Chapter 64: An Update on the Ancestral Home

"Who gave you the audacity to fight me?" the Poison Pool Demon King roared in fury. He was, after all, a second-tier demon king! These two newly ascended Godfiends actually dared to team up and try to kill him? It was simply laughable.

The enraged Poison Pool Demon King unleashed a surge of black poisonous mist, which rapidly spread to cover an area of a hundred feet around him.

"Poison?" Liu Yebai's body was also enveloped in black mist, which now spread outwards. Its expanding reach forced the poisonous mist to recede.

"A domain?" The Poison Pool Demon King was startled. Among Godfiends, there were masters skilled in using domains; "Aunt Meng" from the Meng family was a prime example, whose domain completely suppressed his poisonous mist. Now, he had encountered another master of domains.

The released domain enveloped the Poison Pool Demon King, making him feel as though he was trapped in a swamp.

"Kill!" "Kill!"

Meng Dajiang charged straight ahead, while Liu Yebai, wielding a sharp sword, attacked from the side.

"In a direct confrontation, I could kill both of you." The Poison Pool Demon King wielded his long spear with immense power, attacking fiercely. Meng Dajiang, however, met him head-on with his blade techniques. Liu Yebai, meanwhile, launched repeated surprise attacks, appearing and disappearing unpredictably. Within the black mist domain, seven Liu Yebais even emerged. Each would strike suddenly, then retreat back into the black mist.

"Get lost!"

The Poison Pool Demon King swept his spear, hitting one of the 'Liu Yebais.' That figure dispersed into black mist, clearly not the true body.

"Boom!" Meng Dajiang brought his saber down, and the Poison Pool Demon King hastily blocked it.

"Whoosh!" Another Liu Yebai darted out from the black mist, stabbing the Poison Pool Demon King in the back with a lightning-fast sword.

However, the Poison Pool Demon King was protected by a remarkably tough, ten-foot-thick layer of black mist. Liu Yebai's sword barely penetrated this mist, leaving only a shallow wound on the demon king before its force was spent. Liu Yebai's pupils contracted, and he immediately retreated.

From a distance, in a ruined residential area of Dongning City, Meng Chuan watched with awe as the two Godfiends battled the Poison Pool Demon King. The sheer power on display made him realize even more clearly the vast difference between himself and a Godfiend.

From mortal to Godfiend...

It was indeed a leap to heaven, and the difference was astonishingly vast.

"Is my father a Body-Refining Godfiend, as this demon king implies? He's directly confronting the demon king, while Uncle Liu is much more elusive, launching surprise attacks repeatedly and never engaging in a head-on clash. Their cooperation is truly excellent; they must have worked together many times." Meng Chuan observed his father and Liu Yebai's perfect synergy: one charging head-on, the other employing cunning sneak attacks.

Each time the Poison Pool Demon King furiously attempted to pursue Liu Yebai, Meng Dajiang blocked him.

During the intense fight, the Poison Pool Demon King was struck over ten times by swords in quick succession. Two of these strikes were exceptionally powerful, inflicting considerable injuries upon him.

"Eighteen demon commanders, and now twelve are dead. Since these two Godfiends started fighting me... no more commanders have been killed for such a long time." The Poison Pool Demon King pondered inwardly, "It seems these are the Godfiends who have been operating in the shadows. They are clearly just newly ascended 'Dan Yun Realm' Godfiends, equivalent to first-tier demon kings, yet their combat experience is incredibly rich, and their cooperation is excellent. Together, they are actually holding their own against me. Although this Body-Refining Godfiend is seriously injured, my own injuries are equally severe. I've been maintaining a forbidden technique all this time. If I stop now, I can recover in a few months. But if I continue to maintain this forbidden technique... it might damage my foundation."

The Poison Pool Demon King no longer wanted to fight to the death.

He had been maintaining the forbidden technique for too long! Ever since he began pursuing Meng Chuan, he had been using it, up until now...

One Body-Refining Godfiend was seemingly unkillable and unbreakable. The other, a cunning Godfiend skilled in domains, kept launching sneak attacks, making the Poison Pool Demon King incredibly frustrated.

"Now, I must find a way to kill those three powerful Godfiends from Yuyang Palace. Afterward, I'll lead the demon race, along with Demon King Bai Chen, Demon King Yuan Chong, and Demon King Ba Hou, to slaughter the entire Dongning Prefecture." Without hesitation, the Poison Pool Demon King turned and fled.

Under the effects of the forbidden technique, his speed was exceptionally high, faster than Meng Chuan when he was desperate, and faster than both Meng Dajiang and Liu Yebai.

