Chapter 1921: Mother Demon

Volume Ten: Battle of the Demon Realm

Apart from a pair of eyes glowing with purple light, the skeleton had no trace of flesh or blood. As its limbs flailed wildly, low incantations and piercing screams emanated from its mouth, causing a shiver of dread in anyone who heard them.

Suddenly, the thirteen other surrounding skeletons also let out piercing cries. With a lunge, they transformed into wisps of black energy and merged into the central skeleton.

In an instant, the skeleton’s form grew immensely. At the same time, every inch of its bones glowed, undergoing a bizarre transformation.

After a muffled sound like an explosion of thunder, the skeleton instantly swelled to a height of hundreds of feet. Black demonic flames swirled around its entire body, as if a demon god had descended from beyond the heavens. However, upon closer inspection, one would be astonished to discover that embedded in the bones of this giant skeleton’s chest were thirteen small skulls, each only a few feet in size, which were precisely the transformed forms of the other thirteen skeletons.

Even more astonishing, after the giant skeleton raised its head and let out a long howl, a series of cracking sounds erupted from its back, and twenty-six distinct, ghastly white bone arms materialized.

Each massive hand held a different bone weapon, such as swords, axes, and halberds. With a slight wave, gusts of demonic wind swept forth, and black flames rolled, creating an overwhelming momentum.

This massive, grotesque skeleton was none other than the Mother Demon of the Thirteen Child-Mother True Demons.

However, this was unlike the usual method of cultivating this demonic art. Venerable Lan had actually used his own body as a cauldron, refining it into the Mother Demon’s physique.

The benefit of doing so was a significant increase in his cultivation, granting him numerous demonic abilities and divine powers seemingly out of thin air, and also eliminating the risk of backlash from the child demons.

However, as a price, if he, in his Mother Demon form, sustained too severe injuries, his consciousness would naturally be tainted by demonic influence, facing the extreme danger of truly transforming into the Mother Demon forever.

If Venerable Lan had not seen Han Li’s formidable powers far exceed his expectations, making the situation extremely perilous, he likely would not have transformed into the Mother Demon’s physique at all.

Once transformed into the Mother Demon, Venerable Lan’s mind was instantly filled with a murderous aura. His original fear of Han Li vanished completely. After letting out a "cackling" laugh, he suddenly opened his mouth towards the distant giant ape, unleashing a gust of demonic wind.

This demonic wind howled, chilling to the bone, and swept forth in a vast, hazy expanse.

Then, the Mother Demon shook its head. With a flicker of its body, it merged into the demonic wind and vanished.

Meanwhile, the golden-furred giant ape had already shattered most of the nearby mountain peaks by repeatedly throwing mountains from its hands. Only when it saw that merely the peak where the Mother Demon had stood remained did its gaze shift in that direction.

It then saw the demonic wind rolling towards it!

The giant ape bared its teeth, and without a word, suddenly threw two mountain peaks forward.

After two thunderous roars, the two immensely powerful blue and black mountains firmly blocked its path. They then glowed and rapidly expanded, instantly becoming over a thousand feet tall, indistinguishable from ordinary mountains.

The demonic wind swept forth, unceremoniously striking the two mighty mountains, as bursts of chilling air spread out.

One side of the mountain wall instantly became translucent, and a thick layer of crystalline ice formed on it.

The giant ape stomped its foot, and with a "whoosh," its massive body leaped onto the top of one of the mountains. With blue light flickering in its eyes, it carefully probed the demonic wind opposite it.

But in the next moment, the ape suddenly let out a roar, and its two hands lashed out like lightning towards the opposite side.

Countless golden fist shadows materialized, sweeping towards a certain point within the demonic wind.

A strange cackling laugh echoed!

Instantly, countless massive blade glows also materialized from the demonic wind. As light wildly flickered, countless blood-red runes flickered in and out of sight within the blade glows, surprisingly cutting through the seemingly unbreakable golden fist shadows one by one.

Subsequently, the blade glows did not pause for a moment, and directly slashed wildly towards the giant ape itself.

Seeing this, the golden-furred giant ape’s eyes glowed with an increasingly dazzling blue light. But suddenly, with a wave of one hand, a piercing sound ripped through the air. Thirteen massive golden flowers shot forth, and with a rapid spin, instantly transformed into purple-veined beetles.

These were Han Li’s thirteen spirit insects, candidates for the Insect King.

A moment ago, they had been bound by restrictions within the demonic formation, but now they had finally broken free and arrived by Han Li’s side.

These spirit insects hardly needed any prompting from Han Li. Their purple markings instantly lit up, and their forms abruptly expanded, becoming several *zhang* in size, monstrous and huge. With a flicker in front of the giant ape, countless illusory figures instantly appeared.

It was as if countless purple shields had appeared before the giant ape.

Although those blade glows were bizarre and sharp, when they struck these beetles, they could only produce dull thuds before dissipating and disappearing.

Given the incredible toughness of these mutated Gold-Devouring Beetles’ bodies, there was indeed almost nothing in the world that could truly destroy them. These blade glows were naturally no exception.

However, at this moment, a huge vortex suddenly appeared above the giant ape transformed by Han Li. Then, a huge dark figure descended from thin air. Preceding this dark figure were twenty-six massive bone blades, swinging and bringing forth waves of black inferno.

