"Master Chu, let's get out of here, quickly! As the saying goes, as long as Green Mountain remains, there'll be no shortage of firewood!" Lu Feiyang shouted anxiously.
At this moment, retreating at once was undoubtedly the wisest choice.
Defeating the demons before them was already difficult enough, let alone that unfathomably powerful Blood Saber. Even if they were lucky enough to defeat these demons, they still would not be able to escape if they could not defeat Blood Saber.
Now that Blood Saber had actually agreed to let them leave, it was simply a blessing from heaven.
He truly did not want to remain in this grim and terrifying place for another moment.
However, Blood Saber's words were like a basin of bone-chilling ice water dumped over everyone else.
If Chu Jiang truly left just like that, they would undoubtedly die.
"Brother Chu, do not trust him so easily. Once I deal with this demon, I'll come help you handle Blood Saber. Its goal is to divide and conquer us—it has no sincere intention of letting you leave!" Bai Ruoxue snorted and immediately responded.
Although she had that life-saving item, it was unlikely that she could use it to kill Blood Saber.
Chu Jiang ignored Blood Saber's words completely. All the true qi of the Golden Sun Art gathered in his right palm, and a dense golden glow covered his entire arm.
Yet hidden within that golden glow was an eerie black aura, as though it wanted to devour everything.
His palm shot toward the tiger demon leader's chest like lightning. The terrifying shockwave made those around him feel an intensely lethal oppression.
It was as if it would tear even a person's soul to pieces.
Great Vajra Soul Severing Heaven!
The tiger demon leader was horrified. He hurriedly blocked with all his strength, while the power throughout his body revived and gathered in one place without regard for his life.
Its thighs and arms rapidly swelled, and its strength surged once more.
"Break!"
The tiger demon's final desperate counterattack briefly returned it to its peak.
Boom!
Crack!
No one knew how much force this strike contained, but it directly shattered the tiger demon leader's arm. Tiger bones at the Xiantian Peak were harder than steel.
Yet now, they had been forcibly broken.
The golden palm print did not stop. It smashed through everything in its path and struck the black tiger demon squarely in the chest. In an instant, its flesh, organs, and meridians were all pulverized.
"Ah..."
Its cry was miserably shrill.
The tiger demon leader collapsed at once, utterly devoid of breath.
Yet that eerie Soul Severing Palm continued destroying the tiger demon's body for a long while without stopping.
[Nether Rank tiger demon, tiger demon leader, cultivated for two hundred and one years, remaining lifespan: thirty-eight years] [Demon Lifespan: one hundred and forty-five years]
How much?
Chu Jiang frowned slightly. The lifespan dropped by this tiger demon leader was far too little. It was actually less than that pig demon's. This round had been a bloody loss.
"Kill him!"
Blood Saber King Qi spoke lightly, his voice seeming to carry some kind of magic.
Every demon's eyes turned scarlet, their Killing Intent soaring to the heavens. They erupted with tremendous power, broke away from their respective battles, and all charged madly at Chu Jiang.
Chu Jiang's gaze turned cold. He was like a ferocious beast, crashing wildly through the encirclement of demons. A Void Rank peak pig demon rushed up to meet him.
The immense force instantly shattered the pig demon's organs. Its insides burst apart as it flew several meters backward, dead beyond doubt.
That pale-golden palm contained unimaginable force. Like crushing ants to death, each strike took another demon's life.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Miserable cries rang out without end.
Another three demons were slapped to death by Chu Jiang. Either their heads burst open, or their five organs ruptured. Blood sprayed everywhere, making for a horrific scene.
Only two demons remained—a pig and a tiger. Fear had appeared in their eyes as they looked at Chu Jiang, yet they still charged forward against their will.
The next moment.
Chu Jiang lunged forward, slapping the pig demon across the face. Its face was beaten into a bloody pulp, and it crashed to the ground, barely clinging to life.
Then came another Tiger Claw Rips Out the Heart. The tiger demon's organs ruptured on the spot, and it died.
[Nether Rank pig demon, cultivated for one hundred and twenty years, remaining lifespan: fifty years] [Nether Rank tiger demon, cultivated for one hundred and seventy years, remaining lifespan: thirty years] [Nether Rank tiger demon, cultivated for one hundred and twenty-three years, remaining lifespan: forty years] [Void Rank tiger demon, ...] [...]
A string of notification sounds rang out from the panel.
Upon closer inspection, they were basically all demons with barely any lifespan remaining.
This was somewhat abnormal.
Could it be that all the demons in Baishi County whose lifespans were nearly exhausted had come here?
Yet that pig demon leader, with ninety years of lifespan remaining, had also come here.
Chu Jiang shook his head and stopped dwelling on it.
When he looked at the lifespan balance on the panel, his heart settled considerably. This trip had not been in vain.
[Demon Lifespan: five hundred and twenty-eight years]
Looking at the demon corpses strewn across the ground, everyone was deeply shaken.
Apart from the two Void Rank demons jointly slain by the Demon Hunters and the other martial artists, the remaining eleven demons had all been killed by him alone.
Five Nether Rank demons.
There had even been two demon leaders among them, and the tiger demon leader had reached the Nether Rank peak.
They were all dead.
He slaughtered demons as easily as chopping melons and vegetables. Such strength was terrifying.
"With strength like this, he will surely rise onto the Human Ranking someday and make his name resound throughout Annan Commandery!" Blood Demon Hand could not help but feel his heart palpitate. If such strength were turned on him, his fate would be no different from those demons'.
Chu Jiang let out a deep breath.
After using the Great Vajra Palm repeatedly, his true qi had already been exhausted.
This pseudo-Vajra Martial Art was immensely powerful, but it consumed far too much true qi.
Moreover, someone with a weaker physical body would probably explode and die after using it several times.
The more he thought about it now, the more he felt that the sheep demon he had killed back then was no simple creature. It had cultivated for merely twenty-three years and was already close to stepping into the Xiantian Realm, yet it had dropped nearly two hundred years of lifespan.
It was simply a genius among demons.
Wait, could he have killed the offspring of some Great Demon?
Just then, an eerie voice suddenly rang out.
"You killed this lord's servants. Today, all of you will die!"
Blood Saber King Qi stepped away from the center of the altar, leaving behind a string of crimson afterimages. Dressed in a green robe and pale-faced, he walked toward Chu Jiang and the others.
Those hollow eyes had turned blood-red, as though flames burned within them, captivating the soul.
"I originally thought my servants could easily deal with you, but I did not expect a slight mishap. Still, this counts as an unexpected gain. Young man, I rather like your blood!"
Blood Saber licked his lips, his expression seductive and demonic with desire.
"Who exactly are you?" Chu Jiang asked in a low voice.
Blood Demon Hand, Elder Yun, and the others felt their scalps go numb and retreated one after another. That damned Blood Saber could now actually step off the altar. This was no good news.
"You are not qualified to know my identity. Since you came here, your deaths were already destined..."
Blood Saber King Qi smiled.
"Was Li Feng, Head of the Demon Hunting Office in Baishi County, killed by you?" Chu Jiang's gaze turned cold.
The records showed that Li Feng had died at Black Tiger Mountain.
Clearly, there was a high probability that the man before him was responsible.
"Oh, you came because of Li Feng. What a pity—you are about to die. Even if I tell you, you can only take the secret into the grave with you. Why bother?"
Amid his eerie laughter, Blood Saber King Qi suddenly rushed forward. He was so fast that his figure blurred beyond all capture, and a blade swept across the air.
Chu Jiang's pupils contracted.
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