Chapter 1290: The Changing Situation

Wangdong City was easy to defend and hard to attack.

Canghong spared no cost and nearly committed all his forces. Devil Lord Tongyou had long prepared for a brutal battle and remained inside the city the entire time, holding his ground without coming out.

The great battle lasted a full day and night and was exceptionally fierce. Wangdong City still would not fall.

Canghong let out a long sigh. He knew the overall situation was lost, and he had no choice but to give up.

***

At Shuangjing Mountain.

As soon as Qingjun received the urgent report, she immediately launched the final assault.

This time, they intended to strike while the enemy was shaken with fear and their morale was at its lowest. If they did not break Shuangjing Mountain, they would not stop!

Their offensive was repelled again and again, but after each brief pause, they attacked once more. While the battle raged, Qingjun ordered people to spread the news of Old Devil Ye’s rout far and wide, throwing the Sin Abyss army into even greater disorder.

The burden on Qin Sang was extremely heavy.

Qingjun presided over the Xun Wind Grand Array and worked to decipher the patterns of Shuangjing Mountain’s array. That meant the top experts of Sin Abyss all had to be intercepted by Qin Sang.

Fairy Qiuzhi believed her supernatural abilities could restrain Qin Sang. She handed the array over to the cultivator surnamed Shan, personally entered the battle, and tried to find an opportunity to kill Qin Sang.

While Qin Sang fought with Fairy Qiuzhi, he remained vigilant and used nearly every method he had. He managed to hold on without disaster, but the strain on him was immense, and he could only endure it with difficulty.

Fortunately, by nightfall, Jingyu finally arrived after receiving the news and joined the battle, allowing Qin Sang to breathe a sigh of relief.

The situation gradually tilted toward the Two-Domain Alliance.

The slaughter continued through the entire night. Then reinforcements sent by Daoist Master Zhenyi arrived, becoming the final straw that broke the camel’s back.

"This is all we could take away." The cultivator surnamed Song handed over a jade slip. When the great battle broke out, he had been arranging their escape route.

The jade slip contained the list of what they had managed to take away. Compared to the resources stored in Shuangjing Mountain’s treasury, it was no more than a drop in the bucket. The situation had changed too suddenly, and this was all they could do.

When the Sin Abyss Spiritual Infant cultivators saw the list on the jade slip, all of them felt a sharp pang of pain, but none of them had any better solution.

Old Devil Ye’s crushing defeat had caught both sides off guard. Sin Abyss originally could have retreated in an orderly fashion, but now every arrangement had been thrown completely into chaos.

Because of this sudden upheaval, the situation on the battlefield took a turn no one had expected.

"Retreat!" Fairy Qiuzhi was extremely decisive, though the slight frown showed the unwillingness in her heart.

Boom! Boom! One Nether Crystal Tower after another rose from the ground.

Inside the Xun Wind Grand Array, Qingjun noticed the disturbance from Sin Abyss and her gaze sharpened slightly. She flicked her fingers, sending several streams of light into the battlefield. At the same time, her incantation and seals changed abruptly, and nine enormous wind pillars rose from the ground and slammed into the sky lake.

Rumble! The mountain range shook violently.

The Xun Wind Grand Array tore through the sky lake. Qingjun had already felt out the patterns of the protective array and now launched the final assault. Fairy Qiuzhi and the cultivator surnamed Shan joined forces to control the array, while the others activated the Nether Crystal Towers to cover the army’s retreat.

"Kill!" Unlike the dispirited Sin Abyss cultivators, the cultivators of the Two-Domain Alliance were greatly encouraged and charged forward with fierce momentum.

Qin Sang was just about to look for a chance to destroy several Nether Crystal Towers when he saw streams of light flying toward him. He grabbed them and realized they were orders sent by his senior sister.

Sin Abyss still had the Nether Crystal Towers, so completely wiping them out was unrealistic. The most urgent matter now was the treasury on Shuangjing Mountain. They had to find it as quickly as possible and absolutely could not allow the enemy to destroy it.

Jingyu had remained with Qin Sang the whole time, and the others also converged.

With Qingjun supporting them, the group joined forces and charged up Shuangjing Mountain. When Jinglin saw the scene on the mountain, his expression turned complicated.

By now, Sin Abyss had turned Shuangjing Mountain into a fortress. Camps and strongholds stretched across the entire mountain range, and the place had long since become unrecognizable. Not a single trace of what he remembered remained.

