Chapter 575: A Divine Dao Shadow! The Twelve-Armed Demon God! The Fire Virtue Star Lord Descends! A Saint’s Calligraphy!

It was a vague divine silhouette, towering in stature, with twelve arms.

“Divine Dao?”

Li Yanchu bent his legs slightly, his muscles coiling tight. In the next instant, he turned into an afterimage and appeared directly before Prince Qing’s heir.

Divine Dao or Demonic Dao, whatever it was, Prince Qing’s heir had to be slain today!

The towering divine shadow behind him mirrored his movements, chopping down with a blade swiftly and domineeringly.

Drawn‑Blade Art!

This strike carried a one-hundred-percent critical force, even more powerful than his strongest attack.

Then, Prince Qing’s heir swung the Nightshock Spear to meet it head-on. At this moment, several wounds split open across the Elephant Demon Divine Body. Dark-golden blood flowed out, forming a stark contrast with the bright red blood from before.

At the same time, Prince Qing’s heir’s gaze turned cold. His temperament grew ever more ruthless and detached.

“The Martial Dao Immortal must be slain!” Prince Qing’s heir shouted coldly as his aura surged to its peak in an instant.

Shhhk!

Relying on the Elephant Demon divine shadow, he actually transformed into a twelve-armed demon god radiating terrifying pressure. Truly, he looked ferocious and majestic.

In his hands were a Demonslayer Pestle and a Soul-Summoning Bell. In the remaining palms were enormous eyeballs. They were utterly sinister, giving off an extremely complex aura. It contained divine Dao energy, demonic qi, and the monstrous qi of the Elephant Demon all at once!

The moment this terrifying figure appeared, the young celestial maiden frowned once more. This form bore some resemblance to the True Demons recorded in her family’s ancient texts...

“What exactly is this person? Could he be a True Demon reincarnated?”

Her heart sank. Reincarnated beings like this were the most troublesome of all! Once their memories of past lives awakened, their strength would recover with frightening speed, especially True Demons which were extremely difficult to deal with, and masters of countless secrets.

Thus, in this era where the Great Dao had been severed, reincarnated existences were exceedingly terrifying!

Li Yanchu, however, felt little in particular. He had seen far too many aberrations already.

From evil demons invading blessed lands and cave heavens, to ancient taboos, to all manner of bizarre primordial spirit manifestations, creatures from the

Classic of Mountains and Seas

...

So the appearance of such a demon god stirred little in his heart.

“You Daoist brat, even if you are a Martial Dao Immortal, I’ll still defeat you!” Prince Qing’s heir spoke coldly. And what was even more bizarre was that a mixture of male and female voices emerged from within him.

The first time Li Yanchu had ever heard such a voice was in his previous life, when watching

A Chinese Ghost Story

, the Tree Demon Granny had spoken like that, leaving him deeply unsettled.

Hearing Prince Qing’s heir produce the same kind of voice now, Li Yanchu’s brows immediately knit together.

“A demon immortal and this kind of aberration too... no wonder you’re a piece of trash fit only to crawl in the gutter!” Li Yanchu’s tone was icy, laced with mockery.

“Bastard!” Prince Qing’s heir flew into a rage. From the demonic eye in his palm burst a blinding beam of light that shot straight toward Li Yanchu.

Li Yanchu withdrew his Martial Dao Manifestation and activated the Fire Virtue True Lord Command Talisman. A pillar of divine fire soared skyward, blocking those rays of light.

Immediately after, within the Shanhai Secret Realm, everyone witnessed a scene that filled them with terror. A towering figure appeared, its feet treading upon a fire dragon. It had three heads and six arms!

Yet in its hands were the Heaven-Illuminating Seal, the Five-Dragon Wheel, the Ten Thousand Crows Urn, the Cloudpiercer, and the Flying Smoke Sword. In total, it had five divine artifacts, and fire dragons coiled about it. Enveloped in flames that filled the heavens, it radiated overwhelming sanctity.

“A nobody like you think you can contend with me?!”

