[Lost?]

Outside Small Qiong Peak’s pill room maze formation.

A group of great demons in human form stared at the wooden sign before them, their numb faces twitching slightly.

That cursed human cultivator who deserved to be sliced into pieces had led them into a maze formation!

Just moments ago they could see his figure, but now he had vanished without a trace.

At the front, the Celestial Immortal-level elder demon narrowed his small eyes and casually destroyed the wooden sign before him.

“Come out!” a female demon shouted shrilly, naturally receiving no response.

The elder demon who had shattered the sign burst with demon power, streams of light yellow radiance exploding around him;

Strong winds swept through, instantly forcibly dispersing the maze formation.

The surroundings suddenly cleared, and their previously blocked divine consciousness could immediately probe in all directions…

Almost simultaneously, these great demons saw a human brute leisurely drinking water under a large tree in the distance…

It seemed… he had cursed at them until he got thirsty.

The group of demons instantly erupted in fury!

Even Blood Mosquito’s mental control was almost broken by this surge of anger!

The brute seemed to react half a beat slow, hearing the rumbling noise and looking up, only then trembling and showing an anxious expression.

“You demon spawn! You found me!”

After speaking, he shouldered his great axe and fled desperately toward the rear.

These twenty-plus demons’ eyes almost spat fire as they threw magical treasures and divine abilities wildly at him, chasing viciously!

Demon power exploded from their bodies, each looking fierce and murderous.

Leading the charge were two Celestial Immortal-level elder demons!

The female demon on the left had a bulky figure, her body erupting with dazzling green light, her pure white arms suddenly transforming into two green wings;

She spread her wings, striking a ‘green’ crane pose, and two hundred jin of green feathers rained down toward the front!

Meanwhile, the elder demon who had just broken through the maze formation, sporting a black-furred roe deer mouse head, casually waved his hand, creating rolling black sand around him that condensed into countless pitch-black sharp swords, shooting toward the brute’s back!

However, after running just a few steps forward, the brute suddenly shouted and dove forward, his entire person mysteriously vanishing…

The sky is full of green feathers, and black swords, and dozens of streaking lights behind also vanished simultaneously, disappearing without a trace!

Formation!

Ripple-like patterns suddenly appeared throughout the forest, and these twenty-plus great demons reacted quickly, immediately soaring skyward;

But as soon as they left the ground, their vision blurred, and they plunged together into a starry space, instantly becoming dizzy and losing all sense of direction!

Before they could respond, left and right, front and back were filled with gleaming stars!

Even the Blood Mosquito puppets were somewhat puzzled…

The formations they had just encountered were only ordinary and basic maze formations, so why did taking just a few steps forward suddenly lead to such an advanced formation that even Celestial Immortal elder demons couldn’t see through?

Why did this unremarkable peak have such a profound formation?

Behind the stars, it was as if pairs of eyes were watching them…

In the starlight, it seemed as if a group of demon-eating maniacs were hiding, or as if hundreds of murderous, emotionless strong battle shamans were brewing an atmosphere of slaughter!

Two True Immortal-level great demons exchanged glances and immediately probed left and right.

But as soon as they took two steps, moving only four feet from their original positions, two unremarkable stars flickered slightly, and two sword lights eerily appeared before these two demons’ necks…

The next instant, two heads went flying, demon blood spraying!

Divine thunder suddenly struck, instantly shattering the demon souls and primordial spirits within the two corpses!

What terrified the demon group even more was that the two corpses transformed into half-human half-demon forms, but their demon power was instantly drained by the great formation!

The group of demons instantly dared not move randomly…

The two Celestial Immortal-level great demons immediately struck out, bombarding the surrounding starry void, frantically releasing demon power, but their attacks produced absolutely no response…

However, while not moving could temporarily avoid triggering the killing formation’s offensive, it didn’t mean they were temporarily safe.

Streams of colorless and odorless poison powder, hidden by starlight, silently drifted about, finding every demon present.

Almost instantly, several lower cultivation demons rolled their eyes back and directly fainted;

One after another, this group of demons fell unconscious in an instant, and those two Celestial Immortal-level elder demons only lasted two more breaths, letting out two unwilling roars before slowly collapsing…

Outside the formation;

The burly paper puppet that housed part of Li Changshou’s consciousness sat on a tree branch, putting away several porcelain bottles in his hand.

