parentshiftbook Chapter 1993 Devastated
Chapter 1993 Devastated
Chapter 1993 Devastated
"I won't take it for free. I'll make the first move so this rare prey doesn't escape!"
Lin Yuebin's high-pitched, effeminate voice rang out, carrying a hint of impatient greed, and his figure appeared silently beside Dai Qingcang and Hong Yanyu.
Before he could finish speaking, Lin Yuebin flicked his wrist.
“Swoosh!”
A dark green shadow shot out from his sleeve like a venomous snake emerging from its hole.
It was a long whip covered with strange scales and barbs at the tip, its body shrouded in thick, filthy demonic energy, emitting a nauseating stench.
The long whip tore through the air with a piercing shriek, and almost instantly and with perfect precision, it wrapped around Chen Fei's waist. The barbs sank tightly into his green robe, and the whip itself tightened rapidly as if it had a life of its own, binding Chen Fei securely.
"Ok?"
Lin Yuebin was slightly taken aback by how easily he had bound a cultivator at the late stage of the fifteenth level. His narrow eyes furrowed slightly. Was this too easy? The other party hadn't even offered any symbolic resistance or evasion.
Seeing this, Dai Qingcang and Hong Yanyu frowned, their eyes filled with deep suspicion and confusion. Something was definitely amiss.
Despite their growing doubts, the instinct to kill and the ability to seize opportunities were already ingrained in the very bones of the three demonic cultivators.
"Whatever strange things they may be, grind them into powder first," Dai Qingcang roared in a low voice.
Lin Yuebin subconsciously jerked the long whip in his hand.
"Chucky!"
On the long whip, the dense, impure demonic energy erupted like the overflowing Styx River.
Countless twisted, tormented, and venomous demonic shadows emerged from the demonic energy, emitting silent howls as they surged madly toward Chen Fei, attempting to penetrate his seven orifices, erode his flesh and blood, and corrupt his soul, thoroughly corroding and disintegrating him from the inside out.
Almost simultaneously, Hong Yanyu flipped his right hand, revealing a demonic gourd that was entirely black and red, with countless painful human faces engraved on its surface.
The gourd's mouth was reversed, and in the next moment, an endless stream of black fire crows poured out like erupting volcanic lava.
These fire crows had crimson eyes and sharp beaks. With each flap of their wings, they scattered corrosive demonic fire, emitting deafening shrieks as they swept towards Chen Fei like a tidal wave, scorching and distorting the space in their wake.
Dai Qingcang clasped his hands together and suddenly swung out a Ghost Feather Demon Fan made from the feathers of a giant bird.
"Boom!"
With a single flap of the fan, the world changed color.
Countless jet-black wind blades, condensed to the point of being tangible and with edges that cut through space, appeared out of thin air and instantly formed a terrifying tornado storm that stretched to the heavens and the earth.
Within the storm, it seemed as if countless wronged souls were howling, and the destructive tearing force plowed the earth into bottomless ravines, frantically strangling Chen Fei from another direction.
In an instant, the filthy demonic energy eroded the soul, the black fire crows burned the body, and the destructive tornado tore it apart!
The terrifying combined attack of the three late-stage level 15 demonic cultivators, unleashing their full power, completely engulfed Chen Fei and the space around him from three different directions.
A surge of energy raged, and demonic power surged, as if it wanted to wipe everything there from the world.
However, just as the overwhelming demonic energy, fire crows, and wind blades were about to touch Chen Fei's robes, a deep yet incredibly grand hum resounded, as if from the deepest part of the void.
A warm and rich amber-colored light suddenly emanated from Chen Fei's body without warning, initially faint, but then suddenly becoming dazzling.
The light was not dazzling, but it carried a Taoist charm that was impervious to all laws and repelled all evil.
"laugh!"
The foul demonic energy surging from Lin Yuebin's whip, powerful enough to corrode souls and destroy bones, emitted an extremely shrill shriek the moment it came into contact with this layer of glazed light, like ice and snow meeting the blazing sun. Then, it rapidly melted and evaporated at a speed visible to the naked eye, unable to penetrate even a trace.
"collapse!"
Immediately afterwards, the thorny whip tightly wrapped around Chen Fei's waist, under the impact of this suddenly expanding glassy light, seemed like a fragile hemp rope, letting out a mournful cry of being unable to bear the burden, and broke inch by inch.
