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Chapter 351: Chapter 348: Sweeping Through
"Boom!"
Outside the valley.
Amidst the dazzling light that shined to the extreme and the background of fierce, burning flames, a Demon King that resembled a bear-man - yet was a massive twenty meters tall - ran for its life in terror, using every ounce of its strength.
Fire engulfed its body, burning its fur.
Some parts were visibly charred.
Yet, at this moment, it couldn’t care less, seeking only to flee the valley as fast as possible.
However, before it could fully escape from the mouth of the valley, behind it, a tunnel suddenly appeared in the valley that was almost swallowed by fierce flames.
A tunnel with hardly any flames.
In the valley that had become a sea of fire, this was nothing short of a miracle.
The very next second, the ground cracked apart.
From within the cataclysm of the fire sea, the tunnel erupted with a violent hurricane, a sonic boom, and even tore a gully in the ground.
And the one responsible for ripping asunder the earth and piercing a tunnel through the fire sea was...
Gu Jinlai, who was in the cockpit of the Cheng Ying Mecha.
He skimmed low across the ground, his back flashing with blue light, and after slaying another Demon King, he turned around and charged at supersonic speed towards this last Demon King.
In his wake, he shattered flames, skimmed across the earth, and directly formed a visible tunnel through the blazing sea of fire in the valley.
As the tunnel further morphed into a twister, his figure had already caught up to this bear-man-like Demon King from behind.
"Humans!"
The Demon King let out a desperate howl, demon flames raging furiously over its huge body, and its sharp claws, capable of crushing steel, swiped down at Gu Jinlai.
But before the fearsome Demon Flame on its body could even begin to affect Gu Jinlai, a Great Sun-like brilliant radiance scattered around.
Under the glow of this light, the dreadful Demon Flame - a mortal threat even to the Devas - melted away like snow under the fierce sun.
In the next moment, Gu Jinlai, who seemed to turn into a stream of golden light, harshly collided with the giant body of the Demon King...
No!
It wasn’t a collision!
But a stab!
Gu Jinlai, lightning-fast, thrust his sword through the chest of the bear-man before he and his mecha, powered by the thrust of eight engines, collided with the bear-man’s body.
Even though the bear-man stood twenty meters tall, and Gu Jinlai in the Cheng Ying Mecha was only six meters tall, looking like a child of one or two years old in comparison, the terrifying force that burst forth from the mecha sent the twenty-meter-tall, hundred-ton weight of the Demon King soaring, feet leaving the ground and flying backwards.
"Roar!"
Severe pain triggered the ferocious nature of the bear-man, who roared, seeking a desperate counter-attack.
But before it could raise its claws, Gu Jinlai, with his hands gripping the sword and the pure strength of a peak War General unleashed, along with the thrust provided by the engines on his hands and feet...
In a blast of blue flames, he, gripping the hilt of the Cheng Ying Sword, ferociously lifted it upwards!
"Slash!"
Under the sheer brutal force that reached its zenith, the bear-man-like Demon King had its entire chest torn open from bottom to top by Gu Jinlai, who brandished his sword.
Crimson blood, along with flames from the mecha’s engines, showered down from the sky.
Even...
Due to the overpowering thrust of the engines, after tearing through from the chest to the head, the hundred-ton weight of the Demon King was carried by the upward slicing momentum, soaring thirty or forty meters into the air.
And Gu Jinlai...
His hands tightly gripping Cheng Ying Sword, bathed in blood and golden light, couldn’t help but surge a hundred meters into the void.
However, once he rose to a hundred meters, he quickly reacted, sharply changing direction, moving in a reversed "U" maneuver.
What was an upward charge immediately turned into a plunge downwards.
Before the bear-man Demon King’s body could begin to fall from its lift-off, the reunited Man and Sword as One, now like a Meteor Star, harshly smashed onto the body of the Demon King; the Cheng Ying Sword held in his hands pierced through the skull of the bear-man Demon King upon their collision.
"Bang!"
The huge body, accelerated by the gravity of the collision with the Cheng Ying Mecha, crashed hard onto the ground.
The earth trembled.
A circle of airwaves, visible to the naked eye, along with dust and debris, instantly splashed in every direction.
Even with the tenacity of the Demon King’s life force, facing such injury, it utterly lost all signs of life.
Gu Jinlai stood atop the body of the Demon King, slowly straightened himself.
Looking at the Cheng Ying Sword that had pierced through the head of the Demon King and nailed it to the ground...
He grasped the hilt and sheared to the left, then pulled out the sword and swung it through the air twice.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Amid the sound of cutting the air, all the blood on the surface of the sword was flung off.
Afterward, he deftly sheathed the sword, hanging it onto the slot on his back.
"It seems that two corpses have been left behind."
Gu Jinlai’s Spiritual Sense quickly poured into the Qiankun Ring on his hand. Under its guidance, a special Spiritual Artifact swiftly appeared in his grasp, and then he used it to inject into the corpse of the Demon Demon King.
A large amount of Essence Blood was refined by the Spiritual Artifact and then reclaimed into the Qiankun Ring.
The interior space of his Qiankun Ring was a sphere with a diameter of ten meters, which felt rather spacious when not storing the Cheng Ying Mecha.
