687: Chapter 98 Sweeping Away the Demons

Internal Alchemy fire!

A Spell derived from a further qualitative change after an Internal Alchemy Spell Cultivator reaches the Yang Spirit manifestation stage.

Although it is a Spell, it is more like an innate Divine Ability, and its specific effects vary from person to person.

Hong Kui's Internal Alchemy fire is a crimson flame, specializing in high-temperature incineration; it is particularly effective against Yin Spirits.

Consequently, those few Yin Spirits that pounced forward suffered.

The two at the very front were caught off guard and engulfed by the surging crimson flames at point-blank range; they didn't even have time to scream before their forms and spirits were completely obliterated.

The few Yin Spirits behind, being further away, were not hit at point-blank range; they only brushed against the crimson flames, screeched in agony, and hurriedly retreated.

This turn of events greatly shocked the other demons on the ninth floor.

However, what followed was not fear, but ferocity.

"Little girl, you are courting death!"

"Attack together, teach her a good lesson!"

"Deal with the one in blue first; she is one with this girl in red, but has no real ability."

"No, grab that man first; he must be the lover of these two girls."

...

In an instant, the surrounding demons formed an encirclement, attacking Hong Kui, Lan Kui, and Meng Li in a swarm.

Meng Li immediately let go of Hong Kui and Lan Kui's hands: "You two handle the ranged attacks, I will take care of the close combat."

The next second, within a three-zhang radius around the three of them, lightning manifested from the Void Realm, precisely striking every demon that attacked them.

A single strike meant the complete obliteration of form and spirit.

In just an instant, the demons within a three-zhang radius of the trio were cleared out.

Taking advantage of this opening, Hong Kui summoned the Jade Waist Bow, drew it to condense an arrow, and began sniping at the demons beyond three zhang.

Lan Kui took out the flying tiger jade pendant, transformed it into the Flying Tiger Jade Beast, and then commanded it to flap its wings, condensing blade auras with formless wind to slash at the demons on the other side.

The crowd of demons, which had been fiercely clamoring just moments ago, quickly suffered heavy casualties. Their minds cleared immediately, realizing that Meng Li and his companions were not opponents they could handle, and they turned to flee toward the next floor, the eighth floor.

Meng Li saw this and didn't mind.

Although the Lock Demon Tower has ten floors and a considerable amount of space, it is entirely sealed; as long as the Seal is not broken, these demons cannot escape.

If it weren't for wanting to let Hong Kui and Lan Kui have some sense of participation and the chance to take revenge personally, the range of his clearing attack just now would not have been limited to a three-zhang radius.

Hong Kui and Lan Kui understood this as well, so they weren't in a hurry.

Once there were no more demons on the ninth floor, the three of them walked toward the passage leading to the eighth floor, and then...

They discovered that the door to the passage was closed.

It was clearly done by the demons who had fled from the ninth floor to the eighth, with the goal of preventing them from pursuing.

However, this was basically useless.

Because Hong Kui and Lan Kui had stayed in the Lock Demon Tower, they were familiar with this place.

They searched around and quickly found the mechanism to open the door.

Soon, the door to the passage opened again.

Immediately after, Hong Kui warned: "Be careful, they might have set an ambush."

Meng Li nodded and walked down.

As soon as the trio reached the eighth floor, attacks rained down upon them like raindrops.

Flames, claw lights, cold gleams, poisonous gas...

Just then, golden light manifested from the Void Realm, forming a protective barrier that blocked the path in front of Meng Li and his companions.

Those attacks landed on the golden barrier, not even creating a ripple, let alone shaking or breaking the defense.

When the attacks ceased, the golden barrier shone brilliantly, illuminating the entire eighth floor as bright as day.

Hong Kui and Lan Kui subconsciously covered their eyes with their hands.

When the golden light dissipated, they lowered their hands and opened their eyes to find the eighth floor completely empty; all the demons were gone.

"Alright, let's go."

Meng Li reminded them, paused briefly to orient himself, and walked toward the passage from the eighth floor to the seventh.

"Okay." Lan Kui agreed, put away the Flying Tiger Jade Beast, and stepped forward to follow.

Hong Kui pursed her lips, put away the Jade Waist Bow, and followed.

The demons on the eighth floor were instantly killed and didn't have time to flee downwards, so the passage was not closed as it had been before.

The demons on the seventh floor did not know what had happened on the two floors above, so after Meng Li and his companions entered, they were not immediately attacked; rather, like on the ninth floor, they were only attacked once the demons within noticed them.

Meng Li sighed.

To be honest, if possible, he would have liked to do as he said before entering: only eliminate some of the leading great demons to reduce the pressure on the Seal.

Instead of wiping out all the demons in the tower.

After all, the tower is named "Lock Demon," so if there wasn't a single demon inside, it would not live up to its name.

But these demons attacked without a word as soon as they saw them, just like monsters in a dungeon, completely unreasonable.

