Chapter 125: A Narrow Escape From Death
The two demon kings were able to prevent the Illuminating Soul Realm masters from passing. However, it was difficult to stop them from releasing their life vitality.
Despite everything, the two demon kings did not comprehend why the person had suddenly conjured a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon. What was he plotting to do?
The Five-Clawed Golden Dragon whirled in the sky, flying towards Zen at a constant speed. When the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon soared to a certain distance, Zen clenched his hands into fists and directly punched it.
“Ogres Shaking the World!”
A purple-black fist shadow came straight at the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon. “Boom!” The fist shadow penetrated into it, leaving a small black spot on the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon's body.
Initially, it did not seem to reveal any other effect. Then, in the blink of an eye, the little black dot spread quickly like wildfire. Soon, the entire Five-Clawed Golden Dragon turned into a Five-Clawed Black Dragon!
Zen manipulated the Five-Clawed Black Dragon into spinning in the air while wandering around.
Meanwhile, Lennie who stood in the distance suddenly seemed to recall something as his eyes brightened.
He waved his hand, and several silver swords flashed in it. As soon as the gleaming swords appeared, he launched them directly at Zen's direction.
Imitating Lennie's move, Hugh also summoned another Five-Clawed Golden Dragon from his hand and shot it towards Zen too.
Whether it was a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon or gleaming swords, Zen took on all of them without batting an eye. While still in his control, he made the Five-Clawed Black Dragon consume them.
After the Five-Clawed Black Dragon devoured them completely, it expanded more than twice its initial size.
At the sight of it, the Illuminating Soul Realm masters realized what had been on Zen's mind.
All this time, the two men were releasing the life vitality and providing it to the Five-Clawed Black Dragon!
Except for Spencer, whose life vitality was a huge incarnation, and was unable to be released, all the other people had taken out the life vitality from their bodies to shoot it towards Zen.
The Five-Clawed Black Dragon endlessly devoured the life vitality. Every time it did, its body became more massive, and its power grew mightier. After a period equivalent to the burning time of an incense stick, a gigantic Five-Clawed Black Dragon appeared in the sky!
Spencer was shocked to witness the power of this Five-Clawed Black Dragon. Clenching his fists tightly, he thought, 'The life energy of this young man is so terrifying! Despite being half step into the nature level, he attained an immense momentum. His move offered such a surprise!
It is so uncommon in the world!'
After seeing the Five-Clawed Black Dragon, Hugh's jaw nearly dropped. Who was there that could deflect such a fatal blow from this beast? Even if it were Spencer countering an attack from the Five-Clawed Black Dragon, he would surely be scared out of his wits too.
'No wonder I lost to Zen. It is not a disgrace as he is so powerful after all, ' Hugh thought.
Lennie smiled and said in a low voice, “Huh! Despite merely reaching the half-step into the nature level, the man Nina favors is indeed not an ordinary person.”
Although dedicated to fighting back the evil spirits of Aldrich, when Yolande noticed the huge Five-Clawed Black Dragon, her eyes revealed shock while her grey pupils dilated. However, it only flashed for a second, and then she quickly regained her composure. It was a rare sight to see her taken aback by anything.
Unless it was something incredible, the girl did not typically display any kind of emotional response.
However, one thing was as clear as crystal, Zen's method was incredible enough to succeed in capturing her eye.
By taking advantage of the features of demonic life energy, and with the supply of the life vitality provided by the several Illuminating Soul Realm masters, he had produced such an intimidating and horrifying Five-Clawed Black Dragon. However, as colossal and majestic as it was, there was one fatal flaw!
If it were in actual combat, none of the Illuminating Soul Realm masters or demon kings would feel frightened of this Five-Clawed Black Dragon.
The reason was Zen's power still paled in comparison to the strength of the masters. Moreover, he was only at the half-step into the nature level. As a result, the speed of the Five-Clawed Black Dragon he manipulated was far from being as swift as the demon kings and the Illuminating Soul Realm masters.
No one was foolish enough to stand still and wait for the Five-Clawed Black Dragon to strike them.
An opponent could easily run away and avoid the dragon. Then, as soon as the Five-Clawed Black Dragon disappeared, they could return and end Zen's life.
Nevertheless, today's situation worked the best for this Five-Clawed Black Dragon to steal the show from everyone!
Aldrich was now contending against Yolande with life vitality. It was hard for him to be distracted, let alone move.
When he noticed the Five-Clawed Black Dragon though, his face had darkened. He could not imagine how Zen, a human brat, was able to create such a terrific dragon.
At the same time, the demon king became perplexed.
Aldrich thought, 'Is it a trap right from the start or is it just a coincidence?
If it is a trap, then they are engaging in some risky business. Did they really put all their hopes on a young human who only has half-step into the nature level? It is utterly impossible.
But if it's a coincidence, is it God's way of saying that I will die today?' The demon king refused to accept such a cruel fate.
