Chapter 54: Devastating Momentum

Author: I Eat Tomatoes

“Entangle him.”

“Once he’s tied down, this human is finished!” Two demon commanders issued orders. Their subordinate demons charged forward fearlessly, and even five avian demons swooped down from the sky.

Meng Chuan also faintly felt some pressure.

Meng Chuan immediately assessed their strength through his senses: “These two demon commanders, one can project demonic energy, and the other has even condensed a demon core. There are also nineteen Greater Demons and one hundred seventy-six Lesser Demons. If even one demon manages to slow me down, a swarm of demons will immediately rush in to surround me, along with the two commanders’ attacks.”

“Although I’m stronger than these two demon commanders, my advantage is limited. Once entangled, I’ll be torn to shreds.”

This was the battlefield.

A large group of demons charged. If it weren't for his reliance on his sensory domain, he would likely have long avoided this demon army.

“Kill!”

Although Meng Chuan felt a surge of emotion, his speed remained undiminished. Compared to other experts of his level, he was exceptionally skilled at handling group attacks. He could even make enemies attack each other!

Meng Chuan unleashed terrifying speed, turning into a wisp of green smoke as he shot directly towards a section of the demon horde.

“He’s not dodging? He’s charging right at us?”

“Stop him!”

“Quick!”

The approximately two hundred demons were somewhat scattered and hadn't fully encircled him when Meng Chuan launched his proactive assault.

“You’re too slow.” As Meng Chuan moved at lightning speed, his blade was already unsheathed, and a flash of light appeared.

With a single flash of his blade, two or three demons were cut down.

The blade light flashed repeatedly.

Meng Chuan charged in a straight line towards the Black Bear Demon Grand Commander. His blade flashed again and again, easily cutting down over thirty demons who had barely managed to form a line. Each stroke of his blade extended two to three zhang long, completely cleaving these demons in half. This sent shivers down the spines of the other demons preparing to pounce, even slowing their charge.

Meng Chuan sensed the demons charging in from all sides, repeatedly swinging his blade to cut them down, but his speed inevitably slowed.

“Clear the way!” Two demon commanders charged forward: a Spider Demoness and a Ram Demon.

The Spider Demoness, moving faster, had six arms, each gripping a scimitar. She was the first to reach within five or six zhang. Without warning, her mouth opened, and a white spiderweb shot out, engulfing Meng Chuan. The distance was too short, and the web too fast.

However, Meng Chuan, who underwent 'arrow rain' training almost daily, had incredibly quick reactions. Not to mention, the ten-zhang radius was his domain! The moment the Spider Demoness opened her mouth, Meng Chuan was ready.

His figure flashed.

The white spiderweb merely enveloped two unlucky lesser demons. Those two lesser demons wailed in agony, quickly dissolving into two pools of flesh within the web. The white spiderweb also stuck to the ground. The Spider Demoness was indignant to see her deadly move evaded so easily.

“Kill!” Meng Chuan executed his movement technique, charging towards the two demon commanders.

The Spider Demoness’s six arms wielded scimitars, instantly forming a mountain of blades that enveloped him. The Ram Demon, meanwhile, engaged in close-quarters combat.

Pffft! Pffft!

Meng Chuan thrust himself between the two demon commanders. He had an incredibly clear grasp of his surroundings, and he ‘saw’ the attack patterns of both commanders with absolute clarity. With a mere flick of his blade, he redirected one of the Spider Demoness’s scimitars, causing it to strike directly towards the Ram Demon.

“What’s happening?!” Both the Spider Demoness and the Ram Demon were startled.

Why were they fighting each other?

They didn't know that the two leaders of the East Ning Branch of the Heavenly Demon Gate had once encountered a similar situation. However, back then, Meng Chuan had achieved it by using his soul energy. Now, he did it effortlessly.

“Clang!” The Ram Demon hastily blocked the Spider Demoness’s scimitar.

Pfft!

Following closely after the Spider Demoness’s redirected strike was Meng Chuan’s silent, gentle slash.

“What?!” A shiver ran through the Ram Demon’s heart. The blade light had already reached its neck, and then the Ram Demon’s head flew into the air.

The Ram Demon commander was dead.

The Spider Demoness immediately sensed trouble. Meng Chuan, however, spun and slashed furiously, employing the first strike of the ‘Five Thunders Descending’ technique from the *Thunderbolt World-Ending Blade*! That incredibly swift and fierce blade made it very difficult for the Spider Demoness to parry. Fortunately, she had six arms, and her six scimitars managed to barely fend off the attack simultaneously, though it left her with some openings.

“Pfft!” The second, even swifter, blade strike arrived.

