Chapter 149: 斩

Moon Crescent Lake is a lake within Cangshan City. Its shape resembles a crescent moon, and it measures approximately five li long and two li wide at its widest point.

Wang Fucheng, the Palace Lord of Yuyang Palace in Cangshan Prefecture, was battling a three-headed demon king on the lake. Countless streams of water swirled in the air, continuously entangling and restraining the demon king. However, the three-headed demon king seemed unaffected. It had three heads: a normal-sized central head and two half-sized heads on either side. It also possessed six black arms, each now grasping a curved blade. These six curved blades furiously struck at Wang Fucheng.

Each strike was terrifyingly powerful, causing the lake water to constantly explode and roar.

Wang Fucheng, leveraging his advantageous position, suppressed his opponent with his domain. Despite his skill in defense with his sword, he was still on the back foot.

The Godfiend Hu Xiao had already unleashed a forbidden Godfiend technique, desperately fighting five Second-Heaven demon kings.

"Palace Lord, I can't hold on much longer," Hu Xiao transmitted, "Each of these demon kings is no weaker than me. Even with your domain's assistance, I won't last much longer."

"If you die, those five demon kings will turn on me, and I'll quickly perish as well," Wang Fucheng transmitted back. "We can't hold out much longer in Moon Crescent Lake. If we leave the lake, we'll likely be killed within ten moves."

The tip of a demon king's tail, swift as lightning, lunged forward. Hu Xiao quickly blocked with his left arm, but the purple tail tip pierced directly through his protective armor, sending a severed arm flying.

"Kill him!" the five Second-Heaven demon kings snarled, smiling. Five against one, they knew they could quickly eliminate their opponent, no matter how desperately he fought.

"Aaaargh!" Hu Xiao went berserk, intending to drag a demon king down with him in his dying moments.

"Brother Hu Xiao," Wang Fucheng muttered, watching helplessly. Suddenly, he noticed a streak of lightning in the northern sky.

Whizz—A bolt of lightning streaked from the north, moving at a speed far beyond sound. The explosions and cheers from the northern city wall were still slowly propagating, yet Meng Chuan had already arrived at Moon Crescent Lake.

"That's..." The three-headed demon king and the five Second-Heaven demon kings also sensed a powerful Godfiend aura rapidly approaching. At that moment, Meng Chuan's Great Sun realm True Essence erupted fully, his Godfiend aura completely unconcealed and extremely conspicuous.

All six demon kings were startled. They had only just begun their assault on Cangshan Prefecture; how could a Godfiend have arrived so quickly?

"A Godfiend has arrived!" Wang Fucheng and Hu Xiao exclaimed with delight.

Hovering in mid-air, Meng Chuan, radiating lightning, scanned below and immediately spotted Hu Xiao, one of the two Godfiends, facing a desperate situation.

"Six demon kings?" Meng Chuan's body flickered as he descended towards the surface of Moon Crescent Lake, drawing his blade without hesitation.

Swish, swish, swish!His demon-slaying blade instantly unleashed six successive slashes. These six brilliant, lightning-infused blade lights distorted space and shortened distances. The five Second-Heaven demon kings, just attempting to dodge, were caught off guard by the sudden approach of the slashes. All of them were sliced through, their bodies cleanly bisected. Their two halves fell directly onto the lake surface, dyeing the water red with blood.

Hu Xiao, who had been prepared to fight to the death, stared at the corpses of the five demon kings before him, somewhat dazed. He realized one thing: he, Hu Xiao, was alive!

"Too fast!" The three-headed demon king, Jumo, also noticed the slash distorting space and rapidly closing in. Realizing it couldn't dodge, it still managed to swing all six curved blades simultaneously to block the attack.

The instant it parried, the three-headed demon king felt the immense power of the slash! It completely overwhelmed it!

Two of the curved blades were directly flung away by the impact, while the other four remained gripped. However, the three-headed demon king's six hands were bleeding profusely, clearly injured by the shock, and it spat out a mouthful of blood. Yet, it had preserved its life.

"A casual slash just defeated me?" The three-headed demon king, Jumo, couldn't believe it. Although it had only recently reached the Third Heaven and hadn't fully consolidated its power, its true form was a 'three-headed demonic serpent,' whose bloodline was far superior to that of ordinary demon kings. For instance, Wang Fucheng, a Yuanchu Mountain disciple and a peak Indestructible Godfiend, was strong enough to contend with a typical Third-Heaven demon king. Yet, even with the advantage of Moon Crescent Lake, he was still suppressed by the three-headed demon king in a one-on-one fight!

Now, Meng Chuan had arrived, and a casual slash from his Great Sun realm True Essence had easily defeated it.

"Hmm?" The lightning landed on the lake surface, revealing Meng Chuan's form.

