Mountain as Prison, Water as Hell; When Demons Perish, the Dao Is Born and Daybreak Returns (Part 1)

Within the flames, four Heavenly Demon manifestations struggled with all their might.

"Ah—"

Luo Shenkong had only just regained some strength when this sword strike grievously wounded him again, leaving his demonic soul on the brink of dispersal.

Bai Yan and the other two were no better off. Eight hundred years of vital essence had become kindling, and as the Separation Flame Taiji Sword Formation burned, its power continued to climb.

By now, it rivaled Nascent Soul fire.

"Even the Nine Nether Flame Prison where Gods and Devils were said to dwell could be no more than this, right?"

Struggling, Bai Yan swung out a strand of Lesser Formless Sword Qi.

Its target was the Baleful Demon altar master beside him.

"Rather than all of us dying, I am more valuable alive."

"You—"

The Baleful Demon altar master had prepared for this, but his target had been Luo Shenkong. Bai Yan's preemptive strike caught him both shocked and furious, forcing him to unleash the Heavenly Demon Secret Art he had prepared.

Nearby, Luo Shenkong forcibly entangled himself with another deputy hall master. The deputy hall master wore a cold expression as he operated the Heavenly Demon Evil Seal with his lone arm.

"Martial Uncle, you have already fallen to such a state. Let your martial nephew seek a sliver of survival." The evil seal turned his centuries of hatred for Fu Danwei into a venomous thorn and shot it forth.

Luo Shenkong refused to fall behind. Mara Three Blades reappeared and hacked viciously at the deputy hall master.

As the four demons fought among themselves, Vermilion Birds materialized one after another within the sea of fire, hemming them in from every side. Then several unorthodox cultivators from the Lin Clan, who also practiced demonic arts, were struck by the Vermilion