“Do you think you can injure Senior Brother Zhang while I’m here?” Meng Chuan smiled at Blackwater Palace Lord.
Chapter 178 - Surrounded
Translator: CKtalon Editor: CKtalon
Blackwater Palace Lord stared at the distant youth in tattered clothing and cracked inner armor. “Very good. Very good.” Blackwater Palace Lord burned with anger. He originally thought that Zhang Yunfeng was the greatest threat, but now, he felt the threat Meng Chuan posed was even greater! With Meng Chuan around, the Godfiends would have the upper hand. They could fight and escape as they wished, even trapping him was up to them. He had no solution against this.
“Just hold him back,” said Zhang Yunfeng via voice transmission. “With Junior Brother Meng around, he won’t be able to harm me or escape my domain.”
“In that case, he can’t threaten other Godfiends either.” Yang Fang nodded as well.
“You three Great Solar Godfiends want to trap me?” Blackwater Palace Lord’s mighty voice resounded. “Alright, I’ll satisfy you.”
Blackwater Palace Lord stood where he was. However, his snake tail—that was over 100 feet long—lashed out with terrifying might.
Boom!
The earth beneath tore apart, revealing a massive ravine that was hundreds of feet long. This ravine was 70 to 80 feet deep, revealing a tunnel beneath it! The hundred-plus mortals hidden within the tunnel had died from the impact. Blood stained the tunnel and chamber.
“Continue trapping me.” Blackwater Palace Lord’s long snake tail lashed out again as it struck another area. Similarly, a ravine spanning hundreds of feet cracked open, revealing a tunnel and chamber deep within. The mortals in the chamber died as well. Jiang State Capital’s population was rather dense. Typically, dozens of families would have large tunnels. The tunnels were hidden very well. It was difficult for lesser demons to find them, while demon monarchs had to search for them. As for Blackwater Palace Lord, he could easily sense the mortals’ auras through his Essence Soul domain.
Ordinary demon monarchs typically needed a few seconds to break into a tunnel. However, a casual strike from a fourth Firmament Skydemon could tear the earth apart and kill all the mortals inside.
In the blink of an eye, the long snake tail lashed out twice, destroying the two nearest tunnels.
“I’ll kill area by area. I’ll kill 1000, 10,000, or even 100,000.” Blackwater Palace Lord stared at the three Great Solar Godfiends coldly. “Continue trapping me.”
Meng Chuan, Zhang Yunfeng, and Yang Fang were burning with rage when they saw this. To have mortals slaughtered in front of them meant that they were useless Godfiends!
“Damn it.” Meng Chuan and Zhang Yunfeng’s eyes turned red. As for Yang Fang—who was the most irritable—he angrily shouted, ” Skydemon, die!” He wielded his two huge axes and charged forward as a stream of light.
“Haha…” Blackwater Palace Lord moved hundreds of feet away. His long tail struck the ground once again. The ground cracked open, and nearly a hundred mortals died.
“Come and fight me!” Yang Fang roared as his aura suddenly increased. His speed increased dramatically as he overtook Blackwater Palace Lord—who was suppressed by the domain.
“A forbidden Godfiend spell?” Blackwater Palace Lord didn’t dodge. He held one Water Splitter in each hand and faced Yang Fang.
Boom! Boom!
The moment the two clashed, Blackwater Palace Lord staggered backward. With a shake of his snake tail, he immediately changed directions, dodging Yang Fang’s terrifying strike.
“Come on!” Yang Fang was extremely mad. He was fast, and his attacking speed was even faster. Blackwater Palace Lord didn’t dare parry his strikes. He was completely suppressed!
This isn’t good. His speed and movement techniques have improved. Furthermore, his strength is greater than before. Blackwater Palace Lord’s expression changed. When Yang Fang used a forbidden Godfiend spell, Blackwater Palace Lord was completely suppressed by Yang Fang and Zhang Yunfeng’s domain.
From afar, Senior Brother Zhang Yunfeng controlled the situation. When he saw this, he immediately sent a voice transmission. “Junior Brother Yang, Junior Brother Meng, we have a chance of killing this Blackwater Palace Lord. Heed my command.”
When Yang Fang attacked again with his axe—
Boom!
