Chapter 1011: Jia Ye

From Demon Capital to the Northern Frontier of the Supreme Demon Kingdom, there is a teleportation formation.

In the time it takes to breathe, Wu Tie brought a large group of subordinates to the northernmost Black Dragon City of the Supreme Demon Kingdom.

This is a small city with a population of one million, the only city within tens of millions of li in all directions.

The Northern Frontier has many snowy deserts, sparse vegetation, but abundant ore veins and rare beasts; the sea holds even more various rare resources. Under Black Dragon City's jurisdiction are hundreds of villages and towns, over ten thousand mines, and at sea dozens of large islands under its administration; the fisheries on those islands can each year send countless rare seafood and special cultivation resources to the Supreme Demon Kingdom.

When Wu Tie and the others arrived via the teleportation formation, the interior of Black Dragon City was in utter chaos.

Black Dragon City, tens of li in length and width, had all its city-defense grand formations activated; eighteen thousand garrison troops stood on the northern wall, and several demonic formations of considerable power were spewing vast sheets of lightning and dark wind toward the sky, desperately resisting the huge feather-shaped wind blades falling from high above.

Those wind blades were immensely powerful; the eighteen thousand troops, combined with the lightning and dark wind spewed by the city's grand formation, could almost block an attack from a high-level Divine Manifestation cultivator, yet all that lightning and dark wind were easily sliced to pieces by the wind blades.

After having part of its power offset by the lightning and dark wind, the wind blade struck Black Dragon City's city-defense grand formation, easily tearing through dozens of layers of light shrouds hovering over the city, causing the entire city-defense grand formation to continually tremble with tremendous noise.

The citizens of the Supreme Demon Kingdom are extraordinarily fierce; besides the eighteen thousand regular city-defense troops, among the city's million inhabitants over three hundred thousand able-bodied youths, helmeted and armored, were rapidly gathering at several open spaces within the city.

Several black military banners, spewing vast sheets of Blood Light, hovered in the air, guiding these city youths to gather beneath them. Throughout the city, low war drumbeats sounded continuously.

Low-ranking civil and military officials at various open places were cheering those youths, shouting hoarsely: 'If the city falls, we will all die!'

"Fight desperately, fight desperately…… If we don't fight desperately today, we'll all die!"

"Think it through, don't say your wives and children are in the city; even if you abandon your wives and children, the attackers outside are Venerable-level old monsters…… Even if you run, you cannot escape!"

"We can only rely on the grand formation, buying time, buying time…… Our Supreme Demon Kingdom also has Demon Venerable Old Ancestors; they are surely on their way. As long as we can hold out for a moment, as long as the Demon Venerable Old Ancestors arrive, we will survive!"

Outside the lord's manor at the center of Black Dragon City, on a vast training field, a blood-soaked altar was slowly rising from underground; tens of thousands of ragged, bone-thin slaves were being driven by a large group of the lord's manor guards, staggering toward the altar.

Clad in a crimson robe, holding a blood-colored skull staff, his whole body filled with yin qi and killing intent soaring to the heavens, the Black Dragon City Lord hopped on his feet there, urging: 'A bunch of idiots who only eat white rice and can't do anything…… Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up……'

"You damn bastard, I usually keep to myself and never dare offend anyone…… This is truly disaster striking from the sky while sitting at home; where did this calamity come from…… A Venerable-level old monster could swallow the whole Black Dragon City in one bite!"

"Tell me the truth, is it you who offended someone outside? Is it you? Is it you?"

"You damn bastard, don't let me find out who brought disaster to my Black Dragon City…… Once I find out, I will surely chop him into pieces, stuff his meat into dumplings to feed the dogs!"

The commander of Black Dragon City, a bearded man whose strength was no more than the third level of the Divine Manifestation Realm, was on the northern city wall with a full-face smile, speaking softly and humbly to a patch of demonic cloud in the northern high sky.

"This sir…… this dear father…… this ancestor…… please speak nicely, speak nicely!"

"We have no grudge, no grudge at all…… This place is the Supreme Demon Kingdom; domestically we have thirty-six old ancestors like you seated in command; it's better to have one more friend than one more enemy……"

"Our Black Dragon City is actually an asset of Scattering Soul Valley; the valley's old ancestor, Feitian Old Ancestor, possesses demonic power that reaches the heavens, can summon souls from ten thousand li, and can kill invisibly. More friends mean more paths; ancestor, why bother?"

In the high sky, within the demonic cloud, a pair of enormous wings lightly curled, and instantly horned whirlwinds rose up howling, heavily striking Black Dragon City's grand formation. Dozens of layers of light shrouds shattered instantly; on the northern city wall, each of the eighteen thousand city-defense troops vomited blood and retreated backward, many losing their footing and toppling headfirst from the wall into the city.

A sharp voice came from within the demonic cloud: 'Supreme Demon Kingdom? Listening to you say that, you do have some foundation. Old Ancestor me, I won't make things difficult for you—hand over Jia Ye, and everything can be negotiated!'

