: Fighting Two Demons Alone

Such underhanded tricks are ultimately a case of "better safe than sorry."

Regardless of whether it's righteous or demonic, it doesn't matter who the treasure ends up in, but we cannot sit idly by and watch the Star Palace seize it and use it to strengthen its foundation.

Miao He's eyes gleamed. "I didn't expect Fellow Daoist Xuanji from the Myriad Laws Sect to be here as well."

The burly man with a thick beard grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth. "Rare indeed, very rare."

Elder Jinxia, ​​holding a whisk, gazed at the churning, dark clouds in the distance, faintly emanating the aura of tribulation lightning. "Fellow Daoists, what are your thoughts on this?"

After a moment's thought, Miaohe spoke first: "Since we're already here, even if there are dangers ahead, let's lend each other a hand and help each other out."

The burly, bearded man, Xuanji, remained concise, nodding and saying, "Of course, of course."

Elder Jinxia uttered "Boundless," but her eyes held no compassion. She slowly nodded and said, "Even without great treasures, if we can use this opportunity to uncover the source of the strange activity in the abyss, or join forces to kill a transformed great demon, it will be an immense fortune. As for how to distribute the spoils afterward, how about we follow the old rules?"

Although the energy here was extremely chaotic, the signs of the tribulation lightning transformation were recognized by everyone present.

If the news from the Star Palace is false, then being able to hunt down a transformed demon here wouldn't be a wasted trip.

According to the old rules, generally speaking, whether it's plundering treasures or hunting monsters, the spoils can be divided according to the amount of effort put in.

The most precious item is the demon core, followed by the demon soul and essence, and then the scales, armor, and materials used for refining various parts of the demon.

If it's the last person's turn, they will get nothing.

Then the rest of the people will take out an equivalent amount of spirit stones as compensation.

The burly man with the bushy beard narrowed his eyes slightly. "Anything is fine, anything is fine."

Miaohe and Jinxia exchanged glances briefly, their understanding unspoken.

The two secretly communicated with each other.

We had a brief conversation.

Additional information has been provided regarding potential unforeseen events.

Just then, in the distance where the sea and sky meet, circular ripples of spiritual energy, each the size of a small lake, exploded in the air in shades of blue, green, and red.

The heavy black clouds were torn apart like cotton wool, scattered and drifting away.

The three of them immediately turned their heads and looked into the distance.

People have already started fighting?!

Just a short while ago.

Lu Jianghe hovered on the edge of a giant whirlpool with a diameter of nearly a thousand feet on the sea surface.

Dark clouds rolled overhead, threatening to crush overhead.

Beneath the surface of the sea, deep within the whirlpool, a colossal shadow rises and falls with the turbulent currents.

Upon probing with divine sense, it revealed a seventh-tier whale-kun with a body entirely of blue and gold.

Its body constantly stirs up vortices, causing its area to expand outwards and grow larger.

Not far away on the sea, two figures stood on the waves, their bodies as steady as rocks despite the raging torrents.

One of them, with a dragon's head and a human body, had its arms crossed and its cold, emerald-green vertical pupils fixedly staring at Lu Jianghe, who was suspended in mid-air.

Beside it stood a short, stocky man, whose overall appearance was identical to a human, except for his blue skin.

Both of them are eighth-order transformed demonic beasts.

One is an extremely rare poisonous dragon, and the other is a blue-scaled demon.

The burly man, transformed from the blue-scaled demon, suppressed the surging killing intent in his eyes and said in a deep, rumbling voice:

"Just leave! I can pretend nothing happened."

Upon hearing this, the venomous dragon beside it turned its head in disbelief and glared at it, its vertical pupils flashing with a fierce light.

"Why waste words with this human? Daring to roam the depths of my Demon Beast Sea Abyss, just kill him and devour him. Maybe it can help us break through the ninth-tier bottleneck!"

Lu Jianghe held his sword and looked down from mid-air. His gaze swept past the Blue Scale Demon and fixed on the Poisonous Dragon. He said calmly.

