Chapter 367: Chapter 366: Arriving Just in Time (6th Update, requesting monthly tickets, please support!)
Mountain Cang, located in the southern part of Great Cold State, spans a vast area, reaching a height of nearly a thousand meters, appearing like a sharp cone.
In the middle of Mountain Cang, there is a patch of land as if it had been levelled by someone, in front of the mountain wall facing the land, there are clusters of weird rocks, vaguely revealing a purple handle of a blade.
"The once-every-five-years Mountain Cang Conference is finally coming."
Two elders, one has only a left eye and the other only a right eye, are sitting in front of the pile of weird rocks. The one speaking is the old man with only the left eye.
"My old friend, these few days I have been observing the stars at night. I perceive that a revival of our Great Cold Demon Path is imminent. It seems that this time, the Divine Monarch’s blade should have found its inheritor."
The right-eye elder spoke, with anticipation in his tones.
The left-eye elder laughed, "That Demon Marquis, the descendant of Black Devil Divine Monarch, is the most outstanding in our Great Cold Demon Path. This time, he has a great chance of pulling out the Divine Monarch’s blade."
Few know the identity of these two elders. Only heard, these two have been guarding here for decades to protect the Divine Monarch’s blade.
The Righteous Path tried to invade here, but every time a large force rushed here, they were slaughtered badly. Later, the super masters of the Righteous Path took action, fought for three days and nights with the two elders, struggling to gain the upper hand, and they could only retreat helplessly.
Since then, no one from the Righteous Path has dared to approach here.
"I heard, the descendant of Divine Monarch is born."
The right-eye elder suddenly spoke.
"The contribution of the Divine Monarch to the Devil Path is undisputed! But for our Devil Path to rise, we look at abilities and strength, not lineage. If someone is incapable, no matter whose son he is, I will not be biased."
"Good point! "
...
As the Mountain Cang Conference approached, the surroundings of Mountain Cang became bustling, with numerous masters of the Demon Path coming in and out.
The current Demon Path is no longer the same as a few years ago.
Since the re-emergence of the Ghost Carriage, the Demon Path has flourished, changing from concealed to semi-public state. In recent years, the fighting between the Righteous Path and the Demon Path has exceeded the combined total of many decades before.
"We’ve finally arrived."
A group of people arrived at the base of Mountain Cang.
"State your name and the sect to which you belong."
On each main road to Mountain Cang, there are masters of the Demon Door guarding. Seeing this group of people, they asked.
"I am Liu Menglong, the palace master of Sun Demon Palace in Qingxue State."
The middle-aged man in the lead cordially saluted.
Great Cold Demon Path has always been the leader of the eight-state Demon Path, nominally governing all the Demon Paths in each state. Therefore, the Mountain Cang Conference is not only a grand event of the Great Cold Demon Path but is also a shared grand event of the eight-state Demon Path.
Every time it is held, all the big and small Demon Path forces of each state will come together.
The reason is that there is a covert one. There is a sword-pulling session at the conference. Everyone who participates has the qualification to try pulling the Divine Monarch’s blade.
As a part of the eight-state Demon Path, who wouldn’t want to become the heir of the Divine Monarch?
One by one, the Demon Path forces ascended Mountain Cang, but everyone stayed on the outskirts of that platform.
It is the rule of the Mountain Cang Conference. Only on the day the conference begins, permission from the two elders with impaired eyes is granted to enter as per their order.
The day before the conference, Mountain Cang was lively as never before.
"Demon Sky Sect is here."
A loud cry made all the masters of the Demon Path in the mountain road look over and willingly stepped aside to clear the middle area.
In the sight of the crowd, there were hundreds of people from the Demon Sky Sect, each with a fierce momentum, especially noticeable was a big-bellied fat man.
The Heaven Eating Demon, one of the Five Demons of Great Cold.
But more people turned their attention to the man behind the Heaven Eating Demon and the Red Charm Demon.
