My Beasts Grind Proficiency For Me-Chapter 187 - 92: Thunder Shakes the Nine Heavens
Wang Wenjia was the Capital City Commander of the nine outposts outside the Demon Realm. He was startled the moment the thunderclap sounded.
’Has another Demon Cultivator snuck into the Demon Realm?’ was his first thought.
Some Demon Cultivators, lacking a Demon Summoning Technique and unwilling to become monstrous creatures—neither human nor ghost—by absorbing Muddy Qi, would turn their covetous eyes toward the Demon Realm, attempting to acquire a demon from within.
Most of these audacious fools died at the hands of the Demon Suppression Army at the outposts. The few who slipped through the net were devoured by the Celestial Demons in the Demon Realm.
That prospect was manageable. What Wang Wenjia feared most was a Demon Cultivator emerging from the Demon Realm alive. Such cultivators had not found a compatible Celestial Demon; rather, they had been possessed, becoming vessels for Celestial Demons to infiltrate the Nine Heavens World.
They could easily handle ordinary, low-level Celestial Demons. Even with high-level Celestial Demons like the Nine-Child Demon Mother or the Three Corpses Bone Demon, they could activate the Array Formation on the Martial Might-level Flying Boat stationed at the outpost to easily suppress them or drive them back into the Demon Realm.
There was only one type of Celestial Demon against which Wang Wenjia could only defend from within the outpost’s Array, waiting for the Northern Army Governor’s Mansion to send a Golden Core Cultivator for suppression.
The Black Heaven True Demon.
If a Black Heaven True Demon concealed itself with Nine Nether Black Slaughter, even a Cultivator proficient in Dharma Eye techniques couldn’t see through its tracks. Moreover, it could use various Celestial Demon techniques and had numerous methods at its disposal.
Such a Celestial Demon was far beyond their ability to handle.
Fortunately, Black Heaven True Demons usually resided in the depths of the Demon Realm. They wouldn’t appear unless a massive number of Celestial Demons within the Demon Realm were slaughtered.
Wang Wenjia had guarded the Demon Realm for over twenty years and had only ever heard about the terror of the Black Heaven True Demon from his predecessors.
"Ready the Flying Boat. It’s probably another fool who thinks he can barge into the Demon Realm with a few Thunder Talismans. This commotion is a bit big, though. It might startle a Great Demon from within the Demon Realm."
He commanded the Demon Suppression Army soldiers under him, praying inwardly that the startled demon wasn’t a troublesome one like the Moon Demon or the Three Corpses Bone Demon.
Soon, the Flying Boat took to the sky.
Wang Wenjia and the soldiers aboard the Flying Boat stared with wide eyes, looks of gravity and shock frozen on their faces.
They saw one bolt after another of Purple Thunder Profound Thunder, as thick as tree trunks, being drawn down from the Nine Heavens. The lightning was dazzling, with arcs of electricity rolling like the branches of a Divine Tree, endless and unbroken.
As a Yu Hou responsible for monitoring the Demon Realm, Wang Wenjia had naturally cultivated an Eye Technique as well, but due to his limited aptitude, he had only mastered the basics. He didn’t even dare to extend his Divine Sense to investigate, fearing that the world-destroying True Thunder would injure it.
"In the center of that True Thunder... is that a person’s silhouette?"
He asked the soldiers under his command.
The soldiers’ Cultivation was only at the Qi Cultivation Stage. They glanced at each other in confusion. If even their Yu Hou couldn’t see clearly, how could they?
Soon, the Yu Hou from the other outposts flew over. After verifying their identities and Qi Mechanisms, they boarded the Flying Boat.
"Senior Brother Wang, what is happening?"
Wang Wenjia shook his head with difficulty and said with some uncertainty:
"I’m not sure either. But if I’m not mistaken, that should be our Supreme Profound Upper Yang Sect’s Taixiao True Thunder Technique and Great Cave True Thunder Technique. But if a senior brother is casting a spell to summon Celestial Thunder, where is his Magic Altar? And why would he come to the Demon Realm to do it?"
He glanced at the personnel on the Flying Boat and made up his mind.
"Take the Flying Boat over there. If there truly is a senior brother Subduing Demons here, we’ll go and lend him a hand."
Of course, Yang Jing was unaware of Wang Wenjia’s thoughts from dozens of miles away.
