Exchange, Each Displays Their Means

Lu Yang swept his gaze around. There was a tiger, a wolf, a bear, and an eagle.

Counting the Two-tailed Fox Demon that had died at his hands before, as well as the Bull Demon and several Third Realm demons he had previously slain, Lord Black Mountain had actually had nearly ten Third Realm demons under his command!

That number had already matched, if not surpassed, the number of Xiantian Realm cultivators Black Mountain County had once possessed.

That only these four remained before him was truly all thanks to Lu Yang.

"Kill him!" Lord Black Mountain's low roar shook the entire mountain forest.

"Roar, roar!"

"Awooo!"

"Screech!"

The four Xiantian giant beasts spat out great swaths of pitch-black, foul-smelling demonic qi, condensing them into sabers, spears, swords, and axes that turned into a rain of weapons, spreading out layer upon layer.

Clang, clang, clang!

Lu Yang gripped his saber with both hands, and the Black Gate Saber rolled up layer after layer of saber aura, shredding those sabers, spears, swords, and axes to pieces.

The dense, unmelting demonic qi was cleaved apart by Lu Yang's saber, and the fine yet heavy saber aura swept in all directions, forcing the four demons back in an instant.

Four mid Third Realm demons had joined hands, yet they seemed unable to withstand even a single exchange from Lu Yang!

In past battles, he had always reversed the odds from a lower realm to strike down higher realms, and the fights had been somewhat arduous.

This time, facing four demons whose realms were not even up to his own, even one against four, he still seemed to have room to spare.

"Heh, so this is the foundation of Black Stone Mountain. Nothing much." Lu Yang's laugh was contemptuous. The Black Gate Heavy Saber continuously tore through the demonic qi, and the heavy aura upon the blade suppressed the four demons so that of their full strength, they could only bring out five or six parts.

"Roar!"

The bulky Bear Demon was the first to be hit. It gave a miserable howl and was sent flying by Lu Yang's saber.

In less than a dozen breaths, the Wolf Demon, Black Tiger demon, and Eagle Demon were also struck by saber aura one after another and forced back in defeat.

Not far away, Lord Black Mountain, coiled atop the peak, had a few hints of gravity rising in his huge pupils.

He had also noticed Lu Yang's abnormality.

The True Qi inside this human martial artist seemed exceptionally deep and vigorous. There was no trickery whatsoever; with his own True Qi alone, he had easily suppressed the four demons, the bear, the tiger, and the others.

In other words, all the demonic qi within the bear, tiger, and the other four demons combined seemed to be less deep and vigorous than Lu Yang's True Qi alone!

"Returning Origin Art! It's Returning Origin Art again!" Lord Black Mountain let out a low roar. His massive body leapt up, and across a distance of dozens of meters, several claw auras slammed down at Lu Yang's head.

Lu Yang, who had been about to press his advantage and kill the four demons, instantly sensed the danger. Having no choice, he could only give up the pursuit and turn Black Gate around to defend.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The berserk demonic power shoved Lu Yang and forcibly slid him dozens of meters across the ground. The overwhelmingly violent strength shook both his hands numb.

By the time he steadied himself, three gashes dozens of meters long had already appeared on the ground.

With only one strike, Lu Yang knew that Lord Black Mountain's strength was far above his own!

"Roar!"

Lord Black Mountain was like a raging black wind, sweeping down from the mountain, sending sand and stones flying as he pressed down from overhead with the momentum of dark clouds blotting out the sky.

Clang, clang, clang!

A series of ear-piercing collisions rang out from Black Gate.

Under the continuous hammering of that immense force, Lu Yang's figure retreated again and again.

He keenly realized that, just as Du Guinian had said, Lord Black Mountain was by no means an ordinary demon.

Its bloodline power was far stronger than that of ordinary demons, and like Lu Yang, it was an anomaly among its own kind, its Combat Power extraordinarily fierce.

With his current Seventh-tier Xiantian cultivation, defeating an ordinary peak Third Realm demon was not difficult, but if that was all he had, then before Lord Black Mountain, it was likely truly not enough.

Thoughts flashed through Lu Yang's mind. He put away Black Gate, and the Mighty Bull Strength in both his arms erupted at the same time.

"Thunderclap Style!"

The moment he made his move, it was the strongest Thunderclap Style of the Tablet Smashing Hand!

Rumble!

