You Have No Chance to Eat It

Chen Xian was thrilled. The moment he entered the Vajra Realm, his fleshly body was like refined steel cast in a mold—unmatched in toughness.

After ten thousand months of arduous cultivation, your Vajra Dragon Elephant Art has reached minor mastery in the Vajra Realm. Furnace Origin Power surges like rolling tides.

Experience: 336000 points

As the panel prompt appeared, Chen Xian's fleshly body changed once more. The Origin Power furnace within his Jade Sea also swelled by three meters, taking on the color of red-hot branding iron as Origin Power spun and surged around it.

Mist appeared at its outermost edge.

Chen Xian clenched his fist, and a three-meter-tall Vajra Phantom emerged behind him.

The phantom possessed a humanoid form and closely resembled him. Golden threads outlined it, while Origin Power energy filled it, making it seem illusory and unreal.

Yet it delivered an overwhelming visual impact, and its power was formidable as well.

The only thing that frustrated Chen Xian was that while his cultivation technique was progressing, his cultivation realm had not risen.

In other words, he was growing stronger because the technique was ten times more powerful than the original Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique. Now that he cultivated the Vajra Dragon Elephant Art, a stacking effect had appeared, but it still was not enough to elevate his cultivation realm.

After ten thousand months of diligent cultivation, your Vajra Dragon Elephant Art has reached perfection in the Vajra Realm. In your haste for quick success, demonic deviation has appeared once again.

Boom!

Dark golden flaming Origin Power instantly rolled out from around his body, and the five-meter-tall Vajra Phantom behind him became solid as though real.

Yet what made Chen Xian anxious was that, as flickering light and shadows flashed through his mind, an evil force suddenly arose in his heart and charged toward the acupoints and meridians throughout his body.

Very quickly, black qi rolled out of his eyes. Immediately afterward, the Vajra Phantom behind him turned gold-black.

It looked more mysterious and tyrannical than the golden Vajra Phantom, but Chen Xian knew full well that the panel's rapid enhancement had produced a negative effect. He was about to suffer demonic deviation again.

Chen Xian frantically suppressed that Black Fiend Demonic Power while simultaneously activating the powers of both the Ox Demon Body Refinement Technique and the Vajra Dragon Elephant Art to restrain it.

A quarter of an hour later, he finally suppressed the Black Fiend Demonic Power and dispersed it from his body.

However, the Vajra Phantom behind him had completely mutated. It was no longer pure gold, but gold-black.

After sensing it for a moment, Chen Xian raised the corner of his mouth in a bitter smile.

The panel was good, but this negative effect was truly speechless.

Of all things, it had to be demonic deviation.

It was far too easy to fall into inner demons!

"I still can't be too hasty!" Chen Xian muttered as he withdrew his cultivation.

He had originally planned to use the Vajra Dragon Elephant Art to advance to the next realm. It seemed he could only take things slowly.

Experience: 306000 points

After glancing at his experience, Chen Xian put away the panel.

With the Ox Demon Body Refinement at perfection, the Vajra Realm at perfection, the reinforcement of two cultivation techniques upon his fleshly body, and martial skills at the subtle mastery level—

Facing the Black Tiger King should not be much of a problem.

The next day.

The second day of the tenth month.

Chen Xian led three hundred Cook Soldiers westward toward Blood River Forest. Along the way, they saw the Vermillion Bird Iron Cavalry of the Third Battalion once more.

The young woman Chen Xian's group had seen before was the leading young general.

"Cook Soldiers?"

As the female young general watched Ding Chen and his three hundred men gallop past her, she frowned slightly.

A female commandant behind her said, "The Ninth Battalion truly is weak. They even have to send cooks onto the battlefield to fend off demons."

The female young general was named Nangong Yan. She stared at Chen Xian in the lead and said, "These Cook Soldiers possess sharp killing intent. They are stronger than the Head Chef Army and clearly are no ordinary Cook Soldiers. That young lieutenant leading them should be in the Late Surging Origin Realm. There is a faint ripple of Origin Qi around his body."

"He should be a cultivation genius!"

At those words, the female soldiers all stared after Chen Xian, but they could only see his spirited and heroic back.

West of Blood River Forest.

When Chen Xian arrived with Ding Chen and his three hundred men, the thousand Demon Slayer Soldiers under Chen Quanwu were making their arrangements.

"Dog bastard!"

