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Translator: Tamon
Xu Hei’s flesh was changing and growing, reaching five meters in length, his bones creaking and snapping to reach this size.
The old skin fell off into the mud, and the tail’s dark golden scales finally changed as well.
They were now ten!
It was just one difference between nine and ten, yet that proved enough to be an insurmountable gap to many, going from quantity to quality, with the scales joined together to become the perfect weapon, of flawless control and skill.
The Demon God Cauldron’s Spiritual Energy haze was replaced with liquid, a drop for every cauldron filled with Spiritual Energy haze.
He now had three such drops.
Xu Hei was remade in flesh and Spiritual Energy, better, and stronger.
He had taken his first step into the mid-level, the 4th layer of Awareness Stage.
“He also advanced, nice!”
Mu Yun sneered, taking out a golden hoop from his storage bag, the top spiritual treasure, the Beast Trapping Ring.
It proved unbreakable to any demon in the Awareness Stage, trussed up and powerless.
He saw this demon even weaker since it just advanced to mid-level.
“Go!’
Mu Yun stopped ten meters away and let the Beast Trapping Ring fly.
The golden hoop flew at Xu Hei’s neck, its power pressuring the snake.
Xu Hei snapped his eyes open.
He felt his Divine Sense growing exponentially, all the way to ninety meters.
No one in the mid-level ever had it that large.
He stared at the incoming magic treasure.
“Human, I had no intention of fighting you, but you forced my hand.”
Xu Hei’s eyes showed a hint of madness.
The joy of advancing never came, replaced with the thirst to kill this man.
“I can only kill you. I must kill you!”
Xu Hei went berserk, flinging his tail at the ring, making it halt for a moment, but it still came at him.
“Humph, you can’t escape!”
Mu Yun sneered. No demon ever escaped the Beast Trapping Ring when it locked on.
But then he felt an overbearing Divine Sense brute-forcing its way into the hoop.
“What just happened?”
Mu Yun’s smug face froze. That was a top spiritual treasure he refined! Only a Foundation Establishment cultivator could ever wipe out his mark.
Xu Hei couldn’t do that, of course, but stalling it he could.
It proved enough, giving him time to swallow the treasure.
Since its Divine Sense mark was still there, he’d use his flesh to block out the link. he refused to believe that it would punch its way out of him.
After the light snack, he bolted back into the dirt.
“Get back here, you bastard!” Mu Yun raged, chasing with Earthen Motion at top speed.
His repeated attempts at getting the Beast Trapping Ring to respond were met with failure, unable to get out. Unless he tore a hole in Xu Hei.
“Sneaky critter!” Mu Yun’s eyes grew colder.
…
[The best way for demons to handle cultivators is up close and personal. Humans are fragile, easy to kill and disable.]
But Xu Fei noticed the other’s expertise in Earthen Motion, as well as the use of Swift Talisman on the surface to keep his distance.
Xu Hei was now biding his time.
Mu Yun would run out of True Qi at some point. No one could use Earthen Motion without stopping, needing breaks to recover their True Qi.
That’s when he’d strike!
Xu Hei wasn’t going full tilt, just enough to give the other the impression he was gaining.
“A shame I don’t know any elemental motion art, having just advanced, or I could’ve handled this without the need of trickery.” Xu Hei sighed to himself.
Mu Yun chased and chased, the distance shrinking.
When they were just fifteen meters apart, Mu Yun took out a talisman.
“Wind!” He made a sign.
Whoosh~
The talisman turned into three windblades, tearing the earth towards Xu Hei.
Midgrade Windblade Talisman would rend the flesh of any mid Awareness Stage demon.
Since Xu Hei ate his hoop, he wanted it back as well. How else was he supposed to capture Xu Hei alive?
Killing the demon was easy at his level, while capture proved far more difficult. He needed that Beast Trapping Ring.
“Now!” Xu Hei’s eyes focused and halted.
The chase had gone long enough to spend most of his True Qi. Using talismans proved to be his limit.
He might have some defenses, but Xu Hei was confident.
Xu Hei used his tail against the windblades, the ten dark golden scales expanding to cover a bigger area and take the strikes.
Thump~
The three strikes, each capable of killing a mid Awareness demon, couldn’t even scratch them.
“What?” Mu Yun was stunned.
It all happened so fast—less than a second. Xu Hei exploded with all his speed, charging for Mu Yun before he woke up.
“Time to go!” Mu Yun fled at his first chance.
His remaining True Qi couldn’t sustain his Earthen Motion for long. He had to reach the surface fast.
Xu Hei anticipated this and shot above him to block his escape.
“What are those scales? Why couldn’t the windblades cut it?
“Damn!”
Mu Yun’d Divine Sense told him that Xu Hei was up ahead. He’d either bump into him or turn around, digging deeper.
“What a crafty beast. You can’t scare me!” Mu Yun charged straight ahead while wielding a nagan, a serpentine sword.
Snake Killer!
This blade had been with him for two decades of his career as a snake catcher, killing a thousand snakes and a hundred snake demons.
After refining it, it became a flying sword. It was why he never used it as anything else, even when facing snake demons.
This demon snake, however, stirred his interest.
“Be honored you get to die by this sword!”
Mu Yun sped up to meet Xu Hei’s approached, the Snake Killer prepped to take the beast’s life in one blow.
For the first time ever, Xu Hei didn’t fall back.
“Your sword can never cut my scales!”
Xu Hei hissed, turning his tail’s scales into a steel blade to meet Snake Killer.
Clang!
They two made contact, and the deafening sound spread even through the ground.
Mu Yun’s Snake Killer was broken, smashed to pieces.
Mu Yun’s eyes widened in disbelief. Xu Hei’s momentum continued, ripping off his hand and half a leg.
Splat!
“Agh!”
The ground exploded with blood and screams of agony as he jumped in the air.
He had two Swift Talisman on one foot, while missing half of the right leg and the entire right arm. Covered in blood, he looked insane.
Zhao Wenzhuo and Song Shiyu looked over and grimaced.
Their Head Senior Brother was looking worse for wear, to put it lightly.
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