Volume 2 Chapter 36 (1/2)
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Volume 2, Chapter 36 — Encircled and Fighting Qu Chang, Cursing Fang Zhen
A cultivator at the scene died violently. Due to the incident suddenly happening, hundreds of Azure Ocean Sect's disciples at the Lesser Waves Mountain were shocked.
Zhang Yan looked up and saw a Demon cultivator hovering midair. His height was 10 feet with a particularly protruding lower jaw, wide cheek tip, pitch black skin, and clad in golden armor. He held a 6-feet-long blade carved with beastly marks, and his appearance was particularly like a malevolent beast.
This demon looked around. A trace of a happy expression surfaced in his bell-like big eyes when he saw the Golden Flood Dragon as he smiled and flushed away in a strange manner toward it.
More than 10 warriors surrounded the Golden Flood Dragon. Upon seeing the rus.h.i.+ng Demon cultivator, they shouted repeatedly and quickly encircled the Golden Flood Dragon. But they had never thought that the Demon cultivator ignored the hits and collisions. Each time he moved, several warriors were directly sent flying with every hit he sent out.
A few warriors at the side rushed forward and tried to block him, but the moment he moved, the warriors were just like puppet dolls and were sent flying when he patted them.
Luo Xiao exclaimed in alarm in Zhang Yan's sleeve, “It's actually him?!”
Zhang Yan raised his sleeve near his face and whispered, “Fellow Daoist Luo, do you know this demon?”
Luo Xiao's voice was like a mosquito's buzz as her voice was transmitted from inside the sleeve, ”He's called Qu Chang. He's the Old Qu's son of the Nine Twisted Stream Palace in Deep Ford Gorge. But I don't know why he came here.”
Zhang Yan frowned. The Nine Twisted Stream Palace? Wasn't this place already captured by Su Yihong? Even if there were some Demon cultivators that slipped away and escaped, they must have been in hiding. So how would he appear in this place? He faintly felt that the emergence of this Golden Flood Dragon and this Demon cultivator seemed to be unlikely to be a mere coincidence.
At the moment, Qu Chang had already arrived in front of the Golden Flood Dragon. He then pulled on the Yang Essence Golden Chain and cracked open the lock. Once the Golden Chain was opened, the Flood Dragon Demon would quickly break away and free.
Xie Zongyuan shouted toward his attendants, “All of you, attack this demon!” This Qu Chang was also a Profound Light Realm cultivator, while he also had 4 Profound Light Realm cultivators. Xie Zongyuan naturally wasn't afraid, as his strength was enough to deal with the demon.
These Profound Light cultivators had long been itching to act, however, the problems that obstructed them was that they had to protect Xie Zongyuan. They couldn't act freely without command. Now, when they heard the command to take on the enemy, one of them immediately acted, as his 2 fingers overlapped as he then coldly spoke, ”Kill!”
The flying sword in his hands rose as it shot forward to slash at and kill Qu Chang.
The moment Qu Chang's hands were about to touch the Yang Essence Golden Chain, he suddenly felt that something shot at him from behind. He turned his head as his hand quickly moved to catch it; it turned out to be a flying sword. He looked at the constantly buzzing flying sword as he shouted and exerted his strength. With a crack sound, he pinched it as the sword then broke.
A cultivator who was standing at Xie Zongyuan's right side grunted and rushed forward. A profound light immediately unfolded as the blue light was shaped into a large fan that then slashed and swept away at Qu Chang.
A fiendish grin surfaced on Qu Chang's face. He unexpectedly didn't dodge or evade it, and instead rushed to meet it head on powerfully. When the two of them were about to clash, he suddenly shouted, as the beast-marked broadsword in his hands was lifted up and then slashed down. With a loud slas.h.i.+ng sound, his strike not only cleaved the bluish profound light, but also severed that cultivator's body. Blood was raining down in a split second, as the cultivator's Primordial Soul instantly vanished.
Everyone was shocked, the leader of the Profound Light Realm cultivators shouted, ”It's bad, this Demon has a Divine Weapon! Quickly get out of the way and prepare to strike at him with magical flying swords!”
The so-called Divine Weapons used by cultivators, were generally ranked into 3 grades —”Human”, ”Earth”, and ”Heaven” rank. These weapons were entirely built from heaven and earth precious materials by powerful cultivators. Not only were these weapons able to resist magical treasures, moreover, they were mostly used to destroy and render the protective qi barrier of a cultivator's body useless.
Upon seeing that Qu Chang was this powerful, the remaining 3 Profound Light Realm cultivators were afraid to rush forward. They quickly formed a secret seal and struck from tens of feet away, as numerous magical treasures and flying swords then rose and flew as bands of dazzling lights then flushed forward at Qu Chang's body.
Qu Chang brandished his beast-marked broadsword and slashed. However, 2 flying swords at his right and left s.h.i.+fted to the side as they evaded his slash and cut his head. ”Clang”, the sound of metal colliding was heard as the sword's strike left a white scar on his neck. He only shook his head and didn't seem to be injured.
As though he seemed to be angered by this sword, he no longer approached the Golden Flood Dragon and rushed over to kill Xie Zongyuan.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Yan couldn't help but ask, “Fellow Daoist Luo, this demon should have taken the Strength Path, so he isn't afraid of the flying sword, right?”
Luo Xiao came out from the sleeve and replied, “Yes, Qu Chang should be at the Profound Light Realm Third Stage. His profound light qi essence has altered his flesh and has already been integrated all over his body. With such a fusion, his body is as hard as tempered steel, and common magical treasures and flying swords are useless against him.”
The Profound Light was also called ”Inner Body Qi Essence”. After one had achieved Radiant Qi, if they were not using Cloud Sand and other external objects to condense their Profound Light Seed, they would be able to alter their bones, blending it into their blood and fusing the qi with their corporeal body. In this way, they would take the Strength Path.
Since most Demon cultivators had no Dao manuals and coupled with their low perception on the Qi Path compared to human cultivators, they usually chose to fully temper and refine their bodies.
But after Zhang Yan had read “The Golden Fruit Life Essence Manual”, he also knew that the Strength Path was by no means simple. It especially could be seen from a superior Strength Path's cultivation law. Not only must one pay particular attention to the profound cultivation technique, they also needed a large amount of ancient demon blood essence and bones. The resources they would need were a lot more compared to the ones that took the Qi Path. Hence, ordinary Demon cultivators without a background could only helplessly take the Qi Path due to this reason.