In the nearby forest, the Lycan General (Cultivation: A+) was observing when the White Wolf Spirit God (Cultivation: S) said: "Follow me." The Lycan General immediately climbed onto the back of a large one-eyed wolf and ran after the Spirit God, whose body glowed clearly even in the daytime. The Spirit God asked: "Do you know why there are such dark clouds and billowing waves of Yin energy?"

  The Lycan General said: "Yes, it is because the ancient seal was broken, is it not?"

  The White Wolf Spirit God replied: "Correct, but not enough, because the Little Yellow Kingdom has only broken one of the five seals. However, with the impact of the flesh and blood of countless lives shed over the past days, it has stimulated the Evil God (Cultivation: SS, lv 999) being sealed in this land to rise."

  The Lycan General frowned in confusion: "Then what do You truly want? Why sacrifice such a large herd of beasts? Just let them fight each other; there is no shortage of flesh and blood."

  The White Wolf Spirit God smiled and said: "It seems you have forgotten that you yourself are human? You do not pity human lives, yet you pity the lives of beasts."

  The Lycan General said: "I would rather consider the beasts of the forest as my brothers than humans. Their tongues are full of lies, not sincere like the beasts at all."

  The White Wolf Spirit God said: "Then you do not understand the meaning of the word 'Human'. Even Sages, born from gods, call themselves Human."

  The Lycan General asked: "Then what is Human?"

  The White Wolf Spirit God said: "Human is Ren. Ren is the middle, Ren is the center, Ren is the importance. Humans represent all aspects of Divine Sensation (other species only have a part of emotion) and are the protagonists of this era.

  As for other aspects, other races focus on Divine Intellect, which was completed long ago. This era is the era of Divine Sensation, currently in a period of development and evolution."

  The Lycan General said: "Then what is your true purpose in this event? Why let the Black Fire Demon King (Cultivation: A to S) appear? You could have destroyed it before it manifested."

  The White Wolf Spirit God said: "Because modern humans are too suspicious; they only believe what they see with their own eyes. The appearance of the Demon King will be a strong impression. From now on, they will not dare to arbitrarily destroy trees and nature."

  As both ran for a while, a Buddhist Shaman, Abbot Minh Tue (Cultivation: C), appeared. Behind him was a 10m tall Arhat Heroic Spirit (Cultivation: A). He bowed to the Druid and the Spirit God and said: "We have come to exorcise demons. we do not follow the West Wolf Kingdom, nor the Little Yellow Kingdom. There is no need to fight us."

  The Lycan General said: "The responsibility to exorcise demons is a shared one. I am not here to fight you but want to cooperate. I will go in there to hold the Black Fire Demon King; you all must quickly follow the White Wolf Spirit God underground to track down the Black Demon Wolf General and destroy him as soon as possible."

  At this time, Noe also arrived along with a Chief Shaman of Gampo Palace (Cultivation: B) of the Asura path, followed by a 10m tall red-skinned 4-armed Heroic Spirit (Cultivation: A). Another Shaman with a City God (Cultivation: B) and Civil and Military Judges (Cultivation: B and A), and Vong Tran (Zhang Tianshi) with a Martial Heroic Spirit (Cultivation: A) standing behind to support, and many others.

  They split into two groups: one followed the White Wolf Spirit God to a cave quite far away, the other followed the Lycan General to attack the Demon King. Before leaving, the White Wolf Spirit God reminded: "Be careful with the Demon King's black fire." The Lycan General replied: "Yes, sir."

  The group followed the White Wolf Spirit God (Cultivation: S). The further they followed, the more they understood that this Spirit God was not ordinary. The light emitted by the Spirit God was very powerful; even underground without lamps, the light spread everywhere. Even the undead, headless knights, and ghosts were immobilized in the light of the Spirit God. They followed and took down the Demon and Ghost soldiers simply, because they stood still for them to kill freely.

  When they were near the underground shrine, thousands of meters deep, the Spirit God said: "The Black Demon Wolf General is a commander who is exploiting the Demon King to breakthrough from Core Formation (Cultivation: A) to Nascent Soul (Cultivation: S). This is when he is weakest.

  Just go to the end of the cave and destroy him. Whoever is strong, charge in and destroy him; then the Black Fire Demon King will weaken, making it easy for those above to defeat him."

  Hearing this, everyone stood still; no one dared to step forward because they knew that moving forward meant certain death. The White Wolf Spirit God said: "If no one goes, I will go, but I have a request. If you agree, then I will help."

  Everyone nodded, and the Spirit God spoke: "Give all of your Merit to me."

  Hearing this, the Shamans hesitated. The Merit they had struggled to accumulate—how could they easily give it away? They knew if they wanted to ask a Spirit God for help, there must be a reasonable price, but this price was too high: all of their Merit?

  Noe thought for a while and said: "This is an investment, not a waste. If we sacrifice what we prize most, we will gain even more." Immediately after, Noe gave all of his Merit to the Spirit God. The Merit gathered on Noe's hand like gold dust, then flew toward the Spirit God. In a moment, the aura around the Spirit God turned from white to gold, then back to white.

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  Others, seeing this, retracted their Heroic Spirits and transferred Merit to the White Wolf Spirit God. However, many gave only a little: some half, some a third, a fifth, a tenth; very few gave it all.

  The White Wolf Spirit God said: "You are indeed true shamans; your Merit is truly plentiful. Leave the rest to me; just follow and watch. If you want to join, feel free; I will not stop you."

