1098: C1098 Return to the Stronghold

C1098 Return to the Stronghold

The members of the Devil Sect were all panic-stricken and their faces were clouded. The reason was very simple. Even though they were hiding inside the stronghold, that evil ghost would often send evil spirits to attack them.

Such a sneak attack caused their people to be snatched away by that evil ghost. Although they had killed quite a few evil spirits, there were a lot of evil spirits in the secret realm.

On the other hand, their numbers were fixed. Every time they took one away, they would lose one, and there was nothing they could do to replenish it.

Most importantly, almost all of the people who were snatched away had their souls devoured by that Evil Spirit. Moreover, as it continued to devour them, the strength of the Evil Ghost also became stronger and stronger.

On this day, Yan Sheng and Du Qiran gathered the elders of the stronghold once again.

"Elder Zhao, when you were on patrol earlier, the patrol squad was ambushed by that evil ghost. Back then, you met with that evil ghost. Do you feel any changes from that evil ghost?" Yan Sheng looked at Elder Zhao and said.

This Elder Zhao was the same Elder who had led his team to hunt down that evil ghost.

"I just fought with that evil ghost, I feel that the evil ghost's strength has increased again, it definitely already has the strength of Martial King Realm now!" Elder Zhao said with a grave expression.

"Strength of the Martial King Realm?"

"We have to bitterly cultivate for who knows how many years before we managed to raise our Martial King Realm. This evil ghost, on the other hand, only devours souls and its strength increases by leaps and bounds."

"If he continues to develop like this, we are not his match at all. At that time, all of us will surely be miserably murdered by him!"

For a time, the surrounding Elders were all shocked as they discussed amongst themselves.

That evil ghost's sudden increase in strength made them feel an unprecedented sense of fear.

"Elder Yan, Elder Du, this evil ghost has this kind of strength, we need to increase our patrols to make sure that the evil ghost has no hope of capturing even a single disciple, only then can we restrain it and seize the opportunity to kill it!" At this time, an elder stood forward and suggested.

"Yeah, we have to." The others also followed suit.

"Well, that's what we do." The Elder Yan nodded his head, then said to everyone, "From now on, every patrol is led by an elder, but every patrol has three elders hidden in the shadows, the moment that evil ghost appears, the three elders that were hiding will immediately come out, and the elder that is joining forces with the patrol will use Black Cloud Four Devils Formation to deal with that evil ghost."

After a short pause, he continued, "Although this is rather tiring, I hope that everyone can understand."

"Right, that's what we'll do." The others all agreed.

It was indeed tiring, but they knew that it was the only way to deal with that evil ghost.

Soon, this method was implemented.

Not only that, the Elder Yan and Elder Du would occasionally go out to check, and if they saw any evil spirits attacking them, they would immediately go over to help.

This caused the members of the Devil Sect in the stronghold to feel slightly at ease.

After executing this method, the surroundings seemed to quiet down. This was only a temporary silence because after half a day, another evil ghost suddenly attacked.

A group of at least twenty Level 3 Demonic Ghosts pounced on a patrol team, and it was obvious that there was an especially evil ghost behind them.

The other three elders who had been waiting for an opportunity to take action immediately joined the battle. The elder from the joint patrol team activated his Black Cloud Four Devils Formation.

Once the Black Cloud Four Devils Formation appeared, they immediately held the upper hand. Those third rank commanders were not their match at all.

Seeing this situation, that especially evil spirit turned around and fled.

How could they be willing to let it go? They immediately chased after it.

Not only them, even the elders of the other patrols had caught up with them. Even Yan Sheng, who just happened to come out, joined in the chase.

What made them extremely happy was that there weren't many third class commanders following that evil spirit. And the most important thing was that the evil ghost's speed had become very slow for some reason.

This was an opportunity, so they didn't care about anything else and chased after him at their fastest speed.0

In this kind of effort, they were getting closer and closer to the evil ghost. When they were only a few hundred feet away from it, a group of evil spirits suddenly rushed out from the side.

Although the evil ghosts weren't very strong, they helped stop them. They quickly lost the evil ghost's figure and they could only helplessly return.

They were not far from the foothold when they heard the sounds of fighting coming from the other side.

Yan Sheng immediately led the group of people and rushed over. When they got closer, they discovered that the elders who were still in the foothold were fighting with a group of evil spirits.

When they arrived, the group of evil spirits were immediately surrounded and annihilated.

However, Yan Sheng and the rest realized that the elders who were still in the stronghold had a strange look on their faces.

"Elder Du, did something happen?" Yan Sheng immediately asked Du Qiran.

"Just now, when you were chasing after them, a group of evil spirits suddenly ambushed a patrol. By the time we arrived, five people from the patrol had already been snatched away by those evil spirits." Du Qiran had an ugly expression on his face.

"We were tricked!" Yan Sheng also said with an ugly expression.

At this time, how could he not see that the evil ghost had intentionally let them pursue him to a greater distance, and then take advantage of this time to let the other evil ghost slaughter their way out and take him away?

No wonder they didn't think that this evil ghost was so smart.

"This evil ghost is too smart. How are we fighting against the evil ghost? We are clearly fighting against a scheming strategist."

"The most terrifying thing is that this strategist can still control these evil spirits within the secret realm."

For a time, the surrounding Elders all sighed.

After experiencing this, Yan Sheng and the others became even more cautious.

Unknowingly, a few days had passed. Although evil spirits would harass them from time to time during these days, this caution prevented them from losing any of their manpower.

However, because of this caution and the increase of patrolling, their people became extremely tired.

They knew that they couldn't continue on like this, and the evil ghost's strength was still increasing. However, they had no other choice but to do so.

One day, when Yan Sheng was resting in the stronghold, his disciples suddenly ran over.

Thinking that something huge had happened, Yan Sheng immediately asked, "What happened, what happened?"

"Sect Leader, Huo Zhengcheng is back." The disciple said.

"Huo Zhengcheng? He dares to come back? " Yan Sheng's face darkened.

Since he knew that Huo Zhengcheng had received a strange poison due to his severe injuries, he was not worried about any threat Huo Zhengcheng posed to him. Now that he had heard that Huo Zhengcheng had actually returned, he was naturally suspicious.

Immediately, he walked out to see exactly why Huo Zhengcheng dared to come back.

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