I Seriously Didn't Want to Be the Martial Alliance Leader

Chapter 55: Chapter 54: Netherworld Demon Spear - Corpse Tower Forest

The Three Extremes Evil Venerable was naturally cold-hearted, suspicious, and distrustful.

Although he had nominally taken three disciples back then, it was just as Bai Xuewei had said: he didn’t take disciples, he merely raised three dogs.

Thus, when he laid his plans to risk his life fusing with the Demon Soldier, he never trusted his three disciples.

In truth, one disciple would have been enough to establish the Sealed Demon Valley.

It was precisely because the Three Extremes Evil Venerable trusted no one that he took three disciples to help him complete his plan.

Too many cooks spoil the broth. There was a Demon Soldier to be had, but only one could be its Commander-in-Chief.

Therefore, no matter how things developed, it was impossible for the three of them to join forces. They could only act as a check on one another.

Who would have thought that this generation would produce a woman like Bai Xuewei? She had managed to conquer Zhao Xuanxin and Xie Tianyun with her charm alone, even making the two men willingly do her bidding so that she could become the Commander-in-Chief.

"Unworthy disciples! How dare you act so presumptuously with your ant-like Cultivation? Is the Demon Soldier something you are qualified to covet? Are you even worthy?"

The Three Extremes Evil Venerable roared, and with a sudden wave of his hands, the ferocious, pitch-black trees around them transformed into sharp spikes, attacking Bai Xuewei’s group of three.

His physical body had now decayed, his Divine Soul had mutated, and he had no Meridians or True Qi. One could say his Martial Dao Cultivation was completely gone, so he naturally couldn’t use the abilities of a Martial Artist.

However, having used his body to merge with the Demon Soldier, he had absorbed some of its aura over the past thousand years, even though the fusion wasn’t complete. This allowed him to mobilize a sliver of its power.

"Activate the array!"

Bai Xuewei shouted in a low voice, her hands forming a Seal Technique.

At the same time, Zhao Xuanxin and Xie Tianyun also formed Seal Techniques, triggering the Array within the Sealed Demon Valley.

From the mist hanging over the Sealed Demon Valley, gray pillars of light shot down like enormous Crossbow Arrows, shattering the black wooden spikes.

But with the three activating the Array Power, Wei Guangming and the others were now in even greater misery.

They were already struggling to hold on. Now that the array was active, the suction force instantly grew stronger, and another dozen or so people were sucked dry into desiccated corpses.

Looking over at the unharmed Chen Yuan and Luo the Thirteenth Lang, everyone was suddenly filled with regret.

Before, they had thought the two were cowardly and timid, lacking ambition, not even daring to take a gamble when a Cultivation Technique was right in front of them.

Now, it seemed that they were the ones who were truly cautious and possessed foresight.

At this point, some people began to beg Chen Yuan and Luo the Thirteenth Lang to save them, even making all sorts of promises.

Wei Guangming and Elder Qi’s Dao, however, remained silent.

The two of them had already formed a blood feud with Chen Yuan. If they spoke up, Chen Yuan certainly wouldn’t agree, and they would only make a fool of themselves.

Chen Yuan, however, turned a deaf ear, his attention focused solely on the fierce battle between the Three Extremes Evil Venerable and Bai Xuewei’s group.

’They’re all adults; they have to be responsible for their own choices.’ Chen Yuan couldn’t be bothered to clean up their mess.

Seeing that Chen Yuan wasn’t moving, Luo the Thirteenth Lang also remained completely still.

He hadn’t forgotten the way those people had looked at him earlier.

Seeing that the two were unwilling to help, the group instantly began to curse at them viciously.

Just as Luo the Thirteenth Lang was about to shout back, Chen Yuan stopped him.

"Brother Luo, why waste your breath on them? They’re just a group of dead men walking."

Chen Yuan said in a low voice, "Brother Luo, this time, whether the Three Sealed Demon Races win or the Three Extremes Evil Venerable wins, we’re going to be silenced by them either way. Do you dare to take a gamble with me? To snatch victory from the jaws of danger?"

"In a situation like this, what is there not to dare?"

"Good! If I’m not mistaken, Brother Luo, you should have a trump card given to you by Zhi Shilang—the Divine Artifact Incarnation of the Divine Soldier ’Karma Flame Heaven-Burning’!"

Luo the Thirteenth Lang looked at Chen Yuan in astonishment.

