Infinite transcendence began with Covering the Sky.

Chapter 39 The Demon Emperor's Scripture

A giant toad perched in the lotus pond, emanating a demonic aura mixed with a foul, fishy stench. Its blood-red eyes revealed a startling bestiality, making it resemble a demon ready to devour its prey.

Qi Zhe knew at a glance that this guy was not a good beast, but definitely a powerful demon.

Qi Zhe is quite wary of his opponent now, and is standing still staring at it, waiting for it to make a mistake so he can strike it with his stick.

"Cuck!"

A thunderous croaking sound came from the center of the lotus pond. The giant toad, which had been squatting for half an hour, seemed to get impatient and let out a croak after swallowing the stone statue.

This giant toad possessed a keen sense of perception. It could tell that Qi Zhe's cultivation level was average, but for some reason, it inexplicably felt a sense of crisis.

Rather than fight with the human cultivators of unknown origin, the giant toad wisely chose to back down and run away.

A divine rainbow, carrying a massive demonic body, shot straight into the sky, causing gasps of surprise from the distant villages. The commotion alerted the villagers there.

Someone shouted, "A monster has appeared! It's a huge toad!"

Qi Zhe was also taken aback when he saw this. The other party was a bit cowardly and actually ran away. It seemed that he was not very strong.

But the origin of this toad made Qi Zhe think deeply. Just now, he saw clearly the stone statue mentioned by the other party, which actually looked somewhat like the Azure Emperor.

"The Southern Region is full of demons, which may be related to the Azure Emperor," Qi Zhe muttered to himself, recalling events from tens of thousands of years ago.

Tens of thousands of years ago, the Azure Emperor established a vast demon kingdom in the Southern Region. Unfortunately, after the Azure Emperor left, the demon kingdom collapsed, and many demons scattered across the land of the Southern Region.

This toad might also be a descendant of a great demon who scattered throughout the Southern Region after the collapse of the Demon Kingdom, because the Azure Emperor's stone statue is not something that an ordinary little demon can occupy.

"Cuck!"

Just as Qi Zhe was pondering, the toad demon that had shot straight up into the sky let out another thunderous croak, and then, like a meteor, crashed down into the distant fields.

It was cleaved from the sky by a sword light, its demonic body nearly split open, its abdomen pierced through, and its demonic blood spilled all over the ground.

"Hmph, where did this little demon come from? Does she really think she can fool everyone?" With a cold, sharp shout, Yao Xi, the Holy Maiden of Yao Guang who had already left, actually returned.

She slowly appeared from the horizon, dressed in a rosy robe and enveloped in a divine rainbow, radiating sparkling light in the air, like a fairy descending from the Jade Palace, truly breathtakingly beautiful.

A jade sword exuding an icy aura swirled around him, and the sword light that had almost killed the toad demon in one blow came from this jade sword.

"Croak, damn it!" Accompanied by the croaking sound, the giant toad actually made a strange human voice, as eerie as the cry of a ghost.

It was about to leave, but Yao Xi secretly unleashed a sword strike that nearly killed it. Now it can only lie on the ground, trying to recover from its injuries.

Yao Xi, the Holy Maiden of Yao Guang, possesses profound cultivation. Even if she hasn't reached the Four Extremes Secret Realm yet, she has already reached the Dao Palace Perfection. Furthermore, she has many trump cards up her sleeve, making her an absolutely formidable opponent.

Now that she was walking through the air, even Qi Zhe felt the oppressive aura emanating from her, and couldn't help but feel as if he were facing a formidable enemy.

Unfortunately, Yao Xi was always cautious, and her return was premeditated; she never expected to gain anything else.

Yao Xi's expression was slightly strange. She never expected to run into Qi Zhe by chance. After glancing at Qi Zhe, she spoke:
"I never expected to run into Junior Brother Qi here. It's quite a surprise. We've been looking for you for a long time."

Her voice was cool yet sweet, and her tone suggested she wanted to catch up with Qi Zhe, but in reality, she had never spoken a word to him before.

