Cultivation: I Have a Skill Level Panel

The Ox Demon revealed its true Demon Fiend form. Terrifying Demon Qi spread through the void, exuding a horrifying might!

"You... will all die!!"

The gigantic, several-dozen-zhang-tall Ox Demon let out a hoarse, grim roar, then suddenly erupted with overwhelming Demonic Power.

In an instant, Demon Qi as black as ink surged from its body, blanketing the sky and earth. The void trembled violently, like a tempestuous sea, and the surrounding ruined houses collapsed completely. Debris was swept up and scattered by the gale!

"This is bad!"

"To think this Demon Fiend still has this much power!!"

Seeing this from a distance, a look of shock appeared on Qiu Yong's face.

Facing such a powerful Demon Fiend form, 'do we really have any chance of winning?'

But He Wen wasn't thinking that far ahead. A flash of crimson glinted in his eyes. He gripped his Battle Halberd, his tattered robes whipping about and his long hair fluttering on its own.

In just a blink of an eye, the Demon Fiend before him had undergone such a transformation, its power surging yet again!

But he couldn't worry about that now. No matter what tricks the enemy had, he had to give it his all!!

'My time... is running out.'

"Ox Demon, die for me!"

A crimson light flashed in He Wen's eyes. With ferocious might, he unleashed his True Yuan, and blood-red True Yuan surged through the surrounding void.

The vast True Yuan made the void ripple and tremble like the surface of water!

"Blood Annihilation Palm!"

He Wen roared, summoning the Blood-colored True Essence from all around him. It seemed to transform into a boundless, churning sea of blood. The vast True Essence Blood Sea gathered and condensed into a hundred-zhang-wide, blood-colored Palm Seal, which then shot forward with a deafening whistle. As if possessing the power to overturn mountains and rivers, the terrifying blood-colored Palm Seal rushed forth to annihilate the Ox Demon!!

At the same time, Qiu Yong, in the distance, also unleashed his strongest power. A gleam of saber light flashed in his eyes, sharp enough to slice through the void itself!

He slashed at the several-dozen-zhang-tall Ox Demon, and a wave of Sword Qi nearly a hundred zhang wide tore through the void.

Like a meteor streaking across the sky, it radiated a brilliant silver light as it hacked down with unparalleled sharpness toward the Ox Demon, who was engulfed in monstrous Demon Qi!

...

At this moment, Li Xingyue stood atop the phantom of a Longsword, streaking across the heavens like a beam of meteoric sword light.

After flying for some time, he had already reached the borders of the Great Yan Dynasty.

His friend held a high-ranking position in the Demon Suppression Bureau.

After receiving his friend's call for help, Li Xingyue had given it some thought and decided to make the trip. He was now speeding toward Shangjing City!

Gazing down at the endless mountains and rivers below, Li Xingyue couldn't help but marvel at the magnificent landscape!

"Hm?!"

From high in the nine heavens, Li Xingyue casually slashed downward, sending a stream of Sword Qi imbued with Sword Momentum plummeting from the sky, piercing through the firmament!

Down below, near a forest lake,

a middle-aged cultivator at the Spiritual Martial Realm Fourth Layer and a beautiful woman with Spiritual Martial Third Realm Cultivation who was holding a baby in her arms were in peril.

HISS!

A python several zhang long, covered in dark scales, fixed its cold eyes on the three of them as if staring at prey. It flicked its tongue, making a hissing sound.

To the middle-aged cultivator, it was undoubtedly the sound of the Death God's arrival. He never imagined that his family of three would encounter a Spiritual Martial Fifth Layer Demon Beast python just by crossing this mountain range!!

HISS!!

After flicking its tongue, the Demon Beast python shifted its cold gaze to the beautiful woman and the baby in her arms. It then let out a hoarse cry and lunged straight for her!

A demonic wind stirred, filling the air with Demon Qi and kicking up a fierce gale!

"Yue'Er, watch out!!"

The middle-aged cultivator roared. The Longsword on his back flew from its sheath, a cold glint flashing through the air like lightning. Blossoms of sword light bloomed as a sharp and deadly Sword Momentum, like a sudden squall, slashed toward the giant Demon Beast python!

Without any hesitation, the beautiful woman floated backward with the baby in her arms.

The two had grown up together.

They were of one mind, their hearts connected.

A single action, a single glance, was all they needed to understand each other's intentions.

But before the beautiful woman had moved more than a few steps away,

CRACK!!

the middle-aged cultivator's sky-full of sword light was instantly shattered by the Demon Beast python.

His Longsword was also broken by the python, left in pieces.

Then, a vicious glint flashed in the Demon Beast python's eyes. It opened its savage maw wide and, with tyrannical power, lunged as if to bite the middle-aged cultivator's head off!!

"My love!!"

Panic!

Terror!

The beautiful woman turned to see the scene, and a look of anguish washed over her face.

But in this moment of unprecedented crisis,

the middle-aged cultivator remained calm and composed, a cold light flickering in his eyes.

With a backhand motion, he spun the broken half of his sword to block in front of him!

BANG!!

The broken blade got stuck in the Demon Beast python's savage maw, but in the next instant, it was bitten into scraps of metal.

At the same time, the middle-aged cultivator was sent flying by the python's massive body. Like a kite with a broken string, he crashed heavily onto the ground, bleeding profusely and severely wounded!!

But the middle-aged cultivator paid no mind to his injuries. Lying on the ground, he turned his head and roared at the beautiful woman, "Get away from here!!"

But how could the Demon Beast python let them have their way?!

It twisted its body and moved with the speed of lightning, like a serpentine phantom.

Serpentine movement!

It crossed several dozen zhang in an instant and bit down directly at the middle-aged cultivator's head.

"NO!!!"

A heart-wrenching wail escaped from the beautiful woman. Cradling the baby with one arm, her eyes bloodshot, she leaped across the distance to the middle-aged cultivator's side and, with her free hand, swung her frail Spiritual Qi, trying to fend off the Demon Beast python's deadly attack!!

"Yue'Er!

You!!!"

The middle-aged cultivator's pupils contracted, and a look of anguish crossed his face.

The middle-aged cultivator understood. How could she possibly be a match for a Spiritual Martial Realm Fifth Layer Demon Beast python? For her to come here now...

'She must be trying to die with me!!'

'Sigh!!'

'So be it!'

Just as a look of release appeared on the middle-aged cultivator's face,

as if everything was over!

TWANG!

Between heaven and earth,

a clear sword hum resonated.

An unprecedented beam of Sword Qi suddenly split the firmament.

It was like a meteor streaking across the sky,

or a river of stars falling from the heavens.

The brilliant sword light seemed to illuminate the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands!!

The exceptionally tyrannical Sword Qi tore through space and pierced the heavens!

In a near instant, with the ease of snapping dry twigs, it utterly pulverized the Demon Beast python into dust!!

Looking at the dust and debris that was once the Demon Beast python, it was as if it had never been there at all.

All that remained was a razor-sharp, residual Sword Qi in the void, which seemed on the verge of shattering!!

The middle-aged cultivator stared blankly, his face a mask of utter shock and disbelief!!

His gaze inadvertently swept toward the heavens.

There, he saw a figure in white robes transform into a beam of meteoric sword light and vanish in a flash!!

He stared blankly and muttered in his mind:

'True... Martial Realm!'

"Dalang!!!"

As he, a survivor of a near-fatal ordeal, still wore a look of shock and bewilderment,

a warm body suddenly threw itself upon him, knocking him to the ground!!