Chapter 1940: Battle of Heaven Reliant (6)

Volume Ten: The War in the Demon Realm

With a long, mournful roar, a thousand-zhang-long behemoth immediately emerged from the pillar of light that had sealed it.

It had the head of a goat, the body of a bear, bat wings, and long, emerald-green fur!

"Oh no, a Hesixi Beast! It's Hesixi, one of the Four Fierce Beasts!"The unsuspecting human cultivators in Yitian City fell into immediate disarray upon seeing the creature. The black-armored man in the distance, who had just been wielding his twin hammers and preparing to counterattack, instantly felt the terrifying aura emanating from the behemoth. His eyes flickered with dark light as he swept a glance toward Yitian City. Upon remotely discerning the monster's appearance, he couldn't help but gasp in shock.

The behemoth's eyes moved, immediately spotting the white-robed cultivators fleeing nearby. A savage glint flashed in its eyes, and it instantly opened its mouth and spat.A cloud of yellow mist surged out, vanishing in a flash, engulfing all the white-robed cultivators. In another flicker, they burst into showers of blood, which the beast then inhaled and swallowed whole.

The other cultivators nearby were terrified out of their wits. Instantly, thousands of escape lights shot up simultaneously, scattering in all directions.

Seeing this, the behemoth let out a low growl, and a massive brownish-yellow paw suddenly swatted violently at the cultivators fleeing in one direction.

A piercing shriek erupted in the void, and a swirling, yellowish hurricane immediately roared forth. With a single sweep, it engulfed hundreds of cultivators, tearing them into countless fragments.

Next, the beast used its other giant paw to strike out in another direction, and dozens more cultivators were instantly killed on the spot.

Venerable Azure Dragon, witnessing this scene from afar, his face changed, and he immediately bellowed:

"Fairy Lin, if you don't cast your spell now, when will you?!"

This powerful roar clearly contained some divine ability of Venerable Azure Dragon. Not only did it rumble across the entire sky, but it also made several low-level demonic beasts dizzy and collapse on the ground, unable even to stand.

On the other side of the battlefield, Fairy Lin Luan, who was fighting the white-robed youth, heard the shout. Her beautiful face instantly turned ashen. With a sudden cry, three gourds exploded consecutively with "bang, bang, bang" sounds. From them, three giant bees, several zhang in size, flew out, each spitting a different kind of flame directly at her opponent.

They were three Fire Bee Kings!

The flames unleashed by each Bee King clearly possessed immense power; even the white-robed youth dared not face them directly and was forced to retreat.

Seizing this opening, Fairy Lin Luan's pair of fiery wings fanned, and she transformed into a ball of raging flames, abruptly vanishing from her original position.

The next moment, the woman's figure flickered into existence in the void, over a hundred zhang away from the white-robed youth. After an unusual flush of blood appeared on her face, she rapidly formed hand seals with one hand, while with the other, she extended a jade-like finger and lightly touched the space between her eyebrows.

Several runes flashed and vanished, and a small, blood-tinged talisman shimmered into appearance, faintly visible and somewhat blurry.

Fairy Lin Luan immediately let out a soft cry. A white light flashed from her extended jade finger, and a pure white beam of spiritual energy immediately surged into the talisman.

The next moment, as the great beast in Yitian City was unleashing a massacre upon the cultivators, its body suddenly stiffened, and it let out an excruciating roar. On its massive goat-head, another blood-red talisman flickered into existence.

Apart from the difference in size, its shape and the inscribed patterns were seventy to eighty percent similar to the one between Fairy Lin Luan's eyebrows. It also glowed with spiritual light and emitted a faint bloody sheen.

"Vile beast, have you had enough of your lesson? Get out of the city now!"

Just as the beast was writhing in agonizing pain, unable to stop rolling on the ground within the city, Lin Luan's stern command suddenly echoed coldly in its mind.

As soon as the words fell, the intense pain in the goat-headed beast's mind mysteriously vanished.

After a few grunts, the behemoth slowly rose again. Its eyes darted around, revealing a hint of bewilderment and uncertainty, as if it possessed considerable intelligence.

However, when Fairy Lin Luan's cold hmph echoed in its mind once more, the behemoth shuddered. Without further hesitation, it spread its wings, transforming into a thousand-zhang-long yellow bat, and, stirring up a strange gust of wind, surged directly towards the human-demon battleground outside the city.

At this moment, high above the city, the black-armored man had once again entangled Venerable Azure Dragon, seizing the opportunity to suppress him with a fierce assault. However, when his spiritual sense detected the colossal aura rapidly approaching from the distance, a genuine sense of fear began to creep into his heart.

Although the Hesixi Beast ranked last among the Four Fierce Beasts and couldn't be compared with true spirits, these evil beasts, born from the very source of malevolent energy across various realms, each possessed several heaven-defying divine abilities, capable of single-handedly fighting multiple Integration-stage existences without sustaining any harm.

Even as a great perfection stage Integration-stage Demon Venerable, he absolutely did not believe he could withstand one of the Ten Fierce Beasts in a one-on-one fight.

