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Chapter 658 - Chapter 658 Chapter 44 One God Battles the Five Demons

Chapter 658: Chapter 44: One God Battles the Five Demons Chapter 658: Chapter 44: One God Battles the Five Demons Ye Shiru swallowed hard, and suddenly a gust of wind hit her face. Subconsciously raising her elbow, her vision then went black as if she had been hit by a heavy truck, her arm went numb, and her body flew out like a kite with its string cut, far away.

Xue Wenhai’s face turned ugly as he stepped back two steps, “Perhaps there’s some misunderstanding between us…”

Li Yan retorted, “Do you mean to say that now, if I said there was, we could all sit down and drink three cups of liquor and pretend nothing happened?”

“…”

Seeing that the situation had reached a critical point, Xue Wenhai’s face showed an extremely complex expression, “You make sense.”

“Watch out above!”

Qian Wu’s eyes bulged as he roared.

Upon hearing this, Li Yan looked up to see a human-shaped cloud of blood mist circling the chandelier, with a face emerging that had yellow eyebrows and a tiger-like pattern, with black lines outlining the eyebrows and mouth, and bloodshot eyes diving straight toward Li Yan’s face.

Li Yan took a half step back and reached out to block the human-shaped blood mist that lunged at him. As soon as they wrestled, the dense “Dragon Mist” spewed from Li Yan’s palm, instantly washing away the blood-colored mist until it was entirely clean. Only a crumpled yellow paper mask remained in Li Yan’s grasp.

“Yili Wealth?”

Li Yan glanced at the Mingzha Mask in his hand before tucking it into his pocket.

“Dragon Mist” was a powerful ward refined by the great demon Zhi Qilian from the tremendous dragon energy of the Yangtze River, capable of washing away the spirituality of all things and was the natural nemesis of yin beings like Mingzha. Compared to the fiercely greedy R’lyeh Water Tiger, which could devour Mingzha leaving not even residue, using “Dragon Mist” was clearly more appropriate.

Seeing that Li Yan had quickly countered the Mingzha passed down through generations of the Xue family, Xue Wenhai felt a chill in his heart.

“He’s covered with a thick aura of blood, and his fate cannot be told just from his appearance. It must be one of the top fierce evils…”

With this thought, Xue Wenhai suddenly had a revelation, “Could it be the Ten Evils Grand Defeat? Could heaven also be helping me, knowing the goods from Cambodia were ruined, and sent me another opportunity?”

Xue Wenhai’s thoughts were intricate, but Li Yan appeared before him in a flash. Seeing his fingers just inches away from the latter’s throat, Xue Wenhai suddenly opened his right hand, and a red light shot toward Li Yan, emitting a sharp shriek in the air.

Li Yan’s ears rang as if exploding, and his vision was full of stars, unable to help but be momentarily dazed. When he opened his eyes again, he caught sight of Xue Wenhai supporting Ye Shiru and fleeing to the other side of the corridor.

Li Yan did not rush to pursue but instead looked down at his palm. The red light thrown by Xue Wenhai turned out to be the Rebirth Bell he had picked up at the doorway. But now the Rebirth Bell had turned from rusty green to dazzling crimson gold, and the inscriptions and characters shone brightly. Just by appearance alone, it was vastly superior to before!

Bell of Lust and Slaughter

Category: Consumable

Quality: Rare

Number of uses: 0/1

Shaking this bell can briefly intimidate all souls with desires nearby.

Note: It was originally a Rebirth Bell with inscriptions, made of ordinary material, used to guide lost souls. After the process of the “Myriad Assembly of Humanity’s Prime” and refining with one of the Four Pillars of Fierce Disasters, the Lust and Slaughter Sha, it became a formidable magical instrument.

Li Yan recalled that in just a few moments, the ordinary bronze bell in Xue Wenhai’s hand had transformed into the “Seven Emotions and Six Desires Bell” in his own hand. Looking at this, Xue Wenhai’s Myriad Assembly of Humanity’s Prime was indeed a rare method that could turn stone to gold and water to oil!

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“Shiru, how are you feeling?”

“I have other injuries, but my bones may be broken, so I can’t lift my arms.”

