BXBX NOVEL Chapter 657: The Protection Period Is Over, The Demon
Chapter 657: The Protection Period Is Over, The Demon
Jiang Chengxuan’s voice suddenly rang out.
Hearing his words, the pupils of the three Demon Lords constricted.
BOOM!
Without any hesitation, Blood Sea Demon Lord suddenly stirred up a violent wave of blood sea.
Grotesque, twisted faces surfaced in the blood sea, resembling evil ghosts, attempting to tear apart the surrounding fog.
Around Boneshadow Demon Lord, numerous white bone spikes materialized out of thin air.
They screeched sharply as they shot through the air, appearing capable of piercing the void, targeting a specific location.
Venom Demon Lord’s eyes glowed with a purple-black hue.
Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi!
In an instant, sounds of corrosion filled the air as a vast expanse of purple-black poison fog spread out like a virus, rapidly diffusing in all directions.
However, all their attacks were nullified in an instant by three streaks of green light, disappearing without a trace.
“What?”
The Demon Lords were shocked.
At that moment, a blue tsunami, resembling a tornado, surged towards Blood Sea Demon Lord.
Meanwhile, a sword light as fierce as the blazing sun, accompanied by roaring flames, fiercely slashed towards Boneshadow Demon Lord.
Both Demon Lords were caught off guard.
Ignoring everything else, Blood Sea Demon Lord and Boneshadow Demon Lord hastily summoned their treasures to confront the incoming attacks.
BOOM!
A terrifying collision erupted once again.
Just then, a figure radiating golden light suddenly appeared from the void.
With a swish.
It swiftly closed in on the Venom Demon Lord.
“Metal-elemental divine power!”
Venom Demon Lord’s heart pounded with alarm, as the shadow of death loomed over him.
Without a moment to spare, Venom Demon Lord suddenly transformed into a cloud of poison fog, dispersing in all directions.
Swish, swish—
As the golden thread passed through, all the poison fog in the air evaporated. When the golden thread turned to target another section of the fog, a round shield suddenly appeared in front of it.
The shield, etched with numerous mystical patterns, faced the oncoming golden thread.
The golden thread that Jiang Chengxuan had transformed into slashed at the round shield, and countless flames instantly erupted.
Boom, boom, boom!
Venom Demon Lord’s form solidified, then he was seen retreating rapidly, his body shaking.
“How come?”
Venom Demon Lord muttered in shock.
One had to know that the round shield he summoned now was an extremely powerful defensive True Treasure.
Although it did not have the Pure Yang attribute, its grade had also reached Level 6.
Especially the fact that it was infused with a substance like the Skyward Sacred Soil.
It not only possessed the formidable defensive capabilities of earth-elemental treasures but also had the void attribute, which could nullify attacks.
Yet now, his shield seemed to provide only limited resistance against Jiang Chengxuan’s attack.
What is going on?
Jiang Chengxuan, however, showed no intention of answering his question. Instead, a faint smile appeared on his face, and five different colored radiances rose behind him, forming a light screen.
There was a whoosh.
Suddenly, the celestial shield in front of Venom Demon Lord disappeared, reappearing in Jiang Chengxuan’s hand.
“What?”
This was no small matter.
Venom Demon Lord was dumbfounded.
He could not figure out how his treasure had ended up in Jiang Chengxuan’s hands.
Before he could ponder further, a bi-colored fireball, golden and white, approached him rapidly.
“Danger!”
Venom Demon Lord sensed imminent peril, but this time, he had no chance to react.
The bi-colored fireball flashed once, and Venom Demon Lord let out a scream. Then, there was a bang.
In an instant, he turned into a human torch.
He was burning fiercely.
No matter how he tried to transform into a cloud of poison, the flames, like maggots in bone, relentlessly burned him until every trace of his existence vanished into nothingness.
The bi-colored flames in the sky gradually extinguished.
Whoosh—
In the void, a vast swath of purple-black poison evaporated into nothingness. The aura of spiritual Qi swept over every person present like a torrential flood. Boneshadow and Blood Sea Demon Lords, engaged in battle with Infinite Ocean and Xuan Yang, felt a chill in their hearts.
They had not anticipated that Venom Demon Lord would fall so quickly against Jiang Chengxuan.
It was almost as if he had been effortlessly defeated.
No!
They couldn’t afford to stay here any longer!
Both Blood Sea and Boneshadow Demon Lords realized this and exchanged glances.
The next moment, they released an incredibly fierce aura.
A blood-colored banner and a white bone sword suddenly shone with a malevolent light.
At the same time.
The two Demon Lords spoke out,
“Are you sure you want to fight us to the death here?
