Chapter 153: Blood Fiend Formation 8

Inside a spacious chamber within Tianyuan City, City Lord Yuan Haoqiong was conferring with several invited righteous practitioners on how to tackle the grave situation at hand.

Yuan Haoqiong, along with the heads of Tianyuan City's four major clans, was gathered here. For them, this was a battle of life and death—a fight where failure meant perishing, leaving them with absolutely no way out.

Sitting alongside Yuan Haoqiong was an elderly Daoist priest whom Li Sibai would have instantly recognized had he been present: Elder Yunfei, the formidable elder of the Profound Heaven Sword Sect.

Seated further below were representatives from other prestigious righteous sects, including Master Huineng, an elder of the Bodhi Courtyard who had just spoken. Some of these individuals had been invited by the leaders of Tianyuan City, while others had arrived on their own accord upon hearing rumors of Demonic Cult activities in the area.

Earlier, Yao Xueqing had dispatched a mounted flying beast to deliver a letter to her master, Master Yunli. In truth, not long before that, the Profound Heaven Sword Sect had already received an appeal for help from the Yao family. However, that earlier letter had been penned by the head of the Yao family at a much earlier date and sent via a courier on horseback, rendering the intelligence it contained rather outdated by the time it arrived.

Upon receiving that initial report, the Profound Heaven Sword Sect had treated it as a routine bizarre occurrence since it contained no mention of the Demonic Cult. They had merely planned to dispatch a few young disciples to investigate and serve as a form of practical training.

Yet, to everyone's surprise, it was not long before Master Yunli received another letter from Yao Xueqing. This subsequent missive detailed the peculiar and formidable grand array as well as the sudden appearance of Demonic Cult disciples. Upon reading it, Master Yunli immediately forwarded the letter to the sect leader, Master Yunfeng, who promptly convened an emergency meeting of the elders upon reviewing its contents.

Given that disciples of the Demonic Cult had not shown themselves for a very long time, the sect treated the matter with the utmost gravity. It was immediately decided to dispatch Elder Yunfei—who possessed a profound understanding of array formations—alongside a contingent of disciples to provide reinforcement. They traveled aboard the Profound Heaven Sword Sect's superior flying beasts, which were even faster than those of the Yao family, cutting a two-day journey down to just a day and a half.