Chapter 15 - Lunar Festivals [2] (1/2)
”Hehehe. Celebrations! We love celebrations too. Let's celebrate together! ATTACK!!!.”
One of the four daemon lords screamed the command at the demon warriors. The demons, covered in shimmering dark energy and brandishing radiant obsidian sabres, started moving in the direction of the delegates with terrifying speed. Atrament energy was not from this universe and shouldn't be here. Seeing the demons speeding in their directions, the nascent soul and Jindan cultivators launched their own attacks.
Under unrelenting and superior attack, the first wave of demons were quickly destroyed.
The second set of demons — demon chiefs — who were much more powerful than the demon warriors, were sent forth. But instead of attacking individually, they morgue into dangerous formations of spiralling wave of atrament energy. Sensing the danger of the formations, Tu Yun Fan glanced at Chu Shang Wu with grave eyes.
”Chu Shang Wu, I know you are looking forward to the friendly spar after the last time, you'll probably have your chance. But for now, we have to stop those attacking formations before they find their ground.”
”Fair enough, Tu Yun Fan.”
Just like lightning mirage, the delegates engaged the demon chiefs in battle as they tried to stop them before they could gain battle momentum. It was a terrifying battle due to the demons' strange formations being extremely difficult to break.
With the need to protect her grandson, Zhang Wang Jing tried to use a teleportation seal to transport herself and her grandson away from the place, but she couldn't activate it. The whole mountainous area appeared to be in a lock-down. She looked at her husband who was standing with them like a shield but had his eyes on his daughter was already battling the demons.
They all knew she couldn't desert a battlefield as a nascent soul cultivator. It would be a grievous dishonour to abandon her village in any serious battle.
”Pa, please stay with ma and protect my son.”
Zhang Xiu Ying sent a booming mind-voice to her father as the noise of the pandemonium continued to escalate. With her phoenix sword in hand, she turned her attention towards Chu Shang Wu who was already engaging two of the demons' formation, along with Tu Yun Fan. She saw Chu Shang Wu, brandishing his large war hammer, smashed the ground with it as he launched a massive terra wave towards the spiralling atrament. The atrament was blasted apart, but slowly reformed with less tenacity.
As the demons sent a vortex of dark energy towards him, he raised his war hammer, forming pillars of terra force in front of him. The vortex of raging dark energy collided with the pillars, creating a loud bang before they both dissipated in a blast. Zhang Xiu Ying arrived beside him as he was launching another attack —Terra Carver. She swiftly released her own most-powerful attack — the Phoenix Descent — the third stage of the phoenix inferno technique.
Around the mountainous area, the demons were suffering the same fate. The four daemon lords, seeing what was going on, quickly brought out some items and seals. After activating the seals, they raised their staves and formed the Void Cube. For it to be powerful enough to warp the fabric of the space-time, it was an ultimate formation, although of an unknown origin.
Colossal mass of atrament energy, quickly surrounded the vast area and started closing in on them. They launched counter attacks at the mass of dark energy but their attacks were effectively rebuffed. They had little or no effect on the atrament.
”Hahaha. Stop trying. No mortal or immortal of this world can break this lock. Not even your heavenly deities. Sad, we could have continued celebrating together, but time is not on our side as you can see. Hehehe.”
Said one of the daemon kings, laughing heartily as the other three joined him.
”We must bring this to an end now.”
The four daemon lords raised their staves higher and the obsidian skulls at the top of their staves, shone with intense blackness. The massive mass of atrament had increase in speed, and the energy coming from it was becoming incredibly overwhelming. There was no way they could survive this after giving it their all, but was still lacking.
Zhang Xiu Ying contemplated about their lives and what could have been. She was beginning to regret bringing her son to the festival, but she couldn't have left him at home in the first place. After all, it was a festival. Anyway, she would give it everything she got, even her last breath, before succ.u.mbing to the demons. She prepared herself to use her true nascent soul — her avatar. A
lthough it was a huge risk — her true nascent soul was still young and weak — which could backfire on the her, she had no other choice. As she was about to use her avatar, everything stopped, freezing space-time in place.
A godly force-field?
”Atrament? In human world? This is not right. Energy so powerful to manifest in physical form. Not right at all.”
He continued to stare at the massive mass of atrament, slowly shaking his head.
”This shouldn't be here. Not in this universe, talk-less of a human world.”
He waved his hand and a massive terra wave covered the dark energy in its entirety. Taking out a seal and activating it, the seal flew into the terra wave and the mass of atrament dissipated into nothingness. With eyes emitting anger, he flipped his hand and one of the demon lords appeared immediately before him.
”Daemon, yet not daemon. There's atrament energy inside you. How? Why are you even here in a mortal world with an energy that came from the void. Speak up!”
”You can't even imagine it, can you? I will never tell you anything.”
”Very well then.”
The bald man flicked his hand and with a release of earth bust, the daemon lord exploded. He continued this act until he was on the last daemon lord.
”We are here for those two.”