Chapter 364 - 360: Who Can Contend?
"Trying to leave now? It’s too late!"
A faint voice came from behind, making the Sun and Moon Old Demon’s eyes nearly pop from their sockets. His soul nearly fled his body in terror!
He was scared!
He was utterly and completely terrified!
He had thought that no matter how strong Hong Yu was, he could never withstand the attack of the Heart-devouring Ghost. But now...
His most proficient technique, his greatest trump card, had become a great supplement for Hong Yu to increase his strength. How could the Sun and Moon Old Demon not be afraid?
He tried to flee at his fastest speed.
Unfortunately for him...
Hong Yu’s Spiritual Power was already at the Mid-stage Primordial Core Realm. After his Heaven-Swallowing Divine Technique devoured the Heart-devouring Ghost, his Spiritual Power rose again, directly reaching the Late-stage Realm of the Primordial Core Realm.
With his Spiritual Power at the Late-stage Primordial Core Realm, the number of frozen stars within his eyes increased by another thousand, reaching a total of four thousand.
More importantly, after devouring the Heart-devouring Ghost, Hong Yu discovered that his Pupil Technique: Enchanted City had mutated.
And now, with an excellent test subject like the Sun and Moon Old Demon right here, it was the perfect opportunity to test the extent of his mutated Pupil Technique.
How could Hong Yu let this chance slip away?
"Pupil Technique—Enchanted City!"
Hong Yu spoke softly.
A beam of orchid-blue light shot out, as fast as lightning. Even the Sun and Moon Old Demon couldn’t dodge it, and it entered his body directly.
"Urgh!"
The Sun and Moon Old Demon shuddered violently.
A vacant look filled his eyes...
Everything before him underwent a tremendous change.
The green mountains and clear waters were gone, replaced by a sprawling, blood-red Asura Purgatory.
The lush pines and cypresses had transformed into gruesome corpses and Evil Ghosts, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws at him, seemingly beckoning him to join them.
"Get away! Get away! I won’t die! You foul demons, get away from me!" the Sun and Moon Old Demon roared.
He attacked frantically.
Terrifying torrents of energy gathered into long dragons of Primordial Gang. Under their assault, mountains crumbled, the earth cracked open, and even flowing rivers were forcefully cut in two.
Outside the illusion, everyone watched this, looking at each other in dismay.
Zhui Yang Ancestor: "W-What’s happening?"
Ziyan Ancestor: "Who the hell knows? Damn it, that kid is too freakish! Let’s figure out how to help Sun and Moon break free first!"
The two of them hurried forward.
"Sun and Moon, stop!"
"Damn you, Sun and Moon, what are you doing?"
Zhui Yang Ancestor and Ziyan Ancestor caught up, trying to talk the Sun and Moon Old Demon down.
However...
In the eyes of the Sun and Moon Old Demon, he was in a blood-colored void. Two pitiful-looking young girls, bleeding from all seven orifices and without a single unblemished spot on their bodies from horrific abuse, were waving their pale hands. Tattered white strips of cloth fluttered behind them in the wind.
They were approaching him like Soul Hookers.
"H-How is it you two? No, impossible! You’re already dead! I played you to death! Don’t come any closer... You bitches! You should feel honored that I played with you! How dare you come back as vengeful ghosts to find me? You’re courting death..."
The Sun and Moon Old Demon roared hysterically.
In his eyes, Zhui Yang Ancestor and Ziyan Ancestor had transformed into the two young girls he had once tortured to death.
The world only knew that the Sun and Moon Old Demon studied the Yin-Yang Technique, but they didn’t know that besides toying with young women, he was even more fond of all kinds of cruel torture and abuse, taking their chastity and Primordial Yin right as they were on the verge of death.
And these two girls were the ones he had brutalized the most!
"Damn you! I told you not to come closer! Get away from me!"
The Sun and Moon Old Demon struck out with both hands. His Yin Yang Demon Wheel twisted into two Primordial Gang Cyan Dragons and charged toward Zhui Yang Ancestor and Ziyan Ancestor.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The earth-shattering tremors shook the heavens.
