Chapter 357
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Chapter 357: The Five Elements Subduing Demons Array
Sage Huo Yun stood encircled by five opponents, yet his face betrayed no fear. He remained composed, a faint trace of mockery flashing in his eyes as though the five Golden Core stage experts around him were mere ants.
“Are there no others?” he asked mildly.
Bi Hao roared with laughter. “You think surviving the seventh-level great tribulation makes you invincible? How naïve! Trapped by us, you wouldn’t escape even with wings. But I’ll grant you mercy. Hand over your five alchemy pills, all cultivation techniques, pills, treasures, materials—then sever one arm. Do this, and I’ll let you depart.” His tone dripped with contempt, treating Sage Huo Yun as prey already subdued.
“I ask once more—is this all?” Sage Huo Yun’s icy gaze swept across Bi Hao’s face.
Duan Yan, fiery-tempered despite his two centuries of age, barked, “Enough prattle! We five are sufficient!” Brilliance flared around his fist as he lunged forward.
The Du family Ancestor raised a hand. “Patience. Let him choose.”
Elder Jiang Chong of the Qi Yang Sect nodded, greed flickering in his eyes. “Reaching the Golden Core stage is arduous, let alone enduring the seventh-level heavenly tribulation. Sage Huo Yun must possess unique insights into the heavenly laws. Such knowledge… should be shared.”
Bi Hao smirked. “Well said. Surrender your treasures, techniques, and heavenly insights, Sage Huo Yun. Refuse, and we’ll extract them through soul-searching. You know the agony that brings.”
Elder Jin, the weakest among them, stayed silent. His mind raced—if Sage Huo Yun counterattacked, his own sixth-level cultivation wouldn’t survive. “Second Brother, stop delaying! Activate the formation!” he urged.
“Begin!” Bi Hao shouted. Artifacts shot from his hands, suspending midair. The others followed, fifteen artifacts encircling them in a radiant web.
“Five Elements Subduing Demons Array!” Bi Hao bellowed. Light erupted, materializing five colossal deity statues—each radiating distinct auras of wrath, calm, benevolence, menace, and one shrouded in featureless gold.
Sage Huo Yun chuckled. “To think this backwater Jin Kingdom knows of this array! But yours is a flawed imitation—unworthy of its name.”
Bi Hao sneered. “This array vanished millennia ago! I rediscovered it a century past. How could you recognize it?”
“Irrelevant. You’ve barely grasped its shadow,” Sage Huo Yun replied. “True Five Elements Subduing Demons was wielded by ancient human heroes against the Devil Race. You insects dare defile it?”
“Enough!” Du Hua Sheng snarled. The wrathful statue above him thundered, shaking the skies. “Five Elements Subduing Demons—Converge!”
Five beams of fused power lanced toward Sage Huo Yun. Though a seventh-level Golden Core expert, his raw strength barely surpassed sixth-level cultivators. His true advantage lay in a heavenly tribulation-tempered soul and a cracking alchemy pill—precursor to the Nascent Soul stage.
Yet he smiled. A copper mirror split into five, intercepting each beam. Instead of shattering, the mirrors shimmered with mist before reflecting the attacks backward.
Bi Hao’s pupils constricted. “Shift!” The statues vanished, reappearing ten zhang away as the reflected strikes missed. New beams erupted from the statues’ eyes, merging into a divine rainbow that pierced Sage Huo Yun’s skull, exploded within him, and blasted through his body into a distant mountain.
The peak disintegrated in a deafening crash, stone shards shredding ancient trees.
Jiang Chong glared. “Fool! You might’ve destroyed the alchemy pills!”
Duan Yan nodded. “Compensate us with the array’s secrets afterward!”
Bi Hao ignored them, staring at Sage Huo Yun’s golden-lit form. Something felt wrong.
Miles away, Ye Yun frowned at the lingering light. “Master… something isn’t right.”
A cold dread gripped his heart—ominous and inevitable.
