Chapter 658: The Awakened Ancient Demon

Within the sealed world.

The Guardian Huozhu stood mid-air, his body faintly encircled by fiery serpents. He declared loudly, “Your demands are too excessive. I cannot agree…” He was also feigning negotiations with Dongbo Xueying, buying time.

But then his expression changed abruptly.

“Dongbo Xueying, you’re deceiving me!!!” Guardian Huozhu roared in fury, his voice shaking the surrounding void and causing cracks to appear.

“Haha, weren’t you deceiving me too?” Dongbo Xueying’s voice echoed throughout the sealed world.

Within the Void World.

Dongbo Xueying watched coldly with a mocking smile as events unfolded. In his hand appeared a World Divine Spear—he carried many such divine weapons with him.

“This Mother Goddess Guardian is indeed far stronger than me. However, I have a good helper.” Dongbo Xueying suddenly swung his right arm, hurling the World Divine Spear with all his might. The spear flew through the Void World and, in an instant, traversed the void to reach the slumbering ancient demon tens of billions of miles away.

The sealed world only enclosed the normal realm.

The Mother Goddess Sect could not seal Dongbo Xueying’s Void World.

The gray spear pierced through the void and arrived before the ancient demon, emerging from the Void World into the normal realm.

**”BOOM!!!”**

The spear’s tip viciously struck the ancient demon’s rear—the most prominent and closest target.

Compared to the Mother Goddess Guardians, Dongbo Xueying’s strength was insignificant, but among cultivators, he was on par with top-tier Revered Ones.

The ancient demon’s rear merely trembled slightly before the World Divine Spear shattered into fragments. The slumbering humanoid, dog-headed demon slowly opened its eyes—yellow pupils filled with cold ruthlessness and killing intent. It turned its gaze toward the distant sealed world.

Its eyes instantly locked onto Dongbo Xueying, hidden within the Void World. The sheer pressure of its gaze sent a primal terror through him, an invisible force crushing his spirit.

“It knows I was the one who attacked?” Dongbo Xueying paled in shock.

**”BOOM.”**

The hundred-billion-mile-tall ancient demon swung its right claw.

**”RIIIP—”**

The claw tore through space, instantly reaching the sealed world hundreds of billions of miles away, shredding it apart and arriving at Dongbo Xueying’s location.

Though it seemed slow, it happened in an instant.

The demon’s claw moved at near-teleportation speed. Despite being hundreds of billions of miles away, its claw was already before Dongbo Xueying. Even hidden in the Void World, an intangible force penetrated the barrier and struck his black armor.

**”BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!”**

Dongbo Xueying only reacted after the fact, coughing blood as he was sent flying backward. Mid-flight, he realized the claw itself had not entered the Void World—yet the force it unleashed had. Worse, the attack had momentarily **stalled** his Divine Heart, slowing his thoughts. By the time he regained clarity, he was already hurtling through space.

**”Escape! Escape! Escape!”**

**”Whoosh! Whoosh!”**

Dongbo Xueying instantly teleported.

He reappeared over a hundred billion miles away, finally stopping to catch his breath. He watched the distant ancient demon, which merely glared in his direction before turning its attention to the stunned Guardian Huozhu, still wreathed in fiery serpents.

*”Master’s intel was correct. The ancient demon attacks indiscriminately upon awakening, but only within a hundred-billion-mile radius. Beyond that, it won’t pursue.”* Dongbo Xueying mused. If the demon chased endlessly, the Mother Goddess Sect wouldn’t dare station so many guardians here.

*”Mother Goddess Sect, this is my gift to you.”* He glanced down at the faint scars on his Dark Extreme Armor. *”Incredible. It couldn’t even enter the Void World, yet the mere force it projected injured me.”*

*”Without the Void World, I’d have been obliterated instantly.”* He suppressed a shudder. *”Truly a Dominator-level entity.”*

This ancient demon was indeed Dominator-tier.

