1449 Divine Thunder Trial Killed the Demon (1/2)

Erhuo kept sucking up the soul energy from the altars. It was working on the sixth altar right now!

On the other side of the Gate to the Great Demon, some voices were cursing with indignation, but the gate was disappearing.

The Honor Demon's great plan was completely aborted! However, the Honor Demon seemed to be quite calm with a cold face. He wasn't crazy anymore, not even a shred of emotion could be seen on his face

He started at the others with a pair of sharp eyes and suddenly cracked a weird smile. He said, ”Oh so you want to get away? Do you think that I would just let anyone leave?

He laughed wildly to the sky and said in a fierce voice, ”No one gets to leave today and all of you will die in this place! You ruined my great plan! You ruined everything! Do you really think that I would just let you leave?”

He smiled coldly as he looked at Ye Xiao, and said, ”Ye Xiao, the great Xiao Monarch. I'm impressed. You actually had a last trick especially now that your side is meeting its end. Are you going to use a thunder trial in this place? Would you use that to strike me? Do you really think that you can just kill me like that? Hah hah hah… Interesting, I'm quite surprised. I'd like to see you try especially now that I have my ink clouds in the sky. I wonder if the information of your breakthrough could get through the clouds and reach the heavens?”

Ye Xiao was shocked and then, he cautiously looked around. As expected, he couldn't tell if anything would happen. The information of his breakthrough had risen, but the sky was covered by a dense layer of dark clouds. Not only the sun, but also the sky was gone in the dark…

There were no signs for the thunder trail.

The qi of breaking through the limitation of cultivation was still hovering in the sky, and it couldn't get through the demonic qi in that covered it.

Ye Xiao was shocked!

[Damn it! Is this even possible? Isn't it against the rule of heavens?]

Ye Xiao really wanted to curse with fury at that moment.

[Is it real? Is there really a demon who can go against the rule of heavens?]

”Ye Xiao, tell me, what is that thing?” The Honor Demon gritted his teeth and pointed at somewhere.

He was pointing at Erhuo, who was boldly sucking the soul energy on the altar at that moment.

Erhuo had already collected all the soul energy from the four altars and it was absorbing the soul energy of the fifth altar at the moment!

The Demonic Flame Altars of the Honor Demon had more or less the same kind of energy as the red and white clouds in the Sky Soul Mountains. After Erhuo absorbed the energy from the Chaotic Soul Clouds, it just stored up the energy inside it because the red and white Chaotic Soul Clouds was way beyond its league. Even now, Erhuo still could not absorb the energy from the Chaotic Soul Clouds, only took it bit by bit.

Every Demonic Flame Altar had absorbed over sixty million cultivators' souls, but all those souls were in low quality. The soul energy was so low-leveled that Erhuo could directly suck it up like a whale swallowing the water in the ocean and digest it thoroughly. As Erhuo absorbed more and more soul energy, it kept asking for more despite their power levels. In fact, the more it improved, the faster it absorbed the altar's energy. Erhuo's belly was swelling up fast as he continued to consume more.

All that could be seen were its fur piling up on the ground.

It was Erhuo's fur.

While Erhuo was absorbing the energy like a whale in the ocean, it had two times of breakthrough, and now it was having the third… Erhuo wasn't afraid of anything now.

Every time it broke through, it would get its fur shredded and a new set would replace it immediately. It didn't become any bigger, it was still a small cat, but its fur was getting more and more clear and crystal.

Hmmm… Its belly was getting bigger though…

”What thing? Oh that? Isn't that just a cat? Why are you asking me this?” Ye Xiao clicked his tongue and gave a casual answer.

”I am not blind! Of course, I know it is a cat!” The Honor Demon couldn't hold his anger down so he roared and said, ”I'm asking about what kind of cat it is to be as abnormal as this?

The Honor Demon felt like being fooled by the heaven's will at the moment. He thought everything was ready because he had already obtained the sufficient energy to disclose the Gate to the Great Demon. He was so close.

All he needed to do was to draw the enemies in for a huge fight and once that's done, he would pour all of their energy into the altar. As long as the eighth altar was completed, the Gate to the Great Demon would appear and open.

If he completed the ninth altar, which was at the highest level of completion, the King of the Demons would arrive and give him a reward. The blood of the King of Demons would start to run inside the Honor Demon's body, which was the reward for his high completion.

To have the blood of the King of Demons was the key to immortality. He could even become the King of Demons someday!

It was the goal that he had in his life. He had gotten everything that was needed. It seemed to be perfect and the Gate to the Great Demon had shown up…

However, in the end, a small cat had ruined everything.

[This is… This really is… Unbelievable. If somebody told me a story like this, I wouldn't believe it. I might even kill the person who told me such a ridiculous story…]

[However, such a disgusting story is true. It happened to me.]