Feeling the crisis of death, the Spider Demoness immediately opened her mouth, intending to unleash another web. The moment her mouth opened, Meng Chuan ‘sensed’ it with absolute clarity. At such close range, Meng Chuan had no desire to experience the taste of that spiderweb. His second strike, already unleashed, suddenly integrated a wisp of soul energy, increasing the blade light’s speed by another thirty percent. It flashed past the Spider Demoness’s exposed weakness, severing her neck in an instant.

Before the Spider Demoness could even spray her web, her head flew into the air.

The Ram Demon commander and the Spider Demoness commander both fell in quick succession.

This left the surrounding demons astonished. These two commanders were no ordinary foes; one could project demonic energy, and the other had condensed a demon core. Yet they were killed in just one or two moves?

“I can’t get entangled,” Meng Chuan knew clearly. He had already resorted to some ‘tricks.’

Although in terms of raw strength, he truly overpowered the two demon commanders.

However, the gap wasn’t ridiculously wide. In a true one-on-one fight, they would have desperately used forbidden techniques. It would have taken him two or three moves to kill the Ram Demon, and ten or eight moves for the Spider Demoness.

If he had fought them slowly, he would have been surrounded by even more demons.

He needed to rush to rescue Qiyue, so he had to quickly overcome the obstacle posed by this group of demons!

First, he leveraged the advantage of his ‘ten-zhang domain’ to make them attack each other. He then used the opportunity to kill the Ram Demon with a single move. Next, he went all out, even integrating a wisp of soul energy into his blade technique to quickly kill the Spider Demoness.

Whoosh!

Meng Chuan swiftly charged towards the Black Bear Demon Grand Commander.

He felt the pressure, so he used a bit of cunning to quickly eliminate the two demon commanders.

However, in the eyes of the surrounding demons, this human was simply terrifying! First, he wantonly slaughtered the ordinary demons attempting to encircle him. Then, in a flash, he killed two demon commanders. His strength was truly inconceivable for anyone below the level of a Fiendgod or Demon Monarch.

“Hmm?” Other demon commanders in the distance also noticed. The deaths of the Ram Demon and Spider Demoness, who were their equals in strength, made them all feel threatened.

Moreover, Meng Chuan didn't flee; instead, he charged directly towards the Black Bear Demon Grand Commander.

“Killed two of my commanders?” The Black Bear Demon Grand Commander watched from afar. Its colossal five-zhang-tall body towered over the surrounding buildings, and its arms were thicker than ordinary trees. It stared coldly at the human ‘little speck.’

“Since he’s looking for death, surround him! Don’t let him escape!” the Black Bear Demon Grand Commander declared. “I’m going to crush this little ant.”

“Surround him!”

“Don’t let him escape!”

“Encircle him!”

This army, originally rushing full-speed towards Mirror Lake Dao Academy, began to halt under the shouts of the various commanders and started to completely encircle Meng Chuan.

Nearly a thousand demons spread out over a mile, commencing their encirclement, creating immense psychological pressure.

Meng Chuan’s gaze hardened.

“If they reach Mirror Lake Dao Academy, the academy will be in huge trouble,” Meng Chuan thought to himself. Even with military equipment, the academy could manage to defend against ordinary demons. But resisting demon commanders would be difficult. And facing a demon grand commander... it would likely require a large number of people to sacrifice their lives to resist. They’d have to use sheer numbers to compensate for the disparity in quality.

“Capture him!” The Black Bear Demon Grand Commander pointed at the charging Meng Chuan.

The hundred or so demons beside the Grand Commander charged forward.

“Kill!”

At that moment, Meng Chuan instantly drew his blade.

He unleashed a flurry of wild slashes.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!! Blade lights, each several zhang long, shot forth. In the blink of an eye, Meng Chuan had unleashed over a hundred slashes.

Over a hundred streaks of blade light shot towards the charging horde of demons.

Understanding ‘momentum’ allowed one to project true qi externally, but after forming a core, true qi would transform into ‘true essence.’ Meng Chuan’s foundation was far more profound than that of other experts at his level, making his physical body and true essence several times stronger! Each streak of blade light, condensed from true essence, even drew upon the power of heaven and earth to extend several zhang in length! Over a hundred dense, arcing blade lights sliced forth, startling the demons.

Pffft, pffft, pffft, pffft, pffft, pffft!

The hundred-plus blade lights were too fast, carving through the demons. Although this large group of demons scattered in a panic, more than half of them were still sliced apart. Some blade lights even cut down three demons with a single strike.

In an instant, more than half of these hundred demons were dead, and only a dozen or so lucky ones remained, too terrified to charge forward.

“Five tenths of my true essence was depleted in an instant. I really can’t do this often,” Meng Chuan thought. He felt his dantian suddenly much emptier.