A streak of blue-purple lightning condensed into a Lightning Ball, striking open layer after layer of demon fog and bearing straight down on Lord Black Mountain!

"Petty trick!"

Lord Black Mountain's expression was icy. He opened his mouth and spat out a black ball of light.

In the next instant, the black ball of light collided with the Lightning Ball, and the roar was deafening.

Atop the mountain peak, endless shattered stones tumbled down. The mountain shook and the earth quaked, like an avalanche!

"Mighty Bull Charge Fist!"

Lu Yang did not pause in the slightest. Behind him, the phantom of a mighty bull flashed past, and his vast fist aura collided head-on again and again with Lord Black Mountain's huge tiger claws. Surging demonic qi and Xiantian True Qi scattered and surged in all directions, leaving countless pits across the ground.

Lord Black Mountain's body, as if forged from black mystic iron, seemed to suffer an indescribable impact, and for the first time, Lu Yang forced him back.

Screeech!

Sharp claws tore through the ground, letting out a sound that set the teeth on edge and leaving several deep furrows behind.

Bang bang bang!

Boom boom boom!

Atop the mountain peak, sharp claws and palm-shadows collided one after another, sending shattered stones flying as ravines crisscrossed the ground.

The man and the tiger clashed for dozens of rounds in succession, yet they still remained evenly matched.

Lord Black Mountain's expression finally grew grave.

At first, he had never imagined that Lu Yang, whose realm was still lower than his own, could actually reach this point?!

However, Lu Yang knew his own situation best.

In those dozens of exchanges earlier, the man and tiger had seemed evenly matched, but in truth, he had fallen into the disadvantage.

According to Lu Yang's rough estimate, Lord Black Mountain's strength was around one hundred and thirty thousand jin, already far beyond the height an ordinary peak Third Realm Demon Race member could reach.

Even though he had temporarily blocked the other party with his strongest means, the stabbing pain in both his arms had already reached a point where it could no longer be ignored.

If things continued like this, after another dozen rounds, these two arms of his would probably be crippled.

"What are you waiting for? Attack together!" Lord Black Mountain growled.

The four Third Realm demons had recovered some of their strength by now. Hearing Lord Black Mountain's order, they all let out frenzied roars, entered the Sobered Berserk state, and charged at Lu Yang from all four directions.

"Hahahahaha! This lord would like to see whether you can fight one against five!" Lord Black Mountain took a step back, summoned a vast mass of demonic qi, and condensed it before him into a pitch-black spear more than a dozen zhang long, piercing through the void as it shot straight at Lu Yang.

The four demons assisted from the sides. Demonic qi surged around them, and when they opened their mouths, they actually spat out weapon after weapon that was real and solid, wrapped in a sinister wind, growing larger and larger.

Bzz bzz bzz!

"Treasure Weapons!" Fury could not help surging up in Lu Yang's heart. "Those bastards!"

The Demon Race was not skilled at forging artifacts. These Treasure Weapons had, without question, all flowed out from Black Mountain County.

If it was not Qian Yikang and Lu Jue, then it was done by those human traitors from the Four Great Families.

The four Third Realm demons without Treasure Weapons and the four of them with Treasure Weapons were completely two different concepts.

Earlier, the reason Lu Yang had won so easily against four by himself was because of the enhancement from [Black Gate].

Now that the four demons simultaneously brought out Treasure Weapons, the difficulty of dealing with them instantly shot straight upward.

Lord Black Mountain alone already made it extremely difficult for him to cope. With the addition of these four Third Realm demons strengthened by Treasure Weapons, Lu Yang's situation had already become terrible to the extreme.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Several Treasure Weapons steeped in demonic qi came attacking through the air, and Lu Yang had no choice but to take out [Black Gate] again, borrowing the power of the Heavy Saber to split his attention and block them.

When experts clashed, what they competed in was focus.

The moment Lu Yang's attention was split even slightly, Lord Black Mountain immediately seized the opportunity.

"Die!"

A pitch-black claw-shadow attacked Lu Yang from a tricky angle, breaking through Lu Yang's ring of saber-light with extreme ease.

At this moment, Lu Yang was precisely in a state where his old strength had already gone and new strength had yet to arise. This strike looked more than enough to kill him.

However, Lu Yang, who should have been terrified and panicked, instead had a smile of success rising on his face at this moment.

"Heh, you finally couldn't hold back!"