Chapter 883
Ye Fan
The Mantis Demon Lord turned around, twisted its neck, and the split carapace on its shoulder quickly closed up, its aura even more ferocious than before.
"The Holy Body's flesh and blood are quite good."
The Mantis Demon Lord stared at Ye Fan, its three bony arms unfolding simultaneously. "Use it as my blood food; it should allow me to advance further."
Ye Fan did not back down.
Golden energy surged from his body as he shattered the wasteland beneath his feet with a single step, unleashing another punch.
The Mantis Demon Lord cleaved downwards with its bone blade.
clang!
The fist collided with the bone blade, Ye Fan's hand cracked, and his entire arm went numb from the shock.
The Mantis Demon Lord's second bony arm slashed horizontally, and Ye Fan dodged half an inch to the side, but a bloody gash was cut open on his chest.
The third bony arm followed immediately.
Ye Fan raised his elbow to block.
boom!
He was slammed into the ground, the surrounding wasteland collapsed, and cracks stretched all the way to the base of the city wall.
Ye Fan rushed out of the pit and pressed a palm against the Mantis Demon Lord's chest.
Golden energy erupted.
The mantis demon lord's chest shell cracked, but his body only swayed slightly.
The next moment, he thrust his knee out.
boom!
Ye Fan was struck in the abdomen and sent flying backward, crashing through the three-headed abyss dragon and leaving a deep trench tens of thousands of feet deep in the ground.
Seeing this, Bai Xiaochun jumped up in panic and charged forward, wielding the tortoise-patterned pot.
He used the tortoise-patterned pot as a sledgehammer, smashing the bottom of the pot directly onto the back of the mantis demon lord's head.
boom!
The Mantis Demon Lord lowered its head forward.
Bai Xiaochun's arms went numb from the shock, and he almost dropped the tortoise-patterned pot.
The Mantis Demon Lord turned around and drew out his bone arm.
Bai Xiaochun quickly used the Turtle Breathing Technique, instantly suppressing his aura, his figure fading into the demonic smoke.
The bony arm grazed his shoulder, slicing half of it into a bloody mess.
If he hadn't used the Turtle Breathing Technique to avoid a fatal blow, this strike would have been enough to sever his head.
Bai Xiaochun was thrown a long way, lying on the ground and spitting out blood again. "I dodged it all, but you still hit me so accurately!"
The Mantis Demon Lord pressed on, giving chase.
Just then, the words in the world began to swirl.
Hong Yi, carrying a sutra scroll, stepped out from the city wall.
"Qian represents Heaven."
A Qian character fell, suppressing the demonic energy above the Mantis Demon Lord's head.
“Kun represents the earth.”
The character "Kun" sank into the earth, its immense power locking the mantis demon lord's feet.
“Zhen represents thunder.”
Lightning burst forth from the Bagua scripture, striking the three bony arms of the Mantis Demon Lord.
The Mantis Demon Lord finally paused.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ye Fan rushed back and punched the Mantis Demon Lord in the jaw.
Bai Xiaochun gritted his teeth and got up, slamming the tortoise-patterned pot horizontally, hitting the Mantis Demon Lord squarely in the ribs.
The three of them combined their attacks and finally drove back the Mantis Demon Lord.
Moro stood atop the demon's lair, his face turning completely grim. "Mantis, you can't even take down three beings at the sixth level of the Primordial Chaos Realm?"
The Mantis Demon Lord stopped moving.
He glanced down at the crack in his chest, then looked at Ye Fan and the other two.
next moment.
His aura suddenly surged, and the wasteland beneath his feet could not withstand it, shattering on the spot.
The color drained from Bai Xiaochun's face instantly. "It can be improved? How can we fight like this!"
Ye Fan wiped the blood from his lips and stood at the very front.
As he turned the pages of the Hong Yi Jing, the characters of the Eight Trigrams swirled around him.
The Mantis Demon Lord spread its six arms, bone blades, bone hooks, and bone hammers all aimed at the three of them. "I was just playing around with you before. Now, I'm getting serious!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared from the spot.
In the next instant, six bone blades simultaneously landed on the heads of Ye Fan, Bai Xiaochun, and Hong Yi.
Ye Fan raised his fists and took the two bone blades head-on.
Bai Xiaochun placed the tortoise-patterned pot on his head and curled up into a ball.
The Bagua diagram unfolded beneath Hong Yi's feet, with the characters Qian and Kun intertwined, blocking the bone hook that was about to fall on his brow.
boom!
All three fell at the same time.
The ground outside the city collapsed, and the rubble flew into the air only to be crushed by the force.
Ye Fan's arms were torn open, and golden blood splattered at his feet.
He grunted, forcefully raised the bone blade, shattered the ground with his right knee, and punched the Mantis Demon Lord in the abdomen.
