TBOUMTBDK Chapter 68

Chapter 68: The Youth

Xiao Tongfu stood at the center of the formation. At this moment, it was on the verge of collapse. Pale gray energy drifted around, along with numerous fragments floating in the air. Each tiny piece contained extremely strong energy, and even Xiao Tongfu would suffer severe injuries if touched.

Because Xiao Tongfu was connected to the other half of the Divine Consciousness, he was also affected as the formation shattered.

However, now that it had reached the final moment, Xiao Tongfu’s fragmented Divine Consciousness transformed directly into Divine Consciousness energy. The remaining will was incredibly strong, using the formation’s energy to strike fiercely at Mo Jun Zhou through Yun Xia.

At this crucial moment, a massive black lotus suddenly appeared in the very center of the energy, enveloping Mo Jun Zhou.

With such a critical situation at hand, the shattered formation could no longer suppress the Demon Lord’s black lotus. The black lotus emerged and protected him, but Xiao Tongfu was not worried. Nearly world-destroying energy accumulated over hundreds of years directly engulfed Mo Jun Zhou. Even the black lotus, with its incredibly profound black petals, trembled slightly under the intense impact.

Yun Xia used all his strength, but could not shift that power even a fraction.

After all, that was not his power, and under Xiao Tongfu’s deliberate guidance, Yun Xia was powerless to act.

If one were to look from the outside, they would see that the entire Mount Mo Li was enveloped in a gray, whirlwind-like energy. At the very center was a person and a dark black lotus. Those who didn’t know would have thought he was some great power of the world, desperately trying to destroy that black lotus.

The space around Mount Mo Li was slightly distorted due to the extremely large amount of energy. In the distant Holy City, Yao Yun frowned, looking towards the direction of Mount Mo Li.

Demon General Xiu Wu also noticed it, and said, “What is that? Is it Your Venerable? But, it doesn’t seem like Your Venerable’s aura.”

Yao Yun shook his head: “It’s not Your Venerable, I’m afraid it’s that Xiao Tongfu.”

“How could he possibly have such powerful strength!”

“Perhaps it’s not his own strength. They couldn’t have come empty-handed. Maybe they brought some Devilish Weapon, Venerable Artifact, talisman, or formation.”

“What Devilish Weapon or talisman could have such powerful strength?”

Yao Yun shook his head.

“By the way, Your Venerable ate the Demon Transformation Pill, how should we respond? We should go quickly…”

Yao Yun interrupted him: “Have you forgotten what Your Venerable said?”

Xiu Wu was stunned: “What?”

“Your Venerable told us to do our own things, not to go looking for him.”

“But…”

The corners of Yao Yun’s eyes curved up, and his narrow eyes flashed with shrewd light: “Are you doubting Your Venerable?”

“Uh, no, I’m just worried about Your Venerable.”

Yao Yun smiled: “Worried about Your Venerable? You might as well worry about that Xiao Tongfu, worry about Yun Xia.”

Xiu Wu: “What if…”

“There are no ‘what ifs’,” Yao Yun glanced at him lightly, “Your Venerable has Your Venerable’s plans. We only need to comply. Even if Your Venerable doesn’t return today, it’s all within Your Venerable’s plan. We just need to continue according to the original deployment.”

“…Yes.”

At this time, on Mount Mo Li, Yun Xia still hadn’t given up, using all his strength to reverse the situation, even if it could help the Demon Lord just a little bit.

Just then, he suddenly heard An He’s voice again.

“What are you doing! Rush up and stop him!” An He’s voice was very weak, but his Divine Consciousness suddenly surged, actually attempting to seize control of Yun Xia’s body at this critical moment.

Yun Xia was already in immense pain because the huge and mighty energy was being released from his body. After all, he was just a Core Formation stage cultivator, and enduring such energy transfer was extremely difficult. His Inner Core was spinning frantically, supporting his body.

If it were someone who hadn’t even reached the Core Formation stage, they would have already exploded from the energy.

And Yun Xia was close to exploding, every part of his body was filled with energy. He felt like he was swelling into a large fat man, his muscles, blood vessels, meridians, even cells, all swelling up, about to explode from over-expansion.

But in reality, it was just an illusion.

His body didn’t get bigger or swell up, but the pain was no less intense.

At this time, An He was still vying for control of his body. Actually, if he could, Yun Xia would have been willing to give it to him, but for some reason, his Divine Consciousness didn’t budge, and he couldn’t transfer even a shred of the pain out.

And after failing to seize control, An He actually shouted and rushed out of Yun Xia’s body.

Yun Xia opened his mouth. “Hey!!” He could barely survive in his body, but going out would definitely mean death!

He just watched as a wisp of Divine Consciousness rushed out, barely able to make out An He’s figure, rushing towards the black lotus without hesitation, and then being torn into pieces by the formation’s energy, and then the fragments melted into the air, leaving no trace.

An He couldn’t even let out a final sound.

Yun Xia couldn’t muster any more thoughts, because his consciousness began to blur. At the end of his vision, he saw the petals of the black lotus enveloping the Demon Lord being peeled off, one by one.