Blackwater Palace Lord felt the pressure inside Zhang Yunfeng’s domain increase dramatically. The pressure within the domain was simply terrifying. Under the overwhelming pressure, Blackwater Palace Lord’s strength plummeted once again, reducing his strength a mere 30 percent of his original strength.
“Kill!” Zhang Yunfeng roared ferociously. His aura expanded as his skin turned red. He also used a forbidden Godfiend spell, causing the domain’s pressure to increase even further.
Not good. The instant the pressure within the domain grew, Blackwater Palace Lord was caught off-guard. Yang Fang—who also cast a forbidden Godfiend spell—had already cleaved down with his axe. This strike was meant to kill Blackwater Palace Lord!
Blackwater Palace Lord sensed incoming death. He didn’t even have time to use a forbidden spell. At the critical moment of life and death, he flicked his snake tail—which transformed into a phantom—and swept towards the axe.
Rip!
Blood splattered everywhere.
The gigantic snake tail flew up. Blackwater Palace Lord’s face turned pale. Over half of his tail had been severed, causing the remnants of his snake tail to twitch.
Boom! Blackwater Palace Lord used a forbidden spell, causing his aura to expand rapidly.
Time to leave! After casting the forbidden spell, Blackwater Palace Lord ignored everything and headed for a particular direction.
“Escaping?” Yang Fang bellowed as he chased. Zhang Yunfeng was also chasing after him.
However, after using a forbidden spell, Blackwater Palace Lord’s strength had increased tremendously. Even though the domain was terrifying, he could still unleash 80 to 90 percent of his usual speed. Such speed was even greater than Yang Fang’s and Zhang Yunfeng’s speed. It was simply thanks to the upgrade in every aspect after reaching the fourth Firmament.
As for Yang Fang and Zhang Yunfeng, they were powerful in a particular aspect and had sacrificed speed for their specialization.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Blackwater Palace Lord suddenly realized that lightning saber beams were cleaving at him.
“Meng Chuan, you can’t threaten me at all!” Blackwater Palace Lord felt contempt. He didn’t wish to attack as he ran because this would affect his speed. He decided to use his protective demonic powers to resist the strikes! This was because he felt like the saber beams were too weak to be a threat to him.
When the saber beams struck Blackwater Palace Lord, it failed to injure him. However, bouts of destructive Yin-Yang force surged into his body. Blackwater Palace Lord’s tail had been cleaved off, so when the destructive Yin-Yang force quaked Blackwater Palace Lord’s body, blood gushed out from the severed tail. This explosion within his body caused Blackwater Palace Lord to slow down significantly.
Yang Fang quickly caught up.
“Die.” Yang Fang followed Meng Chuan’s attack with an axe cleave.
Boom! Boom!
Blackwater Palace Lord—who had cast a forbidden spell—only had 80 to 90 percent of his strength when under Zhang Yunfeng’s domain. As for Yang Fang, his strength had increased far beyond normalcy.
Although the clash wasn’t like before—severing the tail with a single strike—he was still completely suppressed.
“Continue this pummeling! Die! Die!” Yang Fang went mad.
A Great Strength Fiend Body expert is too strong. I can’t last for too long. It’s all because of this domain. This domain has suppressed over half my strength. Blackwater Palace Lord turned anxious.
Zhang Yunfeng and Yang Fang were two of Archean Mountain’s most powerful Great Solar Godfiends. When they cooperated, they achieved excellent res
ults since their strengths complemented one another! At that moment, they disregarded their lives and used forbidden Godfiend spells, causing Blackwater Palace Lord to face a dire situation.
Blackwater Palace Lord barely managed to block five strikes. With great difficulty, he managed to escape from Yang Fang’s assault and continued fleeing.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whosh!
Dozens of saber beams flew towards Blackwater Palace Lord.
Upon seeing the incoming saber beams, Blackwater’s heart sank. He couldn’t help but bellow angrily, “Meng Chuan, if you have the guts, fight me in close combat!” This time, he didn’t use his body to resist the saber beams. Instead, he infused his demonic powers into his Water Splitters to block the saber beams. However, doing this slowed him down. This gave Yang Fang a chance to catch up.
