The Void Whale Monarch, like Jiaohu, was a strategic force of the Demon Clan. However, unlike Jiaohu, the Void Whale actually specialized in another worldly law beside the Law of Space. Its talent in the Law of Space was average despite its innate abilities. Had it not chosen a different law, it might have remained a demon lord until its dying breath.
Still, that didn’t detract from the Void Whale’s strategic importance. Originally, the Void Whale was the trump card prepared by Demon Emperor Jiaolang to break through the mobile fortress’s barrier.
“What did I do?” Tianyi repeated. “I thought it was a pity that such an interesting creature would fall, so I simply transferred it elsewhere.”
“Bastard,” Demon Emperor Jiaolang said. This was completely treating them like mere animals. However, Tianyi’s next words made the simmering anger in his eyes explode.
“Good thing I did. Otherwise, I wouldn’t even have known that the whale was carrying so many demons inside of itself.”
Demon Emperor Jiaolang growled. His anger wasn’t only because of the Void Whale’s disappearance, but also the troops hidden inside the Void Whale. Demons had a unique stomach in their bodies that could store items, and the Void Whale wasn’t any different except for the fact that it was much larger and could store living beings.
Once the Void Whale broke through Shangri-La’s barrier, it would release its contents and surprise the humans, who only thought they needed to deal with one lone straggler.
It was not that Demon Emperor Jiaolang never considered the fact that the Void Whale would be stopped or interfered with by Tianyi, who had mastered the Law of Space, but the Void Whale’s innate ability prevented even peak immortal emperors from manipulating the space around itself. This miscalculation resulted in one of the largest losses since the reignition of the Divine Beast-Human War.
The lupine form of the demon emperor crashed into the barrier. He didn’t enter the passage, but in a restricted section. Once inside, Demon Emperor Jiaolang felt the shackles of space suppressing him. In response, a black energy covered his body and repelled the suppression.
The rate at which his qi dissipated astounded the demon emperor, but the thought of giving up did not cross his mind. The thought of death only made him even more ferocious. With a howl, he charged straight at Tianyi.
Upon seeing the crazed demon emperor charging at him, Tianyi raised a palm. A miniature sun formed above his palm and with a flick of his wrist, the miniature sun shot toward the lupine demon.
Nine Heavens Style - Stellar Silence
When Demon Emperor Jiaolang saw the miniature sun expanding as it shot toward him, his eyes revealed no horror, only a trace of superiority and fanaticism. Contrary to Tianyi’s expectations, he opened his jaws, and a flow of energy from the stellar silence flowed into the demon emperor’s mouth. Soon after, the stellar silence vanished, all traces of its fuel devoured, and the demon emperor’s aura skyrocketed.
In the the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System, there are legends of a dog that swallows the moon. Because it swallows the moon, lunar eclipses happen. Some say the dog is the heavenly dog at Erlang Sheng’s side, while others say it’s a different demon, but Demon Emperor Jiaolang was a mutated descendant of that legendary demon.
His innate ability was known as Sun Eater. Should Demon Emperor Jiaolang reach the peak of the Divine Realm, his innate ability would possess the power to devour the solar star that lit up the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System. Even as a demon emperor, his innate ability was more than enough to suck and digest Tianyi’s stellar silence.
“I knew it,” Demon Emperor Jiaolang said, his eyes mocking. “We demons have long investigated a potential threat like you. Although you are talented and have entered the Extremity Immortal Realm at a young age, most of your power comes from your large qi reservoir. But I am your nemesis. Your large qi reserve will become your downfall in front of me!”
Tianyi didn’t answer and just shot nine more stellar silences at the lupine demon.
“I told you it’s useless!” Demon Emperor Jiaolang shouted. He opened his jaws and devoured the yang qi that fueled the nine miniature suns. His body bulked from the excess energy, and the black aura coating him increased by ten times.
“Hahaha, I have never felt so powerful!” Demon Emperor Jiaolang said. He released an uproarious laughter. “Not even Blacktiger is my opponent in this state.”
The demon emperor opened his jaws and released a howl. Black ripples traveled across the air, weakening the spatial suppression and allowing his speed to quicken. His attack didn’t stop as a white light erupted from the back of his throat. A beam shot out of his mouth, shooting toward Tianyi.
‘The Law of Light?’ Tianyi thought, losing most of his interest in fighting the lupine demon. He raised his hand and blocked the beam with it. Upon contact, the beam dispersed into several rays. A few hundred meters later, these split rays disappeared under the suppression of the barrier.
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“I got you!” Demon Emperor Jiaolang towered over Tianyi. Although his size had shortened after entering the barrier, the decrease wasn’t as exaggerated as the Void Whale because of his superior cultivation base and power, but he still stood several times taller than Tianyi.
Tianyi reared his fist back as the demon emperor slashed down with his razor sharp claws. Fist met claw.
Demon Emperor Jiaolang’s eyes bulged when he felt a tremendous force travel through his claws and up his leg. With a loud bang, the force rebounded his claws backward and his arm became numb. Before the demon emperor could take action again, Tianyi had already leaped in front of him and unleashed another punch.
He felt his ribs tremble under the punch. Maybe one or two cracked under the powerful punch. Demon Emperor Jiaolang felt Tianyi uprooting his worldview. Even among demon emperors, he had a powerful body. Yet, why was he losing to a mere human? He knew that Tianyi had a powerful body, but that should only be compared to other humans, not noble demons like himself.
