CHAPTER 757: 632 SAND DIVINE CHILD

Lin Mingshu had clearly fallen victim to an extremely vicious Demon Path Technique, dying so miserably that it was a shocking sight to behold.

Li Yingqiong was immediately filled with a murderous intent, unleashed the Purple Ying Sword, and in combination with Zhou Qingyun’s Purple and Blue Double Swords, charged straight in!

Logically speaking, this place was right at the doorstep of Jiu Panpo, and with the abilities of this Sect Hierarch of the Red Body Sect, everything happening within thousands of miles was as clear to her as patterns on her palm, under her Heavenly Demon Sensing, she knew all that transpired.

But at this time, Yi Zhou and Yang Gupo had barged into Nine Ring Mountain. His divination abilities were unmatched in the world. Although the Demon Formation was unpredictable, he was able to disentangle it meticulously, figuring out many secrets, and dodging disaster. He even pinpointed the exact location of the real body of the Demon Palace, hidden beneath layers of Heavenly Demon Illusions, and went straight for it.

Jiu Panpo sent Divine Demons to stop them, but either Yi Zhou and his partner foresaw the danger through their divination and avoided it beforehand, or they fended off the Divine Demons with their Technique Magical Treasure.

The couple was fighting for their grandchildren’s lives, reckoning that the Blood River Demon Formation was laid out based on the terrain. They pinpointed where the earth energy gathered, blasted away three mountains, and killed two attendants.

Jiu Panpo was furious, tearing open the ground and transporting them into the underground Blood River Demon Formation.

Because her primary focus was all on Yi Zhou and Yang Gupo, she failed to notice that Lin Mingshu had been killed at the Mountain Gate.

She was just trapping Yi Zhou and his wife, intending to teach them a lesson, and had not yet decided to kill them, until Li Yingqiong and Zhou Qingyun broke in, their Purple and Blue Fusion invincible, the world’s Flying Sword Magical Treasure unable to compare. Both being at the level of Heavenly Immortals, their Yang Gods were fully formed, fearless of the Demon Realm. They slaughtered their way through thirty-two Invisible Demonic Barriers to the front of the Demon Palace. Under the Purple and Blue Swords, they slain the majority of the attendants in the Demon Palace!

Tie Shu, as the Vice Sect Leader of the Red Body Sect and the eldest sister of Nine Ring Mountain, could not sit idly by. Knowing the power of the Purple and Blue Double Swords and that even the mightiest Demon Path Flying Forks would be shattered upon contact, she sent out Demon Gods to attack Li Yingqiong and Zhou Qingyun, and also released one of the Red Body Sect’s three treasures, the Nine Nether Spirit Fire, carpeting the sky, trapping and burning the two.

Li Yingqiong and Zhou Qingyun remained fearless, relying on the power of their swords, they dashed across, unleashing Taiyin Divine Thunders. Golden light exploded everywhere, like thousands of Golden Snakes dancing wildly. Along with their own Magical Treasures and the Taicing Mysterious Sect Techniques, Tie Shu could not hold them off. The Nine Nether Spirit Fire could not triumph, and instead, the entire Demon Palace was being destroyed by the two, crumbling into ruin in moments!

Jiu Panpo was about to trap Yi Zhou and his wife properly, before having a proper conversation with them, but Li Yingqiong and Zhou Qingyun had nearly demolished her home.

These damned mongrels have gone too far!

Jiu Panpo personally came to confront Li Yingqiong and Zhou Qingyun, unleashing forty-nine Blood Flame Gold Sabers. The Demon Blades flew in the air, shooting out blood-red flames from the tips that polished the air like ribbons. With blades intertwining to form a net, they shot towards the enemies. If it were anyone else, this move alone would be hard to counter, but Li Yingqiong and Zhou Qingyun stood undaunted, coming forward to shatter the Demon Blades with the combined might of their swords.

Jiu Panpo knew the power of the Purple and Blue Double Swords and that her Demon Blades would not hold, afraid to confront them head-on. She also saw that not only were their Flying Sword Magical Treasures incredibly powerful, but both had also achieved Yang Gods, and ordinary means could not touch them. So, she gathered the Nine Nether Spirit Fire to burn from all sides, while releasing the Nine Child Mother Sky Demon.

