Chapter 275: Frozen into Nothingness

Episode 1: Secret Technique 'Three Autumn Leaves'

After cultivating the malevolent aura, it was already the middle of the night.

Liu Qiyue leaned on the bed, reading documents. She always waited for Meng Chuan to go to sleep together.

"A-Chuan," Liu Qiyue looked up.

Meng Chuan entered the inner room, took off his coat, got into bed, and leaned beside his wife.

Liu Qiyue instinctively moved closer to her husband and whispered, "Have you mastered the malevolent aura?"

"Yes, just as I expected," Meng Chuan smiled. "There was even some of the Returning Origin Malevolent Aura left over from Master."

"Master must have prepared extra, fearing you wouldn't have enough," Liu Qiyue pressed. "How powerful is the malevolent aura now that you've mastered it? Let me see."

Meng Chuan extended a finger.

A wisp of deep cyan airflow emerged from his fingertip. It looked ordinary, just a mysterious deep cyan current, with no apparent effect on the surroundings.

Liu Qiyue's Dark Star Domain was always active, yet from this deep cyan airflow, she sensed a 'great terror.' Her true essence instinctively appeared on her skin, fully protecting her body. Even her life instincts made her ready to cast 'Phoenix Nirvana' at any moment. She looked at the deep cyan airflow with dread: "A-Chuan, it's not releasing any power, but I feel it's incredibly terrifying. If I'm touched by it, I'll die instantly. I wouldn't even have time to use Phoenix Nirvana."

"Even King Godfiends must rely on their Seamless Domains for protection and dare not touch it," Meng Chuan explained. "Even so, while King Godfiends can resist its invasion, their strength would be greatly diminished."

"How powerful," Liu Qiyue exclaimed.

"Among King Godfiends, it's considered a top-tier malevolent aura," Meng Chuan said. "I'm afraid most of my current strength lies in it."

Liu Qiyue said, "A-Chuan, you're only a Marquis Godfiend, yet you're so powerful..."

"My power comes from two things," Meng Chuan explained. "First, the secret techniques of the physical body lineage make my vitality strong enough, and my Lightning Annihilation Devil Body can refine malevolent auras. Second, it's this Returning Origin Malevolent Aura gifted by Master. This is a mysterious malevolent aura obtained by the ancestors of Yuanchu Mountain from beyond our realm. Malice of Turbid Yin and Extreme Earth Cold Malice are already hard to find in the world today, and this Returning Origin Malevolent Aura surpasses both of them."

To be able to master such a malevolent aura requires both strength and luck.

"If others were given the Returning Origin Malevolent Aura, they wouldn't even be able to cultivate it," Liu Qiyue chuckled.

"Indeed."

Meng Chuan gently shook his head. "Unfortunately, even with the Returning Origin Malevolent Aura, I still feel apprehensive about the coming final battle."

Liu Qiyue also nodded. "In the face of war, what we can do is still limited. A-Chuan, at least you can rescue people in various places."

"With numerous Great Demon Monarchs attacking different parts of the world, how many places can I save, no matter how fast I am?" Meng Chuan murmured. "And with a million demon monarchs attacking, what can I do when I can't be everywhere at once?"

"This isn't just your responsibility alone. There are also King Godfiends and Creation Realm Venerables throughout the world," Liu Qiyue said.

"The path ahead is unclear; we can only fight our way through," Meng Chuan stated.

"I'll always be with you," Liu Qiyue looked at her husband.

Meng Chuan looked at his wife and couldn't help but smile, reaching out to embrace her. Qiyue leaned into Meng Chuan's arms and whispered, "I wonder if we'll ever see the day when humanity achieves complete victory in our lifetime."

"I also deeply wish to see that day," Meng Chuan softly replied.

The couple didn't sleep for the rest of the night, instead chatting idly.

They talked about the world, about Jiangzhou City, about their parents and children...

In the morning.

Meng Chuan, who had already gotten up and finished his blade practice, was eating breakfast with his wife.

"Chuan'er," Meng Dajiang arrived at Lake Heart Pavilion.

"Father," Meng Chuan and Liu Qiyue both rose. Liu Qiyue added, "Father, would you like some breakfast? I can get you a bowl."

"I've already eaten,"

Meng Dajiang sat down with a chuckle, looking a little hesitant.

"Father, please speak your mind," Meng Chuan smiled.

Meng Dajiang looked at his son and whispered, "Chuan'er, your father needs some external materials for my cultivation, but my merit points are too few; I can't afford them. So I wanted to borrow some merit points from you."

"You should have said so earlier, it's such a small matter," Meng Chuan and his wife Liu Qiyue exchanged glances, both finding it amusing and slightly exasperating.

The underground reconnaissance must be kept secret.

So the outside world didn't know how astonishingly fast Meng Chuan was accumulating merit points. Even before, just by rescuing people across the world, he had quickly amassed enough merit points to rival King Godfiends.

"I need 1.03 million merit points," Meng Dajiang said, feeling ashamed. Parents always sacrificed for their children, and he had never asked Meng Chuan for anything all these years! Now, he had no choice; he couldn't get millions of merit points from anywhere else.

"That's all? Father, your son is out fighting. Sometimes, if I'm lucky and kill a few demon monarchs, a single day's spoils of war are worth more than a million merit points," Meng Chuan said. In fact, by exploring underground every day, he killed approximately a hundred demon monarchs, and their corpses and spoils of war... he earned at least a million merit points daily.

"I'll write a letter to Yuanchu Mountain and transfer five million merit points to your name, Father," Meng Chuan said. "You can exchange them for whatever you want."

"Five million merit points? That's too much," Meng Dajiang quickly said. Asking his son for the first time was already a psychological burden, and now five million?

