Chapter 334: High Profile

Although demon kings at the Void-Piercing Realm existed in the deep sea region of the Deep-Blue Sea, the region had ultimately been swept through by the Penglai Dao Lord more than once.

Even if there were Void-Piercing Realm demon kings, their numbers were extremely rare.

Under such circumstances, the Heavenly Ruin Hall, which had two Void-Piercing Realm experts holding the line and was driving a warship, was almost an invincible existence throughout the entire Deep-Blue Sea.

Along the way, they swept through everything like splitting bamboo, exterminating countless demons.

However, this high-profile conduct left a rather steady-tempered Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal somewhat worried. "Although the deep sea is unlike the outer sea, which belongs to the front line where the Penglai Immortal Sect and the demons wage war, Void-Piercing Realm demon kings still infiltrate from time to time and stir up trouble. If we proceed so openly, it will be very easy to draw high-tier demons into attacking and intercepting us."

Qi Sha did not agree with this Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal’s suggestion. Instead, he turned his gaze toward Yaoguang. "Hall Master, when you made your moves previously, you did not even spare ninth-tier great demons. Are you planning to use one battle after another to quickly adapt to the changes in power brought by advancing to the Void-Piercing Realm?"

Yaoguang glanced at this acting hall master and did not deny it. "That is indeed my intention."

"With the foundation you accumulated when you crushed the eighty-eight peaks, ninth-tier great demons probably don't have the opportunity to make you reveal your true strength. Only Void-Piercing Realm demon kings can truly test the limits of your strength. Therefore, you are planning to draw out demon kings by keeping a high profile during this trip." Qi Sha made his guess, and he was also firmly convinced of it.

He turned his gaze toward the Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal who had made the suggestion. "A demon king is just a demon king. Although the hall master has only recently reached the Void-Piercing Realm, he is not as weak as you think. Besides, with me here, nothing will happen."

This Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal recalled Qi Sha’s battle record of having forcefully killed Void-Piercing Realm demon kings head-on more than once, and in the end gave up on trying to persuade him.

Even if they really encountered a demon king, with Qi Sha present, he would be enough to cover for them and ensure nothing went wrong.

The Heavenly Ruin Hall had thought that with their lineup, they could move unhindered throughout the entire deep sea region. In the end, they had clearly underestimated the strength the demons possessed in this sea region.

Before the warship reached the second lair, as they passed through a certain sea region, a Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal sensed something.

"There are traces that the surrounding ocean currents have been artificially altered..." As he spoke, his gaze turned toward the distance.

There was an ocean storm gradually forming there. Although its scale was not large and could not affect this warship or the cultivators on it, combined with the traces of altered ocean currents...

"Destroy that storm," Yaoguang cautiously gave the order.

Qi Sha glanced at the range of that storm...

It covered tens of thousands of kilometers. If a Void-Piercing Realm battle immortal wanted to destroy it, they would probably have to use their full strength, which would be detrimental to the stability of their Primordial Void.

"I will do it." As Qi Sha spoke, he rose into the air. After reaching a certain height, he drew a battle saber from his body.

Then, the void shook.

Countless traces of energy that seemed to contain the purest destructive power in the world gathered upon his blade, forming a burst of dazzling purple light.

The purple light condensed for less than a breath before Qi Sha, who stood in the air, suddenly swung his saber.

The next moment, the dazzling purple light cut through the sky. Not long after it flew out, it reacted violently and expanded, forming a massive purple tsunami.

The range of the tsunami grew quickly, going from several hundred to several thousand meters, and continuing to expand until it was more than a thousand kilometers wide...

Purple light surged, dyeing all the scenery purple.

Once this strike collided with the storm, it would definitely be able to scatter it, despite the storm being tens of thousands of kilometers wide.

However, just as this saber strike was about to cleave through the storm, a streak of azure light suddenly shot out from within the clouds.

The intensity of the energy contained within the azure light might not be comparable to the Great Dao of destruction contained in this saber strike, but it used a single point to break through the surface, blasting open a gap in this purple tsunami-like radiance. Immediately after, a flying lifeform resembling a manta ray, tens of kilometers long, flew out from the gap blasted open in the purple tsunami.

On the manta ray, three figures shone at the same time.

A burst of blazing and violent energy appeared above the manta ray like a scorching sun.

Before this energy could illuminate heaven and earth, void ripples flashed.

Standing on the warship, Yaoguang instantly realized something through Void’s Child and its keen perception of the void laws. "Careful!"

The next moment, the Wandering Dragon Sword pierced through the void and shot straight into the clouds.

Almost at the same time the Wandering Dragon Sword rushed into the clouds, the radiance of the scorching sun, which had still been more than five thousand kilometers away, actually seemed to complete a void leap and directly blasted toward the front of the warship.

If not for the Wandering Dragon Sword moving forward immediately and using a method similar to the Space-Splitting Strike to stir up spatial ripples, fiercely smashing into that scorching ray and annihilating it with void power, this attack... Even if it could do nothing to the two Void-Piercing Realm experts, Qi Sha and Yaoguang, it would certainly have caused heavy losses to the Heavenly Ruin Hall.

"A demon biological warship!?"

"Three Void-Piercing Realm demon kings!?"

"We were so high-profile along the way that we have hooked a big fish!"

Amid waves of alarmed cries, the Void-Piercing Realm battle immortals rose into the air at the same time.

The other battle immortals and cultivators did not even need orders from Yaoguang or Qi Sha. They activated the array arts on this warship to their limits right away, and the entire warship was swiftly wrapped in multicolored flowing light.

