Chapter 203 - Moon Fairy, What Are You Trying to Pull?
BUZZ! As the Black Box Battle kicked off, the entire War of Immortals battlefield was plunged into darkness. But in a jiffy, the eerie glow of the Desolation Armor on those demons began to flicker, lighting up the battlefield with a kaleidoscope of colors, turning it into a sealed realm of every hue!
Two thousand demons, each donned in demon armor for the convenience of constantly forging their flesh. These pieces of Desolation Armor ranged from Star grade to Galaxy grade, covering all bases.
Take Moon Fairy, who had just clashed with Yun Xiao. Whether in human form or as a three-tailed fox demon, his Desolation Armor adapted to his shape, safeguarding his flesh and fending off magic power assaults! Some Desolation Armor even shielded the entire body.
Desolation Armor infused with elements like water, fire, wind, thunder, frost, and ice surged on these two thousand demons. The glow they emitted, mixed with the blood-red eyes of the demons, turned the battlefield into a vicious and brutal scene straight out of a nightmare.
The heavy breathing and growls of the demons encircled the young man in white like a nightmarish embrace.
Their faces were grotesquely twisted, mostly resembling beastly visages with elongated hair, protruding fangs, and limbs transformed into sharp, treasure-like claws—a testament to their lifelong dedication to body refinement!
The Black Box Battle was a sealed battlefield, and the time limit was one hour!
Yun Xiao's bluff had been 'exposed' by Moon Fairy. For these two thousand demons, the only mystery that remained was how they should toy with his life before finishing him off.
Two thousand fierce beasts surrounding a piece of meat, there wasn't enough to go around!
In this most brutal moment, each demon wanted to be the first to strike. So, instinctively, their eyes turned to the three great resentment demons and Bloody Wail, the son of the Red Lotus Demon Emperor. They were still not used to the rise of Moon Fairy.
But before the demons could make their move, someone else beat them to the punch! From amidst the horde of demons, a young girl, merely twelve years old, stepped forward. Her eyes were vacant, her youthful face chillingly cold as if she'd crawled right out of the netherworld, a little demon in the flesh.
She was the seventh princess of the Violet Sky Immortal Empire, the highest-ranked human in the betting odds, even surpassing Tian Lu.
"Ghost Cultivator!" The demons recoiled in fear at the sight of her, their blood-red eyes flickering with dread. The seventh princess's pale eyes zeroed in on Yun Xiao, her intent to kill rising like a tempest. Her five siblings had been wiped out by Yun Xiao in the Cycle Battle.
"Though they were all good-for-nothings, it's still not your place to trample on my Violet Sky Immortal Empire! Yun Xiao, you don't represent humankind!" Her voice was as cold as ice, her Late Saint Realm aura pulsing powerfully, surpassing even the Violet Sky Crown Prince by two whole stages!
HUM! Her sacred power was a ghastly grey, a symbol of deathly power. This was the Ghost Dao as defined by the Divine Continent's humankind, turning its practitioners into pariahs, hunted by all.
Yet, as a princess of the top Immortal Empire, she brazenly practiced this forbidden art, proving that in the Divine Continent, there were no absolute laws. Power trumped all.
"Evil Dao, Forbidden Wraiths!" The Seventh Princess, ghastly as a wraith, was enveloped in a swirling grey mist. In that deathly fog, her pale eyes seemed to expand, growing as large as fists, turning into veritable portals to hell.
"Kikiki." Then, two pale, fiercely malevolent figures crawled out from those giant eyes, like ghostly spirits in white robes with flowing hair—a sight so eerie that even the demons got the creeps!
The entire battlefield was instantly shrouded in this sinister, baleful ghostly power. With this attack, the Seventh Princess wasn't just fighting; she was contending for the title of humanity's top Immortal!
"Oooooh! OOOH!" As the two Forbidden Wraiths crawled out of her eyes, emitting mournful cries of ghostly anguish, they fixated on Yun Xiao.
"Devour his soul first!" The Seventh Princess cackled ghoulishly, her child-like appearance creating an unsettling and disturbing contrast.
In that instant, a sinisterly beautiful fox head materialized behind her. The silver fox opened its maw wide and chomped down ferociously! That bite enveloped the Seventh Princess's giggling head. Her laughter abruptly ceased, morphing into a scream of terror.