After completing these tasks, he turned back to visit the valley and refined the Essence Blood from the Demon Demon King who he had initially killed with a strike from above.
At this time, a succession of roars emanated from outside.
These were a multitude of Devils "smelling" the scent of True Spirit and rushing towards the valley.
Gu Jinlai glanced over them.
Most of them were mere ordinary Devils, and the number of Upper-level Demons was quite scarce.
The weaker Demon Spirits, once transformed into Devils, were easily controlled by their bestial instincts. However, the more powerful the Demon Spirit, the higher their spiritual wisdom. Some Upper-level Demons could even communicate fully with humans, and even employ human-like schemes and machinations.
There was not much to say about the Demon Kings, as they were almost indistinguishable from humans.
Under these circumstances, with the screams of a few Demon Kings still echoing in the void, the clever Upper-level Demons had already fled as far as they could. Only the ordinary Devils, driven by their wild instincts, would dare to rush up and attack.
Such Devils were numerous and endless, and when the time came, they would be left to the Demon God Guards to handle. Gu Jinlai had no intention of wasting his time on them.
As his body slightly crouched, the Earth suddenly sunk beneath him, creating a crater with a diameter of over ten meters.
As stones and dust flew, his figure shot upwards like an arrow released from its bow, reaching a hundred meters in the air in the blink of an eye.
After quickly discerning his direction, a deep blue light burst forth from the engine on his body, and the thrust it provided allowed him to easily break the sound barrier amidst a deafening roar, heading towards the direction of Beimu State.
This time he had slain six Demon Kings.
While these Demon Kings did not represent all of the Mu State Demon Kings, it was likely only a few were left.
Upon returning to Beimu State, Gu Jinlai immediately ordered an acceleration of the reconquest and advance into Mu State.
With this advancement, more Devils were killed one by one.
The Essence Blood extracted from the bodies of these Devils was also used to transform more reserve Demon God Guards into Official Demon God Guards.
The power of Lingxiao Palace was growing every moment.
War is the best catalyst for the development of technology.
During the assault on Mu State, the Demon God Guards and the Heavenly Master’s Army had likewise accumulated a wealth of experience.
They discovered that although the Sword Heavy Cannons were formidable in power, when combined with other devices, they could achieve effects greater than the sum of their parts.
Consequently, a vast number of miniaturized Thousand-mile Light and Shadow Mirrors were produced, some of which were even capable of connecting with several other Thousand-mile Light and Shadow Mirrors at the same time.
In addition, a large number of small, portable Radiant Platforms were produced rapidly.
They found that when the signals from these Radiant Platforms overlapped with signal detection radars, they strengthened the probe for Devils and expanded the range and flexibility of the probe.
Under this influence, form-detection radars integrated with Radiant Platform capabilities were also produced.
Although they were large in size, with a length and width of five to six meters and a height exceeding four meters, such dimensions were insignificant for many Demon God Guards.
Compared to their ability to probe hundreds of miles, with extraordinary flexibility and precision, the minor drawbacks of weight and size were laughable.
All kinds of new Spiritual Artifacts were produced and introduced into the battlefield for testing, which directly changed the combat mode of Lingxiao Palace.
Furthermore, with the Demon Kings...
Even the stronger Upper-level Demons suffered precise strikes from Gu Jinlai, who descended from the sky time and time again, as Lingxiao Palace’s forces swept through Mu State with tremendous efficiency.
Almost every day, news of the reconquest of various places, distributed through newspapers organized by the Lingxiao Palace Master, spread across the entire region south of Tianhe, raising the confidence and anticipation of the people to an unprecedented peak for the annihilation of Devils and the reconquest of Tian Nan.
...
Sanqing Hall.
After two months of settling, the sadness brought on by the death of Master Wushi gradually dissipated.
Although the people of Sanqing Holy Temple still wore expressions of gloom and desolation, they had already resumed normal operations compared to a month ago.
At this time, within Sanqing Hall,
Immortal Wu Zhong, who usually spent his time in seclusion, was also personally present, listening to the report from his Disciple Xuan Hai.
After a while, he slowly said, "So, the reason for his defeat lies in the residual Sword Qi from the Sky Extreme Sword on Xuan Yue that caught him off guard?"
"That is the primary reason," Xuan Hai replied solemnly.
As for the secondary reasons... 𝒏𝒐𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝒄𝙤𝙢
He naturally would not mention that Uncle Wu Shi had no suitable weapon to use at the time, as both the Star Heart and World Sword had been taken by Master Xuan Tian and Uncle Wu Nian under the pretext of a past agreement while Uncle Wu Shi was asleep, and they were unwilling to return them.
"Venerable Xuan Tian is so cunning! By approaching Xuan Yue, who was inexperienced in the ways of the world, he first gained Xuan Yue’s trust and then had him seriously injured by the Demon Spirit, thus providing the opportunity for him to assassinate Senior Brother Wu Shi! We cannot let this matter rest," Immortal Wu Zhong said with an icy look in his dispassionate eyes.
Considering the significance of the Sky Extreme Sword among the unearthed Divine Weapons, he commanded in a frosty tone, "Issue my order, mobilize all forces of Sanqing Hall to search for Venerable Xuan Tian. Blood debts must be paid in blood!"
