Chapter 128 – Selenic Ironbark Seal (2/2)
“I admit it, I have underestimated you, but now you have left me no choice but to show you my true from,” The demon panted heavily. “Let me show you how you will meet your demise!”
Surrounding himself with a red mist the demon’s body quickly underwent a drastic transformation.
“Thump!”
“Thump!”
“Thump!”
The thundering demonic heartbeat echoed in the courtyard, and an utterly terrifying pressure caused the atmosphere to thicken to the point where the air felt almost sticky suffocating Cao Ning.
From this Ye Wei could safely assume what he was facing was not just an ordinary demon General, but a very talented one.
“Wei! Careful!” A burst of energy swept the courtyard knocking Cao Ning into the air. He then landed heavily more than ten meters back.
“I know!” Although Ye Wei was tired after the violent exchange, his dantian was actually getting stronger from the heavy Qi usage and was showing signs growing.
‘Second evolution!’
The energy level within Ye Wei’s body soared once again, and as he didn’t want to waste the limited time of the amplifying effect, he quickly drew a sequence of runes.
‘Selenic Ironbark Seal!’
Staring at the red mist coming out of the transforming demon’s pores Ye Wei did not hesitate to use his best-kept secret, the fifth stance of the Selenic Seven Stances.
The Selenic Ironbark Seal was a low-level Myst stance, and all one hundred and thirty-six runes forming the stance were specialized runes. These specialized runes were the reason why despite Ye Wei having used only enough Qi to activate a low-level Myst stance, it had the power of its mid-level counterpart.
In order to learn this Myst stance, Ye Wei had to use the second evolution of the Supernova stance to meet the Qi, will-force, and body strength requirement that otherwise couldn’t be met by anyone below the condensed prime level. With the help of the Supernova stance, it took Ye Wei more than a year to master this stance. The Glacial Emperor created the Selenic Seven and all seven of them were unrefinable stances. Despite this Ye Wei had mastered five of them!
Even under the effect of Supernova’s second evolution, it was proving hard for him to use this Myst stance composed exclusively of specialized runes.
“Zoom! Zoom!”
A sequence of complex runes appeared as Ye Wei slowly dragged his finger across the air, and his face turned paler after each stroke.
While the specialized runes were being drawn, strands of the lingering red mist were getting thicker and spun around the demon like flying serpents.
“Roar!”
The demon roared into the sky and let out a painful sounding grunt then his body inflated at a terrifying speed.
“Crack! Crack!”
The sound of tearing cloth could be heard as the demon’s black body expanded and his black robe burst into pieces.
A three-meter tall monstrous figure emerged from within the red mist. His triangular pupils dilated as he glared at Ye Wei with red bloodthirsty eyes. His needle-like black hair stood up as his seemingly rock hard muscles were bulging.
This was the true form of a Blackmist Demon, one of the seven biggest demon clans.
Under normal circumstances, a demon’s body was the same as a human’s apart from their hearts. Their heart was the main source of a demon’s power. When stimulated by bloodlust a demon’s hearts releases its energy which transforms demons into their true form. The stronger a demon is, the better they can control their powers.
“Time to die you, petty human!” The demon roared and lunged toward Ye Wei. This happened so quickly that his body disappeared into the dark night, and the next moment, he reappeared in front of Ye Wei. He rose his hairy hand high and swung it right at the human’s head.
The violent strike created a fearsome pressure wave that shook the whole courtyard and created a web of fissures on the ground. If it weren’t for the Black Scale Array, the whole palace would have been shaken.
‘This is it!’ Ye Wei ground his teeth and finished the last three specialized runes with both of his hands dancing through the air.
Just half a second before the demon’s strike was about to land on Ye Wei’s head a large, wood-textured palm appeared from the specialized rune sequence with a brown glow shining through the grains.
“Boom!”
The courtyard was reduced to flat ground from just the pressure wave of the wooden palm.
Ye Wei’s stance then crashed onto the demon’s large hairy hand. The recoil sunk Ye Wei’s body into the ground and simultaneously sent the demon flying like a kite with its string cut.