This man was pale, his physique was not rugged, but walking among the crowd, he naturally exuded an air of a Demon Path dominator, making people couldn’t help but want to worship.
This isn’t solely about demeanor, but also indicates that his demonic skills have reached a terrifying level, subtly influencing others.
"The first skilled person on this Demon List, the top person of the Great Cold Demon Path on the surface, The Demon Marquis!"
Many people trembled in their hearts, their gaze unconsciously showing respect.
Earlier when they heard the Demon Marquis had practiced the nineteenth layer of the Demon Desire Divine Skill, many were dubious; now after feeling his overwhelming aura, all doubts disappeared.
The Demon Marquis, as expected of being the most sensational talent after the Black Devil Divine Monarch.
Whoosh!
The setting sun in the sky suddenly shimmered. Before anyone could react, there was a great master of the Demon Path who suddenly attacked, striking to the Demon Marquis in the crowd with his sword.
"Overestimating your strength."
The Red Charm Demon reacted quickly, catching with his hand, immediately reducing the enemy’s sword momentum. But the next moment, that master of the Demon Path suddenly laughed, his body swelling rapidly.
"Not good! He wants to self-explode!"
In martial arts, there is an extremely malicious method of body-blasting. Once used, the whole body explodes, it’s enough to kill people who are much stronger than oneself.
This person’s purpose was never assassination, but to perish together with others.
Wham!
A Moonlight came last but arrived first, kicking that person flying, who turned into a fog of blood in the air.
Before the Moon Demon could take pride, three more masters of the Demon Path rushed towards the Demon Marquis, their bodies swelling rapidly. It turns out the person before was only a target, these three were the real killers.
The most terrifying thing was, these three used the moment when everyone’s attention was drawn away, to utilize the body-blasting method. Even with the strength of Red Charm Demon, Heaven Eating Demon, there was no time to stop them.
It looked as if a large group of masters from the Demon Sky Sect was going to be blown to death.
The Demon Marquis in the center stood with his hands behind his back, a casual smile on his face. A transient aura of the Devil Path emanated from him, spreading out like rippling waves.
The three high-level Devil Path masters, who were like sparks about to erupt underwater, were immediately extinguished by the wave-like power. Their explosive force, completely extinguished.
"No!"
The trio’s faces drastically changed as the Red Charm Demon and the Heaven Eating Demon assaulted them, quickly tearing them to fragments.
"Demon Marquis, spare our lives! We had no idea!"
The entirety of the Devil Path sect, from the chiefs to the high-level masters, quickly knelt down, bowing their heads in submission, their foreheads slick with cold sweat.
Everyone was stunned.
Everyone knew that suppressing the essence-sacrificing technique was immensely difficult, unless one’s Internal Power surpassed the user by one level.
But each of the three attackers were high-level masters in the mid-stage of the Spiritual-Passage Realm. Even peak-level masters in the ninth level of the Realm could not suppress them.
How unimaginably powerful must the Internal Power of the Demon Marquis be to extinguish their self-destructive force with mere waves of it?
Shockingly scandalous!
That was everyone’s thought. They looked at the Demon Marquis with genuine fear.
"Stand up. I know it wasn’t you," said the Demon Marquis calmly.
"My lord, this must be a trap set by the Lan and Huang families. Perhaps it was even concocted by the traitor, the Love Demon," said the Red Charm Demon maliciously.
Ever since the Love Demon manipulated her into attacking the Demon Marquis using the Life-linked Venomous Insects, she had always wanted to personally behead him.
The Demon Marquis shook his head, a faint smile on his lips. "The Love Demon wouldn’t resort to such a cheap trick. I suspect the hypocrites of the Righteous Path are stirring this up."
He scanned the crowd, everyone he looked at immediately lowered their heads, not daring to meet his gaze. The Demon Marquis then looked meaningfully down the mountain and continued forward, the crowd parting before him.
"How did it look?"
