Mu Dan slightly pursed her lips:

"Obviously, they also want to be the oriole."

"No rush, let's see who has more patience. Anyway, we won't lose anything by not making a move. Keeping this fortress is a small win for us."

Wang Jixuan handed over the newly made magic artifact of the Buddhist sect to Lingtong, asking her to distribute it to the half-human mechas.

The Daoist admonished: "We are still a hundred miles away from there. We need to be more precise with the timing of our entry. We can't let Meng Jin take all the benefits... Meng Jin is our priority enemy to eliminate."

"Yes!" Deep Sea and Mu Dan answered in unison.

Ah, there's a new Fake Interstellar Gate again.

Wang Jixuan's Dao Heart slightly wavered.

It's a beautiful thing to escape through the gate.

...

As soon as the ambush between the underground spirit slaves and blade beasts began, the battlefield information flow started to surge.

The underground battle was extremely fierce.

Just ten minutes into the fight, the signal of a blade beast and two awakened old spirit slaves disappeared simultaneously, seemingly perishing together. The remaining five awakened old spirit slaves, along with over ten supporting spirit slaves, started besieging the remaining king-level blade beast.

Their fierce battle underground caused minor localized ground subsidence.

Avalanches began occurring frequently on the snow mountain.

Human factions were watching the situation closely.

Just as Mu Dan predicted that the lone king-level blade beast was struggling and would soon be besieged to death by Old Sophie's spirit slaves, a strong energy reaction suddenly appeared underground.

Space transmission!

The Fake Starry Sky Gate unfolded within the body of the besieged king-level blade beast!

This development was clearly unexpected for Old Sophie's side;

The spirit slaves redirected their attacks towards the gate, but it was too late. Countless blade beast crystal core reactions appeared underground, with waves of high-level blade beasts led by general-level and sub-king-level blade beasts charging out of the gate.

Subtle ground subsidence appeared continuously across the surface.

The spirit slaves, caught in the blade beast tide, were like candles in the wind, easily blown away.

Master Wang was indeed a bit nervous at this moment.

When the snipe and the clam compete, it's the fisherman who benefits. For this to happen, the snipe and the clam must reach a certain balance, neither yielding but constantly wearing each other down.

If Old Sophie was easily annihilated by the blade beasts, wouldn't this trip be in vain?

The human world would fall into a crisis!

However, the Daoist's nervousness quickly turned into concern for the blade beasts.

The latest satellite reconnaissance showed that a dark figure was leaving the depths beneath the snow mountain, rushing towards the location of the Fake Interstellar Gate.

That S-class material, a clone with only a serial number, not a name!

However, according to the current detection, this demonic entity already showed SS-class spiritual energy reactions.

The demonic entity quickly reached the site of the earlier fierce battle, then... began harvesting the residual souls of the blade beasts that had died in the fight.

The Spirit Cultivation Civilization certainly had the technology to manipulate blade beast crystal cores.

In the past, spirit cultivators merely used the crystals as spiritual energy batteries, but this time, Old Sophie, the fourth-ranked spirit cultivator, sought the residual souls within the blade beasts.

The residual souls were refined by the demonic entity, absorbed, and a large amount of demonic qi was channeled into the spire.

Within the spire, spirit slaves began to awaken continuously, influenced by the demonic qi, quickly recovering their strength and falling into the demon path, then charging towards the blade beast tide.

The blade beast tide was also constrained by the underground terrain;

They could only navigate through the tunnels dug by king-level blade beasts or chthonic worms;

The battle quickly developed in the direction Wang Jixuan hoped for.

Both sides started a war of attrition underground!

Dozens of newly opened underground passages were filled with blade beasts and continuously advancing spirit slaves.

The more blade beasts died, the more residual souls the demonic entity collected, producing more demonic qi, which Old Sophie could absorb in the spire.

In this process...

"Old Sophie's strength is constantly recovering; however, his injuries are worsening."

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She hid in the stone plate, preparing for the upcoming battle. If necessary, she would also make a move to prevent the blade beasts from destroying Old Sophie's core circuit.

"He can't neutralize the demonic qi, he merely discovered some of its uses."

Wang Jixuan felt mildly tempted in his heart.

He simply lowered his head to meditate, silently reciting the Heart Clearing Technique to maintain the highest level of rationality and calm.

The number of spirit slaves in Old Sophie's spire was limited;

The blade beasts could definitely deplete his spirit slaves.

