Chapter 299: Discussions in the Witch Palace (Part 2)
Chapter 299: Discussions in the Witch Palace (Part 2)
"Human demon?" Xing Tianlu's expression changed. Su Rong said: "Can you see clearly? Is it really a human demon?"
"Master, I and the twelve elders were guarding the surroundings of Black Witch City that day, but the enemy suddenly tore apart the space and fell from the sky in the central area at a very fast speed. They also brought several powerful disposable talismans to the Black Witch City's empty defensive witch formation. After only resisting three rounds of attacks, the guards were breached and suffered heavy casualties. When I and other elders arrived, the temple had been breached and many enemies were ambushed outside the temple.
These enemies have powerful mana, high defense, and are not afraid of death. Although each of them only has the power of the early stage of divine transformation, they are very fierce and durable, and can often entangle the wizards in the middle stage of divine transformation; and when pressed, they will use a kind of self-destruction. Not only is the explosion extremely powerful, but it also shoots out highly toxic venom, which will quickly spread throughout the body even if it is touched a little. Even the masters of the late earth witches were unable to get rid of it, causing our side to suffer heavy casualties.
We paid a lot of money to break through the enemy's heavy guards, but when we entered the temple, it had been looted. The 'Crystal Skull', our clan's sacred object, was also taken away. The spells used by the enemy when fighting and escaping are very similar to the magic power of the devil. Therefore, I judge that even if the enemy is not a direct force of the devil, it must be closely related to the devil. Hua Ying said, then took something out of his arms and presented it to him:
"Master, see, this is the enemy's body remains." Hua Ying took out a jade box one foot long and half a foot wide. The surface of the box was covered with strange cyan witchcraft, exuding powerful witchcraft power, as if it was sealing some danger. thing. Through the transparent jade wall, you can see a severed hand inside. The severed hand is completely black and covered with black scales. The nails are long and pointed, and they don't look like human hands but the limbs of some kind of monster. From the severed cross-section, even the flesh and tendons inside are extremely black and weird.
"Huh?" Xing Tianlu opened his big hand and created a suction force out of thin air, sucking the jade box into his hand and looking at it carefully. Then he took a deep breath and made numerous crisp noises all over his body. The skin actually trembled like waves, forming a layer of scale-like armor. Then he lifted the witchcraft of the jade box with a flick of his finger and opened the lid!
As soon as the lid of the box was opened, the amputated hand seemed to have broken through some kind of seal. He opened his fingers wide and grabbed Xing Tianlan! At the same time, there was a "puff" sound, and the arm shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye. Black air oozed out from every pore underneath. The black air seemed to have its own life and rushed towards Xing Tianlu at lightning speed!
Just a severed hand is so weird!
Faced with the sudden attack, Xing Tianlan remained calm, as if he had already expected that his hand had been placed on his chest at some point. The shining palm of his hand happened to catch the sharp claws of the severed arm and pinched it at the same time. ; Facing the black energy that followed, Xing Tianlu had a mocking look in his eyes. He opened his mouth and released a strong suction force, sucking up all the black air like a whale sucking water.
Without the black energy, it was as if even the essence had been lost. The strength of the broken arm was weakened by 90%; and the power from Xingtian's killing hand was beyond imagination. The weak struggle of the big broken arm was like a cricket shaking a big tree, unable to get up at all. to some effect.
Xing Tianlu, who had swallowed the obviously poisonous black mist, did not show any signs of being poisoned. After swallowing the black mist, he closed his eyes as if feeling the nature of the black mist. After a moment, he suddenly opened his eyes and a fierce red light flashed in his eyes. The voice said:
"Well, this evil and poisonous power with a faint aura of the demon world is indeed the body of a human demon! These demon bastards, the Black Witch Sect, have been persecuted by these Middle-earth cultivators and have left their homes and come to this desolate and ignorant place. The mainland has been recuperating for tens of thousands of years before it regained some of its vitality. We have always been on the same page with them, but I didn’t expect that the tiger would be treated as a sick cat instead of showing off its power! How dare you dare to attack the holy relics of our witchcraft religion? It’s really deceiving!”
