314: Chapter 148: Invincible Grand Preceptor_6 314: Chapter 148: Invincible Grand Preceptor_6 The creature before him was barefoot, and its hands and feet, exposed to the air, had nails sharp like daggers.
Its gaping mouth was filled with canine teeth, equally lethal, and atop its terrifying face, both eyes glowed a demonic red.
A demon envoy of the Red Refinery Demonic Sect!
Cao Zhen’s expression changed abruptly.
He had seen these demon envoys described in the Red Refinery Demonic Sect’s books.
Indeed they were human, yet not human at all.
All of them were crafted from the dead, and although they moved in leaping motions and might not be as agile as a human, each of their bodies was impervious to blades and incredibly strong; ordinary cultivators found them hard to harm.
How could there be so many demon envoys from the Red Refinery Demonic Sect here?
Didn’t the sect withdraw from the Guardian Immortal Imperial Dynasty?
Despite their formidable bodies, what they feared most was the purest form of Thunderbolt Technique, and the Five-thunder Righteous Method was exactly that!
Purple thunder crashed down, and the demon envoy exploded violently.
At the very instant the Five-thunder Righteous Method struck, two dark shadows suddenly dropped into the center of the courtyard.
Two demon envoys—one grabbed a child sleeping on the ground, while the other picked up a wooden basin.
They immediately turned and fled into the distance.
“Dammit!”
Watching the fleeing demon envoys, Cao Zhen’s hand shimmered with thunder and then faded away.
Although his Five-thunder Righteous Method could kill a demon envoy outright, it would also kill the child they were holding.
He had no choice but to give chase.
Throughout the town, shadowy figures of demon envoys emerged, each clutching a basin full of fresh blood, hurrying away at great speed.
“Blood?
What on earth do these demon envoys intend to do?”
Cao Zhen pursued them closely.
He might not be a saint, but he couldn’t just stand by and watch these demons kidnap a child right before his eyes.
As he continued the pursuit, his surprise grew.
He was chasing after them with a Divine Weapon, yet despite their leaping movement, he couldn’t catch up for the life of him.
“These demon envoys… their speed, it’s almost that of a Golden Core.
They’re burning their very essence to escape!”
By burning their essence, these demon envoys would soon exhaust themselves completely; they needed no assistance from him to die.
Cao Zhen dared not attack rashly.
His combat experience was negligible and he couldn’t guarantee the child’s safety or kill the distant demon envoys, so he continued the pursuit.
Before long, he followed the demon envoys out of the town, all the way to a remote mountain.
Entering the mountain, he immediately sensed a rich scent of blood and an increasingly intense aura of eerie and sinister energy.
Suddenly, his vision caught sight of lights flickering in the distance.
The demon envoys all leaped towards the direction of the lights.
Cao Zhen followed closely and saw that within a mountain gorge, a pile of firewood was ablaze, heating a huge iron basin hung above it.
Beneath the basin, there was a hunched figure with disheveled hair, making it difficult to discern their face.
A terrifying, chilling energy emanated from his body.
“The master of the demon envoys!”
Cao Zhen immediately realized.
The master of the demon envoys across from him suddenly looked up, revealing half of a scorched face with venomous eyes that conveyed both shock and disdain: “Someone actually followed?
There don’t seem to be any immortals around here… those clothes, are you a Peak Master from the Hundred Peaks Sect?
Just Seven Elixirs, has the Hundred Peaks Sect fallen so far?
One doesn’t need an inner core to be a Peak Master now?”
“People of the Red Refinery Demon Sect.” As Cao Zhen approached, he called out, “I have no interest in whatever you’re doing.
Return the child to me, and I will leave.”
“You want the child?
Ha!
What a joke.
Such a compassionate cultivator.” The demon envoy’s master erupted with a dense killing intent.
“Do you think I would let you go back?
Since you’ve come, then stay!”
As his words fell, behind him, there instantly appeared ten Great Perfection Daoist platforms, nine Immortal Bridges, and nine elixirs, among which, two had already turned into Golden Cores!
Golden Core Second Layer!
Cao Zhen was greatly startled, having casually encountered a Golden Core master.
In his hand, the Unparalleled Formation Diagram appeared instantly, and the Array Plate unfolded.
“A mere seven elixirs dares to threaten me now, today you will know, the one who kills you is the Bloodthirsty Mad Demon!”
The Bloodthirsty Mad Demon bellowed and stretched his hand towards the surroundings.
From the bodies of Red Refinery Demonic Sect enforcers who had fled here after burning their origins, streaks of black qi suddenly flew out, falling into the body of the Bloodthirsty Mad Demon.
In an instant, his momentum grew stronger.
And those Red Refinery Demonic Sect enforcers, after their frantic escape, had little origin energy left.
As it was drained away, their bodies rapidly withered, collapsing to the ground one after another.
The Bloodthirsty Mad Demon sneered and reached toward Cao Zhen.
In a flash, a pitch-black claw shadow suddenly emerged, lunging directly at Cao Zhen.
The next moment, his face showed a look of astonishment.
As the opposing Formation Diagram spread, he instantly felt as if an invisible shackle appeared on his body, trapping him, and a feeling of confinement instantly spread throughout him.
Formation Diagram…
It was that Formation Diagram; he felt restrained!
It seemed he could only exert about ninety percent of his strength.
Under the restraint of the Unparalleled Formation Diagram, the claw strike from the Bloodthirsty Mad Demon was much slower than he had expected.
Cao Zhen, sprinting with all his might, instantly reached a fallen Red Refinery demon enforcer and scooped up the child in their arms.
Only then did the huge black claw fall.
“Break!”
Cao Zhen lifted his hand and pointed, and in an instant, a beam of golden light burst forth.
Zen Cultivation Divine Skills, Bo-Re-Pure Yang Finger.
This proficiency was cultivated by Xiang Ziyu, and furthermore, Xiang Ziyu had cultivated it to the extreme he could bear before leaving the Hundred Peaks Sect.
Although he disliked those monks who always put themselves on a moral high ground to judge others, some of their Divine Skills were indeed powerful, and some Zen Cultivation skills could indeed restrain many of the Demon Sect skills.
The Bo-Re-Pure Yang Finger was one such skill, a restraint against Demon Sect proficiencies.
The beam of golden light shot out, faintly resembling a golden holy lotus blooming.
In the deathly silent canyon, solemn and thunderous Buddhist chants echoed.
The moment the black claw touched the golden light, it instantly dissolved into nothingness, while the golden light still flew towards the Bloodthirsty Mad Demon.
The Bloodthirsty Mad Demon snorted coldly, and a visible wave of sound surged out, instantly scattering the falling beam of golden light.
Gazing at the opponent, who merely had seven elixirs as the leader of the Hundred Peaks Sect, his eyes, however, revealed a clear sense of astonishment.
He was at the Golden Core Second Layer; even though the strike just now wasn’t with full force, it was an attack of a Golden Core master.
The opponent, a mere seven-elixir stage youngster, had shattered his attack so effortlessly.
The might of that proficiency was not something an inner-core stage person could cultivate to such a degree.
This person in the Hundred Peaks Sect must also be a sort of genius, but unfortunately, having encountered him, even a genius must die.
“You do have some ability, but unfortunately, you are too merciful.
Earlier, you had the chance to escape with your full outburst.
Now, you’ve missed the best opportunity to run away.”