It was apparent that beating the Illuminating Soul Realm humans was child's play. Yet, why had it suddenly turned out like this?
Not only did that brat, Zen, take away his demon's holy fire, but he now also conjured a titanic Five-clawed Black Dragon to take his life.
“I am not giving up!”
While Aldrich screamed in his heart, Zen had sent the Five-Clawed Black Dragon to penetrate through the light curtain and rush towards him.
As Yolande was willing to cooperate as well, she depleted most of her life vitality from her body while the dragon attacked the demon king. She was determined to kill Aldrich in one shot.
“Grr!”
The Five-Clawed Black Dragon tilted its head and growled while pouncing on Aldrich. It looked so powerful and intimidating that the earth trembled upon its roar. It opened its mouth and unwaveringly came at Aldrich.
Aldrich found himself cornered and caught in a dilemma. 'Should I dodge?' he thought.
However, Yolande would not let him escape. Without a doubt, the girl from the human clan would fiercely fight back until he was defeated. In that case, could he face the blow of the Five-Clawed Black Dragon without doing anything?
Was that even possible?
Even the powerful Aldrich was not sure he could withstand the attack.
Even if he could block the attack of the Five-Clawed Black Dragon and still come out alive by luck, the human girl who was right in front of him would still be around to take him down.
“Grrr… You human brat! I'll make you pay with your life!”
In his desperation, Aldrich finally realized that there was only one way left for him to survive, and that was to go all out!
Suddenly, the demon king reclaimed all the evil spirits. In the contest of life vitality, retrieving all of it was undoubtedly equivalent to suicide.
It seemed that Aldrich did not have any other choices.
At this moment, when he succeeded in reclaiming the evil spirits, Yolande's life vitality trailed closely behind him and overwhelmed Aldrich with devastating force.
“Puff!”
Filled with too much life vitality, Aldrich spat out a mouthful of evil blood. The evil spirits that emitted from his body had weakened, as he was extremely hurt.
Meanwhile, Yolande had consumed enough life vitality during the process when she competed with Aldrich. Otherwise, she would have directly killed the demon king by infusing all her life vitality into his body to make him burst out and self-destruct.
The injured Aldrich flapped his fleshy wings, his body moving to sidestep every attack of Zen's huge Five-Clawed Black Dragon. At the same time, he waved his flesh-wings and dashed at Zen.
It was apparent that Aldrich hated Zen to the core. The demon king looked extremely zealous to kill him as quick as possible for revenge.
Once Zen detected Aldrich's sudden attack, his face paled whilst becoming more alert. There was no time for him to reflect on anything else. Immediately, he made a run for it on the light curtain.
After all, it was not a demon general, but a demon king that was chasing after him!
If it had been a demon general that he had to face, he could have been capable of fighting back. However, as his opponent was the supreme demon king, he had no other choice but to run desperately. Judging from the current situation, even if he tried escaping, his chances of getting away unscathed were very slim.
“Shoot!” he cursed as he ran.
Why did he have to endure such distress? Of all people, it just had to be him who was beyond unfortunate today!
Just then, a whistling sound caught his ear.
Without hesitation, he rolled onto the ground as though it were an instinctive response. The next instant, he could not help but be glad, as a steel gray bone spur had brushed past his ear.
Aldrich's bone spurs were ten times more powerful and rapid than a demon general's bone spurs. Although the bone spur did not cut Zen, the strong wind that came with the bone spur made his cheeks tingle.
Standing up from the ground, Zen quickly shot his broken flying knife without even lifting his head.
There was a huge gap between the demon king and him when it came to speed. Presently, it was very much impossible for him to fight through his vision alone; he had to rely on his instinct and other senses.
Needless to say, his instinct in fighting had matured through the many battles he endured in the past. Thanks to that, his aim was perfect as he shot the flying knife at the demon king.
Had his opponent been an ordinary demon general, the broken flying knife would have pierced through without any trouble. Nevertheless, that was not the case, as his opponent was Aldrich. Even though he was badly injured, and his remaining strength was only one-tenth of its normal amount, he was still the unconquerable demon king in Zen's eyes.
“Boom!”
In an effortless manner, Aldrich reached out his hand and slapped the flying knife away. The broken flying knife, which had never failed Zen, regrettably did not have any effect on Aldrich.
Although his attempt was futile, it had bought some time for Zen to escape. At the very least, he managed to run several meters away from the demon king during the distraction.
Unfortunately, his insane speed was beyond Zen's imagination. With a flap of his wings, Aldrich's huge body cut through the air and pounced on Zen like a savage beast.
"Human brat, go to perdition!
I am going to devour your flesh and suck your blood dry!" Then, four bone spurs came out from Aldrich's body while they were all aimed at Zen from different directions.
If any of the bone spurs struck him, it would render his cruel destiny set in stone. As the enraged demon king intended to suck his corpse dry, Zen could already imagine himself perishing and turning into a mummy.