Poor Taoist Qiu Chuji

Chapter 390 The True Demon Child

Crimson lotus flames surged and rose from the boy's feet, while six arms with black veins in their reddish bronze behind him seemed to tear through the clouds and stretch out between heaven and earth.

The left side of the head has cold, piercing phoenix eyes, but its face is covered with a terrifying tumor. The right side has fierce, tiger-like eyes... but there are a few too many tiger eyes, three pairs in total, taking up most of the face. Only the central face retains the outline of a young boy, with crimson-gold flame patterns flowing between the arches of its sword-like eyebrows. It is the only one of the three faces that still retains a divine quality.

The arm wrapped in the nine-foot-long Hun Tian Ling held the Fire-Tipped Spear, while the other two pairs of arms held magical treasures such as the Qiankun Ring, the Demon-Slaying Sword, the Demon-Subduing Bell, and the Golden Brick.

Black and red nameless demonic flames spewed from the gaps in the lotus armor, casting flickering light on the three faces.

Seeing his old acquaintance Nezha emerge from the firelight, Qiu Chuji felt no joy at meeting an old friend in a foreign land; instead, a chill ran down his spine.

Because at first glance, he saw the head that Nezha was holding on his left arm.

Most of the hair and beard on the head had been burned off, and thick beads of blood were still dripping from the severed neck with bulging veins, proving that even though the head had been cut off, it had not been completely deprived of its life force. Instead, it seemed to have been refined into a unique demonic artifact.

This is the head of Li Jing, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King!

Even though this Li Jing didn't actually look like the Li Jing from Chentang Pass whom Qiu Chuji knew, Qiu Chuji was certain of the head's identity from the first glance.

In this fierce and cold scene, the head held in Nezha's left hand seems to have become part of his Dharma form, and it also contains unknown dangers.

Thoughts kept splitting off Qiu Chuji's side.

This technique is indeed very useful, and Qiu Chuji plans to explore it further and develop its potential even more.

Of course, they will never give up their own ranged and melee combat capabilities; it's just that they have one more option.

"You rogue cultivators from the lower realm, now that you have seen me, why do you not bow?" Nezha's three heads simultaneously looked down at Qiu Chuji with disdain, even though Qiu Chuji was splitting into one powerful and terrifying thought clone after another, he still did not take him seriously.

Even without the deep black eyeshadow of Nezha, the aura of this Nezha was far more demonic than that of the demon child.

The demon child may not be a real demon child, but the fierce god before us is truly fierce.

Faced with the provocation of this corrupted Nezha, Qiu Chuji did not tolerate it. He activated the Great Five Elements Wheel of Creation, which connected the five elements, and snowflakes instantly fell between heaven and earth.

Each snowflake carries an endless chill, like frozen mountains and rivers. As the snowflakes fall, the originally twisted and dark mountains are being covered by ice. Under a blanket of silver, everything ugly becomes seemingly lovely.

The nameless demonic fire that Nezha brought was also being suppressed, gradually compressing from its original rampant expansion into a fireball that surrounded his body and was only five or six meters in diameter.

Ordinary transformations of the five elements may only be able to activate relatively ordinary elemental energies.

However, after being filled with creation, Qiu Chuji could control mythical-level elements and materials.

In many mythological worlds, this snow is called 'Tai Su Xuan Shuang', which, at its extreme, possesses the power to freeze time and space.

Qiu Chuji used the Qi of Creation to manipulate the Five Elements. Even if he could not reach the ultimate level, his basic power, once unleashed, was already an extremely formidable and powerful technique.

The black and red lotus-shaped demonic fire clashed with the Tai Su Xuan Frost, turning the frost and snow into rain, while the flames swayed in the wind and rain.

The rain, imbued with the demonic nature of this world, instantly vaporized into a scarlet mist the moment it touched Nezha's manifested three heads and six arms.

In an instant, Nezha's six hands gripped his weapons tightly. With a cracking sound from his knuckles, the flames wrapped around the Hun Tian Ling suddenly shot up three zhang high, completely engulfing the last bit of spiritual light remaining between his eyebrows.

Before the thought had even faded, Nezha vanished from Qiu Chuji's sight.

Then, only through the keen perception of his primordial spirit could he detect a faint black and red malevolent line that pierced through the barriers of his clones and headed straight for Qiu Chuji's brow.

Below the level of immortals and gods, the heart and throat are vital organs, but above the level of immortals and gods, the brow and the spiritual platform, the place where the primordial spirit gathers, is the only fatal weakness.

Other injuries, such as having internal organs shattered or being decapitated, are not fatal.

"So fast!" Qiu Chuji couldn't help but exclaim. Even though he had learned and imitated the flying technique of the Golden-Winged Roc, he still couldn't match Nezha's speed in short-distance movement, even with his Wind-Fire Wheels.

Fortunately, at this stage, it's no longer a time when one trick can guarantee success.

The Five Elements Wheels shimmered, and the Five Elements Array unfolded in a highly three-dimensional manner, centered on Qiu Chuji.

Through the interrelation and manifestation of the Five Elements, a temporary small realm is emerging.

This is a formation, a field, and a domain... But if Qiu Chuji becomes a Golden Immortal and fully activates his Great Luo characteristics, then this can be a small world that can be laid out anytime, anywhere, with rules changed at will, and any home-field advantage set up.

At that time, Qiu Chuji's thoughts merged into the five elements' rotating small world. No matter where he was, he could pull his opponent into his own territory and plunge them into an endless sea of ​​people.

