Chapter 423: Keep Losing

Hmm!

Xiao Shou remembered that the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame seemed to react slightly to certain special people as well, but its reaction was nowhere near as intense as its response to the Seven Deadly Sins or demonic aura.

Thinking of this, an intense sense of unease surfaced in his heart once again. He always felt that he had overlooked something extremely important related to the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame.

What could it be?

He began recalling, piece by piece, everything related to the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame since it had first appeared. Just as he was about to remember that crucial detail.

"Young Master Xiao, Little Friend Fu, how is the situation?" Lu Wuchen flew over while preparing for battle. His sudden voice caused the inspiration that was just about to emerge to disappear again.

Since he could not figure it out now, he would have to think about it later. Xiao Shou could only put the matter aside and focus his attention on sensing the condition of the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame. Frowning, he said, "My spiritual flame has been continuously burning the demonic aura, causing it to rapidly and massively dissipate. However, the Demon Abyss Clan hidden within the demonic aura keeps retreating deeper into it again and again. It seems they have no intention of fighting us."

"That is strange." Sect Master of the Heavenly Void Sect slightly furrowed his brows, unable to understand what these Demon Abyss Clan members were trying to do.

Meanwhile, Fu Young suddenly spoke up. "I just used the Jade Token of the Alliance of Myriad Celestia to search the recent intelligence related to the Demon Abyss Clan in the Heaven Origin Realm intelligence section of the Alliance of Myriad Celestia. I found several reports already posted about successful invasions by the Demon Abyss Clan, with cities occupied and sects destroyed. There is also some other relevant intelligence. Sigh! The current situation is quite troublesome."

"Look at my memory. How could I have forgotten about the Alliance of Myriad Celestia token?" The Sect Master of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect slapped his forehead and immediately took out a jade token, entering it to check the intelligence. The other cultivators who possessed Alliance of Myriad Celestia tokens and whose token levels were high enough also took out their respective tokens and sent their divine senses into them.

Seeing this, Xiao Shou also took out his Alliance of Myriad Celestia token. However, the moment he brought it out, he strangely discovered that at some unknown point, his token had somehow transformed into something that was neither gold nor jade, with a dark mysterious color. He could not help but freeze for a moment.

For some reason, he suddenly thought of that strange person he had encountered the last time he entered the Alliance of Myriad Celestia. He had a feeling that the token’s current appearance was related to that person.

Seeing this, Fu Young remembered Yu Lin’s words. Although he knew that his master was not the person Supreme Immortal Emperor Mu Yun was searching for, he still frowned and quickly reached out, snatched the token from Xiao Shou’s hand, and naturally put it into his storage bracelet.

"Master, you don’t need to look at it. I’ll tell you the intelligence instead."

"Mm!"

Thinking of the strange person within the Alliance of Myriad Celestia’s Heaven Earth Net of Ten Thousand Realms, Xiao Shou immediately nodded stiffly, pretending not to notice that his beloved disciple had taken his token away. Looking at Fu Young, he asked, "How is the outside world now? Which places have the Demon Abyss Clan occupied? How many regions have fallen? And how exactly did the Demon Abyss Clan get here?"

The barrage of questions left Fu Young somewhat confused. He could only reorganize his thoughts before speaking.

"Master, according to the intelligence I saw inside, the Azure Reflection Sect, Ancient Bone Sect, Heaven Severing Sec, Stillwater Moon Palace, Myriad Banner Sect, and more than a dozen other third rate sects, as well as eight second rate sects such as Spiritvine Valley, Thousand Crane Sect, and Jade Cypress Sect, have all been overrun. More than thirty cities have also been conquered. According to the reports..."

Xiao Shou listened carefully to Fu Young. The others who did not have Alliance of Myriad Celestia tokens, or whose token levels were insufficient, also pricked up their ears to listen.

Through Fu Young’s explanation, everyone finally learned that after the Demon Abyss Clan suddenly appeared in the Great Forest of Ancient Demon for some unknown reason, the demonic aura rapidly infected the many demonic beasts in the Great Forest of Ancient Demon that had failed to escape.

The infected demonic beasts became crazed and highly aggressive. Apparently, the Demon Abyss Clan made another move, causing these demonic beasts to form an unprecedentedly massive beast tide. As the demonic aura spread toward the interior of the continent, the cities and sects along the way had weak defenses and were destroyed before they could resist. In most cases, they were completely wiped out, with only a handful of survivors escaping.

At that time, the cultivators in the central region of the continent knew nothing about it. It was not until high level demonic beasts and transformed demon beasts that escaped from the Great Forest of Ancient Demon sought refuge in a Grade B, Rank 4 major city with decent defensive strength and protective barriers that they informed the city lord about the changes in the Great Forest of Ancient Demon and the invasion of the Demon Abyss Clan.

Because of the hostile relationship between human cultivators and demon beasts clan, the city lord was skeptical. Fearing that it might be a scheme of the demon beasts clan, he strengthened the city’s defenses against them while sending people to investigate the situation.

Unexpectedly, the Demon Abyss Clan was invading far too quickly. The cultivators sent to investigate encountered the beast tide and the spreading demonic aura after only two days. They suffered heavy casualties and fled back in a sorry state. After confirming the information, the city lord immediately spread the news to all surrounding areas, as well as the higher Grade A, Rank 5 major cities and their affiliated sects.