Chapter 189: See Who Sucks Who Dry!
The Black Mountain City Lord walked toward Shen Tian, his expression extremely respectful.
He said seriously, “Immortal Senior, please accept a kowtow from me for helping our city to solve the Blood Mosquito Demon crisis, saving the city from misery.”
After finishing, the City Lord actually directly knelt down toward Shen Tian.
Shen Tian smiled as he stretched out his hand to lift up the City Lord. “Don’t kneel. You need to give money even if you knelt.”
Give... give-give-give money?
The Black Mountain City Lord staggered and nearly collapsed to the ground. “Immortal Senior, we really do not have enough to repay you!”
Not to mention how high the Immortal Senior’s appearance fee for slaying the Blood Mosquito Demon was, just the value of the Lightning Explosion Talisman that Shen Tian had used was enough to buy the entire Black Mountain City with remaining to spare.
The whole city bears a debt of gratitude for saving everyone in the whole Black Mountain City.
But for your loss in the use of Lightning Talisman, we really cannot afford it!
Even if you sold me, the City Lord, there wouldn’t be enough!
Seeing the Black Mountain City Lord’s terrified expression, Shen Tian’s face slightly darkened.
“You can’t afford it? Why place a bounty if you can’t afford to pay the 10,000 taels of silver? I’ve done all that for nothing?”
Huh? 10,000 taels of silver?
The City Lord was dumbstruck.
“What? 10,000 taels of silver? So the payment that Immortal Senior is talking about is just 10,000 taels of silver?”
Shen Tian looked at the City Lord as if he was looking at an idiot. “What else did you think it was? You placed a bounty, offering money. I completed the task, so I want my reward. Is there any problem?”
The City Lord was rendered speechless.
So Immortal Senior, the payment you want is 10,000 taels of silver? Just this much!?
The 10,000 taels of silver can only be exchanged for 10 Spirit Stones! This amount is not even enough to buy one Lightning Explosion Talisman, you know!?
You’ve spent such a fortune to slay the Blood Mosquito Demon just for this bit of bounty reward?
No! Immortal Senior is definitely not this dumb! There must be a deeper meaning!
Right!
Immortal Senior is taking care of our Black Mountain City’s dignity. He’s using just 10,000 taels of silver to alleviate the tension.
No wonder he’s an Immortal Senior from Big Dipper City. Not only are his moral compass and wisdom great, but he’s also compassionate. He’s doing so to prevent us from feeling guilty and ashamed!
I’ve understood, understood!
At that thought, the City Lord said respectfully, “Please wait a moment, Immortal Senior. I’ll immediately go and bring you 10,000 taels of silver.’
Shen Tian shook his head and looked outside the city. “There’s no need to hurry. That demon has not died yet!”
The demon is not dead yet?
The City Lord became anxious and hurriedly looked outside the city only to see that blood mist was rising from the plains outside the city.
Drops of blood were rapidly gathering from Blood Mosquitoes’ carcasses, and immense pressure engulfed the entire Black Mountain City. It was at least 10 times more fearsome than when the Blood Mosquito Demon appeared!
A man wearing a blood-red robe appeared outside the Azure Dragon Αrray. He held a crimson spear and was emitting killing intent. His appearance was exactly the same as the Blood Mosquito Demon, but his aura was much more powerful than the deceased Blood Mosquito Demon.
He looked at Shen Tian coldly as if he was looking at a dead person, his killing intent dreadful.
“Detestable human, you actually dared to kill my child. I’ll definitely suck you dry today!”
Supremacy Blood Mosquito instantly shot toward the city as he spoke, leaving a trail of bloody light.
The crimson spear he held instantly tore an opening in the Azure Dragon Lightning Array—the array was actually unable to even stop him for a moment!
Supremacy Blood Mosquito had scarlet eyes as he glared straight at Shen Tian. He hated Shen Tian to his core!
The Blood Mosquito Demon Shen Tian had killed was not his actual child—it was even more important than his blood-related child, however.
Supremacy Blood Mosquito had commanded this swarm of Blood Mosquitoes to attack Black Mountain City to obtain the blood of the entire city’s cultivators and then use it to feed the Golden Core Blood Mosquito Demon.
