The battle that followed was much more in keeping with the Demon Race's style.
It was a pure war of flesh-and-blood attrition, with no room for clever shortcuts.
Although Luo Hongyi's zither music had scrambled the three-faced monster's sentience, and the Azure Bull Demon King had chopped off two of its heads, it was still a genuine late-stage Immortal King Filth Demon, with terrifying strength.
Having lost two heads, the monster's "Rage Face" turned into a beast with no regard for its own life.
The battle plunged heaven and earth into darkness, blotting out the sun and moon, and lasted more than six hours.
Yet even the longest nightmare had its moment of awakening.
With a tremendous crash, Demon King Azure Xi severed the monster's last remaining "wrathful" face with a single swing of his axe, seizing an opening the demons had created together.
"BOOM!!"
The enormous headless corpse finally crashed to the ground!
At last, the dust settled.
As they stared at the corpse, now utterly motionless, the ravaged battlefield suddenly fell silent.
Then cheers erupted like mountains roaring and seas surging!
"We won!!"
"All hail our king!! He slaughtered that bastard of a monster!!"
The cheering did not last long, for once the joy had passed, their taut nerves finally relaxed.
"Thud, thud, thud..."
The demon soldiers finally ran out of strength, dropping onto their backsides one after another or simply sprawling flat on the ground.
The Azure Bull Demon King was no exception.
He no longer cared about his axes, letting them clang to the ground before dismissing his Dharma Form and flopping down.
"Goddammit... this old bull's dead tired..."
Azure Xi was drenched in blood, but his smile was full of satisfaction. With difficulty, he turned his head to look nearby.
There, Luo Hongyi leaned against