Chapter 427: Protector Intervenes

After striking off the hunchbacked demon king's head with a single blade, successive flashes of saber light followed. Under the divine power of 'Quicksand,' Meng Chuan's blade moved too fast. With six continuous strikes, the hunchbacked demon king was completely pulverized. Meng Chuan casually collected the weapons it left behind into his grotto-heaven treasure.

"Lieshan is dead?"

"Another one gone?"

The Lord Qiansi, Mountain Demon, and Qianzhao saw Meng Chuan dealing with the hunchbacked demon king but were utterly unable to intervene and rescue it.

Meng Chuan's terrifying speed allowed him to defeat them one by one.

"This Meng Chuan, upon discovering our five, actively engaged us! Facing our encirclement, he first unleashed a lightning strike that instantly killed Bai Cang. Then, he seemingly attacked me, but in reality, he got close and killed Demon King Lieshan." Lord Qiansi vaguely sensed something was wrong. "The intelligence was flawed, and Meng Chuan has continuously killed demon kings from my team. He's leading us by the nose."

The two demon kings, Mountain Demon and Qianzhao, were also shocked and enraged.

In the past, encountering such a formidable opponent might have led them to choose a temporary retreat. But the opponent was 'Meng Chuan'! The bounty alone was fifty billion功劳! The combined功劳 of humanity's nine venerables only amounted to several tens of billions.

The enormous bounty made Lord Qiansi and the other two unwilling to give up.

Furthermore, they had their confidence.

They possessed the Black Lotus secret art protecting their primordial spirits, and their protective measures were exceptionally strong, making them confident they could withstand Meng Chuan's attacks.

"Converge on me. As long as he attacks, he'll have to face attacks from all three of us simultaneously," Lord Qiansi transmitted.

"Yes," Qianzhao and Mountain Demon immediately moved closer to Lord Qiansi.

"Want to converge?"

Meng Chuan grinned, flashed, and charged straight at Lord Qiansi.

In terms of speed, he was even faster than the demonic energy spreading through the void. Just as Qianzhao and Mountain Demon began to move, Meng Chuan was already close to Lord Qiansi.

"Senior Brother Wang, strike!" Meng Chuan transmitted.

Inside the small grotto-heaven, Protector Wang Shan had long since awakened, ready to strike at any moment.

"Senior Brother Wang, your primordial spirit secret art is too terrifying. If you strike, you'll scare them off. They'll immediately flee in panic," Meng Chuan had long since transmitted a warning. "Let me strike first. Lord Qiansi won't feel much threat from my strength. I'll first eliminate the weaker ones, Cave Lord Bai Cang and Demon King Lieshan. As for the remaining three... I can't deal with them alone."

Protected by the Black Lotus secret art, any of the remaining three dared to withstand Meng Chuan's attacks head-on.

Qianzhao's immortal body, Mountain Demon's body, and Lord Qiansi's protective measures? They would make Meng Chuan despair.

"You can summon me anytime," Wang Shan smiled.

"Senior Brother Wang, once I summon you out, immediately cast 'Demonic Cone' against Lord Qiansi," Meng Chuan transmitted. "Your primordial spirit secret art will surely break the Black Lotus secret art and instill fear in all three of them. The other two don't pose much threat to humanity, but Lord Qiansi's threat is far greater."

Lord Qiansi alone posed a greater threat than the other four demon kings combined.

This being, the highest-ranked among Fifth-Heaven Demon Kings, could further enhance their strength if they obtained a Tribulation Realm secret treasure weapon. However, 'Peacock Monarch' was different; the Peacock Monarch's unparalleled dominance stemmed from its immensely powerful physical body. Its physical body was the foundation of its invincibility, serving as its best weapon. Tribulation Realm secret treasure weapons would not significantly boost its strength.

For high-ranking beings like Lord Qiansi and King Zhenwu, Tribulation Realm secret treasure weapons would unleash even more astonishing power.

"Don't worry, the moment I appear, I'll use Demonic Cone against Lord Qiansi," Wang Shan confidently said.

Suddenly, an invisible force enveloped Protector Wang Shan.

"It's time to go out?" A sharp glint flashed in Wang Shan's eyes.

He was transported out, appearing beside Meng Chuan, and a primordial spirit transmission sounded: "Senior Brother Wang, strike."

"Alright."

Wang Shan looked at Lord Qiansi in front, as streaks of void silk quickly encircled them. While Lord Qiansi was using the 'Void Spider Silk Domain' against Meng Chuan, she was somewhat startled to see the black-clothed, disheveled man appear out of thin air.

Lord Qiansi had no idea who this somewhat disheveled man was.

"Who is he?" Lord Qiansi was both puzzled and vigilant.

The demon race had no intelligence on Protector Wang Shan.

But Lord Qiansi understood that Meng Chuan had been dealing with all five of them alone until now, and suddenly summoning another human Godfiend, one never recorded in demon race intelligence, meant this human Godfiend must be very special.

"Not good."

Lord Qiansi's primordial spirit domain sensed it.

A peculiar, pitch-black cone, as sensed by her primordial spirit domain, instantly flew out from where Protector Wang Shan stood, causing her to instinctively feel an immense threat.

