…

This was the Earth Qiu Dragon, crucial for pulling the Wooden System formation, exploiting the transformation of earth and wood to induce growth.

After three pushes, the statue remained motionless.

Huai Liangyou sighed, “The Qiu Dragon stakes its claim, standing firm on the ground; wood lies below earth, stones rest above sand.

Solving through wood is useless, for the root is not here.”

Han Tiangang didn’t linger on words.

With a gesture, a Wind Mother appeared in his hand, and he threw it into the air.

The Wind Mother morphed into a large sack, the mouth untied, and a fierce wind suddenly arose, stirring up dust and sand in the valley as if a small tornado had unleashed.

This time, the group of stone statues finally reacted.

The first statue facing the wind opened its beadless eyes, stretching its toothless mouth wide as air passed through, intensifying the wind’s force!

The wind passed from one statue to another, growing stronger with each one it encountered.

After passing through all twelve statues, it had begun to form the early stages of a dust storm, sweeping out of the valley towards the desert, aiming directly at the human border.

However, such a sandstorm would ultimately not really gain momentum, for the atmospheric conditions of the desert at present were not conducive.

The final outcome was merely a gradual weakening, fading during the progress; Such meteorological control by Cultivation Creatures was limited to borrowing momentum to transform weak winds into strong ones but could not create something out of nothing.

Otherwise, if it were possible to act at will, the Protective Forest would never know peace.

“The control of stronger winds, that’s it!

But I still need to find precisely where the eye of the storm is…” Han Tiangang’s old lady of the winds finally found the controlling facade of the immortal creature statues, but destroying it required a deeper excavation.

Huai Liangyou and Lou Yue soared up, “Senior brother, act quickly.

We’ll hold off the enemy for you first, but we don’t know how long we can last.”

Han Tiangang looked serious, “A moment will suffice.”

The numerical advantage of the undying creatures was vividly displayed at this moment; a group surrounded Hou Niao and another, a group lunged towards Han Tiangang and his two companions, and a large number of dead beings underground blocked the Daoists’ infiltration,

In a sense, the strategy of the human cultivators was very successful; they successfully split the undying creatures into three groups, but with an absolute disadvantage in numbers, such success was hardly significant.

Deadly were the many Golden Core eyeless monsters among them.

Human Cultivators were stronger than other Cultivation races at the same realm, thanks to the power of inherited knowledge; the five who had ventured into Xunfeng Valley were all top cultivators in the Tongtian Realm, including two Constellation True Inheritors, two True Inheritors, and one nameless but exceptionally strong Sword Cultivator.

They were not inferior when facing the eyeless monsters, but if outnumbered and ganged up on, talent and gifts were not enough.

Xiang Anshi was struggling, and so was Hou Niao; the two gathered together to support each other, exchanging grievances,

“I came here to gain merits, not to find a burial site.

Tell me, is it reasonable to be buried here?” Xiang Anshi was very dissatisfied with their current situation.

“Unreasonable!

But there are many unreasonable things in this world.

If everything were reasonable, you shouldn’t be a Constellation True Inheritor!

Push harder, you see, the old ox-nose has already started to act.

Believe in them!” Hou Niao encouraged.

“The most important principle in my life is not to trust others, only myself!

I don’t think they can break this Stone Formation.

If there’s no hope, why not save our last energy to run?”

“Because even if you put your last energy into running, you can’t make it several thousand miles!

Might as well take a gamble.

Come on, let’s move to the next statue.

I refuse to believe they’re all as tough as rock; there must be some soft persimmons.”

Although the twelve statues were roughly crafted, each was lifelike and distinct in attire and form, appearing as though representing different ethnicities and races—some with coiled hair or bald, some with long beards or stubble, some in robes or high caps, some bare-chested…

Hence Hou Niao’s idea to test each one.

Of course, Xiang Anshi didn’t think this approach had any merit.

If one couldn’t be destroyed, then none could be destroyed.

This was the basic principle of arrays, which wouldn’t leave a loophole to be exploited.

He didn’t believe someone like Hou Niao couldn’t see this logic, so this insistence must have had its reasons.

In the desert environment, the extent to which the methods of his Ying Platform Daoist sect were affected far exceeded his expectations.

In another place, even not at sea, he had many powerful techniques to deal with these undying creatures or the statues on the ground.

But now, what frustrated him was that the foundational environment was uncooperative; many of his Water System techniques were unusable, so he had to rely primarily on being a Sword Cultivator, and this guy was particularly unorthodox in his swordsmanship.

Dragging a large group of undying creatures, the two were clever not to focus on slashing; they were all too aware that in the enemy’s lair, killing was endless.

Rather than committing massive killings which would provoke the undying creatures into frenzy, it was better to drag the fight out slowly.

Of course, this demanded high skill, something ordinary True Disciples wouldn’t dare to attempt, but their deep foundation meant they weren’t at immediate risk of life.

The good news was that the Daoists on the other side had alleviated some of their pressure, but Huai Liangyou and Lou Yue couldn’t manage as effortlessly; the two had to resort to killing, resulting in an increasing number of foes.