The Mantis Demon Lord swung a bone arm across, its bone hammer slamming into Ye Fan's fist.
The bone hammer cracked open.
Ye Fan was also forced back.
On the other side, Bai Xiaochun had just poked half his head out from under the pot when the Mantis Demon Lord's bone hook had already reached him.
Here we go again!
Bai Xiaochun let out a strange cry, his body swayed, and he pushed his Turtle Breathing Technique to its limit, disappearing from the spot.
The bone hook grasps at empty air.
However, the Mantis Demon Lord's other bony arm slashed directly at the empty space to the side.
puff!
Bai Xiaochun tumbled out of the void, a bloody gash split open on his back.
He was in so much pain that his face contorted in agony, and he immediately patted his chest.
The Undying Longevity Technique erupted, and the wounds healed rapidly.
But the demonic energy remaining on the bone blade was still eroding the flesh, and the skin that had just closed was torn open again.
Bai Xiaochun was so anxious that he poured the pill into his mouth.
The Mantis Demon Lord gave him no chance to recover, unleashing all six of its arms, its bone blades weaving a killing net, forcing Bai Xiaochun into a dead end.
Hong Yi raised his hand and pressed down on the scripture scroll.
“Gen represents a mountain.”
A mountain formed from scriptures blocked Bai Xiaochun's path.
The bone blade cleaved through the mountain, severing it in two.
Hong Yi's face paled, but he still turned to the next page.
"Dui represents a marsh."
The water-like characters dissolved and wrapped around the mantis demon lord's ankle.
Ye Fan seized the opportunity to return and attack.
He crashed into the Mantis Demon Lord's arms, unleashing a barrage of punches.
Bang bang bang!
Every punch landed in the same spot.
The cracks on the Mantis Demon Lord's chest shell grew denser and denser, but just as the sixth punch was about to land, the Mantis Demon Lord's two bony arms slammed down from above.
Ye Fan raised his shoulder and endured it.
The bone hammer struck his shoulder, and the sound of bones cracking rang out.
Ye Fan's body sank, blood gushed from his mouth, but he still managed to throw his sixth punch.
boom!
The Mantis Demon Lord's chest finally caved in by half an inch.
The Mantis Demon Lord looked down at the dent in his chest, his ferocity completely uncontrollable.
"court death!"
His six bony arms were inserted into the crack in his chest.
The next moment, black blood gushed out from the crack.
The blood-red light surged into the six arms, and dense magical patterns immediately appeared on the surface of the bone blades.
Hong Yi's expression changed.
"retreat!"
But it was too late.
The Mantis Demon Lord sprang up, unleashing a simultaneous slash with all six arms.
Ye Fan met the attack with both fists, but was sent flying backward by the two bone blades, leaving crisscrossing bloodstains on his chest.
Bai Xiaochun held the tortoise-patterned pot horizontally in front of him, but it was still pierced through the outer shell by a single blow, and he was embedded in a broken mountain peak.
Hong Yi's Qiankun Bagua protective aura was torn open by the bone hook, and his shoulder was swept away, leaving half of his scholar's robe stained with blood.
All three were injured at the same time.
Seeing this, Moro finally burst into laughter.
"Well done!"
He raised his black spear, pointing it at the Ninth Fortress, and declared, "The entire army will be on the move! Today, we will first slaughter the fortress, then take Zhao Feng!"
The sixteen demon nests moved forward once more.
The abyssal dragon crashed into the breach in the city wall.
The armored demon general climbed onto the city wall, stepping over the corpses of demon soldiers.
Wang Jian led his troops in a desperate defense, his sword blade already dulled, and his armor torn into several pieces.
The First Emperor was entangled by two powerful demons. Every time the Tai'a Sword struck, the Black Dragon of Fortune would have some of its power drained by the demon's nest.
On the other side of Tongtian, the Zhuxian Sword Formation was smashed, causing the four swords to tremble.
Yuanshi and Taishang joined forces to hold up the core of the formation, but were forced to retreat continuously by the demonic energy.
Nuwa protected the Mountain and River Map, but the edges of the map were already scorched and cracked.
The illusory image of the Ancestral Witch behind Houtu was surrounded by the demon army, and its malevolent aura was constantly being worn away.
……
Bai Xiaochun crawled out of the shattered mountain and looked up to see the demon soldiers quickly climbing the city wall. His face immediately turned anxious. "No way! If we let them break in, Zhao Feng will cook me alive when he gets back!"
He gritted his teeth and slapped his forehead. He activated the "Humble Abode Cultivation Technique," and his spiritual power surged forth.
His all-seeing eye opened between his brows, and he spotted a weak point in the demon army's formation. "Brother Ye, the third demon nest on the left is below; that's where demonic energy is supplied!"
