The Demon Eye of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality

Chapter 39 Slaying the Yue Emperor

The Chongyuan Pearl crashed down with immense force, while the Chixiao Sword, wreathed in crimson flames, slashed down horizontally.

The Yue emperor, whose mind had already been thrown into chaos by the illusion, actually thought it was still a false illusion and stood still without flinching or avoiding it.

Two violent attacks struck him squarely, instantly shredding his body into dust, which then turned into a churning, thick cloud of blood mist.

However, instead of dissipating under the attack, this cloud of blood mist frantically absorbed the spiritual energy of the five elements and the remaining blood energy within the formation, like a dried-up sponge.

In just a few breaths, the figure of the Yue Emperor condensed once more, the blood-red light around him even more eerie than before, faintly tinged with a strange black glow.

He threw his head back and let out a maniacal laugh, his voice hoarse like the howl of a vengeful ghost: "You can't kill me! I will refine you all, and use your corpses to pave my path to Core Formation! I am the supreme ruler, ordained by Heaven! You mountain cultivators..."

Those watching from outside the formation grew serious, their faces showing a hint of helplessness.

Han Li slowly spoke: "It seems he can directly absorb the five elements spiritual energy dissipated from the formation and repair himself. My formation is based on the five elements spiritual energy, so as long as the formation is not dispelled, he can recover indefinitely and is impossible to kill."

Song Meng's face immediately fell, and he scratched his head in frustration: "Then all my effort was wasted? This fiend is like an unkillable cockroach!"

Liu Jing stared at the formation with a solemn expression and said in a low voice, "Unless we can deliver a fatal blow that can completely annihilate his blood essence, we simply cannot do anything to him."

Just then, Mu Chunfeng turned to Han Li and said, "Junior Brother Han, give me the array plate that controls the central core of the array. I'll go into the array and deal with him myself."

"No!"

Liu Jing immediately stopped him, "You're going into battle alone. If he ambushes you, we won't be able to provide support in time. It's too dangerous!"

Mu Chunfeng smiled slightly, but his tone was very firm: "Senior Brother Liu, don't worry. I have the Three Yang Sword Talisman treasure made by my master. It is extremely yang and strong, and it is the nemesis of this kind of yin and evil blood-fiend techniques. Moreover, the power of remote control outside the formation is limited. Only by entering the formation and getting close can its full power be unleashed."

Liu Jing was still full of worry, and Song Meng and Zhong Weiniang echoed his sentiments, urging him not to take the risk.

Mu Chunfeng patiently explained for a long time before finally managing to persuade everyone.

Only Han Li stood to the side, looking intently at Mu Chunfeng, his lips slightly moving, but in the end he said nothing.

He silently handed over the array plate, only whispering, "Be careful in everything."

Mu Chunfeng nodded to everyone, then manipulated the formation to open a gap just wide enough for one person to pass through, and leaped into it.

As soon as he landed, a thick white fog suddenly surged up within the formation, completely blocking not only the outside world's view but also the divine senses of everyone—this was Mu Chunfeng's method.

Next, he wanted to settle things with the Yue Emperor.

Within the formation, the layers of illusions surrounding the Yue Emperor slowly dissipated.

A figure in yellow robes slowly descended from the sky and stood three zhang in front of him.

Upon recognizing the newcomer, the Yue Emperor burst into another fit of maniacal laughter: "Hahaha! You lad, you actually dare to deliver yourself to my doorstep alone! Since you're so eager to die, I'll grant your wish!"

"Wait a minute."

Mu Chunfeng raised her hand to stop him.

The Yue Emperor was slightly taken aback, then sneered, "What? Are you planning to kneel down and beg for mercy? Very well, if you obediently hand over the remaining Demon Pills, I might consider leaving you a whole corpse."

Upon hearing this, Mu Chunfeng burst out laughing: "I really don't know if you're really stupid or just pretending, how could you say something like that?"

The Yue Emperor, who had been in a daze, was instantly sobered up by the laughter.

He roared, "Shameless scoundrel! I will kill you!"

The Yue Emperor's body surged with bloodthirsty energy, and a blood-red longsword several feet long instantly condensed in his palm. He roared and pounced towards Mu Chunfeng.

