Chapter 477: Extreme Law Demon Lord Goes Mad

He took a heavy blow from two Grand Cultivators head-on.

Even with Wang Yu's powerful physique and the enhanced defense of his Fiend Dragon Armor, he was not unscathed. After forcefully killing Lan Xin, a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, while his vital energy surged, he inevitably needed time to recover.

In this brief moment, the two Grand Cultivators from the Orange Cloud lineage seized the opportunity and each unleashed their natal magic treasures.

The handsome young cultivator, with a face like polished jade, wielded a particularly rare magic treasure called the Yin-Yang Dual Qi Scissors, forged from the purest Yin and Yang cloud qi.

Its rank as a high-grade fourth-tier artifact made its offensive power unmatched.

The Yin and Yang dual qi transformed into two cloud dragons, one black and one white, viciously coiling towards Wang Yu. It was clear they were giving it their all.

Wang Yu found it hard to dodge. For the first time, he used the Glazed Pagoda for defense. As the pagoda body rotated, an icy divine light burst forth. The extreme cold caused the two Yin-Yang cloud dragons to shed ice shards formed from condensed cloud qi.

Although it couldn't completely dissipate them, it significantly weakened their power. By the time the Yin-Yang cloud dragons collided with the Glazed Pagoda, this first deadly strike had already been blocked.

However, the other person was no fool.

To have cultivated to the late Nascent Soul stage, one would have already experienced countless battles, meaning their combat ability would not be low.

As Wang Yu recovered his senses, a sharp sting suddenly erupted from behind him.

The other cultivator, who appeared aged, held a dagger-like magic treasure. He seemed to transform into a streak of light, instantly plunging it into Wang Yu's lower back, even burying his entire wrist.

The defense of the Fiend Dragon Armor seemed to be non-existent.

As Wang Yu endured the pain, the muscles around him powerfully contracted, clamping down on the wrist. His Force Field immediately activated, binding the attacker, making it impossible for him to pull out or push further in.

This elder, known as Darkwind Sovereign, specialized in focused strikes with his natal magic treasure, the Darkwind Thorn. Its speed was extreme, and its assassination capability surpassed even that of the Shadowless Sovereign, who specialized in assassination from Golden Fulfilled Pavilion.

However, this type of assassination-focused cultivator most dreaded being restrained.

Wang Yu had forcefully endured two waves of attacks. The boiling vital energy and demonic essence within him had already been completely suppressed. He abruptly twisted his head 180 degrees, revealing a savage grin.

His free left hand suddenly lashed out with an elbow strike. Unrivaled divine power erupted, and Darkwind Sovereign's temple suffered a heavy blow, while his right hand remained trapped within Wang Yu's body.

At the instant the two forces tore at each other, he decisively severed his right arm below the elbow.

The impact from Wang Yu's elbow strike made him spit out a mouthful of blood and several teeth. He then plunged like a meteor into the distant ground, his mind disoriented.

In just a few moves, the danger was extreme; one wrong step would lead to eternal damnation. At that very moment, two mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators from the second echelon were about to arrive at the battlefield.

The jade-faced cultivator once again activated the Yin-Yang Dual Qi Scissors, imbuing them with his natal divine ability, the Yin-Yang Blood Transformation Divine Light. The two long cloud qi dragons were instantly filled with an eerie, blood-red power.

Following Darkwind Sovereign's attack, they struck at Wang Yu once more.

The attacks came one after another, giving Wang Yu no chance to retaliate. If he chose to defend, the two mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators would surely join the battle.

At that point, Wang Yu would have no choice but to flee.

Otherwise, his chances of survival would be slim.

At this critical moment, Wang Yu activated the Corpse Devil Secret Art, fully unleashing the 'Bronze Skin, Iron Bones' characteristic. Simultaneously, he shifted into his Extreme Yin Dragon Body state, ensuring his safety in that instant.

—Frost Moon Across the Sky!

His natal divine ability, the Twelve Phases of Guanghan, was rapidly activated. This perfected divine ability manifested the twelve wondrous phases.

