novelraw Chapter 259 : She, Save Me!
Chapter 259 : She, Save Me!
Pulled into this damned place, before her feet could even touch the ground, Chu Sang encountered a deadly attack in mid-air. She spun her body, her foot kicking off something unknown, using it as a springboard to propel herself upward.
Yan Wangxing was forced to take this kick to his chest, nearly coughing up blood from the impact. The force sent him plummeting a hundred meters, but it happened to help him dodge the fatal attack from that flying blade.
Bang—
Although he was the second to last to enter, he was the first to land.
Mo Baizhou followed closely, landing solidly on top of Yan Wangxing. His face showed embarrassment, but before he could apologize, Chu Sang fell from the sky, using the two men's solid bodies as a cushion. She landed with a series of graceful jumps, looking cool and unscathed, not even a hair of her ponytail out of place. In contrast, the two men were in a much more disheveled state.
Mo Baizhou calmly got up from the ground, quietly casting a cleaning spell on himself.
Yan Wangxing was undoubtedly the most miserable of all. He silently swallowed his grievance, his handsome face dark as he got up from the ground, dusting himself off. His voice was chilly, "What kind of damned place is this? And Chu Sang, are you sick? Why did you drag me here? I could have escaped earlier, but you pulled me down with you. I saw clearly, you did it on purpose just now!"
How could this woman be so malicious!!
"Don't falsely accuse Little Junior Sister. Didn't you also drag me down? It's just payback," Mo Baizhou retorted coolly.
Little Junior Sister's usual behavior indeed didn't seem like that of a good person, but it didn't matter. Senior Brother would self-brainwash.
Fine, two against one. He didn't argue.
Yan Wangxing seriously suspected these two had come specifically to anger him to death. He shrugged his shoulders, leaning back against the stone wall. "By the way, what was that thing that attacked us halfway? It came so quickly and urgently, clearly targeting us. Now that we've fallen down here, why is there no movement?"
He hadn't yet noticed anything amiss, simply feeling that the surroundings were very quiet. So quiet it was eerie, not even a breath could be heard, forming a huge contrast with the danger from earlier.
Chu Sang had already spread out her divine sense, the dense and powerful divine sense silently permeating the entire area, expanding its territory inch by inch outward. She suddenly opened her eyes, softly warning, "Be careful, it's coming."
Yan Wangxing, who had been leaning lifelessly just a moment ago, instantly became alert at her words. He quickly drew his demon blade as a huge creature burst from the ground beneath his feet, opening its bloody maw intending to swallow him whole.
Yan Wangxing swung his blade back, intending to cut it in two, but in the next second, he was dumbfounded. His demonic energy... couldn't be used?!
Without the support of powerful demonic energy, this strike was only slightly stronger than that of an ordinary demon cultivator. It was ineffective against a Divine Transformation stage demon beast. It felt like he had struck an iron wall, the blade making a clanging sound. Yan Wangxing was sent flying several meters by the tremendous force. Immediately after, the serpentine demon beast rose up again, its upper body's snake head rising over ten meters high before suddenly plunging into the ground, directly attacking in his direction.
Mo Baizhou, standing nearby, wanted to help but found that his demonic energy had also mysteriously disappeared.
In this life-or-death moment, Chu Sang flashed to the top of the demon snake's head. She fiercely thrust her sword into the soft spot on its forehead, piercing through its skull. As blood splattered, she twisted the sword body, forcefully cutting across the wound, destroying the demon beast's primordial spirit.
The sharp sword energy directly sliced the entire snake head in half.
The cross-section was exceptionally clean and neat.
As the demon beast's corpse crashed to the ground, even Yan Wangxing, a pure-blooded demon, couldn't help but inwardly exclaim at her excellent swordsmanship. "Your spiritual energy wasn't sealed?"
"Your demonic energy was sealed? Fourth Senior Brother, what about you?" Chu Sang didn't lower her sword, returning with it raised.
Seeing Mo Baizhou silently nod, she understood. No wonder she had to deal with a Divine Transformation stage demon beast.
Since falling into this unknown damned place, the two men couldn't use any demonic energy at all.
No wonder Yan Wangxing hadn't sensed the demon beast's aura from the beginning.
He didn't usually cultivate his divine sense much, but he was very sensitive to nearby energy fluctuations. It was an instinctive perception of danger developed through long periods of battle.
But now his five senses seemed to be sealed, along with his inability to use demonic energy.
How to describe this feeling... It wasn't like directly becoming an ordinary person without any cultivation, he could clearly sense that his body was still genuinely at Unity stage, but he couldn't use the power he should have.
Mo Baizhou was in the same situation as Yan Wangxing, so it wasn't just him having a problem.
