NABC Chapter 2002 Unstoppable
Chapter 2002 Unstoppable
Chapter 2002 Unstoppable
Facing the astonished and uncertain gazes of the three demonic cultivators, Chen Fei's face remained completely calm, without the slightest hesitation.
He didn't bother to guess whether the other person was fearful, suspicious, or weighing their options.
In the next instant, Chen Fei's figure blurred and he charged straight towards the three demonic cultivators in front of him.
There were no tactical maneuvers, no probing tactics, only an absolute confidence that seemed capable of crushing all obstacles.
Seeing this, Le Boyang did not hesitate at all. His Yuan Power burst forth, and he followed closely behind Chen Fei, rushing towards the three demonic cultivators together.
One after the other, their momentum was overwhelming. They actually launched a charge against the two demonic cultivators who were at the peak and late stage of cultivation, with cultivation levels of late stage and mid stage.
When the demonic cultivator Cao Youming saw Chen Fei and his companion rushing towards him without any hesitation, his brows furrowed tightly.
Cao Youming glanced at Zheng Hongtao, who was already severely injured and weak and about to be captured by them, and then looked at the two menacing figures in front of him, especially the lotus seed fluctuations emanating from the leading figure in green robes...
A strong sense of unease and crisis instantly gripped Cao Youming's heart.
"Go your separate ways, don't get entangled!"
Cao Youming acted decisively, letting out a low, sharp shout.
He didn't have time to explain further. He suddenly turned his body and abandoned his prey that was right in front of him without hesitation. He used all his escape techniques to flee frantically to the side perpendicular to the direction Chen Fei was rushing from.
The other two demonic cultivators, Ji Ruifeng, who was at the limit of the fifteenth level, and Zou Ziqian, who was at the late stage of the fifteenth level, couldn't help but show a hint of resentment on their faces when they heard Cao Youming's words.
The cooked duck just flew away like that?
However, Cao Youming, being the most skilled and experienced among them, was always accurate in his judgment. His resolute decision at this moment must have its reasons.
The two hesitated for only a moment before their figures flashed and they fled in two different directions.
In an instant, the three demonic cultivators, who had been so aggressive, scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing in three different directions.
Cao Youming sensed the fluctuations of the Origin Lotus Seeds emanating from behind him. Such a quantity of Origin Lotus Seeds would seem somewhat abrupt and astonishing even to an ordinary fifteenth-level ultimate demonic cultivator.
But now, it has appeared on a cultivator whose aura is clearly only at the late stage of the fifteenth level.
Cao Youming was able to cultivate to his current level and survive countless battles because of his extraordinary caution and keen intuition for danger.
Within this Thousand-Petaled Demon Lotus Realm, the Origin Lotus Seeds and the rewards of merit are all meaningless. Only preserving one's own life is of utmost importance.
This green-robed cultivator exuded an eerie aura. Rather than confronting a potential danger head-on for a prey that was about to be obtained, it would be better to decisively abandon it and preserve oneself.
Although doing so may seem like a loss, or even frustrating, it is nothing compared to the possibility of losing one's life.
Behind them, Zheng Hongtao, who had been preparing for a desperate fight, was taken aback by this sudden turn of events.
He stared blankly at the departing figures of Cao Youming and the other two, then looked ahead at the two figures that were chasing after them without hesitation...
A tremendous sense of relief and joy instantly broke down his tense defenses and filled his entire being.
"Fellow Daoist Chen, Fellow Daoist Le, thank you..." Zheng Hongtao said excitedly, about to express his gratitude.
However, before he could finish speaking, he discovered that Chen Fei and Le Boyang had not stopped at all, and had bypassed him to continue chasing after the three demonic cultivators.
Various thoughts flashed through Zheng Hongtao's mind. He watched Chen Fei and the other person's retreating figures, and then felt the severity of his own injuries...
He hesitated for only a moment, then a ruthless glint flashed in Zheng Hongtao's eyes. Ignoring the intense pain and weakness emanating from his body, he forcefully activated the remaining Yuan energy within him, dragging his heavily injured body and transforming into a dim stream of light, following closely behind, also chasing after the direction in which a demonic cultivator had fled.
Just moments before, he was prey, surrounded and killed by three men, his life hanging by a thread. In the blink of an eye, the situation had reversed, and he was now one of the pursuers.
Furthermore, Zheng Hongtao discovered that Chen Fei and Le Boyang's escape speed was ridiculously fast.
Chen Fei, in particular, was much faster than the limits of a late-stage 15th-level cultivator, even faster than a 15th-level peak demonic cultivator at full speed.
In less than two breaths, Chen Fei unexpectedly arrived first, suddenly appearing less than a hundred feet behind Cao Youming, who was the fastest to escape.
