"Fellow Daoist Li, the Nine Demons are True Demons left from the Blood Demon Sect, skilled in soul devouring. They can directly attack a cultivator’s soul. Without Divine Soul Technique to resist, even late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators must avoid them!"

As the Nine Demons, resembling smoke, poisonous snakes, or fierce beasts, rolled with overwhelming demonic qi and swept in with a soul-shivering aura, Heihe hurriedly spoke out, simultaneously forming a Body-Protecting Yin Technique around himself, thin as a cicada’s wing and inscribed with mysterious secret text, offsetting most of the soul-piercing pressure brought by the Nine Demons.

Shen Tu saw this and sneered with disdain in his voice, "Your Wind and Cloud Immortal City’s Guiwen Soul Protection Technique is famous in the Divine Fall Mountain Range, an invaluable Foundation Establishment Soul Protection Secret Technique, but my Nine Demons are remnants of the Blood Demon Sect, known as Soul Demon, specializing in soul devouring. Against them, your cultivation realm cannot withstand."

As expected, after Shen Tu sneered, the Nine Demons suddenly emitted a peculiar magical howl, sweeping demonic qi and yellow sand in all directions, breaking Heihe’s Guiwen Soul Protection technique instantly, and causing Heihe’s eyes to go black, his trembling soul akin to being heavily hammered.

Spl—

Heihe spewed another mouthful of fresh blood and rapidly retreated, daring not to approach, but the Nine Demons drew closer.

At the same time, the Nine Demons also lunged at the East Spring Undying Bone, but the next moment, the East Spring Undying Bone vanished from its spot. Heihe, not caring much, shouted a warning and continued retreating.

"Fellow Daoist Li, the intelligence was wrong, this one is far from an ordinary mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, the Nine Demons have also reached a higher realm under his cultivation." Facing Shen Tu, who had hidden his power all along, Heihe felt the urge to retreat.

"Fellow Daoist Heihe, just observe."

Wen Jiu communicated a response, controlling the East Spring Undying Bone to leap over the Nine Demons, and a Blood Corpse Escape vanished it from sight. It did not directly attack Shen Tu but sent a wave of corpse qi behind Shen Tu using Blood Corpse Escape.

As soon as the corpse qi appeared behind Shen Tu, Shen Tu’s surrounding Yin Technique erupted like a volcano, and the pitch-black Nine Demons Soul-Slaying Axe suddenly appeared beside him, crashing down as demonic qi exploded.

Boom—

One axe strike.

Demonic qi spread across thousands of feet, splitting a massive rift in rocks and earth, extremely sinister.

With demonic qi swelling in the rift, the Nine Demons Soul-Slaying Axe exuded a terrifying prowess, which made Heihe tremble with fear just by glancing at it. If it were him, he would surely perish under that strike.

No wonder the Great Cultivator of the Three-Life Technique, Wusheng, was willing to assist Shen Tu, turns out Shen Tu’s concealment was this deep.

Just based on this one axe.

Just based on these Nine Demons.

Shen Tu’s future entry into the late stage of Foundation Establishment would surely be among the top tier, combined with his top-grade Gold Attribute Spirit Root and the depth of an upper-grade Dao Foundation, he would definitely hold a place among the circle of perfection.

He might even rival his senior brother Daoist Wei and the Sect Leader of the Three Wonders Blood Corpse Sect.

"Fellow Daoist Li..." But seeing that the axe only split a wave of corpse qi without finding Li Mu’s figure, Heihe finally breathed a sigh of relief. Scanning with Divine Sense, he detected Li Mu above the yellow sand a hundred feet away.

He wanted to suggest retreat again, but seeing Li Mu charging forward, seemingly unaffected by the earlier axe strike, he hesitated.

On the other side, Wen Jiu with a hint of a smile controlled the East Spring Undying Bone, finally lowering the last traces of his vigilance.

Not surprisingly, Shen Tu had been preparing a counterattack all along, so Wen Jiu chose to use Blood Corpse Escape to send corpse qi for probing.

Shen Tu was indeed very alert, after witnessing the demise of Yin Yang cultivators, he kept secretly empowering the Nine Demons Soul-Slaying Axe. Anyone assessing with this axe would likely be dead.

But for the East Spring Undying Bone, this sort of situation is really not a big problem.

The corpse body can just withstand it with brute force.

Even if the body sustains some damage, it doesn’t matter. In short, Shen Tu must die here today.

If he dies, only Heihe knows about the Dongquan Undying Bone Soul Capture Technique, all that needs to be done is applying the Silencing Spell.

If Shen Tu doesn’t die and news spread about the Soul Capture Technique killing Yin Yang cultivators, Shankui would inevitably find out, the disguise would be directly exposed.

At that time, Wind and Cloud Immortal City would likely not protect him, and his plan of straddling two boats and staying out of trouble would also be ruined, while leaving Deadman Peak without retreat.

"Just now you dodged one axe, but the next one won’t be so lucky." Shen Tu spoke, the pitch-black giant axe gripped in his hands, the Nine Demons stopped pursuing Heihe, circled back transforming into nine strands of demonic qi to surround the axe.

With the Nine Demons enhancing it, a terrifying, soul-crushing oppressive force swept through.

From thousands of feet away, Heihe’s complexion changed, soul trembling and fearful; helplessly he continued to retreat until three thousand feet away before the axe’s oppression ceased, and his soul no longer trembled.

The next moment.

The sight that greeted him made Heihe’s expression suddenly tense, only to see Li Mu utterly unaffected, directly charging forward, then lifting a fist to clash against Shen Tu’s Nine Demons Soul-Slaying Axe full-force strike.

Boom—

Under the loud crash, yellow sand whipped up, demonic qi surged, then Li Mu swiftly kicked Shen Tu holding the giant axe flying, while the giant axe was clasped tight by Li Mu, falling into his grasp.

"This..."

Heihe was astonished.

At the same time, Shen Tu soared away, chest caved in viciously, blood flowed endlessly from his mouth and nose.

Shen Tu’s eyes widened, terrified of this Li cultivator’s power and spirit body’s might, yet seeing the Li cultivator grasp his Nine Demons Soul-Slaying Axe firmly, he laughed instead of surprised.