My Beasts Grind Proficiency For Me

Chapter 405 - 249: Vengeance for a Blocked Path, Taken on the Spot

A piercing, high-pitched elephantine cry rang out.

The Barbaric Elephant Ascendant’s arm fell with a crash, landing on the ground. He had cultivated his Body Refining Technique to the absolute peak, and his arm, like a shaft of metal, plunged deep into the earth.

Blood gushed from the wound like a spring.

The Barbaric Elephant Ascendant staggered back several steps, each one making the earth tremble and the mountains shake.

A tendril of Demon Blood was drawn from his wound, connecting to the severed arm.

With a tug of his Demon Blood, he pulled the arm from the soil and placed it back against his shoulder. Once a Body Refining Cultivation reached the Nascent Soul Realm, reattaching a limb was a simple matter. Even a decapitated head could be regenerated.

Just as the arm was about to reconnect, a flash of Sword Light shot toward the sky, preventing the wound from healing.

The Barbaric Elephant Ascendant could only grasp the severed arm in his hand, his eyes turning crimson as he stared daggers at Profound Vermilion True Monarch.

Since reaching Great Success in Body Refinement, he had fought several Nascent Soul opponents, but never before had he lost an arm in a mere few dozen exchanges.

’The Sword Cultivators of the Taixu Sword Sect are unparalleled in combat. Their reputation is well-deserved indeed.’

Elsewhere, the streams of Fire Element Divine Light unleashed by Fiery Fire True Monarch had battered the Profound Evil Yin Barrier controlled by Nine Corpses Daoist into submission. The Demon Clouds, which had once covered an acre of land, were now reduced to a tiny wisp.

Left with no choice, he had to recall his remaining six Skull Demon Heads to tie down Fiery Fire True Monarch.

The Skull Demon Heads let out piercing, monstrous shrieks as they darted through the air, periodically spewing Demon Water and Demon Fire to keep Fiery Fire True Monarch occupied.

Fiery Fire True Monarch casually formed a hand seal, and a Fire Chain went whistling out. The chain’s speed was unparalleled. A Skull Demon Head, in the middle of spitting Demon Water, was caught completely off guard and bound tight.

With a powerful twist, the Fire Chain crushed the Skull Demon Head to pieces.

The Profound Yin Blood Demon was already losing to Canxuan True Monarch. Now that the Skull Demon Heads were no longer running interference, he immediately showed signs of being routed.

Nine Corpses Old Monster’s figure was hidden within the Demon Clouds, his eyes already darting about.

Because Demon Cultivators from the Four Demon Sects could borrow the Demonic Qi of High Tier Celestial Demons for their training, they usually had the upper hand against the Six Sects Cultivators in the Qi Cultivation and Foundation Establishment Realms.

However, this advantage began to wane after Core Formation.

By the Nascent Soul Realm, they were generally a notch weaker than the Six Sects Cultivators.

Nine Corpses Old Monster was just pondering his escape route when, to his surprise, the Barbaric Elephant Ascendant—who had been posturing as if ready for a life-or-death battle with Profound Vermilion True Monarch—suddenly flashed away in a beam of Tunneling Light and fled.

This escape caught Nine Corpses Old Monster completely by surprise.

Before he could even react, a terrifying Fire Chain came whistling toward him. With a single strike, it whipped apart the already crumbling Profound Evil Yin Barrier and dragged Nine Corpses Old Monster’s figure out from the Demon Clouds.

Even though the Tier Four Defensive Magical Treasure, the Profound Evil Yin Barrier, mustered a final cloud of Demonic Qi that deflected most of the Fire Chain’s power, the blow still left Nine Corpses Old Monster seeing stars, the Demonic Qi inside him churning violently.

"Barbaric Elephant! You dare sell me out!"

He was both shocked and enraged. He never imagined that Barbaric Elephant, who always acted so reckless, would be so cunning as to sell him out first.

Ignoring his badly damaged Profound Evil Yin Barrier, he immediately channeled his Magical Power, preparing to flee into the sky.

"Trying to escape!"

Profound Vermilion True Monarch had already used his Sword Escape Technique to chase after the Barbaric Elephant Ascendant. Naturally, Fiery Fire True Monarch had no intention of letting Nine Corpses Old Monster get away.

