Hidden Worries of Returning to the Source, Breaking the Game, and Slaying

Lu Yang's expression changed slightly. "You can stir the True Qi inside me!"

"Hee hee!"

The Fox Demon laughed sweetly. "Demonic Qi is Demonic Qi. The Human Race can never control it completely. You cultivated the Returning Origin Art, so today, you were destined to die at my hands."

Lu Yang instantly understood.

The Returning Origin Art used Demonic Qi to temper the flesh and meridians, but there would always be a portion of Demonic Qi that could not fully disperse and remained hidden within the body.

The amount of this Demonic Qi was negligible. Under ordinary circumstances, it would not affect him in the slightest.

In addition, the True Qi of the Returning Origin Art was upright, balanced, and gentle, and the mental method itself contained scriptures for calming the mind and dispelling noise. A little Demonic Qi was nowhere near enough to disturb one's mind.

However, this Fox Demon's "Enchanting Melody" could mobilize that portion of Demonic Qi inside him and directly exert an influence on him.

Because this Demonic Qi, strictly speaking, belonged to a part of his body, the Xiantian True Qi within him would not reject it in any way.

Therefore, once the Fox Demon used it to cast her spell, Lu Yang had no way to counter it at all.

Thinking back now, the reason the County Magistrate Du Guinian had been controlled by that Fox Demon's soul-bewitching method was most likely also because he had cultivated the Returning Origin Art.

The Wang Family's patriarch, Wang Kui, as well as County Lieutenant Lu Jue, were probably the same.

The Enchanting Melody slowly rang out. The Demonic Qi remaining in his body followed his meridians and transformed into black wriggling worms, burrowing into Lu Yang's limbs and bones.

Lu Yang, who had originally still possessed quite a bit of resistance against that soul-bewitching method, suddenly felt his mind reel. Even his consciousness grew somewhat muddy.

The Fox Demon raised her twin tails and wrapped them tightly around Lu Yang's body.

The Xiantian True Qi inside him was being corroded by Demonic Qi, and right now Lu Yang could not mobilize even the slightest bit of it.

The thick tails bound his fleshly body and kept tightening.

Lu Yang immediately felt the circulation of Qi through his channels grow obstructed, his blood flow blocked, and even breathing became somewhat difficult.

Under the ever-increasing pressure, the bones throughout his body also let out a burst of crackling pops.

The Fox Demon flicked her tails and brought Lu Yang's body up to the tip of her nose, sniffing him lightly.

On that fox face as large as a millstone, a somewhat intoxicated look actually appeared.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk!"

"Your flesh and blood must be very sweet!"

"To become a part of me—lowly Human Race, you should feel honored!"

Inside Thousand Peaks Pavilion, Xu Ya stood before a screen of light, watching the situation outside, her delicate brows slightly furrowed.

The Old Woman leaned on her walking stick and slowly walked to her side.

"Cough, cough. I said long ago that this boy is self-opinionated, refuses to adapt, and sooner or later would die in the mouth of the Demon Race. Ya'er, you overestimated him."

Through the light screen, Xu Ya looked at Lu Yang, who was trapped in a desperate situation, and a hint of reluctance appeared on her face.

"No matter what, he is a good person. Granny, please act and save his life."

The Old Woman nodded. The walking stick in her right hand lifted slightly, and just as she was about to act, she suddenly froze. The raised walking stick was gently lowered again.

"Granny, you..."

But the Old Woman suddenly raised a hand and cut off her words.

"No rush. That boy seems to still have a card up his sleeve!"

At that very moment, Lu Yang, who was tightly wrapped by the fox tails, suddenly had a sharp gleam flash through the depths of his eyes.

The corners of his thin lips hooked into a mocking curve.

"A demon is still a demon—stubborn as rotten wood, refusing to understand flexibility."

Tyrannical Xiantian True Qi erupted from Lu Yang's body in an instant.

The "Mighty Bull Strength" in both his arms erupted at the same time. Together, that terrifying force exceeding one hundred thousand jin snapped the thick fox tails in a single instant.