’How did Brother Chen know about this?’

The Sun-Swapping Alliance’s Alliance Leader, Zhi Shilang, was also a Commander-in-Chief. He too wielded a Divine Spear, ’Karma Flame Heaven-Burning’.

However, the consumption for using Karma Flame Heaven-Burning was exceptionally high, so Zhi Shilang had almost never used it openly.

Even within the Sun-Swapping Alliance, only a small number of people were aware of it.

Furthermore, the Divine Artifact Incarnation of Karma Flame Heaven-Burning was extremely difficult to create. As Zhi Shilang’s adopted son, Luo the Thirteenth Lang was qualified to possess one as a trump card.

Luo the Thirteenth Lang hesitated for a moment but then nodded. "Brother Chen, this Divine Soldier is my adoptive father’s trump card. If the Court learns of it, they will take strict precautions. Please, Brother Chen, do not spread this around."

"Rest assured, Brother Luo, I’m not the type to run my mouth. Besides, I only learned of this by accident. No one else in the Jianghu knows."

Luo the Thirteenth Lang nodded. He trusted Chen Yuan.

’Brother Chen has taken good care of me along the way. If Brother Chen wanted to harm me, with my wits, I’d probably have been tricked to death a hundred times over. Maybe I’d be in the same state as Wei Guangming and the others right now.’

Luo the Thirteenth Lang solemnly took a simple little wooden stick from his robes.

The small wooden stick was only the size of his palm, crimson all over, and fashioned into the shape of a spear.

But its craftsmanship was incredibly crude, as if it were a toy casually whittled by a child. It was even crooked and misshapen.

"Brother Luo, get ready. When I give the signal, attack with all your might. Use the Divine Artifact Incarnation and aim for the end of the path on the left."

Chen Yuan’s gaze shifted to the left, to the very place the Three Extremes Evil Venerable had wanted them to go, an area shrouded in Demonic Qi.

The Three Extremes Evil Venerable’s words were seventy percent truth and thirty percent lies.

It was true that the right path led to an array, but it was an array that devoured one’s True Qi and Essence Blood.

It was also true that the Demon’s true body was on the left, for that was where the Demon Soldier itself was located.

By now, the battle between the Three Extremes Evil Venerable and Bai Xuewei’s group had reached a fever pitch, nearing the point where victory and defeat, life and death, would be decided.

The three of them, Bai Xuewei included, all cultivated the Three Extremes Evil Venerable’s Cultivation Techniques.

Xie Tianyun cultivated a Demon Sect Cultivation Technique, his Demon Saber radiating an extraordinary, domineering aura.

Zhao Xuanxin cultivated a Buddhist Cultivation Technique, his body shimmering with a golden radiance, his physical form powerful and tough.

Bai Xuewei, on the other hand, cultivated a Daoist Sect Cultivation Technique, possessing a profound foundation and a graceful, ethereal style.

Although their combined strength was not weak, their Cultivation Techniques were, after all, inherited from the Three Extremes Evil Venerable.

Even though the Three Extremes Evil Venerable himself could no longer use these techniques, he understood them intimately and knew all their crucial points.

Therefore, as they fought, they were now locked in a strange equilibrium.

However, as Bai Xuewei’s trio continuously used the Array Power to attack the Three Extremes Evil Venerable, he was beginning to struggle to hold on.

He was already unable to completely suppress the Demon Soldier. Now, having to draw upon a portion of its power, he was causing the Demon Soldier to grow even more restless.

Just then, Chen Yuan suddenly shouted sharply, "Now!"

The moment his voice fell, Chen Yuan directly drew the Killing Intent Origin into his body. He began to burn through his Qi and Blood with reckless abandon.

A torrent of sky-filling Blood Fiend converged around Chen Yuan, forming a colossal, blood-red hand seal that blasted toward the left.

In an instant, Blood Fiend filled the heavens, and a killing calamity descended!

Blood Killing Heaven-Seizing Hand!

This attack, launched without regard for the cost, almost instantly depleted his True Qi and burned through a massive amount of his Qi and Blood.

Only with such a great expenditure could he be considered to have brought out thirty percent of the essence of this supreme Palm Technique, which contained the Killing Intent Origin.

Meanwhile, Luo the Thirteenth Lang also tore open his palm, and a massive surge of True Qi and Qi Blood was instantly absorbed by the Divine Artifact Incarnation of Karma Flame Heaven-Burning.

