Seeing the captain agree, Lin Yun turned to the other three.
“What are your opinions?” Lin Yun asked.
As teammates, Lin Yun wanted to seek everyone’s input, rather than deciding alone.
“No issue at all, it’s just a matter of sequence,” Mu Ji said with a smile.
The other two teammates nodded in agreement.
With everyone’s consent, Lin Yun grasped the demon crystal, sat cross-legged, and channelled internal energy to absorb the crystal’s power.
The demon crystal was small, yet the energy within it felt vast.
After absorbing this energy into his body, Lin Yun couldn’t help but marvel again at its unique and extraordinary nature.
The cultivation system of demons differed greatly from that of humans and even the demon race.
The demon crystal contained the demon’s energy and essence.
However, as this energy entered his body, its peculiar aura carried a wild and violent edge.
Circulating the energy through his meridians, Lin Yun purified the wildness and violence before fully absorbing it.
Moments later.
“It’s done, let’s move on,” Lin Yun said, standing up.
After absorbing the crystal, Lin Yun felt his cultivation improve slightly.
Yet, reaching the Mysterious Saint level was still a long way off.
“Everyone, stay sharp from now on,” Captain Zhou Yuancheng said.
The team then continued forward.
The area where Lin Yun’s team operated was not the deepest part of the Motian Mountain Range, so encounters with high-level demons were rare.
To hunt demons of the Tongtian realm, they would need to venture deeper, even crossing to the side closer to the demon race.
In the next half-month, Lin Yun’s team successfully killed five more demons.
Their operational area didn’t yield frequent demon encounters.
For Lin Yun, this efficiency was relatively low.
The demon crystals had to be shared, and so far, Lin Yun had only absorbed two.
But as time passed and the team ventured deeper, the likelihood of encountering demons increased.
Additionally, through recent battles, Lin Yun noticed a problem: demons were adept at concealing their aura, making them undetectable by spiritual sense when hidden.
Because of this, demons could lurk in certain spots, ambushing passing humans unexpectedly.
At this moment, Lin Yun’s team of five was navigating through a jungle.
Along the way, many areas bore traces of past battles.
“Hm? There’s movement over there!”
After Captain Zhou Bocheng spoke, he leapt onto a nearby tree to observe ahead.
Lin Yun also sensed it, detecting the sounds of combat in the distance.
“Captain, what’s the situation?” Gan Yu asked.
“It’s another team fighting demons, four of them, against two humans. It’s not too far,” Zhou Bocheng replied.
“Four demons?” Lin Yun’s eyes lit up.
In the past half-month, they had only killed five demons, so encountering four at once excited Lin Yun.
In the Motian Mountain Range, humans hunted demons, but demons also preyed on humans.
The four demons attacking the two humans were likely working together.
“Let’s go check it out!” Captain Zhou Bocheng jumped down from the tree.
The five concealed their aura and moved forward quietly.
They reached a large boulder, hiding there to observe the battlefield clearly.
There were four demons: two at the fourth tier, two at the fifth tier.
They weren’t too difficult to handle.
As for the two humans, one was at the Mysterious Saint level, the other at the Initial Saint level, but the latter was severely injured, and the Mysterious Saint was also wounded.
In a few moments, both would likely be killed and become the demons’ meal.
Such situations were not uncommon. Countless human cultivators perished in this border mountain range.
This range was a true battlefield.
“Those two are fighting desperately, injuring the demons to some extent. If they keep this up, the demons’ strength will weaken after they die,” the captain said in a low voice.
“This is perfect. Let the two keep struggling, wear down the demons further, and once they’re dead, we can strike and take advantage. Their lives will have weakened the demons for us,” Zhong Hongkai said with a smile.
“No!”
“Act now!”
With those words, Lin Yun drew his sword and charged toward the battlefield.
Waiting until the two died might weaken the demons further, but Lin Yun saw little difference. Acting now might also save the two humans.
Though strangers to Lin Yun, watching fellow humans be killed by demons and doing nothing wasn’t his way.
While countless cultivators died in this border range, and Lin Yun couldn’t save everyone, since he encountered this situation and planned to fight the demons anyway, he might as well save the two.
“This…”
Lin Yun’s four teammates were stunned as he rushed out.
“Fine, let’s go!”
The four quickly followed toward the battlefield.
In the battlefield.
The heavily injured Initial Saint had been knocked to the ground, blood gushing from his mouth.
“Die, human!”
A demon shrouded in black mist formed a ball of black and red light in its massive palm, hurling it toward the Initial Saint to finish him off.
“Brother!”
The nearby Mysterious Saint cultivator roared hysterically, but he was too overwhelmed to help.
The gravely wounded Initial Saint, too weak to resist, closed his eyes, awaiting death.
Boom!
A tremendous roar echoed as a violent shockwave spread, quickly dissipating under the force of heaven and earth.
But the Initial Saint realised he wasn’t dead.
The attack hadn’t hit him.
What happened?
He opened his eyes and saw a slightly slender, unfamiliar figure standing before him, blocking the attack.
“You… who are you?” the Initial Saint asked, shocked, as he didn’t know this person at all.
“Just a passerby,” Lin Yun replied.
“Where did this guy come from, daring to meddle!” the demon ahead roared in fury.
It had been moments from killing the Initial Saint, only to be thwarted by Lin Yun.
