Chapter 395: Exterminating the Demon

Inside the Small Spirit Realm.

Qin Ming remained unmoved by Jiang Yuan's shouting, with no intention of taking the initiative to go out.

Originally, he had some confidence in the Small Spirit Realm's concealment function.

Even if the Demonic Sect Holy Son's methods were sharp, he absolutely wouldn't be able to find their hiding place.

What's more, Jiang Yuan had been severely injured in Huo Hu Xu Zi's Golden Core self-detonation just now.

And even his strongest life-bound demonic treasure had been damaged, losing much of its spirituality, and it was estimated he wouldn't be able to recover for a while.

Qin Ming only needed to stay low in the Small Spirit Realm and quietly wait for him to leave.

But he never expected that after a Blood Refining Demonic Sect true disciple was exterminated, they would leave behind a so-called "Blood Ring Curse Seal" to mark the murderer.

With ordinary means, it seemed impossible to detect or eliminate, which was truly thorny.

Being marked by the Blood Ring Curse Seal meant inevitably enduring the endless retaliation of the Blood Refining Demonic Sect.

Outside, a creepy smile appeared on Jiang Yuan's pale face.

"So you're here."

"That section of Star Sea Divine Vine should have been taken by you too, right?"

Afterward, Jiang Yuan was seen holding the demonic-patterned token and pointing toward a certain spot in the void.

The Blood Ring Curse Seal erupted with a faint red thread, pointing toward a certain spot in the void.

It was exactly where Qin Ming's Small Spirit Realm was hidden.

Jiang Yuan saw that under the guidance of the Blood Ring Curse Seal, no shadow of any cultivator was revealed.

A hint of doubt first flashed across his pale, effeminate face.

Afterward.

He suddenly associated it with something, and a thick look of excitement immediately flowed into his gaze.

"Hehehe!"

"Could this be the legendary Cave Heaven magic treasure?"

"I didn't expect such an existence to exist in a mere lower realm!"

"A blessing in disguise!"

"Fortunately, Junior Sister Lan isn't here, and no one is competing with me for the opportunity!"

"Star Sea Divine Vine, Cave Heaven magic treasure! Hahaha!"

Inside the Small Spirit Realm, Qin Ming's expression was incomparably ugly.

After a flash of lightning in his mind, he already had a plan.

"Mas-Master, we've been discovered, what should we do?"

Hua Hua Tianxiong asked with a nervous face, looking from time to time at the madman Jiang Yuan outside.

"Stay inside and don't come out."

Qin Ming immediately unleashed the True Demon Illusion, transforming into Hua Hua Tianxiong's appearance, and then circulated the "Green Emperor Technique" to hide his magic power aura to the Golden Core mid-stage.

Afterward, his figure blurred, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared from the Small Spirit Realm.

Jiang Yuan waited outside for a long time without seeing any movement, and became a bit impatient.

"It seems if I don't force you, you aren't prepared to come out."

Just as he was about to make a move.

Swish, swish, swish! Jiang Yuan subconsciously flew backward, leaving an afterimage where he had originally stood.

When he stood still again, he discovered that there were seven holes in the afterimage.

Jiang Yuan released his vast spiritual sense to scan the surroundings, but didn't discover the person who had secretly attacked.

Instead, his spine felt cold, and a sense of palpitations arose.

He formed a seal with his hands, putting away the damaged Blood Pagoda, only to see that its true form was a pitch-black inkstone-shaped demonic treasure.

Jiang Yuan put the Blood Pagoda into his body, and a blood-colored demonic banner appeared in his pale hand.

Immediately, he waved the blood-colored demonic banner forward.

The void distorted and squirmed, as if something was about to crawl out from within.

Roar! The next instant, three skulls emitting pitch-black demonic energy appeared.

The demonic heads had long hair, green faces and fangs, a scarlet long tongue hanging down, and black flames emerging from their hollow eye sockets and mouths, emitting an incomparably terrifying aura.

Jiang Yuan, despite being injured, remained completely calm, relying on this.

These three late Golden Core stage demonic heads had already developed intelligence, almost no different from humans.

The next instant.

A faint fluctuation came from the void, and seven Wood Emperor Nails magic treasures, flashing with red-gold color, shot out violently, heading straight for Jiang Yuan's face.

