Chapter 132 : Do Demon Beasts Also Experience Midlife Crises
Chapter 132 : Do Demon Beasts Also Experience Midlife Crises
A miniature paper figurine of the master floated out. This was a spirit tool given by Immortal Chanyu to prevent her wayward disciples from deliberately ignoring messages.
The little paper figure tapped on Chu Sang's head, "How is your situation now? Have you found the person?"
Knowing the troublemaking abilities of these young disciples, especially her own little disciple, she was particularly worried and emphatically reminded them, "The demon realm is not very stable. Once you find the person, come back quickly. Don't cause any trouble over there, you little rascals!"
"We've found the person," Chu Sang said cheerfully, comforting the empty-nest elder. "Don't worry, Master. We'll be back soon. Before we return, we're just going to kill a Demon Emperor for fun."
"Good... What? Say that again, what are you going to do?" The paper figurine seemed to shake violently.
Kill, kill a Demon Emperor for fun?
Or get killed by the Demon Emperor for fun??
Immortal Chanyu suddenly felt that she had been too hasty. She shouldn't have been lazy and sent out these disciples with their exceptional ability to court death.
Her temple throbbed, and she almost shouted, "You little brats, come back immediately! That Demon Emperor is not someone you can provoke at your level!"
"Huh, strange, why can't I hear anything now?"
Mu Changqing went up and directly hung up on her, crumpling the paper figurine and tossing it into his storage ring, showing his familiarity with the process.
"Damn, you two are too brave. I bet Master Chunhua is fuming right now!" Tantai Ming deeply worried about their fate when they returned.
If they didn't get a beating and a few months of confinement, it wouldn't be right.
"Don't worry, the old master still needs us to earn face for her in the grand competition. She definitely won't bear to beat us."
The entrance to the forbidden area was not closed, and there wasn't even a trace of any trap, unnaturally calm.
Chu Sang casually picked up a stone from beside her foot and threw it over. In an instant, the stone turned into a pile of powder, scattered by the wind.
"...This old thing is quite cautious." Mu Changqing crossed his arms and clicked his tongue.
Several top-level killing arrays were set up inside and outside the forbidden area, invisible to the eye. Anyone passing through would be instantly shredded.
These killing arrays were also very troublesome to deal with. It was extremely difficult just to find the array eye, and there was even the possibility of failure, resulting in being killed by the array's backlash.
For others, this might have been an insurmountable obstacle, but unfortunately, they were up against Chu Sang, a cheat-level expert and overachiever. She quickly found the array eye and successfully tried to break it open.
She inconspicuously took a step back and patted Mu Changqing, "Third Senior Brother, go try it."
As they say, demon beasts are single-minded. At first, Mu Changqing didn't catch the special meaning in his Little Junior Sister's words "go try it." He nodded and walked to the outskirts of the forbidden area. The next second, a terrifying pressure descended from all directions. His expression changed dramatically as he gathered demonic power in his palm to shatter it. But immediately after, two or three more waves of pressure attacked him from front and back, each stronger than the last.
"An array within an array, interesting."
Chu Sang stroked her chin, seriously capturing the movements within the formation.
She had long suspected that the old Demon Emperor, being so cautious, wouldn't just set up those few visible arrays. There must be other hidden mechanisms, and now she knew where they were.
No wonder this Demon Emperor succeeded in usurping the throne; he indeed had some tricks up his sleeve.
—An array within an array. They thought they had broken through the formation, not knowing they had walked right into the real trap, to be instantly annihilated by another layer of array beneath.
This was truly a sinister method.
She had to remember it quickly.
She would use it in the future.
Of course, the urgent matter at hand was to break the array first.
Having successfully lured Third Senior Brother, this experimental guinea pig, into the array, Chu Sang wasn't idle. She held her breath, quickly observing the attack patterns of the array and its eye and patterns. Using bone as a brush and spirit as ink, she shot out a series of array-breaking patterns. It didn't take long before the last hidden array within the array was also broken.
Mu Changqing retreated from the array, wiping the blood from his face. "You did that on purpose?"
Chu Sang: "Believe me, I definitely didn't do it on purpose."
It was premeditated.
Those at the Nascent Soul stage have tough skin and thick flesh, most suitable to go over as bait. But if she had stated it clearly, given Mu Changqing's temperament, he definitely wouldn't have been willing to go risk it. So she had no choice but to give him a push.
Mu Changqing smiled, a dangerous smile. "Are there any more arrays ahead?"
Chu Sang guaranteed, "No more."
"Really?"
"Third Senior Brother, trust me one last time. I swear there are no more." She raised three fingers in an oath, righteously declaring, "You can distrust anyone, but you can't distrust me. I'm your dear Little Junior Sister!"