Inside Small Qiong Peak, thirty-six formation bases slowly withdrew their spiritual power;

This killing formation named “Star Burial Thousand Battles Phantom Extreme Heart” returned to its standby state.

Compared to poison pills, Li Changshou was more concerned about the formation bases’ spiritual power consumption, after all, Small Qiong Peak’s killing formation would be used repeatedly today.

When the great formation closed, layers of ripples appeared in mid-air again;

Strangely-shaped demon corpses appeared out of thin air, falling from mid-air and piling into a small mountain.

Most were in half-human half-demon form, their demon souls now corroded by the second wave of deadly poison…

“Still, personally administering poison doesn’t waste its potency.”

Li Changshou muttered, as three paper figures jumped out from the paper puppet’s sleeve, transforming into three cold-faced old Daoists who skillfully rushed forward…

Because he was currently dividing his attention to control many paper puppets simultaneously and the battle situation was urgent with the next batch of “customers” being led here, subsequent processing had to be kept simple.

The paper figures sprinkled three bottles of bone-corroding soul-dissolving water and threw out two soul-catching pearls…

Li Changshou “personally” threw out two Samadhi True Fires, and these demon corpses, which had lost most of their defensive power, were instantly consumed by the true fire.

To protect Small Qiong Peak’s environment, three paper figures carefully controlled the Samadhi True Fire’s burning range while beginning to recite scriptures.

Suddenly, a faint mosquito sound appeared in the forest;

Li Changshou was prepared, and tiny electric arcs immediately appeared around this paper puppet’s body!

But before that blood mosquito could get within three feet of Li Changshou, a long tongue suddenly shot out from a tree branch nearby, precisely catching the blood mosquito and pulling it aside.

Croak—

The jade-eating frog crouching on the tree branch gave a gentle call to Li Changshou, as if seeking praise;

Pleasant frog calls immediately rang out from various places in the forest…

Li Changshou secretly thought it was a pity, as he had wanted to test if the ‘electric mosquito net’ would be effective.

Still seeking praise…

After the fight, I’ll stir-fry you in a dry pot!

Turning to jump down from the tree branch, Li Changshou added more true fire;

Shortly after, these corpses were burned to ashes, and with a solemn palm strike, the ashes immediately scattered in various directions.

Satisfying…

“Earned a bit more merit.”

Although compared to the religious merit he had “inadvertently” accumulated, this bit of karma-cleansing merit was already quite small…

The three cold-faced old Daoists quickly cleaned up the battlefield, returned to paper figure form, and jumped back into the burly paper puppet’s sleeve.

Li Changshou looked at the destroyed forest ahead and felt some regret.

Many trees had been planted by him after coming to the mountain…

Never mind, making some sacrifices was inevitable to defend the sect.

If the Salvation Sect could survive this time, after the great battle, he would secretly transplant some spirit trees and spirit roots from other peaks, considering it as, the sect’s reward to himself…

With a light chuckle, he ran to the outer maze formation and hung up a new [Lost?] wooden sign.

Afterward, this brute patted his face and took out some spirit beast blood to sprinkle on himself;

Tearing his clothes and disheveling his hair, his entire aura became chaotic, as if heavily wounded but putting up a strong front…

Restoring his bearing to the previous arrogant and domineering state, he shouldered his great axe, jumped into the air, and charged toward Breaking Sky Peak while continuing to shout.

“Ah hahaha!

Demon spawn! Your grandpa is back!

Have the guts to face me directly!

Those useless things were all finished off by my magical treasures!

Hahahahaha!”

On Small Qiong Peak.

The outer maze formation that had just been blown apart was now self-repairing;

Those formation bases hidden in the depths once again emitted light, slowly returning to their correct positions under the drive of deeper formations.

A true chain formation wasn’t simply one layer wrapped around another;

Rather, beneath the surface formations were deeper formations that maintained and repaired the surface formations.

Not long after the burly paper puppet left, the entire forest was as before, looking the same from the outside…

But inevitably, some places inside had been affected by divine abilities, leaving some slight traces.

Shortly after, two more figures charged toward Small Qiong Peak from other directions — naturally these were two other enemy-luring paper puppets.

The same show played out again.

