95: Dragon-Breaking Formation

What are demonic creatures?

Through Demonic Qi Contamination, they gain more terrifying attributes but become cruel, bloodthirsty, mad, and mindless.

Only Advanced lord-tier monsters can re-awaken their consciousness, but even they cannot control their own slaughterous desires.

Let alone cooperating with demonic creatures of other races; even within the same race, many demonic creatures kill each other.

Therefore, behind these demonic creatures, there must be a unified command.

Perhaps it's a stronger King of Demonic Creatures, or perhaps... the Abyss.

Realizing this, he hurriedly ran to tell Xing Manshan. After a long silence, Xing Manshan invited him into the room.

Inside the room, both Qin Siyuan and Yang Yin were present.

Xing Manshan said, "I was just discussing this matter with Old Qin and Old Yang. You've come at the perfect time; help us brainstorm."

Qin Siyuan and Yang Yin looked at Xu Le with some surprise. One must know that this meeting was top secret; in fact, no one even knew it was being held.

The fact that Xu Le could join midway showed the extent of Xing Manshan's trust in him.

Although the two didn't know the reason, they didn't object.

Xing Manshan didn't explain either, but instead gave a general overview of the meeting's content.

They were all old foxes who had lived for thousands of years; how could they not have noticed such an obvious loophole?

They hadn't exposed it because they were preparing to lure the snake out of its hole.

Tomorrow morning, Xing Manshan would personally lead a team out of the city to slay lord-tier demonic creatures, collect demon subduing stones, and dissipate the Devilish Qi.

The two Vice City Lords would each lead an elite force, preparing to counter-ambush the mastermind who would come to attack.

Xu Le suddenly said, "Hearing you say that, it seems that flaw is too obvious, too deliberate. Could it be that the mastermind is counter-predicting our prediction of his prediction?"

It was a bit of a tongue-twister, but the three understood: it meant the flaw was intentionally left for them to see, and the real scheme lay in targeting their next move.

"Excellent, I truly didn't misjudge you," Xing Manshan laughed, clapping his hands.

To calculate their moves, there were two lines of thought.

One was targeting those staying behind, and the other was targeting those going out.

Those staying behind had the support of the entire city's protective array, two Vice City Lords, plus a surprise force;

On the contrary, the strength of those going out was somewhat weak; however, after adding Xu Le, it instantly became explosively strong.

"Uh..." Xu Le rubbed his nose, feeling a bit awkward. "Actually, the reason I was so strong before was that my contracted beast had been fighting Night Demon Bats for a long time. If it were an immediate head-on confrontation, my strength would only be about the same as a Demon Elephant Lord."

Aside from the Reapers Scythe, which couldn't be used as a conventional means, what Xu Le currently lacked most was explosive power.

After all, once he confirmed a mastermind existed behind the demonic creatures, he had a faint feeling the opponent wouldn't be so foolish as to let the Little Demon Monkey farm such terrifying attack, attack speed, and cooldown reduction again.

At that time, he felt the Little Demon Monkey could even try to slay a god!

Although it was the honest truth, the three present felt he was being "Versailles," though they didn't understand what "Versailles" meant.

What did he mean by "only"?

Was a Demon Elephant Lord weak?

Even if Xing Manshan encountered one alone, he wouldn't dare say he could win, let alone kill it... The next day.

The sky was still pitch black, as if it were night.

However, the time clearly indicated it was now 9:00 AM.

As planned, Xing Manshan set out with a team including Xu Le, six Millenarians, and a 36-man personal guard.

Except for Xu Le, the lowest among them were Rank 80 Professionals.

Lü Yixiu watched Xu Le follow the crowd out of the city, his mouth watering with envy.

If it were yesterday, he would have proactively applied to join the battle.

But after seeing Xu Le take action with his own eyes, he felt the rumors in the city weren't exaggerated at all; if anything, they were somewhat understated.

Who could imagine a Demon Pig Lord, which they had spent ages grinding down to 2/3 health, being killed with "one punch"?