But Chu Sang could use her spiritual energy.
Could it be that this place... only isolated demonic energy?
There was no time for further reflection. Several more powerful auras approached from nearby, all at Divine Transformation stage or above.
With Mo Baizhou and Yan Wangxing's demonic energy sealed, they couldn't be of much use for now. It was somewhat difficult for Chu Sang alone to deal with over a dozen Divine Transformation stage demon beasts. She decisively released Hong Niang and the spirit tools, charging with her sword towards the nearest demon beast. Another demon beast emerged from the shadows, attempting to ambush. Yan Wangxing swung his blade at it, but unlike usual, he couldn't easily sever its limb. Instead, the limb was barely injured and fiercely stabbed towards his chest.
Yan Wangxing dodged this fatal attack while kicking the beast's abdomen. Fortunately, this body's Unity stage cultivation was still intact. He usually supplemented his training with body techniques. After kicking the demon beast to the ground, an even stronger demon beast roared and pounced over, leading to another round of entanglement.
Mo Baizhou's situation was equally unpleasant. After losing his demonic energy supply, even stabbing the beast's vital points couldn't deliver a fatal blow.
He turned his head, trying to find Yan Wangxing to cooperate in subduing the wolf beast before him, only to discover that Yan Wangxing, unable to defeat the demon beasts, had shamelessly sought protection from Little Junior Sister?! After all, with Chu Sang's sword energy opening the battle, and the half-step Unity stage spider demon beside her, ordinary demon beasts didn't dare approach.
Chu Sang was about to rush out but found she couldn't move. She turned her head, calmly glancing at her grabbed sleeve. "Let go."
"I won't."
"...Do you believe I'll cut off your hand?" He currently had no demonic energy at all. It would be extremely easy for Chu Sang to deal with him.
"My goodness, Chu Sang, can't you have some conscience? You dragged me into this hellhole, caused me to lose all my demonic power, and now you're abandoning me? I don't care, you can't leave me beyond half a meter. I need to get out of here alive. The demon realm is still waiting for me to lead it!"
"Don't worry about the demon realm. After you die, my Fourth Senior Brother will help you inherit it. Also, I advise you to let go of me now, otherwise we'll both die." Chu Sang's tone was utterly merciless. She really raised her sword, frightening Yan Wangxing greatly. He quickly withdrew his hand, but that sword strike directly passed over him, hitting a wolf beast that was about to pounce from behind him.
At the same time, Chu Sang summoned Mystic Spirit, transforming it into a long umbrella that covered a ten-meter radius around them.
Mo Baizhou, after repelling the wolf beast, also retreated back. He looked up and hurriedly warned towards the front, "Little Junior Sister, be careful of that strongest magic-concealing beast. Its strength is at Unity stage. I just tried, it seems to be able to absorb attack power... Its weakness is the single horn on its head. Try your best to cut off that horn first!"
The magic-concealing beast's appearance was somewhat like a tiger beast, but with a purple-blue single horn on its forehead. The long, sharp, spiral horn could gather extremely destructive demonic energy. Chu Sang not only had to deal with nearby demon beasts constantly but also had to be wary of the magic-concealing beast's sneak attacks.
Its intelligence was clearly higher than other demon beasts, seeming less like a beast and more like a person. It leisurely hid in the rear, occasionally supplementing with quite vicious demonic energy attacks, increasingly irritating Chu Sang.
She slightly narrowed her eyes, a cold gleam flashing in them. The Primordial Soul-Chaser in her palm was replaced by Karma Burns the Three Realms. In an extremely short time, she quickly nocked an arrow and drew the bow, shooting several streams of fire towards that magic-concealing beast.
The magic-concealing beast arrogantly rolled its eyes, its half-crouching posture unchanged. It merely raised its head slightly, gathering another wave of dark purple demonic energy on its horn. This time it wasn't for attack, but to form a semi-circular barrier.
Karma Burns the Three Realms' full-power strike landed but couldn't break through at all, instead being absorbed by the barrier.
She inwardly cursed at how bizarre it was. This thing really could absorb magical attacks.
Hong Niang controlled thousands of silvery-white silk threads in her palm, cutting through the air. These thin, long threads were one of the world's most formidable lethal hidden weapons, capable of both attack and restraint. The gentle spider silk falling on the magic-concealing beast could leave a bloody mark on its rough, hard beast skin.
The magic-concealing beast's originally calm and playful face finally showed some seriousness, with hints of annoyance. It stood up to formally engage in battle, spitting out a ball of demonic energy that grew larger and larger.
Thousands of spider threads instantly interwove, forming a tightly-knit large net, colliding with the demonic energy ball.
