Chapter 1253: Boiling Devil Blood
Xiang Shaoyun's kick might have landed on the apeman devil, but it wouldn't die so easily. He jumped onto the devil and slammed his elbow into the devil's throat. After several elbow strikes, the devil's neck was deformed. The devil could no longer put up any fight. At this time, the scaled-lizard devil arrived behind Xiang Shaoyun, sending its tongue shooting toward him.
Xiang Shaoyun wasn't able to avoid the tongue in time. The tongue wrapped around him and pulled him toward the lizard's mouth. He wasn't directly swallowed into the stomach like when he entered the soil-swallowing devil's mouth. Instead, sharp fangs were waiting for him. If he allowed himself to be pulled into the mouth, he would be directly ground into mincemeat.
"You want to eat me? I'll eat you first!" Xiang Shaoyun roared as he bit the tongue wrapped around him. His bloodlust had stimulated his ferociousness.
He bit a chunk of flesh off the tongue. With blood dripping off his mouth, he looked incredibly sinister. The pain caused the tongue around him to loosen slightly, giving him the opportunity to move his arms. He instantly grabbed the tongue with both his hands and pulled.
Xiang Shaoyun couldn't afford to hold anything back. He pulled with all his strength and tore the tongue apart. The lizard devil suffered intense pain from having its tongue ripped apart. It swung its claws at Xiang Shaoyun furiously. The claws were laced with boundless devilish energy. If Xiang Shaoyun allowed himself to be hit, he would probably be reduced into a pile of flesh.
But instead of dodging, Xiang Shaoyun recalled a scene from when he was still at the Astral Realm. He assumed a horse stance, focused all his strength into his fist, and threw it at the incoming claws. He was confident his body was strong enough to surpass all Emperors. The fist collided with the claws, creating an oppressive rumble. The lizard's paw was mutilated, causing it to wail in pain.
Xiang Shaoyun then charged forward and threw punch after punch at the lizard. The lizard had formidable defenses, but under Xiang Shaoyun's punches, its defenses crumbled. Unknown to Xiang Shaoyun himself, a thin layer of devilish energy was wrapped around his body, giving him a sinister yet strangely charming appearance.
"What else do you have? Bring it on. This overlord will never cower," roared Xiang Shaoyun furiously. At this moment, he had completely forgotten about life or death.
He longed to battle to his heart's content. Even dying on the battlefield was worth it. The surrounding Imperial Nether Clan members gained a whole new level of respect for him. Sounds of discussion broke out as everyone started talking about him.
"This human is not bad at all. Just his physical strength alone is already comparable with one of us."
"He seems incapable of making use of the power of those humans. If he can, his combat strength will probably be even higher."
"Did that lord toss him in there to show us that even a weak human can also be strong?"
"For some reason, I can feel the aura of our race from his body. Weird."
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"Release 10 top-tier Emperor Realm gladiators," Ming Cigeng's voice rang out.
A total of 10 powerful Devil Emperors were released into the ring. Some hovered in the air, some dove underground, some were surrounded in poison…. Each devil was stronger than all three of the previous devils combined.
This time, Xiang Shaoyun no longer remained in a reactive position. The moment the 10 devils appeared, he dashed forward like a cheetah. Every ounce of strength his body had was squeezed out, giving him an illusion that he had not been restricted at all, an illusion that he still had his full strength.
He started battling the devils. Punches were thrown, and kicks were sent as an intense battle erupted. As he squeezed out every bit of potential his body had, he found that the power dormant in his bloodline was being awakened. Strands of devilish energy started swirling around his body. A faint rune also started glowing on his forehead.
His strength grew continuously. Eventually, his attacks started being laced with devilish energy. Like astral energy, the devilish energy granted him boundless combat strength as he pulverized his opponents.
As more and more devilish energy swirled around him, his Nether Soul Domain and devil blood stirred violently. Something seemed to be taking form on his forehead, shining with a dazzling black radiance.
"Kill!" Xiang Shaoyun seemed to have turned mad. With a roar, he slaughtered all 10 of his opponents.
At this point, all the observing Imperial Nether Clan members were shocked. They could clearly feel that the aura radiating from him was the same aura as their bloodline. From the aura, they could sense a suppression originating from the very essence of their beings. It was as though they were facing a supreme monarch, causing them great discomfort.
"Five Sovereign Realm gladiators," Ming Cigeng's voice rang out.
With the inclusion of Devil Sovereigns, the battlefield seemed to have been elevated to an entirely new level. Xiang Shaoyun himself was only a Sovereign. With his astral energy sealed, could he even survive this encounter with five Devil Sovereigns?
All five of the Devil Sovereigns were nether prison devils. Even as members of a subsidiary branch of devils serving under the Imperial Nether Clan, they were reduced to mere gladiators here.
All five of them charged Xiang Shaoyun together, erupting with a strength far beyond the five Devil Emperors earlier. In a flash, they arrived before Xiang Shaoyun, bombarding him with a powerful field of devilish energy.
As nether prison devils, the forcefield they generated was naturally a nether prison forcefield. Numerous illusions appeared, making one feel as if one had been brought into the nether prison and was being tormented with the cruelest of tortures.
Anyone would collapse mentally in such a hell. However, Xiang Shaoyun had instead undergone some sort of change upon being brought into the nether prison. A dreamlike radiance shone from his forehead, granting him full immunity to the illusion.
Next, his Nether Soul Domain appeared and enveloped all five devils. They couldn't even put up any struggle before all five were pulled inside. Inside the Nether Soul Domain, the five nether prison devils that had gone mad felt their bloodline being suppressed. Fear plastered their faces as they started trembling.
"Die!" Xiang Shaoyun showed no mercy as countless chains shot up and tore the five devils into pieces.
By the time he withdrew the Nether Soul Domain, only chunks of flesh were left on the ground. Meanwhile, a massive commotion had broken out among the Imperial Nether Clan members.