The Demon with Holy Radiance-Chapter 96 - 87: Give Them a Chance, and Burn the Whole Mountain

Chapter 96: Chapter 87: Give Them a Chance, and Burn the Whole Mountain

In the pitch-black night, facing the howling mountain wind, Yang An stepped out of his cave abode. Outside, it was still deathly silent.

The commotion inside the cave abode just now seemed to have attracted no one’s attention. He couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief, then quickly vanished into the darkness.

Soon, he silently slipped past the residences and cave abodes on the lower level of Wuwei Peak.

However, when he reached halfway up the mountain, he stopped, his gaze falling upon the door to a cave prison that reeked of a foul stench.

’I don’t want to get involved with the people locked inside,’ he thought. ’But creating a little chaos for Wuwei Peak before I leave wouldn’t be a bad idea.’

’I’ll just consider it a good deed. Whoever can escape, escapes. If they can’t, it’s none of my business.’

’The fate of those locked in this cave is already sealed anyway. This is just giving them a chance to escape.’

And so, Yang An silently approached the entrance of the cave prison.

The overwhelming stench that hit him almost made him turn and leave, but he forced himself to block his sense of smell, held his breath, and gripped the chains on the prison door.

The people locked inside were just ordinary folk with no ability to escape on their own, so the door was only secured with ordinary iron chains.

He channeled Mana into his hand, and with a light squeeze, the chains in his grasp instantly crumbled to dust.

He gently pulled the chains off without a sound, then opened the prison door just over a foot wide before once again melting into the darkness as a shadow.

After he vanished, a gust of mountain wind blew by, and the prison door let out a CREAK as it slowly swung open.

"The door... the door’s open!"

A faint voice came from inside, tinged with disbelief.

Before long, a stream of figures stealthily emerged from the cave, fumbling their way down the mountain in the darkness.

At that moment, Yang An had reached the foot of Wuwei Peak. He was now standing beside the pickling pit he had seen earlier.

’I was curious earlier,’ he thought. ’If I toss a ball of fire from my Lighting Technique into this pit, will it catch?’

’Logically, it’s very likely. After all, this pit is full of corpses, both old and new. There must be some that aren’t fully cured yet, and the pool is probably mixed with a lot of corpse oil.’

’Since I’ve already secretly freed the people from the cave, I might as well go all the way and set this place ablaze too.’

The fire from the Lighting Technique used blood as fuel, which made it burn fiercely and gave it the ability to repel and slay Demon Fiends. Even without blood, it could continue to burn as an ordinary fire.

’Once this place is ignited, it’ll become a giant fuse, spreading into the forests of Wuwei Peak. I might as well burn down Ding Chong Daoist’s lair while I’m at it.’

In short, he held a grudge. Since Ding Chong Daoist had dared to make a move against him, he had to pay the price!

’Fighting Ding Chong Daoist is out of the question. Never mind whether I could win—just his overwhelming swarm of insects could surround me without attacking and wear me down to death.’

Yang An knew his own weakness. Stacking so many Light Magic Techniques created explosive destructive power, but it couldn’t be sustained.

After all, activating so many Techniques at once consumed far too much Mana.

If he couldn’t finish off his enemy in one fell swoop, he would likely be the one to die. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

’Until I have the absolute strength and confidence to kill him, I can’t fight Ding Chong Daoist. So I’ll just have to find ways to screw with him instead.’

’And then there’s that Iron Tiger Gang Leader, Wu Jinsheng. I haven’t forgotten about him either. But I can’t return to Jinlong City for now, in case I run right into Ding Chong Daoist.’

’I got a lot of things from Wuwei Peak this time. Once I’ve assimilated all of it, I’ll go settle the score with Wu Jinsheng!’

Yang An deliberately waited for about ten breaths, until he could vaguely see some furtive figures cautiously making their way down the path from Wuwei Peak.

’It’s time!’

He grabbed two chains and lifted all the stone slabs covering the pit. A thick, cloying fragrance immediately wafted out, overpowering the senses.

VMMM!

A ball of dark red flame materialized in his hand, and he tossed several in quick succession into the pit before him.

