Chapter 505 - 227: The Enemy of My Enemy Is a Friend, the Antagonist’s Antagonist Is..._2

"If it weren’t for the traces of Celestial Fire Demon God’s bloodline in me, even I wouldn’t be able to sense it. That old immortal in Celestial Star City has barely stepped into the early-stage Nascent Soul. Even if he wants to meddle in the Demon Spirit Realm, does he have the guts to slaughter the entire city?"

"Let’s hope so."

The Giant Wood Demon King nodded slightly.

"But I still have to say, the other side has already caught wind of something. To avoid complications, I suggest we strike early. Otherwise, once we attract the attention of the Immortal Dao Alliance and Celestial Star Sect, things will get difficult. How are the preparations on Second Brother’s side?"

"Celestial Star Sect, Immortal Dao Alliance... Bah!"

The Red Tiger Demon King cursed discontentedly.

"What you say isn’t without reason, Third Brother. Second Brother is still a bit lacking, but with our combined strength and years of planning, destroying a small Celestial Star City is no problem."

Giant Wood Demon King’s expression was cold and stern: "Since Second Brother is basically ready, I suggest we launch the attack at midnight tonight, as it’s the full moon night, and we have the timing on our side."

"There’s a saying in human warfare—’Speed is of the essence in battle.’ We have already seized the initiative, attacking unprepared opponents. Plus, half of our brethren are nocturnal, whereas those humans need sleep or cultivation at night, and their vision isn’t sharp. We have the advantage of terrain."

"For hundreds of years, the humans have continuously hunted our brethren, and the resentment in their hearts is deep-seated, an irreconcilable sea of blood. Human warfare has another saying—’A desperate army wins.’ We have the advantage of unity."

"Timing, terrain, unity. Our Demon Race holds all three. This time, we will certainly achieve victory in one battle!"

"Good, then we’ll follow Third Brother’s suggestion."

The Red Tiger Demon King slammed his fist into his palm, then roared into the mountains.

"Brethren, hear my command! Tonight at midnight, on the night of the full moon, is the time for us to break through Celestial Star City and seek vengeance! Slaughter to your heart’s content, revel in the carnage!"

...

In broad daylight, under the bright skies.

Celestial Star City has already sent messages using the Thousand-Mile Sound Transmission Array to the Immortal Dao Alliance and Celestial Star Sect.

Both parties have dispatched Nascent Soul cultivators to lead the way, either traveling through the Teleportation Array or using the Immortal Ship Spiritual Artifact for flying, to converge at Celestial Star City to discuss the extermination of demon fiends.

The Demon Race is conspiring loudly in the mountain’s interior, planning to unleash a beast tide attack on the city at midnight, turning Celestial Star City into a mountain of corpses and sea of blood, using all human flesh as keys to open the Demon Spirit Realm beneath the city.

And on the Demonic Cultivator side...

There’s some movement too.

However, the planners on the Demonic Cultivator side, after receiving reports from subordinates, were even more flabbergasted than Lu Wenwu.

The Yellow Springs Ascendant at late-stage Nascent Soul looked at the message relayed by his Ghost Slave, with nothing but question marks in his mind.

Is it that the disguise technique I provided is too lousy, or are my Ghost Slaves too useless?

It can’t be that the people of Celestial Star City are just too formidable, right?

He had inquired long ago and knew that the strongest in this city was a barely advanced Nascent Soul old City Lord.

The rest were a dozen or so Golden Core cultivators, nearly a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators, all hardly worth mentioning.

Located in the Eastern Wilderness, such a "barren land," it’s already commendable for Celestial Star Sect, a Third Level Immortal Sect, to exist, thanks to accumulated virtues of their ancestors. Within the sect, including the old City Lord, there are only two Nascent Soul cultivators.

Celestial Star City is merely a subordinate cultivator city of Celestial Star Sect, what could it possibly do?

So, Yellow Springs Ascendant doesn’t suspect that the opponent is too strong. His first reaction is to suspect that his subordinates are too incompetent.

Otherwise, how could the original plan be only sixty percent completed?

After all... the level here is really not very high.

The slow-moving plan was thwarted, and Yellow Springs Ascendant plans to personally investigate.

If that doesn’t work, he’ll have to take action ahead of schedule.

Unlike Lu Wenwu, who pretended to be a Demonic Demon, Yellow Springs Ascendant is a genuine Demonic Loose Cultivator, who controls several Golden Core Ghost Slaves for his own tasks, and even oversees a puppet at Early-stage Nascent Soul.

Ten plus years ago, he had already been stuck at late-stage Nascent Soul with no progress.

As an aggressively cultivating demonic cultivator, he naturally sought some distinct demonic cultivation methods.

Thus, Yellow Springs Ascendant naturally thought of the epitome of demonic cultivators—Blood River Demon Venerable.

Blood River Demon Venerable’s famous feat was the Blood Refining Array, which slaughtered a million lives within the Immortal Dao Alliance’s territory in one go, including a Second Level Immortal Sect of "Sect" rank, with countless casualties among smaller sects and loose cultivators.

Blood River Demon Venerable condensed the vast Blood Evil Qi into a river, creating an unparalleled demonic foundation.

This eventually indeed helped him transform his Nascent Soul into a Primordial Spirit, earning the name Blood River Demon Venerable.

Nowadays, Yellow Springs Ascendant also wants to emulate this.

He doesn’t possess Blood River Demon Venerable’s powerful strength, nor his grand ambition, and certainly lacks his audacious courage.

Things like a Blood River are too conspicuous, instantly becoming the target of the entire Immortal Dao Alliance.

Yellow Springs Ascendant, as an Old Yinbi who secretly operated within the Immortal Dao Alliance’s sphere for years, only aims to subtly control Celestial Star City, which has a population of tens of thousands.

By using Soul Seed and Array, he plans to extract everyone’s souls and refine them into pure Soul Power, as resources for his advanced Divinity Transformation.

Blood Evil Qi, and such things, are too ostentatious; Yellow Springs Ascendant, who prides himself on being cerebral, doesn’t like them.

It’s not only the Demon Race worried about complications.

As an Old Six who has endured for nearly a thousand years, Yellow Springs Ascendant possesses a frighteningly sharp crisis intuition.