Chapter 910

Suichao, the east.

Black smoke pillars rose straight into the sky from the ground, countless vultures and crows circling in the air, their eyes turned blood-red from eating too many corpses.

On the ground, the wild dogs and jackals that had been gnawing on rotting corpses for days staggered about, walking unsteadily.

They had been infected with corpse poison; the toxic gas ravaged their bodies, and their lives had reached their end.

But occasionally, a mournful long howl would shoot up into the sky.

One, or sometimes two or three, fortunate wild dogs or jackals, having somehow acquired a trace of demonic aura, instantly mutated and demonized, standing upright on two legs, turning into various strange and terrifying demonic creatures.

Some had human heads and beast bodies, others beast heads and human bodies, or half-human, half-beast forms.

Or their skin split open, exposing bloody muscles; or their veins bulged like worms crawling on the surface; or their flesh and blood fell away entirely, leaving only skeletons darting across the ground.

In a destroyed city, a few faint human cries could be heard.

The vultures and crows in the sky, the wild dogs and jackals on the ground, and even those terrifying demonic creatures came at the sound.

After the mournful wail, the whole city became empty and desolate, filled with deathly stillness.

Strands of black wind wrapped in a faint demonic aura swept across the land with a rustling sound; wherever they passed, many weak demonic creatures were born, they lifted their heads and wailed, as if crying, yet also seeming to rejoice and shed tears over their own demonization.

The Six Desires Demon Venerable held the east.

Before them stood six demon venerables whose strength was comparable to theirs.

One was a huge skull demon, another a scarlet sea of blood demon, a third a black Yin River demon, a fourth a writhing miasma demon; the remaining two demon venerables were a white-clad scholar and a monk in a kasaya.

That scholar was clean and refined, with an elegant, ethereal air, his cuffs embroidered with white lotus patterns, clearly from the White Lotus Palace.

That great monk stood thirty-six feet tall, his skin golden all over, his aura mighty and overbearing, his solemn appearance like a Buddha descending to the world.

These two were demon venerables transformed by the Demon Realm's great powers with supreme demonic arts, having defected from Suichao; one is called the 'White Lotus Demon Venerable', the other the 'Crimson Lotus Demon Venerable'—this is the deep malice of an old fogey of the Eastern Demon Realm, who deliberately gave them those names to mock the White Lotus Palace and the Crimson Lotus Temple.

As long as these two live, they are a great humiliation to the White Lotus Palace and the Crimson Lotus Temple.

Therefore, before the Six Desires Demon Venerable came under Wu Tie's control, these two demon venerables had always hidden deep in the Demon Realm's secret realms, never coming to the east to fight.

But after the Six Desires Demon Venerable defected to Wu Tie, the Eastern Demon Realm suffered great losses, and these two treasured secrets of the Demon Realm also joined the war.

The Six Desires Demon Venerable took human form, appearing as six middle-aged men in various colored robes, rather handsome; demonic light flickered in their eyes as they stared coldly and ruthlessly at the six opposing demon venerables.

These days, they have been at a disadvantage.

The two oldest relics of the Eastern Demon Realm, the skull demon and the blood sea demon, personally took the field, entangling for many days, and the Six Desires Demon Venerable suffered a great loss.

They each sustained some injuries, consuming a considerable amount of their vital energy.

"Profound Bone Demon Ancestor, we truly dare not be your enemies, but… we are also forced. Now we, under human control, cannot but block the way here."

The Six Desires Demon Venerables, born of the same source and sharing thoughts, spoke in unison as if one person.

"For the sake of old times…"

The skull demon, the 'Profound Bone Demon Ancestor' mentioned by the Six Desires Demon Venerables, gave a 'keke' laugh; standing a thousand feet tall, its huge jade-white skull shook left and right, constantly spewing great gusts of demonic wind and aura from its seven orifices.

"Sentiment? You little brats, talking sentiment to me, your old ancestor? Heh, back then I personally promoted you six… you were originally just six clumps of demonic aura born from desire, and I personally sacrificed to the Supreme Demon Ancestor to make you demon venerables."

"You are my demon spawn… no matter what excuses or reasons you have, these days you have blocked my path, and that is a capital crime!"

"Sentiment? Since you defected to the human race, we have no sentiment left."

The words of the Profound Bone Demon Ancestor were decisive, leaving no room for mercy.

From within that blood sea, seven or eight li wide and stretching nearly a thousand li, came a strange 'gurgle': "Old bone, quit the chatter… kill these six turncoats, swallow them… hehe, old ancestor I'm already drooling."

The Six Desires Demon Venerables' eyes flashed with killing intent as they all stared at the blood sea: "Blood Sea Demon Ancestor, truly you won't give us a way to live?"

The Blood Sea Demon Ancestor suddenly expanded, accompanied by a tremendous roar of wind and waves, its size swelling to hundreds of li wide and tens of thousands of li long, demonic blood light filling the sky, a bloody stench enveloping the void within a million li.

Within that million-li radius, in one Suichao military city after another, countless Suichao citizens collapsed one after another.

