Chapter 193: Fierce Battle!

Li Yanchu and the other two stood with solemn expressions, their hearts weighed down as if a great mountain was pressing on them.

Suddenly, all of the twisted, grotesque, humanoid demonic monsters began to move. And then, they charged straight toward the Daoist temple hall. A vast, dark mass surged forward like a tide.

The overwhelming stench of demonic and corpse qi filled the air; it was like an army of the dead had been resurrected, a tsunami of corpses.

Seeing this, Zhu Fugui let out a terrified scream, clearly scared out of his wits. His eyes darted around anxiously, clearly looking for an escape route in case things went south.

“Th-the temple can hold out against this many demons... right!?” he muttered.

BOOM!

BOOM!

The monsters relentlessly slammed into the divine light barrier that surrounded the Daoist temple hall. The darkness kept closing in, pressing from all sides. The entire Daoist temple hall began to tremble violently, and dust fell in clouds from above with muffled thuds.

The eternal lamps inside flickered wildly, flames sputtering and ready to go out at any moment. This was the last spark of divine protection left by this Blissful Land for future generations, a shelter amid these ruined lands now crawling with evil... And now, even that sanctuary was on the verge of collapse.

The divine flame... was about to be extinguished!

BOOM!

A dazzling, domineering saber qi tore through the night!

Two of the demonic monsters outside the Daoist temple hall were instantly slain by a single stroke!

+1000 merit points!

+1000 merit points!

Li Yanchu’s eyes were as cold and sharp as lightning. Wielding the Jiaoslayer, he alone stood to guard the palace entrance. Earlier, he had already slain over a dozen demons, earning 13,000 merit points in total! And now, more had come knocking!

“Watch out!” Ding Rou cried out.

She had never seen a man fight with such deadly, overwhelming force. He was majestic and tyrannical, like a god descended from the heavens!

At this moment, Li Yanchu's blood and qi soared like a raging inferno, rising to the sky. With the support of talismanic armor, his strength had surged to its peak. The Jiaoslayer was incomparably sharp, a divine weapon crafted to slay demons and heretics.

BOOM!

Another powerful slash came. The radiant saber qi cleaved a demon clean in half, and its corpse was immediately consumed by flames!

+1000 merit points!

Li Yanchu's eyes burned with battle lust. In this pitch-black night, who knew how many more demons had awakened? If the Daoist temple hall fell, the consequences would be unimaginable! No one knew what might happen next.

Channeling his inner force into the saber, he unleashed a sweeping slash. A crescent-shaped, tyrannical saber qi sliced through the darkness, and three demons were instantly severed at the waist, reduced to ashes and scattered by the heavens.

+3000 merit points!

BOOM!

BOOM!

One dazzling saber slash after another lit up the demonic horde, cutting them down like wheat.

Li Yanchu truly looked like a divine being of the mortal world; his killing aura was unmatched, fierce and unstoppable!

Zhu Fugui was utterly awed by Li Yanchu’s overwhelming might, and he involuntarily took a step back in fear. His eyes were filled with deep wariness.

The surge of pure yang aura radiating from Li Yanchu was so intense, it was hard to even look directly at him.

One crazed figure after another kept crawling out of the ground, relentlessly charging toward the Daoist temple hall. Their twisted, hideous faces made one’s scalp crawl just to look at them.

Li Yanchu's muscles were taut, and his blood and qi were boiling. Each slash of his saber was like a hurricane, tearing these demonic creatures to shreds.

Incredibly, he had forcibly halted the tide of darkness!

The Daoist temple hall remained unbreached by the monsters. In fact, under Li Yanchu’s assault, a temporary clear zone had been carved out in front of the palace.

But before long, more demonic corpses surged forward to fill the space.

BOOM! BOOM!

Tonight, the Blissful Land of Mount Jinting was fated not to be peaceful. From multiple directions came earth-shaking sounds, as if violent battles had broken out all across the area.

Zhu Fugui and Ding Rou were trembling with fear.

