Chapter 527: Chapter 291: The Demons’ Shock
They had never seen someone who could kill a Demon Lord in single combat. Even Osetis wouldn’t dream of killing a Demon Lord alone.
Killing a Demon Lord required the sacrifice of an entire hundred-man legion of Divine Rune Warriors.
They looked at Fang Zhen, unsure of what to make of him.
Fang Zhen was a being beyond their comprehension.
As expected of the captain of the Divine Rune Warriors, Osetis’s mental fortitude was the strongest among the group.
He had the best composure and was the quickest to recover. He yelled, "Demons have tenacious life force! Mince Malganis’s head, then follow me! We’ll assist Fang Zhen and tie down the new Demon Lord!"
Hearing Osetis’s shout, the Divine Rune Warriors snapped out of their stupor. They immediately charged forward, wildly hacking at Malganis’s severed head with their weapons.
This Malganis was truly unlucky. In life, he had been like a Demon God looming over the Minghui Kingdom, a rather magnificent figure.
But in a terrible turn of events, he encountered a Living Yama like Fang Zhen and suffered an extremely gruesome death.
Malganis’s head had not yet completely lost its life force, but the furious Divine Rune Warriors swarmed it, hacking it into a meat paste with a flurry of blows. He couldn’t be any more dead.
Seeing Malganis’s miserable end, the Master of Shadows, Scarn, who had been swaggering with arrogance, couldn’t help but falter in his demonic stride.
The relationships between these Demon Lords in purgatory were far from harmonious.
In fact, in the Demon Realm, emotions like friendship simply didn’t exist. There was only mutual exploitation and a hierarchy defined by power. Peers might interact briefly when they had a temporary need for one another.
But there was such a thing as "when the rabbit dies, the fox grieves"—a sorrow for one’s own kind.
’If Malganis, a Demon Lord of roughly equal strength, died so horribly, can I beat Fang Zhen alone?’
After this simple logical deduction, Scarn made a decision.
Scarn turned around and began to walk back the way he came, heading for the Teleportation Gate.
Scarn’s body was extremely gaunt. Its silhouette was vaguely human, but its proportions were completely different, resembling a giant compass.
Taking strides with its incredibly long legs, its body over fifteen meters tall, it moved rapidly toward the Teleportation Gate.
When Fang Zhen saw this, his spirits instantly lifted.
’This bastard wants to run? Not so easy.’
Fang Zhen raised his spear again, and atop his flying lotus, he transformed into a silver streak of light, charging at Scarn.
Lightning erupted from the Thunder Spear, threatening to envelop Scarn’s entire body.
Just then, Scarn made a bizarre movement.
Its body continued walking toward the Teleportation Gate, but its neck twisted a full 180 degrees. While its body moved forward without pause, its head was now facing backward.
At the same time, Scarn opened its blood-red maw and let out a piercing roar that directly assaulted the soul.
Everyone in range, human and demon alike, was briefly stunned. Their souls felt wounded, as if the very cap on their life force had been reduced by more than twenty percent.
At the same time, their bodies’ regenerative abilities also declined.
Fang Zhen faced the soul impact head-on. He had already sensed the attack the moment Scarn opened its mouth.
However, he was not afraid. The Gang Zan Seal was active around his body.
For some reason, the soul-rending howl didn’t cause Fang Zhen any real harm. It only made his chest tighten for a moment, and then his desire to kill Scarn intensified.
Seeing that Fang Zhen was unaffected by its soul-scream, Scarn was clearly flustered.
Its movements became somewhat uncoordinated, but it could still cast spells.
Suddenly, Scarn spread its hands, and instantly, a vast domain of darkness materialized around it.
All light within the domain was completely devoured.
Inside this domain, Scarn’s power seemed to skyrocket. Both its offense and defense were enhanced by a greater condensation of energy.
Meanwhile, the vision of Fang Zhen and the Divine Rune Warriors below was severely restricted. They could only vaguely make out a deeper shadow within the darkness, which was Scarn’s true body.
At the same time, small Shadow Demons continuously spawned within the dark domain.
These small Shadow Demons would attack the humans.
Each Shadow Demon’s attack power wasn’t very high, but there were many of them. They immediately caused the Divine Rune Warriors below to roar in anger, harassing and wounding them significantly.
However, this move had little effect on Fang Zhen.
Fang Zhen had a skill called Dark Night Walker.
In a world of darkness, Fang Zhen could adapt quickly and maintain his vision.
Although Scarn had restricted everyone else’s vision, it had little impact on Fang Zhen.
For him, the sky and the earth in his vision had merely turned gray.
And the forms of Scarn and those little shadow demons appeared clearly before him.
The little shadow demons didn’t have a fully human form; instead, they looked like clusters of throbbing black flames.
They had arms and legs, and human or demonic faces would constantly appear on them. They looked quite hideous, but their strength was not high—about the same level as the Dogman Warriors Fang Zhen had seen before.
Fang Zhen swept his spear, sending out a ripple. He unleashed Li Shan Seal: Sky Splitting, concussing and shattering all the Shadow Demons in front of him.
Scarn also sensed that its dark domain didn’t seem to have much of an effect on Fang Zhen.
Scarn couldn’t help but panic.
Then, a peculiar light appeared on the Golden Longsword in Fang Zhen’s left hand.
Dale’s world level was definitely not weak; she was at least at the Legend or Epic level.
This sword of Dale’s also possessed immense power, but an ordinary person couldn’t possibly wield it.
Fang Zhen had tried, and he himself could only unlock a portion of this golden sword’s abilities.
The Longsword’s name was ’Golden Sun Flame’.
Dale had said that when she used this sword at her peak, she could slice through space itself as one of its basic combat functions.
After injecting power into Golden Sun Flame, it could make a region of space seem to freeze, looking just like a movie frame that suddenly dropped and froze in place.
And in the next moment, all the energy in that space would concentrate at a single point and burst forth, forming a Golden Thorn.
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