One to the left and one to the right, they shot toward Zhui Yang Ancestor and Ziyan Ancestor.
The color drained from both of their faces.
They had been completely focused on waking the Sun and Moon Old Demon, only to be met with his ferocious attack the moment they drew near.
This was a disaster that came out of nowhere!
Both of them roared in fury, "You bastard! Sun and Moon, are you trying to get yourself killed?!"
"Great Sun Divine Skill, Burning Heaven and Earth!"
A brilliant red light erupted from Zhui Yang Ancestor. A Red Light Treasure Wheel materialized behind him, making him look like a descending Buddha.
As he struck with both hands, two waves of scorching fire erupted forth.
The immense waves twisted and, with a ROAR, transformed into two sharp claws, viciously swiping at the charging Primordial Gang Cyan Dragon.
ROAR!
Scorched by the blazing fire, the Primordial Gang Cyan Dragon was torn apart.
It disintegrated into a shower of white light.
On the other side...
Ziyan Ancestor also erupted with purple light. A raging inferno spread through his purple hair as it burned, and his entire body was immersed in flames.
He punched the air, making it tremble.
One punch sent a rolling heatwave surging out. With a WHOOSH, it incinerated a mountain range below, turning it into a sea of fire.
He stamped his feet forward, and wherever he stepped, the land for a thousand miles turned to scorched earth!
Amidst the surging waves of fire, Ziyan Ancestor, now a fiery madman, swung his arms, and purple flames extended from them.
The flames twisted and charged, like two burning rivers, sweeping upward to pin down the black Primordial Gang Cyan Dragon, scorching it to ash as they writhed around it.
SWOOSH! SWOOSH!
Zhui Yang Ancestor and Ziyan Ancestor accelerated from the left and right, closing in.
In the Sun and Moon Old Demon’s eyes, however...
...two hideous female ghosts had broken through his attack and were now approaching with the Black and White Impermancence to claim his life.
"No, don’t come any closer! If you take one more step, I’ll fight you to the death...!"
He shrieked in rage, spraying a mouthful of blood. Behind him, another Heart-devouring Ghost began to form.
This Heart-devouring Ghost was even more terrifying and powerful!
It was a full three times larger than the one Hong Yu had just devoured!
New wrinkles appeared on the Sun and Moon Old Demon’s face, and his black hair instantly turned white. He stared at Zhui Yang Ancestor and Ziyan Ancestor with blood-red eyes.
His eyes were filled with venomous hatred as he cackled sinisterly, "Heheheh, you think you can harm me? Don’t even dream of taking my life! Heheh, I’ve spent fifty years of my lifespan to summon this Heart-devouring Ghost. Let’s see you escape this time!"
BZZZT!
The Heart-devouring Ghost’s gray-white eyes darted around, and it once again spat out a black light.
However...
This time, its target wasn’t Hong Yu, but Zhui Yang Ancestor and Ziyan Ancestor.
Faced with the Heart-devouring Ghost’s attack, the expressions of Zhui Yang Ancestor and Ziyan Ancestor changed drastically. "Damn it, the guy’s gone crazy! Run!"
The two of them scrambled to flee in opposite directions.
Hong Yu, on the other hand, watched the Heart-devouring Ghost reappear with eyes shining. "Hahaha! What a great supplement! A great supplement!"
Laughing heartily, Hong Yu charged forward.
His Heaven-Swallowing Divine Technique was already operating at its absolute peak.
It propelled his entire body straight into the Heart-devouring Ghost.
ROAR!
The Heart-devouring Ghost’s light flickered.
Its gray-white eyes flashed with terror and fury. It let out a series of low roars, trying to stop Hong Yu.
However...
How could Hong Yu let such a supplement go?
’Heaven-Swallowing Divine Technique, don’t be polite! Devour it for me! Devour it fiercely!’ Hong Yu was ecstatic.
’A Heart-devouring Ghost condensed from fifty years of a Peak of Primordial Core Realm powerhouse’s life!’