This time, the Sacred Bow was still in his hand.

But the arrow he fired was not the Jade Rabbit; instead, he used the Universal Star Condensing Arrow technique to converge all the power of the Twelve Phases of Guanghan divine ability into a single arrow.

From the sky, a solid pillar of moonlight also descended, boosting the power of this lethal strike by another thirty percent. Wang Yu, with a split mind and his body acting instinctively, further imbued the arrow with his Force Field.

He evacuated the air from the arrow's path, creating an almost vacuum-like channel for its flight.

He drew the bow to its full extent, like a full moon.

—Thwip!

His target was none other than the flung-away Darkwind Sovereign. Though Wang Yu performed many complex operations, they all happened simultaneously.

The reaction time left for him was merely an instant.

When the Guanghan Arrow was fired, Darkwind Sovereign was still in mid-air, in a dazed state. His head had been heavily struck by a body refiner of comparable cultivation, and even the strongest Niwan Palace would be momentarily stunned.

The moment the Yin-Yang Dual Qi Scissors, imbued with the Blood Transformation Divine Light, struck Wang Yu, Darkwind Sovereign was also hit by the Guanghan Arrow, amidst a burst of dazzling white light.

On the ground, it was as if a giant white egg had emerged.

In the void, the clanking sound of chains moving echoed.

The Void Secret Art, Chains of Heaven, bound the unconscious Darkwind Nascent Soul from within the exploding moonlight, quickly suppressing him within the Glazed Pagoda. By now, Wang Yu had secured one late-stage, one mid-stage, and three early-stage Nascent Souls, totaling five Nascent Soul material reserves.

The bottom layer of the Glazed Pagoda was almost filled.

However, having been hit by the jade-faced cultivator's full-power strike, Wang Yu was also not in a good state. His Fiend Dragon Armor was tattered, covered in signs of corrosion.

Most of his flesh and blood had also been melted away, but the spiritual light emanating from his Undying Spirit Bones ensured that his core was not breached.

As long as his Undying Spirit Body remained intact, these injuries were within his acceptable range. Once the Yin Blood Pill Secret Art was activated, Wang Yu's flesh and blood began recovering at a visible rate.

The jade-faced cultivator's expression darkened, the killing intent in his eyes reaching its peak. Yet, he still couldn't do anything to Wang Yu. This guy's body was simply too tough… and too difficult to kill!

His fighting style was almost a reckless exchange of injuries for lives; he was utterly insane.

But he was a normal person. After Darkwind Sovereign was suppressed, no matter how unwilling he was, a strong urge to retreat arose in his heart.

This newcomer from Scarlet Kite was simply too strong.

He had been intimidated by just one battle, and he felt he couldn't be blamed. After a quick weighing of pros and cons, he chose to flee.

This move played right into Wang Yu's hands.

He had feared the jade-faced cultivator would press his advantage and strike him while he was down, especially since his own condition was far from good. Yet, the cultivator had unexpectedly lost his nerve.

In hindsight, it was understandable.

Wang Yu's performance in this battle was utterly insane. The swift dispatch of the initial Nascent Souls, whose cultivation was suppressed, was one thing, but Darkwind Sovereign being instantly killed by a single arrow truly shook his Dao Heart.

Anyone can die, and Grand Cultivators are no exception.

After a brief pause, Wang Yu transformed into a streak of aurora and merged with the Glazed Pagoda. The third divine ability inscribed on his natal magic treasure was precisely the Aurora Escape Art.

Amidst the fierce struggle, this brief fusion allowed Wang Yu to seemingly grasp the profound mysteries of aurora intent. He gained an insight during the battle, and a nascent form of aurora intent suddenly emerged within him.

In an instant, his escape speed surged.

The moment the jade-faced cultivator swept past the two mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators from the second echelon who were rushing to reinforce, Wang Yu, with the heroic stance of 'shooting a halberd through the gate,' unleashed his demonic, menacing three-pointed, double-edged spear.