These Nine Child Mother Sky Demon were far more ferocious than those of Shi Feiyang’s nine. Initially appearing as nine delicate and exquisite girls, they then shook and transformed into nine handsome young men, wearing very simple clothing, and lunged straight at Li Yingqiong and Zhou Qingyun.

"Old witch, shameless hag!" Li Yingqiong shouted loudly, taking out several Demon-suppressing Magical Treasures obtained from the Illusion Wave Pool, including the Qiantian One Primordial Thunderbolt that had once terrorized the world’s demons, as well as the Purple and Blue Douluo Fire, and the Muni Ding Guang Bead that had been refined with Nine Heavens Spiritual Energy, along with some of Zhou Qingyun’s Magical Treasures.

Jiu Panpo was caught off guard by the two Heavenly Immortal-level experts, and the Nine Child Mother Sky Demon were also blasted into wailing miserably.

Before the fight could yield a result, other members of the Emei Sect arrived, Qi Lingyun, Yu Yingnan, Yan Renying, Shen Ruolan, Shen Tuhong, Zhuge Jingwo... a large group of Heavenly and Earth Immortal-level experts swarmed over, shattering the Heavenly Secret Demon Formation outside Nine Ring Mountain to pieces.

Yi Cheng and Wei Qingqing were found and rescued.

Yi Jing and others were still chatting over tea on the mountain, as the Heavenly Demon Formation blocked and isolated them, preventing them from seeing the commotion elsewhere.

Yi Jing was ready to say goodbye, and Ah Zhen was just about to see her off, both sides secretly relieved.

Just then, the Invisible Demonic Barriers were shattered by Emei Immortal Swords, and several Emei Sect disciples stormed in.

Yi Jing was puzzled, but upon hearing that Jiu Panpo had killed Lin Mingshu and trapped Yi Zhou and others in the underground Blood River Demon Formation, she too was shocked and enraged.

Without a word, Yi Ding and Yi Zhen, the two brothers, released the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Demon Extinguishing Divine Shuttle around themselves and turned to dive underground. They drilled straight down under Nine Ring Mountain, creating several tunnels, and finally located the Blood River Demon Formation. Protected by the Divine Shuttle, impervious to all evil, they burrowed into the Blood River to search for their grandparents.

With such a ferocious group of Emei disciples joining the fray, Jiu Panpo was overwhelmed... Relying on the Heavenly Secret Demon Great Technique she cultivated over a thousand years and barely holding out with the Blood River Demon Formation, she fought for most of the day, failing to kill a single enemy while suffering heavy losses on her side, including her eldest disciple, Tie Shu, who was bisected at the waist by the Purple and Blue Double Swords.

Fortunately, Tie Shu’s Demon Path Technique cultivation was also at its peak. Her severed halves turned into a Blood Shadow and fled to the underground, where, in the Blood River, she managed to reconnect her body and be revived.

Speaking of which, Jiu Panpo had a senior brother named Sha Shentongzi, whose mana was much higher than Jiu Panpo’s. He was an incredibly handsome and peerless beauty. Even on the basis of looks alone, he could be considered the foremost among the Demon Path!

Back when Jiu Panpo was mistreated by her stepmother and had escaped from home with the help of her sister, when she had reached the brink of death in the mountains, it was Sha Shentongzi who first found her and then suggested to their master to take her in as a disciple.

At that time, Jiu Panpo had a serene and gentle nature, loveable and kind, and saw her savior, her master and senior brother, as her benefactors. She willingly took over the duties of the servants and wholeheartedly wanted to do something for the two men.

Sha Child looked at his junior sister who had just joined the sect, volunteering to cook for him, wash his clothes, and even clean the cave dwelling... For so long isolated from the mundane world, his heart began to stir with the stirrings of spring.

He fell in love with Jiu Panpo and thought about asking their master for her hand in marriage after he mastered the Seven Absolute Secret Demon Great Technique.

