Chapter 231 - 224: Desolate Island, the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable Who Came Along

Chapter 231: Chapter 224: Desolate Island, the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable Who Came Along

Many cultivators in the Cultivation Realm knew that the Sect Leader of the Black Tortoise Dao Sect was going to hold a promotion ceremony.

But no one could have expected the events of the promotion ceremony to be so shocking.

The Black Tortoise Dao Sect was invaded by the Demon Race, the Sect Protection Array failed, and nine Demon Venerables descended to declare war on humanity!

When news of this spread, many cultivators feared the Black Tortoise Dao Sect would be annihilated, and that the cultivators attending the ceremony would not escape with their lives.

But what happened next was something no one could have predicted.

Nine Demon Race Venerables descended in unison, yet the Black Tortoise Dao Sect and the cultivators attending the ceremony suffered few casualties.

The reason, it turned out, was that just as the nine Demon Venerables were about to forcibly detain five human Venerables, the legendary Celestial Eye Black Pupil suddenly appeared!

Seven of the nine Demon Venerables were imprisoned, allowing the five human Venerables to seize the opportunity and escape.

What happened next was even more incredible.

A massive spatial collapse suddenly occurred at the Black Tortoise Dao Sect.

All seven Demon Race Venerables were dragged into the spatial rifts.

The Demon Race had declared war on humanity, but on the very first day, seven of their Demon Race Venerables went missing, their fates unknown.

With the war between the two races having just begun, would it still be fought?

Regardless, until the whereabouts of the seven Demon Venerables were confirmed, it was highly unlikely the war between the two races would truly begin.

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Jiang Zuo felt excruciating pain wracking his entire body.

The sound of crashing waves filled his ears. After passing through the spatial rift, he had apparently arrived on a beach.

After being dragged into Bai Ling’s Pocket World Spirit Treasure, Jiang Zuo had weighed his options and decided to use that fat black bug to break free.

Something about Bai Ling felt very off. Jiang Zuo sensed that if he were truly controlled by her, things would become incredibly troublesome.

Jiang Zuo’s physical body was as powerful as a fourth-rank Exotic Beast, but it was still incredibly dangerous to be caught in a spatial collapse and its ensuing turbulence.

Still, Jiang Zuo decided to take the risk.

His regenerative abilities were immense. As long as he wasn’t killed instantly, he could slowly recover from even the most grievous wounds.

And if he ever reached a point where he couldn’t recover, he still had the Cyan Wood Nirvana Skill.

However, Jiang Zuo’s true ace in the hole was the Mysterious Stele.

With the Mysterious Stele, he wasn’t so easy to kill.

Just as Jiang Zuo had expected, the Mysterious Stele had blocked two or three fatal spatial rifts for him as he traversed the turbulence.

However, the Mysterious Stele didn’t bother with the non-fatal ones.

And that was why Jiang Zuo had ended up severely injured.

To safely navigate the spatial turbulence, Jiang Zuo had also exhausted a great deal of his Divine Sense.

But after lying on the beach for the better part of half a day, both his physical body and his Divine Sense had recovered significantly.

His body was still immobile, but he could now extend his Divine Sense.

Jiang Zuo used his Divine Sense to survey his surroundings.

He had indeed arrived on some unknown island.

However, the climate in this sea region seemed to be quite harsh.

The beach was littered with uprooted trees, askew in every direction. Many had clearly been toppled a long time ago, though some were more recent.

Farther inland rose a tall cliff face.

He was currently lying on the beach at the foot of a cliff.

His Divine Sense continued to probe farther, and soon Jiang Zuo spotted a colossal golden wolf lying on a distant part of the beach.

The giant golden wolf was also covered in wounds, deep gouges crisscrossing its body. The injuries it had sustained were no less severe than Jiang Zuo’s.

Sensing the sweep of a Divine Sense, the giant golden wolf opened its massive eyes.

"Hmph! A human cultivator? Merely Divine Body Realm, and you’re still not dead?"

