Several streaks of Tunneling Light, sinister with Demonic Qi, shot out from the sea like demonic stars radiating a chilling glow. They flew in a formation like a vast, crisscrossing net.
These were the Nascent Soul Old Demons who had painstakingly defeated the Jade Poison Great Saint. In their midst, bound by a chain, was the dejected Blood Gu Elder.
The Blood Gu Elder had made a run for it while the Moon Demon King was fighting the Yama True Body. In his opinion, even with the power of the Yama True Body, that Golden Core Cultivator was no match for the Moon Demon King.
Unfortunately, his luck was simply terrible.
He had only just escaped the Moon Demon King’s clutches when he ran headlong into the hands of the Nascent Soul Old Demons.
These six Nascent Soul Old Demons had used their trump cards to defeat the Jade Poison Great Saint. Just as they were preparing to plunder the palace’s treasures, other opportunistic Nascent Soul Old Demons and Outer Celestial Demons emerged, vying for the Jade Poison Kingdom’s secret hoard, which had been accumulated over tens of thousands of years.
These opportunists were all tough nuts to crack. Even after secretly setting up ambushes, the six of them suffered greatly, managing to secure less than half of the treasures.
Although the treasures they obtained were more than generous, with some items only slightly inferior to the Xuyu Coral, the life-extending effect of the Xuyu Coral was something no ordinary treasure could replace.
The six Nascent Soul Old Demons brought the Blood Gu Elder to the site of the battle between the Moon Demon King and the Yama True Body, where they began examining the traces left behind.
"If the Moon Demon King was the victor, I fear it won’t be easy for us to seize the Xuyu Coral."
The Moon Demon King was no Jade Poison Great Saint. The Jade Poison Great Saint was a lone wolf, but the Moon Demon King was a foothold established by the Outer Celestial Demons in the Nine Heavens World. If they dared to make a move against him, not only would several other Demon King-level Outer Celestial Demons immediately come to his aid, but even their own Sects would reprimand them. The consequences would be unpredictable.
"Are we just going to give up?!"
These Nascent Soul Old Demons had rather complicated feelings about the Outer Celestial Demons. They would never dare to openly attack a Demon King.
"A life-extending treasure like the Xuyu Coral isn’t very useful to an Outer Celestial Demon. Perhaps we can trade for it with the Moon Demon King."
The six of them settled on a plan, giving no thought whatsoever to their missing disciples.
***
Chaos reigned in the Jade Poison Kingdom following the defeat and flight of the Jade Poison Great Saint. On the border with the Demon Realm, the Demon Cultivators who remained were no longer under any control. Caring nothing for the bigger picture, they immediately turned hostile.
These greedy Demon Cultivators roamed throughout the Jade Poison Kingdom, wantonly slaughtering the native Snake Demons. They refined their Divine Soul Essence Blood and pillaged everything in sight.
Even the larger clans struggled to protect themselves; as for the smaller ones, many were wiped out completely.
The countless Snake Demons with nowhere left to run fled to the borders of the Jade Poison Kingdom. However, they feared Demon Contamination and did not dare enter the Demon Realm.
The Demon Cultivators rampaging through the Jade Poison Kingdom were wary of the Outer Celestial Demons in the Demon Realm, so they didn’t dare to carry out large-scale massacres near the border. This gave the Snake Demons a brief respite.
Although the Celestial Demons in the Demon Realm craved blood and flesh, the Moon Demon King had issued an order: they were to watch over the Snake Demons at the border and not allow the Demon Cultivators to slaughter them at will. This forced them to suppress their instincts. They even crossed the border from time to time to drive the Demon Cultivators away.
「Moon Demon King’s Palace.」
Yang Jing sat in the depths of the Demon Palace, where the Taiyin Demon Qi was so potent it had condensed into a liquid. It constantly shifted, forming the phantasmal shapes of Yin Demons that coalesced and dispersed in turn.
An ordinary Cultivator in this place would likely be overcome by Demon Contamination in an instant, degenerating into some indescribable Demon Monster.
