Rise of The Demon General

Chapter 711: Chapter 711. Deliberate

One of the citizens, who survived the wind explosion released by Mu Qin, looked around at the devastation with utter fear. He then noticed his right hand, which was no longer there, and screamed. After his scream, he turned to the Holy Mother, who remained standing at the center of the crater. His belief in the Temple of Divinity kicked in.

He reached out and pleaded, ”Ho... Holy Mother... Help me...!”

Mu Qin turned to the one who called her. There was no emotion in her eyes.

”Silence,” She uttered. A wind blade shot out and decapitated the pleading believer.

She returned her attention to the enemies in the sky, who had stopped their advances after she obliterated another wave of their comrades.

”Those who oppose me oppose the Divine. I am His chosen one. I am tasked to be the keeper of this world. You ungrateful lot will soon learn the extent of His wrath...!!”

Mu Qin shot up after her speech.

*

Up in the sky, Amon guided Sura Yao to be within the delicate range of his special ability. He observed Mu Qin battling the other Martial Realm cultivators down there.

”This is bad...,” he said.

”What’s wrong? Is Sura’s ability no longer effective?” Xan Chi asked.

”No such thing. I still feel her life force flowing into me, albeit slowly,” Sura Yao replied.

”She has weakened compared to before. What I’m referring to is not her physical state, but her mental,” Amon explained. ”Even though she is much more powerful than we are, I can tell that throughout the battle, her heart was never truly in it. It is different now. Her eyes show clarity.”

”So... Can we win?” Xan Chi asked.

”... I still have one card to play,” Amon answered. He turned and caught sight of Dim Loog. He was heading down to face Mu Qin and would pass near them.

Amon blocked his path.

”What the hell are you doing? Move aside! I must hurry and assist the others,” Dim Loog scolded.

”Your Majesty, listen to me. I have a way that may give us an opening, but I need your cooperation to land a decisive hit.”

*

While Amon talked to Dim Loog, Mu Qin wreaked havoc among her attackers. She no longer pulled her punches. Her objective was to slay as many enemies as possible in the shortest time. Before, she was mostly passive and retaliated when the enemies attacked her. Now, she charged at them actively.

Zhang Daofeng and Hou Huang had re-engaged her, but the number of soldiers and temple members she slew didn’t diminish.

While fighting the multi-pronged battle, Mu Qin studied her situation. She could still feel the strange power sucking her life force. She knew it was the masked enemy with the scythe who was responsible. She surveyed the battlefield and located the masked enemy a decent distance away. Several people surrounded the masked enemy, most likely for protection.

After observing her situation, she saw two paths to victory. One was by taking out the Lord Stage cultivators, preferably Zhang Daofeng. If he was down, the rest was easy picking. However, she had to do it before the masked enemy’s strange power weakened her too much. This meant accepting to fight within a time limit.

The second way was by slaying the masked enemy and ending this power that sucked her life force. Without the masked enemy’s strange power, she could fight a protracted battle against these enemies. Even though their number was great. She believed they would run out of people before she ran out of energy.

After a brief consideration, she opted for the second method. Slaying a Peak Spirit Stage was much easier than slaying a Peak Lord Stage, especially someone with such a skill as Zhang Daofeng. All she needed to do was catch up to her target.

She used her movement art, which left multiple illusions. This art troubled the enemies before, and it still did now.

*

”Hey, use your art that summons those ghost things,” Xan Chi told Sura Yao.

”We are away from the battle. I have no materials to draw the soul power from, or are you volunteering to be one?” Sura Yao returned.

”Ugh, damnit! We shouldn’t stay so high up. We should go near the ground where the slain drops to,” Xan Chi said.

”Too late. She is coming!” Amon warned. He then called, ”King Huang Ti!”

Huang Ti remained near Sura Yao under Amon’s request. He conjured a wall of earth covering Sura Yao before putting himself in Mu Qin’s path.

”Move aside, old king,” Mu Qin commanded. She shot wind darts as she advanced.

