Chapter 135: The Demon Breaks Free

Seeing Ming Feng and the other chase outside, Leng Tian was about to follow when Judas’s voice came from the side, "Boss, no need to rush. The leather armor all over these pangolin beasts is truly good stuff! If crafted into protective soft armor, even the attacks of practitioners at the Profound Martial Realm cannot pierce it."

Hearing Judas, Leng Tian remembered his recent battle with the four pangolin beasts in the Southern Ridge, where their defense was indeed impenetrable. "Since they are good things, of course we should keep them."

With a thought, Leng Tian tossed the corpses of the four pangolin beasts into Purgatory, then accelerated his pace and sprinted rapidly toward the exit. By now, Leng Tian's cultivation had completely adapted to the darkness within the cavern, and with the three-colored aura blessing his vision, everything before him appeared as bright as day as he dashed forward like a streak of lightning.

Within the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, Leng Tian reached the cave entrance. Ming Feng and the other were already out of sight. Gazing at the mountain of bleached bones in the valley below, Leng Tian had a lingering feeling that this Ghost Dao monarch hiding within the colossal beast's body would likely cause him considerable trouble in the future. If he were to eliminate it now, relying on his own methods to destroy it shouldn't be too difficult with an all-out effort. However, doing so would outweigh the gains.

"Forget it, if he dares to look for trouble in the future, it won't be too late to get rid of him then!" Leng Tian was never one to fear trouble; he was only concerned that it might eventually affect his brothers.

His journey to the Ancient Realm had reached a successful conclusion, and with nowhere else to go and plenty of time before the decree opened, Leng Tian decided to wander around and thoroughly appreciate the scenery here.

Releasing his white-golden battle qi, Leng Tian soared into mid-air on a ray of escaping light, flying toward the place where he had first encountered Nan Ling and the others.

In the boundless waters of the Azure Sea and Vast Sky, within the deep-sea canyon that imprisoned the abyssal demon, surging evil Qi rolled through the waves, causing the seawater within a hundred miles to riot. The thick ice sheet on the sea surface had already completely shattered, and dark gray evil Qi permeated the hundred-mile expanse of the ocean.

"Caw, caw... Duan Changfeng, you never expected me to break free so soon! Just wait for my mad revenge! Caw, caw..." Dark gray evil Qi billowed and surged around the demon as the cage that had previously trapped it faced imminent collapse.

"Demon Devours the Heavens..." The demon stood upright inside the cage, the fur on its body growing rapidly, while peerless, evil energy erupted from the crown of its head, piercing through ten thousand meters of deep seawater and shooting straight into the firmament.

With a deafening roar, the entire sea region trembled. The seawater within a radius of several miles was instantly evaporated by the towering evil Qi, leaving behind a vacuum zone several miles wide.

"Boom!"

The heaven-piercing evil Qi threatened to shake the heavens and earth. As the evil Qi continuously released, the demon's body gradually grew taller and larger, ultimately shattering the precarious cage from within.

The cage was blown apart by the demon's expanding form, and its body instantly soared to a colossal height of a thousand feet. Waves of demonic howling spread outward with immense sonic power; wherever the sound waves passed, several surrounding islands were turned to fine dust, vanishing along with all the living beings upon them.

"Caw, caw... Out, I am finally out!"

The ice sheet across hundreds of miles of the ocean collapsed, and the heavy seawater was churned and repelled outward in all directions by the heaven-shaking, earth-shattering evil Qi. Waves dozens of feet high were everywhere, and the demon's body had now swelled to a height of a thousand feet.

Like a towering giant a thousand feet tall, every movement it made triggered a cataclysmic tsunami. Waves of tens or even hundreds of feet swept outward, expanding from the initial few hundred miles to a range of over a thousand miles, churning with towering billows and heavy swells.

