Chapter 442: Slaying the Nine Infants

After trying out the new ability, Mu Yi was still quite satisfied.

After all, an evil beast of this level had long surpassed what ordinary people could handle; its slaying difficulty was no less than some legends of god-slaying in other planes.

Even in Jiuzhou, killing an adult Poison Eagle was worth only a few brief notes in some obscure records.

As for the Nine Infants that Mu Yi now intends to deal with, the difficulty is even higher; even shooting down the Nine Infants is one of Yi's achievements.

Mu Yi flapped his wings and flew north, delayed considerably by the Poison Eagle, so he had to speed up.

Fortunately, the new Bird Totem greatly increased his speed, saving him considerable travel time.

Upon reaching the northern ferocious waters, he happened to see the Nine Infants floating on the water, basking in the sun.

The Nine Infants, a monster serpent species, with a bovine body and dragon tail, capable of spraying water and spewing fire to cause calamity—a water-fire fiendish deity.

Without the slightest hesitation, Mu Yi directly flapped his wings and lunged at the Nine Infants.

"Wah!"

He opened his mouth and emitted a crying wail like that of an infant.

Accompanying it was a terrifying shockwave capable of piercing gold and splitting stone.

The Poison Eagle's innate divine ability, fully inherited by the Bird Totem, was now unleashed by Mu Yi without any diminution in power.

The enormous sound wave directly triggered a massive explosion on the water's surface, blasting the unprepared Nine Infants into a stumble.

"Slash!"

Mu Yi dove downward, the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow bringing a cold light as he raised his hand and the blade fell.

The slash, carrying the blade's light, swept across the Nine Infants' head, directly severing one of its heads.

The surging air wave, like an invisible blade, swept past the Nine Infants' side, carving numerous wounds on its body, and its blood instantly spilled into the ferocious waters.

After succeeding with one move, Mu Yi had not yet had time to disengage from battle.

Then a scorching heat wave surged toward him!

Instinctively activating the Asura Path, he released an endless sea of blood to block in front of him; then, a boundless sea of fire directly collided with the blood sea.

The terrifying heat even made Mu Yi within the blood sea feel a scorching sensation, a stinging pain from the high-temperature brand on his body.

"What terrifying flames, they're almost comparable to the Threefold True Fire!"

Mu Yi gazed solemnly at the Nine Infants, which had flown into a great rage after losing one of its heads.

Although the sneak attack succeeded, it seemed not to be a fatal wound for the Nine Infants.

However, the good news was that the head the Nine Infants lost did not regenerate.

"You little brat of the human race, I smell a hateful odor on you… Totem? Are you a little brat of the Nine Li Tribe?"

After the continuous waves of flame, a faint female voice, like that of a woman, suddenly came, the voices overlapping as if multiple people were repeating the same narration.

The Nine Infants swung its long tail, its eyes gleaming with a ferocious light.

Yet it had not lost its reason; among its eight bird heads, aside from the five continuously spewing flames, the others stared fixedly at Mu Yi, observing his condition.

"No, not that—it's the scent of the Yan Huang Bloodline..."

"No…… it's Chi You; you carry the scent of Chi You!"

"You deserve to die!"

The Nine Infants were somewhat puzzled; although they didn't know why, Mu Yi bore the scent of Chi You, but there was no doubt that Mu Yi deserved to die.

Seeing that his identity had been exposed, Mu Yi simply stopped hiding and directly unleashed the Vast Heavenly Mist.

The mist surged forth; in an instant, the endless white mist swallowed everything between heaven and earth, simultaneously blocking any prying gazes.

"Chi You's legacy?"

The Nine Infants' original anger vanished in an instant, and some kind of memory stemming from bloodline connection began to surface.

In a haze, within the dense, heavy mist, a three‑headed, six‑armed figure with a bovine head and human body, wings sprouting from its back, seemed to stride forth, casting a fierce, murderous glare at it.

At the same time, some divine beings who had taken notice of this place upon hearing the Nine Infants utter Chi You's name instantly erupted in an uproar.

Among them were not only divine beings of the myriad ancient tribes, but also divine beings of human tribes; immediately some rose to inspect Chi You's seal, while others rose to go see the Yellow Emperor.

They could not reckon Mu Yi's origins, but they knew this certainly had something to do with the Yellow Emperor.

Even though they knew Chi You had been dismembered and suppressed, his true spirit eternally sealed, making escape nearly impossible, they still felt a lingering fear in their hearts.

Even those groups friendly to the human race were filled with anxiety.

And because the mist obscured everything, they could not see what was inside at all, nor could they infer anything further from Mu Yi's condition.

