Chapter Seven: The Refining of Demons

  When he heard the distant and clear bell sound, Hei Yu's leader was taken aback.

  Xiao Ji stopped attacking at this moment, although the timing of a sneak attack on Hei Yu's leader was the best, but it seemed that things had changed. If not necessary, he did not want to fight with Hei Yu's leader, who was a strong master, and that would be suicidal behavior.

  "Is this not the alarm bell being sounded by the enemy?"

  The black fish leader spoke to himself, then looked at Xiao Ji again and said: "Little green snake, this is an extraordinary time. I can let bygones be bygones for killing my two vanguards, but now you must serve as my vanguard and go kill the enemy. If not..."

  Black Fish Overlord cruelly licked his lips:

  "Then I'll strike you down on the spot, as an offering to my fallen vanguard, Ying Hai!" The Black Fish Commander's eyes suddenly turned ferocious, glaring fiercely at Xiao Ji.

  "I promise you, I can keep you safe. In this underwater war, you can obtain a large amount of demon beast blood, which can make you break through the fourth layer of body refinement in the strongest state. The fifth layer of body refinement is a watershed, and the Bone Forging Realm can increase strength by several times. However, some demon beasts can increase strength by two times, while others can increase it by ten times! It's because of the Blood Refining Realm that the more bloodline types you acquire, the stronger the excellent bloodline you inherit will be, and in later realms, you'll have even more powerful strength than those in the same realm. This is a rare opportunity."

  Hao's voice suddenly appeared in Xiao Ji's mind, laughing.

  Xiao Ji heard this and had an idea in his mind.

  Xiao Ji said, "Of course, I originally meant for the Black Fish Leader to do his part and go kill the enemy!"

  The black fish leader nodded upon hearing this: "If that's the case, then it's for the best. Now hurry up and follow me to my domain, let's kill our enemies together!" As he spoke, the black fish leader took the lead, opening a path forward, but his attention was still tightly focused on Xiao Ji, in case he tried to escape at the last minute.

  Xiao Ji seemed nonchalant, his figure closely following behind the Black Fish Commander. Seeing this, the Black Fish Commander finally put his mind at ease.

  "Black Fish Commander, I don't know who our enemy is? And who is our great king?" Xiao Ji's body moved swiftly, his eyes fixed on the Black Fish Commander in front of him, asking.

  "Our great king is the master of this ten-thousand-mile radius, Water Ape King, who is a peerless demon beast with nine layers of body refinement." The black fish commander looked very respectful as he spoke.

  "Our enemies are the Golden Toad King of the nearby hundred-mile waters, the Mother Water King, and the Sea Fish Emperor. These several great kings are all near our Water Ape King's territory, each with an invincible realm of nine refined bodies. But this time, I don't know which one has come." The Black Fish Commander slowed down gradually, slowly leveling with Xiao Ji, and looked at him sideways.

  Xiao nodded slightly and stopped talking, but in his heart, he was shocked.

  Refining the body to the ninth level of the boundary, that is an unparalleled demon beast approaching the infinite demon path. Once broken through, it can soar into the sky and insert directly into the clouds outside the nine heavens, possessing an immeasurable and powerful force!

  Xiao Ji thought about the Tianjie strongman from his previous life and wondered who was stronger, him or the Ninth Layer of Body Refining. However, he understood that such an extremely powerful existence could probably crush his current self with just one finger.

  But what Xie is proud of now is that he has a guy like Huo, who is like an encyclopedia of cultivation, and can make himself take less detours or even no detours in his cultivation path. Moreover, he has a lifespan of tens of millions of years, which is unmatched by any living being!

  He slowly calmed his mind and looked around at the strangely shaped underwater rocks and unfamiliar seaweed, all of which he had never seen in his past life.

  After a moment, the black fish leader opened its mouth and said: "Just ahead is the demon beast tribe I rule." The huge voice could be heard from afar.

