Journey to the West: Demon Emperor: Beginning as a Little Toad

Chapter 420 The winner and the loser
Kang Jinxingjun lightly swung his double maces, and after a few blows, he actually smashed the extremely hard acquired spiritual treasure of Black Tiger Demon Lord into pieces.

This scene surprised Xiao Chen who was present.

You know, acquired spiritual treasures are extremely rare. They are so hard that even if a Daluo Jinxian uses all his strength, it would be difficult to destroy them without the help of some incredibly powerful magic weapons.

The physical strength of the Golden Horn King is only comparable to that of an acquired spiritual treasure.

"That pair of maces looks like an incredible treasure..."

Xiao Chen stared at the double maces in Kang Jinxingjun's hands with sharp eyes, and a scorching light flashed in his eyes.

The power of this pair of maces was beyond his imagination.

"Is it some innate spiritual treasure?"

Xiao Chen speculated in his mind, feeling extremely hot inside.

He had never seen this magic weapon before, and didn't know what it was. He had never seen Kang Jinxingjun use it before.

"Kangjin Dragon...Kangjin..."

But then, Xiao Chen changed his mind.

He suddenly remembered the power of Kangjin, which Kang Jinlong was good at. Such power was reasonable.

After all, Kangjin Star Lord is the incarnation of Kangjin power, and the double maces in his hands are naturally also the embodiment of Kangjin power.

In the mythological world, the strength and weakness of magic weapons are often relative.

There is also a distinction between the five elements of yin and yang among magic weapons, and there is a restraining relationship between them.

Especially for magic weapons of the same level, the restraint relationship is even more obvious.

Just like the Vajra Cutter of the Green Bull Demon, it demonstrated the powerful ability to "take everything", whether it was the Ruyi Jingu Bang, Nezha's many weapons, or the golden sand of the Eighteen Arhats, and the magic weapons of the gods, they could all be easily taken by it.

However, this powerful Vajra Cutter was restrained by the yang-attributed banana fan.

There is no other reason, fire overcomes metal, and fire-attributed magic weapons overcome metal-attributed magic weapons.

The banana fan was of the fire element and was a Yang banana fan. With one wave, the Six Ding Divine Fire would burn fiercely. Fire overcomes metal and could refine metal objects like the Vajra.

Therefore, the Vajra Cutter was like a mouse seeing a cat in front of Yang Bajiao Fan. It had no power to resist and was defeated in one blow.

For example, between gold and jade, gold is harder than jade, and when gold hits jade, it can often break it into pieces.

In addition to the innate jade such as the innate mutton-fat jade, which can resist the attacks of gold, at the same level, gold-attributed magic weapons can often restrain jade-attributed magic weapons.

There are many examples, such as:
Guanyin Bodhisattva once wanted to hit Sun Wukong with the sheep-fat jade bottle, but Taishang Laojun saw this and reminded him:

"Your bottle is made of porcelain. If you can hit him with it, it'll be fine. But if you can't hit his head, or it hits his iron rod, won't it break?"

The words of Taishang Laojun reveal the way of restraint between gold and jade.

Another example is during the Conferred Gods Battle, when Mo Liqing used the diamond bracelet to attack Nezha, Nezha was not to be outdone and casually threw the Qiankun Circle. The Qiankun Circle was made of gold, while the diamond bracelet was made of jade. When gold hit jade, the diamond bracelet was instantly smashed to pieces.

Another example is when Wen Liang used the white jade ring to attack Nezha, but Nezha was prepared and also used the Qiankun Circle. When gold and jade collided, the white jade ring was also smashed to pieces, which shows the power of gold overcoming jade.

The pair of maces in the hands of Kang Jin Xingjun can actually break metal magic weapons of the acquired spiritual treasure level. It is indeed powerful.

After all, most weapons are made of metal.

"Such a good magic weapon, now that you have seen it, it means that it is destined to be with me, King Jinjiao."

"You should try to touch it and get it somehow!"

Xiao Chen looked at Kang Jinxingjun's pair of maces with burning eyes and said secretly.