Your Venerable…

That’s right, Your Venerable was poisoned with the Demon Transformation Pill and couldn’t use Demonic Energy, so only the black lotus could protect him.

But now, even the black lotus was about to fail.

Finally, the last few petals of the black lotus vanished into thin air, revealing the person at the center.

At this time, the Demon Lord was no longer in the form of Li Yu Sheng Jun, but had returned to his original appearance: long hair, red eyes, tall figure.

The last image in Yun Xia’s memory was of Xiao Tongfu lunging towards the Demon Lord.

The next moment, he lost consciousness and fell from the sky.

At this time, the energy swirls in the air had slowly disappeared. Xiao Tongfu did not waste the opportunity of his last attack, using up all the energy of the formation.

He believed that even the Demon Lord would be unable to resist. Even if he wasn’t dead, the current Demon Lord definitely had no power to fight back. With such an impact of Divine Consciousness energy, even if the Demon Lord specialized in Divine Consciousness and no longer had the black lotus, he, Xiao Tongfu, could easily extract the Demon Lord’s Divine Consciousness and turn it into a Spirit Puppet.

The truth was as he had guessed. The Demon Lord indeed had a breath left. He hung his head, his long hair completely obscuring his face, his aura weakened, and he remained motionless in place.

Xiao Tongfu could feel that his opponent had reached the end of his rope.

“Hahahaha, finally reached this point, I won my bet! A Soul Severing Illusion Heart Formation in exchange for the Demon Lord’s Spirit Puppet, hahahaha worth it, so worth it!”

On the surface, it seemed like nothing. After all, apart from this final attack today, there seemed to be no danger, nor any confrontation.

But in reality, from Xiao Tongfu’s perspective, this process was extremely thrilling.

The shaking of the formation was the first time he had experienced it since obtaining the Soul Severing Illusion Heart, he had never even had emotional fluctuations.

But this time, first was the Demon Lord’s identity, and then Yun Xia’s identity, each more outrageous than the last.

As a result, the formation was on the verge of collapse multiple times due to Xiao Tongfu’s wavering and its own inability to bear the strain.

In the end, if he hadn’t proactively torn his Divine Consciousness, sacrificing half of his Divine Consciousness as the price to control that final collapse, he would have been completely backlashed by the formation, and only death would have awaited him.

Moreover, the already unstable Divine Consciousness due to cultivating Spirit Puppets would have been even more prone to collapse in this situation, but in the end, he endured it, he held it up!

So he won!

He laughed madly like a madman. At this time, he was somewhat delirious, only a small half of his Divine Consciousness was highly excited, even so excited that he couldn’t control himself.

And somewhat unable to control himself.

“I will make you into a Spirit Puppet, slowly completely refine your Divine Consciousness, and then I can obtain all your memories, and also obtain your body and your Cultivation Base. From now on, the Demon Realm will be mine! Even the Demon Lord has become my Spirit Puppet, hahahaha, truly Heaven is helping me!!”

The more Xiao Tongfu thought about it, the more excited he became. Only now did he realize how great a thing he had done, and he became even more insane.

He didn’t even realize that his condition was becoming increasingly abnormal.

“Don’t you think it’s amazing? The original goal was Li Yu Sheng Jun, but in the end, I captured the Demon Lord’s Divine Consciousness, it’s more worthwhile than I imagined, right?”

“Of course, that’s the Demon Lord. Perhaps it will be very difficult to completely refine the Demon Lord’s Divine Consciousness, but it doesn’t matter, I will be very patient. When the Demon Lord becomes my Spirit Puppet, I will be able to command the entire Demon Realm. After that, who would dare to ignore me? Xiao Nanli, hahahaha Xiao Nanli will have to kneel at my feet!”

Xiao Tongfu hadn’t yet noticed the strangeness of this voice. When he thought of Xiao Nanli’s dismissive appearance in the past, he was both angry and furious, and had extreme expectations.

At this moment, that voice sounded again: “It’s good that you have patience, but, do you have that time?”

“What time? Why don’t I have time?”

Xiao Tongfu asked back, only then did he react, and the whole person was stunned, returning to his senses from that nearly insane fantasy, and suddenly looked at the Demon Lord.

At this time, since the formation had disappeared, they were located in the high altitude of Mount Mo Li, the wind whistling past them, the Demon Lord’s long hair was blown somewhat messy, and most of his face was also covered.

At this moment, Xiao Tongfu saw under the hair, the corners of the Demon Lord’s mouth curved up, his lips were bright red.

His head tilted strangely, and he finally realized the strangeness of his own state. He was approaching Demonic Transformation.

However, it didn’t matter if he was undergoing Demonic Transformation. As long as he could take away the Demon Lord’s Divine Consciousness, even if he underwent Demonic Transformation, he believed there was a way to change back.

That’s right, the Demon Lord’s Divine Consciousness!

Xiao Tongfu stared at the Demon Lord with red eyes: “Bluffing? Hehe, I’ll take your Divine Consciousness now!”

