Fate-Defying Demon Emperor-Chapter 294 - 281: Thundering Bagua

After destroying Xuan Song's stone turtle, Su Han temporarily shook him off. He sped westward at an incredible pace but dared not stop, for Xuan Song was still in pursuit. If he paused for even a moment, he would be overtaken.

This blood-red light is like a maggot boring through bone. It's so hard to get rid of... how troublesome!

Aboard the Thunder Light Treasure Ship, Su Han simultaneously piloted the vessel and tried to find a way to erase the crimson glow. However, this mark had been condensed from Xuan Song's own Heart Blood and contained the power of his Heavenly King Realm Third Layer cultivation. Unless Su Han broke through to the Divine Power Realm, he could only wear it down bit by bit. Until it was gone, the bloody light would continue to pulse from his body, making him incredibly conspicuous.

Su Han tried various methods—washing it with his Divine Sense, devouring it with Demonic Qi, and shielding it with the Nine Palace Golden Pagoda—but the effects were all negligible. The only solution was to painstakingly erase it over time.

Suddenly, Su Han's expression shifted as he glanced down at the Bronze Ring on his finger. The purple Lightning Qilin—the one corresponding to his Purple Lightning Imperial Body—had finally awakened.

Since he couldn't erase the blood-red light for the time being, Su Han calmed his mind and sent his consciousness into the Prison Divine Palace. Perhaps the Lightning Qilin's inherited memories will hold a pleasant surprise.

The dark and cold Prison Divine Palace was eternally unchanging, as if time and space within it were completely isolated from the outside world, immune to the passage of eons.

Now, however, purple light flooded the space, and arcs of lightning flashed. The entire Prison Divine Palace seemed to have become a temple to a god of thunder.

Su Han focused his Heart Spirit and looked up. He saw that the indescribably noble, pure purple Lightning Qilin had opened its eyes and was now gazing at him.

"Insignificant human, are you the inheritor of the Cruel Demon Emperor?" the Lightning Qilin spoke in a human tongue. Its piercing gaze was like a bolt of lightning striking directly at Su Han's Heart Spirit, and its pure divine might inspired an instinctual urge to prostrate and worship.

Qilins are auspicious Divine Beasts. They are exalted beings with noble bloodlines and extraordinary origins. From their perspective, humans were nothing more than ants underfoot, fit only to kneel and submit.

It was wreathed in surging Purple Lightning, radiating an extraordinary majesty. Its words were not a question but an interrogation, utterly dismissing Su Han as beneath its notice.

Su Han's response was a single punch—the Golden Emperor Tanyang Fist!

Although Su Han was only a consciousness form and lacked his Dragon Silkworm Silk Gloves, this punch was still immensely terrifying, backed by the power of his Crystallization of the Holy Body and one hundred and twenty-eight Great Luo Golden Bones.

BOOM!

The Golden Fist Radiance erupted from his attack like a blazing sun, sweeping aside everything in its path. It suppressed heaven and earth, utterly unstoppable.

"Audacious! How dare a mere member of the Human Race commit such an act of insubordination!" The Lightning Qilin, feeling its divine might had been provoked, let the lightning around its body surge. It swiftly condensed into a thick bolt that shot out to intercept the Golden Emperor Tanyang Fist.

Unleashing the Qilin Step, the Lightning Qilin's entire body transformed into a streak of purple lightning with a single movement of its foot. It moved with unbelievable speed, appearing before Su Han in the blink of an eye before stomping down, intending to trample him underfoot.

Su Han countered with the Thunderbolt Seven Absolute Slashes. He materialized the Black Blade and slashed out, sending a blade of light streaking across the sky toward the Lightning Qilin.

"Wielding lightning in my presence? You're showing off your paltry tricks before the master," the Lightning Qilin sneered. Just as it spoke, the Thunderbolt energy gathering on the Black Blade rapidly dissipated, unable to coalesce.

BANG!

Su Han was kicked flying by the Lightning Qilin, carving a long gash in the ground before crashing heavily.

This Lightning Qilin's combat power was immense. The Purple Lightning wreathing its body contained such terrifying destructive force that even Su Han, with his Crystallization of the Holy Body, could not withstand it.

