The Black Corpse Retreats, Maha Gaoyi!

Chapter 371 The Black Corpse Retreats, Maha's High Righteousness! (New Year's Bonus Update)

"A trivial skill!"

Within the cage of light, the cold, disdainful voice of the Black Corpse Demon Emperor echoed. His aura of death suddenly erupted, and viscous, extremely malevolent corpse fluid transformed into countless black torrents, frantically assaulting and corroding the surrounding barrier of light.

The cage shook violently, the runes of light flickered rapidly, emitting a sickening hissing sound, as if it might shatter at any moment.

However, the luminous barrier, which combined the divine powers of the two primordial Dharmakayas, displayed astonishing resilience.

Despite the impact and corrosion from the deathly aura and corpse fluids, the barrier, though constantly dimming and thinning, stubbornly maintained its overall structure and was not immediately breached.

The faces of the two avatars also turned pale at a visible speed, clearly indicating that maintaining this cage to resist the impact of the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor was extremely taxing.

Seeing this, Fu Tu Xuan maintained the black and white barrier of the Maha Yin Yang Bottle to dissolve the remaining corpse water on the outside, while urgently asking Lu Yu, "Holy Son, how long can this cage hold him?"

Lu Yu's true form wore a solemn expression as he sensed the pressure emanating from his two avatars and the rate at which the cage was being consumed. He said in a deep voice, "With the two avatars' cultivation at the early stage of the Saint Rank, forcibly activating the Supreme Divine Power to trap him is too exhausting. This Cage of Light can only last for a maximum of three hours."

He paused, then added, "If my two avatars could reach the late stage of Saint-grade Heavenly Supreme, it wouldn't be impossible for them to trap him for several months or even longer using their original Dharma Body origins and Supreme Divine Powers. But now, the gap is too great."

Three hours!

This period of time is neither short nor long.

For powerhouses of their caliber, three hours is enough to accomplish a great deal, but it is certainly not enough for them to calmly kill a trapped, top-ranked Heavenly Demon Emperor, not to mention the possibility of other powerful extraterrestrial demons coming to their aid at any moment.

Upon hearing this, Fu Tu Xuan, Tai Ming Lao Zu, and Hei Tian's expressions all darkened. They had to make a decision within these limited three hours: should they take advantage of the black corpse being trapped and gather all their strength to try to severely injure or even kill it?

Or should we take this opportunity to kill the other Heavenly Demon Emperors?

However, Lu Yu seemed to show no hesitation whatsoever. His gaze swept across the other three battlefields in the distance, a cold glint flashing in his eyes, and he said in a deep voice, "Kill the other Heavenly Demon Emperors first, clip their wings, then slay the Black Corpse!"

Before he finished speaking, his figure suddenly disappeared from the spot, leaving only a slight ripple in space.

The next moment, he appeared like a ghost behind the Heavenly Demon Emperor that Lin Xuan and Qing Xuanjun were fighting together!

This Heavenly Demon Emperor was hunched over, his body shrouded in a thick, grayish-white aura of death, his claws sharp and his aura chilling.

Under the combined force of Lin Xuan's steady and experienced combat, and the assistance of Qing Xuanjun's cunning and unpredictable Saint-grade formation, although its ferocity remained undiminished, it had already sustained numerous wounds, and its movements were no longer as fluid as they had been initially.

Lu Yu's appearance was completely unexpected, and the timing was perfect. It was just as the Heavenly Demon Emperor forced Qing Xuanjun back with a claw and was about to turn around to deal with Lin Xuan's ancient hand seal!

"Supremely intelligent and radiant!"

Lu Yu let out a low shout, and the Heavenly Emperor Sword in his hand burst out with a dazzling pure white light. A condensed beam of light, carrying immense power and extreme sharpness, instantly slammed into the heart of the Heavenly Demon Emperor!

That day, the Demon Emperor was startled. A deadly warning came from the depths of its demonic soul, and it was too late to turn around or defend itself. It could only frantically activate its protective corpse energy, hastily condensing it into a thick gray-white bone shield behind it.

boom!

The pure white beam of light slammed into the bone shield, unleashing a muffled, thunderous roar. It was instantly pierced and shattered, but the beam of light, still powerful, pierced deep into the back of the Heavenly Demon Emperor!

"Ugh—"

That day, the Demon Emperor let out a piercing scream as a hole the size of a bowl was pierced through his back, the edges of the wound mangled and the bones shattered. His aura plummeted instantly, his movements froze completely, and his eyes were filled with horror and despair.

"die!"

Lu Yu's eyes flashed with murderous intent. Lin Xuan and Qing Xuanjun also understood, seizing this perfect opportunity to strike simultaneously!

