Rise of humanity, p.278
Rise of Humanity, page 278
Other than that, there were the demon-god-level totem patterns that could be refined into soul weapons to enhance the soul weapons to a higher level!
Demon Saint's five Yuan Shen secret realms could even be said to be the most precious treasure vaults ever!
Zhong Yue had entered Demon Saint's Wu Xing Secret Realm, and upon looking, he saw the lights formed by the Gold Qi, the mountains formed by the Earth Qi, the ocean of Water Qi, and also on the other side, a sea of Fire Qi.
These were all the most valuable Five Elemental Qi of the Wu Xing Secret Realm, refined to their purest state!
Other than that, there were also the precious materials – all sorts of items that were collected by Demon Saint throughout his life were deposited in this Yuan Shen secret realm.
Zhong Yue flitted across the whole Wu Xing Secret Realm with the totem patterns flowing around him. He laid his palm up to the sky then down to the earth, and he said,
"Keep!"
Zhong Yue surged his arcane energy out and moved his totem patterns. He passed through the whole Wu Xing Secret Realm and reached into the Wan Xiang Secret Realm. The Wu Xing Secret Realm that was filled with his totem patterns started glimmering with rays, and the whole secret realm began to collapse and shrink at a rapid rate.
If one were to be inside the Wu Xing Secret Realm now, they would be able to see the totem patterns in the【Celestial Demon Tai Chi Art】form, with the Yin and Yang spinning in different directions, refining this heaven and earth away.
Meanwhile, on the outside, Qi Practitioners rushed over in an attempt to enter the Wu Xing Secret Realm, but the vast Wu Xing Secret Realm suddenly shrunk to the size of a light wheel from the inside!
The Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioners then cast their Avatars and tens of huge demon palms clenched over at that light wheel.
However, their efforts were to be in vain as the light wheel was pulled into the Wan Xiang Secret Realm where they followed closely behind and watched as it flitted into the sky.
The demon hands chased after it, but unfortunately, the light wheel had already entered Zhong Yue's Yuan Shen secret realms and disappeared.
“Human, leave behind Demon Saint’s secret realm!”
The Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioners were all enraged, and they slammed their hands towards Zhong Yue.
Zhong Yue laughed and took out the Golden Peng Sword. He swung the sword in a full circle around him before quickly leaping out from the Wan Xiang Secret Realm and into the Shen Cai Secret Realm.
The giant cultivators were all furious as their hands were severed and fell to the ground.
The Wan Xiang Secret Realm was the biggest secret realm, several times greater than the Wu Xing Secret Realm, and all around this secret realm were the totem pattern pillars that pierced through the sky and earth.
These totem patterns were formed by the Demon Saint, and if they could refine them as their own, they would be able to enjoy a significant boost in their strength. However, if Zhong Yue wanted to refine the Wan Xiang Secret Realm, he would have to pave all of his totem patterns across the whole, and it would take a long time to do so. Hence, Zhong Yue had left the secret realm right away to tend to the next one.
However, he was also lamenting in his heart, This Wan Xiang Secret Realm contained all of Demon Saint's Demonic Spirit Water, vast like an ocean, and pure like the newborns.
The many demon race experts rushed into the Shen Cai Secret Realm, and before they could even attack Zhong Yue, the whole Shen Cai Secret Realm shuddered violently, and the heaven and earth grew distorted. A magnate walked into the Wan Xiang Secret Realm, and his aura burned like the demon fire, trembling the whole secret realm.
Meanwhile, Zhong Yue was trying to keep Demon Saint's life force and was alerted as he saw the incoming magnate. He quickly threw the life force away and rushed toward the edge of the secret realm, brandishing the Golden Peng Sword in attempt to carve a path out of the secret realm and away from the magnate!
"Human of the Zhong Shan Clan, if you just escaped right after the Demon Saint was killed, you might have just been able to live, but unfortunately, your greed for the Demon Saint's treasures will be your undoing."
The demon magnate smiled, and he reached his hand out over at Zhong Yue and calmly said, "This time, you've asked for your own death. No one other than yourself can be blamed for your foolishness. In truth, to the demons, you are even more valuable than Demon Saint's treasures!"
