Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 510 - 297: Cunning Demon Priest_2

The support squads scattered around the battlefield could never have anticipated that instead of only facing sporadic demon attacks, they would now face a massive onslaught of demons.

Even if there were three or four squads participating in the mission to assist in the siege of the demonic priest, it was still impossible to guarantee intercepting all the escaping demons.

Seeing the demons around him fleeing, Lu Yu realized he had made a mistake, revealing his strength too early, which led the cunning demonic priest to choose to escape.

Under normal circumstances, demons don't even have the concept of escape, their minds consumed with killing any living beings in front of them.

However, under the control of the demonic priest, the demons advanced and retreated methodically, and even understood how to disperse into squads to escape.

Solving the issue of the demons escaping is quite simple; just kill the demonic priest, and the demons would lose control, attacking the nearest humans, without worrying about them escaping.

But, the time left for Lu Yu was too short, and the demonic priest had created too many disguises.

Lu Yu flew up, swiftly scanning the entire field, his mind racing to analyze where the demonic priest could be.

He only had one chance; if he guessed wrong, the demonic priest would blend in with the many demons, break through the encirclement, recruit more in other places, and rise again.

By then, it wouldn't be so easy to surround again, and having suffered once, the demonic priest would definitely remember.

"Where is it?" was the only thought left in Lu Yu's mind.

"Hidden among the demons, being protected as it breaks out of the encirclement? Or disguised as an ordinary demon, deceiving humans, escaping amid the confusion?" his mind questioned.

"If it were me, what would I choose to do?" Lu Yu pondered, putting himself in the demonic priest's shoes.

Facing a human siege, with an unbeatable strong opponent, what would I choose to do? Or rather, what would maximize my chances to escape?

"Have other demons protect it, burst through the encirclement while controlling other demons, creating multiple decoys to lower its chances of being found?" Lu Yu thought.

"Or blend in with ordinary demons, escaping quietly when humans were focused on the protected demons?"

Suddenly, at the most critical moment of the battle, Lu Yu closed his eyes, tendrils of spiritual power slowly extending from his body to collect the spiritual waves transmitted in the air.

The air was full of chaotic and indecipherable spiritual waves; Lu Yu didn't know what those spiritual waves represented, but he could sense them.

Although the spiritual waves in the air were extremely chaotic, they all had one source, all emanating from one direction.

Lu Yu's eyes shot open, his figure vanished into the air, rushing toward the rear-right direction.

"I should have thought of it earlier, the demonic priest controls the demons through spiritual power, so all I needed to do was sense the spiritual waves to locate the demonic priest."

This wasn't the first time he encountered demons controlled by spiritual power; during the previous mission to destroy the demon hatchery, he encountered similar demons, but they were called "Central Nexuses".

It wasn't something he realized immediately, otherwise, he would have located the demon priest in his first attempt.

Back then, he was overconfident, thinking he could solve all problems with his formidable strength.

But now it seemed, having strength was important, but having a brain was even more crucial.

"Roar~" seeing Lu Yu rapidly approaching, the demonic priest couldn't sit still, couldn't hide its identity anymore, it let out a low roar, causing three nearby demons to turn and pounce at Lu Yu, while it made for the perimeter at the fastest speed.

The demonic priest was very cunning, it didn't have the demons protect itself, nor did it blend in with them to appear as an ordinary demon.

Instead, it brought along a few powerful demons, mixing among the scattered demons, if not for Lu Yu's sudden idea to track the source of the spiritual waves, it would have escaped successfully.

The Black Dragon Riders now focused on the demons with protected identities, ignoring those demons scattered and fleeing separately.

Lu Yu also overlooked where it was hiding, thinking the demonic priest was mixed among the protected demons, and the demon was mixed among the demons protecting the ordinary ones.

"Don't even think about running!"

Lu Yu shouted, clenching his right fist, punching toward the demons blocking him and the demon priest fleeing at full speed.

Bang! A fire-red fist with a diameter of over twenty meters smashed down from the sky, the giant fist formed by fire spiritual power sent the three demons blocking Lu Yu flying.

Seeing the ever-distant demon priest, Lu Yu's gaze turned sharp, the Battle God Technique operated, and spiritual power condensed into a Shocking God Stab.

Whizz~ The invisible Shocking God Stab shot out rapidly, hitting the demon priest, its body freezing mid-air briefly, trembling all over, before quickly recovering and continuing to flee.

The Shocking God Stab had no effect on ordinary demons because they had no concept of spiritual power, but against the demon priest and demon central nexus, it proved invaluable.

The fact that they could use spiritual power to control other demons meant they had spiritual power, whether through their brain or a spiritual power core, being attacked by the Shocking God Stab would definitely damage them.

Swish swish swish~ Lu Yu fired six consecutive maximum power Shocking God Stabs, the demon priest released spiritual power, forming a barrier to block them.

But its spiritual power barrier shattered instantly upon contact with Lu Yu's concentrated Shocking God Stabs, all six landing on the demon priest.

Crack~ Lu Yu seemingly heard something shatter, the demon priest's body plummeted toward the ground.

[Crushed the demon priest's consciousness, gained 720,000 experience points]

The moment the demon priest fell, all the fleeing demons halted abruptly, fierce glows in their eyes, charging at the nearest humans, plunging everyone into a crisis of being besieged.

The three demon bodyguards flung away, having lost control without the demon priest, got up one after another, roaring and charging at the nearest Lu Yu.

"Did it just crush the demon priest's consciousness, not kill it?" Lu Yu keenly noted the system prompt's difference.

Faced with the three incoming demons equivalent to the eighth level of Qi Sea realm, Lu Yu didn't even glance at them. Had he not been eager to catch the demon priest, he would have obliterated the three demons with one strike.

Now as they charged, it was merely a matter of two more moves.

The Demon-Breaking Saber appeared in his palm for a moment, three orange saber lights flashed, the three demons rushing at Lu Yu halted mid-step.

Bang~ Rustle rustle~ The saber energy exploded within them, pulverizing their bodies into countless tiny fragments, with the demon-slaying power erasing their demonic qi.

Lu Yu walked toward the demon priest's corpse, filled with demonic qi, merely losing consciousness, and as he approached, its demonic qi even seemed intent on eroding him.

He raised his palm, a golden fireball appeared, its glow growing ever brighter, the astonishing power within threatening to easily incinerate the demon priest's body.

If left unchecked, under the influence of demonic qi, the demon priest's body might give birth to a new consciousness, essentially another demon priest.

Or it could become an ordinary demon, no one could be sure.

"Spare it!"