Countless fragments containing filthy demonic energy shot out in all directions.
Lin Yuebin's face suddenly turned pale, his hand holding the long whip trembled violently, and his eyes were filled with horror.
The layer of shimmering light did not stop after the whip shattered; instead, it rapidly expanded in all directions from Chen Fei as the center.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
Where the light passed, the world changed color, and the universe turned upside down.
Dai Qingcang and the other two demonic cultivators only felt a blur before their eyes, and the surrounding scenery underwent a dramatic change.
The scorched earth and the dim sky vanished in an instant, replaced by five towering pillars of light rising from the ground, their surfaces shimmering with golden, cyan, blue, red, and yellow light, intertwining and circulating, radiating an unparalleled Daoist aura of the Five Elements.
The sky above was covered by a huge Tai Chi diagram, and the ground beneath their feet was transformed into an array plate covered with mysterious runes.
The entire interconnected array was created in an instant, completely unfolding and trapping the three demonic cultivators within it.
"Boom! Thud thud thud!"
At that very moment, the destructive tornado storm unleashed by Dai Qingcang, and the endless black fire crows pouring out from Hong Yanyu's demon gourd, crashed violently into the Five Elements Array Wall that had suddenly appeared in front of Chen Fei, which was as thin as a cicada's wing yet indestructible.
The array wall rippled with countless waves, and five-colored light rose and fell, gradually breaking down, transmitting, and dissipating the earth-shattering impact into nothingness.
The array itself remained unmoved.
"This……"
The pupils of Dai Qingcang and the other two demonic cultivators suddenly shrank to the size of pinpoints, and their faces simultaneously showed expressions of extreme shock and incomprehension.
How could such a massive and terrifyingly powerful array be set up in an instant without their knowledge?
If it wasn't set up instantly, but rather moved from elsewhere, that would be an equally terrifying thing.
This means that the opponent's control over the formation has reached an unbelievable level, and the formation itself possesses extremely high spirituality and adaptability.
What chilled them even more was the defensive power of this great formation.
Their combined attack just now, while not their strongest strike of their lives, was definitely a full-force, unreserved attack, powerful enough to instantly kill a cultivator of the same level.
Such a violent attack, striking the array wall, only managed to create ripples? It even seemed a bit of a struggle to make it vibrate.
Just how powerful is the foundation of this formation?
An unprecedented sense of fear, like a cold, venomous snake, instantly coiled around the hearts of the three demonic cultivators.
"Break the formation!"
Dai Qingcang was the first to recover from the shock, letting out a hysterical roar. He dared not hold back any longer and unhesitatingly ignited the primordial demonic energy he had painstakingly cultivated within his body.
"boom!"
Dark demonic flames shot up from his body, and the Ghost Feather Demon Fan in his hand emitted a clanging sound. Then, its size exploded, becoming the size of a door.
Dai Qingcang gripped the fan with both hands and, using all his strength, slammed it against the Five Elements Formation Wall in front of him.
"Ouch!"
A gust of wind, ten times thicker than before and almost pure black in color, seemingly containing countless howling wind demons, crashed violently against the array wall like an ancient ferocious beast breaking free of its shackles.
On the other side, Hong Yanyu's face was also ashen, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes as he also frantically burned his source energy.
"Gululu!"
The demon gourd in Hong Yanyu's hand trembled violently, its color rapidly changing from blackish-red to an abyssal darkness that seemed capable of swallowing all light.
The gourd no longer spewed out fire crows, but a strange torrent of demonic creatures composed of crow heads, human bodies, and snake tails. These creatures emitted piercing screams, and the power they contained surged instantly, frantically attacking the formation.
Lin Yuebin was a thousand times unwilling to burn his precious source energy, but the reality before him terrified him. The combined attack of the three of them had only caused ripples in the great formation. If they did not fight desperately, they would probably perish here today.
"what!"
Lin Yuebin let out a shriek of resentment, and finally ignited his source.
"Roar!"
The remaining demonic energy in the broken whip in Lin Yuebin's hand surged wildly, instantly transforming into a monstrous dragon from the demon realm with hideous scales, a single horn on its head, and an aura of overwhelming resentment and filth.
