The Quest for Immortality

A brilliant bright fire, rising from low to high, flew towards the sky.

The surrounding night was also gradually being illuminated.

As the firelight brightened, the situation below the pass gradually fell into the eyes of Yang Jishan and Yang Jiyong.

In just an instant, their pupils expanded, their bodies chilled, and their hearts sank into the abyss like a giant stone.

Outside the pass, concealed in the night, were dense, beast-armored, tall and savage, ferocious-looking barbarian soldiers.

With the reach of the Bright Fire Formation, countless in number at a glance.

The Barbarian Army!

Even more shocking to Yang Jishan and Yang Jiyong was that within this army, besides ordinary barbarian soldiers and a small number of Ghost Night Wolf Soldiers, there were surprisingly numerous Forbidden Wilderness troops classified as ”taboos” by the Taoist soldiers Court.

Among them, there were even ”Demon Cavalry” from the Wilderness, nearly extinct.

Bloodthirsty barbarian body cultivators, with iron-like physiques, riding powerful monster beasts almost impossible to tame, forming ”Demon Cavalry,” slaughtering and charging in battles, invincible wherever they went.

The Demon Cavalry of the Great Wilderness Royal Court was one of the most feared strong troops of the barbarian tribes in days past.

So much so that the Taoist Court had to dispatch the Dragon Soaring Forbidden Army, undergoing a hundred years of slaughter, to finally exterminate the Demon Cavalry of the Wilderness.

Now, after several thousand years, the Demon Cavalry of the Wilderness has been bred again.

Moreover, it’s not just ordinary Demon Cavalry...

The Bright Fire Formation flashed past.

Most of the Demon Cavalry that Yang Jishan saw were wolf riders, but some of the barbarian cultivators in dragon armor rode fierce tigers, as big as small mountains.

Tigers are a notch below dragons.

But tigers are monster beasts, while dragons are divine beasts; a tiger compared to a dragon is enough to show its might and strength.

Moreover, this only pertains to ordinary tiger-type monster beasts.

In the legends of the Wilderness, there is the mention of ”Four Divine Beasts.”

The ”White Tiger” is also one of the divine beasts, so some Tiger Demons in the Wilderness actually have more or less the bloodline of the White Tiger, as mutated divine beasts.

Such monster beasts can also be called Exotic Beasts.

The ”Tiger Riding Demon Soldiers” are also nearly the strongest Demon Cavalry of the Great Wilderness Royal Court.

And those capable of subduing Tiger Demons, qualified to ride on tiger backs, without exception, are all Dragon Lords or Imperial Family nobles who share their lineage with the Great Wilderness Royal Court.

Only the bloodline of the ”Dragon” can possibly suppress the ”Tiger.”

Thus, the Tiger Cavalry of the Wilderness is also referred to as ”King’s Soldiers of the Wilderness.”

Watching these terrifying Tiger Demons, mountain-like with the ”King” character on their foreheads, and the Tiger Demons’ backs ridden by Imperial ”Giants,” three to four men tall.

Yang Jishan’s face turned pale, realizing what had happened.

”The Great Wilderness...has rebelled...”

This is not a local disturbance, but complete rebellion.

Tonight isn’t a ”sneak attack,” but a full-scale ”assault.”

Yang Jishan’s heart trembled.

The rebellion of the Wilderness was considered, but such considerations were only hypothetical.

No one expected it to actually happen.

Moreover, it happened at this very moment.

Yang Jishan took a deep breath and said in as calm a voice as possible:

”Ignite the beacon fire, inform the surrounding passes...”

”Send a letter back to the Daoist soldiers Court, report the rebellion of the Wilderness, request the deployment of Central Daoist Soldiers to suppress the Wilderness.”

”Send a letter to the Yang Family, let the elders make early plans...”

Yang Jishan swiftly gave these instructions, drew out his longsword, turned to look at Yang Jiyong, his expression half complex, half helpless:

”It’s time for us to achieve great deeds.”

Yang Jiyong looked at the overwhelming Wilderness barbarian soldiers before him and said, smiling:

”Big brother, watch me slaughter these rebels, achieve fame and straight into the Daoist soldiers Court cabinet.”

Yang Jishan smiled bitterly, after a moment of silence, he sighed softly:

”Don’t die...”

Yang Jiyong put away his smile, his expression gradually becoming serious: ”Big brother, you too...stay alive...”

Afterwards, amidst the night, a mighty tiger’s roar shook the mountains.

The barbarian army surged towards the pass like a ”flood.”

Leading the charge were the Ghost Night Wolf Soldiers, ghost-like in shape.

These wolf soldiers were the sharp tools used for sneak attacks and city-breaking.

Above the pass, the guardian formation lit up, the vast spiritual power circulating, crushing the charging barbarian soldiers like a flesh-grindstone.

The barbarian soldiers fearlessly charged, one dying, followed by another filling the gap, endlessly charging towards the city pass, only to be pierced in the chest by the long spears of the Taoist soldiers defending the city.

The corpses fell, piled on the ground.

The barbarian soldiers behind stepped on the corpses, continuing to assault the city walls.

At that moment, the wolf soldiers blended with the night had already encircled the city walls, beginning to engage in a brutal fight against the Taoist Soldiers of the Taoist Court.

The fierce breach battle began.

The rebellion of the Wilderness officially commenced...

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South of Li State, in a certain third-grade Immortal City.

Situ Xiu pierced the chest of a Sect Cultivator shouting ”The heavens are dead” with her sword, then withdrew and sliced off the arm of another rebellious cultivator.

Her colleagues nearby were also suppressing the rebellious cultivators.

But the rebellious cultivators grew more numerous.

Some impoverished loose cultivators were mixed among them.

There were also some Evil Demon Cultivators secretly fueling the chaos.

The situation was extremely chaotic.

And the Taoist Court was the ”target of everyone.”

As a Taoist Court Supervisor, Situ Xiu felt helpless.

This Immortal City, named Shaoshan City, was rife with corruption in the Taoist Court, local family greed, collusion, and loose cultivators were impoverished.

Though she was a Supervisor, capable but powerless.

If not for her birth in the Situ Family, having the family’s protection, it would be difficult to remain unscathed in such a mire.

But she never expected this fragile balance to be broken so suddenly.