The first month of the year had already passed, and blood-colored clouds covered the sky as heavy snow with a murderous aura fell. All the peaks that could be seen were covered in a layer of white feather-like snow, and bloodthirsty demonic beasts populated the forests.
After leaving Heavenly Sorrow City, Ye Anping and his two companions traveled for about half a month and crossed the Blood River that divided the Eastern Region, entering this land without life.
In this land, there was no sun or moon, no day and night, no four seasons. It was also the land that Si Xuanji was most reluctant to step into among the five regions.
The bright moon she hung in the sky as a magic eye was almost blind here. Moreover, the dense demonic energy in this world was incompatible with her moon spiritual energy.
In this place, Si Xuanji was just a Dharma cultivator with a high level of cultivation and spiritual power, and most of her magical abilities could not be used.
Whether it was Sun Juehu or Yu Yan of the Heavenly Demon Sect, it was quite easy to target her here.
Therefore, although the Eastern Region demonic cultivators lost the territory beyond the Blood River in a few months, the Heavenly Demon Sect's Patriarch Yu Yan was most likely still confident.
Yu Yan probably thought that Si Xuanji would not lead the Black Star Sect across the Blood River to fight at the gate of the Heavenly Demon Sect.
However, if Si Xuanji really crossed the Blood River, Yu Yan would probably be very happy.
He had been looking for an opportunity to kill Si Xuanji for thousands of years, but Si Xuanji had always been hiding in the Western Region.
Now that she had taken the initiative to come to his home court, wasn't it a good thing for him, like a pie falling from the sky?
It's just that, it was unknown if Yu Yan could bite this pie with "Reverse Star" filling...
Hoo hoo...
The strong wind swept the snow away. Ye Anping raised his hand to press the bamboo hat on his head and looked at the dark mountain line ahead, where thunderclouds slowly accumulated. It was likely that there would be a blizzard soon. He gestured to the two girls to find a place to avoid the snow.
Xiao Tian was still in Ye Anping's soul realm, renovating the house that Xue'e had demolished.
Xue'e understood and pointed to a peak about a hundred miles away. "Ye Anping, I remember there is an abandoned demonic cave there."
"Hmm... there it is."
Ye Anping took a quick look, then took Feng Yu Die and Gu Mingxin and flew toward the mountain that Xue'e pointed to. After a while, they found the aforementioned demonic cave.
The cave was built into a rock. Although there was some furniture inside, most of the valuable things had been looted. Judging from the dust on the furnishings, someone must have taken it away decades ago.
But it was just a place to avoid the snow, so Ye Anping didn't ask for much.
He asked Gu Mingxin to make a simple formation outside to conceal their presence, then started a fire and took out the marinated chicken to roast it.
The sizzling sound of oil and the fragrance soon filled the entire cave.
Feng Yu Die leaned against him and nibbled on the roasted chicken while Ye Anping placed a blanket on his back. He took out the plan that he had perfected in Heavenly Sorrow City and focused on checking the gaps in it.
He and Feng Yu Die naturally could not fight Yu Yan head-on, so Yu Yan had to be handed over to Si Xuanji to deal with.
What he had to do was enter the forbidden area of the Heavenly Demon Sect and destroy the blood pool during the battle between Si Xuanji and Yu Yan. As long as the blood pool was destroyed, it would be equivalent to receiving a buff, and all that remained was to see if Xuanji could do anything.
However, that was easier said than done.
First, he had to wait for the cultivators from Cold Country, Southern Region, and Western Region to surround the Heavenly Demon Sect and lure out as many Elders and disciples as possible.
Otherwise, it was unlikely that he could sneak into a place that even Gu Mingxin was not qualified to enter before.
To break the blood pool, he and Mo Chi Ling needed to work together, one to cut off the ghostly energy and the other to capture the demonic spirits.
This task was originally done by Feng Yu Die in the game, but...
Ye Anping glanced at Feng Yu Die's face happily eating her roasted chicken, and sighed, thinking that it would be better to do it himself.
In addition, they had to deal with...
Ye Anping read along the parchment in his hand, and there were seven or eight names circled below.
He Buqun, He Qingjiao, Fu Jinfeng, Yue Ming...
These people had different levels of cultivation, and Ye Anping was not sure who they would meet in the Heavenly Demon Sect at that time, so he had to make a detailed response plan for each person.
If it was He Buqun, then Gu Mingxin and Feng Yu Die could only work together to drag him down...
As for the other few people, at least two of Feng Yu Die, Gu Mingxin, and Sister Pei must deal with them together to have a 100% chance of finishing them off.
Especially this He Qingjiao.
This person was Gu Mingxin's biggest rival in the Heavenly Demon Sect in the game.
When Gu Mingxin was in the late stage of the Nascent Soul, she fought to the death in front of Yu Yan and used all her strength to summon the black python, managing to cut off He Qingjiao's right arm.
That He Qingjiao was a heavenly spiritual root, and she was also a cultivator who had practiced hard to forge her body like him and Pei Lianxue since childhood and had also obtained many opportunities. The key was that she lived for seven hundred years, and she had been rolling in blood for that long.
