Chapter Seventy: Beheading Ma Jiao

  "Alright," a loud roar, and the thousand-zhang-tall ape suddenly swelled to nearly ten thousand zhang, its entire body shining with golden light. The originally enormous deep-sea beast was now tiny in front of the Golden Ape. The deep-sea beast, which had been resisting the Golden Ape with its thick scales, instantly changed its expression to one of extreme anger and pain, and in a flash, it fled in panic towards the distant depths of the sea.

  The golden ape suddenly appeared behind the wild beast, and its massive golden fist swung out, boom! A loud noise shook the air as the wild beast, covered in thick scales, was struck by a fist the size of a small mountain. Crack crack, the scales shattered and broke apart, and the bones snapped and fractured with a crisp sound.

  The latter half of the body sank into a large gap, and the whole wild beast burst through the layers of waves like a meteor, cutting open a huge white gully, disappearing at sea.

  The Golden Ape immediately shrunk down and transformed into a slender young man, who was none other than Jin Gang.

  Jin Gang didn't care about his appearance, and said: "This is meaningless, why are these wild beasts so weak?"

  Next to him, a powerful and majestic Arhat said to the Golden Vajra who was muttering to himself: "This is the East Sea's coastal area, of course there aren't any powerful wild beasts. Occasionally, deep-sea wild beasts that wander into the coastal area are extremely weak, once discovered, they're surrounded by gods and taken away for trade. Today we finally encountered one, it's a good opportunity for you to relax! Our goal is Shen Zhou!"

  "Let's go!"

  Vajra and Arhat immediately broke through the clouds and flew straight away.

  ……

  Under a towering peak that pierced the sky, two little demons were holding their beloved top-grade spiritual instruments, two rod-shaped clubs, patrolling and vigilantly looking around in the surrounding area.

  After a long patrol, they occasionally encountered several small monsters, all of whom were the little soldiers of this Tianyuan Peak. After patrolling more than half of Tianyuan Peak, the two small monsters stopped and sat on a rock to rest. The fat leopard-headed human-bodied monster on the left said to the thin and delicate dog-headed human-bodied monster beside him: "Little Dog, since the two great kings killed that violent and greedy great king before, our days have been better."

  "Yes, in the past that great king was not only cruel and violent, but also plundered many beautiful female demons to be his concubines. For us small demons, he would kill at will, and also extort from us the treasures we had worked hard to obtain. We small demons were always on edge, worried that one day disaster would strike. Fortunately, not long ago two great kings rescued us from a desperate situation, killing the previous king."

  The leopard demon nodded in agreement and looked up at the Tianxuan Peak with reverence.

  Tianyuan Peak is a solitary peak located at the easternmost part of Shenluo Continent. Within a radius of 100 million miles, it was originally ruled by a demon saint named Majiutong, who belonged to the branch of divine beasts. It resembles a horse with a white body and black tail, has one horn on its head, sharp teeth, four claws for feet, and makes sounds like drumbeats. Its food consists of tigers and leopards.

  The demon saint of Tianyuan Peak, Ma Xie, has not changed his bloodthirsty nature since he transformed. He is full of violence and murderous desires, likes to eat bloody food, and is also greedy and stingy towards various heavenly treasures. Every ten years, he forces the smaller demons under him to offer tribute, and if they are not satisfied, he immediately tears them apart and devours them, causing all the demons in the surrounding area of Tianyuan Peak to be terrified.

  Moreover, in the vast expanse of the Desolate Continent, even the Eastern Continent of God Luozhou, which is relatively calm among the four continents, is also home to countless desolate and ferocious beasts. Although the number of demons is enormous in the Desolate Continent, they are still a minority compared to the total number of desolate beasts. As for the two tribes of gods and devils, it's even more so.

  If it weren't for the demon tribe's ability to transform between their true form and human form, they would be able to evade most of the ferocious beasts' searches and predations. With the demon tribe's long lifespan, slow cultivation speed, and difficulty in possessing spiritual nature, it's likely that many low-ranking demons have suffered heavy losses!

  Until a hundred years ago, Tianxuan Peak welcomed two men who appeared to be one with a fierce aura and the other a slender youth. Both men had an aura of death about them, and they directly challenged the ruler of the entire Tianxuan Peak region, the demon saint Ma Jiaoren.