Zhong Yue slashed his sword and broke a path out of the Shen Cai Secret Realm. He then slipped out from the crack while the magnate's hand was closely following behind him out of the secret realm.
“Slash!”
Zhong Yue turned and slashed the sword down while the magnate's hand softly pinched on the sword and remained unscathed at all.
His other three fingers then flicked, with the first hitting the Golden Peng Sword and the impact force was transmitted to Zhong Yue's body, causing him to let out a muffled groan. The Golden Peng Sword also slipped out from his grasp.
The magnate's second flick of finger hit empty air, but a shrill cry rang out from the air in from of Zhong Yue as the force of the flick traveled through the air as its medium to heavily land on Zhong Yue's chest. The force of the finger even caused it to cave in on itself!
The third hit was from his finger that had extended longer and thrust over at Zhong Yue like a spear!
Zhong Yue then moved his hands around like fluttering butterflies as he made hand signs. His chest then started to restore itself as his mortal began to work rapidly.
But that finger was also incredibly swift, moving around like a deft snake, sticking to Zhong Yue and continuously forcing him to retreat. He had no opportunity to retrieve his Golden Peng Sword to launch a counterattack.
All of a sudden, the Golden Crow Wings emerged behind Zhong Yue, and he flew away at high speed.
The demon magnate then walked out of the Shen Cai Secret Realm and clenched on the Golden Feathery Peng Sword to keep it. But suddenly, just at this moment, Zhong Yue opened a shabby copper lamp, and the Golden Peng Sword shot out from the magnate's hand and rushed into the copper lamp.
The Divine Wing Saber was in the copper lamp – the mother body of the Golden Peng Sword, and when Zhong Yue opened the copper lamp, the Golden Peng Sword would undoubtedly rush back to its mother body.
The magnate was shocked, and he quickly clenched on the Golden Peng Sword, but that only resulted in him being towed along as the sword flew toward the lamp!
“Peculiar!”
The demon magnate's face changed drastically, and he quickly let go of the Golden Peng Sword. Zhong Yue then closed the copper lamp, and just as he clenched onto the Golden Peng Sword in his hands, a dark smoke suddenly surged out from the golden sword and decomposed his hand, exposing his white bones in the air.
The demon magnate had left a surge of demonic Qi on the sword, and when he touched the golden sword, the demon magnate's demonic Qi climbed onto his hand and corroded his flesh.
“【Celestial Demon Yi】!”
Zhong Yue yelled a deep chant and the Tai Chi Art appeared around him, the celestial and demon Tai Chi Art then spun anti-clockwise and vanquished the demonic Qi. At the same time, the Golden Crow Wings spread out and pushed him away into the sky like an iridescent beam of light.
However, just as he flew away, the Ji Xiang old lady smirked and tore off the other sleeve. She then threw it into the air, and it formed a huge black cylinder above Zhong Yue that sucked him into it.
Seeing that he couldn't escape from the pulling force, Zhong Yue turned back and rushed into the cylinder, hoping to use the combination of his own speed with the attractive force of cylinder to shoot out and escape through the other end.
“Do you really think you can escape?”
Ji Xiang old lady chuckled, and she tied a knot at the end of the sleeve. Zhong Yue then rushed back and tried to exit from the other end, but the old lady also tied a knot at the other end to completely enclose him in the cylinder.
The demonic Qi and magnate's totem patterns rushed into the sleeve, curling around Zhong Yue in an attempt to refine him while at the same time, the old lady flew up and grabbed at the sleeve.
Zhong Yue then cast the Golden Peng Sword out and slashed at the dark sleeve, a rift was created, but it was later restored in just a split second.
He slashed for over hundred times and created many tears through the sleeve, but they were also restored, all the same, leaving him with no chance to escape!
The old lady had cultivated her soul weapon to a high state; she could alter its form to her will, and not even the Golden Peng Sword could break it open.
The old lady then moved forward and grabbed the sleeve in her hands, but all of a sudden, a hurried voice sounded out from the inside of the sleeve, "Big! Big! Big! Big! Big!"
