Chapter 911

"Demon Ancestor!"

The Scarlet Lotus Demon Sovereign roared toward the heavens, and from within his body came continual booming sounds like iron chains snapping, causing the surrounding void to tremble wildly and split open countless hairline cracks.

Upon entering the Divine Sovereign Realm, the power of the divine soul constantly merges with the divine body, inscribing the Grand Dao patterns comprehended during the Embryonic Treasury stage into the divine body, forging a Sovereign‑level foundation.

Every Sovereign possesses, to a greater or lesser extent, engraved Dao patterns within the divine body; these patterns are like iron chains, winding and entwining through the divine body, merging completely with it, serving as the bridge whereby the divine body communicates with and connects to heaven and earth.

Wu Tie's heavy punch blasted through the Scarlet Lotus Demon Sovereign's divine body, forcibly ripping apart the perfect Dao patterns within him.

The sound of the Dao patterns shattering carried across a radius of hundreds of millions of li, and countless people heard those successive bursts—some crisp, some dull.

The Scarlet Lotus Demon Sovereign's aura was collapsing at breakneck speed.

A Sovereign powerhouse's divine body is already near‑set, like a fired porcelain; after the Dao patterns he has comprehended are perfectly fused into it, without tremendous fortune, tremendous luck, and tremendous willpower, a Sovereign's divine body can hardly advance even a thread, cannot change in the slightest.

Thus, a Sovereign powerhouse's divine body cannot be harmed by ordinary folk; but once damaged, it is like a fine fired porcelain cracked—trying to mend it is extraordinarily difficult.

Wu Tie's single punch blasted a bucket‑thick hole in the Scarlet Lotus Venerable's body, Dao patterns bursting forth, and the Scarlet Lotus Venerable felt his entire body collapsing.

Although for a Sovereign‑level existence, even if the fleshly body is utterly destroyed, there are countless methods—possession and rebirth, or reincarnation—and one can even retain past causes, achieving great supernatural powers again as a child.

But after all, this is the original body that has accompanied him for hundreds of thousands of years—how could he bear to discard it like that?

Especially, the Scarlet Lotus Demon Sovereign hails from the Scarlet Lotus Temple; this body cultivated the temple's secret Golden Buddha Body, possessing immense, tyrannical strength—pure brute force alone gives him Sovereign‑level combat power—how could he bear to just abandon it for nothing?

Whether by possession or reincarnation, obtaining such a perfect body would require countless hundreds of thousands of years of arduous tempering.

The Scarlet Lotus Demon Sovereign shrieked hoarsely, calling out to the Profound Bone Demon Ancestor and the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor for aid.

With a single stroke, the Black Sword tore the unprepared Blood Sea Demon Ancestor into two halves; within the vast Blood Sea, turbid waves surged, countless distorted faces flickering in and out of sight. Between the two halves, innumerable writhing blood tendrils reached out, pulling at each other, seeking to re‑merge the two halves into one.

The Six Desire Demon Sovereign charged forward hysterically.

Earlier they had used the Heavenly Demon Self‑Immolation Technique, consuming a huge amount of their origin, and only with great difficulty had they managed to wound the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor; now how could they possibly let him heal his true form so easily?

Six clusters of demonic light expanded to a thousand li in size, then instantly transformed into six huge mouths that viciously bit into the torn Blood Sea.

Everyone heard a sharp 'Crack!', followed by the tremendous roar of countless Dao patterns bursting.

The Blood Sea Demon Ancestor issued a maddening curse, and half of his bisected Blood Sea body was actually gnawed away by the Six Desire Demon Sovereign.

One‑quarter of the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor's origin Blood Sea was devoured by the Six Desire Demon Sovereign.

The demonic light into which the Six Desire Demon Sovereign transformed surged with aura, his recently depleted origin rapidly recovering and receiving a great boost. They emitted a strange laugh, and waves of eerie demonic thoughts blanketed the surroundings, attacking wildly in all directions.

Whether it was the Profound Bone Demon Ancestor, the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor, that Yin River, a miasma, or even the White Lotus Demon Sovereign—all fell under the Six Desire Demon Sovereign's indiscriminate, frenzied onslaught.