The thousand-foot-tall demon raised its head and roared to the heavens, its sound echoing across the eight directions. The seawater within hundreds of miles boiled in response, and pillars of water shot straight up into the firmament before crashing down violently. The tremendous roar generated caused the entire Azure Sea and Vast Sky to remain in violent turmoil.

"Not good, the demon has broken free!" In three hidden locations across the sea region, three elders with white hair and beards all opened their tightly closed eyes. Hearing the heaven-shaking roar, their expressions changed drastically. As if thinking of something terrifying, they successively transmitted their voices to the leaders of major factions before rising into the air and flying at extreme speed toward the sea region where the demon was imprisoned.

Hu Zhenyuan, the aged master of Blazing Flame Island who was hiding far away, looked in terror at the thousand-foot-tall demon. Deep in his heart arose an extremely ominous premonition, and he began to doubt his own actions. Yet, hardening his heart, he thought that since it was already done, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and push forward.

Bracing his courage, he flew to a spot a few hundred meters away from the demon, bowed with cupped hands, and said, "Congratulations, Your Excellency, on breaking free! From now on, you can roam the heavens and earth invincible!"

The thousand-foot demon's deep purple pupils shifted slightly to glance at Hu Zhenyuan below, and it sneered coldly, "Considering that you helped me break free, I will spare your life today. However, the living beings in this azure sea shall serve as the sacrificial offerings for my liberation, caw, caw..."

Hu Zhenyuan’s expression changed drastically. Summoning his courage, he pressed on, "You won't forget the agreement you made with me earlier, will you?"

"An agreement? What agreement?" The thousand-foot demon shifted its body, bringing the rolling evil Qi crashing down upon Hu Zhenyuan.

"Boom!"

The space surrounding Hu Zhenyuan's body vibrated violently, and tiny spatial cracks spread outward like spiderwebs. Accompanied by the snapping of bones, Hu Zhenyuan was pressed down until he knelt in mid-air.

The bone-deep agony soaked Hu Zhenyuan's entire body in sweat. With his cultivation at the peak of the Mortal Shedding Realm, he could not even withstand the slight pressure of the demon's aura. The bones throughout his body broke inch by inch, and all of his spiritual essence was suppressed back into his Dantian.

"I am sparing your life, yet you dare to negotiate with me? Do you truly believe that helping me break free allows you to stand on equal footing with me? Since you are so ungrateful, make a contribution to the restoration of my strength!"

The thousand-foot demon's tone carried cold indifference and utter disdain. When had an abyssal demon of the abyss ever reached an agreement with lowly humans? Had it not been for its desire to break free sooner, it would never have wasted breath on him. Now that it had escaped, the reason it did not immediately kill Hu Zhenyuan was to instill terror in his heart. Sparing him and letting him leave was meant to publicize its advent, frightening human and demon clans alike into fleeing in panic. Only then would hunting and devouring them feel even more gratifying.

At this moment, Hu Zhenyuan's heart was broken with regret. Blinded by selfish desires, he had actually lost his mind and sought to reach a cooperative agreement with this abyssal demon. What was this if not courting death? Now, not only had he brought a catastrophe upon the entire Ancient Realm, but both he and Blazing Flame Island would also cease to exist, reduced to fine dust by the demon.

"Caw, caw... Today the demon is in a marvelous mood, so I might as well tell you: all those evil thoughts in your heart were subtly influenced by me, stimulating the desires lurking deep within your soul. Otherwise, no human would be foolish enough to make a deal with an abyssal demon. Therefore, you need not blame yourself; none of this ever stemmed from your true intentions! Caw, caw..." Finished speaking, the thousand-foot demon let out a heaven-shaking, eccentric laugh.

Old Master Hu Zhenyuan’s face flushed a deep crimson. By now, he had embraced a resolve to die. Knowing that he had no chance of survival today, his face twisted in a harrowing, miserable shriek, "Even if I die, I won't let you have an easy time!"

