442: Chapter 441 I am the Demon King of the Demon Clan

"Go!"

Chen Erniu gritted his teeth, clutched the jade box containing the fake water spirit fruit tightly to his chest, his magical power surging wildly. He turned into a blur, running desperately toward the exit of the passage.

Meanwhile, the entire Flowing Fire Sect was in complete chaos.

The pitch-black pillar of light was far too dazzling and abrupt; it not only tore through the back mountain but shot straight into the clouds, staining half the sky a strange, inky color. A terrifying Pressure spread like a tidal wave; even from several miles away, one could clearly feel the destructive power contained within it.

On the Flowing Fire Sect's plaza, countless Cultivators who had come to observe the ceremony looked up, staring in shock toward the back mountain.

"What is that? Such terrifying energy fluctuations!"

"That black light... could it be some peerless demonic weapon emerging?"

"That's not right! Why does it feel like some ancient defensive Restriction has been forcibly triggered? Could someone be breaking into the Flowing Fire Sect's Forbidden Ground?"

"Haha, Fellow Daoist, you must be joking. Today, most of the Golden Core experts of the Southern Region are gathered here. Who would have the audacity to break into the Flowing Fire Sect at a time like this? In my opinion, it must be that some extraordinary treasure has matured in the back mountain of the Flowing Fire Sect, triggering a natural phenomenon!"

For a time, the entire Sect was buzzing with discussion and noise.

Inside Liuhuo Hall, the scene was originally one of hypocritical harmony.

Shen Guhong sat in the main seat with an enthusiastic smile on his face, holding Spiritual Tea, engaging in empty pleasantries with Sect Leader Xuanyangzi, Immortal Master Moyuan, and others, discussing the so-called "Southern Region defense line."

However, the moment that pitch-black pillar of light tore through the Void Realm and shot into the sky, Shen Guhong was struck as if by lightning. The white jade teacup in his hand shattered with a "crack" as he subconsciously crushed it.

Warm tea and shards spilled over his hand, but he was completely unaware, his eyes fixed firmly on the direction of the back mountain, his face filled with disbelief and stunned confusion.

"This... how is this possible?!" A storm raged in Shen Guhong's heart.

That black light was the "Extinction Restriction" he had personally placed at the very core of the water spirit fruit tree!

To ensure nothing went wrong, he had not only set up a defensive Great Array outside the Secret Chamber that even a Golden Core Late Stage Cultivator would find difficult to break through silently, but he had also buried this Sensing Restriction beneath the Foundation of the fruit tree.

As long as the water spirit fruit was plucked and the fruit tree lost its spiritual power balance, this Restriction would be triggered instantly, erupting with a black light that shot into the sky.

In Shen Guhong's view, with the Flowing Fire Sect full of experts today and the Secret Chamber tightly guarded, it was absolutely foolproof.

Yet, he never imagined that someone would actually manage to break through the Great Array, sneak underground, and forcibly seize the water spirit fruit without anyone knowing!

"Damn it!"

Shen Guhong trembled with rage, his eyes nearly bursting.

Those two water spirit fruits were not only his own hope for a Nascent Soul Breakthrough, but they were also the key array core items for his conspiracy with the Yao Race to fully activate the Sect-protecting Great Array and wipe out all these Human Race Golden Core experts in the hall!

Now that the water spirit fruits had been stolen, his entire plan was instantly thrown into chaos. Without the energy support of the water spirit fruits, the Great Array's power would be halved; how could he keep Sect Leader Xuanyangzi and Immortal Master Moyuan here then?

"You're courting death!!"

Shen Guhong's eyes were blood-red, and he no longer cared about his Sect Master demeanor, letting out a hysterical roar. The violent Golden Core Late Stage Pressure erupted, instantly pulverizing the desk in front of him into powder.

Boom!

The heavy doors of the hall were forcibly blasted open by his violent magical power, and Shen Guhong transformed into a blinding crimson streak of light, carrying monstrous killing intent as he shot wildly toward the direction of the back mountain Secret Chamber.

