Chapter 309: Dark Red·Demon King!
Yu Cang controlled the Headhunters and the Saint of Formation Breakthrough to disperse, putting some distance between themselves and Zhong Ning.
The Red Sky Demon's blade was exceptionally sharp, and being stabbed by it meant death. The shadowy Sky Demon behind Zhong Ning was also very powerful, and Yu Cang didn't want to act rashly before figuring out its strength.
Across from him, Zhong Ning stood in the center of the field, scarlet demonic energy burning around him like flames. In the flames, the shadow of the demon appeared and disappeared, his face ferocious.
"You should have a stronger summoned beast, right? Why aren't you using it yet?"
Zhong Ning stretched out her hand, and a soul card appeared at her fingertips. She pinched the soul card and let it pass over the blade of the Red Sky Demon. Suddenly, a raging fire burned around the soul card, burning it up.
"I activate: Plundering Sacrifice Spirit Suit!"
boom!
The flames suddenly swelled up, and the smile on Zhong Ning's face was gradually drowned in the increasingly intense scarlet. The shadow of the demon behind him leaned down, and his huge body was forged into a solid suit of armor in the flames, and finally solidified in Zhong Ning's body.
This armor...it's more like a demon's body than armor.
Its shell wasn't made of metal, but a dark red resembling flesh and blood. Scarlet light pulsed through the cracks, as if it were alive. The helmet resembled a strange demonic head, and even its hands were covered in claw-like structures.
After putting on the sacrificial spirit suit, Zhong Ning's height had reached nearly two meters. Although he still had feminine features and looked a little slender visually, his overbearing and evil aura made him look very powerful, like a real demon.
"Yu Cang!" Zhong Ning's voice resonated dully within the armor. "If you don't use all your strength now, you're going to lose!"
"Yeah."
The demonic shadow behind Zhong Ning turned into armor, seemingly converting part of the attack power into defense power.
Try it first.
Yu Cang's mind moved, and the headhunter roared, and threw the dragon hunting spear in his hand with all his strength. Then he heard a whistling sound passing across the field. The dragon hunting spear approached in an instant, but stopped steadily in front of Zhong Ning.
Buzz...
Zhong Ning stretched out his hand, which had turned into a devil's claw, and accurately grasped the spearhead of the Dragon Hunting Spear!
The spear was forcibly stopped, and the huge force caused the back half of the spear to vibrate continuously, in order to vent the kinetic energy that had nowhere to vent.
"Your attack seems... huh?" Zhong Ning suddenly realized something and lowered his head.
He saw that half of his forearm, which was the hand that caught the Dragon Hunting Spear, had grown rows of dragon scale patterns. In the part closest to the Dragon Hunting Spear, the two dragon scales had almost solidified into a solid body.
"Is this... [Scale Plague]?" Zhong Ning gasped.
Isn't this the ability of the Plague Beast? How can it be used on itself?
While Zhong Ning was surprised, Yu Cang seemed to be thinking about something.
"Even your reaction ability has improved."
The Dragon Hunting Spear was extremely fast. With the reaction of a Level 5 Soul Card Master, he might be able to dodge it, but it would be impossible for him to do so with ease.
Unless, the opponent is Gu Jieshuang who has activated the star-level sensing.
Because Zhong Ning grabbed the Dragon Hunting Spear and was not directly killed by it, this attack did not produce any dragon scales, but only generated some dragon scale patterns.
"This ability is truly astonishing." Zhong Ning threw the Dragon Hunting Spear away. "However, this level of attack doesn't seem to be of any use to me—then, I'm going to attack!"
Zhong Ning lowered his body, and then suddenly rushed out, raising the Red Sky Demon in his hand high, and slashed directly at the Head Hunter with a bloody roar!
Facing the aggressive Zhong Ning, Yu Cang did not panic. He directly threw out a soul card and summoned the third half-dragon headhunter!
roar!
The first headhunter did not dodge, but transformed a dragon scale from behind into a dragon hunting spear, and blocked the Red Sky Demon!
