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Chapter 394 - 367: The Emergence of a Demon Beyond Limits

Chapter 394: Chapter 367: The Emergence of a Demon Beyond Limits

Inside some of the large crystal pillars, beneath the glass-like surface, dark red tentacles moved slowly, resembling an octopus pushed up against the inner surface.

Under the feet of the crowd, they were stepping on fungal carpets made of flesh. The fungal carpet covered with numerous flesh sprouts was already climbing up their shoes, reminiscent of a peculiar stomach wall.

There were also many blood-red giant cocoons wrapped around by flesh sprouts, squirming on the surface, and as tall as a person. Judging by their shape, it seemed as though each one was cocooning a person inside.

Above their heads, on the flesh walls of the cave, glassy crystal pillars of different sizes grew. There were dark red fluids flowing inside the smaller ones and octopus-like substances within the larger ones.

These horrifying images appeared in a flash, only to revert back to the beautiful appearance of an illuminating cave.

As if time stood still, after a few flashes, a few of the disciples could finally make sense of what they were seeing, which almost startled them out of their minds.

They no longer dared to step on the ground, instead, they began to hover lightly.

They weren’t sure whether it was due to Wang Zijia’s divine light attack or the illusion dissipating due to being seen.

After a few jumps and flashes, the scene finally settled into a blood-red cave as spiritual light dissipated around them.

"Um..."

"What the hell is this thing!"

Some of the disciples stared blankly at their surroundings, their faces filled with terror.

"Where’s our spirit stone mine!!!" One of the disciples shouted desperately, eyes filled with rage.

The voice was filled with intense heartache and hatred!

Wang Zijia, who had been examining the surroundings with a frown, subconsciously glanced at this disciple.

The face was quite familiar—it was Yu Tianci, the chief disciple of Li Lexin, whom Wang Zijia had already taken special note of twice that day!

Surprisingly, he was already showing talents!

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In the bloody cave, the only thing left unchanged was the dense spiritual power pervading the air.

Feeling the spiritual power in the air and looking at the glassy spires on the surface of the giant tentacles, if he wasn’t mistaken, the original appearance of the cave should be as it was before.

Except that now······it had grown flesh sprouts!

Thinking about this, Wang Zijia began to sympathize with the aggrieved disciple!

This silence only lasted for a few moments. Once the image had solidified into a red cave, the tentacles inside the massive crystal pillars stopped moving for a moment.

"Thud! Thud!"

The next moment, the large crystal pillars exploded, and massive tentacles, coarse and fine, burst out from them, wrapping towards the floating disciples.

The surrounding disciples panicked and subconsciously moved closer to Wang Zijia.

Wang Zijia’s brow furrowed slightly, and with a wave of his hand, dozens of broken spears the length of chopsticks emerged alongside him.

Several of these spears shot out, exploding next to Wang Zijia and the others, creating a single directional shockwave, spreading out, scattering red crystal fragments in all directions.

"Boom! Boom!"

"Splat! Splat!"

The explosion shattered the incoming tentacles, and as expected, the crystal fragments were embedded in the cave’s surrounding flesh walls.

"Boom! Boom!"

Then, those crystal fragments underwent a secondary explosion.

The entire massive cave began to shake violently in an instant.

Blood-red craters were blasted into the fungal carpet ground, revealing a dark red layer of flesh that resembled cancerous cells, rough, clumpy and not smooth at all.

Various craters were also blasted into the flesh wall of the dome.

Unlike the bottomless flood of flesh and blood in the ground’s fungal carpet, the flesh wall of the dome was only about five or six meters deep. Beyond that was rock.

The powerful attack, substantial explosions, momentarily stunned the tentacled creatures in the cave.

"Squeak! Squeak!"

Immediately after, a frenzied scream broke out, and the surrounding tentacles violently attacked Wang Zijia.

Wang Zijia’s brow furrowed slightly, and several more spear-sized chopsticks floating beside him flew out, exploding again on their own accord.

At the same time, the crystal fragments once again blasted out in all directions.

"Boom! Boom!"

Following the second explosion, Wang Zijia still didn’t stop.

A broken long spear made of crystal red congealed in his hand. Amidst the second explosion of the crystal fragments, Wang Zijia forcefully threw it.

"Roar!"

A faint dragon chant followed, and the spear, with the shadow of a dragon, rose like a divine dragon, carrying divine rainbow light, and inserted itself into the top of the cave.

First, there was a moment of silence!

"Boom!"

Immediately after, a thunderous explosion echoed. The flailing tentacles in the air also froze.

"Boom! Boom!"

Then again, there were a series of explosions.

The whole cave began to quake violently, with countless rocks falling down. Slashes of outside sunlight flooded in.

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Outside, a few disciples who had just entered to guard the cave entrance felt a slight tremor, leaving them all puzzled.

As they looked at each other, before any decision was made, a more intense quake hit, followed by a deafening roar.

"Retreat!"

One of the disciples who caught sight of the crumbling mountain peak yelled in surprise.

They all reacted by activating their spiritual light and quickly moving away from the canyon cave.

"Boom! Boom!"

Just as a few disciples were leaving, the smallish mountainous peak from which the holy cave was located unexpectedly collapsed, shaking the earth and mountains.