Inside the hall, Sect Leader Xuanyangzi and Immortal Master Moyuan exchanged glances, both seeing shock and suspicion in each other's eyes.

"Shen Guhong is so uncomposed; something earth-shattering must have happened in the back mountain!" Sect Leader Xuanyangzi frowned, stroking his beard as he spoke.

"That black light is extremely evil and does not resemble the methods of the Righteous Path. Let's go and take a look!" Immortal Master Moyuan's face darkened, and with a slight flicker of his body, he transformed into a wisp of green smoke and vanished from the spot.

"Fellow Daoist Chu, let's go too!"

Sect Leader Xuanyangzi gave a low shout, and together with Master Refiner Chu Yanqiu, they followed closely behind, both turning into streams of light as they sped toward the back mountain, following Shen Guhong.

Chen Erniu moved like lightning, having just scrambled out of the Secret Chamber passage in a sorry state. Before he could even catch his breath, he ran head-on into several powerful auras.

He saw that outside the Secret Chamber, it was unknown when it had become surrounded by Flowing Fire Sect experts. The person at the lead was none other than Shen Guhong's daughter, Shen Bing.

Looking at Chen Erniu, who had rushed out of the Secret Chamber, Shen Bing shouted sharply:

"Chen Erniu! You have such audacity! You actually dare to come to our Sect's Forbidden Ground to steal a supreme treasure!"

Chen Erniu cursed inwardly, his face looking extremely ugly.

He was rapidly racking his brain, trying to find an excuse or an opportunity to break through.

However, before he could make a sound, the Void Realm above his head suddenly trembled violently!

Boom!

A terrifying, almost suffocating Golden Core Late Stage Pressure descended like Mount Tai pressing down. The originally bright sky was instantly covered by a layer of scorching red fire clouds, with waves of heat rolling in.

"Thief, pay with your life!"

Accompanied by a roar that seemed to come from the depths of Hell, Shen Guhong's figure materialized out of thin air in mid-air.

His eyes were blood-red, and his body exuded extremely violent killing intent as he stared fixedly at Chen Erniu below.

Watching Shen Guhong in the sky, who looked like a god of slaughter descending, Chen Erniu's face turned instantly pale, his heart and gallbladder shattered.

An angry strike from a Golden Core Late Stage Cultivator was definitely not something he, a Golden Core Middle Stage Cultivator, could withstand! If he were targeted by Shen Guhong today, he would definitely have zero chance of survival!

With life and death hanging by a thread, the look of struggle in Chen Erniu's eyes flashed and vanished, replaced by a trace of extreme ruthlessness and decisiveness.

No matter how important cultivation was, or how Heaven-Defying a treasure might be, one had to be alive to enjoy it!

"Sect Master Shen, have mercy! This contains the water spirit fruit! I'll return it to you!"

Chen Erniu screamed hysterically, suddenly pulling the white jade box covered in talismans from his chest.

His magical power surged wildly, and with a fierce wave of his right hand, he sent the jade box containing one "water spirit fruit" flying as a streak of white light, throwing it with all his might in the opposite direction of his own escape route!

The white jade box covered in talismans streaked through the air with a dazzling white light.

"water spirit fruit! That is the water spirit fruit that can help one achieve a Nascent Soul Breakthrough!"

It was unknown who in the crowd shouted hysterically, but in an instant, the entire back mountain of the Flowing Fire Sect was in an uproar!

In the world of cultivation, the weak are prey to the strong; faced with a peerless divine medicine that could change one's destiny and enable a Nascent Soul Stage Breakthrough, any Sect alliances, moral codes, or rules were all thrown to the back of their minds at this moment.

"Get lost! This treasure is mine!"

"Such a divine object should be in my possession!"

Several Golden Core Loose Cultivators and experts from small and medium-sized Sects instantly turned red-eyed, all rising up at once. Their magical power erupted like a volcano, transforming into giant hands that covered the sky, frantically grabbing toward that white jade box.

