Chapter 89: Crushing Suppression, the Nightmare of the Demon Horde!
"A mere human cultivator of the Virtual Core Realm dares to cause trouble in Little Dragon City. Die!"
At the very front of the hundreds of afterimages, a burly bear demon glared with eyes as large as bronze bells. Both hands gripped an earth-yellow massive hammer as it smashed viciously down toward Lin Xuan's head.
Whoosh!
The massive hammer tore through the air.
As fast as a thunderclap, it descended from midair, dragging out a string of afterimages, and the point it struck was precisely Lin Xuan's head.
The Golden Core Realm bear demon revealed a cruel smile at the corner of his mouth. He could already picture the scene of that human's skull shattering.
Suddenly.
The originally lowered head of Lin Xuan snapped upward.
Those frenzied, devouring eyes met the bear demon's gaze. The ferocious and brutal bear demon instantly shuddered, an extremely intense sense of danger erupting from his heart and rapidly swelling.
"How could I be afraid of a mere human cultivator of the Virtual Core Realm? How is this possible?!"
The bear demon felt his limbs trembling uncontrollably, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief.
At this moment.
Lin Xuan's robes fluttered without wind. Behind him, dragon wings several zhang wide slowly unfurled like two dark storm clouds. With a light beat of the wings, his figure vanished instantly, disappearing as if by teleportation.
Boom!
In the next instant, the earth-yellow massive hammer slammed into the spot where Lin Xuan had been standing. A deafening roar echoed as dust billowed everywhere. This full-powered strike smashed out a giant pit ten zhang wide and three zhang deep, a shocking sight to behold.
"Disappeared?"
The bear demon's pupils shrank.
But immediately after.
He felt a faint rush of wind behind him. The fur all over his body stood on end as a lethal sense of danger swallowed him whole.
With the aid of the dragon wings, Lin Xuan had already moved directly behind the bear demon. His hands gradually turned ferocious, the nails on his ten fingers extending nearly three cun, while scales spread across his arms, radiating savage might.
Lin Xuan's divine sense locked firmly onto the bear demon before him. His right claw shot out like lightning, almost instantly tearing through the demon's body that had been tempered for years, piercing straight through its chest.
Squelch!
The vast force in his arm blasted the heart into minced flesh. Blood sprayed outward, blooming from the bear demon's chest like a grotesque, crimson flower.
The terrifying force not only shattered the heart but also dealt devastating damage to the brain and the tendons and bones of the limbs.
Immediately after, the bear demon's eyes turned into a lifeless gray as his body toppled from midair to the ground.
"One."
From the wound in the bear demon's body surged an extremely pure stream of spiritual energy, which Lin Xuan devoured.
Not only did it replenish the spiritual energy he had just expended, it even made the reserves within his body more abundant.
It could be said that dealing with this leading bear demon took Lin Xuan no more than an instant.
The hundreds of demons behind him saw how easily Lin Xuan killed the bear demon. Though surprised, once they sensed that Lin Xuan only possessed Virtual Core Realm fluctuations, the trace of fear in their hearts was instantly suppressed.
"Five of us will join forces to deal with him!"
Immediately after, five demon cultivators clad in black robes, apparently familiar with one another, surrounded Lin Xuan.
"Great Artifact Refinement Technique!"
With a thought from Lin Xuan, a ripple of flame spread outward from his body.
"Heh heh. With such feeble flames, you think you can deal with the five of us brothers? Your methods are nothing special after all."
"Form the formation!"
The eldest among the five black-robed demons spoke firmly.
The five trapped Lin Xuan within their encirclement, each taking out a palm-sized control token. As the tokens activated, a spiritual barrier formed and enclosed Lin Xuan within it.
Yet just as the barrier finished forming, that faint ripple of spiritual flame swept over it as well.
Bang bang bang bang bang…
The formation tokens before the five black-robed demons exploded instantly, turning into ash and scattering through the air.
Moreover, the power of the spiritual flame ripple did not diminish in the slightest, burning those five Golden Core Realm demons.
Soon after, nearly one hundred demons charged toward Lin Xuan.
From all directions, they surrounded him and cast spells simultaneously. Within a radius of ten zhang around Lin Xuan, wind blades, fire dragons, lightning sabers, wooden arrows, and more filled the space completely, forming a storm of techniques.
Under the joint casting of hundreds of demons, including many at the Nascent Soul Realm and Deity Transformation Realm, the might of this spell storm directly broke through to the Deity Transformation level.
"This time, that human cultivator of the Virtual Core Realm is dead for sure!"
At the front of the demon horde, a Deity Transformation Realm great demon floated in the air, staring confidently at the storm of techniques before him. He was certain that the Virtual Core Realm human cultivator would undoubtedly die.
Not to mention a Virtual Core Realm cultivator—even he himself might not be able to withstand it.
Just as this Deity Transformation Realm great demon's mind relaxed slightly, a vast and overwhelming force suddenly descended from above his head.
At this moment.
Lin Xuan, whose aura was slightly disordered, stepped out from a rift in space. He had summoned the Mountain and River Pearl, clenched in his right fist, and poured spiritual power into it, barely stirring one millionth of its power.
Buzz!
The void trembled lightly as water-blue ripples suddenly spread from Lin Xuan's right fist. With close inspection, one could even see faint projections of mountains and rivers reflected upon it.
"Take this punch of mine!"
A ruthless glint flashed through Lin Xuan's eyes.
He swung his right fist and smashed it downward with all his might.
"How is this possible? How did this guy break free?!"
Below, the Deity Transformation Realm great demon who looked up at Lin Xuan widened his eyes in disbelief.
"Not good!" At the same time, sensing the suppressed power within Lin Xuan's right fist, his heart trembled.
In an instant, the great demon summoned a small golden shield, half a meter in diameter, and raised it before himself.
Lin Xuan showed no hesitation and slammed his punch straight into the golden shield.
Crack! Boom!
The golden shield shattered instantly under Lin Xuan's fists, the force unabated as it struck the great demon squarely in the chest.
The Deity Transformation Realm great demon was smashed to the ground at once. Bones in his chest shattered, and his qi and blood were disrupted, though the injuries were only light.
"Relying solely on physical strength and borrowing a bit of the Mountain and River Pearl's power is still too forced against a Deity Transformation great demon. If I were to activate the first level of the Asura Body, I might be able to hammer him to death in a one-on-one fight."
This thought flashed through Lin Xuan's mind.
All of these actions took less than half a breath of time.
"Hahaha, this Virtual Core Realm human cultivator is nothing special after all, daring to think of killing across such a vast realm gap!"
Below, within the deep pit, joy flashed through the Deity Transformation great demon's eyes.
But immediately after, the ground beneath his feet split open violently. A green afterimage burst forth from the earth, piercing straight through his head, blasting apart his brain, and annihilating his soul in one stroke.
The Deity Transformation great demon's pupils dilated several times over, terror filling his eyes before he collapsed heavily to the ground, vitality scattering completely.
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