Chapter 365: The Death of Ancestor Huang Yao

Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor burrowed underground. The nine bloodblades continued their frantic assault, attacking dozens of times in a blink. Although this relentless and dense onslaught couldn't threaten Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor's life, it significantly reduced its speed.

"Escaping underground won't help," Meng Chuan thought, moving on his bloodblade disk and maintaining a close pursuit. "My Venerables from Yuanchu Mountain should be arriving soon."

When the Three Absolute Formation was broken, the communication token allowed contact with Yuanchu Mountain. At that moment, Meng Chuan had sent a plea for help, specifically stating it was a 'Demon Saint-level threat.' For an opponent of Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor's caliber, dispatching Marquis Godfiends would be useless. Even King Zhenwu might be able to suppress Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor, but he wouldn't be able to defeat it. A Venerable had to arrive.

Qin Wu Venerable, who was using the Sky-Rending Sword Escape Art, showed a hint of joy. "Meng Chuan sent a plea for help, and he didn't try to activate the Azure Cloud Heaven again. Is he in a relatively safe state?" Qin Wu Venerable felt a sense of relief. "Since he specified a Demon Saint-level threat and isn't using the Azure Cloud Heaven, he must be relying on his speed to track the opponent, preventing them from shaking him off?"

Qin Wu Venerable instantly formed a guess. "A Demon Saint?" He was somewhat excited. For all these years, humanity hadn't managed to kill a single Demon Saint!

He continued to maintain the Sky-Rending Sword Escape Art. Even if it exacerbated his injuries and required his internal 'Grotto-Heaven' to recover for several years before he could unleash peak power, killing a Demon Saint would be worth it. Delays could lead to complications; Demon Saint-level opponents were excellent at escaping.

Take Black Robe Beijue, for instance. It seemed weak in direct combat, unable even to break through the world membrane — a joke among Demon Saints. But it excelled at creating avatars and clones, its survival ability ranking among the top three of all Demon Saints in the Demon Realm. Its external appearances were always avatars or clones; even within Nine Abyss Demon Saint's small Grotto-Heaven, its true body was not present. No one, not even the Emperors, knew where Beijue's true body was. Even Nine Abyss Demon Saint, who had fully recovered its Demon Saint body, remained extremely cautious. Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor specialized in direct combat, and its cultivation system wasn't particularly good at escaping, but it had invested a lot of effort in self-preservation.

Meng Chuan closely followed Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor underground, his Lightning Divine Eye open, and the nine bloodblades continuously entangling the opponent.

"Disperse."

Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor burrowed deep, completely concealing its aura. In an instant, its body fragmented into twenty-eight streams of light, twenty-eight Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestors fleeing in all directions.

"Kill."

Meng Chuan, ever vigilant, simultaneously controlled nine bloodblades to transform into light and intercept, while also releasing the nine bloodblades guarding his body! With the 'Azure Cloud Heaven' protecting him, Meng Chuan had the confidence to do so.

"Puff, puff, puff, puff, puff, puff!!!!!!" Although Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor's fragmented clones were extremely fast, each flashing twenty li underground, the bloodblade streams were even faster. They consecutively pierced through one 'Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor' after another. In barely a blink, eighteen bloodblades annihilated twenty-seven of the Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestors. Only one remained, having withstood the bloodblade stream – that was its sole true body.

"Even my Blood-Burning Clone Escape Art is useless," Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor roared in fury. "I can't afford to care anymore." It directly swung its blade, savagely hacking at the void in front of it. The superficial void shattered.

"What's it doing?" Meng Chuan was startled.

Boom, boom, boom!!!

Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor chopped furiously, blade after blade, causing this entire region to tremble and distort. Meng Chuan guessed, "It's trying to break through the world membrane!"

"I'll leave the human world and enter the Outer Realm," Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor said in a low voice. "Do you, a Marquis Godfiend, have the courage to follow me?" At the same time, it continued to hack furiously, and gradually, the chaotic gray world membrane appeared.

"The Outer Realm is a harsh environment; only Demon Saints can survive there. Do you dare go?" Meng Chuan replied coldly, simultaneously controlling the eighteen bloodblades to attack Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor, trying his best to hinder it.

"I am a Demon Saint by nature. Even with a fifth-level demon monarch body, I have ways to survive in the Outer Realm." Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor was interfered with by the bloodblades, but it continued to chop with all its might. Its destruction outpaced the world membrane's recovery, causing the membrane to become increasingly twisted and shaken, and tiny cracks began to appear. To enter the World Gap, it would first need to break through the human world membrane, then the World Gap membrane, which would take longer. To go to the Outer Realm, it only needed to break through the human world membrane.

