Demon-exploding furnace
As more and more dragonfly claws fell, the strange tree slowly revealed its true form.
Xiao Cangdao opened her eyes wide with tension until she saw Granny Lizard's old and withered face gradually appear before her eyes.
"Master! Master!" She covered her lips tightly, trying to suppress the overwhelming grief that welled up in her heart.
Childhood memories are still vivid in their minds. When they were almost slaughtered by Ye Hong and other demons, it was Granny Lizard who led the people to save them.
Grandma Lizard wiped her blood-stained hands, gently grasped their two trembling, tender little hands, and softly comforted them, "Don't be afraid, Grandma's here... No one can hurt you..."
But……
How could we possibly swallow the hatred of someone who killed our own family? What gives us the right to forgive them?
"Your parents didn't die at the hands of the Night Crimson Clan, but for the sake of the entire Qiling Mountain!"
Grandma Lizard patiently told them this history.
She didn't understand, but she learned to quietly bury the seeds of hatred deep in her heart.
Ye Hong is a powerful clan in Qiling Mountain. In the battle, the Ye Hong clan was also involved and suffered more than half of its losses. She is not someone who doesn't know right from wrong; she only wants one person to pay with their life.
"If you insist on someone paying with their life, I can give you my mother-in-law's life."
She had hated and been angry, but she never imagined she would lose Grandma Lizard.
“Master…” Xiao Cangdao knelt down with a thud and sobbed softly.
Ren Xiangxiang broke out in a cold sweat, carefully crushed a pill, and poured water into her mouth.
As soon as she finished doing all this, the strange tree suddenly trembled violently, and the startled dragonfly took flight with a whoosh.
Mie Chenhuan and Mo You simultaneously sprinkled out medicinal powder.
The dragonfly claws, which had just taken flight, were caught off guard and fell back down.
The aged face inside the strange tree slowly opened its eyes, its deep black pupils struggling for a moment before it laboriously uttered a few words.
"Kill me, kill me—"
"Master!" Xiao Cangdao suddenly woke up. "Master, look at me! Do you remember me?"
Grandma Lizard's eyes turned from pitch black to red in an instant, as if she had tried to restrain herself but failed at the last moment.
"kill--"
boom!
Granny Lizard's demonic power surged, and Ren Xiangxiang's vision blurred as she was suddenly blown away by a gust of demonic wind.
Boom!
Suddenly, Ren Xiangxiang felt a tightness in her throat as a withered hand gripped her neck.
Granny Lizard's face was contorted with rage, her crimson eyes filled with nothing but frenzied killing intent.
"You overestimate your abilities!"
"Xiangxiang—"
As the jet stream cautiously ventured deeper into the Swallowing Bay, it suddenly looked inexplicably in one direction, muttering uneasily:
"Xiangxiang..."
At this moment, the cold moon hangs high in the sky, and all the controlled demons stand quietly in place, their bodies covered with dragonfly claws.
Upon hearing She Liuying's voice, Kou Huai asked curiously, "Uncle-Master? What did you say?"
Shooting Shadow snapped back to reality. "It's nothing, maybe I'm overthinking it."
As they spoke, they drew closer and closer to the enormous demon-refining furnace.
"What should we do?" Kou Huai asked.
She Liuying withdrew her gaze. "If what Xu Jinnian said is true, these things are all remnants of Liao Wanchuan from back then. It makes sense that they used the Demon Refining Furnace to refine demon pills."
"Just who exactly is this Liao Wanchuan?" Kou Huai asked again.
It's not surprising that he didn't know; currently, only a few demon masters know the inside story, and the disciples below don't know much about it.
“Back then…” Shooting Shadow slowly began to speak.
Liao Wanchuan was a rare genius in demon-refining, and the demon-slaying weapons he created once terrified all the demons in the vicinity.
But his family members all died at the hands of the demon, especially his child who was not even a month old.
From then on, his personality changed drastically, and he vowed to kill all the demons in the world. The destruction of his spirit and the destruction of his form were his masterpieces.
Later, he went even further, from killing demons to forging weapons to actually exterminating all the demons.
But by then, the Yin and Yang Palaces had reached a balance, and neither side wanted any more casualties. The demon race backed down and lived peacefully with the human race.
This was something Liao Wanchuan didn't want to see, but he didn't show it. Instead, he began to intensify his research and development of the demonic gu.
A type of Gu poison targeting demons, but it requires a living person to be the Gu vessel, and not everyone can become a Gu vessel.
So he secretly built a dungeon and captured many people. In the end, when the truth was exposed, he burned himself to death, and none of the people he used as Gu weapons survived.
The Liao family was therefore expelled from Qiling Mountain.
"...So these things that suddenly appeared, neither human nor demon, are..." Kou Huai found it hard to imagine.
Resurrected from the dead?
Sheliuying shook his head. "They are just living corpses controlled by the Zigu, or rather, they are the Zigu themselves."
Before the words were even finished, the two had already arrived in front of the Demon Refining Furnace.
Even though it was a dark and windy night, thick smoke could still be seen billowing out. Kou Huai couldn't help but ask, "Why are they building such a huge demon-refining furnace?"
"Refine a demon core; the demon gu feeds on demons." She Liuying replied coldly, "Find a way to smash it."
As soon as the words were spoken, the demons controlled by the dragonfly claws all started to move, and the dragonfly claws all flew into the air.
"This won't do!" Dragonfly Claw suddenly flew off in one direction, and Cun She slowly walked into the moonlight, his pupils bloodshot.
"I knew Hua Chixing couldn't handle it, so I had to take matters into my own hands."
As he spoke, his gaze fell upon She Liuying, who was a head taller than him. "She Liuying, one of the Six Palace Immortals, it's a pleasure to meet you. I am Gu Lang."