The third Headhunter and the Saint of Formation immediately surrounded and killed him, and the Dragon Hunting Spear and the long sword attacked at the same time, stabbing towards Zhong Ning's dark red back!
"cut……"
Feeling the attack, Zhong Ning curled his lips but did not dodge. As the red light burst out, the Red Sky Demon in his hand suddenly accelerated, and with one sword he smashed the Dragon Hunting Spear in front of him. Then the blade drew a scarlet arc, and he turned around and slashed at the second Dragon Hunting Spear!
Swish!
Zhong Ning could only block two dragon-hunting spears, but he could no longer block the long sword of the Saint of Formation. He only had time to turn his body slightly and chose to take the attack head-on with his flesh.
However, she obviously underestimated the Saint of the Breach's slashing attack.
Now, there are a total of six Chaos Dragon Scales on the field. Under the influence of [Lone Dragon's Death Will], these dragon scales will provide attack power for the Saint of the Formation. Its current sword seems simple, but it already has the ability to chop epic!
Only a tearing sound was heard, and the right chest and thigh part of Zhong Ning's demon armor was directly cut open by a knife!
The seemingly flesh-and-blood "Sacrificial Spirit Suit" possessed toughness and defense stronger than metal, but before this knife, it was like paper. A huge wound opened up, and the shattered soul card fragments flew everywhere!
"What?" Zhong Ning felt his brain tremble.
She naturally knew the power of [Scale Plague] and naturally did not want her sacrificial spirit armor to grow too many dragon scales, so when faced with this triple attack, she chose to only defend against the two dragon hunting spears.
In fact, if she hadn't been distracted by defending the dragon-hunting spear behind her, she was confident that she could chop the headhunter in front of her through with one blow.
But she didn't expect that the Saint of Formation who she ignored had such terrifying attack power!
Fortunately, fortunately, I can withstand it...
Zhong Ning stabilized his body and retreated quickly with the power of the knife. The Red Sky Demon in his hand danced rapidly, blocking the possibility of the three summoned beasts to chase him.
"What's going on? Is this kind of attack power really a rare summoned beast..." Zhong Ning stretched out a claw and placed it in front of the exaggerated wound on his right chest, looking at the summoned beast in front of him vigilantly.
This wound is truly horrific.
The wound went all the way down from the upper right chest, passing through the lower abdomen and thigh, and extended to below the knee. The wound was very large, and in some places one could already see Zhong Ning's body and duel shield wrapped deep inside.
Fortunately, before the shield, some bone-like structures formed the last line of defense. After the flesh and blood armor was flipped open, these bones blocked the slash. Now the bones were already cracked everywhere, but under the action of an unknown force, both the bones and the flesh were slowly healing.
If it weren't for these bones, her duel shield would have been severely damaged.
Yu Cang was not surprised by the power of this knife.
Although the Saint of the Breach is extremely fragile and can't withstand any damage, his attack power is ridiculously high. If there are enough dragon scales on the field, one strike from him will make epics temporarily retreat.
"Heh... He's really a tough opponent. To deal with me now, he doesn't even need an epic card..." Zhong Ning gritted his teeth.
Her deck has very strong burst in the early stage.
With the Red Sky Demon, Sky Demon Shadow and the current Spiritual Equipment, her individual combat power is equivalent to two or three epic cards stacked together, and it is very comprehensive. If it were someone else, they would have been defeated by her without using epic cards.
Zhan Changyu's deck is said to restrain melee soul card masters, but Zhong Ning, who is half a melee soul card master, is still the president of the Holy City University Combat Club, which is very telling.
However, this Yu Cang in front of him had been fighting until now just relying on rare cards, and he hadn't even touched him yet... It was really scary.
These thoughts only flashed through her mind for a short time. At this time, the plundering spirit suit had completely healed itself. She raised the Red Sky Demon and said from a distance:
"You are indeed powerful, but it's a bit disrespectful to let me chop down your summoned beast so easily... Also, let me warn you. My 'Sacrificial Spirit Suits' are not so simple. Anyone who damages it will become a 'sacrifice' to the devil..."