Roar! The three demonic heads in front of Jiang Yuan opened their giant mouths, roared wildly, and spat out several pitch-black demonic flames with astonishing power, sweeping toward the front.

The Wood Emperor Nails instantly pierced through the void, and when they touched the demonic flames, the red-gold sun essence fire erupted violently.

The demonic flames spat out by the demonic heads collided with the sun essence fire and immediately collapsed one after another.

Bang, bang, bang! The Wood Emperor Nails' momentum remained undiminished, directly piercing several large holes in the three demonic heads.

The demonic heads wailed in pain, the pitch-black demonic energy outside being weakened by more than half, becoming withered.

The seven Wood Emperor Nails circled in the air and fell back into Qin Ming's hand.

However, Jiang Yuan also relied on the demonic heads to block this blow, remaining unscathed.

"Tier 3 Supreme-grade magic treasure! And sun essence fire! No wonder it can restrain this Holy Son's demonic cultivation technique!"

"How should I address Your Excellency?"

Ripples appeared in the air, and then the figure of a fat cultivator in gorgeous robes appeared, with a big belly, smiling at Jiang Yuan:

"This seat does not change his name or surname, Hua Hua Tianxiong is the name."

Hua Hua Tianxiong, watching the show in the Small Spirit Realm, had a bitter face, knowing he had to take the blame again today.

Jiang Yuan beckoned casually, taking back the three demonic heads in front of him, his expression showing some heartache.

These three demonic heads were refined with great effort; not to mention the harsh refining methods, they also required exterminating numerous living beings and absorbing resentment.

If all three demons were unleashed, exterminating a Golden Core Completion cultivator would be a piece of cake.

But Jiang Yuan didn't expect the opponent to possess a top-tier magic treasure refined with sun essence fire, which was extremely restraining to the ghosts in his hand.

It easily broke his demonic head divine ability.

"Hehe! A rat hiding its head and showing its tail, I didn't expect you to have some skills."

"Almost ruined this Holy Son's demonic heads."

"Golden Core mid-stage... I suppose that's not your true cultivation strength, right?"

"Junior Brother Chou and Junior Brother Meng dying at your hands is not unjust at all."

Today, Jiang Yuan had suffered setbacks with two demonic treasures in succession, and his mood was quite depressed.

However, as a Demonic Sect Holy Son, his methods naturally wouldn't be just this little.

Realizing the opponent possessed a magic treasure that restrained demonic ways, he didn't show too much surprise.

Qin Ming also sighed secretly; being able to force Huo Hu Xu Zi, at Golden Core Completion, to the point of self-detonating his Golden Core, this Blood Refining Demonic Sect Holy Son's strength was indeed extraordinary.

"Why doesn't Your Excellency go down and ask your two fellow junior brothers yourself?" Qin Ming said lightly.

Immediately, a Nine Nether Bone Sword appeared in his hand, and without a word, he slashed dozens of cold flame sword qi at Jiang Yuan.

"Very good! It's been a long time since anyone dared to speak to this Holy Son like this."

"You are the first."

Jiang Yuan laughed in anger, suddenly opening his mouth to spit, and a blood-colored demonic bead appeared, hovering in front of him.

A burst of brilliance bloomed on the demonic bead, sinking into a blood-colored silk scarf in his hand; the silk scarf kept growing larger, instantly shrouding the space within a hundred miles.

"Demon Luo Heaven Curtain!"

The sky was filled with blood light, appearing like a huge blood-colored curtain, sealing off the space below.

The sword light slashed by the Nine Nether Bone Sword hadn't even approached Jiang Yuan before it was swallowed by the red blood light he scattered, collapsing.

Afterward.

Jiang Yuan's entire body was filled with surging demonic energy, his aura climbing continuously, beginning to drive the demonic bead.

A sky-piercing blood light killed toward Qin Ming with the speed of lightning! Wherever the blood light passed, everything was swept away, all things dissolved, its power peerless.

Qin Ming immediately didn't say a word, put away the Nine Nether Bone Sword, and fully unleashed his Blood Qi True Gang! Roar! True Gang Transformation!

A blood-colored eight-armed demonic ape wearing armor appeared on Qin Ming, its aura crushing everything. Then, the demonic ape's third vertical pupil suddenly opened!

A red mysterious light shot out from the double pupils, shining straight at the blood light divine ability unleashed by Jiang Yuan.

