Chapter 59: This Foreign Demon is indeed strong!

An extremely weak voice transmitted into Li Zhangsheng's ear.

Li Zhangsheng followed the voice and saw that one of the seated figures—a cross-legged old man with a withered face and disheveled black hair—had at some point opened his eyes wide and was staring straight at him.

Immediately, his words turned sharp: "Don't thrust the sword in, quickly pull it out!"

"That sword is used by the Foreign Demon to break the seal; once the sword is thrust deep in, it will release the Foreign Demon!"

As he spoke, the disheveled old man's eyes suddenly turned red, glaring at the white-haired old man: "He has already been possessed by a wisp of the Foreign Demon's divine sense; you must absolutely not believe his words."

Upon hearing this, Li Zhangsheng, who had originally intended to thrust the sword deeper, instantly stopped his action, his brows slightly furrowing.

At the same time, the white-haired old man looked at the disheveled old man, his eyes bloodshot, and spoke with anguish:

"You old demon, you actually possessed my junior brother!"

"Shouting 'catch the thief' while being the thief yourself—how cunning!"

"Young man, it's him who is possessed by the Foreign Demon's divine sense."

"That sword is the seal for that Foreign Demon; over these long years, the Foreign Demon has continually assaulted the seal, trying to break free, and a portion of the sword's blade has already been thrust out by him!"

"Once the sword is pulled out, the Foreign Demon will be released."

Li Zhangsheng's gaze went back and forth between the two old men, his brows furrowing even tighter.

At this point, one thing is certain: one of these two fellows is definitely possessed by the Foreign Demon.

However, their acting is flawless; Li Zhangsheng actually cannot tell who is pretending.

Li Zhangsheng scanned with his divine sense, yet even that detected nothing amiss.

Well, this Foreign Demon seems even more troublesome than I imagined.

For a moment, Li Zhangsheng faced a choice.

To thrust it in, or to pull it out—that is the question!

Simply, Li Zhangsheng withdrew his hand, eyes darting left and right, "How about... you do it yourselves?"

However, Li Zhangsheng's remark seems superfluous!

The two of them seem unable to move.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have him do the labor.

The white-haired old man said: "Our strength was exhausted when we sealed this Foreign Demon; now only a wisp of divine sense remains to guard it, and we have no strength left to move."

"Otherwise, I would have long ago personally thrust the sword in to deepen the seal."

"Silence!" the black-haired old man glared at the white-haired old man, speaking angrily and anxiously: "You Foreign Demon, stop deceiving people; young man, don't believe his words, quickly pull the sword out, otherwise the Immortal Realm will suffer disaster!"

"You old demon, full of lies." The white-haired old man glared at the black-haired old man with a face full of resentment: "Besides possessing my junior brother, he keeps trying to assault the seal—daydreaming!"

"Young man, thrust the sword in, and all his years of effort to assault the seal will come to nothing."

"Otherwise, given time, that sword will be thrust out by him, and then the Immortal Realm will truly suffer disaster!"

These two bickering back and forth have left Li Zhangsheng in a real bind.

I also don't know how strong this Foreign Demon is, or whether it will threaten me.

After all, these are the combat powers of the upper Immortal Realm; those from the myriad worlds cannot compare at all!

Otherwise, Li Zhangsheng would simply cut the matter short with one sword, regardless of whether he strengthens the seal or releases it.

"'How about? First stab downwards with a sword to test the water?'"

Li Zhangsheng pondered for a moment, then shook his head again.

"'No, this plain is obviously used to seal the Foreign Demon; if I cannot slay the demon with one sword and instead break the seal, releasing the demon, I would become a sinner of the Immortal Realm!'"

Having arrived at a new place, Li Zhangsheng now doesn't know what level of power he should match, so he must be more cautious!

"Young man, quickly pull that sword out; over this long period he has been channeling minute forces, controlling the sword to undermine the seal." Just as Li Zhangsheng hesitated, the black-haired old man urged anxiously.

"You cannot pull it out; you must keep thrusting it deeper, otherwise once this old demon breaks through the sword, who knows how many beings in the Immortal Realm will suffer calamity." The white-haired old man said with a sorrowful face.

"'How are you playing rule-based horror tales with me.'"

