Chapter 56: Chapter 56: Destruction Divine Light

The corpse, split in two, pulsed with Demonic Qi. The human skin on its surface suddenly peeled away, revealing the Celestial Demon underneath. The creature looked like a flayed man, its arms replaced by two curved bone hooks, exposing its raw, pink flesh.

A Sinful Body Demon!

This was an extremely vicious type of Celestial Demon. After devouring a person, it would keep their skin, wearing it to infiltrate their home and secretly feed on the family at night. By the time it was discovered, an entire household would often have been eaten down to the last person.

The Sinful Body Demon’s powers of disguise were extremely potent. Once it donned a skin, even a Cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Stage would find it difficult to see through the deception.

Song Min had burned through all her Essence Blood, and the Magical Power in her Dantian was depleted. Her vision swam with black spots. She glanced at the dead Sinful Body Demon, and a despair greater than death itself filled her heart. Only now did she realize that her opponent had been using an illusion to alter his form and face throughout their Magical Combat.

The real head of the Wu Family had long ago been flayed, his skin worn by the Sinful Body Demon so it could be used as a sacrificial pawn at the critical moment.

This was her complete and utter defeat. From her prowess in Magical Combat to her strategic planning, she had been crushed in every respect.

Wu Chunqiu was ecstatic. ’I’ve finally won! A total victory! Now, I just need to trick my sect brothers from the Dark Spring Demon Sect into coming here and leveling Fuyuan Prefecture City. Then that Pure-blooded Flood Dragon will be mine for the taking!’

The next moment, a pillar of starlight shot into the sky, its dazzling radiance eclipsing even the sun.

“No!”

Overjoyed and completely defenseless, Wu Chunqiu took the full force of the blast.

“Celestial Star Destruction Divine Light!”

This was the offensive Magic of the Profound Black Celestial Star Array. The array took the Spiritual Qi from the thirty-six Spirit-Connected Celestial Star Stakes, converted it into Celestial Spirits Star Force using its Restrictions, and then used the Array Base to amplify and focus it into a single beam of Divine Light.

This Celestial Star Destruction Divine Light was incredibly powerful, its might no less than the Sword Qi Thunder Sound of a Sword Cultivator at Foundation Establishment Perfection. However, being fired from an Array, it was far more rigid than Sword Qi. Its trajectory was fixed once launched, unable to track or lock onto a target. An opponent on guard could easily dodge it.

Yang Jing had bided his time until the very last moment, unleashing the Celestial Star Destruction Divine Light only when Wu Chunqiu was at his most arrogant and unguarded.

After a few moments, the Divine Light in the sky slowly faded, revealing Wu Chunqiu’s form. At the last instant, he had managed to shift aside by an inch. The Destruction Divine Light had only annihilated his lower body. From the waist up, he remained, clinging to life through his Demon Skill.

Grievously injured, blood began to trickle from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. His life force was fading rapidly. He would not live much longer.

“No! This is impossible! How can the Profound Black Celestial Star Array still be perfectly intact!”

“My painstakingly nurtured Blood Shadow Mosquitoes clearly trapped them inside the County Yamen! Who was it?! Who repaired the Profound Black Celestial Star Array?!”

“Kill them! I want every single person here torn to pieces!”

Wu Chunqiu shrieked the command at the Three Corpses Bone Demon.

The Three Corpses Bone Demon had taken the full force of Song Min’s sword head-on, which had left a finger-deep gash across its ribs. Even without Wu Chunqiu’s command, it was determined to grind that hateful Female Cultivator into pulp and squeeze out every last drop of her Essence Blood.

Just then, however, within Huashan County Town, the Demon Banners releasing torrents of Demonic Qi into the sky began to fall, one after another. The Three Corpses Bone Demon Formation had been shattered.

The roiling Demonic Qi enveloping the Three Corpses Bone Demon instantly dissipated. Without the Array to shield it, the repulsive force of the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane crashed down upon it. Even the True Demon Bone of the Three Corpses Bone Demon began to creak and groan under the strain, unable to fully withstand the pressure.

“ROAR!”

The Three Corpses Bone Demon let out an enraged roar, raising its hands to desperately fight back.

Yang Jing would not let such a perfect opportunity pass. Another beam of Celestial Star Destruction Divine Light slammed straight into the demon. The scorching Celestial Spirits Star Force seared its Demon Bones, while the White Bone Phosphorus Fire covering its surface was instantly extinguished.

