Mo Fan had not expected these two fellows to choose to strike at True Person Yun Ting at the same time.
However, precisely because they were fully focused on dealing with True Person Yun Ting, the vines chasing him were recalled by the old cultivator, which gave Mo Fan a chance to catch his breath.
He first flew backwards several hundred metres, then stood on a huge rock, coldly watching the battle unfolding ahead.
At that moment, a figure landed not far from his eyes; it was that tower-like cultivator.
Mo Fan’s brows furrowed slightly, and he immediately became vigilant in his heart. With a thought, his flying sword instantly circled around his body.
“Actually, you don’t need to be so cautious towards me. If I wanted to deal with you, I would have acted the moment you set foot on this island,” the tower-like cultivator said with a smile.
“Why don’t you make a move, fellow daoist? This is a good opportunity!” Mo Fan countered.
“Make a move? Against whom?”
The tower-like cultivator sneered, looking towards the battlefield ahead, and said faintly, “None of those three fellows up ahead are easy to deal with.”
“True Person Yun Ting goes without saying. He is the third-ranked figure in Yellow Mystic Valley. Even though he is gravely injured, he is not so easy to kill.
Don’t be fooled by how pleased those two seem. An old fellow like Yun Ting has lived for several hundred years and has plenty of life-saving methods!
How could he be killed so easily?
As for Daoist Dried Wood, although he is a loose cultivator, he is only one step away from entering the late Core Formation stage. Moreover, this man is neither wholly righteous nor wholly evil, and he possesses the extremely troublesome wood spiritual root among heavenly spiritual roots. Anyone who fights him will have a headache!”
Hearing this fellow’s analysis, Mo Fan silently noted it down in his heart, then immediately asked, “What about that Demon King?”
“You are also a Demon King. Don’t you know the other party?” the tower-like cultivator looked at Mo Fan.
So this fellow mistakenly thought I was a Demon King?
Mo Fan’s eyes narrowed slightly, and he smiled, “The Ten Thousand Great Mountains are so vast, with countless Demon Kings within. I can’t possibly know everyone, can I?”
“So you come from the Ten Thousand Great Mountains?”
A trace of surprise appeared in the tower-like cultivator’s eyes, and then he nodded, “No wonder you don’t recognise that fellow.”
“If I’m not mistaken, he should be the Night Owl Demon King from Wind Spirit Cave in the Hundred Yue Kingdom. Although his cultivation is only at the mid-King realm, he is harder to kill than ordinary peak King realm Demon Kings!”
Night Owl Demon King?
Wind Spirit Cave in the Hundred Yue Kingdom…
A glint flashed in Mo Fan’s eyes. This was the first time he had heard of a Demon King outside the Ten Thousand Great Mountains.
And it sounded like he was quite famous.
But weren’t all demon clans confined by the human race within the Ten Thousand Great Mountains?
How could there be a Demon King-level existence outside the Ten Thousand Great Mountains?
Could this Night Owl Demon King really be so powerful that he didn’t fear being hunted by human cultivators?
Mo Fan’s brows furrowed slightly, and then he heard the tower-like cultivator ask, “By the way, I heard that the White Tiger Holy King from your Ten Thousand Great Mountains disappeared after a battle with a celestial being. Do you know if he is dead or alive?”
Mo Fan’s gaze flickered, and he said faintly, “You jest, fellow daoist. How could a small demon like me obtain information about an existence like the White Tiger Holy King?”
“You don’t know?”
“That’s truly a pity!” the tower-like cultivator sighed, then said with a playful expression, “But you are no small demon. You were able to capture a disciple of Tianlu Holy Land without any scruples, punch a direct disciple of Yellow Mystic Valley to death, and then toy with the cultivators of Yellow Mystic Valley in the palm of your hand. You are a very terrifying Demon King!”
Mo Fan merely smiled upon hearing this and did not respond. His gaze, however, was firmly locked on the battlefield ahead, where he saw that True Person Yun Ting was already in dire straits under the combined assault of the old cultivator and the Night Owl Demon King.
“It seems the outcome is decided!”
Mo Fan took a deep breath, and in his heart, he began to weigh whether he could play the role of the oriole later. However, considering the presence of the fellow beside him, he dismissed the idea.
Although Daoist Dried Wood was troublesome, he was not much of a threat to Mo Fan.