The giant golden wolf’s Divine Sense traced its way back to the heavily injured Jiang Zuo, and its tone was instantly hostile.

He had been no match for the Nine Nether Demon Venerable and had been forced to go to the Black Tortoise Dao Sect to declare war on humanity. But the mission had started disastrously. Not only had he failed to kill any powerful humans, but he had first been imprisoned by that Heaven-Breaking Eye Black Eye Restriction, then dragged into spatial turbulence, barely escaping with his life only to end up gravely injured.

When had the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable ever been so humiliated? He was practically bursting with rage.

Jiang Zuo looked at the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable and couldn’t help but smile.

He wasn’t sure how it had happened, or why a Demon Venerable had ended up stranded in the same place as him.

But it was clear this Golden Wolf Demon Venerable was also severely injured and couldn’t move.

"You’re the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable, right? Tell me, are you a mutation?"

Jiang Zuo was secretly delighted.

’The blood of a third-rank Demon Beast gives the Desolate Heaven Beast Bone Armor 90 Beast Soul Power. How much would the blood of a sixth-rank Demon Venerable give?’

’And what if it’s a mutation?’

"You’re not worthy of an answer! But in two more days, once I’ve recovered, I’ll eat you. Then you’ll find out."

The Golden Wolf Demon Venerable said coldly.

"Is that so? You’ll be recovered in two days? Then I’d better act fast."

Jiang Zuo nodded.

Then, he condensed a Blood Qi Avatar.

The Blood Qi Avatar, holding the Sword Pill, charged toward the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable.

"Who are you? How can a mere Divine Body Realm cultivator possess such an ability!"

The Golden Wolf Demon Venerable was shocked.

To see such an unheard-of ability used by a Divine Body Realm cultivator... it was unbelievable.

Recalling that this Divine Body Realm cultivator had survived the spatial turbulence, the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable had a bad feeling.

However, even though the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable had said it would take two days to recover, it wasn’t completely immobile.

As the Blood Qi Avatar drew near, the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable endured its injuries and swiped a massive paw down at it.

The Blood Qi Avatar tried to dodge, but the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable’s paw smacked it apart, dissipating it.

The Golden Wolf Demon Venerable knew the Sword Pill was the real threat and tried to snatch it.

But under the control of Jiang Zuo’s Divine Sense, the Sword Pill had already shot back to his side with a WHOOSH.

’So it can still move, just as I thought.’

Jiang Zuo hadn’t attacked with the Sword Pill directly precisely because he was worried the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable could still move and might snatch it away.

"Brat, you’re courting death! I’ll kill you first, even if it worsens my injuries!"

The Golden Wolf Demon Venerable’s colossal body struggled to rise from the sand. It then staggered forward, taking huge, unsteady steps toward Jiang Zuo.

Seeing this, Jiang Zuo remained unhurried.

He waited until the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable was a short distance away before unhurriedly summoning the Fire Phoenix.

The Fire Phoenix snatched Jiang Zuo up in its beak, tossed him onto its back, and soared into the sky, looking down upon the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable from above.

The Golden Wolf Demon Venerable stared dumbfounded at Jiang Zuo and the Fire Phoenix.

"A legendary Divine Beast... a Fire Phoenix?"

The Golden Wolf Demon Venerable was knowledgeable. With a single glance, it recognized the Fire Phoenix, which at the moment merely looked like a large firebird.

Upon hearing this, the Fire Phoenix let out two proud cries.

Jiang Zuo paid no mind to the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable’s reaction. With a single thought, he summoned three Thunderbirds.

The Thunderbirds were only third-rank, but Jiang Zuo had no intention of having them kill the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable. He just had them stay in the sky with the Fire Phoenix and periodically attack it.

Ordinarily, their magical attacks landing on the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable would feel like little more than a scratch.

But with its body covered in wounds, even the Thunderbirds’ attacks could now inflict a measure of damage.

Most importantly, this would prevent the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable from recovering unimpeded.

