Chapter 146 The Young Demon Slayer

The Plains of Divine Desolation are a vast expanse of lush greenery as far as the eye can see, but under the night fog, the endless forest is a dark, oppressive mass, with no end in sight, and the verdant greenery is nowhere to be seen.

The trees swayed, their leaves rustling, and a light green mist flowed, enveloping Qin Ming and making him feel as if he were about to rise off the ground, floating forward.

As he moved through the forest, his body was light and agile, enveloped in the energy of the Wood element, his whole body full of vitality. With each step he traversed a great distance on the grass, as if he were being carried by a green mist.

“The Wood Qi has such wonderful uses.” Qin Ming was slightly surprised. This not only saved his power, but the faint green light also acted like a spiritual medicine entering his body, slowly purifying his flesh and blood and nourishing his essence, energy and spirit.

In this environment, he moved with incredible speed, as if riding on the essence of plants and trees, his hair fluttering in the wind, like a banished immortal traveling in the night.

In the inky night sky, several scarlet lightning bolts streaked across the sky, like streaks of fire about to fall to the earth.

“Is a downpour coming?” Qin Ming looked up. Dark clouds were churning in the distance, making the already gloomy plain appear even more pitch black.

Several human figures came into view. Qin Ming recognized three of them as people who, like the aliens, had once regarded him as prey and hunted him down.

He swirled in the green mist, changed direction, and trod on the grass, like a forest sprite, silently blending into the environment.

None of the five noticed him immediately, as they were still on their way.

When he was less than two meters away, one of them suddenly turned around, his face showing surprise, and hastily thrust out the long spear in his hand, which gleamed coldly.

With a flick of his right hand, Qin Ming, accompanied by a green glow, turned the spearhead forged from refined iron into shards of metal with his bare hands amidst clanging sounds, which fell to the ground.

“It’s you!”

The group was shocked. This boy, who was wanted by demons and was critically injured, was now filled with the fresh scent of plants and trees and possessed incredible strength, which made them tremble with fear.

“Who is organizing you to hunt me down?” Qin Ming asked.

A young woman said, “Brother, don’t misunderstand. We heard that the demons were fighting over the Silver Heart and wanted to snatch it from them, but we never expected to run into you.”

A middle-aged man nodded and said, “Yes, brother, we didn’t mean to target you at all. We just happened to run into you and originally wanted to help you, but you misunderstood us and left immediately.”

Qin Ming’s expression was indifferent. What was the point of such an explanation? Even they themselves felt it was too weak and feeble, and they had already gripped their weapons tightly.

He unleashed a punch, and all the nearby Wood essence surged forth, causing his fist light to exceed its proper limit. With a boom, the man holding the broken spear and his weapon exploded together.

“Brother, we are both human, you…you can’t do this!” the woman shouted, but the gleaming silver knife in her hand suddenly slashed down.

Qin Ming struck out with his palm, shattering her silver longsword into seven or eight pieces. A green palm light flashed, and her head flew off, leaving her headless corpse lying on the ground.

In an instant, the other three attackers were also severely injured, lying on the ground coughing up blood.

“Brother, spare us! We shouldn’t have been greedy and joined those demons in killing you,” a young man pleaded.

Qin Ming resonated with them spiritually, confirming that it was indeed caused by greed, but he showed no mercy. The essence of Yi wood beneath his feet surged, blasting them apart.

“It scared me to death. His temperament is ethereal and almost like that of an immortal, but when he gets into a fight, he’s more terrifying than a demon!” A bluebird muttered to itself, pondering how to report it.

“!”

It exploded, its blue feathers stained with blood, falling through the night sky. Qin Ming sheathed his bow and continued on his way.

In the depths of the night sky, a giant white peacock hovered. Birds flew in from afar and reported, “This mission is too dangerous. We’ve already lost more than a dozen brothers. Now we don’t want to continue. We’re no longer responsible for watching this area. This isn’t something birds do!”

The Plains of Divine Desolation are no longer so chaotic; most of the ancient demons have returned to their own territories. Only a small group of demons still roam, and they are all formidable figures with considerable power.

Qin Ming spotted the enormous, one-eyed black elephant at a glance. Its dark, rough trunk swung, shattering large swathes of trees and crushing many boulders blocking its path.

It was furious. Its right eye had been blinded by a jade arrow, leaving it with a cold, menacing single eye. The old elephant was now extremely irritable and dangerous, seeking revenge.

Beside him was a creature of similar size, with two long, snow-white tusks, a body full of muscles, and incredibly strong—it was a pig demon.

