Chapter 410 - 250: Exterminating Demons

Chapter 410: Chapter 250: Exterminating Demons

In an instant, the temperature in the entire forbidden chamber plummeted.

Even the brilliant light of the Crystal Stones seemed to dim for a moment.

The joy of his successful refinement, the pride of controlling Blue Star—

all of it was completely submerged in a tidal wave of fury.

Li Wen’s figure vanished, transforming into a bolt of purple-gold lightning that tore through space.

His target: the demon den fifteen miles beneath the plains, where its inhabitants were currently drinking and boasting.

BOOM!

He arrived almost instantly!

Li Wen tore through the void and appeared in the sky above the plains.

Without a moment’s hesitation, he shot straight toward the ground like a meteor.

His Venerable Level Law Domain unfurled in an instant, forming a zone of absolute control around him.

A strange scene unfolded. The moment the hard earth and rock touched the edge of his domain,

they were silently and cleanly parted and annihilated, as if sliced by an invisible blade.

A vertical tunnel, several meters in diameter and smooth as a mirror, formed instantly, plunging deep into the earth.

Li Wen’s figure was at the center of this tunnel, plummeting downward at an incredible speed.

For the current Li Wen, a depth of fifteen miles was nothing more than the space of a single breath.

The expressions on the faces of the few members of the Demon Race, who were drinking, boasting, and even savoring the memory of their "delicious" meal inside the cave, froze instantly.

A terrifying pressure, seeming to originate from the Nine Hells and carrying an aura of absolute annihilation,

descended without warning like a mountain of immeasurable weight!

The intensity of this pressure far surpassed that of any Great Demon King they had ever felt.

It was even more despair-inducing than the pressure they imagined a Demon Saint would possess!

"PFFT!"

"Ugh!"

Several wine cups and jugs shattered in an instant. The two members of the Demon Race with the weakest Cultivation were slammed to the ground, vomiting blood as their internal organs ruptured.

The boar demon and the Deer-Horned Demon also felt their bones crackle and pop all over their bodies. Their eyes bulged with absolute terror, unable to even scream.

They wanted to flee, to burrow into the earth.

But their bodies were frozen as if cast in ten-thousand-year-old glacial ice; they couldn’t even move a finger.

Only the instinct deep in their bloodlines, the instinct of prey facing an absolute apex predator, made every pore on their bodies scream—Death!

SWOOSH!

With a flash of purple-gold light, Li Wen’s figure appeared like a phantom in the center of the foul, blood-soaked cave.

He radiated a bone-chilling killing intent, his gaze like two tangible blades of ice.

He instantly locked onto the boar demon, who still had dark red bloodstains and grease around its mouth.

"Hu... Human Race... A god-fiend?!" The boar demon’s teeth chattered uncontrollably as it squeezed a few garbled syllables from deep in its throat. Fear had thrown its thoughts into complete chaos.

This member of the Human Race before it wasn’t emitting the world-destroying Demon Power of a Demon Saint.

But his cold killing intent was enough to freeze its very soul.

"God-fiend?" Li Wen’s voice was devoid of any warmth, like ten-thousand-year-old ice. "I’m the butcher who’s here to send you to hell."

He wasted no words, not even bothering to use his True Aura or blade techniques.

With a single thought, his Law Domain, which had reached the threshold of the Saint Realm, instantly contracted and condensed.

It no longer pushed aside earth and rock, but transformed into countless energy threads, finer than hairs, yet imbued with an aura of ultimate sharpness and destruction.

"AHHH—!!!"

A blood-curdling scream, one that no living creature should be able to produce, echoed through the underground cave.

The boar demon’s body, starting from the ends of its limbs,

was slowly and precisely flayed by the invisible threads of the domain, slicing off pieces of flesh as thin as a cicada’s wing and uniform in size.

Blood gushed out like a fountain, only to be forcibly sealed back into its blood vessels by Li Wen’s domain.

This maintained its minimal life force, ensuring it could clearly feel the agony of every inch of its flesh being sliced away, a death by a thousand cuts.

This was torture that went far beyond the physical!

Every slice of flesh was accompanied by the direct cutting power of Li Wen’s cold will.

The pain was magnified a thousandfold, acting directly upon the depths of its soul.

"Ugh... ghh... kill... kill me..."

The boar demon’s eyeballs looked as if they were about to burst, filled with endless agony and pleading.

However, its vocal cords were also controlled by the domain, allowing it to only produce garbled, breathy sounds.

The remaining members of the Demon Race, including the Deer-Horned Demon, watched the purgatorial scene before them.

Hearing their companion’s continuous screams—screams that could make even a vengeful ghost’s heart quail—they completely broke down.

The strong stench of feces and urine instantly filled the entire cave.

Their mental defenses completely crumbled, leaving only the most primitive fear.

They couldn’t even muster the thought to beg for mercy, only hoping that death would come for them quickly.

But Li Wen didn’t even glance at them.

While maintaining the "death by a thousand cuts" on the boar demon,

his vast Primordial Spirit power, like invisible tentacles, instantly invaded the seas of consciousness of the Deer-Horned Demon and the other members of the Demon Race.

Soul Search!

Brutal! Barbaric! With a complete disregard for the damage to their souls!

"AHH—!"

"NO—!"

A few short, shrill psychic screams echoed out.

Li Wen’s Primordial Spirit power churned through their chaotic memories like a grinder.