Crack! Crack!

On the plaza before the grand hall, the humanoid statues suddenly came to life, and chunks of stone flew together rapidly to reassemble their forms.

A cold, chilling aura radiated from them, and a sense of doom and foreboding filled the air. The demon horde that had been swarming the Daoist hall suddenly began to part, avoiding these eerie humanoid statues like the plague.

They seemed deeply afraid of them; or rather, it was a fear etched into their very bones. Clearly, there was a hierarchy among these demonic beings. The ones crawling out of the ground carried a stronger scent of blood and rot, more like corpses and humans.

But the statues in the plaza were far stranger, as they did not belong in this world.

Is tonight truly a death trap?

Zhu Fugui thought bitterly in horror.

He hadn’t even gotten the chance to enjoy life. If he’d known, he’d have never come to this so-called Daoist Blissful Land.

Blissful Land?

This place was more like a living hell!

Ding Rou also felt her hands and feet grow cold. Facing a demonic tide like this, not everyone has the courage to look it in the eye. And this was just the ruin of a place already long destroyed over millennia. One could only wonder what kind of unspeakable horror the ancient sages here had once faced.

Yet amid this terror, there was one man who stood unmoved, Li Yanchu! This man... was bold to his core.

“Three parts destiny, seven parts effort, and the remaining seventy percent? Fight your way through!” He was the kind who would just charge straight through the storm. “Come on! You vile, sinister demons, today I’ll scatter your souls into oblivion!”

Li Yanchu’s voice roared like thunder, his gaze sharp as lightning. His blood and qi surged again, and his battle intent boiled over.

The talismanic armor, a sacred Daoist artifact, radiated pure yang and lightning-fire aura, warding off evil and protecting the body. And the thrice-enhanced Jiaoslayer was a true weapon of slaughter.

Li Yanchu channeled his qi into the saber and struck down with full force. The humanoid statues lunged at him, just in time to meet his saber qi head-on. The scorching, razor-sharp, and domineering saber qi shattered the first five statues on impact.

+2000 merit points!

+2000 merit points!

These statues were clearly far stronger than the demonic creatures from before. Yet with a single strike, Li Yanchu earned 10,000 merit points.

He’s so ferocious!?

Zhu Fugui's eyes widened in disbelief, gulping hard.

Ding Rou’s beautiful eyes flickered with a strange light, her breathing suddenly quickened.

Then, right in front of their stunned gazes, Li Yanchu raised his saber and charged forward! A dazzling divine radiance flared from his weapon, smashing two more demons to pieces.

+1000 merit points! +1000 merit points!

The Eight Trigrams Mirror...

BOOM

! Now thrice enhanced, the mirror was capable of physically shattering demon bodies, not just attacking their souls. It was a tool for banishing evil and repelling misfortune!

Li Yanchu radiated a terrifying killing aura, blazing like a furnace in the pitch-black night. With the Eight Trigrams Mirror in his left hand and the Jiaoslayer in his right, he stood tall, like a Daoist war god reborn.

He actually carved a bloody path through the demonic horde, all by himself. He possessed the might of a lone warrior holding a pass, fending off ten thousand enemies!

Amid the ruins of this once-holy Daoist Blissful Land, he shone like a beacon, exuding a fearless momentum that stood tall before unfathomable terror. His presence was fierce and unstoppable.

BOOM! BOOM!

One after another, scorching saber qi rampaged through the darkness, and not a single demon could withstand even one strike from Li Yanchu.v All were reduced to ash, forcibly expelled by the power of this world!

“Come on!” Li Yanchu laughed wildly. “With pitiful skills like yours, you dare set foot in a Daoist Blissful Land?”

His eyes burned with undisguised contempt.

So arrogant!

𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Zhu Fugui looked on in shock. Li Yanchu, like a living god of war, was shaking him to the core. He was defiant and unyielding, and he alone had halted the entire black tide of demons, keeping the Daoist temple hall untouched!