It was violently hurled forth!

The black-and-red streak arrived in a flash. The jade-faced cultivator was forced to deploy a high-grade fourth-tier defensive magic treasure, which took the form of a shifting mass of multicolored clouds.

This was also one of the Azure Cloud Sect's renowned magic treasures.

Its ultimate form was the Seven-Colored Cloud Aura, reputed as one of the top three defensive spiritual treasures. However, even it was no match for a brute force throw imbued with dual intents.

It was still brutally slammed into the ground, completely immobilizing the cultivator.

As for the two mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators who were rushing over, they had no idea the situation would change so rapidly. Ever since the spatial shattering winds began, the three war spiritual boats had been dispersed.

After discovering that the enemy was attacking the spiritual boat without a Grand Cultivator guarding it, they immediately rushed out of their own spiritual boat's protection, attempting to provide support.

However, the perilous environment of the spatial shattering winds greatly reduced their escape speed, preventing them from transforming into streaks of light. Yet, this had only been a dozen breaths of time.

The situation had deteriorated sharply.

They couldn't comprehend what was happening, nor could they react quickly enough.

After containing the jade-faced cultivator, Wang Yu's demonic energy surged wildly through his meridians and erupted from within him. Behind him, the terrifying anomaly of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood materialized.

An Eight-Armed Asura crawled out from the sea of blood.

—Ten Directions Freezing Devil Fist!

This was arguably Wang Yu's foremost ultimate technique after the Twelve Phases of Guanghan, perfectly unleashing the unrivaled divine power of a body refiner, allowing him to encompass both mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators within his attack range.

Thus, a scene that plunged the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators into despair unfolded.

Affected in body and mind by the Asura intent, the two, unable to move, were effortlessly eradicated by Wang Yu as if they were ants. The Thunder Fiend Coffin voraciously absorbed their Nascent Soul-level flesh and blood essence.

After this battle, the Thunder Corpse had absorbed so much high-value nourishment that, with some time to arrange a corpse-nurturing formation for further sustenance, it would be close to advancing to the mid-fourth tier.

The Chains of Heaven directly bound two desperate Nascent Souls, suppressing them all within the Glazed Pagoda.

Without hesitation, Wang Yu charged directly into the massive crater created by the three-pointed, double-edged spear. After a few breaths of recovery, Wang Yu's internal organs, muscle fibers, and some of his skin had regenerated.

The power of the Blood Transformation Divine Light had also been expelled by the Fiend Dragon Armor.

He was gradually returning to his complete form.

However, his handsome face, with half of his gums exposed, bore an expression of excited killing intent and madness, instilling deep fear in the cultivators present.

The third phase of the battle officially began.

This was truly the final phase, and Snow Jade emerged from her bystander role, like a god of war, targeting the two slowest early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators from the third echelon!

These two unlucky souls had long since been scared half to death.

They could only exert less than sixty percent of their strength. With their minds shaken and further disoriented by Snow Jade's ever-changing natal demonic treasure, they risked enduring Snow Jade's divine abilities just to flee blindly from the battlefield.

On the two war spiritual boats further away, two early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators were still serving as operators. At this point, they couldn't concern themselves with the jade-faced cultivator.

They immediately turned their boats around, activating their escape speed arrays at full power.

This action was merely to give the over six thousand sect elites on the two war spiritual boats a glimmer of hope for survival. They themselves abandoned the spiritual boats directly.

They fled using their own faster escape techniques, their courage utterly shattered.

Wang Yu saw this from afar and could only lament the missed opportunity. The strength the jade-faced cultivator unleashed in desperation prevented Wang Yu from eliminating him in just a few breaths.

These four early-stage Nascent Souls were certainly going to escape.

After all, his own condition was worse; his demonic energy was severely depleted, and his vital energy was somewhat weak. He could only prioritize taking down this Grand Cultivator.

This final battle lasted the longest.

It took a full quarter of an hour for Wang Yu to successfully subdue him, preserving a relatively complete corpse which he temporarily stored in the Thunder Fiend Coffin.