But they all knew this matter was very serious.

Yet no one dared to intervene.

What a joke—who knows if this isn't the Yellow Emperor himself fishing here; if they acted, they'd likely just give the human race an excuse to storm in and slaughter them, looting their homes and exterminating their clans.

Moreover, everyone simultaneously felt that the Yellow Emperor was watching Mu Yi, and no one dared to act under his gaze.

The blood on the Xuanyuan Sword might not be much less than that on the Chi You Tiger Soul Saber.

What's more, nowadays in antiquity, humans occupy half; no one dares to be the one who sticks his head out to invite the wrath of the entire human race.

So they simply pretended not to have seen it, after all the Nine Infants were deliberately dumped into human tribal lands by them, and they did not want to invite disaster upon themselves over this matter.

However, correspondingly, many people had already begun covertly moving, plotting to conspire and strangle Mu Yi in his cradle.

No one wanted to see a second Chi You.

Even within the human race itself, they likewise did not want to see it.

They would now strike, nipping the potential danger in the bud.

However, what outsiders thought was already irrelevant to the Nine Infants.

Enveloped in the mist, the Nine Infants cautiously stared in all directions; within the vast white fog it felt no sense of safety.

"Just a bit of mist—watch me burn it all away in one breath!"

A powerful and frenzied force surged forth from within the Nine Infants' body.

The surging sea of fire directly began to evaporate the great mist.

The surrounding great mist was scorched by the rising flames, making a sizzling sound; the thick, un-dispersing mist vaguely dissipated somewhat, but in the next instant it was again filled in by the surrounding mist.

The Nine Infant's expression was extremely grim, but it was not only capable of spewing fire; seeing that the flames could do nothing to this troublesome great mist,

It immediately changed its plan, directly opening its mouth to spit out streams of waterfalls, while the malevolent water beneath it also began to surge tumultuously at once.

Countless water droplets sprayed out in all directions, striking the ground and emitting a dull thud.

Although the great mist can block divine sense, this saturating attack cannot be blocked.

What is even more unbearable is that the water droplets spat out by the Nine Infant contain deadly poison; the malicious intent is horrifying.

Seeing the Nine Infant using water and fire against him, Mu Yi simply directly unleashed the Hell Path fire and the Asura Path sea of blood to counter the Nine Infant.

The sea of fire blazed, with waves of sound rolling.

The sea of blood and the sea of fire, water pillars and water pillars, mutually cancel and devour each other.

The Nine Infant felt something was off; is that brat opposite not a legacy of Chi You? How does it feel like the offspring of Gonggong and Zhurong?

How can this water and fire still oppose it?

The Nine Infant's expression darkened.

In the next instant, it surged forward fiercely.

By leveraging the opposition of water and fire, it locked onto Mu Yi's position.

Although it inherited most of the original's abilities, capable of blocking perception, but after all it is not the original, so there are still many means that can be used.

The Asura Dharma manifestation emerged from the sea of blood, but was directly shattered by the charging Nine Infant; Mu Yi, not to be outdone, rushed toward the Nine Infant.

Like Mars colliding with Earth, Mu Yi was flung backward.

Compared to these feral beasts, its power still lacks a tier.

The terrifying force directly flung him away.

However, the Nine Infant thus lost Mu Yi's trace; just as it was about to repeat its old trick, Mu Yi's figure appeared beside it, and a huge blade of light suddenly fell.

"Crack!"

A head flew high into the air, and Mu Yi again severed one of the Nine Infant's heads.

Visible decline appeared on the Nine Infant's body; it is not Xiangliu, and its nine heads share a single consciousness.

Although losing a head is not fatal, its power source lies in the heads; each time one is cut off, its power wanes.

The Nine Infant, after having another head severed, angrily roared, spewing a huge wave of fire toward the direction where Mu Yi had disappeared.

But Mu Yi had already fled to the Nine Infant's rear, evading its furious attack.

Gazing at the vast white mist, the Nine Infant raged helplessly.

As the great mist that Chi You relied upon to roam the ancient times, even once rendering the Yellow Emperor's side helpless, although lacking the assistance of the Wind Master and Rain Lord, its power would be greatly reduced.

But for the Nine Infant, it remains an unstoppable divine ability.

It could not locate Mu Yi's exact position, only able to passively endure strikes and counterattack; but Mu Yi, having absorbed the Poison Vulture, is extremely fast, often striking him a blade before it can react.

The more they fought, the more the Nine Infant feared; finally, when the Nine Infant with only seven heads remaining prepared to flee, the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow, wrapped in a gale, suddenly struck down.

The Great Xia Dragon Sparrow heavily struck one of the Nine Infant's heads.

