Chapter 408: Chapter 36: The Origin Demon’s Son
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Thread after thread of Sword Qi Filaments, like six hundred and fifty peacock tail feathers, swept toward the Underworld Cultivators with a fierce and piercing intent.
The three Underworld Cultivators could feel the overwhelming force of the oncoming deluge of Sword Qi.
But as they were charging forward just a moment ago and the filaments of Sword Qi moved too swiftly, they had no time to react before they were thoroughly lashed by the terrifying strands.
In an instant, the three Nascent Soul Underworld Cultivators had been punctured into funnels, their blood and vital essence spewing out from those tiny holes, their physical bodies completely shattered.
The Nascent Souls within their Dantians had been riddled with holes, their life force completely extinguished.
From this point on, the three mighty Nascent Soul Cultivators were all dead.
Lu Qingshan took a slight breath.
To imbue such a number of Sword Qi Filaments with the Slaughter Sword Intent and the Annihilation Penetrating Sword Intent, he had expended a tenth and a half of his Spiritual Power in the blink of an eye.
However, only with such power was it possible to quickly diminish the number of Nascent Soul Cultivators.
On the Underworld side, the Nascent Soul Cultivators had plummeted from seven to four, and their force, which had been evenly matched with Lu Qingshan, was now broken by such a significant loss in combat power.
Following up, Lu Qingshan could proceed methodically and annihilate the remaining Underworld Cultivators.
The lower-rank Underworld Cultivators obviously realized this, and in an instant, were so frightened that they scattered, no longer caring to join forces against the enemy.
First, a Nascent Soul Cultivator, on the brink of mental collapse, activated a spell and, when he should have been resisting the Dragon Sparrow, used an Escape Technique to flee towards the distance.
With no one to restrain it, the Dragon Sparrow immediately slashed a massive wound on the abdomen of another Nascent Soul Cultivator, a frightening spectacle.
The Nascent Soul Cultivator stared at the person who had turned into an Escaping Light to flee, his eyes wide and his body trembling with rage.
But the escape of that Nascent Soul Cultivator ignited a fuse, as if to say.
In the next moment, nearly all the Underworld Cultivators activated their Escape Techniques, scattering in all directions.
Running away mindlessly was a one-in-ten chance of survival, but at least there was that one chance of living – whereas continuing to fight against Lu Qingshan meant certain death!
They could still clearly distinguish which was the better choice.
Weighing the options and considering their already ununified stance, the moment someone led the way in retreat, the whole defensive line completely collapsed.
Lu Qingshan raised an eyebrow upon seeing this.
Admittedly, it was the right decision.
These Underworld Cultivators, fleeing in all directions, meant that even a Sword Cultivator skilled in the chase would inevitably let some slip through the net.
Lu Qingshan had no time for nonsense; the Dragon Sparrow and the Peach Blossom, like a thunderclap on a calm day, pursued the fleeing Underworld Cultivators to slaughter them.
Kill one if he could.
Sword shadows were heavy, continually slashing at the Jiuyou Hall Master and Hei Luo.
Green Lotuses born from Earth and Wood, Water and Fire Lotuses born from the fusion of Water and Fire, Blue Fire Lotuses created from Fire and Wood…
The Five Elements interchanged endlessly, with various combinations making Jiuyou Hall Master and Hei Luo’s defensive efforts utterly hectic.
This was the Lotus Sword Technique, the Supreme Sword Art cultivated by Ji Chuan, the cream of the crop in External Sword techniques.
Ji Chuan struck again with his sword, and Hei Luo blocked the silver-white tip of the Green Waist sword with his blood-drenched palms.
Yet behind the Fire Lotus in that strike of the Green Waist sword, another Sword Lotus bloomed.
It was a black and white Sword Lotus that had never appeared before.
This was a Lotus born from the Samsara Sword Intent.
It contained an incredible impact that made Hei Luo’s body tremble instantaneously, and he couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful of fresh blood.
