The Azure-Plumed demon emperor gripped the spearhead in both hands, pressing it down inch by inch.

This was old Dark-Tail's own treasure.

Nurtured endlessly by heaven-and-earth spiritual roots, tempered under the wash of gentle running water, and granted the power of divine thunder besides.

His palms were blown to fragments, and even the finger bones left behind had been charred black.

But he was still, in the end, a demon emperor equal to a Spirit-Transformation mid-stage cultivator.

"Raaargh!"

Amid his own savage roar, the Dark-Tail Spear was finally forced down, saving the greater part of his skull.

The golden body, having already lost both arms, leapt from above and stamped down hard on top of him.

The enormous foot crashed down, folding the Azure-Plumed demon emperor's whole body forward — he slowly raised his head, eyes cold, fixed on the golden dharma form above him. "You're begging to die..."

Before he'd even finished speaking, Tang Yuan was already forming seals again.

He was Perfected Master Qingfeng's disciple, trained in one of Wutong Mountain's Rare-ranked techniques.

A true prodigy in every sense of the word.

Blazing flame condensed into chains, dropping down from the sky above, swiftly binding the Azure-Plumed demon emperor's four limbs.

"Want to tear me apart? This Tang will tear you apart first, you filthy beast!"

With his furious roar, the four chains snapped instantly taut, stretching the Azure-Plumed demon emperor into the shape of the character "大" — limbs spread wide.

Tang Yuan swept out a hand, and a spirit-light-wreathed sword appeared in his grip.

He clenched the hilt tight and drove it savagely toward the Azure-Plumed demon emperor's ghost-mask face!

Just as the blade was about to reach that ghostly face —

color suddenly flooded back into the Azure-Plumed demon emperor's skin, blood even welling at the corners of his eyes.

The tattered feathered robe across his body suddenly flared with azure light, in an instant reshaping itself into something entirely new — every single feather honed sharp as a blade — and then all of them exploded outward at once!

They shattered the weapon in…