by Dragon King
Two level 10 demon beasts fled swiftly with lightning energy still shimmering on their bodies.
Crack!
One small demon king attacked again, and one of the fleeing level 10 demon beasts was killed.
The last one fled faster without looking back but was shattered by another small demon king.
The level 10 demon beasts which could have transformed were all dead in the blink of an eye!
With the limited resources of the Demon Sea, brutal killings were the norm. After all, the small demon kings wouldn’t allow the other demon beasts to reach the Transformation Realm so easily!
Among the tens of millions of demon beasts, only a small portion could reach level 10 from fierce battles. Then, a tiny portion of the level 10 demon beasts could pass the Heavenly Tribulations while only a few could survive until they become big demon kings!
That was the cruelty of the Demon Sea!
Standing on the golden boat, Hao Ren watched the death of more than a dozen level 10 demon beasts and was astonished by the cruelty of the small demon kings!
If not for the great speed of the purple gold hairpin and the lightning cultivation technique of the Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll, he would have died here!
No wonder the other human cultivators and dragon cultivators didn’t dare to venture into the Demon Sea!
“Go!” Hao Ren urged.
It was close to noon. If he didn’t get out of here soon, he wouldn’t get out after it turned dark!
The dual-elemental nature essences in his body were put into the golden boat, and it left a series of afterimages while it flew swiftly to the west.
Swoosh… Seeing over a dozen level 10 demon beasts being struck back into the sea, the golden shield returned to Hao Ren’s side.
Since Hao Ren helped it pass the Heavenly Tribulation, it owed a favor to Hao Ren. However, for simple-minded dharma treasures, they would fight when they thought that they would win but would flee when they felt like it was dangerous.
After just passing the Heavenly Tribulation, the golden shield looked blackened like a rusted iron plate when it didn’t use its powers. It probably would look like this in the future.
Hao Ren looked at it and didn’t scold it for not doing its best. After all, it was good enough that it helped him, and he couldn’t expect it to risk its life for him when he wasn’t its owner.
“In the future battles, the golden shield can launch some sneak attacks as a helper even if it can’t be counted as part of the main force…” While Hao Ren thought about this, he struck down more than a dozen small demon kings emerging from the sea with sword energies.
Staying close to Hao Ren, the golden shield shot out several golden beams, killing several small demon kings and some level 7 and level 8 demon beasts that tried to rush out.
As a supreme spiritual treasure, its spiritual senses were more powerful than Hao Ren’s and could clearly see the demon beasts hidden in the sea.
While the purple gold hairpin traveled at top speed, they shot out white sword energies and golden lights.
Bang! Occasionally, a level 10 demon beast would rush out, and Hao Ren would launch hundun sword energies to summon heavenly lightning bolts, striking the demon beasts on and under the sea into the depth of the ocean.
For the small demon kings with lower realms, he attacked them with sword energies; for the demon beasts with higher realms, he attacked them with lightning bolts. Despite the great number of small demon kings, none could block Hao Ren.
Hao Ren calculated the time silently and estimated that he could fly out of the Demon Sea in two hours.
“Since you are here, you may stay here. Brother, since you’ve come into the Demon Sea, you’d better stay!”
A resonant voice crashed down with great power.
The nature essence in Hao Ren’s body paused abruptly, and he couldn’t circulate the Treasure-Controlling Scroll smoothly. Consequently, the purple gold hairpin lost its source of nature essence and slowed down abruptly.
Hum!
A huge purple net appeared in the high sky.
Hum!
The golden shield released a wave of golden light toward the huge purple net. Although it had just advanced and hadn’t solidified its realm yet, it could easily defeat ordinary dharma treasures.
However, the golden light went through the purple net without any effect!
Swoosh… The golden shield flew away from the side.
“Our king is inviting you to his home. You can come with me now!” the voices sounded again.
He sounded calm and unimpressed at the fact that Hao Ren had a supreme spiritual treasure as his helper.