After saying that, a piece of golden lightning suddenly appeared in his hand and turned the broken arm that was still shaking slightly into ashes. The "Blood Witch Killing Heart Technique" he practiced is more profound than the ancient great witch who specializes in the power of blood (the supreme witchcraft of the tribe "Blood Record of the Witch God"). The body refining effect is extremely excellent and the qi and blood are powerful. It can dissolve everything. The power of evil. Unless it is something as filthy and evil as the extremely evil blood water in the depths of the Nine Nether Sea of Blood, it is basically invulnerable to all poisons. The evil energy and sinister corrosive power contained in the black mist has just entered. His body was refined by powerful witchcraft.
The full name of the human demon should be "Humanoid Transformation Demon", which is a kind of ** weapon of the magic cascade. The main material is humanoid monsters native to the demon world. The demon world is extremely vast. In addition to those strong men who have ascended from various planets and planes in the universe, there are also many native monsters. These monsters are the indigenous inhabitants of the demon world, of various types and in huge numbers.
Not all of these indigenous monsters are as ferocious and powerful as the legendary demons. Instead, a large part of their abilities are relatively mediocre. Although they are much stronger than humans and animals in the mortal world, they are vastly inferior to the powerful ones in the demon world. The difference. If the demon world is compared to the human world, those powerful people who have ascended from various planets and planes in the universe are upper-class people and nobles, while those indigenous monsters are common people.
However, both the aristocratic monsters and the commoner monsters are pure demons, so they are born with the innate attributes of the demon world and are consistent with the nature of the demonic energy. However, they lack the talent and skills to display them. But the practitioners of the demonic path discovered it after countless years of experiments and wars. If these monsters can be used to practice magic skills, the refined magic treasures will be much stronger than those mortal materials and creatures. In particular, humanoid monsters are "another material" for demonic cultivation.
Demonic cultivators do not have any kinship with each other. Instead, they always do whatever it takes to gain power. Therefore, they discovered that monsters have such good "effects." Those demonic cultivators in ancient times naturally hunted and killed monsters to practice their magic skills. Due to the extremely large number of monsters in the Demon World, the Demonic Way has also summed up a lot of experience and powerful magical skills through long-term "experiments". The famous art of refining gods and demons in magic was created during this period.
However, due to the brutal killing of the monsters in the later stage, the monsters' physical resistance was triggered. Although most of those ordinary monsters don't have much power. This huge "population base" alone still produced many famous strong men. Under the leadership of these strong men, the coalition of "civilian" monsters and various races launched a series of wars with the demon cultivators. The war lasted for hundreds of years, and the monsters had the numerical advantage. Moreover, local snakes can take advantage of all kinds of advantages; while the number of demon practitioners is small, but their cultivation is very high and powerful. Both sides have their own advantages and disadvantages, and no one can do anything about it. In the end, both parties can only make peace with each other.
As a condition for peace, the monsters of all races signed an agreement with the ancient demon cultivators and swore an oath of heaven and demons, agreeing that the demon cultivators would no longer massacre monsters, especially humanoid monsters; however, as a concession, the monsters could divide an area to specifically exile those who committed the most heinous crimes. A tribesman who is not liked and valued by other monsters. Monsters of all races don't care at all about the life and death of these people. Demonic cultivators can "collect materials" in this area.
However, nothing is absolute. Those monsters that can commit heinous crimes but still avoid being executed by the clan are not fuel-efficient lamps. Among them, there are many strong ones who will not recognize people even if the demon cultivators come, and there are even cases where they counterattack the demon cultivators. Appear. Originally, there were not many monsters in the exile area, but there were quite a few demon cultivators who came here to collect "materials". In addition, the resistance of powerful monsters would naturally not yield much. With too many monks and too few monks, these demon cultivators had to give up those expensive research directions, such as the "Extreme Evil Demon Heart" synthesized from the hearts of thousands of demons, the "Essence Blood" composed of the blood of thousands of demons, and other powerful magic treasures; began to After countless years of research on how to develop the strongest effects with the fewest monsters, a lot of results have been produced.
