Chapter 356: I Say, Humans May Eat Beasts, But Demons May Not Eat Humans

The sky.

One streak of gold, one of crimson—two beams of escape light chased each other for over a thousand kilometers before slowly coming to a halt.

"Princess Princess Chiyan, it has been a long time."

Jiang Ding gave a slight nod.

His divine sense and sword intent swept across the mountains and forests, beginning to seal off the transmission of divine sense signals within a six-kilometer radius, while a quasi-Great Yin sword intent simulated the effect blinded the six senses of the birds, beasts, and living creatures below.

"Xiang Xiang Qiyu, it's you!"

The Princess Chiyan Fox King watched the golden escape light disperse, revealing a blue-robed youth whose face seemed vaguely familiar. Her heart trembled violently. "How could it possibly be you?"

"You mixed-blood human filth—how vicious and venomous your heart is!"

Immediately, her eyes turned blood-red as she fixed them on the person before her: "Kong Que would have been one thing, even Baihua would have been one thing. The hundreds of thousands of warriors of the Demon Kingdom have never offended you, have never even seen you—why did you have to kill them? Why wouldn't you even spare the children?"

"Why wouldn't you even spare the old and the weak!!!"

Each word deliberate, each syllable like a sob.

This hatred—through reincarnation, through the wheel of rebirth—would never fade across ten thousand ages.

"For you to put it that way,"

"makes it sound as though I'm the evil arch-villain from a storybook."

Jiang Ding's expression was calm. He felt he ought to answer her question—otherwise his Dao heart might harbor some slight flaw.

After all, he was merely an innocent, lovable sixteen-year-old youth in the throes of sensitive adolescence, very concerned about others' opinions of him.

"The children you speak of—are they these people?"

Jiang Ding's divine will stirred slightly, projecting scene after scene—precisely a corner of Master Tushan Demon City, where children played and fought: bear demon children, snake demon children, monkey demons, fox demon children, and so on, laughing and lively.

"So what if they are?"

The Princess Chiyan Fox King hastened to restore the magic power within her body as she spoke coldly.

"Look at what's in their hands—one by one, the snacks they're holding. What are they?"

Jiang Ding paid no heed to her little maneuver, enlarging the figures of the laughing demon children—particularly the things in their hands.

They were unmistakably fingers!

Numbing-spice flavor, spicy flavor, grilled flavor, deep-fried flavor—and so on. Every conceivable method of preparation had been developed to an extremely intricate and refined degree. Over several thousand years, it had even evolved into a culinary culture of its own.

"Do you recognize them?"

Jiang Ding asked again.

"They're nothing but some lowly mortals!"

The Princess Chiyan Fox King said contemptuously: "You humans—don't you eat bears, foxes, snakes, cattle, and all manner of beasts? Aren't your cooking methods equally elaborate and refined?"

"You may eat them—are we demons not allowed to eat in turn?"

"Very well."

"Is that truly what you think?"

Jiang Ding's expression remained placid.

"Then I will tell you now: you demons are not permitted to eat people."

"One who eats, one dies."

"Ten who eat, ten die; a hundred or a thousand who eat, a hundred or a thousand die."

"If hundreds of millions of demons eat, then hundreds of millions of demons shall die!"

"When I stand supreme over this world, I shall scour every corner of it, scour every demon among the hundreds of millions—regardless of whether they be male or female, old or young, widowed, orphaned, or alone—so long as they have eaten a human."

"Then they must die."

"Arrogance!"

The Princess Chiyan Fox King erupted in fury.

At the same time, a chill seized her heart, as though she had plunged into an icy abyss.

Were an ordinary person to speak thus, one would take it as a spring breeze brushing one's face—laugh it off and let it pass.

Yet these were the words of a peerless sword-path prodigy of the human race—one who had slain multiple Jin Dan while still at Jin Dan Zhong Qi—

—speaking thus!

"You humans have always been this overbearing and tyrannical."

The killing intent within the Princess Chiyan Fox King surged to an unprecedented height—even surpassing the moment she had first heard of her sister's death and the utter annihilation of the city—and yet she grew calmer instead. With a mocking smile: "But."

"No matter how many tens of thousands of years pass, we demons remain. How could a whelp like you, still smelling of mother's milk, shake that? However—even so, you will not live to see that day."

"Die!"