Zhong Ning smiled. "That Saint of the Breach's attack did give me a fright, but now, all three of your summoned beasts have been hit. I can sacrifice them at any time... You don't stand a chance of hitting me a second time!"
brush……
Zhong Ning brushed his hand across the Red Sky Demon's blade, and instantly the scarlet demonic energy ignited like a flame.
"If you don't react, the next blow will be the end—Drink!"
Flames erupted, demonic flames rose around Zhong Ning, and her momentum continued to rise. Behind the helmet in the shape of a demon's head, flames also burned in Zhong Ning's eyes, and the flames shot out through the demon's crystalline eye armor. Along with her scolding, a strong threat and fighting spirit could be felt from a distance.
Obviously, Zhong Ning's next blow will definitely be an extremely powerful explosion!
On the opposite side, Yu Cang just stood there silently, with his hands in his pockets, not saying a word.
After a long while, when Zhong Ning's aura had reached its peak and was about to burst out, he suddenly said:
"You can't offer to sacrifice my summoned beast, right?"
"Give it to me... huh? What?" Zhong Ning was stunned.
Seeing her reaction, Yu Cang smiled lightly, as if he understood.
"I've been wondering for a while now. There have been many times when your soul energy has been fully restored according to the time calculation, but you chose not to release the soul card, but just chose to fight normally."
"..." Zhong Ning's eyes narrowed slightly, "Oh?"
"From your battle, it doesn't seem like you were deliberately letting up and wasting soul energy. So, there's only one possibility—you can't use it." Yu Cang said slowly, "At the beginning, you used two tubes of soul energy to summon two epic-level creatures, and they were of high quality.
"Honestly, a higher-level summoning isn't a soul-saving method. It would be fine if your summoning conditions were very strict, but it's so easy, so there must be some hidden price. You may not have noticed that during the previous fight, I deliberately slowed down the pace of the battle to observe your response, and the result was—
"There were a few times when you clearly had plenty of soul energy and could have gained a greater advantage by using soul cards, but you didn't react at all. At that time, I knew that this was the price you paid."
"...So what?" Zhong Ning spread his arms, flames blazing. "That's right, this is the characteristic of my deck—now you know, so what? You still can't block the next blow!"
Yu Cang chuckled softly: "You are too impatient."
"Um?"
"Five times." Yu Cang stretched out his hand. "During the battle just now, you used words to 'hint' me to use more powerful strength at least five times. Zhong Ning, you are a little impatient."
Across from him, Zhong Ning narrowed his eyes slightly and snorted, but this time he didn't speak.
"Even now, using this technique to increase your power is forcing me to activate my epic card to resist, right?" Yu Cang looked at Zhong Ning and said, "It seems I was right - then, this is your 'price'.
"Let me guess... your summoning of the Red Devil wasn't actually complete, right? After the battle began, you didn't use any Soul Cards, and it wasn't until you 'sacrificed' one of my Headhunters that you used the fourth Soul Card. So..."
"Alright, alright." Zhong Ning curled his lips and interrupted Yu Cang, "Really... Card making is already so strong, but combat is still so sharp... It's really disappointing."
She spread her hands and said, "Alright, you guessed right... I used a higher-level method to summon the Red Sky Demon called 'Advance Sacrifice'. I only offered a portion of the sacrifice to summon the sword, and I will need to replenish the remaining sacrifice during battle. Before I replenish it, my soul energy limit will reach zero."
Yu Cang nodded: "I see. So after sacrificing my summoned beast, you chose to talk nonsense to delay time, just to wait for the soul to recover, creating the illusion that you were just deliberately not using the soul card, right?"
"...Yes." Zhong Ning looked at Yu Cang. "Let's put that aside for now. How did you come to the conclusion that 'I can't offer sacrifice voluntarily'?"
"Isn't that obvious enough?" Yu Cang said slowly, "Since you need to replenish the sacrifice before you can continue, then now that you have injured my summoned beast, why don't you start your sacrifice?"
Zhong Ning was silent, and she put down the Red Sky Demon she was holding high.
After a long pause, he said, "I wanted to let them take away your mental stress first, and then at the critical moment of the battle... Okay, okay, no more nonsense, it's just what you thought."
