Chapter 232: True Demon Domain
The Primordial Ancient Mine had existed in the world for who knows how many years.
Throughout the ages, outstanding talents and heavenly prodigies had illuminated the sky of history like bright lamps, but never had anyone managed to seal or destroy the Primordial Ancient Mine—this said everything.
It simply stood there across the ages, watching generation after generation of prodigies grow old, turn to dust, and become the past. The only thing that never changed was it itself.
The Ancient Mine was a living existence, and since ancient times, few had ever witnessed it.
On the crimson earth flowing with pure moonlight, a delicate, jade-carved child hopped and skipped about, incredibly beautiful and adorable. Soft black hair fluttered, and pure white wings constantly flapped, like a little spirit dancing under the night moon.
The seven people were shocked, slowly backing away.
If this were anywhere else, it would surely draw people's admiration. Such a chubby, cute child would be loved by anyone. But here, no one felt that way. All were on high alert, ready for battle.
The little boy walked forward, looking at them curiously, tilting his head as he observed them, showing no sign of danger.
"Perhaps we can kill him in one strike, make him vanish into nothing!" Holy Son Yao Guang usually had a brilliant smile, but now killing intent leaked from him.
"Do you have the confidence to destroy him in one blow? Otherwise, we might alert something bigger," Old Knife Handle said gravely.
Holy Son Yao Guang did not answer, silently sensing something. Suddenly, his entire body burst with holy light. "No, something's wrong!"
"Fake, this is fake!" Li Desheng cried out in terror, his Nether Eye flickering with dark light. His face pale, he kept retreating.
"What did you see?" Yao Xi asked.
"This isn't his true body. It's formed from nether qi. I saw a colossal creature, not a child at all." Li Desheng's voice trembled.
"Attack!" Old Knife Handle shouted, his seemingly ordinary tobacco pipe turning upside down and striking forward.
The pipe swelled up like a giant funnel descending from above, firelight flashing within, smoke and dust billowing.
"Ooooh..."
A sharp, ear-piercing shriek rang out. In an instant, the chubby child swelled up, his body reaching five meters tall. His cyan skin was rough like a lizard's, covered in bumps and lumps. The white wings on his back transformed into bony white wings, growing sharp spikes. Gray hair flew wildly, messy and over two meters long. His eyes turned fierce, blood-red.
There was nothing cute left. This colossal creature exuded a fierce aura, its body covered in chilling hairs—a true evil being.
"Clang"
Its right arm blocked the sky. The giant tobacco pipe, now ten zhang wide, struck with immense force, but the creature sent it flying with a single blow, sparks scattering everywhere.
Strength that could lift the heavens!
It let out a muffled roar and pounced forward instantly. There was no clumsiness; instead, it was incredibly fast, bringing a gale with it.
Everyone struck out. They were about to leave the Primordial Forbidden Zone but had encountered such an evil being. They had to fight to the death, or all their efforts would be for nothing.
Yao Xi, graceful as the bright moon, pure and elegant, gently shook her delicate hands. A clear radiance bloomed, forming a curtain of light in front of her, blocking the demonic colossus and cutting off its path.
"Boom"
But the unknown creature was too powerful. Its cyan, dustpan-like hand smashed through the light curtain, easily breaking in.
Everyone's expression changed. Yao Xi was incredibly strong. As the Holy Maiden of Yaoguang, she cultivated secret arts that shook the world. At barely twenty years old, she was already a cultivator of the third secret realm, with few rivals among her peers.
Yet she couldn't even block a single blow from the unknown creature. The light curtain in the sky shattered like crystal, scattering in all directions, each piece sparkling and dazzling.
The cyan hand's nails were several feet long, curved like heavenly hooks, sharp and menacing, gleaming with cold light as they slashed forward.
Chen Huaiyuan offered up his Azure Lotus Lamp. A cyan halo rippled as the treasure lamp ignited. Sword qi shot out from the wick, turning into silver beams that slashed forward.
"Clang, clang, clang"
The sharp sword qi struck the cyan hand, sparks flying everywhere, as if hitting Great Luo Silver Essence. They couldn't cut through it at all.
"Crack"
The cyan, sharp nails slashed. The Azure Lotus Lamp flashed a few times before being crushed, turning to powder in that giant hand. At the same time, the unknown creature charged forward like a ghost.
"Puff"
Blood and rain scattered everywhere. It was too fast. No one could stop it. In an instant, it tore open Chen Huaiyuan's chest. Red and green, his internal organs spilled out.
"Crack"
It was like a wild beast. It grabbed the corpse and shoved it into its mouth, biting off half the body in one go. Blood dripped from the corners of its mouth, and the sound of bones being crushed echoed—crunch, crunch.
All of this happened in the blink of an eye, so fast that people could only change expressions, powerless to stop the tragedy.
