Chapter 15 - Fang Jiange of Swords Gate (1/2)

Ting Lanyue was the first one who unbound herself from the shackles, she got up and said, "In ancient times, our Da Ting Clan and the ancestors of Swords Gate cooperated to develop the Great Wilderness. They knew of the horrifying strength of Tian Myriad Mother and passed down records about her! I've read them, and this Tian Myriad Mother is a devil god, not just an ordinary being! These demons want to awaken her again. We must inform the Swords Gate at any cost or things will spiral out of control!"

Zhong Yue handed over one of the scythes to Ting Lanyue and he then quickly cut off the spider webbings entangling everyone. When they were about to leave, He Chengchuan promptly said, "Cover up the bodies!"

Zhong Yue quickly understood what he meant; this is the path directly linked to the demon's lair, and if someone discovered the large number of bodies here, they would immediately come to understand that someone broke free. The bodies must be buried and hid away to buy them more time to escape!

Senior Martial Brother He must be very experienced, which explains why he is so mindful of these things, thought Zhong Yue.

As they were done burying the bodies, they silently escaped away from the Demon Ruins.

In the Demon Ruins, there was no distinction between day and night. The sky was perennially stuck in a dreary gray gloom. As Zhong Yue and the others hid here and there to avoid intersecting with the paths of the demons' patrol, they slowly got closer to the entrance of Demon Ruins.

At the front, a Sword Gate gateway portal stood high, and standing sentry outside the portal were two elders of the Swords Gate. The gateway portal was the entrance to Demon Ruins, and also it's exit. They could only be considered safe once they reached there.

Pheww——

Everyone was relieved when they saw the gateway portal as they were just a few miles away from escaping the Demon Ruins.

He Chengchuan wiped away the cold sweat on his forehead and said relaxingly, "Once we are out of the Demon Ruins, we should be safe after which we must inform the higher-ups in Swords Gate about what transpired here and rescue as many brothers and sisters trapped here as possible!"

All the upper house disciples nodded in agreement when suddenly, a female laughing voice that felt abnormally sultry and overflowed with magical power ringing in their ears, "You all managed to escape to this point, I must say you all are very fortunate! Too bad none of you will be able to proceed any further, not to mention trying to save anyone."

Everyone's face changed drastically as they cast their gaze upward, finding a lady standing at the entrance of the Demon Ruins. The lady could basically not be said to be a lady as she had the head of an elephant; large ears, long trunk and two tusks!

Tian Elephant demon!

Tian Elephant demons belonged to the highest class of demons, they had poor fertility, causing their numbers to be very sparse. However, all of them were very strong once they were born into the world, the average Tian Elephant demons were on the same level of mutated Mantis Demons or even higher!

On the ground around this female Tian Elephant demon were littered around ten human corpses. These corpses must have been those upper house disciples who managed to escape the demons' encirclement. They were so close to freedom, but unfortunately, they were all slaughtered by this demon lady!

"Demon's Qi Practitioner!" murmured Ting Lanyue.

"Qi Practitioner?"

Everyone was stunned at the fact that the demons left behind a Qi Practitioner to guard this place and it was of the premier demon race—the Tian Elephant demons!

Ting Lanyue said hopelessly, "A Qi Practitioner guarding this place. It is impossible to escape anymore…"

"Human little girl, you are a little bit smart, being able to know that I've already become a Qi Practitioner."

The demon lady showed some surprised as her identity had been revealed out by a little human girl and she said, "Now, you may begin your futile attacks. I may have little interest in eating humans, but the same cannot be said for killing!"

Ting Lanyue then said, "Martial siblings, we must fight without holding back anymore in order to survive!"

Everyone remained quiet but showed great determination. Zhong Yue also unsheathed his darksteel scythe, preparing himself to fight till the bitter end. Qi Practitioners were very sentimental toward the spirits, and they could easily merge their soul with the spirits. This is called Spirit-Soul as One, and it would drastically cause an extreme spike in their powers. Now, they might not even have a chance to win at all.

Even though they had prepared to fight with their lives, perhaps none of them would be able to escape at all.

"Kiddo Yue, I might need to use your body no matter what this time!"

In Zhong Yue's psyche ocean echoed the voice of Xin Huo. Xin Huo then said, "If you die, I will have to enter my slumber again until another Fuxi descendent awakens me from my slumber. However, I've been out here for too long without subsisting on the power of a pure-blood Fuxi, and I am on the verge of being extinguished so I cannot wait any longer! I will have to use your body to fight even if it means that my identity will be unveiled!"

Zhong Yue was startled, and when he wanted to reply, noises could be heard coming from the gateway portal. He looked toward the gateway portal and discovered that it was gradually opening!

The situation had stunned everyone including the female Tian Elephant demon as no one had expected this. For a short moment, none of them were able to respond quickly to the situation.

A voice of an elder could then be heard saying, "The entrance to Demon Ruins has been opened, all of you may enter now."

"Thank you, elder."

At the entrance, one after another upper house disciples entered into the Demon Ruins while talking and laughing to each other. They seemed to be one of the Qi Practitioners' disciples aiming to hone their abilities in the Demon Ruins.

When these disciples entered into the Demon Ruins, they saw Zhong Yue and the others straight ahead, and they were all shocked to see the female Tian Elephant demon.

"Martial siblings, retreat at once!"

Ting Lanyue continued shouting, "Immediately inform the elders that the demons have captured the upper house disciples to sacrifice them in a ritual to revive Tian Myriad Mother..."

Before she could even finish what she was saying, the demon lady's trunk suddenly enlarged and became multiple times bigger. Its trunk then suddenly began to inhale ferociously, sucking up the newly-arrived disciples into the air with around ten of them being sucked into its trunk!

"I hate eating raws!"

With her chewing hardly, blood started gushing out of her mouth, and the over ten disciples were devoured just like that!

The demon lady then swung her trunk swiftly and vigorously. The remaining ninety plus upper house disciples that stayed in the air were pulverized into meatballs when the unstoppable trunk impacted them!

"Filthy demon!"