1445 Battle Started! (1/2)
The Honor Demon horribly said, ”Hasty? Why would I be hasty? Do I have a reason to be hasty?”
Ye Xiao blandly said with a sneer, ”Why are you here if you are not hasty? You thought we wouldn't go for the fight, didn't you? In fact, we don't need to think about what will happen after we escape from the final battle. We can just leave right away and find some place to stay. We can do whatever we can to build our defense! Isn't it the best plan we should have?”
The others were all enlightened all of a sudden. [That is right! Why don't we do that? Why not? The Honor Demon let us kill every single person of his in the outer forces of the Demon Soul Dao. He even gave up the West Hall and the East Hall, which he has spent so much on. All he wants is to collect as many lives as he can for the altars. He wants to complete the altars! The previous battle is for the same purpose! If we get away from the battle and try to stay alive, the altars will fail because there won't be enough energy!]
However, as they gave a second thought about it, they understood it deeper. Getting away from the battle was not the best solution. If they retreated, the army would lose faith immediately. The Demon Soul Dao and the Honor Demon would definitely come out to fight if they saw the enemies running away from the battle. Ye Xiao's people would never be able to win a battle against the demons if they had already lost faith in the war. Therefore, running away from the battle was suicidal!
If the union's army retreated and chose to do what Ye Xiao just said, it would be the worst situation for the Honor Demon too. If Ye Xiao escaped with his army, and people of the Demon Soul Dao came out to fight, a lot of the low-level cultivators would die, but superior cultivators including Ye Xiao would still have a big chance to live. The Demon Soul Dao wanted to complete the altars, and nothing else was more important than the altars. To complete the altars, the Demon Soul Dao needed superior cultivators' soul energy. Having one superior cultivator run away meant they would lose a lot of energy. The Honor Demon would never want it to happen.
The Honor Demon laughed loudly and said, ”If you go, you are just a demonic soul. If you stay, you are also just a demonic soul.”
Ye Xiao laughed loudly, too, and he said, ”If we go, you are just a chicken waiting to be cooked. If we stay, you are also just a chicken waiting to be cooked.”
The Honor Demon's face turned dark.
The cloth of the tent was crazily flickering. The Honor Demon's face was dim, and it became cloudy too. He stared at Ye Xiao for a long time without saying a word. After a while, the shadow of the Honor Demon stopped flickering. He calmed down a lot and blandly said, ”There is no need to quarrel. Who is the chicken waiting to be cooked? The truth will teach you.”
”Tomorrow, at noon, three hundred miles from here, the Demon Soul Valley, I will be waiting for your souls!”
The Honor Demon laughed out arrogantly again and then the shadow on the cloth of the tent just disappeared.
In the sky, there was a huge fire burning in the clouds!
The wind and thunder were making blare. Everybody on the union's side clearly saw the demonic qi gathering together on fire and rushed over to the Demon Soul Valley with howling wind.
It felt like the fire was going to swallow the entire world.
At this moment, it felt like the entire firmament was colorless.
The Demon Soul Dao's incredible power was shocking the world.
After watching the demonic flame burning over the sky, everybody looked more terrified.
They were worried.
They all knew that the Honor Demon was extremely powerful. After all, he used to be the world's most powerful cultivator in history. If he wasn't that incredible, how was he able to make such a huge trouble to the world?
However, knowing something was totally different from experiencing something. The Honor Demon was their enemy, so although they had to admit the enemy was good, they still believed that he was a bit weaker than they thought. No matter how powerful the Honor Demon Zong Yuankai was, he would eventually get defeated by the righteous force. Evil would always lose. The righteous side would always win the war!
As they saw how the Honor Demon burned the sky with the demonic flame with their own eyes, they were shocked. They were truly worried about the battle that they had to fight the next day!
Ye Xiao looked expressionless, but said in a deep voice, ”Once again, I want you to remember, the most important thing to do in the battle tomorrow is to destroy the altars!”
Then he stopped for a while to looked around the people, and then said, ”Now, I wish you all the best! Wish you the best of strength and the dao of martial arts. Take care!”
”Gather up! Let's go!”
Ye Xiao shouted.
…
In the Demon Soul Valley.
In fact, the valley wasn't called the Demon Soul Valley. It was just an undiscovered valley that was not far away from the West Hall. Zong Yuankai liked it when he first saw this place, so he chose it to be the main base of the Demon Soul Dao. Since the Demon Soul Dao was set in this valley, it became the Demon Soul Valley.
The army of the union of sects in the Qing-Yun Realm had come to the front of the valley already.
As they looked forward, the entrance of the Demon Soul Valley was covered by a lot of floating dark fog, which made the entire place extremely scary.
The entrance of the valley was dark. It felt like the shady entrance to the deepest level of hell.
From outside the entrance, nothing could be seen over the other side. It was just deep and dark.
It was old around the valley. As the cultivators stayed longer near the entrance, they felt colder and colder. Chilling wind blew over from time to time, howling like the cry of ghosts resounding from inside the valley. When they heard the creepy sound of the wind, they all had goosebumps because of the fear.
Beyond the Demon Soul Valley, the extremely dense demonic qi was covering the sky, crawling out to the surrounding areas.
Ye Xiao couldn't help frowning. He waved a sleeve, shouted, and said, ”Zong Yuankai! Your honorable guests are all here! Shouldn't you come out to greet us?”
As he said so, Han Bingxue and Li Wuliang started to chuckle.
”That was some powerful talking really… Luckily this is somewhere in the wild. If this is a crowded market, I would think that I am around a brothel, and our brother here is urging the procuress to greet her guest…”
Li Wuliang was laughing, and his eyebrows were shaking.
”That is true, Brother Li. I have the exact same feeling right now…” Han Bingxue rubbed the chins, half closed his eyes and said, ”Well, if the women in the brothel are all as ugly as Zong Yuankai… I… Hmmm… I have to say I will never have the guts to step in.”
The men around them heard what Han Bingxue just said, and they surely understood what he was talking about. They all looked at each other and cracked some ribald laughs.
The ladies who came all the way along them were all blushing and staring at those men. If these ladies could kill by staring, they could have killed Li Wuliang and Han Bingxue many times over…
The ladies would never have thought that under such a critical and dangerous situation, Li Wuliang and Han Bingxue could still make those ribald jokes…
It was truly unendurable!
Xue Danru surely represented all the ladies at this moment. She immediately grabbed Li Wuliang's fat waist and pinched really hard. She was embarrassed and pissed. [Bastard… You are embarrassing me so much…]
On the other side, inside the Demon Soul Valley.
A creepy voice was ringing up and the Honor Demon was saying, ”Li Wuliang, you will immediately become a dead man when you set your foot on the land of the Demon Soul Valley!”
Li Wuliang laughed loudly to the sky and said, ”Zong Yuankai, I am going to step on the soil of your bloody Demon Soul Valley! I would love to find out who could kill me that easily!”
Then he wielded his Fierce Saber and made a broad light that shined glaringly as if he was going to cut the entire firmament into halves. He and his saber became like a bolt of lightning, rushing fast into the valley!