Snow Jade then excitedly ran over. Although she hadn't killed anyone, she had fought with newfound confidence and pride.

"Master, should we pursue them? These rotten oranges are completely useless! Even I, Yu Niang, can easily overpower two of them at once. Aren't I just amazing?"

Wang Yu's face twitched. *Are we really going on a rampage together?*

"Pursue them? Nonsense. A quarter of an hour is more than enough for Nascent Soul cultivators to escape. Those two war spiritual boats can also dock at the nearest city and use formation power to fend us off."

"If we attract more Azure Cloud Sect powerhouses, will you be responsible for killing them?"

Snow Jade immediately quieted down, pouting her alluring lips in grievance. She cooed, "I didn't mean it, Master. I'll listen to whatever you say."

Wang Yu shook his head helplessly.

"Let's go. It's our turn to escape now. We'll head straight into the Northern Severed Realm Mountains. Next, I plan to borrow land from the Northern Demon Race for cultivation."

"Understood."

Snow Jade thoughtfully reverted to her original form, allowing Wang Yu to rest for a moment and recover his condition.

He, meanwhile, swallowed a handful of recovery elixirs.

As he refined them, he moved away from Feng Province, heading towards the mountainous region, while internally deducing the upcoming shifts in the situation.

Frankly speaking, after this battle, the Azure Cloud Sect's backbone had been completely shattered by him. There was no longer any hope of saving face.

Once the news spread, the world would be astonished by his strength and would scoff at the Azure Cloud Sect's utter weakness. After all, they had three fourth-tier spiritual boats and twelve Nascent Soul cultivators, including two Grand Cultivators. Such strength, yet eight of them were killed by the former top young talent of Scarlet Kite, leaving only four terrified early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators as deserters.

Who could believe such a battle outcome?

Wang Yu also benefited from the information asymmetry; his opponents did not sufficiently understand his methods or his combat style.

After this battle, Wang Yu would undoubtedly appear on the Taihu Lake's kill list. A group of cultivators skilled in analysis would naturally compile intelligence on him.

Moreover, this righteous-demonic war had lasted over sixty years, almost a century. Such a terrifying record had been achieved by Wang Yu alone.

This… was even more astonishing.

A single individual.

—He would become a new legend of this era!

According to his plan, he would no longer appear in the righteous-demonic war. Instead, he would go into secluded cultivation within the demon lands, simply digesting the results of this desperate endeavor.

When he emerged, it would most likely be time to enter the Endless Ice Plains.

And the Azure Cloud Sect would relentlessly hunt him down, driven to madness.

Without this strong reinforcement team, the future situation in Shuiyun Province and Feng Province would be very worrying. It would depend on whether the Sword Sect chose to intervene.

If they didn't intervene, the Azure Cloud Sect would have to choose between Ice River Pass and the two provinces' territories, concentrating their forces to defend one. If they greedily tried to hold both, they would most likely fail to achieve anything!

Wang Yu, for his part, felt that Ice River Pass was more important.

Not only was it a major breach for the demonic invasion, but Ice Plains Province was also where the Azure Cloud Sect's main gate was located. This place definitely could not be lost.

As for the Sword Sect's rescue, the chances were fifty-fifty.

It depended on their relationship, and whether the Taihu Lake's objective of consuming population had truly been achieved.

Having sorted out his thoughts, Wang Yu stopped contemplating these matters.

He continued to circulate his cultivation technique to restore his condition.

As time passed, the incident of Wang Yu single-handedly ambushing the Azure Cloud Sect's convoy began to spread, directly shocking countless cultivators across the Taihu Lake and Scarlet Kite regions.

The name of Extreme Law Demonic Lord truly resounded throughout the Ice Prison Realm.

It even overshadowed many long-established Grand Cultivators, becoming famous across the entire realm!

At the same time.

At the Azure Cloud Sect's main gate, the atmosphere in the council hall was terrifyingly grim… no one dared to speak freely.

(End of this chapter)