Chapter 769: Tuoba Chongyuan (I)
Li Xizhi focused his gaze. The mist slowly rose and swept over the snow-white mountain ridges. Thick gray clouds rolled in behind it, mingling pure and turbid energies. Fleeting traces of escape light could be vaguely seen within them.
Radiant light surged from his eyes, floating within his pupils and subtly dispersing at the corners. The grayness faded, revealing a lead streak of white energy, followed by seven black trails. The rest were minor demonic troops, hidden amidst the clouds.
The Dawn Dew Gathering Technique was among the few top-tier, well-structured techniques within the sect. Its only flaw was the difficulty in gathering dew. No news had ever surfaced about its follow-up techniques from Jiangnan, and all fellow cultivators had long given up on it. Thus, few chose to train in it. However, the perception technique it was paired with was highly compatible. So Li Xizhi was the first among the three to see things clearly, and he sighed inwardly.
Quan Yi counted them one by one, his face pale as he replied, “There are actually this many of them!”
Yu Yuwei looked on grimly, then studied Quan Yi closely before gently reassuring him, “Fellow Daoist Quan, even the Purple Mansion Realm Maha of the great void are watching. One military force facing off against one pass is like a game of Go, where each move is carefully calculated. They surely won’t allow the enemy to concentrate forces and strike this valley all at once...”
Yu Yuwei, after all, was a seasoned cultivator. Normally, he wouldn’t speak such blunt truths that might draw trouble. But when he saw the enemy right before them and Quan Yi still wavering, he had no choice but to explain the stakes and steady his resolve.
Sure enough, after a few seconds of observation, the seven streams of black smoke each descended toward different fortress passes, leading groups of demonic forces to fight separately. Quan Yi calmed down slightly, and only one white escape light rode the wind and flew forward from that swirling demonic aura.
This light carried no accompanying troops, nor did it emit any demonic qi. It flew cleanly through the mass of black smoke raised by the other devil cultivators, untainted by a single speck of filth.
Li Xizhi grew wary and thought to himself, That must be a direct descendant of the Tuoba Family!