Chapter 786: Heaven-Defying Demon-Slaying
The flames still burned, but the fire had diminished significantly. The trembling of the demon cave and the ravaging storm had completely ceased. Yun Che lay collapsed on the ground, his blood-soaked body twitching faintly, and from his throat came occasional hoarse groans... proof that he was not dead, and that he still retained a shred of consciousness.
"Yun Che, don't try to stand up. Immediately calm your mind and circulate the Great Dao Pagoda Art!" Mo Li said quickly.
Mo Li's voice eased the trembling of Yun Che's body. He stopped trying to struggle, closed his eyes, and began to circulate the Great Dao Pagoda Art with all his might. He could vaguely see that his entire body was covered in blood, but he felt no pain at all... It was as if his entire body no longer belonged to him.
At the end of the demon cave, a few dozen steps to Yun Che's right, several flames burned slowly and unhurriedly. And the carrier of these flames was none other than the demonic body of Shiyue Mojun.
Shiyue Mojun's left arm and both legs had been severed from his body, broken into several pieces. Only one right arm remained, barely intact. His entire body was shattered beyond recognition, lying there like a pile of mud trampled by hundreds of feet. And even this remaining "mud" was being slowly burned and devoured by the Golden Crow Flame.
"...This... king... actually..."
The fingers on his right arm twitched, and from Shiyue Mojun's head, which could no longer turn, came a voice as hoarse and indistinct as sandpaper.
This sound caused Yun Che's body to stir slightly, then began to struggle violently. Mo Li said in a low voice: "Rest assured, you've smashed him into over a dozen pieces. He can still speak now only because he's clinging to the last remnants of his demonic breath. He'll be dead beyond death soon enough."
"..." Yun Che opened his eyes slightly, his face relaxing a little, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. With extreme difficulty, he said, "Mo Li... thank you. Otherwise..."
"Hmph! Otherwise, you'd definitely be dying more miserably than he is now!" Mo Li said with exasperation. But this time, she did not scold Yun Che for forcibly opening the "Heaven-Shattering" realm gate. Because it was the only choice, the only hope... and in the end, fate once again stood on Yun Che's side.
Although Yun Che's injuries were extremely severe, and would have killed any other cultivator a hundred times over, for Yun Che, not only would he not die, but he could recover in a relatively short time.
"Shiyue Mojun, do you have any last words?" Mo Li said coldly.
"Cough..." Shiyue Mojun groaned in pain and despair: "Evil God... a million years... of sealing... couldn't kill this king... yet this king... has actually... died at the hands of... a contemptible human..."
"Hmph! Although the Evil God's million-year seal didn't completely kill you, in the end, you still died by the power of the Evil God! It seems no matter how you struggle, even if you struggled for a million years, you couldn't escape the fate of dying at the hands of the Evil God!"
Mo Li's voice was cold but carried a heavy tone. Shiyue Mojun was about to die, and although she breathed a great sigh of relief, her heart remained heavy with a gloom that wouldn't dissipate quickly... If they hadn't entered here to find the Netherworld Brahma Flower, if Yun Che hadn't stubbornly insisted on staying—his characteristic love of courting danger—they wouldn't have known that an ancient demon was hidden here.
She couldn't imagine what a terrifying scene it would be if Shiyue Mojun continued to hide here until he fully recovered to the demon of yesteryear.
Yun Che's desperate strike killed Shiyue Mojun to save his own life and to obtain the Netherworld Brahma Flower. But what he killed was a demon! Perhaps no one in this world would ever know that he had extinguished a great calamity that would have plagued countless planets and realms in the future.
"E... vil... God..." Shiyue Mojun murmured lowly, then suddenly laughed hoarsely: "Ha... haha... ha... Do you... really think... that the Evil God... is a... god..."
"Oh? If the Evil God is not a god, then is he a human, or a demon?" Mo Li sneered: "You're about to die now. Having lived for hundreds or thousands of millions of years, are your last words just a bunch of ridiculous nonsense?"
"Heh... hehe..." Shiyue Mojun continued to laugh, but his laughter grew somewhat eerie. At this moment, his remaining right arm slowly, tremblingly lifted. The broken demon claw gradually opened, and even released a faint black light.
"!" Mo Li's heart tightened suddenly... Could it be that he still had some remaining power!?
But soon, she relaxed again. Although Yun Che was severely injured and utterly defenseless, with the dual protection of the Dragon God Bloodline and the Great Dao Pagoda, even if Shiyue Mojun could release one last demonic breath, it couldn't kill him.
At most, it would add a minor injury to his already severe wounds.