This was absolutely a demon. Powerful, terrifying, cruel. Life meant nothing to it. It treated Chen Huaiyuan like food, like a chicken or duck.
Now, no one held back. Regardless of past grudges, they had to join forces. Otherwise, they might all die here.
"Hum"
Ye Fan's palm-sized Li Fire Divine Furnace grew with the wind. It wasn't made of copper essence but seemed forged from five-colored crystal—very beautiful and translucent.
The divine furnace expanded instantly, reaching over thirty meters tall, and crashed toward the unknown creature like a mountain.
The cyan creature spread its snow-white bone wings, soaring up to dodge the furnace's frontal charge. It swung its dustpan-like hand and smashed down fiercely.
"Bang"
A cyan flash. It struck the copper furnace. The deafening sound was like a tsunami, nearly making people go deaf.
The thirty-meter-tall copper furnace flew away like a deflated ball. The five-colored crystal quickly dimmed, and a huge dent appeared in the furnace's body.
It was completely deformed, like an egg with a bite taken out of it, missing a chunk.
Ye Fan's expression changed. Even when he used the Battle Saint Art, he only left a palm print on the furnace. Now it had been smashed in.
Such force would shatter anything. Only the Li Fire Divine Furnace, being special and nearly indestructible, had survived. Otherwise, it would have turned to powder.
The five-meter-tall unknown creature spread its bone wings and dove down, bringing a gale as it attacked Ye Fan, like a green mountain crashing down.
Ye Fan felt his blood surge, as if it had been ignited, burning fiercely.
The massive creature in the sky was oppressive, its heat like an ocean.
Ye Fan took nine steps across the void, incredibly strange, changing positions nine times, disrupting the flow of time and space. He barely escaped the killing blow.
Otherwise, he couldn't have blocked it. This unknown creature was too powerful. Even if he were a cultivator of the Dao Palace secret realm, or even in the third secret realm of Four Extremes, he couldn't contend with it.
"Boom"
Holy Son Yao Guang struck out. Divine light shone in ten thousand ways, as if it could illuminate mountains and rivers. He was no different from a sun, impossible to look at directly.
"Ooooh..."
The unknown creature let out a great roar and retreated a few steps, shocking everyone.
"The Golden Light Art repels all techniques. Maybe it can restrain him!" Old Knife Handle shouted.
Indeed, the unknown creature seemed wary, not immediately attacking.
Holy Son Yao Guang blazed fiercely, like a god of light. Holy light burned intensely, illuminating the entire area. He walked through the void and struck forward.
"Boom"
He usually seemed gentle, but when he attacked, he was terrifyingly powerful, like a divine furnace burning. His fists erupted with ten thousand zhang of golden light, covering the unknown creature.
The demonic creature growled low. Though wary of the holy light, it wasn't absolutely afraid. Its cyan hand struck out, bone wings flapping, as it fought back fiercely.
Light blazed. Holy Son Yao Guang, bathed in holy light, exchanged three heavy blows with the cyan hand.
Divine light filled the sky. The stars and moon dimmed. Centered on Holy Son Yao Guang, the world was eternal light.
"So powerful... They say Holy Son Yao Guang has a heaven-granted talent, able to rival a Divine King. Seeing him today, he's truly terrifying." Old Knife Handle showed surprise.
Ye Fan was also shocked. Holy Son Yao Guang should be in the third secret realm of Four Extremes, but he was too strong, fighting the monster to a draw.
The Eastern Wasteland Divine Body, when displaying its strongest divine phenomenon, could cross a major secret realm to contend with stronger opponents. This was its most terrifying reliance, practically invincible at the same level. No matter how talented you were, you would end in defeat. Hence the title Divine King.
And now, Holy Son Yao Guang had clearly shown divine power surpassing the third secret realm. Like the Sun God, his whole body was radiant, holy light shining in all directions. He truly rivaled a Divine King.
"Boom," "Boom"...
They clashed fiercely. The monster could match him, making the demon roar in fury. Its massive body swayed, threatening to fall from midair.
Holy Son Yao Guang grew braver as he fought. Every move he made released ten thousand holy lights. A dazzling disk formed behind his head, shining brilliantly, more real and clear than a deity's halo.
"He's like a second Mad Old Man. In the future, he might suppress a Divine King with a mortal body. A heaven-granted talent!" Old Knife Handle murmured.
Yao Xi, with her peerless immortal face, wore a faint smile. "Everyone, let's attack together and kill this beast quickly."
The Holy Maiden of Yao Chi watched the battlefield, her eyes sparkling with strange light. "Good. Let's end this quickly and leave."
Holy Son Yao Guang's performance was too powerful. No one could remain calm. Their thoughts were different.
As they all attacked, the unknown creature's bone wings covered the sky. Its body swelled, becoming many times larger, reaching thirty meters tall, stirring the heavenly wind.