However, when he emerged from his seclusion, he found that Jiu Panpo and Zhao Changsu had become husband and wife!

Sha Child was furious, and he wanted to kill Zhao Changsu on the spot, but Zhao Changsu also had a master, and several Elders of the sect were acting as go-betweens, claiming it was about a past life connection.

Sha Child went to question Jiu Panpo on why she had a change of heart, but Jiu Panpo said she only felt grateful toward him, seeing him as her own brother. Sha Child was furious beyond words, still a naive young man inexperienced in love... Although, he wasn’t all that innocent either, as among the Divine Demons he cultivated, there were witches... But he knew the true, hideous and fierce forms of those Divine Demons, and that while practicing magic, it was only physical desire and not real emotion. He felt his connection with Jiu Panpo was different.

Later on, he set a trap in secret, enticing Zhao Changsu with an even more delicate and lovely witch.

Zhao Changsu surely took the bait, employing both force and charm, and took the witch as a concubine. Before he even consummated his marriage with Jiu Panpo, he was already in a tumultuous affair with the concubine.

Hearing Zhao Changsu boast that Jiu Panpo’s mana was inferior to his own and that everything was under his control, the concubine kept whispering in his ear, becoming arrogant with favor and started harboring ambitions to usurp Jiu Panpo’s position.

After several disputes, Jiu Panpo, gentle and wise, gave way time and again, swallowing her pride. The concubine became increasingly arrogant, urging Zhao Changsu to kill Jiu Panpo and elevate her to the main status.

In the end, it led to a catastrophic dispute, and Jiu Panpo almost got killed by the treacherous couple. Even without their success, she was greatly weakened and went to the gates of her great-grandmaster’s abode to pray.

Seeing the miserable state of Jiu Panpo, Sha Child was greatly pleased. He was about to ask her in her most helpless moment if she had any regrets or if she wanted to choose him instead.

Just then, the Old Ancestor of Iron City Mountain opened his gates.

The Old Demon of Iron City Mountain would open his gates once every seven hundred and twenty years. Even someone like Sha Child, until then, had never seen his grandmaster.

A millennium of cultivation, and they could only hope to witness the grandmaster open his gates once... For them, the grandmaster was nothing more than a legend recounted by their own master.

When the grandmaster emerged from seclusion, he gave Jiu Panpo three Demon Scriptures, which she proceeded to cultivate and miraculously transformed into the Nine Child Mother Sky Demon...

To cultivate the Nine Child Mother Sky Demon, one must be virginal. Jiu Panpo and her sister Bodhi took an oath to never marry a man, committing themselves as sisters to cultivate the Divine Demon together.

Laughing coldly from the shadows, Sha Child used the Heavenly Demon Sensing and with further calculations, found Bodhi’s most significant man, the Independent Immortal Gan Que.

He didn’t need to contrive much, just created the opportunity for the two to meet, and they fell in love on their own and became entangled.

So, Bodhi abandoned her past vows and eloped with Gan Que.

Jiu Panpo pursued them, intending to kill Gan Que and capture her traitorous sister.

Bodhi fought desperately to protect Gan Que. Jiu Panpo said, "He only desires you for your beauty. If you were hideous, he would not look at you. There isn’t a single good man..."

Hearing this, Bodhi used the Demon Blade to disfigure her own face and was about to take the Golden Saber to her eyes, wanting to live and die with Gan Que.

Jiu Panpo was powerless to do otherwise and ultimately let the two leave together.

Watching Jiu Panpo’s heartbreak from the dark, Sha Child felt a twinge of pain in his heart, but also a sense of satisfaction.

He approached Jiu Panpo, invoking past affections, but by then, after successive betrayals, her heart was like dead ashes, and her temperament had drastically changed, with no remaining desire to wed.

Sha Child grew furious again and upon returning to his mountain, he encountered Zhao Changsu.

Zhao Changsu, fearing Jiu Panpo’s revenge and also eager to avenge himself and rescue his concubine, sought out ways to find her.

Sha Child took Zhao Changsu as his disciple, imparting to him several Demon Sect Divine Skills to counter Jiu Panpo’s techniques.