Facing the aggressive attack from Wei Sanxiao and the swarm of bloodthirsty ck bats, Yu Qingtan executed the Water Escape Technique and quickly moved behind Gao Shen.


    The dense array of Water des shot out in all directions except towards the ground, using the Blood Control Technique to draw the blood energy outside the Water Curtain towards the Nine Pythons Mysterious Fire Cover.


    Her main strategy was "better a friend dead than me," since she had a grudge against the Extreme Path Demon Sect anyway.


    Gao Shen was fuming with rage, but his condition was not good, and with the Nine Pythons Mysterious Fire Cover, his escape speed was not fast, so he simply continued to defend with all his strength.


    Since her Water Spirit Root had advanced to the level of the immortals, Yu Qingtan’smand over water attribute spells had be even more effortless. With the Water Curtain aiding her Water Escape Technique, her speed remained undiminished, and her concentrated Water de Technique also ughtered the bats, causing them to scatter and dodge.


    Unfortunately, Wei Sanxiao was a Third Stage Heavenly Demon, and the Water des only slightly hindered him.


    Just as Yu Qingtan had redirected the blood energy, Wei Sanxiao’s ws had already prated Yu Qingtan’s Water Curtain.


    The twoyers of Water Curtain were directly shattered by the ws.


    "Ding~"


    In Yu Qingtan’s hands, two ws appeared as well, blocking Wei Sanxiao’s ws.


    What Yu Qingtan pulled out were a pair of ws from the Heavenly Demon Eagle Jiu Kong.


    Wei Sanxiao was only in the early phase of the Third Stage, and he was skilled in the Ultrasonic Shock Wave and the Corrosive Poison Blood Sword, making his ws not as sharp and sturdy as Jiu Kong’s, and his Power Dao was only slightly stronger than the Foundation Establishment of Yu Qingtan, who had undergone Body Refinement.


    As she blocked Wei Sanxiao’s w attack, Yu Qingtan already executed her strongest Decay and Flourish Technique and Water de Technique against the approaching Wei Sanxiao.


    Wei Sanxiao felt an aging breath wandering within his body and the oing Water des held a faint sense of threat. He hurriedly pped his wings to retreat and adjust his position to scatter the Water de with his ws while using his demon power to suppress that breath within his body.


    "Decay and Flourish Technique! Blood Control Technique! Water de Technique! Water Curtain Technique! Water Escape Technique! To simultaneously execute so many perfected Second Stage spells! And possess the ws of a Third Stage Heavenly Demon, very well, very well, I want to see how long your spiritual power canst?"


    Wei Sanxiao said this, sneering as he charged again.


    Yu Qingtan took advantage of his retreat to set up twoyers of Water Curtain defense again.


    This time, after Wei Sanxiao broke through the Water Curtain with his ws, he immediately hit Yu Qingtan with an Ultrasonic Shock Wave and then pulled back the distance once more.


    Yu Qingtan was prepared this time and directly executed the Soul Cleansing Technique and the Great Resonant Sound, a Second Stage spell from Shi Kuang, along with her Divine Sense strength, which far exceeded that of her peers, to once again emerge unharmed from Wei Sanxiao’s attack and reestablished the Water Curtain.


    Wei Sanxiao clenched his teeth and continued his onught, but each time Yu Qingtan barely managed to withstand it, only losing many defensive spiritual artifacts she had obtained from enemies or on the fifth level of Thousand Beasts Mountain.


    Seeing that just a quarter of an hour was running out, Yu Qingtan showed no sign of her spiritual power weakening, and she hadn’t even consumed a single Spirit Revitalizing Pill.


    Wei Sanxiao’s eyes rolled as he prepared tounch another attack, but suddenly he turned and his de-like ws grabbed onto Gao Shen’s Nine Pythons Mysterious Fire Cover.


    Thest two pythons on it were directly shattered by his ws.


    Then, while hitting Gao Shen with an Ultrasonic Shock Wave, he continued to strike at the Nine Pythons Mysterious Fire Cover.


    Deprived of the reinforcement from the nine pythons, the Nine Pythons Mysterious Fire Cover began to deform under Wei Sanxiao’s assault. It seemed like it wouldn’t hold much longer, and the potency of the Ultrasonic Shock Waves that passed through increased.


    Gao Shen was covered in sweat, indecisive about whether to use a Teleportation Talisman to leave or to bet on the Nine Pythons Mysterious Fire Coversting until the quarter-hour mark.


    Yu Qingtan also noticed that Gao Shen intended to leave. She merged the twoyers of Water Curtain into one and quietly took out the Roaming Zither.


    Your journey continues on empire


    In a serene moment, Yu Qingtan used the Second Stage spell Devil’s Prating Sound on Gao Shen.


