Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 603

Madam Mok was still helplessly restrained by her unconscious junior sister. Han Li, who had been observing the situation, twitched the corner of his mouth.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

As Han Li narrowed his brows and remained still, two beams of light shot out. It was the Spirit Envoy Peacock, with Im Eun-byeong and the young man surnamed Seo inside.

It seemed they, like the others, were after the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures. However, Gyu-ryeong merely glanced at Han Li, hesitated for a moment, and decided not to get involved in the chaotic situation.

Kuurung! Kwang! Kwakwang!

The void was a chaotic mess, with various spiritual energies mixing and exploding.

Those who had been working together to capture the Great Demon were now fiercely attacking each other over the two Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures.

However, Han Li couldn’t take his eyes off the silver wolf, which was lying prone, bound by the Golden Binding Rings. With a dark expression, he flicked his sleeve, and dozens of golden swords emerged, buzzing.

As Han Li released the flying swords, he sent a telepathic message to Eun-wol.

“You said that if I cut off the black head, I could temporarily drive out the Great Demon Ancestor’s divided soul? But why didn’t Long Meng take over the body first?”

“The Golden Binding Rings are controlling it, so the Great Demon Ancestor and the demonic energy within can’t escape. That means it can’t escape from the severed head either! If only the Great Demon’s divided soul leaves temporarily, I’m confident I can reclaim the body.

Long Meng’s consciousness is strong, but he probably didn’t have a sharp treasure like the Mirror of Clarity, so he couldn’t cut off the silver wolf demon beast’s body. When the body is full of demonic energy, he wouldn’t have been confident in winning against the Great Demon’s divided soul. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have rushed to seize the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure, leaving the chance to reclaim the body behind.”

Eun-wol quickly replied, and Han Li didn’t hesitate any longer.

In any case, it would be good for him if Eun-wol, his spirit, regained her body and greatly increased her strength. He quickly formed a hand seal, and all the flying swords soared into the sky, emitting golden light and coalescing into one.

Han Li pointed at the golden, radiant giant sword.

Kwagwang!

At the same time, a thunderous sound rang out, and golden lightning flowed on the surface of the giant sword. At the tip of the sword, silver light burst forth, and the silver wolf’s head appeared and disappeared within it.

Eun-wol had merged with the giant sword in her spirit form, first to increase the power of the giant sword, and second, to enter the wolf’s body immediately after the head was cut off.

The form of the giant sword became blurred and turned into golden lightning, entering the demonic energy. Each time the lightning flashed, the demonic energy easily crumbled. In an instant, the giant sword reached the altar and was about to strike down the motionless giant wolf.

The tremendous force of the giant sword startled all the cultivators and demon beasts surrounding the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures. Among them, Hwa Cheon-gi, possessed by Long Meng, was startled, but soon sneered.

He didn’t believe that a flying sword of a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator could harm the silver wolf. The giant wolf, which had been lying motionless under the menacing force of the falling giant sword, suddenly leaped up and dodged the sword light.

At this, all the cultivators, including Han Li, were dumbfounded.

“Hah, the demon was pretending to be suppressed by the Golden Binding Rings!” Hyeon Cheong-ja quickly grasped the situation and shouted. True Person Chilmyo looked troubled, but still didn’t give up and tried to move the jade-colored rings by forming a hand seal.

At the same time, light spread from the five rings and contracted, but the black wolf head lowered its head to look at the rings and sneered.

The wolf suddenly kicked off the altar and leaped up without any sign of pain. Then, a pitch-black light spread out from the wolf and quickly seeped into its body.

At that moment, the silver fur of the silver wolf flashed brightly, then rapidly darkened. The wolf’s body, except for the silver head, was dyed black and turned into demonic energy!

Hwa Cheon-gi’s face turned pale as he looked at the scene, unable to believe it.

The black wolf head stretched its neck and emitted black shockwaves. The black shockwaves seemed insignificant, but when they reached the five jade-colored rings that had bound the wolf’s body, they began to break apart.

