What message did Yu Beidou intend to transmit by gifting this Qi Dao coin, only for it to shatter here?

Jiang Wang had no idea!

Judging solely from the situation just now, this coin, shaped like a blade, seemed to be confronting something. Its shattering felt more like the breaking of an avenue of escape, severing a potential retreat.

When it rains, it pours; when the ship is late, it meets a headwind!

Yet, Jiang Wang remained calm.

He simply pondered the various possibilities surrounding this matter, then turned and walked toward the two lesser demons to verify the maps they had drawn. So many years of hardship had taught him but one thing: grasp the present, and exhaust one’s own abilities.

Within the map drawn by one of the lesser demons, there were three major cities, entirely consistent with the intelligence he already possessed. This one, it seemed, was an “illiterate demon,” having spent half its life in the old city.

The map from the other lesser demon contained four major cities, providing a slight supplement to his intelligence.

However, this meager, crude information offered no help in the current predicament. Still, Jiang Wang carefully memorized it.

Now, standing between the two lesser demons, his back to them, he casually picked up a tree branch and pointed to a city on one of the simple maps: “Did you come from this great city? Nod if yes, shake your head if no.”

Jiang Wang then pointed to the same position on the other map, asked the same question, and received the same answer.

Then, he turned and glanced at the dog demon, saying softly, “The one not yet fully burned on the ground, was he from a noble clan within your city?”

Both demons nodded simultaneously.

With the testing complete, only then did Jiang Wang ask: “How many teams of subordinates did he bring out? One finger on the left hand represents ten teams, one finger on the right hand represents one team. Use hand gestures to tell me.”

The two demons made the same hand gesture, indicating they were not lying.

Twenty bounty gold teams, totaling one hundred demons! This dog demon truly had a considerable display of force.

Observing the other bounty gold teams around, one could roughly discern that the bounty tasks received by these lesser demons were not of high specification. From the discovery of the first branch of demon bounty teams to the present, more and more such teams were entering the mountains.

The vast, deep mountains, like hunting dogs, were scattered wide.

Among so many lesser demons, whose strength varied and could generally be considered useless, his ability to precisely encounter this dog demon, who possessed both talent and background, was truly a matter of luck. He had originally intended to follow this slightly stronger individual, believing it would be easier to gain intelligence. He did not expect the other side to possess another divine ability, capable of detecting his tailing.

Of course, the current problem was that at least sixty more demons would be coming to search for this fallen dog demon in the first wave.

Their own fighting strength was, of course, negligible. What Jiang Wang truly cared about was how much time he had left for interrogation – the next step was inevitably a difficult escape, and simply running fast wouldn’t suffice. Without preparation, it would be impossible.

“Before you came, did you know I was of the human race?” Jiang Wang asked. Both demons shook their heads in unison.

This was good news, a confirmation. It meant he had a little more time in this dire situation.

Regardless of the dog demon’s background, how much value the demon race placed upon it, or how much attention the deaths of several dozen lesser demons on a task in the deep mountain old forest would garner – the intensity of those targeting that dog demon’s enemy would be completely different from those targeting the demon race’s enemy.

The other twelve bounty gold teams that had followed the dog demon into the mountains were unable to immediately follow up and surround and annihilate him, likely because they were still unaware of what had happened. Discovering the anomaly would take time, and reaching the location would also require time.

For these past few days, he had been cautious and meticulous, seeking intelligence but not daring to act or interrogate, afraid of leaving any trace. Seeing any lesser demon, he would avoid them by three houses, concealing his sight, sound, and breath until this moment, when he could no longer hide and thus launched into a great slaughter.

Since he had already begun interrogating, he naturally intended to gain the greatest possible value.

Jiang Wang said: “I am very pressed for time. Now I want to use a little time to learn the demon race language from you two. Do you agree? Nod if you agree, shake your head if you do not.”

The lesser demon on the right immediately nodded.

The lesser demon on the left clearly hesitated for a moment. A stream of Yin-Yang fish swam through Jiang Wang’s eyes. He immediately nodded as well!

When dealing with these lesser demons whose wills were not firm, leading them astray posed absolutely no possibility of failure.

For a dog demon with a decent background, their will would be firm; there would fundamentally be no weak choices, and no opportunity for him to lead them astray.