According to No. 5, Old Sophie used space transmission to leave his subspace. The base of his spire required a long time to recharge, or sufficient high-level crystal cores, to conduct the next transmission.

Old Sophie will not sit and wait for death;

He now has only two options: either forcibly erupt using demonic qi, or temporarily fend off the blade beast tide, then use the crystal cores plundered by his spirit slaves to space transmit out again.

According to Wang Jixuan's assessment of Old Sophie's personality...

The former's probability is far lower than the latter's.

Oh, right, Old Sophie has a third option.

Request help from other spirit cultivators.

Wang Jixuan's brow suddenly twitched. He looked up towards the direction of the snow mountain, vaguely seeing a large chunk of black cloud appearing between heaven and earth.

The black cloud began spinning continually.

This...

The birth of a great demon?

Daoist Wang's mouth twitched slightly as he continued to sit in meditation, waiting for the right moment to strike.

Suddenly.

Shen Qionglin, who was hiding in a corner watching the battle maniacs busy themselves, suddenly turned pale, lowered her head and coughed twice, then called out: "Wang... Zhen..."

Several mysterious tadpole script imprints appeared on her body, flickering continuously.

Wang Jixuan already flashed in front of her, sword finger quickly pointing at Shen Qiongli's head and neck.

A light gray mysterious symbol on Shen Qiongli's neck slowly dissipated, and two wisps of gray qi emerged from the top of her head, flickering slightly, transforming into Old Sophie's phantom image.

However, this phantom had hollow eyes, seeming to be unintentionally activated.

Shen Qionglin's condition quickly recovered.

She said with lingering fear: "No. 4 secretly planted an imprint on me."

"When you were troubling him, he also left a backhand. It's better for it to come out now than for you to be attacked during the battle."

Wang Jixuan asked puzzledly:

"Then why didn't he control you directly at that time?"

Shen Qionglin stared at Old Sophie's phantom: "He wasn't afraid of me, nor did he intend to control me. It's just that you never fell into his trap."

Everyone quickly gathered around.

No. 5 drilled out of the stone plate, snapped her fingers, making the stone plate disappear with a swoosh, and stared at Old Sophie's phantom with complex eyes.

No. 5 made an orchid finger gesture and gently shook it.

Old Sophie's phantom trembled a few times, then began to twitch continuously.

The phantom synced with the main body.

'It hurts... so much... it hurts so much...'

The phantom's voice echoed in everyone's minds, eerily, half-mad.

'I want to go back... I want to go back... my planet... my slaves... damned blade beasts, those damned blade beasts!'

'No, the most damned is that devil!'

'Power, this power, unprecedented power... it's devouring me... hehehe, hahahaha! I have acquired new power!'

'Revive, my spirit slaves! Kill them, kill them!'

'More, I need more power! Bring me the blade beast souls, bring me human souls, bring me all souls! Give them to me!'

Snap.

No. 5 snapped her fingers again, and Old Sophie's phantom burst like a bubble.

She frowned and urged: "Aren't you going to make a move? Old Sophie's life or death doesn't matter, but his core circuit must be recovered!"

"No rush," Wang Jixuan asked Lingtong, "How long until reinforcements from Spiritual Ability City arrive?"

"Over an hour still."

Mu Dan suddenly reported: "Sir! Meng Jin and his group are on the move! Dragonfly Lady sent back photos showing a middle-aged man in Meng Jin's group surrounded by a milky white light. The demonic qi is avoiding this light. They're moving rapidly through the underground passages of Rainbow Town, closing in on Old Sophie's area!"

"Oh?"

Daoist Wang raised an eyebrow, his mouth slightly curving upward.

Finally.

"We move!"

Wang Jixuan's body emitted crackling sounds as a surge of spiritual energy rippled out like the wind.

A nearby long box opened, and a war puppet donned in full armor with an alloy mask stepped out, azure divine light bursting from its eyes.

Just when everyone thought Wang Jixuan would order them to block Meng Jin and his group's retreat, Daoist Wang issued orders that took them by surprise.

"Wu Man, Buddhist Temple Team, lock onto that demonic material! Find a way to lure it to the surface! Kill it if you can; if not, hold it off! Professor Shen, you join them too!"

"Lingtong, Deep Sea! Lead your half-human mecha forces to the skies above the snow mountain, seize air supremacy, and avoid approaching that black cloud!"

"Everyone else cover me and No. 5. Our target is that Fake Starry Sky Gate!"

Seizing this opportunity;

He wanted it all!

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