Chapter 25

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The three great demons never imagined that Ning Chen would be so arrogant!

One of the great demons sneered and said, "Demon Lord, being too arrogant is not a good thing sometimes."

"Even if you come out to stop me, you are just a Silent Realm. I will see how you can stop me with just a defensive formation!"

Ning Chen laughed when he heard this.

Although he didn't know much about the cultivation system of this world, he thought that the original owner's cultivation level was enough to at least sweep away these Mahayana demon cultivators, even if it meant splitting mountains and overturning seas. How could three Mahayana demon cultivators have the confidence to say this?

Ning Chen ignored them and just picked out one of the monsters he disliked the most and rushed towards it, saying curiously, "Who said I want to stop you?"

The Chengfeng Sword in Ning Chen's hand suddenly shot out a three-foot sword light. The sword light was as black as ink, and the sharp tip of the sword pointed directly at the throat of the big monster. Before it got close, the big monster that Ning Chen was targeting was already terrified.

The big monster immediately grew hard scales covering its body, and even its fingers turned into sharp claws. But even so, the sense of oppression and crisis that Ning Chen gave him lingered.

At the same time, the other two big demons were silent and did not even look at them, allowing their angry attacks to fall on the defensive formation.

In Pingjing Village, Xie Tingyun quickly turned back to the place where the formation was set up. He did not have the Chengfeng Sword in his hand, so he could only use his own body to calm the center of the formation. He barely maintained the formation and took the attack, and then suddenly coughed up blood.

Ning Chen's attack caught the demon cultivators off guard. He was almost instantly close to the big demon and exchanged countless moves with him in a flash.

The pressure from the great demon of the Silent Realm was brutally and unreasonably pressed down on the targeted big monster, forcing him to distract himself from the resistance while also having to take on Ning Chen's random slashes.

The great powers in the Silent Realm have almost stepped half a foot into the realm of ascension. People at this stage have already left the mundane realm and have stepped half a foot into the realm of immortality and ascension. In a one-on-one situation, it is almost certain that they will crush the Mahayana stage.

Within a few breaths, the big monster was covered in blood.

The other two great demons looked solemn when they saw this. They divided their attention to support their companions while continuing to focus their fire on the defense formation below. They said, "There are dozens of lives in the whole village, and the life and death of the human saint, and you don't care?!"

Ning Chen swung his sword fiercely at the neck of the already seriously injured monster, but he barely dodged it. In the end, the sword was only cut from the shoulder to the waist. Blood spurted out, almost soaking half of Ning Chen's body.

He said in confusion, "I don't care whether they live or die. Why do you think that I, a dignified Demon Lord, would care about the lives of a bunch of ghosts and an old enemy?"

Big demons: “???”

Didn't he look like he had no choice but to come out to fight just now? He was also being very friendly and affectionate with the Holy Son of the Human Race. The sword in the Demon Lord's hand was even Xie Tingyun's. Now he changes his face so quickly and wants to distance himself from the matter. Who would believe it?

However, the reality is that they have no choice but to believe it or not.

In the Three Realms, a Mahayana-level powerful being is already extremely rare. Any one of them can support a piece of heaven and earth if taken out alone. This time, three Mahayana-level powerful monsters appeared in the Endless Forest, which is already a rarity. Taking over Pingjing Village is a must.

However, what they were facing at this time was Ning Chen, who was only willing to beat one of the demons. If the three demons were combined, they might be able to fight Ning Chen for a few rounds, but if a single Mahayana cultivator faced Ning Chen, a great demon in the state of Nirvana, it would be completely disastrous.

The other two big monsters couldn't continue to attack the defense formation! The defense formation was held by Xie Tingyun, so they couldn't make a quick decision to break the formation first and then provide support.

If they just let Ning Chen defeat them one by one, they would be the next to die.

So the other two big monsters quickly changed their targets and attacked Ning Chen together, narrowly saving a monster life that was almost half destroyed from Ning Chen's hands.

The big monster that was being chased and beaten by Ning Chen was already covered in blood. The dragon tail that he transformed into was chopped by several swords. Some of the wounds were so deep that the bones were visible. The entire dragon tail was almost broken.

