Chapter 428: Elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect
The Great Lantation Ode was her core cultivation technique.
This technique walked the line between righteous and unorthodox.
At the very least, the power it granted was pure spiritual energy rather than demonic energy.
The demonic energy in her body mainly ca from the Lingering Spring Blade Technique and the Demonic Blade—Soul Abyss.
When wielding the demonic blade and its techniques, her spiritual energy automatically converted into demonic energy. Over ti, her body beca saturated with demonic energy.
This old man before her claid to be one of the creators of the Great Lantation Ode. The demonic energy swirling around him clearly marked him as a great demon!
So the Great Lantation Ode was indeed a demonic technique—case closed.
"I'm currently within the Sword Pavilion, which houses a Great Ascension Stage cultivator!" Mo Shui knew she was no match for the old man and could only bluff. "Even if you're the creator of the Great Lantation Ode, could you escape pursuit from a Great Ascension expert? I'll give you one chance—apologize, swear never to appear during my demonic backlash again, and compensate with 100,000 premium spirit stones. Then I'll pretend we never t today!"
Xiao Feng was an experienced elder demon who'd heard every threat imaginable.
Yet Mo Shui's words still made him pause montarily before he burst into uproarious laughter.
"Delightful! It's been ages since I've t such an amusing junior! If not for my impending ascension, I'd take you as my personal disciple...
Don't try to fool —I know exactly what the Sword Pavilion is like. Their strongest sword cultivator is only at the Unity Stage, and an injured one at that. Unless I'm mistaken, that would be their forr head disciple Lin Yuxi, titled the Transcendent Sword!
Beyond her, the Sword Pavilion has no other experts! Their current master Su Qinian is utterly incompetent!"
Mo Shui nodded seriously, then shook her head.
"I agree with the second half of your last statent, but the first half shows your ignorance!"
"Who would know better than whether the Sword Pavilion has experts?" She rose using her broken blade as support, spreading her arms with a confident smirk. "Because he's about to appear!"
As her words fell, a flying sword landed beside Mo Shui, its sword energy coalescing into Li Qingran's form.
Mo Shui froze upon seeing it was Li Qingran.
"Qingran? You... Wait, where's your master? Where's the Sword Pavilion's ancestral elder?"
Li Qingran blinked. "Master said you've set up impenetrable defenses—his divine soul can't enter."
"Impossible!" Mo Shui's eyes widened in disbelief. "I never sensed any Great Ascension level presence trying to enter my soul..."
She had indeed detected a soul probe earlier, but only at Golden Core level.
And Golden Core cultivators were obviously not the Sword Pavilion's ancestral elder.
That Golden Core aura didn't belong to the sweet and soft Li Qingran either.
Following her principle of not dragging innocents into conflicts, she'd blocked the probe imdiately.
Don't tell that Golden Core cultivator was the Sword Pavilion's ancestral elder?
"Another fresh young soul!" Xiao Feng's eyes glead as he appraised the radiant Li Qingran. "Both such fine seedlings! Were I not at life's end striving for ascension, I'd take you both as disciples to properly pass down the complete Great Lantation Ode... What a pity!"
As "pity" left his lips, his expression darkened. Clawed hands raised as demonic energy surged around him.
"You were born at the wrong ti! Beco my nourishnt!"
Having monologued enough to satisfy villainous conventions, it was harvest ti!
Xiao Feng activated the Great Lantation Ode, plunging the soul space into darkness. Li Qingran and Mo Shui saw shadows flicker as eighteen identical copies of Xiao Feng materialized around them, all striking simultaneously.
Eighteen palm strikes trailing sinister demonic energy coiled toward them like pythons.
"Qingran, run! We can't handle him!" Mo Shui shielded Li Qingran urgently. "Go get your master—that might still save us!"
Li Qingran remained perfectly calm. "Master's already here."
As she spoke, a sword gleam erged from her soul depths, materializing as Chen Huaian who'd used Li Qingran as a conduit to enter Mo Shui's body.
Chen Huaian barely had ti to land before the eighteen demonic palms struck.
The Unity Stage soul power behind the attacks made his heart race even before impact. Rembering his purchased offense-defense package, he stubbornly held his ground in a defensive stance, arms crossed.
Xiao Feng roared with laughter.
The eighteen phantoms' mocking laughter buzzed painfully in their skulls.
"This is your Sword Pavilion's expert? A Great Ascension sword cultivator?"
"Unless my eyes deceive , he's rely Golden Core! Delivering himself to death's door! Then perish together—"
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Mid-sentence, a series of golden bell tolls froze Xiao Feng's smile.
A golden inverted bell materialized before the Golden Core sword cultivator, protecting both girls and blocking all eighteen palm strikes.
"Impossible!"
Xiao Feng gaped.
His soul power was at Unity Stage!
Though only a fragnt remained in this incomplete Great Lantation Ode copy, it should still overwhelm any Golden Core soul!
This defied all logic!
The incomplete Great Lantation Ode functioned like a ti bomb.
The complete work had nine volus. Every three volus cultivated would activate his implanted soul fragnt, causing demonic backlash that brought cultivators face-to-face with him—final nutrients for his ascension.
Mo Shui's current demonic backlash occurred largely because she'd reached the third volu. Though not fully mastered, he'd grown impatient to harvest.
Seeing himself unhard, Chen Huaian grudgingly admitted the ga system's awesoness.
Logic be damned—cheat codes were cheat codes.
"Nothing is impossible."
Chen Huaian puffed his chest, shielding the girls dramatically. "How could an ant like you comprehend my intentions?"
"I could indeed enter with Great Ascension soul power, but that would severely burden her body. Even solving the demonic backlash would leave her soul damaged for years!"
"So that's why..." Mo Shui stared at Chen Huaian's back, now seeming mountainously tall. Her nose tingled, eyes moistening.
So the Golden Core soul was the Sword Pavilion's ancestral elder.
He'd chosen not to force Great Ascension entry to spare her. Not only had he not considered it troubleso, he'd used Li Qingran as a bridge to co rescue her again.
No wonder Li Qingran adored her master.
Mo Shui had assud disciple worship involved rose-tinted glasses—that Chen Huaian couldn't be much better than other elders, just slightly more attentive and partial to Li Qingran, still surely arrogant and stubborn. She'd worried Li Qingran would suffer...
Now she understood.
She'd ship Li Qingran and Chen Huaian forever!
"You dare call an ant?!" Xiao Feng's eighteen phantoms pointed furiously. "Do you know who I am?"
"I do." Chen Huaian nodded.
"Then who am I?"
Chen Huaian smirked. "You're... our hero, Little Nezha~"
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