  Ordinarily overbearing and arrogant, as a branch of the divine beast tribe, Ma Jiao was extremely proud and couldn't tolerate humiliation. Immediately revealing his true form, his massive body, hundreds of thousands of feet in size, emitted an enormous pressure that spread throughout the surrounding 100,000 miles. Whether it was the demon king's power or the small demons who had just transformed and hadn't reached the heavenly demon realm, they all felt a strong sense of oppression and were terrified.

  The demon saint exposing the horse's true body charged towards the two ants, with a loud explosion of air. As he watched the massive front paws fall down like pillars holding up the sky, the burly man let out a fierce roar and also revealed a pair of wings that were over a million feet long, roaring at the heavens as his tiger claws swung out to collide with the horse's front hooves.

  Rumbling, crackling, bursts of air exploding, space faintly fluctuating, two enormous alien bodies suddenly retreated tens of thousands of miles, seemingly evenly matched.

  But upon closer inspection, it can be seen that the front paws of the Double-Winged Tiger are trembling slightly, while those of the Demon Saint Ma Jiao have a faint trace of blood. Upon closer inspection, it is found that there are several fine cracks on the surface of its claws.

  Two ferocious beasts with surging battle intent immediately clashed in mid-air, their white and yellow auras flashing incessantly as they crazily collided, bit, and tore at each other. The massive energy and shockwaves from the battle caused the surrounding weather to change abruptly, throwing the heavenly and earthly spiritual energies into chaos.

  That battle was earth-shattering, the sky was torn apart, and more than half of the Tianyuan Peak was shaking, all the monsters in the territory were shocked, with eyes full of fervent worship.

  The frenzied battle lasted for seven days and seven nights, the foreign Double-Winged Tiger was covered in scars and bloodstains all over its body, but its eyes were filled with a high-spirited will to fight and an exhilarated expression, yes, it was indeed exhilarated.

  The horse opposite the twin-winged tiger was even more miserable, its entire body covered in massive wounds, and the single horn on its head had been cut off halfway, with a smooth broken edge.

  At this point, it can be said that the two are in a life-and-death struggle, with no quarter asked or given.

  "Roar", "Boom", a burst of roaring and drumming-like calls, the two giant beasts began to collide.

  Two figures like light and illusion constantly collided, in the final collision, a burst of demonic energy surged, an earth-shattering explosion shook the entire sky, the aftermath of the battle swept through the surrounding void for millions of miles, with turbulent winds and clouds.

  "Boom", a dull drumbeat sounded, and immediately fell silent. A horse's corpse with scars all over its body suddenly dropped from the sky above.

  "A loud crash" seemed like a meteorite hitting the ground, blasting a huge crater of unknown depth.

  From start to finish, the slender and refined young man who had been following beside him was standing by with his arms crossed, as if everything had nothing to do with him, and was savoring the rare grandeur of the wild collision.

  That double-winged tiger flashed its body and transformed back into the original majestic man with a powerful aura, but now covered in blood with some wounds all over his body. He walked to the slender youth's side and said: "Jin Gang, this demon saint's strength is not bad, it can relax muscles and tendons, what a refreshing and exhilarating battle!"

  These two are Vajrapani and Rahula who have just come from the Eastern Sea to Mount Sumeru.

  "We're really lucky, we've encountered a top-quality terrestrial fire vein as soon as we entered the Honghuang Continent's Shen Zhou."

  "Then let's absorb some pure fire essence in this land of fierce fire veins and temper our golden bodies. It's rare to encounter such a high-quality land of fierce fire veins, so let's take a break and consolidate our foundation for a while before continuing on our journey." Jin Gang replied.

  "Alright!" From Luo Han's eyes, one could see his eager and restless mood. His cultivation method was the "Slaughter Energy Refining Body Technique", which originally required absorbing various earthly slaughter energies to temper his body. After reaching great success, he would be able to rival the divine artifacts of the initial stage of the Post-Heaven Spirit Treasure, and along with the "Ape Demon Golden Body Technique", it was one of the top-notch body-refining techniques.