Jiang Wang continued: “Very good. Now I will separate your sounds, so that you two cannot hear each other speak. Then I will speak a sentence in Dao language, and you will repeat it in demon language. You can say different things, but whoever makes a mistake will die a very painful death. Understand?”

The two demons nodded vigorously.

And so, a unique teaching session commenced.

Every language possesses its own cultural origins, and the demon language, having been transmitted throughout all the demon races, could be considered vast and profound. Becoming proficient in a short time was no easy feat.

However, common discourse was not overly complex; simple daily conversations did not require mastering too many words.

Jiang Wang spoke extremely rapidly, giving the two lesser demons fundamentally no time to think, and they also repeated with extreme speed. The three voices, like connected pearls, rose and fell in succession within this quiet forest.

He aimed to master the demon race language as much as possible before more bounty gold teams approached and before stronger members of the demon race entered the mountains to investigate. Only by rapidly mastering the demon language could he gain intelligence more easily during the escape process.

With sufficient intelligence, it would be possible to find a path out when there seemed to be none.

The war in the deep mountain old forest was silent and dark.

The flames of war in South Heaven City, however, were burning brightly.

Whether in the sky, on the ground, within the city, outside the city, or upon the city walls, fighting was intense.

Life withered in the most direct manner, the color of blood vibrant.

The most crucial battlefield was, of course, that chaotic mess in the distant sky.

The battles between several transcendent absolute peak cultivators had already turned the sky into dark night.

The full golden yang light of the demon realm could not penetrate.

The battles between several transcendent absolute peak cultivators had already turned the sky into dark night, and the golden yang light of the demon realm could not penetrate.

This place, which had opened a new world from chaos, and possessed such a violent battlefield, briefly returned to chaos.

The breaths of the four top powerhouses mingled, colliding with one another. No, it was already five top powerhouses.

Joining the battlefield was the Heaven Demon Qi Guan Ying, the aid Spider Yi desperately sought.

His appearance was divine and extraordinary, a body encased in ink-colored battle armor like a gathered mountain peak, a slender bone saber seeming to cleave the sky open. The battle armor received ten thousand *jun* without losing its luster, and wherever the blade edge passed, heaven and earth were destroyed, all things returning to silence.

On the scene, Ape Immortal Court further waged war against heaven and earth, his brilliant light shaking thousands of miles. Spider Yi manipulated tens of thousands of puppet corpses, her single hand forming an army.

Yet, Jiang Meng Xiong pressed against all sides with his fists, his Left Clamor palm covering ten thousand ancients, still pressing against three Heaven Demons in continuous assault!

Spider Yi’s puppet corpses fell in large swaths, their vast momentum like a wheat field during autumn harvest.

Strong True Persons could perceive that the breath of the Heaven Demon Spider Yi was already shaky. She had already sustained heavy injuries just before Qi Guan Ying rushed to join the battle.

At this moment, she desired to withdraw from the field, yet could not.

Left Clamor and Jiang Meng Xiong, with extreme tacit understanding, held her in place, continuously eliminating her precious puppet corpses and consuming her thousand years of accumulation.

A significant reason why powerhouses like Qi Guan Ying and Ape Immortal Court were being pressured was that, in addition to fighting, they had to free up a hand to protect Spider Yi’s life, preventing her from being instantly killed.

What level of fighting was this?

A Heaven Demon, standing at the peak of powerhouses, had actually become a defensive vulnerability, a wound that must be saved!

And the battlefield perspective descended once more.

The shattered thorn boat and broken-winged giant eagle served as the backdrop of the sky. The cruel sounds of battle, mixed with the wild wind, the fierce flames, and lightning entangled to form a totem. This square of heaven and earth was filled with uncertain light and shadow!

The renowned True Demon Que Meng Chen, wearing a feather coat, stepping on a pair of vine boots, and holding a pair of double-winged short knives, left hundreds of afterimages as he shuttled through the battlefield. He was locked in a hard-fought, difficult battle with Wen Ren Shen, a court physician from Qi Country, on the left side of the battlefield.

His three great demon kings, leading seven thousand elite Iron Cage Army, were also locked in battle with the ten thousand Annihilate Thunder Army led by the Brave Earl of Great Qi.

