Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest

Chapter 797 Killing the Flesh and Blood Snake

Every time the Blood Demon Lord waved his hands, everyone felt their blood and essence begin to stir and become uncontrollable, as if they were about to burst out of their bodies at any moment.

If the blood flows backward, the body will decay, and how can the true essence still function normally? Therefore, everyone has to divide their attention to suppress the blood energy, which makes fighting the Blood Demon Lord feel like having one arm tied, making the fight extremely frustrating.

Even a Golden Core cultivator could suppress their essence and blood from being controlled by the opponent's demonic arts with their cultivation, but Li Minghu could not resist and vomited blood several times in a row.

Fearing she might not be able to hold on, Yan Yu simply activated the Taiqing Yuanqi Yanlan to wrap her up from head to toe and send her to the edge of the battlefield.

Liu Longtao and Su Yunjin each unleashed their magical techniques. The latter used the waters of the Milky Way to surround the scene, squeezing the Blood Demon Lord's space to maneuver; the former fully activated the Five Dragons Sky Patrol Technique, bombarding and crushing the Blood Demon Lord, repeatedly reducing him to dust.

However, no matter how thoroughly he died, the Blood Demon Lord could always reform in the next second, which made everyone feel disheartened.

Let those with plenty of true energy handle the hard, strenuous work. Yan Yu stood beside Chen Lingyun, not making a move, adopting the posture of "I'm focused on protecting my wife."

"Did you notice anything?" he asked Chen Lingyun directly. "To be honest, I've never seen an absolutely immortal body. So-called 'immortality' usually comes with unique limiting conditions. Once those conditions are not met, the immortal body immediately breaks down."

Given his extensive knowledge and experience from his previous life, Yan Yu's judgment is certainly trustworthy.

“I think so too,” Chen Lingyun said earnestly. “I’m still watching.”

"With your intelligence, shouldn't you be able to spot their weakness at a glance?" Yan Yu teased her deliberately. "How come you've suddenly become so stupid?"

"Maybe I was influenced by someone," Chen Lingyun said playfully.

"Influenced by whom... cough cough!" Yan Yu realized his mistake as soon as he said it and quickly changed his words, asking, "Do you think it has anything to do with the surrounding environment? For example, can he draw almost endless life force from his surroundings, so that he can achieve immortality under certain conditions?"

“It’s possible,” Chen Lingyun said, “but it’s unlikely.”

"What do you mean?" Yan Yu said unhappily, "Speak human language to me."

"If it draws life force from the outside, how?" Chen Lingyun countered. "At first, the lower end of its tail was connected to the cave wall above, which could be understood as a form of contact-based absorption of essence and blood; now that it's suspended in the air, does it transmit life force through electromagnetic waves or something similar? I think it's better to consider this just an avatar, the main body that provides life force for its infinite regeneration, which is actually the outside world we see now, the original flesh and blood giant serpent."

“The flesh and blood serpent is not the true form.” Yan Yu immediately denied this possibility. “The flesh and blood serpent can also regenerate indefinitely.”

"So it's only a possibility, but the probability is not high." Chen Lingyun raised an eyebrow. "I told you this a long time ago."

"I don't want to listen to your word games of logic," Yan Yu waved his hand impatiently. "Give me a solution right now."

"What a willful boy," Chen Lingyun said with a smile. "When he encounters something he can't handle, he comes straight to me for help. Does he think of me as his mother?"

"It's not that I can't have you as a mother, but it's probably not feasible," Yan Yu said, mimicking her tone. "We'll see how you perform."

"Hmph." Chen Lingyun suddenly had a bright idea and said, "Call me Mom next time, and I'll help you this time."

"I already said no," Yan Yu said irritably. "Why the hell are your interests getting weirder and weirder? Can you stop being so perverted?"

"Damn it, Lao Yan, can you two stop wasting time flirting like that?!" Master Jing suddenly exclaimed from the front, "To suppress this bastard's regenerative ability, my true energy is plummeting like a stock index!"

Seeing that Yun Jin also turned her head to look for help, Chen Lingyun took out the Nine Heavens Yin Demon Prison Banner, shook it gently, and summoned the two Yin Gods, Black and White Impermanence.

