novelODS Chapter 368 - 226: Demon Sect’s Grand Army (Part 2)
Chapter 368 - 226: Demon Sect’s Grand Army (Part 2)
Lou Lidar watched the astonishing scene, nearly speechless. The same was true for his juniors hiding underground.
"Senior Brother, is that man truly just a Foundation Establishment Cultivator?"
An ordinary Earth Escape Technique could never accomplish such a feat. Moving tens of thousands of tons of earth and rock required the Magical Power of a Golden Core Cultivator at minimum. But with his Qi Power greatly enhanced, Yang Jing used Controlling Qi with Force to augment his Magical Power, allowing him to do it with casual ease.
A glance was all it took for Yang Jing to confirm the number of Demon Corpses. There were seventeen in total.
’Fools, courting death.’
The Five Elements True Fire violently erupted, transforming into a scorching Fire Dragon Magical Sword that whistled through the air.
The whistling Magic Sword twisted through the air like a roaming dragon. All the Demon Corpses were either sliced in half at the waist or vertically cleaved in two. The mutilated remains crashed to the ground, with the Five Elements True Fire clinging to them, burning fiercely.
The Demon Corpse gripping Yang Jing’s legs was left with only its upper body. The True Fire burned fiercely at the wound, but thanks to the Demon Corpse’s tenacious Life Force, it could still move.
It strained with both hands, trying to rip Yang Jing in half.
But to its surprise, Yang Jing’s Qi Power was far greater than its own. His feet remained rooted to the spot. He effortlessly broke its hold and brought his foot down on the Demon Corpse’s forehead.
The Demon Corpse’s hard skull cracked under the force of the stomp, and its body slammed into the ground like a meteorite, splattering pus everywhere.
Within the Grand Array, billowing Evil Qi surged like a tide toward the remains of the Demon Corpses. Under the infusion of Evil Qi, the severed limbs began to reassemble.
However, the Five Elements True Fire at the wounds still burned fiercely. It even burrowed into their bodies as the wounds closed, forcing the Demon Corpses to let out roars of unbearable agony.
The Nine Nether Evil Transformation Array could convert all Spiritual Qi and Demonic Qi into Evil Qi. Once this Array was activated, the Spiritual Qi within it would dwindle while the Evil Qi would grow ever more concentrated.
Demon Corpses are born from Evil Qi. In an environment with a high concentration of Evil Qi, they have almost no weaknesses. Whether cut in half or beheaded, they could heal in an instant.
What Lou Lidar hadn’t expected, however, was that Yang Jing possessed such a powerful Fire Element Magic. The True Fire it produced was so potent that not even the highly concentrated Evil Qi could extinguish it. On the contrary, it only made the flames burn hotter.
BOOM!
With a clap of thunder, Yang Jing used Thunder Escape to vanish. Several tree roots, as thick as water barrels, impaled the spot where he had just stood.
Yang Jing landed at the bottom of the large crater, stomping a Demon Corpse under his foot. With a surge of Magical Power, the Five Elements True Fire on the Demon Corpse’s body flared up as if doused in oil.
He kicked the Demon Corpse into the air, sending it flying like a cannonball to smash into a massive root.
The Giant Power of the impact sent the root flying high into the air. The Demon Corpse shattered, its fragments, wreathed in Five Elements True Fire, scattering everywhere. In an instant, more than ten roots were set ablaze by the Five Elements True Fire.
Wood feeds fire. Because the Tree Root Demon Monster was originally a Pure Yang Apricot Tree, it burned especially fiercely after catching the Five Elements True Fire. The power of the True Fire, fueled by the roots, reached an unprecedented level.
The True Fire raged, surging directly along the roots toward the Demon Monster’s main body.
Lou Lidar was starting to panic. He had originally thought the intelligence from the Celestial Demon was exaggerating Yang Jing’s abilities, but he never expected it was a complete underestimation. This level of Magical Power was even more unfathomable than that of his Sect’s Saint Child.
’This Nine Nether Evil Transformation Array might not be enough to hold him.’
’But other Killing Arrays are too conspicuous. I’m afraid Yang Jing would see through the ploy before it’s even set up.’
He had already adjusted his goal from killing Yang Jing to simply stalling him.
"BOOM! BOOM!"
Amidst a series of thunderous bangs, the Tree Root Demon Monster hidden deep underground voluntarily severed its connection to these roots. Each root, saturated with heavy Evil Qi, weighed thousands of tons. They slammed into the ground, making the very earth tremble.
With the roots as fuel, the Five Elements True Fire immediately blazed with greater intensity.
The Demon Corpses had been able to endure the searing Five Elements True Fire thanks to the endless supply of Evil Qi, but in this towering inferno, they were incinerated in an instant, their agonized screams cut short.
