Human cultivators continued to fall into the lake, dead, while many demons were also slain.
The situation had spiraled completely out of control.
Some teams, seeing this, chose to flee, abandoning the fight for the Blood Demon Flower.
“Since these demons have arrived, it’s time for me to join the battle,” Lin Yun licked his dry lips, drew his sword, and a fiery resolve gleamed in his dark eyes.
In the face of such a chaotic, large-scale battle, Lin Yun’s blood surged with excitement.
“Let’s move,” Wu Yue and Wu Qing drew their weapons, ready to charge into the fray.
“Friends Wu Yue and Wu Qing, the situation is too chaotic. You should stay here. The demons’ target is the Blood Demon Flower. As long as you remain here and don’t approach, you’ll be safe,” Lin Yun advised them.
“But, friend Lin Yun, you’re joining the fight. Why should we be afraid?” Wu Qing and Wu Yue protested.
Lin Yun shook his head with a smile, “I can go because my physical strength is high. If you join, and trouble arises, your brother Wu Chengtian will have to divert his attention to protect you. Staying here allows him to focus on seizing the Blood Demon Flower. Your presence here is the greatest help to him.”
“True,” Wu Yue and Wu Qing nodded.
“I’m off!” Lin Yun charged toward the lake.
On the lake, the fierce chaos continued to spread, the battle brutally intense. The demons were numerous and strong, causing casualties on both sides to soar.
The demons had fully entered the battlefield, mixing with human teams in a chaotic melee.
Though most human teams fought the demons, some still pushed toward the Blood Demon Flower, their true goal unchanged.
Even in this alliance against the demons, teams harbored their own motives regarding the Blood Demon Flower.
The Transcendent Realm elder, Old Li, was among them.
“Hold them off. I’m going for the Blood Demon Flower!” Old Li ordered his dozen guards.
With that, he rushed toward the flower.
Others shared his intent, and clashes erupted among them.
On the other side, Lin Yun had entered the battlefield.
The demons, focused on seizing the Blood Demon Flower, charged forward, ignoring Lin Yun, who approached from behind. Their goal was the flower, not a fight to the death with the human teams.
Once in the fray, Lin Yun actively sought targets and launched attacks.
At that moment, a black-robed Transcendent Realm cultivator reached the central rock in the lake.
He plucked the Blood Demon Flower.
But just as he did, Old Li arrived at the rock, a step too late.
“Hand over the Blood Demon Flower!” Old Li bellowed, attacking.
The black-robed cultivator, facing the assault, quickly countered.
Their clash erupted, shockwaves rippling outward.
As the chaos intensified, more people and even powerful demons reached the rock, all targeting the black-robed cultivator with the flower.
Despite his strength, he could only hold out briefly against the onslaught of teams and demons. Severely injured, he threw the Blood Demon Flower to save himself.
The flower landed before a Mysterious Saint Realm cultivator, who seized it.
“Haha, the Blood Demon Flower!” he laughed, clutching it excitedly.
But before he could savor it, a barrage of attacks, including from Transcendent Realm cultivators, struck him, killing him instantly.
Lin Yun, witnessing the ferocious struggle, was stunned.
The area near the lake’s center had become a meat grinder.
Lin Yun knew rushing there would be perilous. Grabbing the Blood Demon Flower would mean near-certain death, if not absolute doom.
“Rushing in now would be unwise,” Lin Yun thought, “I need a different approach.”
He dove into the lake.
The recent chaos had left many dead humans and demons.
Underwater, Lin Yun searched, heading for the demon corpses. He slashed open their heads, extracting their demon cores.
Since seizing the Blood Demon Flower was difficult, he would scavenge, collecting these cores.
With everyone focused on the flower, the cores of fallen demons were overlooked.
One core, two, three…
Lin Yun gathered cores and also took the storage rings of fallen human cultivators, now ownerless.
As Lin Yun quietly scavenged underwater, the battle above grew fiercer.
In moments, the Blood Demon Flower changed hands multiple times. A seventh-tier demon briefly seized it but was instantly overwhelmed and killed, its body falling into the water.
The intense struggle continued.
Underwater, Lin Yun rushed to the fallen seventh-tier demon and extracted its core.
“Haha, a seventh-grade demon core!” Lin Yun’s eyes gleamed, holding it.
Normally, in the Border Mountains, Lin Yun couldn’t obtain such a core, as seventh-tier demons matched Transcendent Realm strength, far beyond his ability to hunt.
Now, he’d acquired it effortlessly.
Just as he took the core, other cultivators dove underwater, clearly sharing Lin Yun’s idea to scavenge.
“Hand over the core, kid!” three cultivators surrounded him, having seen him take the seventh-grade core.
“What? You want to rob me? I advise you not to court trouble,” Lin Yun said with a cold smile.
“A mere Initial Saint Realm kid dares to talk big? We’re robbing you! Hand it over, or you’re dead!” the three shouted.