Half of the nine Demonic Flame Altars were destroyed, and the Honor Demon's great plan failed. No matter what he did now, even if he killed everybody in the Qing-Yun Realm including Ye Xiao, the Moon Queen, and the others in the battle now… he wouldn't be able to build the Demonic Flame Altars and reactivate the Gate to the Great Demon. The King of Demons would never come for him!

He had been working so hard for tens and thousands of years. His endless efforts and dreams had turned to nothing at this moment! He was so close, and he had already felt it…

But things had changed! Everything was ruined and he even lost the opportunity to rebuild it.

Ye Xiao humphed and said, ”Do you really it would matter to know more about that cat? Is it truly important for you? Does it really matter?”

The Honor Demon's face turned dark, and he nodded. ”No, it doesn't. It is true… Nothing matters anymore!”

He then roared to the sky. ”Ah…”

As he was roaring, two long and sharp teeth stuck out in his mouth. His face was like the face of a monster. As he breathed, the air coming out of his nose turned to black.

At this moment, Zong Yuankai was no longer a human being, but a demon, a complete demon!

”You have protected the Qing-Yun Realm. Don't you think you should at least pay for it? Go and meet death, all of you!” He talked peacefully in a rather soft voice, but it still sounded incredibly terrifying.

Nobody doubted the truth of the Honor Demon's words or the power that he had to do what he said he would do!

When the Honor Demon just finished talking, Ye Xiao raised up his head as well and shouted at the skies. ”Ah oh…”

The others were surprised and anxious at the same time.

[What is Ye Xiao going to do?]

[The Honor Demon roars and it is scary enough. Why are you doing this too?]

[What? You can do a transformation too?]

[Is this the howl in the midnight which was known to be able to turn over any situation?]

Apparently, it was not some hilarious kind of howl in the midnight. However, his long resounding roar was indeed going to change the current situation. The sky was covered by the dark clouds but higher upon the clouds, the sound of a hawk rang up and it was clear and sharp.

The next moment, Ye Xiao waved his hand and poured all the energy and purple qi he had into the Stars Sword before he threw it out with all of his might.

The Stars Sword was wrapped by the rising purple qi and it flew up through the dense demonic qi in the sky like a purple flowing light. In the end, it disappeared beyond the clouds!

The Honor Demon saw the Stars Sword disappear. He just didn't know what that meant, so he asked, ”Ye Xiao, I know your martial art is special and incredible, and it is the bane to all demonic martial arts, however, you are too weak to hurt me with it. Now you have lost this excellent sword of yours, you are totally nothing to me. Do you think you can scatter all the demonic qi in the sky by just using a flying sword? Did you really expect that the thunders would strike down just because of what you did? You're wishing too much… all that it could do was to pass through the demonic qi clouds. It would be impossible to think that it could do more.”

He was then shocked and soon enough, he started to shout. ”How… How is this… How is this possible? How come…”

It seemed as if a hurricane blew over the demonic qi that was suspended in the skies. The light from beyond the clouds pierced through the darkness and shined to the world…

The next moment, the thunderclaps then followed!

The thunder trial was about to come!

When the sound of the first bolt of lightning cracked, the fierce feeling that oppressed them went back to the Demon Soul Valley and soon enough, all of the demonic qi inside it was eradicated!

The sky was filled with some purple clouds, the lightning that split the skies were purple as well. The bold of lights had crawled through the clouds and had made glaring lights that shook people's hearts. The thunderclaps were deep, and it seemed as if an incredible power was accumulating.

People didn't know what was happening. They were all shocked by what they saw. They were confused.

[Isn't it… Isn't it supposed to be unbreakable?]

[How come that something was able to pierce it?]

[Ye Xiao threw the sword through the demonic clouds. He did, but was it truly powerful enough to make all this happen?]

They got the answer after a while. A stream of fleeting golden light shined in the sky and a huge golden hawk flew down from beyond the clouds as it tweeted happily.

The hawk was staring at Ye Xiao with a deep emotion in its round big eyes. The golden hawk moved with thunder and wind!

It connected the winds and the thunder in the sky with its own body and it made the lightning strike down below the clouds.

The hawk connected the wind and thunder in the sky with its own body, drew the thunder over, made the lightning strike down below the clouds. It was Ye Xiao's backup. Ye Xiao had told the golden hawk to stand by as a backup plan, and now it worked.

”Get away from here, now! Everybody! Go!” Ye Xiao pulled his lips together. The purple lightning from the sky seemed to lock on him already and the purple qi on his body was getting thicker and thicker. His face was almost completely covered by the purple qi!

”Xiao Xiao…” Yue Gongxue finally called him, with concern and worry in their voice. Ye Nantian grabbed her and moved her away immediately. Commander Ye was such an experienced man so he knew what was urgent at the moment. He clearly knew when to give up on something while there were other more important things.