In an instant, the blood light was frozen in the air by the mysterious light emitted by the Law-Breaking Heavy Pupil, and then wiped out with a sweep!

After the blood-colored demonic ape broke the demonic light, it didn't stop at all.

The blood-colored eight-armed demonic ape, standing a hundred zhang tall, glared at Jiang Yuan, clenched its five fingers, transformed into a fist, crossed a distance of several hundred zhang, and struck horizontally.

Rumble! Under this punch, the world changed color!

"How is this possible? Even this Holy Son's Blood Refining Demonic Light could be broken?"

Now, Jiang Yuan couldn't hold it together anymore.

Because previously, it was precisely by relying on the Blood Refining Demonic Light driven by this demonic bead, plus Holy Maiden Lan Bing's Ice Soul Demonic Light.

That he had severely injured the Great Zhou's Nascent Soul True Person, Han Ya Shangren, in one fell swoop.

Jiang Yuan knew his trump card divine ability better than anyone, and its power was definitely not comparable to that of an ordinary Golden Core.

Now that it had been wiped out by the opponent with a single glance, he was astonished and put away his look of contempt.

"What a strong body-refining technique!"

He continued to drive the demonic bead, and in an instant, the demonic light surged, wrapping his entire body.

The next moment.

Jiang Yuan transformed into a pale Heavenly Corpse, his figure also reaching a hundred zhang tall, emitting an aura of destruction with every gesture.

Above the Heavenly Corpse's massive torso, covered in blood-colored demonic patterns, it leaped into the sky and slammed a claw down toward the Demon Ape opposite it! Boom—Crack! In an instant, black lightning suddenly appeared in the sky.

A terrifying shockwave spread toward the surroundings, turning everything visible into dust.

Accompanied by the intense collision, the two massive figures each retreated.

After Qin Ming stood still and saw clearly, he discovered that the reason the effeminate man was so strong was entirely due to that pitch-black demonic bead.

Suddenly.

In his mind, he recalled a type of demonic cultivation technique in the "True Scripture of Origin Demon Seed".

"Actually Source Demonic Qi?"

"Dao Heart Seeds Demon, 'Yin Nether Heavenly Corpse Technique'."

At the same time, Qin Ming was also extremely surprised; how could a dignified Blood Refining Demonic Sect Holy Son cultivate this kind of pig-farming demonic technique?

It was almost exactly the same as his dead Junior Brother Chou.

It was just that his "Yin Nether Heavenly Corpse Technique" cultivation technique level was higher.

Jiang Yuan, on the opposite side, heard the opponent reveal the origin of the cultivation technique he was practicing, as well as the demonic energy emitted by the demonic bead.

His pale face finally couldn't remain calm, and he began to panic.

"How do you know the cultivation technique I practice?"

"Who exactly are you?"

Qin Ming sneered, "I not only know the cultivation technique you practice, you must have already planted the demon in your Dao heart, unable to turn back, right?"

"I'm just curious, why would a Demonic Sect Holy Son cultivate this kind of demonic technique that makes wedding dresses for others."

"Have you ever thought that you can harvest others' cultivation, and your cultivation progress is rapid, but once you encounter a cultivator with higher cultivation than you, they can also use this kind of demonic technique to harvest you..."

As the words fell.

Jiang Yuan's eyes on the opposite side immediately turned blood-red, his face distorted; clearly, Qin Ming had revealed Jiang Yuan's biggest secret.

The Source Demonic Bead and the "Yin Nether Heavenly Corpse Technique" were also the reasons why Jiang Yuan was able to rise rapidly in the Blood Huan Realm and become a Demonic Sect Holy Son.

This secret, even his master in the Blood Refining Demonic Sect didn't know.

"You are looking for death!!"

Jiang Yuan, transformed into the Yin Nether Heavenly Corpse, swallowed the Source Demonic Bead, and his aura immediately surged again!

Even beginning to tentatively hook the heaven and earth origin energy.

Qin Ming saw this, knowing he had guessed everything correctly, and immediately sighed lightly, then put away the blood qi power on his body.

The blood-colored eight-armed demonic ape phantom behind him also dissipated.

Immediately, a bronze mirror with a simple and ancient shape appeared in his hand.

Qin Ming unleashed the Yin Yang Profound Mirror divine ability, a trace of green-jade light flashing in his eyes, sweeping across the fierce and evil Jiang Yuan.

