The next moment.
Zhu Huan's neck stretched like rubber, elongating wildly.
In an instant, it extended more than five meters, coiling around Wei Qing's body before yanking him hard!
Wei Qing was hauled into the air, bound and dragged before Zhu Huan. A scarlet tongue lightly slid over Zhu Huan's lips.
"Hehe, Lord Wei, I caught you!"
"Is that so?"
A dark blue gleam shot from Wei Qing's eyes and plunged straight into Zhu Huan's brow.
"Ah..."
Zhu Huan let out a miserable scream. His elongated neck rapidly recoiled to normal as agonizing pain exploded inside his mind, like ten thousand silver needles piercing his skull at once. Clutching his head with both hands, he rolled wildly across the ground.
Just as Wei Qing prepared to deliver the final blow, an enraged roar brimming with killing intent rang out behind him.
"Brat, you killed my son."
A freezing demonic aura rushed at him, making every hair on his body stand on end. Without the slightest hesitation, he stamped his feet and shot backward.
However.
The Four-tailed Spirit Stream Demonic Cat was faster. Its four tails swept out like steel whips, cracking the air with explosive blasts.
Bang!
Wei Qing hastily raised his blade to block. The Soul Severing Blade collided with a cat tail.
Terrifying force surged down the blade, splitting the web between his thumb and forefinger. He flew backward like a kite with its string cut, smashing through four walls in succession before barely steadying himself.
Pfft!
Wei Qing spat out a mouthful of blood, his face instantly turning pale. The hand gripping his blade trembled slightly as blood dripped down the hilt.
A sharp pain pierced his left chest—at least two ribs had been broken.
With every breath, searing pain burned through his lungs.
"The gap is a little larger than I expected..."
He had thought that, fighting at full strength, holding his own against a Sixth-Rank Initial Stage demon beast should not have been difficult.
But reality gave him a vicious slap across the face.
The Sixth-rank Demon's speed, strength, and depth of demon force all far surpassed his estimates.
After just one exchange, he had already vomited blood and suffered broken ribs.
If this continued, Dragon Cave Village might well become the place where he was buried.
"I can't fight it head-on..."
Wei Qing hurriedly pulled out the Black Jade Dew from his robes and poured it over the blade of the Soul Severing Blade.
Black Jade Dew was a secret medicine of the Heavenly Realm Division, specially used to suppress the demon force of demons.
The higher a demon's rank, the less it was affected.
Though its effect on a Sixth-rank Demon was limited, even weakening it by a tenth would be enough to change the course of battle.
Seeing that the human youth before it had endured its attack without dying, the killing intent in the Four-tailed Spirit Stream Demonic Cat's eyes deepened further.
Its figure suddenly blurred.
The next second, it was already before Wei Qing, its claws striking straight for his face.
Wei Qing twisted sharply at the waist, and the Soul Severing Blade carved a fierce arc through the air.
Yet when the blade struck the cat demon's back, it was as though it had hit black iron, spraying sparks in every direction.
Amid the clang of metal, the cat demon's four enormous tails descended from above like silver spears.
Wei Qing's pupils contracted sharply. Qi Force surged wildly within him as his body turned into an afterimage, dodging left and right.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
Three massive tails plunged into the ground, instantly shattering the bluestone pavement and sending fragments flying.
Wei Qing's body stalled for an instant, and the cat demon's fourth tail pierced straight through his left shoulder.
"Cough..."
Wei Qing coughed up blood and staggered, yet a cold smile curled at the corner of his mouth.
"Brat, pay for my child's—"
The Four-tailed Spirit Stream Demonic Cat's pupils were icy as its words abruptly stopped.
It discovered that the tail piercing Wei Qing's shoulder seemed to have been clamped in steel pincers, unable to be pulled free.
The smile on the human youth's face filled it with an even stronger sense of unease.
The instant his shoulder was pierced, the muscles around Wei Qing's wound suddenly tightened, biting down hard on the demonic cat's tail.
Qi Force within his body began to circulate madly.
"Profound Meaning—Lotus!"
Centered on Wei Qing, a Blood Lotus burst into bloom beneath his feet.
Its nine petals were blade glints condensed to the extreme. The surrounding primordial energy swept back wildly, gathering in midair into a Blood Shadow thirty feet tall.
The shadow moved in sync with Wei Qing, swinging its blade down in a single slash.
The Four-tailed Spirit Stream Demonic Cat's vertical pupils shrank to pinpoints. Only now did it understand the source of that faint unease in its heart.
The human youth before it had actually used his own severe injury as bait!
All to trap it.
And lay the groundwork for the attack that followed.
"No—"
Feeling the terrifying destructive power contained within the scarlet blade gleam, it frantically circulated its demon force and set down three Demon Force Barriers around itself in rapid succession.
However—
Rip!
The first Demon Force Barrier tore apart like thin paper, and the blade gleam continued without losing momentum.
Crack!
The second barrier barely held for an instant before shattering.
Sshk!
The lingering force of the blade gleam pierced through the third barrier.
The demonic tail lodged in Wei Qing's shoulder was also sliced away by a quarter, and demon blood gushed forth.
The remaining blade gleam crashed viciously into its body.
"Ao..."
Under the crushing pain, the Four-tailed Spirit Stream Demonic Cat's shrill scream rang through the heavens.
Its eyes fixed on Wei Qing, turning completely blood-red as killing intent surged to the sky.
"You actually... comprehended a Profound Meaning!"
This was the supreme Martial Skill that only great demons above Third Rank or human Third-Rank Grandmasters could grasp.
If this boy was not eliminated, he would surely become a great calamity for demonkind in the future!
At that thought.
Red light flared brilliantly in the Four-tailed Spirit Stream Demonic Cat's eyes as an exceptionally powerful Mental Power descended and enveloped everything.
The surrounding environment suddenly changed.
The Blood Moon hung overhead.
The Four-tailed Spirit Stream Demonic Cat sat atop a Blood Rock. Wei Qing was bound to a cross by three chains as thick as arms, unable to move in the slightest.
He had just attempted a mental attack, only to discover that this Mental Power space was utterly unaffected.
"Hehe, welcome to my world."
"Now, let's have some fun."
A bone-chilling cold seeped through the cat demon's voice. It gently raised a forepaw and gave it a light wave.
The scarlet sky abruptly twisted, while the scarlet earth transformed into writhing flesh.
A blood filament shot out from the flesh, wrapping around Wei Qing's limbs and tightening bit by bit like a living creature.
Sshk!
His skin and flesh were cut open. Blood flowed along the blood filament, yet did not fall; instead, it was greedily absorbed.
Those writhing blood filaments were like parasites.
They cut while they devoured.
Crack.
His bones groaned beneath the unbearable pressure, as though they would snap the next second.
Wei Qing clenched his teeth, defiance flickering in his eyes.
The cat demon crouched nearby and sneered. "This is only the first one. Over the next twelve hours..."
"Have a good taste of what it means to wish you were dead!"
As it spoke.
A second blood filament shot out... then a third...
"Urgh..."
Agonizing pain crashed over him like waves. More terrifying still, he could clearly feel it.
This was not an illusion!
The Four-tailed Spirit Stream Demonic Cat's illusion had long surpassed ordinary mental interference.
It acted directly upon the nerves and the five senses.
Here, pain was real...
Twelve hours later.
Wei Qing's face was pale as paper, his consciousness scattered. His tattered robes had been completely dyed red.
His fingers twitched faintly. His nails had long since been stripped away, exposing stark white finger bones.
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