The reason the other was troublesome was due to the special nature of the wood spiritual root, but his fire crystal bullets happened to counter wood-based techniques. Mo Fan was quite confident about this.
As for that Night Owl Demon King, he had also seen through some of his tricks. He relied almost entirely on that teleportation-like divine ability to remain undefeated, and his actual cultivation was not particularly high.
The only one Mo Fan could not gauge was the fellow beside him.
Although the tower-like cultivator had not made a move, from beginning to end, he had given Mo Fan a faint sense of crisis.
“Indeed, the outcome is decided!”
“However… the winners are not those two!”
The tower-like cultivator sneered.
Hearing these words, Mo Fan’s brows furrowed.
At this point in the battle, True Person Yun Ting was already exhausted, and it was clear that his combat state was poor. How could he possibly turn defeat into victory?
Just as Mo Fan was thinking this, True Person Yun Ting suddenly shot into the sky, completely ignoring the countless vines surging upwards from below, and his hands rapidly formed seals.
“Nine Heavens Thunder Guiding Array, activate!”
As True Person Yun Ting’s words rang out, dark clouds instantly gathered in the sky.
“Not good!”
“Kill him quickly!!”
On the ground, Daoist Dried Wood’s expression changed drastically, and he shouted anxiously while frantically urging the vines to strangle True Person Yun Ting!
“Nine Heavens Yang Thunder!”
True Person Yun Ting growled, and the power of his golden core surged within him. He slapped downwards with his palm, and instantly, thunder light poured out!
Boom—
In an instant, all the incoming vines were shattered by the thunder.
At the same time, the thunderclouds in the sky finally took shape, and a thunder pillar nearly several zhang in diameter descended from the heavens!
The thunder was vast, the light brilliant.
In an instant, it seemed as if the entire world contained only this dazzling thunder pillar, causing everything else to lose its colour.
Mo Fan’s expression changed immediately, wings appeared on his back, and he flew backwards!
The tower-like cultivator did the same, fleeing in order to get further from the battlefield and avoid being affected.
“I told you, this old thing is cunning. He definitely had some trump card he hadn’t used!”
“I saw it was an array, but I didn’t expect it to be such a terrifying array!!”
The tower-like cultivator cursed while fleeing.
“Yun Ting, you old dog, do you really think a mere array can do anything to this old man?”
“How naive!”
“This old man has a wood spirit body and can escape through the earth at any time!”
At the centre of the battlefield, the old Daoist Dried Wood roared, then tried to burrow into the ground, only to find he could not. The ground seemed to have instantly turned into steel…
“Damn it! This king is done playing with you!”
The Night Owl Demon King, who had originally gone to assassinate True Person Yun Ting, was also forced back by the might of the thunder pillar and directly flashed away, disappearing from the spot.
True Person Yun Ting merely glanced indifferently at the Night Owl Demon King and did not pursue, instead looking coldly at the despairing Daoist Dried Wood below.
“Dried Wood, your time has come!”
Boom!
The moment True Person Yun Ting’s words fell, the thunder pillar instantly enveloped Daoist Dried Wood on the ground!
Mo Fan only saw a flash of dazzling golden light within the thunder pillar, but it soon vanished into nothingness.
The terrifying thunder pillar vanished along with it, as did Daoist Dried Wood!
What a terrifying strike!
Mo Fan was shocked in his heart. The thunder summoned by True Person Yun Ting’s array was far more fearsome than the Demon King tribulations that Bai Yaoyao and Hei Yi had undergone!
“Fellow daoist, take care of yourself. I need to slip away!”
At that moment, the tower-like cultivator’s words rang in Mo Fan’s ears.
He turned to look, but the fellow was nowhere to be seen. He thought to himself how fast he had run, but soon his hair stood on end.
True Person Yun Ting had set his sights on him!
“Earlier, this seat felt something was off about you, and now you actually possess a Demon King weapon!”
“It seems you are also a Demon King?”
“But if you are a Demon King, why disguise yourself as a Foundation Establishment human cultivator?”
“Unless you were worried we would discover your identity…”
“You are the demon who killed my nephew Yu Heng and my two junior brothers!”
True Person Yun Ting immediately identified Mo Fan, and the latter instantly fled far away.
“Hmph! Today, no one can save you!”
True Person Yun Ting snorted coldly, his heart filled with uncontrollable rage.
This time, Yellow Mystic Valley had suffered too great a loss because of this demon before him. He must die!