Li Zhangsheng thought to himself:

"'How about just leaving now, ignoring this mess.'"

"'Alright, if I ignore it, this Foreign Demon is so powerful that if one day it breaks the seal, I will also be affected.'"

"'This karma...'"

Thinking this, Li Zhangsheng began to analyze the loopholes in what the two old men had just said.

In his previous life, he had also watched some detective dramas and read some novels.

He considered himself to have some detective's mind.

Li Zhangsheng then carefully observed the expressions of the two old men again.

"'Obviously, this black-haired old man looks very anxious, really not wanting me to pull the sword out.'"

"'Moreover, generally sealing demons with such operations is like using a sword or some other object to suppress them.'"

"'The novels and TV dramas I watched in my previous life seem to be like this operation—pull the sword out and the seal is undone!'"

"'Hmm, definitely that's the case.'"

"'Furthermore, that white-haired old man just educated me about the Foreign Demon; he probably isn't the villain.'"

After pondering a moment, Li Zhangsheng trusted his intuition, reached out and gripped the sword's hilt, then... pressed down hard.

"'Exactly, just like that!" the white-haired old man sighed in relief with a relieved expression.

"'No, don't!" the black-haired old man's expression was completely opposite, and he let out a wail.

Boom—

The next moment, heaven and earth trembled, the ground shook and mountains swayed.

The blood-red stone-paved plain where Li Zhangsheng stood began to crack!

Click! Click! Click!

At the same time, Li Zhangsheng heard the sound of chains breaking from underground.

"Well, my intuition is completely rotten."

Li Zhangsheng also realized his detective mind was completely unreliable.

He quickly looked at the white-haired old man, who had lowered his head and remained motionless.

"It's over, it's over, this old demon is about to break the seal!" the black-haired old man lamented, "Heaven's Doom Immortal Realm!!"

Li Zhangsheng frowned slightly, quickly drawing his sword.

"Hahaha, fool, the seal is already broken—do you think drawing your sword can turn the tide?" a wild laugh echoed across heaven and earth.

Boom! Boom!

Overwhelming demonic black aura shot up into the sky, instantly permeating a radius of ten million li.

In an instant, the whole world plunged into darkness, as if the apocalypse had arrived!

Next, a bizarre species emerged from underground, and the ground collapsed in vast swaths!

Li Zhangsheng casually gestured, pulling the black-haired old man to his side to keep him from being swept up in this sudden heaven-and-earth-shattering catastrophe, and gave him an apologetic look.

"Wuhu, I have finally broken this annoying seal!" the bizarre species soared into the sky.

He had an irregular skull, with two rows of densely packed eyes that were scarlet and bizarre.

His body had a total of six arms, each slender like withered tree roots pieced together, covered in countless tendrils!

His two legs were very thin and long, without feet.

He just floated in midair, arms spread, as if savoring a feeling of rebirth, his whole body coiled with clumps of evil and terrifying black aura.

The black-haired old man sitting cross-legged beside Li Zhangsheng looked at the Foreign Demon in the air with a face full of despair, muttering "It's over! Over..."

Li Zhangsheng, meanwhile, looked at the Foreign Demon in the air with a slightly changed expression.

At this moment, his aura completely enveloped everything within a radius of ten million li.

To be honest, Li Zhangsheng had never encountered such a situation before, and for a moment he felt a bit guilty.

"Can this kind of being be settled with a single sword?"

Li Zhangsheng thought to himself, he had no idea at all!

At the same time, the Foreign Demon in the air turned its gaze toward Li Zhangsheng, its countless eyes fixed on him, saying "Heh heh, I never expected that in the end it would be you, this ant, who helped me break that annoying seal!"

"Since you helped me break the seal, I'll give you a quick death."

As he spoke, Li Zhangsheng hadn't even reacted when a slender arm, like a divine chain of order, extended from the void before him and lashed at his body, extremely bizarre!

Li Zhangsheng instinctively reached out to block.

Pa!

With a sound, Li Zhangsheng's sleeve was torn apart, and a white mark appeared on his arm, accompanied by a slight tingling numbness.

Li Zhangsheng's pupils contracted sharply as he looked at the faint white trace on his arm.

To be honest, since he transmigrated, he had never suffered such a heavy 'injury'.

This Foreign Demon is indeed... 'strong'!