Chapter 355: Simplicity Is The Ultimate Manifestation of Complexity
Saint Concubine, Tian Mo Concubine, and the court ladies were stunned and kept dead quiet. They were, after all, Demon Saint's concubines and mistresses. And now, Demon Saint was finally coming over to fight with Zhong Yue, they didn't know what to feel or say.
All of a sudden, lights flashed across Tian Mo Concubine's eyes and she stepped forward. Just as she was going to speak, Zhong Yue shook his head and said, "There is no need for you to do so. The Demon Queen is with him and I need someone to keep her busy so that I can fight with Demon Saint without distractions."
Tian Mo Concubine then nodded, and said, "I'll take care of the Demon Queen."
The ladies then moved themselves thirty miles away from him. Thirty miles was a moderate distance to Qi Practitioners like them; the afterimpact of Zhong Yue and Demon Saint's skills would be greatly weakened after traveling that distance, and they wouldn't be endangered at that range.
At the same time, if they were galvanized into action to reinforce Zhong Yue, their skills and soul weapons could be launched in a trice to help him. Thirty miles was a perfect distance where they could easily act while keeping themselves safe at the same time.
Zhong Yue looked at his surroundings. At the edge of the burning fire ocean was a lofty mountain. One side of the mountain was burned red by the fires, while the other side was still icy cold.
In the sky above the mountain, there was a crescent moon that was incredibly close to the summit. It felt like one could literally touch it from the mountaintop.
It was a crescent moon because an invincible skill had through it and vaporized half of the moon away, causing it to look like a crescent moon from then on.
And it was exactly the moonlight from it that was freezing the other side of the mountain.
Zhong Yue strode over to the top of the mountain, stepping in mid-air as if he was climbing on invisible stairs. He stood steadfast on the top of the mountain with both his hands clasped behind his back. An appalling aura surged out from his body and pierced through the clouds, his clothes were fluttering in the winds and totem patterns coalesced like streamers around him.
His aura was getting stronger with every second and he was filled with burning desire to do battle. He was like a lighthouse in the middle of the night, lighting the path for the Demon Saint to come to him!
It was a challenge to the Demon Saint!
If the Demon Saint could sense the aura, he would also be able to sense the battling desire in it, and a saint figure like him would never back down from challenges!
Zhong Yue looked over into the fire with his divine third eye. In the midst of the fire, a huge emerald leaf floated in mid-air and was moving toward him. Demon Saint was standing at the stem of the leaf, the totem patterns streaming behind his head in the midst of the demonic fires added a bright color to his elegant air.
Behind him, the Demon Queen and the other five demon concubines were standing on the emerald leaf, many court ladies surrounding them like verdant leaves to their blooming flowers.
These beautiful ladies were dressed in exquisite blouses, totem patterns were streaming behind them and made them look like goddesses from the heavens instead of dreadful demons.
This emerald leaf, it must be a divine weapon, most likely Demon Saint's soul weapon in his last life?
Just as Zhong Yue was thinking about it, a boat appeared in his visions. The boat was made of ancient woods engraved with the ancient totem patterns that would glimmer marvelously when the fires touched the boat.
The wooden boat wasn't big, less than thirty feet long. Poling the boat was a young demon. He used a long bamboo pole to propel the boat, and from time to time, he would casually move the bamboo pole from one hand to another. It felt like as if he wasn't steering through the demonic fires, but was actually taking a leisurely trip down a river.
"Shura!" Zhong Yue exclaimed in surprise. The young demon was none other than the self-proclaimed Sha Qishan's servant, the young demon of the Shura Saint Clan who called himself Shura. He was now sailing a boat in the midst of the demon flames!
Judging from the direction Shura was steering his boat, he was trying to intercept the Demon Saint!
"He is not Feng Wuji's demon incarnation!" Zhong Yue's eyes brightened up and he mumbled softly, "Feng Wuji wouldn't have such a strong demon cultivation base and a demon divine weapon! Both the wooden boat and the bamboo pole are demon divine weapons!"