"A tiny crawler."

Upon hearing this, the venomous dragon's vertical pupils shrank sharply, the scales on its arms stood up, and its five fingers twisted and swelled, instantly transforming into ferocious claws. Its demonic aura surged like boiling water.

If it weren't for the strong man blocking its way, it would have already pounced on it.

Blue Scale Demon frowned, suppressing his overwhelming killing intent.

Human cultivators are known for their cunning and treacherous nature. The fact that they dared to venture alone into the abyss and utter such arrogant words in the face of two transformed demons suggests that they have something else to rely on.

Its peripheral vision swept towards the depths of the vortex, where the aura of the seventh-tier whale-kun had already reached its peak.

Fighting the human race at this moment could very well affect the whale-kun, which is preparing to undergo its tribulation.

Once this opportunity is missed, it will take a hundred years to transform again.

Just then, the Blue Scale Demon noticed that the young man in the sky began to smile faintly, a smile that was neither a smile nor a smile.

Want to successfully transform into human form?

next moment.

The hilt of the sword held in Lu Jianghe's hand emitted a blue light from between his fingers.

It was as if a bright moon had risen and surged in all directions, illuminating the heavens and the earth.

He then unleashed a sword strike.

Hiss!

Like tearing silk, or cutting paper.

The dark clouds above the massive whirlpool a thousand feet high on the sea were cleaved open from the very center by a single sword strike.

The clouds split at both ends, forming steep "cloud cliffs".

The seventh-tier whale-kun, which was about to undergo its tribulation, felt the overwhelming pressure from heaven and earth above suddenly dissipate.

The massive body suddenly froze, and the power stirring the vortex instantly went out of control.

The enormous vortex, thousands of feet in diameter, shrank rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Human, you're courting death!"

The blue-scaled demon's eyes were bloodshot.

With a strange howl, the venomous dragon soared into the air and suddenly grew to a hundred feet in size, its entire body blood red.

"Human, I'll tear you apart alive!"

Lu Jianghe did not summon his natal flying sword, but simply held the sword in his hand.

He watched as the hundred-foot-long venomous dragon opened its massive maw, unleashing a ferocious, blood-red light that tore through the air, carrying a foul stench and corrosive power, before spitting it out with a deafening roar.

Lu Jianghe's eyes remained calm and unwavering as he presented his long sword.

A burst of intensely refined azure light suddenly shone, cleaving the crimson pillar of light in two.

The vast expanse of blood-red light split into two torrents, pouring towards the sea on both sides, causing the seawater to boil and hiss wherever it passed.

In the instant the blood-red light was cleaved open, the blue-scaled demon, who had always appeared in human form, vanished without warning.

Almost the instant the sword light cleaved through the blood curtain, less than three feet behind Lu Jianghe, the space was pierced as if a smooth water surface had been broken, and a hand covered with dark blue scales and with five sharp, hook-like fingers silently emerged.

The hand gleamed with a chilling, deep blue light, and the space around the edges of the fingernails was slightly distorted.

Without the slightest hesitation or any fancy moves, with terrifying force capable of tearing through metal and stone, his five fingers, joined together like knives, fiercely ripped horizontally towards Lu Jianghe's back and spine.

It was faster than lightning.

The timing was perfect, just as Lu Jianghe was drawing on his old strengths and before any new ones were being generated.

Lu Jianghe sensed a sudden gust of cold wind behind him, but his expression remained unchanged. He neither dodged nor avoided the sharp claw covered in dark blue scales that viciously clawed at his back.

The blue-scaled demon's face contorted in a ferocious expression, but the expected feeling of flesh being torn apart did not come.

That claw, containing terrifying power capable of tearing through metal and stone, seemed to penetrate nothingness, piercing straight through Lu Jianghe's body.

phantom?

It felt a chill run down its spine, and for a moment it was stunned.

But the so-called "illusion" has already strangely swung its sword down?!