These two must have devoured countless ghosts and monsters in the underworld. Their divine light was restrained, and their yin energy was abundant. After emerging, they first bowed to Chen Lingyun, and then hurled the Soul-Binding Chains and Soul-Hooking Nether Light at the Demon Lord.

The Blood Demon Lord, who had been relentlessly bombarded by the Five Dragons' Sky Patrol without flinching, now showed a hint of fear and hastily retreated to avoid the attack.

Su Yunjin immediately manipulated the Dao technique to block his path with the waters of the Heavenly River.

If one were to fall into the water, the current would inevitably slow one down. The Demon Lord could only stop in his tracks, and with no space around him to move, he hesitated for a moment before being struck by the Soul-Binding Chains and the Soul-Hooking Nether Light, instantly rendering him unable to move.

Everyone's spirits immediately lifted. Now that they had the demon lord under control, they could slowly work out a way to kill him without wasting any more of their true energy.

Liu Longtao swaggered forward, sized up the demon lord whose soul was frozen, and sneered:
"That's what you call a genderless thing? I could take on ten of them!"

"How about I let him go and let you hit him?" Chen Lingyun asked with a smile.

"No need!" Liu Longtao waved his hand dismissively, saying shamelessly, "He's not at his peak right now. It would be dishonorable and meaningless for me to defeat him!"

"Then you can just use one-tenth of your true essence to fight him," Yan Yu said jokingly, joining in the fun.

"Hey, where's Li Minghu?" Liu Longtao couldn't answer that question, so he could only play dumb. "They've all finished fighting, let her come over."

There was no longer any danger, and Li Minghu no longer needed to be excluded. She returned to the group, carefully examined the Demon Lord for a moment, and asked:

"So now we need to figure out where his infinitely regenerative life force comes from, right?"

“We can slowly work it out,” Liu Longtao said. “With more experiments, we’ll eventually figure it out.”

“It’s not appropriate to take things slowly,” Su Yunjin suggested tactfully. “There are more than just this one serpentine monsters around the world now. One of them has even reached the Bohai Sea. We should deal with it as soon as possible.”

"That's true." Liu Longtao, feeling embarrassed to joke any further, gave Yan Yu a look, meaning, "Ask your wife." "What does everyone think?" Yan Yu cleared his throat and asked.

“We could try cutting him up and transporting the parts separately,” Li Minghu suggested. “If the different parts of the body are separated and cannot be reunited, they might not be able to regenerate.”

"No need for that trouble." Chen Lingyun planted the prison banner on the ground, from which a faint, dark wisp of yin energy drifted slowly away.

The Demon Lord, who had been expressionless, suddenly revealed a look of fear and despair when faced with this wisp of Yin energy, as if it were something extremely terrifying.

"Hmm." A thought flashed through Yan Yu's mind, and he quietly transmitted his voice to Chen Lingyun, "Could it be the Yin energy?"

"Yes," Chen Lingyun readily admitted.

"Isn't Hell abandoned?" Yan Yu became interested. "This thing can only be found deep in Hell, right? How did you manage to collect the Yin energy? Besides, the Prison Banner shouldn't be able to store this thing."

“It’s very simple,” Chen Lingyun replied. “Use the Nine Heavens Yin Demon God Seal as a restraining container, collect a little bit each time you go to hell, and then use it to refine the Prison Banner.”

"After roughly refining the Prison Banner with the energy of Yin, there shouldn't be any problem storing things."

"That would take a long and painstaking process..." Yan Yu finally realized, "So the reason you were frequently taking leave and going out before you underwent your tribulation was to do this?"

"For us ghost cultivators, the Soul-Summoning Banner is like a Poké Ball to a trainer," Chen Lingyun said calmly. "With a Master Ball, who would still use an Ultra Ball? Everyone needs to upgrade from a slingshot to a cannon."

