Free Web NovelChapter 469: Chapter 2: Blood Evil and Ghost Shadow
Yang Jing transformed into a Silver Fish. Using the Water Escape Technique, his Tunneling Speed in the water reached its absolute limit. He even used his Overturning Rivers and Seas Divine Techniques to urge the currents along the seabed to his aid, allowing him to travel much faster than a Flying Boat.
Suddenly, his Sword Heart stirred.
After obtaining the Sword Heart Clarity Divine Technique, Yang Jing could instinctively sense the malice others directed toward him.
This sense was extremely sharp. If the other party hadn’t cultivated a Magic Technique for Hidden Emotions, he could clearly sense even the faintest trace of malice when face to face.
This was also why some accomplished Sword Cultivators were ruthless and of few words. Sword Heart Clarity pointed directly to one’s true intentions, rendering any empty words or rhetorical tricks useless before them.
The malice Yang Jing sensed this time was pure, undisguised killing intent, far more intense than the jealousy and hatred he had felt back in the Sect.
He hesitated for a moment, then prepared to continue heading east.
After all, the source of the malice behind him had a Tunneling Speed in the water far inferior to his own. As long as he didn’t slow down, his pursuer would never catch up.
Besides, at his current Tunneling speed in the water, he would be out of the sea region controlled by the Hundred-Eyed Demon Saint in another three days.
Lan Jintao had been Tunneling through the water in pursuit for five or six hundred li, but he hadn’t seen any sign of the Silver Fish the large, fish-headed demon had mentioned.
"Such incredible Tunneling Speed!"
Lan Jintao exclaimed in amazement.
He was a Golden Core Demon sent by the Hundred-Eyed Demon Saint to accompany Wu Maoxiang. His true form was a bluefin tuna, renowned for its speed in the sea. Among Golden Core Demon Kings of the same generation, few could outswim him.
He waited quietly in the water until Wu Tianlin caught up, then greeted him with a wry smile.
"Brother Wu, that fiend’s Tunneling Speed is truly extraordinary. I chased him for over five hundred li. He must have sensed me and concealed his Demon Qi, because the trail went cold here."
Wu Tianlin’s rage flared. He squeezed the large, fish-headed demon, making it scream repeatedly, but he could only suppress his anger.
"No matter, no matter. It’s just my grandson’s poor luck. He only just came out with me on this one trip, and he met with disaster."
This was, after all, the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint’s territory, not his Wucheng Kingdom. He had to prioritize the Royal Court’s important matters. The Royal Court’s grand plan was to unite the Demon Saints of the West Sea for a pincer attack on the Six Sects of the Western Continent, striking from both east and west.
It was just that the previous West Sea Great Saint possessed a powerful bloodline that placed him above the other Demon Saints, and he had little interest in attacking the Six Sects, so nothing had ever been accomplished.
Now that the West Sea Great Saint had perished, the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint, who had always maintained a close relationship with the Royal Court, had launched a major war against the Six Sects’ Eastern Army Governor’s Mansion as promised.
If he caused a rift to form between the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint and the Royal Court, not only would he face severe torture, but the Wucheng Kingdom itself would be destroyed.
Lan Jintao was just about to offer a few words of consolation to Wu Tianlin; after all, his grandson had died in the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint’s territory. Suddenly, the dull thud of drums echoed from the distance, each beat faster than the last, vibrating through the seawater and carrying for a hundred li.
"It’s the sound of the Sea-shaking Drums!"
Lan Jintao explained to Wu Tianlin:
"These drums are made from the hide of a Manatee, a strange beast of the sea. Their sound can travel a thousand li through the water, and they are used exclusively for communication between the various Demon Armies under my Great Saint. This drumming clearly means a Demon Army has intercepted that squad of Blood Ghosts from the Eastern Army Governor’s Mansion!"
Even for Demons, communication is difficult in the sea, and it’s hard for different armies to stay in contact. That was why the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint specifically killed a Manatee at the Demon King Realm, skinned it, and used the hide for Refining eighteen Sea-shaking Drums, allowing his armies to communicate with one another through their beats.
"Blood Ghosts!"
Wu Tianlin suppressed the grief from his grandson’s death and roused his spirits.
These Blood Path Cultivators, who had suddenly appeared from the Eastern Army Governor’s Mansion, used methods even more bizarre than those of Demon Cultivators, and they had caused immense trouble for the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint.
His very trip to the West Sea was because the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint had requested aid from the Royal Court.
Although the Monster King’s Court and the Demons of the sea were different in kind, they were, after all, still Demons. If these Blood Ghosts could so effectively counter sea Demons, they were surely the natural enemy of land Demons as well.
The Royal Court placed great importance on this matter. In addition to Wu Tianlin, it had dispatched seven other Golden Core Demon Kings to assist the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint, with the express mission of capturing a few Cultivators of the Blood Spirit Scripture to study ways to counter and break their Cultivation Technique.
"Then let’s hurry over at once and do our utmost to capture these Blood Ghosts!"
Wu Tianlin tossed aside the barely breathing, fish-headed demon. He hadn’t expected to have such good fortune as to run into the Blood Ghosts. ’As long as I can achieve great merit in the eyes of the Demon Emperor, what does the death of my grandson even matter?’
"Indeed. These Blood Ghosts use bizarre methods. Our boys alone might not be able to keep them all here!"
The two Golden Core Great Demons were in instant agreement. They immediately used Water Escape and sped toward the direction of the Sea-shaking Drum’s beats.
Lan Jintao had served under the Hundred-Eyed Great Saint for many years and was intimately familiar with the sound of the Sea-shaking Drums. From the drumming, he instantly judged that the place where the Blood Ghosts were surrounded was no more than three hundred li away.
With the Tunneling Speed of two Golden Core Demon Kings, a distance of three hundred li could be covered in the blink of an eye.
In the sea, a Demon Army of the Hundred-Eyed Demon Saint was locked in a chaotic battle with a dozen or so Blood Shadows. Although the Demon Army had an overwhelming advantage in numbers, they were helpless against the Blood Shadows.
The Blood Shadows weaved through the Demon Army like phantoms. When a Blood Shadow pounced on one of the Little Demons with low Cultivation, it would be sucked dry of its Essence Blood, leaving behind only stark White Bones and a shriveled demonic hide. Even the Great Demons at the Foundation Establishment Realm would suffer a great loss of vitality and blood if a Blood Shadow lunged at them.
