Zhou Chen's heart clenched with panic. She hurriedly gripped Zhou Qing's hand tightly and was just about to speak when an exceedingly faint voice reached her ears. "Chenchen, don't speak. Let Master handle everything. Don't worry—you're already a disciple of my Heavenly Dao Sect. Could I possibly let you suffer a loss?"
Zhou Chen had no idea what to do now. Hearing Zhou Qing's voice, she suddenly felt an intense trust in this master of hers in name. An indescribable feeling rose in her heart. She nodded blankly.
Tianxuan Blood Demon pondered in silence, while the bewitching woman took two steps forward, swaying like flowers in the breeze as she smiled. In a coquettish voice, she said, "Oh my! My dear little brother, you're quite capable, aren't you? But your big sister is afraid you might be playing some trick. Looking at you, little brother, you seem awfully clever!" As she spoke and laughed, her towering breasts trembled. A cloying fragrance drifted over, making Zhou Qing's nose itch.
A flash of golden light passed through Zhou Qing's eyes, and in an instant, he saw the woman's true form. He cursed inwardly, Damn it, she really is a stunner. This lusty cat can seduce men to death. Is she trying to tempt me now? But I've already seen your true form. Would I have any interest in a lusty cat? You can't even compare to my disciple!
"Tut, tut! Say, big sister, I heard you have nine lives. Is that true? Could you let me test it out?" Zhou Qing secretly exposed the woman's true form. Other than cats, what animal was said to have nine lives?
The Cat Demon was viciously mocked by Zhou Qing, and rage surged from all seven apertures as the Three Corpse Gods stampeded in fury. Her expression changed at once. Yet this was only natural. She had always been exceptionally proud of her beauty, and countless men had been bewitched into losing their souls over her. The Cat Demon was deeply intoxicated by that feeling and had firmly remembered the benefits of being human. In her heart, she had subconsciously come to believe that she was not a demon, but a human. Usually, even the other three demons did not dare utter the words "Cat Demon" before her. Now that Zhou Qing had exposed her, how could she not be enraged?
With a sharp cry, an unusual weapon appeared in the Cat Demon's hand. It was neither a saber nor a sword, its surface covered in wolf-fang-shaped serrations. A faint blue light flickered over it; one glance was enough to tell it was an object of immense poison. "You fool who doesn't know what's good for you! Today, I'll grind your bones to dust beneath my Poison Fang Blade! What are you all standing around for? Move!"
Seeing the Cat Demon draw even the weapon she kept at the bottom of her chest, Yuan Wuji let out a long laugh. A long staff appeared in his hand, more than a person's height in length, pitch-black, and as thick as an arm. Bang! Yuan Wuji viciously drove the staff into the ground, shattering the cement-and-steel surface within a radius of over ten feet into powder and exposing the yellow earth below.
Nether Ghost also cackled sinisterly. The dense ghostly qi surrounding him twisted and transformed, finally forming a gigantic skull. The skull seemed to be laughing, its ghastly white teeth opening and closing in an eerie fashion.
The Eight Extremes Wolf King was the complete opposite. Rather than retreating, he advanced. What a joke. My Inner Core is gone, and my strength is less than half of what it normally is. Going up there to fight would plainly make me cannon fodder! the Eight Extremes Wolf King thought to himself.
Seeing that Tianxuan Blood Demon had no intention of making a move, Zhou Qing understood that the Blood Demon was a cautious sort. Zhou Qing had frightened him somewhat, so he wanted his four subordinates to take the lead and test Zhou Qing's strength before acting according to circumstances.
Zhou Qing immediately formed a plan. He laughed loudly and said, "With just you three chickens and dogs, you dare raise a hand against this sect master? With a flick of my finger, you will all be reduced to ashes!" Zhou Qing had read plenty of web novels, and he had memorized the lines of their experts until they rolled smoothly off his tongue. At this moment, he finally got to say them himself. Zhou Qing felt incomparably delighted, more satisfying than eating ginseng fruit. Indeed, a Spirit Transformation expert facing three demons at Qi Induction Late Stage was as easy as drinking water.
At this point, the three demons had no idea what Zhou Qing was thinking. They had originally believed that Tianxuan Blood Demon would join the attack. With five demons attacking together, they would surely have an eighty-percent chance of dealing with this arrogant brat who called himself the sect master of the Heavenly Dao Sect. The Eight Extremes Wolf King's retreat before battle was nothing much; after all, with his Inner Core lost, he was merely cannon fodder. But who could have known that Tianxuan Blood Demon would hesitate as well? Without Tianxuan Blood Demon, although Yuan Wuji, the Cat Demon, and Nether Ghost were usually arrogant and domineering, with no one beneath their notice, they were not fools who failed to recognize danger. Now that they had encountered a hard bone, each struck a posture ready to pounce, yet after a long while, none of them made the first move.
As the three demons hesitated, they heard the lofty expert's words Zhou Qing had learned from novels, and their lungs nearly burst from rage. Even a clay figurine had three parts of earthly temper, let alone three demons. Ignoring the difference in strength, the Cat Demon, Yuan Wuji, and Nether Ghost all roared at once and launched their strongest attacks at Zhou Qing.
Pitch-black staff shadows filled the sky, mixed with piercing, mournful howls as they swept toward Zhou Qing. Yuan Wuji had originally been a mighty mountain ape. He had gathered the essence of the sun and moon and cultivated for more than three hundred years. Fifty years ago, he had finally shed his original body and cultivated a human form. Born with boundless strength and an active nature, he had little interest in spells that required sitting in meditation and contemplation, so he rarely cultivated such arts. In battle, he usually relied on this Limitless Rod, forged from fine refined steel after gathering the qi of the five elements, along with his immense strength and agile speed. He had seldom suffered losses because of it. Furious at Zhou Qing, Yuan Wuji used every ounce of strength in this strike. Faint red light flickered from the originally black tip of the staff—it was the tremendous heat generated as the Limitless Rod rubbed against the air at an inconceivable speed, actually heating the staff until it glowed red!
Although Nether Ghost was half a beat slower than Yuan Wuji, his attack was even more imposing. Amid his strange cackles, the already enormous skull swelled abruptly after Nether Ghost spewed out a mouthful of sinister qi, expanding more than tenfold. Its huge mouth, large as a basket, opened wide. Its pale teeth flashed with sharp cold light. Judging by its momentum, even a block of refined steel would be bitten into powder. More importantly, as the skull's gigantic jaws opened and closed, black mist faintly seeped out. It was precisely the Five Poison Smoke Cloud miasma that had nearly caught Zhou Qing off guard.
In comparison, the Cat Demon's attack was far less spectacular. Without any flourish, she merely flicked her hand, and the Poison Fang Blade became an extremely thin streak of blue light that blended into Yuan Wuji's staff shadows. Without a sound, it shot toward Zhou Qing.
Zhou Qing did not dare be careless either. He fully raised the divine sense and power of his Second Primordial Spirit, dividing seventy percent of it to guard against Tianxuan Blood Demon's sneak attack. Zhou Qing was deeply wary of the leader of this Monster Alliance. Clang! With a ringing cry like a God Sword leaving its sheath, a streak of azure light that seemed to span heaven and earth swept toward the sky-filling staff shadows and the enormous skull, completely eclipsing Yuan Wuji's staff shadows and Nether Ghost's skull.
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