Zhong Ning looked like he was starting to give up.
Yu Cang smiled and said, "As I said before, you have hinted at me to use more powerful power at least five times, and the first time you sacrificed my summoned beasts was when I wanted to use them as materials to connect the summons... So, your 'sacrifice' can only be carried out when I make a sacrifice, right?
"That's also the meaning of 'Sacrifice Plunder' in your Soul Card's name. You can only plunder my sacrifices and disrupt my summons, but you can't make sacrifices yourself... Am I right?"
"You guessed right." Zhong Ning shouldered the long sword and curled his lips. "You're really patient. I was almost thrusting the sword into your face, but you didn't continue and kept relying on your rare summoned beasts to deal with me..."
The most important thing is that these rare creatures can actually hold her back!
This is really...
This is how her deck works. By making sacrifices in advance, she gains powerful power to suppress the situation in the early stages, forcing the opponent to perform a higher-level summon or some other summon without knowing it.
As long as the opponent performs a higher-level summon, she can "steal" the sacrifice from the summoning process, turn it into her own power, and destroy the opponent's summoning.
If this process is repeated several times, the opponent will have no strength left to resist her.
Even what she said about "being cut by a blade" or "causing damage to the sacrifice spirit equipment" is not a necessary condition for the sacrifice, or it is only one of the conditions that can cause the sacrifice.
All of her soul cards have the ability to select enemy sacrifices, and none of Yu Cang's summoned beasts can escape... However, during a summoning process, she can only steal one sacrifice.
Now, she has only returned the sacrifice of the long sword in her hand, and the sacrifice of the sacrificial spirit equipment has not been returned yet, so naturally she cannot recover her soul energy normally.
She knew that the characteristics of her deck would be discovered by Yu Cang sooner or later, but being discovered so early... still exceeded her expectations.
This guy is so scary...
"So," Yu Cang said calmly, "as long as I don't perform the Upper Summoning, your power will have reached its limit, right?"
He raised his hand and summoned a half-dragon high priest.
Although Zhong Ning is not weak now, his subordinates are not to be underestimated either. Facing the siege of his half-dragon people, Zhong Ning really has no chance of winning.
Well, it's over now.
On the opposite side, Zhong Ning seemed to calm down suddenly, and the flames that had risen from his body as if pretending to explode gradually subsided.
"I feel like I've been underestimated... What a disgusting feeling." Zhong Ning raised his hand. "Yu Cang, do you think you've already won?... Hehe, it's still too early."
She clenched her fists, and countless scarlet flames burst out from between her fingers. "Do you think I can only use your summoned beast as a sacrifice? Of course not!
“Drink!!!”
Zhong Ning roared and actually stabbed his sharp claws directly into his chest!
A series of fine and dense cracking sounds came from Zhong Ning's body. It became extremely dull when passing through the demon armor, but Yu Cang still heard it - it was the sound of the duel shield breaking.
"My sacrifice, and myself!" The flames around Zhong Ning flared up again. She took a big step back, out of Yu Cang's attack range. "You guys who interrupted my vacation... I said, I'm going to win this duel!"
Bang!
Yu Cang's expression changed slightly.
Sacrificing the Duel Shield? Is it like the demon's altar, absorbing energy from the Duel Shield?
Judging from the sound, Zhong Ning had probably pushed the durability of his duel shield to its lowest value. To put it bluntly, his health was reduced to just one drop!
In this situation, Zhong Ning would be defeated if he was touched. Even if he had a layer of sacrificial spirit armor protecting him, the shock waves generated by some energy explosions or blunt attacks could not be completely absorbed by the sacrificial spirit armor!
By doing this, Zhong Ning can be said to be risking his life.
Although he didn't know what she was going to do, Yu Cang still reacted quickly. With a thought, the two headhunters began to throw dragon hunting spears frantically. For a moment, there were afterimages everywhere and dangerous whistling sounds were heard everywhere!
However, these two hunting heads had been chopped down by Zhong Ning and were now seriously injured, so the strength of their attacks was inevitably reduced.