"Senior Sister Saintess remains as elegant as ever, but unfortunately, I have other matters to attend to, so I won't linger any longer." Qi Zhe said calmly to himself, then turned to slip away.

"Junior brother, what's the rush? If you're not coming back to the sect with me, where are you going?" Yao Xi's expression was teasing, as if mocking his dream of escaping.
A large toad lying in the field in the distance, seeing Yao Xi in mid-air shift her attention, seized the opportunity and couldn't resist soaring into the sky again. Yao Xi, who was about to continue speaking, changed her expression upon seeing this and said unhappily, "You monster, are you trying to cause me trouble?"

Yao Xi's words revealed murderous intent. She raised her hand and summoned her jade sword, which transformed into a stream of light. In an instant, she slashed at the flying toad demon, severing its lower body in one strike.

"Frog! Human cultivator, do you really think I'm afraid of you?!"

The giant toad's blood spilled onto the field, and even with half its body gone, it could still let out a strange roar, exhaling a foul, fishy wind. A stream of black water flew towards Yao Xi from within the fishy wind.

The black water was dotted with red light, like blood vessels swimming within it, and also seemed to carry a sense of the netherworld.

"Damn it, Heavenly Demon Yellow Springs!" Yao Xi exclaimed, her whole body radiating precious light and divine glow as she desperately tried to avoid the black water approaching her.

Yao Xi recognized the move and was shocked to realize that it was the ultimate technique of a former Heavenly Demon from the Eastern Wilderness, who used his own Heavenly Demon blood to create the Yellow Springs, which was enough to turn ordinary cultivators into ashes upon contact.

This giant toad actually knows this move, so it must have a trace of the blood of a celestial demon, and its ancestors must have been celestial demons.

Qi Zhe watched from afar as the human and the demon fought fiercely, his expression filled with ecstatic joy. But when he looked at the toad's body lying on the ground, a strange look appeared on his face.

"Haha, you guys fight to the death, I'll just reluctantly keep quiet and make a fortune!"

After laughing loudly, Qi Zhe raised his hand and snatched half of the toad demon's body, then flew away into the distance in a flash.

He had just seen the toad swallow the Azure Emperor statue whole, and now Yao Xi had cleaved it in two with a single sword strike. The statue might be inside the lower half of its body.

“Give it back to me!!!”

Qi Zhe fled into the distance, driving the giant toad, which had been fiercely fighting Yao Xi, into a frenzy. It actually swallowed the stone statue whole, and now Qi Zhe had carried it away.

"Damn it, that scoundrel!"

Yao Xi, who was wielding her sword to meet the attack, also saw Qi Zhe's departing figure. Her expression became somewhat anxious, and the words of the giant toad filled her with suspicion.

She knew that once Qi Zhe left, it would be extremely difficult to meet him again. After this accidental exposure, he would definitely be extra careful.

Now, Qi Zhe travels tens of thousands of miles in a single day, crossing mountain ranges until he is certain that there are no more Yao Guang disciples around before he stops.

In the wilderness, Qi Zhe sat by a stream, quietly observing a one-foot-tall stone statue.

The toad's body was now in his hands. Qi Zhe had been thinking about the stone statue the whole way, and after confirming that it was safe, he couldn't wait to start searching for it.

Qi Zhe eventually found the stone statue in a special stomach, along with a pile of other broken metal.

"This giant toad actually went to the Demon Emperor's tomb! These are all fragments of the Demon Emperor's Yang Tomb!" Qi Zhe grabbed the stone statue and turned to look at a pile of broken copper and scrap iron not far away.

But nothing could be more astonishing than the stone statue in his hand, even just by holding it. Qi Zhe could feel someone chanting scriptures in his ear.

As Qi Zhe sat cross-legged, he seemed to see a demon god in his mind chanting scriptures to baptize him, with the endless Great Dao contained within, though it was extremely profound and difficult to understand.

"Damn it, this is the Demon Emperor's Scripture!"

Qi Zhe found it absurd. He had obtained the Demon Emperor's Scripture, but he wasn't a demon! What kind of nonsense was this?

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