Chapter 779: Slay Moon Demon Lord 5
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"Forever become dust in the darkness!!"
The Slay Moon Demon Emperor took a step forward, and in that instant, the entire Slay Moon Demon Cave trembled. The dark mist around him churned wildly, directly transforming into a massive dark air current that rolled toward Yun Che.
Extreme darkness, extreme coldness—like an endless abyss was about to devour him eternally. Before this dark air current, Yun Che's body stiffened. He felt like a speck of dust before a towering wave; the Golden Crow flame he had been gathering could not be unleashed at all. Every voice in his soul screamed "escape!" If he dared to face it head-on, the only outcome would be annihilation into nothingness.
This was the first time an enemy's attack hadn't even reached him yet made him feel a fear from the depths of his soul.
Yun Che bit the tip of his tongue fiercely. Stepping on Star God Remnant Shadow and Phantom Lightning Extreme, he teleported backward like lightning, fleeing like a storm. His back slammed heavily into a wall he couldn't even clearly see.
Boom!!
The Slay Moon Demon Cave trembled again. The dark air current crashed into the spot where Yun Che had been standing. The exploding dark power scattered like countless evil spirits in all directions.
Everything within the Slay Moon Demon Cave had been immersed in an extremely high-level dark aura for ten thousand years. Every inch of the walls, every grain of sand had become incredibly hard, especially possessing extremely strong resistance to dark profound force. Even this terrifying dark blast did not send sand and stones flying; the stone walls only shook without collapsing.
Although he hadn't been hit by the Slay Moon Demon Lord's dark profound force, the cold residual waves still made his entire body extremely uncomfortable. He furrowed his brows and gasped heavily. Facing the Slay Moon Demon Lord's first strike, his heart almost instantly sank to the bottom... Both were at Lord Xuan Realm, Level 6. Both practiced the Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture. But based solely on the dark profound force the Slay Moon Demon Lord had just unleashed, he was several times more powerful than Fen Juechen!
And the cold pressure he released was a hundred or even a thousand times greater than Fen Juechen's!
Even when facing the Sea Palace Emperor Qu Fengyi, the pressure he endured was far less than what the Slay Moon Demon Lord exerted.
Because... he was an ancient demon!
"Yun Che, listen carefully!" Mo Li said with extreme solemnity. "You must go all out against this Slay Moon Demon Lord. Use all your trump cards, risk your life, employ every means, and you must kill him! Only your power is not suppressed by the dark demonic energy here, so you are the only one in all of Lan Ji Star who can possibly kill him! Otherwise, if he truly recovers, what awaits Tian Xuan Continent and all living beings in the world will be an unimaginable, massive calamity!"
"Heh, who cares about a calamity now." Yun Che clenched his fists, letting out a bitter, self-mocking laugh. "If I can't kill him, I'll die. I have to fight regardless... But this time, there's really not much hope."
Opposite him was an ancient demon!
In the million years since gods and demons had gone extinct, Yun Che was the first being in the entire chaos world to fight a demon!
"Using only your own strength, you would indeed die without a doubt; there isn't even a sliver of possibility for you to defeat him," Mo Li said solemnly. "But if you combine it with Hong'er... there might be some hope!"
"Hmph, what a pitiful struggle!" The Slay Moon Demon Lord extended his pitch-black arm. A mass of dark mist gathered before him, then writhed violently like a massive organ. As the Slay Moon Demon Lord pointed his finger, the dark mist tore open violently. Thousands of dark lightning bolts shot out like a storm, raining toward Yun Che's position. Each dark lightning bolt was as thin as a needle tip, but the power contained within made Yun Che's hair stand on end and his face change drastically.
"Don't try to break through them. Dodge with all your might! If you get hit, the dark power will directly damage your soul!" Mo Li warned urgently.
Without a second thought, Yun Che once again used Star God Remnant Shadow to teleport and Phantom Lightning Extreme to flee, retreating along the stone walls of the Slay Moon Demon Cave at maximum speed.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang...
