Chapter 89 Revenge (Part 2)

Tianxuan chuckled: "Alright, then I'll go down first."

Li Chang'an nodded.

After Tianxuan flew away, Li Chang'an flew down a bit on his sword and arrived at the mountainside.

The seal on the spider demon is a large formation. At the core of the formation is a wood-attribute spiritual object placed by the Jade Balance Star Lord on the mountainside. It looks like a tree. Destroying that tree will destroy the entire formation and release the spider demon.

Li Chang'an stared at the tree for a few seconds, then took out a wooden sword about the size of his palm.

The wooden sword still emitted a silver light, carrying a terrifying power that was impossible to look directly at.

Li Chang'an stretched out his hand, and the small wooden sword crashed down, landing in the center of Li Family Village. Immediately afterwards, a silver light spread out, forming a barrier that enveloped the entire village.

Kaiyang had been leaning against a tree with his arms crossed and a dignified expression.

Upon seeing the scene before him, he abruptly stood up straight, frowning as he looked ahead: "This is..."

Tianxuan stood not far in front of him, turned her head slightly and explained, "It is a wisp of sword intent from the Li'e Sword, which can protect the village from destruction in battle."

This was something Li Chang'an specifically asked the sword spirit for before setting off.

If he can't protect these buildings in the village, then the reconstruction costs, resettlement costs, and living allowances during this period... the government and the cultivation alliance won't provide all of it, so he'll have to spend another ten million or so.

Although he is now quite wealthy, he still tries to save as much as possible on these expenses.

Seeing the silvery-white sword light envelop the entire village, Li Chang'an finally felt relieved.

The black sword flew from his feet to hover beside him. Li Chang'an channeled his spiritual power into his palm and slammed it down on the tree at the center of the formation!

"Boom—" A violent explosion came from the mountains.

The array at the foot of the mountain shattered, and the multicolored light transformed into specks that slowly floated upwards.

Suddenly, dark clouds gathered in the sky, turning the once clear sky overcast, and a strong wind picked up, making Li Chang'an's short-sleeved shirt rustle.

A purple light emanated from the mountains, forming a vortex that seemed to suck people in.

Li Chang'an slowly frowned, his expression solemn.

The onlookers were all cultivators, and even from a distance, they could clearly see the expression on his face.

"What does this mean... Does it mean Li Chang'an can't beat him?"

"Hiss, what do we do if he can't beat us?"

"It's too early to say we can't beat them. There might be other reasons?"

In the air, Li Chang'an was unaware of the cultivators' discussion. He simply glanced at the sky and clicked his tongue softly.

If he had known that releasing this monster would make the weather cloudy, he wouldn't have needed to arrive in the afternoon when it wasn't sunny.

After mentally grumbling, Li Chang'an continued to look at the mountain ahead.

That purple vortex of demonic energy did indeed have the ability to pull things in.

However, Li Chang'an was protected by a black sword, and the village below was protected by the sword spirit's sword intent. Therefore, apart from the things originally within the range of the formation, nothing else was sucked in.

Seemingly sensing this, the purple light gradually faded.

A series of rumbling sounds came from the mountain. The trees and the soil collapsed, and the debris flew and landed in the village.

Fortunately, the sword spirit's sword intent protected the house, preventing the rubble from damaging it.

Li Chang'an stared blankly at the mountain that had collapsed halfway.

The mountain collapsed, but it didn't cause any damage to the surrounding people, so there shouldn't be any compensation, right?

While he was lost in thought, eight legs, each tens of meters long, emerged from the collapsed part of the mountain. The legs writhed and propelled the body onto the ground, and then a massive body, enveloped in purple mist, slowly emerged.

At the same time, even those outside the barrier felt a terrifying chill.

Is this the oppressive aura emanating from a demon in the Out-of-Body stage?

The chill felt almost tangible, and Li Chang'an noticed it, looking at the spider demon in front of him.

The spider demon had grown larger than it had been eight years ago, its spider legs were sharper and seemed to reflect light, and it had strange blood-red patterns on its body.

In addition, the number of eyes on its head changed from two to eight.

As Tianxuan said, the spider demon had been secretly recuperating during the years it was sealed away, and now it has recovered to the fourth level of the Nascent Soul stage.

The spider demon's eyes darted around before settling on Li Chang'an in the air ahead.

"Your scent is so familiar..." it slowly uttered in human language, its eyes growing even bloodshot, revealing an eerie quality, "So it was you."

That mortal whose blood smells so good—if it eats him, its strength will increase by several times, allowing it to break through to the Nascent Soul stage!

"The seal that bound me has just been broken, and such a good tonic as you has been delivered to my door. It seems that I am destined to destroy the Cangxuan Realm!"

The spider demon became very excited, its mouthparts wide open, and the chelicerae on its mouthparts even waved a few times, its tone arrogant and excited.

Li Changan watched it go crazy quietly, and after it finished speaking, he smiled and said, "It's good that you still remember me."

He retrieved the celestial artifact, the talisman brush, from the depths of his soul.

The tip of the talisman brush is gold, while the body is dark brown with some gold veins.

"Don't be too happy yet. Guess who helped you break the seal?" Li Chang'an asked, holding a talisman brush.

The spider demon's pincers stopped moving, and its eight blood-red eyes stared intently at Li Chang'an, as if it understood something.

"It's you," the spider demon said with certainty.

