Chapter 684: The Nineheavens Pure Yang Talisman (1/2)

The demon god had arrived, and the host of fur seals he’d brought with him rained blood across the North Sea.

The fur seals were too spine-chilling. As ancient beings, each of them was equivalent to a void-ascended immortal. More terrifying still was that they weren’t limited to the true immortal realm. There were empyrean immortals among them, august, golden... all the way to peerless immortals.

Since they possessed no methods or combat arts, one or two wouldn’t have been an issue. Alas, that wasn’t the case when they numbered in the dozens of thousands. Moreover, they were encased in a layer of black smoke that was demonic energy. When shaped in a unified whole, it became a nigh-indestructible barrier that no flying swords nor sundry treasures could pierce through.

The legion of fur seals charged forward without any discipline, and like a flood of steel, they left nothing but mangled corpses in their wake.

“Disperse, disperse… everyone scatter!!” a dao immortal shouted. The fur seals didn’t utilize any fancy attack formations, but anyone unlucky enough to find themselves too close to one ended up dead without reprieve.

“Hehehe…” a sinister chuckle sounded in the dao immortal’s vicinity. His blood running cold, the man whirled around and found his vision filled with an ugly, obese face, even as Ge Yanxia opened her mouth wide and swallowed him whole.

“Children, kill them all! Don’t leave anyone alive!” Ge Yanxia suddenly swung her head in a certain direction, or more precisely, at the mighty immortals waiting on the sidelines there.

……

“Are we still forbidden from participating?” A celestial emperor looked at Silverlight.

“Kill!” Silverlight didn’t bother replying. Instead, she shifted into a silver blur and charged straight at the figure of the demon god in the air.

The demon god’s body had been destroyed in the prodigious collision, but the stone spirit’s body was indestructible. Therefore, the demon’s true spirit had conveniently slipped into the stone spirit, swallowed its burgeoning true spirit, and occupied its body. Together, the combination of demon god and stone spirit strength reached unfathomable heights.

Bang!

Silverlight’s staff smashed heavily onto the demon god, spraying a shower of sparks. Goldenlight joined her, the staff in his hand also smacking the stone body.

Filled with endless rancor and a nigh-infinite accumulation of yin energy, the stone spirit’s body was incomparably hard. Even though the two scarlet apes’ staves were connate treasures, they didn’t leave a scratch!

The demon’s strength beggared belief!

For their part, the celestial emperors present made no move to help the others. They hadn’t yet truly grasped what it meant to be a real celestial emperor. The deaths of their Exalted and Truespirit colleagues were still fresh on their minds and shaken to the core, none of them wanted to throw themselves headlong into danger.

“How dare two insignificant bugs attack this noble self!” the demon god snorted coldly. His four arms whipped through the air and blasted the two scarlet apes away. It was simply on another level altogether!

“Your Lordship, your original body’s on that kid!” Ge Yanxia shrilled, her thick finger pointing straight at Lu Yun.

The demon god’s body… in other words, the Demonic Sovereign Cauldron.

……

In that instant, Lu Yun blinked back to hell.

“So the ancient demon sovereign and this demon god are one and the same.” He suddenly recalled the way Ge Yanxia had looked at him before entering the Exalted Divine Tombs. The demon god’s body was in his possession, so as long as the demon god came into the world, he was certain to target Lu Yun.

“Unfortunately for you, you just had to possess that stone spirit...” Lu Yun’s fingers blurred into motion as he began drawing talisman runes. He’d found a way to deal with stone spirits a while ago.

Back on the Path of the Dead in the lineal tomb, he’d used talismans to kill them. Only, the one he’d come across in the Exalted Divine Tombs was too powerful for one single talisman. Incidentally, hell had been overrun with akasha ghosts at the time, so it’d been impossible for him to go back to craft new talismans.

Coalescing talismans from the void? Talismans of that level would be utterly meaningless against a stone spirit this powerful.

Thankfully, he had ample time at his disposal now. He wanted to attempt a jumbo size Pure Yang Talisman to dispel the stone spirit’s rancor and weaken its strength. But slaying the stone spirit outright? He wasn’t conceited enough to think his talismans could achieve such an impossible feat.