Volume 2 - Chapter 47: Feared by All Demons
The Demon King has fallen!
Watching the body of the Ten Thousand Caverns Ghost Maiden being cleaved apart by Li Hao, her aura completely extinguished, Feng Shanjun and the Devouring Demon Ancestor felt a chill run down their spines.
Especially Feng Shanjun, who no longer had a second life to rely on.
The death of the Ten Thousand Caverns Ghost Maiden was far too eerie. There was no visible trace, and Feng Shanjun couldn’t discern how Li Hao had dealt a fatal blow.
From a distance, Bai Shenjun, who had just clashed with Feng Boping, also noticed the shocking change. His pupils contracted, and his heart was filled with terror.
That boy… had actually slain the Demon King!
This scene did not escape the eyes of the red-dressed girl in the distance. Her originally sneering and beautiful face was now frozen in shock before she turned her gaze to Li Hao, filled with terror.
How could a fourteen-year-old boy possess such horrifying power?
While everyone else was in a daze, Li Hao had already raised his sword and charged forward.
With a swift motion, he slashed. The sword energy split like fracturing ice, transforming into surging waves that swept across the area.
It was the same technique as before.
But this time, Feng Shanjun and the Devouring Demon Ancestor had already realized its dangers. They dared not receive it as carelessly as the Ten Thousand Caverns Ghost Maiden. Within this attack lurked a terrifying killing move, one they couldn’t discern. Their only option was to avoid it entirely.
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Flames roared as Feng Shanjun unleashed a sea of fire. The true phoenix flames twisted and deformed the waves of sword energy.
At the same time, the Devouring Demon Ancestor unleashed his demonic arts. Demonic energy enveloped Li Hao’s body like dark clouds.
His coiled body revealed his true form—a giant serpent a hundred zhang long. Its blood-red flesh expanded, its scales razor-sharp. With a roar, he spat out a demonic blade.
The blade, resembling a black arc of light, carried the ultimate profundities of martial arts. It swept aside the sword energy and slashed toward Li Hao.
Li Hao’s eyes gleamed with divine light. He infused a stream of immortal energy into the Dragon Sky Sword, creating a sword light like a galaxy that illuminated the void.
With a thunderous clash, two divine weapons collided, sending shockwaves rippling out like tidal waves.
Li Hao’s body trembled slightly before he soared into the sky once more. His second strike crushed the void, producing a blizzard of snowflakes.
The Devouring Demon Ancestor’s heart shook. Li Hao’s strength was in no way inferior to his own. As a cultivator of the Reverse Fate Realm, his entire being had transformed into true power derived from his Dao Heart.
One strand of true power could rival ten thousand strands of ordinary force.
This was why cultivators of the Fourth Pillar Realm could easily suppress those of the Three Immortals. The disparity in strength was immense. Yet this boy’s power was seemingly equal!
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Furious, the Devouring Demon Ancestor swung his demonic blade repeatedly, unleashing countless blade shadows that collided with the endless snowflakes. The river of blade energy surged forward, aiming to engulf and shatter Li Hao.
Li Hao didn’t dodge. Instead, he leapt directly into the storm of blade energy. Activating the Dragon Cicada True Vacuum Body, his physical body emitted metallic clangs as countless strikes landed on him without causing any harm.
A faint white glow enveloped him—a manifestation of the Dragon Cicada Golden Body, akin to divine armor. Not even the Dragon Sky Sword could harm him in this state.
At the seventh stage of Body Dao, not only had he pushed top-tier body refinement techniques to higher levels, but he had also mastered dozens of other techniques to an advanced degree, granting his physical form unparalleled resilience.
In terms of physical defense alone, even the demons before him were no match.
With his terrifying body, Li Hao was fearless, striding boldly toward the Devouring Demon Ancestor.
As his footfalls echoed with sonic booms in the void, he resembled a young ferocious beast. The destructive aura of Reincarnation Sword Technique gathered on the blade’s edge as he slashed toward the Devouring Demon Ancestor.
“Damn it!”
The Devouring Demon Ancestor was horrified. Even a true dragon wouldn’t possess such an unbreakable defense! Li Hao charged forward, passing through the demonic blade energy and true phoenix flames without a scratch. It was truly terrifying.
With a roar, the Devouring Demon Ancestor lashed out with his massive serpent tail, aiming to slam it into Li Hao with devastating force.
Behind Li Hao, the Heavenly Avatar suddenly manifested. Confronting the enormous serpent tail, the massive avatar showed no fear. It raised its colossal hand and grabbed the tail fiercely.
A silent roar seemed to erupt from the avatar as waves of energy rippled outward.
Li Hao drew upon the power of the heavens and earth, channeling it into the Heavenly Avatar. Its golden radiance erupted, its strength like a mountain-moving, sea-filling force. It swung the serpent tail, smashing the Devouring Demon Ancestor into a nearby mountain.
With a thunderous crash, the serpent’s body shattered the mountain peak.
The Heavenly Avatar roared again, dragging the serpent’s body and slamming it down onto the ground.
The earth quaked violently. Dozens of surrounding peaks and the land within a hundred li trembled under the impact.
This shockwave was so powerful that even the demons hovering in the sky felt their hearts race in terror, unable to speak.
“You dare ignore me!”
