Chapter 249: Using the Emperor to Command the Princes!

[“Battle!! Awesome!!!”]

[Huo Feihuo saw that you were merely at Spirit Condensation, yet you still charged over and elbowed him, he felt like you were seriously looking down on him.]

[“Insignificant ant who overestimates himself! Behold my axe!!”]

[Huo Feihuo’s axe swelled into dozens of meters and chopped down toward you, who were already suspended midair.]

[Forty meters tall, thirty thousand tons in weight, one elbow decides heaven and earth!]

“Boom!!!”

[Even a simple jump-and-smash seemed to carry the power of earth-shattering collapse, the entire Ancient City Ruins trembled, and countless dust clouds shot skyward.]

[The Qilin Arm stood foremost, and Huo Feihuo’s scalding, razor-sharp, brutal great axe could not touch your right arm, which glowed red and was visibly several times thicker.]

“Crack!!”

[Lava great axe blocked.]

[One elbow shattered it!]

“What?!”

[Huo Feihuo drew his flesh wings back to try to block you.]

[One elbow snapped them!]

“Ah!! Xita!!”

[Huo Feihuo’s body ignited, erupting with unmatched power, the ground under his feet crazily cracked, and huge fireballs burst from his body, colliding head-on with you.]

[But the Qilin Arm was impervious to water and fire. You endured the burning pain of the Qilin Arm, roared in fury.]

[One elbow pulverized!]

“Impossible!”

[Huo Feihuo was large-boned, muscular, and his cultivation reached Martial Saint.]

[One elbow flattened him!!]

[The whole process was fast.]

[In Long Yang and the others’ eyes, it simply looked like you jumped, you smashed down, and Huo Feihuo was crushed by you.]

[Tiger Tiangong and Qilin Soul were both dumbfounded.]

[This was a Dragon-Man tribe warrior who had devastated the Demon World!]

[This was an opponent with saint-level cultivation!]

[And his flesh body was just smashed like that?]

[Strictly speaking, you did not kill Huo Feihuo with a single move.]

[But Huo Feihuo did not dodge at all; after taking your elbow head-on, he had no ability to resist.]

[He tried to restore his flesh body for a while, but your fists came like storms, not giving him a chance to breathe.]

“Bang bang bang…”

[The huge, thick Qilin Arm smashed Huo Feihuo into a state where he could no longer function.]

[In no time at all, he became a puddle of gore.]

[There was still a second phase.]

“Oh ah ah ah!! You actually destroyed my flesh body! I will not forgive—”

“Smack!!”

[The second phase ended.]

[Huo Feihuo’s soul, just leaving his body and still speaking, was grabbed by your muscular Qilin Arm by the head.]

“Is this right?”

[Huo Feihuo, just like the last simulation, was speechless and choked up.]

“Bang bang bang!!”

[You grabbed Huo Feihuo’s soul and repeatedly slammed and threw it left and right until his soul dispersed and turned into blue smoke.]

[Keeping him around was pointless.]

[The Ten Thousand Souls Banner could not reform Huo Feihuo.]

[Because he was still an artifact. How effective he could be depended on his master’s strength.]

[You had to be of a higher realm than the target for the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to successfully reform them when activated.]

[Killing Huo Feihuo still yielded loot.]

“Black Wind, eat!”

[After regaining composure, you fed the dragon pearl that burst from Huo Feihuo’s death to Black Wind.]

[It still melted on contact.]

[After consuming Huo Feihuo, Black Wind the whole mount became wrapped in a cloak of black flame.]

[This flame had no warmth, only a chilling, soul-gripping cold.]

“Black Wind?”

“Boss, rest assured, I’m fine. I need to evolve again! Give me some time!”

[Black Wind’s voice faded as the black flames cocooned him from the outside like a chrysalis.]

[No wonder a Dragon Saint’s dragon pearl is worth a whole bunch of ordinary Dragon-Man race pearls!]

[You stored Black Wind in the Cauldron Realm to let him transform in peace.]

“Too bad the Qilin Arm arrived late, otherwise Brother Wang and the others wouldn’t have had to die.”

Outside the simulation, Chen Yi watched with some emotion.

But this was the randomness of the trait tag system.

You never knew what the next tag would be.

[Qilin and Tiger Tiangong came to your side, looking up at you.]

[“Who on earth are you, sir, to kill Huo Feihuo alone?”]

[You patted your huge palm and said calmly.]

“Just luck. Wait a moment, I’ll shrink down a bit, it’s inconvenient to speak like this.”

[You could be large or small, fully embodying masculine versatility.]

[Saying it was luck was not entirely humble.]

[Huo Feihuo clearly underestimated you.]

[What seemed like a normal attack from you was actually your most powerful move.]

[He relied on his flesh body to take a huge hit and plunged himself into a massive disadvantage at the start; no wonder he lost.]

[You explained your purpose to Qilin.]

[You hoped he could help send you all back to the human world.]

[This would be somewhat cruel for Qilin.]

[He had just finished a thirty-thousand-year-long imprisonment and would now have to burn himself to light your path home.]

[But you knew that, at least objectively, Qilin’s continued existence was inappropriate. He was already dead; his lingering soul had been tormented and could not return to normal life.]

[His continued haunting harmed the remaining Demon Tribe.]

[Subjectively, from the last simulation, Qilin understood this and was willing to sacrifice.]

“I truly have a way to send you back to the human world, but I hope you will grant me one small favor.”

“Elder, speak without hesitation.”

“Take the Young Master to the human world. There are still Demon Tribe members there, let the Young Master return among his people.”

[Tiger Tiangong refused on the spot.]

“I will not go! Guardian, I will stay in the Demon World. This is my homeland. Even in death I will remain with the Demon World!”

[Qilin Soul sighed.]

“Now this so-called Void Realm is a jungle of countless races. Where is the Demon World’s name anymore? Young Master, your soul is still mostly intact. If you go to the human world, there might be a way to reshape your body and live again.”

“What use is living another life! My clansmen are dead! My father is dead! The Demon World has fallen! What meaning is my continued existence!”

“The Demon World may be destroyed, but the Demon Tribe is not. Those exiled clansmen scattered across other worlds might still need you now!”

[The two demons argued for a while.]

[You were not in a hurry.]

[After all, you had been wandering outside for so many years anyway.]

[In the end, Qilin Soul persuaded Tiger Tiangong.]

[Tiger Tiangong entered the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, willing to accompany you to the human world.]

[However, once in the human world, it would not be easy for him to exit the banner.]

[The human world’s rules were normal.]

[Wandering souls like him would be targeted by the Underworld’s forces unless Tiger Tiangong had a way to temporarily evade soul-hunting.]

[You thought for a moment.]

[You had the Demon Emperor’s son in hand?]

[Well then...]

[To the Demon Tribe in the human world, wasn’t this essentially using the emperor to command the princes?]

[The Demon Tribe’s war against the Dragon-Man tribe was originally driven by bloodline hatred; raising the banner of the Demon Emperor’s son would turn the Demon Tribe into faith-driven warriors.]

[Qilin Soul, as a Guardian, had thought this through carefully.]

[Following Qilin Soul’s lead, after traveling for some time, you arrived at the sea area you were familiar with.]

[Everyone entered the Cauldron Realm, you stored the Nine Provinces Cauldron into your Sea of Consciousness, and followed Qilin Soul to the seabed, where you saw that same familiar blue glowing stone.]

[A small rift that Qilin Soul’s power could reopen existed here.]

“Finally able to go home!”