The fire ocean was formed when the last Xin Huo inheritor's skills clashed with the innate demon god's skills. Even the ten malefic weapons of Swords Gate would be turned into ashes in the fire ocean and only the divine weapons would be strong enough to withstand the fires!
Who is this Shura? Why is he going against the Demon Saint?
An earth-shaking thought suddenly flashed across his mind and he was inspired. Only one demon dared to give himself the name of Shura, the ancestor of Shura Saint Clan! Shura, he might just be the one of the eight demon gods that studied the Demon Saint's corpse, the founder of the Shura Saint Clan!
This grand ancestor of the Shura Saint Clan, he revived himself just to stop the revival of the Demon Saint!
Zhong Yue took in a deep breath of air and he finally understood what Shura meant by they were the same, and his request to cooperate.
He must have thought that I'm also one of the eight saint clans' grand ancestors, which is why he said that we are the same.
Zhong Yue's prowess was far above than his peers and he was listed on the Godlike Board. All of these achievements were looked very much like what a young demon god could have done. So, a demon god who could revive himself at this point in time could only be one of the eight saint clans' grand ancestors!
The eight grand ancestors of the eight saint clan were all demon gods, they knew each other and had conquered a piece of land in the Eighth Barren themselves. However, without Zhong Yue letting out who he truly was, even Shura wouldn't know which of the eight saint clans Zhong Yue was from.
Zhong Yue looked at the two and realized he also had a divine weapon that could allow him to travel in the fire ocean, the Azure Dragon Marked Banner.
However, Demon Saint's emerald leaf and Shura's wooden boat were both soul weapons in their last incarnations, they could at the very least unleash twenty-some percent of the divine weapons' powers.
The Azure Dragon Marked Banner wasn't Zhong Yue's soul weapon. Even today, he couldn't use it. Even if he forcibly tried to do so, the Azure Dragon Marked Banner would siphon a great amount of arcane energy from him and with his arcane energy depleted, he would only die in the fire ocean.
Shura wanted to work with me, but it's impossible to do so in the fire ocean, Zhong Yue frowned and cast off his thought of entering the fire ocean.
The wooden boat and emerald leaf were getting closer. Demon Saint also saw the young demon with the bamboo pole, he suddenly stopped the emerald leaf, his clothes fluttering in the air.
On the other hand, the young demon of the Shura Saint Clan raised the bamboo pole and gently tapped in the direction of the Demon Saint; while the Demon Saint took out a sword breaker and countered the bamboo pole.
The two revived demon gods were leisurely fighting in the fire ocean as if they were friends playing games together. Their attacks were simple and crude, and yet, Zhong Yue's face turned solemn and locked his brows deeply.
Whether it was Demon Saint or Shura, their attacks were extremely simple, thrust, swung, tap, push, pull, they were all clear and common. In the eyes of the ordinary Qi Practitioners, some might even laugh at their attacks, but Zhong Yue's view and experience were way beyond the level of the Inner Core. He could tell clearly that even though the attacks were simple and crude, these attacks contained the true mysteries of the skills and techniques!
Simplicity is the ultimate manifestation of the complex world, and the greatest skills were done in the simplest moves.
The simplest moves contained the strongest powers, way more terrifying than the marvelous-looking skills!
Furthermore, they were in the fire ocean that could literally burn everything away. An Inner Core Qi Practitioner's skills would have the totem patterns that composed them burned away before they could even strike out. Hence, the simplest moves and attacks were the best in there.
These moves and attacks were done by the demon divine weapons that could withstand the burnings of the flames, the most suitable means to fight in the fire ocean!
Demon Saint and Shura's cultivation base are unearthly strong and firm, and with the addition of their demon divine weapons, they are indeed the ancient demon gods!
