“Prepare to die, Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord!”
Hearing these words spoken from Xu Yuan’s mouth, the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord was initially taken aback.
But immediately, a surge of fury erupted within him.
“You dare!”
“You think just because you have the bloodline of the Qinxian Ancient Silkworms, you can do whatever you please?”
“You are nothing but a lucky fluke who gained a connection. You’re like an ant… how dare you be so insolent!?”
The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord stood tall, his resolve already set.
He would capture Xu Yuan, torture him mercilessly, and then send him to Kunlun.
As he spoke, Xu Yuan had already reached the archway leading into the flower field.
Then…
“Thud!”
“Thud!”
The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord was astonished to find that each time Xu Yuan stepped into the flower field, his aura and spiritual power increased exponentially.
The ribbons and celestial light representing his Qinxian Ancient Silkworm transformation emanated from his body.
His surroundings were filled with vast spiritual power and radiant celestial light.
And finally…
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
Each step he took caused the entire Huang Hua Temple, no, the entire Pansi Ridge to tremble!
It was…
“Dao Body? Peak Demon King!?”
At this moment, the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord could hardly believe the sensory information received by his divine consciousness.
“How is this possible?”
No one knew better than he that when he arranged Xu Yuan’s marriage, he was just barely breaking through to the True Essence Realm.
He was still years away from reaching the Demon King level.
But… how long had it been!?
“The Qinxian Ancient Silkworm's potential… is it really this great?”
For a moment, intense jealousy flooded the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord's heart.
But then, he realized…
“Good, good, good! You secretly broke through to Demon King and then came to fight me… it seems you had a plan all along!”
He sneered, his figure shifting.
The next moment…
“Today, I will show you…”
He revealed his true form.
A thousand-legged centipede with a long blade in its hand, transformed into a humanoid form, riding on a cloud of demonic energy.
He charged towards Xu Yuan.
“Even if you have cultivated to Peak Demon King, the gap between us is still as vast as the heavens!”
As the words left his mouth, he raised his blade, striking directly at Xu Yuan.
Immense spiritual power instantly stirred the heavens and earth, and the blade in his hand whipped through the air, leaving behind a ghostly image of a thousand legs.
Then, the blade light multiplied, cascading like a torrent of mercury, impossible to see clearly.
But in the face of this attack, Xu Yuan stood unmoved.
And the next moment…
“Buzz!”
The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord saw a seven-colored divine banner suspended above Xu Yuan’s head.
The banner radiated endless brilliance and ten thousand strands of celestial energy, deflecting all the countless blade lights.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
The countless blade lights swept into the mountains surrounding Pansi Ridge, causing them to sway and reverberate with thunderous roars.
“That banner… Spun Heaven Silk!?”
Upon witnessing this, the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord’s face was filled with shock!
He immediately recognized the seven-colored brilliance and boundless spiritual essence emanating from the divine banner.
It was clearly woven from the Spun Heaven Silk he had seen on Xu Yuan before.
But…
“Where did you get so much Spun Heaven Silk?”
“And who refined this treasure for you!?”
The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord was almost envious to the point of madness!
The spiritual essence of the divine banner and the pressure of the seven-colored celestial light.
Everything indicated that the quality of the banner in Xu Yuan's hands… was probably even higher than his own 'Thousand-Legged Centipede Blade' that had been nurtured for millions of years!
“You…”
He opened his mouth to ask further, but the next moment…
“Master.”
He heard Xu Yuan’s calm voice.
“As a dying man, why are you so talkative?”
As he spoke, he slowly raised his hand.
The next moment…
“Buzz!”
The seven-colored silk on the Fu Tian Banner gathered in his hand.
Then, it slowly transformed into a pair of knuckle-dusters.
Then, Xu Yuan gestured to the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord with a slight wave of his hand.
“Don’t be noisy.”
The words fell, and Xu Yuan, with the Fu Tian Banner hanging above his head, transformed into a shooting star, striking towards the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord!
“Come and fight!”
And the next moment…
“Boom!”
The roar shook the entire Pansi Ridge!
Xu Yuan, with the Fu Tian Banner hanging above his head, moved like lightning.
He clenched his fists, the knuckle-dusters formed from seven-colored silk continuously striking out.
