"This is indeed quite troublesome. How can I kill that thing if it can survive even with a hole in its face?" Yuan sighed.
"Iâm sorry, Yuan, but letâs give up on going to the city for now and return to my grandparents to see if thereâs anything we can do about this situation. Although I have the power to defeat that demon, I donât have the power to kill it." Lan Yingying said to him.
"Wait a second, Miss Lan. You mentioned Sword Aura. Are demons afraid of Sword Aura or something? Maybe I can still..."
However, Lan Yingying shook her head and said, "No, the demons are not afraid of Sword Aura in general. Instead, they are specifically afraid of the Lordâs Sword Aura. Before leaving this world, the Lord created these Sword Aura barriers around every city and the Divine Forest to protect them from the demons."
"As for why theyâre afraid of the Lordâs Sword Aura... Itâs simply because the Lordâs Sword Aura is so powerful that if a demon touches it, they will be destroyed until thereâs nothing left of them. No matter how powerful their regeneration abilities may be, if you destroy their bodies until thereâs not even a hair left, there wonât be anything to regenerate from."
"I see... Then are there any more methods that can be used to kill demons?" Yuan asked.
"Besides completely erasing their existence, you need techniques with divine attributes such as my Sacred Fire."
"Techniques, huh?" Yuan mumbled.
"Hm?"
He suddenly recalled the Heaven-grade technique heâd learned at Myriad of Techniquesâ the Demon Sealing Strike.
"What about sealing demons? Can we seal them with techniques?" Yuan then asked.
"Demon sealing techniques? Those are incredibly rare and hard to learn, but yes, sealing a demon is akin to killing them." Lan Yingying nodded.
"I understand. Let me fight this demon. I think Iâll be able to defeat it." Yuan said to her as he retrieved the Empyrean Overlord.
"What?! You want to fight that demon?! Donât do it! It has the strength of a peak Spirit Master, and you donât meet the requirements to kill it!"
"Itâs okay. I just want to try something." Yuan said with a smile on his face.
"Oh? Youâre approaching me?" The demon was pleasantly surprised when Yuan began walking towards it.
"Donât tell me that youâre planning on fighting meâ a demon?" The grin on the demonâs face grew wider.
"Thatâs right," Yuan responded with a calm look on his face, and he continued, "I wonât be able to defeat you unless I get closer."
"HAHAHAHA! Youâre truly an amusing human! Normally, when a human sees me, they turn and run the opposite direction while shitting their own pants!"
After laughing for a moment, the demon suddenly stopped and narrowed its eyes at Yuan with a vicious expression.
"With that being said, who the fuck do you think you are, human? Do you really think you can defeat me when you couldnât kill me with a surprise attack? This is why I despise humans. Theyâre incredibly arrogant and stupid at the same time." The demon looked at Yuan with clear disdain.
Yuan didnât respond to the demon this time, and he continued to approach it with a resolute expression on his face.
Seeing this, the demon took a few steps back and said, "Very well. I commend your bravery even if it might be stupidity, so Iâll give you three free attacks."
"Then I wonât be humble and accept these three attacksâ"
Yuan suddenly activated his movement technique and appeared in front of the demon with the Empyrean Overlord raised high in the sky.
"Bloody Sword Strike!"
Despite the powerful aura emitted by the Empyrean Overlord, the demon remained standing there with its arms crossed and without batting an eyelid.
BOOM!
The Empyrean Overlord cleaved the demon into two separate parts from the head down.
Plop.
The demon collapsed on the ground again.
However, a few moments later, as though its body was made of liquid, the demonâs separated body combined into one whole part, returning to its original state without a single injury on its body.
"You have two more attacks, human." The demon spoke with an arrogant grin on its face, knowing very well that even if it gave Yuan 1,000 free strikes, it still wouldnât be defeated.
"Heaven Splitting Sword Strike!"
Yuan wasted no time activating his second and strongest attack, sending a massive beam that was also mixed with Sword Aura at the demon.
The demon reacted this time, as it could sense a dreadful feeling from the Heaven Splitting Sword Strike, and it quickly dodged to the side, avoiding half of the attack.
However, the other half of the attack had completely disintegrated half of the demonâs body, giving it quite a scare, causing it to sweat a little.
Lan Yingyingâs eyes widened with shock when she witnessed the demon retreating and the damage Yuanâs second attack dealt to it.
âIf that demon hadnât dodged the second attack, its entire body wouldâve disappeared as if it had touched the Lordâs Sword Aura! What a powerful sword technique!â Lan Yingying could feel her blood heating up afterward, and she began feeling hopeful that perhaps Yuan could really defeat it!
"Why did you dodge my attack just now?" Yuan asked the demon with a calm look on his face, and he continued, "I thought you were absolutely confident in your bodyâs regenerating abilities? I guess youâre not invincible, after all."
"You... You fucking brat... A mere human... How dare you!" A tyrannical aura exploded from the demonâs body as its facial expression twisted with anger after feeling a burning sensation on its face from Yuanâs words.
"What are you doing? I still have one more attack. Are you going to break your own words?" Yuan said.
"Hahaha! So what if I break my words? I am a fucking demon!" The demon laughed as it suddenly rushed at Yuan while spreading its claw-like hands.
"Iâm going to rip your fucking limbs apart, drink your blood, and crunch on your bones, human!"