Inner Demons

Chapter 188: Clouds Follow the Dragon

As his voice falls, Yue Yunzi strikes out with a palm.

Cultivators' bodies are not as strong as demons, but that is at the same realm. Once they enter the True Realm, it is a world of difference. A True Realm cultivator's palm, if landed on the body, can even harm the powerful Dragon Clan.

The distance between the two of them is so close now that the palm is truly unavoidable.

Before he can even see how the palm wind howls as it arrives, Yue Yunzi's hand is already printed on Li Yunxin's waist.

Then Yue Yunzi uses this palm strike to fly into the sky.

A cultivator who has entered the Manifestation Realm can fly through the air. But people still prefer to have their feet on the ground. Flying in the sky is shocking to the world and it is not always convenient.

But now Yue Yunzi has realized that he seems to have fallen into the other party's trap. Even the platform he is standing on makes him feel uneasy, fearing that there is some other conspiracy hidden there.

He considers himself a master of strategy, but now he has met a strong opponent. When he has a sure victory, the stronger the opponent, the more interesting it is. But once he becomes the one being played with... he no longer has the heart to continue playing!

Since he no longer has the heart to play—then he will use his power to crush everything!

He does not want to be distracted by thinking about the incomprehensible and contradictory points of knowledge from before. He just wants to—use his Enlightened Master realm and his Nether Spirit formation to directly kill that Li Yunxin, who calls himself the Wei River Dragon King… no matter if he is Li Yunxin or the Dragon's Son Chiwen—and then slowly think about where things went wrong!He rushes directly into the air, and a golden legal brush floats out from his sleeve.

But as the Enlightened Master's Spiritual Power is used, his body is immediately enveloped in a brilliant light, just like a true immortal descending to the mortal world!

First, the Profound Light Precious Mirror appears behind him to protect his back. Then, thirty-six green-robed boys materialize from the Profound Light Precious Mirror, holding swords and forming an array. Some stare with angry eyes, some smile sweetly, some have a serious face, and some look troubled. The various Passion Tribulations he has overcome have all been refined into these protective spiritual boys. Once the array is formed, even a Profound Realm Master would have to put in some effort to defeat it.

With these protective measures formed in a single breath, Yue Yunzi lets out a cold snort and flicks his left hand in front of him.

Immediately, a golden scroll appears in the void, thin and soft but instantly pushing back the heavy rain, forming a brilliant golden barrier.

Then Yue Yunzi grabs the legal brush in the air, glares at Li Yunxin, and says, "Child! Today, I will first cut you into a Nether Ghost, and then refine you into a…"

But Li Yunxin, on the ground, does not move a single inch after receiving that furious palm strike.

He just looks up at Yue Yunzi in the pouring rain, who has set up all his arrays around his body and formed a golden sphere. As Yue Yunzi lets out his arrogant words, he laughs loudly.

"Cut me down?!"

"Dream on!"

As soon as his wild laughter falls, the entire platform of the Divine Dragon Temple is instantly pulverized! In the midst of the smoke and water vapor, a hundred-foot-long black-scaled dragon body with blood-red horns and a snow-white mane rises into the sky, rushing toward Yue Yunzi in the air!

Yue Yunzi is only a hundred feet from the ground. As soon as Li Yunxin reveals his true form and his body grows, his dragon jaws immediately rush to the front of the array.

Just as the saying goes, "the wind follows the tiger, the clouds follow the dragon"—as soon as his true form appears, the heavy rain within a hundred steps immediately turns into a swirling cloud. Lightning and thunder roar deafeningly in the clouds, and every time the iron scales on the dragon's body rub against each other, a thick, bright, and dazzling bolt of lightning strikes Yue Yunzi's protective barrier.

As soon as the dragon jaws and the lightning arrive, Yue Yunzi's front immediately flashes with a whole area of golden light, as if countless small suns are shattering between the two. For a moment, all that is left in the sky is this dazzling light competing with the lightning!

The Daoist Arts and prohibitions that an Enlightened Master can write within three steps are far beyond what Lingkongzi was capable of!

But even with the prohibitions that are a hundred times stronger than back then, they are still useless in front of Li Yunxin's true form.

Because he is a Dragon Clan that has severed his cause and effect with this world!

Just as Yue Yunzi finishes writing three words, the dragon's body crashes into the protective spiritual boy array around the Daoist priest's body. As it hits the array, it opens its mouth and bites down.

The giant jaws of Chiwen's true form can swallow an entire Yue Yunzi in one gulp. However, with the wind and thunder, it only swallows half of the thirty-six spiritual boys. The other eighteen immediately split themselves, completing the thirty-six-person array, and hold back the giant jaws.