In an instant, four giant pillars of fire shot toward the sky, igniting the nearby bushes and trees.

The intensity of the flames even exceeded Yang An’s imagination, forcing him to retreat some distance.

Just then, a gust of wind howled by. Aided by the wind, the fire surged up the mountain as if doused in oil, instantly spreading over a hundred meters in the blink of an eye.

’Burn! Burn until you cover the entire mountain! Burn until nothing is left but ash!’

Beneath the massive blaze, Yang An’s shadow stretched long and wavered erratically.

He immediately used the Light and Shadow Escape Technique he had just mastered. In the blink of an eye, he vanished, reappearing over a hundred meters away before melting into the darkness.

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A little over half an hour later, an old man came flying toward the foot of Wuwei Peak.

He wore worn-out Daoist robes and a Jade Crown, his hair disheveled, his face grimy and sinister.

Countless insects crawled over his body, gnawing on his flesh and blood, burrowing in and out of his body in a horrifying display.

This was none other than the Sect Leader of Wuwei Peak, Ding Chong Daoist.

Only after Wu Jinsheng, the Gang Leader of the Iron Tiger Gang, had promised a generous reward of wealth and flesh—and pledged to offer tribute to Wuwei Peak from then on—did Ding Chong Daoist agree to help him eliminate a great enemy.

Who would have thought that by the time he reached Jinlong City, the person Wu Jinsheng wanted to eliminate was nowhere to be found.

He later caught the current Gang Leader of the Blood Bat Gang—a piece of scum not even at the Primordial Feeding Realm—and from him, learned that Yang An had headed east.

But in the end, he found no trace of Yang An. He had searched not only to the east but in every other direction as well.

After a delay of almost an hour, Ding Chong Daoist had a bad feeling and immediately rushed back to Wuwei Peak.

Now, as he landed, he stared at Wuwei Peak, where flames had already spread across more than half the mountain. All of his disciples, new and old, were desperately trying to extinguish the fierce blaze, but they couldn’t stop it in the slightest.

Ding Chong Daoist’s entire body trembled violently with rage and killing intent, his eyes nearly splitting from their sockets.

These ordinary flames couldn’t harm him. With a single leap, he shot toward the summit of Wuwei Peak, where his cave abode was located.

Inside the cave abode hung a Magical Artifact, and hidden within that artifact were all sorts of extraordinary items he had spent decades collecting.

Aside from Magical Spiritual Objects and other Magical Artifacts, the most important things were the Elixirs.

In one of the bottles was a single Elixir he had spent a great price and decades of savings to have someone refine for him.

That was the Elixir he needed to break through to the Visceral Stone Realm! In addition, there was also a set of Array-type Magical Artifacts to aid his cultivation!

Most people would assume such precious items would be kept on their person, but he deliberately did the opposite to be unpredictable.

That was why he usually hid those things in his cave abode, strictly forbidding his disciples from approaching the summit.

For decades, it had been safe and hidden. He never imagined that a sudden disaster would strike today.

When Ding Chong Daoist reached the entrance to his cave abode and stepped inside, the first thing that met his eyes was a statue, smashed to pieces all over the floor.

But he only glanced at it before looking away, unconcerned.

This statue had been part of the cave wall, present since he first occupied this place as his abode decades ago.

The statue was bizarre, but it was just ordinary rock, a mundane object. He’d always found it an eyesore during his cultivation, but felt it would be a pity to destroy something so naturally formed, so he had simply covered its head with a red cloth.

’If it’s destroyed, so be it.’ But this was followed by a sense of foreboding. The fact that the statue was destroyed meant someone had been here.

Sure enough, when his gaze swept to the inner wall of the cave, he found that the spot where the painted scroll should have been hanging was now completely empty.

Elder Ding Chong’s eyes instantly turned bloodshot. His entire body radiated killing intent as insects began to continuously burst forth from every inch of his flesh.

In the blink of an eye, a black mass blotted out the sky above the still-burning Wuwei Peak.

A sky-shattering roar echoed from within it.

"Die!"

"What use are any of you!"

"All of you can just die!"