Seeing the Demon Lord so calm, even as he was about to undergo Demonic Transformation, a trace of unease arose in Xiao Tongfu’s heart, but this little bit of unease did not affect him too much. He flew in front of the Demon Lord, his hands quickly forming hand seals, and then tearing his Divine Consciousness apart again.

Making Spirit Puppets required tearing the Divine Consciousness. The stronger the Spirit Puppet’s target, the larger the Divine Consciousness fragment needed, otherwise it was very likely to be countered.

Opposite him was the Demon Lord, his Divine Consciousness was incomparably powerful. Even if it had been weakened a lot by the formation, Xiao Tongfu knew that suppressing such a Divine Consciousness was probably the most difficult thing.

But the more it was like this, the more ferocious his expression became, leering as he separated out most of his remaining Divine Consciousness. That moment of pain made him feel like he almost died.

Now, it was that nearly fanatical will that stabilized him, otherwise he would have already been killed by the pain.

“Ugh, ugh, aah! Demonic Transformation, Demonic Transformation! Perhaps if I undergo Demonic Transformation I can better refine you! You can’t even move now, what can you do to me!” Xiao Tongfu threw most of the torn-out Divine Consciousness towards the Demon Lord.

Just then, a gust of wind blew again, this time blowing the Demon Lord’s hair back, the strands scattering, revealing the Demon Lord’s entire face.

At the moment Xiao Tongfu saw the Demon Lord’s face, his whole person seemed to be twisted, his mental will plunged into hell without even a chance to breathe. Torture he had never felt before engulfed him, and he couldn’t wait to disappear immediately.

The separated two Divine Consciousness fragments suffered pain separately. This kind of pain made him let out a terrible, desperate scream.

In reality, only a short moment had passed, but he felt like a century had passed.

So, there was such torture in this world.

So, death was a happy thing.

In his last senses, he could only capture a faint voice.

“Thank you, your Soul Severing Illusion Heart Formation is not bad, it helped me remove the black lotus, but you made a big mistake, which is that you underestimated This Venerable too much. Even if This Venerable doesn’t have the black lotus, there are countless ways to kill you. For example, you will die on This Venerable’s mask.”

Mask…

Xiao Tongfu didn’t understand.

He had given so much, and was already at the last moment, but he failed just like that?

With death approaching, he still had to endure unspeakable pain, and was actually still able to think, even more clearly than ever before.

He seemed to be divided into two consciousnesses, one enduring torture, and one thinking clearly.

“Why…?”

He asked silently, why use him to remove the black lotus.

But the Demon Lord seemed to understand his meaning. Xiao Tongfu couldn’t see anything, but could hear his voice.

“Why? Because I want to leave the Demon Realm. With the black lotus, the old fellows in the Immortal Realm will notice me as soon as I step out of the Demon Realm’s border.”

Leave… the Demon Realm? So this was his purpose?

So, everything, everything was in order to achieve this goal? When did he start planning?

Why leave the Demon Realm?

That’s right, because he was the Demon Lord.

The Demon Lord… was the Supreme of the Demon Realm.

For countless years, the only person who had unified the Demon Realm.

That’s right, why did he think he could defeat such a person?

It was the result of cultivating Spirit Puppets, he could no longer distinguish anything clearly.

Spirit Puppet… That’s right! He still had a Spirit Puppet!

Before, because driving the Soul Severing Illusion Heart Formation required powerful Divine Consciousness power, so besides An He, he had already recovered the other two Spirit Puppets, but there was still An He!

An He… An He was with Yun Xia!!

He now had no energy to explore An He’s state, but it was true that he was with Yun Xia, and Yun Xia wasn’t dead yet! Definitely not dead yet!

Xiao Tongfu was overjoyed.

He could be reborn after he died!!

With such excitement, he died.

And he would never have the chance to discover that he would never be able to be reborn.

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Yun Xia had countless nightmares, he struggled desperately in his dreams, constantly running, constantly shouting a person’s name, and finally woke up in a state of weightlessness.

The moment he woke up, all his memories flooded back.

Your Venerable!!

He suddenly jumped up, bumping into something.

“Ouch, Yun Xia, don’t be nervous, it’s us!”

Yun Xia gasped for breath, who was “us”? Where was Your Venerable?

Because he was breathing too hard, he couldn’t ask the question, looking around with a flustered gaze.

Only then did he realize that several familiar figures were looking at him beside him.

Yun Xia looked at them in surprise: “Senior Brother Huai Ying, Junior Brother Gong Qiu, Junior Sister Zhu?”

“Yes, it’s us, are you alright?” Gong Qiu held his arm, looking worried.

Yun Xia closed his eyes hard, calm, first calm down.

But before he could calm down, he heard Huai Ying say: “Are you worried about Li Yu Sheng Jun? He’s fine, he just hasn’t woken up yet.”

What!

Yun Xia almost jumped up again.

“Where is he!” His voice almost cracked.

Gong Qiu was startled by his expression: “In, inside.”

Yun Xia staggered to his feet, pushed open the door next door, and then was stunned.

Lying on a narrow bed was the young Demon Lord, Mo Jun Zhou.