“Hmm? I smell his scent!” The elephants’ sense of smell is even more acute than that of dogs, and the black elephant detected Qin Ming approaching. Of course, this was because Qin Ming hadn’t deliberately concealed it; he wanted to truly test his skills with it.

“With the same fat heads and big ears, and wide mouths and fangs, you two are really alike, except for the difference in the length of your noses. You truly are two pig-headed, pig-brained brothers!”

Qin Ming’s single sentence caused the expressions of the two enormous creatures to turn cold.

With a deafening roar, the black wild boar charged forward, shaking the earth and sending sand and stones flying. Its powerful impact shattered many trees. However, it didn’t charge at Qin Ming; instead, it turned and ran, disappearing into the darkness.

“This is none of my business!” It left behind only these words, then, carrying two short knives sharpened from pig tusks, it crashed into the forest and disappeared completely.

Qin Ming was taken aback. It just ran away like that?

The black elephant was furious. This brother was better off gone; he couldn’t be relied on in a pinch. Then, it also chickened out, because it could clearly feel the terrifyingly dense wood essence emanating from the young man, which made it somewhat apprehensive.

At this moment, Qin Ming was enveloped in green mist, as if he were about to rise up with the clouds, floating lightly, coming with the wind, and rapidly approaching it.

The black elephant gritted its teeth. Since they had met on a narrow path and there was no way to resolve the situation peacefully, it had no choice but to fight! It let out a bellow that shook the wilderness. The nearby vegetation exploded with the huge sound wave. It swung its trunk and kicked the ground, charging forward, causing the ground to shake violently.

In terms of racial talent, its strength far surpasses Qin Ming’s. After all, this behemoth, having evolved to a higher level, possesses unparalleled brute force.

However, once humans cultivate the Heavenly Light Force to a certain level, they can be fearless against giant beasts, just like a nail facing a piece of hard wood.

Qin Ming dodged its charge, surrounded by emerald green light. In a flash, he was on the side of the giant elephant, and his right fist slammed out. The essence of the wood element transformed into a blazing light, which burst forth with him.

The black elephant howled in agony, staggered around, and nearly collapsed to the ground. A bloody hole appeared in its left rib, and from this center, many terrible bloody cracks spread out in all directions.

“Where is my jade iron arrow?” Qin Ming asked.

The black elephant was both shocked and furious, and utterly aggrieved. In the eyes of this human boy, it was far less important than an arrow. With a soft thud, Qin Ming swung his jade iron knife, severing half of the black elephant’s trunk. Now it truly looked like a pig’s head. “Ah…” The black elephant flicked its ear, sending a jade iron arrow flying, as if it had bowed its head. Then it turned and fled.

Qin Ming intercepted him, forcing the old elephant to fight him to the death.

Finally, Qin Ming leaped into the air, unleashing a dazzling blade of light. With all his might, he slashed through the air, and a huge black elephant head crashed to the ground.

The massive corpse fell, blood gushing forth like a fountain.

Qin Ming sympathized with the kind-hearted old, weak, sick, and disabled, but how could he possibly let bygones be bygones for this old monster who had almost hunted him to death just because the other party bowed his head once? He should be beheaded. It is most appropriate for an enemy who makes people feel at ease and even willing to remember to die.

Qin Ming traveled silently, capturing several wolf monsters and learning from them the current whereabouts of the Black Roc and the Fire-Scaled Lion. Crimson lightning flashed across the sky, and a light drizzle began to fall.

In the rain and mist, and in the flashes of lightning, Qin Ming saw a tall, god-like figure wandering across the plain ahead, carrying a bone knife.

It was that ferocious mountain ape, whose lifespan was nearing its end. It wanted to find a silver blood for its offspring to advance in their cultivation, which was why it was reluctant to leave.

It was over ten meters tall, and in the rainy night, when lightning struck, its thick fur shone through, making it look fierce and ferocious.

It saw Qin Ming approaching. Although it sensed the danger, it still grinned. It was one of the most dangerous old creatures because it had little time left to live and was not afraid of death.

When Qin Ming was being chased by it, he was nearly trampled by its giant feet several times, leaving him in a sorry state. Now, he had no words to say, only unleashing a thunderous slash.

In terms of pure strength, he is currently inferior to the mountain ape, which is a difference between races. However, his current Heavenly Light Force is not necessarily weaker than the force techniques of Tathagata, Liu Yu, and Qingtian.

At the very least, he’s caught up in emerging fields!

