CHAPTER 283: CHAPTER 278: SLAYING DEMONS

Some human cultivators wanted to step forward, only to see the Jiao Demon with fierce and cruel eyes glance over, coldly saying, "This human killed my Jiao Demon Island’s young master. This is a personal vendetta between Jiao Demon Island and him. Whoever dares intervene—kill."

The icy voice stopped those who wanted to step forward. Now, West Emperor Island was surrounded by demons; some had even gone to negotiate with the island. The entire West Emperor Island was in jeopardy. If the demons invaded and they offended Jiao Demon Island... it would be disastrous.

Thinking of this, they glanced at Li Fan and others. Though they were human cultivators as well, it wasn’t worth the risk for someone unfamiliar.

The Jiao Dragon’s sinister eyes once again looked at Li Fan and said, "Kill them all, leave no one alive."

In the surrounding area, there were dozens of demons from the Fifth Realms, with the leading Jiao Demon being a Mid Stage of the Fifth Realm Jiao Dragon.

Jiao Demon Island was an incredibly powerful demon force in the West Sea, with a master at the Sixth Realm. Few human forces dared to offend it. Because of this, the young master of Jiao Demon Island acted recklessly across the West Sea but ultimately fell at Li Fan’s hands.

"If you leave now, you can still survive," Li Fan looked at the Jiao Dragon and said. A massacre here might expose some things.

The death of Song Boling—uncovered by the Song Family—was because Song Siyu had personally tested his combat power last time.

The Jiao Dragon’s sinister eyes fixed on Li Fan, a grin appearing as he mused at this arrogant madman. Stretching out his arm, he grabbed at the air, instantly gathering terrifying demon energy into a crudely sharp dragon claw, which appeared directly in front of Li Fan to strike.

With a flash of thunder light, Li Fan’s silhouette vanished from the spot, and the claw formed from demon energy grasped nothing. The surrounding demons charged forward, attacking Meng Hong, Luo Qingyan, and Lu Yuan.

Li Fan glanced behind him—many demons; he needed a swift and decisive battle.

With a thought, flying swords hovered around Li Fan, forming a sword array.

He formed seals with both hands, and all the flying swords entered his body. The sword array fused with his body, and it seemed like endless sword aura from the surrounding heavens and earth flowed into him.

Suddenly, sword aura erupted from Li Fan’s body, as if sword beams were about to burst forth, with sword light flowing on the surface.

"Heavenly Essence Sword Body." Li Fan’s hands danced, and immediately behind him, a phantom sword map appeared, accompanied by continuous dragon roars, with the shadow of a True Dragon manifesting in the middle of the sword map.

Li Fan ascended majestically, resembling a Sword Dao Immortal, extraordinarily stunning.

"This is..."

From afar, some looked at Li Fan with inner waves of emotion—this was a Foundation Establishment Cultivator?

At this moment, there seemed to be sword dao phenomena around Li Fan, as if he were a Sword Dao Immortal. Even a Condensed Core Realm Sword Cultivator did not have such flair.

At this time, from the side, a massive flesh hand reached towards him. This flesh hand, when opened, appeared to have many fingers, resembling tentacles, opening fangs, about to devour Li Fan’s body.

Li Fan remained unmoved, his arm slamming forward, a dragon roar echoing in the heavens. A dragon claw formed from sword aura appeared, blasting toward the approaching tentacle, instantly shredding it to pieces and continuing forward.

The demon’s expression suddenly changed, its arm blasting forward to block the dragon claw. Li Fan’s silhouette rushed forth, his arm blasting out, sword aura transforming into a dragon, wrapping around his arm, tearing apart the opponent’s arm, piercing through the demon’s body, creating a hole.

Before the demon could react, Li Fan extracted a Demon Core from it.

"Killing a demon with just a physical attack?"

The distant cultivators witnessing this momentary killing of a Fifth Realm demon were taken aback. Although Li Fan was a Sword Cultivator, he did not use a sword. It was as if his body had become a sword, effortlessly annihilating a Fifth Realm demon.

Even though it was previously rumored that he could kill a Condensed Pill in the Foundation Establishment, it was assumed some methods were needed. No one expected it to be so effortless.

Could it be the demon was too weak?

They looked towards the battlefield, seeing Li Fan’s body acting as a sword moving forward rapidly, attacking another demon. The demon’s body surged with mana, covering it like spiky armor, rushing at Li Fan at extreme speed. Would a Sword Cultivator engage physically?

The two sides closed in instantly. Li Fan did not dodge or evade, raising his arm and punching forward, the dragon roar ongoing, sword aura transforming into a dragon.

Crack...

A crisp sound echoed out, Li Fan’s fist unstoppable, instantly shattering the opponent’s chest bones when it collided, his palm transforming into a sword entering the demon’s body, extracting the Demon Core.

The demon’s body trembled, then plummeted downward, dying with unfulfilled eyes.

Another instant kill!

"This..." Among the onlookers were Condensed Core Cultivators who couldn’t believe their eyes. Even a genius cultivator at the Initial Condensed Core would find this impossible, right?

Foundation Establishment Realm, consecutively killing two Fifth Realm demons in seconds?

Not only them, but Meng Hong and Luo Qingyan were also stunned. Could it be Li Fan was hiding his true power all along?

This monster...

"Be wary of that human," the Jiao Demon realized something was wrong as a burst sounded, thunder light shining. It charged forward toward Li Fan.

Just then, golden light burst out in the void, and the Soul-Attracting Bell swung in the air. Waves of bell sounds swept the surrounding space, affecting the demon souls that were already weaker than human cultivators.