"Who is Jia Ye?" The commander on the city wall and the Black Dragon City Lord inside the city stared blankly at the demonic cloud.

"Old Ancestor me has been chasing and killing all the way; I personally saw Jia Ye flee into your city…… Before entering the city, he even gave Old Ancestor a bolt of Annihilation Zen Thunder, which is what startled you all and triggered the city-defense grand formation."

"The power of that Annihilation Zen Thunder is still hindering Old Ancestor me from using my supernatural powers. However, it's only a matter of a moment; once Old Ancestor extracts the power of the Annihilation Zen Thunder, breaking the city and killing people will be instantaneous."

"Hand over Jia Ye, and Old Ancestor will grant you a path to survival. Otherwise, the whole city will be exterminated; Old Ancestor happens to be a bit hungry."

The commander on the city wall and the Black Dragon City Lord's eyes flickered.

The Black Dragon City Lord laughed 'kekeke': 'So it turns out Jia Ye holds the Annihilation Zen Thunder in his hand, capable of injuring even a Venerable-level Old Ancestor? This is a fine treasure!'

The commander on the city wall, however, wiped away his smile; on his bearded black face a sinister, vicious grin suddenly appeared: 'Damn it, turns out we still need a moment to recover? You nearly scared the piss out of me!'

The commander stamped his foot, pointing at the sky and unleashing a torrent of angry curses: 'You brainless feathered beast, your grandfather's filthy spawn…… Not even checking whose territory Black Dragon City is, you dare to barge in here?'

"Today I'll make it clear to you: once you come, you won't be thinking of going back."

"Scattering Soul Valley is only tens of millions of li from our Black Dragon City; Feitian Old Ancestor rushing over would take just a blink…… Feitian Old Ancestor, his magic penetrates the heavens, his supernatural powers are unmatched, he is invincible under heaven!"

Including the Black Dragon City Lord, all low-ranking officials in the city, all the able-bodied commoners, each shouted hoarsely as if injected with chicken blood: 'Feitian Old Ancestor, his magic penetrates the heavens, his supernatural powers are unmatched, he is invincible under heaven!'

The bearded commander proudly flexed his muscles and waved at the demonic cloud: 'You lowly trash, can't you break through our Black Dragon City? All you can do is watch it burn? Hehe, I just love watching you flare up, yet you can't do anything to my little self!'

"Heh, wait, wait until Feitian Old Ancestor arrives, then you'll have something to see!"

Within the demonic cloud, countless bolts of electric light suddenly burst forth; the tremendous thunderclap shook the northern sea surface of Black Dragon City into thinking of towering waves.

In the demonic cloud, two gigantic wings like clouds hanging from the sky slowly descended from within; the blue-gray wings, flickering with faint lightning, spread outward to both sides—one hundred li, two hundred li, three hundred li…… soon the wings expanded to a length of ten thousand li.

Such enormous wings plunged into the sea, then a single flap made the sea surface within a radius of ten thousand li surge violently; tens of thousands of li of seawater, like a single stone slab, were 'rumbling' lifted by a mighty force, then slammed down upon Black Dragon City from above.

"Old man can't break the city?" came an extremely resentful howl from within the demonic cloud: 'You little brat, you cursed me well, you cursed me well, you truly cursed me well…… Old man just doesn't want to damage his vital essence; this Annihilation Zen Thunder is overly toxic, old man merely wants to preserve his vital essence.'

"Even if Old man doesn't want to use supernatural powers, relying solely on Old man's unparalleled bloodline-forged Supreme Demonic Body, breaking your city…… is as easy as turning over one's hand!"

"All of you, die for Old man!"

"Jia Ye, little baldy, be careful, don't let Old Ancestor's strike smash you to pieces, and definitely don't get killed by mistake!"

The ocean within a radius of tens of thousands of li rose into the air and came crashing down like a huge grindstone.

Before this vast expanse of seawater, Black Dragon City was like a tiny egg.

The bearded commander dropped to his knees with a 'thud' and burst into hysterical wailing: 'Old Ancestor, spare my life, spare my life…… It's my fault as a grandson, it's my fault as a grandson…… We'll now help you find that Jia Ye, we'll now help you look for him!'

The sea surface that had already surged up into the high sky suddenly stalled; a pair of enormous blue-gray wings in the air swayed gently, and from within the demonic cloud came a sharp coughing sound.

"For now, spare you; search the city and seize Jia Ye. He is a dead baldy, with a smelly fish at his side!"

"That dead baldy, we want him alive…… definitely alive; if he died…… hehe."

Wu Tie and the others had already been standing for a while on the roof of Black Dragon City's lord's manor; the Black Dragon City Lord and that bearded commander's splendid performance were all seen by them.

Beside Wu Tie, Li Ergouzi felt a hero's admiration for a hero and remarked: 'This general can bend and stretch; he is truly a good man, a true man!'

