Overwhelming Suppression!
Faced with such an overwhelming attack, Yang Xiao simply closed his eyes slightly.
According to Canglan Water Pattern's perception, the surrounding water vapor would heat up first where these fire pythons passed.
The heat was like a pre-drawn line, revealing the approaching fiery python to him.
Yang Xiao raised his hand and gestured upwards.
He pulled the thin mist from the Mass Burial Ground to his front, condensing it into several Water Wyrm that accurately blocked the path the fire python was bound to take.
The fire python opened its mouth and spewed out blazing flames, scorching the Water Wyrm's surface and causing white mist to rise. The Water Wyrm's huge mouth suddenly opened wide, and a violent torrent of water surged out to fight back, even swallowing it whole. A large amount of hissing white mist instantly rose from the Mass Burial Ground.
The Red Lizard Demon King was originally confident.
It dismissed the first few fire pythons being swallowed as a coincidence.
When it was blocked at the ninth and tenth checkpoints, it began to frown.
"This kid..."
As the fire pythons were consumed one by one within the Water Wyrm, their enormous bodies were swallowed bit by bit and completely disappeared into the Water Wyrm's gaping maw.
For the first time, it felt a strange unease, and the fire python twisted even more violently in mid-air.
After several more long-range attacks failed, it completely lost patience.
"What kind of skill is it to try and cover it up!"
It let out a fierce shout, raised its arms, and Fire Pattern wrapped around its chest and arms, burning them to a dark red color like hot irons.
It suddenly pushed off the ground, causing the ground to explode, and its whole body shot straight towards Yang Xiao like a fire arrow!
This attack was extremely fast; the crimson flames in its palm could dry up a person's flesh from several feet away. It had never seen anyone dare to take this palm strike with their own body.
Yang Xiao's feet suddenly felt a little heavy.
The Mountain Suppression Earth Pattern on the Mystic Core lit up, and a powerful force spread out from beneath his feet.
He raised his arm and held the Army-Breaking Spear horizontally.
The fiery palm descended.
Boom--!
As the two collided, a ring of crimson flames exploded from the Red Lizard Demon King's palm, swirling along the spear shaft and across Yang Xiao's arm.
The latter's sleeve instantly turned black with a "poof," and rolled up in pieces, revealing the scorched flesh underneath.
Yang Xiao's expression remained unchanged, but the Red Lizard Demon King to be stunned.
The moment the fiery palm struck, it felt as if its arm had landed on a mountain.
A powerful shockwave rushed back into his palms, leaving both arms numb.
It took a half step back, looked down at its own red-hot hand, and then looked up at Yang Xiao's fair skin, which remained unharmed beneath his charred sleeve.
The smugness on its face was completely replaced by an indescribable strangeness.
It couldn't even remember how many martial artists at the Mysterious Core Realm it had burned to death with that palm strike.
The man in front of him took the blow head-on, but only his sleeves were scorched; there wasn't even a trace of fire on his body.
Its lightness made him wonder if he wasn't skilled enough.
The moment the thought crossed Yang Xiao's mind, he moved.
The Sky-Rending Wind Pattern lit up beneath his feet.
The Red Lizard Demon King only saw a blur flash by, so fast that its eyes couldn't keep up. It instinctively raised its arm to block, but the Army-Breaking Spear was already upon it.
Puff--!
The spearhead grazed its arm, tearing a deep, bone-revealing wound from elbow to wrist, blood trickling down its crimson, scaly skin.
"Ah!!"
The Red Lizard Demon King grunted and hurriedly activated its Fire Pattern to repair the damage.
The firelight clung to the wound, and just as the flesh began to twitch and heal halfway, it suddenly realized something was wrong.
A murky aura lingered in the wound, slowly eroding the Demon Power that surged forth, preventing it from healing any further.
Its heart sank.
Such a strange change could not be due to myself, so it must be due to the other party.
It looked up at the young man opposite it, and a hint of fear suddenly appeared in its eyes.
The person in front of it was clearly not the kind of Demon Suppression Guard it had imagined.
It didn't know what the strange aura blocking the healing on its arm was, it only knew that if it continued to fight, it would inevitably be at a disadvantage.