Zhong Yue's heart sank. Battling with opponents that had the simplest and yet strongest attacks and also the demon divine weapons, one could infer how dangerous it would be!
How can I beat them? Zhong Yue wondered. He stood on the tip of the mountain, the crescent moon shining brightly above him. Zhong Yue was staring at the battles of the two revived demon gods with his divine third eye and in his psyche ocean, skills were formed and launched, raging around inside his psyche ocean!
He was casting everything he had learned in his whole life, casting them out in his psyche ocean while simulating the battles of the two demon gods.
[Great Boundless Sword Qi],[Monster God Ming King Art], the Martial Master's battling arts,[Great Sun Heavenly Demon Art],[Heavenly Saint Godly Radiating Art],[Hundred Dragons Soaring Forms]—— every single art, skill, and technique he had learned were cast.
And his heart sank deeper and deeper with every single move cast.
None.
None.
None...
None of the things he had learned could fend off the Demon Saint and Shura's attacks!
Demon Saint and Shura had already incorporated their skills and techniques into their own blood and bodies, already a part of them! With what he had right now, he wouldn't even be able to fend off a strike and would die in just one exchange!
His foundation was still not as strong as Demon Saint, Shura and the other demon gods. This wasn't something one would be able to acquire without cultivating for a long time!
Zhong Yue closed his two eyes and looked at the battle with only his divine third eye.
The skills in his psyche ocean suddenly dispersed and what was left behind were the totem patterns that formed the skills. They were clashing against one another, reforming into different shapes and permutations, trying to come together as a new skill, one that would be able to compete against Demon Saint and Shura!
All of his potential was triggered at this moment, as Shura was showing signs of weakening. Once Shura was defeated, Demon Saint would tread through the fire and come for him!
However, one could tell how hard it was to derive a new skill out from everything he had learned in the past, just how impossible it seemed to be.
Zhong Yue hadn't even finished completing the[Celestial Demon Tai Chi Art]to its greatest form. Hence, creating a better skill from an incomplete art made it even harder; a slight moment of inattention would eventually lead to death!
However at this point in time, right here right now, he could only take the risk and give it his best shot.
"Brat Yue, you aren't even strong enough to be an opponent to him." Xin Huo looked at the battle of Shura and Demon Saint, and said, "They were gods in their past life, even the weaker one of them isn't someone you can defeat! Fighting with him will only lead to a fiasco and the cost will be your life! Pass over the control of your mortal body to me and I will take care of him for you!"
Zhong Yue kept quiet. Suddenly, his Yuan Shen in the psyche ocean changed into the Fuxi Yuan Shen with the sun and moon pupils. The[Celestial Demon Tai Chi Art]emerged and slowly expanded out, half celestial and half demon, half Yin half Yang, the sun blazed and the moon shined.
He didn't use the Sui Sovereign Yuan Shen, but the Fuxi Yuan Shen.
One after another, totem patterns flew up and surged into the[Celestial Demon Tai Chi Art]. In the Tai Chi, there were Sword Qi changing forms incessantly, there were the nine demon gods floating around, the altar that emerged from the Yin Yang, the eight-armed Ming King standing above the sun while the Golden Crow flew out from the sun's heart, there was also the six-eyed celestial being....
Meanwhile in the fire ocean, Shura spit out a mouthful of blood and he retreated back with his bamboo pole. The wooden boat then sailed away and disappeared into the fire ocean. Demon Saint turned the emerald leaf in pursuit of the wooden boat, but the fire ocean was too huge. With Shura intentionally hiding himself, even the Demon Saint couldn't find him.
The emerald leaf then turned back, and moved toward Zhong Yue.
Xin Huo was getting even more anxious, he flew round and round Zhong Yue's Yuan Shen and he grit his teeth, saying, "Brat Yue, quick, make a decision! That brat Demon Saint is coming!"
"Xin Huo, this battle..." Zhong Yue answered slowly, "I'll do it myself!"