Chapter 204: Chapter 204: My Name is Zhu Yongfu, Internal Strife within the Three-tailed Fox Clan (Happy New Year)
“A Demon King, two Middle-Rank Demon Generals, and five Lower-Rank Demon Generals, their Spirit Blood is exceptionally precious. I wonder if, after fusing it with the Mountain Guardian Spirit Beasts from the Spirit Beast Pavilion, it can promote their bloodline progression,” Ye Feng mumbled while sitting cross-legged on the rooftop.
“Wow!” Brother Flathead somehow appeared next to Ye Feng, pointing at the dark gold Demon King’s Spirit Blood, then at himself.
“Do you want it?” asked Ye Feng.
“Mhm.” Brother Flathead nodded and made a sound akin to “mhm” from his nose, his eyes reflecting the golden sheen of the Demon King’s Spirit Blood, shining brilliantly.
Ye Feng wasn’t stingy.
As Brother Flathead infused the Demon King’s Spirit Blood into himself through the point between his eyebrows, his body slightly mutated, becoming bulkier, the white fur on top of his head turned to pale silver, and the divine light in his eyes grew even more dazzling.
His cultivation level hadn’t increased, but Brother Flathead’s strength had increased considerably.
The Giant Earth Ape’s primary talent was strength, and having fused with its Spirit Blood, the boost Brother Flathead received was naturally in terms of strength.
Clap, clap!
Brother Flathead patted Ye Feng’s shoulder with his paw to express his gratitude, then ran off to the side of the Spiritual Spring to continue guarding the Purifying Green Lotus and to sleep.
Throughout the course of its growth, the Purifying Green Lotus had bloomed a flower, its fragrance gradually blending with the surrounding Spiritual Energy, aiding in the acceleration of one’s cultivation speed.
“Who should I give the remaining Spirit Blood to?”
Ye Feng looked at the remaining seven clusters of brilliance, thought for a moment, and selected the Iron Claw Dragon Eagle, Little White Fox, and Whitefloat Five Immortals.
As for the Golden-furred Squirrel, not for now.
“Right, where did that Thousand Faces Demon Monarch run off to?” Ye Feng quickly got to his feet and located the Thousand Faces Demon Monarch within the Nanlu Mountain Range Cave Mansion, using the sensing ability of the Spirit Beast Pavilion.
“Where are the things?” Ye Feng had a bad feeling as he looked at the empty cave mansion.
The Thousand Faces Demon Monarch, hugging two beauties, asked in surprise, “What?”
“Didn’t you slay the Dog General and seven Demon Race Sub-Generals, as well as hundreds of Demonic Beasts? Where are their Demon Cores?” Ye Feng asked with furrowed brows.
“I didn’t bring them back,” the Thousand Faces Demon Monarch admitted.
“Great… Well done!” Ye Feng raised his fists in anger.
After a beating from Ye Feng, the Thousand Faces Demon Monarch quickly flew towards Eternal Dream City, only to find that all the remains of the Demonic Beasts had been dealt with, and his jaw clenched.
Ye Feng stood beside the Thousand Faces Demon Monarch, his smile growing twisted.
“Sect Leader, let me explain…”
“Illusory Step Bright Palm!”
The Thousand Faces Demon Monarch yelped with pain and scurried back to the cave mansion, while Ye Feng, after his anger subsided, returned to Misty Peak.
By this time, it was already the early morning hours.
Ye Feng hadn’t slept all night, his eyes ringed with dark circles. Observing the Mountain Guardian Spirit Beasts, whose strength had grown substantially, he found that his own strength had also increased a bit.
“There’s still plenty of refined Spirit Mine left. Continue crafting Spiritual Artifacts, then sell them for Spirit Stones, purchase Spirit Mines at low prices, refine them into Spiritual Artifacts, sell them at high prices, make a profit, get rich!”
“Moreover, it’s also a chance to accumulate energy for the Refining Furnace, for its upgrade.”
Ye Feng began to plan.
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Demon City.
After the battle last night, eighty percent of the area was bombarded by meteors. The Demon Race suffered heavy casualties and tremendous losses.
Souhun Zhenren, transformed into a pig demon, stood on the ruins, looking at the surrounding wreckage, thankful that he had not been crushed by meteors.
“Who on earth was that person last night, so terrifying that he couldn’t be held back even by the Demon King? It seems that Demon City is still too dangerous, not suitable for me.” Souhun Zhenren hastened to flee, but before he left Demon City, he was stopped by a Demon General.
