Chapter 665: A Group of Marvelous Women (1/2)

The head of the Exalted Immortal Sect was dead!

Faced with a horde of corpse demons rampaging through the sect, the orderly battle formations quickly collapsed and the sect’s immortals were once again routed. None of them noticed that, at the sect’s rear mountain, a hazy grey shadow suddenly came into view inside a small, unremarkable courtyard. It looked to be inserted into the sect’s lifepoint like a spike.

The Death Spike.

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At the foot of Mount Exalted, the major’s capital city naturally noticed something afoot in the sect.

Martial law was quickly declared, and all of the formations in the sky above and ground below flared to life. Golden curtains of light trailed down from the heavenly court floating overhead and covered the city like a protective blanket.

Soon after, the Exalted Legion emerged from every corner of the void and rushed to the sect’s rescue. Their mission was to keep the corpse demons confined to sect territory and prevent them from fanning out elsewhere.

Even the Exalted Immortal Sect, one of the strongest factions of Exalted Major, had suffered disastrous losses. If the corpse demons were to break through the blockade, the situation would quickly spiral into devastating tragedy that bespelled the major’s destruction!

“There’s a rift connecting the Exalted Divine Tombs to the outer realms. We need to seal it off!” Inside the palace up in the sky, the major’s foremost celestial king, Zhao Jifeng, gave another order to a regiment of a million warriors. While they frantically battled the tide of corpse demons, he kept an eye on the overall situation.

“Is the demon fetus already among us...?” He breathed in deeply, an uneasy expression on his face.

Harassed by a divine peng, the four-headed, eight-armed zombie couldn’t disengage itself from the projection of the Great Peng Battle Formation. As for Exalted Major’s original great peng… it’d been heavily wounded in the Dusk battle and hadn’t been spotted in public since.

The soldiers of Exalted Major were warriors of extraordinary valor. While they were at most august immortals, their highly coordinated battle formations staunchly repelled the corpse demons and restricted them to Exalted Immortal Sect grounds.

But there was no end in sight to the tide of corpse demons, and the pressure on the army grew with each passing minute. Out of the nine Great Peng Spirit Formations around the mountain, three lay in pieces, millions of soldiers killed on the spot when they were breached.

Zhao Jifeng wanted to join in the fray, but he had an unwavering feeling that there was a pair of eyes fixed on him from the dark. The moment he exposed himself… the entity lying in wait would ambush him, just like it’d crushed the sect head.

Therefore, he dared not act brashly. Without its commander-in-chief, the Exalted Legion would be a headless dragon, fated to be swallowed whole by the corpse demons.

Squee! Squee! Squee!

Suddenly, three bird cries echoed in the sky. Three additional golden-winged pengs came to the soldiers’ rescue and dive-bombed the crowd of corpse demons. The soldiers stationed in other parts of Center Province had arrived!

“Milord! There’s a few women outside who seek entrance into the Exalted Divine Tombs!” one of Zhao Jifeng’s deputies suddenly reported.

“They want to go inside the mausoleum? Tell them something’s happened inside, it’s impossible to go in now!” Distraught irritation distracted Zhao Jifeng.

No corpse demon had ever been spotted in their land, but here these creatures were in endless droves. An unending supply of them crawled out with surges of foul corpse and demonic energy; even the most oblivious fool would realize something was amiss by now. In all likelihood, the demon fetus had been set loose into the world!

Zhao Jifeng was the foremost celestial king of Exalted Major, a position he’d held since before the previous celestial emperor’s abdication. Since then, his status had grown more entrenched, especially now that he’d become the new emperor’s most trusted right-hand man.

When Zhao Luo had gone inside the tombs to kill the demon fetus, Zhao Jifeng had stayed outside to protect the court. Hence, he naturally knew of the demon fetus’ existence. As for the tombs, quite a few people had come to explore their depths after the celestial emperor opened them to the public.

“Understood!” The deputy exited, but returned in next to no time. “Milord, these young ladies call themselves immortals of Dusk Province and say they can seal the opening!”

“What?!” Zhao Jifeng sprang up from his seat, his eyes sparkling with excitement. “Hurry and show them in! No, I’ll go see them myself!”

He rushed outside, ardently wishing he could teleport to the spot. “Sure enough, it’s them!” Agitation warred visibly on his face.

Lu Yun’s nine Envoys of Samsara.

Each of the nine women possessed astounding beauty that could fell nations, and they all possessed a cultivation that made one’s heart tremble. They were all peerless immortals!

More importantly, they were peerless immortals with formations of heaven and earth! Each and every gesture of theirs was imbued with the fearsome power of the land.

Though Lu Yun had previously bestowed the same formation to a thousand immortals, they were now safeguarded as national treasures. Carefully stowed away, they remained strictly inside their factions so that formation grandmasters throughout the world could study the formations inside them.

For their part, Yuying and the other eight had set out as soon as hell had been sealed off. Diexi had also wanted to come, but Yuying had firmly left her in Dusk Province. Two personalities lived inside the zombie king and there was no telling what might happen if she visited a foreign mausoleum—especially this one.