But Yang Jing was completely unafraid. He had already refined a small part of the Moon Demon King, allowing him to assume the Demon King’s appearance and even utilize some of his Divine Techniques. In fact, his Power was even slightly enhanced here.
After ordering the Moon Demons guarding the palace to refuse all visitors, Yang Jing entered his Inner World.
The entire Yin Qi World, where the Moon Demon King was being suppressed, was trembling faintly. The closer one got to the center, the more violent the tremors became. At the very core, the vibrations were powerful enough to instantly liquefy a mortal into a bloody mist.
If the palace had not been constructed from all sorts of rare Demonic and Spiritual Materials, it would have collapsed from the shaking long ago.
An extreme cold that seemed to freeze the very blood in one’s veins also permeated the air.
The Demon-Catching Tripod had transformed into a massive tripod, dozens of feet high. An endless torrent of Taiyin Demon Qi roiled within, trying to burst from its mouth, only to be dragged back down by the eerie Demon-Catching Chains.
Inside the tripod, the four Four-Colored Divine Swords crisscrossed, keeping the Moon Demon King firmly suppressed and preventing his Demon Soul from escaping his demonic body.
The Five Fire Gourd hovered above the Demon-Catching Tripod. Whenever the Taiyin Demon Qi showed any sign of escaping, the gourd would unleash a blazing Five Fire Divine Thunder to blast it back inside.
The moment Yang Jing appeared, the Wanhua Child flew out of the tripod, looking pitiful.
Of the three Magical Treasures, he was under the most pressure, having to bear the brunt of the Moon Demon King’s power. A layer of white frost had even formed on his body.
Yang Jing comforted him for a moment. Sensing that the Moon Demon King had completely exhausted the Innate Five Elements Qi Grand Capture within the tripod, Yang Jing mobilized his Magical Power once more. He condensed a massive Five-Colored hand, plunged it into the Demon-Catching Tripod, and slammed it down hard upon the Moon Demon King’s demonic body.
The Moon Demon King let out an enraged howl, then fell completely silent.
As the Yin Qi World fell quiet, even the bone-chilling cold began to gradually dissipate.
Even at his peak, he had been suppressed by the Innate Five Elements Qi Grand Capture, to say nothing of his current state as a prisoner.
Yang Jing said to the Wanhua Child:
"If you can’t hold on, contact me. I’ll use the Capture Technique to suppress him again. Don’t slack off. Once we finish Refining this Moon Demon King, you stand to gain the most out of the three Magical Treasures."
The Wanhua Child hurriedly protested:
"You wrong me, Master! How would I dare slack off on a matter of such importance?"
Yang Jing nodded. With a flicker of his form, he arrived in the upper-level Yang Qi World.
Yin and Yang exist in a state of waxing and waning balance. Because the Yin Qi World had suddenly absorbed a massive amount of Taiyin Demon Qi, the Yang Qi World had grown restless in response. Not only was the Yang Qi flaring, but the various types of Five Element Spiritual Energy had also begun to cycle faster to balance the sudden surge of Yin Qi.
"Master!"
His disciples came forward to greet him.
They were still reeling from the shock of the Demon-Catching Tripod suddenly appearing in the Inner World with the Moon Demon King imprisoned inside. It was simply inconceivable that their master, with only a Golden Core Cultivation, had defeated a Demon King who possessed Nascent Soul Cultivation.
Yang Jing glanced over his disciples and nodded in satisfaction, noticing that they had all made considerable progress.
He waved his sleeve, sending a current of gentle Yang Magical Power to sweep over his disciple, Yinjiao. The force expelled a hidden wisp of Demonic Qi from the young man’s body.
Yinjiao had previously worked with the Wanhua Child to secretly capture a disciple of the Tribulation Sea Old Demon. While in the Jade Poison Kingdom, he had been Breathing in and out of spiritual energy and had inadvertently refined traces of Demonic Qi into his own Magical Power.
After eliminating this hidden danger from his disciple, Yang Jing turned his attention to the Alchemy Cauldron.
He had previously noticed that Si Taizhen was undergoing some sort of transformation inside the Alchemy Cauldron and hadn’t dared to open it rashly. Now that the transformation was complete, he could finally open it.
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