……

At this moment.

The Black Tiger Demon Lord was in a miserable state. He wanted to turn over desperately, but he was powerless. He had already been surrounded by a group of Tiangang stars and pinned to the ground.

The heavenly soldiers moved swiftly, and in an instant they bound him tightly with ropes. The hook knife ruthlessly pierced his scapula, making it impossible for him to perform his transformation skills and he could only let himself be manipulated.

The four demon generals under the command of the Black Tiger Demon Lord had either been captured or killed, and none of them escaped.

The four ghost kings also could not escape their fate, and were either captured alive or beheaded. The once mighty demon and ghost armies have now been completely wiped out, leaving the battlefield in a mess.

The Heavenly Court's operation to encircle and suppress the Black Tiger Demon Lord has come to an end.

However, the heavenly soldiers' mission is far from over, and there are still many aftermath matters waiting to be dealt with on the battlefield.

The first priority is to properly deal with the bodies of the sacrificed fellow heavenly soldiers.

For some of the dead heavenly soldiers whose souls are still there, the heavenly soldiers will naturally send them to the underworld to reincarnate and let them be reborn into a good family in the next life.

As for those heavenly soldiers whose souls were scattered and whose bodies were destroyed, the heavenly soldiers solemnly registered them and carefully checked whether they had any family members, descendants, sects, or teachers in the lower world.

Once verified, the Heavenly Court will immediately inform their relatives and teachers of the bad news, and prepare to go back and pay them death pensions to give the living some comfort.

however.

These three realms, seemingly in good order, have actually always been cruel.

When two armies fight, the victorious one becomes the king and the defeated one becomes the bandit.

When the two armies deployed their troops and the battle horns sounded, it was destined to be a bloody contest in which only the victors would be crowned kings and only the losers would be bandits.

In ancient times, this was the iron rule of war: the victorious side was like a supreme ruler, holding the power of life and death.

The losing party becomes an ant that is trampled on by everyone and has no dignity at all.

On ancient battlefields, burning, killing, looting, raping and plundering... these acts were often seen as accessories to victory, a means for the victors to demonstrate their power and show off their military might.

The conquered territory, captured enemy troops...all belong to the victorious side and can be disposed of at will.

At this moment.

It is a time of carnival, a time to enjoy the "spoils".

The victorious heavenly soldiers became the masters of this land. They acted recklessly, burning, killing, looting, and doing whatever they could.

For a moment, the 600-li Liyang Guiyu was filled with cries of killing and blood.

Wherever the heavenly soldiers went, the once vibrant mountains and forests became devastated, the green and shady scenes disappeared, and were replaced by scorched earth and broken branches and trees.

Cases of adultery occurred frequently. Those weak witches and seductive ghosts had no power to resist these ferocious heavenly soldiers and could only allow themselves to be bullied by them.

In the eyes of the heavenly soldiers, this was just the normal process after victory in the war and the "trophies" they deserved.

The heavenly soldiers were like greedy wolves, searching for their own "treasures" among the corpses.

Some heavenly soldiers carefully took out demon pills from the demon corpses. These demon pills contained powerful spiritual power and were excellent materials for refining pills.

As long as they are carefully refined, these demon pills can become panaceas for improving cultivation and healing injuries.

Some heavenly soldiers turned their attention to the claws, bones and other parts of the demon corpse, which were top-quality materials for refining weapons.

Among them, the Black Tiger Demon Lord's pair of majestic tiger claws that shone with cold light became the focus of competition among the heavenly soldiers.

This is the tiger claw of a golden immortal-level demon, which contains endless power and strength. Whoever can obtain it will be like a tiger with wings and his strength will be greatly increased!

"this is mine!"

A heavenly soldier roared, his eyes red, and he clenched the tiger claws tightly with both hands. His knuckles turned white from the strength, and he refused to let go at all.

"I got it first!"

The other heavenly soldier was not to be outdone. With greed flashing in his eyes, he pounced forward and wrestled with the former.

"I'll hack you to death!"