He turned his mirror, aiming it at Nine Corpses Old Monster. A beam of Divine Light shot from the mirror toward him.

But as a Nascent Soul who had lived for many years, how could Nine Corpses Old Monster not have an ace up his sleeve?

"Detonate!"

His remaining Skull Demon Heads suddenly exploded, unleashing a boundless miasma of poison and Demon Fire that trapped Fiery Fire True Monarch within.

Nine Corpses Old Monster cackled sinisterly. His nine Skull Demon Heads were all refined from the heads of his own disciples. Because they had all practiced the same Nine Nether Soul Capturing Demon Scripture, he could control them as easily as his own limbs, and their uses were endless. At a critical moment, he could even detonate the skulls to hold back an enemy and create a chance to escape.

’My dear disciples, to be able to hold back a powerful enemy for your master, you can be considered to have died a worthy death.’

He channeled his Magical Power, just about to use his Tunneling Light to leave.

Yang Jing had been circulating his Magical Power, waiting for this very opportunity. The Five Elements Magical Power in his palm had already been pushed to its absolute limit. As the Five Elements surged, flashes of lightning began to appear.

He guided it with his Sword Intent. The Five Elements True Thunder merged with his Sword Intent, and a Five-Colored radiance, so sharp it seemed capable of slicing through anything, suddenly shot from his palm.

"Great Five Elements Divine Light Prohibition!"

The slender, Five-Colored radiance was incredibly fast. By the time Nine Corpses Old Monster noticed the Divine Light upon him, it was already too late.

His eyes snapped open, wanting to do something, but he had no time.

The Divine Light flashed and was gone.

Nine Corpses Old Monster didn’t even make a sound as his physical body was sliced in two by the Great Five Elements Divine Light.

The physical body of a Nascent Soul-level monster, nourished day and night by Spiritual Qi and Demonic Qi, was in no way inferior to that of a Golden Core Realm Body Refining Cultivator.

But under the lingering power of the Great Five Elements Divine Light, the two halves of his body turned to ash with a puff of wind.

Nine Corpses Old Monster’s Nascent Soul emerged, shaken, from within the bisected Magic Robe. He hadn’t even figured out what had just killed him.

’Could there be another Nascent Soul hiding in the shadows?!’

The thought flashed through his mind, and he looked in the direction the Divine Light had come from.

The next moment, Nine Corpses Old Monster’s Nascent Soul fluctuated violently, almost losing its form.

The one who had unleashed that astonishing Divine Light was actually Yang Jing, who had only just reached Core Formation.

He quickly suppressed the thought, snatched up his Profound Evil Yin Barrier and Demon-Calling Banner, and turned to flee.

If a Nascent Soul of the Six Sects lost its physical body, its Tunneling Speed would become unparalleled, almost as fast as teleportation. But it was different for Demon Cultivators. Once they lost the protection of their physical bodies, they were almost no different from Outer Celestial Demons. They would be immediately rejected by the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane, and their Tunneling Speed would become even slower than when they had a body.

Amidst Nine Corpses Old Monster’s desperate screams, the Fire Chain tore through the air and bound him tightly.

The raging flames on the Fire Chain dissipated, revealing the Magical Treasure’s true form: an ordinary-looking iron chain. Nine Corpses Old Monster struggled with all his might, but he could not break free from the chain’s restraints.

Slaying a Demon Sect Nascent Soul in battle—and the notoriously infamous Nine Corpses Old Monster at that—was a great merit, even for a Sect Elder like Fiery Fire True Monarch.

But Fiery Fire True Monarch just casually lifted the Lock Chain binding Nine Corpses Old Monster, transformed into a streak of fire, and instantly flew before Yang Jing.

"Was that the Great Five Elements Divine Light Prohibition just now? Impossible, absolutely impossible! All Divine Prohibitions are held by the Sect Leader; there’s no way one could have been leaked. Besides, the Divine Light you just unleashed was spiritually similar to the Great Five Elements Divine Light Prohibition recorded in the scriptures, but its form was different."

Within the Five Elements True Spirit Sect, a genius capable of mastering a Divine Prohibition would appear roughly once every hundred years.

