Chapter 647: Chapter 640: The Appearance of the White Light

Outside Four-direction City.

In the midst of the raging winds that swept through heaven and earth, the paw of the Red Tiger that had reached out had not yet truly fallen, when the Chen Hai below, who had flashed an eerie smile at it, ‘poofed’ and burst open, dissipating without a trace.

Red Tiger was stunned, feeling somewhat baffled—it couldn’t figure out what had just happened.

Although it didn’t recognize Chen Hai, from his stance, it was obvious that he had come for the Red Tiger.

Facing its attack, this fellow in front of it, even if overpowered, shouldn’t have just exploded immediately upon seeing it!

As the wild winds died down, Red Tiger, with a face full of suspicion, landed where Chen Hai had just been.

“Red Tiger Master is powerful and domineering!”

“Humans, what are they? In front of you, Master, they crumble like dry weeds, incapable of withstanding a single blow.”

“Facing you, Master, that guy must have been scared out of his wits, peeing and rolling away. With such mediocrity, he dared to occupy the territory of West Barbarian Mountain and contend with our Demon Clan?”

“Among the many Great Demons within our Ten Thousand Mountains Demon Clan, who else could frighten a human True Immortal or True Demon into exploding, if not Red Tiger Master?”

“In our opinion, under Demon King Chili’s command, in terms of strength and fame, you, Red Tiger Master, can modestly claim second place, and absolutely no one would dare to claim first.”

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The True Demons who had previously clustered around Red Tiger, although slightly behind in reaction, had already caught up by the time Red Tiger descended.

Remaining where Chen Hai had just been, they looked around and, one after another, flattered the Red Tiger incessantly.

Bootlicking wasn’t something only humans excelled at; these members of the Demon Clan were equally adept, their skills polished to a fine art.

“Something’s not right, this human of True Level, exploding upon seeing me, there’s definitely something off!” Red Tiger furrowed its brows, paying no heed to its followers.

Its eyes flickered with a strange light, and as it swept its gaze around, it also sniffed the air several times, trying to detect something through its sense of smell.

After a True Immortal dies, it would turn into Pure Essence Qi and dissipate between heaven and earth, and even though True Demons don’t do the same, their bones and fragments should be scattered everywhere after they explode.

However, standing in the territory where that human had just exploded, it detected no Pure Essence Qi, nor did it see any remnants of flesh and blood in the surrounding area.

Its instincts told it that there was something very wrong with that guy’s explosion, but as it frowned in thought, it just couldn’t figure out what the problem was!

“Could it be that the human True Immortal who just exploded was not actually his main body, but merely an avatar?”

“He suddenly burst open, not because he was self-destructing, but because the power inside the avatar had been extracted, and it dissipated on its own.”

“Not good…”

A flash of inspiration struck Red Tiger’s mind, and in the next instant, its expression changed drastically.

Right where Chen Hai’s Blood and Flesh Avatar had exploded, a space crack, the size of a chopstick, suddenly appeared.

A white light, about an inch long and shaped like a small sword, shot out from that space crack.

“Retreat, retreat fast…” In a roar, Red Tiger whipped up a gust of wind and, in a flash, had retreated hundreds of meters away.

Compared to it, even with its own vehement warning, the reactions of the several True Demons under its command were undeniably a fraction slower.

As the white light burst through the void, it immediately shone with a brilliance that engulfed the few True Demons who could not retreat in time.

Hearing Red Tiger’s roar, the several True Demons who had planned to follow closely and retreat were only able to take a step or two before their figures shifted from extreme motion to extreme stillness, becoming as statues, frozen in place.

Then, riddled with a thousand holes, they began to fade away, dissolving into nothingness.

When the Black Water Mysterious Yellow Sword Finger was first created, a single point had no known destination, nor was it known what scene would unfold where it landed.

After spending a considerable amount of time, Chen Hai had perfected it, and within the beam of white light produced by the sword finger, there already lay a wisp of his will embedded.

Following its emergence from the cracks in the void, it was the sensing of the nearby True Demons that caused the glow to burst forth, sweeping those few creatures into it.

Having annihilated the True Demons, the sword-shaped beam of white light, with undiminished momentum and increasing speed, lunged fiercely toward Red Tiger, who had already retreated several hundred meters.

“Damn it, the second of the Liu Family and a few brothers from the Bai Family under my command were instantly killed?”

“Such formidable Divine Skills, who exactly is opposing our Demon Clan?”

“Wasn’t it said that the Territory of West Barbarian Mountain is a remote backwater with no noteworthy strong existences?”

While cursing inwardly, Red Tiger kept retreating rapidly.

Sensing the white light behind him, like Bone-attaching Maggots that he couldn’t shake off no matter how he tried, he gritted his teeth and bellowed, “You who slink in the shadows, show yourself if you dare and fight me!”

“To think a mere Divine Skill would take my life, do you really take me, Tiger Master, for a vegetarian?”

“Divine-splitting Claw, shatter it!”

Boundless wild winds enveloped Red Tiger. He spun around and fiercely clawed at the pursuing white light.

“Boom, boom, boom… boom, boom, boom…”

The tiger claw collided with the white light, shaking the heavens and splitting the earth, and the ground shattered on impact. A series of fierce cracks spread rapidly outward like a spider web.

Compared to Chen Hai’s Black Water Mysterious Yellow Sword Finger, Red Tiger’s claw appeared somewhat lacking in might.

The two forces only briefly deadlocked before a muted ‘thump’ sounded, and the massive tiger claw couldn’t bear it any longer, bursting apart.

Tiger bones, flesh, and blood were scattered everywhere, turning the surrounding area of a hundred meters almost completely red.

“Not good!” His face paled as Red Tiger’s arm was cleanly severed at the elbow.

“Chang Ghosts, protect me!” Having seen his tiger claw destroyed and still facing the formidable white light charging directly at him, Red Tiger roared once more.

He opened his mouth wide and one after another, ghostly silhouettes shot out from his maw, rushing to meet the white light head-on.

When the tiger demons consumed humans, they would imprison their souls, transforming them into Chang Ghosts with Secret Techniques inherited through their bloodlines.

These Chang Ghosts, unable to control their own life and death, were utterly dominated by the tiger demon, serving as its minions. In times of life and death, they could also be used as a substitute for their master’s death.

As for the strength of the Chang Ghosts, it naturally depended on the fighting power of the tiger demon itself.

Although Red Tiger was an Earth-level Great Demon, the Chang Ghosts he released were of average strength, basically equivalent to the realm of Nine Realms Heavenly Tribulation.

However, there were so many of them that their numbers were truly frightening.

After all, as an Earth-level Great Demon, Red Tiger had lived for countless years, and the number of people who had died at his hands over the endless years was beyond estimation.

Thanks to years of accumulation, his subservient Chang Ghosts had grown to such a number.

The white light’s power was terrifyingly strong, but it was not endless.

Each Chang Ghost, intercepted between it and Red Tiger, was slain, ultimately draining a bit of power from the white light.

After the consumption of several hundred Chang Ghosts, the white light finally ran out of strength and dissipated.