The movements of the five great demon sovereigns all grew slow.

The Profound Bone Demon Ancestor opened his mouth; a flash of vicious evil light flickered in his jet‑black eye sockets, and the enormous, razor‑thin bone saber hovered in mid‑air, then he slashed fiercely at the Six Desire Demon Sovereign's waist.

The bone saber spun through the air, then suddenly halted in the void.

Between the bone saber and the Six Desire Demon Sovereign, the void suddenly folded over itself, layer upon layer folding wildly, and within a millet‑sized fragment of void, it folded open into a space of ten thousand li.

The bone saber went berserk, flying and slashing through the air, yet the distance between it and the Six Desire Demon Sovereign kept growing.

The Six Desire Demon Sovereigns laughed in unison: "Your Majesty, your magic reaches the heavens, your divine powers are boundless."

"The Dao of Space!" the Profound Bone Demon Ancestor and the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor roared in unison. The Grand Dao of Space is truly a top‑tier mystery of heaven and earth; mastering it makes travel and escape incredibly convenient, and in battle it is nothing short of a headache.

A Sovereign powerhouse who has condensed a Space Dao imprint cannot be touched by enemy attacks unless they possess overwhelming superiority capable of shattering the void.

You can't hit him; he can strike you at any moment; you might try to flee, but you simply can't outrun him; you might seal your mountain gate and hide at home, yet he could rip open the void and appear ghost‑like behind you.

Seeing the faint, ripple‑like spatial barrier shimmering ahead of the bone saber, the Profound Bone Demon Ancestor and the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor let out long howls, then turned and fled.

"With you, Martial King Wu Tie, guarding the Flare Dynasty for a day, we shall not dare to intrude again… Please, Martial King, do not rashly move troops; our Eastern Demon Kingdom is not to be trifled with… hum!"

The Profound Bone Demon Ancestor and the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor, true veterans of countless years, after briefly assessing the combined strength of Wu Tie and the Six Desire Demon Sovereign, then beholding the blazing Heavenly Dao Crucible and the fierce, ruthless Black Sword, chose a strategic retreat.

They left behind the Scarlet Lotus Demon Sovereign whose body Wu Tie had blasted through with a single punch, as if discarding a piece of trash, and dumped him where he stood.

"Demon Ancestor!" the Scarlet Lotus Demon Sovereign screamed hoarsely, wailing like a puppy kicked out of its mother's den.

On Wu Tie's fist, vast streams of pure golden Buddhist light surged.

The Yang Dao seal burst forth with boundless light, and the utmost pure yang, pure rigid power of heaven and earth merged into Wu Tie's Buddhist divine abilities.

Buddhism excels at subduing demons; the various Zen lights and Buddha lights in its teachings possess tremendous lethal power against all demonic evils.

To a demon, Buddhist Buddha light is like molten iron; even a slight touch will scorch its demonic body to ruin.

Wu Tie also integrated the Yang Great Dao into his Buddhist techniques.

The most genuine, purest, most yang‑rigid, most fierce power of heaven and earth fused with Buddhist methods, causing the power of the Buddhist light on Wu Tie's fist to skyrocket by a hundredfold or more out of nowhere.

This is a blessing bestowed from the level of the Heavenly Dao!

The Scarlet Lotus Demon Sovereign's demonic body was rapidly melting and disintegrating; brilliant golden light erupted from every pore of his body, illuminating the void in all directions and dispelling the thick demonic clouds and winds above.

Wu Tie lifted the Scarlet Lotus Demon Sovereign, stepped upon flowing clouds, and in a single stride reached an altitude of ten thousand li.

He held aloft the howling, struggling Scarlet Lotus Demon Sovereign, whose entire body ignited in golden flames; the Sovereign screamed hoarsely, like a radiant little golden sun, blasting out a dazzling light that illuminated millions of li.

Where the golden light shone, all newly spawned demons crumbled into ash; every ferocious‑faced corpse saw its expression soften and grow tranquil; even those corpses heavy with resentment, eyes stared wide in death‑refusal, slowly closed their eyes.

The demonic and deathly qi that had flooded the earth were swept away completely.