He channeled his Thunder Technique, summoning True Thunder from Taixiao Heaven and Great Cave Heaven. This was certainly not just for show.
The Great Cave True Thunder, better suited for transformation, was manipulated into a dense net of True Thunder. The more powerful Taixiao True Thunder was barely condensed into a throbbing, Heaven-reaching Thunder Sword.
When Yang Jing used his Thunder Summoning Technique to call down the True Thunder, the Black Heaven True Demon was utterly startled.
It couldn’t fathom how Yang Jing dared to summon Celestial Thunder without a Magic Altar, and at such an incredible speed—it took him barely more than ten breaths. That was almost exactly the amount of time it took for the True Thunder to fall from the Nine Heavens.
’Could this person before me be an heir of the Nine Heavens Thunder God?’
In just an instant, the Black Heaven True Demon made its decision: it turned to flee.
BOOM!
A peal of thunder exploded, and the Great Cave True Thunder net descended upon it.
The Black Heaven True Demon used its Nine Nether Black Slaughter to conceal its form, trying to evade the sky-spanning thunder net. But it was completely ineffective; the net caught it squarely.
A series of thunderclaps erupted as the rolling thunder net transformed directly into molten thunder, unleashing its boundless power upon the Black Heaven True Demon.
The Nine Nether Black Slaughter surrounding its body was instantly unable to sustain itself. Yang Jing opened his Dharma Eye and could clearly see its True Body being blasted full of holes by the Great Cave True Thunder.
Before the thunder net had even subsided, Yang Jing formed a seal with his right hand and pointed. The thunder sword formed from the Taixiao True Thunder came crashing down.
The cracking Purple Thunder was so swift that Yang Jing only heard the dull roar of thunder after the Black Heaven True Demon had already been struck.
BOOM!
The brilliant light was so blinding that even Yang Jing couldn’t help but squint.
The purple lightning throbbed ceaselessly, only gradually subsiding after a full dozen breaths.
By now, the Martial Might-level Flying Boat had only just flown to within a few hundred meters of Yang Jing. The arcing lightning from the two great celestial thunders forced the Flying Boat to activate its Defensive Array to withstand the aftershocks of the Thunder Technique.
Yang Jing took out the Demon-Catching Tripod and activated its Restriction. A dozen chains formed from Five-Colored Spirit Light flew out of the tripod, emerging from the dust and smoke to bind a mass of Nine Nether Black Slaughter.
The Black Heaven True Demon’s body had been obliterated by the Thunder Technique, leaving not even bones behind. Only this mass of Nine Nether Black Slaughter remained, its substance so remarkably resilient that a single bolt of Taixiao True Thunder could not completely destroy it.
Yang Jing cultivated the Righteous Dao, so this mass of Nine Nether Black Slaughter was useless to him. It could only serve to benefit the Demon-Catching Tripod.
The Demon-Catching Tripod certainly couldn’t imprison a living Black Heaven True Demon, but it was more than capable of completely Refining this strand of Nine Nether Black Slaughter.
Wang Wenjia naturally recognized the famous Spiritual Artifact of the Four Demon Sects, the Demon-Catching Tripod. His heart leaped into his throat. And that mass of black energy... why did it look so much like the Nine Nether Black Slaughter that the legendary Black Heaven True Demon was skilled in?
"My name is Wang Wenjia. I serve as the Capital City Commander, under orders to guard the Demon Realm. Dare I ask what business brings Senior Brother to the region we are tasked with watching over?"
He had to ask cautiously. A cultivator who could unleash such a powerful Thunder Technique while only at the Foundation Establishment Stage, and who had apparently just slain a Black Heaven True Demon, was not someone he could afford to be careless with.
"I am Yang Jing. I’ve just made some small progress with my Thunder Technique in the last couple of days. Hearing that the Demon Realm was full of Celestial Demons, I came to test it out."
Yang Jing reached into his robes, took out his Sect Jade Token, and flashed it at Wang Wenjia.
Seeing that the Sect Jade Token was authentic—an Identity Jade Token from the Five Elements True Spirit Sect—Wang Wenjia finally breathed a sigh of relief. Anyone capable of wielding such astonishing Taixiao True Thunder and Great Cave True Thunder could not possibly be possessed by a Celestial Demon.
He didn’t dare ask about the Demon-Catching Tripod, so he simply deactivated the Flying Boat’s Defensive Array.
"Senior Brother Yang, please come aboard the Flying Boat to talk."