"Now!" Under the interference, after twelve breaths, as it cleaved open a crack roughly a zhang long, Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor's body ignited. It transformed into a dazzling blood-red light and shot directly into the crack. The crack then healed.

Meng Chuan stood rooted to the spot, dazed. "Escaped? It got away?" Meng Chuan felt a pang of unwillingness at that moment. The opponent had blasted open the world membrane; he could only try to slow it down but couldn't stop it.

Standing still, Meng Chuan's Lightning Magnetic Domain repeatedly swept the surroundings, but the world membrane had long since recovered, and Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor was gone.

Whoosh.

The surrounding earth and rocks parted. A figure appeared nearby; it was Qin Wu Venerable, who had arrived at full speed.

"Master," Meng Chuan said upon seeing Qin Wu Venerable. The mask on his face vanished, revealing his true features.

"Where is the Demon Saint?" Qin Wu Venerable pressed.

"Eight breaths ago, Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor broke through the world membrane and escaped to the Outer Realm," Meng Chuan said.

"The Outer Realm?" Qin Wu Venerable's expression changed. He quickly asked, "Where exactly did it break through the world membrane?"

"Right there." Meng Chuan waved his hand, and a streak of true essence struck a particular spot.

Qin Wu Venerable suddenly unleashed terrifying sword energy. Countless sword-lights crisscrossed, instantly reducing all surrounding earth and rocks to dust. A void area spanning dozens of li underground was completely formed.

"This?" Meng Chuan was somewhat shocked, looking up. Dozens of li of earth and rocks had turned to dust; one could look up and see the sky.

"After it escaped, you didn't leave the spot, did you?" Qin Wu Venerable continued.

"I stayed right here; I didn't leave," Meng Chuan said, standing suspended in mid-air.

"That's good." Qin Wu Venerable's sword energy meticulously swept through the void.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle.

Just dozens of zhang from where the world membrane was breached, a golden bead appeared.

"Just as I expected." Qin Wu Venerable reached out, and the golden bead flew back into his hand.

"Master?" Meng Chuan had a hunch, his eyes brightening.

"Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor, with merely a fifth-level demon monarch body, would almost certainly die in the Outer Realm," Qin Wu Venerable explained. "Even if it had some method to barely survive for a while, without the ability to traverse the River of Spacetime, living in the Outer Realm would be worse than death. It would eventually die a miserable death after merely clinging to life for a short period." Qin Wu Venerable looked at the golden bead. "I calculated that it was still hidden within the human world."

"You mean, Master?" Meng Chuan looked at the golden bead, his heart racing.

"Fortunately, you didn't leave. If you had, it would have escaped immediately," Qin Wu Venerable said. "Because you stayed in place, it didn't dare to move. What I hold is a small Grotto-Heaven treasure."

Qin Wu Venerable looked ahead and waved his hand. "Come out."

A yellow-furred leopard demon monarch appeared before them, but it was only a third-level demon monarch. It had a look of despair and pleaded, "Qin Wu Venerable, spare me! Spare me!"

"This Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor tried to trick you by feigning an escape into the Outer Realm," Qin Wu Venerable explained to Meng Chuan with a smile. "In reality, the moment it burst into the Outer Realm, it abandoned its original physical body, and its primordial spirit entered a small Grotto-Heaven to possess another body. Such a small Grotto-Heaven can be hidden, making it difficult for ordinary secret arts to detect. But it didn't dare to move, waiting only for you to leave the spot. Then, this Yellow-Shaking Old Ancestor would have slipped away."

Meng Chuan understood, looking at the yellow-furred leopard demon monarch. Possession?

"Venerable is truly discerning, truly discerning," the yellow-furred leopard demon monarch pleaded. "I know many secrets of the demon race and am willing to reveal them all. Please spare my life."

"Secrets of the demon race?" Qin Wu Venerable looked at it.

"Venerable must first guarantee my life..." the yellow-furred leopard demon monarch began, clearly experienced in such situations.

Whoosh.

Sword energy swept past. In terror and despair, the yellow-furred leopard demon monarch was instantly reduced to dust.

"It's impossible to spare you," Qin Wu Venerable said, his eyes cold.

Meng Chuan's heart swelled with emotion. This was the first Demon Saint to die in the human world, and it certainly wouldn't be the last.

"Oh, right, the formation," Meng Chuan remembered the formation still at the original location. He shouldn't let the demons secretly move it.