While Le Boyang's speed wasn't as exaggerated as Chen Fei's, it far exceeded his own mid-fifteenth-level cultivation level, and he actually managed to keep up with the tail of another fifteenth-level ultimate demonic cultivator, Ji Ruifeng.
Zheng Hongtao was filled with shock. He didn't have time to think. He took a deep breath, forcibly increased his speed, and desperately chased after Zou Ziqian, the weakest of the fifteenth-level late-stage demonic cultivators who was fleeing in the third direction.
"Young man, I left only out of caution. Do you really think I'm afraid of you?"
Cao Youming, who was fleeing at the forefront, felt Chen Fei clinging to him like a persistent leech, the chilling killing intent almost piercing his spine. He was both shocked and furious, and finally could not hold back, letting out a roar.
Cao Youming suddenly turned around, and a flash of black light appeared in his hand, revealing a giant wolf-tooth warhammer the size of a door panel, covered with ferocious spikes.
His arm muscles bulged, and his demonic energy erupted like a volcano. He swung his warhammer with a terrifying force capable of crushing planes and destroying everything, and smashed it fiercely towards Chen Fei, who was rushing towards him.
Rumble!
A violent force swept in all directions, causing space to ripple violently.
Faced with Cao Youming's furious and earth-shattering hammer blow, Chen Fei showed no fear whatsoever; instead, he revealed a half-smile.
"You may not be afraid right now."
Chen Fei's voice was eerily calm, as if stating a simple fact: "But in a moment, you'll be scared."
Before he finished speaking, Chen Fei pointed his fingers like a sword and gently tapped the void in front of him.
"Buzz!"
In an instant, countless dazzling starlight points, imbued with the ultimate killing and destruction Daoist essence, appeared out of thin air.
They rapidly coalesced and stretched, transforming into billions of cold, sharp, and deadly sword beams that gleamed with a chilling light.
Like a devastating stellar storm, or a dam bursting in the Milky Way, it crashed down on Cao Youming and his massive wolf-tooth warhammer with overwhelming force.
"The power of the formation?"
When Cao Youming saw this sudden and terrifying attack, which far exceeded the capabilities expected of a late-stage fifteenth-level cultivator, his eyes widened slightly, and his face was filled with disbelief.
This is clearly an attack that could only be launched by an extremely powerful killing formation, but... where is the formation?
Countless questions flooded Cao Youming's mind in an instant, but at this moment, he had no time to seek the answers.
That destructive torrent of starlight sword energy was already close at hand.
"break!"
Cao Youming let out a roar, forcibly suppressing the shock in his heart, and poured all the demonic energy in his body into the warhammer in his hand.
The warhammer flashed with dark light, expanded in size once more, and slammed down fiercely into the sweeping storm of Immortal Slaughtering Sword Qi.
"boom!!"
The warhammer and the torrent of sword energy collided solidly.
A deafening, earth-shattering explosion suddenly erupted. A terrifying energy shockwave instantly spread out, distorting the surrounding space.
The warhammer, imbued with Cao Youming's fifteenth-tier ultimate power, was indeed incredibly powerful, shattering the dozens of Immortal Slaughtering Sword Qi at the forefront.
However, there were simply too many of those Immortal-Slaying Sword Auras, too dense, seemingly endless. Moreover, the stellar killing power contained within each sword aura was incomparably sharp, possessing an extremely strong restraining and annihilating effect on demonic energy.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
The continuous, dense sounds of impact, like raindrops pounding on banana leaves, brought Cao Youming's warhammer to a halt after shattering hundreds of sword energies, freezing it firmly in mid-air.
Immediately afterwards, even more Immortal Slaying Sword Qi surged forth, like a raging tide, instantly engulfing the massive wolf-tooth warhammer.
"Click..."
A faint yet chilling cracking sound rang out, and the dark luster on the surface of the warhammer dimmed rapidly, with fine cracks appearing on its body.
Drawn by the energy, Cao Youming was struck as if by a heavy blow, but before he could react, the endless Immortal Slaughtering Sword Qi had already pierced through the warhammer's defenses and surged toward his body.
Cao Youming's pupils contracted violently as he desperately activated his protective demonic energy.
"Chi chi chi!"
However, his seemingly powerful protective demonic energy was as fragile as paper before the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Qi. It was easily torn apart and pierced the moment they made contact.
Countless sword energies pierced Cao Youming's demonic body, and the violent power of the Star Calamity raged and destroyed within him.
A sharp pain instantly swept through Cao Youming's entire body.
Cao Youming spat out a mouthful of blood mist, his face turning pale.
With just one move and one collision, Cao Youming suffered a serious injury.