Feng Shanjun let out a furious roar and charged toward Li Hao. Activating the true blood of the phoenix within, his flames wrapped around him like divine runes. He transformed into a blazing meteor, hurtling straight at Li Hao.
Guided by the Dao Heart Resonance, Li Hao sensed the attack’s trajectory. There was no way to evade it.
But he never intended to dodge. Instead, he took a step forward, clenched his fist tightly, and roared as he threw a punch!
This punch combined the insights of his Half-Step Invincible Fist and Heaven-and-Earth Connecting Fist, forming the Unstoppable Fist!
The fiery radiance engulfed Li Hao’s figure, but it suddenly exploded outward. A punch imbued with unparalleled might shattered the flames.
Accompanied by the sorrowful cry of the phoenix, the fiery figure was sent flying backward, spitting golden demon blood into the air.
Li Hao stood tall, his body shining like red gold, like a deity standing in the heavens.
Behind him, the totem of the Coiling Mountain Diagram transformed into a giant mountain’s shadow, rooting him firmly in place. He hadn’t been moved an inch.
The surrounding demons were so shocked by this display of invincibility that they couldn’t utter a word.
On the other side, the Heavenly Avatar continued to drag and slam the Devouring Demon Ancestor, carving deep trenches into the earth. Surrounding mountains were pulverized, and the serpent’s scales peeled away, its flesh torn and battered.
The Devouring Demon Ancestor roared in shame and rage. With a sudden twist of its tail, countless scales shot out like blades, slicing through the Heavenly Avatar’s hand and allowing it to break free.
The Heavenly Avatar glowed with divine light, quickly healing the cracks in its hand.
Li Hao watched as the Devouring Demon Ancestor struggled free and immediately pursued it with his sword.
“Damn brat! Do you think you’re invincible?!”
The Devouring Demon Ancestor roared in rage. All the dignity of a Demon King was gone, replaced by fury. Its eyes glowed red as it charged toward Li Hao.
As it approached, a sinister glint appeared in its eyes. Its massive mouth opened wide, revealing not just two enormous fangs but countless sharp teeth.
This was the Devouring Demon Art, the pinnacle of its techniques!
A vortex of suction force suddenly engulfed Li Hao. At such close range, it was impossible to escape!
“Haoyue!”
From a distance, Feng Boping’s expression changed drastically as he tried to rush to Li Hao’s aid. But Bai Shenjun, seeing an opportunity, roared and transformed into a white tiger, pouncing toward him.
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Li Hao, faced with the gaping maw of the Devouring Demon Ancestor, had anticipated this move. Despite the overwhelming suction force, his body couldn’t break free.
His gaze turned icy as he gripped the Dragon Sky Sword tightly. Realizing resistance was futile, he suddenly accelerated, charging directly into the serpent’s mouth.
With a sharp swoosh, Li Hao disappeared into the Devouring Demon Ancestor’s throat.
The demon’s eyes glinted with a bloodthirsty light. “Boy, even true dragons have been consumed by me, and you think you—”
Before it could finish speaking, its expression suddenly shifted. With a violent convulsion, it spat out a mouthful of black demon blood.
At the same time, a vortex of sword energy erupted from within its body, countless blades slicing outward.
One strand of sword energy pierced through its flesh, emitting a bizarre radiance.
The Devouring Demon Ancestor tried to retch and expel Li Hao, but the strange energy had already invaded its body. It felt as though its spine had been extracted, and an ominous shadow of death loomed over it.
“No!”
Memories of the Ten Thousand Caverns Ghost Maiden’s inexplicable death flashed through its mind. Its pupils constricted with fear.
Sensing its life slipping away, it hastily activated its Reverse Fate Power!
With a loud crack, its body split open. From the massive bloodied flesh on its back, a smaller demonic form about four or five zhang in size emerged.
This smaller form immediately fled into the distance.
The larger serpent body plummeted to the ground.
Just before it hit the ground, a golden light in the form of a dragon’s roar burst out of its back. Li Hao shot into the air, his gaze fixed on the fleeing smaller form of the Devouring Demon Ancestor.
Though its aura was now feeble, and its cultivation base had dropped significantly, it was the perfect opportunity to eliminate it.
Li Hao prepared to give chase but suddenly felt a moment of dizziness, as though an unseen force was interfering with him.
When his vision cleared, the Devouring Demon Ancestor had vanished without a trace.
Even the lingering demonic aura had been erased, as if by some force akin to “fate.”
Li Hao’s expression grew solemn. So, this was the true power of the Reverse Fate Realm.
It wasn’t merely a second life but an absolute safeguard against death.
Even against his lethal attributes, it could still guarantee survival. It was terrifying.
No wonder families with Reverse Fate Realm cultivators endured for generations. Even if besieged and annihilated, those who escaped would later become silent predators, hidden dangers no one wished to provoke.
Li Hao retracted his gaze, turning it toward the phoenix.
Feng Shanjun, realizing something was amiss when the Devouring Demon Ancestor’s body fell, panicked as Li Hao’s eyes locked onto him.
Terrified, it activated its most powerful movement technique, transforming into a red cloud as it fled into the distance.
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The red-dressed girl abruptly snapped out of her daze, hastily using her Mystical Sound Whistle to send out a message.
“That boy… cannot be stopped!”