Chapter 53: Chapter 53: Chaotic Battle

The man piloting the Flying Boat was Huang Taihe, a Guest of the Chen Family in Fuyuan City. Onboard with him were seven Qi Cultivation Stage Cultivators.

Huang Taihe had successfully reached Foundation Establishment thanks to a Foundation Establishment Pill from the Chen Family. The price was fifty years of service to them. For an Independent Cultivator with no backing, this was already a remarkable achievement.

Today, the Demon Alarm Bell in Fuyuan Prefecture City had relayed a demon alert from Huashan County. He had no choice but to pilot the Flying Boat over and help the Independent Cultivators of Huashan County slay the Demons.

There were always some inexperienced Independent Cultivators who, upon encountering a few Demons outside the town, would get scared out of their wits and ring the Demon Alarm Bell for reinforcements.

Huang Taihe had cleaned up their messes countless times. As he piloted the Flying Boat, he was calculating an appropriate fee in Spirit Stones for the job. Suddenly, Demonic Qi flashed ahead, and an incredibly ferocious White Bone Demon Monster materialized before them.

“What is that thing!”

Huang Taihe jumped in fright, but he was, after all, a seasoned Cultivator who had clawed his way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He activated the Flying Boat’s Defensive Array at once.

A Muddled Yellow Spiritual Light Shield instantly enveloped the entire Flying Boat.

The Three Corpses Bone Demon spread its arms and seized the Flying Boat. Under its brute force, the Spiritual Light Shield immediately began to give way. The sharp bone spurs on the Bone Demon’s body even pierced directly into the shield.

“Blood food! So much blood food!”

The Array on the Flying Boat could be powered by both Spirit Stones and Magical Power. Huang Taihe acted decisively, dumping all the Spirit Stones from his Storage Bag onto the Array Disc.

“Quick! Pour all your Magical Power into the Array if you don’t want to die!”

He barked the order at the Qi Cultivators in the Flying Boat before summoning his own Magical Artifact—a Tier Two Lower Grade Great Axe. Although its primary material was cheap Profound Copper Essence, a significant amount had been used, so its power was not to be underestimated.

Driven by his full power, the Great Axe burst with a dazzling light as it came crashing down on the Three Corpses Bone Demon’s head in a tremendously heavy blow.

Sparks flew, and Huang Taihe felt a wave of relief. ’Even a Tier Two Great Demon wouldn’t dare to take that full-powered strike unscathed,’ he thought. ’For this white bone monster to receive it so brazenly, it must be severely wounded.’

The next moment, a look of utter despair washed over his face, and his blood ran cold.

The Three Corpses Bone Demon had taken the axe blow to the head, yet its skull was completely unscathed. In contrast, the blade of his Great Axe was now chipped and blunted.

“Hold fast! Hold fast!”

Huang Taihe shouted at the wavering Qi Cultivators while continuing to hack at the Three Corpses Bone Demon with his Great Axe. He kept this up until the demon, growing impatient, snatched the axe and bit down.

Its sharp teeth sank deep into the axe head. The Restrictions carved into the Great Axe flickered for a moment before the entire weapon was rendered useless.

The Three Corpses Bone Demon chewed a few times, but finding it couldn’t bite through the large lump of Profound Copper, it casually tossed the axe aside. It then focused wholeheartedly on prying open the “can” before it, eager to scoop out the flesh and blood inside.

Under its terrifying brute force, the Flying Boat’s Spiritual Light Protective Shield weakened further. The Spirit Stones on the Array Disc were consumed at an astonishing rate and quickly ran out. The eyes of the Qi Cultivators on the boat flickered; they were clearly no longer willing to pour their own Magical Power into the Array.

In the next instant, Huang Taihe made his decision. As a Cultivator who had struggled his way up from an Independent Cultivator to the Foundation Establishment realm, he naturally had a few trump cards of his own.

He activated a Wind Escape Talisman he had purchased at great expense, abandoning the Independent Cultivators on the Flying Boat without a second thought. Transforming into a streak of cyan Tunneling Light, he fled into the distance.

Seeing its prize about to get away, the Three Corpses Bone Demon let out a piercing shriek. Caught in the Soul-devouring Demon Sound, the Independent Cultivators on the Flying Boat who couldn’t escape in time bled from all seven orifices and dropped dead. The Bone Demon picked one up, stuffed the corpse into its mouth, and began chewing as it activated its Bone Demon Escape Technique to pursue Huang Taihe.