If I don’t resolve Meng Chuan, I won’t be able to escape. Blackwater Palace Lord understood this point. Even if he could block Meng Chuan’s saber beams, Meng Chuan could carry Yang Fang to him with his movement technique.
But how was he to deal with Meng Chuan? He couldn’t think of a solution. Blackwater Palace Lord realized that the three Great Solar Godfiend might really defeat him.
Chapter 179 - Peak Saber Soul
Meng Chuan could have easily caught up to Blackwater Palace Lord even while carrying Yang Fang, so why was he attacking again and again?
Almost. Just a little more. At this moment, Meng Chuan had an intense impulse. The core to his Saber Soul was demon-slaying! Upon seeing hope of killing a fourth Firmament Skydemon, Meng Chuan was extremely excited.
Killing a fourth Firmament Skydemon? This pushed Meng Chuan’s fighting spirit to the limits. His will made him strike out with his saber, causing his technique realm to rise.
Saber Soul was an amalgamation of two factors: saber techniques and one’s will. Willpower was the Saber Soul’s core, and it commandeered the saber technique. Condensed into one, they became the Saber Soul.
A strong will could naturally strengthen his saber art.
Slay! Slay! Slay! Even if it’s a fourth Firmament Skydemon, he won’t be spared as well! Meng Chuan once again struck out with his saber. He continued using the Heart Saber Stance. He delivered multiple strikes, each strike slightly improving as his saber art transformed.
His saber art became more direct! More straightforward!
His killing intent intensified!
Slay! Meng Chuan looked at Blackwater Palace Lord—who had a bloody wound cleaved open by Yang Fang’s axes. He took the opportunity to retreat before striking again.
When he delivered the seventeenth strike, Meng Chuan entered a state of enlightenment.
Boom! When the saber beam formed, it was even more condensed than his previous ones. His killing intent turned even colder.
Peak Saber Soul!
Two years after Meng Chuan left Archean Mountain—with a Black Metal Sutra’s intent guidance—he finally achieved a peak Saber Soul while encircling a fourth Firmament Skydemon.
This was considered a very high technique realm among Great Solar Godfiends. After all, any higher and it would be the Saber Dao realm. Meng Chuan had long condensed an Essence Soul. Once he achieved Saber Dao, he would become a Marquis Godfiend.
Lightning runes appeared on Meng Chuan’s back.
As a Lightning Devastator Fiend Body expert, lightning was a core power. He had imprinted Lightning Runes on his body. When lightning passed through the Lightning Runes, its strength would increase exponentially. For example, the first Lightning Rune could increase the power of lightning by three-fold. The second Lightning Rune could increase the power of lightning by ten-fold. The more lightning runes one had, the more powerful the lightning became.
Lightning Runes were split into five levels. Under normal circumstances, the first four levels corresponded with the Great Solar realm, Darkstar realm, Incessant realm, and Creation realm. The fifth level was regarded as theoretical, but Supremacy Thundergod—who created the Lightning Devastator Fiend Body formula—had reached the fifth level.
Second-level Lightning Runes required one to be at the Realm of Dao and have a first-level Essence Soul. Only then could the Lightning Runes be imprinted on one’s body.
When Meng Chuan’s Essence Soul reached the Kinesis stage, he had attempted to imprint second-level Lightning Runes. Back then, he had only attained Greater Mastery of Saber Soul, so he failed.
Whoosh.
As he had made an attempt in the past, Meng Chuan instinctively felt that he should be able to imprint second-level Lightning Runes on his body after attaining a perfected Saber Soul. His Saber Soul and the Power of the Essence Soul controlled the Quintessential Essence carefully. Within each acupoint in his body, he imprinted a complicated second-level Lightning Rune.
The Lightning Runes on his back—visible to the naked eye—became more complex and mysterious. It was if they were split into many layers. In reality, it was the runes inside his body.
It’s done. Meng Chuan was delighted.
Lightning Runes were a type of Godfiend rune. Quite a few Archean Mountain Godfiends studied Godfiend runes. For example, many Godfiend bodies—like the Phoenix Divine Body—could form divine runes as they cultivated. Generations of Godfiends studied this phenomenon and acquired much knowledge. The Lightning Runes were created by Supremacy Thundergod; they weren’t formed naturally.