Jane’s face was pale as she moved her elbow slightly. The bruising and swelling were visibly receding. Li Yan had not intended to kill her, merely to leave her crippled or unconscious. Clearly, he had underestimated this Heavenly Yi Noble, beloved by destiny. The shock in Jane’s heart was even greater. She was a Heavenly Yi Noble, someone born under an ominous sign to an extreme degree. If someone were to shoot at her with a gun, it is highly likely that the barrel would explode. If someone tried to punch her, they might dislocate their own joint from using the wrong force. From childhood, she was almost never injured; this was a first.

Xue Wenhai laughed in fury, “Fine, since Qian Wu is willing to ally with a mainlander and refuses to help me, don’t blame me for disregarding our fellow disciples’ camaraderie. Protect me in my practice.”

After speaking, Xue Wenhai took out a cloth bag, untied it, and spread its contents on the ground. A spread of red grains: red rice, jujubes, peanuts, goji berries, and red beans, but upon closer examination, these grains bizarrely had twisted human faces on them, chilling to those who looked on.

Xue Wenhai sat down on these red grains, holding a shriveled snake head in his right hand. He pried open the snake’s throat, bit open his own middle finger, and smeared the blood on the fangs, murmuring an incantation.

“Born from the sun, spirit of the fiery virtue, corresponding to the ethereal danger, Spirit Snake Transformation. Rise!”

Strangely enough, the severed snake head opened its cold, triangular eyes at the command and raised its head, flickering its tongue methodically.

The temperature in the funeral parlor dropped suddenly, and frost visibly formed on the windows. Qian Wu in the hall also felt the shift in temperature. He ran to the window, scooped up some ice chips, and chewed on them. After a moment, his complexion dramatically changed: “This is bad, Xue Wenhai intends to use ‘Heavenly Yi Noble’ as a medium to transfer the extraordinary energies from the Feng Shui Realm to the Yang World. If he really finds some domineering phenomenon in the Feng Shui Realm and shifts it onto Jane’s body, even you may not be his match.”

Li Yan frowned upon hearing this, “Does Xue Wenhai actually have such ability?”

Qian Wu replied with a bitter smile, “Such a ritual can only be sustained by a Heavenly Yi Noble. An ordinary person would die before it could even begin. Hold on a little longer, I’ll use Spirit Turtle Transformation to confront Xue Wenhai’s Spirit Snake. If I can break his spell, then all will be well.”

“Uncle Wu, how confident are you that you can break his spell?”

“He has always been more clever than me since we were kids, and over the years he has cultivated the Myriad Assembly of Humanity’s Prime, causing so many deaths… I’m only forty percent confident.”

“Then you’ll have to push harder, Uncle Wu.”

“I’ll do my best.”

With that, Qian Wu ran into the duty room, pulled out a green-shelled turtle still flailing its claws from the fish tank, took a kitchen knife from the drawer, and after chopping off the turtle’s head, he threw the shell into the charcoal furnace. He didn’t care about Wenle, who had passed out beside him, and sat down cross-legged, silently reciting an incantation.

“Born from the supreme Yin, essence of the water element, corresponding to the ethereal danger, Spirit Turtle Transformation. Rise!”

The headless turtle opened its eyes, but Uncle Wu fell silent.

A golden turtle, the size of a calf and with Yin Yang Bagua carved on its shell, emerged from behind Qian Wu and rose into the air, passing through the ceiling to face the vast night sky. At the same time, a seven-foot-long red python emerged from behind Xue Wenhai, its mouth spewing red clouds as it flew into the sky, its eyes shining as brightly as its master’s.

The turtle and the snake met in the night sky, circling and confronting each other. However, compared to the golden turtle, the red python had several groups of scarlet clouds beneath its body, giving it an even more imposing appearance.

“Red Fiend, Splitting Hemp Fiend, Mourner at the Door, Bell of Lust and Slaughter, Woman Bone Breaker, Five Fiends Blood Lotus Platform?”

The golden turtle muttered to itself.

The red python laughed heartily, “Little brother, if I dare to keep this appointment, naturally I came prepared. You want to compete with me in magic? You are far from ready.”

“I think not.”

The Taiji diagram on the back of the golden turtle suddenly glowed bright, reflecting off the red clouds.

“Hmph, as exalted as Taiji is, do you think you can defeat the Five Fiends with just one deity?”

The turtle and snake whirled around for a while before suddenly colliding, creating quite a lively scene.