"I'll kill you." Little Ann said indifferently. His clothes drifted about as he flickered, avoiding the entangling tendrils and drawing his sword back. The Buddha Slaying sword in his hand was just as translucent and bone-white as before. It did not seem to possess any power, but the damage it caused was even more lethal than Ye Duanhai's strike.
In terms of quality, the Buddha Slaying sword could not even match up to the Sea-splitting sword that Ye Duanhai had refined for many years. It could not produce such magnificent light, nor could it vary as much. It was only extraordinarily tough and sharp. Only after ripping apart the enemy's body could its power be demonstrated.
Even if it was just an insignificant scratch, it would become a fatal injury.
Li Qingshan faced him head-on, drawing his attention, while Little Ann used this opportunity to launch a sneak attack and deal a fatal strike. This was a tacit understanding they had developed ever since they roamed the jianghu. It was still effective against a Demon King right now.
"Well said!" Li Qingshan pressed down hard with his hands, and the power of tremors whistled out. Immediately, many illusionary, black cracks appeared around his hands. Wherever the cracks reached, the tendrils all snapped.
The Thousand Tendrils King rapidly shrank. He could no longer regenerate his severed tendrils. Not only did he have to suppress the terrifying sword wound, but he also had to fend off Li Qingshan's terrifying power of the ox demon.
"Arghhhhh!"
A crack suddenly appeared on the huge ball of flesh, like a huge mouth. There was even a tongue in there, producing a sharp but soundless howl at Li Qingshan. Invisible waves of demonic consciousness spread out in all directions.
The demonfolk on the barren mountain all collapsed, their souls forcefully ripped apart. In the surrounding jungle, demon monkeys fell from the treetops. All the creatures within a range of a hundred kilometers died on the spot.
Even Ye Duanhai felt his soul receive a powerful blow. He dismissed his thoughts in a hurry. The Thousand Tendrils King sensed life-threatening danger. He was about to throw his life away.
Li Qingshan felt his head buzz. His ears rang, and his soul surged.
The Thousand Tendrils King used this opportunity to extend his huge tongue and lick Li Qingshan's face viciously. He licked away half of his face, revealing his hideous facial bones.
"What delicious flesh and blood. I will remember your taste. Your name is Li Qingshan. Don't worry, I will not forget this enmity. I will let you see your loved ones die in front of you one by one!"
As the Thousand Tendrils King cursed viciously, he rapidly fell towards the Demon Cavern. In an instant, more than half of his body entered the Demon Cavern.
"You want to escape?" Li Qingshan punched down, the billowing demonic aura transformed into the power of vibration. The punch landed on the void, and cracks spread out in all directions like black lightning. It was as if a painting had been shattered, and even the moonlight was split apart.
"Impossible!" The Thousand Tendrils King was terrified. A power that could destroy space was extremely rare even among Demon Kings. How could a fellow who had not even undergone the second heavenly tribulation do it? With this inconceivable feeling, his body split into hundreds of pieces.
Originally, the current Li Qingshan did not have the ability to shatter the void. Even if he underwent another heavenly tribulation, he could only make those illusory spatial cracks a little more visible. This was because the space of a world was extremely stable. If it was that easy to shatter, the world would have been torn apart long ago.
The crux was that the Demon Cavern was a passageway that connected two worlds. The space was extremely unstable. Li Qingshan had used this move before to kill the Corpse King from the Hungry Ghost Realm. Now, he was merely using the same trick again.
"Haha, great strength creates miracles!" Li Qingshan was very satisfied with the effect of this punch. Even he did not dare to touch those black spatial cracks.
"You can't kill me. I will return!" Every piece of the Thousand Tendrils King's flesh turned into a brand new ball of flesh. They opened hundreds of eyes and stared at Li Qingshan viciously. The hundreds of mouths spoke at the same time. Just like that, they passed through the collapsed Demon Cavern and escaped towards the Demon Domain.
