I sell demon meat in the city

Chapter 252 Internal and external cooperation
Threatened by a mere teenager, the fox spirit who had lived for hundreds of years couldn't quite describe her feelings; even the expression on her face was somewhat subtle.

However, she knew this girl wasn't exaggerating; even if she couldn't kill her, she could at least put up a fight. And she was very likely to gain absolutely no advantage over this girl.

This is an anomaly.

This world may lack spiritual energy, but it still produces geniuses.

And most importantly, she was afraid of dying!

This world is so fun, with so many things to enjoy, she wants to stay here for hundreds more years, so naturally she doesn't want to be hunted down.

So after a moment's hesitation, she decided to tell the truth. Anyway, her third sister was dead, so the things she was promised before coming here were definitely not valid.

"To tell you the truth, my first mission failed eighteen years ago. It was the day the demon race sent a large number of low-level demons over. I and three others were supposed to come and meet them, but I forgot. You probably know what happened after that. Most of them were killed by your people, a few escaped, and now, apart from those captured and imprisoned by you, there are very few left. They don't know I exist, and I can't be bothered to care anymore."

However, this wasn't very important to the Demon King. With so many lesser demons, the death of a few wouldn't matter. What mattered was that it wanted to reopen the world portal, sending over an overwhelming number of demons, and even...making this world its vassal.

But now that you know about the existence of the world membrane, opening this passage won't be so easy. At the very least, it's definitely impossible for the four of us to climb the mountain at the agreed time to cast a spell to attack the membrane."

Xiao Qi immediately grasped the key point from her words: at the agreed time, they planned to attack the membrane wall simultaneously from both inside and outside.

"What day did you agree on? How will you attack the membrane?"

She didn't say that the array's core in the Valley of All Saints had been destroyed, because the fox spirit never mentioned the array's core from beginning to end. That means they didn't rely on the array's core at all when attacking the membrane wall. What did they rely on?
Magic power and strength?

What about the core of that formation?

Were they deceived by Qin Yuanheng? Or was he unaware of the Demon King's plan?

"On the fifteenth of next month, the Demon King will lead the Queen and more than ten powerful demons at the Nascent Soul stage to attack the membrane. We need to coordinate the attack from inside Sanqing Mountain. With the help of both inside and outside, it will be difficult for the membrane to close again once it opens, or it will be difficult to close it in a short time. At that time, the demon race will be able to invade on a large scale, instead of just sending hundreds or thousands of people through the teleportation array like last time."

Xiao Qi's expression changed slightly. She finally understood why the Demon King refused to go to war with the cultivators after he was on par with, or even better than, Han Meizi, and after the death of his beloved youngest son.

The Golden-Winged Lion King needs to accumulate strength and preserve the great demons of the demon realm who have reached the Nascent Soul stage, so that he can attack the membrane wall and open the world passage.

After all, the membrane wall was damaged during the great war more than a hundred years ago. Now that we know its exact location, it is entirely possible to open it up and prevent it from closing again by attacking from both sides on the basis of the damage.

As for the array's core, it cannot be called a deception or useless. After all, it was obtained by Qin Yuanheng from ancient books in the Sanqing Temple. It may have been a temporary method devised by the predecessors to allow them to meet with their clansmen who remained here.

The teleportation array in Wansheng Valley was damaged after it was overloaded and used to transport a large number of demons last time, so even if the teleportation array in Sanqing Temple is still there, the one in Wansheng Valley can no longer be used.

The Demon King and Queen certainly didn't intend to use it a second time. After all, the first time they used deception to send those lesser demons here.

Xiao Qi asked Zi Ji with a dark expression, "You're the only one in Qingzhou, what about the other three?"

Zi Ji shook her head. "I don't know. After we arrived, we split up and left in four directions. For safety reasons, we tried to stay away from Sanqing Mountain, thinking we would come back on the day we agreed to meet the Demon King. But it seems that I was the only one who arrived early; none of them came." After thinking for a moment, Zi Ji added, "They didn't come eighteen years ago either. I think it's not that they forgot like me, but that they disdained to care about a bunch of old, weak, sick, and disabled people."

Xiao Qi stood up from the ground and put away the cushion.

Seeing that she was about to leave, Zi Ji immediately put on a fawning smile, "Little sister, I've said everything I should and shouldn't have said. Can you and that person on Mount Sanqing pretend I don't exist?"

Xiao Qi looked up at her.

She immediately raised her hand to guarantee, "I swear, I haven't killed a single person since I came in here, not before, and not in the future. You can probably tell that I quite like being here."

This fox demon was indeed relatively clean.

She couldn't see this before, but now that her cultivation level has reached a certain point and her eyes are clear, she can see some different things.

For example, she could tell during the day at school that the short, fat middle-aged man had been murdered.

"One last question for you: why did you set the date for the fifteenth of next month?"

"Of course it's because of the moon. When the two moons overlap, some things will become different, and some areas will even overlap. However, this phenomenon is extremely rare, or rather, even if it happens, it's in remote places. It's normal that you don't know, after all, who would be so bored as to stay up all night waiting for the moons to overlap and then cross from one world to another overlapping area? That would be asking for trouble. Besides, crossing regions also consumes magic power, and people in your world can't do it. Of course, you're an exception, little sister, you're very powerful."

Xiao Qi ignored her last flattery, but she already understood how Lin Yan had gone to the cultivation world. His great-grandfather, who had sent him there, had probably exhausted all his magical power, which was why he passed away after sending him away.

The reason why Ziyang and the other two were able to come out safely last time was because the fairy was there. She relied on her intuition to lead the three of them on a different path.

What changes will occur at Sanqingshan after the moon aligns with it? Or will that membrane barrier become easier to open?

"Probably, otherwise why would the Demon King choose this day?" Zi Ji spread her hands, mimicking the way the people here did. "I'm just guessing, since it hasn't been actually carried out, so I don't know."

Xiao Qi raised her wrist to reveal her children's smartwatch, then asked Zi Ji, "What's your number? Mine is 1*******. Write it down and don't change it. If you do, notify me, or I'll issue a warrant for your arrest."

Zi Ji twitched her lips, took out her phone, wrote down her number, and also gave her own number.

"Alright, you can leave now. Don't come back here without my permission."

She desperately wanted to stay.

Especially the 15th of next month.

It wasn't that she didn't want to help the Demon King open the membrane from the inside; the question was whether she would survive if it was opened.

She didn't know what those three guys were thinking, but she knew that if the dozen or so Nascent Soul cultivators on the other side exerted their power together, the four Nascent Soul cultivators would be reduced to nothing the moment their membranes broke.

(End of this chapter)