Chen Quanwu glared at Chen Xian from afar and cursed once before continuing to deploy his troops.

Chen Xian pretended not to hear him and led his men forward to salute first.

Chen Quanwu snorted coldly and did not waste words. "Take your men to the southwest corner. Remember, don't let the demons through. Otherwise, this commandant will deal with you under Military Law!"

"Let me say this first, Commander. If there are more than a thousand demons, we naturally won't be able to hold them back!" Chen Xian said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Even if you can't hold them, you'll hold them for me!" Chen Quanwu shouted.

Hearing that, Chen Xian said nothing. He turned, mounted his horse, and led Ding Chen and the others toward the southwest corner.

The so-called southwest corner was where Blood River Forest met the southern outlying range of Seven Mile Peak, and it was still far from the Black Abyss.

Demons would not come from west of Seven Mile Peak. Some places there belonged to Rogue Cultivator demon territories.

Even demons passing through the area would be hunted down by the Rogue Cultivator demon lords.

Thus, the southwest corner was the westernmost route for the Demon Army to attack Demon-Slaying Pass. However, this passage was narrow. It was faster to travel through Blood River Forest, and the route was much shorter as well.

When Chen Xian led his men to the southwest corner, his Spiritual Sense Eye swiftly spread outward, reaching a range of two kilometers.

Very soon, he discovered a demon scout.

The view at the intersection was somewhat open. Blood River Forest lay to the east, while the outlying range of Seven Mile Peak lay to the west. Farther west stretched endless rolling mountains. Some peaks were shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, their summits impossible to see.

Some peaks pierced straight into the heavens, giving off a mysterious and majestic air.

Straight ahead lay the south. The sky was black, with vortices turning within it and Black Fiend Demonic Qi like tornadoes linking heaven and earth.

Chen Xian stopped by the upper reaches of the Blood River.

The Cook Soldiers did not bother to conceal themselves either. They found a flat spot and sat cross-legged atop their horses to cultivate.

Toward evening, a force of three hundred mounted Demon Slayer Soldiers arrived.

Chen Xian did not recognize the lieutenant leading them.

"Are you Chen Xian?" The lieutenant cast Chen Xian an arrogant glance.

"That's right. And you are?" Chen Xian's expression remained blank.

"Lieutenant under Major General Zhong Lian, Peng Lianqing. I am responsible for the southwest intersection. From now on, you and everyone under your command will follow my orders!" Peng Lianqing said coldly, his face full of contempt for Chen Xian and the others.

"Why should we listen to you?" Wang Yan retorted.

"Why?"

Peng Lianqing gave a cold snort and crooked a finger at Wang Yan. "Come here, and this lieutenant will tell you why."

Wang Yan was no fool. Why would he go over?

"Get over here!"

Peng Lianqing bellowed, his momentum imposing. He had clearly slain many demons, and the killing aura around him was sharp and fierce.

"Lieutenant Peng, calm your anger!"

Chen Xian spoke indifferently. "Did Major General Zhong Lian give such an order?"

Major General Zhong Lian was the middle-aged general who had dealt with the Black Tiger King alongside Pei Menglong that night. Chen Xian had seen him once.

"What do you think?" Peng Lianqing said coldly.

Chen Xian nodded. "What orders does Lieutenant Peng have?"

Seeing Chen Xian yield, Peng Lianqing's arrogance grew even more pronounced. "This lieutenant and the soldiers under my command are all hungry. Hurry up and roast some meat. After eating and drinking our fill, we still have to battle demons tonight."

Chen Xian remained seated on his horse without moving. He stared at Peng Lianqing and said, "Lieutenant Peng, I'm afraid you have no chance to eat it!"

"What do you mean?"

Peng Lianqing was first stunned, then swept his spear up and pointed it at Chen Xian. "Looking to get beaten, are you...?!"

Roar!

Before he finished speaking, an angry roar came from the forest across the river upstream.

Before long, densely packed demons appeared on the opposite bank. A great black tiger demon roared repeatedly, then leapt toward them to kill.

Peng Lianqing's face was full of astonishment. He had not sensed anything at all. How had Chen Xian known that the Demon Army was coming?

Judging by their numbers, there were at least fifteen hundred of them.

"Chen Xian, obey orders! Get up there and hold them off for this lieutenant!" Peng Lianqing shouted.

Yet he himself did not move, nor did he allow the Demon Slayer Soldiers under his command to take action.

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