Chapter 381: The Celestial Demon Indestructible Body!? The Nine-Times enhanced Jiaoslayer! Fellow Daoist, Have Mercy!

Madam Bai was stalled for only a moment, but in that instant, Li Yanchu had already caught up while riding the clouds.

ROAR

!

Five blazing dragons lunged down from the heavens, the air around them twisting under the heat.

𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

The Five-Dragon Wheel!

Madam Bai struck out with her Sea of Agony divine power, binding the five fire dragons within her surging sea of blood. But then...

ROAR! ROAR! ROAR! ROAR!

Four ferocious beastly phantoms appeared out of thin air, They were filled with tyrannical aura and killing might.

They encircled Madam Bai from four directions, their forces interlinking faintly and forming a natural grand formation.

Gasp

!

Madam Bai drew in a sharp breath, her expression darkening.

“Baxia... Chaofeng... Yazi... Suan Ni!?”

Her eyes widened in disbelief as she looked toward Li Yanchu.

How could this young Daoist possibly summon the phantoms of the Four Ferocious Beasts!?

Rumble

! The ground quaked violently.

At this time, Madam Bai was completely surrounded, and her fierce demonic aura was forcibly suppressed as she unleashed waves of dense magical power to battle against the encircling beasts.

BOOM!

A dazzling thundercloud exploded into being above them. It was the Lightning Pool Sand! The pure yang artifact, now fully unsealed, erupted with unparalleled power.

Boundless lightning and fire poured down from the skies, whirling into a tempestuous maelstrom that swallowed Madam Bai whole. Lightning crackled, and thunder boomed like the heavens splitting open. The deafening roars seemed to grind the very soul, as if one’s three spirits and seven souls were being crushed over and over upon a heavenly millstone.

In an instant, a third-realm Yang Spirit cultivator was trapped completely.

KRA-KOOM!

The thunder exploded once more, its roar shaking heaven and earth.

A mouthwatering smell of roasted meat wafted through the mountains as Madam Bai’s body had been blasted open. With her skin split and her flesh charred black, her clothes were burned entirely to ash.

Truly, a cultivator who had condensed her Yang Spirit was terrifyingly powerful. Even under the joint assault of the Lightning Pool Sand and the Four Ferocious Beasts, she still managed to forcibly hold her physical form together!

Li Yanchu seized the opening, and his body flashed forward, closing the distance in an instant. Immediately, he raised his Jiaoslayer, bringing it down hard on her.

Caught completely off guard, the mysterious pulse of the divine law within the saber almost shook her very spirit out of her body!

Squelch!

A savage gash split across Madam Bai’s torso from her left shoulder down to her right hip, nearly cleaving her in two. The wound was deep enough to expose bone! To her, it was utter humiliation!

Since achieving her Yang Spirit and stepping into the third realm, when had she ever suffered such degradation? First the Four Ferocious Beasts besieged her, then she was scorched by divine lightning and sand, and now she had been brutally hacked apart by this Daoist’s saber.

From the moment she was stunned into confusion, to now, when she finally regained her wits, rage and shame boiled together within her chest. Overwhelmed by fury, Madam Bai suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood!

Whoosh!

The blood shot out like a bursting arrow, thick with yin qi and blood essence, hurtling straight toward Li Yanchu’s face. It was way too fast to be dodged!

BOOM!

Then, the blood arrow exploded. At such close range, Li Yanchu was engulfed by the blast. The blood essence of a Yang Spirit cultivator carried immense destructive force, laced with countless curses capable of corroding both body and soul.

But Li Yanchu neither dodged nor flinched, relying on his indomitable flesh and the protection of Daoist talisman armor, he endured the full impact of the explosion head-on. The Divine Dao valued courage and ferocity, so his choice to advance instead of retreat perfectly aligned with the will of the Divine Dao.

With ferocious momentum, he surged forward again and swung his Jiaoslayer down repeatedly, each strike drawing a pained grunt from Madam Bai.

Crack! Crunch!

Her bones shattered, and her flesh split open. If not for her Yang Spirit forcibly sustaining her body, she would have been hacked into hundreds of mangled pieces!

Madam Bai stared at Li Yanchu in disbelief, how could he still be alive after taking the blast of her cursed blood arrow? How could he so easily cut through her Celestial Demon Indestructible Body!?

Unable to accept the truth, she forced herself to believe it was because she’d been sealed by the Daoist formation for so long that her magical power dried up, thus her cursed blood arrow and Celestial Demon Indestructible Body had lost much of their power.

That Celestial Demon Indestructible Body was an ancient, tyrannical divine art, able to negate damage for a brief moment, granting near-absolute defense.

Yet this young Daoist had wounded her again and again!