However, as an artificially crafted lifeform, it was slightly inferior to a true Dominator—closer to a newly ascended, inexperienced one. Its strength was likely comparable to Qing Jun’s!

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While Dongbo Xueying escaped with a single teleport, Guardian Huozhu was not so fortunate.

**”An ancient demon?!”** The guardian’s face twisted in horror as he faced the hundred-billion-mile-tall monstrosity. **”Dongbo Xueying woke it!”**

The dog-headed, humanoid demon remained half-crouched, its massive skull looming over Huozhu. Its yellow eyes burned with killing intent as it growled:

**”DIE!!!”**

The roar shook the heavens, unleashing invisible shockwaves that rippled across the world.

**”SWOOSH!”**

Its claw lashed out.

Unlike Dongbo Xueying, Huozhu fared slightly better. Under the demon’s oppressive aura, he retained basic cognitive function. With a furious bellow, he swung his wooden staff, his body erupting with countless fiery serpents that coiled around his arm. The staff’s power far surpassed what he had shown against Dongbo Xueying.

In raw force, this strike was undeniably Dominator-level—savage and overwhelming.

Yet when the demon’s claw descended, an intangible force slowed the staff to a crawl before contact. By the time the claw struck, the staff had frozen entirely.

**”CRACK!”**

Huozhu’s body exploded into three streaks of flame, scattering before reforming in the distance. His face was deathly pale.

**”Damn it! Damn it!”** He gnashed his teeth. Even against Emperor Wu Qiu in direct combat, he wouldn’t fear—but this ancient demon was undeniably Dominator-tier. Escaping unscathed was impossible.

**”By the Mother Goddess’s grace!”**

A withered yellow leaf materialized before him, lifeless yet radiating immense power—a force far surpassing even the demon’s.

Huozhu swallowed the leaf whole.

Instantly, a dim yellow glow enveloped him as his body swelled in size.

**”BAM!”**

The demon’s claw struck again. Huozhu blocked with his staff once more.

**”BAM! BAM! BAM!!!”**

Each collision shattered the surrounding ten-billion-mile landscape, sinking continents into abyssal craters. Watching from afar, Dongbo Xueying’s eyes widened. *”Incredible. That guardian’s grown far stronger.”* Yet Huozhu was still sent flying with each blow, blood spraying from his lips.

At least his body remained intact, no longer exploding upon impact. The leaf had bolstered his strength and durability significantly. Though battered, he fled at blinding speed—covering millions of miles in moments.

*”Escaping a hundred-billion-mile radius won’t be easy.”* Dongbo Xueying observed silently.

Mid-flight, Huozhu donned a bizarre silver armor shimmering with light. Under repeated strikes, the glow dimmed—but after nearly half an hour of fleeing, the demon finally ceased pursuit.

*”He actually escaped.”* Dongbo Xueying sighed inwardly. *”I’d hoped the demon would kill him, wiping out all three guardians at once.”*

Clearly, Huozhu’s squad was well-prepared. As their leader, he carried treasures to protect his team—though Dongbo Xueying’s large-scale illusion had struck too swiftly for him to react.

**”ROOOAR—!!!”**

The ancient demon stood upright, its dog-head howling at the sky. The sonic shockwaves rippled outward, distorting space even a hundred billion miles away where Dongbo Xueying floated.

Then, the demon vanished.

*”Probably went back to sleep elsewhere.”* Dongbo Xueying mused. *”Its strength matches Senior Brother Qing Jun’s—perhaps even slightly inferior in technique.”*

*”I’m still far from their level.”*

Witnessing this battle had sobered him.

*”To the Three Demon Halls.”* He teleported immediately, heading toward the next cave heaven—Black Rain Cave Heaven.

**”Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”**

This time, he traveled swiftly, covering hundreds of billions of miles per teleport as he raced toward the passage connecting Blood Devil Cave Heaven and Black Rain Cave Heaven.