novelraw Chapter 747 747: Annihilate the Enemy, Clear the Battlefield _1
Chapter 747 747: Annihilate the Enemy, Clear the Battlefield _1
Seeing this, Banzhi Jiaxuan, who was off in the distance, initially wore a pleased expression, but her joy quickly turned to confusion and shock!
Shen Mo's figure, shattered by the Black Scaled Demon's blow, didn't scatter into a mist of blood as they had imagined. Instead, it shattered and flaked away, piece by piece, like a mirror.
Many years ago, when Shen Mo, Giant Corpse Master, Yuxin Sword Master, Chou Jiuyian, Chu Zhen, and others had joined forces to battle the Corpse Spirit of the Heavenly Monarch, the Golden Core Realm powerhouses of the Five Great Sects had used the Illusionary Mirror. With this method, they deceived the Corpse Spirit's perception and then surrounded and captured it!
The Black Scaled Demon's charging technique was quite skilled, making it difficult to either confront head-on or evade.
Therefore, Shen Mo decided to "fight fire with fire," turning the tables by using the Illusionary Mirror's power to thwart the demon.
In the next instant, he appeared behind the Black Scaled Demon. The silver flame spear in his hand shimmered with a cold moonlight as he stabbed towards the vital point on the demon's back. The dazzling moonlight pierced through its thick black scale armor, blasting a bloody hole in its back.
Seeing this, the female Yaksha Banzhi Jiaxuan, despite her wariness, no longer dared to sit by and watch. She conjured a blood-colored treasured sword and charged directly at Shen Mo.
Meanwhile, the Black Scaled Demon blocked the spear's moonlight with its overwhelming Demon Fiend, spun around, and unleashed several violent streams of Fist Energy with its fists!
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With the Monster Mandrill, the big demon fighting Liu Sanmei, nailed to the mountain rock by Shen Mo's spear, the great battle came to an end.
The entire Chaotic Stone Ridge was unrecognizable, completely desolate and devastated for hundreds of miles around. The dense mountain forests and strange, jumbled peaks that once stood here had been obliterated in the great battle. The ground was now covered in craters and traces of spells. A thick layer of topsoil had been scraped away, exposing the underlying rock and mineral veins!
Countless grotesque corpses—whole, shattered, hideous, twisted—were strewn across the Chaotic Stone Ridge. Blood pooled into streams on the ground.
The stench of demons, mixed with roiling Blood Qi, Demonic Qi, and Turbid Qi, obscured the sun, moon, and stars. This cast a dreadful and ominous gloom over the entire area!
Numerous demons that hadn't died were treading through bloody mire and mangled flesh, navigating among the corpses. They scavenged for various relics and valuable materials from the bodies of the deceased demons... Those still alive were all from the Chaotic Stone Stockade faction. All demons from the Hou Corpse Cave, except for the Yaksha Banzhi Jiaxuan, had been completely wiped out!
Even Black Scale and the Monster Mandrill, two peak Class IV demons, had successively fallen at Shen Mo's hands.
He had also cast a Soul Curse, extracting the souls of these two demons. However, their souls were laced with Prohibitions. The moment he attempted a Soul Search, the two demon souls were consumed by fierce flames, their souls utterly scattered!
After questioning the female Yaksha Banzhi Jiaxuan, Shen Mo learned that any Class IV big demon privy to the core secrets of the Hou Corpse Cave—such as knowing the array diagram of the God Slaying Array—had a Spirit Controlling Talisman implanted in them by the Tiger Demon King Shan Hao. This not only allowed him to control these subordinate demons but also prevented them from leaking secrets!
Besides the God Slaying Array, the Hou Corpse Cave now possessed another treasure that Shen Mo coveted: the talisman scroll for the Spirit Controlling Talisman.
Once the Chaotic Stone Stockade demons had mostly finished scouring the battlefield, Shen Mo temporarily withdrew his consciousness from the Demon Soul General's body, allowing Fairy Pei Yu's autonomous consciousness to take precedence. Instantly, her eyes flashed with a cruel and greedy light. The increasingly dense purple Demonic Qi around her body surged forth, enveloping the entire Chaotic Stone Ridge...
