But no matter how much he regretted it, he was powerless to change the outcome. He could only watch as his collapse drew near and death approached.
Du Niangzi’s face was full of triumph.
She had thought she was certain to die, but she hadn’t expected to turn the tables and emerge victorious.
Moreover, once she absorbed Hei Pi’s entire cultivation, she would be the demon with the highest cultivation in the mountain. Becoming a Demon King in the future was just around the corner.
Once she became a Demon King, she would find a way to break the master-servant relationship with Lin Xue.
That damned Snake Spirit actually dared to enslave her and even snatched away the Obsidian that should have belonged to her. It was absolutely loathsome!
Once she escaped the Snake Spirit’s enslavement, she would make that Snake Spirit wish she were dead!
As for the life-saving grace of Lin Xue granting her power, it had long been thrown to the Nine Heavens Beyond by Du Niangzi.
Just as the Hei Pi Yao Wang was reaching his limit and about to collapse and lose his power, a lesser beast poked its head into the room and asked, “King, do you have any orders?”
***
Several lesser beasts had been guarding outside the door for over an hour.
Previously, they could still hear the Hei Pi Yao Wang’s heavy breathing and the creaking of the bedboards inside. Knowing that things were proceeding fervently, they stood guard outside with peace of mind.
However, the sounds inside suddenly stopped.
The Hei Pi Yao Wang’s breathing was gone, the bedboards were quiet, and even Du Niangzi made no sound.
At first, the lesser beasts thought the Hei Pi Yao Wang had finished his harvesting and was resting or had fallen asleep.
But they pricked up their ears and waited for a long time, yet they didn’t hear the Hei Pi Yao Wang’s snoring.
The lesser beasts waited for a long while, unsure of what was happening inside, yet they didn’t dare to barge in.
What if the Hei Pi Yao Wang was doing some shameful roleplay inside? If they went in and saw it, they would probably die a miserable death.
The lesser beasts waited outside for a long time in nervous anxiety.
Ultimately, they decided to go in and take a look.
The lesser beasts drew straws and picked a lucky loser to go in and see what was happening.
That unlucky soul had a bitter expression as he poked his head in, cautiously inching his way toward the room step by step.
Entering the inner bedroom, he poked his head out and tentatively asked, “King, do you have any orders?”
He saw the Hei Pi Yao Wang and Du Niangzi on the bed, still in their Yin-Yang Harvesting posture.
The lesser beast’s soul nearly fled his body in terror.
Interrupting the King’s harvesting was a major crime.
The lesser beast hurriedly knelt and kowtowed, saying, “This lowly one did not know the King had not finished yet. Please forgive me, King! Please forgive me!”
However, he kowtowed for a long time, but the Hei Pi Yao Wang didn’t make a single sound.
Sensing something was wrong, the lesser beast looked up.
Only then did he see that the Hei Pi Yao Wang was covered in sweat, his face pale, and his expression filled with regret and anxiety.
Meanwhile, there was a trace of panic on Du Niangzi’s face.
Du Niangzi had not expected that just as she was about to crush the Hei Pi Yao Wang’s defenses, plunder his cultivation and life essence, and claim final victory, an outsider would suddenly appear.
A lesser beast had actually been waiting outside, sensed something was wrong, and run in.
She was currently terrified of being interrupted by an outsider.
As long as there was no external interference, she would win immediately.
However, the lesser beast that suddenly entered became the biggest variable.
All of her strength was currently focused on that high-level dual cultivation technique; she couldn’t spare even a sliver of strength for anything else.
If this lesser beast chose to help the Hei Pi Yao Wang and attack her, she would be completely defenseless.
This worry caused Du Niangzi’s heart to falter, and her technique loosened slightly.
The Hei Pi Yao Wang had already been in despair, but at this moment, he suddenly discovered a flaw in Du Niangzi.
He was overjoyed. He sharply seized this opportunity, decisively diverting a sliver of strength to strike out with a palm toward Du Niangzi.
Du Niangzi was terrified. She immediately used all her strength to suck the Hei Pi Yao Wang’s cultivation, Yang Energy, and life essence.
But the Hei Pi Yao Wang’s palm had already struck her head.
Though he was extremely weak, he was still in the Demon King Realm after all. The power of this one palm strike was still something Du Niangzi could not withstand.
Du Niangzi’s head instantly became like a watermelon, and with a *splat*, it shattered all over the floor.
The Hei Pi Yao Wang felt the powerful suction that seemed to be draining everything from him vanish instantly.
He collapsed all at once, sprawling over Du Niangzi’s headless corpse, gasping for air in huge gulps.
The lesser beast had already been scared witless, kneeling on the ground and trembling all over.
The Hei Pi Yao Wang gasped for a long time before he finally recovered.
He stood up, grabbed his clothes, and threw them over his shoulders. He chuckled and patted the lesser beast on the shoulder, praising him, “Well done! I shall reward you handsomely later!”
Then, he strode toward the door.
***
The Tiger’s Gaping Maw outpost was currently filled with the clashing of blades and swords.