Hao Ren knew the newcomer was not a small demon king but a mighty figure. When the huge purple net crashed toward him, he immediately took out the realm-breaking note and shot it out.
He reacted very fast, knowing that since the golden shield’s lights couldn’t touch the huge purple net, it wasn’t a dharma treasure but an array formation.
Bang.
The huge purple net disappeared in the high sky.
“Well…” The voice in the void sounded surprised when Hao Ren had easily broken the purple array formation.
Hao Ren now had four more realm-breaking notes in it.
Despite their ordinary looks, the realm-breaking notes were excellent in battles!
Zhen Yuan Zi, who was Penglai Island Master, had given Hao Ren new clothes and his necklace back to him when he returned to human form from the dragon form.
Hao Ren took the opportunity to check his necklace and saw a small golden token in it; it was the Penglai Immortal Token!
“This token probably isn’t a gift but something for me to bring back to the Dragon God Shrine!” Hao Ren thought.
Suddenly, Hao Ren understood why this powerful demon king tried to catch him in the outer area!
With the Penglai Immortal Token, Hao Ren could land on most of the remote celestial mountains in the Demon Sea, and the demon kings couldn’t go to these places to catch him since they had agreements with the independent cultivators.
However, in the outer area where it was only two hours away from the edge of the Demon Sea, there were no remote celestial mountains!
“If you can get out of the Demon Sea safely…”
Hao Ren remembered Zhen Yuan Zi’s words. Zhen Yuan Zi had known the journey would be dangerous, but Hao Ren had to take his chance since he didn’t want to stay in Penglai Island to avoid the dangers.
Crack… Disregarding the damage to his body, Hao Ren released the peak Qian-level power.
More than 40,000 sword energies shot out at the same time!
Faced with powerful enemies, he couldn’t conceal his strength anymore and must kill with one attack! The more he delayed, the more dangerous the situation would get!
“Come out!”
Standing on the boat, he shot 40,960 sword energies into the high sky.
The sword energies were so dense that they reflected the sunlight, giving the illusion of hundreds of thousands of sword energies.
“Hehe. Not bad.”
A young man who looked to be 19 years old appeared slowly from the void behind a golden fan.
Mid-tier Nascent Soul Realm.
Looking at him, Hao Ren felt his true realm.
Since he had reached mid-tier Nascent Soul Realm after transformation, he was a master among the small demon kings!
It must be noted that the cultivation of the demon beasts was more difficult than that of the human cultivators. They had to pass the Transformation Tribulation after cultivating from level 1 to level 10, and then they had to cultivate again. This small demon king’s mid-tier Nascent Soul Realm was much more powerful.
After all, Zhen Congming had just reached Zhen-level which was equivalent to the Core Formation Realm!
“You show no appreciation to kindness! In the territory of the Demon Sea, you’ll die without knowing why!” The small demon king who was standing in the void put away
the golden fan and pointed it at Hao Ren.
Hao Ren was at peak Qian-level, and this small demon king was only at mid-tier Nascent Soul Realm which was equivalent to Xun-level. However, this small demon king had re-cultivated after transformation and thus cultivated twice!
A black light shot from the golden fan toward the spot between Hao Ren’s eyebrows.
Hao Ren’s 40,960 sword energies rushed over with the full force and lightning energy.
Hiss… Ear-piercing noises sounded, and the small demon king retreated half a step in the high sky and spread out the fan abruptly.
Bang! Two surges of powerful nature essence exploded in the air.
In the surging heat waves, Hao Ren retreated ten meters on the golden boat which almost touched the sea water.
“Hehe. Your attack is useless against me.” The small demon king waved the fan, looking relaxed. “Of course, you can try attacking me with heavenly lightning bolts.”
“Heaven lightning bolts…” Hao Ren touched his necklace and thought.
Suddenly, Hao Ren saw two black dots flying toward him from a distance.
672 I Want Him Alive!
The two black dots were so fast that they covered almost 10,000 meters in the blink of an eye.
“Humph! Even the small demons who are under Gui Che want to take a share!”