The next moment, the once simple and laughable Small Wooden Spear erupted with an incomparably scorching radiance.

As Luo the Thirteenth Lang held the Small Wooden Spear and thrust forward, it was like a Flame Dragon ascending, its roar carrying the power to incinerate the heavens as it blasted toward the location of the Demon Soldier.

Chen Yuan’s power came from the Seven Kills Stele and contained a trace of the Power of Origin from the Killing Intent Origin.

Luo the Thirteenth Lang’s power came from the Divine Weapon Heaven-Burning Flame, and it too was unmatched in might.

Before, without factoring in Luo the Thirteenth Lang, Chen Yuan had been eighty percent confident.

Now, with the help of Luo the Thirteenth Lang’s Divine Artifact Incarnation, the two powers combined, and Chen Yuan was almost one hundred percent certain he could overturn the current situation.

However, although these two powers were formidable, they couldn’t possibly kill both the Three Extremes Evil Venerable and Bai Xuewei’s trio at the same time. There would certainly be survivors after the strike. By then, with his Inner Strength depleted and his Qi and Blood drained, he would be a sitting duck.

Therefore, Chen Yuan’s target from the very beginning was the Demon Soldier itself.

He wasn’t trying to seize the Demon Soldier, but to use it to break the stalemate!

Still locked in fierce combat, Bai Xuewei and the Three Extremes Evil Venerable sensed this power, and their expressions changed abruptly.

"Damn it! Stop!"

"You beast! How dare you!"

Both sides roared in anger at the same time.

The Three Extremes Evil Venerable had sacrificed his life and a thousand years to seize the Demon Soldier with his body.

Bai Xuewei’s group was also fighting with their lives on the line, not only to escape the Three Extremes Evil Venerable’s control but also to obtain the Demon Soldier.

Neither side wanted anything to happen to the Demon Soldier, so they stopped fighting at once, wanting to intervene, but it was already too late.

The Blood Killing Heaven-Seizing Hand and the power of Karma Flame Heaven-Burning tore through the black forest like a destructive storm, shattering the Array as well.

The next moment, a world-shakingly powerful Demonic Qi surged out, ripping apart all the surrounding Arrays!

Wei Guangming and the others were still in the center of the array. The force from the array’s explosion sent them flying. Those with weaker physical bodies were even blasted directly into pieces!

The surrounding black forest rapidly shrank, flowing into the monstrous Demonic Qi.

The next moment, a black Long Spear emerged from within the Demonic Qi.

The black Long Spear looked as if it had been forged from two twisted bones. Its surface was covered in black and red flesh-like tissue, resembling ferocious, gnarled blood vessels.

The spearhead was formed from five grotesque finger bones, twisted and coiled together to form a point, giving it an incomparably sinister appearance.

Netherworld Demon Spear - Corpse Tower Forest!

In the original story, this spear had never been subdued by anyone by the time Chen Yuan transmigrated, and its every appearance was accompanied by a rain of blood and a storm of gore.

Back in Lianshan City, Chen Yuan had been confident he could seize the Seven Kills Stele. First, because it was only a fragment of the Seven Kills Stele, not a complete Divine Soldier.

Second, because he knew the method, and there was a precedent for the Seven Kills Stele being seized by others.

But Corpse Tower Forest had no such precedent. This Demon Spear had an extremely bizarre temperament; the Three Extremes Evil Venerable had spent over a thousand years trying and failing to tame it.

At this moment, a black light flashed on Corpse Tower Forest, and in the next instant, it vanished from its spot.

The Three Extremes Evil Venerable suddenly let out a muffled grunt, staring at his own chest in disbelief.

The black Demon Spear had, at some unknown point, pierced through his chest. The gnarled, black-and-red blood vessels on the spear’s shaft twisted as they continuously siphoned the Three Extremes Evil Venerable’s power.

This power should have been its own all along; it was only under the suppression of the array that the Three Extremes Evil Venerable had managed to take some of it.

Divine Artifacts and Demon Soldiers possess their own spirituality.

Having been suppressed for a thousand years and forcibly controlled, the one Corpse Tower Forest hated most was the Three Extremes Evil Venerable. Now that it had broken the seal, he was the first one it wanted to kill.

The Three Extremes Evil Venerable’s body trembled unceasingly. His face aged rapidly, and finally, with eyes full of unwillingness, he turned to dust before everyone’s eyes.