"Young man, your divine techniques are indeed powerful, but now that you have lost your magical power and no longer have your banner, it's too late to flee!"
The white-furred fox bared its sharp fangs, its blood-red eyes filled with hatred.
Xu Qing's tightly knitted brows suddenly relaxed. He turned to look outside Baiyun Mountain and saw paper money drifting in the air, resembling heavy snowfall. Some even landed in front of the Celestial Fox.
A gust of wind swept through the Dayan Army's formation, causing the large flag to flutter. At the sight of the paper money and flowers falling in front of the army, Wang Liang's eyes focused. He immediately drew his Commander Sword, pointed towards Baiyun Mountain, and shouted, "Form ranks, prepare to meet the enemy!"
The flags of the three armies fluttered as soldiers carried them according to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, opening the Xùn Palace and closing the Dù Gate.
The next moment, a fierce wind rose from the Xùn Palace, and a massive purple dragon flew out from the Dù Gate, heading straight for the peak of Baiyun Mountain.
The Emperor's Purple Qi, transformed from Dayan's founding fortune, roared across the sky. A hundred thousand battle spirits gathered to form a human world, replacing Xu Qing's Yin Kingdom underworld and taking control of this region.
In front of the White Cloud Cave.
The Saintess listened to the deafening sounds of battle cries coming from afar, a twitch in her eyelid.
She looked up to see that the area around Baiyun Mountain was already surrounded by the formation of mortal troops and evil qi, impenetrable and airtight.
Above her head, Dayan's terrain fortune seemed like a five-fingered mountain, pressing down on her, leaving her breathless.
The Celestial Fox lowered its gaze at Xu Qing and spoke in a hoarse voice, "To kill this old one, you truly spare no effort, even resorting to bewitching mortal armies."
"But the fortune of a mortal country can only suppress this old one, not harm my life, hehe..."
The Celestial Fox sneered, "At most, you can make this old one suffer, but I can skin you alive first for revenge!"
Xu Qing laughed out loud, "Suppress? The sole purpose of this hundred-thousand-strong army is to cut off your escape route."
"Before I came, you were my prey, and you still are now."
As he spoke, Xu Qing advanced instead of retreating, step by step towards the Celestial Fox.
The latter saw the young man before her, who had exhausted his magical power and was as vulnerable as a mortal, instinctively stepping back.
"Such audacity! But I won't fall for your ruse!"
Foxes are inherently suspicious, and the Saintess was no different.
She believed this was Xu Qing's deceit, that the mortal army was merely a show of force, intended to make her fear and refrain from attacking the man in front of her, thereby retreating back into the White Cloud Cave...
Xu Qing smiled.
The Prime Minister was extremely clever, but lacked trump cards.
But he, Xu Qing, had plenty of trump cards.
As Xu Qing took another step forward, the air around him suddenly became scorching, and the withered plants and flowers nearby ignited spontaneously without any wind.
In mere moments, Baiyun Mountain turned into a mountain of flames, and the rock beneath him became as hot as molten lava.
After the Black Corpse and Fur Corpse, he still had not yet used the Fire Zombie transformation.
Now was precisely the right time.
At this moment, the Saintess felt the heat under her feet and the scent of her fur being scorched, forcing her to once again use the 'Fire Sitting Technique.'
"Burning Mountain and Boiling Sea Divine Technique..."
The Celestial Fox looked at the apocalyptic scene around her, astonished, when a sudden realization came to her.
"This fire is a ghost fire, and you're using Corpse Monster demon techniques, meaning you are also under the suppression of a nation's fortune!"
"Young man, you're shooting yourself in the foot; once you're suppressed first, this old one..."
The Celestial Fox's tone grew increasingly excited, her eyes at Xu Qing now regarding him as meat for the slaughter.
However, hearing these words, the young man's expression had no trace of panic; instead, he looked at her as if she were a fool.
The Saintess's thoughts raced; she imagined countless scenarios. Though the other possessed incense and virtue to avoid celestial fire calamity, he couldn't escape the suppression of a nation's fortune; even if the Yin Kingdom underworld was enacted again, given the difference between human and ghostly paths and the separation of Yin and Yang, it would only render both fortunes ineffective...
No matter how the Saintess considered, the young man before her had no chance of survival.
Yet, when the phantoms of the lands and seas of Nine Provinces descended, the youth before her wielded the Shouyang Great Axe, subtly displaying a dragon-like aspect.
And behind the youth, a purple dragon image, formed from Emperor's Purple Qi, gathering the fortunes of the human realm's four heavenly sons, began to manifest.
"The fortunes of a human emperor..."
The Saintess's anxious heart utterly collapsed.
Human emperor's fortune, the Nine Netherworld heavenly son's fortune, Flying Corpse transformation, and Lady Bao Sheng's divinity.
Humans, gods, ghosts, and monsters all gathered in one being, leaving this pure-blooded demon with nothing to fight with.
When the Skynet Axe descended, mingled with the incense of a blood lake, and with the might of burning mountains and boiling seas, the old female fox with ages-old cultivation no longer had the heart to resist.
She abandoned the Divine Saber and desperately fled towards the White Cloud Cave.
The forbidden place that once seemed a prison to her now was her only hope for survival.
The Celestial Scripture! Only the White Cloud Cave, inscribed with the Celestial Scripture, could save her!
However, a roll of royal decree encased in jade descended, perfectly blocking the entrance to the White Cloud Cave.
It was the imperial edict ordered by Zhu Huai'an for Wang Liang to lead a hundred thousand troops to suppress the demon.
As the Shouyang Great Axe cleaved down, the old female fox spat out her millennium-old demon core, but it sustained her only briefly before being scorched by the blood lake incense and then utterly devastated under the overwhelming power of the Skynet Axe, scattering back into the heavens and earth...
In front of the White Cloud Cave, Xu Qing stood with his axe retracted, a hint of pity in his eyes.
He once more used the Qimen Dunjia to divine, and the hexagram appeared as one of the Four Virtues: primary, smooth, advantageous, and steadfast.
Primary signifies the beginning; smooth, the passage; advantageous, harmony; steadfast, righteousness...
However, the only small flaw is that this hexagram has a pure yang nature, which gives rise to all things and ensures harmonious qualities, promoting mutual benefits.
Yet he himself was a zombie and could not derive benefit from this, and the dead, disembodied soul of the Celestial Fox was the gain he had lost.
At this moment, Xu Qing's Mountain and River State Cauldron had completely enveloped the White Cloud Cave