FS-novel #127 - Hong Lie: Where is my demon pill?
#127 - Hong Lie: Where is my demon pill?
“My name is Hong Lie.”
“Xu Chengxian.”
Secret realm, arena.
The two sides fighting had never met before.
Their first meeting was as opponents on the Marquis's arena.
Now, there is even less to say.
Even greetings are skipped.
After announcing their names, they each stirred up their magic power, drew upon their spiritual power, and released their divine senses.
A great battle was about to begin.
Hong Lie flicked his wrist, revealing a long spear.
A cold light flashed from the tip of the spear, and a ball of flame shot towards Xu Chengxian.
Whoosh—
For the sake of fairness, both sides in the fight, early-stage Great Demons could carry two magic weapons, while mid-stage could only carry one.
As for the late-stage and peak-stage Great Demon realm, they could only fight empty-handed.
The storage bags they carried were also sealed at the same time as they entered the portal.
Hong Lie and Xu Chengxian were both considered to have mid-stage Great Demon strength, so they could each only bring one magic weapon inside.
This Blazing Flame Spear should be Hong Lie's magic weapon.
And Xu Chengxian came in empty-handed.
So, facing the oncoming flame, his first reaction was to dodge.
“I'm not a reckless greenhorn anymore!”
He knew not to take attacks of unknown origin head-on.
Even more, he knew never to use his mouth to catch anything he wasn't sure he could eat!
[The Red Yang Fire is evolved from the spiritual fire of heaven and earth, a top grade for alchemy, weapon refining, and body tempering.]
“Huh?”
As soon as Xu Chengxian heard this, he immediately decided to take it!
Since the system said he could swallow it, then there shouldn't be any problems.
Moreover, the speed of the flame was extremely fast.
It arrived in front of him in the blink of an eye.
It was too late to dodge.
Immediately, he decided to open his mouth.
Swallow!
“Roar!”
He opened his snake mouth wide, about to swallow the attacking ball of fire.
However, the ball of fire was not that simple.
This attack was Hong Lie testing his opponent's strength.
So, although it wasn't a full-strength blow, he used sixty percent of his power.
He used a wisp of his natal flame right from the start.
Seemingly ordinary, but actually containing hidden killing intent.
Especially when he saw that the Flower Snake not only didn't dodge, but also seemed to be trying to swallow the flame with its mouth, a hint of joy flashed in his eyes.
He saw the flame suddenly explode the instant it approached.
Whoosh!
It turned into specks of fire, all red.
“Red Yang Fire can burn everything! Once it touches you, it's hard to extinguish.” Hong Lie thought, this time the Flower Snake would be half-crippled even if it didn't die.
But just as he was about to shake his spear and move up to secure his victory, he felt a huge wave of blood energy.
Then he saw that in front of him, a red light suddenly burst forth.
The Flower Snake's demon body suddenly became incomparably huge.
Then its open snake mouth suddenly sucked, actually suppressing the hundreds of clusters of fire that filled the sky after the explosion back to within two zhang.
Swallowing them all.
“Hiss hiss!”
Xu Chengxian proudly wagged his tail.
You think your little flame can escape my mouth?
Since it's coming for us, and we can swallow it, there's no reason to let it go, right?
A fool doesn't take advantage of an opportunity!
Then, before he could be proud for long, another ball of flame attacked.
“Good!”
The swallowed flame entered his belly, only feeling scorching hot.
It was very hot.
But within the tolerable range.
Moreover, he didn't know why, but this scorching feeling also gave him a comfortable pleasure.
It was a bit like drinking a bowl of hot soup in the late autumn of the South.
So Xu Chengxian didn't hesitate and opened his mouth to swallow this one as well.
He could handle it, bring some more!
At the same time, he flicked his tail, and a wave of blood energy red light sent Hong Lie, who was stabbing with his spear, flying backward.
“Whoosh—whoosh—”
Hong Lie, who was sent flying, threw out several more flames in succession.
Didn't you want to swallow them?
Then you can eat more!
I want to see how many wisps of this spiritual fire that can forge magic weapons your lungs can withstand!
His demon power shifted, just waiting for the moment when Xu Chengxian couldn't hold on and dodged, taking the opportunity to attack again.
But what he didn't expect was that the Flower Snake accepted all the flames!
And didn't reveal the slightest discomfort.
Hong Lie was immediately stunned.
Growing up next to the Red Yang Fire since childhood, he didn't dare to directly swallow the flames with his mouth.
But this Flower Snake, who should have been practicing the art of water control, was actually able to eat it with his bare mouth.
It could be seen that his physical body must be very strong!
It would be unwise to transform into his original form and clash with him head-on.
“Looks like this path won't work.”
This was only the first round of the competition.
If he consumed too much energy here, even if he won, he would lose the next match.
He had to think of a way to fight quickly!
His mind moved, and he scanned the huge snake body with his divine sense, blocked by the other party's thick blood energy, but he didn't sense much divine sense protecting the body.
Immediately, his eyes lit up.
His physical body was so strong, but he didn't appear in human form.
It seemed that the Flower Snake's divine soul power must not be strong!
Moreover, even protective divine sense was not seen.
Thinking about it, even if the divine soul wasn't weak, it should have been used to fully control the demon body.
Such a huge snake body must consume a lot of energy!
If at this time… adding a fire, he might be able to defeat his opponent without any effort!
Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated.
He waved the long spear in his hand.
Then he opened his mouth and spat.
A sun-like jewel was hidden among the朵朵 flames.
It shot towards Xu Chengxian!
Whoosh—
“Huh? Here it comes again!”
Xu Chengxian was happy to see this.
Immediately, he was not polite and opened his mouth to eat!
A jewel smashed towards his face.
It emitted an extraordinary demon power aura.
Of course, this could not escape his divine sense perception.
But he didn't hesitate and swallowed it along with the bead.
Unlike swallowing the flames, which were placed in the stomach and ignored.
For this bead, he directly activated his innate divine power—Swallowing and Refining!
[Ding dong!]
[Please pay attention, Host.]
[With the Host's current cultivation level, swallowing the demon core of a Great Demon, if you want to refine it, you need to retreat and meditate quietly.]
“I know.” Could Xu Chengxian not see that this was a demon core?
He was at least in the Great Demon realm, and he had eaten a few before, how could he not have this bit of discernment?
And he also knew his own strength.
With his current divine soul and physical realm, if he didn't completely refine the demon core, but only absorbed the demon power within, nothing would happen for a while.
If he couldn't hold on, he would spit it out.
It's not like he couldn't do that.
Didn't General Yu take out the demon core of the Curly-haired Lion that he swallowed before?
“As long as I drive a wave of blood energy, wrap the demon core, and push it out!”
No one knew the whole process of taking the core better than Xu Chengxian.
He was now a Great Demon realm cultivator, and he could easily do it.
So he didn't think about chewing the demon core completely.
Treat it as a large candy ball, take a few licks, wouldn't that work?
“Hehe!”
Waves of surging demon power were drawn from the demon core, swallowed, and refined.
Xu Chengxian couldn't help but feel great joy.
It had been a long time since he had felt the increase in strength so clearly.
He was happy.
But Hong Lie on the opposite side was about to burst his eyes.
He stared with wide eyes, watching the Flower Snake that was raising its head and hissing in disbelief.
Why?
Why!
Why couldn't he sense his own demon core!