"It's not much at all," Meng Chuan chuckled. With a flip of his hand, ink, brush, and letter paper appeared, and he immediately began writing, his true essence imbued within the characters.

"Xiao Hui, deliver this to Yuanchu Mountain at once," Meng Chuan called out.

The avian demon monarch, 'Aunt Hui,' appeared and respectfully took the letter. "Yes, Master," she replied, instantly transforming into a grey bird and soaring away.

Seeing his son's decisiveness, Meng Dajiang no longer refused. In truth, he truly needed the merit points now.

"Father, I need to go now; there's a lot to do," Meng Chuan stood up.

"I also need to go to the Earth Net," Liu Qiyue also rose.

"Go on, stay busy."

Meng Dajiang knew his son and daughter-in-law had heavy responsibilities, especially with the current population migration. Liu Qiyue was also very busy managing a city of twenty million people.

Leaving Lake Heart Pavilion, Meng Dajiang returned to his own courtyard.

"A million demon monarchs rampaging across the world? Is the situation getting worse and worse?" Meng Dajiang began practicing his blade calmly in his small courtyard. "All my life, I, Meng Dajiang, wanted to create a miracle in the physical body lineage, to become the foremost Godfiend of that lineage, and make the Bai family look at me with new eyes. I hoped to reunite with Nianyun. But now I'm over eighty, and still only at the Indestructible realm. Making the Bai family look at me with new eyes is impossible now."

"But in this time of war, I am also a Godfiend. I can't hide behind my son and daughter-in-law forever, can I?"

"After so many years of cultivation, and learning the numerous blade technique manuals my son found for me, I've finally reached the 'Blade Intent realm.' There's finally hope of reaching the 'Great Sun realm' in the physical body lineage."

"I'll give it my all."

Meng Dajiang had always wanted to become stronger over the years. In his youth, he had dreamed of making history in the physical body lineage, becoming the first Marquis Godfiend of that lineage. Now, it seemed, he had completely given up on that. The hope of reuniting with his wife, Bai Nianyun... his son had no way, so he could only keep that hope to himself.

He still possessed a warrior's heart. Faced with demon monarchs, he was unwilling to hide behind others.

Meng Chuan spent six hours every day exploring underground, utterly exhausted. How could he have the time to notice his father's emotional changes?

Meng Chuan continued his daily underground explorations.

At a depth of 190 li, Meng Chuan's Thunder God-Eye opened between his brows. He flew at super-high speed underground, searching with all his might. Several times each day, he would pursue 'Fourth-Heaven Great Demon Monarchs,' though most attempts were futile. Yet, he persisted, knowing that persistence was the only hope.

"Hm?"

As he flew, Meng Chuan suddenly showed delight. "Found one!"

At a depth of 192 li, there was a demon monarch's lair, which had now entered Meng Chuan's Thunder Domain.

"On the third day after mastering the malevolent aura, I found a Fourth-Heaven Great Demon Monarch. This is the fourth Great Demon Monarch I've discovered underground in nearly a year." Meng Chuan was in excellent spirits. He instantly unleashed lightning through his Thunder Magnetic Domain.

On the other side.

Inside the demon monarch's lair, a Fourth-Heaven Bear Demon Monarch was sound asleep. When the Thunder Magnetic Domain swept over it, its eyes suddenly snapped open.

Its enormous, lantern-like eyes were filled with alarm and fury.

"A Godfiend! Flee for your lives!" the Bear Demon Monarch roared through a mental transmission. It itself blasted upwards, easily shattering all obstacles above it. Even thick rock seemed as fragile as tofu.

Crackling! Bang! Bang!

The Thunder Magnetic Domain unleashed countless bolts of lightning. Lightning and thunder crisscrossed, instantly striking down almost all the ordinary demons and demon monarchs in the cave. Only three 'Third-Heaven Demon Monarchs' survived, but their flesh was charred black, and their injuries were extremely severe.

From the distorted void, a deep cyan airflow was suddenly sent forth.

"Hm?" The Bear Demon Monarch, frantically fleeing, flew at super-high speed, wielding two large hammers. It held them ready to resist at any moment, but it suddenly noticed a deep cyan airflow being sent from the distorted void.

The void distortion made even rock no longer an obstacle.

As if teleporting, the rock remained intact, but the deep cyan airflow had directly appeared before it from the other end of the void.

"What is this?" The Bear Demon Monarch didn't have a Dark Star Domain, so its senses weren't as sharp, but it still cautiously swung a hammer, its large hammers filled with earthy yellow demon power.

Thud.

A hammer struck the deep cyan airflow.

The deep cyan airflow was indeed just airflow. As it touched the hammer, it naturally dispersed, also affecting the Bear Demon Monarch's body.

The Bear Demon Monarch only felt an incomprehensible 'coldness' instantly spread from its chest, where it had touched the gas, throughout its entire body!

Following that, it lost consciousness.

On the Bear Demon Monarch's body, including its great hammers, the terrifying cold caused moisture to naturally condense, covering the great demon monarch's body and hammers with a layer of frost.

Whoosh.

Silently, the Bear Demon Monarch's body completely disintegrated, breaking down into particles and vanishing from the world. The two great hammers it held also froze and shattered into dozens of fragments. Its robes, storage bag, and other items were directly frozen and completely shattered into nothingness, with only a small amount of material remaining.

Meng Chuan walked over from the other end of the distorted void. Seeing the Bear Demon Monarch completely disintegrate into nothingness, and an 'Earth-grade divine weapon' shattering directly from the cold, he couldn't help but marvel.

"From my perception, its physical body was completely shattered by the freezing, including its fur and blood, all shattered to a particle level, directly turning into nothingness," Meng Chuan mused. "There's no need to use less of it. The Demon Slaying Blade can't even absorb blood energy, and 99% of the spoils of war are destroyed."