"Go and smash it, now!" Shooting Shadow roared.
Countless dragonfly claws rushed towards us.
Kou Huai didn't even look, turned and ran. He drew his bow and unleashed a hunting aura. The murderous aura of the Divine Annihilation Bow instantly wiped out a group of dragonfly claws.
Cun She was slightly surprised and lost his focus for a moment. The arrow was unstoppable and drew a sharp, cold light. Cun She hurriedly dodged, but the hunting aura brought by the demon-slaying arrow still left wounds on his body.
What a terrifying demon-slaying arrow! No wonder the Gu woman fell victim to it.
She unleashed several streams of hunting energy, instantly wiping out a large area of Dragonfly Claws, and even Cun She kept her distance from her.
Behind him, Kou Huai slashed through the door with a single blow, and a swarm of dragonfly claws flew out. If Ah Chong hadn't reacted in time, he would have been hit in the face.
The countless dragonfly claws made his scalp tingle. He waited until the dragonfly claws all flew away before rushing in.
Instead, they were met with a pitch-black wall, which, upon closer inspection, appeared to be an accumulation of demons controlled by the Dragonfly Claw.
"What the hell is this?" Kou Huai muttered to himself, and slashed with all his might.
Boom!
The ground trembled violently, a fierce wind arose, and sand and stones flew everywhere.
Cun She, wielding the Thin Wing Blade like a dragonfly's wing, cut through the swirling dust and charged directly at She Liuying.
Sheliuying retreated rapidly, maintaining her distance, and fired another arrow using the dust and smoke she had raised.
This arrow pierced through the clouds and shattered rocks, stirring up countless dragonfly claws that coalesced into a hurricane that swept towards Cun She. Cun She dared not fight head-on, and at the critical moment, another deafening roar came from the direction of the Demon Refining Furnace. Dragonfly claws from all directions and the controlled demon race all surged towards the Demon Refining Furnace. The veins on Kou Huai's forehead throbbed wildly, and seeing that he was about to be torn to shreds, he used all his strength to slash down with his sword.
The blow shattered his arm, and a sharp pain shot through him. His vision went black and then bright again as a scorching fire serpent lunged at him. Without thinking, he threw all the fire-chasing stones into the serpent and turned to pounce.
"Uncle-Master She, run!"
Boom!
The thin-winged blade nearly grazed the neck of the gushing shadow, followed by a wave of intense heat that sent both of them flying like a tidal wave.
boom--
A huge mushroom cloud shot into the sky, its dazzling flames illuminating the night.
Even Ren Xiangxiang and the others, who were far away in Fulinzong, felt the shock. In an instant, countless dragonfly claws flew towards the direction of the explosion. The group looked into the distance, speechless with astonishment.
"What happened?" Mie Chenhuan asked instinctively.
Mo You helped Ren Xiangxiang up, and Ren Xiangxiang covered her throat and coughed violently.
Xiao Cangdao knelt beside Granny Lizard's corpse, carefully cradling her head. In that instant, Mie Chenhuan had severed her head with a single slash, and Mo You had severed her arm with a single sword strike.
But before she could even grieve, Ren Xiangxiang suddenly cried out, "That's Tunning Bay, that's my mother!"
"Wait, Xiangxiang!" Mo You stopped her abruptly. "Even if we rush over now, it's too late. We might as well run now!"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Mie Chenhuan agreed, grabbed the Xiao Cang knife, and left.
Grandma Lizard's head rolled off her arms, her eyes tightly closed.
"Master..."
"Hurry up and leave, or you won't be able to leave when those things come back!"
"Xiangxiang!"
"Mother...I..."
"Walk!"
The buzzing dragonfly claws all flew towards the firelight, and half of Cun She's head was blown off, the other half a bloody mess, a truly horrifying sight.
He let out a dissonant roar, his flesh and blood healing rapidly, and even the half of his head that had been blown up grew back at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It was just a nearly transparent white.
He staggered through the smoke-filled wasteland, littered with corpses and struggling dragonfly claws. He angrily surveyed his surroundings before finally settling on the ruins not far away.
"Master, Master, wake up!" Ah Chong howled heartbreakingly on his shoulder. Kou Huai suddenly woke up as his mind went through a replay of his life.
His bones felt like they were falling apart, and for a moment he couldn't even find his own arms and legs.
If it were anyone else, the force of the exploding demon-refining furnace would have been enough to pulverize them, but he had Ah Chong by his side, so his consciousness quickly returned to the mortal realm after falling into chaos.
As Ah Chong called out repeatedly, Kou Huai finally regained his senses and limbs. Looking up, he saw that Cun She had already walked up to the heavily injured She Liuying.
"Uncle-Master She—"
A bitter smile tugged at the corner of She Liuying's mouth. He moved his fingers on the Divine Annihilation Bow, and finally fixed his gaze on Cun She's eerie and terrifying face.
Cun She's body surged with evil energy as he raised his thin-winged blade.
Almost simultaneously, Sheliuying suddenly raised her Divine Annihilation, and at the critical moment, a fierce demonic power suddenly attacked from behind Sheliuying.
With a deafening roar, a cloud of dust billowed up, and a domineering, demonic wind blasted Cun She away with the force of thunder.
This is……
Jet Shadow's heart skipped a beat.
Ren Fenghong's ultimate move... Thousand-Foot Devour...
Cun She was caught off guard and fell several feet away, his newly grown head was smashed to pieces.
He was so angry that he gritted his teeth, but couldn't utter a single word. When he regained his balance and looked around, the dragonfly claws that had been hovering in the air were nowhere to be found.
"Cough...you..." She was dazed, only feeling the cold wind whistling past her ears, and a warm hand gently brushing her cheek.
"I'm sorry, Ying... I'm late..."
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