Chapter 157: The Death of Bai Yue

That blood bead didn't know what it was, but it actually broke the Witch Queen's seal, and the stone statue of the Witch Queen on the lake began to collapse.

"Little brother A-Yang must be very curious, what did I just throw into the lake?"

Bai Yue's eyes flashed with pride, as if showing off his wisdom to Chu Yang.

"That is the Five Spirit Blood Power I collected in the Ten Thousand Mountains after blood-sacrificing people from five tribes. Those five tribes were born with the ability to control the power of the five spirits."

Bai Yue had no expression, as if he were talking about a trivial matter.

Chu Yang's face sank, "What you just said was people? People of the Black Witch tribe?"

Bai Yue looked at Chu Yang unexpectedly, "Oh? Little brother A-Yang actually knows about the Black Witch tribe?"

Chu Yang didn't answer. In his view, Bai Yue had already gone mad. Blood-sacrificing five tribes was how insane! The lake was surging, as if a peerless fierce beast was about to appear.

"Don't be angry. Those people died for my ideal. They died very valuably. Actually, I know that I will die today too, but it doesn't matter, my ideal already has a successor."

Bai Yue's self-talk made Chu Yang feel a bad feeling in his heart.

What does successor mean? He clearly knew he would die, why did he return to Nanzhao Kingdom?

Just to wake up the Water Demon Beast?

Bai Yue's behavior had too many mysteries, and it was impossible to guess his intention at all. Moreover, he returned alone, and the whereabouts of the Evil Sword Immortal were unknown.

Chu Yang could only deal with Bai Yue and the Water Demon Beast with peace of mind, regardless of what conspiracy he had.

Rumble! Dark clouds gathered in the sky, a flash of lightning exploded, the sea level suddenly rose, and a huge monster jumped out of the sea. It looked like a snake but not a snake, with eight heads, and the middle head had a human face, which was extremely evil.

The Water Demon Beast was one of the ancient five-element demon beasts sealed by Nv Wa in the prehistoric era. It had the ability to summon floods and live when it encountered water. Because it was very difficult to kill, it could only be sealed by the Nv Wa clan.

As long as it stayed in the water, the Water Demon Beast's recovery ability was even on the same level as Chu Yang's.

The Water Demon Beast's ability was very powerful, but its intelligence was almost zero, and it was easy to be manipulated by others. Bai Yue didn't spend much effort to manipulate it.

The sky-high waves submerged the nearby land, and Chu Yang could only fly in mid-air to confront Bai Yue.

The appearance of the Water Demon Beast represented the arrival of the flood.

To test the Water Demon Beast's recovery ability, Chu Yang performed the Demon-Subduing Shrine. In an instant, a weird shrine appeared under his feet.

"As a Shushan disciple and a righteous person, you actually use such weird evil methods. I think those sect leaders and elders would be very surprised if they saw it."

Bai Yue tried to use words to stimulate Chu Yang and let him reveal flaws, but Chu Yang remained unmoved.

"Slash!"

As if containing the law of heaven, countless slashes were like a rainstorm, suppressing the Water Demon Beast back to the bottom of the lake, and even the lake was cut into a vacuum zone by the slashes, revealing the Water Demon Beast below.

The Water Demon Beast was covered in blood. Under normal circumstances, it should have been cold long ago, but it was still stubbornly alive.

After the slashes stopped, the injuries recovered rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Sure enough, it didn't work!

The Water Demon Beast's self-healing ability in the water was even more terrifying than Chu Yang thought. Almost in an instant, it appeared in front of Chu Yang intact.

"Hahaha, no matter how strong you are, you still can't eliminate the Water Demon Beast, and the flood is threatening the safety of the people of Nanzhao Kingdom at all times."

While talking, Nanzhao Kingdom had been swept by an unprecedented flood.

Since no matter how he hit the Water Demon Beast, it would recover, Chu Yang had to aim at Bai Yue.

It was difficult for the spell to lock onto Bai Yue. Chu Yang gave up the idea of using the Demon-Subduing Shrine to fight the enemy and directly teleported to Bai Yue's side for a melee battle!

