"It seems, this is all the strength you have," Su Heng slowly pulled his legs out of a muddy swamp, shaking off the muddy water clinging to him.
With a backhanded grip on his weapon, Su Heng's eyes narrowed, a cold laugh escaping him, "If that's all you can muster, you can't change the fate of dying by my hand today. Or, you could give up resisting and follow me back to the Demon Suppression Tower, and you might suffer less."
"How arrogant," the White Deer Demon King spoke coldly, her hands grasping the long halberd, its cold, gleaming blade aimed straight at Su Heng's brow.
Seeing this, Su Heng said no more.
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He bent his knees to gather strength, then leaped forward violently.
The ground beneath his feet exploded instantly, scattering a large amount of mud, creating a huge depression.
An intense sense of danger overwhelmed like a mountainous tsunami, and the White Deer Demon King lost her earlier composure. Su Heng's speed was too fast and fierce, and in mid-air, he used the vibration methods within the heavenly fierce demonic energy to eliminate sound and the surge of air.
In the White Deer Demon King's perception, it was as if Su Heng had vanished into thin air.
In her line of sight.
There were only claps of thunder booming out of nowhere.
Those weren't real black thunders but the nerve reflexes caused by the White Deer Demon King pushing her perception to the limit.
"Up there!"
Lifting her head as if connected by intuition, her pupils suddenly contracted, and the roaring blade was less than half a meter from her forehead.
"Life and Death Reincarnation!" the White Deer Demon King exclaimed sharply.
In the nick of time, she activated her innate ability again.
This time, however, she didn't attach her life force to the external environment to promote plant growth.
Instead, she extracted life force from the lush natural environment of the canyon, attaching it to her body, enhancing herself.
Under the boost of Life and Death Reincarnation.
Her strength, physique, and reaction speed were comprehensively improved by more than double.
However, even so, she was only barely comparable to Su Heng's normal state.
Boom!
The long halberd was lifted with both hands, raised in defense.
The overwhelming force broke through the White Deer Demon King's Protective Demon Barrier like a blood-colored tidal wave, sending her flying.
The Demon King's heavy body was sent flying over ten meters into the air.
Meanwhile, Su Heng's figure disappeared again.
He instantly appeared above the White Deer Demon King, delivering another top-down strike.
Whiz!
Her body whistled as it moved.
Accompanied by the intense friction of the air producing a red arc of light, she heavily slammed into the ground. The dark soil of the canyon violently undulated, resembling waves, and the villages nearby faced repercussions, collapsing in large patches and emitting thick yellow smoke.
"This power!" In the pit, the White Deer Demon King's arms, along with her four hooves, suffered varying degrees of damage.
Blood flowed copiously from her orifices, leaving stains on her pale skin.
"Huh?"
As the dust dispersed.
Seeing this from a distance, Su Heng was slightly surprised that the White Deer Demon King could still stand.
He had intended to capture the Demon King alive to transform her into a flesh farm, and had not used a few of his trump cards when he made his move.
Nevertheless.
Her body lost control, and like a kite cut from its string, she soared into the air.
"Cough, cough!" As the White Deer Demon King regained consciousness and opened her eyes once again, she realized she was embedded in a rock wall.
The entire face of the rock wall had fractured and collapsed, creating a crater tens of meters in diameter.
This was just the aftermath of that one strike. The White Deer Demon King's scalp tingled, hardly able to imagine the extent of Su Heng's strength.
Intense pain transmitted from every nerve ending across her body. Her halberd was completely shattered. Countless fragments embedded in her body, a bloody, blurred mess, made her look like a battered doll, collapsed on the ground unable to move.
In the crimson glow of blood, Su Heng walked forward step by step, his head bowed low.
"I caught it!" The White Deer Demon King shivered, then desperately shouted, "You said before, if I can catch your punch, you'd spare me from death!"
"Hehehe." Su Heng opened his mouth, revealing a terrifying smile, "I don't eat beef."
"What does that mean?" A huge question mark popped above the White Deer Demon King's head.
However, she had no time to think further, for Su Heng's terrifyingly smoke-billowing hand had already reached forward, grabbing towards the slender neck of the White Deer Demon King.
The White Deer Demon King no longer possessed her previous grace and confidence.
"Song Zhao Yuan!" she screamed, "if you do not take action now, do you plan to wait until he kills us all one by one!"
"You think to distract me with such methods, you think I am... Hmm?"
Su Heng raised an eyebrow.
At his side, a burst of firelight exploded.
The air distorted and expanded, hair shriveled, and the nostrils were filled with the pungent smell of sulfur and thick smoke.
"So there really is someone ambushing here, interesting," Su Heng remarked, though it was merely the case for an additional punch.
Boom!
He turned around and threw a punch.
The air exploded violently, and a wave of red fire swept towards him.
Like a cannonball bursting out of nowhere, this person was considerably strong; Su Heng's body was knocked back over ten meters.
Song Zhao Yuan, on the other hand, ended up much worse. The dragon-like power hit him, sending him flying backward. A series of exaggerated explosions rang out along the way, and several large trees collapsed thunderously, kicking up dust. Finally, he slammed heavily into a protruding rock face, creating a crater.
"Noble families indeed blatantly collude with demons," Su Heng's eyes narrowed slightly, his gaze icy cold.
From the contact just now,
he had sensed the scorching Martial Artist's vigor from that person, obviously having cultivated a high-quality Cultivation Technique to perfection.
"But what of that, it's just a dying struggle," Su Heng moved forward two steps.
But just then, a sudden change occurred.
The ground beneath his feet buzzed and trembled as if an earthquake had struck, quickly bulging upward.
Massive tree roots broke through the soil, wrapping around his body like they were alive. These roots, brimming with robust vitality, were extremely tough, gleaming like steel with a dense metallic luster. Su Heng struggled forcefully a couple of times but failed to break free.
"Quick!" the White Deer Demon King shrieked, "now's the time, I can't hold him for too long!"
Boom!
Song Zhao Yuan tapped his toes heavily on the ground, reappearing on the battlefield.
He pushed his family's inherited Fiery Sun Divine Skill to its limit. Gone was his previous scholarly appearance; his body turned bright red and his long hair blazed like flames, floating mid-air like the mythic fire god Zhu Rong.
He opened his mouth and inhaled deeply, his cheeks puffing up high.
Accompanied by the crackling sound of the air exploding, a cone-shaped flame jetted out, striking the tree cage that imprisoned Su Heng.
The thick roots were ignited instantly, burning fiercely.
And during this process, the roots continued to grow, driving the airflow and shooting up into the sky, swiftly forming a hundreds of meters tall flame tornado. The fog pervading the canyon was swept away, and the entire sky was illuminated in a reddish hue!