"Despicable human! If you have any guts, come down and fight me!"

The Golden Wolf Demon Venerable was truly enraged, roaring anything that came to its mind.

But Jiang Zuo simply treated its words as hot air.

Not only did he not draw any closer, but as the Thunderbirds and Fire Phoenix continuously harassed and wore down the Demon Venerable, Jiang Zuo once again condensed a Blood Qi Avatar to press the attack.

The Golden Wolf Demon Venerable was not one to take a beating without retaliating, and the Blood Qi Avatar was quickly destroyed again.

But Jiang Zuo immediately condensed a new one to take its place.

The Golden Wolf Demon Venerable roared again and again. Soon, the last of its remaining strength was nearly exhausted.

BOOM!

The Golden Wolf Demon Venerable’s massive body could no longer support itself and collapsed onto the beach.

As it watched the Blood Qi Avatar approach with the Sword Pill, the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable’s eyes filled with bitter resentment.

It had struggled so hard to break through to the Demon Venerable realm, yet before it could accomplish anything of note, it was about to die on this Nameless Island.

Worse, it wasn’t dying in a grand battle at the hands of a powerful expert.

Instead, it was being slowly tortured to death by this despicable schemer.

As the Sword Pill hacked down again and again, the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable, having exhausted its final reserves of strength, finally perished on the beach.

The Golden Wolf Demon Venerable’s thick blood began to ooze slowly from its wounds.

Jiang Zuo let Great Black and Xiaoqing out to help collect the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable’s blood.

Only then did Jiang Zuo finally let out a small sigh of relief.

’Looks like my luck is pretty good after all,’ he thought. ’The Golden Wolf Demon Venerable was really on its last legs.’

Otherwise, even if he had been flying in the air, killing him would have been as easy as blowing out a candle for the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable.

A sixth-rank Demon Beast was a treasure trove from head to toe.

Besides its highly useful blood, the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable’s flesh, sinew, and bone were all incredibly rare materials.

While carving up the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable’s corpse, Jiang Zuo found a fist-sized golden Inner Core within its body.

"So this is a Demon Venerable’s Inner Core."

The golden Inner Core emanated a powerful yet gentle, surging energy.

Demon Beasts and Spirit Beasts could condense an Inner Core within their bodies upon reaching the fourth rank of their cultivation.

A Demon Beast’s Inner Core wasn’t very useful to cultivators, being primarily used to refine Magical Artifacts.

For Spirit Beasts, however, a Demon Beast’s Inner Core was a fantastic prize.

Refining a Demon Beast’s Inner Core could not only rapidly increase a Spirit Beast’s cultivation and even help it break through bottlenecks, but the Spirit Beast might even comprehend the Bloodline Breathing Technique contained within it.

Great Black looked at the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable’s Inner Core with greedy eyes, but Jiang Zuo wanted to study it for a while, so he didn’t give it to him.

Jiang Zuo returned to the shore. After confirming there were no other Demon Venerables nearby, he had his Blood Qi Avatar begin constructing a small wooden cabin on the beach.

The dismemberment of the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable was quickly completed.

Jiang Zuo searched all over but found none of the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable’s possessions.

Not even a single Storage Ring.

’A Demon Venerable couldn’t possibly be this poor,’ Jiang Zuo deduced. ’It must mean that he used up almost all his supplies just to survive the trip through the spatial turbulence.’

While Jiang Zuo and the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable had been fighting, a young man and woman in strange attire watched the scene unfold in shock from their perch high in a tall tree a considerable distance away.

Seeing the giant golden wolf fall, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

If a giant wolf like that were to attack their village, an unknown number of their people would surely die.

However, neither of them dared to approach Jiang Zuo.

The young man was too strange, and they knew nothing about him. If they were to anger him, it would spell disaster for them.

After resting for a little over a day, Jiang Zuo’s body had mostly recovered.

Only after he could truly move about on his own did Jiang Zuo begin processing the Golden Wolf Demon Venerable’s flesh and blood.