Chapter 470: Chapter 2: Blood Evil and Ghost Shadow
However, the Demons’ various attacks—the churning waves and the weapons imbued with Demon Qi—were largely ineffective against the Blood Shadows.
The Great Demon commanders, fearing the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint’s strict military law, desperately tried to keep the Demon Army in formation. If they hadn’t, the entire force would have been scattered by the Blood God Children.
A stout Great Demon, holding two mallets, was using every ounce of its strength to furiously beat the Sea-shaking Drum, hoping only to summon reinforcements more quickly.
The rest of the Demon Army formed a tight circle around it, shielding it from the attacks of the Blood God Children.
Suddenly, after piercing through a towering, twenty-foot-tall octopus-headed Great Demon, a Blood God Child split in two. One half transformed into a dense Evil Blood Net that enveloped a large swathe of the Demon Army, while the other seized the opportunity to charge toward the drum-beating Great Demon.
The Great Demon watched in horror as the Blood God Child rushed toward it.
"Blood Robe!"
The only one who could split into Blood Shadows was Blood Robe, whose fearsome name was infamous throughout the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint’s Demon Army.
Realizing it was Blood Robe, the stout Great Demon lost all courage to resist. It could only channel its Demon Qi with all its might, forming a layer of Demon Gang to envelop its body.
The next moment, the Blood Shadow stretched out a hand and aimed it at the stout Great Demon.
A massive Blood Claw materialized out of thin air, reached out, and seized the stout Great Demon in its palm.
The Demon Gang, which could withstand blasts of Spiritual Qi, was torn apart by the Blood Claw as easily as a hot knife slices through butter.
"NO!!!"
The Great Demon let out a bloodcurdling scream. Amid its cry of extreme agony, its once-stout body rapidly shriveled as its Essence Blood was drained away completely.
Having absorbed a massive amount of Essence Blood, the Blood Claw’s power surged. It glowed so red it seemed ready to drip blood as it grabbed another Great Demon and drained it into a shriveled corpse.
"Blood Robe!"
The Demon Army was scared out of its wits by the Blood Claw and was on the verge of collapsing.
Wu Tianlin witnessed the strange techniques of these Blood Ghosts, especially the Blood Claw that could drain a Great Demon of its vitality in an instant, and sucked in a sharp breath.
’What kind of Demon Skill is this! Don’t tell me the Six Sects have buckled under pressure and joined forces with the Demon Sects?!’
The Demon Court had naturally colluded with the Four Demon Sects before to resist the pressure from the Six Sects. As far as he knew, not even the Dark Spring Demon Sect’s most powerful Blood Path Demon Skill, the Nine Yin Blood Evil Scripture, could instantly drain the vitality of a Great Demon of the same Realm, let alone allow one to transform into these incredibly bizarre Blood God Children.
No wonder the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint was so helpless against these harassing Blood Ghosts that he had to request aid from the Royal Court.
"Hah!"
Lan Jintao was overjoyed to see that Blood Robe was among the besieged. With a flash, he shot forward and blocked the Blood Claw, stopping its wanton slaughter of the Demon Army.
Shao Zhongguang had thought that after killing the stout, drum-beating Demon, he would be able to wipe out this detachment of the Demon Army and leave. He never expected that even such a remote patch of sea would be guarded by a Golden Core Demon King.
The Sea-shaking Drum hadn’t been sounding for very long before a Golden Core Demon King arrived as reinforcement.
"Disperse!"
He roared and pushed the Cyan Demon Claw to its limit. After absorbing the Essence Blood of several Great Demons, the power of the Evil-Breaking Blood Claw it unleashed had reached its peak.
The Blood Claw shone with a brilliant light as crimson flames erupted from it.
Although Lan Jintao was a Demon King of the Golden Core Realm, he still felt his own blood and qi churn uncontrollably when he faced the Blood Claw head-on.
Alarmed, he took out a Sea-Exploring Fork that he had refined. He wrapped it in Demon Gang and struck the Blood Claw!
"BOOM!"
The sea churned violently, blasting the surrounding members of the Demon Army away.
The Evil-Breaking Blood Claw was, after all, powered by a Cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Realm. It dispersed instantly after taking the blow from the fork, but the recoil also forced Lan Jintao two steps back.
In that brief moment of delay, all the Blood Shadows scattered, fleeing in every direction.
"Brother Wu! Stop Blood Robe!"
Lan Jintao’s eyes were practically bursting with rage. If Blood Robe escaped just like that, he would surely face the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint’s wrath. But in that instant, all the Blood God Children had blended together, and he couldn’t tell which one was the real Blood Robe.
