"You all are delicious food. I didn’t expect to find so much food right after coming out. Hmm, although your cultivation is sowhat lacking, it’s better than nothing, and it can be replenished!" The Drought Demon said as its voice echoed in everyone’s minds after it landed.
Realizing they had beco food in the eyes of the Drought Demon, the expressions of several people varied. Yao Lingfu chuckled softly and said, "Such arrogance from an evil creature like you, wanting to replenish requires strength."
"Amitabha, evil creature is still evil, even if it achieves mastery, it remains evil!" said Master Shuiyue.
Xu Shanshan was ready to strike at any mont, while the Flood Dragon was already raring to go.
Li Yifei brandished his Mohist War Blade horizontally and said, "Stop wasting words. You still dare to chase after surviving earlier? Then don’t bla for being rude!"
"Hahaha, your ignorance amuses . Since you seek death, I’ll grant you a swift end. Oh, but not you, I want to devour you piece by piece to satisfy my hatred!" The Drought Demon said, pointing a large finger at Li Yifei.
Li Yifei and the Flood Dragon exchanged a glance before acting simultaneously. Even if this creature broke free from confinent, it wouldn’t matter. With Yao Lingfu and Master Shuiyue here, both top-tier experts, and with Murong Yuanqing and others arriving soon, Li Yifei didn’t believe he couldn’t kill this thing.
The Mohist War Blade emitted bursts of white light, slashing toward the Drought Demon, while the Flood Dragon transford into a form over three ters tall, rushing toward the Drought Demon with its four claws extending toward it. Lightning struck with the intent to stun the opponent.
The others also began their attack. Xu Shanshan executed her sword moves, but due to the Drought Demon’s massive form, she was unsure of its depth, so she didn’t imdiately engage in close combat.
Master Shuiyue began chanting the Buddhist Scripture, moving her fingers swiftly over the beads in her hand. With the chanting, the beads emitted masses of yellow Buddha Light, which were the best thing to suppress evil creatures and are of utmost Yang nature. Regardless of the type of evil creature, they would be suppressed when faced with Buddha Light.
These beads were ford from the Buddha’s Relics of a master who passed away at the nunnery of Master Shuiyue’s sect hundreds of years ago, holding the treasure of Supre Buddha’s Law. Once activated by Master Shuiyue, the Buddha Light shone brilliantly. The Drought Demon was initially focused on killing the little Flood Dragon and Li Yifei first, but feeling discomfort upon being enveloped by the Buddha Light, turned its head swiftly, glaring at Master Shuiyue with several eyes, and said, "I didn’t expect there to be an old nun here, haha, do you think this little light can harm ?"
"If one’s karma determines their fate, one who comprehensively performs good deeds should eternally enjoy happiness, while one who performs heavy evil deeds should eternally suffer great agony. If this is the logic of karma, then there is no path to cultivation, liberation, or Nirvana." What answered was Master Shuiyue’s Buddhist Scripture, and with the Scripture ca even more intense Buddha Light from the beads.
The underestimated Drought Demon was angry and charged towards Master Shuiyue. Li Yifei quickly blocked its path, executing a Lifting Heaven Style strike with the Mohist War Blade, filled with True Qi, forcibly halting the Drought Demon’s montum. Li Yifei said gravely, "Pass first before anything else!"
"Alright, alright, I’ll kill you first! Do you think that Buddha Light can harm ?" The Drought Demon laughed, but was interrupted halfway by a precise set of sword moves. Xu Shanshan leaped into the air, brandishing her long sword, and the sword energy crisscrossed, sealing off its large face. After a swishing sound, the Drought Demon had several holes on its face, which were quickly patched up by black evil qi, demonstrating that the Mohist War Sword’s attack was effective against it.
Though effective, it did not cause significant damage. In retaliation, the Drought Demon swung its ugly, fan-like large hands, with corrosive evil qi wrapped around them, against which no one dared to resist directly, and they could only retreat.
The Drought Demon was indeed formidable. It seed to contain an endless supply of black evil qi, healing any minor injuries imdiately with black qi.
"It’s effective!" Yao Lingfu said as she withdrew from the battle, addressing everyone. "Its evil qi is not inexhaustible. As long as it doesn’t get replenished, we’ll keep depleting it, and it will weaken."
"Indeed!" Li Yifei watched the Drought Demon’s reaction attentively. The protrusions on its body had shrunk slightly from nurous attacks, proving that their offensive was effective.
The Drought Demon wasn’t stupid; it wouldn’t allow continuous attacks by several people. However, its movents were slow, and the space was large here, so everyone could easily dodge, making evasion not too difficult.