His kneeling body began to swell from the inside out, and terrifying auras erupted from within him. He was going to shatter his core and detonate himself, hoping to inflict heavy damage on the demon before death!

"Caw, caw..." Seeing this, the demon let out another bizarre laugh. Looking at the swelling Hu Zhenyuan who was on the verge of self-detonation, it sneered evilly, "A mere cultivator wishes to play tricks and detonate himself before this demon? Truly overestimating your capabilities. With me here, everything you do will be in vain!"

"Go to hell..." Because his body was swelling rapidly, his facial features were squeezed together, and bright red blood streamed from his seven orifices. Facing the mockery of the thousand-foot demon, Hu Zhenyuan, now on the very edge of self-detonation, shrieked wretchedly as he hurled himself toward the demon.

"Caw, caw... Pitiful human, you still wish to harm this demon? The one who should die is you!" The thousand-foot demon mocked, looking down at Hu Zhenyuan, who was now no larger than a human head. Then, it opened its heaven-devouring maw and inhaled fiercely. Hu Zhenyuan, down below, struggled for only a brief moment before being sucked directly into the demon's huge mouth.

The heaven-devouring maw closed and chewed a few times. A faint, muffled thud echoed from within the mouth, and thin threads of blood trickled down the corner of its lips. A generation of experts at the Mortal Shedding Realm had thus been thoroughly chewed and swallowed by the demon, leaving behind not even a scrap of bone!

After devouring Hu Zhenyuan, the aura around the thousand-foot demon surged, pulling the towering evil Qi outside its body back inward. Then, it reopened its heaven-devouring maw and inhaled violently toward the rolling, turbulent green seawater below.

Like an invisible, colossal force, it swept up a column of green seawater several meters thick, drawing it into the demon's mouth like a giant whale drinking water.

The seawater contained a massive amount of Azure Sea Grand True Qi. Although this Azure Sea Grand True Qi was merely a tasteless and useless thing for the human and demon races living here, to an abyssal demon, it was a supreme tonic.

The body of the thousand-foot demon was like a bottomless pit. Under its frantic swallowing, the seawater within a hundred miles plummeted rapidly. Even though the seawater from beyond the hundred-mile mark rushed in instantly to fill the void, it still could not keep pace with the sheer volume of its consumption.

As unmeasurable amounts of azure seawater were drawn into the demon's body, the color of its skin began to transform toward its original purplish-red, and the single horn on its forehead transitioned from deep purple to black silk.

In just the blink of an eye, the volume of accumulated seawater within a hundred miles had been sucked dry by it at least twice. Yet this did not cause the thousand-foot demon to stop; instead, the rate of its absorption grew even greater than before.

Thousands of miles away in the deep sea, the colossal body of the divine-tier imperial fish floated on the surface. Looking at the thousand-foot demon standing between heaven and earth, a pair of golden pupils flickered with worry.

"Big brother, what should we do? With the demon breaking free, this Azure Sea and Vast Sky is about to become a dead zone! How shall you and I handle this matter?"

The eight-armed giant octopus broke the surface of the water, floating beside the divine-tier imperial fish. It too gazed at the thousand-foot demon, its tone laden with profound helplessness.

"What can we do? With the strength of you and me combined, we cannot drive it back, let alone reseal it!" the divine-tier imperial fish sighed deeply.

"Then let's quickly flee! Once it recovers its strength and discovers our presence, won't we be trapped with no escape?" the eight-armed giant octopus said with palpable fear.

"Heh heh... You can rest easy about that. Have you forgotten that deep within the sea region of Fenglan Island, there are still two old immortals lingering on? If those two make a move, even if they cannot seal the demon away, driving it away is still well within their grasp!"

"If we wait for them to make a move, who knows how many ages that will take! Let's go, big brother, let's preserve our lives first!" The eight-armed giant octopus extended a tentacle, wrapped it around the giant tail of the divine-tier imperial fish, and dragged it down toward the ocean floor.

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