Even if those extraordinary individuals from the Bigfoot Ancestral Court had a single sheet of “true teachings” to practice with, they still couldn’t integrate so many techniques. The blade flashed violently, slicing through the rain curtain as if summoning lightning, and struck the mountain ape.

It has to be said that the mountain ape is terrifying. When it swings its eight-meter-long bone knife, it slashes the ground several times, cutting through the soil and rocks, blasting the surface, and shattering trees and hard rocks. Its destructive power is astonishing, and it is about to destroy this mountain forest.

In the rainy night, there was lightning and thunder.

Qin Ming wielded the Wind and Thunder Force, his entire body crackling with electricity, and the wind surging beneath his feet. His speed was significantly faster than before his seventh rebirth, enough to rival races known for their speed.

He circled around the mountain ape, his blade flashing and tearing through the night.

He left wounds on the mountain ape, and blood mixed with rainwater dripped down.

The mountain ape was much stronger than the black elephant, a true old demon who had cultivated to the limit of an ordinary mountain ape. Its bone blade swept across the night sky, scattering the dense rain curtain, and continuously slashed at the rapidly moving figure of the boy.

Finally, Qin Ming leaped into the air like a bolt of lightning, piercing through the dark rain curtain, and arrived more than ten meters in the air, his whole body enveloped in green mist.

The essence of the entire forest was mobilized and put to his use. It was as if he was walking in the void. The dazzling light of the blade illuminated the sky and suddenly landed on the mountain ape’s head. The terrifying light burst forth and split its head in two!

The mountain ape’s split face was extremely ferocious, its fur stained with blood. It released its bone knife, fell backward onto the ground with a loud thud, and the entire forest trembled.

Qin Ming gracefully descended, landing atop the massive tree canopy. Green mist flowed, its vibrant life force rapidly permeating his flesh and blood, nourishing his spirit. Beneath the dark clouds, he stood atop the treetop, serene and detached, his previously depleted strength fully restored.

“If the Yimu Sutra is already so miraculous, what about the Sutra of Preserving the World?” Qin Ming wondered wistfully.

The Yimu Scripture is only a basic part separated from the Zhushi Scripture, and it is already considered a top-tier extraordinary skill… How amazing must the complete secret manual be!

Qin Ming landed on the ground and walked alone on the Divine Devastation Plain. He kept slaying demons, and those who dared to block his way were all killed by him! He killed a large number of lesser demons and several old demons, which shook the Divine Devastation Plain.

At this moment, he had already climbed a large mountain and arrived at Hei Peng’s “dojo”.

He vanquished demons along the way, leaving behind many corpses and bloodstains on the land.

Dark clouds covered the entire plain, and the rain grew heavier and heavier, accompanied by flashes of lightning and thunder that occasionally streaked across the sky above the majestic mountain, illuminating the area.

This “training ground” is spacious and has many magnificent buildings, large enough for a ten-meter-long black roc to come and go.

At this moment, it stood on the mountain, letting the rain fall, yet it was impossible to approach. Its whole body was emitting a dark light, as if distorting space, which was extremely terrifying.

On the other side, the blood hole on the Fire Lion’s forehead had disappeared, and its injuries had long since healed.

They stared at the boy climbing the mountain, both demons’ eyes flashing with chilling killing intent. “Roar!”

A group of blood lions roared and charged towards Qin Ming, but he cleaved them in two with a single stroke, leaving their corpses and blood to fall onto the mountainside.

Two of the blood lions, which were exceptionally strong and had reached the Outer Saint level, were still unable to withstand Qin Ming’s blade light.

During this time, a raptor suddenly attacked from the night sky, swooping down, but Qin Ming swung his sword and killed more than a dozen of them, all of them servants of the Black Roc.

“Eldest brother, second brother, he has indeed transformed; his cultivation is unfathomable.” The old donkey’s voice trembled slightly, and this time he was dressed in a scholar’s robe.

“It’s nothing special, we can handle it!” Fire Lion said.

Its scales clanged and shone with crimson light, like intense flames burning the night sky and evaporating the ever-increasing rain. Its demonic aura surged and trembled, shaking the mountain peaks.

It launched its attack directly, unleashing a blinding crimson light from one of its large claws as it slapped towards the approaching youth.

Qin Ming also raised his palm, and in an instant, all the grass and trees on the entire mountain rustled and resonated with him. A large amount of green light, accompanied by a rich vitality, surged and lifted him up, as if he were about to float into the air!

He slammed his palm forward.

Instantly, the vegetation on the mountain seemed to shout in response, and the green mist and rosy light surged forth, condensing into a huge green palm print in front of his hand, which then blasted forward!

(There’s more to come!)