It planned to return and enjoy these lesser morsels after catching its fleeing Foundation Establishment-level blood food.

Wu Chunqiu’s face was expressionless, but inwardly he was incredibly anxious. He hadn’t expected reinforcements from Fuyuan Prefecture City to arrive now. The Flying Boat carried even more blood food, which had immediately drawn the attention of the Three Corpses Blood Demon.

Summoning the Three Corpses Bone Demon had caused too much of a stir, and he just wanted a quick resolution. But the Three Corpses Blood Demon’s rank was too high, especially since it was summoned via an Array; he couldn’t control it as easily as his own limbs. The most he could do, using the Three Corpses Blood Demon Array, was to prevent it from immediately turning on him.

’I can only hope the Three Corpses Bone Demon catches that slippery Foundation Establishment Cultivator quickly and returns soon.’

“Go kill that meddlesome insect in Huashan County. Don’t let him interfere with the Three Corpses Blood Demon Array!”

Although the out-of-control Three Corpses Bone Demon had disrupted his plans, Wu Chunqiu calmly commanded the Three Capitals Blood Demon Mosquito Mother.

He was confident of victory, but the inexplicable slaying of the Blood Evil Demon and the Shadow Demon was like a thorn in his side. Even though a Celestial Demon was guarding the Demon Banners below, he couldn’t rest easy and ordered the Three Capitals Blood Demon Mosquito Mother to eliminate that strangely elusive Independent Cultivator.

At that moment, Yang Jing was using his Cloud Escape technique to conceal himself, perched atop an upturned eave as he gazed at a distant Demon Banner. The Spirit-Connected Celestial Star Stake that had originally been driven into the Spirit Vein had been pulled from its node and tossed aside. In its place, a Bone Demon a full ten feet tall held the Demon Banner, violently siphoning Spiritual Qi from the Spirit Vein and converting it into billowing Demonic Qi to sustain the Three Corpses Bone Demon Formation.

’So the three Demon Cultivators’ mission was to bring the Demon Banners into Huashan County Town.’

Yang Jing thought as he watched the Bone Demon.

The Bone Demon had hidden inside the Demon Banner, waiting for the right moment to emerge.

Bone Demons required white bones as a catalyst to manifest, and right now, Huashan County was littered with them. After absorbing enough White Bone Essence Qi, a Bone Demon could attempt to evolve into a Three Corpses Bone Demon. However, not even one in ten thousand would likely succeed. And though these lesser Bone Demons were far inferior to a Three Corpses Bone Demon, they were still an insurmountable foe for any Qi Cultivation Stage Independent Cultivator.

As for the Spirit Vein nodes needed for the array, the layout map of the Profound Black Celestial Star Array in Huashan County was no great secret among the Foundation Establishment Clans.

’As long as I destroy these Bone Demons and pull the Demon Banners from the Spirit Vein nodes, the Three Corpses Bone Demon Formation will collapse on its own.’

Yang Jing made his decision.

The Three Corpses Bone Demon was too formidable. To kill it, it would take at least seven cultivators at the Foundation Establishment level, and they would need an offense-oriented Spiritual Artifact. Right now, it was doubtful that the entire Fuyuan Prefecture could even muster seven such experts.

By comparison, it would be far easier to break the Three Corpses Bone Demon Formation and use the Power of Heaven and Earth’s Membrane to expel the demon from the Nine Heavens World.

Without the Three Corpses Bone Demon Formation to absorb the repulsive force of the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane on its behalf, the amount of time the Three Corpses Bone Demon could remain would be drastically reduced.

Yang Jing was about to tell Iron Head that they would split up. There were nine Demon Banners, and they needed to pull them from the Spirit Vein nodes as quickly as possible.

But before they could move, a terrifying wave of Demon Qi billowed down from the sky. Wu Chunqiu and Song Min were locked in combat once more. Song Min had pushed her Magical Power to its absolute limit, her Sword Light striking like a Divine Dragon from the Nine Heavens, crackling with wind and thunder as it slammed into Wu Chunqiu’s protective Taiyin Demon Qi. She had to kill him before the Three Corpses Bone Demon returned.

But the Three Capitals Blood Demon Mosquito Mother suddenly abandoned Wu Chunqiu, flying straight down from the sky.

’It’s looking for me!’

Yang Jing realized its intent at once.

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