"How can there be such a fierce beast here?! How could these human cultivators possibly subdue it? This is absolutely incredible! Could it be that this time we'll return empty-handed again?! No, if the humans in this city possessed such formidable power, why would they have waited until now to unleash it? Could it be..." The black-armored man's thoughts raced, and after his initial shock, he suddenly realized something.

While transforming his body into a thirty-zhang giant, the demon rotated his two massive hands, instantly conjuring countless giant claw shadows that, combined with his two great hammers, firmly trapped Venerable Azure Dragon. At the same time, he focused his spiritual sense and cautiously enveloped the distant behemoth.

This audacious act of multitasking was only possible because the black-armored man was confident his divine abilities far surpassed those of Venerable Azure Dragon. Against an equally matched opponent, he would never have dared to be so distracted.

With the terrifying divine abilities of the great perfection Integration-stage expert, his spiritual sense instantly reached the strange wind formed by the goat-headed behemoth, and he carefully probed it.

"Just as I thought! This beast's aura is so impure, fluctuating between strong and weak. Its essence is indeed damaged, and its magical power is greatly diminished. If this is the case, by using that method, it's not impossible to deal with this beast. This battle still has a high chance of success."

The black-armored man was a decisive individual. As soon as he discovered the behemoth was not in its normal state, he steeled his heart and suddenly let out a long howl.

The howl resembled both a dragon's roar and a tiger's cry, but it pierced directly through the clouds, clearly heard by both human and demon forces within a hundred li, most of whom were taken aback.

"Heh heh, Lord's command has arrived. It's our turn to move out." In the depths of the demon sea, a high-ranking demon general, clad in helmet and armor, said with a glint in his eyes upon hearing the howl.

Behind him stood a dense army of several thousand demons!

Most were Myriad-Manifestation Demon Cavalry riding demonic beasts, while a smaller portion consisted of the three-headed, six-armed Jialun Battle Demons.

Unlike the other elite demon forces currently besieging the city, these particular demons exuded a chilling aura that made one's heart tremble. Furthermore, a grayish-white mist swirled around the surface of their bodies, as if they had all cultivated some special technique.

These demons had originally been sitting cross-legged in the void. Now, upon hearing the lead demon general's words, they silently stood up, some mounting their beasts, others drawing the weapons from their backs. Yet, not a single sound was made, as if they were phantoms.

"Immediately cast your spells, begin the demonization!" The lead demon general glanced back and sternly commanded.

Upon hearing this, the thousands of demons finally showed a hint of unusual expression on their faces, but none displayed any intention of defiance. They immediately took out purple pills and swallowed them.

The next moment, expressions of pain appeared on the demons' faces as blood-red spiritual patterns began to emerge and rapidly spread across their bodies.

It was unclear what strange effect these blood patterns had, but though the demons' faces still showed pain, their auras suddenly surged. In the blink of an eye, their power increased by more than twofold and continued to rise dramatically.

And the grayish-white mist that had previously swirled around them grew several times thicker, writhing ceaselessly like giant pythons.

Meanwhile, outside the Demon Sea.

Even though the black-armored man unleashed all his divine abilities, simultaneously casting several other secret arts and deploying seven or eight treasures against Venerable Azure Dragon, a stormy onslaught.

However, the divine abilities of Venerable Azure Dragon, in his transformed state, were truly extraordinary. He narrowly managed to withstand this assault, remaining completely unharmed.

Nevertheless, the Azure Dragon he transformed into was covered in wounds, appearing as if it couldn't hold on much longer.

Just then, the black-armored man's expression suddenly changed. He abruptly halted his attack, flickered back several dozen zhang, and gazed at his opponent with a strange look.

Venerable Azure Dragon, seizing this moment to breathe, naturally felt a wave of relief. But then he seemed to recall something. The Azure Dragon he had transformed into violently shook its head, and immediately, its azure light dispersed, reverting him to his human form.

However, his face was extraordinarily pale, and seven bloody holes had appeared on his chest, from which vital blood gushed relentlessly. He was in such a sorry state that he couldn't even stop the bleeding with spells for a moment.

Venerable Azure Dragon paid no heed to the wounds on his chest, instead turning his head to look behind him.

In the distance, above the city walls, the sound of howling winds grew loud as a yellowish, strange gust swept in, covering the sky and earth.Wherever it passed, both human cultivators and demon forces involuntarily stumbled and swayed.Some individuals from both races who stood in its path were directly caught and sent plummeting from the sky, their fates unknown.

As the yellow wind subsided, a sky-reaching behemoth appeared high in the air. With the head of a goat and the body of a bear, its bat wings, when fully spread, spanned two to three thousand zhang wide, seemingly capable of blotting out the sky.

Upon witnessing this colossal beast, both human and demon presences gasped, most of them trembling with fear.

"Hesixi, kill these demons! After this battle, I will set you free!" On the other side of the battlefield, Fairy Lin Luan, upon seeing the behemoth fly into the war zone, immediately urged the blood talisman between her eyebrows and simultaneously shouted.