Chapter 495: Half-Demon

Two golden monstrous birds were about to give chase when a loud thunderclap sounded, and a large sheet of blue lightning shot towards them.

They hastily flapped their wings, releasing a large swath of golden wind blades, and rapidly ascended simultaneously.

With a tremendous roar, the dense golden wind blades shattered the blue lightning, and a powerful shockwave swept outwards.

By this time, Wang Changsheng had already fled far away.

The two golden monstrous birds circled once, then swooped down from high altitude, pouncing towards the yellow earthworm.

A huge rumbling sound echoed in Wang Changsheng's ears. He breathed a sigh of relief, realizing how truly dangerous the Heavenly Wolf Secret Realm was. With three third-tier demonic beasts appearing at once, he would likely have met a tragic end if he hadn't fled quickly.

What pained Wang Changsheng was that his Azure Scale Horse had been eaten by the yellow earthworm, confirming that the ground was not safe either.

He released a small horse-shaped puppet beast and mounted it.

The horse-shaped puppet carried Wang Changsheng, galloping quickly forward.

A day later, Wang Changsheng appeared atop a towering mound. Following his gaze, he could see a vast, dark forest.

Wang Changsheng performed a hand seal, and the horse-shaped puppet beast beneath him moved its limbs, quickly galloping towards the dense forest.

Just as he neared the dense forest, two dark figures suddenly emerged from the ground to his left, transforming into a dense swarm of shadows that attacked Wang Changsheng.

Wang Changsheng was already prepared. With a raise of his right hand, countless yellow fine sand flew out, instantly forming a yellow shield several zhang tall, blocking his left side.

With a series of dull thuds, the yellow shield's surface gained hundreds of finger-thick holes.

Seizing this opportunity, Wang Changsheng patted the horse-shaped puppet beast beneath him and leaped into mid-air, more than ten zhang above the ground.

The ground became uneven and shook violently as a gigantic scorpion emerged from beneath the earth.

Its body was adorned with over a dozen yellow spiritual patterns, and it had two pale golden tail stingers. Its pincers were enormous, and its eyes constantly swiveled. This was a low-grade third-tier demonic insect.

"You're asking for death," Wang Changsheng thought, his eyes turning cold. He had no fear of a low-grade third-tier demonic insect.

The giant yellow scorpion let out a strange cry, and hundreds of yellow earth cones shot out, flying overwhelmingly towards him.

Wang Changsheng raised a hand, and the Cold Cloud Bottle flew out. It spun rapidly, instantly expanding dozens of times in size, and a large amount of white cold air surged from its mouth, forming a white ice wall several zhang high and half a zhang thick, blocking him.

With a series of dull thuds, the white ice wall was shattered by the hundreds of yellow earth cones.

The giant yellow scorpion charged towards Wang Changsheng. Before it had charged very far, the yellow shield transformed into a large expanse of yellow fine sand. It spun rapidly, turning into countless slender yellow flying needles, which, with a series of piercing sounds, struck the giant yellow scorpion.

The giant yellow scorpion let out a strange cry, and its body glowed with a yellow light as a thick yellow armor emerged, clinging to its body and protecting its entire form. The dense yellow flying needles struck the giant yellow scorpion's body, emitting a series of dull thuds.

The yellow armor's defense was extremely strong; the dense yellow flying needles failed to penetrate it.

A bone-chilling cold swept towards him, as three white giant pythons, each as thick as a water vat, pounced towards the giant yellow scorpion.

The giant yellow scorpion opened its mouth and spat out a large sheet of yellow earth cones, shattering the three white giant pythons. The pythons then transformed into a large expanse of white cold air, which enveloped the giant yellow scorpion.

The giant yellow scorpion's pincers glowed with a dazzling yellow light as it plunged them into the ground. After a rumbling muffled sound, a yellow wall several zhang high emerged from the earth, blocking its front. The white cold air struck the yellow wall, and it rapidly froze.