Xuan Bing and Jun Yinglian, as well as the other powerful cultivators all left the place as fast as they could. They all knew how horrible the heavenly trial could be. Even though there haven't been a heavenly trial in the Qing-Yun Realm for tens of thousands of years, people had still learned about its terror from the stories. They knew that they could never be able to help Ye Xiao if they stayed, they would only make things harder for him.

”Do you really want to go? Nobody leaves!” The Honor Demon moved with a flash, dashing out to stop the people who were leaving.

It was war. Ye Xiao did not really care about ascending to the upper realm, he only wanted to kill the Honor Demon with the power of the heavenly trial. He risked his life to draw down the divine thunder trial only to protect the people he cared about. As long as the Honor Demon could keep those people around, Ye Xiao won't be able to strike him down.

After all, even the Honor Demon was afraid at the incredible power of the heavenly trial!

Ye Xiao laughed out loud and rushed over to the Honor Demon. He had gotten rid of the last bit of the barrier in his heart. He had become much better in cultivation now. Although he was still weaker than the Honor Demon, the difference wasn't that unbearable anymore. He could hardly have his chance to defeat the Honor Demon with his current power, but he could definitely hold the Honor Demon up for a while. The Honor Demon was furious, so he started to attack with both his hands. Ye Xiao actually didn't dodge at all, he just channeled his soul energy to prepare a special technique.

He suddenly held the Honor Demon in his arms like a long Chinese dragon in the ocean.

The Honor Demon's palm attacks from his both hands blared out in the air behind Ye Xiao's back. At the next moment, Ye Xiao rushed up to the sky as he held the Honor Demon tight in his arms.

Although he had already broken through to a new level, his Cage Phase power was still not strong enough for him to fully restrain the Honor Demon. However, what he wanted was to hold him for just one second, and that was something he was able to do!

At this critical moment in the battle, one second was long enough for many things to happen!

The Honor Demon knew that things were going wrong for him, so he started to hit Ye Xiao with the most powerful and insane of his attacks. He just wanted to get rid of the restraint from Ye Xiao's Cage Phase technique.

However, Ye Xiao did not loosen his arms at all even though he was spitting out blood while getting hit again and again.

The golden hawk saw what was happening to Ye Xiao, so it made a long bitter call and immediately flew over under Ye Xiao's feet. After that, it started to fly up with Ye Xiao and the Honor Demon together on its back.

The Honor Demon made a fierce palm attack again and this time he aimed at the golden hawk. Apparently, the golden hawk provoked the Honor Demon by getting into the fight between the two men.

The golden hawk gave a blood-curdling scream before it fell down. However, with the golden hawk's help, Ye Xiao had flown up high enough with the Honor Demon in his arms!

At least he could reach the thunder trial on his own now!

In the sky, the divine thunder trial immediately found Ye Xiao.

The wind and thunder started to strike down on his head!

Ye Xiao and the Honor Demon were staying so close together so they both became the targets! That was the reason why Ye Xiao risked his own life to restrain the Honor Demon by the special technique of his Cage Phase.

If somebody was close enough to the cultivator who should be hit by the heavenly thunder in the heavenly trial, the thunder would automatically assume that he was helping the cultivator in this trial. Once the heavenly trial had locked on the targets, it wouldn't dismiss it. Even if the Honor Demon managed to escape, the thunder would still follow his back and even if Ye Xiao had already died in the trial, the thunder would still keep striking the Honor Demon down!

That was Ye Xiao's last and the most desperate move.

[Even if my body would turn to ash, I will drag you to your death!]

The golden lightning has split the skies!

The Honor Demon was screaming in fear. Bolts of lightning kept striking down and it looked like a rainstorm! The entire Qing-Yun Realm was shaken because of that incredible power!

The power of the heavens descended!

The golden hawk was the second closest to Ye Xiao after the Honor Demon. It just got out of the strike zone before the heavenly trial finished locking onto its targets. It was lucky enough to not share the trial with Ye Xiao!

In fact, the golden hawk should thank the Honor Demon for this. Because the Honor Demon hit it with a fierce palm attack, the golden hawk fell fast. Its golden feathers kept getting off and it helped it fly a few thousand feet away. It was already out of the target area the moment it regained its balance in the air.

The golden hawk raised up its head with pain in its eyes however, its mind was filled with joy.

[You are powerful Honor Demon, but so what? You are going to die because of me eventually!]

The divine thunders kept striking down. The golden hawk didn't dare to get closer, but it could seize one or two bolts of lightning that were on the edge of the affected area. When it seized the lightning, its golden feathers started to flame up and shined up brightly…

Erhuo had finished absorbing the energy from seven of the Demonic Flame Altars, and it was sitting on the eighth altar, sucking up more energy into its body. The big round belly of Erhuo was totally oversized. It was at least ten times as big as usual. The small cat became a fat cat, which had an unbelievably huge belly.

As Erhuo collapsed, seven of the Demonic Flame Altars, forty-nine great cultivators who were guarding the seven altars died and became ashes on the ground. They were gone, just like the altars!