Chapter 35: Outer Realm Heavenly Demon

Boom—

Dark clouds blanket the sky, lightning flashes and thunder rumbles.

While Xi Luo, the flying sword, and the evil spirits have only just begun their battle, the beast tide across the hundred mountains has already formed.

The roars of wild beasts echo throughout the entire mountain forest.

Nearby mountain villagers have each household raising their fence knives and forks, nervously guarding the village entrance.

Thanks to Li Er and his brother Li Li Chengfeng's efforts in going around everywhere recently,

the several small villages near Li Family Village had actually long prepared to welcome the beast tide.

"Get lost, do not advance in this direction!"

And under this terrifying trend of the beast tide, Pan Hu, going against the flow alone, appears so dazzling.

In fact, Pan Hu did not slaughter those wild beasts.

He merely guided and drove those wild beasts toward other safer areas, avoiding conflict with the mountain villagers.

Occasionally encountering one or two powerful spirits, the deterrent power Pan Hu displayed was enough to make them take a detour.

After all, spirits differ from ordinary wild beasts.

Each of them possesses wisdom no less than humans, knowing what it means to seek good fortune and avoid disaster.

"Is that the culprit behind all this?"

Since dispersing the nearby beast tide took considerable time, by the time Pan Hu deepened into the battlefield near Black Cloud Marsh, the battle between Xi Luo, the flying sword, and the evil spirits had already reached a stalemate.

Whoosh!

Without the slightest hesitation, Pan Hu swung the millstone-sized axe in his hand and joined the fight.

At this very moment, Xi Luo and the flying sword had successfully joined forces to slaughter several evil spirits.

Even those two natural enemies specifically countering them had been defeated more than once under their tacit cooperation.

But what is disheartening is that such damage means absolutely nothing to those evil spirits.

No matter what means Xi Luo and Li Li Boyang employ, they can never truly eliminate those evil spirits.

Because these evil spirits differ from the previously encountered Black Spirit that had not yet fully formed.

They have long merged with the Ghost King, sharing a single life.

—As long as the Ghost King does not die, the evil spirits cannot be destroyed.

"Eh?"

With just a single clash, Pan Hu split apart a mountain demon charging at him.

But in the next second, that mountain demon reassembled its body within the black mist, with not the slightest sign of damage to its spirit soul.

"These evil spirits cannot be killed by normal means?"

Seeing this situation, Pan Hu instantly realized where the problem lay.

"Only pure yang blood is their bane..."

"Or using pure righteous thoughts can also temporarily disperse them!"

Suddenly raising his voice to remind, Pan Hu quickly sliced open his own palm and smeared the five-colored blood onto the blade of the millstone-sized axe.

Swish!

This time, the mountain demon split by Pan Hu let out a tragic wail.

As the King of the Five-Colored Dogs, Pan Hu's blood is naturally superior to these evil spirits.

Whether it is pure yang energy or pure righteous thoughts, those are innate traits of Pan Hu from birth.

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Whoosh!

The golden sword pill continues to dart and fight within the black mist.

Yet Li Li Boyang's main body, far away in Li Family Village, heard Pan Hu's reminder in time.

【Pure yang blood? Pure righteous thoughts?】

As this thought flashed through his mind, the Destiny Bone Armor in Li Li Boyang's hand quickly made a judgment.

Pan Hu is correct; pure yang blood and pure yang righteous thoughts are the natural bane of those evil ghosts.

Even the fact that his own sword pill could slay the previous Black Spirit

was because, during its forging, the forger had infused it with some firm righteous thought.

Unfortunately, whether due to the old man refining it, or because Li Li Boyang replaced that righteous thought to become the sword soul of the sword pill,

the remaining righteous thought can only eliminate evil spirits like the Black Spirit that had not yet fully formed.

Facing the current Ghost King, assembled from countless evil spirits, the sword pill's suppressing attribute proves insufficient.

"Son?"

Holding Li Li Boyang tightly in her embrace,

Chen Yun looked uneasily at the Destiny Bone Armor spinning automatically.

The earlier scene where the shadow transformed into a heart demon had truly terrified this ordinary person who had seen little of the world.

"Mother, it's fine."

"You sleep first; when you wake up, everything will be over."

Still with that indistinct, childish voice, Li Li Boyang comforted softly.

Immediately, a sleepworm flew out of Li Li Boyang's mouth and burrowed into Chen Yun's ear canal.

Although this red sleepworm was affected by the evil qi and became extremely aggressive,

it ultimately did not lose the most basic ability of a sleepworm, instantly plunging Chen Yun into deep sleep.

"Come out!"

"I have already found you."

The third eye in his brow shone with spirit; Li Li Boyang gazed at the night outside the door and spoke in a low, fierce voice.

From the vertical eye's perspective, a malevolent spirit approaching "nothingness" lingered in the village outdoors.

Because its aura was far too faint, utterly insignificant compared to other malevolent spirits, Li Li Boyang had not noticed its existence at first.

Only when his heart demon was influenced by it and transformed into a hideous evil ghost did Li Li Boyang suddenly realize the other's methods.

"You care quite a bit for that mortal."

Silently and without sound, faint malevolent qi gathered into the figure of an old man.

Li Li Boyang recognized at a glance that the old man was the strange elder who had fused his soul with the sword pill, only to be slain by Li Li Boyang in the end.

"You don't actually think of him as your mother, do you?"

Wearing undisguised mockery on his face, the old man seemed to be trying to provoke Li Li Boyang.

"You are a heavenly demon from beyond the realm, the sword soul of the Shenxiao Sword; you shouldn't have forgotten even this, should you?"

"A demonic path like you would actually take a mountain village woman as your mother?"

"Is it I who has gone mad, or you?"

Hearing this, Li Li Boyang nonetheless remained calm.

Compared to those "Zu'an brothers" from his past life, the old man's aggressiveness was truly too low.

"Are you anxious?"

"Is it because my actions have already posed a threat to you?"

"To eliminate this threat of mine, you even went so far as to expose yourself voluntarily..."

His tone paused slightly; Li Li Boyang continued speaking without waiting for the old man to reply.

"Your plan to feign an attack on the east while striking the west succeeded; now Xi Luo and the Shenxiao Sword have both been drawn away by you."

"But the problem is, this also exposes your own weakness."

"You fear Xi Luo, you fear the Shenxiao Sword, and you even fear me..."

When speaking the last sentence, Li Li Boyang's voice was filled with certainty, and this certainty even carried a hint of disdain.

"Nonsense!"

"That Mountain God and the Shenxiao Sword have already been restrained by me..."

"Now you are nothing but a mere mortal flesh-and-blood body; what qualification do you have to make me fear you!"

He was clearly struck in a sore spot by Li Li Boyang.

The old man's face immediately darkened, and his originally illusory body became somewhat more substantial due to his resentment.

This is the ability of a Ghost King, and also the essence of a malevolent spirit.

They are influenced by their own resentment; the deeper the resentment, the stronger the power, and vice versa.

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