The evil dragon let out a deafening roar, its massive tail, like a pillar supporting the sky, lashed fiercely at the array wall with the power to tear everything apart.
At the same time, the dragon opened its mouth and spewed out a foul-smelling, corrosive netherworld poison, splashing it onto the Five Elements Light Wall.
In order to survive, the three demonic cultivators spared no effort at this moment, unleashing terrifying power far exceeding their usual strength.
At the core of the formation, Chen Fei stood still, his green robe unmoved amidst the violent energy shockwaves. Facing the desperate attack of the three demonic cultivators who burned their life essence, Chen Fei's eyes remained calm as still water.
Chen Fei slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers slightly spread, and gently clenched his fist in the air.
"Zheng!"
The entire Five Elements Formation suddenly trembled, and the five colors of light—gold, cyan, blue, red, and yellow—flowed and converged at an unprecedented speed. The vast天地元气 (heaven and earth energy) was forcibly extracted and compressed, condensing into a shape at the center of the formation.
The next moment, an energy sword about three feet long, flowing with five-colored light, engraved with innate Dao patterns, and radiating a terrifying aura that could sever cause and effect and destroy all laws, appeared out of thin air.
The moment the five-colored longsword took shape, it transformed into a stunning streak that tore through the void, pointing directly at the demonic dragon spewing nether poison.
"Pfft!"
There was no earth-shattering collision, only a soft, tearing sound.
The seemingly indestructible scales of that evil dragon, and its body imbued with Lin Yuebin's original demonic energy, were as fragile as paper before this five-colored longsword that gathered the power of the Five Elements Grand Array.
The sword flashed and sliced the evil dragon in two without any resistance.
"Ouch!"
The evil dragon let out a brief but extremely mournful howl, and its massive body instantly disintegrated, turning into a cloud of foul demonic energy that drifted across the sky.
Lin Yuebin was struck as if by a heavy blow, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of dark green demonic blood. His face turned ashen, and his eyes were filled with despair and fear.
The five-colored longsword slayed the evil dragon, its momentum undiminished, drawing a sharp arc in mid-air before crashing directly into the pure black destructive wind unleashed by Dai Qingcang.
"Boom!"
This time, a deafening roar erupted.
The pitch-black, destructive winds were like a raging tide crashing against a reef, forcibly cleaved in two by the five-colored sword light. Countless phantom wind demons howled under the strangulation of the sword energy and vanished without a trace. The violent wind power was forcibly decomposed and annihilated by the Five Elements Daoist Rhyme.
The sword light remained dazzling and unstoppable, then slashed into the torrent of strange, raven-bodied, snake-tailed monsters released by Hong Yanyu.
"Chi chi chi!"
Like a red-hot iron plunged into ice water, the hideous and terrifying monsters melted and evaporated in large swaths the moment they came into contact with the five-colored sword light.
Their piercing screams turned into death wails, and the dark torrent was forcibly cleaved into a huge vacuum channel.
Breaking through the storm and annihilating the torrent, the five-colored longsword, carrying an unparalleled and magnificent sword might, ultimately struck the three demonic cultivators' true forms as if it were a judgment from the heavens.
At the same time, extreme terror flashed in the eyes of Dai Qingcang, Hong Yanyu, and Lin Yuebin. They frantically activated the remaining demonic energy within their bodies, and various protective demonic lights instantly appeared on their bodies.
"boom!"
The residual power of the five-colored sword light struck the bodies of the three demonic cultivators simultaneously without any hindrance.
"puff!"
The three demonic cultivators were sent flying like kites with broken strings by an irresistible force. While in mid-air, they could no longer suppress the churning blood and qi within their bodies. Countless dark red blood mists mixed with fragments of internal organs gushed out of their mouths, drawing three shrill bloody arcs in the air.
With just one sword strike, he not only easily shattered the combined attack of the three demonic cultivators who had burned their life essence, but also severely injured them all with undiminished force.
Dai Qingcang, Hong Yanyu, and Lin Yuebin crashed heavily onto the edge of the array wall. They struggled to get up, but spat out several mouthfuls of demonic blood, their auras instantly weakening to the extreme.
Their faces had long lost their previous ferocity and greed, leaving only boundless terror, despair, and incomprehensible bewilderment.
They had been decisive enough, immediately burning their life force and giving it their all. Yet, the final result was that they couldn't even withstand a sword strike casually conjured by their opponent?
