49: King-level pursuit

Yongning City—the most prosperous commercial port and vital town in southern Jizhou! Three Divine Sea Dominators were stationed there, with nearly twenty Gui Zhen Realm (Return to Simplicity Realm - Cultivation Realm) experts!

At this moment, the entire colossal city was completely enveloped by thick, ink-like black clouds that churned and roiled.

“Boom! Boom! Boom!—!”

Muffled thunderous roars exploded continuously! Dark purple electric serpents wildly darted and weaved through the clouds!

Outside the city walls, a tide of demons and monsters roared and charged! Foul-smelling saliva dripped onto the green bricks, and sharp claws scraped against the profound iron city walls, sparking dazzling fire!

Above the cloud peak, Xia Ruofeng's silver spear trembled. He stood shoulder to shoulder with Zeng Jie and Fa Ning, their robes flapping wildly in the violent airflow.

Their gazes were like torches, firmly locked onto the four figures a thousand meters away, who exuded monstrous demonic might!

A hundred-zhang tall demonic ape's fangs dripped with scorching magma, and its colossal lava club steamed with a pungent sulfurous odor!

A five-meter tall bull-horned giant, with dark scales shimmering with cold light, made the Void Realm tremble and shatter with every step!

A purple-haired Beautiful Woman's bat wings fluttered lightly, blood mist swirling around her eerie fingertips; a blood-robed middle-aged man's lips curled into a cruel smile, and countless wailing blood-colored skeletons floated around him!

Invisible Divine Thoughts fiercely collided, erupting in ear-piercing shrieks! The air exploded into visible, distorted ripples!

“Demon Heaven! It’s been over ten years since we last fought, hasn’t it?” Xia Ruofeng pointed his silver spear askance, his tone mocking, “I truly didn’t expect that with your arrogance, you would stoop to joining forces with others?”

Demon Heaven Revered King—a Dominator of the Ape Demon Race! Over ten years ago, he battled Xia Ruofeng, and both sides were injured!

Xia Ruofeng knew his terror well: his Physical Body was almost invincible, his strength domineering over heaven and earth! He could only contend by relying on his evasion techniques to entangle him.

As for the other three unfamiliar King-class demons... if they were all of the same Realm as Demon Heaven, then today would be perilous!

“Xia Monkey! Don’t try to provoke me!” Demon Heaven's voice was as low as rolling thunder, reverberating across the sky, “This King acts on the Dominator’s command! The three of you, will you obediently watch the city fall, or will you play with us first?”

“Demon Heaven, this Human Race… is he very strong?” The bull-horned giant grunted with a cold laugh, glancing at Xia Ruofeng.

“You can certainly try!” Demon Heaven responded indifferently, his arrogance unyielding.

Had it not been for the Dominator’s strict order, he would disdain to join forces with any demon or monster, let alone gang up on someone!

High-level demons and monsters were no less intelligent than the Human Race, and their racial animosities ran even deeper.

At this moment, with the four demons gathered, the atmosphere was icy.

“Heh heh, since the two of you are being modest, I’ll warm up first!” The blood-robed middle-aged man grinned and raised his hand, and a hundred-zhang blood shadow giant materialized out of thin air!

Its giant fist, carrying a bloody gale, smashed down with a roar! The surrounding clouds were instantly stained crimson!

Xia Ruofeng and the other two's expressions drastically changed, and they scattered instantly!

“Blood Demon Race!” Zeng Jie gripped his serrated great saber, his expression grave.

“Senior Xia! Brother Zeng! Leave this fiend to me!” Fa Ning retreated a hundred meters, orange-red flames flashing in his eyes! A towering flame giant, no less impressive, surged forth from his body!

“Good!” Xia Ruofeng nodded.

Zeng Jie tacitly retreated, yielding the battlefield.

“Since Brother Xue has already made his move, then this humble one shall pick this fellow~” Before her coquettish laughter faded, the purple-haired Beautiful Woman's figure appeared like a phantom to Zeng Jie's left!

Her pitch-black sharp claws tore through the air, aiming directly for his head!

“Clang!”

Zeng Jie reacted with lightning speed, his great saber spinning to block, barely parrying a fatal claw strike aimed at his back!

Above the dark clouds, the King-class battle erupted instantly! The bull-horned giant roared and lunged at Xia Ruofeng! Only Demon Heaven, holding his colossal lava club, watched with cold eyes. But this invisible deterrence forced the three Human Race experts to divide their attention and remain on guard, leaving them constrained!

Below in the city, the battle was utterly brutal! Calamity-rank Demons and Human Race Gui Zhen Realm (Return to Simplicity Realm - Cultivation Realm) experts fought to the death beneath the dark clouds! Demonic Qi and True Essence collided with thunderous roars! However, the number of Human Race experts was far inferior to that of the demons and monsters, with almost every one of them being besieged by two opponents of the same Realm, putting them in grave danger!

