The flying giant boat carried the people of Meteorite Island westward. Several groups of demons encountered along the way, who were pursuing human cultivators, were all scattered and fled by the spiritual energy cannons on the flying giant boat.
Xiao Fei and his group used the speed and might of the flying giant boat to quickly break through several demon defense lines, not daring to engage with the demons along the way.
Before the demon powerhouses could react and prepare to encircle them, the flying giant boat had already departed.
Xiancheng, the ancient capital of Great Qin, was no longer as prosperous as it once was; it had become a ruin.
Several crooked temporary camps were erected on the ruins of Xiancheng, and a group of demons was stationed there.
Just then, a colossal object flew from the distant sky, like a castle in the air.
"Look quickly!"
"What is that?"
"Not good! Enemy attack!"
Several demons were still watching. They just didn't expect that under the current circumstances, human cultivators were being chased like rabbits all over the mountains by the demons.
Now, there were still some who were courting death, actively throwing themselves into their blades.
"Prepare for battle!"
"I want to see who is so audacious to come here seeking death!"
A demon powerhouse, carrying a dripping bone saber, grinned widely, revealing a cruel smile.
However, his smile lasted for less than a breath. The next moment, it froze...
Suddenly, hundreds of dazzling spell lights shot out from the colossal object ahead. A fire dragon spell landed on a demon beside him, and this companion's body was directly blasted into two halves.
Each of these spell lights was extremely powerful. Any demon further away who was hit was either dead or injured.
The first wave of attacks from the giant flying boat had not yet subsided when the next wave arrived.
This time, the saber-wielding demon was not so lucky, being pierced through by three spell lights simultaneously...
On the flying giant boat, Xiao Fei and the others stood on the deck, looking at the demons scattering and fleeing ahead, having been bombarded.
The spiritual energy cannons were powered by spirit stones. Through formations, spiritual energy was converted into spells and divine abilities before being released.
There were a total of 1,000 spiritual energy cannons on the flying giant boat, each capable of unleashing a full-power strike equivalent to that of a Golden Core cultivator.
Up to this point, the flying boat had only deployed a maximum of 500 spiritual energy cannons at once, equivalent to 500 Golden Core cultivators striking with all their might without fatigue.
Such power could not be withstood even by Nascent Soul cultivators.
"Alright, the demons stationed ahead have been scattered. We don't have much time, everyone split up and act."
Xiao Fei had by now activated the defensive formation light screen on the flying boat. Except for Huang Feifei, who led a team to guard the flying boat, everyone else entered the ruins of the Great Qin Royal City.
Although this place had fallen into the hands of the demons, it had been for a short time, and there should still be many hidden places that had not been discovered.
Before coming, Xiao Fei had exchanged a super-sized pill with Prince Ying Xian for a map. This map included many unknown secret places within the Royal City.
As for the others, they all had their own ways of doing things.
Xiao Fei took out a jade slip and reviewed it. After comparing it with the terrain of the ruins, he flew in one direction.
Soon, he found a place that was originally a place for raising spirit beasts, where few people usually went.
But no one knew that within this animal pen, a secret realm entrance was hidden.
Xiao Fei pushed aside a large stone on the ruins, revealing the yellow earth beneath.
To prevent discovery, there was no passage here, nor was there any formation to conceal it.
To enter, one could only use earth遁术 (earth escape technique).
Xiao Fei was already proficient in the five elements escape techniques. He immediately merged into the yellow earth.
He traveled vertically downward through the yellow earth until he was one li from the ground, finally finding a stone chamber about ten feet in size.
This stone chamber contained only a three-foot-sized teleportation array.
It turned out that what the Great Qin Dynasty royal family had painstakingly hidden here was merely an entrance to a secret realm. The true location of the secret realm was unknown to anyone.
Since Xiao Fei had obtained the complete ancient long-distance teleportation array last time, he had studied it day and night and was now quite familiar with teleportation arrays.
He could see that this was a short-distance teleportation array, with a teleportation range of only a few hundred li.
This array was set up quite well, and the possibility of disappearing midway during teleportation would not be too great.
Around the teleportation array, there was a circle of holes for spirit stones. Xiao Fei stood in the center of the teleportation array and inserted nine mid-grade spirit stones into them.
He cast a spell at the formation, and the teleportation array immediately lit up with white light, enveloping Xiao Fei's figure.
Xiao Fei felt a blur before his eyes. When he opened them again...
A great sword, about ten feet long, was slashing down towards his head.
"Gurgle..."
His head fell!
Before he could even get a clear look at this world, he died again.
However, Xiao Fei had long since come to terms with life and death!
Humans, after all, must die once. He had merely experienced it twenty or so times more than others. At worst, he could start all over again.
The moment he died, his body turned into two sections of lotus root, and Xiao Fei's true body appeared two li away.
Having died once, he was much more cautious this time. Before even opening his eyes, he immediately conjured several layers of defense around himself and vigilantly scanned his surroundings with his divine sense.
Finding no immediate danger, he slowly opened his eyes.
This was a small world somewhat similar to his own space. The sky was very low, dim and hazy, with no sun, moon, or stars, yet it had a natural light coming from an unknown source.
The ground was covered with vast expanses of lush green grass, and a small river meandered into the distance.
It would have been a beautiful scene, but in the distance, three cultivators wielding magical treasures with fierce expressions were present, greatly spoiling the mood.
As Xiao Fei looked at these three, his anger surged. It was these scoundrels who had chopped off his head just now, and his neck still felt cold.
At this moment, a trace of blood remained on a flying sword in front of him, looking particularly glaring.
Xiao Fei watched coldly as the three rushed towards him, waiting quietly.
"Hahaha..."
"Kid, you didn't expect this, did you? We got here first."
Xiao Fei watched coldly as the three surrounded him in a triangular formation.
"Are you the ones who defected to the demons and attacked the Great Qin Dynasty's army from behind?"
Seeing the three appear here, Xiao Fei had already formed some guesses about their identities.
"If there were no benefits, do you think we would defect to the demons?"
"The Great Qin Dynasty controls all the resources in the world that can lead to deification, cutting off the path of advancement for all cultivators in the world. Such a dynasty should have been destroyed long ago!"
"Why should they be superior generation after generation, enjoying the richest resources,
while we, the cultivators at the bottom, get no resources and have our paths of advancement cut off? Yet, when facing the demon army, we are forced to charge to the front lines to fight the demons and be cannon fodder?
Why should the Great Qin Dynasty have this? Why should the Ying clan's descendants have this?"
"Hahaha..."
The three were somewhat agitated and did not think they had done anything wrong.
"No grievance is a reason for you to betray humanity."
If it weren't for the life-or-death situation of the demon invasion, and if these people had stepped forward to stab the Great Qin Dynasty in the back, he would have considered them heroes, brave men.
But now, when the fate of the entire human race was at stake, they defected to the demons, which could only earn Xiao Fei's disdain.
As Xiao Fei spoke, he waved his hand, and ten puppets, identical to him, appeared before him.