"There!" Jingyu swept his gaze across the mountain and locked onto a cluster of palaces.

Dust billowed there as one palace after another collapsed. Some were blasted apart, while others burned with soaring flames. Someone was clearly destroying the place on purpose.

According to the intelligence from their insider, that was exactly where the treasury was located!

"Quick!" The moment they saw it, everyone hurried toward the treasury.

When those Sin Abyss cultivators recognized Qin Sang and the others, their expressions changed drastically. In panic, they hurriedly activated the protective barriers to delay them while frantically destroying the treasury.

The treasury's barriers suddenly dimmed. A cultivator rushed out and shouted, "My name is Fang Qi. Seniors, please hurry in!"

So he was the insider planted by the Two-Domain Alliance. Amid the chaos, he had slipped inside and seized the chance to shut down the barrier.

"Traitor!"

"So it was you!"

The Sin Abyss cultivators cursed Fang Qi furiously, but when they tried to salvage the situation, it was already too late. They scattered and fled in all directions. Qin Sang and the others rushed in and saw that nearly half the treasury had already been reduced to ruins. They secretly rejoiced that they had not arrived any later.

In the end, Sin Abyss could no longer reverse the situation and abandoned Shuangjing Mountain.

However, under the protection of the Nether Crystal Towers, Sin Abyss’s battle formations still remained intact. The Two-Domain Alliance pursued them for some distance, but once they left the range of the Xun Wind Grand Array and saw that further gains were unlikely, they sounded the recall and withdrew to the mountain to rest and reorganize.

Shuangjing Mountain changed hands. All the Spiritual Infants gathered in the main hall at the summit, and every one of them wore a joyful expression.

"We must hurry to Wangdong City. We will leave the rest here to all of you." The cultivators who had come as reinforcements took their leave.

Wangdong City was dangerously undermanned. Devil Lord Tongyou and the others were still struggling to defend it, and reinforcements had to return as quickly as possible. Under no circumstances could Wangdong City be allowed to fall.

"Thank you very much, Daoists." Qingjun gave a fist-and-palm salute and also invited the city lord of Yinshan Stronghold and the others to accompany them to Wangdong City. Sending Qin Sang and Jingyu would have ensured absolute security, but because of the enmity between Qin Sang and Dongyang Bo, she had no choice but to select others.

After the great battle, Shuangjing Mountain lay in ruins.

Once they finished inventorying the resources in the treasury and rested briefly, Qingjun ordered the army to advance!

In war, speed is paramount, and opportunities vanish in an instant.

Old Devil Ye was heavily injured. Sin Abyss had fled a thousand li, and their morale had sunk to rock bottom. They had to bite down on the enemy and give them no chance to recover while Sin Abyss remained at its most chaotic.

What followed indeed resembled splitting bamboo. The three armies advanced together and charged forward in triumph. Once the army was defeated, its collapse came like a landslide.

Old Devil Ye and Canghong tried several times to rely on strongholds and passes, gather their routed troops, and rebuild their forces. But before they could gain a foothold, the armies of the Two-Domain Alliance arrived right behind them, refusing to stop for even a moment as they launched one fierce assault after another.

Sin Abyss suffered defeat after defeat. Old Devil Ye’s words had become a prophecy. They really might have to flee in one breath all the way back to Yu City.

***

After several months of bitter fighting, Tianxing Highland finally recovered all its lost territory and forced Sin Abyss back into the plains.

Between Tianxing Highland and Sin Abyss lay a long, narrow stretch of plain that served as a buffer between the two lands. The plain had few inhabitants, but its spirit mine resources were quite abundant.

Tianxing Alliance and Sin Abyss had fought year after year over the resources there, and their conflict had only deepened with time.

Within the vast plain, spring turned into summer. A gentle breeze drifted across the land and softly brushed the tender green blades of grass. Insects began to stir, and birds, beasts, and insects together performed nature’s music.

Everything looked peaceful. Then, from far away, a mass of white cloud flew over at tremendous speed, skimming low across the ground.

Some birds noticed the white cloud and glanced up, but they did not find anything unusual about it. They sensed nothing strange and continued chirping merrily.

Yet within that white cloud stood several Daoist figures, including Qin Sang. All of them were Spiritual Infant grandmasters.

The two armies were currently fighting elsewhere. They had slipped here in secret to retake the mining veins occupied by Sin Abyss.

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