At This Moment, If Not Now, When?

The demonic cultivator knew that Su Fan was a Body Cultivator and didn't dare be careless in the slightest.

With a wave of her hand, she brought out her defensive Dharma artifact.

A huge skull with ghostly blue flames blazing in its eye sockets appeared, blocking her path.

Su Fan couldn't care less that she was a Late Qi Refining cultivator. He simply hacked at her with everything he had.

The Dao Seed within his body exploded with a thunderous boom. Blazing, dazzling lightning wrapped around his Dharma sword, and he nearly poured out all his strength in one breath, unleashing a chain of nine slashes.

"Headwind Slash..."

"Whirlwind Slash..."

"Sacrificial Slash..."

"Limitless Slash..."

"Tidal Slash..."

"Ghost Wheel Slash..."

"Rage Slash..."

"Ruthless Slash..."

"Void Slash..."

The purple lightning within the Lightning Dao Seed was the bane of all kinds of Evil Spirits and ghostly creatures.

After only three swords, the skull with ghostly blue flames burning in its eyes was hacked to pieces by him.

The female cultivator was left dumbfounded with shock. A superior-grade Dharma artifact had only managed to block three swords.

Fortunately, she brought out another turtle shield blazing with crimson flames. Only then did she barely block his frenzied chain of slashes, but the tremendous force still sent her retreating more than ten meters.

Even the superior-grade Dharma artifact, the Ghost Fire Shield, had been hacked until its light dimmed.

She finally recovered her senses, bit down on her silver teeth, and brought out two offensive Dharma artifacts in succession. She was just about to launch a counterattack.

Who could have expected that the person opposite her would flash with yellow light before vanishing into the ground?

He had run...

Though Su Fan had looked imposing just now, forcing a Late Qi Refining cultivator to retreat step by step,

he knew his own situation as clearly as a mirror. He only had those three moves. He had taken advantage of her carelessness to catch her off guard.

Once she recovered her bearings, he would definitely be the one to die.

If the person opposite him had been a Qi Refining Mid-stage Cultivator just now, and he had seized that opportunity, he might truly have been able to cut her down.

But this woman was a Late Qi Refining cultivator. Though he had managed to ambush her while she was off guard, she had still blocked his three moves. He definitely no longer had a chance.

If not now, when?

The demonic cultivator had been thoroughly enraged. How many years had it been since she had felt so aggrieved?

She had never expected that she would be forced into such an embarrassing state by a minor cultivator at the Qi Refining Third Layer.

Actually, she hadn't planned to kill Su Fan immediately at the start. She simply couldn't see the origins of his cultivation method and was somewhat curious about it.

She had only wanted to capture him and question him thoroughly.

Who could have expected that, because of a moment's carelessness, she would nearly fall into this boy's hands?

"Trying to run... It won't be that easy..."

This boy was too hateful. She had to rip out his soul and pull out his spirit, making sure he could never be reborn.

The demonic cultivator's face darkened. With a wave of her hand, a mass of gray smoke split off from the black mist and transformed into a huge-headed ghost infant.

" hiss... hiss..."

The ferocious, huge-headed ghost infant shrieked as it flew back and forth around the demonic cultivator.

She extended her hand and released a wisp of aura. The huge-headed ghost infant circled her once, then shrieked and flew away.

The demonic cultivator let out a cold laugh, turned around, and melted into the black mist, vanishing into the pitch-black night in the blink of an eye.

"Phew..."

Su Fan finally poked his head out of the earth and let out a long breath.

The Earth Escape Talisman truly lived up to its reputation as the most badass escape tool in legend. It had actually carried him several thousand meters in one go.

Thirty spirit stones had been damn well worth it.

Su Fan hadn't fled outward. Instead, he had escaped toward the market town.

Even with the Earth Escape Talisman, he couldn't outrun that demonic cultivator.

Countless Rogue Cultivators had gathered around the market town. Only by hiding there amid the chaos could he possibly escape her pursuit.