Their bodies slowly oozed sticky blood, which then dripped upward into the sky, rushing swiftly toward the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor's true form.

No matter how the Suichao commanders in those cities shouted hoarsely to activate the great defensive formation, and indeed they had already done so, it was useless… under the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor's overwhelming demonic might, vast numbers of soldiers and civilians kept falling, continually turning entirely into blood plasma that flew into the sky.

The Six Desires Demon Venerables simultaneously cursed with the most vile insult imaginable, then transformed into six strange lights and lunged at the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor.

Wu Tie gave them a death order: they must jointly defend the east, strictly forbid the Demon Realm army from advancing straight in, and strictly prevent the Demon Realm army from wreaking havoc in Suichao's heartland.

If the Six Desires Demon Venerables do not fight desperately, Wu Tie will not spare them.

As demon venerables, they will absolutely not pity the Suichao people, but as demon venerables, they value their own lives immensely.

So, they must fight desperately!

"Take them down!" the Profound Bone Demon Venerable gave a cold snort, opened his mouth and spewed countless bone-shaped demonic lights, howling as they encircled the Six Desires Demon Venerables.

The other four Eastern Demon Realm demon venerables responded in unison: a Yin River, a miasma, a scholar, and a monk—the four great demon venerables all acted together.

Demonic light flickered wildly across the sky; on the ground, in one military city after another, large numbers of civilian transport vessels rose into the air, loaded with countless civilians fleeing westward.

The Demon Realm army pressed step by step; the Six Desires Demon Venerables could barely resist, and the eastern border troops of Suichao likewise could not hold back the Demon Realm army; along the way they had already abandoned over ten thousand towns of all sizes, and now they must abandon even more cities, more territory, and even more civilians.

"Your Majesty!" Right below where the twelve demon venerables were locked in battle, on the battlements of a huge military city, an old general with white hair brandished a long blade, looked to the heavens and roared in anguish: "Ancestors of Suichao… open your eyes!"

Since the ancestors of Suichao laid down the great formation of the everlasting fire… when have the demons and monsters of all quarters ever driven Suichao to such a point?

Those Suichao veteran generals who have fought and struggled on the battlefield all their lives all felt a vague sense of despair in their hearts.

A catastrophe that could overturn heaven is about to strike, yet they… are powerless.

High above, the Crimson Lotus Demon Venerable, thirty-six feet tall, suddenly lowered his head and, amidst the chaos, blasted a palm strike down at the giant city below.

A black demonic palm three hundred li in radius descended from the sky, its body wrapped in black smoke, faintly echoing with the chants of countless demons reciting twisted sutras.

When the palm fell, the entire military city was instantly reduced to nothing.

The city turned to ash, the soldiers and civilians to ash; light pillars shot up from the fallen experts of the divine realm, the Crimson Lotus Demon Venerable laughed maniacally and casually tossed out a pitch-black altar.

"Primeval Demon Ancestor, accept this little demon's offering, and then… grant me power!" the Crimson Lotus Demon Venerable screamed to the heavens; the fist-sized, pitch-black demon dao seal on his head burst forth with boundless demonic light, the intensely corrosive black light struck the ground, immediately carving a depression over a hundred zhang deep.

The light pillars were absorbed by the altar; then the Crimson Lotus Demon Venerable's body twitched, and a faint apparition of a second dao seal appeared above his head.

"Hahaha, good, good, good, truly a fine spawn of my Demon Realm!" the Profound Bone Demon Ancestor and the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor roared with laughter in unison.

A mournful cold snort sounded, and the Six Desires Demon Venerables suddenly unleashed a demonic curse of tremendous power.

The Red Lotus Demon Lord, who was condensing his second Dao imprint, shuddered and spat out a large amount of pitch-black blood with a "wa"; his massive body plummeted straight down from the air, and the second Dao imprint about to form on his head exploded with a "pa" into fragments.

The Red Lotus Demon Lord laughed furiously, he slammed onto the ground, lifted his head to look at the chaotic demonic light flashing across the sky, and, voice hoarse from exertion, laughed: "Block my Dao path, this is a mortal enmity! Six Desires Demon Lord, today, the Buddha will subdue demons and eradicate evil!"

As the four words "Subdue demons and eradicate evil" left his mouth, a figure sixteen chi tall with perfect proportions suddenly appeared out of thin air behind him.

"Subdue demons and eradicate evil? Who is the demon? Who is the evil?"

In the air, from the great maw of the Profound Bone Demon Ancestor, a strange curved blade forged from black bone shards whistled forth. The massive blade, a thousand chi long, a hundred chi wide, and thin as a cicada's wing, came down heavily upon one of the Six Desires Demon Lord's forms.

With a miserable howl, this demon lord was forcibly cut of one-fifth of his demonic light.

The Blood Sea Demon Ancestor rolled madly, a towering wave of blood crashing down from above, about to swallow the severed demonic light.

A furnace spewing towering flames appeared out of thin air above the Six Desires Demon Lord's head; crimson-red firelight roared from the furnace, as if the Heavenly River had been ripped open by a huge breach, its waters transformed into towering flames that poured downward in reverse.