What kind of monster is this? What kind of formation is this?
How could the difference between two people at the late stage of the fifteenth rank be so outrageous?
What had just happened was like the most absurd and terrifying nightmare, violently impacting their understanding.
The power contained in that five-colored longsword had completely exceeded their understanding of the upper limit of power that could be reached at the late stage of the fifteenth rank.
This disparity made them feel a sense of powerlessness and despair that came from the depths of their souls.
"No! I don't believe it!"
The extreme fear and resentment eventually turned into hysterical madness. Dai Qingcang was the first to completely break down. He suddenly raised his head and let out a shrill, distorted roar. The last trace of reason in his eyes was replaced by a madness of self-destruction.
"You want me dead? You won't get away with it either!"
Dai Qingcang roared, and black flames instantly erupted from his body.
"Boom!"
It was no longer the source, but rather all his remaining flesh and blood, all his demonic energy, and even the vast majority of his divine soul were ignited wildly and without reservation at this moment.
A devastating, terrifying energy, far exceeding anything seen before, erupted from Dai Qingcang's mangled body.
The Ghost Feather Demon Fan in Dai Qingcang's hand let out a mournful cry and instantly disintegrated.
The next moment, all the energy gained from burning oneself was extremely compressed and condensed, eventually transforming into a spatial wind blade as thin as a hair, as thin as a cicada's wing, and almost transparent and invisible.
The moment this wind blade appeared, the surrounding space groaned under its strain, countless fine black cracks appearing. Its sharpness and destructive aura had clearly broken through a certain limit, reaching the peak of the fifteenth rank.
Dai Qingcang almost completely vanished, leaving only a faint, fragile ember of his soul in the same spot.
This was Dai Qingcang's last remaining soul. He knew that if he didn't take such an extreme gamble, he would surely die today. Only by giving his all could he possibly have a sliver of hope for survival.
"call out!"
The wind blade that contained everything about Dai Qingcang vanished silently from its original spot, and the next moment, it ignored the spatial distance and appeared in front of Chen Fei's brow.
Seeing Dai Qingcang's resolute decision, Hong Yanyu and Lin Yuebin's faces were so gloomy they were almost dripping with water. They were unwilling to take this path, but the reality before them was cold and cruel. If they did not take an extreme gamble, there was no chance of survival.
"Damn it!"
Hong Yanyu let out a low curse, his eyes flashing with extreme heartache and resentment, but in the end, it was replaced by the madness of survival.
He also ignited everything that remained, turning flesh, demonic energy, and divine soul into fuel.
The demon gourd in Hong Yanyu's hand exploded with a bang, and endless demonic fire and resentment merged together.
The previously shattered torrent of raven-bodied, snake-tailed demons reassembled, their size expanding wildly, their aura surging dramatically. They eventually transformed into a fiery serpent engulfed in jet-black demonic flames, radiating an aura that could incinerate everything, and roared as it lunged at Chen Fei.
On the other side, Lin Yuebin's eyes were filled with resentment and despair, and he too was completely consumed by rage.
The remnant of the broken demonic whip merged with him, and the demonic dragon that had been cut in two soared into the sky once more.
Its body became even larger, and from the broken parts of its scales spewed forth hellfire like filthy blood. The flesh at the cuts writhed wildly, emanating an aura that was even more violent, chaotic, and filthy than before.
Its single, bloodshot eye, radiating a mad, destructive madness, slammed violently into Chen Fei.
Three devastating attacks, each reaching the peak of the fifteenth rank and burning away everything of the three demonic cultivators, engulfed Chen Fei once again from three directions with a desperate, life-or-death momentum.
At the heart of the formation, Chen Fei stood calmly, his expression unchanged as he faced the three desperate attacks.
With a slight thought, Chen Fei hovered in mid-air. The Five Elements Longsword, flowing with five-colored light, emitted a clear and melodious sword cry. The sword turned slightly to meet the invisible wind blade.
"Zheng!"
There was no earth-shattering collision, only an extremely slight sound, like scissors cutting through thin silk, as the tip of the Five Elements Longsword precisely struck the sharpest point of that invisible wind blade.
The next moment, the despairing wind blade that embodied everything about Dai Qingcang shattered and vanished silently, like a burst bubble, turning into the most primordial particles and disappearing into nothingness.