At the same time, the sky twisted. Everyone felt bound, frozen in midair.
"Heavens, this is the True Demon Domain!" Old Knife Handle exclaimed, struggling to move but very slowly.
"The Primordial True Demon Domain!" The Holy Maiden of Yao Chi was also shocked. She too moved with difficulty.
Even Holy Son Yao Guang, like a deity, was affected. Every step he took required holy light to surge into the sky, consuming vast divine power. Otherwise, his movements were slow.
As for Li Desheng, he was completely frozen. Though a cultivator of the Dao Palace secret realm, he couldn't move an inch.
In midair, the thirty-meter-tall cyan creature was ferocious. It slowly extended its hand, reaching forward.
The Primordial True Demon Domain was extremely terrifying. Even it was affected, slowed down, but still far faster than the others.
If this continued, they would surely meet a grim fate, torn apart one by one!
"Damn it, why me?" Ye Fan cursed his bad luck. The unknown creature was closest to him, reaching out to crush him.
But he was the calmest of all, because the True Demon Domain didn't affect him. His Wheel Sea and Dao Palace vibrated with a mysterious, strange force, dissolving the domain's influence.
Ye Fan understood instantly. The True Demon Domain was equivalent to a human cultivator's divine phenomenon. His Sacred Body was special, naturally restraining divine phenomena.
Back then, even the Ji Family's Divine Body couldn't do anything to him with his divine phenomenon. In a sense, that was the strongest human divine phenomenon at the same level.
The True Demon Domain, though terrifying, was still within the scope of divine phenomena. It couldn't immobilize him.
Ye Fan shot out like lightning, shocking everyone. It was unbelievable that he was unaffected in the True Demon Domain.
He summoned the Li Fire Divine Furnace and quickly offered it up. The copper furnace expanded, reaching a hundred meters tall.
"Clang"
The furnace lid opened. The fire furnace doubled in size. Li Fire surged to the sky, burning toward the unknown creature.
Beside him, everyone was stunned. This was too surprising.
The True Demon Domain was famous, far beyond ordinary divine phenomena. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been bound, moving slowly.
Ye Fan's cultivation was clearly shallower than theirs, yet he could move and even activate divine power to offer up the strange furnace.
Flames covered the sky, burning fiercely, engulfing the monster.
Now, the True Demon Domain affected the space, even limiting the creature's own movements. It couldn't dodge and was covered by the great fire.
Rage!
Roars split the clouds. It swung its giant claws at the furnace, but its speed was slow. Ye Fan's divine sense moved, and the giant furnace shifted position instantly.
Flames surged, surrounding the unknown creature, burning with crackling sounds. But they couldn't destroy its body, only causing it pain.
"Daoist, use any means you have! The True Demon Domain is unpredictable and extremely terrifying. But once activated, even the caster can't easily retract it. It needs time to buffer." Old Knife Handle reminded.
Ye Fan focused his mind. He had to kill this creature now. Otherwise, if it recovered, they wouldn't survive.
"Hum"
The Li Fire Divine Furnace shook violently. The furnace mouth was pitch black, generating a heaven-swallowing force!
He activated the divine furnace but couldn't suck the powerful cyan creature inside. Finally, he made the furnace turn upside down, like a cup, and slammed it down.
Since he couldn't suck it in, he'd trap it!
The powerful unknown creature roared in fury, but its movements were too slow. It couldn't dodge and was covered by the furnace.
It was a self-inflicted trap. The True Demon Domain had limited itself.
The furnace turned, mouth facing up.
"Clang"
The lid flew over, sealing the black hole tightly, trapping the demon.
At the same time, the True Demon Domain was cut off. Everyone regained their freedom.
Everyone was shocked. What kind of furnace was this? It had been dented but could block the True Demon Domain.
"Daoist, you're truly surprising. Even the True Demon Domain can't bind you. Unbelievable!" Li Desheng exclaimed.
"If you did all this without relying on a treasure, it's truly astonishing!" Old Knife Handle also sighed.
"Bang," "Bang"
Inside the furnace, the unknown creature shook the heavens with its power. It struck the furnace walls, deforming them. Here a bulge, there a bulge, all palm prints. It seemed it might shatter at any moment.
Holy Son Yao Guang descended from the sky, divine light soaring into the heavens. Like an Immortal King, he stood at the furnace mouth, holding down the lid. He offered up the Holy Light Art and began to refine the creature inside.
Desperate roars, terrifying screams, came through the furnace walls.
The Li Fire Divine Furnace twisted and deformed, completely out of shape. Everyone's hearts pounded, thinking it would shatter soon.
But as time passed, the furnace kept deforming but never broke.
Everyone was stunned. This broken furnace was too sturdy!
Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.
Next chapter will be updated on the 15th at noon.