322: Chapter 322 Demon King (Two Chapters Combined)

The Northern Plains.

Sharp claws scraped against the hard ice.

Coal Ball's pitch-black fur had long since been frozen into hard, icy needles.

It crawled out of the deep crater it had crashed into with great difficulty.

Its limbs were trembling violently.

The violent turbulence of the Great Void had left dozens of gashes on its body, some so deep they exposed the bone.

As soon as the black blood seeped out of its flesh, it was instantly frozen by the terrifying extreme cold of the Northern Plains.

It turned into grains of dark red blood-ice, clattering onto the snow.

Coal Ball couldn't care less about its own injuries.

It whipped its head around and opened its fanged maw wide.

It bit down hard on the piece of blackish-green withered wood embedded deep in the hard ice.

The Bloodline Power of the Heaven-Swallowing Hou surged wildly within its body.

Its tiny body erupted with a brutal, immense strength.

Crack.

The ice within a ten-zhang radius cracked inch by inch.

Coal Ball forcibly dragged the withered wood, which carried Gu Changsheng's true spirit, out from beneath the ground.

Wind and snow raged.

A Protective Aura wind, mixed with fist-sized ice crystals, roughly shaved across this lifeless wasteland.

Coal Ball shielded the withered wood beneath its belly.

Facing the freezing wind that was enough to tear apart its Protective Aura, it took its steps with difficulty.

Cold.

A bone-chilling extreme cold.

This Northern Plains absolute land, millions of miles away, was simply not suitable for any living being that did not possess the water or ice attribute.

But Coal Ball had only one obsessive thought in its mind.

Find a warm place.

Hide Master well.

Its vertical pupils narrowed into extremely thin black lines as it fully activated its innate sense of smell.

It greedily captured every faint change in temperature in the air.

After trudging across the ice field for a full three hours.

Coal Ball's limbs had almost completely lost all sensation.

Finally.

Deep within a steep glacier rift, it caught a whiff of a pungent sulfur smell.

Geothermal heat.

Coal Ball's spirits were greatly lifted.

It bit the withered wood and climbed down the steep ice walls of the rift bit by bit.

Its sharp claws dug firmly into the hard ice.

Several times it was nearly swept into the bottomless abyss by the gale.

Half an hour later.

A hidden natural limestone cave, emitting a faint red light from within, appeared at the bottom of the rift.

Coal Ball dragged the withered wood and scrambled into the cave's entrance.

The warm air that rushed over it caused its stiff muscles to suddenly relax.

Deep inside the cave, a tiny geothermal spring was bubbling with mud.

The surrounding rocks were baked warm.

Coal Ball carefully dragged the withered wood to the driest, flat rock closest to the spring.

It circled the withered wood three times.

It carefully inspected every blackish-green line on the surface of the wood.

No damage.

Although its master's aura was weak, it was still stable.

Coal Ball finally couldn't hold on any longer.

Its legs gave way, and it collapsed heavily beside the withered wood.

The warm rock baked its battered body.

The frozen black blood gradually melted and dripped onto the ground along its fur.

Coal Ball tiredly stuck out its tongue and licked away the ice crystals stuck to the surface of the wood bit by bit.

Then it curled its entire body into a ball.

It pressed itself tightly against the withered wood.

Attempting to use the last of its body heat to warm this cold piece of wood.

It closed its eyes, a faint purring sound coming from its throat.

It would guard this place.

Even if the heavens fell, it would never retreat a single step.

Until its master opened his eyes once more.

Time slowly passed in this deathly silent cave.

An unknown amount of time passed.

The complex blackish-green lines on the surface of the withered wood began to flow without warning.

Hum.

A pure cyan halo, exuding an aura of immortality, slowly overflowed from within the withered wood.

primordial wood golden nature.

This wisp of the most fundamental vitality in heaven and earth was undergoing a deep fusion with Gu Changsheng's true spirit.

The trace of aura that dissipated during the fusion process.

To the Yao Beasts of the Northern Plains, who lacked resources and were shrouded in deathly silence year-round.

It was simply a fatal poison.

Ten thousand times more enticing than any Heaven And Earth Treasure.

Outside the cave, in the wind and snow.