Cao Youming's gaze fluctuated violently. His previous premonition was correct. This cultivator at the late stage of the fifteenth level was an anomaly.
Escape! We must escape immediately, or we will die!
Blood Demon Soul Burning Technique!
Cao Youming bit his tongue sharply, spitting out a mouthful of his life essence blood, while simultaneously burning a portion of his divine soul origin.
"Oh!"
Cao Youming's entire demonic body suddenly exploded, turning into a thick, viscous blood mist.
The blood mist seemed to possess a life of its own, writhing violently. It suddenly broke free from the entanglement and lock-on of the surrounding Immortal Slaughtering Sword Qi, and fled frantically into the distance at a speed far exceeding its previous speed.
Cao Youming burned his source energy and transformed into blood to escape at an extremely fast speed. As the blood mist writhed, it looked as if he was about to completely break free from the battlefield.
However, almost at the same instant that Cao Youming's body exploded into a blood mist, Chen Fei already sensed something.
He raised his left hand, pointing his fingers like a sword, and gently tapped the rapidly escaping crimson blood mist in front of him.
"Buzz!"
A dazzling pillar of light, woven from five colors—gold, cyan, blue, red, and yellow—suddenly burst forth from his fingertips. The pillar of light was as solid as a physical object, radiating a terrifying aura capable of annihilating all things and cleansing the universe. Its speed was unbelievable, seemingly disregarding the distance of space.
The five-colored divine light arrived first, striking the rapidly writhing blood mist with perfect precision.
"what!"
A scream several times more shrill than before, filled with extreme pain, suddenly erupted from the blood mist.
The Five Elements Extinction Divine Light, with its inherent power of mutual restraint and destruction, has a deadly restraining effect on Cao Youming's demonic art of burning his life essence and transforming into a human form to escape.
The thick cloud of blood mist, the moment it was struck by the five-colored divine light, churned violently, boiling and evaporating as if it were ice and snow meeting the scorching sun.
In the next instant, a figure was thrown out of the blood mist that was about to completely dissipate, like a rag doll, and crashed heavily onto the scorched earth below, kicking up a cloud of dust.
It was Cao Youming. At this moment, his body was covered in blood and gore, and there was hardly an inch of intact skin left.
His demonic energy dissipated, his aura weakened to the extreme, and several shockingly large holes appeared on his body, with five-colored light remaining at the edges, constantly eroding his remaining life force.
The Five Elements Extinction Divine Light not only shattered Cao Youming's desperate Blood Escape Technique, but also directly plunged him into a state of severe injury and near death.
On the other side, the battle between Le Boyang and Ji Ruifeng, a fifteenth-level ultimate demonic cultivator, was equally intense.
As a level 15 ultimate demonic cultivator, Ji Ruifeng's strength is beyond doubt.
In his hand, a jet-black whip ripped through the sky with each swing, its condensed whip shadows containing terrifying destructive demonic energy, lashing out at Le Boyang from all sorts of tricky angles.
However, although Le Boyang was only at the mid-stage of the fifteenth level, he displayed combat power far exceeding his own level at this moment.
Thick, earthen-yellow light shields, resilient cyan vines, scorching red walls of fire... various defensive and trapping methods projected from the power of the Five Elements Grand Array appeared out of thin air, precisely blocking Ji Ruifeng's inevitable path of attack.
Although these defenses often crumbled within a breath or two under Ji Ruifeng's ferocious attacks, they always managed to buy Le Boyang a precious moment of respite at the most crucial moment, or interrupt the continuity of Ji Ruifeng's offensive.
Like a master strategist, Le Boyang, relying on his strength, engaged in a brilliant maneuver against an opponent far superior to himself.
He couldn't crush powerful enemies with ease like Chen Fei could.
However, Le Boyang successfully entangled Ji Ruifeng, making it impossible for this fifteenth-level extreme demonic cultivator to break free or escape.
That is enough.
"Snapped!"
Another sharp whip shattered a thick earthen shield, but Ji Ruifeng showed no joy on his face; instead, he became increasingly anxious.
A mere mid-stage fifteenth-level cultivator, relying on some strange power he borrowed from who-knows-where, managed to stick to him relentlessly, preventing him from escaping.
"what!"
Suddenly, Cao Youming's shrill screams, filled with extreme pain and despair, clearly reached Ji Ruifeng's ears.
Ji Ruifeng subconsciously turned his head to look, and his expression changed drastically upon seeing what he saw.
In the distance, Cao Youming was covered in blood.
"How is this possible? It's only been a short time." Ji Ruifeng's eyes trembled, and a chilling coldness instantly shot from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
Cao Youming's strength is no less than his.
How could he have been beaten into such a state in such a short time?
If Cao Youming were to perish here today, wouldn't Ji Ruifeng be next?