A house-sized blue lightning ball suddenly appeared above the giant yellow scorpion's head and rapidly crashed down.

A tremendous "boom" echoed, and the blue lightning enveloped an area dozens of zhang in radius.

A rumbling sound came from underground as a small mound emerged and quickly moved towards Wang Changsheng's position.

When the blue lightning dissipated, the giant yellow scorpion was nowhere to be seen.

Wang Changsheng frowned. His body blazed with lightning as he made gestures in the air with both hands. Countless blue electrical arcs flew from his hands, quickly coalescing into a blue lightning ball the size of a water vat, whose volume continued to expand.

Soon, the blue lightning ball expanded to the size of a house, emitting a terrifying aura.

Wang Changsheng performed a hand seal, and the Cold Cloud Bottle spewed out surging cold air, transforming into hundreds of white ice spears that, with a series of piercing sounds, smashed into the ground.

Hundreds of white ice spears successively pierced the moving mound, and the mound abruptly stopped.

A house-sized blue lightning ball descended from the sky and crashed onto the mound.

The ground shook violently, and a ball of blue lightning flared.

In less than three breaths, the blue lightning vanished, leaving a giant pit in the ground from which a wave of scorching heat emanated.

The giant yellow scorpion had vanished, its whereabouts unknown, and Wang Changsheng could not sense its aura.

Wang Changsheng's expression changed; he sensed two powerful auras flying towards him at extreme speed.

He quickly put away his magic treasures and puppet beasts, then flew towards the dense forest.

The dense forest was filled with towering trees over a hundred zhang tall, their branches lush with leaves, making it dark and damp.

He landed on the trunk of a towering tree, casting a breath-concealing art to hide his aura.

He had obtained this breath-concealing spell after destroying an immortal cultivation family in Shu. It had been quite effective during the Foundation Establishment stage, but he wasn't sure if it would work now.

The third-tier demonic scorpion was still hidden underground, so Wang Changsheng dared not land and could only remain hidden on the tree trunk.

Not long after, a yellow light appeared on the horizon, moving incredibly fast, followed by two streaks of green light.

The yellow light quickly flew over the dense forest. Wang Changsheng clearly saw its true form: it was Huang Fugui.

Huang Fugui's face was filled with terror, as if he had encountered a mortal enemy.

Those who entered the Heavenly Wolf Secret Realm were all Core Formation cultivators, and the demonic race also sent their people in. One could only enter with a key, and Huang Fugui had actually obtained one; his luck was truly good.

The two streaks of green light followed, sweeping across the sky. Wang Changsheng also clearly saw their true forms: they were two half-demons.

One was a middle-aged woman in her early thirties, with a pair of large, zhang-long blue-green feathered wings on her back, an aquiline nose, and broad ears; she was a fifth-layer Core Formation cultivator. The other was a tall, slender man in a green robe, with gray hair, long, narrow ears, and a prominent nose; he was a third-layer Core Formation cultivator.

It seemed Huang Fugui was unlucky to have encountered two half-demons, one of whom even possessed the bloodline of a demonic bird.

The two streaks of green light hadn't flown far when the green-robed man suddenly turned around and flew towards Wang Changsheng's location.

Wang Changsheng was startled, inwardly crying out, "Not good!"

The other party had clearly discovered him; otherwise, they wouldn't have turned around.

Wang Changsheng dared not delay, transforming into a streak of blue light and flying in the opposite direction.

The middle-aged woman stopped and warned, "Qingquan, be careful and don't be careless. There are quite a few human cultivators who have entered the Heavenly Wolf Secret Realm."

"Understood," replied the green-robed man. "My nose can easily sniff out the aura of human cultivators. You go quickly chase that fat guy who dared to snatch our things."

After the green-robed man finished speaking, he transformed into a long green rainbow and chased after Wang Changsheng.

The middle-aged woman flapped the wings on her back fiercely and transformed into a streak of green light, pursuing Huang Fugui.