If he didn’t kill the devil now, it might recover. That would only make it more difficult to deal with later on.
If he couldn’t kill the devil, he could at least leave the devil exhausted. Maybe the old thing will eventually die from tiredness.
“That old thing should have been dead long ago. He robs prenatal qi just to extend his life over so many years. Now that he’s turned into a devil, he’s living someone else’s life span.”
The devil drained the essence and blood of others. By doing this, he added his victims’ life force to his.
If he could prevent the devil from draining any essence or blood, they might have a chance to defeat him in a few years. Maybe it would take eight or ten years?
In that moment, Xu Xiao came up with many ideas of dealing with the devil.
Maybe, he had to sacrifice his life to defeat the devil.
Maybe he couldn’t see the descendants of Clan Xu grow up or the people of Clan Xu come back home.
“After I die, the elders of Clan Xu should try their best to stall the devil. Other children, leave this world and go back! Tell the great clans to blockade this world.”
In the air, Xu Xiao cast a secret spell on his jade pendant.
He was determined and ready to sacrifice himself.
He continued towards Muguang Mountain!
The smoke and dust in the distance was coming closer.
“Devil, I am coming for you!”
In a quick moment, Xu Xiao appeared on the ruins of Muguang Mountain.
Nothing was left by stones, dust and mud.
The debris had settled down into piles of dirt.
As the wind blew, the piles of dirt moved.
In the sky, the dust was slowly falling.
Gradually, a new patch of desert land formed.
The gray sky was also covered by dust and turned yellow.
“Devil, where are you?”
His voice echoed through the emptiness.
He flew through the air, making sure to search every nook and cranny.
But no one responded!
“Devil, you must have been seriously injured, right? Is that why you won’t come out to fight me?”
Still no one responded.
After a long time, three people appeared at the edge of the sky.
After that, they sped away.
“Xu Xiao, is the battle over?”
“Is the devil still alive? It seems that he must be seriously injured and is hiding somewhere.”
“We’re here just in time. Let’s finish the job!”
The three newcomers sped away and joined Xu Xiao.
“You still haven’t found that old thing?”
Xu Xiao shook his head. “Not yet.”
He shook the dust from his clothes.
“Since that old thing refuses to show up, let’s destroy Qianyuan Sacred Ground and force him to come out,” suggested one of the people from the Temple of War.
The group continued to search Muguang Mountain over many days, but they saw saw no trace of human life.
The three newcomers left Xu Xiao to guard the area, while they ran ahead to Qianyuan Sacred Ground.
After the battle at Muguang Mountain!
Everyone in Nanzhou and Zhongzhou had paid close attention to the fight.
They were curiously anticipating the results.
“Who won in the end?”
“I don’t know!”
Half a month later, rain fell on Muguang Mountain.
The gray and dreary sky finally cleared up.
After the heavy rain, the area around Muguang Mountain was full of mud.
“There’s so much thick mud. Maybe the devil drowned in it.”
“You don’t know that. Maybe that old devil is hiding somewhere waiting to feed on you!”
Another two weeks passed.
The news spread, that the Qianyuan Sacred Land was wiped out by the Temple of War.
Everyone was surprised.
“The Qianyuan Sacred Ground has been destroyed, but that old devil still won’t show himself. Maybe we, the people of Nanzhou, have actually won this battle.”
“It’s also possible that both the devil and his opponent died. Or maybe of of them was seriously injured and they’re hiding somewhere.”
Outside the swamp.
Gongsun Qiuyun, Tingting, Chu Qing and several others looked excitedly at the direction of the swamp.
“Sister Chu Qing, let me go and take a look!”
“What if the old devil is still there?”
“What?”
In the distance, Liu Yu and Old Demon Han floated in the sky.
They had been in the center of the storm from the beginning till the end of the great battle.
It had finally quietened down once the great battle was over.
“I hope the old ancestor is still alive,” Liu Yu murmured.
Inside the pit of prenatal qi, several caves had collapsed.
The rock walls had huge cracks in them.
The pit of prenatal qi had dried up.
It was hard to tell where the prenatal qi leaked out to.