After countless years of research, due to the many catastrophes, the fall of those strong men, and the declining power of the descendants of the retired demon cultivators, it has gradually become impossible to refine those particularly powerful magic treasures. And their attention was also focused on how to make some low-level monsters exert the power of mid-to-high-level monsters. The refining of "human demons" is a very representative type of such achievements.
The human form is the form of the innate Tao body, which is most suitable for practicing Taoism and can be adapted to almost any cultivation method. It is the form that all cultivators in the universe must have, whether they are monsters, demons, spirits, monsters or other powerful creatures, they can all be transformed into The human form is an important stage of cultivation. Although those monsters in humanoid form are not necessarily powerful, they have great potential.
For the same reason, demon cultivators are also better at transforming and utilizing humanoid monsters due to similar body shapes and structures. Human demons use captured or summoned humanoid monsters as a basis to transform them with magic, just like a refiner, transforming them into living combat weapons.
Due to the ferocity and demonic nature of monsters, the transformed human demons will have deeper mana, stronger bodies, enhanced defenses, and the madness that has been wiped out of mind and inspired the demonic nature without fear of life and death; even more terrifying Demon cultivators will also plant demon seeds in their bodies. Once the human demon dies or is controlled by a manipulator, the power of the demon seed will be stimulated to cause the human demon to self-destruct. It exceeded the ordinary blow of a cultivator in the late stage of returning to the void. It is very convenient for demon cultivators to freely control them as long as they imprint the soul with the soul mark. If it weren't for the fact that humanoid monsters are also very smart and difficult to capture and summon, so the number of human monsters has never been able to reach a large scale, I am afraid that the devil would have won the previous few battles between good and evil.
In ancient times, all the cultivators united in the war to drive out the witch sect. The wizards and warriors of the witch sect really suffered a lot from powerful combat weapons such as human demons, which they have not forgotten even after tens of thousands of years.
"The leader of the Middle-earth Cultivation Society dares to blatantly invade the territory of our Black Witch Cult. This is a serious provocation. Maybe it is a test by the Middle-earth Cultivation World to try to launch a war against us! If we do not fight back, it is likely to attract more excessive attacks or even them. A large-scale invasion! I am willing to lead my eight thousand men to the 'Broken Land City' to protect the throat of the Middle-earth continent into our black earth continent." A tall man with red beard and hair, his body wrapped around two people like a burning flame A big man with a red one-horned snake, his naked body covered with countless strange flame-like witch tattoos, stood up from his seat and said to Xing Tianlu. This is Zhu Tianzhi, the chief elder of the Fire Witch Tribe, who has mastered the Fire Tribe's supreme witchcraft "Fire God Technique" to the point where his strength in the later stage of the witch is even better than that of the Master of Returning to the Void in the later stage of his peak.
Don't think that a large tribe with only 8,000 people is considered a small number. These eight thousand people are all wizards who have practiced witchcraft and powerful warriors who have practiced witchcraft martial arts. Each of them has a strength no less than that of a cultivator in the late stage of Qi training. A mere eight thousand people are enough to defeat an army of millions of mortals.
(Broken Land City guards the only way to the Black Earth Continent from the Middle-earth Continent. Dongwang Mountain is less than a thousand miles away from the Middle-earth Continent and faces each other across the sea. This is the road taken by the remnants of the Witch Cult to retreat to the Black Earth Continent. There are several surrounding areas. One hundred thousand miles is an endless ocean. If the Middle-earth China wants to invade the Middle-earth continent on a large scale, this is the only way to go. After all, cultivators cannot fly in the sky all the time, which consumes mana and must land to rest. And the vast ocean often does not last for a long time. There is no island where you can rest, and if there are so many marine monsters, even a master of returning to the void will have a headache. Therefore, choosing Dongwang Mountain, which is less than a thousand miles away, is the most correct way to land.)
