148: Chapter 148 A Complete Reversal: Counterattack Against Jin!

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The military tent at Tianxu Pass.

The communication Jade Slip at Immortal Master Qing Shan's waist flashed frantically. He extended his Divine Sense into it, and his hand suddenly jerked, tearing several silver threads from his whisk.

"What happened?" Immortal Master Yun Du stood up abruptly.

Immortal Master Qing Shan swallowed hard, his voice trembling:

"Kaiyang Pass... has been retaken!"

"Nascent Soul True Monarch Xuan Yuan of the Shangqing Sect has emerged. With a single palm strike, he annihilated thousands of demonic Cultivators and forced the Old Demon Xueling to retreat!"

Daoist Yun Du sucked in a breath of cold air, his eyes bursting with wild joy.

Before he could speak, the Jade Slip lit up again with a blinding red light.

Immortal Master Qing Shan probed with his Divine Sense again, and his entire body froze on the spot, his eyes wide.

"Tianhu Pass... has actually launched a counter-offensive?!"

"What?"

"The garrison at Tianhu Pass took the initiative to attack, striking directly at the demonic Cultivators' main camp."

"The Shangqing Sect's hidden second Nascent Soul True Monarch, 'True Monarch Tian Xing,' has appeared. Using a secret technique to conceal his aura, he disguised himself as a Foundation Establishment Cultivator and mixed in among the demonic Cultivators."

"The Nascent Soul Old Ancestor of the Tiansha Sect was completely unprepared. True Monarch Tian Xing suddenly attacked from close range, and with one sword strike... shattered his Physical Body!"

"The Tiansha Sect Demonic Lord only managed to escape with his Nascent Soul!"

Dead silence fell over the tent.

A dignified Nascent Soul True Monarch actually disguised himself as a Foundation Establishment Cultivator to pull off a sneak attack?

Shi Jian lay on the stone platform with a faint smile on his lips, having long expected this.

The hearts of the Human Race were truly black to the core when sliced open.

Immediately after, the Jade Slip lit up for a third time, the red light flashing so intensely it almost seemed like it would explode.

Immortal Master Qing Shan gripped the Jade Slip tightly, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.

"Tianquan Pass... a startling change."

Immortal Master Yun Du took a step forward: "What happened now?"

"'Demon Lord Hongfen' of Hehuan Valley has defected."

Immortal Master Qing Shan read out the battle report, his tone filled with deep disbelief: "Demon Lord Hongfen suddenly turned traitor while coordinating the attack on the formation core of Tianquan Pass."

"Using her life-bound treasure, she pinned through the Physical Body of her fellow sect member, 'Demonic Lord Ku Gu.'"

"True Monarch Han Ling of the Shangqing Sect was well-prepared and cooperated in the strike, annihilating Demonic Lord Ku Gu's Divine Soul on the spot. Both his Nascent Soul and Physical Body were destroyed!"

"Half of the Hehuan Valley Cultivators switched sides and, in cooperation with the Shangqing Sect, slaughtered the remaining demonic Cultivators to the last man. A great victory at Tianquan Pass!"

The three battle reports were like three heavy hammer blows, leaving Daoist Yun Du and Immortal Master Qing Shan dizzy and lightheaded.

The reversal came too fast and too fiercely.

One moment, the Wei State's southwestern defensive line was crumbling; the next, the Demonic Path allied forces were being routed and decimated.

Shi Jian picked at his teeth with a claw and gave a cold snort.

"The Shangqing Sect's Legacy is long-standing. They would never allow the situation to collapse entirely just because of a single Golden Core mole..."

Seeing this, Daoist Yun Du smiled bitterly repeatedly:

"Fellow Daoist, do you think the Shangqing Sect's thorough preparation was premeditated?"

"Or perhaps they wanted to attack the Jin State's Demonic Path all along but hadn't found a reason yet, and then the Jin State just happened to jump out on its own..."

Hearing this hypothesis, the two men and the bear all fell into silence.

Shi Jian didn't know the truth, but he was certain that Yan Qiu's secret contact with the Demonic Path was something he had secretly facilitated.

Such things were unpredictable.

In other words, the Shangqing Sect indeed had the possibility of having secretly prepared to invade the Jin State, but because of his variable, the plan was moved forward...

But regardless.

So many people died at Kaiyang Pass; could the Shangqing Sect really have failed to account for that?

Perhaps they had accounted for it, but simply watched with cold eyes to ensure the Demonic Path was fully committed to the trap.

The defection of Hehuan Valley was an even more brilliant stroke.

The Demonic Path was inherently profit-driven. The Shangqing Sect must have promised irresistible benefits to disintegrate the enemy from within.

Or perhaps Hehuan Valley had been a mole planted by the Shangqing Sect in the Demonic Path from the very beginning; that wasn't impossible either.

If the Demonic Path could plant agents in the Wei State, why couldn't the Wei State do the same?

It was simply that the Jin State's agents could never mix into core positions, while the Wei State's agents had entered the opponent's inner circle...

Thinking back to the unexpectedly calm response of the Wei State's three great sects earlier.

The entire trend became increasingly eerie.

"This world is, after all, a chessboard for those Nascent Soul old monsters."

Immortal Master Qing Shan let out a long sigh.

Just then, a voice transmission jade plaque flew into the tent. It was a transmission from Elder Chen of the Shangqing Sect:

"Everyone, quickly exit the pass to engage and pursue!"

"Hehuan Valley has defected to Shangqing. We are now shifting from defense to offense, launching a full-scale invasion of the four Demonic Path sects of the Jin State. How many resources you can plunder depends entirely on your own means!"

As the words finished, the jade talisman turned to ash.

Shi Jian, Daoist Yun Du, and Immortal Master Qing Shan looked at each other and immediately shared a mutual understanding. The two men and the bear turned into three streaks of light and charged toward the battlefield.

At the same time, the two men and the bear also sent voice transmissions to all the forces under their command, mobilizing every available person for a full-scale counter-offensive!

Shi Jian and Daoist Yun Du looked at each other and smiled, the man and the bear both showing a wicked grin.

That's right.

Shi Jian sent a voice transmission to Sun Mao, telling him to relay the battlefield news back to White Cloud Temple. The target, naturally, was to get a head start and first destroy the Fenghe Sect, plundering all the accumulation the Fenghe Sect had gathered over a thousand years!

Legacies, Spiritual Veins, resources, Blessed Lands!

They had to plunder the Fenghe Sect's resources as much as possible before anyone else.

Thinking about the foundation of a thousand-year-old great sect—if nothing else, there were at least two established Low Grade Blessed Lands within the Fenghe Sect!

Just these two Low Grade Blessed Lands alone would be enough for White Cloud Temple to feast until their mouths were dripping with oil.

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