Brutal, Advancing to the Xiantian Realm!

"Moo!"

After a shrill, mournful cry, a Bull Demon collapsed to the ground.

Not only did Niu Hanshan fail to breathe a sigh of relief, his face instead turned even paler.

"Damn it, how did this happen?"

In that instant between life and death just now, he actually had not noticed that a Second Rank Bull Demon had already crept nearby.

His timing for loosing the arrow had been excellent; that Third Rank Bull Demon had indeed been in a rigid state.

But that Second Rank Bull Demon had used its own body to forcibly block that fatal arrow!

The blood-red arrow pierced through the Second Rank Bull Demon's body, and most of the power within it dispersed.

By the time it had punched through the Second Rank Bull Demon, its direction had already been knocked off course, and it shot into the giant bull's black horn.

That arrow had practically been their only hope of killing a Xiantian.

With that arrow missing its mark, Niu Hanshan could no longer fire a second one in a short time.

The shadow of death seemed to loom over the whole of Niushi Town once again.

"Moo!"

"Despicable humans, all of you deserve to die!"

After its consciousness returned to clarity, the Third Rank Bull Demon roared in fury.

Its enormous eyes abruptly turned blood-red; clearly, it had already entered the state of "Sobered Berserk."

A dignified Third Rank had nearly died at the hands of two Second Rank blood-foods, and had even needed its own subordinate to save its life. To it, this was simply an immense humiliation.

Only the blood of those despicable humans could wash away the shame on its body.

"Die!"

Demonic qi, several times more violent than before, continuously gathered above the Third Rank Bull Demon's horns.

A yellow ball of light more than three times larger than the previous one condensed in the blink of an eye, and thousands of "needles of light" shot down in a sky-blotting barrage. Countless living people had their bodies pierced through and died miserably.

Fresh blood dyed the whole of Niushi Town red.

Seeing his subordinates fall one after another, Lu Yang sprang up with a carp flip, rolled to his feet, and silently uttered two words.

"Upgrade."

On the attribute interface, 799 Experience Points were deducted.

A ball of red light quietly spread through his body. Lu Yang's injuries instantly recovered, his Primordial True Qi surged again by ninety-nine strands, and his cultivation took the opportunity to rise to the Post-Xiantian Ninth Layer!

At the same time, Lu Yang's figure shot out explosively, heading straight for the dying Second Rank Bull Demon on the ground.

His iron fist was like a cannon hammer, smashing down and shattering the Bull Demon's head.

"Ding! Congratulations, host, for slaying one Bull Demon at the Seventh Layer of the Second Rank. You have obtained 350 Experience Points."

At the same time, one claw pierced through the Bull Demon's corpse and accurately seized a Demon Treasure. Without caring that it was dripping with blood, he swallowed it in one gulp.

Along with the frenzied circulation of the Returning Origin Art within his body, it was refined into strand after strand of brand-new Primordial True Qi, dispersing into his four limbs and hundred bones.

At the same time, he took advantage of the momentum to fling the corpse out, blocking a chain of "needles of light" shooting toward the space in front of him.

Rumble!

In its rage, the Third Rank Bull Demon continuously trampled the earth, spreading crack after crack like spiderwebs as they bore straight toward Lu Yang.

But Lu Yang did not fight it to the death. Relying on his own advantage in agility, he kept avoiding its attacks and widening the distance between himself and the Third Rank Bull Demon. At the same time, he seized an opportunity and blasted apart a Second Rank Bull Demon that had come to surround and kill him with a single punch.

"Ding! Congratulations, host, for slaying one Bull Demon at the Seventh Layer of the Second Rank. You have obtained 350 Experience Points."

Together with the many lesser demons he had killed in passing earlier, Lu Yang's Experience Points once again climbed above one thousand.

"Ding! Detected that the host's Experience Points meet the conditions for raising cultivation. Consume 999 Experience Points to raise cultivation?"

"Upgrade."

Warm red light spread through his body, and the Primordial True Qi within Lu Yang surged once more, finally reaching a critical point.