"Senior Brother Meng!" Wang Fucheng exclaimed, overjoyed. He naturally recognized Meng Chuan, the genius from Yuanchu Mountain who had mastered the 'Black Iron Heavenly Tome' and the perfected Lightning Devastation Godfiend Body.

Meng Chuan looked at the three-headed demon king in surprise, raising an eyebrow. "Not dead?"

"Too strong! If I don't escape, I'll die!" At this moment, the three-headed demon king, Jumo, was filled with immense fear and immediately unleashed an innate technique from its bloodline.

Its body astonishingly split, completely dividing into three black snakes. These three black snakes instantly burrowed into the waters of Moon Crescent Lake, frantically fleeing in three different directions.

"Can you escape?" Lightning flickered around Meng Chuan's body, and in an instant, he transformed into three figures.

Each of the three Meng Chuans unleashed a slash! The slashes cut through the lake, causing the water to part naturally for dozens of zhang wide and several zhang deep. The blade light then struck the bodies of the black snakes frantically fleeing through the water.

All three black snakes were struck! Two of them were directly severed in half, their massive snake corpses beginning to float. However, one black snake... despite being hit by a slash and having deep wounds on its body, its body remained intact and it was still alive. With a twist of its body, it burrowed directly into the lakebed's silt, then deeper into the soil beneath the lake, continuing to dig downward.

"Two clones, so this must be the main body? It seems to be a demon king with a special bloodline," Meng Chuan mused, walking a few steps across the lake surface before swinging his blade once more!

Whoosh—The lake water parted again, extending all the way to the lakebed's silt. As the lightning-infused blade light struck the lakebed, a surge of Yin-Yang Destruction energy immediately propagated downward.

The three-headed demon king, Jumo, was fleeing in a panic, frantically burrowing underground.

"I am a three-headed demonic serpent, skilled in water escape and burrowing. No matter how fast that human Godfiend is, he can't burrow as well as I can. I will definitely escape," the heavily wounded three-headed demon king, Jumo, muttered to itself. It had already cast a forbidden technique, desperately digging deeper and deeper, as if only profound depth could provide a sense of security.

However, a strange force quickly transmitted through the earth, instantly reaching its body.

"No!" The demon king, Jumo, felt the eerie, terrifying force and was overwhelmed with fear and despair.

After this strange force entered its body, it completely erupted, instantly pulverizing the demon king Jumo's insides. From its already massive wound, countless pieces of flesh and blood splattered.

"My life-saving abilities are strong; I'm skilled in water escape and burrowing. I came to the human world to achieve great merit, to receive boons from the demon race, and to become a Fourth-Heaven Great Demon King, even a Fifth-Heaven Great Demon King in the future. No, I'm unwilling, unwilling!" The demon king, Jumo, felt its consciousness fading, its heart filled with immense despair and reluctance. Had it just arrived in the human world only to die?

Fortune favors the bold! Within the demon race, the hierarchy was strict, and many major powers had long monopolized resources. Coming to the human world was dangerous, but it was also a great opportunity to distinguish oneself.

It had come! But it couldn't withstand the danger.

Its injuries were too severe; it maintained consciousness for only a single breath before its awareness completely dissipated, dying deep underground.

Meng Chuan stood on the lake surface, pointing downwards. "The demon king's corpse is twenty-seven zhang beneath the lakebed."

The demon king hadn't known that Meng Chuan's primordial spirit sense could cover a two-li radius! Even when the demon king burrowed deep into the lakebed and underground, Meng Chuan could clearly sense its location. If he had recklessly unleashed his Tiger Roar style, Meng Chuan could have blasted a hundred-zhang-wide crater, utterly obliterating the demon king. However, Yuanchu Mountain could utilize demon king corpses, so there was no need to completely destroy it.

"I'll dig it out," Wang Fucheng said with a laugh.

"I'll leave the mop-up to you. I'm going to eliminate the other demon forces," Meng Chuan stated, then transformed into a streak of lightning that shot across the sky, heading directly towards the northern city wall.

"Senior Brother Meng, please don't worry," Wang Fucheng called out loudly, watching the departing lightning.

Wang Fucheng stood there, manifesting his domain. The lake water parted to reveal the lakebed, and countless streams of water tore through the underground soil, continuously drilling downwards.

"Palace Lord, who was that?" Hu Xiao asked, walking over, clutching the wound where his arm had been severed.

"That's one of the most brilliant genius disciples from Yuanchu Mountain," Wang Fucheng chuckled. "Even if an ordinary disciple like me becomes a Great Sun realm Godfiend, Senior Brother Meng could take on ten of me. Of course, by the time I reach the Great Sun realm... Senior Brother Meng might already be a Marquis Godfiend."

With a gurgling sound, countless streams of water coiled around and pulled the massive snake corpse of demon king Jumo from deep within the earth.