Judging from their racial aura, the three big monsters should all be from the dragon clan, and they cooperated well with each other. Moreover, in the semi-beast form, their body surfaces were extremely hard, and ordinary attacks could hardly leave any marks on them. Ning Chen used all his strength to just about cut off the monster's tail. He wanted to pierce the vital points for a quick victory, but was always blocked.

However, facing three Mahayana-level dragon demon cultivators, Ning Chen was not so relaxed.

Their sharp claws could easily pierce through the rock wall, so Ning Chen's size advantage as a demon was of no use, and the situation gradually turned from one-sided suppression to another.

Ning Chen wanted to kill the half-dead dragon first, but the dragon had strong vitality, and the other two big monsters were also trying tirelessly to stop him. The Mahayana monster cultivators had many ways to save their lives, and Ning Chen tried his best but failed to kill it. In addition, the dragon always scratched his body with some wounds that did not hurt or itch, so Ning Chen couldn't help but feel annoyed.

When he gets upset, he doesn't want others to have an easy life.

When Ning Chen was once again caught in a stalemate of wheel battle, he was so annoyed that he just raised his sword and chopped at the half-dead monster.

Seeing this, the other two big monsters that were restraining Ning Chen immediately attacked Ning Chen's heart, forcing him to withdraw his hands and defend himself.

They had used this trick many times and it always worked, but it didn't work this time.

Ning Shen ignored it and let the sharp claws pierce his heart and the blood spilled on the half-crumbled dragon's face.

The half-crippled dragon was stunned for a moment, not knowing why he felt something was strange. When his vision began to spin and turn upside down, he realized that the blood that spurted out was mostly from his neck that was pierced by the Wind Riding Sword.

The blood dripped from the air and landed on the translucent defense array. At that moment, Xie Tingyun's pupils shrank. He couldn't tell which blood was Tian Xiao's and which was the dragon's. He only saw Ning Chen's body swaying slightly, but he didn't forget to pull out the Chengfeng Sword, letting the dragon's corpse, which was no longer alive, fall to the ground, creating a cloud of dust.

The other two big demons were extremely furious. The sharp claws that pierced out of Ning Chen's chest retracted again, as if they had grasped something. They said angrily: "Demon Lord! If it weren't for this demon heart, how could you have the strength you have now? Now this demon heart is in my hand. I'll see whether you can dodge faster or I can pinch it faster!"

Ning Chen groaned softly, but his body did not retreat but advanced instead.

He moved closer to the big demon who made the noise, with a bloody smile on his face: "Then guess... why didn't I hide?"

Ning Chen spread out his hands and showed him the round magic pill in his palm.

This magic pill was clear and smooth, floating slowly in Ning Chen's hand. It obviously belonged to the dragon that Ning Chen had just killed.

Then Ning Chen tightened his palm lightly, and the demon pill shattered as if it could no longer hold on, turning into sparkling spots of light that flowed into Ning Chen's palm.

The injuries on Ning Chen's body began to heal visibly, and the big demon's hand, which passed through Ning Chen's chest, felt the squeezing force brought by the growing flesh and blood.

Then, with an unknown light flashing in his dark red eyes, he tilted his head and said, "...It's your turn."

The demon's expression changed suddenly.

His whole body shuddered, and the murderous intent rushed straight into his internal organs, obviously targeting his demon pill!

A hint of viciousness flashed across the eyes of the great demon. The demonic energy in his hands gathered and he exerted force suddenly, determined to crush the legendary demon heart that was as hard as a rock.

However, a warm light suddenly flashed on Ning Chen's body, and the demonic energy in the big monster's hand, which was ready to be released, missed and hit the warm light.

Ning Chen was stunned.

This attack missed, and the big demon had almost no chips to kill Ning Chen.

Not only that, the demon's face changed, and he found that his inner palace had been penetrated by a hand surrounded by demonic energy at some point. Almost without thinking, he chose to give up crushing Ning Chen's demon heart and save himself instead. He crushed a jade talisman and appeared more than ten feet away in an instant.

Ning Chen was a little surprised. He looked down and saw the warm light on his body slowly absorbed into the body of the Chengfeng Sword. He turned around and saw Xie Tingyun standing at the center of the defensive formation, with formation patterns all over his body and the formation seal in his palm.

Xie Tingyun somehow managed to transfer part of his defensive formation to Ning Chen via the Chengfeng Sword.