“What’s your name?” asked a giant about three meters tall, his original form a Golden Giant Ape, looking down at Souhun Zhenren, who was just one and a half meters tall.
“My name is Zhu Yongfu.”
As a child, Souhun Zhenren’s true name was Zhu Yongfu. But now, reluctantly bearing a pig’s body and head, he could only change his name to Zhu Yongfu.
“Hmm, nice name. You look plump and strong, your strength must be great. Hurry up and lead a group of Demon Soldiers to excavate boulders outside the mountain, cut them into bricks, and rebuild Demon City. Also, I’m the supervisor, I will watch over your brick-laying progress at all times,” said the giant transformed from the Golden Giant Ape, releasing tremendous pressure.
“I…” Souhun Zhenren really wanted to curse his luck.
Helpless, Souhun Zhenren called on several hundred Demon Soldiers that hadn’t yet died and began a miserable life of hauling bricks.
At the center of Demon City.
The Fox Clan Demon King stood before the dismembered body of the Giant Earth Ape, looking at the ravaged Demon City, his lips twitching incessantly.
Ye Feng’s “Heavenly Moon Strike” was terrifying. Countless meteors fell with immense speed; their power was astonishing. Any Demon General or below that was struck would be killed instantly.
Only half-transformed Sub-Generals and those in the Element Gathering Realm could survive the catastrophe, which left less than twenty thousand Demon Soldiers remaining in Demon City.
As for Demon Generals and Sub-Generals, the losses weren’t numerous.
But in his heart, the Fox Clan Demon King still felt as if he was bleeding.
He had lost tens of thousands of Demon Soldiers overnight, the future of Demon City!
“Damn this powerful human, if I ever encounter you again, I will surely slay you!” The Fox Clan Demon King roared to the sky, his voice thunderous. His terrifying pressure swept out, causing the surrounding Demonic Beasts to tremble with fear, their legs turning to jelly.
Tap, tap, tap…
A series of dense footsteps approached.
“Fox King, look at what you’ve done!” A voice filled with reproach and chill came from afar, drawing the attention of the surrounding demonic tribe.
A graceful woman clad in a fur garment walked at the forefront, flanked by two white-haired elders at the peak of the Middle Rank Demon General level.
Behind them was a group of powerfully imposing Demon Generals, at least twenty in number, their aggressive approach overshadowing the Fox Clan Demon King by a margin.
“It’s you!” The Fox Clan Demon King glared at the fox lady with a cultivation level at the peak of the Middle Rank Demon General, his eyes flashing with cold light. The Fox Clan Princess he killed yesterday was the daughter of this fox lady.
“With the Demon King’s body, you’ve still turned Demon City into this mess. I should’ve never agreed to let you take control of the Demon King. If you know what’s good for you, hand over the Demon King’s body right now. Otherwise, don’t blame us for being rude.”
The Fox Lady spoke with a cold and stern expression.
Then, she caught sight of the Giant Earth Ape standing behind the Fox Clan Demon King. She initially paused, her pupils suddenly bursting with disbelief.
“This… This is the Demon King’s corpse? How did it get beheaded and one arm chopped off? I was only in our ancestral lands for a few days, and you’ve reduced our lineage to this wretched state, you should be put to death!”
The Fox Lady uttered three angry accusations, both shocked and furious.
She suddenly felt dizzy, her delicate form staggering as she struggled to remain upright, nearly fainting on the spot.
“Your Majesty, calm your anger!”
The two elders immediately supported the Fox Lady to prevent her from falling, then turned their cold gazes toward the Fox Clan Demon King and said sternly, “Fox King, what is the meaning of this? The Demon King’s body is our Fox Clan’s trump card. Now that it’s in such a state, how do you intend to explain this?”
“Explain?” The Fox Clan Demon King’s face darkened, and then he burst into laughter, “Now that the Demon King’s body is under my control, you dare to speak to me like this. Are you seeking death?”
The Fox Clan Demon King was in a very bad mood after last night’s battle.
Now, seeing the fox lady who cuckolded him, he had no intention of hiding his disdain. On top of that, her protectors dared to speak to him in such a manner; they were courting death!
“Fox King, do not deceive yourself!” The two elders both raised an ancient jade token, emitting a gentle purple glow that forcibly severed the connection between the Fox Clan Demon King and the Giant Earth Ape.
“Damn it, the Soul Seizing Order!” The Fox Clan Demon King’s expression sank.