"Hum the Torch Head. Dongwang Mountain is close to the sea. The power of the sea spirit is sufficient, and the energy of the fire spirit is at least. You people of the Fire Tribe have already weakened three points of your own strength without fighting. If you really encounter the invasion of the Middle-earth cultivation world, wouldn't it be so? Throw yourself into danger? It’s better for our Shui Jian’er to take action. Master, I ask you to lead your troops to Dongwang Mountain to station. It doesn’t require eight thousand, as long as there are five thousand, I promise not to let go of any cultivators from China.”
The speaker was a burly man with light blue skin, beard and hair as dark blue as the ocean, a Han Chi leather whip around his waist, and numerous witch marks appearing on his face like water droplets. He squinted at Zhu Tianzhi while speaking. A provocative look. This is Gong Zhihong, the chief elder of the Water Tribe.
Probably because of the conflict between water and fire, the people of the Fire Tribe and the Water Tribe have always disliked each other. Although there was no major conflict under the suppression of Black Witch City and the top management of the two tribes, there were constant small conflicts in private. Due to the warlike tradition of witch cultivators, such small conflicts were considered as a way of training, so they were not stopped. Over time, this also led to the mutual hostility between the Fire Tribe and the Water Tribe. As the leaders of the two tribes, Zhu Tianzhi and Gong Zhihong were naturally not very harmonious. The mutual fighting between the two had long been a habit. Therefore, as soon as Zhu Tianzhi put forward the suggestion, Gong Zhihong opposed it and intended to replace it.
"How can your subordinate, a water fish, compare with the warriors of our tribe? Who doesn't know that fire witchcraft is the most lethal of all witchcraft?"
"No matter how powerful it is, it's useless if it can't hit the enemy. In a place where it faces the sea on three sides, how can your Fire Tribe's sensitivity, which is slow to all spiritual powers except fire spiritual power, be the same as in our water?" Compared with athletes? If those cultivators try to sneak through Dongwang Mountain and enter the Black Earth Continent, only we people from the Water Tribe will be able to detect it!"
"You fart..." "You are overestimating your own capabilities..."...the two actually had a big argument in front of the public, and the other chief elders of the tribe were also enjoying it. Apparently no one tried to persuade me to watch the excitement, so I was obviously used to it. Except for the witch cultivator who has a bad temper because of practicing witchcraft, there is probably no other person with such a strong temper.
"Okay! Don't be reckless in the main hall!" Seeing that the two of them were getting more and more quarrelsome, Xing Tianlu had to give a serious shout and used the authority of the leader and superhuman cultivation to suppress the quarrel between the two.
"How proficient is Huaying's enemy?" Xing Tianlu asked.
"The leader reported that there were about five hundred human demons plus three to five suspected masters of the late stage of demonic return. Because these people's movements were very secretive, they did not choose to take away the holy objects and create chaos until they finally broke through the temple. Escape. Hua Ying is incompetent and can only roughly estimate the number of enemies through the visual inspection of the guards and the leakage of demonic energy during the fight at the scene." Hua Ying whispered.
"Well, the timing of the enemy's attack was very clever. It happened to be during the period when I wanted to make another breakthrough and was closed for half a year. Moreover, I took advantage of the fact that all the elders were far away from the temple and there were no experts to guard the temple. I sacrificed a lot of precious humans and demons in one move. The breakthrough took away the sacred object. The clever timing and ruthless means are definitely not something that ordinary sects can achieve. Five hundred human demons, even the top demon sect at the level of the Five Directions Demon Sect, cannot easily sacrifice them. "
As Xing Tianlu spoke, he tapped his fingers on the armrest of the seat and lowered his head in thought.
"Unless the cultivators who attacked this time do not belong to one force but a collection of several major forces! And their purpose is not to invade our Black Earth Continent or to attack the Black Witch Cult, but to use certain characteristics of the crystal skull to help them Do something big!" Xing Tianlu suddenly raised his head and said in a positive tone.
As expected, the leader of the black witch cult who commands tens of thousands of witch cultivators has come to a conclusion that is very similar to reality through inferences based on only some fragmentary clues.
