Chapter 160: Demonic God’s Son
Chapter 160: Demonic God’s Son
Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks.
Hundreds of thousands of Blood Fiends guarded the surroundings.
In the very center of the peaks sat an open-air Blood Pool built from Spirit Stones, luxurious and magnificent.
Twenty-four alluring fox women, cat women, and rabbit women, wearing barely anything, knelt beside a pool of red liquid. They clutched jars, pouring blood downwards into the continuously replenished Blood Pool. Scenic beauty coexisted with gore, feminine allure reflected against death, creating a dizzying, discordant illusion.
Standing in the center of the Blood Pool was a young man with pale skin and strikingly handsome, almost enchanting features.
Despite the beautiful face, his pupils radiated pure savagery.
At this moment, the young man was staring at a spirit mirror hovering above the Blood Pool. Crimson light flashed in his eyes as he seethed with anger; an icy, murderous aura seeped out, slowly freezing the surface of the Blood Pool.
The alluring beast women shivered violently from the cold but dared not make a sound. They clung to their jars, maintaining the pose to pour in blood, terrified of angering the man in the pool.
This was no ordinary individual.
He was the direct blood descendant of one of the legendary, strongest Conquest Fiend Gods of the Demon World.
Born directly into the Life and Death Realm, his talent was exceptionally high and he was deeply favored by the Demon God. A Divine Beast Roc was specially gifted to him. Day after day, year after year, he tempered his body with the blood of the Divine Beast Roc. Within just half a year, his bones and tendons rivaled those of Demonic Fiends in the Creation Realm, his strength approaching that of a Great Fiend King. Now, he commanded five Blood Demon Legions. Two Great Fiend Kings served under him, effectively placing him in control of seven hundred thousand Blood Fiends.
However…
Recently, this Demonic God’s Son had hit a terrible streak of bad luck. Everything was going wrong.
Shortly after emerging from seclusion, he received a gift from his father – a Lower Realm interface.
To secure more resources for him, his father had expressly ordered the Great Fiend Kings under his command to mobilize ragtag troops to harass it relentlessly for decades. This cleared many obstacles. He only needed to issue an order, activating the dormant seeds he’d planted to deliver a fatal blow to the Barbarian Continent, easily seizing the resources of an entire interface.
Unexpectedly…
Three Intelligent Demon Beasts had successively sought their own demise.
One snake demon, who painstakingly cultivated to the Life and Death Realm, recklessly forced a breakthrough through the defenses, seeking to claim the first significant merit. It was instantly killed by Cultivators from the Time Sect.
The second Intelligent Demon Beast seized the chance to rush through the breached defenses, only to smash squarely into an impenetrable wall. Its subordinates were wiped out, and it was captured.
The third demon, though desperately guarding the Life and Death Realm Starry Sky Demonic Beast, was still rounded up and annihilated by the Barbarian Continent. Decades of planning shattered overnight. He was ultimately forced to deploy the Demon Army.
Even that would have been acceptable…
Just on the eve of the Demonic God’s Son’s planned military mobilization, scouts from a human legion intruded into the Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks. Worse still, they managed to flee headlong into the outer ranks of the Monster Beast army and slip into the Lower Realm’s Barbarian Continent, adding unforeseen variables.
Now look!
The battle horn of the Demon Army had sounded, yet several hours had passed without the Barbarian Continent being conquered.
The Demonic God’s Son stood immersed in the Blood Pool, bathed head-to-toe in Roc’s blood, leaving only his head exposed. His face was shadowed with fury as he stared at a translucent spirit mirror, half a zhang wide, floating before him in the void.
The spirit mirror, clear and crystalline with undulating, rippling surfaces, flickered briefly, showing scattered scenes that clearly depicted the battle situation at the Two Realms Mountain on the Barbarian Continent…
It lasted only an instant before vanishing.
Another vanguard Blood Fiend was dead!
Still!
In that fleeting instant of imagery, the Demonic God’s Son recognized one of the human Cultivators defending the Two Realms Mountain. That figure strikingly matched the silhouette of the one who had infiltrated the Sky Passage earlier.
Enraged!
The Demonic God’s Son’s eyes burned crimson.
With a sharp twist of his head, a blood-red tentacle lashed out from the pool. It coiled around the nearest rabbit woman.
“Yah!”
She screamed as she was dragged underwater. Bubbles immediately surged up from the depths of the pool.
The Demonic God’s Son’s savagery and fury seemed to ease slightly. A sinister, charming smirk played on his lips:
“A mere Lower Realm, untouched for so long. Black Flood Dragon, what do you suggest?”
After a long silence, a half-hoarse voice echoed above the Blood Pool:
“Esteemed Demonic God’s Son!”
“We haven’t yet pinpointed the exact location of this interface. We can only enter through the spatial passage torn open in the Barbarian Continent. Their defenses… those humans are fiercely resolute. Over a hundred Life and Death Realm Cultivators sacrificed themselves to create that barrier formation – the Spatial Rift Formation, a formation woven with Laws… Not even I dare enter rashly. Over a hundred strands of Space Law would assault me the moment I stepped inside… Adding to this obstacle, there’s now a human Cultivator with Great Accomplishment in the Life and Death Realm bolstering their defenses down there… That one who broke through the illusion formation at Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks undetected and infiltrated the Sky Passage… his strength is extraordinary. The Blood Fiend Legion stumbling in the Lower Realm is… understandable.”
“Is this your excuse?”
The Demonic God’s Son scoffed coldly, “Dare you repeat these words before my Divine Father?”
“Your subordinate dares not!”
The Great Fiend King’s voice trembled with fear.
“You have three days to seize the Sky Passage. Otherwise, you will personally break that Spatial Formation.”