For a time, colorful Spell lights collided fiercely in the air, the roaring sounds were deafening, and the terrifying shockwaves instantly leveled the surrounding buildings to the ground.

In the center of the chaos, Chen Erniu's face was deathly pale. He suddenly spat out a mouthful of Essence Blood, his entire body turning into a blinding blood-red stream of light.

"Blood Escape Technique, Speed!"

He burned nearly thirty percent of his own life Essence Blood, reaching extreme Speed. Like a bolt of blood-colored lightning cutting through the night sky, in the blink of an eye, he broke through the Flowing Fire Sect's outer defensive line and fled frantically into the distance.

In mid-air, Shen Guhong watched this scene, trembling with rage, his face livid.

He never imagined that Chen Erniu, a guy who was like an ant in his eyes, would be so decisive and ruthless!

He would rather give up such a Heaven-Defying divine medicine, using the water spirit fruit to incite everyone's greed, just to win himself a glimmer of hope for survival!

"Damn scum! This Sect Master will definitely extract your soul and refine your soul!"

Shen Guhong roared, his killing intent almost solidifying. With a movement of his body, he prepared to use a teleportation technique to pursue and kill the fleeing Chen Erniu.

However, the moment he was about to move, a figure blocked his path like a ghost.

"Father, wait!"

The person who arrived was none other than Shen Bing.

She was currently full of fanaticism, her eyes flashing with a sinister and excited light as she lowered her voice and said hurriedly: "Father, Chen Erniu is just a clown; if he escapes, let him escape. But now, Sect Leader Xuanyangzi, Immortal Master Moyuan, and most of the Human Race Golden Core experts of the Southern Region have all been attracted by this water spirit fruit and are gathered together fighting!"

Shen Bing pointed to the chaotic and mutually attacking Human Race Golden Core experts in front, her face revealing a ferocious expression:

"This is a once-in-a-millennium perfect opportunity! The lords of the Yao Race have long been prepared in secret. As long as we activate the 'Ten Thousand Yao Soul-Devouring Great Array' now, we can wipe out all these Human Race Golden Core experts in one fell swoop! By then, the entire Southern Region will be the domain of our Flowing Fire Sect and the Yao Race!"

Hearing Shen Bing's words, Shen Guhong's figure stopped abruptly.

He stared fixedly at the group of Human Race Golden Core Cultivators ahead, who were fighting fiercely over a single water spirit fruit. The anger in his eyes gradually subsided, replaced by a trace of extremely sinister and cruel laughter.

"Bing'er, you are right."

Shen Guhong took a deep breath, calming the surging magical power within his body.

He looked at the white jade box constantly changing hands in the air, inciting countless people to fight desperately, and sneered coldly in his heart.

Anyway, the "water spirit fruit" was right here. After activating the Great Array and turning all these people into blood and water, this fruit would still be in his, Shen Guhong's, possession.

"Since they are courting death themselves, this Sect Master will send them on their way!"

Killing intent flashed in Shen Guhong's eyes as he slowly pulled out a black talisman token from his chest that exuded monstrous Demonic Qi.

Shen Guhong's face was ferocious, his true energy surging wildly, as he fiercely unleashed the pitch-black token in his hand.

With a sharp "whoosh" sound cutting through the air, the token exploded in mid-air, turning into an extremely dazzling crimson light.

That light, like a blood-colored meteor, shot straight into the clouds, instantly bursting across the sky and turning into a sky full of eerie red light, staining the entire sky a miserable, blood-like color.

At this time, Master Wang, Gou Feng, Shen Hu, and a group of other experts who had long been secretly lying in ambush at the various major Formation hubs of the Flowing Fire Sect saw this sky full of blood-red light for the first time.

"Do it!"

Shen Hu's eyes narrowed slightly, a trace of cruel fanaticism flashing in them, as he immediately exerted his true energy and roared.