Within Shiyue Mojun's demon claw wrapped in black light, a pitch-black orb the size of a dragon's eye slowly materialized. His demon claw began to tremble, and from his mouth came a hateful, hoarse voice: "Contemptible human... who inherits the Evil God's power... This king... even if he sacrifices... his demon orb... will make you... suffer eternal... doom!!"
His trembling arm gathered all the remaining power of his broken body and flung it forward... The pitch-black demon orb fell through the darkness, touched Yun Che's body, and directly sank into his body.
This sudden anomaly startled Mo Li, and she said in a deep voice: "What is that! What did you throw over!"
"Ha... haha... hahahaha..." Shiyue Mojun burst into wild laughter, his laughter extremely hoarse, painful, and sorrowful... yet also twisted with elation.
"Ahh!!"
At this moment, Yun Che suddenly let out a pained groan, and his blood-covered body gradually became shrouded in a faint black light... The aura released by this light was unmistakably the dark demonic aura!
"!!" Ignoring the risk, Mo Li's soul quickly left the Heavenly Poison Pearl and re-entered Yun Che's body. Her divine sense locked onto the pitch-black orb that had entered Yun Che's body, and she was shocked to find that it had entered his profound vein, releasing layers of dark black light that illuminated the entire profound vein in a murky darkness.
Mo Li quickly extended her hand, intending to extinguish it with her own power... But the moment her finger pointed out, her soul trembled violently, and her face turned pale with shock.
The dark demonic breath released by this dark orb was not strong; it could even be said to be quite weak, not enough to kill even Yun Che in his current state in a short time. However, the level of this demonic breath was terrifyingly high!
Far beyond the scope of her understanding!
Suddenly, Mo Li recalled the words "demon orb" that Shiyue Mojun had mentioned when he offered this black orb...
Could it be that this was Shiyue Mojun's Demon Source Pearl!?
According to records, the Demon Source Pearl carried the life source, soul source, and dark source of an ancient demon!!
A thing of the demonic level!!
Mo Li's small hand trembled slightly... No!! If this really was the Demon Source Pearl from the records, even if its power was weak, it was simply not something I could destroy! And now it had forcibly fused into Yun Che's Evil God's Mysterious Vein... Even if I could forcefully destroy it, it was extremely likely to severely damage the profound vein!
What's going on!? That's the Evil God's profound vein, why would it be so easily fused by a Demon Source Pearl? Could it be because the level of the Demon Source Pearl was too high, while Yun Che's profound power level was too low, causing the profound vein to be unable to resist?
Mo Li's expression shifted and struggled repeatedly. Finally, she extended her hand again, and a crimson profound energy surged up, which she then weakened, and weakened again... After weakening it more than a dozen times, she finally pushed it toward Yun Che's profound vein and carefully wrapped it around the pitch-black orb.
Immediately, the black light was obscured and covered by the crimson light, and the already faint demonic breath vanished completely... sealed by Mo Li's power.
Mo Li withdrew her arm and quickly returned to the Heavenly Poison Pearl... Sealing this thing, which was likely the Demon Source Pearl, was the only method she could think of. But to avoid damaging Yun Che's profound vein, she dared not use too much power, so the seal would not last very long. Therefore, from now on, she would have to reapply the seal at regular intervals.
"Shiyue Mojun..." Yun Che felt the drastic changes in his profound vein and body, and gritted his teeth as he roared hoarsely: "What did you... do to me!"
"This king... has given you... a great gift... that will make you... unable to live or die... Ha... haha... cough..." A gush of black blood spewed from Shiyue Mojun's mouth, carrying away most of his remaining life breath.
"You..." Yun Che clenched his teeth but couldn't stand up.
"Don't worry, I've already sealed it," Mo Li said coldly. Though she said "don't worry," her heart was exceptionally heavy because this Demon Source Pearl had already fused into the Evil God's Mysterious Vein. Perhaps... one day, there would be unpredictable changes or mutations!
A thing of the demonic level, even Mo Li could not control or predict.
"Heh..." Shiyue Mojun's body could no longer move at all, and his voice was as weak as the buzz of an insect: "You... foolish... contemptible humans... really think that my demon race... was annihilated...?"
"The one... that was... exiled... will one... day..."
The last trace of dark light in Shiyue Mojun's pupils completely vanished.
Thus, the king of the Eternal Night Demon Race, who had survived the ancient divine-demonic catastrophe and escaped the Evil God's million-year seal, met his end at the hands of a human, forever vanishing in the sunless Shiyue Demon Cave.
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