’The previous ten-year Heart-devouring Ghost already gave me such a terrifying boost in Spiritual Power, and it even gave my Pupil Technique: Enchanted City a new characteristic that stimulates the most evil and fearful thoughts in a person’s mind.’
’If I can devour this fifty-year Heart-devouring Ghost... to what degree will the power of my Pupil Technique: Enchanted City increase?’
Excited, Hong Yu operated the Heaven-Swallowing Divine Technique with increasing speed and frenzy. Under this ravenous devouring, the Heart-devouring Ghost that had been summoned with fifty years of lifespan struggled wildly as it shrank, foot by foot.
No matter how it roared in anger and terror, it could not escape being devoured by Hong Yu’s Heaven-Swallowing Divine Technique!
After ten full breaths of this devouring, the thirty-meter-tall Heart-devouring Ghost was finally consumed completely, becoming another great supplement for Hong Yu to raise his Spiritual Power Level!
BURP!
Hong Yu let out a shameless burp.
After devouring this fifty-year Heart-devouring Ghost, every time he circulated the Heaven-Swallowing Divine Technique, an extremely pure torrent of Spiritual Energy would circulate throughout his entire body, reaching every corner.
With this circulation, Hong Yu’s Spiritual Power once again reached a new high.
He was already two-thirds of the way through the Late-stage Primordial Core Realm. Unfortunately, he was still just one step away from breaking through to the Peak Level of the Primordial Core Realm in terms of Spiritual Power.
Even so, Hong Yu was already very satisfied.
’Without devouring the Heart-devouring Ghosts, it would have probably taken me another half a year, or even a full year of cultivation to reach this level.’
The number of frozen stars in his left eye had grown from four thousand to more than sixty-three hundred!
HUFF... HUFF...
The Sun and Moon Old Demon finally awoke from the Pupil Technique: Enchanted City.
He was utterly exhausted and looked ancient and decrepit. Even though a Peak Powerhouse of the Primordial Core Realm had a lifespan of nearly three hundred years, after losing sixty years in quick succession, he had become incredibly weak.
The Sun and Moon Old Demon stared at Hong Yu in horror, a trace of madness and venomous hatred in the depths of his eyes. "It was you? This was all your doing... You bastard! You made me lose sixty years of my lifespan! Sixty years... I’m going to kill you! Kill you...!"
As he spoke, the Sun and Moon Old Demon threw a punch.
However...
Faced with the point-blank attack, Hong Yu just snorted coldly.
He didn’t even move to attack!
There was just a flash of blue light in his left eye—a Pupil Technique attack: Ice Divine Blade!
BZZZT!
Ice-blue Spiritual Power condensed into an Ice Blue Arrow, which pierced unstoppably into the Sun and Moon Old Demon’s mind.
The Sun and Moon Old Demon’s Spiritual Power was only at the Mid-stage Primordial Core Realm. Under normal circumstances, while the Ice Divine Blade could have severely injured him, it definitely couldn’t have been directly fatal.
But now, for one, he was in a state of extreme weakness.
And two, Hong Yu was at his peak condition.
With one’s power waning and the other’s waxing...
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
A layer of ice-blue frost spread out from the Sun and Moon Old Demon’s body.
A blue light glossed over his eyes. The venom, madness, and hysteria gradually faded, and their light was extinguished.
In the blink of an eye...
...a layer of blue frost had covered his entire body.
The Sun and Moon Old Demon, a mighty expert of his generation, had been turned into an ice sculpture with a single glance from Hong Yu and was now plummeting to the ground.
BANG!
Upon impact, the Sun and Moon Old Demon’s frozen corpse shattered into pieces.
Having fled to a safe distance, Zhui Yang Ancestor and Ziyan Ancestor stared at this scene in horror. Watching the Sun and Moon Old Demon shatter into shards of ice, they both swallowed hard.
Lifting their gazes slightly to the youth standing proudly in the air, a sense of powerlessness washed over them.
Such a youth, such a Demon Fiend, such a genius...
With him here,
he was invincible!
Who could possibly contend with him?!