Seeing that Ning Chen was fine, Xie Tingyun breathed a sigh of relief imperceptibly. He swallowed the blood welling up in his throat, lowered his eyes, clenched the formation seal in his hand, and slowly took back the formation seal on Ning Chen.

At this point, one of the three Mahayana demon cultivators had already died, and the other two had varying degrees of injuries. However, Xie Tingyun was still standing firm with his defensive formation. Pingjing Village did not suffer much loss, but Ning Chenhun was covered in blood with a severe wound on his heart.

The scene fell into dead silence for a moment.

The beast tide was simply unable to break through the defensive formation. Ning Chen defended the formation and restrained three high-level monsters, using the injury-for-injury method to avoid the fall of one monster.

No one expected that the Demon Lord would be so crazy that even though his demon heart was in the hands of others and was in danger, he still dared to do whatever it took to kill the enemy.

Ning Chen saw that they were all in a stalemate and said with some regret: "Stop fighting?"

“…”

After seeing how Ning Chen stared at a great Mahayana demon without any care until he killed it, no demon would be willing to be targeted by him again.

Moreover, the situation of the three people being in control has been broken by Ning Chen. Even though Ning Chen is seriously injured now, his talent for plundering can actually directly absorb the demon pills and feed back to himself. It is so difficult to kill him!

Almost all the big monsters present had the idea of ​​retreating.

At this moment, a sigh came from the depths of the Endless Forest: "Fools, when did I ever allow you to attack the Devil's Heart?"

The big monsters all changed color, but this time they had a bad start, not only did they kill a big monster, they even failed to take over Pingjing Village, so they had no choice but to swallow their anger and had no courage to fight back.

The beast tide stopped moving, they lay quietly on the ground, as if listening to something, and after a moment they slowly retreated, completely abandoning Pingjing Village.

"Tianxiao, I didn't expect to see you here."

The voice smiled and said, "How are you? I have been waiting for you for a long time. It's a pity that now is not a good time. Please take good care of yourself, Demon Lord, and don't let others take away your Demon Heart."

Ning Chen recognized that this was the great demon with a very delicious and nutritious spirit, so he perked up and said, "Really? You want me to take care of my demon heart, right? Okay, give me another bite to see if you are sincere?"

Deep in the endless forest: "..."

When that voice sounded again, it was clearly gnashing its teeth: "...Tianxiao, I have to advise you that being too arrogant is not a good thing sometimes."

The beasts retreated very quickly, and soon there was nothing in front of them. Ning Chen was hooking the tassel of the Wind-riding Sword in boredom, and heard the big monster suddenly change the subject and say to Xie Tingyun: "Holy Son of the Human Race, when you protected him just now, were you thinking that Tian Xiao would die, or that Mo Xin would be broken?"

“…”

Xie Tingyun did not answer this question. He raised his eyes and looked in the direction of Wujinlin, saying indifferently: "Demon Lord Mingzhu, playing tricks is not your style. You are so anxious because something happened to his soul, right?"

"You didn't kill Tian Xiao at such a good opportunity. Your actions must be restricted at this moment," Xie Tingyun said. "You must stay by the side of that person's soul. You can't leave, right?"

This time, the Demon Lord remained silent for much longer.

After a long while, the demon lord gritted his teeth and smiled, "Don't think you are innocent."

Xie Tingyun politely replied, "Must-have."

No one could argue with these two demons, Ning Chen and Xie Tingyun, which made him very angry for nothing. In the end, he just disappeared.

Ning Shen shrugged in boredom.

His only thought at this moment was that these monsters were really annoying when fighting. They stuck to him tightly and would inflict some painless wounds on him when they saw an opportunity. They refused to engage in a head-on confrontation with Ning Chen in order to completely wear him out in a tug-of-war. Ning Chen drove one away like a fly, and the other two would seize the opportunity to come up. He drove away the two behind him, and the other one would take advantage of the opportunity to attack him.

Ning Chen felt extremely frustrated during the fight, and it was more fun to compare him with Xie Tingyun.

Xie Tingyun's fighting style is quite different from his temperament and appearance. Every move he makes is implemented effectively, and his reception and counterattack are just right. Moreover, his level is equal to his own. It is estimated that there is no need to worry about his spiritual energy not being able to keep up.