In the sleeve, Zhong Yue held the sword straight and enlarged the Golden Peng Sword, stressing the sleeve's elasticity.
The old day's wrinkled countenance then changed drastically, but she also shouted, "Big! Big! Big! Big! Big!"
The sleeve was also enlarged, and in just a few seconds, the Golden Peng Sword was already 30000 feet long while Zhong Yue was hiding inside of the sleeve. Even the old lady couldn't find where he was.
The sleeve was enlarged to 8000 feet before it reached its limit and was pierced right through its the middle.
Chapter 375: The Third Calamity |
The Golden Peng Sword soon found its way out, turning into a light feather, bringing Zhong Yue toward the mountain beside the sea.
But not long after he flew away, the sky turned into an ocean of fiery clouds – a three-taloned Golden Crow suddenly flew and clawed at him from behind!
“Asura’s magnate?”
Zhong Yue's heart skipped a beat. This three-taloned Golden Crow was different from his Great Sun Golden Crow; it wasn't the pure sun spirit. It would most probably be a variation from the Asura Saint Clan, formed by accumulating a certain amount of sunfire and worshipping it for an extended period of time for it to manifest a sun spirit.
Its three talons were sharp, and each of them was about 700 square meters as they clawed down from the fire clouds.
Zhong Yue sneered coldly. He suddenly turned around and morphed into a body with eight arms, four of which grabbed onto the Golden Peng Sword with the other four holding Demon Saint's emerald leaf. He raised the two swords and slashed right at the incoming talons!
Zheng! Zheng!
Two loud voices resounded throughout the sky, and two of its three talons had their scales broken away as they began to bleed.
Meanwhile, the third talon clawed toward his head.
The Asura magnate's blood turned into the burning demonic sunfire with incredible power that violently surged into Zhong Yue's body as it tried to burn his Yuan Shen.
Zhong Yue let the demon sunfire into his body while he plummeted to the ground. He controlled the path of his descent to cross paths with the falling swords so that he could retrieve them on the way down. He reached the two swords and took a breath of deep air and sucked the swords into his mouth.
Dong!
Zhong Yue landed on the ground, and the impact force cleared the sand surrounding him while simultaneously raising a sound storm around him.
The Asura magnate reached his talon down toward the center of the sandstorm. All of a sudden, a loud roar, "Mangu!" came from the middle of the sandstorm and a six-eyed toad leaped out and sprinted away.
The six-eyed Star Toad was none other than Zhong Yue – the Star Toad form allowed him to travel tens of miles away in one leap and the six moon-like eyes could disrupt the dimension. Everywhere he landed, a mini sandstorm would be incited.
The Asura magnate missed his target, and he then flashed into the sandstorm to pursue Zhong Yue, but as of now, the sandstorm was already dense to the point of severely hampering his visibility. Furthermore, Zhong Yue didn't travel in a straight line, but zigzagged in randomly different directions, making it all the more difficult to find him.
The few magnates that had been in play were all unable capture him; this was a humiliation to them as they exerted even greater efforts to find him. They dove into the sandstorms with increased fervor, but they still couldn't find any trace of Zhong Yue inside of them.
The magnates opened their eyes, and the godly rays shot out like light pillars, ravaging through the dark sandstorm.
While from the Demon Saint’s secret realms, the giants rushed out one by one into the sandstorm.
“Zhong Shan Clan member!”
Zhong Yue leaped around like a flying fish, bringing heavier sandstorm wherever he went. But all of a sudden, a Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioner appeared before him, saying, "Zhong Shan Clan member, let's see how can you run away from my hands!"
Zhong Yue's body flickered for a split second and morphed into the six-eyed three-legged celestial being. It ran with three legs as he rammed over at the incoming Heavenly Dharma giant cultivator.
The Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioner roared while chanting out a sentence of ancient demon language, "Agouzasil!"
His mortal body was then enlarged into a 1000 feet demon ape which was his Yuan Shen's form. Aureate lights then condensed in his hand to form a 1000 feet long scythe that he used to attack Zhong Yue!
Zhong Yue morphed into the eight-armed form and shot out Sword Qi from his fingertips before once more disappearing into the sandstorm.
