"You're courting death!" Black Demon growled. His voice boomed and echoed through the whole Earth Prison, sending a stab of pain in every ear and filling every heart with terror.
His mighty power had ripped the sky apart. A stretch of the void, about a thousand miles long, had crumbled and turned into fragments, where turbulence churned violently.
Black Demon's eyes filled with monstrous killing intent. The chef who inherited the legacy of that man and the evil girl who carried the Source of Curses must die. He had to destroy these two great threats with this strike! He wanted to put everything right with his strength!
He let out a roar that shook the skies, and his aura soared. The aura of a Nine-revolution Great Saint was on full display now, mighty enough to destroy heaven and earth. With a strike, he would crush and destroy everything!
Bu Fang's eyes seemed to flicker with light. His face was expressionless as he stared at Black Demon, who was approaching and ripping through the void, looking as if he was facing a common man. Not a trace of awe for a Great Saint could be found on his face. All that was visible was a hint of a mocking smile on his lips.
Black Demon was sure that his eyes didn't deceive him. He saw the worm-like little chef's lips curve upward into a mocking smile. Even Er Ha and the others in the distance thought that Bu Fang must be crazy. If he was not, why would he show a mocking smile when facing a Great Saint? What gave him the courage to do that?
The dagger, shrouded in thick black demonic energy, tore the void and caused the turbulence to explode as it drew nearer. Suddenly, a golden light that seemed to burst out of the darkness illuminated the whole sky, and then Bu Fang threw out his fist, sending it straight at the dagger without hesitation.
A deafening boom echoed out. In the shocked eyes of all, Bu Fang's fist collided with Black Demon's dagger. In a flash, terrible shockwaves and blinding light exploded out and blanketed everything. Amid the light and sound, the crowd heard a cracking noise, which was as crisp as the cracking of bones or the breaking of metal.
Ying Long's eyes were wide, while Er Ha looked incredulous.
"Has Bu Fang young man… turned into ashes under Black Demon's attack? That old fellow is a Nine-revolution Great Saint after all, and his might is not to be underestimated… A Two-revolution Little Saint cannot stand up against a Nine-revolution Great Saint…"
The rumbling of the explosion continued to ring through the air. The next moment, the crowd saw a figure fly backward out of the flickering light of the explosion. That figure streaked across the sky, smashed into the distant ground, and plowed a deep trench, sending soil everywhere. The impact was so strong that the earth seemed to be shattered!
Bu Fang's face was indifferent, cold, and ruthless. With his golden arm raised, he slowly walked out. He had just knocked a Nine-revolution Great Saint flying away with a punch, but he showed no emotions at all. It was as if what he did was just something normal.
The sight of Bu Fang appearing unscathed, however, astounded the crowd, and every one of them was sucking in cold breaths.
"How is this possible?!"
"Has my eyesight gone bad? Or have my eyes deceived me?"
"This must be fake… How could a Two-revolution Little Saint knock a Nine-revolution Great Saint away with a punch?"
The experts watching in the distance were all struck dumb. They did not know what to say now. At this moment, they felt as if there was a great mountain pressing against their hearts, so heavy that they could hardly breathe.
Even Ying Long and Er Ha were left dazed and confused. They glanced at Black Demon, who lay in the ruin, then at Bu Fang, who appeared to be calm and unscathed. The result of the collision was a great surprise to them.
"Bu Fang… young man, this…" Er Ha's tongue seemed to be tied up. He didn't know what to say, so he just stared at Bu Fang with wide eyes.
Ying Long's eyes lit up, however. He knew Bu Fang was amazing, but he never thought that he could send a Great Saint flying with a punch. Was Bu Fang trying to break the norm and refresh everyone's concept?
Standing on the ground, Bu Fang glanced at his golden arm. Even he had no idea what kind of power was contained in it. It was a power beyond his imagination. He knew the Will of the Great Path, and this power seemed to be above that. By just touching it with his mental force, his heart jerked.
'Is this the so-called divine power? The power that comes from a god?' The look in Bu Fang's eyes grew sharp. 'How strong is the so-called god, then?'
After a drop of divine power evaporated and gathered in his fist, it made his Taotie Arm grow stronger and stronger. Bu Fang had a delusion that he could destroy the world with a punch. Of course, it was just a delusion.
The punch, which had countered Black Demon's attack and broke his bones and dagger, had consumed about one-third of the divine power. In other words, a liquid drop could let him throw out three punches.
"IMPOSSIBLE!"
Black Demon struggled to his feet. The bandage on his face was falling apart and melting, dripping like some foul liquid, and his scarlet eyes were full of disbelief and shock. The punch from a mere Two-revolution Little Saint had not only countered his attack and destroyed his defense, but it also broke his bones! That was unbelievable! He was a Great Saint!
"No… No, wait… This power doesn't belong to you!" Black Demon's pupils constricted. It was as if he thought of something, and fear suddenly came into his scarlet eyes. Then, a monstrous aura exploded out of his body again, while the black demonic energy gathered into a pitch-black world over his head. As soon as the world appeared, his strength soared. It was his small world, which contained his Will of the Great Path. Basically, the small world of a Great Saint was not much different from a real small world, and the Will of the Great Pain in it was getting stronger as well.
"You're right… This indeed is not my power," Bu Fang said faintly. The ground exploded under his feet as he kicked it and shot himself toward Black Demon like a cannonball, raising his hand with the glowing golden fist.
Black Demon roared. His body turned into a cloud of black mist as he was about to leave the pit, but no sooner had he flown up the air than Bu Fang threw out the glowing fist again.