He was already not far from the market town. He cast the Light Body Art and fled toward it with all his might.

Just then, a shrill shriek came from behind him.

A gray shadow was chasing after him. Its speed was unbelievably fast, and in the blink of an eye, it had caught up.

What the hell...

What kind of thing was that? How could it be so fast?

This was the Life-Reaping Ghost Infant that the female cultivator had refined over many years. Not only was it incredibly fast, but once it locked onto someone, it would pursue them relentlessly until one of them died.

Su Fan's hair stood on end. He cast the Light Body Art and raced toward the market town.

"Hiss..."

The Life-Reaping Ghost Infant had already reached him. Su Fan glanced back and immediately felt every hair on his body rise.

The ghost infant had a grotesquely oversized head. Its eyeballs were completely white, and its entire face twisted and spasmed.

It opened its mouth, revealing two densely packed rows of razor-sharp teeth.

A sinister chill seeped into every pore, leaving him cold from head to toe.

Su Fan's scalp prickled. A chill instantly spread from his coccyx to the crown of his head.

The Lightning Dao Seed within his body exploded with a thunderous boom, and a surge of blazing purple lightning gushed out.

"Fuck off..."

Su Fan raised his Dharma sword and brought it down with all his strength.

"Limitless Slash..."

The greatsword wrapped in dazzling lightning instantly cleaved the Life-Reaping Ghost Infant in two, and the gray shadow scattered into nothingness.

The demonic cultivator lost the ghost infant's aura and was so furious that she nearly spat out blood.

The Life-Reaping Ghost Infant she had fed with Essence Blood for so many years was gone just like that.

Could this boy be her nemesis?

In fact, even in ancient times, demonic Body Cultivators had never used the Lightning Dao Seed this way.

After establishing Foundation Establishment with lightning, they would immediately cultivate the next level of the technique. How could they possibly treat the Lightning Dao Seed as a power bank?

Su Fan finally reached the market town, but before he could even catch his breath,

a thunderous boom rang out, and the market town's formation was breached.

"The formation's broken! Charge in..."

"Kill! Loot the hell out of them..."

"Ah! Who ambushed me..."

The countless Rogue Cultivators gathered outside the market town had eyes blazing red. They charged madly inside.

Su Fan had no intention of joining in the excitement. He found an unoccupied house nearby.

He took out the Invisibility and Qi Concealment Talisman and slapped it onto himself. Then he cast the Spirit Concealment Art before finding a concealed spot, sitting down with his back against the wall.

It was a complete mess outside now. He should be able to escape the demonic cultivator's pursuit, right?

At that moment, the battered Dharma sword tightly gripped in Su Fan's hand trembled faintly several times.

A trace of dim light also appeared on the sword's body. It flickered faintly before returning to normal.

Unfortunately, Su Fan was in a state of extreme tension and couldn't sense the changes coming from the Dharma sword at all.

Countless Rogue Cultivators had already charged into the market town, but the scene before them left them dumbstruck.

The market town was in utter disarray, like the end of the world.

Ruined walls and shattered buildings were everywhere, while countless dismembered corpses of Lesser Yang Sect disciples lay scattered throughout the market town.

"Ao Wu..."

A monster several meters tall emerged from a collapsed building and threw back its head with a furious roar.

The towering monster was humanoid, with an inverted-triangle-shaped head and bizarrely protruding eyes. Its entire body was covered in pitch-black armor, while rows of savage bone spines grew from its back.

Two pincers as thick as a person's waist resembled giant scissors. They clacked loudly as they opened and closed.

"That's a Heaven Demon... It's a Heaven Demon..."

"Run! The Heaven Demon is here..."

"We've been tricked! Get out, quickly..."

The Rogue Cultivators inside the market town tried to flee, but the people outside were charging in as if they had gone mad. The scene immediately descended into utter chaos.