Mu Chunfeng shook his head helplessly: "Sigh, I was going to tease you a bit more, but who knew you had high blood pressure? You explode at the slightest provocation."

As soon as he finished speaking, two purple pupils, one large and one small, suddenly appeared in his eyes. Two beams of pitch-black light, seemingly real yet illusory, shot out from his pupils and shot straight at Emperor Yue like two bolts of lightning.

The moment the black light touched Yue Huang's body, the surging blood energy around him suddenly boiled violently, rushing uncontrollably towards the two beams of black light as if it had encountered its nemesis.

The ferocity on the Yue Emperor's face instantly transformed into utter terror: "What kind of evil magic is this?! Impossible! My magic power! Stop it!"

He struggled desperately, but the bloodthirsty energy within his body was continuously drawn away by the black light like a flood breaking its banks.

As more and more malevolent energy was absorbed, the two beams of black light grew thicker and stronger, and their suction power suddenly surged.

At this moment, something surprising happened to Mu Chunfeng. His spiritual power, which had been more than half depleted in the previous battle, began to slowly recover as the Blood Fiend Qi absorbed by the Evil-Slaying Divine Light increased.

He quickly focused his mind to examine the spiritual energy within his dantian and discovered that it contained not a trace of bloodlust or evil energy; it was all pure and refined spiritual energy.

Mu Chunfeng breathed a slight sigh of relief.

It seems that the double pupils' special ability completely transformed these sinister and bloodthirsty energies into his own spiritual power, leaving no hidden dangers.

It's unclear whether the conversion efficiency of the double pupils is limited, or whether the bloodthirsty aura of the Yue Emperor is simply insignificant.

After most of the bloodthirsty aura around the Yue Emperor was absorbed, Mu Chunfeng's spiritual power had barely recovered to about 10%.

At this moment, the Yue Emperor's figure had become as transparent as paper, and even his voice was as weak as a candle flickering in the wind: "I never expected... that you would have such supernatural powers... I... did not lose unjustly."

"Oh? You've finally regained your senses?" Mu Chunfeng said indifferently.

The Yue Emperor gave a bitter smile: "Boy... I'm not convinced... Your seven factions only had the advantage of timing and location... If I had your favorable conditions... I wouldn't have ended up like this..."

That's enough.

Mu Chunfeng's tone suddenly turned cold, "Even if you argue until the heavens break, it won't change the fact that you slaughtered countless innocent cultivators and mortals. If you resent the suppression by the Seven Sects, you can go find the higher-ups of the Seven Sects. But those unarmed civilians, those rogue cultivators who just wanted to cultivate peacefully, what have they ever done to offend you?"

The cultivation world is a jungle where the strong prey on the weak, and Mu Chunfeng never denies this.

He would fight for opportunities and stop at nothing to survive, but he always held to one bottom line—never to kill innocent people indiscriminately.

What makes us human is that we have a bottom line in our hearts.

If even this bottom line is lost, then what difference is there between them and bloodthirsty monsters or inhuman demons?

Mu Chunfeng composed himself and looked once more at the dying Yue Emperor.

"Alright, go in peace. I hope you will be reborn in a peaceful world of cultivation in your next life, and walk the path of cultivation with dignity and integrity, relying on your own abilities."

"As for this life, your fate is the price you pay for your actions."

After saying that, Mu Chunfeng stopped talking and suddenly increased his magical output.

The two beams of divine light that extinguished evil suddenly surged, like two black dragons that completely devoured Emperor Yue, without even a trace of bloodthirsty energy leaking out.

When the divine light dissipated, only a scarlet pill, radiating a faint bloody glow, lay quietly in the spot.

Mu Chunfeng raised his hand and put the evil pill into his storage bag, then manipulated the array plate in his hand to slowly deactivate the Reversed Five Elements Array.

As the white mist dissipated, Liu Jing and the others immediately flew over and surrounded them.

When they learned that the Yue Emperor had been completely killed and that Mu Chunfeng was unharmed, everyone breathed a long sigh of relief.

The huge weight that had been pressing on everyone's hearts was finally lifted, and then everyone began to split up to clean up the battlefield, while also taking care of any remaining members of the Black Fiend Cult who had slipped through the net.