Chapter 817: 802: Beat the People of the Demon God Hall All the Same!
As Shen Lang launched a sneak attack on Zheng Tianfeng with the Ten Thousand Beasts Circle, Tianfeng had absolutely no time to mount a defense before the Magical Treasure slammed into his chest.
BOOM!
With a tremendous crash, it was as if a massive mountain had collided with him. The Armor on Tianfeng shattered into countless fragments. His vision plunged into darkness as he spewed a geyser of blood and was sent hurtling backward.
Blood blossomed like crimson flowers in the sky, scattering through the air only to vanish the moment it met the billowing Corpse Qi. The Ten Thousand Beasts Circle flashed briefly and returned to Shen Lang’s hand.
By this time, Dong Chengyue and Qin Mengxue had arrived.
Shen Lang scoffed coldly but made no move to strike again. Had there been no one else around, he truly would have loved to finish off Tianfeng directly, just as he had killed Zuo Feng and Zuo Yun. However, the current situation clearly was not the optimal time.
“You overestimate yourselves, trying to deal with Mr. Shen with such meager skills!” Duanmu Xie drilled out from underground, coldly mocking the collapsed Tianfeng.
“Despicable Zombie, let’s see just how much skill we have then!” Two sharp feminine shouts rang out. Chengyue and Mengxue attacked simultaneously, unleashing two streaks of Sword Qi that tore through the sky and slashed down toward Xie!
“Hmph, two more!” Completely fearless, Xie commanded the Corpse Emperor’s Copper Coffin to fiercely smash into the two incoming streaks of Sword Qi.
The already massive Corpse Emperor’s Copper Coffin doubled in size in an instant. Hovering in the void, it completely blocked the Sword Qi from the two Emperor Martial Realm Late Stage powerhouses!
A majestic, incomparably immense explosion suddenly blasted outward! Unimaginable ripples of Powerful Qi swept out from the Corpse Emperor’s Copper Coffin in all directions.
Xie groaned. The Corpse Qi surrounding him was instantly blasted apart, and he staggered backward for over three hundred meters.
BANG!
The Corpse Emperor’s Copper Coffin spun violently in the air and slammed into the ground behind him at an angle. Only then did Xie manage to halt his momentum, looking somewhat battered. Since his Cultivation had not yet recovered to its former glory, facing two Emperor Martial Realm Eighth Heaven Peak powerhouses brought him quite a bit of pressure, even if he felt no fear.
“You two little ladies aren’t bad, but this level of ability is far from enough to go against Mr. Shen!” Xie sneered continuously. “Back off now, or you’ll end up exactly like that idiot!”
“What an incredibly tough physical body this Zombie has! He took our combined sword strike without a single scratch!” Chengyue and Mengxue thought, deeply shaken.
They glanced at Tianfeng, who could not even crawl up from the ground, and mercilessly cursed the idiot in their minds. “This guy usually speaks little and acts profoundly deep. Who would have expected him to be so foolish? We only arrived a mere two minutes later than him, yet he was already battered and maimed the moment we got here!”
Utterly crippled!
What kind of overwhelming strength was required to cripple an Emperor Martial Realm Eighth Heaven Peak powerhouse like him in just one or two moves? Even Jun Tianyu, that Emperor Martial Realm Ninth Heaven guy, could not accomplish such a feat in a head-on battle.
More importantly, although the Zombie before them was strong, he was merely a notch above either of them individually. He was nowhere near powerful enough to heavily injure Tianfeng in a couple of moves.
Chengyue and Mengxue exchanged a glance before turning their eyes toward Shen Lang, who stood behind Xie wearing an Evil Ghost Mask with his arms crossed over his chest.
Before Shen Lang could speak, the grounded Tianfeng began to scream frantically. “Chengyue, help me kill that brat! I won’t be satisfied until he suffers Soul Scattering! He just used the Beast Souls from the Twelve All Heaven Beast Array to ambush me!”
Hearing this, the already worried duo paled drastically.
Had this bizarre Ghost-faced People truly subdued the Beast Souls within the Twelve All Heaven Beast Array? If he had already tamed them, and with Tianfeng now crippled, wouldn’t the two of them be walking right into a dead end if they fought him alone? No wonder someone as powerful as Tianfeng was trashed in just one or two exchanges. It was all because of the Beast Souls in the Twelve All Heaven Beast Array!
Just as Chengyue and Mengxue revealed expressions of terror and began contemplating a retreat, Tianfeng continued to roar hoarsely. “Chengyue, don’t be afraid! This kid only has King Martial Realm Cultivation. How could he possibly control those powerful Beast Souls? He already activated that blood-red circle once. I can absolutely guarantee that he cannot activate it a second time!”
The faces of Chengyue and Mengxue darkened completely.
“Guarantee… Guarantee my ass!” they cursed inwardly. “On what basis can you guarantee anything? What if this guy can use it a second or third time? Who would dare take that risk? What do you mean he ’only has King Martial Realm Cultivation’?”
Could a King Martial Realm Cultivation cripple Ren Xudong, an Emperor Martial Realm Peak expert, and subdue the massive, terrifying amount of Beast Souls within the Twelve All Heaven Beast Array?
Both women developed an urge to retreat and felt a strong impulse to simply strangle Tianfeng to death themselves. The methods of the Ghost-faced People before them were simply too terrifying. Now, coupled with the Beast Souls from the Twelve All Heaven Beast Array, even if Tianfeng and Xudong were perfectly fine and the four of them joined forces, they likely wouldn’t stand a chance against him!
Let alone the fact that only two of them remained!
At that moment, Shen Lang threw a dismissive glance at Tianfeng, who was struggling to crawl up from the ground, and spoke coldly. “I’m genuinely curious, Tianfeng. Did you only grow a head to look taller? With your level of intelligence, how on earth did you cultivate to the Emperor Martial Realm Eighth Heaven?
