Inside the cave mansion, the Black Rock Demon Lord's massive, copper bell-like eyes were bloodshot as he stared fixedly at a trembling wolf demon scout prostrated before him.
His fist clenched a shattered bone shard caked with dried black blood—his son the Black Bear Demon King's demon king bone!
ROAR!
A roar of world-shattering fury rumbled from the depths of the Black Rock Demon Lord's throat. The entire cave mansion trembled under the sonic wave, loose stones raining down in a shower.
"Speak!"
His voice boomed like distant thunder, bursting the wolf demon scout's eardrums and making blood stream from its seven orifices. "How did my son die? Who killed him?"
The wolf demon was petrified with fear, pressing its belly to the ground, its voice quaking: "M-My Lord Demon Lord! The Young Lord... the Young Lord was slain by the men of Primordial Beginning Sect! Nine earthen yellow dragons... they tore him to shreds in an instant! Not even his Nascent Soul escaped! I-I saw it with my own eyes!"
"Primordial Beginning Sect!"
The Black Rock Demon Lord shot to his feet, and a tempest of violent, savage demonic aura—like that of a primordial behemoth—erupted from his body!
BOOM!
A huge chunk of the cave mansion's vault was torn away by the raging airflow.
Ancient giant trees outside the cave were snapped in half by the invisible shockwave. Low-tier demonic beasts for a hundred miles around threw themselves to the ground, letting out terrified whimpers.
The wrath of a Fusion Stage Demon Lord could shake heaven and earth, dye rivers and mountains red!
"Mortal ants! Daring to slay my son!"
The Black Rock Demon Lord's roar crashed like nine heavens' thunder, making the entire mountain peak tremble. "This Lord will bury your entire sect! Not a chicken or a dog shall remain!"
He took a single step, and his figure vanished in an instant.
When he reappeared, he was a terrifying black streak tearing through the night sky, wreathed in heaven-shaking killing intent and boundless demonic clouds, charging straight for Primordial Beginning Sect!
Wherever he passed, wind and clouds churned, all living things fled!
The next morning, at the back mountain of Primordial Beginning Sect.
The three hundred newly reclaimed acres of spiritual fields exuded the fresh fragrance of soil.
Jiang Ling looked at the fruits of their labor with satisfaction, ready to announce the mission's end and distribute rewards.
Suddenly!
RUMBLE!!!
The entire Primordial Beginning Mountain Range shook violently, as if a earth dragon was rolling over!
A soul-shattering, terrifying pressure rolled in from the horizon like an apocalyptic tsunami, instantly enveloping the entire peak of Primordial Beginning Mountain!
The sky darkened in an instant.
Boundless, heavy demonic clouds blotted out the sun, churning and coalescing into a ferocious, roaring giant bear's face.
The pressure of a Fusion Stage Demon Lord bore down like a physical weight!
"Ants of Primordial Beginning Sect! Crawl out and meet your deaths!"
"You slew my son the Black Bear! This Lord will make you pay with blood for blood!"
The Black Rock Demon Lord's roar, filled with endless rage and killing intent, exploded in everyone's ears like a billion claps of thunder at once.
"It's the Black Rock Demon Lord! So the Black Bear Demon King was his son!"
Hua Yuntian's eyes flickered, and a twisted sense of pleasure surged in his heart. "Hehe, Jiang Ling. Let's see how you get out of this one! No matter how strong your mountain protection formation is, can it stand against the wrath of a Fusion Demon Lord?!"
He even tensed, ready to activate his life-saving secret technique and flee at a moment's notice.
"Tsk. Beat the brat, and the old man comes running. This never ends, does it?"
Jiang Ling dug his finger into an ear buzzing from the roar, not a trace of panic on his face.
He looked up with an annoyed scowl, shouting at the giant bear shadow in the sky: "Hey! You big black guy up there! What all the yelling about? Your son threw himself at my mountain gate looking for death—who's to blame but himself?"
"Ant! You seek death!"
Furious at the blatant contempt from below, the Black Rock Demon Lord's anger blazed even hotter.
He had no patience for more words, and directly manifested his hundred-zhang tall Demon Lord true form—a terrifying giant bear like a moving mountain range.