With each punch he threw, a powerful force unleashed a massive spiritual energy impact.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
Their figures clashed in the sky.
Just like when he fought the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord as the Heaven's Chosen One, the entire Pansi Ridge shook with every collision.
Each time they clashed, the temples within Huang Hua Temple collapsed.
But the more they fought, the more shocked the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord became!
Because…
“This kid’s banner is hanging above his head, like a turtle shell!”
“And this kid… combined with the Spun Heaven Silk, his offensive power is extremely strong!”
He had lived for many years and possessed vast battle experience.
As they fought, he had already assessed the situation.
Although Xu Yuan’s strength was clearly inferior to the mysterious monkey from earlier, who had truly dominated him and injured him within a few moves, Xu Yuan’s strength still far exceeded his expectations.
With the Fu Tian Banner hanging above his head, the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord’s pride, the ‘Thousand-Legged Centipede Blade,’ was clearly at a disadvantage in terms of treasures.
His full-power strike couldn't break through the defenses of the Fu Tian Banner.
But look at Xu Yuan!
With every punch, he unleashed seven-colored silk.
The knuckle-dusters formed from Spun Heaven Silk could easily shatter a mountain with a single blow.
And most importantly…
“And this kid’s spiritual power… it naturally suppresses me!”
That’s right.
The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord was a centipede spirit, a worm demon.
While Xu Yuan’s current transformation was… the King of All Worms, the Qinxian Ancient Silkworm!
When the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord fought him, he was naturally suppressed in terms of spiritual power!
As a result, as they continued to clash, the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord quickly showed signs of exhaustion, clearly falling into a disadvantage!
On the other side…
“As expected…”
Xu Yuan fought the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord with all his might.
In his heart, he was very satisfied.
In fact, since breaking through to the Immortal Dao, he had not had a chance to truly fight at full strength. The battle against the Poison King was essentially a planned sneak attack.
Only now, in this hard-fought battle against the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord, could Xu Yuan finally confirm it.
“I’m already very strong… at least among the myriad demons and immortals in the Three Realms and Four Continents, I’m at the top!”
Being able to suppress the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord was enough to prove his strength.
Leaving aside the immortals, deities, and buddhas of the east and west, as well as the ancient beings of Kunlun, among ordinary immortals and true immortals, Demon Kings, he was at the peak level!
But just at this moment…
“Boom!”
After barely deflecting Xu Yuan’s punch with another strike, leaving a deep crater in the ground!
The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord roared.
His voice echoed through the mountains: “Where are the disciples of Huang Hua Temple? Where are the demon beasts of Pansi Cave!?”
But the next moment…
“...”
The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord’s voice abruptly stopped.
Because at this moment, he was high in the sky, engaged in battle with Xu Yuan, and saw… from down below, in Huang Hua Temple… countless disciples dressed in yellow robes, surrounding the Golden Light Courtyard.
But…
“...”
The Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord noticed that all the disciples of Huang Hua Temple who were surrounding them… were not in human form.
Their heads all had tentacles and mouthparts.
They were ‘Worm Feather Warriors’.
And besides them, the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord could see… from below Huang Hua Temple, in Pansi Cave… figures emerged, clad in armor, rushing out of the cave.
Grasshopper spirits, You Deng Gui (幽灯鬼 - You Deng Gui - a type of spirit/demon often depicted in Chinese fiction), dragonfly spirits, stone spiders, worm captains, Qinxian Mantises…
These were the worm demons of Pansi Cave!
Leading the way, at the forefront of the worm demons, was…
“My lads, surround Huang Hua Temple! Don’t let a single member of the Hundred-Eyed Sect escape!”
Second Sister, wearing green clothes, was pointing and directing!
“All disciples of Huang Hua Temple, surrender, and you shall not be killed! That old demon has never treated you well, don’t die for him!”
Big Sister, wearing blue clothes, also shouted.
And walking at the forefront, with the most determined expression, was…
“Help my husband kill the Hundred-Eyed, and you will be richly rewarded.”
It was Fourth Sister, clad in battle armor, with jet-black hair.
“Those little girls from the Zhu family… good! Good! Good indeed!”
And so, the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord’s heart sank.
Four words unconsciously surged into his mind.
They were… The building is about to collapse!