It then noticed that the person in front of it was actually at the Nascent Soul stage.

When we last met, he was just an ordinary person.

How much time has passed exactly now?

The spider demon was sealed in a magic circle and had no concept of time.

But after only a moment of surprise, its heart calmed down.

So what if we're both at the Nascent Soul stage? So what if we have celestial weapons?

Above the Golden Core stage, the difference in cultivation level between each stage is enormous. Although it currently only has the strength of the fourth stage of the Nascent Soul stage, at first glance, this kid is only three stages behind it. However, in reality, this gap is a chasm that cannot be bridged by having immortal artifacts or weapons.

Moreover, its original strength was at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage.

Thinking of this, the spider demon felt a little smug.

"Then I must thank you properly!" With that, the spider demon brandished its long legs, the tips of which resembled swords, and thrust them toward Li Chang'an with a chilling killing intent.

The spider legs moved very fast, and in the blink of an eye, they were close to Li Chang'an's face.

Outside the barrier, the cultivators gasped in shock.

However, the next second, Li Chang'an's figure flashed away from the spot, and he raised his sword finger. A wooden sword flew out, splitting into eight, and crashed into the spider leg with golden sword light.

The collision of spiritual and demonic power sent shockwaves through the surroundings, slamming into the silver-white sword intent barrier with a loud bang.

The barrier remained unmoved.

The cultivators with lower cultivation levels held their breath for a few moments, staring wide-eyed in astonishment at the barrier wall.

Without this barrier, the residual force from just now would have crushed them all.

The wooden sword failed to cut off the spider's leg.

Li Chang'an stopped to the side not far from the spider demon, squinting at its eight intact legs.

This spider demon's strength was more than just at the fourth level of the Nascent Soul stage. Perhaps it had used some method to train its legs, so even though its sword techniques were taught by the Sword Spirit senior, it was still unable to cut through them.

However, Li Chang'an did not hold out much hope that he could kill the spider demon with just a wooden sword; he was merely testing the waters just now.

The eight spider legs were merely shaken off by spiritual power, then paused for a moment before swinging back and attacking Li Chang'an from all directions.

Li Chang'an continued to use his wooden sword with ease, constantly weaving and dodging through the air.

Suddenly, he stopped.

A huge spider web had somehow appeared around him, and he was in the center of it. The spider silk had bound his ankles and hands, making him unable to move.

Li Chang'an frowned, his eyes shifted, and the next second, the black sword pierced through the air, severing all the spider silk around him and on his hands and feet.

He raised his hand, and the tip of the talisman brush moved smoothly through the air. In an instant, golden runes appeared in the air.

The high-level talisman, Heavenly Thunder Talisman, is a fifth-grade superior talisman, equivalent to the strength of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

"Boom—" The golden lightning, exactly the same as that used when Li Chang'an was undergoing his tribulation, struck down fiercely.

The spider demon's massive body couldn't dodge in time and was struck by the lightning. It groaned in pain and then spun a web in an attempt to block the power of the heavenly lightning.

However, after only two bolts of lightning, the spider web was shattered into pieces, and the remaining two bolts struck it squarely.

The spider demon was completely enraged. It roared to the sky and suddenly spat out a lot of purplish-black spider silk from the end of its abdomen, attacking Li Chang'an.

The wooden sword collided with the purplish-black spider silk, and a portion of it was corroded away.

This spider silk is poisonous!

Li Chang'an's eyes narrowed, and he drew a fire talisman. The dazzling and terrifying fire dragon instantly devoured the spider silk.

Immediately afterwards, he quickly drew another Heavenly Thunder Talisman with his talisman brush.

Having learned its lesson from the heavenly lightning, the spider demon quickly spun a web to block it. The moment the web shattered, it shrank its size in an attempt to dodge the remaining three bolts, but it was still struck by two more bolts of lightning.

The crimson patterns on the spider demon's body had dimmed somewhat.

"You...you're utterly despicable." The spider demon glared at Li Chang'an, her voice hoarse.

Li Chang'an continued writing with his talisman brush, ignoring it, and another Heavenly Thunder Talisman was formed.

It's this stuff again!

What kind of heavenly lightning is this? Why is it so powerful?!

The spider demon was agitated and puzzled, and its eyes shone with a bright blood-red light.

This time it didn't dodge, but instead stared directly at Li Chang'an.

Purple demonic power emanated from it, forming a vortex above its body.

The purple demonic light grew increasingly intense, approaching black, and even directly absorbed the five bolts of heavenly lightning.

Li Chang'an frowned slowly; his intuition told him that this spider demon was brewing some powerful move.

He paused for a moment, put away the talisman brush, and the wooden sword landed in his hand. He circulated his spiritual power, and then his whole body became like a golden sword beam, fiercely rushing towards the spider demon.

Outside the barrier, Tianxuan frowned and thought to himself, "This is bad, that's the Demon Realm."

Kaiyang's body trembled, and he rushed to Tianxuan's side, asking, "That demon is only at the Nascent Soul stage, at most in the late stage. How could it possibly condense a demon domain?!"

Tianxuan pursed her lips and said, "At the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, if one has a deep foundation in demonic power, it is possible to condense a demonic domain ahead of schedule."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Chang'an's figure suddenly disappeared into the purple demonic vortex within the barrier.

The cultivators present all gasped in surprise!