The gap between the two was like heaven and earth; how could he have the face to compare himself?

Seeing this, Xing Manshan waved him over. "Your name is Lü Yixiu, right? Do you have the guts to come out of the city with me?"

"I do! Thank you, City Lord!" Lü Yixiu instantly straightened his back and tucked in his stomach, his eyes shining.

Xing Manshan also had someone bring over a set of specially made combat gear, inscribed with arrays using demon subduing stones, which could help the wearer resist Devilish Qi corrosion and contamination for three days.

He took out the Soul of the Demon Roc necklace, and after inputting mana, a ten-meter-long Demon Roc appeared on the spot.

Everyone jumped onto the Demon Roc's back, and the Demon Roc took off with a "whoosh," its speed more than twice as fast as the soul of the black bird summoned by Xu Le.

They sped southward; the Devilish Qi was coming from the south, and as they went south, the Rank and number of demonic creatures were relatively higher.

"City Lord, there's a group of demonic creatures 3 kilometers ahead to the left!" reported a personal guard specialized in detecting demonic creatures.

Xing Manshan controlled the Demon Roc to land. The demonic creatures below were a herd of Rank 60+ Demon Horses.

The Demon Horse Lord leading the herd seemed to still possess a bit of intelligence; seeing this scene, it turned and fled.

Mental Shock!

Xu Le aimed at the Demon Horse Lord and used a skill to stun it directly.

It didn't matter if the other demonic creatures ran away, but the leader possessed a demon subduing stone. As the target of this mission, they certainly wouldn't let it go.

The responsibility of the other personal guards was originally to protect Xing Manshan professionally; they were best at control and protection skills.

The Demon Horse Lord was kept under control the entire time, and without even opening its eyes, it was ganged up on and beaten to death by "justice."

Next was processing the corpse and finding the demon subduing stone.

Xing Manshan personally inspected it and carefully put the demon subduing stone into his space ring, then continued south.

Xu Le knew the goal was to lure out the venomous snake behind the scenes, but unfortunately, the opponent hadn't made a move yet.

The group cleared demonic creatures along the way and soon harvested twelve demon subduing stones.

While it seemed like a bountiful harvest, it was far from the figure of one hundred thousand; in fact, there might not even be that many in the entire world right now.

Xu Le sensed that his Mind Link suddenly had an additional connectable point, which meant there was life nearby.

He looked around, but the spot was completely empty; it was a demonic creature capable of invisibility.

Mental Shock!

Earth Spike!

The two skills were launched extremely quickly. With the support of the scythe of death staff, the interval between them was barely a second, and they had already landed on that demonic creature.

A lizard the same color as its surroundings revealed its form, then jumped forward violently. Within a few leaps, it vanished from the spot.

Too fast!

And it was completely immune to control skills!

Even with Xu Le and the others attacking together, they failed to keep it there.

Xing Manshan looked at Xu Le with some surprise. He had appeared to be checking the demon subduing stones, but he had been observing the surroundings with his peripheral vision the whole time, yet he hadn't noticed a thing.

The timing and location of this Demon Lizard's appearance were too coincidental!

Xu Le and Xing Manshan looked at each other, realizing the mastermind had made a move.

"Chase!"

Having fished for so long, a suspected target had appeared, and Xing Manshan decisively ordered the pursuit.

Soon, the group chased it to a Gourd Mountain Pass.

They were in an extremely narrow mountain pass; if they chased inside and someone blocked the entrance, combined with an Anti-Air Array, they could almost be trapped to death.

But at this moment, could they give up?

"Keep chasing!"

Just as the group chased into the valley, they saw brilliant white light rising from all sides.

Nine-Nine Void-Breaking Dragon-Suppressing Array!

The previous Demon Lizard appeared at the valley entrance, gave everyone a contemptuous look, and turned to flee.

Xu Le's heart tightened: We fell for it; the opponent's target isn't us.