Lin Xuan pointed with his wooden staff, and a seemingly gentle but powerful stream of azure light, containing immense suppressive force, struck the remains of the Heavenly Demon Emperor with tremendous force.

With a wave of his sleeve, Qing Xuanjun unleashed several cyan array patterns that had been secretly laid out, transforming them into incomparably sharp spiritual energy blades that slashed at the vital joints of the Heavenly Demon Emperor from all directions.

Lu Yu spared no effort, wielding the Heavenly Emperor Sword in his left hand to strike again, a condensed sword light aimed straight at the head of the Heavenly Demon Emperor, while the Thunder Prison Floating Pagoda Pearl in his right hand surged with lightning, ready to unleash its power.

Bang!Bang!Bang!

The three attacks landed almost simultaneously on the heavily injured Heavenly Demon Emperor. His already severely damaged demonic body, under the relentless combined assault of the three Saint-level experts, trembled and twisted violently like a tattered sack before finally exploding with a deafening roar!

Just as the demonic body shattered, a phantom-like, ferocious demonic soul, radiating intense resentment, shrieked and attempted to escape into the void.

"Where do you think you're going!"

Lu Yu had anticipated this. A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and with a flick of his finger, a pure white sword light, refined to its extreme, caught up in an instant and precisely pierced the core of the demonic soul.

laugh!

The demonic soul let out a final, unwilling shriek, and vanished completely like a burst bubble.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Yu activated the Thunder Prison Floating Pagoda Pearl, which released a powerful suction force, drawing all the fragments of the demonic body that had not yet completely dissipated and contained pure death essence and resentment into the pearl.

Deep rumbles and mournful howls echoed from within the pearl, indicating that the refining process was far more intense than before.

After about ten breaths, the mouth of the pearl opened slightly and spat out a strange thunder pearl the size of a pigeon egg, dark purple to black in color, covered with thunder patterns, and containing death energy. It was a demonic thunder pearl of the saint-grade level!

"How dare you, you brat!"

Just then, a roar filled with boundless rage and violence suddenly erupted from the cage of light, whose light had clearly dimmed considerably!

The Black Corpse Demon Emperor, trapped inside, witnessed Lu Yu swiftly kill and refine one of his own Demon Emperors, even turning him into a Saint-grade Demon Thunder Pearl. Such actions were tantamount to trampling the dignity of the Corpse Demon Clan and his own face into the ground!

This is an utter disgrace! It cannot be tolerated!

"Give me—break!"

The deathly stillness in the Black Corpse Demon Emperor's dark eyes was completely replaced by a frenzied crimson. He suddenly bit his tongue, spitting out a mouthful of purplish-black demonic blood rich in primal essence.

The demonic blood did not spill; instead, it instantly ignited, transforming into eerie black flames that merged with the boiling death energy and extremely vile corpse water surrounding it.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

With the blessing of the secret technique, the corrosive and impactful power of the death aura and the extremely vile corpse water around him increased several times over!

The cage of light, already under immense pressure and with its light constantly dimming, trembled violently, its walls cracking and groaning under the strain, on the verge of collapsing completely!

The white-robed and black-robed avatars simultaneously groaned, their faces ashen, blood trickling from the corners of their mouths, making it even more difficult to maintain the cage.

At the same time that Lu Yu killed the first Heavenly Demon Emperor, the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor, who was enraged and burning his essence blood.

On another battlefield, Fu Tu Xuan, Tai Ming Lao Zu, and Hei Tian understood each other perfectly and decisively abandoned their defensive stance, instead launching an attack!

Their target is the Heavenly Demon Emperor who is locked in battle with the Black Earth!

The Tai Ming Ancestor's Tai Ling Ancient Map scroll, with its vast spiritual power, transformed into a sky-covering curtain of spiritual light, instantly sealing off the Heavenly Demon Emperor's senses and movements.

Fu Tu Xuan unleashed the black and white energies from the Maha Yin Yang Bottle in his hand, transforming it into a highly condensed beam of light that aimed directly at his vital point.

Hei Tian exerted all his strength, and the dark light on the surface of the Hei Tian Ancient Mirror condensed to its extreme. A silent beam of annihilation light struck first, directly targeting the head of the Heavenly Demon Emperor!

The sudden joint attack by three mid-stage Saint-level experts was incredibly terrifying! The Heavenly Demon Emperor was already locked in a fierce battle with the Black Earth, and caught off guard, how could he possibly withstand it?

"No!"

That day, the Demon Emperor only had time to let out a short, desperate roar before he was completely overwhelmed by the combined power of the three sacred artifacts. His demonic body disintegrated, and his demonic soul was annihilated in the violent energy.

Another Heavenly Demon Emperor has fallen!

