Chapter 256: Chapter 44: Tier Three Celestial Demon
The outskirts of Ao Mountain Island.
Within the Seven Kills Array, Fang Cheng sat cross-legged in the void, channeling his sword light and expertly slaughtering the Celestial Demons that filled the sky.
His Flying Fish Sword transformed into an ethereal, formless beam of light, streaking through the void like lightning.
A tyrannical, sharp killing intent merged with the sword light. Accompanied by a rumbling thunder, it pierced through one Celestial Demon after another faster than a lightning strike, swiftly reaping their lives and leaving a sky full of mangled corpses.
When it encountered a Late-Mid Tier Two Celestial Demon, the sword light would be slightly hindered, forced to reveal its form. It would then dance like a dragon and phoenix, using incomparably profound swordsmanship to easily shatter the Celestial Demon’s Divine Techniques before cutting it down.
One by one, the Celestial Demons roared, struggled, and fell.
But more Celestial Demons swarmed from Ao Mountain Island, seemingly endless in number.
In less than two hours, Fang Cheng’s Li Hen Demon Light had refined dozens of Tier Two Celestial Demons. The Resentment Demon Bead in his Qi Sea slowly rotated, no longer surging with Spiritual Qi.
Within the Grand Array, however, the truly fierce battle was not on their front, but with the Tier Three, Three-Headed Celestial Demon!
This Celestial Demon’s demonic intent blotted out the sky. Its body was tough, its strength infinite, and it fought on even terms with the Elders of Celestial City Peak. Elders from the other eight branches, including Cai Li, also joined the fray. Aided by the power of the Grand Array, they worked together to slay this demon, but the fight was at a stalemate.
Just then, a blaze of light as brilliant as the sun suddenly shot out from the western sky. In an instant, it dyed the firmament, illuminated the horizon, and stretched out for thousands of feet like a bolt of silk—a dazzling, blinding spectacle.
This beam of fire shot straight toward Yinluo Island!
Everyone who saw it was startled. While remaining vigilant against the Celestial Demons, they couldn’t help but glance repeatedly toward Yinluo Island.
On Yinluo Island, as if in anticipation, a beam of Demonic Light slowly rose and blocked the fiery blaze.
BOOM!!!
The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi boiled, and a world-shaking explosion echoed for hundreds of miles around.
At that moment, nearly every Cultivator in the Abyssal Marsh sensed the violent shift in the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
Most Loose Cultivators and Noble Family Cultivators didn’t yet know what had happened, but in their confusion, they felt a premonition of impending doom.
In the Seven Kills Array.
Feng Ziang said in surprise and doubt, "That looks like the Flame God Palace’s Fourth-rank Magical Artifact, the Red Sun Divine Tree! Could a Celestial Elder from the Flame God Palace be here? To think the Flame God Palace would launch a surprise attack on our sect at a time like this!"
"Kui," one of the Seven Fiends, said in a low voice, "I left a water mirror outside my Cave Mansion. We can take a look and find out!"
With a wave of his large sleeve, a water mirror about ten feet wide appeared within the Seven Kills Array and slowly expanded.
The seven of them continued to slay the surrounding Celestial Demons while looking toward the water mirror.
The scene reflected in the mirror was that of Yinluo Island.
The recently appeared Demonic Light was like a sky curtain, enveloping the island and blocking the astonishing blaze of fire.
From within the fiery light, a giant tree slowly "grew." It was over a hundred feet thick and over ten thousand feet tall. Its canopy spread out like a dome, its leaves were like fire, and its radiance was brilliant.
The treetop resembled a blazing sun, illuminating half the sky.
Beneath the canopy was a majestic Celestial Palace.
At this moment, thousands upon thousands of leaves flew from the canopy, carrying with them an endless stream of flowing fire. They were translucent red and brilliantly radiant as they descended upon the Demon Light Sky Curtain outside Yinluo Island.
Just as the fiery light was about to fall upon the Demon Light Sky Curtain, countless wisps of a Seven-Colored Smoke Net suddenly emerged from the Demonic Light, blocking the fire-filled sky and holding it at bay.
At the same time, a voice like rolling thunder echoed from the Celestial Palace, "Elder Demon Su, do you dare come out and fight me?"
From Yinluo Island, a gentle and calm voice replied, "Fellow Daoist Xu, you and I have known each other for many years. Why must it come to this?"
The person in the Celestial Palace snorted coldly, "You killed more than ten of my Flame God Palace’s Elders. If I don’t wipe your Yinluo Sect from the face of the Abyssal Marsh today, I will never be able to quell the hatred in my heart."
A light chuckle came from Yinluo Island. "It’s normal for there to be occasional casualties when the younger generation squabbles amongst themselves. Why get so angry? This old man is willing to offer a generous gift as an apology, one that is sure to satisfy you."
The person in the Celestial Palace roared in anger, "Nonsense! Elder Demon Su, if you won’t come out to face me, then I will go and flatten the Grand Array outside Ao Mountain Island and simply let the Outer Celestial Demons destroy the Abyssal Marsh!"
From Yinluo Island, there was first a moment of silence, followed by a sigh. "So be it. It seems my Yinluo Sect cannot escape this calamity today."
As the voice fell, an ethereal and unpredictable beam of Demonic Light emerged from Yinluo Island, reaching the high heavens in an instant.
"Fellow Daoist Xu, if you please!" Within the Demonic Light, a figure stood with his hands behind his back and spoke slowly.
With the appearance of the Yinluo Sect’s Supreme Elder, the Demon Light Sky Curtain outside Yinluo Island instantly dimmed a great deal, as if its power had been drastically reduced.
From the Celestial Palace, a beam of fire shot out, heading straight for the Supreme Elder.
Only a lingering voice remained in the sky: "I am going to battle Elder Demon Su. Whether or not you can break the Yinluo Sect’s Grand Array is up to all of you!"
The moment he finished speaking, the sky suddenly brightened as if a great golden sun had appeared, bathing the heavens in a Red Gold light that made it impossible to look at directly.
Fiery Sun Divine Burst.
The two Life Soul Realm masters instantly clashed, creating terrifying ripples of energy high in the heavens. Streaks of brilliant light flickered and moved at incredible speeds, accompanied by continuous, deafening booms.
The speed of their movements and the sheer intensity of the energy from their exchange were heart-stopping.
Meanwhile, the Red Sun Divine Tree also erupted with a blinding divine light. Urged on by the numerous Elders of the Flame God Palace, it pressed down upon the Yinluo Sect’s Sect Protection Array.
Currently, on Yinluo Island, a portion of the Inner Sect Elders and True Disciples had gone to the Earth Abyss, taking the Fourth-rank Magical Artifact, the Netherworld Banner, to suppress the otherworldly demons.
Another portion had gone to the outskirts of Ao Mountain Island to suppress the Celestial Demons.
Only numerous Outer Elders, along with a small number of True Disciples, Inner Sect Elders, and a few Peak Masters, remained on the island.
Now, with the Sect Protection Array deprived of its Supreme Elder and its Fourth-rank Magical Artifact for support, it immediately began to shake and falter under the assault of the Red Sun Divine Tree, on the verge of collapse.