“But Master, these past few days, Cultivators from human legions keep appearing near the Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks. The illusion formation is repeatedly probed. Your subordinate fears–”
“Silence!”
The Demonic God’s Son roared. The Blood Pool erupted into furious boiling.
Vaporous blood mist coalesced high in the void, forming the majestic visage of a Flood Dragon, its eyes holding stars and the moon. It stared down imperiously over the Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks:
“Three days! Conquer the Barbarian Continent! After three days, the army marches from Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks to annihilate the human legion! Understood?”
Thunder boomed across the void!
Ten thousand fiends bowed low!
“Your subordinate obeys the Demonic God’s Son’s command!”
Hundreds of thousands of Blood Fiends thundered in response.
The Great Fiend King accepted the order in fearful terror.
Beyond the Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks.
Several human scouts lurking close by noted the sudden phenomenon. They glanced at each other, then immediately rose and broke out of the illusion formation. Soon, they arrived at a Magic Formation stationed a hundred miles away.
A group of human Cultivators gathered.
“Well?”
“Any news of Situ?”
“Still no word on Situ. However, we finally know what lurks within those Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks.”
“Oh?”
“They just employed a Divine Demon Art.”
“A Divine Demon Art? A Conquest Fiend God? Are you jesting? Shouldn’t the Conquest Fiend Gods be fighting on the Ancient Battlefield… Hold… could it be the descendant of one?” someone gasped.
“Exactly!”
The scouts returning from the Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks nodded in unison:
“The Divine Demon Art profoundly shook the Blood Demon Legion. It also greatly affected us humans. If it were the Conquest Fiend God himself, anyone below the Creation Realm would be instantly shaken to death. How could we have returned alive? Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks must be the stronghold of a descendant of a Conquest Fiend God.”
“Correct! Situ’s last mission was to gather intelligence precisely around Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks. I suspect she intruded into the territory of this Descendant of the Demon God, likely stumbling upon their secret. That explains the heightened security recently.”
“Barbarian Continent… I heard the Demonic God’s Son utter that name. I believe the secret of the Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks is likely a frontline base for attacking a Lower Realm.”
“Hissss… if so… Situ’s life token is still intact. She lives! She might very well be alive in this place called the Barbarian Continent.”
With only a few scattered clues, the group pieced together Situ’s plight and the secret of the Demonic God’s descendant with remarkable accuracy.
Yet, they soon faced a grim hurdle:
“Knowing a Descendant of the Demon God resides in Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks, and knowing Situ’s predicament, we cannot stand by idly…”
“You mean rescue Situ?”
“Not just rescue Situ! We must also protect that Lower Realm from enslavement by a Conquest Fiend God!” someone declared resolutely. “These past years, the Conquest Fiend Gods have been on the move everywhere, enslaving thousands of Lower Realm interfaces. This drastically reduces the number of elite Cultivators Ascending from Lower Realms to our Upper Realm! Conversely, the Demonic Fiends exploit the flow of time in those Lower Realms, breeding vast hordes endlessly. The pressure mounts on every major interface! Going on like this, even the Upper Realm and Ancient interfaces might fall to the Demonic Fiends!”
“Well said!”
“We must stop the Demonic Fiend incursion into the Barbarian Continent!”
“But… based on Spirit Beast intel these past days, Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks holds at least hundreds of thousands of Blood Fiends, tens of thousands of Elite Blood Fiends, and two Great Fiend Kings. We are thousands strong, maybe. We are outnumbered; breaching Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks is impossible.”
“Then we find allies!”
“This interface of ours is already under tremendous pressure! If the Barbarian Continent is enslaved, turned into a new hatchery for Demonic Fiends, we are finished! We must contact Cultivators from other legions immediately! Form a plan to jointly assault Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks!”
“The Demonic God’s Son gave three days to conquer the Barbarian Continent. That gives us only three days!”
“Agreed! Everyone, mobilize.”
…
Just as the human legion Cultivators sent messages to all quarters, rallying forces to plan the assault on Five Dragons Thirteen Peaks, the Demonic God’s Son’s command was carried out by the Green Flood Dragon.
Thousands of Elite Blood Fiends poured into the Sky Passage, mingling with the cannon fodder Blood Fiends to deliver the knockout blow to the Barbarian Continent.
At the Two Realms Mountain on the Barbarian Continent, they soon faced the Elite Blood Fiends Situ had warned about.
Beyond simply being stronger in cultivation, the Elite Blood Fiends possessed varied bloodline abilities. They were also clad in blood-red armor, uniform Magical Artifacts capable of easily deflecting Art Technique attacks that lacked Law Power infused within them.
The first to feel the crushing pressure and helplessness was Biluo…
The power of her Art Techniques was drastically diminished upon striking the Elite Blood Fiends’ armor. What little leaked through felt like mere scratches to the fiends!
Situ and Lu Hangzhi also felt the weight!
Ordinarily, a small amount of Law Power infused in an attack sufficed to annihilate a Blood Fiend.
Now, expending several times the effort failed to destroy an Elite Blood Fiend.
Fortunately, forewarned by Situ, Lu Hangzhi was prepared.
When the Male God’s ordinary Law of Fire failed, he decisively fused his Sword Formation power. Activating the Golden Greatsword Energy, his colossal blade dragged a golden Spatial Fissure, infused with the supreme Space Law. It cleanly tore the first Elite Blood Fiend to dash onto Barbarian land in mid-air.
The Male God and the Female God also unleashed their Sword Formation!
Blazing fire-red Sword Qi and freezing ice-blue Sword Qi descended one after another, killing the second and third Elite Blood Fiends emerging from the Sky Passage.
The arrival of the Elite Blood Fiends instantly plunged Lu Hangzhi, Situ, and the others into arduous, desperate combat.