Such fire, how ferocious it is.

Besides that cluster of spark-fire, there were solar fire, lunar fire, sky fire, earth fire, stone fire, wood fire, water fire, void fire… all manner of divine, spiritual, demonic, ghostly, and monstrous flames that exist between heaven and earth—everything was present.

This is the ability that naturally arose after Wu Tie condensed the Great Dao of fire into a Great Dao Seal.

In this realm of heaven and earth, any flame that naturally exists in Mu Dalu can be summoned by Wu Tie at a gesture, and he can dispatch it at will, wielding it as effortlessly as moving his limbs.

Rolling flames crashed down from above, in an instant enveloping the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor's body.

The Blood Sea Demon Ancestor let out a low, cold snort: "Mere flames… even if it is the Great Dao of fire, what can you do to me?"

The Blood Sea Demon Ancestor gave a cold laugh, a frenzied cold laugh.

Within the vast Blood Sea, six crimson Great Dao Seals flickered into view, their bodies suffused with faintly flashing black demonic patterns.

This is the foundation of the two most powerful demon ancestors of the Eastern Demon Kingdom: six Great Dao Seals. Even placed in the Western Demon Kingdom, only the old monster Lao Gēda possesses such strength; Old Saw Lao Jùzi and the other two old fogies fall short of the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor.

As for the Profound Bone Demon Ancestor, his cultivation is even more unfathomable than that of the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor.

The Blood Sea Demon Ancestor's six Demonic Dao Seals are all related to flesh and soul, devouring, corrosion, extinction, and darkness; they exude a wicked aura that rises to the heavens and a terrifying killing intent.

As soon as the six Dao imprints appeared, the flames Wu Tie had summoned instantly dimmed, and even the Great Dao furnace mysteriously manifested a wisp of black qi.

"Good timing!" Wu Tie burst out laughing.

Without hesitation, Wu Tie released all ten Dao imprints he had condensed at once; divine light blazed, radiance dazzling, the ten Dao imprints appeared, and the Yin-Yang Great Dao, Space-Time Great Dao, Five Elements Great Dao, and finally the Thunder Great Dao all unleashed their power simultaneously.

Utmost yin and utmost yang are both the bane of evil demons.

The Space-Time Great Dao is also profoundly mysterious.

The Five Elements Great Dao is the foundation of heaven and earth.

The Thunder Great Dao excels at sweeping away hordes of demons.

Wu Tie had just condensed a Great Dao Seal; in his mastery of the heavenly Dao's laws, he was clearly inferior to the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor, a veteran of many years in the demonic path.

However, Wu Tie's selection of the ten Dao imprints was extremely sound; these ten Great Dao, fused together, could almost form the embryo of a small world.

The ten Dao imprints echoed each other from afar, and a pure, majestic heavenly Dao pressure descended.

The Blood Sea Demon Ancestor also fully activated his six Demonic Seals, responding with a frenzied counterattack accompanied by strange cries.

Wu Tie's body swayed slightly; half of his internal mana instantly burned away, and the ten Dao imprints burst forth with a blinding light that could not be gazed upon.

At the same time, he directly communicated with the hearts and minds of the Six Desires Divine Devils.

The Six Desires Divine Devils roared in unison, instantly transforming into six huge, twisted, ferocious faces; they opened their mouths and each sprayed a stream of demonic light several li thick toward the massive form of the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor.

"Heavenly Devil Burning Body Technique!" the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor screamed in shock and anger.

The Heavenly Devil Burning Body Technique is the Eastern Demon Kingdom's most ruthless life‑for‑life demonic art; once unleashed, the Six Desires Demon Lord must at least sacrifice ten thousand years of painstaking cultivation, and it damages the very origin—without meticulous nurturing for thousands of years, recovering one's vital energy is utterly impossible.

Demonic path practitioners are utterly selfish; the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor never imagined that the Six Desires Demon Lord would resort to such a life‑for‑life maneuver to cooperate with Wu Tie.

Because he hadn't anticipated it, he could not defend against it.

The six streams of demonic light whistled down, instantly tearing six huge gaps in the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor's body.

The Blood Sea Demon Ancestor's aura plummeted by more than half, the light of his six Demonic Seals grew much dimmer, and the backlash Wu Tie suffered dropped by over ninety percent.

A black sword whistled forth, a heaven‑shaking, earth‑rending sword light slicing straight ahead.

From one end of the Blood Sea to the other, Wu Tie cleaved it with a single sword; accompanied by the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor's hysterical roar, the vast Blood Sea was split into two halves.

As he swung the sword, Wu Tie clenched his left fist and punched a hole through the Red Lotus Demon Lord's chest.

Wu Tie's current cultivation is indeed inferior to that of the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor, but compared to the Red Lotus Demon Lord, he is far stronger… far stronger.

The Red Lotus Demon Lord let out an incredulous roar, then continuously spat out a viscous, black‑gold‑mixed blood plasma.