For a moment, the heavenly soldiers started fighting among themselves, and the sounds of fists and feet and weapons clashing were intertwined.

……

In order to obtain the pair of tiger claws, the heavenly soldiers instantly became bloodthirsty and completely disregarded the friendship among their former companions. They fought fiercely on the devastated battlefield, only wanting to take the pair of treasures for themselves.

at this time.

The "Earth Star" of the previous life of the dwarf tiger king Wang Ying passed by, separated the heavenly soldiers, snatched the pair of tiger claws in his hands, and announced with a smile:
"Don't fight, this tiger claw belongs to me."

Naturally, the heavenly soldiers did not dare to compete with Di Weixing, so they had to give up.

Di Weixing played with the tiger claws, feeling an inexplicable throbbing in his heart.

He thought of the fact that the Black Tiger Demon King had once fought with Kangjin Dragon Girl, and the aura of Kangjin Dragon Girl might still remain on this pair of tiger claws.

"Kang Jinxingjun..."

Di Weixing muttered to himself, with a hint of confusion in his eyes.

Di Weixing looked at Kang Jinxingjun in the distance and couldn't help feeling restless. He even secretly sniffed the pair of tiger claws. The faint scent made him intoxicated.

at the same time.

Some heavenly soldiers with ill intentions took the opportunity to capture a few beautiful and charming female ghosts and female monkeys, and hid them stealthily in some secluded corner to vent their animal desires.

However, those high and mighty heavenly generals turned a blind eye to this.

In their view, this was just a normal way for their soldiers to vent after fighting, and it was not worth making a fuss about.

Can the evil creatures in the underworld still be normal lives?
We should punish them, destroy them, and humiliate them.

What's more, a group of heavenly soldiers and generals went to dig graves, extending their hands to the souls that had already rested in peace.

They were like a group of unscrupulous tomb robbers, aggressive and arrogant, and went straight to the tombs of the Black Tiger Demon Lord and other tiger tribesmen.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

……

In front of the mausoleum, heavenly soldiers and generals gathered like a tide. With deafening noises, the power of all kinds of spells poured down like a storm, blowing the mausoleum into pieces and sending rubble flying everywhere.

Amid the flying dust, the heavenly soldiers and generals rushed into the tomb impatiently and began digging frantically.

The Black Tiger Demon Lord’s tiger father, tiger mother, tiger brother, tiger sister…these cold skeletons cannot escape the tragic fate of being desecrated.

"These tiger bones are good..."

"These tiger bones are really top-quality..."

The heavenly soldiers and generals showed no mercy and took out the tiger bones from the tombs one by one, with greedy and ferocious smiles on their faces. They wanted to use these tiger bones to refine powerful magic weapons to gain more benefits for themselves.

"Look, there are some magical weapons buried with the dead..." a heavenly soldier exclaimed.

As a result, the heavenly soldiers and generals blasted open the tiger tribe's tombs even more frantically and looted the burial objects inside.

They fought for it and refused to give in to each other. These treasures that originally belonged to the dead had become theirs.

"Hahaha, hahaha..."

During this crazy digging and looting, the Black Tiger Demon Lord witnessed it all and let out a crazy and desperate laugh.

He might have gone crazy at this moment.

……

This is a real war, this is a real battlefield.

War means killing people, killing many people.

War is never a gentle game, but a fight between life and death, a cruel fight that will take countless lives.

The battlefield was full of blood, cruelty and all kinds of violence.

In war, there is no such thing as truth, goodness and beauty, only blood and cruelty, violence and death.

The battlefield was shrouded in terror of life and death.

In this extreme environment, human desires are distorted and transformed into bestial frenzy and greed.

The divinity also faded and was swallowed up by the animality.

War, like a meat grinder, devours everything mercilessly.

According to the "normal process" of ancient warfare, after winning a battle, the army would burn, kill, loot, rape, massacre, dig up graves... these actions seemed to become natural on the battlefield.

The looting was over, the killing was over, the graves were dug...

The final process is naturally to set fire to the mountain and burn everything.

After all, after killing people, there will be fire.

