"Come back!"
"Take more beatings!"
The God of Slaughter, Yan Shouyi, forcefully dragged the inner demon Asura back, kicked out both of its legs, and then stepped on its limp legs, preventing it from escaping.
The inner demon Asura’s face showed extreme terror.
In hell, it was it that tormented others; it was the embodiment of fear.
But how did it happen that in this ancient battlefield, the one in command became the ant it had previously despised?
Bang!
Bang!
Bang! Da Feng Xiao Shuo Wang
Fists landed consecutively on the inner demon’s head, smashing its remaining two heads beyond recognition.
At this moment, the inner demon had completely lost the ability to resist, lying on the ground to be ravaged by Yan Shouyi.
But the violent God of Slaughter, Yan Shouyi, did not intend to stop. He walked to the side, picked up a broken section of the city wall, and smashed it fiercely onto the inner demon's body!
Bricks shattered, debris flew, and the inner demon was crushed under the ruins, unmoving.
Xuetexue galloped over, its hooves trampling the ruins as if it were crushing the inner demon’s dignity.
"How dare..."
The inner demon's head, exposed and disfigured, roared with unwillingness.
Yan Shouyi snorted coldly, dragged the inner demon out from the rubble, and pressed it against the city wall.
With a *puchi* sound, he drew the Zhenguo Sword and held it at the inner demon’s neck.
"Today, I, Yan Shouyi, will not only save Master Miaohui, but also slay the inner demon and destroy Asura!"
He roared, and with a swift stroke of the sword, two heads rolled to the ground.
The inner demon’s massive body trembled a few times before collapsing onto the city wall, motionless.
It was dead.
The violent aura in Yan Shouyi’s brows slightly receded. He snorted coldly, stuck the Zhenguo Sword by his feet, and then reached out to take the prayer beads from the inner demon's neck.
Although he had transformed into the God of Slaughter and killed the inner demon, Yan Shouyi still maintained a trace of reason.
He knew this was merely an illusion, and his true purpose was to rescue Master Miaohui.
With the inner demon dead, Master Miaohui's consciousness gradually began to clear.
Sealed within the prayer beads, Master Miaohui saw Yan Shouyi and anxiously patted the beads, as if urging him to release her quickly.
Yan Shouyi exhaled, and comforted her, "I will release you now."
However, Master Miaohui became even more anxious.
Unaware of Master Miaohui's abnormality, Yan Shouyi crushed the prayer beads with his bare hands. A clear stream flowed from his fingertips, and Master Miaohui, sealed within, was also freed.
But at that moment, a black light suddenly shot out from the broken prayer beads and darted into Yan Shouyi's brow!
Yan Shouyi was startled and quickly rubbed his brow, but found no abnormality.
"You shouldn't have saved me!" Master Miaohui sat in Yan Shouyi's palm, slapping her thigh and shouting, "What just entered your brow was a wisp of the inner demon’s clone!"
The inner demon entered my consciousness?
Yan Shouyi’s heart chilled, and he quickly asked, "What will be the consequences?"
Master Miaohui sighed, "The inner demon is still very weak now, so it will try its best to hide in the depths of your consciousness. There is currently no way to remove it. In the time to come, it will slowly absorb your negative emotions, constantly strengthen itself, and subtly influence your personality and decisions, gradually pushing you towards madness..."
It sounds like the inner demon’s threat is similar to the malevolent energy within me.
Yan Shouyi had already fallen into a state of madness several times, usually when he was about to lose someone important.
Although the inner demon's invasion was bad news, learning that it would not cause him any harm for the moment, Yan Shouyi decided to put it aside for now.
He had defeated Master Miaohui's inner demon, and in the meantime, he should leave the illusionary world and deal with the problems of Mount Emei in the real world.
To prevent Master Miaohui from encountering further issues, he quickly asked:
"Where is the last lotus array eye?"
Master Miaohui replied without hesitation, "At the summit of Da Emei Peak, inside an inconspicuous mountain god temple."
The reason for placing the array eye here had no special significance; it was simply to prevent anyone from breaking the formation.
Just like the first lotus array eye, which was merely a lotus pattern on the steps of the Wu Liang Hall.
Having obtained the location of the lotus array eye, Yan Shouyi breathed a sigh of relief and then looked around.
The ancient battlefield was still a sea of blood and mountains of corpses, shrouded in smoke.
The inner demon is dead, how should we leave this illusionary world?
As Master Miaohui was about to answer, both of them suddenly sensed something and couldn't help but look up at the sky.
The once overcast sky suddenly opened a gap, and golden light shone down on Yan Shouyi from the opening.
Then, from the gap in the sky, a furry hand reached out.
"This..."
Both of them were dumbfounded. What was going on?
This was supposed to be Yan Shouyi's illusionary world, so whose giant furry hand was this?
As they were wondering, a furry monkey face appeared in the gap.
A brown-furred monkey, bald on top.
"Jiji!" Lele waved at them, signaling them to quickly grab its hand and leave.
"Holy crap..."
Yan Shouyi's mouth widened in shock. Then he came to his senses. Lele’s soul was pure, and it likely had no inner demon, which allowed it to freely travel between the illusionary worlds in the Xi Xiang Pool.
It was thanks to it that they could easily escape the illusion!
He hadn't expected Lele to play such a crucial role at this critical moment!
"Here we come!"
Yan Shouyi grabbed Master Miaohui's consciousness and reached out to grasp the arm Lele extended from the sky.
Lele, also incredibly huge, lifted them away from the smoke-filled ancient battlefield.
"Jiji!" The brown-furred monkey was ecstatic about its great contribution.
As they got closer to the gap in the sky, Yan Shouyi’s consciousness became heavy again.
Fortunately, the feeling didn't last long before he woke up again.
When he woke up, his true body, his Ice Glacier Dharma Body, and Master Miaohui had all been retrieved from the Xi Xiang Pool by everyone.
The Ice Glacier Dharma Body sat motionless on the shore, while Yan Shouyi's true body leaned against the rocks by the shore, gasping for breath.
The injuries sustained by his true body while fighting Asura had been completely healed by the combined efforts of the Sky Fiend Corpse Puppet and the Xi Xiang Pool.
He looked back at Master Miaohui.
Master Miaohui lay beside him. The three heads and six arms of Asura were gone, and she had returned to her original appearance as Master Miaohui.
"Hoo..."
Yan Shouyi let out a long breath. It seemed he had succeeded.
Recalling the situation in the illusionary world, even Yan Shouyi found it unbelievable.
If he could possess such power in the real world as he did in the illusionary world, then he would truly be a God of Slaughter, not a mere mortal.
"Master!"
At this moment, Wen Yuxian and Master Guanyun suddenly called out to their master, their voices filled with urgency, as if something else bad had happened.
Yan Shouyi reluctantly turned his head and glanced at Master Miaohui.
He saw Master Miaohui's body rapidly shriveling, as if she had prematurely depleted too much of her life force by transforming into Asura.
Now, she was on the verge of death, beyond saving.