A punch was thrown, like the world overturning. Bai Yue's spiritual power shield collapsed instantly, and the wild and domineering aura shook in all directions.

Bai Yue cast a spell to fight back. Wind, rain, thunder, and lightning came. Rain mixed with wind, and thunder and lightning gathered in the rain curtain to shoot at Chu Yang like a beam of light.

The destructive power hit Chu Yang's chest, and a dull tremor echoed between heaven and earth, like a twilight drum and a morning bell.

Chu Yang's physical body crackled.

With the Idle Transformation as a foundation and heaven-defying vitality, he could recover instantly from any injury.

Bai Yue looked at Chu Yang in disbelief, and a chill rose in his heart. This was not a human, but a humanoid Water Demon Beast!

The phenomenon of the sun and moon in the same sky gradually rose from behind to the top of Chu Yang's head. Two rays of light hung down, like the Milky Way falling from the sky. The sun and moon brilliance flowed on him, and between his gestures, starlight fell.

A god?! Bai Yue was dazed.

Chu Yang pushed his hands forward, and the brilliance of the sun and moon turned into a millstone, grinding away the range illuminated by the light. Bai Yue and the Water Demon Beast were shrouded in it.

Bai Yue used magic power to resist, and the Water Demon Beast used its physical body to resist.

Chu Yang fought one against two and completely suppressed them.

Just at this moment, a sword light descended from the sky, piercing Bai Yue's body with lightning speed.

Chu Yang looked up and saw that the Sword Saint had arrived in time.

Bai Yue's eyes were blurred, and his thoughts returned to his childhood, the time he spent with his foster father Shi Gonghu. At that time, he could always see the smile on his foster father's face and his doting gaze.

"Why..."

Before Bai Yue finished speaking, more sword lights fell, completely drowning him.

Chu Yang breathed a sigh of relief and tried his best to strangle the Water Demon Beast, but no matter how he killed it, this monster could be resurrected quickly.

Chu Yang tried to forcibly move it out of the lake water to weaken its recovery ability, but it could create floods itself, so it didn't lack water wherever it went. This plan was directly broken.

The Sword Saint joined the ranks of dealing with the Water Demon Beast, and the golden sword qi was like ten thousand horses galloping, crushing the Water Demon Beast again and again.

"This guy can't be killed. We have to find other methods. If it really doesn't work, we can only let the Nv Wa descendants seal it."

The Sword Saint remembered the Witch Queen, his eyes full of guilt and heartache.

"Any method is fine, except this one. We must kill the Water Demon Beast, otherwise everything done so far has no meaning."

Chu Yang's way of doing things was to solve it once and for all. Like this kind of repetition, every time it appeared, it had to take a Nv Wa descendant, he felt disgusted if he didn't get rid of it.

Just when they were at a stalemate, a red teleportation array opened in the sky, and Chong Lou's figure appeared.

"The thing is repaired!"

Chong Lou threw the five spirit beads to Chu Yang and prepared to leave.

"Hurry up and ask him to help you get rid of the Water Demon Beast!"

The Sword Saint shouted anxiously.

Chong Lou glanced at Chu Yang, then at the arrogant Water Demon Beast, and nodded, "This is possible."

Possible my ass!

Chu Yang cupped his hands, "This little matter won't trouble the Demon Lord!"

Chong Lou was very surprised. However, since Chu Yang didn't want him to help, he wouldn't ask for trouble, and his figure disappeared into the teleportation array.

The moment he got the five spirit beads, Chu Yang had an amazing idea. He asked the Sword Saint to hold on for a while, and he ran to a place where no one was to enter the Soul Palace.

After so many days, Magic Chu Yang had already refined the prototype of the Demon-Refining Tower, and Pirate Chu Yang had embedded the infinite fire seed into it. Now it only lacked the five spirit beads to provide the power of the five spirits.

Immortal-Xia Chu Yang handed over the five spirit beads.

The Demon-Refining Tower automatically emerged with the Five Spirit Array, and the five spirit beads were attracted and fell into their positions.

A moment later.

