Human Clan Defender-Chapter 559 - 286: Striking Through the Air (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Chapter 559: Chapter 286: Striking Through the Air (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Banishing Evil Silent Obliteration Finger! 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

The Finger Gang descended, and one side of the young Great Demon’s body shattered.

A familiar sensation, along with a formidable surge of Spiritual Power, flooded in, bringing joy to Shen Changqing’s heart.

However, he did not pause. Forcefully suppressing the influence on his Divine Soul, he prepared to strike once more and slay the young Great Demon on the spot. But before Shen Changqing could act, after half its body shattered, the young Great Demon spat out Essence Blood and instantly transformed into a stream of light, fleeing the scene.

In the very moment the young Great Demon escaped, the Two-Headed Great Demon showed a look of terror in its eyes and, without hesitation, turned to flee as well.

On the city wall, Gu Xuanji took a step forward. Shen Changqing looked toward him, his face filled with emotion.

"Your Majesty’s strength has been hidden deep, capable of directly suppressing a Great Demon. If Your Majesty had not acted, those two Great Demons might not have fled!"

He was genuinely shocked. Gu Xuanji becoming the Great Qin Holy Emperor surely meant he possessed formidable strength. Moreover, Jianghu had always rumored that this Emperor Qin was extremely powerful. The reason the Demon Evil Clan dared to grow increasingly rampant was also because Emperor Qin’s lifespan was nearing its end. At first, Shen Changqing indeed thought that Gu Xuanji himself was very strong. But later, through Dongfang Zhao’s words, he came to believe that the Emperor’s strength was only due to borrowing the fate of Great Qin. Without borrowing fate, he shouldn’t possess much strength at all. Now, reality made Shen Changqing suddenly realize there was a reason Gu Xuanji could suppress Great Qin. Even without relying on fate, the Emperor still possessed extremely formidable strength. He could feel it. The Emperor had not broken through to the Great Grandmaster Realm. But the power of that one palm just now was already not inferior to Demon Evils at the Great Demon level. Grandmaster Ultimate Summit! Strength comparable to a Great Demon! Such a leap, with himself at the Great Grandmaster Peak, strong enough to contend against top Great Demons. After all, the former spanned two major Realms, while the latter only crossed a single major Realm.

Shen Changqing was keen to know how Gu Xuanji achieved this, but he didn’t ask. Everyone has their secrets. He has them, and so does the other party.

Landing on the city wall, Gu Xuanji’s aura vibrated. The golden True Qi spread like a True Dragon in all directions, destroying and annihilating everyone it touched. With just one blow, a hundred-zhang radius was completely cleared.

Immediately afterward, the golden True Qi retracted, and only then did he turn to Shen Changqing.

"My intervention was just the icing on the cake, Defender Shen. Your strength is truly admirable. Now is not the time for talk; let us first break through Zhou Pass."

"Agreed!" Shen Changqing nodded.

The current war indeed was not a good time for conversation. With the two Great Demons fleeing, there were no longer any adversaries within Zhou Pass that could contend with both him and Gu Xuanji. Next, it would be a clean sweep.

With a step forward, Shen Changqing soared into the sky, making his way inside Zhou Pass. He did not use Dusk Cangwu. Having used Divine Skills repeatedly, his own energy was severely depleted. It was not an urgent situation; there was no need to use Divine Skills.

Now, inside Zhou Pass, a massive number of soldiers were waiting. As Shen Changqing landed, a dense volley of arrows shot towards him. In an instant, Divine Thunder Heavenly Gang erupted. All the arrows that touched the Divine Thunder Heavenly Gang were instantly annihilated.

The next moment, he stomped forcefully. The vast Zhou Pass seemed to shake violently, causing many soldiers to lose their footing and fall to the ground. Then, he pointed a finger. The Profound Sun Finger Gang gathered surging energy, like a golden column of light piercing through the encirclement, killing all who were touched by the force.

However, the remaining Great Zhou Soldiers, showing no fear on their faces, still charged forward expressionlessly to kill. Being Puppets, they no longer knew what fear was. In their minds, only one voice was shouting: to kill all enemies.

The long blade at his waist was drawn. Since Shen Changqing’s breakthrough to the Great Grandmaster level, he had seldom used Sky Strike, which, finally, was unsheathed once more. The frosty light of the blade, turning into purple lightning, swept across everything in its path. The soldiers in front were cut down as if they were made of paper.

Afterward, he walked toward the Zhou Pass city gates. Along the way, any Great Zhou Soldiers that tried to stop him could not withstand the edge of the long blade. With each slash from Sky Strike, dozens to hundreds of men fell.

Shen Changqing, expressionless, strode resolutely forward. The Great Zhou Soldiers continued their fearless attacks, emotionless as they rushed forward. Even as those before them were cut down by Sky Strike, their steps did not falter in the slightest.

But such weak forces, even in large numbers, couldn’t pose any threat.

The more he killed, the colder Shen Changqing’s heart became. In the face of the Demon Evil, the Human Clan was nothing. Millions of people could be turned into Puppets with a word. Such ruthlessness was simply infuriating. Ordinarily, although war results in deaths, when casualties reach a certain extent or when met with tremendous deterrence, those who remain would either flee or surrender. But these, fearless in the face of death, seemed determined to fight until the last man—only emotionless Puppets could accomplish that.