The Five Elements Longsword continued its relentless advance, its sword light sweeping across the land.
"Ouch!"
"Fizz!"
The two raging monstrous dragons and fiery serpents, radiating the peak power of the fifteenth-tier demonic order, didn't even have time to utter a half-scream before their massive bodies were effortlessly cleaved in two from head to tail the moment they came into contact with the five-colored sword light.
It then exploded with a deafening roar, transforming into pure demonic energy and out-of-control flames that scattered across the sky.
"impossible……"
The three extremely faint remnant souls of Dai Qingcang, Hong Yanyu, and Lin Yuebin hovered in mid-air, clearly witnessing the entire process of their desperate attack being easily crushed.
Their unreal eyes widened, filled with utter disbelief and utter despair.
Everything was burned, and the price of near annihilation was paid, but why did the power gained change nothing?
The violent aftershocks transformed into an invisible ripple of destruction, rapidly spreading in all directions.
"No!" Dai Qingcang's remnant soul let out a silent cry.
"Ugh!" Hong Yanyu's remnant soul twisted and struggled, while Lin Yuebin's remnant soul was filled with resentment.
The destructive ripples swept by, and the three wisps of remnant souls could not even withstand one ten-thousandth of a moment before being completely shattered like wisps of smoke, erasing the last trace of their existence from this world.
Only their last, unwilling, desperate, and incredulous thoughts, like an invisible sigh, lingered briefly in the air before completely dissipating, as if they had never existed.
Chen Fei slowly lowered his hand, and the Five Elements Longsword in mid-air transformed into streaks of light and disappeared. The entire Five Elements Grand Array shimmered and gradually calmed down.
Chen Fei formed a hand seal with one hand, and the next moment, the massive composite array emitted a deep rumble again, rapidly contracted, and transformed back into the "dragon pearl" that shimmered with earthy yellow and silvery white light. With a slight tremor, it sank into the earth's veins and disappeared.
At the location where the three demonic cultivators, Dai Qingcang, Hong Yanyu, and Lin Yuebin, ultimately perished, five lotus seeds, radiating a soft light and containing pure primordial energy, appeared out of thin air and undulated gently.
These are the accumulated gains of the three demonic cultivators in this realm.
Immediately afterwards, the rules of the Thousand Lotus Realm manifested, and three new primordial lotus seeds condensed.
In an instant, eight primordial lotus seeds floated in the air, emitting an alluring ripple.
With a casual flick of his right hand, Chen Fei generated an invisible suction force, drawing in the eight primordial lotus seeds, as well as a wisp of pure demonic essence belonging to the three demonic cultivators that had not yet completely dissipated from the air, all into his sleeve.
Chen Fei carefully sensed his own condition. With the acquisition of eight new Origin Lotus Seeds, the divine soul suppression from the rules of this world in his sea of consciousness loosened noticeably once again.
A satisfied smile appeared in Chen Fei's eyes, but he did not immediately set up a new formation to make use of the newly acquired divine soul power.
The next moment, Chen Fei's figure suddenly blurred and disappeared from the spot.
Thousands of miles away, in a devastated valley.
A demon cultivator at the early stage of the fifteenth rank carefully cleaned up the battlefield, collecting the primordial demonic energy that had dissipated after his companions' fall, his face showing a mixture of relief and greed for surviving a calamity.
Suddenly, a powerful, heart-pounding surge of energy from the primordial lotus seed descended upon him.
He looked up in shock and saw a figure in a green robe appear without warning not far in front of him, calmly looking at him.
"you……"
The demonic cultivator's expression changed drastically, and he instinctively tried to retreat and defend himself.
Chen Fei did not summon the massive, interconnected array; he simply pointed his fingers like a sword and casually slashed forward.
"Zheng!"
Countless colorless sword energies, refined to their fullest potential, burst forth from his fingertips, instantly bridging the distance between the two.
The early-stage fifteenth-level demonic cultivator only had time to let out a short, shrill scream before his protective demonic light was sliced open by countless sword beams. Immediately afterward, his body and demonic soul were silently annihilated under the sword beams.
The aura vanished instantly, as if it had never existed.
Chen Fei reached out and summoned a newly formed primordial lotus seed and a source of demonic energy into his sleeve.
(End of this chapter)