Numerous demon corpses, lingering soul remnants, and even demons not yet dead were all enveloped by the dark red Demonic Qi. All their primal Essence and Qi were extracted.
Before long, all demons, whether dead or not yet dead, large or small, were reduced to dried corpses. A gust of mountain wind then turned them into dust, scattering them far and wide!
Once Fairy Pei Yu had mostly "digested" this, Shen Mo's consciousness descended once more.
A large part of her Demonic Qi had now turned a strange, dark purple, like the color of long-dried blood. Her cultivation realm had taken another large step towards Class V!
With one more meal of blood food like today, Fairy Pei Yu will be able to advance to a Class V Demon Soul General! Shen Mo mused, his eyes flickering.
The primal Essence and Qi of creatures in different cultivation realms vary in quantity and quality.
The other Hou Corpse Cave demons were passable, but for the Demon Soul General, the Black Scaled Demon and the Monster Mandrill—these two peak Class IV demons—were the highest-grade blood food. They were worth more than all the other demons combined!
If every portion of blood food possessed a peak Class IV realm and such high-quality Essence and Qi, Fairy Pei Yu would only need to devour six or seven more to advance in realm...
Shen Mo also intended to vigorously cultivate the Ghost Bride, Master Hong Jue, and his other nine top-tier Demon Soul Generals.
However, when they preyed on the slopes and peaks of South Slope Mountain, it was very difficult for them to hunt peak Class IV demons. Even if they encountered one, they weren't guaranteed to win or capture it.
Therefore, among all the top-tier Demon Soul Generals, Fairy Pei Yu's progress was still the fastest!
As he pondered, Shen Mo's gaze fell upon Banzhi Jiaxuan.
This one-legged female Yaksha had her bat-like fleshy wings torn off by him in the previous battle. Only two mangled, bloody holes remained on her back, with some sharp white bone fragments protruding.
"Today, I shall be merciful and not devour you alive!"
"Go back and tell King Shan Hao that if he wants to recruit my Chaotic Stone Stockade, he must show some genuine sincerity. Otherwise, he shouldn't expect me to submit to you all."
Hearing this, Banzhi Jiaxuan couldn't help but shiver. She then nodded hastily in agreement. Once Shen Mo retracted the Ruyi Soul Stealing Needle from her body, the female Yaksha demon immediately whipped up a demonic wind and fled towards the foot of the mountain.
Shen Mo spared her life due to her special status: she was not only the Tiger Demon King's concubine but also the envoy responsible for recruiting the Chaotic Stone Stockade.
Devouring her as blood food would certainly enhance Fairy Pei Yu's strength somewhat. However, it would also mean completely and irrevocably offending Shan Hao, and at the same time, it would seal off the path for the "Chaotic Stone Stockade's demon forces to surrender to the Hou Corpse Cave"!
After Banzhi Jiaxuan left, Shen Mo took stock of the Chaotic Stone Stockade's battle losses.
In this great battle, over three thousand demons from the Chaotic Stone Stockade, both large and small, had perished. This included five Class IV demons and sixty-one Class III demons; the remainder were all low-class demons.
Needless to say, these dead demons from the Chaotic Stone Stockade all became nourishment for the advancement of Shen Mo's incarnation, Fairy Pei Yu!
The surviving demons, large and small, were unfazed by this, showing no sign of empathy for their own kind... They regularly fed on low-class demons and had also reaped considerable benefits from this great battle. Besides, in their view, as long as their Great King didn't decide to eat them, it hardly mattered if he devoured most of the other demons!
After clearing the battlefield and tallying the losses, Shen Mo began to move huge stones and redirect mountain streams to restore the mountain's appearance and terrain. He also repaired the natural big array outside the Chaotic Stone Stockade. Then, he quietly awaited the Hou Corpse Cave's response.