"Brothers, set a big fire and burn this 600-li Liyang Ghost Valley clean!"

Tian Kuixing's voice resounded through the sky, and he shouted righteously:

"Burn away all these evil spirits and eradicate the rest of the evil!"

"Return a paradise to the people of Qingjiang County!"

"Yes!"

All the heavenly soldiers obeyed the order in unison, their eyes flashing with excitement and cruelty.

Burn, burn, burn!

Kill, kill, kill!

Afterwards, a group of heavenly soldiers set fire and burned the mountains in the 600-li Liyang Guiyu, and launched a ruthless massacre of the remaining living creatures.

The raging fire ravaged the land, turning the originally lush forests into a sea of ​​fire and scorched earth, like hell on earth.

The birds fled in all directions, but could not escape the arrows of the heavenly soldiers; the pangolins tried desperately to burrow into the ground, but the heavenly soldiers dug up the earth and burned them to death; the fish and shrimp struggled in the water, but the water kept boiling and they could not escape this calamity.

In the six hundred li Liyang Guiyu, all living creatures were wiped out and there was deathly silence.

"Hahahaha!"

"Hahahaha!"

……

The heavenly soldiers and generals laughed wildly amid the frenzy of burning, killing, looting, raping and slaughtering the mountains. Their laughter was full of cruelty and fanaticism.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"Burn! Burn! Burn!"

"Kill them all!"

"Let's see who kills more!"

……

With bloodthirsty gleams in their eyes, they pinned the remaining demon soldiers to the ground and beheaded them one by one without mercy.

They enjoy the thrill of slaughter.

"Look at Grandpa's two axes!"

The previous life of the Black Whirlwind Li Kui, the "Heavenly Killing Star", was even more murderous and became more and more unruly.

I saw Tianshaxing wielding two axes, indiscriminately killing everyone, whether it was a ghost, a demon, or a human, an old man, a weak child, or a delicate woman. He chopped them all off with one blow of his axe.

Tianshaxing took the lead, leading a group of heavenly soldiers and generals, sweeping in like a surging tide. They slaughtered the families of these demon soldiers and ghost soldiers wantonly without mercy.

In the end, "The Killing Star" even killed all the innocent birds and beasts that had no intelligence.

For a moment, it was unclear whether these heavenly soldiers and generals were gods or demons.

At this moment, who can tell the difference?
"Hahaha!"

"Wild fire, in spring!"

Tian Kuixing threw away his bloodstained red robe, stroked his long beard, raised a cruel smile, and said righteously:

"By this time next year, Qingjiang County will surely be a bright and vibrant place again."

……

"Xing, little demon is bitter."

"Bad luck, little demon is suffering even more."

Xiao Chen stood quietly aside, witnessing the tragic scene in the six hundred li Liyang Guiyu, but his heart did not experience too many waves.

Most wars in ancient times were fought like this.

The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. If you lose, you will be gone. If you win, you can massacre the city, dig graves, set fires... and plunder the spoils to your heart's content.

It's nothing more than a matter of changing fortunes and who wins and who loses.

But the King of Golden Horns has never been a good monster. He is cold-blooded and ruthless and doesn't like to meddle in other people's affairs.

He, the King of Golden Horn, is neither a savior nor a benevolent Bodhisattva, but a hypocritical and cunning monster. The fate of these creatures has little to do with him.

In such a chaotic time with war raging everywhere, it is enough for him to protect the demon soldiers and generals under his command and ensure their safety.

From the moment the Black Tiger Demon Lord was defeated, the fate of all living beings in the 600-li Liyang Ghost Valley was doomed to a tragic end.

If you want to fight, you have to think about the consequences.

Under the nest, have the eggs finished?
The law of the jungle in this world has always been so cruel and real.

"The ending of Huaguo Mountain is exactly the same as the current 600-li Liyang Ghost Valley..."

"The Flower-Fruit Mountain was set on fire by a group of heavenly soldiers and generals, who slaughtered people and dug up graves..."

Xiao Chen's thoughts couldn't help but drift back to the history in the original book, the tragic past of Huaguo Mountain.