Pop, pop, pop...

A series of sounds echoed continuously, and people in the distance saw the demon corpses on the battlefield falling endlessly to the ground, all of them having their Demon Cores gouged out.

It seemed as if Li Fan was not killing Fifth Realms demons, but a group of weak little demons.

The Jiao Dragon charged forward, claws extended, and a massive Jiao Dragon claw appeared in the air aiming to tear into Li Fan. But lightning flickered, and Li Fan’s body flashed by like lightning, the claw grasping at nothing.

A swoosh was heard as another demon was killed.

Soon enough, all the demons, except for the Jiao Demon, were slaughtered.

After killing those demons, Li Fan finally stopped, suspending in the air, a dragon-shaped sword ring behind him, his eyes fixated on the Jiao Demon.

"Nothing to do with us?" Luo Qingyan muttered in a peculiar tone, as if talking to herself.

"Seems like it..." Meng Hong was also a bit confused. Were they just spectators?

For days, Li Fan had been cultivating tirelessly day and night, his cultivation level ever increasing, reaching the pinnacle of Foundation Establishment, only a step away from the Condensed Core Realm.

Additionally, he hunted demons in the sea, devouring Demon Cores for cultivation, strengthening his body tremendously without falling behind in the Martial Arts Realm.

When he established his foundation, he used a True Dragon to forge his great dao bones, creating a flawless foundation. Later, he learned the Heavenly Essence Sword Scripture in the Secret Realm. In the form of the Heavenly Essence Sword Body, even at the pinnacle of Foundation Establishment, he was comparable to the Initial Stage of Condensed Core. Killing these Fifth Realms demons was naturally easy for him.

He didn’t want to reveal himself only because the Song Family had the backing of the West Emperor Palace, which could cause trouble and impede his cultivation. He planned to quietly break through to the Condensed Core Realm.

"Thanks for delivering the Demon Cores, saves me from hunting demons in the sea," Li Fan said, looking at the enraged Jiao Dragon opposite him. The creature spread its arms, lightning flickering across the sky, transforming into thick pillars of thunder striking down, flames of rage burning in its lightning-filled eyes.

All the demons it brought were killed.

"Boom..." The Jiao Demon advanced with thunder in tow, and Li Fan surged toward it.

"This lunatic." Meng Hong and Luo Qingyan rushed forward, this guy actually wanted to test the physical body of a mid-stage Fifth Realms Jiao Dragon?

The Jiao Dragon was inherently formidable, far surpassing ordinary demons, not to mention its realm far exceeded his.

Both sides moved at extremely high speeds, colliding in an instant. The Jiao Dragon’s arm was covered in scales, while Li Fan’s arm was like countless sharp swords.

"Boom!"

Thunder swept forth, sending Li Fan’s body flying, his inner energy and blood churning, letting out a muffled grunt. He internally noted his own shortcomings, realizing he needed to genuinely step into the Condensed Core Realm to directly contend with the physical body of a mid-stage Fifth Realms Jiao Dragon.

But Luo Qingyan and Meng Hong were already shaken internally. A mid-stage Fifth Realms Jiao Dragon—forget Foundation Establishment—even an Initial Stage of Condensed Core cultivator would be severely injured or killed in a direct clash with it; truly a monster.

Luo Qingyan whipped out with the Thunder Whip, instantly wrapping around the body of the Jiao Demon. However, the demon remained immobile, grasping the whip to pull it towards himself, causing Luo Qingyan to be dragged involuntarily.

Sun Zhao slashed out with a blade, a massive blade light striking down in the air. The Jiao Demon raised its left arm, roaring out with a dragon’s cry, a Jiao Dragon apparition emerged, shattering the blade light.

An Initial Stage of Condensed Core cultivator’s attack was mere child’s play to him, unable to even breach his defense.

"Troublesome, we can’t break through his defense..." Luo Qingyan realized. A mid-stage Fifth Realms Jiao Dragon was even more difficult for them than a mid-stage Condensed Core Qi Cultivator.

Qi Cultivators were somewhat weaker in defense, but this Jiao Dragon, their attacks were not enough to kill it.

"Boom..." Thunder Power swept forth, striking Luo Qingyan and causing her whole body to feel numb. The Jiao Demon pulled hard, dragging her body rapidly toward itself.

"Let go!" Li Fan shouted. Luo Qingyan decisively abandoned the Thunder Whip.

The Jiao Dragon, like a thunderbolt, charged at Sun Zhao at terrifying speed. Sun Zhao slashed with his blade, but the Jiao Demon ignored the blade light, clad in scale armor, claw shooting downward, swatting Sun Zhao’s blade away, continuing to reach for his body.

At this moment, golden brilliance flickered as the Jiao Demon turned, trying to seize the Soul-Attracting Bell. However, the bell flew into the air, the sound resonating unceasingly.

The Jiao Demon felt dizzy, seeing a sword shadow coming at high speed. Unafraid, it extended its claws forward, transforming them into a fearsome, menacing Jiao Dragon claw to capture the incoming Li Fan.

"Buzz..."

As the claws grasped the empty space where Li Fan’s body had been, he seemed to teleport, appearing before the Jiao Dragon. A sword shadow in his hand flashed by, and blood spurted, followed by a head rolling into the air, its eyes still open.

The sword shadow vanished in an instant. Luo Qingyan and Meng Hong looked at Li Fan, his hand empty, as if he held nothing.

But in that moment, they seemed to see a sword, a broken sword!