With a rumbling sound, a golden fist shot out from where Bu Fang was and smashed the black mist. It exploded with a thud, revealing a furious Black Demon, who then fell from the sky and crashed into the ground again, kicking up dust.
Bu Fang walked slowly and came in front of Black Demon. All the people watching the fight held their breaths, shocked and stunned by the scene. They could not believe that a Two-revolution Little Saint was about to kill a Nine-revolution Great Saint. It was simply heaven-defying!
"You… You… You can't kill me!" There was fear in Black Demon's scarlet eyes at last. Facing Bu Fang's power, which did not belong to this world, he finally felt a sense of despair. He knew the terror of that evil girl's curse, but he had no idea that this little chef was so fearsome as well.
'The Sword Demon Patriarch is right. I should kill this little chef as quickly as possible,' he thought to himself, 'But my arrogance had stopped me from doing that, and this had given him a chance to turn the tables… His power is identical to that man… Is that man coming back?' Black Demon's body trembled.
"This is the third punch, and it will kill you." Bu Fang lifted the fist and put it on Black Demon's forehead. Its golden light was no longer as bright as before.
The bandage that wrapped Black Demon's head had already fallen off to the ground as he shivered all over.
"You want to kill me, and you said you want to kill Nethery as well… You didn't give me a reason not to kill you," Bu Fang said in a faint voice, looking at Black Demon.
Black Demon's pupils constricted.
"Since you can't give me a reason, you can die now…"
The moment he said that, a golden light bloomed, and he thrust his fist. The dazzling light shone through heaven and earth in an instant, while waves of explosive energy spread and knocked Er Ha and Ying Long flying away.
It was a long time before the rumbling sound faded away and the rolling clouds of dust and smoke cleared. When the people saw the scene, they all gasped in horror. The ground was deeply sunken as if it had been hit by a meteor, which created a huge pit ringed with high ridges. Yellow Spring Little Restaurant was the only building left in the pit.
Bu Fang stood in the center of the pit. The golden light on his fist had disappeared, and tendrils of white smoke could be seen rising from it. The Vermilion Robe flapped loudly in the wind.
There was another pit in the ground, much smaller, and a figure knelt inside. He was none other than Black Demon. His bandage had all unraveled, revealing his figure. It was a withered body with skin as dried as bones.
Bu Fang pulled back his fist. The figure fell to the ground with a thud, dissolving into a plume of smoke that dissipated into the air. A Nine-revolution Great Saint, who was also the master of a forbidden land, had fallen.
The people fell silent as they stared incredulously with blank faces, their hearts filled with mixed emotions.
Er Ha descended from the sky with Ying Long and landed at Bu Fang's side. Looking at the debris on the ground that was Black Demon, his face began to twitch with astonishment.
'He killed a Nine-revolution Great Saint with three punches… Are the chefs now all so violent and fearsome?'
The sneaky Lord of the Black Temple was killed by a chef. He didn't perish in the calamity that ended the previous age, nor did he fall in the hands of some Peaked Great Saint. He died under the fist of a Two-revolution Little Saint. For a Nine-revolution Great Saint, this was the worst way to die.
The fall of Black Demon naturally shook the world.
In the boundless battlefield between the sky and the stars, terrible explosions set off powerful waves of energy. The Sword Demon Patriarch was surrounded by thousands of swords, which seemed to cut heaven and earth to pieces. Suddenly, his expression changed, and he looked down in disbelief, his eyes full of horror.
"Black Demon is… dead?!" he said in an incredulous tone.
Lord Dog had transformed into an enormous dog with huge paws, while blazing Earth Prison Flames burned around him. There was a look of surprise in his eyes as well. 'Black Demon is dead? Who killed him?' he muttered in his head.
Standing atop the skeleton dragon's head, the golden skeleton's eyes flickered.
In the distance, Yellow Spring Great Sage burst out laughing. "That disgusting Black Demon is dead?! That's what I call retribution! Now that the Lord of the Black Temple is dead, you, as the Lord of the Cave of the Fallen Gods, are not far from death as well! Are you afraid now?" He laughed excitedly, pointing a finger at the skeleton from atop the Blood Illuminating Dragon's head.
His laugh caused the golden skeleton's face to turn sour.
"Let's go!"
All of a sudden, the blood-red ghostly fire jumped out of its eye sockets and turned into a giant wall of fire. Then, it left the battlefield with the skeleton dragon, fleeing at top speed. Black Demon's death brought great terror to it. Since someone had killed the Lord of the Black Temple, it might be killed as well. Therefore, it had decided to flee as quickly as possible. 'I would be safe as long as I'm hiding in the Cave of the Fallen Gods…'
Amid Yellow Spring Great Sage's hearty laugh, the golden skeleton of the Cave of the Fallen Gods fled like a defeated dog. That put a sour look on the Sword Demon Patriarch's face. 'How did Black Demon die?! Is that woman of God Vanishing Mountain here? Impossible… Even if she's here, she can't kill Black Demon!'
He pointed out a finger. Countless swords immediately fell from the sky, turning into a river of stars that swept across heaven and earth! The next moment, a small world filled with swords emerged over his head, and a silver sword flew out of it. He jumped onto the sword, pulled himself from the fight with Lord Dog, and sped away.
'That useless Black Demon… I only asked him to kill a chef, yet he failed to do such a simple task! No wonder he could only live until this age…' The Sword Demon Patriarch left with a gloomy face and a brooding mind.
Lord Dog and Yellow Spring Great Sage did not pursue him. They exchanged a glance and rushed out of the battlefield. They were also curious about who killed Black Demon.