Therefore, a decision was made immediately.
Crimson Fire Pattern enveloped his body, and he turned to flee into the distance.
Yang Xiao had already anticipated that it would escape.
How could Demon King is so cautious and low-key even after reaching the Pill-Pattern Realm not be wary of the opponent's tricks?
The Canglan Water Pattern brightly, and he drew in the moisture from all directions in the air, instantly forming a vast water prison.
The Red Lizard Demon King had just pulled out a three-zhang-round sword from behind when it crashed into it headfirst. With a muffled thud, it was forced to stop and reveal its form.
As soon as it appeared, several streams of water wrapped around it like ropes, encircling its shoulders and back, binding its legs, and suddenly pulling it back, forcibly dragging it back to Yang Xiao.
"Let me go!"
It desperately activated its Pill Pattern, using the burst of fire to burn the water ropes. With a "whoosh," it broke free of its restraints, and flames erupted as it prepared to charge again.
Yang Xiao did not give it that chance.
The Heaven-Melting Treasure Furnace on one side of the Mystic Core suddenly opened with a roar.
As soon as the Demon-Baleful Pill Fluid accumulated in the furnace was ignited, a vast amount of Demon Power surged out through the meridians and attached itself entirely to the Army-Breaking Spear.
A blood moon faintly appeared deep within his pupils. He gripped the gun with both hands and swung it horizontally, striking the flaming body directly.
Bang--!
The Red Lizard Demon King's newly ignited anger was forcefully extinguished by this single shot.
The protective Fire Pattern around him dimmed for a moment, and his body crashed heavily to the ground, scattering grave soil everywhere.
Yang Xiao stepped forward.
The Army-Breaking Spear thrust forward, its tip carrying the Army-Breaking Power, piercing straight into its chest. The latter's protective Demon Power shattered like a thin, fragile shell with a "crack."
The Red Lizard Demon King opened its mouth.
It wanted to say something more, "I have no grudge against you" and "The Demon King behind you will not let you go," but at this moment it couldn't squeeze out a single word.
It was simply instinctively trying to live one more breath.
"Wait, wait a minute..."
Yang Xiao's wrist jerked.
At the tip of the spear, the power to Demon-Slaying Soul-Extinction erupted, and multiple forces flowed along the spearhead into the demon's body on the ground.
The Red Lizard Demon King choked with a muffled thud, its Demon Soul shattered. The crimson Pill Pattern coiled on its chest and abdomen slowly faded as its last thought vanished.
Without the support of Demon Power, its form became visible: a giant fire lizard covered in red scales.
The enormous demonic body lay among the graves in the Mass Burial Ground, and the flames that had always surrounded it gradually died out.
The night breeze blew again, bringing a touch of coolness.
Yang Xiao drew his Army-Breaking Spear, and a line of demonic blood slid down from the tip.
He bent down and took out a crimson Demon Core from the corpse. On the surface of the core, a complete Fire Pattern slowly moved, emitting a blazing and pure Fire Essence aura.
He held the Demon Core, about to get up.
Within his consciousness, the Equipment Slot shifted slightly.
[Slay a Demon at the Mysterious Core Realm.]
[The conditions for permanently solidifying the "Qi-Reading Art" equipment have been met.]
He paused for a moment, then casually tucked the Demon Core into his robes.
This trip was worth it.
He turned around, preparing to leave the Mass Burial Ground.
Just then, my arms suddenly trembled, feeling both light and heavy.
Yang Xiao stopped.
He took out Qi-Gathering Bottle from his waist. A wisp of crimson aura was pulsating inside the bottle, which was the aura that had been separated from the Core Illumination Realm Demon King that had escaped from Chu Qingtian's hands.
At this moment, that wisp of energy was surging and dancing against the bottle wall, like a flame stirred by the wind.
In his other hand, the complete Fire Pattern on the newly taken-out Fire Pattern Demon Core was slowly glowing.
Two fiery energies, separated by the bottle wall and the palm, echoed each other, resonating slightly.
Yang Xiao glanced down, his gaze darkening slightly.
This Fire Pattern Demon King actually has some kind of connection with the Core Illumination Realm Demon King that Chu Qingtian is chasing?