Chapter 713: The Peak of a Demon's Life

Li Ang, wreathed in black smoke, immediately launched a charge after finishing his declaration of war, and a flash of blood-red was suddenly added to the emerald-green Jade Valley.

Facing the heavy wolf-fang mace in Li Ang's hands, the Goddess of Wealth—whose power had been split into thirty thousand parts by the 【Code of Collective Punishment】 and whose soul was pinned down by the 【Heart's-Desire Scales】—was as fragile as a wooden puppet.

In this strange war without battle cries, Li Ang, wielding various torture implements as weapons, charged down like a war chariot from the mountaintop, smashing the headless divine corpses that lunged at him into pieces, and trampled out a fresh-red path of blood and flesh through the emerald-green Jade Valley.

When he was occasionally entangled by the wildly surging headless divine corpses, his hands and feet tangled so he couldn't break free, a ferocious torture device would be hastily set up, forcibly yanking the headless corpses pressing down on Li Ang away; once Li Ang regained his freedom, he would rise and charge again!

And as the blood-soaked path he had trampled out kept lengthening, the rolling black smoke coiling around Li Ang seemed to draw some kind of nourishment from the divine blood soaking the ground, and was also uncontrollably swelling without limit; the demon phantom floating behind his back grew ever more solid and expanded as the smoke thickened.

Two meters, three meters… five meters, seven meters… ten meters, twelve meters…

By the time Li Ang hoisted the wheel of execution to which two divine corpses were bound and charged down the mountain like pushing a wheelbarrow against the tide of corpses, the demon phantom behind him had already swelled to fifteen meters tall—bigger than a five-story building!

And that wasn't all.

The originally blurry scales on the ram-headed demon were becoming clearer and clearer as the black smoke grew thicker; its originally wavering claws and fangs were also solidifying, even taking on a faint metallic sheen; and the rolling smoke mixed with showers of sparks that it exhaled from its mouth and nose actually carried a scorching heat!

……

So good! So damn good for a demon!

Merging his consciousness into the demon phantom behind Li Ang, Heishanyang watched the back ahead that had cast away all distracting thoughts and plunged wholeheartedly into war and savagery, and wished he could burst out laughing on the spot.

On a battlefield awash with blood and gore, one man charging against thirty thousand true gods and slaughtering them until their corpses carpeted the ground… this was practically the highest reward a demon could ask for! Even at the peak of my power, I never dared dream something this outrageous!

Honestly, to have such a thrilling blood-battle, even if I end up getting killed by the Goddess of Wealth in the end, this life of mine would've been fucking worth it!

After taking a deep drag of the smoke wafting off the true gods' blood and flesh, Heishanyang, so exhilarated his very soul was trembling, roared up at the sky with bloodshot eyes, then bent down and swept out violently, clearing a huge swath of ground in front of Li Ang; next, he scooped up seven or eight headless divine corpses and stuffed them into his own mouth with brutal savagery.

"Plop plop plop."

"……"

Looking at the divine corpses that, after being swallowed alive, fell right back out through his smoky belly, the fifteen-meter-tall Heishanyang fell silent for a moment, then clicked his tongue in annoyance, swatted aside these look-but-can't-touch pieces of trash, took a huge breath, and blasted out huge billowing clouds of smoke laced with sparks that howled toward the army of divine corpses blocking Li Ang's path!

This is… Heishanyang?

Watching the black smoke sweep down toward the bottom of the valley while dragging along a huge mass of headless divine corpses, Li Ang, whose eyes had already gone red from killing, was startled and finally regained a sliver of reason.

He turned to look at the enormous demon phantom behind him; the startled Li Ang was just about to open his mouth to ask, when he felt a sudden heavy weight on the top of his head; reaching up to feel it, he found a pair of pitch-black long horns with spiral ridges had appeared.

?!!!

"Ahahaha, this is proof that you've completely earned my approval!"

Sensing Li Ang's astonishment in his heart, Heishanyang, who had reached the peak of his demonic life, couldn't help but laugh and say:

"Just like that person from the Lane family who got my heart—whatever his name was, Bobo or Barbie—his ambition and arrogance matched my heart, so my heart replaced his and became one with him!

And just now, you threw yourself wholeheartedly into the war, began to truly enjoy the beauty of war from the heart, and truly aligned with the wrath and war I represent, so from now on, you… what are you doing? Ouch! Don't pull them out!?!""Get them off me right now!"

After trying to pull them out a couple of times and finding that the ram horns seemed to have grown there from the very beginning, already fused into one with his skull, Li Ang couldn't help but snarl in a mix of shock and fury:

"I'm human! How can a human head grow horns!"

"……"

Huh? You're human?

Turning his head to look at the blood-soaked path stretching over three hundred meters behind him, and the headless divine corpses struggling ceaselessly along the roadside, bound and strung up by torture devices of every description; then looking at Li Ang, who looked as if he'd been soaked in a blood pool, every stitch of clothing drenched in blood-plasma, his demonic flames raging so wildly his soul seemed on the verge of bursting right out of his body—Heishanyang couldn't help but click his tongue, at a loss for words.

Look, with your purity like this, even if you were tossed straight to the lowest layer of the Abyss, you'd still rank up there—you really don't have much to do with the word 'human'… but fine, you're the boss, whatever you say goes~

Under Li Ang's repeated urgings, Heishanyang reluctantly retracted the horns, then tucked Li Ang inside his smoky belly, stretched out his demon arm nearly two meters in diameter, and slammed wildly into the surging divine corpses as if swatting ants, widening the blood-path by more than tenfold, until Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's anxious shouts came echoing up from the bottom of the valley…

"Stop! You can't kill any more!"

Feeling the resistance in her hands growing stronger, and seeing the thin sword being pushed out another large stretch, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, who understood what was happening, hurriedly shouted at Li Ang:

"She did it on purpose! Every bit of flesh split off by these 【Codes】 is part of her power! The more corpses you destroy, the more of her power she recovers!"

"Li Ang! While she hasn't gotten up yet! Run! Take Tom and run! I can't hold on any longer!"

?!

The Goddess of Wealth did it on purpose?

Hearing Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's shouts, Li Ang's pupils couldn't help but contract slightly, and he hurriedly turned to look.

Then he was shocked to discover that, at some unknown point, the staggering divine corpses in the valley had begun to furiously attack each other; however, their power had been split too thin, and their physical strength was completely equal, so the damage they inflicted on one another was extremely limited, making this mutual brawling largely ineffective.

But after his own charge of slaughter, and Heishanyang's Susanoo-like wild pounding and crushing, the divine corpses in the valley had fallen like wheat being reaped, and a huge swath had already been cleared—at least one-thirtieth of them had "died" at the hands of him and Heishanyang!

No good, I have to be faster!

"Stop! Don't kill any more! Just keep them from bothering me… Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma!"

After hastily ordering Heishanyang to cease his attacks, Li Ang—his entire body shrouded in rolling black fog, smoke even seeping from his mouth, nose, and ear canals—wiped the divine blood with its faint golden sheen from his face, then, while gulping down hard liquor, shouted toward the bottom of the Jade Valley:

"Hold on a little longer… gulp gulp… I'll be right… gulp gulp… right there!"

(End of chapter)