The dark lightning pierced the space in countless holes, finally striking the stone walls and ground, unleashing piercing screams and restless dark malevolence. The Slay Moon Demon Cave was filled with stone walls and rubble. As Yun Che retreated with all his might, all the dark lightning bolts were eventually blocked by the stone walls... Though each dark lightning bolt contained enough power to easily pierce even Heaven-Pan Jade, they could not penetrate these walls.
These stone walls, steeped in dark energy for ten thousand years, had apparently become Yun Che's shelter in his desperate flight.
"Hah... hah..." Yun Che's back once again crashed heavily against a stone wall. Cold sweat covered his forehead, and he panted violently. When he steadied himself slightly, he realized that under the Slay Moon Demon Lord's two attacks, he had been forced from deep within the Slay Moon Demon Cave to the middle section.
At this rate, he would soon have nowhere to run.
"No good..." Yun Che gritted his teeth and muttered, looking toward where the Slay Moon Demon Lord was. "In a place like this, running is meaningless... No matter what, I have to fight!"
"How surprising speed for such a lowly being of insignificant power to evade my judgement twice in a row. But unfortunately, you are not worthy for me to toy with. This time, even if you had ten lives and were ten times faster, you will vanish forever! Not even a single bone will remain!"
The Slay Moon Demon Lord's voice came from far away, from the endless darkness, allowing Yun Che to roughly lock onto his position. He gritted his teeth fiercely and forcefully suppressed all fear in his heart...
"Purgatory!!"
He let out a low roar. His entire profound force surged, and his pupils—along with the color of the profound aura around him—instantly turned a light red.
"Blazing Sun Explosion!!"
Yun Che flashed out from behind the stone wall. The blazing Golden Crow flame burned wildly as he struck with all his might at the approaching Slay Moon Demon Lord.
Boom!!
When it was still twenty zhang away from the Slay Moon Demon Lord, the Golden Crow flame suddenly exploded. But the resulting destructive fire did not release its world-igniting Golden Crow flame power; instead, it quickly extinguished and faded in the darkness, disappearing into a dead, pitch-black stillness in less than a single breath.
"What...?!" Yun Che gritted his teeth.
"What a futile struggle," the Slay Moon Demon Lord mocked coldly. "If it were Vermilion Bird flame, I might have been a little wary. But such low-level Golden Crow flame is nothing but a pathetic joke!"
"..." This once again confirmed that the Slay Moon Demon Lord was an ancient demon! He had immediately identified the flames as Golden Crow fire without showing the slightest surprise!
Just then, the Slay Moon Demon Lord's aura suddenly condensed, and his expression shifted violently—because he sensed the change in Yun Che's profound force and the abnormal color of the profound light around him.
"Evil God... Art!!" The Slay Moon Demon Lord's voice suddenly trembled, then became extremely angry, resentful, and furious. "Your body actually carries the power of the Evil God... Aah! Then you deserve to die even more, even more!!"
"I have sworn countless times that the first thing I will do upon seeing the light of day again is to destroy every trace the Evil God has left in this world!!"
"You human who inherited the Evil God's power—I will annihilate your body and soul into eternal nothingness!!"
A million years of sealing had accumulated a million years of resentment toward the Evil God!
Feeling the Evil God's power on Yun Che, his rage erupted like a boiling volcano. In an instant, the anger that made the entire Slay Moon Demon Cave tremble was tens of millions of times more intense than the fury he had shown earlier at the "unfilial son."
The Slay Moon Demon Lord roared, then suddenly flew forward, reaching out a hand to grab Yun Che. A thick black aura, like a demon god from the depths of the abyss, rushed ahead of his body to devour Yun Che.
He wanted to use his dark aura to imprison Yun Che and then tear him apart with his own hands to vent the million-year hatred he held for the Evil God.
Yun Che's will told him clearly that he must not fear or retreat, but the terror in his soul and the trembling of his body were overwhelmingly intense. This was the pressure of a demon—no mere mortal body could withstand it. For Yun Che to endure this much was already extraordinary.
"Fight... I have to fight! Otherwise, I'll die for nothing!"
His body trembled uncontrollably. He nearly bit through his teeth. In the struggle, the fear in his heart turned into a violent, furious energy...
"Hong'er!!"