The quantity of Primordial True Qi first swelled to a thousand strands, then impurities were continuously stripped away, making it increasingly pure and condensed.

In the end, one thousand strands of Primordial True Qi fused into one, condensing into a mere ten strands of brand-new Primordial True Qi.

Lu Yang only felt his body become incomparably unobstructed. The bloodlines and aura throughout him returned to simplicity and truth, as if he had returned to that wondrous state before birth, the Xiantian Fetal Breath.

His five senses and perception were amplified more than tenfold in an instant, and even the essence of his life seemed to undergo a transformation.

This all-around increase in strength made Lu Yang, who had not yet had time to switch cultivation methods, instinctively develop an extreme craving for demonic qi.

"Huff, huff, huff!"

Lu Yang opened his mouth and inhaled. The demonic qi permeating the skies above Niushi Town was actually swallowed by him like a whale gulping water, sucked into his abdomen in a single breath.

Even the Third Rank Bull Demon currently in a berserk state was shaken by this.

For a human to devour demonic qi was simply no different from suicide.

Since the day its spiritual intelligence was born, it had never seen such a mad scene.

"Moo!"

"Human, do you think there's no hope in struggling, so you want to seek death?"

The Bull Demon stopped in its tracks, its eyes flickering as it stood not far away and quietly stared at Lu Yang.

However, the scene it had expected—Lu Yang corroded by demonic qi, bleeding from all seven orifices until he died—did not appear.

On the contrary, with every passing second, the aura on his body strengthened by a few degrees.

"Sorry to disappoint you, but I won't die. The one who deserves to die is you!" Lu Yang abruptly opened his eyes, and a scorching gleam shot out, making even the Bull Demon's vision blur for an instant.

Ten streams of Xiantian True Qi gathered on Lu Yang's right hand in a flash. His figure was like a bolt of lightning, charging before the Bull Demon's massive body in the blink of an eye.

"Mighty Bull Charge Fist!"

This time, Lu Yang's fist force had already exceeded thirty thousand jin!

Crack!

The yellow ball of light was shattered by a single punch.

A look of startled rage appeared in the Bull Demon's eyes.

Snap!

Half of the Bull Demon's horn also suddenly broke off, and its huge head caved deeply inward.

White brain matter mixed with blood gushed out from the gap.

The Bull Demon's once vicious gaze turned cloudy, and its enormous body toppled with a thunderous crash like a golden mountain pushed over and a jade pillar collapsing.

Ding! Congratulations, Host, for slaying one Third Rank First Layer Bull Demon. Gained 1000 Experience Points.

Lu Yang did not stop moving. Like a tiger plunging into a flock of sheep, he charged into the crowd of First Rank and Second Rank demons and began a frenzied slaughter.

After the time it took an incense stick to burn, the battle ended, and Niushi Town returned to silence.

Of the demons, some died and some fled.

Niushi Town, which had once had a population of over a thousand, had suffered more than half killed or wounded. Only a little over three hundred people were still alive, and many of them were left crippled.

Niushi Fort, once as solid as bedrock, had now been completely breached. Its walls were shattered, its fortress had collapsed, nearly all of the Niu Family guards were dead or wounded, and quite a few of the Niu Family's clansmen had died as well.

Though that Bull Demon was dead, Niushi Town had ultimately fallen into decline, never to regain its former scene.

Of the nineteen people under Lu Yang, after this battle, only Wang Kang remained alive. It was truly tragic.

Niu Hanshan knelt on the ground in despair, gazing at the collapsed fortress, the ruins on every side, the blood and corpses covering the ground. His knuckles were clenched white, the veins on his forehead throbbed, and he remained silent.

In this battle, although the Demon Race had retreated in defeat, they had not won either.

In the end, Niushi Town still had not been protected.

"One day, I'll kill every last one of those demon whelps and avenge our dead brothers!" Wang Kang kicked the Bull Demon's corpse with all his strength, venting his fury.