But then again...
He Qingjiao in the game died in a very miserable way.
After she was defeated by Gu Mingxin in the game, she left the Heavenly Demon Sect and found a place to live in seclusion in the Eastern Region, but she ran into Feng Yu Die by chance. Because she lost her right hand, she was knocked down by Feng Yu Die within seconds and utterly defeated but left alive.
After Feng Yu Die left, He Qingjiao could not bear the humiliation and died by shattering her meridians.
The Feng Yu Die in the later period in the game, was just like the former owners recorded in the Heavenly Dao Scroll and did nothing for the others...
"Huh..."
Thinking of this, Ye Anping once again looked at Feng Yu Die who was concentrating on gnawing the chicken skin, and let out a breath.
Feng Yu Die looked at him looking at her, rolled her eyes, then looked at the half-eaten chicken leg in her hand, and reluctantly reached out. "Young Master Ye, take some... Hehe..."
Ye Anping pondered for a while before smiling bitterly and taking a bite. "Ah~"
Anyway, whether in temperament, strength, or personality, the current Feng Yu Die was very different from the one in the game. They were basically two different people.
"Yunluo has done a lot of harm... Sigh—"
"Huh? Who did Miss Xiao harm?"
"Just kidding."
Ye Anping smiled, and seeing her hunched over, seemingly cold, he lifted the blanket on his body. "Here..."
Feng Yu Die's eyes lit up, and she immediately moved her butt closer to Ye Anping, tilted her head, and leaned her face on his shoulder with a giggle. "Hehehe..."
The two of them huddled together, one eating roasted chicken, one reading the plan.
After a while, Gu Mingxin finished setting up the formation outside and walked in. Seeing the two huddled together, she was not happy, but thinking that Feng Yu Die had not practiced dual cultivation yet, she did not say anything.
"Ye Anping, the formation is ready~"
"Okay...get some rest, we'll continue our journey after the blizzard is over. We should be able to reach Deep Fish Valley in a few days, and then we'll go find Mo Chi Ling to ask about the situation."
"Okay~"
Gu Mingxin smiled with narrowed eyes, lifted the blanket on Ye Anping's left side, and leaned her face on his left shoulder, mirroring Feng Yu Die, and causing her to slowly stop chewing her roasted chicken and look over with a frown.
Seeing that the two seemed about to argue again, Ye Anping quickly pressed them on his shoulders and scolded them. "Take a good rest."
This stopped the verbal battle before it started.
The cave was quiet, and the cold wind blowing from the entrance of the cave made the fire in front of the three people flicker.
Gu Mingxin watched Feng Yu Die leaning on Ye Anping's shoulder, her eyes closing after a while, and she immediately reached out to Ye Anping's belt quietly.
?
Feeling this touch, Ye Anping froze and looked at her with a reprimanding look.
However, Gu Mingxin gently bit his ear and whispered, "It's been half a month, haven't you recuperated yet? Huh... I've been holding it in for half a month..."
Ye Anping rolled his eyes at her and grabbed her left hand that was sneaking into his clothes.
But just as he was about to scold her, Xue'e, who was watching outside in the blizzard, slipped in and said, "Ye Anping, Mo Chi Ling is here with two people."
Then, the sound of light footsteps came from the cave entrance.
Tap tap...
Ye Anping hurriedly pushed Gu Mingxin's right hand away from his handle and called out softly. "Sister Mo, how are you?"
"..."
Mo Chi Ling was wrapped in bandages and sat in a wheelchair. She was pushed in by a masked man, but there was a clear sense of surprise in her exposed eyes. She asked softly, "How did you know it was me?"
To be honest, Ye Anping was also quite surprised.
He knew that Mo Chi Ling's spies were all over the Eastern Region, but it was really scary to find them in this wilderness.
If Xue'e hadn't kept watch outside and come to tell him in advance, he would have been startled.
Ye Anping smiled. "I guessed."
"I wanted to see Mr. Ye's surprised expression, but it seems that I failed."
Mo Chi Ling turned her wheelchair and came in front of them. Looking at Ye Anping, who was hugged by a girl on each side, she was silent for a while before shaking her head. "Mr. Ye, you turned the tide in Heavenly Sorrow City. I was shocked when I heard about it. Heavenly Sorrow City, which once blocked Nangong Cheng and tens of thousands of Imperial Sect cultivators, was defeated by you..."
"No need to flatter me." Ye Anping exhaled lightly. "You seem anxious to find me. What can I do for you?"
"Mr. Ye, don't you want to see me?"
"Originally, I was going to wait until I got to Deep Fish Valley and then visit you, but how come you took the initiative to come to me?"
"..."
Mo Chi Ling frowned slightly, and she really wanted to ask, "How did you know I was in Deep Fish Valley?"
Previously, she had already been shocked when Ye Anping brought Gu Mingxin to her Heartbreak Palace, hidden in the deep mountains and dense forests.
