The Demon with Holy Radiance-Chapter 159 - 144: What’s Your Relationship with Master?

The sky was still a gloomy expanse, and a boundless blood-red mist hung in the air like a bolt of crimson gauze reeking of gore.

The familiar Corpse Saliva Valley.

The Six Golden Secret Seals had formed a bracelet around Yang An's wrist.

Yang An walked toward the valley entrance and soon arrived before the upright coffin, where he stopped.

BANG!

As expected, the coffin lid flew open and slammed onto the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Peeking out from the coffin was his impossibly familiar Sixth Senior Brother, his face pale, his body covered in blood and scars, a strange grin fixed on his face as he stared at Yang An.

Sallow, withered tubes extended from all over his body, connecting him to the coffin.

Yang An understood at once.

'It seems that every time I enter this place, everything inside is reset to its initial state.'

"Hehehehe..."

A strange laugh escaped Sixth Senior Brother's lips as his chest heaved, and he slowly raised a hand to point at Yang An.

"Junior Brother... you..."

"I'm about to die, Senior Brother!"

"..."

"You must have seen it, Senior Brother!"

"..."

"Master said I'm a Flesh Mushroom, worthless, and that I'm going to die, right, Senior Brother!"

"..."

BANG!

The coffin slammed shut, sealing Jin Tong inside. The valley entrance fell silent.

Yang An shook his head and walked deeper into the valley.

He wasn't planning on returning to his residence or wasting time looking for Pi Chu and the others. He was going to find Jiang Hechuan directly.

Originally, Yang An had planned to see if his current Cultivation Level at the Perfection of the Visceral Stone Realm, boosted threefold, would be enough to finish Jiang Hechuan with a single arrow.

But that approach wouldn't be a good way to test Jiang Hechuan's true strength.

So, Yang An decided he would still have a head-on clash with Jiang Hechuan—a true 1v1 man-to-man battle!

'Anyway, if I can't beat him, I can still use the Golden Secret Seals to escape. A direct fight is no big deal.'

Soon, Yang An arrived outside Jiang Hechuan's residence.

After sensing Jiang Hechuan's aura, he performed his standard opening move and greeting: countless rays of Golden Radiance shot out, blasting the residence's gate to pieces.

"Senior Brother He Chuan, come out and fight!"

Unexpectedly, no tide of corpses appeared this time. Instead, Jiang Hechuan slowly walked out of the residence and appeared before Yang An.

Jiang Hechuan was expressionless. His skin had a strange, ashen quality, and his steps were stiff and awkward. His movements looked incredibly clumsy.

"Junior Brother, you..."

He was about to say something, but he stopped short, a look of astonishment suddenly appearing on his face.

"Why are you in the Visceral Stone Realm?!"

SWISH!

Countless figures appeared from all directions. A dense, teeming mass of Corpse Slaves swarmed out and surrounded Yang An.

'Alright, so the corpse tide came after all.'

'It seems Jiang Hechuan simply misjudged my strength at first, only extending his senses to check when I got close and realizing something was wrong.'

Yang An didn't answer Jiang Hechuan's question. Any words now would be a waste of breath.

'One word: fight!'

The next moment, a blinding light erupted from Yang An, instantly engulfing an area of several hundred meters.

In a mere instant, all the swarming Corpse Slaves were powerless to resist and were reduced to ash.

Even Jiang Hechuan, who was right in front of him, was caught off guard. He only resisted for two breaths before meeting the same fate.

The light quickly faded. Within a radius of several hundred meters, everything had been destroyed, leaving nothing behind.

Under Yang An's unrestrained rampage, nothing could possibly survive.

But this wasn't the end. It was only the beginning.

Yang An knew very well that the real Jiang Hechuan would appear soon. The one who had died in his light was merely a corpse.

Sure enough, just two breaths after the light faded, a figure appeared a thousand meters away from Yang An. The instant he appeared, Yang An detected him and marked him with a Qi Seal.

This new Jiang Hechuan, compared to the last one, lacked that clumsy and stiff quality in his movements. He was no different from a normal person.

But Yang An couldn't be sure if this was Jiang Hechuan's true body. With no other auras to detect, he could only treat the person before him as the target.

"I never expected you to be in the Visceral Stone Realm, Junior Brother! Did Master copy a Cultivation Technique for you? Or did he take you to the Magic Stele? What is your real relationship with Master?"

A thousand meters away, Jiang Hechuan had already witnessed Yang An's destructive power, so he didn't get any closer when he appeared.

But the moment he appeared, he immediately fired off a series of questions, seeming to suspect some deeper relationship between Yang An and Elder Life Crane.

After all, within the Life Crane Sect, there was only one written copy of the Cultivation Technique, and it was in the hands of another disciple. To obtain the technique, either Elder Life Crane had to make another copy, or one had to go and perform visualization on the Earth Spirit Stele.

And the Earth Spirit Stele was controlled solely by Elder Life Crane; one could only see it if Elder Life Crane granted access.

So where did Yang An's Cultivation Technique come from?

"..."

Yang An looked at Jiang Hechuan without a word.

'This is just a simulated space that gets reset, so the people inside still perceive me as I was when my Cultivation Level was only at the Fake Food Realm. There's really no way to explain it, nor is there any need to.'

A cyan light suddenly emanated from Yang An, enveloping his entire body.

Yang An remembered clearly that the last time he was in this space, Jiang Hechuan had tricked him. So this time, he took precautions in advance.

"Not answering, Junior Brother? It seems I was right!"