Immortal-Xia Chu Yang had a tea-cup-sized Demon-Refining Tower in his hand, and he hurriedly returned to the world.

On the other side, the Sword Saint didn't remember how many times he had slashed the Water Demon Beast, and his expression became a bit numb. Suddenly.

A divine light fell, the Water Demon Beast was sucked away and disappeared in front of the Sword Saint.

The sky-filling sword qi stagnated in the air, and a big question mark floated in the Sword Saint's mind.

Where did such a big Water Demon Beast go? The Water Demon Beast disappeared, and the flood subsided, leaving a mess.

In Nanzhao Kingdom, houses were destroyed by the flood, and the remaining ruins were submerged in mud. The former prosperity turned into desolation.

If it weren't for Zhao Ling Er's timely activation of the power of the Nv Wa bloodline, using huge spiritual power to stop the flood from spreading further, I'm afraid Nanzhao Kingdom would have become the dust of history long ago.

Zhao Ling Er's manifestation in front of people also made most of the people and soldiers believe in the legend of the Nv Wa descendants again. People stood in the puddles and worshipped Zhao Ling Er.

Just like they worshipped the Bai Yue Sect before.

I don't know why, but Zhao Ling Er, who saw this scene, only felt sorrow in her heart. This was not what she wanted.

Shi Gonghu led the surrendered soldiers to continue to encircle and suppress the remaining Bai Yue followers and destroy the strongholds of the Bai Yue Sect.

Xu Changqing and others were busy treating the injured disaster victims.

The Witch King died in the war and didn't have time to see his daughter, which made Zhao Ling Er very sad.

Fortunately, Zi Xuan was with her, which allowed her heart to be comforted.

The Sword Saint returned to Nanzhao Kingdom with the news of Bai Yue's execution. Amidst the cheers of everyone, he flew away with his sword again.

"What a wooden block that doesn't understand romance."

The Wine Sword Immortal shook his head and sighed.

"You're not much better!"

Ming Yuanqing stood behind him, her tone resentful enough to make people creepy.

"Hehehe..."

The Wine Sword Immortal had cold sweat on his forehead. There was another big thing waiting for him next.

Whether to stay on the mountain to practice or return to the world.

After Ming Yuanqing left, the Wine Sword Immortal recovered from the state of being pricked by thorns.

"Uncle, is this your happy trouble?"

Not far away, Chu Yang walked slowly, with a playful smile on his face.

"Don't tease me! Didn't you see that your uncle can't even drink wine?"

The Wine Sword Immortal glared at Chu Yang depressedly, "Sword Saint Senior Brother has been here once, and you kid only appeared now."

Chu Yang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The movement of the Demon-Refining Tower refining the Water Demon Beast was very large, so he had to hide in the Soul Palace and wait for everything to settle down before coming out.

But the result of this refining was completely different from what Chu Yang imagined.

He didn't get any cultivation, but got a magic treasure similar to the Water Spirit Bead.

Temporarily named Water Demon Bead.

The effect was that it could help Chu Yang deduce all water-based Daoist techniques, reduce the spiritual power consumed by performing water-based Daoist techniques by half, and increase the power.

The holder could obtain self-healing ability similar to the Water Demon Beast in places with abundant water vapor.

Chu Yang really couldn't understand why the Demon-Eating Gu's ability was clearly to swallow the cultivation of monsters, why did such a mutation occur after combining with the Demon-Locking Tower?

In the Soul Palace, Chu Yang from other worlds were working overtime to study.

Fortunately, the effect of the Water Demon Bead was satisfactory, otherwise Chu Yang would have really lost to his grandmother's house this time.

Three days later, the aftermath of the flood was being cleared, basically no longer affecting people's lives, the Bai Yue Sect completely disappeared, and the entire Nanzhao Kingdom was also recovering to normal.

The death of the Witch King did not cause any waves. During his years in power, he had no sense of existence. So many people died in the great flood, who would care about a Witch King? Looking at Zhao Ling Er's face, everyone held a simple funeral for him. Next, a very realistic problem was placed in front of them.

Who would succeed to the throne of Nanzhao Kingdom?

