Cyber Cultivation: When Technology meets Cultivation Chapter 168: Burning Himself to Carry the Flame

Above Sunscorch Valley,the demon troops looked vicious and feral, while the human army was cold and murderous.Each side had a leading general at the front of its formation."Xiao Ji..."Qiu Fu stared at the leader on the demon side, a gloomy-faced young man.Her hatred was utterly undisguised, and even her voice turned hoarse.That man was the killer of her mother, the young general of the Human-Subjugation Army, the infamous great demon xiao.The xiao race was savage from birth.Rumor held that the mont one was born, it would seek chances to attack its own parents and siblings, then devour them after killing them.Because of that extre cruelty and self-serving nature, even the human race had inherited the ill fa of the xiao clan.The term xiaoxiong, ruthless hero, was used for those who would stop at nothing to achieve their goals.anwhile, Xia Li was sizing up the leader of the Demon-Hunting Army.He was a black-robed young man who did not seem much older than Xia Li himself, smiling faintly with his eyes half-narrowed.Over the course of his escape, Xia Li had already learned the other's identity by eavesdropping on ordinary soldiers.Mo Ye, the anti-demon young general.A vicious enemy one hundred, one thousand tis harder to deal with than Wang Xian.A genuine ruthless hero.And after hearing Qiu Fu speak, Xia Li also understood who the demon general was.A xiao demon had co in person.Two monsters of the most vicious kind looked down on them from above.Coupled with the hostile glares of the armies on both sides, the imnse pressure and murderous intent made it hard for Xia Li to breathe."Hear this, criminal tiger demon. Your tribe has accumulated blood debts for generations and killed countless elites of our demon race. As a bearer of that guilty bloodline, you deserve to die ten thousand deaths.""And you, human Xia Li, sheltered that tiger demon and slew many of my demon soldiers. You too deserve to be captured and tortured for a hundred days before death."The xiao demon pronounced judgnt on Qiu Fu and Xia Li."The vile tiger demon killed the son of a commander of our Demon-Hunting Army. The criminal Xia Li deserves a death by a thousand cuts. And beyond the cris he committed in Manzhou, he has also hard many elite mbers of humanity in the human interior.""This one human and one demon are rejected by both races alike. They must be killed to prove justice!"Mo Ye raised his right arm high.Behind him, the Demon-Hunting Army ca to a halt all at once and let out a thunder of shouts."Kill! Kill! Kill!"The xiao demon, unwilling to be outdone, also raised a hand.Behind him, ten thousand demons roared so loudly the sky shook."They should be judged by demonkind!""No. They should be judged by humanity!"The xiao demon and Mo Ye exchanged a look.That was one of the reasons both had brought armies in the first place.Each had long expected they might still have to fight the other."We'll discuss our own issues afterward. First, shall we execute these two villains?"The xiao demon did not think they should fight humanity first and give Xia Li and Qiu Fu a chance to escape.Mo Ye thought the sa.By now, both of them knew all too well how exceptional Xia Li was at running away."Agreed."Mo Ye nodded.The xiao demon revealed his true form, becoming a massive bird with a bear's head and an eagle's body, then descended from the edge of the valley.With both hands folded behind his back, Mo Ye descended from the cliff top as well.Xia Li and Qiu Fu stood back to back.Neither side was one they could defeat even if they exhausted every ounce of their strength.Qiu Fu was already preparing to crush the rune Xia Li had given her."Not yet!"The mont Xia Li noticed what she was doing, he barked a warning.It was not ti to reveal their final card yet.Qiu Fu only had that one life-saving rune.If anyone had to move first, it should be him.After all, once he could no longer hold on, he could still transmit back to Earth.If he could endure a little longer, then perhaps by resonating with the earth veins here, he might still find the location of the seal.And the shamanic path could do exactly that.There had been two life-burning fire talismans.One for Qiu Fu.And one for himself.Xia Li reached into his robes with his left hand and drew out a translucent, half-illusory spirit talisman.The mont he released its seal, the talisman began absorbing the surrounding fire-aspect spiritual energy at a terrifying speed, whipping up the burned-out ash around them and reigniting it.