And in an instant, the five Golden Binding Rings disappeared. At that moment, the golden giant sword that had cut through the void changed direction and rushed in. The wolf howled again, and the scattered demonic energy re-condensed, trying to trap the giant sword.

“Explode!”

Kwagwang!

In this situation, Han Li’s expression changed drastically, and he quickly formed a hand seal and shouted at the giant sword in the demonic energy. Then, a huge Evil-Slaying Divine Lightning, half the size of the giant sword, burst out.

Ku-kwa-kwakwang!

A thunderous sound was heard, and a giant lightning orb, transformed from golden lightning, appeared on the surface of the sword, exploding with an earth-shattering roar.

Numerous lightning bolts bounced in all directions, melting the demonic energy, creating a large empty space, and the demonic energy in the distance was also riddled with holes and became faint.

“Evil-Slaying Divine Lightning! And so much of it?”

The giant wolf stared at Han Li with a strange expression. Han Li met his gaze expressionlessly, but he couldn’t help but feel a chill in his chest.

Fortunately, the bizarre black shockwaves emitted by the demon were too slow and didn’t travel far, dissipating on their own about thirty feet away.

‘I was lucky!’

At this time, True Person Chilmyo and the other cultivators were sweating profusely. They hadn’t expected the incarnation of the Primordial Fiend Ancestor to be so cunning.

It had pretended to be on the verge of death from the Golden Binding Rings, luring them into fighting each other!

If Han Li hadn’t attacked and revealed the truth, they would all have been severely injured, their vitality depleted, and they would have been defeated by the demon. They glared at each other and immediately scattered.

No matter how important the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasures were, if no one could seize them in a short time, it was better to join forces and kill the powerful enemy first.

At that moment, the giant wolf’s purple eyes glowed, and it slashed the void with its front paw. Then, a beam of light, about a foot long, shot out from its claws, flashed, and disappeared.

Immediately, a woman’s desperate scream erupted.

The cultivators hurriedly turned their gaze and saw that Madam Mok, who had been fighting on the outskirts of the demonic energy using her shuttle, had been torn to pieces by the claw-shaped light that had suddenly appeared.

Even though she had been defending herself with a handkerchief-shaped treasure and a protective barrier, she couldn’t block it at all.

From the severed corpse, a Nascent Soul [a nascent soul is a spirit that has formed after a cultivator has reached a certain level] hurriedly popped out and looked at the golden shuttle in the void. It seemed she was planning to retrieve the treasure and escape. However, that moment of hesitation blocked her path of escape forever.

The nearby demonic energy gathered and formed a huge black hand, which snatched the Nascent Soul like the wind. The Nascent Soul was greatly startled and tried to teleport, but the giant wolf roared loudly.

The sharp sound that pierced the ears seemed to freeze the Nascent Soul’s magic power, making it uncontrollable. Thus, the Nascent Soul, caught by the huge black hand, disappeared into the demonic energy.

“Stop!” Hyeon Cheong-ja shouted in anger, his face pale. He drew up all his magic power and poured it in madly, then struck down with his sword.

From the old Taoist’s hand, the illusion of the Heaven-Crushing Divine Sword appeared in layers, and countless yellow sword lights piled up like a small mountain. Surprisingly, he was desperately trying to save Madam Mok’s Nascent Soul.

At this sight, Han Li raised his eyebrows.

However, the other cultivators welcomed the old Taoist’s desperate attack. Hwa Cheon-gi and the Myriad Year Stone Bear exchanged glances, and then the blood-red and white giant hands each launched an attack.

True Person Chilmyo frowned at the old Taoist’s actions, then suddenly recalled a rumor about Madam Mok and the old Taoist, and looked puzzled.

After a moment, he also flipped his palm and took out a small drum, about half a foot long.

The drum had a bright red surface with a red light flashing, as if it had condensed flames. As soon as it appeared, the air within dozens of feet around it instantly became hot, and both humans and demon beasts had dry mouths.