And now, Ye Anping actually knew that she had a cave in Deep Fish Valley.
"Master Ye is really a man who never shows his true colors. I have been hiding in the Eastern Region for so many years, and even that old man Yu Yan knows nothing about me. How can you know my whereabouts so well... Could it be that you have the Heavenly Dao Scroll in your possession?"
"Haha, guess?"
Stare—
Mo Chi Ling stared at Ye Anping's calm face for a long time, then finally seemed to give up as she spread her hands. "Forget it... Just as you said, the immortals are unstoppable beyond the Blood River. In a few months, they have already approached its edge. I think they will cross the river soon."
"It is also thanks to the information that you sent to the immortals."
Mo Chiling shrugged slightly, took out a jade slip from her sleeve, and handed it to Ye Anping. "The movements of the demonic cultivators and the immortals in recent days are all in this jade slip. Instead of listening to me, you can read it yourself."
"Hmm..."
Ye Anping took the jade slip and looked up with his spiritual sense without saying a word.
The above was a brief report of the war in recent months.
The jade sheet clearly listed who from the immortal sects and which demonic cultivators were killed.
This information might even be more detailed than the information that the sect masters of the Immortal Family had received.
After several months of war, the Immortal Family could be said to have wiped out all the demonic sects west of the Blood River with a loss ratio of nine to one. The remaining ones either escaped over the Blood River or found a place to hide.
However, when he saw one of them, Ye Anping frowned and murmured, "The Dark North Sect was completely destroyed?"
"Well... He Qingjiao, the eldest son of the Heavenly Demon Sect's Great Elder, killed him. When I found out, I sent people to confirm it, but no matter how I asked, it was indeed a cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage who killed the Dark North Sect's Patriarch Chen."
"Wow..." Gu Mingxin was interested when she heard this, but there was a hint of murderous intent in her red eyes. "Senior Brother He is quite powerful, hehe..."
Feng Yu Die just woke up, and when she heard this, she frowned. "...I killed a Core Formation demonic cultivator when I was still in Foundation Building."
"... "
Ye Anping pinched his chin earnestly.
To be honest, he didn't expect Chen Mingfeng to die...
Not to mention, that man was an immortal cultivator who survived the last immortal-demon war. He had followed Zu Yuan to fight in the south and the north. He was not a cultivator like Yun Tianchong who relied on his father's resources to reach the Deification stage.
What's more, Gu Mingxin was now by his side.
The Dark North Sect's Patriarch in the game was killed by Gu Mingxin.
—Chen Mingfeng and Gu Mingxin fought for fifteen days in Sky Orchid Valley, but he was defeated by Gu Mingxin and Ah Mang and died on the spot. None of the disciples in the Dark North Sect survived.
But now, Gu Mingxin had been turned immortal by him. In theory, Chen Mingfeng should not die.
Ye Anping pondered for a moment, then asked, "After Miss Gu left the Heavenly Demon Sect, did Yu Yan accept He Qingjiao as his personal disciple?"
"Yes." Mo Chi Ling nodded. "After Sister Gu left, He Buqun sent He Qingjiao to the old man Yu Yan. This is what He Buqun always wanted to do... force Sister Gu to leave and let his eldest son replace her so that his He family can rank second to none in the Heavenly Demon Sect."
"So..."
Mo Chi Ling looked at Ye Anping's thoughtful expression and added, "There's another thing about him, Mr. Ye. Your wife caught his attention and is now targeted by He Buqun."
"...So?"
"So, He Buqun asked his eldest son to finish off the Young Miss Xiao of the Black Star Sect and your wife."
Ye Anping nodded calmly. "Well... Miss Xiao is also my fiancée."
?
Mo Chi Ling was taken aback. She looked at Feng Yu Die and her sister Gu, her head tilting. "Huh?"
Ye Anping shrugged slightly and smiled. "Where is He Qingjiao?"
Mo Chi Ling was speechless, thinking that Ye Anping was even more unpredictable. This handsome young man actually had so many wives in private. He was as scum as Yun Tianchong, and his wives were all of such high status...
"They must have already gone to Moonfall Gorge. I seem to have heard that Miss Xiao and the others are leading the disciples of the Black Star Sect to capture Moonfall Gorge."
"In this case... I have to go there too."
"Mr. Ye, are you sure you want to confront him head-on? You should know that He Qingjiao killed the leader of the Dark North Sect head-on, and there are several Elders of the Heavenly Demon Sect guarding the Moonfall Gorge..."
"If I could break through Heavenly Sorrow City, what's a small canyon..." Ye Anping shrugged, smiling. "Besides, do you know the true identity of He Qingjiao?"
"What do you mean?"
"She's not the eldest son of He Buqun. She's the eldest daughter... she has no bird."
"Mr. Ye, you spoke so vulgarly..." Mo Chi Ling frowned but then relaxed her shoulders. "But this is the first time I've heard of this. Mr. Ye, do you want my help?"
"No need, Sister Mo, just go to the Heavenly Demon Sect and wait for us. I promised you that I would help you kill Yu Yan..."