At the level of a Golden Core cultivator, it's impossible to collect high-purity Yin Qi. What Chen Lingyun has can only be considered a trace amount of impurities containing Yin Qi, but even a trace is enough. After all, "isolated Yin cannot produce life." This Yin Qi, which has been immersed in hell for countless years, is the nemesis of all living beings in the world. Even for a powerful demon beast, a slight touch will result in the complete necrosis of its physical body.

Even though the Blood Demon Lord possessed near-infinite vitality, he couldn't tolerate anything that directly targeted life; he was directly suppressed and killed by the very laws of nature.

As the Yin energy gradually approaches, one can see that the Blood Demon Lord's skin is rapidly drying, cracking, turning white, and becoming brittle, eventually turning into falling debris.

He did not continue to reproduce.

As the Blood Demon Lord gradually succumbed to death, the surrounding barrier of flesh and blood began to slowly wither away. His blood vessels ceased pulsating, his muscles stopped contracting, and it seemed the entire giant serpent of flesh and blood was being annihilated, its life force utterly severed by the pollution of hellish yin energy.

The cultivators calmly watched her perform her secret technique until the demon lord, who originally possessed an immortal body, completely lost his physical form, leaving only a beating heart in his chest cavity.

Chen Lingyun suddenly flicked the Prison Banner, drawing all the Yin energy, including the heart, back into the banner. Then, as if lost in thought, she said:
"Its seemingly limitless vitality is actually finite. Every time it consumes a life in the real world, it accumulates that life force within itself."

"So if we repeatedly kill that demon lord," Liu Longtao suddenly realized, "it will still die if we kill it enough times."

"In other words, it's just a fake, inferior form of immortality." Su Yunjin understood.

“It would be such a waste to destroy such a massive amount of life force.” Chen Lingyun looked at Yan Yu and continued, “Let’s keep it for research; it should be of some use.”

"Thank you," Li Minghu suddenly said.

"You're welcome," Chen Lingyun said with a smile.

Everyone knew perfectly well why Chen Lingyun had deliberately left this heart, which had absorbed countless life energies. If it could help Li Minghu rebuild his physical body and repair his congenital illness caused by the imbalance of the five elements, then this favor would be almost comparable to being reborn by his parents.

Will Li Minghu's explicit expression of gratitude lead to a change in the power structure within the harem?
Yan Yu's thoughts suddenly leaped forward in that instant, but then he calmed down again.

Not will.

Because Chen Lingyun is a staunch supporter of the harem. Rather than worrying about her disrupting the inner palace, it's more meaningful to consider how to prevent her from stirring up trouble and creating amusement for oneself.

After the Demon Lord's heart was taken, the entire world inside his abdomen began to crumble. A short while later, everyone was teleported back to the real world, where an invisible giant serpent, unseen in the distance, suddenly let out a heavy, mournful cry.

The sound directly affected their consciousness, containing immense sorrow and despair, causing the cultivators to become secretly alert and on guard.

“If I’m not mistaken,” Chen Lingyun suddenly said, “the Blood Demon Lord from before didn’t have a complete soul; he only had a fragment of a soul.”

"Fragments?" Yan Yu asked in surprise. "You mean, in order to control the Yamata no Orochi, Kambara Shimei split his soul into eight pieces?"

"What Voldemort-like behavior?" Liu Longtao chuckled. "You're making Horcruxes here, aren't you?"

"It's probably just to control the Yamata no Orochi," Chen Lingyun said calmly. "The grander the blood sacrifice ritual, the higher the Yamata no Orochi's realm and level. It's impossible for a single Golden Core level Onmyoji to control it. Dividing the Yamata no Orochi into eight is probably to reduce the difficulty of control."

“I have a question,” Su Yunjin asked. “But his own soul was also split into eight parts. Doesn’t that actually reduce his control?”

“That’s exactly what I find strange,” Chen Lingyun pondered.

"Maybe it's just for cosplay," Liu Longtao said nonchalantly. "Don't Sakura Empire people all love cosplaying anime characters?"

“I don’t think Voldemort can be considered an anime character,” Yan Yu said. “However, I agree with what Jingye said. It’s hard to come up with a normal answer when analyzing how someone with a mental disorder thinks.”

"Let's go back to the Land Kingdom."

(End of this chapter)