The previous few times they had attacked Black Mountain City was just on a small scale, and they had not caused lots of trouble. Thus, even if Black Mountain City had requested reinforcements, they would at most send a Golden Core Third Refinement Stage cultivator.
Supremacy Blood Mosquito could effortlessly deal with that kind of reinforcement and even suck the person dry for nourishment.
Since Big Dipper City’s Nascent Soul cultivators were not as common as marketplace cabbages, how would they possibly send them to Black Mountain City just to slay an “almost Golden Core” Mosquito Demon?
However, Supremacy Blood Mosquito had never expected Shen Tian to suddenly appear. Although Shen Tian’s cultivation level had not reached the Golden Core stage, he had numerous treasures, such as supreme-grade Lightning Explosion Talismans. Most cultivators would use them as their aces up their sleeves to save their lives in emergencies.
On the other hand, this human cultivator just used them as his normal attacks, even throwing them stacks of them each time. Even Golden Core cultivators would be intimidated when facing such an attack!
Even so, it was not to the point where the Blood Mosquito Demon would instantly die. It was mainly due to Shen Tian, who was too cunning.
In the beginning, he had taken the Blood Mosquito Demon by surprise by using the Lotus Shooting Gun to attack it, and then he even used the Divine Devouring Vine to bind and control it.
The vines’ toughness was so strong that even a Golden Core Blood Mosquito Demon was unable to struggle free. Thus, the Lightning Explosion Talisman’s explosion sent it to the grave.
It faced death so fast that Supremacy Blood Mosquito didn’t have the time to try saving it.
Supremacy Blood Mosquito stared right at Shen Tian and could sense that the vine was by no means ordinary.
It might... be the legendary extraordinary item—Spirit Wood!
At that thought, Supremacy Blood Mosquito revealed fervent enthusiasm.
If it really is a Spirit Wood item, then killing this kid might be able to make up for my loss!
While thinking that, Supremacy Blood Mosquito charged into the city, appeared before Shen Tian, and stabbed the crimson spear toward him.
In an instant, bloodlust filled the sky while a strong scent of blood pervaded the walls. The smell made one want to vomit.
Supremacy Blood Mosquito had a hideous smile as he could almost see the scene of Shen Tian being pierced by his Blood God Spear, then groaning and begging for mercy!
Meanwhile, on the other side, Shen Tian, who had seen Supremacy Blood Mosquito rapidly closing the distance, was as if he had been dumbstruck by fear. He did not move at all!
Supremacy Blood Mosquito scorned in his mind, He’s indeed a fledgling, green and inexperienced. He is facing a life-or-death situation, yet he is so scared that he forgot to dodge!
Haha, foolish human, die! I am going to suck you dry!
The crimson spear’s tip, engulfed in dense bloodlust, distorted and shattered space. The stab’s power was formidable!
Under Supremacy Blood Mosquito’s staring gaze, the Blood God Spear heavily struck Shen Tian’s chest. However, the scene of the Blood God Spear piercing through Shen Tian, which he had been playing in his mind all this time, did not become a reality.
Instead, a radiant golden Eight Trigrams symbol suddenly appeared on Shen Tian’s chest. It kept on twirling and forming a powerful force of attraction.
Not only could it block the spear’s strike, but it also sucked the Blood God Spear Supremacy Blood Mosquito was holding tightly, so much so he could not pull the spear back and retreat.
It got sucked in!
Supremacy Blood Mosquito was astounded.
How could this be possible!? How could a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator be able to use his chest to block my Blood God Spear? Is this guy’s chest made of Immortal Metal?
Golden armor parts started appearing around Shen Tian one after the other, completely covering him from head to toe, making him look extremely valiant and impressive.
The sky was currently tinged crimson. When the first ray of sunlight shone on his battle armor, Shen Tian seemed radiant under the sunlight!
In that instant, it was as if Shen Tian was the God of War!
Shen Tian facing the bewildered Supremacy Blood Mosquito and smiled. “At last, you have finally appeared!”
While speaking, Shen Tian suddenly grabbed the Blood God Spear, not allowing Supremacy Blood Mosquito to pull it back.
