Chapter Forty-Three: Too Late
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What is despair?
In Qiao’er’s final moments of consciousness, two monsters appeared beside her and caught her.
But from above, several giant eagles descended as well.
The Dragon Emperor Sword in the Female Emperor’s hand let out a mournful cry before dispersing completely.
Yet after despair, there was hope.
The Demon Venerable shot up from the ground, a long spear somehow appearing in his hand!
As his red hair fluttered, the spear struck like a dragon, piercing the Hound Demon through the abdomen and bursting out the other side!
“Little White Bird, rest for now.”
“I alone am enough.”
His eyes glowed crimson, and the smile on the Demon Venerable’s face twisted into something ferocious.
With his hair and beard streaming upward, he reached out and seized the returning spear!
“Looks like we underestimated you. But could it be that you lowly ants truly believe you have any hope of defeating us?”
As though he had finally recovered his strength, the Hound Demon let out a chilling laugh.
To the astonishment of the Demon Venerable and the others, the wounds covering his body had actually stopped bleeding!
Those enormous holes, each as wide as a bowl, had begun to heal just like that?
The Demon Venerable flung his spear through the air. He did not utter a word, merely allowing spiritual power to surge from his body like a bursting flood.
Black mist coiled around him. He thrust his spear forward, the movement plain and unadorned.
“How could I, the Demon Venerable, remain forever beneath others?”
“Ants? Hah!”
“Do not interfere. I will kill this one myself!”
Seeing the Bear Demon about to intervene, the Hound Demon gave a savage grin and charged forward at once.
“One each!”
Sensing a cold aura descending upon him, the Bear Demon fixed his gaze on the Female Emperor in the distance.
In the next instant, the layers of ice covering his body began to shatter inch by inch!
High in the air, one figure black and the other white, the two fought the Hound Demon and the Bear Demon respectively.
In terms of cultivation, the Female Emperor and the Demon Venerable should have been utterly helpless before them.
Yet the two of them retreated as they fought, somehow holding their own against the two sixth-order great demons of the Beast Sect!
“Demon Feed!”
The spear pierced his body, and the long weapon in the Demon Venerable’s hands greedily began absorbing the Hound Demon’s blood and vital energy.
The latter was deeply shocked and immediately struck downward with his palm.
But as the palm descended, the spear transformed into black mist and vanished into the air.
When it reappeared, it was already back in the Demon Venerable’s hand!
“Nothing more than a stray dog.”
“Die!”
As though his deepest wound had been exposed, the Hound Demon bared his teeth, and his spiritual power surged dramatically.
In the blink of an eye, countless blade fangs filled the sky, tearing through the monsters and shooting straight toward the Demon Venerable!
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The spear blossomed in his hands, sparks flying everywhere, but the blade fangs he knocked aside soon curved back around and came at him again!
One wound after another burst open, spraying blood. The Demon Venerable roared, his voice resounding across heaven and earth!
No one knew how long he endured. At last, the Hound Demon appeared before him and struck down with one claw…
On the other side, the Female Emperor had also reached the end of her strength.
Blood poured from her wounds, and feathers drifted from her wings.
The Dragon Emperor Sword, wrapped in icy breath, delivered its final strike!
But when that blow, infused with all the Female Emperor’s power, exploded against the Bear Demon, he remained completely unmoved!
Not even the slightest injury appeared on him!
The Female Emperor seemed to have anticipated such overwhelming defense.
She closed her eyes, the corners of her lips curving upward slightly.
“Jiang Xuan, it’s finally done.”
…
“Ding!”
“The host has successfully broken through to the next realm! Please hurry and save your underlings! They may die at any moment!”
“As if you needed to tell me!”
A towering tree snapped in half beneath the tremendous force.
Clad in blue, Jiang Xuan rode the wind, cleaving through the void with speed like thunder.
The system was frantic, but Jiang Xuan, who had devoted himself entirely to breaking through, had sensed the battle in the distance the instant he succeeded. He was just as anxious.
But at that moment, Jiang Xuan’s confidence had soared!