He said leisurely: "I didn't expect you to actually have five hundred years of lifespan left..."

"I suppose you haven't devoured less of cultivators' essence blood."

And Jiang Yuan, on the opposite side, the moment the opponent took out the bronze mirror.

In the dark, a sense of impending disaster suddenly arose in his heart.

And it was the kind that was certain to die. Jiang Yuan's face showed horror, thinking how could this be? Just as the Gouyu Golden Light Mirror in Qin Ming's hand was about to light up.

A piece of black jade worn by Jiang Yuan at his waist suddenly flashed with a pitch-black brilliance.

A thunderclap suddenly resounded in the air, and in the rolling black clouds, a giant human face appeared in the sky.

This person had long eyebrows and white hair, with a blood eye on his forehead; it was precisely the Blood Refining Demonic Sect Old Ancestor.

"Who are you, daring to hurt the Holy Son of my sect?"

Qin Ming remained silent, and the human face in the air sounded like thunder again, "Junior! Let him go, and I will spare your life, otherwise even if you go up to the heavens or down to the nine nethers, this old man will take your life."

Immediately, Qin Ming probed a little and saw that the human face before him was just a void projection.

With no combat power at all.

It was estimated to be the last protective warning measure given by the Blood Refining Demonic Sect to the sect's Holy Son.

The Nascent Soul Old Ancestor's spiritual sense left in the jade pendant would automatically trigger at the Holy Son's life-and-death moment.

After all, even for the Blood Refining Demonic Sect, the resources spent to cultivate such a Holy Son were not cheap.

Qin Ming's pupils constricted, "Old man, are you scaring me?"

The next moment.

He mobilized his magic power and directly drove the Gouyu Golden Light Mirror; on the smooth mirror surface, a group of golden light lines erupted in an instant.

The golden light divine flame ignored all defensive means on Jiang Yuan's body, and then fell straight onto him.

Jiang Yuan showed an expression of extreme terror; he was horrified to discover that the vitality in his body was withering and falling away rapidly like autumn leaves in the wind in just a few breaths.

"This... this is..."

Accompanied by strands of white hair falling quietly, and teeth falling out, his face withered rapidly.

His lifespan was exhausted in an instant, and his corpse fell from the sky suddenly.

The human face in the air only saw the golden light divine flame fall, and Jiang Yuan died instantly.

He was immediately furious, but could only watch helplessly, unable to do anything.

Qin Ming raised his hand to take, and threw Jiang Yuan's corpse into the Small Spirit Realm, waiting to study it slowly.

The human face in the air was shocked by this, because how could he not know that Source Demonic Bead? The Source Demonic Bead and the cultivation technique were things he had deliberately leaked to his beloved disciple Jiang Yuan... This Source Demonic Bead was also one of the Blood Refining Demonic Sect's several sect-suppressing treasures.

The Blood Refining Demonic Sect Old Ancestor spared no cost to cultivate Jiang Yuan, precisely to harvest his beloved disciple's cultivation to impact a higher demonic cultivation realm.

However, before the human face in the air could speak, as Jiang Yuan died, the jade pendant lost the support of its host, and the human face dissipated in the air. Qin Ming naturally wasn't worried about that old demon, because according to what he learned from Yue Yue Lingyan, cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage could not come to the human realm through the descent talisman.

This was also the reason why he was fearless.

"Anyway, I've already killed him, killing two is also killing, and one more Holy Son doesn't make a difference."

"Sigh, it's just that I've wasted another fifty years of my lifespan."

Qin Ming's current magic power value was vast, comparable to Golden Core Completion, so using the lifespan-reducing divine ability on Jiang Yuan, who was in the same realm, was a one-to-ten exchange ratio.

The Demon Luo Heaven Curtain magic treasure in the sky, without Jiang Yuan's magic power support, also fell down as a blood-colored silk scarf.

"This item is also quite extraordinary, a good treasure."

After Qin Ming cleaned up the battlefield, seeing that the timing was about right, he transformed into a green rainbow and disappeared into the horizon.

The surroundings returned to calm; having experienced a great battle, the earth was scarred.

Gradually, some low-tier cultivators hiding near the Five Elements Mountain Range, having survived the disaster, began to poke their heads out rustlingly.

They were all incomparably terrified.

"Wasn't that a Nascent Soul True Person fighting just now? It was truly too terrifying..."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 396 =====