Zhao Ling Er was a daughter, and logically she could not succeed to the throne. However, the manifestation in front of people three days ago gave her a very high status in the hearts of the people.

The Southern Barbarian General and Ming Yuanqing were very supportive of Zhao Ling Er's succession.

Li Xiaoyao had no opinion on this. At worst, he would pick up his aunt to live here. Sword flying wouldn't take long, which was not a troublesome thing.

The opinions were unified, including Shi Gonghu, everyone supported Zhao Ling Er's succession, but Zhao Ling Er had different opinions.

"That day, I saw the way they worshipped me, and the fanaticism in their eyes made me feel very scared."

"I don't know what thoughts the Bai Yue Sect instilled in them, but I don't want to continue on this basis."

"If it's because of the identity of the Nv Wa descendant, then I don't want to succeed to the throne of Nanzhao Kingdom."

Zhao Ling Er's face was full of worry. She worried about the future of Nanzhao Kingdom because the people here had problems in their thinking.

Shi Gonghu and others anxiously persuaded Zhao Ling Er not to be willful, but they didn't expect that the usually gentle Zhao Ling Er was very stubborn at this moment.

Liu Jinyuan pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled, "I think everyone probably misunderstood Ling Er's meaning. She is not unwilling to take responsibility, but unwilling to kidnap the people with faith."

"Ling Er hopes that the people of Nanzhao Kingdom can get rid of their dependence on faith and rely on their own hands to create the future."

Li Xiaoyao asked, "Is that so, Ling Er?"

Zhao Ling Er nodded forcefully.

Chu Yang reminded, "The people of Nanzhao Kingdom have been poisoned by the Bai Yue Sect for a long time. If you let them suddenly abandon their current way of life, problems may arise. It is better to proceed step by step."

"You can use their worship of you to influence them subtly. Although doing so is similar to the Bai Yue Sect, the original intention is different, and the result will be different."

Zhao Ling Er fell into deep thought.

Liu Jinyuan continued to persuade, "Faith itself is not a bad thing. It only needs to be properly guided. The Daoists on Shushan are the best examples. They follow the Dao, everyone is kind, and they take slaying demons and guarding the Dao as their own responsibility."

Zhao Ling Er was finally persuaded and decided to officially succeed to the throne, using the faith of Nv Wa to replace the people's faith in the Bai Yue Sect.

"The matter of Nanzhao Kingdom ends here. The rest will be left to Saintess Zi Xuan and the Southern Barbarian General to handle. Everyone, return to the mountain with me."

After Chu Yang finished speaking, everyone except Lin Yueru and Liu Jinyuan stood still.

Li Xiaoyao said a bit awkwardly, "At first, I decided to join the Shushan Sect, one was to thank Brother Chu for saving my life, and the other was because you said that only in this way would Shushan have a reason to intervene in the Nanzhao Kingdom matter."

"It's a bit bad to say this, but now that the crisis in Nanzhao Kingdom is resolved, I really have no reason to go up the mountain. Of course, I, Li Xiaoyao, will definitely repay Brother Chu's kindness!"

Before Chu Yang could speak, Lin Yueru was anxious and scolded, "You guy is really ungrateful. You just settled the Bai Yue Sect, and you turned your face and didn't recognize people!"

Li Xiaoyao's face was red, and he wanted to speak but stopped.

Liu Jinyuan held back the violent Lin Yueru and whispered, "Cousin, everyone has their own ambitions, and Xiaoyao brother has a family. Even if he goes back, he won't stay long, why waste time?"

Lin Yueru broke free from Liu Jinyuan's hand angrily and turned away, saying no more.

Chu Yang looked at the guilty Li Xiaoyao and laughed, "What a big deal. If you don't go back, you don't go back. This won't affect the friendship between you and me. If you have time, come find me. We can spar at any time."

Li Xiaoyao's eyes lit up and he nodded repeatedly, "Brother Chu, I will definitely find you!"

In the crowd, Xu Changqing and the Wine Sword Immortal looked at each other.

The two walked silently in front of Chu Yang, also with guilty expressions, and said in unison, "I'm not going back either."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 158 =====