Dashing Student
Chapter 1399: Slaying a Demon with a Single Sword
Provoked, Horse Face fixed his target on Chen Nan, the flames on his body surging higher and higher, spreading in all directions, faintly showing a trend of setting the world ablaze.
Rolling heat waves spread out, dyeing the surrounding air a crimson hue; the earth cracked, all vegetation withered and burned at rapid speed, and even the air itself warped and twisted.
Horse Face raised his head and let out a long neigh, the mane behind his head whipping about as the muscles on his body began to swell, as if about to explode, every cell brimming with terrifying Power.
He stomped a step forward, his body blasting out like a bolt, his speed like a raging gale; the force of breaking through the air carved a deep ravine into the ground, and dozens of zhang of distance vanished in an instant.
In but the blink of an eye, that broad, heavy hoof came slapping toward his face, the gust hitting him head-on. Chen Nan stood unmoving like a mountain, yet the blood and Qi in his body boiled over in the next instant.
His figure swelled out of nowhere by thirty percent, Demon Qi soaring to the heavens, a Dragon Elephant phantom faintly outlined behind him. His five fingers clenched tight as he blasted a punch straight forward.
Bang!
The overflowing Power kicked up a violent gale, blowing all the corpses nearby into the air. The ground beneath the two of them cracked inch by inch, and then they both staggered backward.
The anger in Horse Face’s eyes faded a bit, replaced by shock. He shrieked in disbelief, "You’re from the Demon Clan?"
"No, you’re human—stealing our Demon Clan’s Body Refining Technique!"
Chen Nan had no interest in wasting words with the Horse Face before him. He lunged straight in, pouring out every shred of Power within his body, hammering blow after blow until the air itself seemed to crack.
From that very first clash, he knew his own Power surpassed Horse Face’s, and Horse Face, within the Demon Clan, was clearly one of those whose physique was their main weapon.
Which meant his Power had already surpassed Demon Clan experts of the Seventh Level of Golden Core Realm; even those at the Eighth Level and Ninth Layer weren’t necessarily beyond his reach.
So Horse Face quickly fell into the disadvantage. This filled him with grief and fury—some Human Clan brat learned their Demon Clan Body Refining Technique, then grabbed a Demon and beat him without the slightest mercy. This was simply not treating demons like people.
"I’ll fight you to the death!"
Horse Face roared like thunder, the flames on his body suddenly surging skyward, forcing Chen Nan back in an instant. Then he dropped to all fours, his body continuously swelling larger.
In just a few breaths, Horse Face abandoned his human form and returned to his true body—a Horse Demon wreathed in crimson flames.
He snorted, flames spewing from his nostrils; one hoof scraped the ground again and again, then he charged madly forward, like a streak of crimson lightning, dragging a blazing red horse tail behind him.
Where his four hooves struck the ground, flaming hoofprints were left behind. His speed far outstripped before, so fast it left people no time to react at all.
In the span of a blink, he rushed up to Chen Nan. That fiery red spiral horn on his forehead glowed with a chilling light, demonic power surging, waves of flame rolling to the sky.
Chen Nan only had time to gather his Mana into a barrier before him, but the heat on that Fire Horn was so intense it could even burn through his Mana. In an instant, it bored a large hole straight through.
"Argh!"
He gritted his teeth and roared, both hands clamping down hard on that horn. The searing heat burned his palms nonstop, while a tremendous force drove him back again and again. Trees along the way were smashed to splinters, until he was finally slammed hard into a mountainside and only then came to a stop.
The mountainside was punched into a deep cavern by Chen Nan’s impact. His back was braced against the rock, yet that horn still pierced into his chest. Fortunately, it only sank in about an inch before he forced it to a halt, unable to move any further.
But the crimson flames on the Fire Horn took the wound on Chen Nan’s body as a breakthrough point, continuously flooding into his body, as if they intended to burn him to ash from the inside out.
Chen Nan hurriedly summoned his three kinds of Spiritual Fire, guarding his Five Internal Organs and meridians, slowly forcing Horse Face’s crimson flames back out of his body.
Horse Face seemed to sense this as well; his eyes suddenly lifted, and all the demonic power in his body instantly poured into the Fire Horn, the berserk flames erupting within Chen Nan’s body like a thunderous Explosion.
With a deafening boom, the immense force blasted Chen Nan backward, driving him dozens of zhang deeper into the mountain. A horrific wound was left across his chest, and the blood that sprang out was instantly burned to ash by the crimson flames.
Staring at the crimson flames still burning on the wound, Chen Nan’s gaze turned icy. His physique still couldn’t compare to a Spiritual Artifact. If the Jiao Long Armor weren’t so badly damaged, he wouldn’t have been injured at all.
"Human, now you know how awesome Uncle Ma is, huh? In a bit I’ll chop you into eight pieces and make you Uncle Ma’s little snack!"
Horse Face was still taunting outside the mountain. Then the mane behind his head shook, and hundreds, thousands of hairs shed off. After the flames swept over them, each strand of mane transformed into a crimson Fire Feather, gleaming like glazed glass and radiating a violent aura.
With a thought, those densely packed Fire Feathers shot toward the blasted-out cavern, and the terrifying temperature turned even the interior of the mountain into charred blackness.
Once the volley of Fire Feathers ended, Horse Face opened his mouth and spat out yet another crimson Fireball, with flowing patterns inside like molten lava. It too shot into the cavern.
Rumble!
The cavern was like the mouth of some giant beast. With the sound of an Explosion, the entire mountain began to tremble and collapse, a plume of dust spurting out from the cavern.
A mocking look appeared on Horse Face’s face. Although their Demon Clan was famed for their physiques, every kind of Demon possessed Innate Divine Ability that couldn’t be underestimated. The flames he wielded were far more violent than fire conjured by Human Clan Mana.
As he waited for Chen Nan to flee from the cavern, he never saw a figure emerge. Even when the mountain collapsed, Chen Nan still didn’t appear.
This made Horse Face a bit uncertain. "Could it be... that guy died under my attack? I thought he was something special—turns out he was just so-so."
But before he could gloat for a few seconds, he suddenly sensed a gust of wind behind him. His massive body twisted in panic, narrowly dodging.
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of a small dagger—not even as long as one of his hairs.
But right after that, he suddenly felt a chill at the back of his head, and then a vast force surged into his sea of consciousness, fiercely smashing into his Divine Soul.
From a patch of shadow amid the mountain ruins, Chen Nan darted out quickly, while behind Horse Face there was also one of his clones, using the Void Breaking Sword and Soul Destruction Nail against Horse Face.
Horse Face dodged the Void Breaking Sword, but failed to evade the Soul Destruction Nail. With his body that huge, even dodging was a pain.
Seeing Horse Face’s eyes turn hollow and dazed, with a trace of pained struggle, Chen Nan dared not waste the opportunity. He pointed a finger at the center of his brows, and the Buddhist Relics shot out at once, Buddha Light spreading everywhere.
"Vajra Demon Suppression Circle!"
His Hand Seal changed, and the Buddha Light rapidly condensed into five golden rings, which snapped onto Horse Face’s four limbs and neck.
Horse Face snapped back to his senses and struggled madly, but no matter what he did, he couldn’t break free of the Vajra Circle clamped on his body. Panic began spreading through his Heart.
Chen Nan flashed forward, Sword Chenyuan sweeping out in a horizontal arc, his gaze icy cold, sword light razor sharp.
"Die!"