Of course, Ning Chen didn't know he was injured during the first fight. Next time, he should wait for Xie Tingyun to recover before going to find him. It should be perfect.

As for the fact that Xie Tingyun wanted the Demon Heart, Ning Chen didn't care much about it.

The protagonist Long Aotian will eventually refine the Heaven Sword and open the Heaven Gate, so it would be abnormal if he didn't want the original owner's Demon Heart. Anyway, Ning Chen still has a body that can be resurrected, plus the self-closing pill that can block pain. When he takes the Demon Heart, he can change his body anytime and anywhere, so it's not a big deal. Ning Chen just follows the plot and does the mission.

The beast tide retreated completely, and Xie Tingyun withdrew the defense formation. At this time, Pingjing Village was already filled with a spooky atmosphere, almost blocking most of the sky.

Ning Chen raised his hand and brushed off the blood on Chengfeng's sword. No one knew what material the sword was made of, but it was not easy to be stained with blood. Ning Chen shook it off a few times and it returned to its original clean state. Only the tassel of the sword was accidentally stained with some blood. Chengfeng then fluttered the tassels stained with the demon's blood all the way, and was so disgusted that he refused to put them down.

Then Ning Chen turned around and saw that all the original villagers of Pingjing Village had gathered behind Xie Tingyun without knowing when. All the empty and dark eyes looked in the direction of Ning Chen and Xie Tingyun, and then two lines of tears silently slid down.

Ning Chen: “…”

It is no exaggeration to say that Ning Chen had never felt so numb all over when his chest was stabbed.

This feeling of horror was so overwhelming that Ning Chen's hand trembled and he almost threw the Chengfeng Sword in his hand away.

Fortunately, Xie Tingyun was standing there, so Ning Chen didn't feel that he had accidentally entered a den of resentful ghosts, and at least he regained some sanity.

Perhaps it was because it was in broad daylight, this time Ning Chen noticed that they were all wrapped in many transparent threads. Those threads seemed to be growing in the ground, wrapping around each ghost in clumps, almost covering half of their bodies.

They stared in amazement at Ning Chen and Xie Tingyun, who were gradually approaching them. More and more tears and blood flowed from their empty eye sockets, dripping onto the ground with a sound of dripping.

Ning Chen didn't understand why they came closer, he just felt his scalp tingling and subconsciously avoided these ghosts. Unknowingly, he was forced to the side of Xie Tingyun.

The defensive formation needed people to guard it all the time. In the end, Xie Tingyun made up for the vacancies by himself. He consumed a lot of energy, but his face was only slightly pale. Fortunately, he did not suffer any injuries.

He looked at Ning Chen's stiff steps as the ghost got closer and closer, and found it funny for some reason. However, Ning Chen didn't know if he was paying attention to Xie Tingyun's expression all the time, but he was able to accurately catch the smile in Xie Tingyun's eyes. He said unhappily: "Xie Tingyun, what are you laughing at! Don't think that I really won't run away with your sword. Within the forced summoning distance, I can do whatever I want depending on my mood."

But when these words are spoken among a group of ghosts, they are really not convincing.

Xie Tingyun sighed and said, "Don't be afraid. They have no intention of harming you. If you don't believe me, just watch."

Ning Chen was so angry that he said, "Who is afraid? You are the one who is afraid. Your whole family is...!"

At this moment, a villager seemed to be entangled too tightly by the transparent silk thread under him, and he stumbled accidentally, and rushed towards Ning Chen. His black nails grabbed him instinctively, looking like a vengeful ghost with tears of blood trying to kill the living.

Ning Chen's mind went blank. He suddenly took a big step back and grabbed Xie Tingyun's shoulders with his hands, which made Xie Tingyun, who was not afraid at first, shiver.

Xie Tingyun: "..."

Ning Chen paused for a few breaths, and when he finally remembered to breathe, he turned his head and was about to continue speaking, but he came face to face with a ghost behind him, so close that Ning Chen could almost smell the scent of blood.

Ning Chen almost collapsed, and couldn't help saying: "Can you guys stay away from me?! If you come close to me again, I will pack you up and send you to see that damn dragon!!!"

Xie Tingyun, whose shoulders were hurt by the grip, said: "..."

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