Several eerie, ghostly green points of light quietly lit up at the edge of the rift.

They were three Snowfield Wind Wolves, their sizes comparable to adult bulls.

Foundation Establishment strength.

They greedily twitched their noses.

The majestic vitality floating up from the bottom of the rift drove these three starving Vicious Beasts into a complete frenzy.

Swoosh.

Three white afterimages nimbly slid down the ice wall.

Heading straight for the cave.

Inside the cave.

Coal Ball's closed eyes suddenly snapped open.

Its vertical pupils instantly narrowed into highly aggressive needle-like points.

It keenly captured the faint sound of snow being stepped on outside the cave entrance.

Something had its eyes on this place.

Coal Ball slowly stood up.

The fierce instinct of the Heaven-Swallowing Hou completely overwhelmed its pain and exhaustion at this moment.

It arched its back, every strand of its pitch-black fur standing on end.

It stood firmly in front of the withered wood.

The three Snowfield Wind Wolves cautiously peeked into the cave.

Their ghostly green vertical pupils stared fixedly at the piece of withered wood emitting cyan light.

Greedy saliva dripped from their fangs, sizzling as it hit the rocks and releasing white smoke.

They didn't care about the small black cat standing in their way at all.

The lead Wind Wolf's hind legs suddenly exerted force.

It pounced brutally toward the withered wood on the rock.

Attempting to swallow this peerless Opportunity in one gulp.

The moment it took flight.

Coal Ball moved.

There were no fancy movements.

A black afterimage abruptly tore a crack in mid-air.

Its space-devouring talent roared into action.

A smooth black void appeared at the lead Wind Wolf's neck without any warning.

It didn't even manage a full scream.

The massive wolf head was brutally severed.

It was sucked directly into the spatial rift.

The headless wolf corpse crashed powerlessly to the ground.

Scalding wolf blood sprayed out, splattering all over the walls.

The remaining two Wind Wolves were pale with horror.

They hadn't even seen how their companion died.

Extreme terror made them instinctively want to retreat.

Too late.

Coal Ball pounced forward fiercely.

Sharp space-cutting power was wrapped around its claws.

Rip.

A crisp tearing sound exploded inside the cave.

The Wind Wolf on the left had its body brutally split in two from the middle.

Internal organs and intestines spilled all over the ground.

The last Wind Wolf was scared out of its wits and turned to flee out of the cave.

Coal Ball opened its mouth wide.

A terrifying devouring suction force erupted.

The Wind Wolf's limbs clawed frantically at the ground, but it couldn't move forward a single step.

Desperately, it was dragged back into the cave by the suction force.

Coal Ball bit its throat in one go.

Its fangs ruthlessly pierced the windpipe.

Crack.

The neck bone shattered.

The Wind Wolf twitched twice and was completely dead.

In just two breaths.

Three Foundation Establishment Vicious Beasts had been slaughtered in a one-sided massacre.

Coal Ball let go and spat out a mouthful of bloody wolf fur in disgust.

It walked over to the three corpses.

Its claws skillfully sliced open their skulls.

It pulled out three Yao cores that emitted an icy aura.

It tilted its head back and swallowed them whole.

Violent Yao power exploded within its body.

Coal Ball endured the intense pain from the attribute conflict and roughly converted this power into nourishment to repair its Physical Body.

It had to recover its strength as quickly as possible.

These three Wind Wolves were just cannon fodder scouting the way.

The leaking vitality would definitely attract even more terrifying monsters.

Coal Ball dragged the three mangled wolf corpses.

It painstakingly piled them at the outermost edge of the cave.

Attempting to use the strong smell of blood to mask the vitality emitted by the withered wood.

After doing all this.

It returned to the withered wood once more.

It lay down quietly.

Its vertical pupils stared fixedly at the dark cave entrance.

The slaughter had only just begun.

Over the next seven days.

This hidden rift completely became a meat grinder for Yao Beasts.

The vitality leaking from the withered wood became more and more concentrated.

Every Yao Beast within a radius of hundreds of miles fell into a frenzy.

Wave after wave of beast tides charged at the cave, unafraid of death.

Frost Demon Bears.