The female paper puppet deliberately let herself be hit by flying magical treasures from behind and fell downward;

The sword-carrying paper puppet hurriedly chased after her, and the ten-plus figures behind immediately pursued downward.

Similarly, at the formation’s edge, several people sensed danger and the ten-plus figures stopped far away.

But the male paper puppet’s actions soon drew their attention again…

The male paper puppet first pushed his “junior sister” into the forest, then turned to face the enemies, his right hand gripping the sword hilt on his back.

“Don’t force me to draw my sword!”

Those pursuers couldn’t hold back, with one person taking the lead as they all charged forward together.

…

In some narrow, dark corners.

Li Changshou felt that if someone saw his expression right now, they might think he was mentally ill.

He would sometimes show a serious expression, looking righteous;

Sometimes grin mischievously while cursing and swearing;

Sometimes appears calm and collected, giving a cold smile with contempt filling his eyes.

“On Acting”

Actually, this was because simultaneously controlling multiple paper puppets required Li Changshou to carefully attend to a series of details for each paper puppet’s temperament, expressions, and so on…

Three paper puppets took turns luring enemies around Breaking Sky Peak, Small Qiong Peak’s formations playing a crucial role, continuously leading enemies into formations, isolating external observation, and then eliminating them with killing formations and poison pills.

Although his true body was no longer in the Salvation Sect, Li Changshou was now absolutely doing his utmost.

So far, not counting the earlier ambush results with Elder Wanlin Jun;

Through a series of operations including poison formations, poison arrows, self-destructing paper figures, and paper puppets luring enemies, one-third of the enemy forces had been buried by Li Changshou’s hands, greatly relieving pressure on the Salvation Sect!

He had directly become the… weight that could tip the scales of victory!

The primordial world didn’t yet have scales though…

Although among the Salvation Sect’s immortals, except for Elder Wanlin Jun who had guessed something, others were completely ignorant and puzzled about this ‘reinforcement.’

Meanwhile, Li Changshou still had to keep part of his consciousness with his junior sister.

A Celestial Immortal level old Daoist and a True Immortal level demon roc were heading east to attack the Salvation Sect disciples who had earlier avoided disaster through the earth vein transportation formation.

This news had also been communicated by the Supreme Elder to those external affairs elders protecting the disciples;

But there were over a thousand disciples and sect members there – how could they be safely relocated in such a short time?

Immediately, this originally picturesque valley became filled with anxiety, with many disciples showing fear.

A Celestial Immortal coming to kill them was not good news.

So…

Youqin Xuanya stepped forward again!

“Elders, this disciple is willing to lure away the powerful enemy!”

“Impossible!”

A True Immortal level external affairs elder shouted: “How could we have the logic of preserving our own lives while letting you young disciples go out to die!

Elder Tian, you and I will go meet that villain in battle!”

“Good!” Another elder stood up, and the two were about to soar into the sky.

Just then, a slightly anxious mutter came from the crowd: “Why can’t we use the earth vein transportation formation to have two Celestial Immortal-level experts come over from the sect?”

Everyone’s attention immediately gathered toward the voice, which came from Ling’e.

Many people showed enlightenment, as what Ling’e said was indeed a good idea.

But a small portion of sect members and disciples showed slight bitter smiles.

Those who smiled bitterly were the last batch of disciples to use the earth vein transportation formation;

Actually, there should have been several hundred Element Immortal level sect members transported over together, but these already immortal sect members chose to stay in the sect at the last moment, to share the sect’s fate…

To prevent the disciples’ whereabouts from being exposed, the earth vein transportation formation had also been destroyed by these Element Immortals’ own hands, cutting off their retreat path.

After several people explained quietly, the disciples became emotionally charged!

“We’ll fight them to the death right here!”

“Right!

My master is still in the sect fighting invading enemies, we can’t die like cowards!”

“At worst it’s just soul scattering – anyway, I don’t think I could pass the heavenly tribulation!”

Li Changshou secretly frowned, this situation was very unfavorable for his operations.

Fortunately, Youqin Xuanya was here.

‘Li Changshou’ pulled his junior sister aside, said a few words in a low voice, and they both walked toward Youqin Xuanya.

The next phase of the plan needed to make use of Youqin Xuanya’s status and prestige as a head disciple…

A true non-paper tool-person.