Gentlemen, it's time to enter the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls.

Chapter 376: Destroying Demons
In the southern part of the western border, in a mountain valley a thousand miles away from the Yunlu Immortal Sect.

Several demonic cultivators dressed in animal-patterned robes were cleaning up a pile of flesh and blood, all freshly skinned from living people.

For the demonic sects that have just emerged from the earth, the flesh and bones of living people are excellent cultivation materials, not just the blood and sweat used for alchemy.

These inconspicuous little mountain villages have at most a dozen or so households, scattered like stars throughout the western region. The entire Yunlu Immortal Sect doesn't even have a thousand people, so they are simply insignificant in this vast western region.

Those minor sects and factions themselves probably don't do many good deeds on a regular basis, nor would they oppose the vicious and ruthless demonic sects.

Therefore, ever since the Tiger Lord launched the plague attack, many demonic cultivators have crawled out of the ground and started killing people to practice their skills.

Given sufficient resources, the Demonic Sect can improve their cultivation level extremely quickly, far surpassing that of righteous cultivators.

If given even the slightest opportunity, the overall strength of the demonic cultivators will increase dramatically.

No one can resist such temptation.

Therefore, randomly choosing a remote little place to kill people to practice martial arts is an evil deed that almost every newly ascended demon must do.

It's just that the world is too vast, and the number of righteous cultivators is far too small.

However, although these demons wore robes with beast patterns, they were merely riding on the coattails of the Tiger Servant Lord's fame. The relationships between the underground demonic sects were extremely chaotic; even insignificant lesser demons would prepare several sets of clothing from various sects, changing into one when needed.

Anyway, they're all cannon fodder, minor characters who die one after another, so no one can recognize them or bother to distinguish them.

This robe with animal patterns was made from a tiger skin; it was somewhat useful when they encountered fellow practitioners, saving them from several conflicts.

Each of them progressed from Qi Awakening to Qi Sea in less than half a month, which was incredibly fast.

They were itching to slaughter a few more villages, hoping that they could eventually reach the level of Gang Sha Body Refinement.

However, their luck ran out today.

As dawn broke, a rainbow streaked across the sky, even more dazzling than the sun.

Demonic cultivators react extremely quickly. Whenever they encounter such an anomaly, their first thought is that their evil deeds have been exposed and that the people from the Yunlu Immortal Sect have come to kill them.

The demons immediately threw down all the flesh and blood materials and scattered in different directions.

They knew perfectly well that joining forces was useless; they were just a bunch of insignificant little devils who would die before they even had a chance to fight back when they encountered the righteous disciples of the Yunlu Immortal Sect.

They could only hope that someone was the slowest and would be caught up first, delaying the Yunlu Immortal Sect's advance and allowing the others to escape.

However, after each of them used their spells or magical artifacts to run for ten miles, these little demons looked back and found that no one was chasing them, and there was no trace of the Yunlu Immortal Sect disciples flying in the sky.

Just when they thought they had escaped a disaster, thunder suddenly roared in the previously empty sky.

The instant they looked up, a silver light shone three feet above their heads, and lightning struck, turning their bodies into charred remains.

There are gods watching over us; all evil deeds will turn to ashes.

These strange phenomena, like divine retribution, began to appear throughout the western regions.

There are demons who hide in the bustling city and sneak into the night to kill people quietly, while during the day they transform into harmless small vendors who always have a smile on their face.

However, under the illumination of the Great Five Elements Heavenly Punishment Formation, the magical artifacts made from human bones could not be hidden at all. When the heavenly lightning struck, he was still smiling as he gave a child a sugar figurine laced with sleeping pills.

The lightning struck, precisely charring the demon to a crisp, but harming no one else in the slightest.

With a single blow, the demon was severely injured, and thick smoke billowed out, threatening to engulf all the passersby in the street as hostages.

However, several gusts of wind swept by, swirling the black smoke into a ball, shredding his charred body into minced meat, and also slicing his soul into nothingness.

Deep within the clouds of the Yunlu Immortal Sect, Chen Ye watched as the light and shadow on the magic array dissipated, knowing that a demon had truly perished there. However, it wasn't Chen Ye or the Five Elements True Person who had acted; rather, it was the entire Yunlu Immortal Sect disciples who were controlling this grand array.

Once a demon is locked onto by the formation, no matter where it hides—whether underground, deep in the clouds, or within a river—it cannot escape the magical attacks of the Yunlu Immortal Sect.

Moreover, depending on the demon's abilities and location, the Five Elements spells will be adjusted accordingly.

If he's in an open space, he'll unleash a bolt of lightning; if he's hiding underwater, he'll unleash a burst of ice.