Although he has withstood Li Yunxin's fierce attack, Yue Yunzi is already terrified.

The three-step barrier is not working!

And even if the three-step barrier doesn't work… how was his protective spiritual boy array broken in half with just one blow?!

This Dragon's Son is only at the Manifestation Realm now. Because of the heavy rain just now, the faith of the people inside and outside the city has greatly increased, gathering the power of faith of tens of thousands of people and breaking through to the peak of the Manifestation Realm. But he is still only at the Manifestation Realm!

How is it that the array that he, a Profound Realm Master, has to put in some effort to defeat, is so vulnerable?!

He no longer has time to think carefully, and he quickly finishes the last stroke on the cloud scroll. The three words he is writing now were also used by Lingkongzi that night when he was facing Young Master Nine who was rushing down from the sky.

"Calm the Storm!"

That night, as soon as the three words "Calm the Storm" were completed, the wind and clouds immediately dissipated, and the hundred-foot-long golden body of the Dragon's Son Chiwen immediately shrank and fell directly to the ground.

But at this moment…

As soon as these three words are completed, and he looks at Li Yunxin's dragon body—

Having failed in its first attack, it immediately goes straight into the clouds, and then, with a rolling thunder and lightning, it strikes again!

The Daoist Arts are not working either!

Yue Yunzi is stunned for a moment, and then he roars in a fit of rage, "What kind of trick did you use, you child!?"

A terribly arrogant laugh comes from the clouds and heavy rain. "Once I tear you to pieces, I'll burn some paper money and explain it to you in detail!"

As soon as his voice falls, the dragon's body pounces again, and it hits Yue Yunzi's protective array again!

This time, another half of the thirty-six spiritual boys are swallowed. Although the remaining eighteen split and make up for the number again, Yue Yunzi can feel that the Spiritual Power in the array is getting weaker and weaker and is about to be useless!

And the hundred-foot-long dragon's body does not linger in the fight. After a successful attack, it flies away, and the iron armor on the dragon's body and its powerful tail strike as it goes, knocking Yue Yunzi and his protective barrier out of the air for more than a dozen feet, making him dizzy and disoriented!

At this point, Yue Yunzi's three-step barrier does not work, the Daoist Arts are ineffective, and his protective array is unable to display its full power for some strange reason. He also has the Grand Yin Spirit Formation, which was created with the help of Li Yunxin's Painting Formation. But at this time, even the most foolish person would know that Li Yunxin had anticipated all of his plans. How dare he use the power of the Grand Yin Spirit Formation?

Although he is completely unharmed.

But the pride and dignity of an Enlightened Master have been crushed by that hateful Dragon's Son. To be struck more than a dozen feet away by a dragon's tail like a ball... what kind of humiliation is this?!

Yue Yunzi becomes furious and laughs instead. With a flick of his sleeve, he puts the Profound Light Precious Mirror, the spiritual boy array, and the cloud scroll legal brush all back into his sleeve. He shakes his hand, and a thin sword slides out from an unknown place. In the pouring rain and fierce wind, he roars, "Today, I will use this green glow in my palm to cut you down, you evil beast!"

"And let you know how much stronger the body of a True Realm Human Cultivator is compared to your demon body!"

As soon as his voice falls, he turns into a flash of green light and rushes toward Li Yunxin!

Yue Yunzi is truly enraged and only wants to fight him head-on. That Li Yunxin also seems to not be afraid, but is more like he wants to see which is stronger, his body at the peak of the Manifestation Realm or the Master's tempered body.

The tiny green glow and the hundred-foot-long dragon's body strike together. A thunderclap explodes in the dense clouds. The entire layer of clouds is instantly illuminated with a golden light, as if the sky is no longer rain clouds, but a whole piece of yellow jade that is about to crush Weicheng!

The other people in Weicheng do not feel the danger in the sky at all.

Yue Yunzi's barrier separates the tens of thousands of people from this part of Weicheng, which now helps Li Yunxin. Those who are at home because of the heavy rain and cannot get out have no idea about the tragedy that has happened on Taoxi Road and Willow Street.

At this moment, when they see such a heavy rain, their first thought is of the Divine Dragon Cult. Then they think of the rumor that "that Dragon Crown Prince Chiwen" was going to summon rain, and they look up at the sky.

What they see is a golden light in the thick clouds that is completely different from the usual lightning.

The golden light is accompanied by a continuous, earth-shattering roar, as if an incredibly huge golden dragon is circling and dancing in the clouds, bringing the long-awaited sweet rain to Weicheng and the fields outside of it.