At this moment, Lu Yu waved his hand and threw the Thunder Prison Floating Pagoda Pearl, which transformed into a streak of purple-black light and instantly appeared above the remains of the Heavenly Demon Emperor, who had just fallen and had not yet completely dissipated.

The Thunder Prison Floating Pagoda Pearl released a powerful suction force, drawing in all the dense death energy and remaining essence that had escaped. A muffled rumble came from within the pearl, clearly indicating that it was refining "nourishment" for another Heavenly Demon Emperor.

He swept his cold light across the entire area. At this moment, two of the three ordinary Heavenly Demon Emperors of the Corpse Demon Clan were gone, leaving only the last one locked in battle with Maha Ming, but he was clearly showing signs of fear.

The greatest threat, the Black Corpse Demon Emperor, is frantically attacking the Cage of Light and could break free at any moment.

"Keep attacking!"

Lu Yu's eyes turned cold, and the Heavenly Emperor Sword in his hand shone brightly again. With a slight movement, he was about to join forces with Fu Tu Xuan, Tai Ming Ancestor, Hei Tian, ​​Lin Xuan, and Qing Xuan Jun to form an encirclement and kill the last Heavenly Demon Emperor and completely cut off the Black Corpse's wings.

However, the remaining Heavenly Demon Emperor was already terrified by the successive falls of its companions and the roars of the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor. Seeing Lu Yu's gaze sweep over it, and the auras of several Saint-level experts locking onto it, how could it dare to linger in battle?

"withdraw!"

That day, the Demon Emperor roared suddenly, ignoring the attack that followed closely behind from Maha Ming, and took the blow head-on, using the force to retreat violently backward.

At the same time, its body was engulfed in a frenzied burning death energy, transforming into a dense gray stream of light, which turned without looking back towards the rear of the battlefield.

They fled for their lives deep within the territory of the extraterrestrial evil race!

The speed was so fast that it burned a portion of its essence!

"Chase!" Maha Ming instinctively wanted to give chase. He was seething with anger and wanted to vent it on the Heavenly Demon Emperor.

Just then, a loud rumble!

A deafening explosion, far more violent than before, rang out from the location of the cage of light.

Countless fragments of light, mixed with dense death energy and corpse fluid, scattered and splashed everywhere. A figure engulfed in black flames and with an extremely violent aura broke through all obstacles and descended into the scene!

It was none other than the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor, who had forcibly broken free of his seal by burning his life essence and using a secret technique!

At this moment, his face was as pale as a real corpse, but the rage and killing intent burning in his scarlet eyes seemed to burn the entire world to ashes.

The moment he broke free of his seal, his eyes locked onto Lu Yu, and—behind him, the grim-faced Maha Ming.

"The Maha Ancient Clan—Lu Yu—you all must die!"

The hoarse, resentful voice was like a cold wind sweeping through the depths of hell.

Lu Yu's expression turned serious. He knew there was no time to pursue the fleeing Heavenly Demon Emperor. Facing the Black Corpse, whose condition was abnormal and whose strength had surged, he had to go all out.

"There's no time to surround and kill him, let's take care of him first!"

Lu Yu let out a low shout, his figure advancing instead of retreating, facing the overwhelming death aura, his hands flashing across his body like lightning.

Two strange lightning beads, about the size of pigeon eggs, dark purple to black in color, covered with lightning patterns and containing death energy, appeared out of thin air in his palm. They were the Saint-grade Demon Lightning Beads that he had just refined from the two Heavenly Demon Emperors!

These two Demon Thunder Pearls not only contain the life essence and resentful death energy of the two Heavenly Demon Emperors, but have also undergone the extreme compression of the Thunder Prison Pagoda Pearl and repeated tempering by the destructive thunder. The destructive energy sealed within them, once detonated, is enough to pose a fatal threat to a powerhouse at the late stage of the Saint Rank!

"go!"

A fierce glint flashed in Lu Yu's eyes, and without hesitation, he hurled two Saint-grade Demon Lightning Pearls like meteors at the Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor, who was charging towards him with boundless power!

The moment the bead left his hand, he and his two avatars flew backward rapidly.

A hint of disdain flashed in the Black Corpse Demon Emperor's crimson eyes. Although he sensed a threat from the two beads, he was confident that his current power, enhanced by his secret technique, was enough to crush everything!

He extended a bone claw burning with black flames, intending to crush the two "little things" directly.

However, just as his bone claws were about to touch the Demon Lightning Orb, a destructive wave that made his soul tremble suddenly erupted from within the orb!

boom!

A cataclysmic thunderstorm exploded in the void, and the purplish-black destructive light instantly engulfed the Black Corpse Demon Emperor's form. Space silently annihilated, transforming into an absolute void zone with a diameter exceeding ten thousand feet.