"There are actually three Void-Piercing Realm demon kings in this sea region?!" Although Qi Sha was somewhat startled, he did not find it strange that demon kings appeared in this area.

At most, the number of demon kings had exceeded their expectations.

"Young Sect Master, you hold off one demon king first. I will deal with the other two. Once I kill those two demon kings, I will come assist you!" Qi Sha shouted in a low voice and was about to move forward to meet them.

"No! You only need to stand by and support me. Leave these three demon kings to me!" Yaoguang said in a deep voice.

"That is too dangerous. Any lifeform that reaches the Void-Piercing Realm and becomes a demon king will possess a lifespan of ten thousand years. Over such a long life, they will often develop one or two killing moves. The threat of these killing moves is so great that even Void-Refining Realm peak masters without protective Dao Artifacts must treat them with caution—"

Before Qi Sha could finish speaking, Yaoguang interrupted him, "Obey the order."

Using Void Flicker, Yaoguang instantly appeared five hundred kilometers in front of the demons.

Immediately after, golden light flowed over the Wandering Dragon Sword. It carried and compressed void power, quickly drawing a trajectory in the void, and slashed straight toward the demon king who also specialized in the Dao of the void.

Just as the Wandering Dragon Sword was about to strike the demon king, the void before it seemed to produce a mirror. Formless void power spread out from within this mirror, directly causing the surrounding void to invert and descend into chaos.

It seemed that any attack entering it would have its direction shifted, space distorted, and even be reflected back, harming the attacker instead.

But the Void Sword was too sharp.

This was especially true after it received the amplification of the Wandering Dragon Sword, a Dao Artifact. Its edge and penetrative power had reached the point where there was almost nothing it could not cut and nothing it could not destroy.

Before the Void Sword, it was as if the mirror did not exist. It was directly cut open with one slash and scattered layer by layer.

"Crap! It's a Dao Technique and a Dao Artifact!" This demon king’s expression changed drastically. It immediately wrapped itself in void power, and it flashed several hundred kilometers away.

Yet almost at the same time it flashed aside to avoid this sword, the radiance of the Two-Realm Ruler on Yaoguang also flickered. The Void Flicker carried the edge of the Wandering Dragon Sword behind the demon king. The sword tip stirred up a void edge and pierced straight toward this demon king.

"Careful!" The other two Void-Piercing Realm demon kings reacted extremely quickly.

One of the demon kings seemed to have locked its aura on Qi Sha to prevent him from suddenly erupting and attacking, but the other demon king, which had wings on its back and resembled the divine bird Azure Luan, clasped its hands together. A beam of fire compressed and condensed to the extreme was about to form.[1]

Then, the void froze.

A power sufficient to suppress and seal all space descended from above, freezing the Azure-Luan-like demon king in place.

It was the Heaven-Sealing Stele.

Yaoguang directly used the Heaven-Sealing Stele to dismantle this demon king’s rescue method. Taking this opportunity, the Wandering Dragon Sword stirred up void ripples and blasted into the other Void-Piercing Realm demon king.

Even though its body had been tempered countless times, and even though its body's toughness was something ordinary spirit treasures could not break through, before a Dao Artifact like the Wandering Dragon Sword, which contained intense void-cutting power, the Demon King was like paper. It was torn apart on the spot, spraying blood across the sky.

"What a powerful Dao Artifact!" Seeing this scene, Qi Sha, who had originally concentrated all his mind and focus, immediately felt greatly reassured.

Demons were different from humans.

Humans used their grotto-heaven as the foundation, planted a Dao Seed, and continued until they became Dao Lords. However, what demons cultivated was their life-bound divine ability.

After they advanced their mastery of a life-bound divine ability to its limits, it became a life-bound Dao Technique. By feeding the life-bound Dao Technique back into themselves, they caused it to evolve into a heavenly demon true body.

To a certain extent, this true body was the same as a human cultivator’s grotto-heaven. It was the carrier of the Dao Seed, and it was very difficult to destroy with ordinary methods.

However, the combination of the Void Sword and the Wandering Dragon Sword was clearly far beyond what a heavenly demon true body carrying a life-bound Dao Technique could withstand.

"It is not only this Dao Artifact that is extremely powerful. The thing that sealed that demon king..." Qi Sha paused, his gaze landing on the Azure-Luan-like demon king.

Judging by the frozen void fluctuations around it, this is clearly also the power of a Dao Artifact.

In addition, Yaoguang has crossed nearly five thousand kilometers in an instant. This isn't something that can be explained by a Dao Technique either. That has to be another Dao Artifact.

In other words, Yaoguang has three Dao Artifacts!

"That's impossible!" The moment this thought emerged in Qi Sha’s mind, his mind tried to suppress it.

A single Void-Piercing Realm cultivator with three Dao Artifacts on him? And that's after he sold the Longxiang Flying Vessel!

Four Dao Artifacts! What an astonishing amount of wealth! If they were given to me, I could immediately exchange them for enough resources to reach the Void-Refining Realm!

And possessing four Dao Artifacts will also grant an enormous advantage in the future when practicing Dao Techniques and reaching the Void-Shattering Realm. In other words, he may even have a chance to push for the Void-Shattering Realm!

At this thought, Qi Sha looked toward Yaoguang, who was currently locked in combat with the demon king, and his gaze immediately became uncertain.

1. Azure Luan is a divine bird in Chinese mythology, usually depicted with the phoenix. ☜