Ye Fan propped himself up, and his golden blood energy erupted once more.
Without wasting any words, he rushed straight to the location Bai Xiaochun had pointed out.
The Mantis Demon Lord sneered, his six arms blocking the way.
Hong Yi took a step forward, and all the texts of the Eight Trigrams flew out: "Fire of Li, Wind of Xun, Thunder of Zhen, the three symbols combine."
The three scriptures of fire, wind, and thunder collided, transforming into a rotating field of light that blocked the two skeletal arms of the Mantis Demon Lord.
Bai Xiaochun also went all out.
He tossed the tortoise-patterned pot into the air, and the Purple Qi Cauldron Control Technique activated the pot's patterns.
The tortoise-patterned pot suddenly enlarged and pressed down on the head of the mantis demon lord.
"Sit down!"
The Mantis Demon Lord used its three bony arms to support the tortoise-patterned pot, while its remaining bony blade still slashed towards Ye Fan.
Ye Fan did not dodge, letting the bone blade strike his back, using the force to accelerate.
His fist slammed into the demon-offering altar at the bottom of the third demon lair.
boom!
The altar exploded.
The demonic energy at the bottom of the demon's lair stopped flowing, and the black markings on the hundreds of thousands of demon soldiers attacking the city immediately darkened.
Wang Jian seized the opportunity.
"cut!"
The Qin warriors and the cultivators on the city wall attacked simultaneously, and a large number of the demon soldiers who had climbed the wall were knocked down.
The pressure on the city walls eased slightly.
Bai Xiaochun was overjoyed, "It's done!"
The words had barely left his mouth when the Mantis Demon Lord swung the tortoise-patterned pot violently.
The tortoise-patterned pot slammed back at Bai Xiaochun.
Bai Xiaochun tumbled out with the pot and himself, crashing through two dilapidated towers.
Before Hong Yi could provide support, the Mantis Demon Lord had already rushed in front of him.
The bone hook caught the outer layer of light curtain of the Bagua Sutra scroll and tore it apart forcefully.
click!
The curtain of scripture light cracked open.
The other bony arm slammed heavily into Hong Yi's chest.
Hong Yi staggered backward, several squares of the Bagua diagram beneath his feet were crushed, and blood dripped from his mouth onto the scriptures.
Ye Fan fought his way back from the bottom of the demon's nest, only to be met with another bone hammer blow from the Mantis Demon Lord.
The three were once again forced back to the center of the wasteland outside the city.
The Mantis Demon Lord pressed closer step by step.
The dent on his chest had healed, and the demonic runes on his six bony arms were still glowing. "You can't stop me."
Ye Fan's chest heaved, and his golden blood aura still soared into the sky.
Bai Xiaochun, holding the tortoise-patterned pot, stood next to Ye Fan, her legs trembling slightly.
Hong Yi raised his hand and wiped the blood off the scroll, and the Bagua characters reappeared.
Behind the three people is the Ninth Fortress.
With a shake of its six arms, the Mantis Demon Lord cut six deep trenches into the wasteland.
He attacked again.
But just then, a bell suddenly rang out from the distant edge of the universe.
Boom!
The sound pierced through the blood-red curtain, through the crack, and landed above the Ninth Great Pass.
Moro's smile froze.
As the bell tolled, the demonic energy outside the city was dispersed in large swaths.
The sixteen demon nests shook simultaneously, and the demonic patterns on the nest walls flickered on and off.
Moro suddenly turned around and looked at the desolate rift at the edge of the universe.
The blood curtain was still there, but large cracks were spreading inside it.
Behind each crack, a gray-white spear flashed.
Moro gripped his black spear tightly, his face contorted with rage. "Damn it, how could the killing formation collapse so quickly!"
The Mantis Demon Lord also paused for a moment.
Seizing this opening, Ye Fan punched the Mantis Demon Lord straight in the face.
The Mantis Demon Lord reacted extremely quickly, blocking with its bony arm.
boom!
The bone arm was broken backward after being hit.
Bai Xiaochun rushed forward and slammed the tortoise-patterned pot onto the Mantis Demon Lord's knee.
The Hongyi Scripture pressed down, and the character "Kun" landed under the feet of the Mantis Demon Lord, freezing half of his body in place.
The three of them worked together and managed to knock the Mantis Demon Lord back thousands of feet.
The people on the city wall also heard the bell ring.
Wang Jian, his face covered in blood, suddenly looked up and exclaimed, "It's the Realm Lord!"
With a single strike of his Tai'a sword, the First Emperor forced the demons in front of him back, and the black dragon of destiny behind him raised its head once more.
Tongtian laughed loudly, and the Four Swords of Zhuxian roared up, "I knew that broken formation couldn't trap him!"
