Chapter 264: Invasion on the Time Axis

"Why must I be subjected to Pollution?"

Li Heng pulled a heavily weathered long sword from the ground, brushed it with his hand, and watched the rust flakes scatter like snowflakes, asking the question nonchalantly.

"Impossible!"

The flesh-mountain monster's expression was dull; he sat down with a thud, causing the earth to tremble several times. He raised his own bloated hands, stared at them, and remained silent for a long time.

"Speak, who exactly are you?"

Finally, the flesh-mountain monster spoke, looking at Li Heng.

"And who are you?"

Li Heng asked back with a smile.

"This Venerable is the Sect Master of the Ancient Demon Sect, the Demon Venerable."

The tone was nearly deathly, the expression desolate.

Demon Sect Master, Demon Venerable?

Li Heng raised an eyebrow; this was quite a coincidence.

With a thought, the character "Demon" appeared in Li Heng's hand, hovering silently. "Then do you recognize this item?"

The Demon Venerable looked over and could not help but be stunned.

Immediately, he grinned, revealing the strangely shaped, constantly twisting, emerald-green teeth inside his mouth.

"Heh, naturally I recognize it. I never expected this thing to be in your hands. It seems you and I are fated; could it be that you are a disciple of my Demon Sect?"

Li Heng shook his head.

"So, what happened back then?"

Hearing Li Heng's question, the Demon Venerable let out a muffled snort.

"Since you have already experienced it, can you not guess? Back then, with the power of the Demon character, I established the Demon Kingdom, sweeping across Heaven and Earth; my prestige was unmatched for a time."

"However, just as I was about to establish Reincarnation, these Dead Remnants suddenly jumped out, causing me to suffer this Calamity and become the monster I am today."

He pointed at the corpses and the red-haired monsters beside Li Heng.

He was extremely resentful.

"Then, are you aware of the origin of this Calamity?"

"This Venerable does not know. The Weird Pollution brought by that damned murmur never existed in my era, yet it suddenly appeared at that time."

The Demon Venerable recalled, his expression suddenly turning somewhat terrified.

"What exactly is that murmur? Which Terror entity emitted it? Why could even the Tianwai supreme treasure, the Reincarnation Disk, not completely resist it..."

His expression began to twist, and the Demon Venerable became somewhat deranged.

But soon, he calmed down again immediately.

It was as if a mental patient had been given a sedative.

He looked at Li Heng with an unruffled gaze.

"Kid, do you know what that murmur is? You clearly experienced it too, heard that murmur, so why were you not subjected to Pollution, why did you not twist and mutate!"

Deep within his eyes lay a look of covetousness.

Li Heng did not answer and fell into deep thought.

The situation was worsening.

Just as he had expected, this Tianwai Calamity, this Weird and indescribable power, could truly infect through the Time Axis, invading from the present into the past.

If the mutation appeared a hundred years ago.

Then this Weird power traveled along that Node from a hundred years ago, infecting toward the past and the future.

His experience just now had already confirmed this point.

Such power should not have existed in the Demon Venerable's era. If such power had already existed then, Heaven and Earth would have been finished long ago and would never have developed to their current time period.

If this power were truly allowed to infect completely.

If it were allowed to infect to the very beginning of Heaven and Earth.

He could hardly imagine what would happen in the end; all ancient history would turn to Emptiness, and all future would be overturned. By then, Heaven and Earth would no longer be the original Heaven and Earth.

"Speak! Hurry up and speak! If you don't speak, I will beat you to death!"

Seeing Li Heng not replying, the Demon Venerable was surprisingly furious. He roared, and in this roar, the surrounding fog churned and surged, even being dispersed quite a bit.

Li Heng refocused his gaze on the Demon Venerable.

It was clear that although the Demon Venerable was alive and even had enough Reason to converse with him, he was actually insane; a madman with some Reason was even more dangerous.

Of course, his situation was at least better than the red-haired monsters.

At least he was not dead.

Li Heng estimated that the reason the Demon Venerable could still be alive, even after mutating like this, and still maintain some Reason, was likely because of that Reincarnation Disk missing five corners.

Combined with the Demon Venerable saying earlier that the Reincarnation Disk was a Tianwai supreme treasure.

He believed that the Reincarnation Disk was definitely a good thing.

One could even say that the reason it could not fully help the Demon Venerable block the infection of that murmur was likely because it was in a damaged state, and thus lacked the strength to do so.

"I will speak when I want to speak; where is your Reincarnation Disk?"

Hearing Li Heng's reply, the Demon Venerable calmed down again immediately and said with a smile, "So you are after my Reincarnation Disk? I can give you the Reincarnation Disk, but you must let me escape this neither-human-nor-ghost monster state."

"This Venerable wants to reign over the world once more!"

He laughed wildly at the sky, spreading his arms, as if he had returned to the time before he became a monster, standing at the peak of Heaven and Earth, sweeping across everything.

Li Heng's expression remained without a ripple.

Theoretically, the Demon Venerable's request could actually be satisfied.

As long as he had enough Source Power, he could do anything.

Never mind this Demon Venerable's aberration; even if the Demon Venerable were thoroughly dead, his True Spirit extinguished, and all traces of his past, present, and future non-existent, he would still have a way to fish him back.

"Hand over the Reincarnation Disk, and I will restore you to normal."

Li Heng continued.

"Hehe, you really think I don't know what you're thinking, kid? You're trying to get something for nothing, right? This Venerable won't fall for it! You restore me to normal first, then I'll hand the Reincarnation Disk over to you!"