Wu Tianlin boomed his assent. He had been keeping a close eye on Blood Robe’s movements, so he spotted the real one among the Blood Shadows at a single glance.
He conjured a raging whirlpool in the sea, instantly sucking Blood Robe inside.
Once he had Blood Robe under control, Wu Tianlin swam over smugly, reached out, and plucked Blood Robe from the vortex.
"Heh heh heh... Blood Robe, you may be famous, but you’re still just a junior in the Foundation Establishment Realm. And today, you’ve fallen right into my hands."
He gripped Shao Zhongguang tightly and spoke with vicious glee.
"This is bad!"
Lan Jintao, however, showed no sign of joy. He and several other Golden Core Demon Kings had been trying to capture the slippery Blood Robe for a long time without success. He knew that Blood Robe’s True Body could swap places between two Blood God Children.
Sure enough, moments after Lan Jintao’s cry of alarm, the Blood God Child in Wu Tianlin’s hand exploded, transforming into countless Blood Evil Needles that shot out in all directions.
The Blood Evil Needles possessed extraordinary Armor-Piercing Power. While Wu Tianlin had protected his hands with Demon Gang, he had carelessly neglected to defend the rest of his body.
A dozen or so needles pierced the weak points of his Demon Body.
Wu Tianlin felt a sharp, numbing pain where the Blood Evil Needles had struck. Even his Demon Qi began to stagnate, becoming difficult to circulate.
But he was a Golden Core Realm Demon King, after all, and his Demon Qi was exceptionally powerful. Once he came to his senses, he expelled the Blood Evil Needles from his body.
But to be played so easily by a mere Foundation Establishment junior... Wu Tianlin felt a vein throbbing on his forehead, threatening to burst.
Lan Jintao, however, had keenly sensed a change in the aura of another Blood God Child the moment the first one exploded.
"Found you!"
In his urgency, he reverted to his original form: a giant bluefin bonito nearly two hundred feet long, with shimmering scales and indigo fins.
With a flick of its tail, the bluefin bonito became a blurry shadow as it shot straight after the Blood God Child.
A Blood God Child’s Blood Escape was on par with the Water Escape used by sea Demons, but that was only a comparison between equals. Lan Jintao’s Cultivation was a full Tier higher, and he was in the form of a bluefin bonito, renowned for its swimming speed. Despite starting later, he closed the distance in an instant and caught up to Shao Zhongguang.
Seeing that Shao Zhongguang was about to be caught, the other Blood Shadows all turned back to help him.
"Don’t!"
Shao Zhongguang roared, about to activate the Tier Three Water Escape Talisman his master had given him.
This Talisman could transport him five hundred li in a single instant through water, which was more than enough to escape from a Golden Core Demon. It was the very reason he dared to venture deep into the heart of the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint’s domain, assassinate the Fish Herding Demons, and cut off the Demon Army’s supply lines.
Just as he was about to activate the Water Escape Talisman, a sinister, chilling Ghost Shadow suddenly emerged from the sea and bored into his body.
An intensely cold burst of Yin Qi erupted inside him, freezing his Blood Spirit Technique Magical Power.
Shao Zhongguang’s eyes flew open. He hadn’t expected the Demons to have a hidden trump card. He frantically tried to channel his Magical Power to fight against the Yin Ghosts’ Imprisonment.
"What a powerful Technique. Even my Chong Ghost is struggling to hold him down."
A burly, rugged-looking man in a black robe with disheveled hair appeared, a smug look on his face.
Shao Zhongguang’s eyes widened in realization. He finally understood why he had been discovered by that Demon Army unit, despite doing his utmost to hide his tracks.
It was that swarm of Demon Ghosts they had encountered an hour ago. To think there was a Demon capable of controlling Demon Ghosts.
His heart sank. He knew there was likely no escape for him this time.
’The Hundred-Eyed Great Saint actually dispatched three Golden Core Demon Kings to ambush me. It’s a worthy death, at least.’
"Remember this, you Demons! My master, Yang Jing, will avenge me!"
Shao Zhongguang glared furiously at the three Golden Core Demon Kings, preparing to detonate his Magical Power and kill himself. Countless Demons had died at his hands over the past decade. If he fell into their grasp, his fate would be beyond cruel.
"Haha! Yang Jing? Who the hell is he?"
Wu Tianlin stared malevolently at Shao Zhongguang. He was going to thoroughly torture Blood Robe to pay him back for the stabbing of the Blood Evil Needles.
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