“Monster?”
At that word, Qin Changsheng’s eyes narrowed. Then his whole body began to tremble as he burst into laughter.
“Hahahahaha…”
His laughter grew louder and louder, as though he had fallen into madness. Only after a long while did he gradually calm down.
He stared coldly at Mo Fan and roared almost like a beast, “Isn’t all of this thanks to you monsters?!”
“But it doesn’t matter. As long as it grants me enough power, what does it matter if I become a monster?”
“This Qin has already lost everything. Appearance means nothing anymore. As long as it makes this Qin strong, one day this Qin will make your demon race pay every blood debt in blood!
For now, your life will serve as an offering to the souls of all the cultivators of my Great River Academy!”
While he spoke, fine black dragon scales grew across his body. In mere moments, a uniquely styled set of black armour had formed over him.
He took one step and instantly vanished from mid-air, his speed unfathomable.
The wound on Mo Fan’s forehead had already healed. Vast divine sense spread outwards as he thrust the Thunder God Spear violently to his side!
Clang!
A metallic clash rang out. The spear was blocked.
Qin Changsheng’s figure appeared exactly there. With a raise of his hand, a length of ghastly white bone pierced out from his body and turned into an ancient sword that slashed straight at Mo Fan’s neck.
Clang!
Mo Fan retracted the Thunder God Spear and blocked horizontally in front of himself.
In the next instant, the two figures tangled rapidly in mid-air.
Both Qin Changsheng’s speed and Mo Fan’s speed reached their absolute peaks at this moment.
Only now did Mo Fan truly realise how terrifying Qin Changsheng was.
His opponent’s speed was barely inferior to his own. What shocked Mo Fan even more was that Qin Changsheng’s strength and defence were almost equal to his, and in terms of attack techniques he even surpassed Mo Fan by a good margin.
Because at this moment bone spikes would suddenly shoot out from any part of Qin Changsheng’s body. It was as if he had refined his entire body into a weapon.
Even more frightening was the fact that no matter how grievous the injuries Qin Changsheng sustained, as long as he shed his skin like a snake he would revive at full strength. He was simply impossible to kill!
In a short period, Mo Fan unleashed every divine ability he had and “killed” him no fewer than five times, yet each time the fellow simply spat out a brand-new version of himself from his mouth.
This kind of monstrous ability was even more perverse than Mo Fan’s own regeneration!
For the first time, Mo Fan genuinely understood how painful it was for others to face him.
BOOM.
A sudden explosion rang out in the distance. All the witch-gu puppets besieging Old Wu burst into clouds of blood mist. Old Wu instantly shot into the sky.
With nothing left to hold him back, he flew straight towards the true dragon corpse.
“Stay!”
Mo Fan roared in shock and fury. He turned into a bolt of lightning, abandoned Qin Changsheng, and gave chase.
At the same time, the other cultivators also struck out, trying to stop Old Wu from reaching the dragon corpse.
“I already told you, no one can prevent the rise of my clan!”
Old Wu laughed maniacally. Under the barrage of lightning and sword light, his body suddenly exploded, turning into countless tiny black insects that glittered with golden light. They bypassed every cultivator rushing towards him and flew straight into the true dragon corpse through its mouth and nostrils!
ROAR.
The next instant, the true dragon roared and abruptly opened its eyes!
Yet what left Mo Fan deeply astonished was that he actually sensed faint traces of demonic qi from the dragon!
That was the aura of the Demon Clan!
Mo Fan’s pupils contracted sharply. In that instant he seemed to understand something.
The Demon Clan had entered the True Dragon Lair together with him from the very beginning. More accurately, he had followed the Demon Clan’s footsteps inside, yet he had never once seen any demons.
Previously he had suspected the sealing of the tunnels was a joint effort between the Demon Clan and the Witch Clan, but now he realised the truth.
The Demon Clan had been hiding inside this true dragon corpse from the very start!
At this thought, a glint appeared in Mo Fan’s eyes. From the looks of it, the Witch Clan seemed unaware that demons were concealed within the dragon corpse?
If that was the case, then a good show was about to begin!
With that in mind, Mo Fan immediately retreated outwards.
The surrounding cultivators who saw the true dragon corpse revive and also fled in all directions, terrified of being caught in the aftermath.
ROAR.
The dragon corpse roared once more. Its body shook, and draconic qi spread everywhere. The roar alone made every cultivator’s mind reel and their eardrums ache.
“Damn you, you rats from the abyss! You dare fight this old man for the true dragon body?!”
“Courting death!!”
Very quickly, Old Wu’s furious roar emerged from within the dragon corpse. Then the dragon, which moments ago had radiated ferocious might, suddenly quietened down again, all its draconic majesty completely withdrawn.
“What is going on?”
The cultivators looked at one another in bewilderment.
“The tunnel barriers are gone!”
At that moment someone shouted in surprise, instantly drawing everyone’s attention.
After a series of disasters that had killed nine out of ten present, the survivors were like startled birds, desperate to escape the cavern immediately.
Hearing that the formations blocking their escape had vanished, joy appeared on every face. They all flew towards the various passages.
“Hahaha… we can finally leave!”
“But if we leave now, doesn’t that mean everything we did was for nothing?”
“Exactly! We didn’t get the immortal treasure, we didn’t get the dragon blood, and we almost died here. How can we accept that?!”
“To hell with the immortal treasure!”
“To hell with the dragon blood!”
“All I want now is to go home, hug my dao companion and children, and sleep on a warm kang! If we stay any longer we’ll lose our lives here sooner or later! Whoever wants to stay can stay!!”
All sorts of voices rang out at once. The entire cavern fell into chaos. The great majority chose to flee for their lives without hesitation.
In their view, if they could not even preserve their lives, what use was any immortal treasure?
Were they supposed to win it just to let others pick it up cheap?
Even those who still harboured greed, upon seeing the ground littered with corpses, gave up all thoughts and joined the exodus.
Before life and death, everything else was empty. They all feared becoming just another body on the floor.
Mo Fan paid no attention to these fleeing cultivators. Nor did he choose to leave immediately. Instead, he turned his gaze towards Qin Changsheng in the distance.
He had decided to kill this fellow before departing!
Because the enmity between him and Qin Changsheng was utterly irreconcilable. Leaving him alive would surely bring disaster upon himself and the demons of Black Wind Mountain.
“My wise nephew Laibao, what exactly is happening here?”
At that moment, Old Ancestor Bai Lu in his white robes flew over from afar, his expression grave as he looked at Mo Fan.
“Old Ancestor, your timing is perfect. Please help this nephew slay that witch cultivator!”
Seeing Bai Lu arrive, Mo Fan was delighted and hurried to meet him.
