Chapter 519 VS Great Demon Xuanwu 1

An immeasurable amount of water erupted from the ground, and the vast abandoned evangelistic church was torn to pieces like a toy house that had been sent into the sky by explosives.

The incredibly spectacular scene reminded me of the geysers I'd seen on TV science programs, commonly found in areas of active volcanoes. Although not nearly as massive as what I was witnessing, they were still large geysers of water suddenly erupting from the ground, and we were like unfortunate ants caught in the blast.

Everyone who remained in the courtyard was launched into the air by the blooming "fountain," while below, I saw the culprit who caused all of this.

It was a gigantic monster that could never be seen in the world described by common sense, as if it had flown out of a mythological world.

Its body is at least a hundred meters long, and its entire body is composed of black water. Its shape resembles a legendary dragon that can summon clouds and rain. On its back is a pentagonal magic circle that emits a ghostly blue light, which at first glance looks like a huge shield.

The mysterious woman called it "Great Demon Xuanwu".

This enormous monster is actually the monster that the Water Master Xuanwu transformed into after falling into a great demon in the apocalypse. It was something I once thought I would challenge and hunt in the future.

The appearance of the Great Demon Xuanwu here was as shocking as its manner of arrival. I had considered hunting it down and using its flesh and blood as medicine to completely heal Asaho's soul, but its arrival was so sudden that I wasn't prepared at all. I felt like an ancient savage planning a mammoth hunt, who hadn't even had time to sharpen his spear when the mammoth suddenly fell from the sky and crashed into his own makeshift hut.

The wandering spirit mentioned that the Great Demon Xuanwu should be hunting down the remnants of Tai Sui. And regardless of whether the mysterious woman is Number Seven, it is certain that she was Tai Sui's right-hand woman in life, and she is very likely also a member of Tai Sui's remnants who are currently wanted by the Gospel House.

The keyword "remnants of Tai Sui" seems to link the two together. Could the appearance of the Great Demon Xuanwu in this place be causally related to the mysterious woman?

There wasn't much time for thought; the Great Demon Xuanwu below was clearly heading straight for us. It raised its enormous head high, a head also formed from black water, with only a blurry outline, and it was impossible to tell where it was looking. However, I could sense that its attention was locked on me and the mysterious woman.

It opened its enormous mouth and let out a deafening roar. The abandoned Gospel Church was completely submerged by the flood, and the water boiled violently with its roar, turning into a waterfall that rushed towards us.

The mysterious woman hurriedly disappeared into the chaotic spacetime, just as she had dodged my attack last time. I immediately summoned flames to launch a counterattack downwards.

The massive torrent of flames, like molten iron being poured from an ironworks, shot down with enough force to evaporate the lake below instantly, its light dispelling all the darkness in the area. However, against the attack of the Great Demon Xuanwu, my flames failed to achieve the effect they seemed. In the clash, the flames were shattered as if smoke had encountered steel.

Comparing water to steel might be hard to grasp, but the "solidity" of the water released by the Great Demon Xuanwu is absolutely incomparable to mortal steel. The Water Master Xuanwu once manipulated the same black water. This water appears black due to its extremely high density, and it also possesses non-Newtonian fluid properties like silt, exhibiting the contradictory characteristics of both "hardness" and "fluidity."

The black water of the Great Demon Xuanwu far surpasses that of the Water Master Xuanwu, but that alone would not have been enough to break through my flames so easily.

As I had expected, the Great Demon Xuanwu exerted an overwhelming elemental advantage over me.

It was as if there was a judge in the dark, declaring that the successor of the Vermilion Bird was destined to lose to the successor of the Black Tortoise. My defeat was so inevitable.

The wandering spirit and sandalwood were also thrown high into the air. I used my power to shield them from the "fountain," and now they were within the range of the opponent's attack. In the nick of time, instead of using my power to defend myself, I transformed it into two giant fiery hands and forcefully pushed the two of them away.

These two people, especially the wandering spirits, shouldn't have died here. If they were to die, they should have done so after taking the Three Lives Stone Powder; otherwise, their trip to the abandoned Gospel Monastery would have been in vain.

My push sent them outside the attack range of the Great Demon Xuanwu. At the same time, I was directly attacked by the black water of the Great Demon Xuanwu, and my body and soul were shattered on the spot.

Fortunately, this attack did not harm my true spirit. This is one of my inherent advantages. Opponents who fight me for the first time often do not know that the necessary condition to kill me is to damage my true spirit; and even if they do know this, they may not have the ability to damage my true spirit.

