Chapter 1679: Shattered
Raising the Magic Wand Sigh Seed, Bai Jin unleashed a surge of magic power, creating a strong fluctuation that instantly blasted Bar away.
Gathering the flying magic surrounding her, Bai Jin swiftly dove downward, putting distance between herself and Bar.
Bar didn’t pause due to Bai Jin’s magic burst; his eerie form slid through the air, black flames shooting from his back to form a black fire wheel.
Gathering excess black magic, Bar thrust forward with the trident, which transformed into a sharp black long spear.
The fist-sized black flames turned into basketball-sized meteoric flames, rushing toward Bai Jin.
Chanting magic facing Bar, a strong wind flapped the magic robe, wrapping Bai Jin’s body, as basketball-sized crimson flames shot out from the magic array, fiercely colliding with the black flames, triggering intense fiery waves.
Bar accelerated abruptly, drawing a black trajectory and arrived in front of Bai Jin in the blink of an eye.
Taking advantage of Bai Jin’s lack of time to prepare defense magic, Bar thrust the spear toward Bai Jin.
In a critical moment, a golden shield rose around Bai Jin, enclosing her in protection.
The black long spear created by Bar couldn’t pierce through the shield in one go, only sparking black sparks against the golden shield.
Another gleaming light arrow sliced through the sky, suddenly disappearing, then appearing before Bar in the blink of an eye.
Bar couldn’t dodge; Iyas’s light arrow penetrated straight through his chest.
"Crack" sounded, Bai Jin could hear the sound of something breaking.
Even with his chest pierced, Bar acted as if nothing happened, with the sharp black long spear pressing against Bai Jin’s protective shield, pushing it downward.
Bar clicked his tongue softly:
"An attack from the goddess’ favored?
Truly nostalgic.
With the ability to resurrect countless times, faced with unavoidable attacks, choosing to withstand them, maintaining suppression power...
A bit overconfident. I must be more cautious.
Whose fragment was broken..."
Murmuring self-talk reached Bai Jin’s ears, she felt Bar’s words were incoherent, yet sensed he inadvertently revealed some crucial information.
Broken...
What exactly was broken?
Bai Jin recalled the discussions among Yang Yu and others regarding dealing with demons.
The demon’s demon gathering core must be destroyed to completely eliminate the demon.
But people in the past searched the entire world without finding many demon gathering cores.
The people in the past had superb technical ability, unlikely to overlook things.
Yang Yu speculated demons might hide their core within their bodies.
However, if demons did hide the core in their bodies, after defeating Marbas, they should have obtained a similar item, but nothing was acquired.
The Demon Gathering Core is the true lifeline of demons.
Destroying the Demon Gathering Core prevents the demon’s resurrection; they’ll have only one life and vanish completely upon death.
If there’s a way to control the demon core, could this trade for the demon’s loyalty?
If there’s a way to hide the core in an area inaccessible to demons, with a method to destroy these cores at any time, could this exchange for absolute loyalty from all demons?
Understanding Bar’s mention of "Broken" enlightened Bai Jin.
Demons themselves are composed of fallen magic power; destroying the Demon Gathering Core within is an effortless task.
No doubt, Bar defeated other demons and obtained their cores, hiding them within himself, exchanging for their absolute loyalty.
Realizing this, Bai Jin understood an extremely horrifying fact.
Hero Lox’s partner, Catastrophe Witch Misha, assisted the Curse Sect in summoning the demon Beelzebub.
Summoned Beelzebub, upon intelligence leak, was killed by Hero Lox.
Hundreds of years later, Demon Beelzebub reconnected with the Curse Sect, arriving in this world through the Abyss Gate, sealed by magic left by his father, ultimately purified by the Goddess Sect.
This means, even across different regions, as long as the Demon Gathering Core exists, demons will inevitably resurrect.
Much like the Devil King’s Power returning to the Demon World, the magic forming demons is attracted by the Demon Gathering Core, eventually forming demons.
If all demons’ Demon Gathering Cores were within Bar, failure to defeat Bar here and destroy all Demon Gathering Cores would result in demons slain in the abyss resurrecting one by one from his body, descending into this world.
The situation suddenly became dire.
Reflecting on demons, Bai Jin didn’t think demons that cooperated in breaking the resurrection device would obediently follow orders to kill the goddess.
Once demons lose restraints, they’ll undoubtedly bring profound suffering to this land.
The only good news is that the demons need time to arrive in this world in that manner.
Bar’s black magic gradually began corrupting the golden shield protecting Bai Jin, piercing the shield with the black long spear was merely a matter of time.
Iyas drew his bow, the gleaming light arrow again sliced through the sky, aiming straight at Bar.
Unique black magic flared on Bar’s body; he wouldn’t make the same mistake twice.
Light and dark counter each other; strong light can dispel darkness, and strong darkness can equally consume light.
Activating the pulsating black magic on his body, transforming into a shield, Bar prepared adequately, ready to face Iyas’s light arrows.
To his surprise, Iyas’s launched light arrows had no intention of clashing directly.
Connecting consciousness to the light arrow, Iyas maneuvered the arrow around Bar’s black shield, exploding nearby Bar with a roar.
The dispersing light mist rapidly wove into a Holy Light Formation, descending sacred light, instantly immobilizing Bar in place.
Bai Jin continued her descent, emerging from the shield burning with black flames, preparing magic while attempting to contact Yang Yu.
Telepathy was not yet connected, nor did Bai Jin confirm Yang Yu’s location; clusters of blackness erupted from Bar like surging spring water, instantly submerging the [Holy Light Restriction].
Bar broke free from the restraint!
"Similar skills, I’ve seen plenty, won’t suffer from such skills.
The only surprise is the mode of Holy Light release.
Truly unique."
Bar’s voice echoed skyward, his figure vanished tracelessly, at the next moment, surrounding magic seemingly solidified, fixating Bai Jin mid-air.
Her magic power and stamina inexplicably depleted rapidly, foreboding premonition overwhelmed Bai Jin.
In the next moment, Demon Bar’s silhouette appeared before her without warning, thrusting the long spear towards her chest again.
"Crack" sounded, blood splattered.
A figure shielded Bai Jin, the black long spear pierced through the shield he held, scraped across his hand, leaving a trail of dark red blood on his cheek.
Using [Protective Assistance Charge] for repositioning, Yang Yu arrived in front of Bai Jin, shielding her from the strike with a shield.