"Since you want the Reincarnation Disk, you should know its power and its background, right? That is a true treasure from Tianwai; its skills are not limited to this Heaven and Earth at all! If not for this object being incomplete, how would this Venerable have fallen into such a state!"

The Demon Venerable sneered, the fat on his body undulating with the rise and fall of his words, trembling like waves; it was obvious he hadn't exercised in many years, his body was all fat, a dead fat otaku.

"There is simply no trust between us."

"This Venerable doesn't care about that."

"Alright then, I can only turn and leave."

Li Heng shrugged his shoulders and turned around, preparing to head home.

"You cannot leave!"

The Demon Venerable suddenly became anxious.

"Then why can't I leave? Do you want to keep me here?"

Li Heng asked in return.

"Why wouldn't I be able to keep you? I am the Demon Venerable!"

The Demon Venerable let out a roar and slapped his palm toward Li Heng.

He, the Demon Venerable, had pushed across Heaven and Earth without a rival, and no one dared to defy him. This mere kid from a later age dared to refuse his request? Did he really think he, the Demon Venerable, could no longer lift his blade?

Li Heng was already in the shadow of this palm at this moment.

He shook his head helplessly, just about to make a move.

There is no longer a ship in this new era to carry you.

Why must you still set sail? Do you want to drown?

But the next moment, another roar rang out.

It turned out that the Red-Haired Monster had become extremely furious upon seeing the Demon Venerable attack Li Heng, and it began to roar, its body also swelling up until it was identical to the Demon Venerable's meat-mountain physique.

"What, you dead thing still want to attack this Venerable?"

"Seeking death!"

Seeing the Red-Haired Monster pouncing toward him, the Demon Venerable was furious in his heart; he withdrew the palm that was about to strike Li Heng and began to fight with the Red-Haired Monster, wanting to completely destroy this mortal enemy.

Li Heng held the Tetanus Longsword and sighed.

The Red-Haired Monster had ruined his big plan.

He had originally wanted to test how powerful the tetanus was.

When two monsters fight, one must be injured.

The one injured was the Red-Haired Monster.

After all, the Red-Haired Monster was merely a Heavenly Human Corpse that had gained consciousness; it was not the true original owner and could not unleash the true power of the body, at least not now that it had just birthed intelligence. As for the Demon Venerable, regardless of whether he was crazy or not, he was still the original person.

Thought he was a king, but he turned out to be a noob.

Li Heng was helpless.

He watched the Red-Haired Monster, which kept pouncing up only to be easily tossed aside by the Demon Venerable, and felt somewhat speechless.

After thinking for a moment, he threw the Tetanus Longsword to the side of the Red-Haired Monster. The Red-Haired Monster was stunned when it saw this, not knowing what this thing was, but it instinctively picked it up and gripped it in its palm.

The Tetanus Longsword also grew larger accordingly.

The Demon Venerable laughed crazily when he saw this.

"Could it be that with a sword, you think you can beat me? That outsider kid from a later age is also naive; it's just a mere corpse with consciousness, does it really think it can use this Venerable's sword technique?"

He grinned, intending to finish off the Red-Haired Monster with one slap.

In fact, the Red-Haired Monster truly did not know how to use it.

However, seeing the Demon Venerable slapping toward him again, it panicked; it gripped the Tetanus Longsword with both hands and thrust it fiercely toward the palm that was pressing down upon it.

Puchi, the longsword pierced through the palm, and blood flew everywhere.

The Red-Haired Monster was stunned, and the Demon Venerable was also stunned.

Everything seemed to have pressed the pause button.

Only the blood flowed down unstoppably.

The Demon Venerable finally reacted and was furious.

"Damn it, a mere corpse of a dead person actually injured this Venerable; you all must die!" He roared toward the sky, his aura erupting, and he went completely mad, extending his other palm toward the Red-Haired Monster and Li Heng.

However, the next moment, his body stiffened.

He discovered that some kind of thing had suddenly appeared inside his body, and then it rapidly spread throughout his entire body, obstructing the circulation of his power and making his whole body weak.

The Red-Haired Monster, on the other hand, upheld the principle of taking advantage of his illness to take his life.

It took that Tetanus Longsword and began to hack wildly.

If the original owner of this body had seen that Xiaji Ba Sword Technique, he probably would have covered his eyes, unable to bear looking, wondering if something was wrong with his corpse, and why the intelligence born from it had no talent for sword techniques.

Must say.

The Red-Haired Monster still had some tricks up its sleeve as a Heavenly Human Corpse that had gained consciousness. During the time the Demon Venerable was stunned, it actually hacked off an arm, truly causing blood to flow like a river.

At this moment, the Demon Venerable was already afraid in his heart.

He was completely unable to clear this kind of thing; his body became increasingly weak, and the speed at which his own cultivation was dissipating, which was already fast, now became even faster, as if he had taken a laxative, flowing away in a torrent.

"Reincarnation Disk, come out!"

Roaring toward the sky, a hexagonal disk flew out from his skull.

It was exactly the Reincarnation Disk that Li Heng had seen before.

However, compared to what he had seen before, the Reincarnation Disk before his eyes appeared even dimmer, clearly having suffered another severe blow to its Original Qi on top of being damaged and incomplete.

At the same time, Li Heng also discovered something.

As the Reincarnation Disk flew out from within the Demon Venerable's body.

The Demon Venerable's massive, mountain-like flesh body began to tremble violently, as if it were about to explode the very next moment.

Li Heng sighed with emotion.

So that was it; no wonder the Demon Venerable did not die immediately like the red-haired monster—it was because the Reincarnation Disk was protecting him.

Now it was time for him to make a move.

With a thought, he burned his Source Power.