“You clearly had two companions, yet you chose to rush over here by yourself to die.
“You already know I subdued the Beast Souls in the Twelve All Heaven Beast Array, yet you still arrogantly and violently incite these two ladies to deal with me?
“Are you trying to make your own death even more miserable, or do you have a grudge against them and want to borrow my blade to kill them?”
Fury surged onto the faces of Chengyue and Mengxue as they glared viciously at Tianfeng. They looked as if they wanted to charge forward and butcher him right then and there.
Although Shen Lang’s tone clearly aimed to sow discord, he hit the nail on the head, and they couldn’t help but take it to heart! Knowing the opponent had subdued the Beast Souls and having already suffered for it himself, he still egged them on to attack. This truly harbored ill intentions!
“You… You…”
Seeing Shen Lang sow discord, the heavily injured Tianfeng found himself unable to argue back. Blood immediately gurgled from his mouth again. He pointed a trembling finger at Shen Lang, unable to form a single sentence for a long time. He could only glare with venomous resentment, wishing he could slice Shen Lang into a thousand pieces.
But he could only dream of such things; right now, he could barely even stand. His Spiritual Power had been completely scattered, and the Evil Qi from thousands of different Fierce Beasts within his body continuously eroded his meridians. His condition was barely any better than Xudong’s.
Meanwhile, Chengyue and Mengxue were truly caught between a rock and a hard place! They couldn’t fight, but they couldn’t just stand there either.
“Brat, just who exactly are you? How dare you touch the people of the Demon God Hall! Do you know what you are doing?” Chengyue cautiously brought up the name of the Demon God Hall.
Shen Lang scoffed. “Are the people of the Demon God Hall untouchable? If anyone dares to scheme against me, I will definitely make them suffer the consequences!
“Whether it’s Xudong or Tianfeng, this is their fate!”
“Arrogant!” Chengyue shouted angrily. She and Mengxue split off to the left and right, aiming directly at Shen Lang behind Xie!
“If this were merely a personal grudge, we wouldn’t want to fight you,” Mengxue stated chillingly. “But anyone who dares to target the Demon God Hall… must die!
“In this world, no one is allowed to desecrate the Demon God Hall!”
Mengxue pulled out a Bone Flute and placed it against her lips. An exquisitely beautiful melody instantly drifted through the space. The moment the flute sounded, the entire area seemed to vibrate, making one feel as if they were in a dream—an utter Illusion Realm.
The Demon Sound Bone Flute was forged from the bones of a Nightmare Beast. Paired with the Nine Illusory Sounds from the Demon God Hall’s Illusory Sound Workshop, its power was unparalleled. It could unknowingly plunge people into an Illusion Realm, leaving them completely oblivious even as they died on the spot!
On the other side, Chengyue turned gracefully, her pretty face masked in hostility. Dozens of one-foot-long East Moon Profound Lady Needles, burning with blood-red flames, materialized in front of her.
There were a total of eighty-one East Moon Profound Lady Needles. They burned with a vicious, bloody flame that incinerated anything upon contact with blood. Once released, they absolutely would not return until they had injured the enemy. Furthermore, they possessed formidable corrosive and piercing power, enough to make ordinary Emperor Martial Realm powerhouses pale in fear!
However, regardless of how powerful and bizarre the Demon Sound Bone Flute or the East Moon Profound Lady Needles were, to a Zombie like Xie, they could not even compare to a Magical Treasure like the Sun and Moon Heaven and Earth Wheel.
It was almost impossible for the Demon Sound Bone Flute to trap a powerful Zombie like him in an Illusion Realm. As for the East Moon Profound Lady Needles… Xie barely had a few drops of blood in his entire body. He was a monster transcending the Six Paths of Reincarnation. How could they possibly threaten him?
Upon seeing their stance, Xie was instantly startled. “Mr. Shen, retreat quickly! They’re aiming for you!”
Shen Lang burst into laughter. “You two better stop. You don’t have what it takes to do anything to me… Moreover, you shouldn’t attack me.”
Chengyue laughed out of sheer fury. “You dared to provoke us, played us both for fools, and even provoked the Demon God Hall. Yet you actually claim we shouldn’t attack you? I want to see exactly how formidable those Beast Souls in your hands are and how much power they can unleash!”
Saying this, she prepared to activate her East Moon Profound Lady Needles.
Shen Lang sneered. “Don’t think I’m afraid to touch you. The only reason I haven’t is because I am friends with Sister Lin and Lan’Er, and I don’t want to kill their subordinates.
“If it were anyone else… hmph, Xudong and Tianfeng are prime examples!”
“Which Sister Lin? Who is Lan’Er?” Chengyue and Mengxue froze, subconsciously halting their movements.
“As for Sister Lin, her full name is Lin Yafeng, and her true form is a Black Phoenix. As for Lan’Er, her full name is Lan Mengling. Her true form is a Vermilion Bird, and she is one of the Five Great Demon Generals of the Demon God Hall.” Shen Lang spoke nonchalantly. “Do I need to be any clearer?”
“Bastard!” Chengyue roared. “You aren’t a member of our Demon God Hall at all, nor do you bear our mark! Did you think just dropping the names of Ms. Lin and Ms. Lan would fool us into backing down? Keep dreaming!”
“The mark of the Demon God Hall? Well… I truly don’t have that. But I never said I was a member of the Demon God Hall, did I?” Shen Lang shrugged. “I only said I am good friends with them.
“For instance, with Lan’Er… proving I have a connection with her is incredibly simple.”
As Shen Lang spoke, he extended his hand, palm facing upward. A wisp of Vermilion Bird Divine Fire slowly flared to life.