Chapter 550 – The Fifth Layer of the Ox Demon (1/2)
He slowly raised a leg with difficulty, switching to a half-kneeling pose before suddenly raising his head, clenching his fists and spreading his arms, letting out a furious roar at the sky.
The flames surged madly as his scarlet hair drifted, dyeing the sky red.
The ox demon stands with its horns towards the heavens! This was a will to never yield!
Within the flames, his flesh and blood constantly regrew as his strength skyrocketed.
“He actually withstood it!” Gu Yanying was greatly shocked. That was four golden cores after all.
More accurately, it was five. There had also been a golden core from Wen Zhangqing.
The great strength of the ox demon was boundless.
However, that was not enough. It still was not enough!
It was not enough to defeat the Corpse King, and it was not enough to break through to the fifth layer of the ox demon.
Li Qingshan suddenly turned. The flames swept around and changed into the shape of pupils in his eye sockets, gazing at the injured Golden Core cultivator who had half his body destroyed.
With a tiger’s roar, he lunged over.
In that moment, everyone saw the flames on him transform into a winged, scarlet tiger, surging with malice and raging killing intent.
“Stop, wretched daemon!”
The Marquis of Ruyi yelled out, but he was unable to stop him in time, nor did he have the power to stop him.
“Wretched daemon, I’ll take you down with me!” the cultivator roared crazily. His golden core began to revolve and radiate with resplendent light, about to blow up with terrifying power.
The tiger claws condensed from fire kept it from moving before conjuring the figure of the spirit turtle. The trembling golden core settled down reluctantly.
The Spirit Turtle Suppresses the Seas, suppressing all restlessness.
The fire tiger extended its tongue and swept the golden core into its mouth, nodding slightly as if it was satisfied. It turned its head and glanced past the other cultivators.
The hearts of all cultivators sank completely. They faced internal and external strife. Both the Corpse King and the daemon were extremely terrifying.
Never had they thought this battle would actually end up so horrifying.
“Die, wretched daemon!”
The Seal of Mountains and Rivers smashed down. It was covered in cracks, but it was still tremendously powerful.
The fire tiger had already vanished from there. With a trail of flames, it lunged over and pressed down the other injured Golden Core cultivator, directly swallowing his golden core.
However, by the time Li Qingshan attacked him, all was too late. The spirit turtle could suppress the golden core before it exploded.
There were only two people present who could stop Li Qingshan. One was the Dark Queen, while the other was Gu Yanying, but neither of them had any intentions of stopping him.
The other cultivators were completely worn out from the battle. Even if they wanted to save them, they had to consider whether they had that ability or not.
Although the Marquis of Ruyi constantly tried to smash him with the Seal of Mountains and River, he climbed higher and higher into the air, just hurling constant abuse.
In the blink of an eye, Li Qingshan had killed three Golden Core cultivators, swallowing another three golden cores.
To the cultivators’ relief, Li Qingshan’s hunt ended with that. He began another round of refinement.
Everything had happened in a split second. From when he roared out to the three pounces, a lot had happened, but it all occurred within a few seconds.
If any mortals were present, they would not have even been able to grasp what had happened, let alone respond.
In total, Li Qingshan had swallowed eight golden cores!
“What’s he trying to do that actually requires so many golden cores? Is he trying to break through to Daemon Commander? That’s impossible. Once he triggered the heavenly tribulation, even if he survives it narrowly, he’ll be on his last legs. He won’t be of any assistance to this battle!”
No, I can’t let him continue like this. The Corpse King also felt that something was amiss, so he immediately summoned all the Corpse Commanders.
There was no response!
The Buddha Slaying sword embryo blocked their path. It seemed as ordinary as before, without any glow of a “divine artifact”.
Xiao An had basically poured half of the corpses she had refined into this Buddha Slaying sword embryo.
As the fragments of the Corpse Commanders fell down, they turned into Samādhi Flames of White Bone and merged into the Buddha Slaying sword embryo. Only then did the sword become coated in white, half-transparent light that surged about.
A skeleton head arrived beneath Xiao An. She stepped onto it gently and rose as she raised her sword.
“Let’s go! That sword is simply too terrifying!”
“What! This formation again!”
The Corpse Commanders scattered, but they were forced back together by the huge, house-sized skulls.
The skulls cackled, wrapped in white firelight as they constantly revolved.
When Xiao An released them from the Blood Sea Banner, she had also released the twenty-six Skull Prayer Beads that she had reforged, assembling the Skeleton Demon Formation.
Normally, it would only take Corpse Commanders a few seconds to break out of the Skeleton Demon Formation.
The light from the sword passed by in a flash. Xiao An did not pause at all, pushing off a skull and using the force to leap back into the formation. She shuttled back and forth. Soon, it became impossible to make out her figure. Only a streak of white light shot around inside the Skeleton Demon Formation.
The Skeleton Demon Formation constantly shrank before dispersing with a boom in the end. Not a single Corpse Commander remained. Only flaming pieces of corpses were left, which all merged together and channeled into the Buddha Slaying sword embryo. They vaguely formed a skeleton sitting in a lotus position on the hilt of the sword.
She had finally achieved initial success with the Buddha Slaying sword embryo.
It was not only the cultivators. Even the Corpse King had been taken aback as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over him.
Perhaps the legend was true!
I need to kill it, regardless of the cost!
The Corpse King’s eyes shone with cruel, green light. The nails on his ten fingers burst forth like bamboo shoots in spring. He hurled them forwards, all targeting Xiao An.