“Whoosh—!”

Just then, a streak of green light pierced through the gloomy clouds and plummeted towards Yongning City!

Demon Heaven slightly raised his huge eyes, his Divine Sense sweeping over it. “A Condensing Aperture Realm little bug?” He indifferently withdrew his gaze, continuing to focus on the King-class battlefield.

Xiao Zhuo had already sensed the terrifying aura above the cloud peak, yet he showed no fear! With Yongning City in crisis, having accepted the mission, how could he stand by and do nothing?

The green light traced an eerie arc, and the dragon blood saber flashed with cold brilliance! It lunged directly at three Calamity-rank Demons who were cornering a Human Race Gui Zhen Realm (Return to Simplicity Realm - Cultivation Realm) into a desperate situation!

The green light swept past!

“Puff, puff, puff—!”

The three ferocious demons and monsters instantly turned into scattered fragments! The Gui Zhen Realm (Return to Simplicity Realm - Cultivation Realm) expert, having escaped certain death, did not hesitate, his Divine Sense locking onto the nearest battle group as he rushed to assist!

Xiao Zhuo's attack was utterly ruthless! The saber strike, imbued with Saber Intent and pure True Essence, instantly completely extinguished the demons' vitality, cutting off any possibility of regeneration!

He was like a hurricane of death; wherever he passed, demon and monster experts fell like stalks of wheat!

“Hmm?!” When the number of Calamity-rank Demons sharply decreased to roughly match that of the Human Race, Demon Heaven finally noticed something was wrong!

“Roar—!”

A sky-shaking roar! A colossal, black-furred, magma-entwined giant palm fiercely pierced through the dark clouds and slammed down towards Xiao Zhuo's location! The space itself seemed to be crushed!

Xiao Zhuo, who was in the midst of assaulting a bat demon, felt an intense warning in his heart! He decisively withdrew his saber and retreated rapidly!

“Boom—!!!”

The green light narrowly escaped, grazing the edge of the giant palm! But the giant palm did not pause, slamming down with destructive force!

The bat demon and a Human Race Gui Zhen Realm (Return to Simplicity Realm - Cultivation Realm) expert who couldn't dodge in time instantly exploded into two bloody mists!

“What a cunning brat! How dare you feign your Realm!” Demon Heaven's thunderous roar echoed across the battlefield, and countless gazes looked up at the sky in horror!

Xiao Zhuo's expression darkened—he was exposed!

In just a dozen breaths, relying on the Spirit Concealment Art to feign the Condensing Aperture Realm, he had instantly killed over ten Calamity-rank Demons, and was on the verge of turning the tide!

A powerful and unparalleled Divine Sense, like a chain, firmly bound him! Xiao Zhuo's figure flickered repeatedly, fleeing far outside the city!

“Trying to escape?” Demon Heaven Revered King's massive body shattered the dark clouds, plummeting like a meteor in hot pursuit! “Human Race Prodigy, since you've come, don't leave!”

His eyes gleamed with deep-seated hatred for “Prodigies”! As an ape demon who, despite an inferior Bloodline, had risen to become a King, he most loathed these inherently brilliant existences!

Green light in front, demonic shadow behind! Both accelerated to their limits, one chasing, one fleeing, covering hundreds of miles in an instant!

“Rumble!”

An incense stick's time later, in a desolate mountain area, the green light abruptly stopped!

“What? Not running anymore?” Demon Heaven Revered King's colossal body appeared as if by teleportation a hundred meters away, a cruel, cat-and-mouse amusement on his ape-like face.

“Run?” Xiao Zhuo stood in mid-air, his tone icy to the bone, “I was merely clearing the field!”

A terrifying Concept, reaching up to the heavens and down to the earth, erupted from him with a roar, stirring up the wind and clouds!

“Concept?!” Demon Heaven's huge pupils suddenly contracted, then he burst into thunderous laughter, “Hahaha! Comprehending a Concept in the Gui Zhen Realm (Return to Simplicity Realm - Cultivation Realm)?! Good! What a peerless Prodigy! But do you think a mere Concept can contend with this King?!”

Before his words finished, the colossal lava club had already torn through the sky, smashing down with overwhelming force! The violent wind pressure snapped ancient trees below in swathes!

“Today… I'll slay you!” Xiao Zhuo's eyes blazed with fierce light. Instead of retreating, he advanced, charging towards the world-destroying giant club!

“Buzz—!”

The Tiangang Saber Domain suddenly expanded! From ten zhang, it instantly surged to a hundred zhang! The semi-transparent, sharp Domain, like the maw of a giant beast, instantly devoured Demon Heaven Revered King's mountain-like colossal body!