At the same time, a greenish-black rope flew out from Shen Tian, rapidly entangling Supremacy Blood Mosquito’s body. That was a Divine Binding Rope forged with a Nascent Soul Divine Binding Vine. It was able to bind Nascent Soul cultivators—struggling free was a challenging issue.
Although it was unable to trap this Nascent Soul Blood Mosquito for too long under Shen Tian’s control, he just needed this short moment.
Originally, given Supremacy Blood Mosquito’s speed—if not for him being reluctant to let go of his spear—it would be way more challenging to use the Divine Binding Rope to imprison him.
However, after a wrong decision, it was not that simple for Supremacy Blood Mosquito to escape anymore!
The Nascent Soul Divine Binding Rope bound Supremacy Blood Mosquito’s arms while emerald Divine Devouring Vine shot out of the ground and tied up his legs.
A familiar scene replayed itself as countless Yin-Yang Lightning Explosion Talismans flew toward Supremacy Blood Mosquito without caring about the cost.
Supremacy Blood Mosquito scoffed.
“Did you think the same trick would work on me? Laughable! Blood God Domain!”
Supremacy Blood Mosquito snarled, and his whole body shone with an intense red light.
Countless Yin-Yang Lightning Explosion Talismans exploded on Supremacy Blood Mosquito’s body surface, but the Blood God Domain blocked them all. Thus, Supremacy Blood Mosquito wasn’t harmed at all.
These Lightning Explosion Talismans were only meant to deal with Foundation Establishment cultivators, and only by stacking plenty of them would they be able to kill Golden Core cultivators. Thus, before this Nascent Soul Blood Mosquito, they were somewhat lacking.
Supremacy Blood Mosquito roared, and the Divine Binding Rope tying him up loosened slightly. It was evidently unable to last any longer.
“Human, I admit you’re quite cunning and full of treasures!”
Supremacy Blood Mosquito looked at Shen Tian greedily. “It’s a pity that your cultivation level is just too low. It’s too much of a waste that you have these supreme treasures!
“Give up on resisting and just die! Seeing that you contributed this many supreme treasures to me, I can keep your corpse intact!
“That’s right! Your battle armor was actually able to block my all-out strike! Only I am worthy of wearing such a supreme treasure! After you die, I’ll treat it well!”
Hundreds of Lightning Explosion Talisman exploded and bombarded the domain barrier protecting Supremacy Blood Mosquito’s body. This resulted in the Supremacy Blood Mosquito’s barrier becoming much thinner.
Unfortunately, it was unable to completely destroy the Blood God Domain—this layer of barrier was just too strong.
Supremacy Blood Mosquito looked at Shen Tian arrogantly as he was about to completely free himself from the Divine Binding Rope and kill Shen Tian.
However, shortly after, the arrogant smile on his face froze.
“F*ck... F*ck you!”
Supremacy Blood Mosquito saw that eight short black guns floated behind Shen Tian, simultaneously pointing at him together with the Lotus Shooting Gun.
If that were not enough, Shen Tian threw more Lightning Explosion Talismans at Supremacy Blood Mosquito without minding the cost. At a rough calculation, there were 300?–500 talismans!
Nevertheless, they did not inflict lethal blows. They only served to continuously weaken the Blood God Domain protecting Supremacy Blood Mosquito.
The fatal blow was... a sackcloth-wearing stalwart figure floating behind Shen Tian.
That middle-aged man held a broadsword and slowly slashed down.
Sword Venerable Long River’s sword intent swayed even the heavens and earth as an invincible blade aura suddenly appeared in the sky.
In an instant, it divided into two, and then three... Soon, there were millions of them. The blade aura actually formed a long river, which surged toward Supremacy Blood Mosquito.
If Supremacy Blood Mosquito was in his prime condition, he would have the chance to block this attack—he would at most be injured heavily.
Unfortunately, he had yet to completely break free from his restraints, and the Blood God Domain around him had also been weakened to the extreme due to the repeated explosions.
Thus, when facing Sword Venerable Long River’s sword intent—released by the Sword Master Token’s sword spirit—how could he resist? The river of blade aura instantly swallowed him!