Its millstone-sized bear paw, wreathed in pitch-black demonic flames, tore through the air with a shrill crackle, slamming down hard toward Jiang Ling!
"Break for this Lord—!"
This palm contained the full power of its life, enough to smash a ten-thousand zhang mountain peak to powder.
Before the palm wind even arrived, the terrifying pressure crushed the ground outside the mountain gate into inch-thick cracks!
A cruel glint of pleasure flashed in Hua Yuntian's eyes: "It's over..."
Yet, at the very instant the world-shattering bear paw was about to strike the Primordial Beginning Sect mountain gate archway—
Jiang Ling waved his hand casually.
Hum!
In the next moment, a strange, resonant hum rang out.
For the first time before everyone's eyes, the Nine Heavens Earth Dragon Guarding Formation unleashed the terrifying power of an Immortal-rank formation.
Upon its seemingly fragile black-yellow light barrier, nine solid earth dragons, lifelike as living creatures, emerged in an instant.
They coiled and intertwined, their dragon maws gaping wide, letting out a vast, ancient dragon's roar that seemed to echo from the primordial chaos.
A boundless power—more vast and heavy than the Black Rock Demon Lord's pressure, bearing the will of the entire earth—erupted with a deafening crash!
Time seemed to stand still.
The Black Rock Demon Lord's mountain-smashing palm, the moment it touched the black-yellow dragons, sank as if into an endless primordial mire.
The raging demonic flames snuffed out without a sound; the heaven-splitting power was easily dissolved and absorbed.
And that was not all!
The nine earth dragons coiled around the paw in an instant, and an overwhelming, irresistible terrifying force slammed back along the bear's arm!
Crack! Crackle-crack!
A sickening chorus of bone fractures rang out like popping beans!
"OWWW!!!"
The Black Rock Demon Lord let out a heaven-shaking howl of excruciating pain!
Its proud, divine metal-hard thick bear paw, along with its entire arm, under the coiling and crushing of the earth dragons, splintered and shattered inch by inch—like rotting wood battered by a billion jun hammer.
Blood gushed out like a broken dyke!
A flash of black-yellow light, and the Black Rock Demon Lord's colossal true form was wrenched down from the sky by an indescribable force, slamming into the open ground outside Primordial Beginning Sect's mountain gate like a meteor!
BOOM!
The earth shook and the mountains quaked!
A massive crater, over a hundred zhang in diameter and bottomless, formed in an instant.
Smoke and dust billowed into the sky like a mushroom cloud, blotting out the sun.
As the smoke slowly cleared, in the center of the crater lay the Black Rock Demon Lord—terror of the Vast Mist Ridge—slumped in a heap like a pile of mud.
Its entire right arm, along with its shoulder, was gone completely. The stump was a mangled mess of flesh and blood, demonic blood gurgling out, staining the soil beneath it red.
What happened?
Who am I?
Where am I?
Three questions whirled in the Black Rock Demon Lord's mind like a curse.
The pride and power of a Fusion Stage Demon Lord, in the face of absolute strength, were crushed to nothing.
In its massive eyes, bloodshot and streaked with red, there was nothing but boundless terror and daze.
A deathly silence fell over the entire Primordial Beginning Sect.
The pleasure and schadenfreude on Hua Yuntian's face froze completely, replaced by boundless shock and daze—his mind a complete blank.
A Fusion Stage Demon Lord... one-shotted?
What rank is this immortal formation?!
"Chirp!"
Jincancan stood tall and proud at Jiang Ling's side, letting out a triumphant chirp.
Stupid bear!
Dare to be arrogant!
Jiang Ling strolled slowly to the edge of the crater, looking down at the Black Rock Demon Lord in the pit, who was questioning its entire bear existence, a "kind" smile spreading across his face.
"Big black guy. Can we talk nicely now?"
The Black Rock Demon Lord lifted its head with immense difficulty, staring at the tiny figure at the edge of the crater, its eyes filled with unprecedented fear.
It did not doubt for a single moment—if that figure so much as thought it, that terrifying formation would reduce it to nothing but ash and smoke.