“He is not my father!” Yu Shan’s words had barely left her lips when she suddenly clutched her stomach and collapsed to the ground in pain. Her pale face twisted in agony, her unfocused eyes gazing toward Pemmo—the rogue Qiao San in the distant background.
Qiao San shot to his feet, his heart pounding at Yu Shan’s scream of pain. “Oh no, the child is in danger!”
With a punch, he sent Yu Shan flying and snatched the white jade fan. The strange King of Ten Thousand Demons burst into a delighted laugh. Immediately afterward, the black mist around him began to dissipate, and eerie light illuminated the heavens and earth. A hazy female figure slowly emerged from the mysterious fog and stepped forward.
“A woman? The King of Ten Thousand Demons is a woman? No, that can’t be right! The King of Ten Thousand Demons can’t possibly be a woman. Because this woman is Gou Yuan—real Gou Yuan. The previous one who vanished into dust was merely a decoy.”
“Kek, kek…” Gou Yuan’s ever-changing form cycled through every conceivable beauty of the world. “Little Yu Shan, do you really think you can challenge this seat?”
Though Gou Yuan’s voice sounded as melodious as heavenly music, it sent chills down Qiao San’s spine. Her feminine cruelty far surpassed Yu Shan’s, making her the most vile woman he had ever known.
“Wicked woman, where is my father?”
Though Yu Shan was venomous, she had not yet reached the point of forsaking all familial ties. A sense of foreboding tightened her eyes.
The most venomous female demon’s laughter stirred the winds and clouds of heaven and earth. She gently played with the stolen white jade fan, smiling sweetly. “Want to know where your father is? Fine! Kek, kek… A thousand years ago, I sent him into the crevice of the underworld. Now I shall send you to reunite with him!”
Though the outcome was not unexpected, the assembled demons still couldn’t help but turn pale at the revelation that the King of Ten Thousand Demons had perished a thousand years ago. Yu Shan, while grieving, finally found clarity in many of her long-standing confusions.
The white jade fan raised high toward the sky, Gou Yuan’s eyes flashing both ferocity and amusement. A deadly chill locked tightly onto Yu Shan’s body and soul. “Little girl, die!”
“Yaa—”
A clear, powerful roar tore through the air. Just as the icy wind was about to strike Yu Shan, a miraculous amber light appeared to block the attack.
“Daring Qiao San, it’s you! Don’t you care about Night Girl’s life anymore? Without me, she cannot be saved.”
“Damn it, anyone else is fine, but Yu Shan must not die!” The rogue found it hard to choose, so he simply resorted to his specialty.
But Gou Yuan had no interest in further entanglement. She turned the white jade fan toward Qiao San. “Unexpectedly, you’re quite devoted. Let me help you out by sending you to die together with her!”
“Whoosh…” The howling wind brought freezing cold. In Gou Yuan’s hands, the white jade fan’s power was several times stronger than before.
A whirlwind column connected heaven and earth. Wherever it passed, mountains collapsed, stones shattered, demons perished, and beasts died. The various demon generals, terrified, transformed into their original beast forms and scattered in panic.
“Obey me and you shall thrive; oppose me and you shall perish—”
In an instant, Gou Yuan’s form expanded to dozens of zhang tall, like a mountain towering over the lonely island of fire and earth. The assembled demons immediately prostrated themselves before her like flowing water, undoing all of Yu Shan’s painstaking efforts in an instant.
“Wicked woman, return my fan!” Yu Shan, barely holding on with her spirit, shouted furiously. Her deep blue hair fluttered without wind, and blood trickled from her lips, vividly red.
Pemmo flew into the air and charged toward Gou Yuan. At the same time, Qiao San, the Ghost King, the Turtle King, and the Fox Queen ascended into the sky.
“Hmph!” Surrounded by several powerful demon kings, Gou Yuan’s confidence instead grew stronger. With a cold laugh, her figure, aura, and the surrounding mist suddenly vanished from everyone’s sight.
“Heaven’s heart is unfathomable, formless and chaotic!”
The ethereal incantation spread like mercury, infiltrating every crevice. A circular barrier suddenly emerged from nowhere, protecting Gou Yuan’s hazy figure. No matter how fiercely Qiao San and the others attacked, they could not break through the powerful barrier of the Heaven’s Heart Formless Technique.
“Yaa—”
Gou Yuan’s might was as legendary as ever. But Pemmo and the others were no saints either. Filled with fury, Pemmo was the first to reveal his fierce bone, while the Turtle King and others displayed their renowned treasures.
In an instant, flying sand and rolling stones darkened the sky and obscured the sun. The lonely island spun wildly, the sea roared in fury, and weaker demon spirits fell to the ground, bowing beneath the overwhelming powers clashing in midair.
“Gaa, gaa…” Pemmo’s sharp laughter echoed. The gleaming凶bone stabbed powerfully at Gou Yuan’s barrier. “Fellow cultivators, let’s add more strength! The barrier is about to shatter!”
Before the ferocious demon’s words had even finished, Gou Yuan’s protective barrier indeed cracked with a tearing sound, causing everyone to immediately feel hopeful.
“Let old turtle do it—burn through it!” The Turtle King opened his chest, unleashing a jet of deep blue flame from his millennium-long greed, directly targeting the cracked portion of the barrier.
Gou Yuan’s expression changed. The combined force of the four demon kings was no small matter. As the protective barrier shattered with a loud boom, she was momentarily helpless.
“Gaa, gaa…” The moment the assembled demons had anticipated finally arrived. Pemmo cackled and was the first to charge into the opening.
The Turtle King had achieved a remarkable feat. While closing his chest, he greedily chuckled, “Princess, we had a deal. All the treasures Gou Yuan has in her palace shall belong to me… Ah!”
A scream pierced the air, and the old turtle’s words were abruptly cut off. A sword had appeared in his chest where it had not yet closed.
“Gaa, gaa… Brother Turtle, I’m sorry!”
In a flash, the green-glowing Unicorn Ghost King appeared. The treacherous ghost yanked out his sword and kicked the dying Turtle King into the sea.
“Traitor, you?!” The Fox Queen instinctively stepped back, creating distance between herself and everyone nearby, while glancing toward Qiao San, who was equally stunned.
“Gaa, gaa… The Grand Sage has already lifted the restrictions on this king. Do you really think you can challenge the Grand Sage? It’s better to surrender sooner!” The treacherous ghost was indeed cunning. Before his words had even finished, he had already flown forward to attack Yu Shan. The earthly princess had lost her fan and was severely injured, making her the weakest link.
At the exact same moment the traitor turned against them, Gou Yuan’s panicked gaze turned strangely sinister. Her fingers moved, a spell flicked, and the seemingly shattered barrier suddenly reassembled itself, trapping the most powerful Pemmo inside alone.
“Roar!”
An ominous premonition surged into the demon king’s mind, but he, born with fierce bones, was no pushover. With a shake of his body, he transformed into his original Golden Peng form, instantly clashing with Gou Yuan in a battle that shook heaven and earth.
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