Meanwhile, the Golden Peng Sword and the emerald leaf was clenched in the eight arms as he assaulted the Heavenly Dharma giant cultivator.
The two clashed for a round before they both retreated backward, Zhong Yue's skin was bursting out as the impact force from the demon ape ravaged his body. But even so, the blood that he shed would miraculously surge back into his body like sentient little snakes.
On the other hand, the Heavenly Dharma's scythe broke, and the emerald leaf sword was pierced into his chest that was bleeding a waterfall of blood from the terrible wound.
“Agouzasil!”
The Heavenly Dharma giant cultivator then shouted another war cry, and the broken parts of the scythe then flew back and reattached back together. His soul weapon was refined to an incredible state, having the ability to be restored from any state of disrepair regardless of how severe.
He then brandished his soul weapon and struck at Zhong Yue again. Zhong Yue then responded in kind and swung his swords again.
Bom——
The two clashed together once more, and Zhong Yue was struck to the floor as blood trickled out from his mouth. He had suffered even greater wounds from the last bout. After all, the 1000 feet Heavenly Dharma demon ape was stronger than him in terms of strength!
However, the Heavenly Dharma Qi Practitioner did not manage to come out of the exchange unscathed either; a new wound was left on his chest, and he started coughing blood out while pressing his hand on his chest.
In the next second, the two clashed again, crossing shoulders this time. The demon ape struck the scythe's heft back at Zhong Yue, nearly piercing through his chest from behind while Zhong Yue slashed his swords backward and nearly severed the ape in half at the waist.
The demon ape landed on the ground, and just right before he was about to spring into action again, inexplicable sounds started emanating from the sandstorm. Sixty-four strands of Sword Qi flew to his flanks in just the blink of an eye before curling around him and tightening around him like a sinister cocoon.
The demon ape could only exclaim in disbelief, "Shui Zian's【Sixty-Four Sword Styles】?"
Hua-la——
His mortal body and Yuan Shen was then diced into pieces and scattered across the ground.
"As I haven't managed to attain the full【Sixty-Four Sword Styles】, I had to incorporate the【Great Boundless Sword Qi】into the sword array to kill you. If it really were the【Sixty-Four Sword Styles】, I wouldn't even need to resort to misdirection to attack you with the Sword Qi."
Zhong Yue coughed out a mouthful of blood, and his six eyes turned even more nefarious as he caused the sandstorm to grew even fiercer to cover a total radius of over 800 miles.
He then transformed again, turning into the three-taloned Golden Crow as he flew away from the sandstorm into the sky.
As long as he was able to escape the desert and make it across the mountain ridge into the sea, he would arrive at the dragons' territory. However, the desert was incredibly huge, and he was now still over a thousand miles away from the border – it was a distance nearly impossible to cross.
All of a sudden, a 100-mile long painting scroll opened before him, and 16 heavenly demons lunged out from its canvas. They were beautiful and seductive. Each of them was donned in provocative garb that barely even covered their nether regions.
Although these 16 beauties seemed to be benign, Zhong Yue felt the terrifying demonic godly aura that emanated from them.
The Sixteen Heavenly Demon Art, Ji Xiang Saint Clan’s greatest treasure!
Zhong Yue raised his brows, and he immediately took a detour away from the Sixteen Heavenly Demon Art. Then, a seal stamp dropped from the sky, enlarging as it fell. By the time it landed on the ground, it had grown to the size of a mountain, and it was shaped like a perfect cube that blocked his path.
Tian Xiang Treasure Seal, Tian Xiang Clan’s greatest treasure!
Zhong Yue then turned around again, and before he could fly far enough, a sky-scraping verdant tree rose within the dreary desert; its evergreen leaves grew crazily, waving as the breeze swept over them. The leaves were sharp like blades, each of resonated with a slight surge of demonic Qi cutting little cracks on the ground.
Thousand Wood Demon Saber, Yan Mo Saint Clan's greatest treasure!
Zhong Yue gritted his teeth and turned in another direction. Unsurprisingly, a lute that was playing on itself flew over. Its sounds formed a wall of visible musical totem patterns that served to close off his path of escape from the West.