Seeing Yang An remain silent, Jiang Hechuan spoke with a tone of certainty.

"..."

'Right, my ass!'

Yang An immediately shot toward Jiang Hechuan. He knew the man wouldn't approach on his own; if he wanted to test his strength, he'd have to go to him.

He crossed the thousand-meter distance in the blink of an eye. But just as Yang An reached him, Jiang Hechuan's body suddenly dispersed into countless face-like Yin Souls.

VMMM!

A powerful light once again radiated from Yang An, dissolving all of the Yin Soul-like things.

But at that moment, the Qi Seal Sensing Technique activated. The Qi Seal he had placed on Jiang Hechuan had bizarrely reappeared a thousand meters away in another direction.

The light faded, and Yang An's gaze fell upon the unharmed Jiang Hechuan.

"Senior Brother, I came to challenge you. Running like this is no fun."

"Junior Brother, I'm not running. I'm just stalling for time to figure out how to deal with you."

"So have you figured it out, Senior Brother?"

"I have!"

Jiang Hechuan nodded.

The next instant, a massive, shadowy Yin Soul swelled out from his body, enveloping him completely.

Jiang Hechuan's body, however, suddenly exploded into countless bits of flesh and blood, which then formed a single, enormous eye within the shadowy Yin Soul.

The moment he saw this, countless rays of cyan light flooded Yang An's body. He immediately activated the Treasure Light Glaze Purification Technique as a defense against whatever strange Evil Technique Jiang Hechuan might use.

At the same time, an incandescent white light began to spread from Yang An's body.

A hot vapor instantly radiated from around him, evaporating all the moisture in the air in a flash. Even the ground began to melt rapidly, and the intense heat distorted the light and shadows around him.

He transformed into a figure emitting a cyan glow but filled with incandescent white light. The light was too blinding to look at directly, but unlike before, it seemed more like a restrained radiance, containing terrifying power within.

This was the Celestial Gnomon Body! It could even be described as the incarnation of the sun itself, for this was power drawn from the sun!

Yang An unleashed the Celestial Gnomon Body without hesitation, rapidly consuming the Celestial Gnomon Light stored within him.

Feeling the power coursing through him, he knew it was in no way weaker than the Qi Guang Technique's Light Absorption Form; in fact, it possessed even more terrifying explosive force.

'Fortunately, I can control this power freely, so I won't hurt the Bow Lady on me. Otherwise, with her personality, she would've started cursing me out long ago.'

Gazing at the shadowy Yin Soul a thousand meters away, Yang An moved in an instant.

He became a streak of incandescent white, appearing before the spectral Yin Soul in a flash and throwing a punch.

A wave of terrifying heat instantly engulfed the shadowy Yin Soul.

In just a single breath, the moment Yang An's fist touched the shadowy Yin Soul, it was immediately vaporized, collapsing in an instant, completely powerless.

But at that very moment, within the disintegrating shadowy Yin Soul, the One-Eyed, formed from Jiang Hechuan's flesh, suddenly trembled.

In an instant, the cyan light on Yang An shattered. Countless human faces appeared all over his body, tearing at his flesh as if they wanted to burst out from within.

But the faces didn't even last a single breath before they vanished with a series of shrieks, unable to even harm Yang An.

A smile appeared on Yang An's face. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

'I knew this guy would pull a trick like that!'

'Last time, I fell for Jiang Hechuan's trap completely unprepared, but right now, I'm in my Celestial Gnomon Body state.'

'Trying to create an evil creature inside my body is simply impossible.'

"Senior Brother, you don't actually think that just by breaking my Technique, you can hurt me, do you?"

As he spoke, Yang An pressed his hand directly onto the One-Eyed. The Celestial Gnomon Light was consumed rapidly, all of it flowing into his hand.

BOOM!

In an instant, countless cracks appeared on the One-Eyed. Incandescent white light pierced through them, as if a sun had been born inside the One-Eyed and immediately exploded.

The One-Eyed was completely unable to withstand this power. It collapsed with a roar and was annihilated in the endless, incandescent white light.

Where Yang An stood, impacted by the explosive burst of Celestial Gnomon Light, a huge crater suddenly formed, destroying all the houses within a several-hundred-meter radius.

But at that moment, centered on Yang An, nine enormous, blood-red One-Eyeds suddenly appeared—one in each of the eight directions a thousand meters away, and one more in the sky above, all staring at Yang An!

The incandescent white light had just dissipated, revealing Yang An's figure.

The pupils within the nine One-Eyeds trembled violently!

In a flash, countless densely packed faces appeared all over Yang An's body. They forcibly tore and warped his flesh, bursting out from his body and instantly draining all the Mana inside him.

Immediately after, the myriad fleshy faces rapidly coalesced behind Yang An, forming into the shape of Jiang Hechuan.

But the moment Jiang Hechuan appeared and saw Yang An's physical body recover in an instant, still filled with incandescent white light and completely unchanged, his expression changed instantly!

"Senior Brother! You couldn't have thought my Technique runs entirely on Mana, could you?"

Looking at Jiang Hechuan, who had walked right into his trap and was now within arm's reach, a strange smile suddenly spread across Yang An's face.

'Die!'

A large hand slammed down on Jiang Hechuan's face, and the Celestial Gnomon Light erupted once more!

Another new sun had appeared!

The dazzling light instantly consumed everything. Jiang Hechuan, caught in Yang An's grasp, was melted in an instant, not even having time to show an expression of pain.

Not even his bones remained!