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At once, the xiao demon and Mo Ye quickened their descent.By then, Xia Li had already raised his left hand high.The fire talisman in it had transford into a dazzling fireball, blazing fiercely.If he wished to forge a golden core with the Golden Crow, then first he would use this body to endure the baptism of the Golden Crow's flas."At the end of the ancient age, heaven was dim and dark.""All thods failed, and the heavenly sun no longer shone.""At the end of the Dharma Ending Age, no path remained to continue.""As the fire is about to die out, burn this body to carry it on!"Xia Li recited the prayer of the shamanic race.It described the Dharma Ending Age after the upheavals of the archaic era, when all thods failed and the shamans once faced extinction.The fire shamans had no fire.There was nothing left to ignite.Their final thod was to ignite themselves.Their bodies beca the last remaining embers from the age when all thods had once still existed."Sothing's wrong. Stop him!"The xiao demon imdiately noticed that vast amounts of fire-aspect spiritual energy throughout Sunscorch Valley were converging on Xia Li.Mo Ye said nothing.He bit the tip of his tongue, offered up his essence blood to skip the buildup phase, and struck Xia Li directly with one palm.A massive palm print descended from the sky.At that very instant, Xia Li crushed the fire talisman.The next mont,the giant palm slamd into Xia Li and Qiu Fu, kicking up endless ash.The xiao demon and Mo Ye kept their distance rather than rushing in recklessly.They already knew Xia Li had a thod of wielding Void Refining-level power.The only question was how long it could last.And then...those gray-white embers drifting through the air suddenly ignited.Wild winds rolled out.The scorching blast swept across the valley floor, setting alight the snow-like blanket of ash that covered Sunscorch Valley.A figure slowly rose from the burning ash.His clothes had been burned away entirely.Only a few strips of flaming rag remained below his waist.His body was covered in fire-scars, and where his right arm had once been empty, ash had piled itself together into a burning hand.That figure was Xia Li.By crushing the fire talisman, he had gained a comparatively longer-lasting Void Refining power.The price was that he was burning himself alive.With a light sweep of that right arm made from piled ash, Xia Li drew together countless embers from heaven and earth, and in his hand they ford a great sword of blazing fire.Both the xiao demon and Mo Ye frowned deeply.They had felt danger.Danger from a pseudo-Core cultivator."This is just a trapped beast's final struggle..."The xiao demon flicked a look toward Mo Ye.The two prodigies of different races had decided to join forces against Xia Li, a pseudo-Core cultivator not even at Golden Core yet."Just a dying backlash."Mo Ye raised a hand again, and the force of heaven and earth rapidly condensed within his palm.Xia Li took one step forward.His great sword swept out and a surging sea of fire rolled over everything before him.The attack made both the xiao demon and Mo Ye's scalps go numb.Even the ash filling this place had beco one of Xia Li's ans of attack.They had already dodged very quickly, but even just being brushed by the edge of that fire wave made the ash mixed within it cling to their bodies like maggots on bone, burning into their flesh.If they took the attack head-on, what then?Neither of them was foolish enough to risk their lives against Xia Li.They preferred to drag him down instead, because both had seen clearly the price Xia Li was paying to wield this power.Once ti ran out,Xia Li would burn himself into a handful of ash.He said nothing.Xia Li did not mock them, nor curse them for doing nothing but dodge.He simply raised his sword again and again, sending waves of fire sweeping through everything around him.Qiu Fu had already been stored in the Cave Heaven Gourd monts earlier.Now that he had crushed the talisman and ignited the body's burning fire, his perception of fire-aspect power had beco sharper than ever before.Those swirling burning ashes had beco extensions of his senses.Where was it?Where was the seal?He could not keep burning for much longer!