Donghai Longzi’s and Ba Shifang’s gaze only lasted for a split second and no one noticed. He turned his head toward the unknown monarch. “Hmpf, you attacked one of the promising juniors of my clan and you still have the gall to ask?”
The original plan of the Demon Clan was to release news of Jiaohu and attract a team of true immortals to investigate. From there, Jiaohu would escape, prompting more teams. Then, it would slowly increase until an immortal monarch would appear.
At that ti, Honglin would co forward and barely fend them off. Rinse and repeat until an immortal emperor arrives. Only at that point would Demon Empress Bluefeather appear. From the start of the plan, the Immortal Court and Numinous Sword Sect, who hadn’t placed too much attention, should erupt and think there is a conspiracy, dispatching a large amount of immortals to capture or investigate. The Demon Clan would also leave so clues of a big plan as a distraction.
With the Numinous Sword Sect and Immortal Court occupied, the Divine Beast Pseudo System would relocate into its new hiding spot. However, that plan was broken imdiately by the appearance of two immortal monarchs.
It should have been a gradual escalation. This way, the Immortal Court and Numinous Sword Sect would unconsciously use a larger amount of manpower, like boiling a frog in warm water. However, Ba Shifang and ng Tingfeng’s appearance broke that plan.
Donghai Longzi searched through his mories and failed to recognize the unknown immortal monarch. Like Ba Shifang, he hadn’t been told much of the Immortal Court’s plan in order to make it more realistic. Currently, he was as blind as his forr compatriot.
ng Tingfeng chuckled in response to Donghai Longzi’s words. “Attack? Bla himself. Who told him to venture into land that he does not belong in? Speaking of which, you are also trespassing. And trespassers deserve death!”
Without another word, he charged forward at Donghai Longzi. His back seed to tell the others and Ba Shifang not to interfere and that he could take care of this by himself. He pulled out his sword in one beautiful arc. It was the most beautiful sword swing Donghai Longzi had ever seen.
Of course, this was only because Tianyi hadn’t shared the mories of his battle with Bao Ling with him. Even if it was only a mory with no replication of the worldly laws imbued in Bao Ling’s sword, Donghai Longzi would still sense the innate charm within the sword strikes.
Donghai Longzi buried the imdiate impulse to retaliate. In order to lower the humans’ guard, he couldn’t show too strong of an understanding of the worldly laws. So, he pretended to act surprised and brought his arms up in defense.
ng Tingfeng snorted. Demons could take on humanoid forms, but the transformation usually caused their physical abilities to weaken. In his eyes, this was Donghai Longzi taking him lightly. Still, he wouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. So, he used one of his stronger quick draw techniques, hoping to heavily injure the true dragon in the first clash.
However, when his sword connected with Donghai Longzi’s arms, ng Tingfeng’s expression changed. It felt like he had slashed a hunk of steel and not a creature of flesh and blood. The rebound even caused a slight numbness in his hand.
Donghai Longzi flew back and looked at his torn sleeves. On his exposed arms, there were two long cuts leaking blood. He glanced toward Jiaohu. “Aren’t you going to escape?”
“Y—yes! Thank you, Dragon Lord!” the toad-like dragon said after being awakened by Donghai Longzi’s words. The space around him twisted and turned as he fled into the Vast Void.
When ng Tingfeng and Ba Shifang saw this, they couldn’t help but narrow their eyes. So demons receive innate abilities, but like individuals, there were differences in power among them. The strongest examples would be the Four Divine Beasts of the Demon Clan. Each true dragon also had a unique innate ability, but many of them were useless in fights or after a certain realm, but the innate ability of Jiaohu was not one such case.
The two could discern that Jiaohu’s abilities were related to space. Normally, they wouldn’t care, but upon seeing that Jiaohu could affect the space of the Vast Void, their hearts couldn’t help but move. Jiaohu was only a true demon, and his innate ability could affect space. What about when he reached the Demon Monarch Realm, or even the Demon Emperor Realm? Would his ability evolve into spatial teleportation?
At that point, Jiaohu would beco an incredibly annoying and undying existence. Without sufficient defense, he could even teleport inside realms. For example, he could teleport directly inside a realm occupied by humans and launch a surprise attack. Unless another immortal emperor was stationed there, Jiaohu would leave unscathed by the ti reinforcent arrived.
When such a being appeared, the humans would use almost all their power to kill such a being. It wasn’t just directed at the Demon Clan but other forces, too. If the Numinous Sword Sect knew that Tianyi had the ability to teleport across the Vast Void, they would attack him with all their strength, hoping to kill him. They might even harbor more killing intent than the power they used against the Demon Clan.
A demon able to teleport within the Vast Void only revealed their powerful innate ability, but if a human cultivator possessed such an ability, it likely ant that they were an immortal sovereign close to reaching the Divine Realm. How could the Numinous Sword Sect allow such a character to appear? By then, the hegemon of the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System would be set in stone.
Ba Shifang stilled for a mont, thinking of whether or not to take action. Ultimately, he decided to move. If he didn’t take action, it would seem too weird. So, his body moved, aiming to cut off Jiaohu’s path. Jiaohu was fast, faster than the average immortal monarch, but neither he nor ng Tingfeng were ordinary monarchs.
The mont he took action, Ba Shifang saw a shadow appear in his vision. It wasn’t a shadow, but the tail of Donghai Longzi’s true form whipping toward him.
He waved his hand, and the five elents ford a shield in front of him. The tail slamd into his shield, cracking it and sending Ba Shifang flying back tens of thousands of ters. Not only that, but he felt his arms beco numb from the force.