"......"
Mu Changqing's revenge for trusting this dear Little Junior Sister once again was being tricked again.
There were indeed no more arrays ahead, but there were mechanisms.
After he narrowly escaped death multiple times through the heavy mechanisms, the three behind him leisurely followed the safe path he had tried out with N lives, chatting casually. "Who would have thought that Third Senior Brother, after being locked up for so many years, would still be so agile."
"Of course, Third Senior Brother's original form is a dragon, a dragon soaring through the nine heavens, flying so fast."
"Dragon? Sounds so cool, I want to ride a dragon too."
"Someday we'll ask Third Senior Brother to transform into one and take us for a flight in the sky!"
"I want to ride on the head!"
"......"
Mu Changqing took a deep breath, resisting the urge to strangle the three of them.
Before he could have a life-and-death battle with the Demon Emperor, he was going to be angered to death by these three.
"Alright, this time there really are no more traps. It's safe to pass through."
Chu Sang guaranteed with what little credibility she had left.
This time Mu Changqing learned to be clever and directly grabbed her to go through.
Sure enough, there were no more arrays behind, and they entered the forbidden area unobstructed, reaching the innermost layer.
From afar, they could see the figure of the legendary Demon Emperor.
He sat cross-legged on top of a huge stone platform three zhang high in the center, meditating in seclusion, already in a trance. Even the great commotion around him could hardly disturb him.
Fearing that this cunning old thing might still have some vicious mechanisms hidden nearby, Mu Changqing didn't rashly make a move.
He was about to say something when he saw that Little Junior Sister directly step onto the stone platform and walk to the Demon Emperor's side, staring intently at his forehead—
That forehead that was bald on one side.
After staring for a long time, when Mu Changqing thought she had discovered some secret, Chu Sang came to an important but trivial conclusion, "So demon beasts also have midlife crises."
It should be noted that the demon realm's Young Master was one of the male protagonists, and their clan's looks were naturally famous. Unexpectedly, the Demon Emperor turned out to be a middle-aged uncle with a receding hairline. It seems that the midlife hair loss crisis is unavoidable in any group.
Mu Changqing also walked up smiling, directly plucking a hair from the meditating old Demon Emperor's forehead and throwing it on the ground, then plucking another. "After all, it's a position gained by force. Naturally, he's on edge day and night, exhausting his mind and energy, treading on thin ice... Of course the hair falls out faster."
Without being modest, half of the hair loss on the Demon Emperor's head should be credited to Mu Changqing.
Fortunately, he didn't have fur, so he didn't need to worry about a hair loss crisis.
Although Mu Changqing came for revenge, for some reason, he wasn't in a hurry to deliver the fatal blow when the Demon Emperor was at his weakest. Instead, he and Chu Sang happily started a hair-plucking competition.
The two of them plucked one hair here, one hair there, and in no time, they had completely stripped the Demon Emperor's already sparse hair.
Even Tantai Ming felt sorry for the Demon Emperor who was in deep meditation.
When he wakes up and sees that he has become a bald fox, the two sides probably won't need to fight; he might die of anger alone.
As for the Demon Emperor in meditation, he was so angry he almost deviated. He wasn't completely unaware of the outside world and naturally sensed that the arrays he had set up had been triggered. He was immediately greatly alarmed—how could that boy not be dead?!
There must have been some mistake somewhere, but at this moment, he didn't have time to ponder exactly which link had gone wrong. The most urgent matter was to prevent these people from disturbing this crucial advancement!
But unfortunately, he had already entered deep meditation. If he forcibly broke out of it, not only would the advancement fail, but he would also suffer a backlash, greatly reducing his strength.
Fortunately, he had made preparations for such a situation. His demonic power was protecting his body; if these people dared to attack, the attacks would rebound, and they would be killed by their own attacks.
However, what he could never have imagined was that these people didn't intend to attack at all when they came over.
Instead, they started... plucking his hair??
He had been nurturing his already sparse hair for many years, and they plucked it clean one by one, almost driving him mad with anger, nearly causing his heart fire to flare up and deviate.
He could see that these people were deliberately provoking him to reveal himself.
He had never seen such despicable fellows who were so good at messing with people's minds in his entire life!!
"This Demon Emperor is quite patient, huh? He still hasn't shown his primordial spirit?"
Chu Sang also noticed that Mu Changqing wasn't in a hurry to make a move, seemingly waiting for some opportunity?
"Be careful, there's movement."
Wu Wo drew her sword to protect them from behind. As her voice fell, nearly ten demon cultivators at the Nascent Soul realm darted out from the shadows, attacking them.
Chu Sang, self-proclaimed as the merciless little King Yama, raised her hand and dropped her blade, directly dispatching a Nascent Soul stage guardian.