The Mother Demon, transformed from Venerable Lan, finally appeared and launched a sneak attack on Han Li.

The giant ape, however, seemed to have anticipated this and showed no signs of panic. Instead, after taking a deep breath, black energy surged around its body. A dark, gleaming battle armor emerged from within its form. Black light flickered on its surface, and countless black runes surged forth, completely enveloping and protecting it.

Then, it suddenly rubbed its hands together and thrust them apart in the air. Countless massive golden arcs shot out, forming a giant lightning net that moved to meet the demonic sea.

With a thunderous roar, the black demonic flames and golden lightning arcs, upon contact, seemed to mutually neutralize each other, extinguishing more than half of their power. However, the massive bone blades descended without hesitation, striking fiercely towards the giant ape’s head.

The giant ape’s face suddenly contorted into a grim smile. Golden light burst from its back, and a golden phantom with three heads and six arms instantly materialized. As its six arms swung simultaneously, a ball of golden light shot out from each hand.

With a flash, the six golden lights suddenly converged above the giant ape. With a hum, they instantly transformed into a golden vortex of considerable size.

This was precisely the great divine ability from the Vanishing Saint True Demonic Art: the Cavern Vortex Golden Light!

And under the cover of the dazzling golden light, another faint green shadow also shot out from the giant ape’s back with a flash and vanished into the nearby demonic energy.

At this moment, the Cavern Vortex Golden Light rotated rapidly, spreading out golden waves.

With a flash, the twenty-six massive blades all struck these golden waves.

The golden waves merely curled back, completely engulfing all the massive blades. Then, the three-headed, six-armed phantom behind the giant ape let out a low roar.

A massive suction force instantly emerged from these golden waves. Under the influence of this force, the massive blades trembled violently. Then, with strange screeches, they flew out of their wielder's grip and were completely engulfed by the golden waves.

The giant ape, Han Li’s transformation, was momentarily stunned!

Clearly, absorbing these massive blades so easily was far beyond its expectations.

The next moment, the Mother Demon let out a quivering, strange laugh, and one arm suddenly pointed gently towards the twenty-six bone blades.

The massive blades, which were about to be sucked into the golden vortex, suddenly trembled and converged, erupting with dazzling gray light.

In an instant, a gigantic bone lotus materialized. It was entirely constructed from ghastly white bone fragments. On each lotus petal, dense runes emerged, emitting an eerie gray light.

With just a swift spin, the giant bone lotus sent countless light blades flying forth like a violent storm, surprisingly tearing through the surrounding golden waves, then shooting directly towards the golden vortex.

However, since the Cavern Vortex Golden Light was a great divine ability that Han Li had comprehended only after achieving mastery of the Vanishing Saint True Demonic Art, it naturally could not be broken so easily.

The three heads of the golden phantom chanted incantations, while its six arms, with a series of rapidly moving hand seals, swiftly merged into the vortex.

A great roar erupted from within the golden vortex. The golden waves surging from its center naturally became even more astonishing, and for a time, they were locked in a stalemate with the eerie light blades unleashed by the bone lotus!

When the Mother Demon saw that its attack had not succeeded, purple light intensified in its eyes, and it seemed to become enraged. Its twenty-six arms suddenly grabbed at its own body, each ripping out a bone from itself. With a swing in the wind, these bones surprisingly transformed into twenty-six more bone blades. Then, with a shift in its form, it once again charged down towards the giant ape.

Witnessing this, the giant ape, Han Li’s transformation, suddenly pounded its chest with both arms. It opened its mouth and unexpectedly shot out a golden beam of light. At the same time, its fists wildly struck out again. Then, with a leap, it directly charged at the Mother Demon, relying on the astonishing defense of its demonic armor to engage the ancient demon in direct hand-to-hand combat.

Just then, the thirteen purple-veined beetles hummed together and also charged directly towards the massive skeleton.

But with a low roar from the Mother Demon, the skulls on its chest twisted into a sinister grin and surprisingly detached themselves from the main body, flying out one by one, spitting green light as they confronted the thirteen beetles.

Although the green light spat by these skulls could not injure the purple-veined beetles, it contained a mysterious power that surprisingly prevented these Gold-Devouring Beetles from directly breaking through the attack for a time, temporarily entangling them.

At this very moment, the golden phantom that had remained in place suddenly stopped chanting. It ceased its hand seals, and its entire body burst with golden light, its form unexpectedly transforming into a dazzling golden physical body.

A wisp of black energy emerged from the central head of the golden body, revealing a dark, several-inch-tall Nascent Soul.

This Nascent Soul’s face was identical to Han Li’s. It held a silver short blade in its hands. Its eyes gleamed with cold light as it glanced at the Mother Demon high in the sky, then, with a cold snort and a flicker of its body, it vanished back into the crown of the head.

The next moment, the golden body’s three heads moved. Golden light simultaneously flickered in all six of its eyes. As one arm flipped, the silver broken blade previously held by the dark Nascent Soul flashed into existence. Its size had naturally increased by more than ten times.

With a shake of its three heads, incantations continuously poured forth again. As its other five arms danced, golden runes showered down from its palms.

With a flash of the silver broken blade, rings of five-colored radiant light emanated from it.

Almost simultaneously, a force of Heaven and Earth laws instantly filled the entire void.