Flying Yasha!
A fierce demonic creature from legends, with a body of steel sinews and iron bones, possessing boundless strength. It looked like a ghost or god and had flesh wings growing on its back, capable of gliding at low altitudes. It was the leader among the demonmen of the subterranean abyss, also known as a Demonic General!
Specifically, the Flying Yashas possessed extremely high intelligence, not much different from humans, and profound martial techniques. Because they could fly, they were simply invincible against experts below the Physical Realm.
Facing this kind of Demonic General, only experts of the Divine Ability Mystic Realm could suppress and contend with them.
In particular, the exterior skin of a Flying Yasha was sturdy bone material that even flying swords found difficult to slash open, while its internal vitality was incredibly powerful. Even if its head was chopped off, the lower half of its body could continue to move and kill people, taking several hours to stop breathing and die.
This kind of demonic creature glided like lightning and was extremely fast. A single one required the joint effort of many experts to besiege and kill, let alone ten of them?
Fang Han's complexion was extremely unsightly.
He felt waves of danger assaulting his heart.
Regarding the Demonic General Flying Yasha, he had also read about it in "Various Worlds," which emphatically described its terror. Within the races of the subterranean abyss, first came the demonmen, then the Yashas, and after that the Flying Yashas.
A single Flying Yasha could command ten to twenty thousand demonmen. They were truly great generals of the monsters and demons.
With his abilities, if he deployed the "Spirit Wind Sword," he might have a chance to kill one Flying Yasha, but against two, it would certainly spell the word death.
"Hehehe, hehehe, hehehe…"
The moment the ten Flying Yashas landed behind the eerie young man, the Crown Prince of Pink Flesh, they all let out bursts of unpleasant, piercing cackles. Subsequently, one of the Demonic Generals holding a pitch-black steel pitchfork spoke in a perfectly enunciated human voice: "Good, Ascension Sect, having so many disciples here today is truly excellent. It can allow us to obtain quite a lot of flesh and blood. Specifically, the experts at the Divine Transformation realm can be used in the earth demon corpse refining method to forge Great Strength Golden Corpses! We can also seize a few spirit weapons."
Basking in the moonlight, this Demonic General's steel pitchfork flashed with a blue light; evidently, it was quenched in poison.
The Demonic General's red eyes swept across this group of Ascension Sect disciples. When Fang Han came into contact with its gaze, he felt as if he had fallen into a pool of blood, his mouth and nose filled with the stench of blood.
The Demonic General Flying Yashas possessed extremely high intelligence and were proficient in various languages and writing. They were not simply mindless, man-eating beasts that only knew slaughter.
"You earth demons and human demons have always engaged in mutual vendettas and killings. Earth demons are the best materials for the Seven Lineages of the Demonic Path to cultivate various external incarnations. For you to actually unite together now, have you reached some sort of agreement?"
"Yuan Jiankong," ranked tenth on the Mountain and River Ranking, said coldly.
"The three Demonic Emperors of the subterranean world have already signed an offensive and defensive alliance with our various Demonic Sect Great Emperors. They have resolved to cleanse the Ten Sects of the Immortal Dao, starting first right here in the Vast Ocean Desert. Subsequently, our grand army will advance step by step, leveling the numerous dynasties protected by the Ten Sects of the Immortal Dao across the world, while simultaneously destroying your ten lineages of the immortal Dao, establishing our ideal nation. The ideal nation of the Demonic Sect Great Emperors is one where humans, monsters, and demons coexist, living together in cities, trading, planting, and operating businesses, without mutual discrimination or mutual slaughter. Nor becoming completely incompatible like water and fire due to differences in appearance. In the Immemorial Antiquity, humans, monsters, gods, and demons coexisted; that was the ideal golden age. It was your immortal Dao that divided beauty and ugliness, good and evil, causing our humans, monsters, and demons to brutally slaughter each other and initiating wars. Now, all vendettas will end. Your immortal Dao, which divides beauty and ugliness, good and evil, will ultimately be destroyed. Between heaven and earth, a golden age without beauty or ugliness, without good or evil, where humans, gods, monsters, and demons coexist will be ushered in once again."
