Chapter 35: Outer Realm Heavenly Demon

Rumble...

Dark clouds gathered, lightning flashed and thunder rolled.

The battle between Xi Luo, the flying sword, and the evil spirits had only just begun, yet the beast tide in the Hundred Earth Mountains had already taken shape.

The roars of wild beasts spread throughout the entire forest.

Nearby villagers, every household, raised their fence-stakes and pitchforks, nervously guarding the village entrance.

Thanks to the running about of the brothers Li Er and Li Chengfeng some time ago.

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

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

And amidst the general trend of this terrifying beast tide, Pan Hu, moving against the current alone, appeared so dazzling.

In fact, Pan Hu did not go on a killing spree against those wild beasts.

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

Occasionally encountering one or two powerful monsters, the deterrent force Pan Hu displayed was enough to make them detour.

After all, monsters are different from ordinary wild beasts.

Each of them possesses intelligence not inferior to humans, knowing what is meant by seeking good fortune and avoiding disaster.

"Is that the culprit behind all of this?"

Because it took quite some time to disperse the nearby beast tide, by the time Pan Hu reached the battlefield near the Black Cloud Swamp, the battle between Xi Luo, the flying sword, and the evil spirits had already fallen into a stalemate.

Whoosh!

With almost no hesitation, Pan Hu brandished the millstone-sized axe in his hands and joined the battle.

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

Even those two natural enemies specifically meant to restrain them had been crushed more than once under their tacit cooperation.

But what was frustrating was that such damage was completely meaningless to those evil spirits.

No matter what methods Xi Luo and Li Boyang employed, they were ultimately unable to truly eliminate those evil spirits.

Because these evil spirits were different from the black spirit that had not yet taken shape before.

They had long since merged into one with the Ghost King, sharing the same life.

—As long as the Ghost King does not die, the evil spirits will not be extinguished.

"Eh?"

In just a single encounter, Pan Hu smashed a mountain demon that had charged at him.

But in the next second, that mountain demon reorganized its body in the black mist, without even the slightest sign of its spirit being damaged.

"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 nemesis..."

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

Suddenly raising his voice to give a warning, Pan Hu quickly slashed his palm, smearing that five-colored blood onto the blade of his millstone-sized axe.

Hiss!

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

As the Five-Colored Dog King, Pan Hu's blood was the natural nemesis of these evil spirits.

Whether it was pure Yang Qi or pure righteous thoughts, those were characteristics Pan Hu was born with.

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Swish!

The golden sword pellet was still weaving and fighting within the black mist.

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

[Pure Yang blood? Pure righteous thoughts?]

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

Pan Hu was right; pure Yang blood and pure Yang righteous thoughts were indeed the natural nemesis of those evil spirits.

Even his own sword pellet being able to slay the previous black spirit.

Was also because at the beginning of its forging, the forger had infused it with a certain firm righteous thought.

Unfortunately, it was unknown if it was because it had been refined by the old man, or because Li Boyang had replaced that righteous thought to become the sword soul of the sword pellet.

The remaining righteous thought could only eliminate evil spirits that had not yet taken shape like the black spirit.

Facing this Ghost King gathered from countless evil spirits, the sword pellet's restraining attribute appeared inadequate.

"Son?"

Holding Li Boyang tightly in her arms.

Chen Yun looked at the automatically rotating Destiny Bone Armor with an uneasy expression.

The scene earlier where the shadow turned into an inner demon had truly frightened this mortal who had never seen much of the world.

"Mother, it's fine."

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

Still using that slurred, childish voice, Li Boyang comforted her softly.

Immediately after, a sleep-bug flew out from Li Boyang's mouth and burrowed into Chen Yun's ear.

Although this red sleep-bug had been affected by the evil aura and had become extremely aggressive.

But in the end, it had not lost the most basic ability of a sleep-bug, and it instantly made Chen Yun fall into a deep sleep.

"Come out!"

"I have already found you."

With the third eye on his forehead shining brightly, Li Boyang looked at the dark night outside the door and shouted coldly.

In the perspective of the vertical eye, a mass of evil spirit approaching "nothingness" was wandering in the village outside.

Because its aura was truly too weak, and compared to other evil spirits it was simply not worth mentioning, Li Boyang had not noticed the existence of this evil spirit at the beginning.

It was not until his own inner demon was affected by it and turned into a ferocious ghost that Li Boyang suddenly realized the opponent's methods.

"You are quite concerned about that mortal."

Silently and soundlessly, a faint evil aura gathered into the figure of an old man.

Li Boyang recognized at a glance that the old man was the strange old man who had refined his soul and the sword pellet into one, only to be killed by him in the end.

"You wouldn't really treat her as your mother, would you?"

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

"You are an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon, the sword soul of the Divine Firmament Sword; you wouldn't have forgotten even this, would you?"

"As an evil outsider like you, you would actually treat a mountain village woman as your mother?"

"Is it that I am crazy, or are you crazy?"

Hearing this, Li Boyang remained calm.

Compared to those toxic keyboard warriors of 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?"

"In order to eliminate me, this threat, you even went so far as to actively expose yourself..."

Pausing slightly in his tone, Li Boyang did not wait for the old man to answer and continued.

"Your plan to make a feint to the east while attacking in the west succeeded; now Xi Luo and the Divine Firmament Sword have both been drawn away by you."

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

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

When saying the last sentence, Li Boyang's voice was full of certainty, and this certainty was even mixed with a hint of disdain.

"Nonsense!"

"That Mountain God and the Divine Firmament Sword have both been restrained by me..."

"You are now just a mere mortal of flesh and blood; what qualifications do you have to make me fear!"

Clearly, he had been poked in a sore spot by Li Boyang.

The old man's expression suddenly turned gloomy, and his originally illusory body became a bit more substantial due to his resentment.

This is the ability of the Ghost King, and also the essence of the evil spirits.

They are affected by their own resentment; the deeper the resentment, the stronger the strength, and vice versa.

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