Chapter 588: Demon Blade! The Blood-Malevolent qi of Fifty Thousand Humans! Thanks to Green Lion Crown Prince for the Gift!

“Who are you?” Green Lion Crown Prince shouted coldly.

Before Li Yanchu could answer, he opened his mouth and spat out a beam of golden divine light. This guy clearly didn’t believe in fair play!

Blood and qi surged from Li Yanchu, billowing skyward like wolf smoke. He swung his palm forward, and a gigantic palm imprint, over five meters tall, slammed straight ahead.

Boom!

With a thunderous crash, the golden palm imprint collided head-on with the divine light, erupting in a blinding burst of radiance.

Green Lion Crown Prince narrowed his eyes, only to see a young man carrying a blade burst out from within the light.

With his gaze icy cold, his blade rose and fell in a single motion. It was as if he had appeared out of thin air right in front of him.

Green Lion Crown Prince immediately mobilized his magic power, forming defenses before his body. Having cultivated for a thousand years and attained enlightenment as a demon immortal, he was at the peak of his combat strength.

Boom!

Several layers of magically constructed shields shattered instantly. As Li Yanchu’s blade light descended, Green Lion Crown Prince executed an Teleportation Arts, barely evading at the last moment.

“There’s something strange about that blade!” Green Lion Crown Prince’s heart sank.

Had he chosen to fight head-on just now, he would likely already have been cut down beneath this young man’s blade. He opened his mouth and spat out a long saber of bizarre, demonic shape. The saber was roughly a meter and a half long. Its blade was blood-red, resembling a Fusang katana[1].

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Green Lion Crown Prince slashed downward with a single strike. A ferocious blood-colored monster surfaced from the blade, lunging toward Li Yanchu in a killing charge!

Roar!

A wave of icy, sinister energy instantly enveloped him. This blade had been refined through blood sacrifice using the lives of the human race; it was a true demon saber. Its malevolent qi was overwhelmingly heavy.

Holding the demon blade, Green Lion Crown Prince closed the distance to Li Yanchu in an instant. However, astral qi appeared before Li Yanchu. Not only did it block the saber’s radiance, it even transformed the malevolent qi within into pure astral qi of his own.

Sensing the loss of malevolent qi from within the blade, Green Lion Crown Prince couldn’t help but frown. He suddenly swept the saber horizontally toward Li Yanchu’s waist, determined to cut the young man in half with a single strike.

But in the next instant, Li Yanchu vanished without a trace. A sharp tearing sound rang out behind Green Lion Crown Prince as dazzling blade light descended.

Green Lion Crown Prince abruptly transformed into a streak of azure light and fled. A deep fissure appeared on the ground, extending straight ahead for two to three

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Green Lion Crown Prince’s gaze turned cold. The bizarre long saber in his hand spun, tracing arcs of blade light. Amid the piercing sounds of tearing air, three blood-colored monsters appeared. These were Blood Phantoms condensed from blood-malevolent qi.

One must refine ten thousand people to produce a single Blood Phantom. During the refinement process, Green Lion Crown Prince had even failed once. In total, fifty thousand humans were sacrificed to forge this demon blade!

The blood-malevolent qi struck Li Yanchu. A divine light flashed through Li Yanchu’s mind, shielding him from being affected by the murderous aura that resembled a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

At the same time, the astral qi around his body formed an invisible barrier. While resisting Green Lion Crown Prince’s demonic aura, it also refined the malevolent qi.

A flicker of joy rose in his heart. He had once tried absorbing spirit qi here before, but he discovered that within Shituo City, he was unable to absorb even the slightest trace of spirit qi. Slaying demons also brought no merit points whatsoever. The demon blade in Green Lion Crown Prince’s hand was the only source of power he could absorb!

For ordinary cultivators, having no source of power and being unable to absorb spirit qi was utterly fatal. Because in a battle of techniques, if you could ensure a constant recovery of spiritual energy, once your spirit power was exhausted, the outcome was death and the destruction of the Dao. Even the manifestation of a primordial spirit avatar was no exception!

Yet Green Lion Crown Prince had delivered a demon blade brimming with blood-malevolent qi like an ocean.

Li Yanchu controlled the Eight Trigrams Mirror with his Telekinetic Command, sending a beam of divine light toward Green Lion Crown Prince.

Green Lion Crown Prince immediately let out a scream, and even the azure light protecting his body failed to block the scorching divine radiance of the Eight Trigrams Mirror.

It struck directly at his primordial spirit, plunging his vision into darkness, and in the next instant, Li Yanchu was already in front of him.