    Gao Shen, already struggling against the Ultrasonic Shock Wave, felt as if his Sea of Consciousness had exploded, and he couldn’t help but scream in pain, nearly losing consciousness and also losing control over the Nine Pythons Mysterious Fire Cover.


    Wei Sanxiao took the opportunity to give a full-powered p, flipping the Nine Pythons Mysterious Fire Cover over and gently slicing his ws across Gao Shen’s neck, causing arge head to tumble to the ground.


    The blood spurting from the neck turned into a red liquid flow, streaming into Wei Sanxiao’s mouth.


    A red light shot from Gao Shen’s body onto Wei Sanxiao, who was unbothered by it.


    Soon, Gao Shen’s blood waspletely drained.


    Then, Wei Sanxiao and his followers vanished into thin air.


    A quarter of an hour had passed.


    Yu Qingtan breathed a sigh of relief and hurried forward to collect the Nine Python Profound Fire Cover and Gao Shen’s storage bag.


    At that moment, a box emitting a six-colored halo appeared in the cave.


    Yu Qingtan used the Object Controlling Technique to open it, and to her astonishment, it contained an umbre.


    "Ancient Treasure!"


    Yu Qingtan was overjoyed, took it out and opened it.


    The umbre was made of oiled paper, painted with ancient inkndscapes of wind and mountains, with a raging river bursting forth from among the peaks.


    Engraved in the middle of the umbre handle were the characters "Cann," and at the bottom of the handle was a groove iid with spirit stones, somewhat resembling the design of a shlight’s batterypartment from her previous life.


    After a brief consecration, Yu Qingtan was even more delighted to discover that it was an ancient treasure equivalent to a superior quality treasure, and hidden within the handle was a fine sword that served as abined offensive and defensive weapon.


    Cann Sword within the Cann Umbre.


    Just as she was about to draw the Cann Sword to take a look, a familiar sense of dizziness hit her, and in an instant, Yu Qingtan found herself in a new ce.


    "Congrattions on reaching the eighth floor of Thousand Beasts Mountain, please decide within thirty breaths whether to ept the ughter Demon Order and withstand a small-scale beast tide for one day."


    This was a great hall with ten people present, including Yu Qingtan. Li Daoyi, Fu Nian, and Fang Ling were all there, but to Yu Qingtan’s surprise, Wu Guang was also present, obviously having kept a very low profile.


    The other five people were strangers to Yu Qingtan, three men and two women, none of whom looked particrly old.


    The ughter Demon Order, Yu Qingtan knew, was a type of heavenly contract produced by the ancient Myriad Beasts Sect.


    Those who epted the ughter Demon Order were required to y ten demonic beasts of the same stage or one demonic beast one minor stage or higher for each minor realm breakthrough before the Divinity Transformation Stage, otherwise, the breakthrough would surely fail.


    The Myriad Beasts Sect was founded on the numerous bones of the demon race and its might overshadowed both the Southeast and the Southern Regions. Unfortunately, it was ultimately destroyed by a coalition of demon races from the two regions, along with those from the Southwest Domain and the Sea n. Still, the Myriad Beasts Sect harbored the deepest hatred for the demon race.


    Having experienced the beast tide in Suichuan Immortal City and witnessed the various bloody and cruel scenes of demonic beasts ughtering humans, Yu Qingtan naturally had no aversion to the ughter Demon Order.


    "Yes!"


    Yu Qingtan uttered a single word, and immediately a contract descended in front of her, then ignited without me, turning into an unknown force that imprinted itself into Yu Qingtan’s soul.


    This time, the Fairy Nurturing System did not interfere to erase this heavenly contract, presumably considering it harmless to Qing Tan.


    After thirty breaths, the other nine people had also epted the ughter Demon Order.


    "The beast tide will arrive in one day. Please make your preparations! You can still use the teleportation talismans avable from the fifth floor to leave this ce."


    The female voice echoed once more in everyone’s minds.


    Yu Qingtan’s divine sense reached out beyond the hall and discovered that it was located in the center of a small fortress.


    The fortress was circr, with a diameter of only a hundred paces, and with no other traces of people within.


    Thick fog enveloped the outside of the fortress, obscuring the view.


    "Fellow cultivators, it seems we need to join forces to confront a small-scale beast tide. Let’s get to know each other first, gaining an understanding of one another so that we may cooperate effectively.


    My name is Li Daoyi, a disciple of the outer sect of Cangqiong Sword Sect, in thete stage of Foundation Establishment, and an Outer Sword Sword Cultivator! I possess ate second-stage spiritual beast, the Sword Wing Bird."


    Li Daoyi, wearing a white Taoist robe and carrying five long swords, said.