Chapter 520 VS Great Demon Xuanwu 2

Whether it's a battle I'm certain to win or a battle I'm certain to lose, I'm not interested in battles without suspense. The Great Demon Xuanwu before me, though an extremely rare and powerful enemy that leaves me feeling helpless, doesn't evoke any excitement or elation in me.

However, it's not my style to conclude that I can't overcome difficulties after only hitting a wall two or three times. I need to keep trying, at least a few more times or a dozen more times, to see if I can find any clues to solve the problem.

The only consolation right now is that this Great Demon Xuanwu is different from the Water Master Xuanwu; it doesn't seem to have a "golden core" to further enhance its power. However, given its current strength in countering me, whether it has a golden core or not probably won't make much difference.

With each clash and relocation, our location constantly shifts, and the surrounding spacetime environment frequently changes. Sometimes it's a wasteland, sometimes a desert, and now we're above a forest. We don't know where the wandering spirits and Sandalwood have gone, nor how long it will take to reunite with them.

Fortunately, both the wandering spirit and I possessed a blessed lantern, and according to the cartographer, these two blessings should be able to attract each other. As long as we wish to reunite, we can reunite. In the past, the cartographer used this method to bring Sandalwood and me back to the safe house.

My body and soul were shattered three times, and then reformed.

My repeated resurrections seemed to alert the Great Demon Xuanwu to my abnormality. It slowed its attack slightly, as if it was constantly scanning me with its senses, trying to uncover the secret of the enemy's infinite regeneration.

It is obvious that even with Xuanwu's absolute restraint over Zhuque, it cannot help it unconditionally kill my true spirit.

I think this is probably because even the Mountain Yin-Yang, the source of Xuanwu's power, hasn't grasped the realm of manifestation. Within the framework of the Four Symbols and Five Elements system he established, the element of "true spirit" doesn't exist. However, my being a descendant of the Vermilion Bird and a born manifestation being can be said to be beyond the framework of the Four Symbols and Five Elements system. Only this part is not subject to specific restraint.

I am not so complacent as to think that this advantage can be maintained from beginning to end in this battle. I must find a way to kill the Great Demon Xuanwu within this "safe time" that will never come back once it is lost.

It might be impossible to do it on one's own; one can only rely on external means.

The first thing that comes to mind is the fragment of the Divine Seal.

With a thought, the power of the divine seal fragments was added to the flames, causing a slight change in the flames.

The power of the Divine Seal fragments definitely surpasses the framework of the Four Symbols and Five Elements system. Unfortunately, with my current understanding of the Divine Seal fragments' power, I can only alter the frequency of my flame's magical energy fluctuations, but I cannot achieve a true qualitative change. For now, I have no other options but to try my luck and see if the change in the frequency of magical energy fluctuations can allow my flames to circumvent the restraining relationships within the Four Symbols and Five Elements system.

A destructive light appeared in the palm of my hand.

"So what if this move?" I looked at my target.

The flames, condensed to their limit, transformed into a massive, dazzling beam of light that slammed into the head of the Great Demon Xuanwu.

The head, composed of black liquid, shattered and exploded on the spot.

This attack seemed to have achieved far greater results than the previous ones, but I found it hard to feel happy.

The next moment, the head of the Great Demon Xuanwu reformed and became as good as new.

It is currently in a form similar to an elemental life form. Although it cannot compare to my innate manifestation realm, which is unaffected even if my soul is scattered, simply destroying its physical container is futile. My attack has not penetrated its soul. Just as the power of the divine seal fragments only changed the "superficial" fluctuations of magical power, the damage I am causing is also "superficial."

It wasn't entirely ineffective, but its effect was only half-hearted. The direction of using the power of the Divine Seal fragments to free my flames from the restraining relationship between Xuanwu and Zhuque was correct in itself, but the compatibility between me and the Divine Seal fragments was still too poor, making it impossible to draw out more of their power.

The Great Demon Xuanwu seemed to be enraged, roaring as it once again manipulated the black water to shatter my body and soul.

At the same time, it seems to have diverted another part of its attention to scanning the deeper realms of spacetime.

I understand what the Great Demon Xuanwu is scanning. Its target isn't my true spirit, and searching through spacetime isn't the right direction to find it. Although this may sound strange, the mysterious woman hasn't left yet; she's lingering "around" our battlefield. The Great Demon Xuanwu wants to capture her.