The Iron Cage Army was the renowned strong army of the Que race. Each wore an iron cage-shaped helmet to signify their determination not to forget the humiliation of being caged. They wore light armor, matched with double knives, one long and one short, one narrow and one wide. Their attacks were extremely fierce, and few armies within the demon race dared to provoke them.

The Annihilate Thunder Army, ranked among Great Qi’s nine armies, was even more a world-renowned strong army, an elite troop of the human race.

The two armies clashed in one place, truly a meeting of opponents in chess and generals in battle, making for an enjoyable fight.

This battle’s movement was so great that the True Demons supporting South Heaven City from the demon race were, of course, not limited to just one.

But the Master of Ling Xiao Pavilion, True Person Ye, had already killed his way into South Heaven City.

The South Heaven City plaque had already been struck through by him. Fragments of the huge city gate were scattered at his feet for him to step upon. And his large sleeves fluttered like wings as he fiercely fought with a Spider race True Demon.

His immortal posture was clearly elegant, his appearance not one who would readily witness bloodshed, yet his momentum was like a rainbow, forcing the opposite side to retreat step by step. Wherever he passed was like the edge of a hurricane, and one could hear the sound of exploding Qi like thunder. The entire street collapsed step by step along with their advance and retreat, and the demon race houses on both sides of the street also collapsed successively as if in assistance to an array.

Sword shadows and fist winds almost covered half of the city district. Countless demon race experts stared, but no bystander could approach.

In such a dangerous and fierce battle, Ye Ling Xiao could still withdraw his body as he pleased. He suddenly took a step back, held his palm erect as a knife, turned and remotely chopped at a distant place! And then, without even glancing again, he turned his palm into a fist and punched forward once more. Qi transformed into dragons and tigers, stirring up wind and clouds!

“Who allowed you to get so close? Hmm?”

This punch directly sent the True Demon Spider String, who had just killed his way to the front and was wielding a pair of fine swords, retreating several tens of *zhang*.

Spider String was so enraged that her eyes filled with blood, yet she could only grit her teeth and construct a sword defense. No matter how desperately she fought, she could not block this human race True Person. She could only fight and retreat, retreating again and again!

And the direction Ye Ling Xiao drew out his hand to remotely chop in the midst of the battle was the eastern area of the entire South Heaven City battlefield.

There, flags stood like a forest, the edges of the soldiers chaotic, armies of various flags fighting together.

A tiger race demon king, whose momentum was fierce and barbaric, had just leaped out from the demon race army array, holding a ghost-headed saber on which blood shadows were vague. The void behind him was stained with blood,

Like a flag inserted behind him.

With such a fierce and barbaric posture, he killed unstoppablely toward a colorful cloud war chariot of five colors and ten colors.

The art of the soldier array was a creation of the human race. It was created during ancient times by human race sages of soldier-martial integration to gather the power of ordinary people. It was a shocking creation that reformed the human race’s weakness and was also an important reliance that allowed the human race to defeat the demon race later and become the master of the current world.

Soldier-martial thus gained the name of a sage, ranking among the eight sage ministers of the Human Emperor, alongside Bu Lian, Cang Jie, and others.

But in the long racial wars, the demon race also learned and developed their own soldier array methods.

However, this tiger race demon king was clearly not patient for a protracted battle and relied on his own bravery and martial prowess. The soldier array under his command was delayed in its attack and could not break through the puppet army composed of Four-Winged Ink Martial Warriors. He simply divided his forces into two paths, allowing the soldier array to fight independently, while he himself leaped over the fence, intending to capture the enemy with a single saber.

His bravery and martial prowess were indeed praiseworthy!

After all, even Ye Ling Xiao’s attention was drawn to him.

So at this moment, wind and clouds surged, and Qi exploded like thunder.

Around this tiger race demon king, that ubiquitous yet formless and colorless Qi instantly became violent.

Ye Ling Xiao, from the city afar, struck with a single hand like a knife, and on this side, the air immediately produced a figure gathered from Qi, a semi-transparent general holding a knife! Directly facing this tiger race demon king, rushing toward him face to face, the heavenly mechanism seemed to instantly reveal itself in his palm, and a horizontal chop with the knife!