The Seventh Princess tried to push the fox's jaw open, her hands bulging with veins, but to no avail. In the silver fox's eyes, there was nothing but profound indifference.
CRUCH! With a fierce bite, the fox's teeth pierced and tore off a head! Blood gushed like a fountain!
THUD! The small, headless body stumbled, flailing aimlessly, then collapsed like a drunken mess, blood pouring onto the ground.
SPLAT! The three-tailed fox demon spat out the blood-soaked head.
"Why...?" The Seventh Princess managed to mouth those few words before the light faded from her eyes. She had died with open grievances!
This sudden turn of events shocked the two thousand bloodthirsty demons, who stood agape, doused in a bucket of ice water, staring at the elegantly brutal three-tailed fox demon. Their gaze shifted to the tiny corpse, their faces blank with confusion.
"Moon Fairy! What are you doing?!" Angry Cauldron, the dark-skinned, muscular demon, roared. His face was etched with cauldron patterns, his body taking on a metallic sheen.
Moon Fairy sneered, disdainfully looking at the Seventh Princess's body. "Taking revenge for Tian Lu. Our demon race can handle its own business! Who does she think she is to try and steal the spotlight? Does she even qualify? What's her role here?"
Indeed, the Seventh Princess was the only human who had come to kill Yun Xiao.
At Moon Fairy's words, the demons fell silent.
"True, but the Violet Emperor is our Demon Continent's lapdog. Having done this, how will we answer to him outside?" Bloody Wail, the son of the Red Lotus Demon Emperor, asked in an ethereal voice.
"Right! This will push the Violet Emperor towards humankind!" Angry Cauldron added. He was already displeased with Moon Fairy.
In the Demon Continent, the resentment demons reigned supreme!
The lineage of beast demons was merely average, ranking below even the Plant and Insect Clans!
The three great resentment demons had remained silent. So, how could Moon Fairy take it upon himself to kill an ally?
"Angry Cauldron, do you even have a brain?" Moon Fairy scoffed. "Even if the Violet Emperor grovels to Divine Dawn, would they accept him? Once a dog, always tainted! His only options are to keep licking our boots or face death!"
Continuing, Moon Fairy glanced around at the other demons. "So, if we all keep quiet, it'll be as if the Seventh Princess died at Yun Xiao's hands. Anyone who blabs is disregarding the Demon Continent's interests and is a traitor. Got it?"
The other demon was momentarily speechless.
"Moon Fairy, you keep insulting dogs... Do you actually care about Tian Lu? Don't you know the taboo of the beast clan?" Ghost Marriage murmured from the crowd, leaving both Yun Xiao and Moon Fairy startled.
This was typical human rhetoric, unexpectedly bizarre to the demons. Demons, unlike humans, had never known of traitors. The concept was too puzzling for them. Death was just death. Why fight for others? Ultimately, demons valued their lives lightly, indifferent to both death and glory.
So even now, most demons still believed that Moon Fairy was simply vying to be the next ruler.
"Heh, heh!" Ghost Marriage's words left Moon Fairy speechless.
Yun Xiao had been caught with his pants down! But so what? He just wanted to rack up more kills to ease the pressure later on. Suspicions be damned, it was time to fight!
Before Moon Fairy could respond to Ghost Marriage, Yun Xiao initiated the attack.
Group battle? This was Yun Xiao's forte!
As Moon Fairy and Angry Cauldron argued, Yun Xiao suddenly erupted. HUM! He stood on a six-foot Sovereign Sword, soaring into the sky above the battlefield!
This was his most lavish day ever!
Yun Xiao suddenly pulled out a handful of enhanced Heavenly Dao Sariras, stuffing the dark crystals into his mouth! These handy pills specially refined for the Creator Immortal transformed into sacred power by the Primordial Void Technique. Then, that power was immediately channeled through the Nine Heavens Star Meridians as he erupted with might!
"Five Seeds of Creation here in total, and they're all the fleshly body type. That means Moon Fairy can absorb them all!" Yun Xiao's icy gaze swept across the battlefield. BOOM! His magic power surged. Though at the quality of the Wind Fire Tribulation Realm, its volume reached an unfathomable level, comparable to the Late Saint Realm!