  "Hei Yu Tong Lai has returned." "Hei Yu Tong Lai, did you capture the invader?" "Needless to ask, with Hei Yu Tong Lai's strength, it's a piece of cake to capture them!" "Indeed, indeed, Hei Yu Tong Lai is matchlessly powerful, no demon can be his enemy!"

  In front of him, a group of underwater stone caves similar to a small tribe appeared, stretching for miles, with countless seaweed plants growing among them. As soon as Xiaoyi approached this small tribe, he heard the countless voices coming from there.

  "Alright, stop it!" The Black Fish Chief roared towards the small tribe in front. As soon as his voice fell, indeed no more sounds came out.

  "Has everyone heard the alarm of the enemy's invasion? Are you all ready to go into battle?" The Black Fish leader looked at the tribe and roared again.

  "Roar!" "Caw!" "Hiss hiss" "Whoosh whoosh" "...".

  The answer was a multitude of roars, but the voices were noisy and unpleasant.

  "Alright! Assemble now and prepare for battle!" The Black Fish Commander let out a loud roar, his voice echoing over ten miles away.

  The black fish leader's voice had just fallen when the crowd of demons danced together and rushed towards the black fish leader.

  There were clams, lobsters, crabs, jellyfish, and countless unknown fish species that appeared before Xiao Ji's eyes.

  Looking at the tens of thousands of Refining Realm demon beasts that appeared before his eyes, Xiao Ji's heart skipped a beat. In his opinion, the demon beasts that could be called demon beasts should only be a very small part of the entire demon beast clan, and they were not common. However, at this moment, there were tens of thousands of Refining Realm demon beasts appearing in front of him, which still made Xiao Ji somewhat surprised.

  These geniuses, most of them were at the first or second stage of Body Refining, and only about a hundred had reached the third stage. As for those who had reached the fourth stage, there were only four, and including myself, that made five in total.

  The Black Fish Sovereign looked at the gathering of demonic beasts in front of him, nodded and said: "Everyone is still okay, the assembly speed is not bad."

  As he spoke, Hei Yu swam up beside Xiao Ji:

  "From now on, this green snake will be your vanguard general, and I will take 5,000 out of my 30,000 troops to have him lead."

  "What?" "Who is this little snake and how can it be as long as the four great ones?" "Exactly, what's so special about this green worm that it can sit on an equal footing with the four great ones?"

  Suddenly, a dissatisfied voice came from the group of demon beasts and spread out.

  Xiao Ji arrived before Hei Yu's leader and looked towards the various demons and beasts.

  "If anyone is dissatisfied, come out and see if I have the ability to be the leader!"

  At this moment, the various demons and beasts saw that the Black Fish Commander did not stop them, knowing that the Black Fish Commander was not blocking their challenge to Xiao Ji. A tiger-striped fish swam out.

  "I am Captain Haibian, come and see what you're capable of as our leader." The tiger-striped sea fish was one zhang long, with a light blue body and black stripes similar to those of a fierce tiger carved all over its body. Its lower jaw was slightly longer than its upper jaw, revealing several sharp teeth.

  "This is a Tiger-striped Sea Fish, its strength is much greater than that of ordinary fish, and it has already approached the realm of refining the body to the fourth level. You should be careful." Huo's voice echoed in Xiao Ji's mind, reminding him.

  "It's nothing, this demon beast can't harm me." Xiao Ji replied in his mind to Huan, while looking at the tiger-striped sea fish, and said softly:

  "Take action."

  "Hmph! Even if you're a refined body of the fourth realm, you're not necessarily my opponent. You dare to utter such arrogant words? It seems I must teach you a lesson in blood!" Tiger Stripe Sea Domain let out a sudden roar, coldly staring at Xiao Ji.

  The monsters below were discussing it in an uproar:

  "Who do you think will win?"

  "Do you need to ask? Of course it's Captain Hǔ Bān, its strength we've known for a long time. Look at that green snake's weak appearance, I'm afraid it can't withstand even one of Captain Hǔ Bān's moves."