Wu Tie activated a secret art; the vast energy and mighty essence within the Scarlet Lotus Demon Sovereign's body were refined out, washed by Buddhist Zen light of demonic and murderous qi, then transformed into warm golden light that fell upon the earth.

Fields nearly desertified by demonic qi instantly returned to their proper fertile state.

The withered, nearly dead trees quickly turned lush and verdant, their branches and leaves thick.

The stagnant, death‑filled rivers, lakes, and marshes saw their gray‑black miasma instantly disperse, turning once again into sparkling ripples; many fish, shrimp, turtles, and other aquatic creatures lying at the bottom awaiting death sprang back to life, darting about excitedly.

Wherever the golden light passed, vast patches of tender green sprouts pushed up from the barren earth.

Nourished by the Scarlet Lotus Venerable's immense life essence, these sprouts shot up quickly, stretching and branching, and before long reached waist‑height of an ordinary person.

Then a hundred flowers bloomed, and amid the grass appeared clusters of multicolored mushrooms.

On the ground and in the air, countless armies of the Demon Kingdom fled in panic toward the east. Their demon ancestors had all slunk away; with no Sovereign‑stronghold to anchor them, any single strike from the Six Desire Demon Sovereign could crush the invading Demon Kingdom forces into dust.

Even though they fled swiftly, hundreds of millions of bizarre demon troops were still enveloped by the golden light released by Wu Tie.

These demon troops all emitted shrill wails, black smoke billowing from their bodies in great patches; many of them melted and disintegrated directly in the golden light, turning into wisps of ash that fell to the earth.

The golden light washed away the demonic and murderous qi from the ashes; the ashes formed from the bodies of these demon soldiers actually contained immense fertility.

Where the ashes fell, plants instantly became several times more vigorous.

Next year, on this field spanning a million li in all directions, the growth of crops will likely be several times stronger than in previous years.

When the Red Lotus Venerable's demonic body, thirty-six zhang tall, was reduced to just a skull, the demon troops that had invaded Sui Chao finally withdrew with difficulty.

Moreover, over eighty percent of their middle- and low-rank demon troops had been completely refined by Wu Tie into fertilizer, left upon the soil of Sui Chao.

The remaining less than twenty percent of great demons and giants were covered in wounds; each demon had shed a layer of skin, and some were scorched by the golden light down to a twisted, ferocious skeleton—each severely wounded in vital energy, unable to recover easily without centuries of rest.

"Spare me..." the Red Lotus Demon Sovereign's head, the size of a water jar, shook violently as he bellowed hoarsely: "I, your lord, will be your slave and servant forever, at your command."

Wu Tie stopped his hand, gazing thoughtfully at the Red Lotus Demon Sovereign.

"To be your slave and servant forever, to be at your command? Very well, open your innate spiritual light, and let this king place a few shackles upon you."

Moments later, Wu Tie suddenly tore open the void and stepped to the air above the demon troops withdrawing from Sui Chao's territory; the Grand Dao Furnace sucked downward, instantly swallowing over a hundred million demon troops—including tens of demon emperors, thousands of demon kings, and an unknown number of great demons and giants—in one gulp.

Amid the furious curses of the Profound Bone Demon Ancestor and the Sea of Blood Demon Ancestor, Wu Tie tossed the Red Lotus Demon Sovereign's head into the Grand Dao Furnace, and with a casual gesture activated the Primordial Crown, rapidly increasing the flow of time inside the furnace.

After a quarter hour, the demonic body was completely repaired, and the Red Lotus Demon Sovereign emerged from the Grand Dao Furnace, striding forth with a terrifying aura several times more formidable than before.

With a "thud," the Red Lotus Demon Sovereign knelt before Wu Tie, bowing deeply in reverent worship.

Far away, the Profound Bone Demon Ancestor and the Sea of Blood Demon Ancestor watched this scene they could not accept.

"Red Lotus... old ancestor, I will make sure you... never achieve rebirth." the Profound Bone Demon Ancestor cursed hoarsely.

"Cut the nonsense... quickly find some blood food; I took a sword blow, and then those six utterly wicked demon spawn swallowed two-tenths of my origin..." the Sea of Blood Demon Ancestor struggled to reassemble the two pieces of his blood sea into one, then muttered: "Then, find a way to boost the offspring's cultivation."