Nuwa seized the opportunity to push the Map of Mountains and Rivers into the gap in the city, thus protecting the collapsing streets once again.
Houtu raised her hand and slapped the ground, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches attacked, tearing the demon army outside the city apart once again.
Moro roared, "Forget about Zhao Feng, break through the city first!"
The sixteen demon nests pressed down at an accelerated pace.
The Mantis Demon Lord also came to his senses, and with all six arms outstretched, he forcefully shattered the Kun character.
He stared at Ye Fan and the other two, his killing intent intensifying. "You almost got the better deal."
Ye Fan had many wounds on his body, and his robes were soaked with golden blood.
Bai Xiaochun pressed one hand against the wound on his chest and held the tortoise-patterned pot in the other, wincing in pain.
Several pieces of text were missing from Hong Yijing's scroll, and his expression was not good.
But none of the three of them backed down.
Bai Xiaochun took a few breaths, then suddenly pulled out a handful of pills and stuffed them into his mouth, shouting indistinctly, "Brother Ye, Brother Hong, hold on! Zhao Feng is coming out soon! Perseverance is victory!"
Golden light exploded beneath Ye Fan's feet. "Block another round from him."
Hong Yi closed the scroll and then unfolded it again, placing his palm on the center of the Bagua (Eight Trigrams). "Heaven and Earth are positioned, water and fire do not clash."
The Bagua diagram was expanded to cover the battlefield a million miles outside the city.
The demon army's charge speed was slowed down.
The Mantis Demon Lord swung its six arms, attempting to break through the Bagua diagram.
Ye Fan crashed into it head-on, his fists striking the bone blade repeatedly.
Bai Xiaochun circled around from the side, his all-seeing eyes locking onto an old wound of the Mantis Demon Lord, and the tortoise-patterned pot struck him precisely.
boom!
A gash appeared on the mantis demon lord's ribs.
Bai Xiaochun was stunned for a moment, then overjoyed, "It worked! Hit him here!"
The Mantis Demon Lord's expression changed drastically, and he used his bone hook to hook Bai Xiaochun.
Bai Xiaochun was so frightened that he immediately shrank back behind the tortoise-patterned pot.
Ye Fan had already rushed to the crack and smashed down with his fist.
The Mantis Demon Lord sealed the crack with its two bony arms.
boom!
Ye Fan's fist broke one of the bone arms, but he was struck on the shoulder by another bone blade.
Seeing Ye Fan injured, Bai Xiaochun gritted his teeth and activated the Water Marsh Kingdom once more.
The giant marsh churned.
This time, not just one ferocious beast emerged from the swamp, but hundreds of ferocious beast phantoms rushed out together, biting tightly at the six bony arms of the Mantis Demon Lord.
The Mantis Demon Lord roared, and with a shake of its six arms, the ferocious beasts of the swamp collapsed in droves.
But Ye Fan had already seized the opportunity.
He grabbed the broken bone stump with both hands and yanked it hard.
Click!
One of the Mantis Demon Lord's bony arms was forcibly torn off.
Black blood sprayed.
The Qin soldiers on the city wall roared in unison.
Bai Xiaochun was also extremely excited, "Brother Ye is awesome!"
The Mantis Demon Lord roared in pain, and its remaining five arms slammed down on Ye Fan at the same time.
Hong Yi clasped his hands together and chanted, "Mountain Thunder Yi."
The mountain in front blocked the way, and thunder roared from behind.
The two scriptures and supernatural powers blocked the three arms for Ye Fan.
The remaining two arms slammed down on Ye Fan.
Ye Fan's body flew backward, his chest caved in, and he crashed into the ruins outside the city.
Just as the Mantis Demon Lord was about to give chase, Bai Xiaochun slammed his tortoise-patterned pot down again, shouting, "Don't chase me!"
The Mantis Demon Lord was furious.
He grabbed the edge of the tortoise-patterned pot, and with all five arms exerting force at the same time, he lifted Bai Xiaochun up along with the pot and slammed it heavily to the ground.
boom!
Bai Xiaochun smashed through the wasteland, leaving a huge crater beneath him.
The Immortal Longevity Technique frantically repaired his physical body, but the power of the Seventh Heaven of Primordial Chaos was still rampaging within him.
Bai Xiaochun tried to get up but couldn't, blood gushing from his mouth.
Ye Fan had just gotten up from the ruins when the Mantis Demon Lord was already above Bai Xiaochun.
The bone blade was pointed at Bai Xiaochun's brow. "I'll kill you first!"
Hong Yi arrived, stepping through the air. He turned to the last few pages of the scroll: "Heaven and earth are positioned, thunder and wind interact, water and fire meet, mountains and lakes communicate." (End of Chapter)