With the golden fan in his hand, this small demon king looked angry, and he sounded as if Hao Ren were already his prey, untouchable to other demon kings.
Guang! When he was distracted, Hao Ren’s hundun sword energies shot into the sky and summoned three heavenly lightning bolts.
The three heavenly lightning bolts struck toward the small demon king who was hovering in the sky with the golden fan and the other two demon kings who were running toward them swiftly.
“What can you do with these heavenly lightning bolts…” The first small demon king raised his gold fan casually.
This powerful small demon king had attached himself to a big demon king. With his high realm, he had been gifted many dharma treasures, and the golden fan in his hand looked to be a top-tier dharma treasure!
Having cultivated to the mid-tier Nascent Soul Realm, this small demon king was way more powerful than the low-realm small demon kings in the outer sea without dharma treasures, and that was why he showed no regard for the heavenly lightning bolts!
Swoosh… Hao Ren shot out several notes!
The arrogant small demon king raised his finger and created a green round wall.
Boo.
The note broke a huge hole in the translucent green round wall.
Hao Ren used another realm-breaking note!
The following notes traveled through the huge holes.
“Humph! Just dharma notes!” The small demon king waved his golden fan toward the heavenly lightning bolts while focusing his attention on the two demon kings who were flying toward them swiftly.
However, instead of being blown off by his fan, the notes entered his body, and he felt some blockage in the circulation of his nature essence!
Those were the last essence-locking notes that Hao Ren had with him!
Bang! Without the support of his nature essence, the dharma treasure was useless, and the heavenly lightning bolts struck him on the head, shattering him into pieces!
“Go!” Stepping on the golden boat, Hao Ren injected the metal-elemental and water-elemental nature essences into it, and it began to fly toward the west with the traveling speed of the Soul Formation Realm.
When the two small demon kings arriving at the spot of battle, they looked at each other in surprise when they saw the shattered golden fan on the sea.
“Go after him!”
Two black clouds rose beneath them while they chased after the golden boat which was emitting radiant light.
With Lady Zhen’s hairpin, they knew that this cultivator was her guest. In the past, no one would have dared to work against Lady Zhen, but the Immortal Physique would improve the realms of small demon kings in the outer sea if they ate him.
If he were captured by a big demon king of the inner sea, the latter could make an Immortal Pill with his Immortal Physique and become an eternal demon king!
This was why the few big demon kings in the Demon Sea had sent their trusted subordinates to hunt down Hao Ren at the risk of offending Lady Zhen.
If they could gain another eternal demon king under their control, it was worth it even if they displeased Lady Zhen! If that happened, they believed that she wouldn’t dare to declare war on them!
Splash! Riding on the force of the waves of the Demon Sea, the golden boat flew faster.
Hao Ren had thought of flying in the high sky, but the higher he flew, the scarcer the nature essence was, and thus the slower the boat would be.
In contrast, the closer he was to the surface of the Demon Sea, the more abundant the nature essence was, and the faster the boat.
Hao Ren looked back at the two black spots and found that they had gotten even closer. After all, the Demon Sea was the demon kings’ territory, and they could replenish their nature essence faster than Hao Ren, making their speed the same as that of the Soul Formation Realm!
Besides, Hao Ren’s peak Qian-level realm wasn’t his own strength. After a while, the realm would be locked, and he would fall back to top-tier Dui-level with damages to his body!
Bang! Bang!
Hao Ren shot out two waves of sword energies.
Chasing after him, the small two demon kings waved their arms and shattered Hao Ren’s sword energies. Since their realms were higher than Hao Ren’s, they were not afraid of his sword energies!
He could do nothing but flee!
“You two idiots! You can’t even catch up with a peak Qian-level dragon cultivator!”
In the high sky suddenly came a huge yell.
Bang! Bang! Two lightning balls fell from the high sky and crashed onto the two small demon kings who had been chasing Hao Ren. They tumbled on the sea surface and fell into the water.