"Powerful. Much more powerful than he was a year ago."
At the foot of the mountain, the high-level masters from the Lan and Huang families struggled to return their gazes. Lan Tian and Huang Rong were particularly uncomfortable.
A year ago, they could have battled the Demon Marquis if they had joined forces. Now, they probably wouldn’t be able to handle even ten of his attacks.
The Demon Marquis’s strength made people feel hopeless. If they initially had a 40% confidence in the Holy Young Master, now they had less than 5%.
The potential of a person can fluctuate depending on the situation, such as a change of mood, the quality of the environment, or encountering a great stimulus.
Judging by the progress the Demon Marquis made in a year, his aptitude would likely rival or even surpass that of the Holy Young Master. Considering the huge gap in their initial strengths, the upcoming Mountain Cang convention did not look promising.
Worse still, there was no sign of the Holy Young Master. If he were to miss the Mountain Cang meeting, the Demon Sky Sect might seize the opportunity to take advantage of the situation. This might tarnish his reputation, making the situation even more embarrassing.
...
A man on horseback hurried along the official road.
The Flame Cloud Mountain Range was located at the edge of Fire Cloud State, which bordered Great Cold State through Hezhou. However, Shi Xiaole had underestimated the size of Hezhou and had to travel for nearly twenty days before he finally arrived at the edge of Great Cold State.
By the time he arrived near Mountain Cang, it was already the eve of the convention.
There were occasional flashes of figures nearby. Some were high-level masters of the Righteous Path, some were of the Devil Path, and there was even occasional fighting and killing.
As Shi Xiaole approached Mountain Cang, he abruptly stopped; he seemed to have recognized someone.
"Demon, you will pay for your evil deeds sooner or later!"
Outside a grove of trees, a group of women in green stood to encircle a man in a black robe.
The man in black chuckled, "Based on your abilities, you girls from the Jade Moon Palace may not have what it takes to make me pay."
Before he could finish speaking, several girlish shouts rang out and the women of the Jade Moon Palace attacked him together. Their Sword Qi was chilling, piercing through the night.
There was a flash of light.
The man in the black robe moved swiftly, almost as fast as the moonlight in the sky. Or rather, in the women’s eyes, he was no different from the moonlight, appearing and disappearing at will. Within a few moves, he had all women grounded.
"Moon Shadow Eight-Break, you’re the Moon Demon from the Demon Sky Sect?"
The leader of the women trembled as she spoke.
"What naive young girls. They learn the idea of going to Mountain Cang to fight demons and safeguard the path, but they didn’t even bother to identify the demon. It would be great if all the people on the Righteous Path were as foolish as you," said the Moon Demon.
He was not one to sit idle and had decided to patrol the mountain on the eve of the meeting, killing off the "brave" high-level masters of the Righteous Path.
He decided to start with these pretty women tonight.
"Don’t hurt my Junior Sister, Tide Listening Sword Technique!"
A young man rushed over from far away, his sword movements mimicking the rise and fall of tides as he attacked the Moon Demon. It was the head disciple of the Tidal Waves Sword Marquis, Tao Xingyu.
With a wave of the Moon Demon’s hand, the Tide Listening Sword Qi shattered, and Tao Xingyu spat out blood. His body slammed against five large trees, collapsing grievously.
"Senior Brother Tao!"
Among the women, Lan Xiaodie’s eyes filled with tears. but she was petrified and could not move.
"Don’t grieve. I will send you one by one to the Yellow Springs."
The Moon Demon sneered cruelly, and was about to strike Lan Xiaodie.
Lying on the ground, Tao Xingyu’s eyes widened, feeling as if he could see the moment his Junior Sister was beaten to a bloody pulp. His heart ached.
The women’s desperate screams echoed mournfully and helplessly throughout the night. Just as the situation turned critical, a swift gust of wind rushed in from afar, forcefully smashing against the Moon Demon’s palm power, shattering it.