Li Mu was organizing the items in the pit, piece by piece.
The useless things were immediately tossed aside.
Useful things were sorted, packed and neatly coded in the system space.
“I’ve lived in this place for decades, and now it’s ruined. But I must look on the bright side. The prenatal qi from this place has leaked out to cover the entirety of Nanzhou. It’s good that I’m not the only one who gets to enjoy it.”
He finished packing up all the items in the pit of prenatal qi. He then withdrew the formation that protected the place and made his exit.
All he had left are the memories of this place.
The memories he had with Chu Qing and some of the others.
The memory would never be destroyed!
He should just leave.
In Zhongzhou, the people from the Temple of War didn’t stop after they had destroyed Qianyuan Sacred Ground. They continued to clean up the other devils in Zhongzhou.
Two months later, all the devils in the Zhongzhou were gone.
Only the unimportant devils remained and they wouldn’t be able to do anything.
The experts from Nanzhou had gone to the ruins of Muguang Mountain and rushed into Zhongzhou to round up the remaining devils,
There were shouting and fighting everywhere.
The remaining devils either fled or were forced into the mountains and forests.
“That old devil still hasn’t been found?”
The people from the Temple of War were all confused when they returned to join Xu Xiao.
Xu Xiao shook his head. “No, he’s not in the ruins of Muguang Mountain”
“We couldn’t even force him out after all we’ve accomplished.”
“Did you find the altar where he cut off the prenatal qi of Zhongzhou and Nanzhou for his own cultivation?”
The three warriors replied in union, “It’s destroyed.”
“And he still refuses to show himself? Maybe it’s useless to continue what we’re doing,” Xu Xiao suggested.
Taking down the altar had cost Qianyuan Sacred Ground several generations of efforts.
The devil was even willing to give up on that.
One of the men from the Temple of War scratched his head and stated the suspicion in everyone’s hearts, “Elder Xu, do you think it’s possible that the devil is already dead?”
“You mean they died together?” Xu Xiao stood up and started pacing back and forth.
The three men from the Temple of War just watched him.
“It’s possible. The old devil is highly skilled, but if the senior is actually who I think it is, then it’s really possible.”
The three were curious. “Who is the senior you’re thinking of?”
Xu Xiao frowned in deep thought as he tried to recall. “I don’t know, I can’t seem to visualize him in my head.”
The more he tried to the less he could recall Li Mu’s appearance.
“Do you mean he’s another immortal?”
“He’s definitely not from this side of the world,” Xu Xiao affirmed.
“Oh…”
The three of them drifted off.
“If he truly died with that old devil, then we should find his bones and erect a monument for him,” said Xu Xiao gravely.
Over the next two months, Xu Xiao and the three men from the Temple of War searched around Muguang Mountain over and over again.
Although they found plenty of bones and corpses, none of them belonged to anyone that’s above the Virtual Realm.
“Maybe his corpse disintegrated.”
“We should try and look for it again.”
Another month passed.
Grass and trees began to sprout on the ruins of Muguang Mountain.
Bird started to fly in the area again.
Boom!
One of men from the Temple of War slammed his palm into the ground, turning over the dirt and debris.
They used their spiritual powers to probe the area and scan for anything special.
“What is this?”
One of them picked up a piece of broken bone with a stick.
The outside of the bone was black but its middle had golden lines.
It looked very strange.
“I guess it’s the bone of some beast!”
“I don’t think so. What beast’s bones will look like this?”
“Maybe the bones of some fish in the East Sea?”
“How can there be fish bones in Muguang Mountain?”
Boom!
Another slam with the palm. The surrounding must and dirt tumbled away.
Yet, the bones remained intact.
“It’s so hard!”
“What is it? Could it be some precious ore?”
“Let’s look for more!”
Soon, more people began to find similar fragments buried in the mud.
“Look, the middle of it is empty, not like an ore. It’s definitely a piece of bone,” one of them pointed out.
“Are there bones that are as hard as these ones?”
Unbelievable!
They were shocked and had their doubts.
“Let’s ask Xu Xiao! He should know. He’s seen a lot of things.”