“The Crimson Echo Drum.”

Im Eun-byeong, who had been slightly injured while trying to seize the treasures earlier, muttered as she saw the bright red drum. The Spirit Envoy Peacock, with the young man surnamed Seo inside, also circled above her head, unable to take its eyes off the small drum.

Han Li was surprised by the immense fire-attribute spiritual power he felt from the small drum, which was no less powerful than the Three-Flame Fan.

“Since Fellow Daoist Han’s Evil-Slaying Divine Lightning is especially effective against demonic energy, let’s attack together. I will use this to cover the cultivators’ attacks.”

The middle-aged scholar, holding the drum in one hand, suddenly spoke to Han Li.

At those words, Han Li’s pupils contracted. At that moment, the sword energy released by the old Taoist collided with the demonic energy below in one go.

Kwarurureung!

The sword energy and demonic energy clashed, maintaining a tense balance for a moment.

When Hwa Cheon-gi’s white giant hand and the Myriad Year Stone Bear’s blood-red blade joined the attack, the giant wolf also opened its mouth and continuously spewed out pitch-black light pillars to block the attacks.

Not only that, but the giant wolf, whose entire body had turned pitch-black, shook its head and spat out two dark, murky objects.

As soon as they hit the ground, they transformed into two monsters with human bodies and hawk wings. The two monsters had a pair of black wings and hooked noses.

Each held a black greatsword in one hand, and after flapping their wings, they unexpectedly flew towards the Silver Yaksha and the Golden Silk Toad, who were destroying the stone pillars.

Before the two monsters could even get close to the demon beasts, they swung the black blades in their hands, sending out pitch-black light.

The Silver Yaksha and the Golden Silk Toad were startled by the attacks of the two monsters, which seemed to be condensed from demonic energy. Without hesitation, the Silver Yaksha’s form blurred and disappeared with the wind.

Kuaang…

The Golden Silk Toad revealed its ferocious nature and turned its body, firing golden shockwaves at one of the monsters.

The monster blocked it with the greatsword in its hand, but it was quickly eroded by the golden shockwaves, shattered, and returned to faint demonic energy.

The other monster was swinging its greatsword, emitting a foot-long light, when the Silver Yaksha appeared behind it in a strange way.

As he flicked his ten fingers, ten streams of gray Soul-Slaying Threads shot out, piercing and tearing through the monster’s torso.

The Silver Yaksha, who had defeated the monsters too easily, looked at the demonic energy with a cautious expression. He didn’t believe that the two monsters that had suddenly attacked were finished just like that.

Indeed, the demonic energy slowly wriggled, and with a flash of black light, it returned to its original form as two monsters. One of them charged straight in, and the other opened its mouth and spewed demonic energy at the Silver Yaksha.

The Silver Yaksha narrowed his brows and released the Soul-Slaying Threads again, colliding with the demonic energy.

The other monster instantly transformed into a giant hawk and lunged at the Golden Silk Toad with sharp claws and a steel-like beak. The two birds engaged in a melee, dropping black and purple feathers.

The Golden Silk Toad was more powerful, but no matter how injured the black hawk was, it would immediately recover as long as black light flowed through it. The Silver Yaksha was in the same situation. Even though he had killed the monsters several times with the Soul-Slaying Threads, they would re-condense and return to the same form.

The two monsters were similar to incarnations, and they were practically immortal unless their main body was destroyed.

There was a reason why the divided soul of the Primordial Fiend Ancestor used the two monsters to attack the Silver Yaksha and the Golden Silk Toad. It was a ploy to keep them from destroying the pillars any further.

The Silver Yaksha knew this, but unlike the monsters’ poor defense, the demonic energy they used for attacks was similar to that of the giant wolf. The two demon beasts had no choice but to avoid the attacks and couldn’t focus on anything else.

Moreover, the stone pillars, which had already been half-destroyed, began to be restored with a flash of spiritual energy.

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