A crimson light flashed. The Heaven-Defying Sword appeared, and at the same moment, Yun Che's body shot forward, charging straight into the dark power he would normally have been utterly unable to withstand. With a roar of release, he poured all his power unreservedly into the Heaven-Defying Sword and struck against the endless darkness before him.
And in that moment, Yun Che suddenly realized that the darkness before his eyes was no longer absolute.
The Heaven-Defying Sword's body emitted a crimson glow, the color Yun Che was most familiar with. In this dark world where even Golden Crow flame could only illuminate a few steps, the crimson sword light from the Heaven-Defying Sword lit up the ground beneath his feet, the space ahead, the space above... the approaching dark vortex... and every corner of the Slay Moon Demon Cave within his sight!
Moreover, in Yun Che's pupils, the full image of the Slay Moon Demon Lord was clearly reflected!
At the same time, he suddenly felt that the fear, terror, and sense of invincibility that had always dominated his mind and soul when facing the Slay Moon Demon Lord had vanished—completely disappeared. The dark vortex devouring toward him no longer seemed so terrifying, and even the dark pressure from the Slay Moon Demon Lord no longer felt as heavy.
What... is going on?
All these changes occurred the moment Yun Che charged with his life on the line and the Heaven-Defying Sword appeared. But Yun Che had no time to be astonished or think, because in the next instant, the Heaven-Defying Sword struck the dark vortex from the Slay Moon Demon Lord with tremendous force.
The moment the sword's blade approached, Yun Che saw clearly that the surging, violent dark vortex visibly slowed down—or rather, it violently shrank!
Rip!!
The terrifying dark vortex, like a black curtain, was torn in two by the Heaven-Defying Sword. The surging dark demonic power did not devour Yun Che. Instead, it writhed, shrank, and twisted in the opposite direction, scattering desperately... as if it had encountered the most terrifying thing in the world.
The terrifying dark vortex was dissipated with a single blow. Yun Che was stunned for a moment, unable to believe his eyes. Likewise, the Slay Moon Demon Lord was stunned. He stopped his body, his eyes fixed on the sword in Yun Che's hand. The gray light in his pupils became extremely chaotic: "Th-that is..."
By then, Yun Che had quickly recovered. Without fear or heaviness in his heart, he used Star God Remnant Shadow to flash before the Slay Moon Demon Lord and slammed the Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying Sword heavily into his chest.
The Slay Moon Demon Lord, in his shock, was struck.
"Uwaaaaah!!"
A hoarse, agonized scream echoed through the entire Slay Moon Demon Cave. Although Yun Che's strike was hasty, it still carried tremendous force, sending the Slay Moon Demon Lord flying far away.
Yun Che did not pursue. He stood there, stunned... with the Slay Moon Demon Lord's scream, like a ghost's wail, ringing in his ears, long and unending.
An ancient demon, who had endured a million-year seal and possessed a powerful demonic body, had let out such a miserable scream from a single sword strike... as if he were enduring the harshest torture in the world.
The Slay Moon Demon Lord's black demonic body crashed heavily into a stone wall a hundred zhang away and tumbled down. But he did not stand. Instead, he rolled back and forth on the ground, letting out agonized howls... On his chest, where the Heaven-Defying Sword had struck, a crimson wound was clearly imprinted. The crimson light on the wound was glaringly bright and lingered for a long time. Streams of pitch-black blood flowed rapidly from the wound.
"De... Demon-Slaying... Sword!!"
The Slay Moon Demon Lord's voice was twisted in pain, but when he shouted the words "Demon-Slaying Sword," it was clearly laced with deep trembling and fear.
Yun Che stood there, looking at the world that was no longer dark but reflected in crimson, looking at the Slay Moon Demon Lord who had been terrifying moments ago but was now howling in agony... He looked down at the crimson great sword in his hand—familiar yet now somehow foreign—and his face was full of bewilderment.
"Hehehehe, just as I thought!" Mo Li laughed. "Once an ancient demon is wounded by the Demon-Slaying Sword, it suffers a thousand times the pain, and the wound heals ten times slower! The purer the demon, the more it fears the Demon-Slaying Sword!"
"Now you know why I said that with Hong'er, it isn't impossible for you to defeat the Slay Moon Demon Lord!"