Snow Jade Poison Spiders.

Extreme Cold Flying Centipedes.

All sorts of fierce Northern species swarmed into the rift one after another.

Coal Ball did not retreat an inch.

It stood guard firmly in front of that flat rock.

Turning into a cold-blooded killing machine.

It pushed its space-devouring talent to the limit.

Every time it swung its claws, it would bring about a large spray of blood.

Every time it opened its mouth, it would devour a precious Yao core.

The ice walls outside the cave had long since been stained completely red with thick beast blood.

Severed limbs and broken internal organs piled up into a mound made of enemy heads.

New wounds were added to Coal Ball's body before the old ones could heal.

A hideous centipede poison scar stretched from the corner of its left eye all the way to its back.

The flesh was turned outward, deep enough to see the bone.

But it didn't care at all.

Having devoured a massive amount of high-level Yao Beast flesh and blood.

The Heaven-Swallowing Hou Bloodline within Coal Ball's body underwent a violent atavism.

Its body, which was originally only the size of a palm, strangely expanded by a size.

Its pitch-black fur became glossy, faintly shimmering with a ghostly light that seemed to devour light itself.

Right in the center of its forehead, a dark golden king's mark subtly emerged.

Every breath it took was accompanied by the sound of muffled thunder.

It was growing stronger and stronger.

And more and more ferocious.

Until late in the night on the eighth day.

A terrifying pressure descended upon the rift without warning.

A Purple Mansion Yao King.

The low-level Yao Beasts that were still greedily wandering around.

Instantly fell to the ground in fear before this pressure, their bodies trembling violently.

Boom!

The hard ice at the top of the rift was brutally smashed.

A four-clawed Ice Flood Dragon, dozens of zhang long and covered in ice-blue scales.

Roughly landed outside the cave.

An extremely cold frost breath instantly froze the mountain of corpses outside the cave into ice sculptures.

The Ice Flood Dragon greedily stared at the cyan halo deep within the cave.

Its massive body completely blocked the cave entrance.

It opened its bloody maw.

Violent Gui Water Origin turned into an ice-blue pillar of light.

It blasted straight toward the depths of the cave.

Attempting to completely obliterate every living thing inside.

Coal Ball stood in front of the withered wood.

The dark golden king's mark on its forehead lit up blindingly.

It didn't dodge at all.

It opened its mouth wide.

Its space-devouring talent erupted wildly.

A pitch-black black hole, several zhang in size, formed in front of it with a roar.

The ice-blue pillar of light, which was enough to shatter mountains.

Brutally crashed into the black hole.

Without even making a sound, it was completely devoured into the depths of the Great Void.

The Ice Flood Dragon's vertical pupils suddenly contracted.

It stared in bewilderment at the black cat, whose size was not even comparable to one of its teeth.

It simply could not understand why its full-strength attack had vanished into thin air.

Coal Ball didn't give it any chance to think.

Its hind legs exerted a wild force.

The rock instantly shattered.

It turned into a black bolt of lightning, pouncing fiercely toward the Ice Flood Dragon.

The Ice Flood Dragon was enraged.

Its thick dragon tail, carrying a sonic boom that tore the air.

Heavily whipped toward Coal Ball in mid-air.

Coal Ball didn't dodge or evade.

Its claws extended with precision.

space-cutting power circulated rapidly at the tips of its claws.

Rip.

The ear-piercing sound of metal scraping exploded.

The indestructible ice-blue scales were brutally torn open with five gashes that exposed the bone.

Flood Dragon blood sprayed wildly.

The Ice Flood Dragon let out a shrill scream.

It violently rolled its massive body, attempting to shake off this sinister black cat.

Coal Ball bit down hard on the Ice Flood Dragon's wound.

Its devouring talent was activated greedily.

It gulped down mouthfuls of pure Flood Dragon essence blood.

The flesh and blood of a Purple Mansion level Yao Beast contained terrifying energy.

Every strand of Coal Ball's fur stood on end.

The bones inside its body let out overworked popping sounds.

It endured the Ice Flood Dragon's frantic slamming.

Allowing its back to be smashed against the ice wall until it was a bloody mess.

It simply would not let go.