Then he could only talk about the laws of Spell, the law of Lightning Spell!

After clearing the area with lightning, Meng Li felt a moment of trance, thinking of the scene from his first life playing Dungeon & Fighter, using a max-level character to farm the Tower of the Dead.

At that time, it was also an instant kill per floor, then moving to the next.

Floor after floor.

The difference is that back then it was just a game, farming from the bottom to the top until reaching the summit, with a guy called the Grim Reaper following alongside. Now it is reality, from the top down, until hitting the bottom, with Hong Kui and Lan Kui accompanying him.

With these random thoughts in his mind, Meng Li took Hong Kui and Lan Kui to continue downwards, entering the sixth floor.

Upon entering, a horde of demons pounced to attack.

Meng Li sent them to their doom with Lightning Spell.

Fifth floor, still sent them to their doom with Lightning Spell.

Fourth floor...

"Huh, why are there no demons?" Looking at the empty fourth floor, Meng Li exclaimed in surprise.

Hong Kui thought for a moment and said: "They must have all gone to the second floor. I heard some demons say that the demons locked in the second, third, and fourth floors of the Lock Demon Tower mostly come from the Monster Realm; they originally attacked the human world with the Heavenly Demon Emperor and were locked into the Lock Demon Tower after failing."

"They are numerous and powerful. The people of Shushan once tried to use a grand formation to borrow the power of heaven and earth to refine them all, to eliminate future trouble."

"But the Heavenly Demon Emperor was too powerful; not only could he resist the refining power, he almost used it to lead the horde of demons out of the Lock Demon Tower. Later, a Disciple of Shushan abandoned his identity, entered the tower holding a divine sword, fought a great battle with the Heavenly Demon Emperor, and sacrificed his life to plunge that divine sword into the Heavenly Demon Emperor's true body, only then resolving the crisis of the demons storming the tower."

"However, the Heavenly Demon Emperor was only suppressed by the divine sword; he did not die."

"Later, he abandoned his original body, cultivated a new demon body, and was still able to reign supreme in the tower."

"The second, third, and fourth floors have all been occupied by him."

"The previous incident of storming the Seal was very likely organized by the Heavenly Demon Emperor."

"If nothing unexpected happens, the demons on this fourth floor have all been gathered by the Heavenly Demon Emperor to the second floor."

Meng Li realized, then said: "Then let us continue downwards."

Hong Kui and Lan Kui had no objections.

Before long, the three of them went down the stairs to the third floor and found that it was also empty.

Thus, they had no choice but to continue walking down.

As soon as the three reached the entrance of the second floor, they unexpectedly discovered a person lying on a stone couch opposite the door.

Judging by the silhouette, this person was a woman, but her appearance was strange: she wore a black headscarf, a black dress, and was covered in silver sequins, even on her face, as if she were wearing a mask; she was completely motionless.

"Is she... dead?" Lan Kui asked cautiously.

"No." Meng Li shook his head.

He had a vague impression of this woman; as his thoughts swept through his memory, he remembered her instantly.

In the original story, she, like Old Mo Tou, was an NPC-type character; she had no introduction upon appearing, and her origins were unknown.

However, in the chinese paladin 3 game, she had a corresponding prototype called the "Ice Crystal Lady."

Hundreds of years ago, the Ice Crystal Lady had done a favor for a man, opening a small door to let him enter the second floor of the Lock Demon Tower.

In exchange, the man promised that after he finished his business, he would take the Ice Crystal Lady out of the Lock Demon Tower, telling her to wait for him here.

But in the original plot, until Jing Tian and his group entered the tower, the Ice Crystal Lady had not waited for that man, and it was the same now.

Jing Tian and his group guessed that the man had likely died, but his identity was not revealed.

But Meng Li knew in his heart that the man should have been the Shushan Disciple who originally used the Demon-Suppressing Sword to suppress the Heavenly Demon Emperor.

Judging by her behavior, this Ice Crystal Lady was not an evil demon; she was just not very bright.

Meng Li did not attack, nor did he pay her any mind; instead, he reached out and pressed his hand onto the closed Taiji stone door at the entrance of the second floor.

Before long, Divine Mechanism Hundred Refinements was activated, and the stone door opened automatically.

Seeing this, the Ice Crystal Lady on the stone couch was startled.

She took a cylinder out from her bosom to look at it, then asked Meng Li suspiciously: "How did you do that?"

"Secret."

Meng Li replied casually and stepped into the second floor.

Seeing the Ice Crystal Lady suddenly "rise from the dead," Lan Kui and Hong Kui were a bit surprised. Seeing that Meng Li had no intention of chatting further, they didn't say anything more and stepped forward to follow.

After the three entered the second floor, the stone door seemed to sense it and closed automatically.

The Ice Crystal Lady outside the door thought for a moment and continued to play dead.

She still had to wait for that person...