Ba Shifang’s eyes widened in shock. He cultivated the Sixth Grade Nine-Five Scripture, aning that he was also a martial immortal. However, his body was weaker than Donghai Longzi’s. Ba Shifang frowned. Although he wasn’t a cultivation maniac like Donghai Longzi, it didn’t an he was any less competitive.
Both of them started out as clones, and Ba Shifang didn’t think he had any less potential than Donghai Longzi who was ford out of a drop of true dragon blood. Once he returned, Ba Shifang vowed to cultivate his martial body to the peak.
His martial body had stagnated, not for lack of effort, but for the sheer amount of energy required to nourish it. In order to raise it to the peak of the Seamless Immortal Realm, it required a vast amount of five elental energies.
ng Tingfeng had been shocked when Donghai Longzi returned to his true form, but that didn’t stop him from taking action. He attacked again upon seeing Ba Shifang knocked back. Killing intent rose in his eyes as one of the seven stars on his sword blazed with light.
The sword released a starry light as it unleashed several sword lights toward the black dragon. They struck Donghai Longzi’s scales, but aside from leaving faint gray marks, they didn’t even shatter a single scale.
His expression hardened upon seeing this. He raised his sword and focused on it. A starry light condensed onto the sword. His actions drew both Donghai Longzi and Ba Shifang’s attention.
Sword Intent!
Donghai Longzi focused all his attention on ng Tingfeng. Although ng Tingfeng had used sword intent when attacking earlier, it wasn’t as powerful as now. His claws struck toward ng Tingfeng, harboring destruction behind the gleaming points.
But before his claws could land, ng Tingfeng struck down. Claw and sword collided, and the screech of rent tal echoed even in the Vast Void.
The collision forced Donghai Longzi’s arm back while sending ng Tingfeng tens of ters away. Donghai Longzi looked down at his claws to see a faint line ruining its immaculate ivory color. With ng Tingfeng’s current power, he had the ability to crack his scales. He snorted and charged at ng Tingfeng.
ng Tingfeng didn’t show any weakness and charged forward. From that single clash, he judged that the black dragon in front of him possessed superior defense but diocre attack. While charging, he shouted, “I’ll take care of this! Go and kill that dragon!”
Ba Shifang spared the two a glance before doing just so. He didn’t like ng Tingfeng’s commanding tone, but he still had to keep the act up. He wanted to fly past Donghai Longzi, but the latter would just whip his tail at him again. Although it would help Donghai Longzi, it would undoubtedly seem suspicious. So, he specifically flew outside the range of Donghai Longzi’s body before chasing Jiaohu.
The mont he did so, Donghai Longzi’s size increased by ten tis, directly blocking Ba Shifang’s path. His claw reached out toward Ba Shifang, causing the latter to retreat.
“Do you think you can ignore ?” ng Tingfeng roared as he increased the frequency of his attack.
Like a slippery snake, Donghai Longzi moved back the lower half of his body, but not for long. He whipped it forward, using montum to increase the damage. Unlike the first collision, ng Tingfeng felt his entire arm turn numb, and it knocked him back thousands of ters.
Ba Shifang saw the fighting intent in Donghai Longzi’s eyes, and he couldn’t help but guess that his forr compatriot wanted to have an all-out duel with him. His lips twitched, but his hand movents did not. Five-colored lightning ford behind Ba Shifang and shot toward the gigantic body.
Donghai Longzi twisted and turned, but because of his huge size, he couldn’t evade all the lightning strikes. So, they struck true on those glittering black scales. The scales cracked and lost the tiny motes of light that made them glitter, but in comparison to Donghai Longzi’s entire body, the damage was negligible.
Ba Shifang couldn’t help but let out a bitter smile as he did his best to dodge. He had an abundant amount of qi and had the most powerful martial body among his peers outside of Tianyi, so he didn’t focus much on movent techniques. Who knew that he would suffer at the hands of Donghai Longzi?
Even if he used all his strength to travel a hundred ters, Donghai Longzi simply needed to wriggle a bit. Although large bodies had many disadvantages, it also had many advantages.
“Take this!” ng Tingfeng shouted. He slashed out at Donghai Longzi’s scales, but it only left a slight gash and caused it to dim a little bit. He gritted his teeth. It would not be wrong to say that Donghai Longzi had ignored him, but he had no doubt that if he chased after the fleeing toad dragon, the forr would imdiately focus his attention on him.
“Since you look down on , don’t regret it,” ng Tingfeng said.
He stopped attacking and tightened the grip on the sword. In his pupils, countless starlights shone. A second star shimred brilliantly on the Seven Star Sword in conjunction with the first one. Half a minute later, the third star lit up.
It was obvious that ng Tingfeng was building up energy to unleash a powerful move, but neither Donghai Longzi nor Ba Shifang noticed. It was akin to a sword sheathed in its scabbard, its sharp edge hidden from the world. But a sword was ant to cut, and it would always leave its scabbard and reveal its edge eventually.
At the critical mont, ng Tingfeng sheathed the sword, hiding the three shining stars. He flew toward Donghai Longzi until he was in the path of a claw striking toward Ba Shifang.
Donghai Longzi noticed him, but he didn’t take the latter seriously at all. His claw continued forward.
ng Tingfeng unsheathed his sword and slashed. “Seven Star Sword - Three Star Slash.”
Contrary to Donghai Longzi’s expectation, ng Tingfeng’s sword cleaved through his scales and sliced to his skin. Under the spectator’s eyes, blood spurted forth from Donghai Longzi’s arm. Although the blood was red, it contained nurous tiny motes of lights, making it resemble a red night sky. The blood drowned ng Tingfeng, and the mont it did so, his eyes widened in shock.
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