Chapter 248

【Black energy kept pouring out from the Demon Lord's body.】

【The black sphere, held aloft by nine arms like pillars supporting heaven and earth, grew larger and larger.】

【Su Bai descended to the ground.】

【Seeing Shenhe immediately crowded over.】

【"Senior Brother..."】

【However, just as she was about to say something, Fanes, who had rushed over, beat her to it and asked Su Bai.】

【"Mr. Su Bai, what should we do now?"】

【Su Bai frowned tightly; he had been watching the situation in the sky and did not respond to Fanes.】

【He truly had not expected the Demon Lord to still have this trick up his sleeve.】

【"With my current strength, I really cannot match him."】

【Su Bai's calm response instantly made the pupils of everyone around him tremble.】

【No one had expected things to become so tricky.】

【Only Zhong Li appeared far more composed.】

【His gaze fixed straight on Su Bai: "Is it because you gave all your power to the Xuanyuan Sword?"】

【"Mm."】

【"The Xuanyuan Sword was born within my body in the first place; drawing it out took a great deal of my power."】

【"Alone, in my current state, I truly am no match for the Demon Lord in this form."】

【"Unless that other me, who is still thinking of a way, takes action himself."】

【Su Bai's words fell.】

【Everyone's gaze turned to the colossal thing high in the sky.】

【Fortunately, Su Bai's power still lingered on everyone's bodies; otherwise, just from the oppressive might descending from the high heavens, the people present would likely have long since perished here.】

【"How about it!?"】

【A voice that shook heaven and earth came down from the high heavens.】

【"Have you run out of options?"】

【"This is the price for refusing this sovereign."】

【"Don't you like strolling the streets of that port called Liyue? I'm very merciful—I'll grant your wish."】

【"From now on, you may stroll alone through a port filled with demons."】

【Hmph!】

【What a sick sense of humor.】

【The corner of Su Bai's mouth suddenly curved into an arc.】

【"Senior Brother?" Seeing Shenhe was stunned.】

【But that faint smile from Su Bai instantly made her beautiful eyes flicker.】

【It seemed Senior Brother had a plan.】

【"No, sorry..."】

【Su Bai likewise shouted up at the sky.】

【"I'm afraid I'm unable to enjoy your mercy."】

"I prefer the lively haggling over business and the sight of people diligently working toward a better future, rather than a port as quiet as one overrun by monsters."

【A port full of demons is actually a quiet port?】

【Hu Tao blinked her big eyes, her expression bewildered as she looked at Zhong Li: "Prince Yan, what does Boss Su mean?"】

【"By ordinary reason, if Liyue Port were entirely transformed into demons, they would surely attack Su Bai, and then be slaughtered by him."】

【"Liyue Port would be left with only him alone."】

【"So it would become quiet." Tianquan Ningguang said with a smile.】

【"After all, a quiet Liyue Port is not the Liyue Port I like, nor the Liyue Port they like."】

【Su Bai suddenly threw his head back and laughed.】

【"Since no one likes it, I can only let the minority submit to the majority."】

【"After all, there are far more of us on this side than the two of you."】

【What?】

【Still babbling nonsense with death at the door?】

【A cold laugh rose in the Demon Lord's heart.】

【What is this?】

【This is despair.】

【When a person is in despair, the brain enters a state of collapse.】

【The whole person becomes twisted, mad, even perverted.】

【Su Bai's state of babbling nonsense in the face of despair is merely one form of that.】

【Upon hearing this, The Demon Lord has already no wish to waste more words with these people from a lower-plane world.】

【Just as he was about to end everything.】

【Two abnormally immense surges of energy made his whole body shudder.】

【"Impossible, this is..."】

【His gaze turned toward the distant Liyue Port.】

【Two beams of white and golden light rose abruptly into the sky.】

【Whether it was the white light or the golden light, both beams faintly shimmered with a riot of colors within them.】

【The white light shot straight up into the sky, its direction pointing toward the very space Ning Ke had torn open.】

【Yet that golden streak of light flew toward the battlefield instead.】

【In the blink of an eye, it had already landed before Su Bai.】

【Buzz, buzz, buzz...】

【The instant the golden light touched the ground, it gave forth a series of pleasant sword hums.】

【The filth upon the earth, too, in that same instant of its landing, seemed to have been thoroughly cleansed, vanishing without a trace.】

【"Demon Lord, that is..."】

【Ning Ke's beautiful eyes contracted sharply.】

【Those light, chiming sword hums echoing in her ears sounded instead like a death knell heralding the end of days.】

【Its mere appearance before her gave Ning Ke the feeling of a great calamity descending.】

【Looking at the Demon Lord instead, even he was dumbfounded at this moment.】

【"Impossible. Just what is going on with such overwhelming power?"】

【"Why was I unable to sense its existence?"】

【"After all, for those who are weak, being unable to perceive an existence far stronger than themselves is perfectly normal."】

【Su Bai's soft laugh immediately piqued the curiosity of those around him.】

【Everyone turned their gaze to the golden longsword before him.】

【"This is..."】

【"Could it be that..."】

【The people of six hundred years later had never truly seen the appearance of the Xuanyuan Divine Sword.】

【One after another they craned their necks, staring with curiosity at this golden longsword whose blade was carved with exquisite patterns.】

【At this moment, the entire longsword was still wrapped in a riot of shimmering colors.】

【"Strange, I remember..."】

【"It doesn't seem to have looked like this."】

【Gan Yu came to Su Bai's side.】

【She said, puzzled: "The Xuanyuan Sword..."】

【"I remember that when you once wielded it, its blade was not wrapped in this kind of light."】

【"I understand now, it must be..." Phanes instantly grasped the reason behind it.】