"No, we must leave immediately, right now!"
Boundless fear instantly filled Ji Ruifeng's mind, and he no longer cared about the consumption or the cost.
"Go away!"
Ji Ruifeng let out a hysterical roar, his eyes instantly turning blood red. He didn't hesitate to burn a portion of his painstakingly cultivated primordial demonic energy.
"Boom!"
An incredibly violent power erupted from his body. The jet-black whip in Ji Ruifeng's hand roared like a living demonic dragon, its dark light flashing and its size suddenly expanding several times.
"die!"
With his arms bulging and all his strength, Ji Ruifeng lashed out at Le Boyang with the terrifying whip that contained the power of his burning origin, like a towering pillar.
This whip was far more powerful than before, as if it could split the entire world in two.
Le Boyang sensed the earth-shattering power contained in the whip, and his expression tightened slightly. He rapidly moved his hands in front of him, forming a profound hand seal.
"Buzz!"
In an instant, five colors of light—gold, cyan, blue, red, and yellow—soared into the sky, intertwining and circulating, instantly coalescing in front of him into a towering barrier flowing with the Daoist principles of the Five Elements.
"boom!"
Ji Ruifeng's violent whip, burning with his very essence, struck the Five Elements Rotation Barrier squarely.
A deafening roar erupted, the surface of the barrier trembled violently, rippling with countless waves and even cracks appearing, but it did not shatter immediately, successfully blocking this terrifying attack.
Seeing that Le Boyang had shifted from his previous hit-and-run tactics to a full-fledged defensive stance, Ji Ruifeng felt a sense of relief.
"good chance!"
A hint of joy flashed in Ji Ruifeng's eyes, and he was about to take advantage of this moment to immediately turn away and flee.
However, just as he moved, before he had even truly started, a strong, suffocating sense of oppression suddenly came from behind him.
Ji Ruifeng's expression changed drastically, and he instinctively turned around sharply to look.
A towering stone figure, ten feet tall and composed entirely of chaotic-colored divine stone, exuding a majestic and imposing aura, appeared silently a hundred feet behind him.
The stone man's enormous, indistinct stone face stared coldly at him, its massive arms, shimmering with chaotic light, already raised, blocking all possible escape routes for him.
There are fortified walls in front and stone figures blocking the way behind.
Ji Ruifeng's face instantly turned ashen.
At the very back of the battlefield, the battle between Zheng Hongtao and Zou Ziqian, a late-stage fifteenth-level demonic cultivator, seemed much less intense.
Although Zheng Hongtao himself was seriously injured and weak, as the saying goes, even a starved camel is bigger than a horse.
He was, after all, a genuine level 15 cultivator at the limit. His foundation in Yuan Power, comprehension of rules, and combat experience far surpassed those of Zou Ziqian, an ordinary level 15 late-stage demonic cultivator.
At this moment, Zheng Hongtao had completely suppressed Zou Ziqian, leaving him powerless to fight back, and he was about to give up.
However, Zheng Hongtao's mind was not entirely on his opponent at the moment.
He kept most of his attention focused on the two more crucial battles in the distance.
Zheng Hongtao watched as Le Boyang, at the mid-stage of the fifteenth level, used a strange array to entangle a fifteenth-level ultimate demonic cultivator.
He watched as Chen Fei, at the late stage of the fifteenth level, was about to kill a stronger fifteenth-level ultimate demonic cultivator as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.
"what!"
Just then, a roar filled with endless resentment, unwillingness and despair, like the wail of a dying beast, suddenly came from Cao Youming's mouth.
He struggled to raise his head, his crimson demonic eyes fixed on the figure in green robes before him, as if trying to imprint the other's image into the depths of his soul.
Then, Cao Youming lowered his head with difficulty and looked at his chest.
That place is no longer just a simple hole.
Countless sword energies, refined to their ultimate form, had completely torn his chest apart and annihilated him. This destructive power was also frantically destroying his remaining demonic body, eroding the essence of his arduous cultivation, and tearing apart his resilient demonic soul.
Cao Youming could clearly feel his life slipping away, his consciousness irreversibly sinking into boundless darkness...
Chen Fei stood still, calmly watching the scene unfold before her.
He never showed the slightest pity or mercy to his enemies.
"Boom..."
With the final burst of power from the Immortal Slaughtering Sword, Cao Youming's remaining demonic body could no longer hold on. With a muffled bang, it exploded completely, turning into a thick, dark red blood mist that reeked of a foul odor.
Within the blood mist, faint fragments of dark, remnant souls could be seen struggling and writhing, emitting silent wails. However, they were quickly and thoroughly cleansed and purified by the sharp aftershocks of the sword energy, dissipating into nothingness.
(End of this chapter)