Huang Ti used his longsword to block those wind darts. At the same time, sand materialized all around him. It turned into a sandstorm that seemed about to overwhelm Mu Qin.

”I said, move aside...!!!” Mu Qin exclaimed. A powerful shockwave radiated from her. The sandstorm was blown. The closest sand particles were disintegrated, while the furthest were thrown far away.

When the shockwave nearly hit Huang Ti, he channeled his aether to strengthen his defensive aura. However, it was not needed. The Beta Puppet came before him and protected him.

Seeing that, Huang Ti focused on offense again. His energy gathered the blown sand and reformed it into a gigantic sand fist. He flung this fist at Mu Qin, who had arrived. Mu Qin’s hair turned into two braids. One was prepared to block the sand fist. The other stabbed forward like a spear. Powerful wind energies swirled around the braid.

The Beta Puppet crossed its two arms. Its two energy shields merged and became a giant one.

The Beta Puppet had blocked many of Mu Qin’s powerful attacks before. Even if Mu Qin could shatter the puppet’s giant shield, her attack would be significantly weakened. With that confidence, Huang Ti proceeded with slamming the sand fist into Mu Qin. The sand fist was met by her braid.

The sand fist couldn’t stop Mu Qin. Her other braid came stabbing. When her spearing braid almost touched the energy shield. Half of it vanished. The braid proceeded forward, piercing the Beta Puppet’s right arm. Without slowing down at all, the braid pierced through Huang Ti’s chest.

”My king...!!!” Zhu Yao, who was not far away, exclaimed with concern.

”Urrgh...!!” Huang Ti was shocked as he stared at Mu Qin’s braid deep in his body. However, he was more shocked at how it happened.

To distant observers, it might seem like Mu Qin’s spearing braid shattered the Beta Puppet’s giant energy shield before it hit him, but he had a clear view of what had happened. Half of the energy shield vanished before Mu Qin’s braid even touched it. It was a deliberate act of letting the attack pass, not because it failed to block.

Huang Ti coughed up blood while turning to the person responsible. Only one person had full control of the Beta Puppet. He locked eyes with Amon, who showed neither surprise nor remorse. Amon’s expression remained neutral, like everything had proceeded the way it should have.

He then heard Amon yell, ”Now!”

Mu Qin glanced to her side. She sensed a powerful aura approaching at high speed. She was aware from her cultivation sense that Dim Loog was lurking nearby, but that king was on the other side from where this new attack was coming. As for the other two Lord Stage cultivators, Zhang Daofeng and Hou Huang, they were still down there. They were late in responding to her due to her illusions.

She saw nothing from the incoming assault. This new assailant was invisible and was also a Lord Stage cultivator.

She swung her half-braid at this new incoming. The wind explosion it produced revealed the assailant. The assailant was a middle-aged woman. Traces of a torn talisman were around her head. It was that talisman that rendered her invisible.

The middle-aged woman was Xei Nuli. The secret clan head of the Xei Clan who ruled the Xandar Region. Amon stopped by her place during her trip back after catching the Soul Flayer. His purpose was to request her assistance in the battle against the Holy Mother.

Xei Nuli was originally unwilling to join the war until Amon offered her something she couldn’t refuse. Her desire to prolong the life of his non-cultivator son, Xei Qing. She had gotten the means after Amon gave her Longevity Fruits. Even so, the life extension was limited. Each consumption of Longevity Fruits diminished its effect. So sooner or later, the Longevity Fruits would be nothing but common fruit for Xei Qing.

What Amon offered her was something that could still be used after the Longevity Fruits, the Longevity Pill. It was a pill using the Longevity Fruit as the ingredient. It could extend someone’s life like the Longevity Fruit, but only half as strongly. It, however, had no diminishing effect. Every time Xei Qing consumed the pill, his life was extended by five years. Xei Nuli could extend his son’s life indefinitely, so long as she had the pills.

Amon had the pills because the Longevity Tree inside his Black Space Ring had already grown and bore its first fruit. The growth was much faster than he expected because the lake water was enhanced by the Spring of Life and Lin Li’s expert care.