Across the Heavens: Starting from the Desolate Era, Becoming the Eternal Protagonist
Chapter 46

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"You want the horns of us brothers?"

Among the three Moon-Worshipping Single-Horned Rhinoceroses, each over a hundred zhang tall, the one clearly larger than the other two roared, "That depends on whether you have the ability!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The three Rhinoceros Great Demons snorted angrily in unison.

The Mingyue Dharma Forms floating in the air above their heads suddenly each cast down a visible beam of bright moonlight.

The three beams of moonlight converged upon the three Rhinoceros Great Demons and were ultimately absorbed by the single horns on their noses.

Afterward, the three horns, having absorbed all the power of the moonlight Dharma Forms, burst forth with dazzling radiance.

Three laser-like beams carrying boundless icy force swept toward Xia Manggan from three directions.

Whoosh!

How fast was light?

Xia Manggan had no time to react before his divine body was instantly enveloped in frost. His brows and skin were covered in a thick layer of ice crystals, turning him into a twelve-zhang-tall ice sculpture.

"Hahaha, no matter how heaven-shaking your divine ability may be, once you are struck by us brothers' 'Taiyin Cold Light,' death is your only road." The smallest Rhinoceros Great Demon let out a booming laugh. "Big Brother, Second Brother, let me go crush this human cultivator."

As it spoke, the Rhinoceros Great Demon moved its hooves and stomped thunderously toward Xia Manggan like a small mountain.

"Second Brother, there should be other human cultivators inside that sailboat in the sky. This little fellow has been frozen into an ice sculpture and can't be eaten. Go capture the human cultivators in that sailboat. We'll have an extra meal tonight," the largest Rhinoceros Great Demon ordered.

Yushan Great Wilderness Marsh was one of the ten most dangerous places in Anchan Commandery. Every year, batches of human cultivators came here to kill.

The reason the three brothers dared to occupy this mountain as kings was their innate divine ability, 'Taiyin Cold Light.'

Not only was it incredibly fast, so fast that even Immortals might not be able to react, it also contained terrifying Taiyin cold energy.

Even ordinary Primordial Spirit Daoists would be frozen if struck, unable to mobilize their Primordial Spirits, much less a mere human Myriad Phenomena God-Demon.

If not for the opponent's ferocious charge and sudden attack on their lair, leaving them unable to discern the enemy's true strength, they would not have immediately transformed into their true forms and unleashed their innate divine ability together.

When dealing with human cultivators who came here to temper themselves, only one of them usually needed to fight to sweep them aside.

After all, they were divine beasts, Moon-Worshipping Single-Horned Rhinoceroses, who could only assume human form upon reaching the Wanxiang Realm.

The nobility of their bloodline was among the very greatest of all the Monster Race great demons within hundreds of thousands of li.

"Alright—" The second Rhinoceros Great Demon had just opened its mouth to agree and was about to charge toward the sailboat treasure in the sky.

When the third Rhinoceros Great Demon suddenly let out a miserable scream.

"Ah! The pain is killing me!"

The two Rhinoceros Great Demons hurriedly turned to look.

The human cultivator, whose body was still faintly covered in frost, punched upward. Like a nail, his fist pierced through Third Brother's hoof.

Then, in the instant Third Brother raised its leg in pain, the human cultivator wrapped both arms around it, dragged one of Third Brother's legs, swung its entire body through the air, and smashed it heavily against the mountainside.

Bang!

The tremendous impact made the entire mountain tremble.

"Oh no."

"Third Brother!"

The two Rhinoceros Great Demons' eyes instantly turned red as they rushed toward Third Brother, who had fallen flat on its back.

But no matter how huge they were or how fast their hooves ran, they could not match the human cultivator's proximity.

Rip.

The human cultivator, who was not even as tall as their horns, tore open Third Brother's belly with his bare hands and drilled inside.

"What abundant Divine Power."

The moment Xia Manggan entered the Rhinoceros Great Demon's abdomen, surging pale-gray Streamer submerged him.

He instantly understood that this was the Rhinoceros Great Demon's Divine Power.

Divine Power existed in every part of a god-demon's body.

The Monster Race, especially certain divine beasts and unusual creatures among them, were naturally enormous in size.

Take the Moon-Worshipping Single-Horned Rhinoceros. Even without using the Law of Heaven and Earth divine ability, its natural body exceeded twenty zhang.

Now that it had used Law of Heaven and Earth, its body exceeded a hundred zhang.

Thus, when battling Fiendgod Body Refining cultivators smaller than themselves, they often encountered situations where opponents drilled inside their divine bodies.

To deal with such situations, the simplest, most direct, and most effective method was to use surging Divine Power like a flood to batter the opponent, forcing the opponent to expend Divine Power in return.

After all, a larger body naturally contained more Divine Power.

Therefore, ordinary Fiendgod Body Refining cultivators, when faced with such a situation, would generally use divine abilities and secret arts to wreak havoc before quickly leaving the great demon's body.

This prevented them from exhausting too much of their own Divine Power and ultimately being the ones to die.

But Xia Manggan was no ordinary Fiendgod Body Refining cultivator.

Golden light shone from his body. No matter how the Rhinoceros Great Demon's pale-gray Divine Power struck him, it could not damage even a single hair on his body, much less consume his Divine Power.

"After three months of bitter cultivation, along with the Divine Power returned to me after Ah Huang devoured the Nine-Star Immortal Carriage and the Red Phosphorus Flame Fruit, my Body Refining Divine Ability has now reached the third level. My entire body is comparable to a top-grade human-tier magic treasure! If you were a Primordial Spirit-level god-demon, I might fear you somewhat. But at the Wanxiang level... die."

Ssssss~~~

Xia Manggan's six arms moved, some hands forming claws and others held upright like blades. With incomparable ferocity, he tore through the flood-like obstruction of Divine Power and wantonly ravaged the Rhinoceros Great Demon's internal organs.

However, once Fiendgod Body Refining cultivators reached the Purple Mansion Fiendgod level, they could regenerate from a drop of blood.

The destruction of its internal organs only made the Rhinoceros Great Demon howl in agony and cost it some Divine Power at most.

To truly end its life, he had to exhaust all of its Divine Power.

Thus, after wreaking havoc inside the Rhinoceros Great Demon's body for a while, Xia Manggan removed the Ancient Stone Ring from his index finger.

"Wuji Ring, break!"

Rumble rumble rumble~~~

The Ancient Stone Ring, which had enlarged along with Xia Manggan's body until it was over a zhang across—

After being activated by Xia Manggan's Origin Force, it began spinning and expanded dozens, even hundreds of times in size.

In an instant, it burst the Rhinoceros Great Demon's entire body apart from within.

And that was not all.

Within the ring formed pure-black North Underworld Sunflower Water and pure-white Southern Bright Separation Fire, instantly filling the space inside it.

The entire Wuji Ring resembled a Taiji diagram, sharply divided into black and white with twin Yin-Yang fish, wrapping up all the Divine Power released from the exploded Rhinoceros Great Demon's body.

Then, under the horrified gazes of the other two Rhinoceros Great Demons, it ground all that Divine Power into nothingness.

Only a rhinoceros horn, restored to its original size and roughly two zhang long, remained, and Xia Manggan seized it in one hand.

"Third Brother!!!"

The two Rhinoceros Great Demons' eyes nearly split open.

"Don't worry."

Xia Manggan smiled as he put the rhinoceros horn into his storage magic treasure. "I'll send you to reunite with your brother right away."

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