Zhong Ning, who was wearing the sacrificial spirit outfit, was already capable of resisting the dragon-hunting spear, so these attacks were of no use.
Because Zhong Ning had quickly distanced herself from him, the Saint of the Formation could not reach her for a moment. Zhong Ning lacked a single fully formed dragon scale, so the High Priest couldn't activate the Death Scale Detonation. He could only use energy balls to harass her from a distance, but even if these balls hit, they probably wouldn't be able to break through the defenses of the Plundering Spirit Armor.
Useless!
Soon, Zhong Ning, who was able to accumulate soul energy again by sacrificing his own shield, had obtained enough soul energy.
brush!
She waved her hand, and a soul card appeared in her hand.
"I activate the spell card: Demon King's Transformation!"
Bang!
The surging scarlet flames suddenly subsided, and then a layer of deep color began to erupt from the inside out on the Plundering Sacrifice Spirit Armor. These dark colors continued to expand and solidify, wrapping the Plundering Sacrifice Spirit Armor and even the Plundering Sacrifice Red Sky Demon with a layer of hideous substance, and these hideous substances also outlined a larger and more evil demon!
Teng!
Zhong Ning jumped up, and scarlet flames ignited from the huge demon's eye sockets. Behind him, huge wings of flaming gas spread out, and overwhelming power descended from the sky!
"Sacrificial Spirit Outfit·Dark Red·Demon King Venerable!"
Beneath the dark, shadowy body, there was a scarlet, surging energy. The hideous substance covered everything, including the long sword in his hand. This made Zhong Ning's body nearly four meters tall. The Red Sky Demon in his hand was also extended by these substances, and its shape was exaggerated and huge.
Zhong Ning is now a huge man, but his body reveals a hint of slender beauty.
"Yu Cang, facing someone like me, you're still unwilling to use even greater power?" Zhong Ning's voice was thick with reverberation. "In order to activate the Heavenly Demon King's transformation, I need more sacrifices in advance! Even if you sacrifice all the summoned beasts you have now, it won't be enough!
"Not only that, the Dark Red Sky Demon King is even more demanding when it comes to sacrifices. Only epic items can satisfy his appetite. And this time, if the sacrifices are not replenished in time... I, as its master, will also suffer the consequences."
Zhong Ning raised his hand, and a scarlet light seeped out from his dark body, slowly condensing into his palm, "However, now I no longer need to rely on your sacrifice to collect offerings... Feel it carefully, Yu Cang, everything in my sight will give me everything!"
boom!
The red light collapsed and expanded in the palm of his hand, and a scarlet sun was formed in the sky. Suddenly, in front of Yu Cang, all the summoned beasts on the field stopped, and then countless soul card fragments were sucked out of their bodies and flew towards the scarlet sun in the sky!
Although the speed was not fast, Yu Cang frowned slightly.
The Saint of the Breach did not die, which means that this sacrifice was not harmful. However, this cannot go on any longer.
He immediately waved his hand - all the summoned beasts on his field entered death cooldown in an instant!
Suddenly, Yu Cang's scene was empty, with nothing left - those dragon scales, Yu Cang had just used the half-dragon headhunter to turn them all into dragon hunting spears.
"Oh? Cancel the summons?—What are you doing, committing suicide?"
Zhong Ning in mid-air snorted and laughed, then clenched his hands tightly, breaking up the sun.
"You canceled the summons to prevent me from absorbing the sacrifice? I certainly can't absorb the sacrifice, but now that you have nothing on your side, what are you going to use to resist my attack?"
Gorgeous!
Zhong Ning waved the Red Sky Demon, and bursts of devilish howls suddenly filled the air.
"Have you given up yet?"
Scarlet energy burst out from the body, covering the sky above Yu Cang's head, and seemed to be able to launch an attack at any time.
Looking up and seeing the overwhelming power, Yu Cang just shook his head.
"Of course not."
"Um?"
Zhong Ning raised his brows, feeling a little uneasy.
She felt a little strange that Yu Cang had taken the initiative to cancel all his summoned beasts, so she decided to give it a try first.