In the original novel, in the second battle of Flower-Fruit Mountain, the Monkey King Sun Wukong was defeated and captured.

Huaguo Mountain is the ancestor of the Ten Continents and the origin of the Three Islands. In the forest, longevity deer and fairy foxes frolic, in the trees, magical birds and black cranes dance gracefully, rare herbs and flowers bloom all year round, and green pines and cypresses are evergreen all year round.

The Flower-Fruit Mountain is a fairyland filled with fairy air and full of vitality. How prosperous it is!
However, everything changed once Sun Wukong was defeated.

Erlang Shen and other gods, as well as a group of heavenly soldiers and generals from the Heavenly Palace, burned, killed, looted, set fire to the mountain, and slaughtered the monkeys...

The once vibrant Flower-Fruit Mountain was instantly transformed into a scorched ruin, full of devastation.

Even five or six hundred years could not heal the wound and bring Huaguo Mountain back to life.

What’s even more outrageous is that these heavenly soldiers and generals did not even spare the monkeys’ ancestral graves.

The heavenly generals and soldiers acted recklessly, some did it to refine elixirs and weapons, some to search for treasures, some to vent their personal grudges and seek revenge... and they dug up the monkeys' ancestral graves.

In ancient times, digging up ancestral graves was actually an excessive and immoral act.
But these heavenly soldiers and generals did exactly that.

These heavenly soldiers and generals were digging graves in the Flower-Fruit Mountain and dug up all the monkeys' ancestral graves.

The book records the tragic history of Huaguo Mountain with every word and sentence:

"At that time I thought the mountain was intact, but now I know the land is damaged. I hate Erlang for destroying me, and I am angry at the little saint for bullying me. 'I dug up the tomb of your ancestors and destroyed the foundation of your ancestors'..."

Huaguo Mountain, the once immortal mountain cave, has now become unrecognizable: "The bluestone burned into thousands of pieces of earth, and the green sand turned into a pile of mud. The clever rocks on the peaks turned into dust, and the springs at the bottom of the stream dried up and were covered with grass."

Sun Wukong looked back at the fairy mountain with tears in his eyes, and felt even more sad at the miserable mountain.

In front of the Flower-Fruit Mountain, Sun Wukong burst into tears and sobbed uncontrollably.

Born as a great demon king, unable to protect his own ancestral tombs, and unable to protect his own people, how sad is Sun Wukong at this moment?

Xiao Chen stood silently by, witnessing this tragic scene, and his mind was as clear as a mirror: If one day, his Kanyuan Mountain, Xuanjin Mountain, Yuntai Mountain... fought with the Heavenly Court and were unfortunately defeated.

There is no doubt that the demon soldiers and generals under his command suffered the same fate.

The people under his command, King Golden Horn, also suffered the same fate.

War has always been cruel and merciless. No matter the reason or good or evil, it only matters victory or defeat. The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit.

……

After burning, killing, looting and digging graves, the heavenly soldiers and generals seemed to wake up from a crazy dream, gradually regained their sanity, and the glory of divinity slowly reappeared.

The heavenly soldiers and generals were no longer as fanatical and cruel as before, but instead were calm and composed, as if everything that had just happened was just a passing cloud and had never really happened.

The heavenly soldiers and generals escorted the Black Tiger Demon Lord with righteous words and prepared to return to heaven to report.

At this time, they have regained their former dignity and solemnity, as if the previous burning, killing, looting, raping, slaughtering, digging graves... all those carnival-like atrocities seemed just a farce in an illusory dream.

In order to commemorate the achievements of the heavenly soldiers and generals, the new mountain gods and new land of Liyang Guiyu specially painted a series of shadow god pictures, including "Tiangang Disha Subduing Demons", "Tianxiongxing Subduing Leopards", "Tianshangxing Fighting Tigers", "Tiankuixing Commanding the Stars".

These shadow god pictures will be enshrined in Taoist temples in Qingjiang County.

For subsequent living beings to admire and worship.

(End of this chapter)