"Ahhh!"

The Fox Demon was wracked with pain and immediately let out a shrill cry.

At this moment, her enormous pupils were already filled with fear and confusion.

"No, that's impossible!"

"You clearly cultivated the Returning Origin Art, and even used the Returning Origin Art to advance to Xiantian. How could you possibly not be under my control?"

"Speak! What demonic art did you use?"

Lu Yang scoffed at this.

A Demon Race member accusing a Human Race member of using demonic arts was truly the greatest joke under heaven.

"Heh!"

Lu Yang opened his palm, and a dark-green medicine bottle was impressively lying there.

When she saw the medicine bottle in Lu Yang's hand, the Fox Demon's pupils could not help but shrink.

Thousand Peaks Pavilion, before the light screen.

After seeing the medicine bottle, Xu Ya's knitted brow eased, and a delighted smile bloomed involuntarily on her pretty face.

Even the Old Woman, who had always been unsmiling, could not help showing a trace of approval in her eyes at the sight. "Demon Bane Powder. What a clever boy! It seems this old body underestimated him."

"Yes. I never thought the method to break it would be so simple!" Starlike specks of light shimmered in Xu Ya's watery eyes as she smiled sincerely. "Although Xiantian True Qi can't repel that demonic qi, Demon Bane Powder, as something external, can do it with ease."

On the shattered street.

Lu Yang sprang up and landed on a tall roof eave, looking down from above at the Two-Tailed White Fox.

"Speaking of which, I should thank you. That demonic qi was hidden inside my body, and I couldn't draw it out on my own at all. If I hadn't borrowed your hand, I really wouldn't have had any way to remove this last hidden danger of the Returning Origin Art!" Lu Yang said, not without mockery.

Hearing this, the Fox Demon was so furious that rage attacked her heart, and both her eyes turned crimson.

"Despicable human, I'll kill you!"

At this moment, she could no longer maintain her earlier cat-playing-with-a-mouse attitude. In her flustered rage, even her voice grew a little shriller.

The previous Enchanting Melody had now collapsed without needing to be attacked.

Surging demonic qi poured out wildly, and the Fox Demon turned into a streak of white lightning, pouncing and biting at Lu Yang with her sharp claws in a frenzy, her attacks already devoid of any pattern.

Clearly, she had entered a state of complete Berserk.

This was also her final means.

Facing the Berserk Fox Demon, whose strength was now close to the Third-tier, Eighth-level, Lu Yang's expression was neither sad nor pleased.

He executed Tablet Smashing Hand with increasing mastery. Man and demon exchanged dozens of moves across the shattered street, and the Berserk effect on the Fox Demon gradually began to fade.

Lu Yang, on the other hand—the effect of the Elemental Fusion Pill was enough to last for half a shichen, and right now, he could still be said to be at his absolute peak.

All the demonic qi remaining inside his body had been wiped away. Lu Yang's current state was even a few degrees stronger than before.

"Let's end this. Thunderclap Style!"

Lu Yang pressed his hands together, and dozens of streams of Xiantian True Qi inside his body condensed into one place. In his palms, a mass of blue-purple lightning actually flickered between brightness and darkness.

The True Qi fluctuations compressed to their utmost made the Fox Demon somewhat frantic and uneasy.

Boom-crack!

A bolt of purple lightning descended from the sky.

"Ah!"

The demonic qi around the Fox Demon's body instantly collapsed under that strike.

A dense, charred stench spread across the entire street. The Fox Demon's eyes bulged, her body stiff and scorched black, and she fell straight down.

Ding! Congratulations to the host for slaying one Third-tier, Seventh-level Fox Demon. Gained 7,000 Experience Points.

Lu Yang checked the panel.

[Host: Lu Yang]

[Realm: Xiantian Third-level (0/4000)]

[Martial Arts: Tablet Smashing Hand (Perfection: 900/900) Demon Subduing Saber Art (Great Perfection: 310/310) Mountain Splitting Saber Art (Great Perfection: (50/50)]

[Experience Points: 7689]