It took a very long time to describe, but in seconds, a second-level Lightning Rune appeared on his back.
…
This Meng Chuan has been blocking me the entire time. Blackwater Palace Lord’s tail had been severed, and he had hideous wounds on his chest and shoulder. However, the wounds had stopped bleeding.
He shook off Yang Fang again and continued fleeing in the same direction!
Senior Brother Yang and Senior Brother Zhang are too old. They have been using forbidden Godfiend spells all this while, and it’s too heavy a burden on their bodies. Meng Chuan could tell that Yang Fang was in better shape since he was still a few decades away from his maximum lifespan. As for Zhang Yunfeng, he was too old. When using the forbidden Godfiend spell, his blood boiled, and his skin turned red. It worried Meng Chuan.
Previously, he wasn’t strong enough. Now that he had reached the peak of Saber Soul, the strength of his moves had been enhanced. After imprinting a second-level Lightning Rune, his movement speed increased once more.
This boosted Meng Chuan’s confidence.
“Senior Brother Zhang, Senior Brother Yang, I have a mystic technique that increases my strength for 30 moves! I can cooperate with Senior Brother Yang to attack this Skydemon,” said Meng Chuan via voice transmission. “We must kill him within 30 moves.”
“Junior Brother Meng, don’t take the risk.” Yang Fang immediately sent a voice transmission anxiously. “We can risk our lives, but you are still young. Your strength is still a little weak. You can’t fight him head-on.”
“Let’s join forces.” Meng Chuan attacked. First, dozens of saber beams struck Blackwater Palace Lord, slowing him down. Senior Brother Yang Fang also rushed over. He tried to stop Meng Chuan with a look. “Junior Brother Meng, retreat.”
“Attack.” Meng Chuan did not retreat.
With Senior Brother Yang Fang’s help, there was indeed hope for him to kill Blackwater Palace Lord. However, it was only a chance. It was also possible that he would fail. Even if they were to kill Blackwater Palace Lord through attrition, it would probably take a very long time. He had no idea how many mortals Blackwater Palace Lord would end up killing before dying.
It was even possible that Zhang Yunfeng’s body wouldn’t be able to last until Blackwater Palace Lord died.
Now that he was powerful enough, he naturally had to take action.
Boom!
Meng Chuan’s aura expanded rapidly as he used a forbidden Godfiend spell. At the same time, he fused his Great Solar Quintessential Essence with the Power of Essence Soul.
Swallow Dragon Roar Stance!
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sp; Meng Chuan attacked.
Meng Chuan is fighting me in close combat? When he saw the lightning figure approach him, Blackwater Palace Lord was delighted instead of being alarmed. Only by killing Meng Chuan would he be able to escape this predicament.
However, he was astonished to discover eight figures appearing around him. They were extremely fast and terrifying. Swirling saber beams flew towards Blackwater Palace Lord.
Why is he faster than before? Blackwater Palace Lord panicked.
Thanks to Zhang Yunfeng’s forbidden spell, Blackwater Palace Lord was slower than usual in the domain. As for Meng Chuan? He only fused the Power of the Essence Soul with his Quintessential Essence. This was a relatively low expenditure, allowing him to attack 30 times with such strength. However, each strike’s strength was no less than the maximum he could unleash previously. His attacks were more exquisite now. Second-level Lightning Runes caused the lightning around his body to flash, increasing his speed even more.
Without fusing the Power of Essence Soul or a forbidden spell, he could traverse about two kilometers in a single flash compared to his previous 1.5 kilometers per flash. His movement technique had also become more agile and faster. With this, Blackwater Palace Lord was unable to touch him.
Soon, Meng Chuan’s saber appeared in front of him. The strike caused the void to distort, reducing the 100 feet distance to just a stone’s throw.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Blackwater Palace Lord immediately brandished his Water Splitters to block the attack.
“Die.” Yang Fang’s even more terrifying axe arrived!
Blackwater Palace Lord instinctively blocked Yang Fang’s axe. Meng Chuan’s saber could injure him, but Yang Fang’s axe could kill him!
When he managed to block the axe with great difficulty, a saber beam had already penetrated his abdomen. He had let it hit him there on purpose! This was because if he had been stabbed in the head or heart, it would be even more troublesome.
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