Chen Ye was dazzled by what he saw. The Yunlu Immortal Sect truly lived up to its reputation as the number one sect in magic. There was no Five Elements magic that he hadn't seen before, and the Yunlu Immortal Sect didn't know it.

The three words "Great Five Elements" are not just for show. In addition to being able to be cast with a thought, the spells cast by the formation seem to have special effects. Chen Ye saw a demon cast a secret technique, turning himself into a flame-like phantom in an attempt to escape, but he was burned by the same heavenly fire and screamed in agony.

The magic of the Yunlu Immortal Sect is extremely advanced; the same Five Elements magic will be ten times more powerful when used in this formation.

Chen Ye did not make a move. Although the map of the Western Region in front of him was filled with the traces of demons, most of them were just insignificant characters. Occasionally, one or two demons at the Tongxuan Realm would appear, and they would immediately be taken care of by the disciples of Yunlu Immortal Sect.

After a barrage of spells, even if the demon in the Profound Realm flew a hundred miles away, the final result would only be that he was blasted into dust.

The Great Five Elements Heavenly Punishment Formation enveloped the entire Western Territory, with no one allowed to enter or leave its edges, covering all the demons within the Western Territory and leaving them no way out.

Chen Ye looked puzzled, but before he could ask, Master Wuyun asked, "Have you figured out the problem?"

Chen Ye asked doubtfully, "Senior, I've heard that the Dao of Formations requires a 'gate of life' to function properly. But this formation seems to cover the entire Western Region, with no chance of survival, which doesn't align with the Dao of Formations. I dare to guess that the 'gate of life' might be located in this Cloud City?"

Master Wuyun laughed and said, "Hehe, my disciple Yangshuo said you are a rare genius in formations. I didn't quite believe it before, but now it seems he was right. You guessed right, the only place that this Great Five Elements Heavenly Punishment Formation cannot affect is this Cloud City. As long as any demonic cultivators escape here and climb the Heavenly Ladder, they can escape the pursuit of these Heavenly Punishment spells."

Chen Ye smiled bitterly. This was hardly a place of life. If any demon dared to rush here, they would probably die even faster.

This large formation containing smaller formations clearly indicates that they don't want to give these demons any chance to escape.

Chen Ye decided to ignore all that and focus on observing the array diagram, then asked the Five Elements Master for its true meaning. Every question he asked made the Five Elements Master's eyes light up.

Because Chen Ye's questions were all targeted, in a short period of time, he actually managed to discern many key techniques from the array diagram.

The Five Elements Master was filled with regret. Chen Ye had an extremely high talent in the art of magic. Not to mention his disciple Yang Shuo, even the Five Elements Master wanted to take Chen Ye as his disciple.

It's a pity that he is now the sect leader of the Yellow Springs Sect and can no longer become a disciple of the Cloud Peak Immortal Sect.

The more Wu Yun Zhenren thought about it, the more regrettable it seemed. However, there weren't many female disciples in the Yunlu Immortal Sect of the same generation as Yu Shenxing who were a good match for Chen Ye. Otherwise, it would be good to find a way to match them up and make Chen Ye a son-in-law of the Yunlu Immortal Sect.

Although he was thinking about taking on a disciple, Master Wuyun answered Chen Ye's questions without reservation. As he had promised, this was mutual support between righteous sects, and he would not hold back. How much Chen Ye could learn depended on his own abilities.

The two chatted enthusiastically, while the points of light on the array disappeared one by one, demonstrating the remarkable effectiveness of the demon-slaying operation.

This formation can operate continuously for three hours, but only one hour has passed, and there are very few demons left alive in the Western Region.

Looking at the few remaining points of light on the formation, Chen Ye suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "Senior, they are working together to set up a formation in an attempt to resist divine punishment."

Although the three points of light on the array were a hundred miles apart, they were somehow connected to each other and each set up an array on the western land. The three of them looked at each other from afar and actually formed a simple Three Talents Array, which blocked the endless bombardment of heavenly punishment.

In addition, two more points of light are flying toward the Yunlu Immortal Sect. They seem to have discovered the life-saving gate of this formation and are trying to make a last-ditch effort.

Looking at the array diagram, Master Wuyun sighed, "The Demonic Sect has been lurking for a thousand years, but they still have a few talented individuals."

But no sooner had he finished his reflections than Master Wuyun placed the jade ruyi in his hand onto the array diagram.

With a gentle tap of the jade ruyi, the light on the array diagram changed dramatically, and the Three Talents Array shattered like a thin piece of porcelain.

The Five Elements Master coldly said, "It's a pity that such a person has harmed countless people; he deserves to die!"

(End of this chapter)