Flee!
Flee now!
Cangying King spread his wings and fled in a wild frenzy. In a flash, he was already far from Mo Long Cave, his Tunneling Speed so fast that ordinary Feathered cultivators would be left in his dust.
But he didn’t dare stop for even a moment. His Demon Qi erupted, trailing thousands of black-and-white sonic boom clouds as he fled like a madman.
He could never forget that day.
That sliver of blade light had swept across thousands of mountains and rivers, whistling toward him from an unknowable distance.
No matter how many thousands of Divine Techniques and myriads of Magic spells he unleashed, he could only watch as it mercilessly sliced off both his wings.
It was a feeling that Qi Molong and the Water Ape King, who had never experienced it, could never possibly comprehend.
He flew for so long he lost track of time.
Not just Mo Long Cave, but even the hundred-thousand-mile plain had long since vanished behind him.
Only then did Cangying King gradually slow down.
His chest heaved violently, his heart a tempest of lingering fear, terror, fury, killing intent, and a thousand other emotions. He couldn’t help but grit his teeth and mutter:
"Boxing Saint Daoist... Boxing Saint’s Beginning Chapter..."
But in the next instant, Cangying King’s expression changed dramatically!
Deep within his heart.
In the vast scripture of the Boxing Saint’s Beginning Chapter, which he had once secretly observed, a line of text suddenly flared with light:
"The recompense for good and evil follows like a shadow!"
For a moment, Cangying King was frozen stiff, his scaled feathers standing on end as if he had been flash-frozen in midair.
He couldn’t move a muscle.
BUZZ!
Within Cangying King’s mind, the vast scripture flowed past. One character after another flared with brilliant light, weaving together.
They formed a sliver of blade light that was both incredibly familiar and utterly terrifying to him!
It was a deep, dark red, as if forged from endless blood steeping over long eons.
It seemed stained with the blood of countless Immortal Demons and Demon Gods, and the moment it appeared, it erupted with a terrifying killing intent beyond the imagination of any ordinary person!
It was this killing intent that left Cangying King paralyzed, frozen stiff.
’When?’
’Just when did this happen!?’
Cangying King felt as if he had been plunged into an icy abyss, his mind screaming in madness.
’A blade hangs over my very soul—how can I possibly defend against it?’
A thousand thoughts flashed through his mind, but none offered a way out of this predicament.
’I have no idea when I fell for this trap.’
’Or perhaps...’
’...I never truly dodged that strike from two years ago?’
’Or could it be that some special trick was hidden within the scripture?’
’Impossible!’
’It can’t be hidden in the scripture!’
’I’ve never cultivated this Cultivation Technique. Even if it contained some special method, it couldn’t have been branded into my very soul just from seeing it once!’
BUZZ!
As Cangying King was reeling in utter terror, the dark red blade light in his Heart Sea quivered slightly once more.
The moment the blade light quivered, Cangying King let out a heaven-shaking scream, as if being executed by a thousand cuts, and plummeted from the sky.
Pain!
Agony!
Unimaginable agony!
It was as if his physical body, along with his entire Divine Spirit, was being churned to pieces by that blade gleam.
Even a Great Demon King of the Feather Transformation Realm like Cangying King could not endure such torment.
As he fell, he let out one heaven-shaking scream after another.
They echoed across the heavens!
BOOM!
In an instant, dust plumed and vegetation snapped.
Cangying King lay on his back, his face twisted as he let out a roar filled with indignant fury:
"You... you won’t kill me!!"
Forcing himself to endure the agony, Cangying King rolled over and shifted into his human form.
At the same time, he slowly raised his right hand and abruptly plunged it into his own chest!
"AHHH!!"
With another roar, Cangying King pulled out his blood-drenched hand. Gripped between his fingers was a steaming, still-beating heart!
He had actually, forcibly, dug out his own heart!
SPLAT!
Then, gritting his teeth, Cangying King crushed his own heart. His body immediately convulsed, the skin on his face twitching uncontrollably.
"The blade gleam... it’s not here!?"
"How could it not be here...?"
Cangying King’s heart pounded with shock, his expression a mask of terror.
He hurriedly scanned his body again and again with his Divine Thoughts, but he couldn’t find the slightest trace of the blade light.
"What... what kind of Divine Technique is this!?"
Cangying King’s heart trembled. His Demon Qi billowed out of him in waves as he tried to force the blade light out of his body!
But even after exhausting every method he could think of, he found nothing.
BUZZ!
Just then, the hum of the blade rang out once more.
In an instant, even though Cangying King had unleashed his Demon Qi to its absolute limit, the pain sent him writhing on the ground, his fists hammering the earth!
The tremors from his blows rumbled through the mountains and rivers for hundreds of miles.
"AH! AHH!!"
Finally, he could bear it no longer.
He leaped thousands of feet into the air, transforming back into his true goshawk form. Ignoring the blood still streaming from his chest, he beat his great wings furiously.
In a flash, he shot toward the heavens!
He turned back toward Mo Long Cave, flying even faster than when he had first fled, and raced away at a frantic pace!
...
「Mo Long Cave」
Sunlight, somewhat scattered as it pierced the clouds on the horizon, shone down upon the mountains.
It was a beautiful day.
But the hearts of the Great and Little Demons within the mountains were chilled to the bone.
They trembled in terror as they gazed at the somewhat transparent figure of the Daoist standing high in the sky.
A boundless, tyrannical aura, like a celestial curtain, covered the Mo Long Cave Mountains, trapping nearly all the spirit monsters and Demon Fiends within.
Any demon, devil, or monster that tried to flee was slaughtered without exception.
At this moment, the countless Great and Little Demons were shaken beyond words, not daring to act and completely unable to escape.