novelraw Chapter 238 : Paying a Visit
Chapter 238 : Paying a Visit
Seizing the Beast King's carelessness, Chu Sang immediately deployed the Double-Faced Mirror, trapping him inside.
The mirror surface floated in the air, growing larger, like a massive light screen, slowly constructing the appearance of the mirror world.
At first, the Shadow Beast King was somewhat bewildered upon being trapped in the mirror world. When he saw an identical Beast King appear before him, his face began to crack.
"Boom—"
Two equally powerful demon energies collided. As time passed, both the Shadow Beast King and the mirror image accumulated numerous injuries, neither gaining an advantage.
He also realized that he couldn't kill the mirror image, so he focused his attention on the mirror surface. He channeled demon power in his palm to bombard the mirror surface. The black demon power rapidly spread across the entire mirror surface like a spider web, almost overflowing!
This was bad, the Shadow Beast King was attempting to forcibly break through the Double-Faced Mirror.
Chu Sang frowned slightly.
This was her first time using the Double-Faced Mirror to imprison a Beast King level demon beast. The Double-Faced Mirror seemed invincible, but it wasn't without weaknesses. When encountering divine artifacts of higher grade or demon beasts and cultivators of higher cultivation, its effectiveness would be greatly reduced.
At its peak state, the Double-Faced Mirror could trap a peak Divine Transformation stage Beast King, but after contracting with her, its power was somewhat suppressed. She couldn't guarantee that the Double-Faced Mirror could contain this Shadow Beast King.
To prevent the newly subdued Double-Faced Mirror from being damaged by this shadow demon, she needed to deal with him quickly!
With a flick of her finger, ripples like water waves appeared on the mirror surface. Attacks from the outside could directly fall on the Beast King in the mirror, but the Beast King couldn't come out to attack her.
This was much more useful than when they were trapped in the mirror world last time!
However, it was still challenging for her to kill the Beast King with a single sword strike given her power. At this moment, her sword-wielding right hand was firmly grasped by another hand. The Big Senior Sister walked over, raising her right hand, the sword tip pointing directly at the rippling mirror surface, "Little Junior Sister, let me teach you a move!"
Chu Sang recalled the sword intent domain that the Big Senior Sister had unleashed earlier, which was truly awe-inspiring and domineering!
She had tried to activate the sword intent domain later, but perhaps due to insufficient cultivation or lack of proficiency in sword techniques, she had always failed.
Chu Sang vaguely sensed that she was still lacking in some aspect, but her attainment wasn't refined enough to accurately capture where this "lacking" was.
Self-exploration would require enormous trial and error costs, but with the guidance of someone who had successfully activated the sword intent domain, it was different. As the sword broke through the sky, the originally obscure and unfamiliar constraints seemed to be resolved effortlessly. She didn't even need to deliberately mobilize the spiritual power within her body. Centered on the long sword in her hand, endless sword intent spread out, accompanied by roaring spiritual flames, almost engulfing everything within several miles, burning all and cleaving through myriad things!
The other disciples were all intimidated by this powerful and fierce momentum.
Another sword intent domain? How inhuman were these Lingqing Sect freaks? It was already extraordinary for a Divine Transformation stage cultivator to comprehend the sword intent domain, but Chu Sang was only at the Nascent Soul stage. Other Nascent Soul cultivators might not have even grasped sword intent yet, but she had already comprehended the sword intent domain? This was simply monstrous!
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This was her unique sword intent domain!
Feeling the vast sword intent perfectly controlled in her palm, Chu Sang was both surprised and delighted. She swung her sword, and thousands of streams of light instantly broke through the mirror surface, falling upon the Shadow Beast King.
Fire spirit power and light spirit power were connected to some extent.
Fire gave birth to light.
The fiery streams of light fell on the Beast King's body, severely scorching his form. The Beast King's originally somewhat handsome face instantly became grotesque, like a fierce ghost, letting out a chilling roar of anger. His body, which had been condensed into a solid form, transformed into an intangible dark shadow.
A glint flashed in Chu Sang's eyes as she slowly uttered,
"Sword Immortal Technique, Third Layer."
"Bang—"
The Beast King's body was pierced by the sword condensed from spiritual power. Dazzling light instantly exploded. No one could clearly see what happened in the mirror. The powerful energy fluctuations caused the mirror surface to shake violently, seeming as if it would shatter in the next breath.
After the commotion subsided, everything returned to nothingness.
The mirror surface still floated steadily in mid-air, while the illusory world in the mirror was peeling away bit by bit, with no sign of the Beast King's corpse. Chu Sang wondered if she hadn't killed that fellow with one sword strike? In the next second, the image in the mirror completely vanished, turning into a black screen again.
A semi-transparent mirror spirit floated out from the mirror, patting its belly and letting out a satisfied burp, "Hmm, looks like you're somewhat useful after all! It's been a long time since I've eaten a demon beast of this level! Following you isn't a loss!"
......So the Beast King was dead?
She had succeeded!
The Big Senior Sister also smiled. Little Junior Sister was indeed very strong, with high comprehension ability! With just a little guidance, she had fully grasped it, even more impressive than them!
Seeing this scene, Qin Xixue's face changed dramatically. She stumbled backward, her lips trembling, "You... how dare you kill the Beast King!"
