Chapter 5914
“Boy…boy…”
Hundreds of feet away, the Soul Devourer struggled to emerge from the crater in the rock wall, hovering in mid-air on his remaining five fleshy wings. Black blood still dripped from his severed arm, and his aura was chaotic.
He stared intently at Kai, his eerie green eyes now filled with horror, resentment, and a hint of fear that even he himself refused to acknowledge.
“You…you actually…”
His voice was hoarse, weak from his severe injuries, and filled with disbelief.
He was a peak first-grade Upper Immortal!
Having fused with the Earth Core Demon Flame, his strength had skyrocketed!
And his opponent was merely a third-grade Heavenly Immortal!
By all accounts, this should have been a crushing defeat, an instant kill!
But what was the result?
He had paid the price of an arm and half a shoulder to receive a single blow to the opponent’s chest!
And judging from the opponent’s appearance, although severely injured, his eyes were clear, his fighting spirit undiminished, clearly indicating he still had the strength to fight again!
This completely overturned his understanding! It shattered the age-old common sense of the cultivation world!
“Cough cough…”
Kai coughed up another mouthful of blood, but slowly, inch by inch, he stood up from the ground.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. Although the wound on his left chest was still gruesome, and although his face was pale, his spine was straight, and the sharpness and mockery in his eyes were not diminished in the slightest.
“What?” Kai’s voice was somewhat hoarse, yet it still reached the Soul Devourer’s ears clearly. “Surprised? Find it unbelievable?”
A blood-red smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, his eyes looking down arrogantly. “You think you’re invincible in the Upper Immortal Realm? You think cultivation level represents everything?”
“Soul Devourer, you’ve lived for tens of thousands of years, have you wasted them all?”
“Don’t you even understand the principle that ‘the higher the Dao, the higher the Dharma’? Your Dao is devouring, plundering, and destroying. It seems fierce, but it’s all bark and no bite, with a weak foundation.”
“My Dao is chaos, protection, and creation. How can your solid foundation compare to that of a worthless Upper Immortal who rose by devouring wronged souls?”
With each sentence he spoke, the Soul Devourer’s face grew increasingly grim, and the resentment and shame in his eyes intensified.
“Today, the reason you can fight me to a standstill isn’t because you’re so powerful,”
Kai slightly raised his sword, pointing it at the Soul Devourer, his tone chilling, “but because I haven’t reached my peak yet. When I reach the Upper Immortal Realm, killing you will be as easy as slaughtering a dog!”
The Soul Devourer trembled with rage, demonic flames surging wildly across his body.
He desperately wanted to rush forward and devour Kai alive, but his remaining sanity and severely injured body were frantically warning him that he couldn’t fight any longer! This kid’s recovery ability is too abnormal, and that strange power is too much of a counter to me. If I continue fighting, I might really capsize in a ditch and lose my millennia of cultivation in a single day!
“Good…good! What a sharp-tongued little beast!”
The Soul Devourer almost ground his teeth to dust, squeezing out the words through gritted teeth, “I admit that I underestimated you today, and you took advantage of me by chance.”
He slowly flapped his six wings and began to retreat deeper into the Demon Abyss, the resentment in his eyes almost materializing.
“However, Kai, you will remember this! I will repay today’s humiliation and the hatred of losing an arm a hundredfold, a thousandfold!”
“Once I go to the Twelfth Heaven and recover my full strength, I will make sure that you, those around you, and everything you care about fall into the boundless Demon Prison and be forever damned!”
After uttering these harsh words, the Soul Devourer no longer hesitated. His six wings suddenly flapped, transforming into a much dimmer black and red stream of light.
Without looking back, he shot towards the bottomless depths of the Earth’s Core Abyss, where the demonic flames were most concentrated, disappearing in the blink of an eye behind the churning lava and thick fog.
Kai did not pursue.
Not because he didn’t want to, but because he couldn’t.
His condition was equally bad; the Soul
-Devouring Demonic Flame Palm force in his left chest was still raging, requiring him to suppress and neutralize it with all his might. Moreover, he knew perfectly well that with the Soul-
Devouring Venerable’s cultivation at the Upper Immortal Realm, if he was determined to escape, he couldn’t possibly stay. He slowly exhaled a breath of foul air tinged with blood, his tense body slightly relaxing, but his eyes remained warily fixed on the direction where the Soul-Devouring Venerable had disappeared.
“Kai!”
Huo Ling’er rushed over, her voice trembling with tears, supporting his swaying body, tears streaming down her face like broken pearls. “How are you? Are you badly injured?”
She frantically took out the best healing pills from the Earth Fire Pavilion, wanting to feed them to Kai.
Crimson Cloud Demon Lord followed closely behind. Looking at Kai’s horrific wound on his chest and his paper-white face, his eyes were filled with complex emotions—worry, shock, and an indescribable admiration.
“Boy…you really are…”
Crimson Cloud Demon Lord shook his head, unsure how to describe it. “A third-grade Celestial Immortal, you fought against a peak first-grade Upper Immortal, the Soul Devouring Venerable, and even drove him away…If this gets out, the entire Eleventh Heaven, no, I’m afraid the Twelfth Heaven will be in an uproar!”
Kai swallowed the pill, using its effects to slowly regulate his breathing. Hearing this, he gave a bitter smile, his voice weak yet carrying an undeniable firmness.
“Senior…please don’t make fun of me. If it weren’t for the innate restraint of Chaos Immortal Power against his Soul Devouring Demon Art, if it weren’t for the strong regenerative power of the Golden Dragon Bloodline, if it weren’t for the Earth Fire True Flame’s ability to purify the Demon Flame…I would have been defeated long ago.”
“The Soul Devouring Venerable is, after all, a demon with a notorious reputation from ten thousand years ago, not to be underestimated.”
He looked in the direction the Soul Devouring Venerable had fled, his eyes becoming deep: “He fled to the deepest part of the Demon Abyss…there should be a hidden spatial rift or an ancient teleportation array leading to the Twelfth Heaven there.”