Although Shen Tian was also within the river of blade aura’s range, his Longyuan Divine Armor emitted a radiant glow. He was not afraid the blade aura would accidentally injure him as his armor was stacked thick enough!
As long as Shen Tian’s Dharmic power was not depleted, even if he wore the Longyuan Divine Armor and stood there for Supremacy Blood Mosquito to attack, the latter could not injure him at all!
This was his source of confidence and the reason he was not afraid to face Supremacy Blood Mosquito!
After the long river of blade aura faded, Supremacy Blood Mosquito’s multi-sliced and bloodied body appeared. Only his head could be still counted complete as a reddish-gold piece of paper was protecting it. He had barely managed to survive!
When the blade aura disappeared, that head hurriedly kept away the reddish-gold piece of paper and wanted to escape.
However, how could Shen Tian possibly mess up a sure thing?
The Purple Golden Hammer suddenly appeared in his right hand. In the next instant, he enlarged it by 10 times and hammered it down!
Duang!
In mid-air, Shen Tian smashed Supremacy Blood Mosquito’s head to the ground—his whole head was completely muddled.
A long emerald vine suddenly shot out of Shen Tian’s left hand and bound the Supremacy Blood Mosquito’s head like a huge rice dumpling.
Meanwhile, Shen Tian also grabbed the reddish-gold piece of paper, which was surprisingly heavy. Through a rough estimate, the reddish-gold piece of paper’s weight was at least hundreds of kilograms and above.
Shen Tian let out a satisfied smile upon seeing the reddish-gold piece of paper. He had come all the way to Black Mountain City for this!
Now that the treasure was in his hands and the Big Dipper Saint had yet to arrive, it could be said that he had succeeded.
After controlling the Divine Devouring Vine to pull Supremacy Blood Mosquito’s head into his hand, he gently hefted the head.
Supremacy Blood Mosquito was filled with resentment and indignation.
“I would rather die than be humiliated! Human, you dare to be this disrespectful!”
Disrespectful? You, a demon, are talking about respect? Didn’t you want to pierce me with your spear just now?
Shen Tian grinned and stuffed the Divine Devouring Vine into Supremacy Blood Mosquito’s mouth.
“Didn’t you say that you wanted to suck me dry earlier?
“I’ll let you suck now! I want to see if you are going to suck me dry, or I am going to suck you dry!”
Mhm~
Mhmhm~
Mhmhmhm~
Supremacy Blood Mosquito cried tears of humiliation and struggle!
At the same time, 50 kilometers away from Black Mountain City...
The Big Dipper Saint was sitting cross-legged on a Star Chariot.
His Nascent Soul cultivation had recently been unstable, so he wanted to find some demon to vent. In the past few days, the Big Dipper Saint had basically accepted most of the missions that had to do with slaying Nascent Soul demons. Thus, he was heading to Black Mountain City today to kill the Blood Mosquito Demon.
Frankly speaking, he really did not think that a mere Blood Mosquito Demon, a step away from the Golden Core stage, was worth it for him to go personally. The main reason why he was specially going to slay the demon was that the Blood Mosquito Demon’s cultivation speed was unnaturally fast.
In the short span of three to four months, the previously Qi Refinement demon had almost stepped into the Golden Core stage. As such, that made the Big Dipper Saint curious.
Was it possible that this demon had encountered some fortuitous opportunity?
Since he was free, the Big Dipper Saint had decided to head there.
Surprisingly, as he neared Black Mountain City, the Big Dipper Saint suddenly felt like something was wrong. A thick malicious intent surged throughout his body, making his heart skip a beat.
It was as if something bad was about to happen, and such a feeling was vaguely familiar!
The Big Dipper Saint could not help but be on guard. Nonetheless, after careful consideration, what could just a Golden Core demon do to him?
It must be that he was stimulated by the Divine Firmament Sacred Ground’s genius Saint, and his mental state had yet to recover!
I have to hurry to find some weak demons to bully and reclaim my superiority. Only then can I recover my “Heart of Invincibility” as soon as possible!
That’s right, that’s the plan!
Thinking till here, the Big Dipper Saint chanted a special incantation, and then the Star Chariot’s speed increased greatly!