The Crown Prince of Pink Flesh spoke softly, like a woman, his voice sweet and greasy: "Therefore, your deaths are merely a beginning."
"Subterranean Demonic Emperors!"
Hearing the specific terms in the words of the Crown Prince of Pink Flesh, Fang Han recalled that in "Various Worlds," demons were divided into three categories.
The first category was human demons.
Namely, humans who cultivated the demonic path and successfully cultivated divine abilities. For example, the "Innate Demonic Sect," the "Everlasting Regret Demonic Sect," and the "Mortal Dust Demonic Sect" of the "Seven Lineages of the Demonic Sect"…
The second category was earth demons. These were exceedingly fierce and intensely evil lifeforms possessing extremely strong intelligence living in the subterranean abyss.
The third category was heavenly demons. Heavenly demons were the most mysterious, originating from the extra-territorial starry sky, diverse in type, and excelling at conquest and slaughter.
When humans cultivated the demonic path and reached the Longevity Mystic Realm, they could be called Demonic Emperors.
When earth demons cultivated to the Longevity Mystic Realm, they could be called Demonic Sovereigns.
When heavenly demons cultivated to the Longevity Mystic Realm, they could be called Demonic Gods.
The cultivation methods of the demonic path were transmitted down by the heavenly demons from the extra-territorial starry sky who descended to the human realm in the Primordial Era. They were vastly different from immortal Dao cultivation, mostly involving the absorption of flesh and blood and forceful plundering. The martial arts also often urged one's own negative emotions, such as anger, hate, malice, and cruelty, to stimulate the potential of the body.
This was entirely different from the immortal Dao's principles of nursing the body, warmth and mildness, passing clouds and light winds, and crystalline spiritual clarity.
Between heaven and earth, the heavenly demons from the extra-territorial starry sky were the most mysterious.
The earth demons were the most numerous in kind.
However, the ones with the greatest influence were the human demons of the demonic path's seven lineages. Their various Demonic Sect Great Emperors each possessed vast divine abilities and boundless Dharma power. Human demons employed human cultivation methods and martial arts of the demonic path; they were not true demonic bodies. Yet, utilizing extraordinary intelligence, they comprehended the divine abilities of the demonic path and even improved them to be more perfect and suitable for human cultivation.
Some Demonic Sect Great Emperors even blended the immortal Dao and demonic path together, creating various peerless divine abilities, achieving the unity of immortal and demon to dominate heaven and earth.
Heavenly, earth, and human—the three demons—also attacked each other. For example, some Demonic Sect Great Emperors roamed the extra-territorial void to capture heavenly demons, seal them, and refine them into Dharma weapons.
All these things were mentioned in "Various Worlds."
At his current realm, Fang Han was gradually approaching the eighth tier of the Physical Realm, Spirit Communication. His memory was profound, already possessing some ability of photographic memory.
"Flying Yashas, excellent items. Our Ascension Sect also lacks this kind of powerful puppet for moving mountains, building houses, mining, and seeking treasures. There are ten of them here; we will capture them one by one. Contributing them to the sect and handing them over to the elders to erase their original memories and re-refine them will probably earn us ten spirit weapons as a reward. This will establish a massively great merit."
A smile suddenly appeared on Senior Sister Mo's face: "Senior Brother Yuan, you execute the Crown Prince of Pink Flesh. Fellow inner disciples, deploy the sword array! Execute the ten Yashas! The remaining outer disciples, break through outwards and kill the desert bandits."
As she spoke, Senior Sister Mo suddenly waved her hand.
A long rope, completely golden, with several purple-gold bells tied to it, flew out from her hand like a spirit snake, binding toward the ten great Flying Yashas.
At the exact same time, from behind her back, a blue flying sword shot up into the sky and slashed out.
Following her command, the other four inner disciples also each offered up their own flying swords. Together with her blue flying sword, they formed a five-pointed star array diagram mid-air.