With the support of the home crowd, Qiu Chuji's mental clones were able to unleash even more explosive damage.

This is also Qiu Chuji's unique advantage.

After all, he has the Jade Void Bell Small World as a reference for deduction and the world in the Sky-Mending Stone as a practical exercise. Even if he needs to create a complete world rule and structure in an instant, he has plenty of opportunities to deduce the model.

The black sky seemed to be cracking within the Five Elements Grand Array, its rules intertwined into a giant net covering an area of ​​hundreds of miles. Thousands of clones emerged from the void, stepping on the array diagram. Each illusory figure had a different variant of the Five Elements rules condensed in its palm, and all sorts of powerful techniques from mythology were unleashed.

Golden sword energy cleaved through the clouds, and the mysterious water transformed into nine dragons that plunged straight down, while the roots of giant trees pierced the earth, creating wave after wave of rocky waves.

All things in heaven and earth are bursting with murderous intent; now is the time for Qiu Chuji to speak as he pleases!
The Hun Tian Ling wrapped around Nezha suddenly swelled up, and the scarlet silk twisted into an eight-headed dragon, tearing through the Five Elements seal.

The three-headed, six-armed demon grinned as it hurled its fire-tipped spear. Black and red flames erupted, and the Xuan Shui Jiaolong (mysterious water dragon) transformed into a rain of blood.

The moment the Wind and Fire Wheels crushed the three clones, Qiu Chuji's true form suddenly appeared and pressed down with a palm on one of Nezha's heads.

This palm strike was composed of at least a thousand layers of force, each layer imbued with elemental energy of different attributes, degrees, and patterns.

Such a complex impact, even if not fatal, will certainly cause temporary, controlled stiffness.

It's extremely difficult to completely eliminate the tangled mess of energy, elements, and forces that have invaded the body in a short period of time.

Martial arts practitioners' unique and precise control over power was taken to another level by Qiu Chuji.

Once you reach the level of a Great Immortal, the difficulty of killing with a single blow increases significantly. Qiu Chuji's cultivation of his martial arts skills no longer focuses on the pursuit of simple lethality, but rather on control techniques.

For magic to combine more than a thousand layers of elemental and energy changes, it requires too much complexity. But martial artists can change their physical bodies in countless ways. As long as they have enough control over their bodies, they can change their strength as much as they want.

Nezha, struck by a palm strike, crashed into the depths of the earth like a cannonball, breaking through layers of the earth's crust and becoming entangled with the twisted, pitch-black slime.

He deliberately didn't reduce the impact, and he was also drilling downwards.

The intention is to use spatial distance to buy time and break free from control.

The five elements urge together!

Qiu Chuji unleashed his deadly move without hesitation.

His friendship with Nezha, who was above all the heavens, did not affect his judgment at this moment.

Just as he is not himself, Nezha from different worlds is not a single Nezha.

Unless Nezha cultivates to become a Great Luo Golden Immortal, he can completely influence all the other beings in the heavens with his true self.

Once the tide of the Five Elements begins to sweep across the land, its extreme destructive power should not be underestimated.

This is a world that has already been polluted, so Qiu Chuji naturally no longer cares about using such excessively violent methods in the mortal world.

From the crack in the earth, Nezha's various magical treasures flew out, trying to buy him time.

Qiu Chuji's golden-armored clone formed the Heavenly Gang Sword Formation to annihilate the Hun Tian Ling, while his red-robed clone of the Sun True Fire stirred up molten lava that poured into the sky, taking away one of Nezha's trump cards for turning the tide and preventing him from drawing strength from the magma underground.

A wood-attribute clone drew out a large number of tree roots and plunged them into the viscous black liquid without hesitation, entangled with Nezha's churning body, and pulled more of his energy away.

In the blink of an eye, Qiu Chuji seemed to have seized all the advantages.

Just then, Li Jing's head, which Nezha was holding on his left, suddenly let out a painful roar and wail.

The overwhelming demonic energy transformed into a pitch-black hole.

Whether it was the chaotic and shattered aura of the five elements or the eerie substances remaining from the local mountain gods, they were all absorbed into this cave.

Nezha finally broke free from the control of the Thousandfold Force and regained some freedom. With all six arms swinging, he unleashed a terrifying wave of energy. The moment the Wind and Fire Wheels crushed the seventeen clones, the Hun Tian Ling had already wrapped around Qiu Chuji's neck.

Qiu Chuji suddenly transformed into the metal element and dissipated. His true form manifested as a five-element millstone in the clouds. Five-colored lightning followed the veins of the black hole's absorption and flowed backward into Nezha's body, attempting to forcibly destroy his lotus body.

In the brief span of a few breaths, Qiu Chuji and Nezha each had a fleeting moment when it seemed they could truly take each other's lives.

The earth collapsed into an abyss, and Qiu Chuji rose from the east, riding a blue dragon, while thousands of illusory figures in blue robes simultaneously brandished their swords.

Nezha swung the golden brick in his hand, smashing the attacking Vermilion Bird of Fire. However, his six weapons were sealed by the Xuanbing Chains for three breaths. In that split second, the giant sword formed from the Qi of the Five Elements cleaved into the center of Nezha's head.

Flame patterns appeared between Nezha's brows, and endless demonic fire burned the giant sword.

Every time the giant sword gets even a fraction closer to Nezha, it burns away a large amount of energy, causing it to shrink in size.

Snapped!
Nezha's head spun!
I felt completely drowsy.

The gold brick he held in one hand, for some unknown reason, suddenly "betrayed" him.

(End of this chapter)