  Having said that, the White Wolf Spirit God created thousands of clones and charged straight into the end of the cave. Everyone followed and saw an overwhelming power. The enemy had five Lesser Ghost Kings (Cultivation: A, with a Ghost Gate opening nearby), three Lesser Demon Kings (Cultivation: A, with three Demon Domains simultaneously in the same area), and the Black Demon Wolf General breaking through to Nascent Soul (Cultivation: S), along with a swarm of demons and ghosts packing this giant cave.

  The Spirit God continuously summoned clones to fight the demons, while those following investigated the rules of the Demon Domains, because these were very troublesome—without the right rules, they could not kill the Lesser Demon Kings. Noe used his Luck Aura to support the clones. Abbot Minh Tue of the Buddhist sect used ancient incantations, chanting continuously to create an energy shield to protect the white wolf clones. The Chief Shaman of Gampo Palace used the Five-Colored Flags with the power to bind demons. Everyone contributed a little to deal with these foes.

  While the battle underground was not yet decided, the Black Fire Demon King was developing, growing larger and stronger. The numbers were also very large. Initially, there were tens of thousands of undead; they were many but slow and weak, requiring only one or two spells to be defeated.

  But after having the Black Fire, they began to divide into groups, then gathered around an undead with Black Fire, creating a shape like an alchemy cauldron, cooking the undead, removing impurities to take the essence, then merging into giant corpses 10m, 30m, and some 100m tall. After a period of chaos, the Little Yellow Kingdom regained its composure, combined with the exorcist teams to find a way out, taking advantage of the time when the demons were merging.

  The Lycan General (Cultivation: A) transformed into a giant white wolf, hovering with a Golden Crown Aura above his head, revealing multicolored wolf symbols on his four legs. As his four legs stomped down, four Elemental Wolves appeared: Fire element, Water element, Earth element, and Wind element.

  The Lycan General let out a long howl toward the forest, then other howls answered back continuously. A moment later, a Beast Tide rushed in, not in chaos but in clear ranks.

  The first rank were the glowing Forest Gods, mainly Forest Deer Gods, Forest Wolf Gods, and Forest Tiger Gods. The second rank were Druids riding on the backs of large beasts, holding bows and magic staves; some Druids were in Therianthrope form (beast head, human body). Behind them were beasts, treants, pegasi—all beasts with bodies and blood of the Pure Yang type, extremely strong at repelling evil.

  The Lycan General said: "Today, our mission is to destroy the Demon King and protect the peace of the forest. The whole army, hear my command: Attack!" The Forest Gods showed their power: some shone brilliantly to freeze the demons, some breathed fire, some controlled trees to bind legs, some called lightning, some wrapped stones around their bodies and attacked simultaneously.

  The group of exorcist organizations accompanying the Lycan General also began to act. The Celestial Master Path used Sword Kinesis and Talisman Kinesis to attack continuously and the Golden Light Incantation for defense. The group of Tianshi specialized in using Soul Flags called out their fallen general souls and soldier souls, using Merit to hire Golden Armored Soul Suits for them, making them look like Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals from the sky, attacking simultaneously.

  The Buddhist Sect sat down and continuously chanted complex mantras, causing phantom images of Buddha and Bodhisattvas to appear everywhere, enhancing allies from defense to luck. Buddhist cultivators specialized in combat with Arhat Soul support held weapons and followed the 18 or 108 battle formations to attack.

  The Asura Path consisted of many shamans sitting in various places; they chanted incantations to call high-level magic like lightning rain, ice rain, and fire rain to soften the battlefield. After that were multi-armed warriors holding many weapons fighting frantically, making even allies stay away, but their power and combat strength surpassed all others.

  The Five Poisons Cult also came to join. They specialized in using poison and insects. Corpse Poison is a very strong poison that many people could not withstand, so they divided into two groups: one group like doctors went everywhere providing antivenoms and healing medicine. The second group, specialized in using insects, attacked the corpses, using the Corpse Poison to raise the insects. At first, their effect was not much, but the number of insects grew exponentially; after many days, it increased to billions, destroying all the corpses and their toxins so they could not come back to life to fight again.

  The Black Fire Demon Kings, after being formed, had flesh as hard as steel and were extraordinarily large. Every step and every punch made the ground shake, not to mention the terrifying Black Fire inside them. However, they were just soulless blocks of meat controlled from afar. At first, they were extremely troublesome opponents because there was no way to control or damage them, but their speed was quite slow, perhaps because the controller was too far away or due to their massive size.

  But at night, they became extraordinarily agile, so everyone had to retreat and wait until daylight to continue the fight. Great Celestial Master Zhang Phong Ba had to continuously use his magic, "Calling the Wind and Cutting the Water," to disperse the dark clouds, keeping the light on these Demon Kings.

  The number of these Demon Kings gradually decreased, partly because everyone destroyed them, and others gathered into a giant Great Demon King over a hundred meters tall. According to everyone's calculations, it nearly reached the Nascent Soul body (Cultivation: S), almost immune to all low and mid-tier spells, a threat no one among them could stop, so everyone retreated outside.

  Zhang Phong Ba said: "Black Fire is a slow fire, but very difficult to extinguish; it burns both soul and body. Only Primordial Water (pure water formed from the beginning of the world) can extinguish it, or someone must be able to control Black Fire like Emperor Doanh Thuong Hoang to take it out. Finally, just let it burn everything out, and then it will disappear."

  Someone asked: "Then we don't need to fight it, just imprison it in a closed space and wait until the Black Fire finishes burning that body."

  Zhang Phong Ba said: "Correct, but that body has a very large attack power. The Black Fire on its body also burns through Energy Shields or binding chains. Holding it back is very difficult."

  Another person said: "Understood. Then we divide into three groups: one group to prevent this giant corpse from going into the water and limit the Black Fire from spreading. The second group goes underground to support those who are in control. The third group scouts to see if anyone else nearby is controlling this giant corpse."