Then the Green Waist relentlessly whistled down in consecutive strikes.
Hei Luo swung out six palms in quick succession, blocking Ji Chuan’s six swords that were like a fierce wind, but the seventh sword shadow still broke through his double palms and grazed his Dantian in the abdomen.
Hei Luo turned deathly pale, feeling an endless Han Yi emanating from the Dantian in his abdomen and felt a chill in his heart.
At the critical moment, with a ‘bang,’ Hei Luo once again transformed into more than six hundred bats.
Following that, the sweeping Sword Light swept over, covering the swarm of bat incarnations.
It was as if snowflakes were melting, and in an instant, more than three hundred bat incarnations were turned into dust.
Decades of hard cultivation were wiped out in a single instant.
Out of a total of nine hundred ninety-nine incarnations, there were only a little over three hundred left now.
Desolation filled Hei Luo’s heart.
The gap was too obvious.
The Hall Master of Jiuyou trembled slightly upon seeing this scene.
“Too strong, Vast Righteousness Sword, we can’t hold on much longer. Why hasn’t the Origin Demon come yet?” he whispered to himself.
This struggle had changed his earlier bold ambitions into a cold feeling in his heart.
Because he had realized that he and Hei Luo, two Void Refining Cultivators, were no match for Ji Chuan.
Moreover, the reason they had managed to hold on until now seemed to be because Ji Chuan hadn’t intended to kill them outright and had been holding back slightly with his sword strikes.
Indeed, that was the case.
Knowing full well that the Hall Master of Jiuyou had nefarious schemes, how could Ji Chuan rest easy without clarifying the situation before directly exterminating them?
To capture them alive was what Ji Chuan wished.
“Getting too arrogant.” The Hall Master of Jiuyou gnashed his teeth; the Nascent Soul Stage Ji Chuan actually planned to capture alive the two of them, Void Refining Cultivators, which made him feel infinitely humiliated, yet helpless.
Just when the Hall Master of Jiuyou felt utterly hopeless.
Suddenly, from the far end of the horizon, a rolling surge of Netherworld Death Qi appeared, as if a giant tornado had formed in the Void.
“He’s here! At last, he’s here!
Ji Chuan, your arrogance will become the reason for your demise today,” the Hall Master of Jiuyou thought maliciously as he saw the tornado of death Qi, his tense expression relaxing immediately.
Lu Qingshan was also determined and looked in the direction of the source of the Death Qi.
“Jiuyou, who has driven you to the point of seeking my aid?” A mad laugh echoed through the Void, and the rolling Death Qi rapidly condensed, soon revealing the figure within it.
A figure about two zhang tall, riding an enormous lion demon with an awe-inspiring aura, strode toward them, stepping across the Void.
The tall and thin young man had a bizarre appearance, his face covered in yellow scale armor, like some amphibious demon creature, with eyes of a dried-up yellow that made one feel oppressed just by looking.
His black robe fluttered, and his aura was overwhelming.
At the start of the battle, although the Hall Master of Jiuyou harbored endless Slaughter Intent towards Ji Chuan, he, being cautious by nature, had still kept a backup plan.
He sent a message to Hei Luo, instructing him to release a bat incarnation to seek aid from the Origin Demon.
After leaving its main body, Hei Luo’s bat incarnation would only be able to survive for a maximum of one day if it didn’t reconstitute into his true self.
Therefore, Hei Luo could not use the method of hiding a bat incarnation to become Immortal and Indestructible, but splitting into thousands of forms and multitasking in a short time was still no problem.
“Save me, my lord!” the Hall Master of Jiuyou shouted, simultaneously explaining, “These two Cultivators have slaughtered countless demons, aiming to stop my lord from collecting living souls. We tried to stop them, but ultimately, we are no match, and so we had no choice but to seek aid!”
In his words, however, he intentionally or unintentionally avoided using the title of ‘Origin Demon.’