"Hahahahaha~~~~"
Huang Tingyu let out a wild laugh. Under the shroud of the Heavenly Dog Dharma Idol, he leaped into the air, swinging his sword and cleaving the Dharma Idol behind a fierce tiger demon soul in two. Immediately, his body spun rapidly in the air, and with a thunderous kick, he crushed the demon soul of a golden earthworm beneath his feet.
"Doesn't feel good to be crushed underfoot, does it?"
Huang Tingyu laughed heartily and fiercely ground his foot. The earthworm, which had transformed into the appearance of a young boy, let out a series of screams. Then, the brilliant demon soul exploded beneath Huang Tingyu's feet, turning into a sky of demonic energy that nourished the demon race's land.
"And you!"
Huang Tingyu suddenly turned his head, and the massive Heavenly Dog Dharma Idol followed his gaze. Its ferocious eyes stared at a white fish demon not far away. In an instant, Huang Tingyu's body hunched over, and strands of hair grew out from his forehead. He lunged forward in a flash.
The next moment, the white fish demon, who had transformed into a middle-aged man, was struck in the abdomen by Huang Tingyu. As his body flew backward, Huang Tingyu, accompanied by a bloody vortex, appeared behind him. Huang Tingyu's mouth opened to an exaggerated arc, and he fiercely bit down on the white fish demon's nape, tearing off a large chunk of flesh.
Bloodline returning to its ancestral source, ferocity unleashed!
Huang Tingyu chewed on the opponent's flesh with large bites. Although the taste was far inferior to the white fish soup that brat Lin Zhao simmered, it still had its own unique flavor!
His sword blade darted out swiftly. With a "chi" sound, the tip of the famous sword Amber pierced the white fish demon's chest. The blade then sank, accompanied by violent tremors. The white fish demon's body turned into a shower of blood and disappeared in the wind.
Huang Tingyu's armor was already tattered, with only a ragged cloak tied around his neck remaining. He carried Amber and strode forward with his head held high, bathed in the blood rain of the white fish demon. Looking at a great demon in front of him, he said with a smile, "Only you are left. How do you want to die?"
That great demon was a monkey.
Inheriting the lineage of the demon king Man Yuan, its age was incalculable. It was known as an ancient demon in the ancestral land of the demon race. However, now it was reduced to a mere demon soul. Although it guarded the Demon Soul Mountain, it was no longer as powerful as it once was.
It let out a furious roar, unwilling to wait for death. Its body surged with potent demonic energy, and with a roar, it charged at Huang Tingyu. As it threw a punch, the momentum of a crushing mountain range seemed to descend from behind it.
"Kill!"
Its ferocity was extraordinary, but Huang Tingyu, who was on the verge of his bloodline returning to its ancestral source, was even more ferocious!
With a furious roar, Huang Tingyu raised his long sword and leaped into the air. The massive Heavenly Dog Dharma Idol in the wind also raised its forelegs and pressed down fiercely on the old ape's Dharma Idol. At the same time, Huang Tingyu brought his sword down with a mighty slash, the tip aimed directly at the back of the ape's head, which was pinned to the ground.
"Chi!"
With a crisp, loud sound, the old ape's skull was pierced by the sword. Huang Tingyu's ferocity surged, and he bit down on the back of its neck. He then proceeded to devour, severing the opponent's neck completely. With a stomp of his foot, the old ape's body turned into a shower of blood.
Huang Tingyu raised his long sword high, the blade pierced through the head of the oldest demon in the Demon Soul Mountain. Blood dripped down, drop by drop. Huang Tingyu leaped up, landing on the mountain peak, roaring repeatedly at the heavens.
In the sky, dark clouds rolled, and streaks of golden lightning incessantly poured down.
The entire ancestral land of the demon race seemed to be trembling.
At this very moment, the innate soul bone of the Heavenly Dog lineage behind Huang Tingyu was fully formed. His body continuously healed itself. Holding his sword, he invoked the sword dao destiny of the entire demon race's realm. He was like the king of the sword dao in this world, and wherever his gaze passed, all submitted!
In the sky, streaks of sword dao destiny gathered.
"Come, I'll eat until I'm full!"
Huang Tingyu roared, opening his cavernous maw. In an instant, the sky full of sword dao destiny rapidly poured down, all of it swallowed by Huang Tingyu. His spiritual void and sword heart within his body let out "peng peng peng" sounds, like firecrackers. Both his physical foundation and his sword heart and dao were continuously breaking through their limits.
After Huang Tingyu swallowed and refined the countless streams of golden sword dao destiny in one gulp, his entire body shimmered with a radiant glow. He had become another thirteen-realm sword cultivator in the demon race's realm, following the great demon Bai Lan!
...
Late at night.
Outside Demon Soul Mountain, by the lake.
"Tsk tsk."
Lin Zhujie turned to look at the distant earth-shattering commotion. The sight of golden rain filling the sky was truly exhilarating. He couldn't help but chuckle, "Old Brother Huang's dream has come true, and he doesn't have to die!"
He quickly took out an extra-large storage bag, drew countless water fortunes from the lake, and then poured all the fish from the two bulging fish nets into the storage bag. With a wave of his left hand, his sword finger pointed at the water area that was like a prison. Within it, there were countless fat fish.
"Fish, come!"
Lin Zhujie let out a low cry, and countless fat fish leaped out of the water, falling one by one into the storage bag.
As he was drawing in the fish, a beam of golden light flashed from the mountain, transforming into the blood-stained figure of Huang Tingyu. His body was exuding an aura of killing intent, and Amber was already strapped to his back.
At this moment, Huang Tingyu's entire aura was transcendent. His eyes were filled with the radiance of sword dao. This thirteen-realm cultivation was exceptionally stable!