The Giant Earth Ape was a Demon King’s corpse that the ancestors of the Fox Clan had stumbled upon. Each generation’s Fox Clan Demon King could refine it, turning it into the clan’s ultimate combat force.
Once powered by sufficient spirit blood, the Giant Earth Ape possessed strength comparable to the first layer of the Spirit Sea Realm, a true Demon King level powerhouse.
However, the two elders beside the Fox Lady were the left and right protectors of the Fox Clan, each holding a Soul Seizing Order. They could sever the connection between the Fox Clan Demon King and the Giant Earth Ape, a safeguard against the betrayal of the entire Three-tailed Fox Clan by the Fox Clan Demon King.
At that moment, the Fox Lady regained her composure and glanced at the battered Demon City, her heart aching as if it was being sliced by blades, and demanded, “Fox King, I want an explanation from you!”
“Fox King, your majesty, what has happened?”
At this time, those dozens of Demon Generals who followed the Fox Clan Demon King all gathered around, facing off against the more than twenty Demon Generals of the Fox Lady.
The atmosphere at the scene became instantly tense.
“Explain?” The Fox Clan Demon King suddenly sneered, throwing a corpse on the ground, “Whore, you might as well explain to me, who did you birth this bastard child with?”
Everyone looked down at the corpse on the ground.
This was a white three-tailed demon fox, with a hole pierced through its glabella, dead beyond any doubt—it was the very princess of the Fox Clan.
“My daughter!”
The Fox Lady trembled all over, kneeling on the ground, holding the head of the three-tailed demon fox in both hands, her eyes suddenly blurred with tears, unable to cry out loud.
Her only daughter had actually fallen!
“Was it you who killed her?”
The Fox Lady suddenly lifted her head, her gaze filled with murderous intent as she looked at the Fox Clan Demon King, her voice growing colder and the temperature around her dropping, as if she were in a cold cellar.
“You bear a bastard behind my back with someone else, and yet you dare to be noisy in front of me, such audacity! Let me tell you, I’ve known about it for a long time, and I’ve been holding back until now, which is already giving you face,” the Fox Clan Demon King revealed a cruel smile.
“I will kill you!” the Fox Lady cried out as she held the three-tailed demon fox, bellowing, “Left and right protectors, heed my command, kill him!”
“Yes.” Two elderly protectors stepped forward three paces.
The aura around them surged continuously, stepping into the ranks of high-rank demon generals, and moreover, their auras were fusing, unleashing a terrifying pressure that was no less than the peak of the Element Gathering Realm’s ninth level.
Seeing this, the Fox Clan Demon King’s expression darkened.
The Fox Lady was the daughter of the previous generation’s Fox Clan Demon King and held an extremely high status within the three-tailed foxes. As for him, the current Fox King, he was merely a son-in-law who rose to his position by marrying the Fox Lady.
As for the left and right protectors, they used to be the strong arms of the former Fox Clan Demon King, experts in a bloodline fusion technique, and were virtually unbeatable below the Spirit Sea Realm when they joined forces.
Previously, it was precisely because of his wariness of the left and right protectors that the Fox Clan Demon King, even knowing his wife had cuckolded him, still endured.
But now, the Fox Clan Demon King’s plan to turn the tables had succeeded.
He no longer had to endure.
“Are you going to kneel and let us beat you to death, or resist a little, and then still be beaten to death by us?” the two great protectors said as they formed hand seals, their aged faces full of indifference, as if they were looking at a dead person.
The Fox Clan Demon King was quite strong, but now that he could no longer control the Giant Earth Ape, he was no match for them.
“You want to kill me? You can try,” the Fox Clan Demon King said with hands behind his back, his face bearing arrogance and confidence.
“It seems you’re quite confident. Then let’s allow you to put up some resistance before we beat you to death,” said the two great protectors in unison.
Boom!
The two great protectors made their move.
Terrible palm prints descended, hitting the Fox Clan Demon King so hard that his chest caved in, and he spat blood as he was sent flying backward, crashing into the Giant Earth Ape and taking it with him for dozens of meters, then smashing through a stone wall before being buried under a pile of rubble.
“Is he dead?”
The watching demon race powerhouses were horrified.
The Fox Clan Demon King was comparable to the ninth level of the Element Gathering Realm, a formidable power, rumored to be the strongest within the Three-Tailed Fox Clan at present. Could it be that he couldn’t even withstand a single palm strike from the two great protectors?