The opponent fled far away, not in Meng Chuan's direction. Liu Yebai and Meng Dajiang did not pursue or obstruct further.

"This second-tier demon king is truly formidable," Liu Yebai said, stopping his Godfiend forbidden technique, unable to help but exclaim. "We two brothers fought with all our might, and it was a close match. He probably doesn't know that if you lose all that flesh, you won't be able to fight anymore."

Meng Dajiang, who had lost over ten pounds compared to when he first arrived to rescue Meng Chuan, scoffed, "Hmph, that demon king has been using his forbidden technique for too long. If we continued to fight, I'd only lose some flesh. But he would damage his foundation."

In the distance, Meng Chuan arrived.

"You must keep our identities a secret," Liu Yebai instructed via voice transmission. His body was constantly enveloped in black mist, and his face was blurred and indistinct. He then immediately transformed into an illusion and departed.

"Huh?"

Upon arriving, Meng Chuan saw Liu Yebai rapidly departing and was momentarily stunned.

Meng Dajiang also arrived beside his son. His body was enveloped in a shroud of blood-qi, and his face was indistinctly visible through it.

"Father," Meng Chuan said.

"I knew it," Meng Dajiang nodded. "You can sense life energy within a mile. Neither Uncle Liu nor I can escape your detection."

The power Meng Dajiang and Liu Yebai had displayed was different from their usual abilities.

Normally, they would use their physical strength and internal true qi.

However, earlier, Meng Dajiang had used a special 'blood-qi,' and Liu Yebai had employed domain techniques. Even people who knew them ordinarily wouldn't have recognized them, given the unique blood-qi and domain techniques, coupled with their concealed faces and figures.

But Meng Chuan's 'sensory perception' could detect not only vital essence and demon power but also life energy. No matter how thoroughly disguised, life energy remained constant.

"Uncle Liu and I have hidden our strengths for some special reasons," Meng Dajiang said. "You must keep it a secret for us."

"Understood," Meng Chuan nodded.

They were both Godfiends, yet they hid their identities and lived in seclusion in Dongning Prefecture. There must be some secrets.

Since his father and Uncle Liu were unwilling to speak, there was no point in pressing them.

"Let's go, come with me to Mirror Lake Dao Academy," Meng Dajiang said. "From now on, you must stay by my side."

"Okay, Father," Meng Chuan replied.

"Don't call me Father in front of others; it would expose my identity," Meng Dajiang chuckled.

Meng Chuan nodded repeatedly, "I understand."

With his father, a Godfiend, by his side, Meng Chuan felt much more at ease.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Meng Dajiang, enveloped in blood-qi, and Meng Chuan both used movement techniques to travel, moving at comparable speeds.

"Uncle Liu and I both have our own affairs," Meng Dajiang communicated via voice transmission. "When we discovered the demon invasion earlier, we split up. He went towards the direction of Lieyang Dao Academy, and I went towards the ancestral home and the Meng family's Mirror Lake mansion. Along the way, we killed any demon commanders we encountered. Luckily, the commotion from your chase with that demon king was quite significant, allowing me to finally locate you and narrowly save you."

"If you had been any slower, I really would have died this time," Meng Chuan said, a shiver of fear running through him.

"A demon invasion, who could have foreseen it?" Meng Dajiang shook his head.

"Father, how is the ancestral home?" Meng Chuan pressed.

Meng Dajiang replied, "My Meng family is also one of the five great Godfiend families. Our luck wasn't so good; a demon army actually attacked our ancestral home. By the time I arrived... there were already many casualties at the ancestral home, including four elders. Oh, and the Third Elder also died."

"The Third Elder?" Meng Chuan was stunned.

The bald, gaunt Third Elder was the most memorable to Meng Chuan. He was fierce, stern, and rigid with the younger generation. Disobedience would result in a cane whipping. Meng Chuan had some childhood trauma because of him.

However, after he comprehended the secret technique, the Third Elder directly gifted him the partial Godfiend legacy page, insisting that he take it.

"The Third Elder's strength was considerable," Meng Chuan murmured.

"Yes, he was among the top few in the entire family. If he had been careful, he certainly could have survived. But he maintained his old temperament, charging to the forefront to shield the younger generation from danger. In the end, a demon's tentacle pierced his chest, and he died," Meng Dajiang communicated via voice transmission, his mood somber. After all, they were his elders.

Meng Dajiang glanced at his son and conveyed, "Don't dwell on it too much. The Third Elder did it willingly. I know his temperament; he must have been greatly comforted to protect so many young people. If you can enter Yuanchu Mountain and become a Godfiend in the future... the Third Elder, if he knew in the afterlife, would surely burst into joyous laughter."

"Mm," Meng Chuan nodded slightly.