“This shouldn’t be possible!” Madam Bai’s brows furrowed deeply.

Li Yanchu also frowned. There was something strange about her body; it was like hacking at solid iron, his strikes barely bit through!

He shifted his stance, and behind him, Baxia, Yazi, Chaofeng, and Suan Ni, the Four Ferocious Beasts, roared once more before closing in around Madam Bai from all directions!

At the same time, two streaks of crimson sword light swept in relentlessly. The Flying Smoke Swords!

“Decree of Bestowal!”

Li Yanchu’s divine sense surged, mimicking the tides of the Great Dao within his mind, as he enhanced the Jiaoslayer.

- 6,000 merit points!

Mysterious runes shimmered across the saber, its edge growing impossibly sharp.

Still not enough!?

“Decree of Bestowal!”

- 7,000 merit points!

“Decree of Bestowal!”

- 8,000 merit points!

The empowerment of a sealed artifact wasn’t as explosively strong as the Five-Lightning Talisman, but it lasted far longer, as it was no mere consumable.

With that, Li Yanchu enhanced the Jiaoslayer nine times in a row.

BOOM!

Madam Bai roared, flaring her magical power and blasting apart the Four Ferocious Beasts’ manifestations. Their figures scattered into streams of divine light that returned to the sacred wooden token.

“You’re just a mere second-realm cultivator, you’re overestimating yourself. You think you can duel

me

? You’re courting death!” Madam Bai’s eyes glinted with venomous hatred, her voice as cold as ice.

She surged her remaining magical power, gathering every last shred of her strength for a final, decisive blow. If she didn’t kill this young Daoist now, then with her current weakened state, she would inevitably fall here and perish, body and spirit alike!

Before she could recover her full power, death was already closing in.

A strange, ominous pulse rippled through the air around her. The heavens dimmed, and the earth lost color. From above the sea of clouds, a pillar of light descended, bringing with it a suffocating, sinister pressure!

The bloody sea surrounding Madam Bai churned cold and heavy, thick with the stench of resentment and despair. Her aura surged higher and higher, and...

Clang!

The Jiaoslayer in Li Yanchu’s hand rang out with a clear, resounding dragon’s cry, its saber-light blazing like lightning, its aura razor-sharp and unstoppable.

Madam Bai frowned slightly.

What’s going on!?

Li Yanchu’s gaze gleamed like cold lightning, his killing intent overflowing.

“Let’s see just how tough the flesh of a third-realm cultivator really is!” His voice thundered across the mountains like a sky-splitting roar.

Though her divine sense was keen beyond measure, Madam Bai felt a sudden surge of pure instinctual terror. Her skin prickled, and her hair stood on end. In an instant, the saber was already upon her!

Li Yanchu charged forward in great strides with his Jiaoslayer sweeping horizontally. Before long, the cold edge slashed clean across her throat!

Squelch!

The saber bit deep, cleaving straight through. Even the short moment of invulnerability granted by the Celestial Demon Indestructible Body couldn’t withstand the power of the Jiaoslayer enhanced nine times!

The dazzling arc of the saber didn’t just rip her flesh apart; it carried a strange and terrible resonance, shattering her body entirely into fine ash and dust.

A streak of light shot out from the explosion: it was her Yang Spirit! That was why third-realm experts were so hard to kill; even many great demons subdued by righteous cultivators had merely been suppressed, not destroyed. For once one condensed a Yang Spirit, it became incredibly dense and almost indestructible, that was a universal truth in the cultivation world.

But today, Madam Bai saw with her own eyes that this young Daoist’s saber could cut through even the Yang Spirit itself!

Back then, that Daoist in Wei City had exhausted countless schemes and resources, laying the mighty Southern Vermilion Bird Fire Virtue Formation, borrowing divine flame from mythical fire artifacts and the fire of the earth’s lungs, just to barely manage to seal her away. Yet, this young Daoist was about to destroy her outright!

“Fellow Daoist, spare me! I’m willing to serve under your tutelage, to attend by your side, please, give me a chance to live!”

In her desperation to survive, Madam Bai humbled herself utterly, her voice trembling with false submission.

At the same time, she quietly invoked her enchantment technique, and a subtle, invisible enchantment that crept toward Li Yanchu’s heart. But it was useless, as his will was like iron and stone. He showed no hesitation, no mercy.

He then brought his saber down again!

BOOM

!

Just then, a searing crimson beam streaked in from the distant horizon, hot and blazing like molten iron. It collided head-on with Li Yanchu’s descending saber!

The impact burst outward like a mushroom cloud, and a deafening roar shook heaven and earth. From within the storm of light and fire, a black mist emerged, thick with malice, grief, and every shade of negative emotion.