  "That's not necessarily true. Since Hei Yu let that green snake be the captain, it's likely that it has already reached the fourth level of body refinement."

  "Cut! Is the fourth stage of body refinement really that easy to cultivate? Moreover, even if Tiger Stripe Captain's peak power at the third stage of body refinement is truly matched against a refined spirit at the fourth stage, it's not necessarily going to lose, how can it possibly lose?"

  Xiao Ji heard the conversation below, but only smiled slightly in his heart, looked up at the tiger-striped sea fish that suddenly rushed over, and slightly turned his body.

  The speed of the fourfold refinement is naturally not comparable to that of the threefold refinement, and it easily dodges the tiger-striped fish's impact while its tail strikes the tiger-striped fish's abdomen.

  The tiger-striped fish was also a fierce fighter, and when it knew its speed couldn't match that of the swordfish, it used its tail to collide head-on with the swordfish.

  "Slap"

  A light sound, Xiao Ji was shocked back several meters, and the tiger-striped sea fish also retreated for a while. It's no wonder that it's a powerful fish species, and its strength is comparable to Xiao Ji's fourth-level refined body.

  The tiger-striped fish had a certain understanding of Xiao Ji's strength, and boldly rushed towards Xiao Ji, with its sharp teeth open, ready to take a bite of Xiao Ji's body at any time.

  Xiao Ji still dodged sideways, avoiding the tiger-striped sea fish, and withdrew his tail at the same time.

  The tiger-striped fish let out a chuckle and said:

  "An attack of this level won't be enough to defeat me, watch as I strike you back."

  Tiger-striped fish resort to old tricks, still using their tail to swing towards the shore.

  "What?" The tiger-striped fish cried out in surprise.

  The original tail of the cuttlefish did not collide with the tiger-striped fish's tail as expected, but instead quickly wrapped around it when approaching the tiger-striped fish's tail, using its strength to hold the tiger-striped fish in place, wrapping its entire body tightly around the tiger-striped fish.

  The tiger-striped fish struggled with all its might, but its whole body seemed to be tightly bound by steel, no matter how hard it tried, it couldn't break free even a little, instead, Xiao Ji's body was squeezed tighter, causing the tiger-striped fish's bones to crackle and pop.

  When the snake is entwining its prey, its strength is at its strongest, and every part of its body exerts all its power, enough to make Xiao Ji's originally 700-jin strong physique burst out with nearly 1,000 jin of force, which is fundamentally not something that the tiger-striped fish can resist.

  "How's that? Are you convinced? If not, I can continue." Xiao Ji stared at the tiger-striped sea fish, although the one-zhang-long snake body wrapped around the same one-zhang-long sea fish seemed a bit short, but the wrapping force still made the tiger-striped sea fish unable to move an inch.

  "I... I give up, you're all grown-ups, let me go..." The tiger-striped fish was wrapped up and couldn't breathe, hurriedly begged for mercy.

  Xiao Ji looked around at the surrounding demons and monsters, and none of them dared to oppose Xiao Ji's appointment as the leader anymore. Being able to defeat a Tiger-striped Sea Fish that was no weaker than an ordinary Fourth-Order Cultivator, how could they dare to object?

  At this moment, Hei Yu's words came out:

  "Alright, does everyone have no objection to me appointing this green snake demon beast as the city's mayor?"

  As he spoke, he turned his head towards Xiao Ji:

  "This captain of the tiger stripe battalion has indeed offended you, but he has also learned his lesson and knows to repent. Let him go, we will still need such elites in the great battle ahead."

  Xiao Ji heard this and loosened his grip on the tiger-striped sea fish, nodding and saying: "What Hei Yu Tong Ling said is right, killing the enemy is the most important thing to do at present."

  The tiger-striped fish took a deep breath and hurriedly swam back among the crowd of spirits.

  "Alright, now all you demons listen to my command, let's set off!" Hei Yu looked at Xiao Ji with satisfaction, turned his head and shouted loudly at the tens of thousands of refined monsters, leading them as they swam away.

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