The Heaven Demon suddenly sprang forward, leaping dozens of meters before landing among the crowd. Several Rogue Cultivators were caught directly beneath it and crushed into meat paste.

Its two giant scissor-like pincers swept from side to side, flinging dozens more Rogue Cultivators away. The pincers seized several of them and stuffed them into its mouth, chewing them noisily.

The Heaven Demon rampaged madly through the market town. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of Rogue Cultivators had died beneath its enormous pincers.

The demonic cultivator also arrived outside the market town. She swept her Spiritual Sense back and forth several times but still couldn't find any trace of Su Fan.

She gnashed her silver teeth in fury and flung her hand viciously.

Several Rogue Cultivators fleeing in panic were bound by a wisp of black smoke and instantly transformed into piles of white bones.

At that moment, a black-robed cultivator came to her side.

"Senior Sister Qinghuan, the Heaven Demon Talisman is almost out of time..."

The demonic cultivator took a deep breath.

The important matter at hand came first. She would let that brat off for now.

I've memorized your aura. If I catch you in the future, I'll skin you alive.

She turned around and glanced at the several black-robed cultivators behind her.

"Hurry up. Don't wait..."

A demonic cultivator nearly two meters tall walked out from behind.

Beneath his hood was a terrifying human face. Aside from his pitch-black eyes, it was completely smooth and featureless, like a melted candle.

He patted the long, pitch-black box at his waist. Several tall zombies clad in iron armor appeared out of thin air before the group.

These zombies were exceptionally robust. They wore tattered iron armor, and their skin was a blue-gray color, covered in thick black-and-white bristles.

This black-robed cultivator cultivated the Zombie Path of the demonic sect. To increase his strength, he had even refined his own body into a Zombie Dharma Body.

The black-robed cultivator formed a hand seal and pointed forward. Several zombies roared as they charged toward the market town.

The zombies rampaged wildly through the crowd, leaving the corpses of countless Rogue Cultivators scattered across the ground.

The black-robed man followed behind the zombies. One corpse after another sprang up from the ground, transforming into Living Corpses that charged forward madly.

Before long, hundreds of Living Corpses had charged into the market town and rushed toward the Heaven Demon, only to be torn into pieces.

The Living Corpses attacked one after another, causing the Heaven Demon to grow even more frantic. Its figure also became increasingly illusory.

With a thunderous boom, the Heaven Demon transformed into dense black smoke and vanished on the wind.

The demonic cultivator waved her hand and said in a deep voice, "Move quickly. Those who delay will be executed..."

More than a dozen black-robed cultivators led over a hundred hired Evil Cultivators swiftly into the market town, beginning a massive plunder.

She remained above the market town, overseeing the entire operation.

The demonic cultivator who cultivated the Zombie Path controlled several zombies and hundreds of Living Corpses, blocking the market town's entrance.

The Rogue Cultivators who had originally fled saw that the Heaven Demon had turned into black smoke and vanished. They began gathering around the market town again.

"Everyone, charge together! Kill your way in..."

"Who has a Corpse Suppressing Talisman? Take out those zombies..."

"There are so many of us. What are we afraid of..."

The Rogue Cultivators outside the market town shouted loudly, but hardly any of them dared to charge forward.

Now and then, a few Rogue Cultivators blinded by greed charged toward the market town like madmen.

They were either torn to pieces by the vicious zombies or transformed into piles of white bones by the demonic cultivator's Netherworld Ghost Luo Smoke.

They could only watch helplessly as the demonic cultivators looted the market town, their hearts bleeding.

They beat their chests and stamped their feet, cursing the demonic cultivators' greed and denouncing the demonic sect's brutality.

At that moment, the demonic cultivator in the air suddenly turned her head and looked toward the distant night sky.

"A Sword Maniac is coming. Everyone, move faster. I'll hold him off first..."

After saying this, she stepped on the black mist and stood against the wind, her expression calm as she gazed into the distance.