But as for the Great Five Elements Divine Light Prohibition, the most powerful offensive technique among all the Divine Prohibitions, no one had mastered it for nearly five thousand years.

Thunder Techniques are difficult. Swordsmanship is difficult. And the Tai Shi Five Elements True Talisman Scripture is even harder. The Great Five Elements Divine Light Prohibition required one to cultivate all three to an extremely high Realm, making it naturally as difficult as ascending to the heavens.

"I had only heard that the Sect possessed this Divine Prohibition," Yang Jing said, as if it were nothing. "I had a sudden epiphany during my Core Formation, and after coming out of seclusion, I wanted to avenge the attempt to obstruct my path. So, I whimsically gave it a try, and to my surprise, it just worked."

The Great Five Elements Divine Light Prohibition was empowered by his two Great Divine Techniques, Master of the Five Thunders and the Five Elements Great Escape. He was absolutely certain that his own version of the Great Five Elements Divine Light Prohibition was far superior to that of any cultivator in history who had mastered it.

Fiery Fire True Monarch was left speechless. He never thought that the Great Five Elements Divine Light Prohibition, an unattainable peak in the eyes of generations of the Sect’s geniuses, would sound like a simple Qi Cultivation Stage spell coming from Yang Jing’s mouth—something one could just "give a try" and learn.

Trapped in the iron chain, Nine Corpses Old Monster let out a wail like a night owl.

His Nascent Soul was already extremely ugly; his crying made it even more hideous.

The enmity from obstructing one’s dao was irreconcilable.

In the value system of cultivators, one could forgive the murder of one’s father or the theft of one’s wife, but the enmity from having one’s path obstructed had to be avenged, even if it meant being ground to dust.

Therefore, one usually avoided obstructing another’s path. But once the decision was made, it had to be carried out to the absolute bitter end.

Nine Corpses Old Monster had come on this trip with no intention of leaving Yang Jing alive. Even as he was defeated and fleeing, he was already plotting how to take Yang Jing’s life in the future to avoid creating a mortal enemy.

He just never imagined that this Yang Jing would actually get his revenge for the obstruction on the spot, giving him no chance to seek vengeance later.

Canxuan True Monarch also descended, riding his Yellow Dragon Qi. The Profound Yin Blood Demon was bound by the Yellow Dragon’s tail, unable to break free.

Without the Skull Demon Heads to run interference, he had no way of escaping a direct confrontation with the Late Stage Nascent Soul, Canxuan True Monarch.

When the Profound Yin Blood Demon saw Nine Corpses Old Monster chained up, he began to curse loudly, a torrent of profanity pouring from his mouth. He was furious. He had come on the Demon Venerable’s orders to obstruct Yang Jing’s path, but he never expected this useless Nine Corpses Old Monster to fail so miserably, even after being lent the Profound Evil Yin Barrier and the Demon-Calling Banner.

It got so bad that Canxuan True Monarch had to use the Yellow Dragon Qi to gag him.

Even so, the Profound Yin Blood Demon continued to struggle, trying to tear Nine Corpses Old Monster to pieces.

Nine Corpses Old Monster remained motionless in the chain, as if he were dead.

A moment later, Profound Vermilion True Monarch, who had gone after the Barbaric Elephant Ascendant, returned and triumphantly threw an arm onto the ground.

The arm, as heavy as a mountain, landed with a thud that made the ground tremble.

He had thought himself the most successful of the three Nascent Soul cultivators, but when he saw the captured Nine Corpses Old Monster and Profound Yin Blood Demon, the triumphant look on his face froze.

In Magical Combat between Nascent Souls, it was easy to determine a winner, but incredibly difficult to capture an opponent completely. This was especially true for an old demon who’d been around for years like Nine Corpses Old Monster, who was as slippery as an eel.

The reason he hadn’t joined Fiery Fire True Monarch in ganging up on Nine Corpses after the Barbaric Elephant Ascendant fled was because he had judged it would be nearly impossible to capture Nine Corpses. He figured it was better to collect some interest from the Barbaric Elephant Ascendant instead.

He just never expected this old thing, Nine Corpses, to be so unworthy of his fearsome reputation. To think he was captured so easily.

Fiery Fire True Monarch shook his head.

"The main credit for capturing old Nine Corpses doesn’t go to me. It goes to Yang Jing."