The demonic energy was dispersed, but that carefully woven spider web was also instantly pierced through.
Hong Niang's half-step Unity stage cultivation was ultimately slightly inferior to full Unity stage. Not to mention that demon beasts born with killing aura were more aggressive and destructive than beast demons of the same level.
Hong Niang couldn't deliver a fatal blow directly.
Chu Sang instructed Hong Niang in her sea of consciousness to switch from offense to defense, first clearing out those troublesome Divine Transformation stage beast demons nearby, then sealing off the magic-concealing beast's movement.
The magic-concealing beast, highly self-regarding, didn't take this seriously. Even noticing that the human cultivator wanted to use some tricks, it simply didn't care, instead inwardly coldly sneering at the stupidity of these self-important human cultivators.
After the nearby beast demons were cleared out, Chu Sang attempted to approach the magic-concealing beast, trying to use the evil sword in her hand to cut off its horn.
The magic-concealing beast saw through her intention but didn't stop her. Instead, it deliberately left an opening, giving her a chance to get close.
When the distance was less than half a meter, its body's demonic energy suddenly materialized into sharp poison needles, directly piercing through her. Her entire body was instantly corroded and disappeared, not leaving a single trace. It was truly complete annihilation.
"Little Junior Sister!"
The magic-concealing beast was just feeling smug, not yet having time to mock, when suddenly several sharp sword intents rose from behind it. It was too fast, too unexpected. Even it couldn't react in time.
A sword intent domain appeared out of thin air, surrounding it. The beast stared blankly at the female cultivator who suddenly appeared before it. She... hadn't she died? What was going on...
Thousands of sword intents took form, transforming into a glowing long sword, falling from the sky, cutting off the horn on its head with one strike!
Having lost its horn, the magic-concealing beast also lost its greatest trump card for survival. Next, Chu Sang and Hong Niang joined forces, fighting a tug-of-war battle for half a day before finally succeeding in killing it.
The moment the magic-concealing beast was killed, a golden light flew out from an unclear corner of their vision. Chu Sang's eyelid twitched. She quickly withdrew the Mystic Spirit Sword, turning her head to Mo Baizhou and Yan Wangxing, "The Divine Decree has appeared again. Let's chase after it!"
As they followed the traces left behind, the Divine Decree vanished into thin air again.
At the end of the cliff, three large doors appeared out of nowhere.
Doors weren't anything special, but only three lonely large doors appearing out of thin air at the edge of a cliff, floating in the air, looked bizarre and strange no matter how you looked at it.
The doors were open.
There was nothing inside the doors, only a constantly churning black vortex, very similar to the black vortex that had sucked her in at the altar earlier. Did this mean... choose a door and enter?
The three hesitated.
No matter how they looked at it, it seemed like a trap.
Chu Sang rubbed her chin. "Why don't we review the situation first?"
From the moment they were sucked in and fell into this damned place, everything had been strange and bizarre.
Although they were in the demon realm, this place actually isolated demonic energy. It couldn't be said to completely isolate demonic energy, after all, the demon beasts here were fine, but outside demon cultivators couldn't use demonic energy.
Think about it, according to the normal plot progression, Yan Wangxing would most likely have been successfully overthrown, those demon lords wouldn't have died, and according to plan, they would have opened the altar and obtained the Divine Decree, finding themselves in the same situation as now, unable to use demonic energy in this damned place.
Among the demon lords, there were no bug-exploiting spirit cultivators. The final outcome would inevitably be death by demon beasts.
Then what?
What would happen after that?
What exactly did the Divine Decree intend by setting up such a trap here?
Chu Sang guessed it should be similar to the Demon Emperor last time. After those demon lords completely lost their ability to resist, they would become puppets controlled by the Divine Decree.
She remembered that the original story's ending stopped at the female protagonist and her harem ascending to the upper realm, without describing anything related to the upper realm afterward. However, the original text did briefly mention the upper realm a few times in passing, though only touched upon. But some useful information could still be gleaned.
Cultivators from the Spirit Abyss Continent and other continents would go to the upper realm after ascending.
But the passage between the lower and upper realms could only be traversed one way.
In other words, once cultivators ascended to the upper realm, they could no longer return to the lower realm.
Similarly, people and gods from the upper realm couldn't go to the lower realm, otherwise it would cause the power system of the three thousand small worlds to collapse. Even if some people and gods barely found secret methods to open a passage from the upper realm to the lower realm and successfully reached the lower realm, their strength would be sealed by the order, becoming no different from ordinary cultivators in the lower realm. They might even face severe punishment if discovered. This way, going to the lower realm would be meaningless.
Unless...
They found a loyal puppet in the lower realm to use for themselves.