"Demonic Cone," Lord Qiansi immediately guessed.

Meng Chuan's Demonic Cone secret art had severely injured Nine Abyss Demon Saint.

But this time, Meng Chuan didn't use Demonic Cone; instead, a mysterious, unknown Godfiend unleashed it against her.

The Demonic Cone was too fast!

"Pfft."

The enormous black lotus formed by primordial spirit power was instantly pierced through by the cone.

Lord Qiansi's primordial spirit, also a more corporeal black lotus, was now assaulted by the black Demonic Cone.

"Aah! Aah! Aah!!!" Lord Qiansi possessed high primordial spirit talent, but to become a demon saint, her energy was mainly focused on skill mastery. Her primordial spirit secret art was primarily the 'Black Lotus secret art,' and she received guidance from Cave Lord Bai Cang, but her cultivation wasn't very advanced.

This corporeal black lotus was forcefully pierced, its layers of lotus petals completely impaled.

As the Demonic Cone penetrated, it also destroyed and annihilated the primordial spirit's essence.

At the sixth level of the primordial spirit, the primordial spirit becomes increasingly mystical, capable of forming a 'primordial spirit clone,' and can gather and disperse at will. Logically, even if the primordial spirit were scattered, it could instantly reassemble. However, the Demonic Cone was extremely destructive, damaging the primordial spirit's very essence.

This caused Lord Qiansi to scream in agony. Yet, as the highest-ranked Fifth-Heaven Demon King of the demon race, her mental fortitude and will were extraordinary. She managed to maintain basic consciousness, though she could barely execute complex techniques.

She saw at a glance that Meng Chuan was already attacking and immediately roared, "Flee!"

The sound had barely left her mouth when *Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!*

Blades of blood madly struck the void silken cocoon. The intense pain in her primordial spirit prevented her from perfectly manipulating the void spider silk cocoon to dissipate force, forcing her to rely on the cocoon's inherent resistance.

Amidst the roar, the void cocoon was directly shattered.

"Pfft, pfft."

The blood blades continuously struck her body.

Lord Qiansi had the appearance of a woman, dressed in splendid robes. At this moment, these robes naturally extended, protecting every vital point. Despite the blood blades' onslaught, the robes remained unbroken.

As a spider demon king, she naturally produced spider silk. The Void Spider Silk Domain was formed by Lord Qiansi's demonic energy combined with the intricacies of the 'Late Grotto-Heaven Realm' String Manipulation Art, allowing it to cover hundreds of miles. However, the robes on Lord Qiansi's body were woven from the true spider silk nurtured within her! These robes were her strongest protective measure.

In terms of defense, these spider silk robes were several times stronger than the Void Spider Silk Cocoon.

By controlling this real spider silk, she could also kill enemies, and her offensive power was significantly stronger, though the real spider silk had limited length and quantity, making the most suitable combat range within one *li* (about half a kilometer) of her.

This was her true reliance for surviving against Peacock Monarch.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The blood blades struck Lord Qiansi's robes, and Meng Chuan's demon-slaying saber furiously chopped, but couldn't break through the robes. The robes extended up to her neck, protecting her head, utterly unable to injure her in the slightest.

"What?" Meng Chuan had thought that under the primordial spirit secret art attack, Lord Qiansi's strength would be greatly diminished, making many of her techniques unusable, and he would have a chance to kill her at close range.

Who knew she couldn't be killed even like this?

"Pfft." The Demonic Cone pierced through Lord Qiansi's primordial spirit a second time, and Lord Qiansi let out a painful wail.

Qianzhao and Mountain Demon had already begun to flee separately.

Lord Qiansi, a sixth-level primordial spirit, was screaming in pain; how could they possibly withstand it?

The combination of 'Control of Heaven and Earth' with 'Quicksand' for close combat, along with the assault of blood blades, still couldn't harm Lord Qiansi. This sent a chill through Meng Chuan's heart. He understood that ultimately, his own realm was too low. Even with a physical body stronger than that of the Mountain Demon or Blood Fiend and relying on the Tribulation Realm secret treasure bloodblade disk, he still couldn't overcome Lord Qiansi.

"The Demonic Cone is showing cracks," Protector Wang Shan transmitted.

The Demonic Cone was incredibly powerful, but it was also very fragile. Each time it pierced through Lord Qiansi's primordial spirit, while causing destruction, it also suffered damage itself.

"Kill the other two demon kings," Meng Chuan immediately transmitted.

"Alright." Protector Wang Shan also understood the situation, and the Demonic Cone instantly flew out.

Demon King Qianzhao had already transformed into black mud and burrowed into the ground to escape. The Demonic Cone instantly caught up and pierced through! The patch of black mud immediately stopped flowing and transformed back into a black, scaly, thin young man, lying motionless on the ground, completely lifeless.

Demon King Qianzhao was dead.

Pfft, pfft, pfft...

The black Demonic Cone then attacked the Mountain Demon.

However, the towering, thousand-zhang-tall Mountain Demon had already disintegrated into tens of thousands of dense 'stone figurines' that fled, some flying in the air, some running on the ground, and some burrowing into the earth.

Tomato (author's pen name) went for an eye recheck today. If there are no issues, two updates will resume tomorrow.