Li Yanchu stepped forward with one foot, and the divine flames filling the sky surged straight toward Prince Qing’s heir. The divine Dao aura on the heir’s body was completely suppressed by Li Yanchu. No matter how grand his background or origins, they could not surpass the Fire Virtue Star Lord.

His heart sank, then he hurled out the Nightshock Spear together with the divine abilities and artifacts in his hands.

On Li Yanchu’s side, he mobilized countless fire crows, fire dragons, and blazing arrows and radiance, bombarding Prince Qing’s heir.

Rumble! Rumble!

The entire expanse of heaven and earth was set ablaze. The divine abilities of both sides erupted with terrifying destructive force. Within a radius of ten li, the land was transformed into a sea of molten lava.

The Fire Virtue Star Lord was a righteous god of the Celestial Court, possessing boundless divine power. What Li Yanchu had summoned now was the Fire Virtue Star Lord’s Dharma form, naturally capable of suppressing Prince Qing’s heir.

When it came to backing and trump cards, Li Yanchu had never been afraid of anyone.

The powerful force within Prince Qing’s heir collapsed at the first touch. Before the higher-tier Fire Virtue Star Lord, it could only retreat into concealment!

At this moment, Prince Qing’s heir’s gaze also returned to clarity. His consciousness had not yet been replaced by memories of a past life.

Once those past-life memories completely took over, Prince Qing’s heir, Chen Ze, would no longer exist, and his former self would return in full.

For now, he had not realized this. In truth, the very act of cultivating the Celestial Demon Transformation Technique was itself the process of recovering memories from a previous life.

Tragically, the Chen Ze of this lifetime was also steadily fading during that process.

He looked up at the Fire Virtue Star Lord’s Dharma form in the sky, filled with astonishment. He knew that this young Daoist was absolutely not someone he could contend with. Even if he had stepped into the third realm, with his cultivation still unstable, he did not possess the qualifications to fight this young man at all.

Damn it... just what kind of background does this young Daoist have?

Prince Qing’s heir cursed inwardly.

Then he turned and fled. Transforming into a streak of light, he shot toward the heavens!

The Fire Virtue Star Lord’s Dharma form drew a bow and loosed an arrow. A streak of light cut across the sky, instantly burning a line of fire through the firmament!

Boom!

Then, Prince Qing’s heir’s body crashed straight to the ground. The power within him was eroded by that tyrannical divine fire, and even his Elephant Demon divine body was dissipating. If not for a chill surge of power transmitted from the Nightshock Spear in his hand, he might already have had his fleshly body completely refined away.

As a divine weapon forged from a fallen star beyond the heavens, the Nightshock Spear possessed extremely mysterious power. One could even say it surpassed the majority of powerful magical artifacts. Especially after inheriting the demon immortal legacy, it carried the immense might of a demon immortal.

At this moment, it was also sheltering this successor of the demon immortal.

Prince Qing’s heir once again transformed into a streak of light and fled! However, Li Yanchu drew his bow and loosed another arrow, shooting him straight back down.

Prince Qing’s heir was filled with unwillingness. Though he had many trump cards in hand, in terms of sheer killing power, none matched the Nightshock Spear.

His heart pounded as he calculated frantically, then he took out a calligraphy slip. On it was written a single large character:

Escape!

This was a Confucian calligraphy talisman. Once torn apart, it could unleash that mysterious power unique to the Confucian school.

𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Prince Qing’s heir was himself well-versed in escape techniques. Yet taking out this calligraphy slip now served another purpose. This slip had been written by a great Confucian expert. Once activated, it allowed instantaneous relocation across ten thousand li, while also erasing all traces and marks upon one’s body. It was an item meant purely for self-preservation and saving one’s life.

With a thought, he was just about to tear it apart, but in the very next second, his hand suddenly felt empty. The calligraphy slip had actually fallen away!!!

“Huh?!” Prince Qing’s heir froze on the spot.

He had never expected something like this to happen at such a critical moment. He reached out to grab it, but the calligraphy slip vanished directly in midair. Prince Qing’s heir was utterly baffled, unable to understand what had just occurred.

But at this moment, the Fire Virtue Star Lord’s Dharma form was still pursuing him from behind. That terrifying divine fire burned the entire heaven and earth into a hazy blur.