Any other Celestial Demon would have long since fled back to the void. But the Three Corpses Bone Demon was low on intelligence and high on appalling ferocity. It continued to brace itself against the expulsion of the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane, roaring a Soul-devouring Demon Sound toward Yang Jing at the heart of the Array.

Yang Jing showed it no mercy. The Profound Black Celestial Star Array was drawing from a Spirit Vein, providing an endless supply of Spiritual Qi, so he had no need to worry about consumption. He unleashed nine consecutive beams of Celestial Star Destruction Divine Light, one after another, until the very Array Base of the Grand Array beneath his feet began to grow warm.

The Three Corpses Bone Demon was burned to nothing. The Celestial Spirits Star Force incinerated all of its Demon Bones, leaving only a single spine to fall to the ground.

Yang Jing rubbed his temples to relieve the throbbing pain.

Controlling the Array placed a significant strain on his Divine Sense.

The Three Cities Bloodthirsty Mosquito Mother lay gasping its last outside the County Yamen. With its master on the verge of death, it had suffered a backlash and was now barely alive.

Yang Jing remained within the Array’s protective shield. Forming a hand seal for a Spell, he sent a dozen or so Yi Wood Divine Needles piercing into the creature’s body. The Yi Wood Divine Needle was a Magic from the Five Talisman Scripture, an exceptionally vicious one at that.

Once inside a target, the divine needles would continuously absorb its Blood Qi Magical Power, converting it into Yi Wood Essence Qi and then taking root and sprouting within the host’s body. An ordinary Demon struck by a single needle would be immobilized within fifteen minutes, helpless and waiting for the slaughter.

After being struck by the needles, the already weakened Three Cities Bloodthirsty Mosquito Mother lost all ability to move, becoming as still as a corpse.

Using the last of his Magical Power, Wu Chunqiu slowly descended to the ground outside the County Yamen. His face was completely drained of blood, wreathed in an aura of Death Qi.

“Just who are you? A person like you could never be a simple Independent Cultivator!”

The response he received was a Cyan Thunder Talisman.

Dazzling lightning struck Wu Chunqiu, charring his body black. One wasn’t enough, so Yang Jing activated three more in quick succession before he stopped.

Song Min swayed and landed unsteadily on the ground. She looked at Yang Jing with a peculiar expression.

“Just how many Cyan Thunder Talismans do you have?”

Yang Jing took out a Pill Bottle of Blood Circulation Pills and handed it to Song Min.

“You must be joking, Elder Song. I just happen to have a bit of wealth, and I’m a little too fond of living, so I prepared a few extra.”

Song Min opened the Pill Bottle, glanced inside, and swallowed two of the pills. She had lost Essence Blood, a grievous blow to her Vitality that would take at least a decade to recover from. The Blood Circulation Pills could only offer some slight relief from her current plight, where she couldn’t even muster a shred of strength.

Having recovered a trace of her strength, she prepared to walk forward and sever her enemy Wu Chunqiu’s head with her Flying Sword.

Yang Jing hastily stopped her.

“Elder Song, this Demon Cultivator is incredibly cunning. I suspect that Demon Mosquito suddenly grew so weak because he drained its Essence Blood, preparing for a last, desperate, all-or-nothing attack. You are a person of great importance, Elder. You cannot risk yourself like this.”

He beckoned with his hand, summoning Yinjiao from a distance and letting it coil around his arm.

“I have raised a Demon Snake; let it retrieve his head. More than sixty years ago, in the matter concerning the Sovereign of Qi, his ancestor killed your father, Elder Song, and also assassinated the Sovereign’s son. Today, his descendant will die at the hands of a common Demon Snake. One might call it karmic retribution.”

Song Min hesitated for a moment but nodded in the end. She was severely weakened, her combat power all but gone.

Yinjiao hadn’t known Wu Chunqiu’s identity until now. Realizing the man before it was the enemy it hated to the bone, it immediately grew agitated. The moment Yang Jing let go, it shot forward. It coiled its body around Wu Chunqiu’s neck and, with a powerful twist, tore off the head that had already been charred black by lightning.

In the blink of an eye, the once triumphant Wu Chunqiu was reduced to a headless, mutilated corpse.

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