The demon emperor expected Tianyi to chase after him. Spells obviously would not work on him. Even if Sun Eater primarily suppressed yang-attribute spells, it still had some effect on other spells. So, he never expected Tianyi to be so foolish as to release more stellar silences.
“Fool!” Demon Emperor Jiaolang said. He opened his mouth and devoured the miniature sun shooting toward him.
Once he absorbed the latest stellar silence, another one appeared behind the old one. Demon Emperor Jiaolang, who planned to counterattack, stopped and absorbed the new one. Soon, he entered a passive state. Not because Tianyi discovered a method to break his Sun Eater, just the opposite. Tianyi kept releasing stellar silence after stellar silence, necessitating him to keep his form in order to use his innate ability.
The more stellar silences Demon Emperor Jiaolang devoured, the stronger his aura became. His body bulked up even more, and the entire space around him turned black from the qi shield around him. However, he wasn’t happy at all. “How can you have so much qi?!”
He could already feel his body straining under the pressure. It felt like his body would explode at any moment from the excess qi. The black qi aura around him was the result of him attempting to use up his qi as much as possible. Unfortunately, Demon Emperor Jiaolang could not use up his qi as fast as he received it.
The most optimal solution would be to stop Sun Eater and dodge, but Tianyi had released his spell so that should he turn it off, the stellar silence would immediately hit him. As one who devoured several of them, Demon Emperor Jiaolang knew the terrifying amount of qi each one contained. Once it struck him, even if he didn’t die, he would become fatally injured.
Demon Emperor Jiaolang was at an impasse. If he continued to eat, the energy would cause him to explode, but if he didn’t, it would end up with the same result. He glared at Tianyi, only to pause when he caught sight of the patronizing gaze.
Anger flooded his mind, but the demon emperor only became more calm because of it. Since both methods would result in a dead end, then choose the one that would injure his foe the most!
The demon emperor halted his ability after devouring the latest stellar silence. He shot out a beam from his mouth immediately after. It didn’t do much to the incoming stellar silence, but it used up some of his excess qi and slowed down the stellar silence.
He didn’t plan on avoiding it, not that it would help. Demon Emperor Jiaolang charged forward, straight into the stellar silence. Upon the moment of contact, an explosion erupted, shrouding the lupine demon and the surrounding area, leaving Tianyi just out of the blast radius.
Just as it seemed that the nova had swallowed the demon emperor, the surface of the explosion deformed. A lupine head burst out of the explosion. Most of its fur had been burnt black and disintegrated. Whatever fur that remained was just vestiges, ready to crumble into dust. Even its fangs had been discolored, and its flesh melted, revealing many bones.
The only thing intact was its gaze, seemingly containing endless ferocity. “Die!”
Tianyi maintained his calm expression, but Demon Emperor Jiaolang could sense the hidden fear. Just as Tianyi’s hand moved out to block or deflect the demon emperor’s attack, the demon emperor self-detonated. Compared to stellar silence, it was more intense, aided by the accumulated qi from Tianyi. It was comparable to several of Tianyi’s stellar silences erupting at once.
“Tianyi!” Meng Tingfeng shouted, his concentration broken.
“Shut up, how many times do I have to tell you that you aren’t allowed to call me that? If this wasn’t a war, I would have struck you down!” Tianyi's voice erupted from the explosion.
Minutes later, when the explosion dissipated, Tianyi stood in the air with nary a hair out of place. He couldn’t help but gripe. “You’re obviously a demon emperor, but why do you look so much like a zombie?”
Tianyi glanced at the mob of demons. His gaze pierced through the layers and saw a skeletal wolf demon. Its aura was that of a demon lord, but its gaze was unmistakable. As he expected, the wolf demon’s aura quickly soared until it reached the Demon King Realm before stopping in the early Demon Emperor Realm.
“Retreat,” the revived Demon Emperor Jiaolang said, his gaze never leaving Tianyi.
Tianyi didn’t stop him and returned to Shangri-La. He glanced at Meng Tingfeng, who continued battling with the remaining three squads of demons. Before, the demons still harbored some semblance of hope about leaving alive, but now that their hopes were dashed, they attacked with the resolution of death, putting more pressure on Meng Tingfeng.
Naturally, Tianyi “helped” out. With his addition, the demons were swiftly captured alive. A few of them committed suicide before Tianyi could seal them, but Tianyi still captured two demon kings, more than enough for the Immortal Court to scour their souls for information.
“Tianyi, you really didn’t need to help me,” Meng Tingfeng said, a helpless smile on his face.
Tianyi didn’t deign to respond. Instead, he made a flicking motion toward his sperm donor, and Meng Tingfeng bowled over, clutching his stomach. He felt like someone had just punched him or a cannonball had hit. Still, it only made him bleed a little more from his wounds.
After handing the prisoners over, Tianyi returned to the palace. With the Demon Clan’s defeat, they shouldn’t attack again for another few months. In the next assault, it might not even be Demon Emperor Jiaolang leading the charge. Although he had revived himself, Tianyi could still tell that he hadn’t fully recovered. How could there be no price for revival?
Until then, Tianyi focused on expanding the wedge into the Divine Beast Pseudo System. During this time, the war between the humans and the demons entered a heated stage.