Wu Tie's mouth corner twitched.

Huang Lang opened his mouth; the group of martial generals behind Wu Tie forcibly suppressed the impulse to jointly beat Li Ergouzi to death.

This bearded commander, with such lazy virtue, you say he is a 'good man,' a 'true man'?

Li Ergouzi, do you perhaps misunderstand those two terms?

Under the threat of that sea overhead, the citizens of Black Dragon City sprang into action, searching inch by inch, house by house, for a 'bald-headed youth with a smelly fish at his side'.

Outside the city, in the high sky, within that demonic cloud, the high-pitched cold laughter sounded again.

"You Supreme Demon Kingdom have thirty-six Demon Venerables, which counts as a not-small force, but compared to my Covering-the-sky Demonic Alliance, it's nothing."

Don't say your Feitian Old Ancestor didn't come over; even if he did, if he dares to interfere in this matter, I, the Old Ancestor, will certainly invite many brothers of the Heaven-covering Demon Alliance to destroy your Supreme Devil Kingdom……

In the demon cloud, two points of cyan-gold light shone forth, like two small suns, emitting two streams of demon light that shrouded Black Dragon City.

Black Dragon City's City Defense Grand Formation rapidly disintegrated under those two streams of demon light; wisp after wisp of black smoke continually rose from the light pillars formed by the formation, and beneath the city, the dull sounds of foundations being destroyed kept coming out.

Suddenly, the demon light condensed above the lord's manor.

A sharp voice in the demon cloud suddenly rose several pitches: 'Who are you? Is that the so-called Feitian Old Ancestor?'

It was obvious that the voice of the one in the demon cloud betrayed a feeling of anxious unease.

Even if his Myriad-Heaven Demon Alliance were immensely strong, the saying goes that a strong dragon does not crush a local snake; he pursued and killed Jia Ye all the way here, and this place is the territory of the Supreme Demon State.

He isn't afraid of a single Non-Heaven Patriarch from the Scattered Soul Valley, but if the Supreme Demon State's demon lords suddenly appeared seven or eight of them, even if the one in the demon cloud is confident in his own divine powers, he doesn't think he could match seven or eight venerable old demon fiends.

However, Jia Ye must be captured alive.

Wu Tie smiled and nodded toward the demon cloud.

The Supreme Demon Lord then released rolling demonic qi from his whole body, forming a vast demonic cloud that covered the sky over Black Dragon City; he let out a harsh 'jie jie' laugh, stepped on the void, and walked step by step to outside the city's great defensive formation, hands on hips, coldly staring at that demon cloud.

"Non-Heaven you old bastard, you won't be seeing me again."

"I... am not, I am the former lord of the Supreme Demon State, the Supreme Demon Lord. Now I am the commander of the Slaughter God Army under His Majesty Wu Tie of Wuguo, the Supreme Demon Lord. Who goes there? Report your name. Of course, if you are the sort of lowly trash born from your grandfather scraping filth, then you have no name, I can also understand."

As a demon, even though he was once a demon emperor, the Supreme Demon Lord's mouth is also wicked and spewing smoke; he directly repeated the words of that bearded commander just now.

Especially, the Supreme Demon Lord deliberately affected his tone, speaking in a strange voice, which made people even angrier, directly causing the demon lord in the demon cloud to flare up with rage, smoke pouring from his seven orifices.

"Damn it, today this old ancestor will annihilate you... no matter what demon emperor or Supreme Demon Lord you are, or whatever else..."

The demon lord, enraged, his two huge wings contracted inward; a vast expanse of sea water tens of thousands of li in radius suddenly collapsed inward, and in an instant it collapsed into a fist-sized bead of pitch-black water.

Then lightning flashed on the wings; inside the black, high-pressure water droplet, the acquired Gui water qi underwent a rapid transformation, swiftly turning into uncast Gui water thunder power. The originally fist-sized water droplet instantly shot out a bolt of light tens of thousands of zhang long, accompanied by a deafening roar, its momentum astonishing.

With a whoosh, the thunder bead came down from above, striking at the Supreme Demon Lord.

At the same time, a bald-headed youth burst out panting from an old well in Black Dragon City, shouting hoarsely: 'Wu Tie? Wu Tie? "Iron"? "Iron"? Who is Wu Tie? Who is Wu Tie? I am Jia Ye, the Buddhist prince of the Liuli Buddha State; I am Jia Ye, the Buddhist prince of the Liuli Buddha State; I have countless secret treasures from the Liuli Buddha State's Buddhist vault accumulated over hundreds of millions of years, willing to offer, willing to offer!'

Near the old well, hundreds of able-bodied men shouted in unison: 'We found the bald one, we found the bald one!'

Li Ergouzi then led dozens of his trusted commanders, stepping on flowing clouds, rushing forward: 'Damn rascal, bald bastard, is the emperor's name something you can just shout about? Kneel, kneel, or I'll break your legs!'