She never imagined they would actually kill the Beast King......
That was a late-stage peak Divine Transformation Beast King, just one step away from Unity stage. She had spent so much effort helping the Shadow Beast King break through his realm, even sacrificing a divine artifact that could slaughter demon beasts to convert energy. That divine artifact even required her blood to work obediently......
Qin Xixue knew that the Demon Emperor's ambition was too great to be interested in a human cultivator like her from the cultivation world. He couldn't possibly be loyal enough to her or be used by her, which was why she had invested so much in the Shadow Beast King......
The Shadow Beast King was dead, killed by Chu Sang with one sword strike. All her efforts had been in vain. How could she accept this?!
"Speaking of which, you're the mastermind behind all this, the root of all evil. Who would have thought that after escaping from the cultivation world, you'd come to the demon realm to collude with these Beast Kings, committing atrocities and even attempting to counterattack the cultivation world? Tsk, you're truly a fine disciple raised by Chang Yu." These master and disciple were indeed cut from the same cloth, experts at backstabbing.
Hearing her faint sarcasm, Qin Xixue showed no shame on her face. Instead, she gritted her teeth in hatred, "If it weren't for you, how could I have become like this? If it weren't for you meddling time and again, how could I have been expelled from Tianyan Sect? Expelled from the cultivation world? My current state, all the calamities befalling the cultivation world, it's all because of your appearance!"
She laughed in extreme anger, raising her chin. Her self-brainwashing had reached its peak, "You think you're so righteous? If you were in my situation, you wouldn't be any better!"
"Since Tianyan Sect betrayed me, the cultivation world betrayed me, should I continue to live in humiliation in that wretched place? The demon realm and the Demon Emperor can offer me better conditions, what's wrong with me joining the demon realm? As for why I'm helping the demon realm counterattack the cultivation world, that's also the cultivation world's and your own fault! Don't blame others!"
Hearing these words, anger appeared on the faces of all the disciples. How could this person who had betrayed the cultivation world so shamelessly shift the blame?
How could there be such a shameless person in the world?
Why didn't she think about why the cultivation world treated her like this?
Instead of finding reasons within herself, she only complained about the world's unfairness and cursed its injustice. She didn't have this attitude when she was harming her fellow disciples back then!
At this moment, everyone felt regret in their hearts. They regretted showing that bit of mercy back then, not following the sect rules to destroy the foundation of this traitor. Otherwise, she wouldn't be prancing around so happily now!
The most regretful were the disciples of Tianyan Sect.
Most of the disciples who came were direct disciples and inner disciples who had had contact with Qin Xixue. There were even quite a few male disciples who had admired Qin Xixue before, following her around like lapdogs, catering to her every whim. Some direct disciples even knew about Chu Sang being expelled from the Immortal Sect a few years ago, and they had vehemently defended Qin Xixue at that time...... Looking back now, they were truly both stupid and blind, siding with such a despicable person!
Chu Sang casually twirled her sword, pointing the tip at the pale-faced Qin Xixue, smiling as she said, "Oh, it seems you hate me so much you can't wait to kill me. Why don't we settle this today? Let's resolve both new and old grudges, how about that?"
Chu Sang was now at the late Nascent Soul stage, more accurately, half-step to Divine Transformation. Although Qin Xixue had been "desperately cultivating" for the past half year, taking pills and using various methods to try to improve her cultivation, unfortunately, her foundation was too poor. Moreover, during the crucial years when her foundation was being formed, she hadn't cultivated diligently, instead relying too much on Chu Sang's spirit root. This led to her own foundation becoming even more fragile once she lost external support after her foundation was sealed.
Chu Sang's fire spirit root had only given her temporary glory. After losing the support of the fire spirit root later, it actually greatly limited her future cultivation path. Now, she had barely broken through to the early Nascent Soul stage.
If Qin Xixue had cultivated properly from the beginning, even with her low talent, with the resources of a Tianyan Sect direct disciple and Chang Yu's support, her realm would only be higher than it was now, not lower.
The current situation could only be attributed to her own doing, no one else was to blame.
"......You can't kill me! This is the demon realm, not the territory of you Immortal Sect disciples!"
Fear clearly appeared in Qin Xixue's eyes. She indeed had many immortal and divine artifacts in her possession, but Chu Sang also had quite a few divine artifacts. Moreover, the power that could be unleashed from divine artifacts was directly linked to the cultivator's strength.
Obviously lacking the strength to confront Chu Sang, she pretended to be calm and said, "You dare to trespass into the demon realm, just you wait! The Demon Emperor won't let you off—"
Chu Sang didn't give her the chance to finish her villain speech. She casually swung her sword, and as the dust settled, the person had disappeared, leaving only a patch of blood on the ground. It seemed she was seriously injured.
Qin Xixue indeed had quite a few escape treasures. Killing her wouldn't be so easy.
The storage ring must be destroyed.
"Where did she escape to?"
The others rushed over.
Chu Sang looked up and said calmly, "Judging by her confident tone just now, she's most likely gone to the Central Domain to seek help from the Demon Emperor. Rather than waiting for the Demon Emperor to bring his army and put pressure on us, why don't we... go directly to the Central Domain to pay a visit to this legendary Demon Emperor!"
Why did her tone sound a bit excited?