The magic power of the Princess Chiyan Fox King at the late Demon King stage burned hotter than ever before. Three fiery, fluffy tails swayed, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth converged, a scatter of crimson sparks.

A moment later, six lifelike phantoms of Zhu Que materialized, each radiating the terrifying aura of Jin Dan Zhong Qi.

Screech!

The six flame Zhu Que shrieked in unison and dove toward the blue-robed youth ahead to slay him.

"Die?"

"The tricks of your three-tailed fox clan amount to little more than this."

Jiang Ding said calmly.

Boom!

The interlaced magnetic-sensing patterns at his brow flickered. A thumb-sized, fathomlessly dark aperture appeared, and dense magnetic-field auxiliary dashed-line array patterns spread across a ten-kilometer radius.

Amid an earth-shaking roar, a flying sword a foot long, azure-blue in color, vanished from sight.

Whoosh!

When it reappeared, it pierced straight through the skull of one of the Jin Dan Zhong Qi flame Zhu Que.

The cave mouth was bright from front to back, allowing the gaze to pierce through.

The Great Clarity Flying Sword possessed a special counter against such spell-based shadows, capable of fighting across realms; let alone this was not even crossing realms, for the Flame Zhu Que was never a match for the Great Clarity Flying Sword.

Whoosh, whoosh whoosh!

The azure flying sword's light moved to the extreme limit, invisible even to spiritual sense; only when piercing the Flame Zhu Que's skull did a burst of brilliant azure starlight flash.

It flashed six times in total.

Before the six Flame Zhu Que divine birds, whose cries shook the nine heavens, could do anything or unleash destruction equal to their ferocious might, their bodies stiffened and their skulls were pierced through.

They let out a mournful cry, then scattered and exploded; the scorching wind scattered in all directions, enough to burn most Foundation Establishment cultivators to ash.

Yet it could pose no threat to a Jin Dan-level enemy.

Dozens of pale blue sword qi floated around Jiang Ding, cutting through the sea of flames, leaving him unscathed.

"What kind of sword is this?!"

With the spell broken six times in a short span, Princess Princess Chiyan's face turned deathly pale; the spiritual light behind her three fox tails dimmed several shades and drooped slightly as she looked at that azure flying sword in terror.

There was no reply; the azure sword light filled her vision, its meaning of breaking and destroying spells spreading in all directions, locking onto her soul.

It fell upon her skull!

Ding!

A fire-red jade seal spat out from the red fox demon king's mouth; beneath it were carved the sun, moon, stars, mountains, and rivers, while above was carved a lifelike six-tailed demon god with a blurred face.

The terrifying aura of a high-grade magical treasure spread out, blocking the terrifying strike of the azure flying sword, sending sparks flying in all directions.

"The imperial seal of the Demon Nation?"

Jiang Ding was somewhat surprised.

Rumor held that this was the ancestral treasure of the Master Tushan Demon Nation, passed down through countless generations; refined by successive three-tailed fox demons, its power was terrifying, enough to face the supreme treasures of the Yue and Chu nations head-on without damage.

Boom!

Yet nothing needed to change; one sword strike was enough.

The electromagnetic main cannon stored in his eyebrow glowed; lines of magnetic field spiritual energy formed killing arrays that spread across heaven and earth; the cannon mouth roared, and the azure flying sword instantly gained tremendous propulsion, vanishing from sight.

"Your sword possesses the ability to break spells!"

Cold light flashed in Princess Princess Chiyan's eyes; having lived nearly a thousand years with vast combat experience, she reacted, her demon core spinning as massive demon power surged into the Master Tushan Jade Seal before her.

Crack...

As demon power surged violently, the faint sound of eggshells breaking emerged; a tail carved from the six-tailed demon god's fire jade moved, extending and spreading out.

In an instant, it grew to dozens of zhang in size.

Like a pillar holding up the sky, yet capable of bending at will; each fire-red fox hair was smooth and scorching, carrying violent wind that smashed toward the sky!

Boom!

In the void, an azure flying sword appeared, colliding with the massive fox tail; amidst a thunderous roar, vast swaths of scorching and azure spiritual light scattered, annihilating each other.

Ding ding ding...

As the dust cleared, an azure flying sword circled the massive fox tail, striking again and again.

Layer upon layer of fire-red spiritual light was sliced off, falling down and scattering into scalding flame clouds that, upon reaching the mountains and forests, instantly became seas of lava and fire.

(End of this chapter)