Vast surges of blood and qi poured into the Jiaoslayer, and behind him appeared a towering phantom figure. It was his Martial Dao manifestation. Its aura blazed like a tyrannical and overwhelming great sun.

He slashed down with a single strike so swiftly that Green Lion Crown Prince had no time to escape using a Teleportation Arts. He could only raise the demon blade high above his head to block.

Clang!

A sound like a great bell and ancient chime resounded between heaven and earth. Although this demon blade drew its power from the lives of tens of thousands of humans, its material was nowhere near comparable to heavenly artifacts like the Nightshock Spear!

Naturally, it could not withstand a treasure worth a hundred thousand merit points like the Jiaoslayer. With a single strike, the demon blade was severed. The four blood-colored monsters seemed to lose all restraints at once, and a dense surge of blood-malevolent qi erupted outward.

Li Yanchu slammed his palm into Green Lion Crown Prince’s chest. The overwhelmingly violent blood and qi blasted Green Lion Crown Prince’s body straight into a deep crater!

Li Yanchu shaped the astral qi before him into a massive barrier. The surrounding blood-malevolent qi was continuously drawn in and absorbed by him.

“Bastard! My demon blade!” Green Lion Crown Prince roared in fury.

The physiques of the demon race were naturally savage, especially since his father was a true demon immortal. His own body was even more formidable.

At this moment, he rose from the crater, transforming into a streak of azure light as he smashed toward Li Yanchu. He had seen it clearly: the astral qi surrounding this young man could refine his blood-malevolent qi!

So all the painstaking work he put into crafting this demon blade would be for someone else to reap the rewards?!

𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

“Go!” Li Yanchu shouted coldly.

A streak of flowing light shot forth before it slammed heavily into the space before Green Lion Crown Prince.

Green Lion Crown Prince gathered his hands, condensing a barrier of magical shields to block the streak of light. Yet to his horror, he discovered that the flowing light had already pierced more than half a chi into the shield.

It was none other than the Jiaoslayer in Li Yanchu’s hand. The Jiaoslayer was a hundred-thousand-merit-points treasure, and it possessed its own spiritual intelligence as well as could fight autonomously. Now transformed into a streak of light, it sought to behead Green Lion Crown Prince!

The Eight Trigrams Mirror was unwilling to be outdone, and a beam of divine radiance fell upon Green Lion Crown Prince.

This time, Green Lion Crown Prince was prepared. A faint azure qi burst forth from his primordial spirit, blocking the Eight Trigrams Mirror’s attack.

But immediately afterward, a massive fist slammed heavily into his body.

Boom!

Green Lion Crown Prince was sent flying. Though this punch lacked the overwhelming ferocity of Li Yanchu’s earlier palm strike, it still carried pure yang power, which exerted tremendous suppression over demonic energy.

He turned his head to look, and a figure clad in golden armor stood frozen in the posture of throwing a punch.

It was the Daoist talismanic armor. This talismanic armor had been enhanced by Li Yanchu to the hundred-thousand-merit-points level and already possessed rudimentary consciousness. In a sense, it could be considered an external incarnation.

The talismanic armor, together with the Eight Trigrams Mirror and the Jiaoslayer—three hundred-thousand-merit-points divine objects—blocked Green Lion Crown Prince’s path.

Li Yanchu urged the astral qi before him, continuously devouring the blood-malevolent qi. An eerie connection formed between it and the demon blade.

The blood-malevolent qi was refined by his astral qi into pure astral qi, endlessly strengthening it.

Green Lion Crown Prince transformed into a streak of light and charged forward. Yet once again, he was intercepted by the Jiaoslayer!

Indeed, the weapon reflected the person who wielded it. The Jiaoslayer’s speed was astonishingly fast. Its razor-sharp blade light left Green Lion Crown Prince in constant distress!

Li Yanchu’s blood and qi was vast like an ocean, and his physical body was exceedingly powerful.

Refining this sea-like tide of malevolent qi with his astral qi was effortless. Very quickly, his astral qi broke through to an exceptionally formidable realm!

1. A country which was named Fusang was described by the native Buddhist missionary Huishen (慧深, Huìshēn), also variously romanized as Hui Shen, Hoei-sin, and Hwai Shan. In his record dated to AD 499 during China's Northern and Southern dynastic period, he describes Fusang as a place which is located 20,000 Chinese li to the east of Dahan, and it is also located to the east of China (according to Joseph Needham, Dahan corresponds to the Buriat region of Siberia). ☜