Do you think that only the three of us are the Soul Formation Demon Lords who were secretly left in this world this time?”
Hearing that, the two Heavenly Lords, Infinite Ocean and Xuan Yang, were stunned.
However, Jiang Chengxuan’s voice soon echoed from afar.
“Is that so?
Then do you know why there are only the three of us in this place?”
“You… ?”
The two Demon Lords’ pupils dilated in shock, unable to believe what they were hearing as they looked towards Jiang Chengxuan.
“You actually…”
“Indeed, you guessed it.
But, unfortunately, there are no rewards for guessing right.”
Jiang Chengxuan replied with an indifferent expression.
“I told you before. Since you’ve come, you all should stay here with us.”
As he finished speaking, his golden sword radiance once again illuminated the void.
Soon, the despairing roars of Blood Sea and Boneshadow filled the air.
At the same time.
Not far from the state of Jiang, a massive explosion thundered across the land. Endless lightning roared and raged, accompanied by black and white Qi and a five-colored radiance.
In an instant, a figure shrouded in dark light was blasted high into the sky.
Moments later, even more ferocious explosions echoed within the Nine Heavens Realm.
After a long while, calm returned.
Jiang Chengxuan, floating above the Ancient River Desert, turned to Infinite
Ocean and Xuan Yang beside him and said,
“It seems our predictions were correct.
Those beings indeed had a backup plan.”
“Thanks to your preparations, Fellow Daoist Jiang, we were able to thwart their final escape route.”
Heavenly Lord Infinite Ocean complimented with a smile.
Jiang Chengxuan shook his head and replied, “You are too kind, Infinite Ocean.
Our success is the result of everyone’s efforts.
Let’s just hope no more unforeseen events occur.”
“Fellow Daoist Jiang, do you think there are still remnants of those beings left?”
Heavenly Lord Xuan Yang couldn’t help but ask.
Jiang Chengxuan shook his head, “I can’t be certain at the moment.
However, according to my estimation, after this ordeal, we should all be able to rest for a while.
I don’t believe anyone would foolishly leap out and stir up trouble at this critical juncture.”
Indeed, as Jiang Chengxuan predicted, the following decades were relatively peaceful in the Northern Border.
The demon monsters that appeared earlier on did not appear again.
Including the demon race, there were no big movements.
Jiang Chengxuan and Shen Ruyan seized this rare opportunity to focus on cultivation.
A century swiftly passed, during which both their cultivations improved.
Jiang Chengxuan reached the second level of Soul Formation, while Shen Ruyan ascended to the third level.
It’s a common scenario for cultivators in Soul Formation to experience no progress for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Many reach their lifespan’s end without any advancement, a commonality among many cultivators.
Yet, for Jiang Chengxuan and Shen Ruyan, the typical bottlenecks faced by Soul Formation cultivators seemed nonexistent.
In just about two hundred years, both saw significant progress.
To other cultivators at their level, this was almost inconceivable.
However, everything follows a pattern.
Even with their extraordinary potential, without sufficient resources, advancing further in a short period would still be challenging for them.
So.
When several more decades passed without significant improvement in their cultivation levels, the couple finally decided to emerge from seclusion.
Upon exiting, they were immediately informed of the demon race’s assault on human cities.
It was clear that the protection period for the human race had ended.
The demon race clearly did not intend to tolerate it anymore. They immediately started the demon beast riot.
However, what surprised Jiang Chengxuan and Shen Ruyan was that the demon beast riot this time was only limited to Level 4 demon kings, equivalent to Golden Core among human cultivators.
“Has the demon race changed its nature? After more than two hundred years of silence, they limited the conflict to the Golden Core level?”
Jiang Chengxuan asked Shen Ruyan.
Shen Ruyan replied with a smile, “I think it’s not that they’ve changed but rather they lack the confidence to deal with us.
Otherwise, considering their usual behavior, they would have launched a full-scale war against our Northern Border the day our protection period ended.”
Jiang Chengxuan nodded in agreement with Shen Ruyan’s analysis.
At their current strength, unless the demon race was willing to sacrifice a significant portion, if not all, of their resources, they posed no real threat to the Northern Border.
However, would the demon race really go all out?
Or rather, would those Demon Sovereigns who had lived for countless years be willing to sacrifice themselves to win the war against the human race?
The answer was obviously no.
So.
Under such circumstances, no matter how unwilling and resentful they were, they had to endure it.
After all, the tragic fate of those Demon Lords from more than a hundred years ago was not yet forgotten.
If they didn’t want to follow in the footsteps of those Demon Lords, it was best to endure for the time being..