The Drought Demon’s heart was bitter. It had been imprisoned for so many years, and although it had been fed countless souls, it was attacked as soon as it broke the seal. This does not an it was innocent, for such a being composed of souls, resentnt, and various negative emotions is an evil presence that, once it appears, is not tolerated by humans or other creatures. Therefore, both humans and other beings must eradicate it; otherwise, it would bring misfortune to all, as seen in the fish in this sea area driven mad by evil energy, with nearly everyone in the fishing village affected, leading so to beco frenzied and attack and kill others. For these reasons, the Drought Demon did not deserve pity and deserved to die.
Of course, from the perspective of the Drought Demon, it felt unfortunate. Having just escaped the seal, breaking the restraint of the thirty-three cold iron chains, it had already consud so of its evil energy. It was initially set to advance; the pervasive black evil energy escaping into the air was the key to its advancent. This energy was composed of the souls of hundreds of people from that sect who died, no, not just hundreds. When the mbers of the sect died, their souls were placed into the soul pillars, amounting to a total of tens of thousands of souls, all condensed into evil energy so that one day the Drought Demon could erge and quickly absorb this energy, advancing to beco a Behemoth Beast.
The Behemoth Beast is the most evil existence between heaven and earth. If the legends say that a Drought Demon causes endless droughts and countless corpses, then a Behemoth Beast brings total destruction, leaving no living thing in its wake. Buddha once had a Golden Behemoth Beast under him, also known as the Golden Behemoth, the first of its kind to appear in the world, ford by condensed resentnt, gradually advancing from a Drought Demon to a Behemoth, becoming invincible. Later, Guanyin subdued it but could not kill it, only sealing it as a mount.
In "Journey to the West," Chapter Seventy-One, the Golden Behemoth escaped to hide in Qilin Mountain, defeated by Sun Wukong, due to a shepherd boy’s dozing off and a lapse in defense, allowing the Golden Behemoth to break its chain and escape.
In "The Investiture of the Gods," it’s recorded that Cihang Taoist, who broke the Four Symbols Array, had a Behemoth Beast as a mount. Legends say there were only these two Behemoth Beasts, with Cihang Taoist’s being the lesser and Guanyin Bodhisattva’s mount, the Golden Behemoth, being more advanced.
It’s uncertain what that sect’s people were thinking, not only cultivating a Drought Demon through evil ans but aiming to let it advance to a Behemoth as well.
Fortunately, the Drought Demon was sealed here and did not spread disaster to the mortal world, ensuring the safety of the people here. However, Ao Bai’s advancent damaged the seal here, causing the evil black energy to leak, breaking countless soul pillars and reawakening the Drought Demon, allowing its power to continuously recover and rise.
Had it not been for Li Yifei and others intervening today, breaking the Drought Demon’s awakening and advancent, it would not have taken long for it to absorb the overwhelming evil energy, advancing imdiately into a powerful Behemoth, unmatched in the mortal world at that point.
Fortunately, with Li Yifei, Xu Shanshan, and the repenting Flood Dragon initially present, followed by Yao Lingfu and Master Shuiyue, though they could not kill the Drought Demon, and only inflicted minor injuries, they successfully delayed its absorption and advancent. Moreover, under their joint assault, the Drought Demon’s evil energy weakened.
"You deserve to die! You deserve to die! I will kill you!" Though the Drought Demon had intelligence, it was inherently low, primarily driven by hunger, seeing all living and soul-containing things as food. Under siege, it howled madly, showing signs of frenzy.
"Careful!" Li Yifei yanked Xu Shanshan back, retreating over ten ters while his Mohist War Blade swished with white light, blocking the Drought Demon’s reaching hand. However, the Flood Dragon was grabbed, crying out in pain.
The Drought Demon, allowing four claws to scratch its body, seed intent on dealing with the creature clinging to it, continually discharging electricity and scratching it. Its other hand started to grasp upward, but Li Yifei leapt vigorously, gripping his blade with both hands mid-air, aiming to thwart its other hand.
Yao Lingfu and Master Shuiyue also exerting force to prevent the Drought Demon.
"You deserve to die!" The Drought Demon, apparently feeling pain, reeled back, releasing its hold as the Flood Dragon floated away, angrily declaring, "You dare grab , I’ll electrocute you!"
Before transforming into a Flood Dragon, it was an electric eel, and after transforming, this power not only persisted but intensified, the high-voltage electricity with lightning power electrified the Drought Demon, inflicting discomfort on it.
"Don’t stop, Murong and others are approaching!" Yao Lingfu noticed a helicopter in the distance, announcing joyfully.
"Alright!" Li Yifei nodded vigorously, using True Qi with abandon, fully blocking the Drought Demon, exhibiting maximum body techniques. Under coordinated efforts, the Drought Demon fell into a stalemate again, growling in frustration—if granted ti to absorb so of the drifting evil energy, it might not suffer as much.
In this regard, Li Yifei and the Flood Dragon’s earlier actions underground were correct, for had the Drought Demon not been provoked to desperately break the cold iron chain’s restraint, and instead given enough ti to absorb the world’s evil energy before erging, it would spell a trendous disaster.
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