Lieyun hovered in mid-air, launched into continuous, fierce attacks against Lin Xue and the others under Guo Shan Feng’s control.
However, every one of its attacks struck an invisible barrier, unable to harm Lin Xue in the slightest.
The coordination between Lin Xue and the others had become increasingly seamless, and the formation became more solid.
Hong Yanzhi, Hua Yingying, and Xiao Mili grew more and more at ease.
Initially, Li Tianyu was still uneasy.
After all, no matter how powerful Lin Xue was, she and he alone couldn’t support a nine-person formation. If the other seven were useless, it would still be in vain.
He hadn’t expected the other seven female demons to be so proficient in the use of this formation; they were even better at it than he was.
Lin Xue was already impressive enough, but there were actually seven others as skilled as her?
Li Tianyu’s small brain was buzzing.
His worldview had collapsed once again.
Lin Xue had now completely put her heart at rest.
The formation was unbreakable, and Guo Shan Feng was completely helpless against them.
After her Demon Power supported the formation, she still had enough energy to pull out the Blood Fiend and launch a few sneak attacks on Guo Shan Feng.
The Blood Fiend stabbed at Guo Shan Feng time and again. Although it couldn’t wound him, it made Guo Shan Feng feel extremely insulted.
He was fuming with rage.
This was the first task the Hei Pi Yao Wang had assigned him after promoting him to Chief.
He hadn’t expected to fail so miserably on his very first mission.
When the Hei Pi Yao Wang found out, would he think he was a useless fool?
Guo Shan Feng’s eyes turned red as he manipulated Lieyun to launch even more violent attacks at Lin Xue.
However, once the Nine-Jointed Mystic Wall Formation was formed, as long as the nine people in the formation could continuously channel spiritual energy into the jade talismans, the formation was unbreakable.
Nine Qi Refinement Stage cultivators could withstand a full-strength blow from a Golden Core Cultivator.
Furthermore, Lin Xue, Hong Yanzhi, and the others were all Grand Demons equivalent to Foundation Establishment cultivators.
Lieyun simply could not break through the formation’s defense.
The lesser beasts in the outpost had long since hidden to the side with terrified expressions, fearing they would be caught in the crossfire.
Lin Xue’s mood grew more relaxed.
Just then, she suddenly felt a connection in the depth of her heart snap.
It was like a rope being yanked apart.
She had lost a servant.
Lin Xue was stunned.
She looked around. Hong Yanzhi, Hua Yingying, Xiao Mili, Du Juan’er, Miao Xiaolan, Jin Doudou, and Li Tiantian—all the female demons of Xixia Mountain—were standing perfectly fine beside her, using their Demon Power to drive the jade talismans and resist Guo Shan Feng’s attack alongside her.
The seven of them were fine, which meant something had happened to Du Niangzi.
Du Niangzi was dead.
Lin Xue’s expression changed drastically.
Du Niangzi had just been in a stalemate with the Hei Pi Yao Wang.
If she was dead, what about the Hei Pi Yao Wang?
Did they die together?
At that moment, she suddenly saw Guo Shan Feng stop his attack and pull out a piece of green jade from his robes.
It seemed to be a magic tool for long-distance communication. Lin Xue could faintly hear an old voice coming from within.
Guo Shan Feng held the piece of jade and whispered a few words, his expression looking extremely strained.
Next, he put away the jade and looked at Lin Xue and the other female demons, his eyes filled with hatred.
The expression on his face twisted as he grinned maliciously, “You bunch of sluts! The King will be here shortly to personally supervise your harvesting with the human cultivators! Then he will harvest you on the spot!”
“You demons have repeatedly defied the King. He is extremely furious this time. After you’ve been harvested, if you’re still alive, your fate will be to have your limbs cut off to become human stumps, played with by the mountain’s lesser beasts in turns until you die!”
“You sluts, just wait for your deaths!”
Lin Xue’s heart instantly sank.
The Hei Pi Yao Wang was still alive.
Du Niangzi hadn’t managed to kill the Hei Pi Yao Wang; instead, she had been killed by him.
The Hei Pi Yao Wang had likely suffered at Du Niangzi’s hands and hadn’t been able to absorb much Yang Energy, so he was coming over to harvest them to extend his life.
Although the Nine-Jointed Mystic Wall Formation was solid and was said to allow nine Qi Refinement Stage cultivators to withstand a full-strength strike from a Golden Core Cultivator…
That only applied to a single strike.
Multiple attacks would be impossible to withstand.
While the eight of them were Grand Demons, Li Tianyu was only at the Qi Refinement Stage.
With Li Tianyu as the weak point of the formation, she didn’t know how long they could hold out against the Hei Pi Yao Wang’s attacks.
Hearing the terrifying words spoken by Guo Shan Feng, Hong Yanzhi, Hua Yingying, and the others all turned pale with fright, their faces filled with despair.
They had thought they were about to escape, only to have a new disaster loom over them immediately.
The female demons were instantly filled with worry, shrouded in a cloud of gloom.
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