"Then come back. Gravity of the Earth!" Li Qingshan spread his hands and used his ability.
If the Thousand Tendrils King was still a single entity, then even Li Qingshan might not have been able to keep him busy with his colossal body and tough body. However, now that he had split into several hundred pieces, he was nowhere close to fending him off.
The several hundred balls of flesh were pulled over by an invisible force, flying out of the Demon Cavern again. Every single eye was filled with fear now. Boom!
Boom! Boom!
Boom! Li Qingshan punched out with both fists, shattering the space around the Demon Cavern even more. He diced the several hundred balls of flesh into thousands of pieces.
Little Ann used this opportunity to swing the Blood Sea Banner. A river of blood swept up the pieces of flesh one by one. The Skull Prayer Beads scattered in the air, turning into skulls that spat out the Samādhi Flames of White Bone as they cackled.
The pieces of flesh were either sucked into the river of blood or set alight by the Samādhi Flames of White Bone. Their colossal bodies and powerful flesh became the best resources for the Path of White Bone and Great Beauty.
The river of blood surged and the flames roared, swallowing the corpses of countless demonfolk on the barren mountain.
By the time Little Ann stowed the Blood Sea Banner away and Li Qingshan had reverted to human form, the surroundings had already become clean. There was not a single demonfolk to be seen. The lonely moon shone with clear light, landing on the barren mountain. Only the two giant footprints and the countless shattered spatial rifts were proof that a battle had taken place.
Li Qingshan sucked in a deep breath and stretched his arms. Demon Kings aren't that difficult to kill!
However, he also understood that the huge ball of flesh had first been weakened by Ye Duanhai, then suffered a sneak attack from Little Ann, and in the end, Li Qingshan had blasted open a spatial crack. Its original path of escape had become a fatal trap. It had suffered from the right timing, geographical location, and people. It would be difficult for it to survive even if it wanted to!
Ye Duanhai, who was watching the battle, was stunned too. He had clashed with the Thousand Tendrils King several times, but he had not even managed to force him into the demon cavern, much less kill him. He had actually been finished off cleanly by Li Qingshan and Little Ann when they worked together. He could not help but find it a little unreal. After calming down and imagining it, if he had been encircled and ambushed by them instead, his life would also be in danger.
Of course, if Ye Duanhai threw all caution to the wind, he could force the Thousand Tendrils King into dire straits. However, the Thousand Tendrils King would definitely drag someone down with him before he died, and that would be almost certain death. It was impossible for Ye Duanhai to perish together with his enemy. No cultivator would do that either.
The main reason why Li Qingshan was bold enough to face the Thousand Tendrils King head-on was because of the Phoenix's Nirvāṇa. If you're bold enough to perish together with me, I'm bold enough to die with you once.
"Alright, one down!" Li Qingshan returned to Ye Duanhai. "Thank you for weakening this bastard, pavilion master Ye, which was why we could kill him successfully. Otherwise, just the formation alone would be enough of a headache."
"There's no need to be so polite. Even without me, you can still kill him."
Ye Duanhai could not help but reevaluate Li Qingshan and Little Ann. During the battle on Fire Melt mountain, Li Qingshan had spent most of the time working with Gongyuan, while Little Ann had never taken action. Although he had played a crucial role in the victory of the battle, only now had he completely demonstrated his strength, so he could not help but take him seriously.
"Though, I do have a request. I hope you won't make the exact details of what happened tonight known, pavilion master Ye. It might come in handy against the Demon Kings of the other demon caverns."
"Do you think I'm a talkative person?" Ye Duanhai had realised a long time ago that what Little Ann used was definitely not a buddhist technique, or in other words, the two of them did not seem like buddhist disciples at all. They had far too many secrets that they did not wish for others to learn about. Compared to demonfolk, they were probably even more reluctant for the Chan Monastery of Deva-Nāga to learn about them.
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