Soon, from the fragments of the Deer-Horned Demon’s memory, he found images of it also participating in hunting and eating humans, and even scenes of sadistic slaughter.

"You deserve to die too!"

The cold light in Li Wen’s eyes intensified.

He split off a thread from his domain, which instantly wrapped around the Deer-Horned Demon, who had collapsed to the ground, its mind shattered from the Soul Search.

The same slow, agonizing death by a thousand cuts began anew.

Another heart-rending scream was added to the chorus in the cave.

The remaining two or three members of the Demon Race were already scared witless, their souls scattered and their courage shattered.

Li Wen couldn’t even be bothered to torture them.

With a single thought, the terrifying pressure enveloping them intensified several times over.

SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!

As if crushed by an invisible giant hammer, these members of the Demon Race didn’t even have time to scream. Their entire bodies, along with the Demon Cores and souls within,

were instantly obliterated by the overwhelming force into the finest energy particles.

They were utterly annihilated, without a single trace left behind.

In the cave, only the fading screams of the two demons being flayed alive continued to echo.

The sound propagated deep underground like a death knell from hell, heralding the beginning of the end for the Demon Race on Blue Star.

Li Wen watched, expressionless, until he confirmed that the two main culprits had breathed their last in extreme agony, their souls scattered to the winds.

He waved his hand, and a pure bolt of lightning swept through the cave, purifying and annihilating all the filth, remains, and the stench of blood.

After all this was done, he looked up, his gaze seeming to pierce through the thick layers of earth to the vast night sky.

Tonight was the Mid-Autumn Festival, a time for reunions in the mortal world.

But his cleanup work had only just begun.

All the hidden members of the Demon Race, deep beneath Blue Star’s surface,

would face their final judgment under the witness of this full moon!

The stench of blood from the underground demon den had not yet fully dissipated.

Li Wen’s rage eased slightly now that the boar demon, the Deer-Horned Demon, and the others had been executed.

But he knew they were merely minions. The real cancer was the Demon Saints and traitors lurking in the deepest shadows of Blue Star.

’To catch bandits, first catch the king,’ Li Wen murmured, his cold killing intent solidifying, refusing to disperse.

He didn’t rush to the next demon den to conduct a physical cleansing. Instead, he submerged his consciousness into the Blue Star control core he had just refined.

In that instant, the entire planet of Blue Star seemed to transform into a transparent, perfectly scaled crystal ball in his sea of consciousness, every detail rendered with perfect clarity.

Mountains and rivers, cities and deserts, the auras of living beings... the flow of all energy and matter was presented clearly to his perception.

With a flicker of his will, his immense Primordial Spirit power, aided by the god’s-eye view granted by the core,

began a deep, planet-wide carpet scan, like the most precise of scanning beams.

Every corner of Blue Star, every pulse of its crust, the darkness of its deep-sea trenches—all were dissected in the flow of his thoughts.

He "saw" more hidden demon dens deep beneath Blue Star’s surface, in places untouched by man.

Among them were the powerful auras of Demon Kings, and he even vaguely sensed one location protected by an Array designed to block prying eyes.

However, under the gaze of Blue Star’s core will, these Arrays were like useless gauze curtains.

They could only blur the forms within, but couldn’t completely conceal the surging Demon Power.

Just then, his scanning power touched upon an anomalous region located in an abyssal trench deep within a certain ocean.

...

「Meanwhile, in the core of the Shadow Organization’s lair in the abyssal trench.」

This was an independent space enveloped by a powerful Array.

Built into the rock walls of a massive trench, it was isolated from the immense pressure of the seawater and any outside observation.

Inside the cavern, Wujing Demon Saint’s enormous demonic body was coiled on a cultivation platform built of piled-up cold jade, breathing in dense Demon Power and the Yin-Sha of the earth’s ley lines.

As a revered Demon Saint who had been hiding on Blue Star for a hundred years,

he had always been the supreme commander of the Demon Race in Blue Star’s underworld, as well as the true mastermind behind the Shadow Organization.

Suddenly!

The coiled Wujing Demon Saint snapped open his cold, vertical pupils.

An indescribable, cold "gaze" that seemed to originate from the world itself

pierced through the great protective Array he was so proud of—an Array capable of blocking the probes of even Venerable Level experts.

like an invisible needle pricking his senses.

"Hmm?!" A low, startled growl echoed in the cavern.

His massive body tensed instantly, his Demon Power instinctively surging out to form a solid black shield over his skin.

The feeling of being watched was incredibly bizarre. It didn’t come from any particular direction; it was more like... the entire space itself was staring at him.

’This is something no ordinary Venerable could do.’

A strong sense of unease he hadn’t felt in a long time, one born from primal instinct, coiled around his mind like a cold, venomous snake.

’Who is it?! Could it be those three old fossils from the Fire Hall... No, that’s not right!

Their Primordial Spirit power could never penetrate my isolation Array so easily, let alone give me this feeling... of being locked onto by the world itself!’

Wujing Demon Saint was fraught with suspicion and uncertainty, his vertical pupils contracting sharply.

His vast Divine Sense swept madly inside and outside the Array, trying to find the source of the probe, but he found nothing.

This unknown threat gave him a heart-pounding fear he had never felt before.

...

In the instant that Wujing Demon Saint’s mind was reeling in shock and suspicion,

the gaze, which had broken through layer after layer of obstruction with the help of Blue Star’s core, finally locked onto him clearly.