Blood shadows scattered, a head flew, and a flag fell!

Fundamentally, there was not even a space for resistance. This tiger race demon king was already dead on the spot.

This divine ability to control Qi was possessed by a prodigy named Na Liang in Mu Country, who had once relied on it to display his prowess on the View River Platform, its might not insignificant.

But in Ye Ling Xiao’s hands, it truly possessed an invincible momentum.

It possessed the might of the so-called “Qi for my use, ten thousand laws return as one.”

The moment before that tiger race demon king rushed out, Fang Yuan You was still gritting his teeth, leading his army to prepare for a desperate charge.

But the next moment, he almost bit off his own tongue. What words had White Jade Flaw spoken?

This girl Ye Qing Yu where needed protection?

Those Four-Winged Ink Martial Warriors in the teams were already a strong army that could move horizontally across this battlefield. Wherever they passed, there was fundamentally no demon army that could stop them.

And the Ox-Horn Horizontal Knife Puppets, Eagle-Eyed Heavy Arrow Puppets, and Thin Armor Double Sword Puppets, four of each, surrounded the war chariot as they moved. This defensive net composed of twelve powerful puppet soldiers was simply airtight, solid as gold soup, completely impermeable, with not a single demon race member able to approach.

This colorful cloud war chariot itself possessed astonishing killing power and even more surprising defensive ability. It was itself a great fierce weapon, capable of interfering with the battlefield at any time.

But even with such robust defenses, that True Person Ye still paid attention to this place at all times.

This tiger king leaped out only to have his head severed. Who would still dare approach?

Since joining the battle, Fang Yuan You had done only one thing: lead his people to closely follow behind the colorful cloud war chariot, galloping in all directions. He had shot quite a few arrows, but his saber had not yet left its sheath.

He had killed quite a few demon race members, but his body had not been stained with blood.

Originally, following the Marquis onto the battlefield, that was a matter of coming and going through wind and rain, licking blood from the edge of a knife, and making a turn before the gates of hell. He had never fought such a relaxed, such a wealthy war!

It made him briefly doubt the cruelty of war.

Ye Qing Yu, of course, did not know what Jiang Wang’s close guard commander was thinking. She did not even spare a second glance at the dead tiger king.

She only slightly pursed her thin lips, and on the five-colored, ten-colored colorful cloud war chariot, within the light and shadow that isolated the external line of sight, she was busy with her own affairs.

On one hand, she issued instructions to the puppet soldiers, commanding the battle. On the other hand, her hand did not stop, continuously writing a letter on a piece of paper.

Her own coming was a short paper, her emotions long, her words unable to exhaust her intent. But without a set meeting time, what else could be done?

A delicate cloud pattern divided the thin paper into upper and lower halves.

This was a pale green paper. The lower half was blank, the upper half, as she wrote, showed characters that then vanished.

“Cloud on Qing Yu, Maple under Little Jiang.” “Cloud on Qing Yu, Maple under Little Jiang.” “Cloud on Qing Yu, Maple under Little Jiang.”

Once on the View River Platform, she had gifted the same character paper to him. It had no Dao Origin fluctuations, so she did not worry about it being detected by others. Within a hundred *li* radius, would he remember the character reflected on the paper?

Today, writing this letter, would he know?

The View River Platform during the Yellow River Meeting was a place of constant flow, the most bustling in the world.

The most brilliant and magnificent stories were performed there, and the people with the most power and potential all exchanged there.

The great situation of the world, glorious history, the rolling long river, the twinkling stars…

But at that time, quietly writing the same character on paper, quietly waiting for a reply from that side, she was the most peaceful person in the world.

Now, today, the sky was far away.

A hundred *li*, a thousand *li*, or an uncountable distance in the demon realm.

Ye Qing Yu learned to fight, but was not good at killing. She learned military strategy, but was not accustomed to the battlefield.

She looked out in all directions repeatedly, and then repeatedly withdrew her gaze.

Even so, she exhausted her ability, driving the colorful cloud war chariot to patrol the battlefield. In commanding the puppet soldiers to join the war – in trying not to attract the attention of the demon race within the killing…

She wrote the same character paper repeatedly. If love was a poem, the upper part had no response from the lower part.