Chapter 574: Chapter 394: Extremely Smooth

The mysterious Spirit Refiner was too fast.

Before he struck, he had been perfectly concealed—so well that even the Grand Array’s detection measures couldn’t sense his presence.

’How did he even do that?’

Zhao Chongguang couldn’t figure it out.

The moment he cried out, a golden light flashed, and the sect’s Supreme Elder beside him instantly lost all signs of life.

The pale gold Flying Sword’s next target was him.

He immediately entered a state of Half-Demonization, bolstering his physical strength as quickly as possible, all to block the fatal strike.

The golden light flashed again!

Zhao Chongguang watched in utter disbelief.

’I should be able to survive a full-powered strike from a normal late-stage Core Formation Cultivator now. Why is my body so fragile in the face of this pale gold Long Sword?’

’The pale gold Long Sword is the mysterious Spirit Refiner’s Lifebound Magical Treasure, yes, but the Spiritual Power fluctuations it’s emitting aren’t that strong...’

His mind filled with questions, Zhao Chongguang’s consciousness rapidly faded.

In his final moments of awareness, he understood only one thing.

The Demon Spirit Sect was doomed!

After appearing here and killing one early-stage Core Formation Demon and one mid-stage Core Formation Demon, Fang Yun had also casually destroyed the Core Array Plate of the Demon Spirit Sect’s Grand Array.

The Grand Array had already been activated. Even with the Core Array Plate destroyed, it still retained a basic level of defense.

Breaching it from the outside would still require some effort.

If Fang Yun knew how to operate the Core Array Plate of the Demon’s Grand Array, he could have shut down this basic defense as well.

Activating the Grand Array merely delayed the Demon Spirit Sect’s inevitable destruction; it couldn’t change the final outcome.

Things had become a bit more troublesome because he hadn’t managed to find and kill Zhao Chongguang first.

Now, there were two early-stage Core Formation Demons remaining within the Demon Spirit Sect.

Fang Yun’s next goal was to prioritize killing these two early-stage Core Formation Demons.

Each early-stage Core Formation Demon provided a base of seven million Talent Points, which would come to seventy-seven million Talent Points after final calculation.

By his calculations, one early-stage Core Formation Demon would advance his talent upgrade progress bar by about 0.75 percent.

His earlier decision to fully conceal himself at the cost of speed was for the sake of a better ambush, to end the battle more quickly and efficiently.

But now, full concealment was unnecessary, and there was no longer a need to sacrifice speed. Without the Grand Array’s detection capabilities, the other two early-stage Core Formation Demons would struggle to find him even if his Half-Hidden Spirit Boots were only operating at ten percent of their full stealth potential.

While still concealed, Fang Yun burst forward at full speed, heading for the two locations with the strongest Demon Power fluctuations. That was where the early-stage Core Formation Demons were.

Before he had killed Zhao Chongguang, the two early-stage Core Formation Demons had both been heading in his direction.

’Why hasn’t Supreme Elder Zhao used the Grand Array to attack the mysterious Spirit Refiner yet?’

’Could it be...?’

Of the two remaining early-stage Core Formation Demons, one had noticed something was wrong. The other, still oblivious, continued to rush over.

But whether they had noticed the anomaly or not, neither would escape Fang Yun’s grasp.

The battle between Core Formation Stage experts was rapidly drawing to a close.

When the Demon Spirit Sect’s Grand Array activated, the sect’s Elders grew deeply uneasy.

"What’s going on? The Grand Array activated?"

"The Grand Array has been active for a while, but there aren’t any Spirit Refiners outside."

"The Grand Array is active, but no Spirit Refiners have shown up... Don’t tell me we’re in the same situation as the Celestial Demon Sect. I heard that right before the Celestial Demon Sect was wiped out..."

"Spit! Shut your damn mouth! Don’t jinx us! There’s no way the Demon Spirit Sect will end up like the Celestial Demon Sect."

Several versions of the story about the Celestial Cloud Sect’s destruction of the Celestial Demon Sect were circulating. Each version was wildly different, but they all had one detail in common.

Right before the Celestial Demon Sect was annihilated, their Grand Array had been active for some time with no sign of Spirit Refiners outside.

This information came from the few lucky disciples who had survived the Celestial Demon Sect’s fall.

Normally, when the Sect Array activates to repel invaders, enemies appear within ten breaths to attack it.

If the Demon Spirit Sect’s Elders were feeling this way, the disciples were in an even greater state of panic.

This was especially true for the disciples who witnessed the following scene.

"That’s Supreme Elder Song!"

"Is she trying to escape?"

"Supreme Elder Song... she’s falling..."

Upon seeing this, neither the disciples nor the Elders of the Demon Spirit Sect could find any words.

A Supreme Elder had fallen!

It had happened too fast. Faced with that streak of golden light, she had been utterly powerless to resist.

The Grand Array was active, and a Supreme Elder had been killed inside the sect’s own walls.

Putting those two facts together, even the dim-witted could figure out what it meant.

A Core Formation Spirit Refiner was inside their sect, killing their Supreme Elders.

It had to be the mysterious Spirit Refiner!

"The sect is doomed! We have to run!"

"Who says we’re doomed? Don’t forget, the Guardian Elder from the Black Dragon Hall is still here!"

"But it’s been this long and the Elder from the Black Dragon Hall hasn’t shown up. Do you think... he might have fallen, too?"

The vast majority of Elders and disciples who witnessed the Supreme Elder’s death wanted to flee. Only a small fraction clung to hope.

However, the pleas of that small minority were useless.

Unlike those who saw the Supreme Elder fall, many of the Elders and disciples who hadn’t witnessed it were still in a state of confusion.

「Meanwhile.」

After Fang Yun sent the signal.

The Supreme Elders and Elders of the Celestial Cloud Sect, who had been lying in ambush, all mobilized and rushed toward the Demon Spirit Sect.

"Look! That Demon... he’s trying to escape!"

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