Quickly, Shen Changqing arrived in front of the city gate. With a slash of his blade, hundreds of Great Zhou soldiers—no, they should be called Great Zhou Puppets at this point—were all slaughtered. The momentum of the blade’s light didn’t stop, falling upon the city gates. Gates that stood two or three Zhang high broke apart in an instant before this strike.

Suddenly, the attacking Great Qin soldiers, seeing the city gates shattered, were the first to rush in. One strike shattered the city gate. Shen Changqing then turned and unleashed several slashes, clearing all the oncoming Great Zhou Puppets. Within a ten Zhang radius, no one was left standing.

Such actions opened up the situation for the people of Great Qin. As many surged into Zhou Pass, he did not strike again; instead, he turned his gaze towards another direction. There, mighty figures were clashing.

Looking at his own status panel, the Slaughter Value had increased quite a bit. While his Divine Soul had yet to break through to the eighth stage, Shen Changqing felt that he was not far from reaching it. All of this was because he had shattered half of the young Great Demon’s body. Now, he could affirm with a hundred percent certainty: The so-called Slaughter Value was, in fact, the Origin Power of the Demon Evil. For instance, shattering the young Great Demon’s arm previously, and Wang Mubai’s earlier self-destruction, neither had brought him Slaughter Value nor Spiritual Power. The reason was that before their bodies were damaged, they had retracted their power, which was how they could regenerate flesh and blood swiftly. But shattering half of the young Great Demon’s body was different; it had been unprepared when a Divine Skill struck and broke its body. This meant the Great Demon couldn’t retract the Origin Power from that half of its body, hence his gain in Spiritual Power and Slaughter Value. It also indirectly confirmed that the Divine Skill had caused truly irreparable harm. Even with a Great Demon’s tough physique, capable of regenerating from a drop of blood, it could not recover that lost power. At best, it could only repair the exterior of its body. Therefore, what Shen Changqing had seized was the power of half a Great Demon. If he could acquire more of a Great Demon’s power, or even better, slay one, he believed he would surely step into the eighth stage of Divine Soul today, and perhaps even challenge the ninth stage.

At the moment, the two Great Demons he had been fighting had fled, leaving the other two Great Demons as his targets. Immediately, Shen Changqing locked onto the Great Demon fighting Ran An.

「In the void.」

Ran An’s Palm Gang suppressed the void, engaged in a life-and-death struggle with a winged Great Demon. Their powers intertwined, causing the void to crumble inch by inch.

"Kill!"

Ran An’s expression was cold as he struck another palm, unleashing all the hidden power within his body, increasing the pressure on the Great Demon significantly. However, the demon was not afraid. His bone wings flapped, and countless bone swords pierced through the air, resembling a chilling Sword Domain, forcibly tearing the Palm Gang into smithereens. Furthermore, after shattering the Palm Gang, the Sword Domain engulfed Ran An.

"Ran An, today is the day you die!" proclaimed the Bone Winged Demon in an ice-cold voice.

Hearing this, Ran An laughed furiously. "A mere Great Demon dares to claim it will kill me? You’re not worthy!"

With a thunderous roar, he concentrated his power to its peak, transforming it into a long spear that tore through Heaven and Earth, ferociously slamming into the Sword Domain. In an instant, the Sword Domain shattered. The spear pierced through the void, hurtling towards the demon at an impressive speed.

The sudden change caused the Bone Winged Demon’s complexion to shift dramatically. Sinister power swirled, forming various barriers, immediately followed by the unfolding of his bone wings, enveloping his body within. By this time, the spear had breached all barriers, striking directly onto the bone wings. The explosive force was unleashed, yet the bone wings, appearing to be the ultimate defense, did not shatter despite bearing such power.

The next instant, the bone wings vibrated, suddenly parting. The power-coalesced spear disintegrated immediately.

"Thinking you can kill me, you still lack..." The Bone Winged Demon burst out laughing, about to say something when suddenly, a destructive power converged behind him. When he turned around, he saw the Finger Gang of obliteration looming.

BOOM—

Terrifying power descended. The Bone Winged Demon’s head exploded, yet his headless corpse did not plummet but attempted to flee far away.

"Don’t leave once you’re here!" Shen Changqing’s expression was icy. As the enemy tried to escape, he unleashed his Dusk Cangwu Divine Skill, instantly shortening the distance between them. Next, a Banishing Evil Silent Obliteration Finger came crashing down. The Great Demon’s bone wings shattered, and his flesh was blown apart by the force.

Blood rained down. A weakened Divine Soul emerged from the mangled flesh, fleeing towards another location in terror.

"Save me!" The Bone Winged Demon, no longer proud, screamed in fear as he sensed the power behind him.

Space fractured. A cyan-colored palm reached out from the break, its cold aura freezing the void. Seeing the sudden appearance of that hand, Shen Changqing’s brow furrowed slightly. The power he was about to use to kill the Bone Winged Demon was intercepted.

The two forces collided, shattering the space. Shen Changqing stood still as the cyan hand retracted. When he looked forward again, the Divine Soul of the Bone Winged Demon had vanished.