The two beasts engaged in the most primitive brawl at the bottom of the narrow rift.

Ice shattered.

Rocks collapsed.

They fought for a full half-hour.

The Ice Flood Dragon's struggle slowly weakened.

A small half of the essence blood in its body had been brutally drained.

Extreme weakness and fear completely shattered the fierce might of this Northern overlord.

It twisted its body desperately, attempting to flee this sinister cave.

“Roar!”

A low growl rolled from Coal Ball's throat.

The dark golden king's mark shone brilliantly.

It let go and nimbly leaped onto the Ice Flood Dragon's head.

Its right claw was raised high.

A pitch-black spatial rift was compressed wildly at the tip of its claw.

It turned into a sharp, invisible blade.

It was plunged ruthlessly into the Ice Flood Dragon's reverse scale death point!

Pfft.

The hard skull was brutally pierced.

Spatial strangulation power exploded within the Ice Flood Dragon's mind.

It completely shredded its Yao soul into pieces.

The Ice Flood Dragon's massive body twitched violently twice.

It crashed heavily onto the ground covered in ice shards.

It was completely dead.

Coal Ball crawled down from the Flood Dragon's head with difficulty.

It was covered in blood, and its left front leg was twisted at a strange angle.

Clearly, it had broken in the fight just now.

But it raised its head proudly.

The king's mark on its forehead exuded a terrifying pressure.

Its vertical pupils coldly swept over the Yao Beasts still peeking from above the rift.

Every Yao Beast that came into contact with this gaze.

Was scared out of its wits.

They scrambled and crawled to flee this area.

Even a Purple Mansion level Ice Flood Dragon had been bitten to death alive.

This place hid a living King of Hell that absolutely could not be provoked.

Coal Ball painstakingly dragged its broken left leg.

It walked back to the cave, leaving a bloody print with every step.

It didn't bother with the precious Ice Flood Dragon corpse outside.

Instead, it went straight to the withered wood.

It slumped down, exhausted.

The warm rock baked its battered shell.

Coal Ball gently stuck out its tongue.

It licked away a drop of Flood Dragon blood that had splattered onto the surface of the wood during the battle.

It closed its eyes.

A faint purring sound came from its throat once more.

Peace.

Stubbornness.

After this tragic battle to establish its might.

The rift became completely quiet.

Yao Beasts within a hundred-mile radius tacitly designated this place as an absolute forbidden zone.

No other blind Vicious Beast dared to take half a step inside.

The Ice Flood Dragon's massive corpse lay abruptly across the cave entrance.

Exuding a terrifying Purple Mansion pressure.

It became the most perfect boundary stone for this territory.

Time slowly passed in the extreme cold.

Snowstorm after snowstorm fell.

Heavily burying the mountain of corpses outside the cave.

Only the Ice Flood Dragon's hideous horns were left exposed.

Inside the cave.

Coal Ball's life became regular.

It went out on time every day to patrol its territory.

Brutally hunting down any prey that dared to approach the border.

Devouring flesh and blood, refining its Bloodline.

Its size grew steadily.

The previously broken left leg had long since healed perfectly.

Its muscles were knotted throughout its body, filled with explosive power.

The Heaven-Swallowing Hou king's mark was clearly imprinted on its forehead.

It had already subtly become the terrifying uncrowned king of this ice field.

But no matter how long it spent patrolling outside.

Before nightfall every day.

Coal Ball would definitely return to the cave on time.

It would carefully shake off the wind and snow from its body.

And walk gently to the flat rock.

The cyan halo on the surface of the withered wood became more and more restrained.

Those complex lines were already beginning to show a trace of Perfection Golden Core dao rhyme.

Coal Ball lay quietly beside the withered wood.

Its chin rested on its two front paws.

Its vertical eyes stared at the piece of wood without blinking.

Outside was the violent wind and snow.

Inside was the faint geothermal heat.

It was not anxious.

It was not in a hurry.

It waited patiently.

It absolutely believed.

That one day.

This cold withered wood would suddenly crack open.

That familiar hand.

Would casually mess up the fur on its forehead.

Until that day arrived.

It would stubbornly guard this place.

Tearing apart every living thing that dared to approach.