Even though they had already retreated, Lu Yu and the others were still shaken by the terrifying aftershocks, causing their blood and qi to churn and their protective spiritual energy to fluctuate violently.

After a dozen or so breaths, the raging energy slowly subsided.

When the blinding lightning dissipated, revealing the core scene, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

The Black Corpse Demon Emperor still stood in mid-air, but his previous overwhelming aura had long since vanished.

The flames around him were completely extinguished, his robes were torn, revealing his charred and broken demonic body. His bone claws were broken off, and there was a shocking gaping hole in his chest, with the flesh and bones around the edges turned to charcoal. His purplish-black demonic blood mixed with death energy continued to dissipate.

Its aura had plummeted to rock bottom, far more listless and chaotic than before the seal was broken.

Those two Saint-grade Demon Lightning Beads just now nearly killed him.

"Now!" A cold glint flashed in Lu Yu's eyes, giving the other party no chance to breathe.

"Suppress the Demon!"

Fu Tu Xuan made the first move. The Maha Yin Yang Bottle was upside down, and the black and white energies transformed into a sky-covering vortex that descended upon the black corpse. The terrifying suppressive power even solidified the void.

"Tai Ling Fu Tian!"

With a wave of his sleeve, the Tai Ming Ancestor unfurled the Tai Ling Ancient Map, and the vast spiritual light transformed into countless chains, crisscrossing and blocking all escape routes.

"Black Sky Annihilation Light!"

The ancient black mirror condensed its eerie light to its extreme, and a silent beam of annihilation light shot out first, directly hitting the head of the Black Corpse Demon Emperor.

Lin Xuan, Qing Xuanjun, Mohe Ming, and others also went all out, unleashing powerful and fierce attacks like a storm, instantly engulfing the heavily injured Black Corpse Heavenly Demon Emperor.

"Cough cough—good—very good!"

At the heart of the energy surge came the hoarse voice of the Black Corpse Demon Emperor, filled with extreme resentment. The voice was like a broken bellows, yet it carried a chilling aura that sent shivers down one's spine.

"Lu Yu—the Maha Ancient Clan—this humiliation you have suffered today will be etched in my memory!"

He suddenly looked up, his scarlet eyes fixed on Lu Yu, as if trying to etch his image into the depths of his soul.

"When I recover, I will personally lead my army of corpse demons to raze your lands to the ground and purify your bloodlines to avenge this day!"

Before he finished speaking, his tattered demonic body suddenly exploded into a thick, impenetrable black blood mist. Within the blood mist, countless vengeful spirits howled, and deathly energy soared to the sky, instantly obscuring the space within tens of thousands of feet. Even the soul power of everyone was briefly blocked.

"Blood Shadow Corpse Escape!"

A sharp whistle came from the blood mist, and a faint, almost imperceptible blood light tore through space at an astonishing speed, rushing madly towards the depths of the extraterrestrial evil race's territory, until in the blink of an eye only a faint glimmer remained on the horizon.

"He's trying to escape!"

Seeing this, Hei Tian immediately activated the ancient mirror, its eerie light locking onto the blood-red ray. "Holy Son Lu Yu, should we pursue him or not? He's severely injured; this is the perfect opportunity to eliminate him completely!"

Lu Yu frowned slightly, his gaze as deep as a still pool as he looked into the depths of the extraterritorial evil race's territory. There, the sky seemed to be soaked in ten thousand years of ink, and even the space itself appeared viscous and chillingly dark.

"No need to chase after it." His voice was low, carrying a hint of barely perceptible gravity. "I sense—something is approaching over there. Its aura is so ominous, it's even more dangerous than the black corpse."

Fu Tu Xuan and Tai Ming Lao Zu's expressions tightened upon hearing this. They knew that Lu Yu's strength was extraordinary, and this statement was by no means unfounded.

An existence more terrifying than the Black Corpse? That would be at least a Heavenly Demon Emperor among the top five in the hierarchy, perhaps even—

In the midst of this tense atmosphere, Lu Yu suddenly turned around and revealed an extremely sincere smile to the pale-faced Maha Ming: "The Maha Ancient Clan deserves the greatest credit for severely injuring the Black Corpse this time!"

His clear voice echoed throughout the battlefield: "The entire clan mobilized to rush to the front lines, using their sacred artifact to fight against a powerful enemy, and even establishing a foothold on the entire ancestral continent. Such a do-or-die spirit truly befits an ancient clan with a history spanning hundreds of thousands of years!"

The soldiers below were initially taken aback, but then suddenly realized and erupted in thunderous cheers: "So that's how it is!"

"What noble character! This is the spirit of the ancient great clans!"

Mahamin's vision went black, and he felt a lump in his throat. He wanted to argue, but no words came out.

Denying it in public? The Maha Ancient Clan would immediately become a laughing stock throughout the entire world!