This is a true miracle.

Such a miracle cannot be dismissed with a single phrase like "it might be the Dragon King bringing rain."

Li Yunxin's power begins to skyrocket—he is about to break through the peak of the Manifestation Realm and go straight to the True Realm!

His true form and Yue Yunzi, who is fighting him with his body, clash for six rounds in the rolling dense clouds, and then they quickly pull apart.

The green glow in Yue Yunzi's palm has shattered, and his hair is a little messy, but he still looks dignified.

He floats above the dense clouds below—there is a clear blue sky around him, but below his feet, the lightning and thunder are raging. The lead-gray clouds seem to be a vast expanse of land that stretches as far as the eye can see. At this moment, it not only covers Weicheng, but also a large area of Yeyuan Forest and Yeyuan Mountain nearby.

His heart is filled with terror.

The Daoist Orthodoxy has to deal with demons, so they naturally have to understand them.

Regarding the bodies of demons—at the same realm, a Human Cultivator cannot compare to a demon. But at one realm higher, there is no comparison at all.

However, this conclusion is for ordinary demons. There are only ten Dragon Clan in the world, and it has been a very, very long time since anyone has fought with a Dragon Clan.

Now Yue Yunzi realizes that either his power is terribly limited, or the power of the Dragon Clan's body is more wild and daring than the Daoist Orthodoxy's most daring assumptions.

He, an Enlightened Master, has been consolidating this realm for decades. He has cultivated Daoist Arts to temper his body, but now when he fights a Dragon's Son at the peak of the Manifestation Realm... he has not been able to kill him in six strikes!

Yue Yunzi lets out a long breath and stares at Chiwen's true form in front of him.

The hundred-foot-long dragon's body is circling above the clouds, but a pair of fierce golden eyes are staring intently at him.

The snow-white mane is stained with a golden color—that is the result of his second attack. The green sword pierced under the Dragon's Son's ear, which should be the most vulnerable part. But even so, the sword only pierced halfway before it was shattered by the scales that closed around it. And that was a magical artifact known for its sharpness!

The Dragon's Son's true form has three other wounds, and golden dragon blood is seeping from all of them.

But those three wounds seem to have no effect on this hundred-foot-long giant beast. It is still preparing to launch its next attack!

Yue Yunzi realizes… he can no longer continue this entanglement. Something is not right.

Before, because his pride was crushed, he was furious and wanted to kill him with his body.

But now it seems that it might be possible to kill this Dragon's Son after fighting for three days and three nights, but the other party's plan will not give him three days and three nights!

The smartest choice is to immediately flee.

That Dragon's Son cannot harm him, so he should go and find that True Realm cultivator from the Sword Sect. After the two of them meet up, he will come back and take revenge!

With his mind made up, Yue Yunzi says in a deep voice, "Good, good, good! Good for you, Wei River Dragon King Li Yunxin!"

"I underestimated you again and again, and I have paid a heavy price for it. Now that I cannot kill you for the time being, I will admit defeat."

"But if I can't kill you, you can't kill me either. Remember what happened today. I will not forget it either!"

"When I leave, I will come back to settle things with you. At that time, hehe, we will see whose methods are more clever! Your formation today couldn't kill me, so I will let you know what it feels like to have your efforts go to waste!"

After he says this, he glares fiercely at Li Yunxin's true form and turns to fly away.

But he hears Li Yunxin, who is enveloped in clouds and mist, laugh wildly again. "You want to run after losing the fight? Fool. Don't you know that no one I, Li Yunxin, has ever set my sights on can escape?! From the day you walked into this Weicheng… you will never walk out of it alive!"

Yue Yunzi vaguely understands the meaning of Li Yunxin's strange words from before—"villains die because they talk too much." So he does not argue with him but just lets out a cold laugh. "I'll let you have the advantage of your tongue today. When I come back here, I will pull out your tendons and tear out your tongue! Go ahead and chase me! Let's see if a Manifestation Realm demon can catch a Master!"

It's really not right for an Enlightened Master to say such words, it's like a child throwing a tantrum or a street thug saying something harsh in a fight.

However, at this moment, he truly needs this kind of "advantage"—even if it is only an advantage in escaping—to make himself feel better.

But after saying this, he realizes that he has made another mistake.

He hears—

Li Yunxin, who is enveloped in dense clouds and mist, laughs wildly three more times.

Then he lets out an earth-shattering roar—

"Emperor of Ye, where are you?!"

"If you don't come and help me now, when will you?!" (To be continued.)