"Amazing!"
Lin Zhujie chuckled and said, "Old Brother Huang, are you ready to go home?"
"Home!"
Huang Tingyu laughed heartily and said, "I've been out for too long. Even if the Mountain Master doesn't miss me, I'm afraid those little girls like Changzhi, Liu Liying, Yu Wanning, and Chu Yu will miss me."
"Get out of here."
Lin Zhujie laughed, "Even the widowed liquor seller might not miss you."
"Oh no..."
Huang Tingyu clutched his chest and cursed with a laugh, "You brat, you don't say a single pleasant word. Not only do you not congratulate me on breaking through, but you also say things that disrupt my dao heart. Do you want me to fall from the twelfth realm right here and now?"
"No, no, no."
Lin Zhujie tied the fully loaded storage bag of fish around his waist. Then, he took out a natal bamboo segment and handed it to old Huang. "Quickly refine this. Someone from the ancestral mountain will likely come calling for a fight soon. You just ate all the sword dao destiny of the demon race's realm in one go; you've offended far too many people."
"Heh, indeed."
Huang Tingyu instantly refined the natal bamboo segment. Lin Zhujie, meanwhile, flicked his sleeves and, in the blink of an eye, transformed into a beetle that flapped its wings and disappeared into the nearby bamboo forest.
Huang Tingyu frowned and sighed. "I, a dignified thirteen-realm great sword immortal, have just broken through a few minutes ago, and I already have to be a turtle hiding in its shell?"
However, he didn't hesitate for long. He flipped his body, activated the divine ability of his natal bamboo segment, and his entire body vibrated, transforming into a beetle as well. He followed Lin Zhujie into the wilderness.
...
A moment later.
Streams of demonic energy appeared outside Demon Soul Mountain.
"What's going on!?"
The great demon Ning Yuansheng stopped abruptly in mid-air, manifesting a brilliant Dharma Idol of a nine-headed lion. His four claws sank into the lake, and his body blazed with fire, illuminating half the sky of the ancestral land. However, his probing yielded nothing; he couldn't find the person.
"Damn it!"
The great demon Yu Zhi, clad in a red dress, also appeared in the wind. She gritted her silver teeth, and a flame fox figure emerged in her golden eyes, constantly searching the ground for any clues. But there were absolutely no traces to be found.
"It's Huang Tingyu."
In the wind, a figure in green emerged. Even the fourteenth-realm demon ancestor Qing Kui had arrived. His eyes looked down upon the land, and after sniffing the air, he said, "It is indeed the residual natal aura of Huang Tingyu. Huang Tingyu is now a thirteen-realm sword cultivator."
The demon ancestor looked pained. The demon race had always longed for the appearance of another thirteen-realm demon sword cultivator, but now that one had appeared, he was a traitor.
"This dog!"
The great demon Fu Sheng roared, losing his scholarly demeanor at this moment, his expression filled with brutality.
Yu Zhi gritted her teeth and said, "Huang Tingyu sneaked into the ancestral land without anyone noticing and devoured our century's worth of sword dao destiny in one go... With Huang Tingyu's intellect, he certainly wouldn't have devised such a poisonous scheme. Perhaps it's another trick by Lin Baiyi?"
"It's possible, but not certain."
The demon ancestor glanced at Yu Zhi and said, "Yu Zhi, Lin Baiyi holds too high a position in your heart. He has almost become your inner demon."
Yu Zhi frowned, wanting to retort, but did not.
Ning Yuansheng said gravely, "Demon Ancestor, do we just accept this? That Huang Tingyu... this damned fellow, his consumption is equivalent to consuming a hundred years of our demon race's sword cultivators' lifespans!"
Lu Hai raised his eyebrows. "Please, Demon Ancestor, give the order. Let us directly attack the Snow Domain Heavenly Pond and raze it to the ground. Let's pull the rug out from under him. Even if Huang Tingyu becomes a thirteen-realm cultivator, he'll have no place to return!"
"Hmph!"
Yu Zhi sneered. "The strategy proposed by Lu Hai is truly poisonous, but it lacks intelligence."
"Lady Yu Zhi, why the sarcasm!?" Lu Hai retorted angrily.
"Enough, there's no need for arguments."
The demon ancestor's gaze was calm. "Lin Wanhua and Lin Xingchu can provide support to the Snow Domain Heavenly Pond at any time. Add to that a thirteen-realm Huang Tingyu, and that extremely troublesome Confucian scholar Gu Lingyu. The current Snow Domain Heavenly Pond is indeed not a place we can simply go to."
He frowned. "All of you, return to the ancestral mountain. Do not act rashly. No matter what Lin Baiyi plots, the next catastrophe will surely take his life!"
"Yes, Demon Ancestor!"
...
Beyond the upper realm, in the Outer Heavens.
Stars twinkled in the Outer Heavens. There were three thousand bright stars. In the eyes of fourteenth-realm sages, each star was a world, forming three thousand worlds.
In the depths of the starry sky, in a place where starlight could not penetrate, a murky miasma churned, forming an abyss. This was the legendary Abyssal Demon Abyss, a place where even fourteenth-realm cultivators could only stop.
At this moment, sword light erupted in the Outer Heavens. A scholar in green, riding a stream of sword light, held a Fusou sword solidified with sword intent. The sword light rolled, slaying demon phantoms one after another.
"Chi!"
As a streak of purple light swept past, a bloody gash appeared on the scholar's abdomen. His eyes turned blood-red, and with a horizontal slash of his sword light, he extinguished the life force of a massive figure emerging from the abyss.
At this moment, Ding Muchen felt a pang of heartache.
These fear-inducing inner demons could inflict serious injuries on him.
Therefore, Old Daoist Wang... is likely doomed!