Buzz buzz buzz buzz, buzz buzz buzz…
Once this five-pointed star array diagram took shape, the five flying swords mutually influenced each other with Dharma power, complementing one another from left and right. Their power increased immensely. Spinning unsteadily, they formed a fiercely revolving and strangling pillar of swords completely as thick as a water bucket. The yellow sand in all directions was rolled up, turning the entire sky pitch-black.
On the other hand, "Yuan Jiankong" let out a cold snort. The jade-green Dharma robe on his body flashed repeatedly, condensing into a ball of light that floated his body high up into the empty air. The "Silver Snake Sword" in his hand transformed into a radiance resembling a fierce silver snake, entangling toward the "Crown Prince of Pink Flesh."
A tragic and intense close-quarters slaughter opened its prelude!
"Heavenly Rooster Ultimate Yang Rope!"
The ten Flying Yasha Demonic Generals were just about to act when they suddenly saw the long rope fly out from Senior Sister Mo's hands. A strong smell of realgar was emitted from the rope, spreading with the wind. The moment they smelled it in their noses, they felt their strength soften and their sinews turn numb. Following that, the rope flew up and entangled them as if possessing a spirit, actually binding them all completely.
As it turned out, this rope was a treasure weapon. It was refined from Ten-Thousand-Year Realgar Essence mixed with various natural treasures of heaven and earth, along with the crest blood of nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine five-colored roosters born precisely at noon, when the yang energy was at its peak. Calcined in the pill furnaces of the Ascension Sect and refined by elders with extremely high divine abilities, infused with Dharma power, it primarily suppressed earth demons. An ordinary earth demon would fall unconscious the moment it was bound.
Even Flying Yashas, once bound, would find it difficult to struggle free. It was exactly as if they had consumed tendon-softening powder; their strength was reduced by more than half.
To refine this rope, Ten-Thousand-Year Realgar Essence was hard to obtain, but what was even harder to obtain were the nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine five-colored roosters. And they had to be five-colored roosters born at noon.
At that time, when an elder of the Ascension Sect refined this treasure weapon, he personally descended the mountain to the Great Li Dynasty, the Great Virtue Dynasty, the Rising Sun Dynasty, and numerous smaller nations. Spending a massive amount of wealth, he had the high-level figures collect them. It took a full three years of gathering to concentrate so many five-colored roosters born exactly at noon.
Just think about it: the various dynasties controlled by the Ascension Sect had a population of fully ten to twenty billion, yet collecting five-colored roosters born at noon was this difficult. How difficult must the refining of this treasure weapon be?
This was a treasure specifically made to suppress the demonic race of the subterranean abyss. Roosters were originally abnormally filled with masculine yang energy and excelled at fighting; those born at noon were even more purely yang. The single drop of essence blood from the crest on their head was the most purely yang of the pure yang.
Refined into this rope, the pure yang blood and fierce souls and spirits of ten thousand five-colored roosters were entirely integrated into it.
"How could this treasure weapon be in your hands!"
The Crown Prince of Pink Flesh emitted a red glow from his body and also flew up into the empty air. He watched the ten Flying Yashas get bound by the rope, each flapping their wings fiercely, but with their strength vastly reduced, they were run clean through the heart by the flying swords with a puchi.
"Crown Prince of Pink Flesh, if we wanted to kill you, how could we not plan comprehensively?"
Senior Sister Mo sneered.
"Kill!"
Just at this moment, the surrounding desert bandits, who had originally parted like a wave, saw that the situation was unfavorable and charged up like a storm of beacon smoke. Camels trampled, the grand army rolled forward, crushing over.
"Outer disciples, why have you not resisted yet?"
Senior Sister Mo roared sharply once again.
At this time, the several imperial princes and princesses of the Great Virtue Dynasty pounced forward one after another, intercepting the desert bandits.
"We will kill too; this is a good opportunity to exercise our skills in actual combat!" Princess Hongyi said.
"Alright!" Fang Han had originally been feeling emotionally stirred watching the magical battle, but he knew this was not something he could participate in. Therefore, with a swing of the Demon Decapitating Sword, he charged into the desert bandits alongside Princess Hongyi and Liu Kang.