Elemental Scripture, Fire God's Wrath!
Above in the sky, Yun Xiao thrust his hands forward, summoning waves of fire that roared skywards, forming eighteen crimson orbs of flame! The battlefield seemed to have gained eighteen suns!
The brilliance of the Fire God's Wraths instantly overshadowed the glow of a thousand Desolation Armor sets.
"What's this?" Lil Bone, the second resentment demon, cried out. His eyes flickering with ghostly fire, recognized the daoist spell. However, the Fire God's Wrath was typically a single orb of fire, not eighteen!
How could a cultivator's comprehension and execution in both sword techniques and daoist spells be so monstrous! Daoist spells, though weaker in single combat, reigned supreme in battles involving many.
Yun Xiao's mastery of daoist spells made him an army unto himself!
"I'll send you to the eighteen layers of hell!" He didn't give the demons or Moon Fairy a chance to argue, striking first, sowing chaos.
WHOOSH! The eighteen fire orbs, like falling suns, erupted with deafening roars, hurtling towards the two thousand demons!
BOOM BOOM BOOM! The orbs exploded, unleashing waves of crimson fire that rolled out like magma. Many demons couldn't escape in time, crashing into each other, consumed by the furious flames, blown into bits, their remains charred and blackened!
Eighteen massive explosions, flames reaching for the heavens!
The demons roared and screamed, but the outside audience saw only flickers of light and heard not a sound.
"This is draining!" Yun Xiao was pushing himself to the limits, the Fire God’s Wrath taxing his magic power to its brink. Luckily, he had plenty of Heavenly Dao Sariras! Swiftly, he grabbed another handful of dark crystal beads and swallowed them. Then, exceeding his limits once again, he unleashed another daoist spell!
Elemental Scripture, Mountain Upheaval!
In Yun Xiao's hands, the Grand Temple's daoist spell was elevated to a level of righteousness and value it never knew before!
BOOM BOOM BOOM! As Yun Xiao executed his spell, invoking the Primordial Void Technique, the earth trembled fiercely. Waves of soil surged like angry seas, engulfing demons attempting to ascend to the skies to attack him, burying them in the ground!
Then came the Golden World Domination and Frenzy Plant, either sealing demons within unyielding gold, transforming them into gold statues, or entwining them in countless black vines, violently tearing them to pieces.
Even with the dispersed power of Yun Xiao's widespread destructive spells, the demons below the Saint Realm struggled to escape unscathed.
Of course, several demons, unaffected by the spells, closed in on Yun Xiao.
"Kill him!"
Yun Xiao's attack was like a sledgehammer to the hearts of the demons.
"How did we not see this terrifying battle prowess when he was fighting Moon Fairy alone?"
Hundreds of demons in their true forms converged on Yun Xiao. Close combat was their forte! Before this, even more violent demon magics surged towards Yun Xiao.
Facing this overwhelming counterattack, Yun Xiao, without even a glance, raised his hand.
WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH! Thirty layers of Water Mist Shields enveloped him, impervious to penetration. Ninety water dragons swirled around him, devouring the demon magics and blasting the demons away.
"A monster?!" Many demons, having fought hundreds of battles, had never seen such an aberration in magic and swordplay as Yun Xiao! He not only learned instantly but also unleashed destructive power that seemingly didn't belong to the spells or techniques he wielded, completely transforming their essence.
"Fire, wind, water, earth, metal! Go, Planet—I mean Elemental Scripture, Unite!" Yun Xiao cried out. After repelling the demons, he swallowed another handful of Heavenly Dao Sariras.
BUZZ! He felt like he was about to burst, his abdomen swelling like a frog, his handsome face puffing up. This indicated the immense magic power about to rupture his body! Thankfully, his Nine Dragons Dantian and Nine Heavens Star Meridians were resilient.
"Run!" The demons, witnessing the amalgamation of five types of elements within this monstrous figure, fled in terror. Instinctual fear took over.
"Elemental Scripture, Unite? What the fuck is that!?" The White Bone Spirit looked up, utterly baffled. It distinctly remembered that the Elemental Scripture had no such move!
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