Hearing the order, the Formation Grandmaster Master Wang, who had been ready and waiting, sneered, his withered, chicken-claw-like palm waving gently.

With a "hum," an archaic bell, pitch-black all over and carved with countless ferocious Yao Beast faces, appeared out of thin air in his palm.

"Jingle—"

Master Wang gently shook the bell, and the harsh, eerie ringing instantly echoed in the Void Realm.

Accompanied by the ringing, invisible mental fluctuations and Formation talismans surged wildly like a tidal wave toward the Flowing Fire Sect's Sect-protecting Great Array.

Rumble!

The next instant, the winds and clouds of heaven and earth changed color!

The originally clear sky was completely obscured by rolling black clouds in the blink of an eye; wild winds howled, and sand and stones flew.

Countless pitch-black lightning bolts shuttled and raged in the clouds like mad Dragons, emitting deafening roars.

Following that, a huge black barrier rose from the ground, like a giant, inverted bowl covering the sky, tightly enveloping the entire Flowing Fire Sect.

A repressive, violent, and terrifying Pressure with a thick smell of blood descended like the sky collapsing, suppressing the magical power within all the Cultivators present, making it difficult to even breathe.

"This... what is going on?!"

"Such terrifying Formation Pressure! This is definitely not our Flowing Fire Sect's original Sect-protecting Great Array!"

"Damn it, my magical power has been suppressed by thirty percent!"

The group of Golden Core Cultivators who were fighting fiercely in mid-air for that "white jade box," bloodied and battered, all had their expressions change drastically at this moment. They stopped their actions one after another, looking in horror at the pitch-black lightning and the barrier all around.

They finally realized that this was not a natural phenomenon of a treasure emerging, but an earth-shattering trap aimed at all of them!

"Shen Guhong! What is the meaning of this?!"

In mid-air, Sect Leader Xuanyangzi held his whisk, looking with a livid face at the rolling black clouds and evil lightning filling the surroundings.

"This array is sinister and violent; it is definitely not a Formation of our Human Race's Righteous Path! You, as the Sect Head of the Flowing Fire Sect, have set up such an evil array here; what exactly are you trying to do?!"

"Sect Master Shen, you must give us an explanation!"

Immortal Master Moyuan also descended, his body glowing brightly with green light, his ancient sword drawn and pointed directly at Shen Guhong.

The remaining Golden Core experts also gathered around, all looking angry, their magical power surging. Although they had been fighting over the water spirit fruit, faced with this sudden, eerie Great Array, they instinctively felt a fatal threat.

Faced with everyone's questioning, Shen Guhong suddenly stopped his hysterical laughter.

He slowly raised his head; his originally ethereal and immortal-like face now looked incomparably ferocious, and in the depths of his eyes, an eerie red light lit up.

"Explanation? Hahahaha!"

Shen Guhong sneered repeatedly, his voice becoming hoarse and coarse, like two pieces of iron rubbing against each other: "Sect Leader Xuanyangzi, Immortal Master Moyuan, you bunch of fools, what explanation do you need when you are at death's door?"

His whole body shook, and an extremely violent, terrifying Demonic Qi, completely different from that of Human Race Cultivators, erupted, faintly condensing into a huge tiger phantom behind him.

"I am a Yao King of the Yao Race! You ask what I want to do by setting up this Great Array? Naturally, it is to refine all of you, the backbones of the Southern Region, here!"

"What?!"

"You... you are a Yao King of the Yao Race?!"

Hearing these words, Sect Leader Xuanyangzi and the others were struck as if by lightning, their expressions instantly freezing, and they were completely stunned.

They never imagined that Shen Guhong, the Sect Head who had shaken the Southern Region and held the position of Flowing Fire Sect leader for hundreds of years, would actually be a Yao King of the Yao Race!

Even more ironically, just this morning, they, this group of Human Race Golden Core Cultivators, had gathered together to discuss with this "Yao King" how to guard against the Yao Race and how to deploy troops against them.

Ridiculous! It was simply the biggest joke in the world!