As for why the mysterious woman did not escape the battlefield where humans, gods, and the great demon dragon were fighting, she may have had her own considerations, but the biggest reason is probably that she couldn't escape.

The battlefield between me and the Great Demon Xuanwu appeared to be some distance away from our original location, but the mysterious woman had used her supernatural abilities to escape to a deeper realm outside of physical space at the very beginning of the battle. This allowed her to move regardless of physical distance, but in other words, she didn't benefit from the advantages of physical spatial distance.

By moving the battlefield away from the wandering spirits and sandalwood, I can spare them from the flames of war, but the mysterious woman cannot do so so easily. The Great Demon Xuanwu, on the other hand, has roughly locked onto her using his consciousness and is relentlessly searching for her in the deeper layers of spacetime with his magic. This is akin to a monarch dispatching a massive army for a carpet search of an assassin; the assassin, confined by the encirclement, cannot truly escape and gradually loses room to maneuver as the encirclement shrinks.

Although I couldn't see the mysterious woman's specific state or movements, I could intuitively sense that she seemed to be planning something. However, the Great Demon Xuanwu was able to immobilize her simply by using its vague mental lock. If my gaze could burn my enemies, then the Great Demon Xuanwu's gaze could create an oppressive force like the pressure of the deep sea.

Thankfully, he was at the Great Completion level. If it were an ordinary demon hunter, he would probably have been crushed into mincemeat by the gaze of the Great Demon Xuanwu.

The Great Demon Xuanwu is currently focusing most of its attention on fighting me. Even so, the mysterious woman has very little time left. This situation puzzles me. To a monster of the Great Demon Xuanwu's level, even a Great Completion stage cultivator is just a slightly larger insect. Other times are different, but now that it has me, a real enemy, in front of it, why would it divert its attention to other things?

Is it because it doesn't consider me worthy of its attention? Or does the mysterious woman possess some kind of power that makes it look at her differently?

Perhaps the reason I encountered the Great Demon Xuanwu here is because the power of the jinx still lingers in my body. However, in the beginning, the Great Demon Xuanwu's prey was probably not me, but the mysterious woman who was very likely closely related to the remnants of the Tai Sui faction and was suspected to be the Void Realm No. 7.

"Zhuang Cheng, you are no match for it, run away." The mysterious woman's voice reached my consciousness from the darkness.

Using the technique of speaking aloud, I responded to the other party: "Are you serious? At this rate, you'll be retrieved from the deep spacetime realm and killed in less than a minute."

“If I run away, things will only get worse for you. It will put all the attention on finding you. You’ll be dead in five seconds.”

"I have a way to escape the pursuit of the Great Demon Xuanwu," the mysterious woman said.

"Really? I'm curious how you managed to escape with your life right under the Great Demon's nose, but I'm not planning on running away with my tail between my legs right now," I said.

“From what I understand, you must be one of the so-called successors of Yin and Yang, and the prototype of the Great Demon Xuanwu is the Xuanwu successor among the successors of Yin and Yang. Isn’t the reason you’re in such a predicament because it is your natural enemy?” the mysterious woman said. “This battle is overwhelmingly disadvantageous to you in every way, and I don’t see any hope that you can turn the tide.”

As if to prove her words, the Great Demon Xuanwu unleashed another attack, shattering my body and soul once again.

This time, however, the situation was completely different from before. I actually felt as if someone had hit the back of my head hard with a stick, making me dizzy and disoriented. This blow had effectively damaged my true spirit.

Unlike the Dog (戌狗), who lacks experience in mysticism, the Great Demon Xuanwu was originally a naval Xuanwu with profound mastery of magic. Even now, having fallen into this irrational and insane form, it still possesses formidable spiritual intuition and magical manipulation abilities.

In fact, the density of its magical power far exceeded my normal performance. I don't know if it was because its predecessor, the Water Master Xuanwu, underwent sufficient cultivation after becoming the Great Impermanence, or if it was due to the accumulated power of its centuries of cultivation as a Great Impermanence holder, allowing it to immediately grasp the essence of manipulating power after becoming a god or demon. In any case, it was entirely predictable that it would find a way to harm my true spirit.

However, I hadn't played all my cards yet. During the game, I found a new way to break the balance of power and tried to put it into practice.

After re-forming my body, I immediately unleashed a boundless sea of ​​fire. As the land burned, countless fiery forces rapidly flowed back and compressed into my hands, generating gravity powerful enough to distort spacetime.

(End of this chapter)