Seeing the Lightning Qilin charge again, Su Han didn't dare to be careless. He unleashed the Character Technique of Motion and the Origin Technique: Lightning Fast!

His speed exploded to thirteen times its normal limit, allowing him to dodge swiftly. But the Lightning Qilin's speed was equally formidable, only a fraction slower than Su Han's.

Su Han unleashed his full power, successively casting Ice-Fire Sixth Layer Heavens, Heavenly Dragon Eight Sounds, and Nine Heavens Divine Light. He employed various prestigious and powerful Divine Methods and Origin Techniques, but he had been cultivating for too short a time. While he had grasped numerous powerful arts, he was not truly proficient in any of them, and as a result, they posed no substantial threat to the Lightning Qilin.

Suddenly, the Lightning Qilin stomped its foot, unleashing the Thunder Eight Trigrams!

In that instant, endless Purple Lightning erupted, sketching a Bagua Formation in the air that completely enveloped Su Han. Fueled by Purple Lightning, the array took the shape of the eight trigrams, transforming into a celestial Bagua Furnace intent on refining Su Han to ash.

BOOM!

Infinite Purple Lightning erupted like flames, instantly submerging Su Han. It was like the legendary Bagua Furnace attempting to refine Sun Wukong, carrying an unstoppable aura of annihilation.

Su Han rapidly cast four of his major Origin Techniques to form his strongest defense: Dragon Phoenix Protection, the Star Shifting Technique, Adorned with Stars and Moon, and Myriad Encompassing Heavenly Attraction. But the Thunder Eight Trigrams was simply too powerful; even Su Han's ultimate defense could not withstand it.

"The Human Race can only submit at our feet! Those who defy their betters shall die!" The Lightning Qilin's body surged with Purple Lightning as it looked down upon Su Han, its gaze as cold and final as the judgment of the heavens themselves.

The Purple Lightning within the Bagua Formation grew increasingly violent. First, the hundred-meter magnetic field collapsed. Next, the Dragon Phoenix Protection shattered. Finally, even the Starry Moon Armor was reduced to ash.

Inside the Bagua Formation, the scene was indescribably terrifying. It was like an Apocalyptic Disaster had struck, or a heavenly tribulation had descended.

Just then, a sharp glint flashed in Su Han's eyes as he activated the Origin Technique: Shape-Shifting Shadow.

The next moment, Su Han appeared outside the Bagua Formation while the Lightning Qilin stood in his place, now forced to endure the terrifying assault of its own Thunder Eight Trigrams.

It all happened so swiftly and unexpectedly that the Lightning Qilin was completely unprepared. It was wounded by its own signature technique.

Without a moment's hesitation, Su Han activated the Devouring Heaven Demonic Art. He immediately initiated Physique Fusion, and with the enhancement from the Prison Divine Palace, the Devouring Force of the Black Hole surged exponentially.

"Despicable human, I'll kill you!" the Lightning Qilin roared in fury. But it was unable to struggle as it was slowly devoured and refined. Bit by bit, the boundless Purple Lightning vanished, the Bagua Formation dissipated, and calm returned to the Prison Divine Palace.

Su Han sat cross-legged, performing the Refinement on the Lightning Qilin and absorbing its inherited memories.

Soon, Su Han had acquired all the Lightning Qilin's memories, including its racial characteristics and its Bloodline Inheritance Technique.

Among them all, what delighted Su Han the most was the Lightning Qilin's signature ability.

*Thunder Eight Trigrams: Construct a cosmic Bagua Furnace, fueled by Purple Lightning, to refine all creation.*

This was an excellent technique for trapping and eliminating enemies. Without hesitation, Su Han began to cultivate it, quickly mastering the first trigram.

With the Lightning Qilin's Refinement complete, Su Han's consciousness withdrew from the Prison Divine Palace. The blood-red light on his body remained, but he now had an excellent plan.

This plan not only made erasing the light unnecessary, but it would also allow him to turn the tables and kill Xuan Song.

You dared to hunt me? You're already dead!