There were two reasons.
First, of course, his breakthrough had greatly increased his cultivation. His strength had undergone a qualitative transformation and was no longer what it had been before.
As for the second reason, Jiang Xuan could sense that the auras of the two sixth-order great demons were not even half as strong as they had been earlier!
Jiang Xuan was genuinely surprised. The Female Emperor, the Demon Venerable, and the others had actually managed to push them this far…
They had truly grown formidable…
As he thought this, the figures of the two sixth-order great demons appeared in the sky.
“The Golden Crow bloodline within this one has actually grown even denser!”
“Isn’t that perfect? Even a starving camel is still larger than a horse. Though our spiritual power has been depleted considerably, what difficulty could there be in dealing with this third-order great demon?”
Jiang Xuan heard every word spoken by the Hound Demon and the Bear Demon clearly.
Propelled by spiritual power, he appeared before them in the blink of an eye.
“Boy, refusing to flee is the most foolish decision you have ever made in your life!”
The Bear Demon stared at the blue-clad man before him with enormous, lantern-like eyes.
An inexplicable fury rose within him.
Facing two sixth-order great demons, this fool actually dared not to assume his true form! His arrogance was beyond belief!
“Why waste words on him? Kill him!”
A crimson gleam flashed through the Hound Demon’s eyes. Without another word, he let out a furious roar, and dozens of blade fangs slammed toward Jiang Xuan.
Even so, Jiang Xuan did not assume his true form.
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Instead, he clasped his hands behind his back, and a sea of flames appeared before him.
The blade fangs vanished, while Jiang Xuan had raised one hand at some point.
“Three-Legged Sunfire!”
“You’re courting death!”
Jiang Xuan’s actions completely enraged the Hound Demon.
The Hound Demon struck down with one palm, and the attacks of the two sides collided head-on.
A cold smile curled at the Bear Demon’s lips. It seemed he could already imagine how惨 Jiang Xuan’s death would be.
His companion, the Hound Demon, wielded the domineering Tiger Demon technique, Heaven-Shaking Palm!
Combined with his cultivation as a sixth-order great demon, the might of this single palm was enough to destroy a small mountain.
“Ah! My leg!”
“Why is your hand so hard? I can’t break through these flames!”
High in the sky, one of the Hound Demon’s legs was being scorched by fire. No matter how he used his spiritual power to isolate it, he could not extinguish the flames completely.
What caused him even more excruciating pain was that the power of Jiang Xuan’s Three-Legged Sunfire lay not only in the might of its supreme yang flames.
The foot of a Golden Crow was something no ordinary demon beast could withstand!
“The strong prey upon the weak. I do not resent you for injuring my underlings.”
“But you chose this path yourselves, so do not blame me for showing no mercy.”
Using the Swift as a Swallow technique, Jiang Xuan raised his hand into a blade and appeared above the Hound Demon’s head.
The Hound Demon’s eyes widened, terror filling his pupils!
“No! No!”
“Sorry, but it’s too late.”
The hand blade descended, and the aura of the sixth-order Hound Demon suddenly plummeted!
His vitality began to drain away in a furious torrent!
At the same moment, the bones in Jiang Xuan’s wrist let out a crisp cracking sound.
It was not that the Hound Demon’s defenses were especially formidable. He was merely fighting like a cornered dog.
To withstand Jiang Xuan’s hand blade, infused with supreme yang flames, the Hound Demon had released every last trace of spiritual power within him to resist.
Jiang Xuan was not surprised.
The spiritual power within a sixth-order Hound Demon exceeded his own by far more than a little.
“Metal-and-Stone Shattering Strike!”
Jiang Xuan suddenly kicked out, sending his body flying backward!
This Bear Demon was stronger than the Hound Demon—and in far better condition!
With a single palm, he had forced Jiang Xuan to assume his true form.
When the two wings spread wide, their span seemed capable of blotting out the sky and the sun. The terrifying flames pouring from them left the Bear Demon, who had been brimming with confidence only moments before, gaping in astonishment!
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