Hao Ren looked up and saw a Kun Peng blocking the sky and the ocean!
In the northern ocean, there was a fish called Kun. It was unknown how many thousand kilometers it was in size. When this Kun transformed into a bird, it got the new name, Peng. Its back was thousands of kilometers in length, and its wings covered the sky like massive clouds when it opened its wings.
Its body was as big as a giant mountain, one couldn’t see the end of its wings!
“You can’t flee. Stop fighting, and I won’t maul your flesh!”
Boom! The Demon Sea turned pitch black under its shadow!
Big demon king!
Hao Ren felt like he was choking under the overwhelming suppression!
“Dive!” Hao Ren managed to circulate his nature essence and maneuvered the golden boat into the sea.
The ocean was full of high-level demon beasts, and Hao Ren wouldn’t have entered it if he had another option.
“Hahaha… Do you think I’m afraid of water just because I’m in my bird-form?” Kun Peng crashed into the sea, exploding up a huge wave that was as high as hundreds of meters!
The level 7 and 8 demon beasts were knocked into the high sky like toys.
Kun Peng tuned into its fish-form! Its eyes were as big as hills!
Standing on the boat that was almost 100 meters long, Hao Ren felt like he was a small ant in front of it!
The 40,960 sword energies pierced through water and dashed toward one of its eyes with crackling lightning energy.
“I’ll swallow you and bring you back to my big brother to make pills!”
Booming noises rose from the bottom of the sea, numbing Hao Ren’s head. He almost fainted.
Kun Peng opened its mouth suddenly, and tons of seawater poured into its mouth.
Standing on the golden boat, Hao Ren was sucked in with the water currents like in a storm.
In front of this super powerful force, all attacks were futile!
Swoosh!
S
uddenly, a wave of fire shone from the high sky and lit up the pitch-black ocean bottom.
“Kun Peng, how dare you kill my people!” A furious and shrill voice suppressed Kun Peng.”
“Gui Che! You don’t deserve the Immortal Pill. Get out of here!”
The black fish suddenly rose to the sea surface, and the surging water took Hao Ren to the surface as well and almost made him fall from the golden boat.
On the sea, a cold-looking man in a luxurious robe looked at Kun Peng that was floating on the sea, red demon flames burning on his hands.
With a sharp chin, this man looked to be in his fifties, and his eyes emitted terrifying demonic fires.
“I only killed two small demon kings, and you dare to come after me for that?” Kun Peng spat out a mouthful of seawater into the sky.
The seawater turned into burning water vapor the moment it was shot out. With the huge size of Kun Peng, this beam of water vapor had the power to destroy a city!
Hovering in the sky, the man shot out a flame from his palm and burned up the water vapor completely.
“If you’re smart, get out of here before my big brother gets here!” Kun Peng waved its body and shouted.
The ocean waves surged up with huge booming noises.
“Even if I can’t have the Immortal Pill, I’ll leave a mark on you!” The man shot out a wave of flames from his palm.
The fire grew as big as a mountain while it crashed toward the sea, and its heat instantly evaporated several inches of seawater!
The golden boat immediately created an energy sphere, but it shattered beneath the heat wave.
“You tried to destroy the pill!? Gui Che, you are seeking death!” Seeing the edge of the fire sweeping toward Hao Ren, Kun Peng immediately shot out a sea wave to block the heat wave for Hao Ren. Then, it turned into its huge bird-form and spread out its super huge wings, crashing toward Gui Che.
The man was forced more than thousands of meters into the air by Kun Peng’s move.
“You’ll die if you don’t fight me with your demonic form!”
Kun Peng released a wave of vicious black light toward Gui Che.
As a big demon king close to the peak realm, he was ecstatic when Hao Ren appeared with his Immortal Physique. Kun Peng could have the chance to advance to an eternal demon king if he took the Immortal Pill which was best when it was made while the cultivator was still alive. After catching Hao Ren, he even wanted to keep Hao Ren alive for a while, so the latter could reach a higher realm before he was made into a pill.