She released Xiao Bai, Hong Niang, and the two great spirit weapons to join the battle. Each of them was worth two opponents, killing the enemy so thoroughly they wished to lay down their armor and return home.
It's not that she's being modest, but in the grand competition, she mainly plays it low-key. But when it comes to showing off, well, you know, you really know.
There was no need for the other senior brothers and sisters to make a move; she alone could handle these small fries.
Mere Golden Core cultivators, yet so terrifying?!
A horrifying thought arose in the minds of all the demon cultivators present. Had the cultivators from the cultivation world become so terrifying these days?
The last line of defense the Demon Emperor had set for himself could only be broken by those at the Void Tribulation stage, while the highest level among them was only Mu Changqing at the Nascent Soul stage, unable to break through it.
If the Demon Emperor really advanced to the Great Perfection stage, then all of them would be finished here.
"Unless we make him come out himself," Changsheng said.
Tantai Ming scratched his head, "That Demon Emperor isn't a fool. He wants to be a turtle hiding in its shell, that's why he set up such a trump card for himself... Wanting him to come out voluntarily is as difficult as ascending to heaven. It's better to think about how to shatter this demonic power barrier."
"Not necessarily."
Chu Sang's gaze drifted to the distance. During the earlier chaos, Third Senior Brother had disappeared.
Until the few severely injured demon cultivators below suddenly called out urgently towards the distance, "Young Master!"
"Release our Young Master!"
Chu Sang and the others also looked over at the sound, a flash of realization appearing in their eyes—their missing Third Senior Brother had gone to do something big.
He had directly taken someone hostage.
This person was very familiar to Chu Sang—wasn't he the demon realm's Young Master who had been flirting with the female protagonist in the secret realm earlier?
She had almost finished him off last time, but he managed to escape.
"If I can't kill you, can't I kill this son of yours?"
Mu Changqing had a blood-red thread wrapped around the neck of the demon realm's Young Master. As his tone intensified, the thread tightened more, and a bleeding gash became clearly visible on the Young Master's neck.
He smiled down at them, "Does this scene feel familiar? Old thing, isn't this how you did it back then?"
What goes around comes around. The old Demon Emperor, now facing his own retribution, could no longer hold back. He suddenly opened his eyes, forcibly breaking out of his meditation despite the risk of backlash. His bloodshot eyes were bulging with rage as he cursed, "You little upstart, pushing too far! Do you want to make an enemy of the entire demon realm!"
"Tsk, sitting in this position for too long, you really think it's yours now."
Mu Changqing sneered, his hand closing. The demon realm's Young Master didn't even have time to let out a scream before his head was separated from his body.
"Damn you, I'll kill you!"
The Demon Emperor was so enraged that he almost had a heart attack. Of course, he didn't have just this one son, but this demon realm Young Master was the most talented among all his offspring and also his favorite. To have him directly killed like this, "Since you're seeking death, then die!"
Despite the Demon Emperor's loud battle cry, in the end, he still called for help. He summoned several Nascent Soul stage Demon Kings and countless demon beasts and cultivators, surrounding them in a siege formation, determined to eliminate them in one fell swoop.
"How annoying, kill them." The usually silent black sword uttered its first words ever, cold and cruel, befitting its reputation as the foremost vicious sword.
It flew into the crowd of demon beasts, causing chaos. With each swing of its sword energy, it reaped countless lives.
The Mystic Spirit Sword wasn't to be outdone, joining Big Senior Sister and the others in the slaughter of demon beasts at the front.
Chu Sang drew the Karma Burns the Three Realms bow. Fire-red arrows fell like meteors or swept out like fire dragons. The temperature in the forbidden area rose rapidly, as if doused in raging fire, scorching hot. Not only did it deliver a heavy blow, but it also caused continuous damage over time.
A Nascent Soul stage eagle king flew into the air, its palms transforming into claws as it attacked her.
Mu Changqing leapt to block this attack. Dark red demonic power condensed in his palm as he struck back, repelling the attacker.
Facing the several great Demon Kings coming at him, he lost his usual frivolous smile. His voice was as cold as ice,
"Get lost!"
Although he was merely at the early stage of Nascent Soul, and among the opposing Demon Kings there were even those at the middle stage of Nascent Soul, these two words he uttered made the other Demon Kings suddenly stop their actions, involuntarily feeling a sense of submission.
The bloodline suppression among demon races is extremely severe. Regardless of cultivation level, divine beast bloodlines naturally suppress ordinary demon beast bloodlines.
Could it be... could it be that this person before them is......
The Demon Kings finally reacted, withdrawing their weapons, trembling with fear, "Are you Young Master Changqing?"
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