The fire was so intense that even the Evil Qi gathered by the Nine Nether Evil Transformation Array was ignited by the surging True Fire.
"BOOM!"
Tongues of flame shot into the sky, slamming against the Nine Nether Evil Transformation Array and causing the entire Array to shake more violently than ever before.
"Hah!"
Yang Jing surged his Magical Power, excavating the hard earth and rock. The moment any of the Tree Root Demon Monster’s roots were exposed, a roaring wave of True Fire would whistle over and ignite them.
He turned his gaze toward Lou Lidar and his group.
These few Demon Cultivators from the Eastern Demon Sect were so terrified their hearts leaped into their throats. They immediately shot into the air and fled from the Nine Nether Evil Transformation Array.
"Senior Brother Lou, is such a monster really from the Western Continent?!"
A Female Cultivator with a bewitching face, dressed in light gauze, clung to Lou Lidar’s arm. Her face was pale, her heart still pounding in terror as she spoke in a delicate voice.
The Eastern Demon Sect was entrenched east of the Northern Continent. Its distance from the Western Continent was second only to the Eastern Continent’s. They only had a vague impression of the Western Continent. In their eyes, among the Righteous Cultivators of the Nine Heavens world, the Central Continent was the strongest, the Eastern Continent was second, and the Western Continent could only rank third.
On the ground, the Nine Nether Evil Transformation Array was slowly moving.
That was the Tree Root Demon Monster moving underground to evade the unbearably hot, raging True Fire. Because the Nine Nether Evil Transformation Array had been anchored to its body, when it moved, the array moved with it.
Lou Lidar was also somewhat panicked. He looked at the teetering Nine Nether Evil Transformation Array and knew that the Tree Root Demon Monster he had set his heart on was a lost cause.
"Hmph. No matter how great his Power is, can he annihilate the entire army of my Eastern Demon Sect? Once we deal with the Western Continent Cultivators hiding in their Array, our grand army will besiege him. Can he alone stand against a thousand men?"
He said this, forcing himself to remain calm as he looked at the distant battle line.
At the distant front line, one Flying Boat after another was emerging from the Demon Realm. The attack Arrays on these Flying Boats had long been charged and ready. The moment they left the Demon Realm, they unleashed a bombardment against the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion’s Array on the defensive line.
Dazzling beams of demonic light streaked across the sky.
If not for the fact that, under Yang Jing’s repeated orders and the warning from the tragic losses half a year ago, all the Arrays on the front line were operating at full capacity, this wave of attacks would have caused heavy casualties.
Even so, one Tier Two Magic Array, under the bombardment of two beams of demonic light, held on for a dozen or so breaths before instantly collapsing. Although the Demon Suppression Army within the Array tried to escape at the first possible moment, more than half of the Cultivators still vanished within the demonic light.
The piercing sound of alarm bells rang out. Although caught off guard by the surprise attack, the Demon Suppression Army was, after all, an elite force that had fought the Four Demon Sects for years, and they reacted immediately.
All the Tier Three Seven Luminaries Demon-Slaying Arrays began to charge. The scorching Seven Luminaries Demon-Slaying Divine Light formed an interlocking web of light that shot toward the unfamiliar Flying Boats.
When Arrays battled Flying Boats, the Arrays always had the upper hand because they had a nearly inexhaustible supply of Spiritual Qi from a Spirit Vein.
Under this web of light, the Defensive Spirit Light of two Flying Boats was instantly pierced. Even though both Flying Boats were maneuvering with all their might to evade, a hole the size of a water barrel was still torn in their hulls.
"A shame! The Seven Luminaries Demon-Slaying Array isn’t an array specifically designed to destroy Flying Boats. Otherwise, those two Flying Boats would have been obliterated!"
Iron Head watched this scene, slammed his hand fiercely on the railing, and ordered the Flying Boat’s Array Master to channel Spiritual Qi into the Extinction Cold Light Array. This Array was specifically designed for combat between Flying Boats. Without a Spiritual Light Shield for Defense, a single beam of cold light could freeze an entire Flying Boat, freezing all the enemies on board to death.
"Senior Brother! Master is gone!"
Yinjiao hovered above the deck. He had been searching for any sign of his master ever since the Demon Sect Flying Boats appeared, but he had found nothing.
A flash of panic crossed Iron Head’s eyes. He was about to order the Flying Boat to descend and search for their master.
Yinjiao placed a hand on his shoulder.
"With Master’s Power, nothing serious could have happened to him. He must just be trapped somewhere. You stay here and hold the line, so the army doesn’t fall into chaos without a commander. I’ll go find Master!"