Gorgeous!
The giant sword was swung, and a scarlet blade light fell from the sky, slashing towards Yu Cang in mid-air!
She didn't use her full strength in this attack, she just tried it out.
However, before the sword light could reach the body, the ground seemed to come alive. The earth suddenly bulged up, forming an indestructible barrier in a burst of thick green flames!
Bang!
The blade shot in, leaving a deep cut. For a moment, dirt flew everywhere, but nothing happened after that.
"What?" Zhong Ning was already feeling increasingly uneasy. "What is this? A summoned beast? A spell card? When did you activate it..."
"It seems..." Yu Cang smiled, "your plundering of the sacrifices is still unable to disturb the dead..."
"What's the meaning……"
"Return from the Netherworld with scales." Yu Cang said softly, "——The corpse of the Nether Flame Dragon Emperor!"
Hoa ...
Click, click, click—Boom!
Accompanied by a soul-shaking roar, the ground surged and cracked like waves, and countless pale green flames burned from the cracks and shot up into the sky!
Zhong Ning's pupils shrank as she saw the flames about to burn to her feet. She quickly flapped her wings and rose up. After she reached a safe place, she looked down.
"Is this... a dragon? But how is that possible? Where did you get the sacrifice? Could it be that those summoned beasts just now weren't unsummoned... But that's not right. If those summoned beasts were sacrifices, why didn't I notice anything?"
"You're only half wrong." Yu Cang said slowly with a smile on his face, "I didn't unsummon those summoned beasts just now, but they weren't used as sacrifices either—instead, they were transformed into souls and returned to the Nether Flame!"
Just now, when Zhong Ning summoned the scarlet sun, Yu Cang reacted quickly and directly activated the dead dragon scale ability [Death Fusion] that was in death cooling. He used ten dragon scales and the young true dragon that he had quietly summoned and then canceled to fuse together the corpse of the Nether Flame Dragon Emperor!
At the same time, he activated [Return of All Souls], directly absorbing excessive amounts of soul power, killing all of his summoned beasts and gaining a large amount of soul power.
"What? But how did you summon it... Could it be?" Zhong Ning was stunned and suddenly thought of what Yu Cang had just said.
Unable to disturb the dead... Could it be that the sacrifice of this summoned beast is a summoned beast that is in death cooling?
How is this possible!
Fusion summoning is currently only under research at the Ancient Capital University. She has never seen death fusion, so it is too normal.
"The corpse of the Dark Flame Dragon Emperor." Yu Cang had already lowered his head and focused his gaze. "—Use [Dark Flame Dragon Breath]."
Huh...
Amidst a terrifying roar, a pale green light began to emanate from between the dragon's sharp teeth...
…
after a while.
Inside the arena, the ground was surging endlessly, with pale green and scarlet flames everywhere. However, it was obvious that the pale green flames occupied most of the territory, while the scarlet flames could only occupy a corner, struggling to hold on.
In the center of a scarlet flame.
The Dark Red Sky Demon King knelt on one knee with the ferocious long sword in his hand stuck in the ground. She used it to support her body and did not fall down.
Now, this terrifying demon was covered with bruises, exaggerated wounds and green flames that were difficult to extinguish.
On the opposite side, the corpse of the Dark Flame Dragon Emperor was not in much better condition. There were countless knife wounds on its huge body, and soul card fragments kept spilling out of the wounds.
Although both were seriously injured, the larger corpse of the Dark Flame Dragon Emperor clearly had the upper hand.
"I haven't lost yet..."
Bang!
A dull sound suddenly came from the body of the Dark Red Sky Demon King. The body of this huge demon suddenly froze, and then it turned into countless soul card fragments and gradually disappeared into the air.
Along with it, the duel shield that had long since reached its limit also dissipated.
Amidst the soul card fragments, Zhong Ning slowly fell to the ground and fainted instantly.
“…” Yu Cang looked at his opponent and pulled his hand out of his trouser pocket.
Zhong Ning's shield was broken and he fainted because he did not complete the sacrifice.
She fought to the end.
"You're quite strong."
(End of this chapter)
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