The Profound Bone Demon Ancestor took a breath: "This Martial King is no pushover... well, we have suppressed a few demon spawn for years; it's time to let them become demon sovereigns... but before enhancing them, we must first gain control over their life and death."

The Six Desires Demon Sovereign rebelled, and the Red Lotus Demon Sovereign openly defected.

The two demon ancestors deeply felt that their control over the Demon Realm was still too lenient; they needed to be more ruthless.

Wu Tie lightly patted the bald head of the Red Lotus Demon Sovereign kneeling before him, gazing into the far distance at the Profound Bone Demon Ancestor and the Sea of Blood Demon Ancestor hovering in the air. After a long while, he finally nodded at them, then turned and strode away.

The Profound Bone Demon Ancestor and the Sea of Blood Demon Ancestor both cursed at once.

That look of Wu Tie before his departure held deep meaning; clearly, he would not let the Eastern Demon Realm go.

"We won't let you go either... once we've rallied, we'll have another match." the Profound Bone Demon Ancestor muttered: "If we don't take advantage of your just-formed Dao seal to crush you completely, waiting until your ten Dao seals are mature, what then?"

The Sea of Blood Demon Ancestor muttered: "Indeed, what then?"

Naturally, officials and generals of Sui Chao's eastern borders cleared the ruined lands, settled refugees, and rebuilt the cities.

Wu Tie, bringing the Six Desires Demon Sovereign and the Red Lotus Demon Sovereign whose strength had considerably increased, tore open the void and hurried southward; in just a short while, he arrived at the southern border with seven demon sovereigns.

Here stands a towering fusang tree; at its top, a three-legged golden crow the size of an old hen radiates boundless golden light, covering a domain of millions of li in all directions.

In the high sky, a blazing sun shed faint rays, echoing the three-legged golden crow atop the fusang; the true fire of the sun filled the void, preventing the boundless southern ghost troops from advancing even an inch.

The Relic Bone Venerable and the Three Yellow Springs Sovereigns stood within the barrier formed by the sun's true fire, facing off in the distance with the seven great ghost sovereigns to the south.

Ghostly qi rose to the heavens, endless yin qi surged; the true forms of the seven great ghost sovereigns were unseen, only faint wisps of phosphorescent fire could be seen twining about, and the ghostly chirps "chee-chee" sounded without cease.

Wu Tie, leading the seven great demon sovereigns, suddenly tore open the void—just then a tremendous thunderclap rang from midair; a bolt of wild lightning hundreds of li thick, wrapped in countless masses of thunderfire each hundreds of zhang in size, came crashing down from tens of thousands of li above.

Before they could cover their ears, the seven great ghost sovereigns had no time to react.

Especially, Wu Tie used the Spatial Dao to wildly accelerate that thunderfire; from tens of thousands of li above to the ground, the thunderfire did not travel through the void but directly crossed it, striking straight onto the heads of the seven great ghost sovereigns.

With a tremendous boom, vast expanses of thunderfire plasma burst; within a radius of ten thousand li, countless ghost troops instantly had their souls scattered; a plain ten thousand li in diameter was blasted into a pit a hundred li deep, molten rock melted by scorching plasma surged within the pit, and the seven ghost sovereigns were utterly miserable, soaked in the molten rock, trembling violently as countless bolts of electricity as thick as water jars struck them.

Before the seven ghost sovereigns could recover, the Six Desires Demon Sovereign and the Red Lotus Demon Sovereign, following Wu Tie's will, dove down and zeroed in on a ghost sovereign in the molten rock a hundred zhang tall, whose entire form was merely a human skin, and unleashed a furious barrage.

The seven demon sovereigns ganged up on that one, even though it had just been struck by a heavenly thunderbolt.

The skin-clad ghost sovereign let out a shrill wail, and its ghostly form was beaten down to only a dozen zhang in height.

A black sword fell from above, striking the point of innate spiritual light in the remnant of the skin-clad ghost sovereign; that single blow, together with two ghost seals, was shattered into fragments.