Without any obstruction, the Nine Infant's head was instantly split apart.

At the same time, the Nine Infant felt something drilling into its body along the wound, beginning to frenziedly devour its own vitality.

Moreover, an unknown force enveloped it, beginning to wear down its power; every moment within it began to decline.

It is not mere passage of time, but a tangible decline, as if it were weakening.

"Smash it!"

The Heavenly Path, Human Path, and Asura Path; the colossal Dharma manifestation formed by the union of the three paths directly smashed down a heavy hammer.

The Nine Infant only felt an unstoppable primordial force assaulting it.

Its already staggering body directly collapsed heavily to the ground; amidst the rumbling, the earth was struck by the immense force into a small basin.

The Nine Infant's blood flowed down its body, accumulating in the basin into a crimson pool.

The Nine Infant dared not delay, hastily rising to flee again.

But it, having its perception blocked, did not realize that it had already been seized by Mu Yi into the Divine Kingdom.

Even in a panicked flight, it could not find the malevolent water from its memory at all.

It could only buzz around like a headless fly within the Divine Kingdom.

Mu Yi frantically pursued the Nine Infant from behind.

Within the Divine Kingdom, tremors continued incessantly, and the Nine Infant's angry roars never ceased for a moment.

After being consecutively slain of five heads by Mu Yi, the Nine Infant had completely lost its will to fight, and its power began to sharply decline.

"Die!"

Mu Yi roared, the time and space around the Nine Infant instantly solidified; Mu Yi unleashed all his power, like a falling star, diving down from high altitude.

This time the blade of light extended to its limit, a single horizontal slash.

All of the Nine Infant's remaining heads were severed by the blade of light.

"Zongwang Prompt: Slaying the Nine Infant completed!"

Because of identity and behavior, special achievement unlocked: Mountain Sea Fiend

Title effect:

1. Reputation within human regions greatly increases; related faction base reputation rises to Friendly, the deterrent effect against the myriad races of Mountain Sea increases, deterrence judgment gains +10.

2. Slaying the remaining ancient feral beasts can continue to unlock. (Slaying Taotie, Hundun, Qiongqi, and Taowu can greatly unlock subsequent title progress)

3. Upon entering combat state, the Soldier Lord title gains extra boost, attack judgment +5, gains extra battle spirit boost when attacking, each layer of battle spirit increases attack strength by 5%.

When Mu Yi dispelled the great mist, he immediately felt countless gazes shooting toward him.

For them, it doesn't matter what means Mu Yi used to slay the Nine Infant in the great fog; what matters is that he truly possesses the ability to kill the Nine Infant in the great fog.

This is no longer at the level of a cub; it has grown and can be regarded as a threatening existence.

Even though this threat is not yet strong enough, it has already made many people uneasy.

"Die!"

The void shattered, and a ferocious claw reached out from within it, trying to crush Mu Yi in one grip.

"Kill!"

Mu Yi did not dodge or evade; he had already sensed these watching gazes before activating the great fog, and had long been prepared.

The power of the Great Army Cloud, guided for half a day within the great fog, erupted explosively from the Great Hero Dragon Sparrow Sword; the brilliant sword light struck the claw, but could only scatter countless sparks, utterly unable to pierce the claw's scale defense.

Moreover, a terrifying surge of mana condensed from all directions, directly locking Mu Yi in place.

"Break it for me!"

However, at the very moment the claw was about to seize Mu Yi, he broke free of the lock, and the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow slashed down again; this time, a brilliant will flickered.

The Soldier Lord's power activated to the extreme; the defense that had just been impossible to breach instantly became as easy as a hot knife cutting butter.

The claw was directly severed into two pieces by Mu Yi's single strike.

Yet Mu Yi's stunning performance only heightened the others' fear.

The void shattered, and several terrifying attacks bombarded Mu Yi.

But in the next instant, a powerful force erupted within the void, and the surrounding void for thousands of miles actually manifested a momentary "vacuum".

"You wound my kin, and dare think my human race has no one?"

The Yellow Emperor's furious roar echoed in the void; a blade of light, unknown how far it stretched, annihilated all the terrifying attacks, then exploded and pursued in the direction of every incoming assault.

Only a moment later, Mu Yi smelled a strong scent of blood.

Pushing his Thousand-mile Eye to the limit, he saw clearly the gigantic corpses floating in the void afterward, each one far larger than the Nine Infant he had slain—by an unknown multiple.

And at this moment, they had all lost their lives, even their souls pierced through together.

"The Nine Infant I just killed… could it not have been a cub?" Such a thought rose in Mu Yi's mind.