I wasn't sure if the Great Demon Xuanwu before me could do that, but I wasn't taking it lightly. The next second, to further prevent the wandering souls and sandalwood from being affected, I re-condensed my fire elemental body more than thirty kilometers away.

This distance could already be considered outside the realm of conventional battlefields, but for a god and a great demon, it was still considered a normal fighting distance. Even if the distance were increased tenfold, I still wouldn't be able to escape the lock-on of an opponent at this level. The great demon Xuanwu immediately took flight, its body enormous, yet its movements were terrifyingly fast.

Logically, the larger a being's body, the "slower" its movements should be. Especially for a being of the Great Demon Xuanwu's size, every movement appears to be in slow motion. This isn't because of its bulky body. An adult human walks at approximately 1.5 meters per second; the same speed on a 100-meter-tall giant would take over a minute to cover a distance equal to its own height. Giants aren't actually slow; they just appear to move much slower.

Therefore, in some science fiction movies I've watched before, when depicting giant monsters moving forward, they are often made to look very slow, but in reality, their speed may be faster than human transportation.

The Great Demon Xuanwu's agility was unlike that of a gigantic monster; it was more like a normal-sized wild animal that had entered the miniature landscape sand table. In the blink of an eye, it burst forth with speeds exceeding a thousand times the speed of sound, traversing a distance of over 30,000 meters.

What does it mean for a monster over 100 meters tall to move at more than a thousand times the speed of sound? Its movement alone is enough to be called a super natural disaster, generating terrifying storms and shockwaves unlike anything that would happen on Earth.

If it were to travel through all the cities of a country at this speed, it could raze that country to the ground; and if it were to visit every country on Earth at the same pace, human civilization would be destroyed.

Meanwhile, a monster of the same level is hunting down Little Bowl in another part of the post-apocalyptic world.

The giant maw of the Doomsday Demon lunged at me.

At the same time, without hesitation, I drew my slag longsword, plunged it into my heart, and instantly transitioned from my second fire elemental form to my third light form. Immediately, I unleashed all my power towards the Great Demon Xuanwu, transforming into a human-shaped sun that charged towards it in reverse.

The next moment, as if an egg had collided with a brick, the third-form light body was inevitably shattered into pieces.

This form posed almost no threat to the Great Demon Xuanwu, extinguishing in an instant like a lit cigarette being lit in a water-filled ashtray.

Through this, I also realized the difference in strength between myself and my opponent.

In terms of sheer density, the intensity of the third-form light body is roughly equivalent to that of the Great Demon Xuanwu, meaning it's roughly on the same level as Huang Quan and Ming Zhuo. I could temporarily overpower the latter two by combining the special properties of "existence itself is an attack" and "only attacks that kill my true spirit are effective," forcing Huang Quan to retreat in actual combat. However, Huang Quan was instantly defeated in the clash with the Great Demon Xuanwu because he was completely countered.

This reminds me of my past battle with the Water Master Xuanwu. Back then, even though I hadn't entered the Great Impermanence Domain, I wasn't as powerless as I am now. In fact, towards the end of the battle, my Flame Cannon could even fight against the Water Master Xuanwu's Black Water Cannon.

However, it wasn't because the restraint I faced back then was weaker than it is now; it was simply because I still had a great deal of potential to unleash. As long as I continued to grow stronger in battle, I had a chance to break free from the predicament of being restrained with even greater power, and if I dragged it out, I would eventually emerge victorious.

But now it's different; I no longer have any more potential to unleash.

I once again solidified my body, appearing some distance behind the Great Demon Xuanwu, directly in my third form of light. Immediately afterward, I raised my right hand, my arm transforming into the shape of a longsword, and swung it with all my might.

A fiery sword aura, tens of meters long, flew towards the Great Demon Xuanwu. If it were to take this fatal attack head-on without any preparation, even the former Yellow Springs would perish on the spot.

The target of the fiery sword energy was the dark blue pentagonal radiant array on the back of the Great Demon Xuanwu, which resembled a shield. Since that thing was so conspicuous, it might be some kind of weakness.

Despite what I thought, that thing seemed to be just an ornament. The fiery sword energy passed through it like a phantom and then landed on the body of the Great Demon Xuanwu.

It was like throwing a stone into the sea; it only slightly evaporated a portion of the Great Demon Xuanwu's water body. Furthermore, the Great Demon Xuanwu's fighting style didn't seem to discriminate based on body position. A powerful black water cannon shot directly from its back, once again blasting me to smithereens.

This won't work, that won't work, no matter how I look at it, I'm stuck in a battle I can't win.

(End of this chapter)