A red streak of light burst from the rubble of the collapsed mountain peak, carrying several disciples wrapped in dust and smoke.

"It’s Master!"

Seeing this, the disciples guarding the entrance breathed a sigh of relief.

Wang Zijia paid them no mind, waved his hand, and threw the disciples beside him into the distance. Floating in the air, he remained deep in thought.

Hovering in the void, his Taoist robe fluttered, and an aura rose from within him.

A Crystal Red Shattered Long Spear materialized in his hand. He was shrouded in a light red aura of fire that rose and pulsed.

In an instant, a domineering presence permeated him.

Five talismans flew out, turning into five half-meter-tall immortal children, guarding Wang Zijia on both sides.

Down below, noises were coming from the continuously collapsing mountain peak. The disciples all turned to look.

"Boom! Boom!"

Without waiting for the dust to settle, the ruins beneath them suddenly trembled again, undergoing a larger collapse.

Following that, under the horrified gazes of the disciples, an enormous creature slowly emerged from below the earth.

With a height of over twenty meters, its insect-like legs, cricket body, human head, and scorpion tail gave it the shape of a flesh and bone skeleton frame.

Each skeleton frame was covered with dark red, cancerous flesh, which writhed around. Hundreds of gruesome, blood-red tentacles flailed from the creature’s body.

"Uh... What the hell is that?!"

The disciples were momentarily stunned, and Li Lexin gasped in shock.

"Chirp! Chirp!"

What answered him was an ear-piercing roar that sounded like an insect’s cry.

The enormous, bloody, human-like head roared at Wang Zijia, who was floating not far away, appearing ant-sized in comparison. The roar was so deafening...

The resulting sound wave caused Wang Zijia’s clothes and hair to flutter even more intensely.

Surrounded by the pulsating fiery aura, Wang Zijia held the spear in his hand, frowning at the creature.

For a moment, man and monster stood still, colliding with each other in a blink of an eye.

The tiny Wang Zijia collided with the enormous, pillar-like insect legs of the monster, yet they both held their ground.

Despite its gigantic size, the creature moved with surprising agility.

The five spirits, enveloped in black fog, kept flickering on its body surface, attempting to attack stealthily, only to be knocked back by the insect legs. From the creature’s flesh and bone skeleton frame, various tentacles emerged and it fought back relentlessly.

After a brief fight, Wang Zijia and the Five Ghosts were at a disadvantage.

The main reason was that this creature’s cultivation level was actually the later stage of a Perfected.

Its strength clearly surpassed the maximum limit this world could contain. Such a creature should not have been born into existence... but it was!

As Wang Zijia and the creature kept clashing, upon grasping the creature’s capabilities, Wang Zijia’s heavy heart slightly relaxed.

Because this creature only had the body and strength of a Perfected at the later stage, it didn’t seem to hold any impressive capabilities, it was purely a super soldier!

After understanding the creature’s ability, Wang Zijia steered his mind.

"Bang! Bang!"

TThe five spirits exploded all of a sudden and turned into a giant cloud of ghostly fog, enveloping the entire creature.

The creature froze for a moment.

In the blink of an eye, over a dozen molten fireballs of several meters in diameter emerged behind Wang Zijia.

Moreover, a blood-colored book appeared and flipped open quickly. Five fireball drawing papers flew out from within.

Each piece of drawing paper exploded, forming over ten super-sized molten fireballs with a diameter of more than ten meters each.

By the time all the drawing papers had exploded, the sky was already filled with nearly a hundred giant fireballs. For a moment, it was like the arrogant sun was hovering in the sky. The immense heatwave and rolling molten rock covered half of the sky.

It was as scorching as peak summer!

Wang Zijia held up his hands with great exertion, as if propping up the whole sun.

Surrounding him were the disciples who initially came with him and those who were attracted due to the commotion of the battle. They were far away, staring stupefiedly at the scene of the sun occupying the sky. They were utterly astonished.

"This... Is this the legendary Flame Burning Sky technique of our Ancestor?" Somebody muttered in a daze.

Some of the smarter ones, despite already being quite far away, decisively retreated even further.

"Chirp! Chirp!"

It took merely two breaths of time for Wang Zijia to conjure up the fireballs, and the creature was already breaking free from the five spirits’ shackles.

The ghost fog that wrapped around the creature exploded. The five spirits were knocked back, turning into five little children who tumbled onto the ground.

Wang Zijia’s face twitched a little. The tumbling five spirits exploded into five talismans and flew back to Wang Zijia’s surroundings.

"Fall!"

In that instant, Wang Zijia threw his hands downward!

Nearly a hundred giant fireballs all turned into meteors, akin to stars falling from the sky. They transformed into streaks of light, carrying streaks of flame, and swiftly bombarded the area below.

"Croak! Croak!"

At this time, a thumb-sized warty toad tattoo on Wang Zijia’s chest came alive, letting out a crisp croak.

Wang Zijia’s entire form flickered for a moment and disappeared where he stood.

When he reappeared again, he was already much farther away from the battlefield than many of the disciples who were watching the fight.

"Boom! Boom!"

The moment Wang Zijia’s form emerged, the deafening blast in the center of the battlefield rang out.