I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 455 - 356 Revisiting the Old Place_2

Chapter 455: Chapter 356 Revisiting the Old Place_2

Directions Annihilation is an all-encompassing attack that involves all aspects; while others unleash a map-wide bombardment on a single province or country, this one directly assails the entire planet.

"Also, stop looking at me like that, the Battle Maniac Asura didn’t teach us that move, and what I said was just how I felt after taking that hit,"

The impression left by the 10 Directions Annihilation was too deep; the things he had mentioned to Liu Hongzhao were the result of his slow analysis after gaining enough understanding of the Demonic Abyss Seven Kills. Unfortunately, analysis is just analysis, and it was clear that studying the Demonic Abyss Seven Kills wouldn’t unlock the "10 Directions Annihilation."

After speaking, Zheng Yichen reached out to touch the ground, where he could feel the lingering strong Supreme Demon presence.

However, this kind of presence was hard to utilize. Its being here could create a special phenomenon; anything related to the Supreme Demon in this world wouldn’t seem too normal anyway.

Not only that, but there were also some skeletons. The skeletons sat cross-legged on the ground with their weapons planted beside them. Approaching them, the aura emitted by the skeletons intensified, possessing lethal power.

"These skeletons are the strong warriors who ’challenged’ the Supreme Demon and failed," Yi Nan came over and said, "Some warriors attempted to indirectly challenge the Supreme Demon through the aura of the Supreme Demon battlefield; some succeeded, while others remain on this land forever."

"Their spirit of defiance and unwillingness linger here, waiting for the arrival of their successors."

Wei Xue, who was next to Yi Nan, had a complicated expression as he said, "Successors can come here to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors, or they can try to challenge these strong warriors to obtain their inheritances."

Well... Zheng Yichen looked at the skeletons of the local strong warriors who had died here, and then at the nearby Gate of Hell. It must be the environment of Hell that turned them into skeletons so quickly after death, right? But doesn’t this really prevent them from rising from the dead?

After activating thermal vision, Zheng Yichen couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows. These skeletons retained an intense ’heat source’; the heat source spread throughout their bodies and surroundings, not leaking at all but instead forming a small ’independent environment.’ Within a certain range, it remained unaffected, but once approached, that independent environment would react.

These independent environments varied in size.

Yui Anhe said, "They should have thought more about how to fight the alien demons, but everyone has different thoughts. Those who come here and become stronger will thus bring greater advantages to the human race when fighting against the alien demons in the future."

He had no intention of trying to accept the trials and inheritances. Although these strong warriors ’challenged’ the Supreme Demon and failed, their residual will and indomitableness would only make the trials harder. Challenging them would be like facing an extremely strengthened opponent.

This kind of challenge is second only to using the Supreme Demon Qi on the Supreme Demon battlefield for a Supreme Demon challenge, but it’s not something that can be casually overcome. Another difference is that after ’challenging’ the Supreme Demon and failing, one would die, whereas challenging them might not lead to death, even if surviving was still difficult.

There’s also the fact that the Demonic Qi leftover here dissipates over time, settling down, and ’challenges’ against the Supreme Demon become even rarer.

Zheng Yichen looked towards Liu Hongzhao, "Have you tried this challenge?"

Liu Hongzhao shook her head, "The aura of the Supreme Demon itself is related to the Supreme Demon. If I were to challenge it, those dormant Supreme Demons might take the opportunity to attack."

The Supreme Demon was merely crippled, not completely eradicated, and she was not confident enough to disregard the Supreme Demon entirely. Therefore, although the opportunity to challenge here was tempting, she had never tried it unless someone could act as her protector.

"Brother Chang Qing, I want to try it now."

"..." Darn this mouth of mine! Looking at Liu Hongzhao’s eager gaze, Zheng Yichen glanced again at the skeletons; there were more than thirty of them. The environmental conditions had stripped the flesh from these people, yet their clothes remained, with some clearly belonging to certain sects.

There would be more such ’sacrifices’ in the future.

"Then be careful, if the Supreme Demon comes out, I’ll fight them."

Liu Hongzhao smiled, looking left and right, she found an area where the aura of the Supreme Demon was most intense. Witnessing this scene, Diviner Huan Zhen wanted to say something, but was stopped by Yi Nan’s gesture, "Let’s interfere less with matters concerning those with Heaven’s Mandate."

Yi Nan wasn’t trying to be the scrub player, his comment was based on the actual situation. They had already speculated the ’directions’ of the three Daughters of Heaven’s Mandate; sometimes, it’s better to maintain silence about some matters, especially considering that Liu Hongzhao’s destiny was likely related to the Supreme Demon.

And since she was human, what she was doing now might very well concern her part of the Heaven’s Mandate.

This wasn’t something they ’should’ manage, and besides, their purpose here wasn’t to highlight the ones with Heaven’s Mandate, but to coordinate with Zheng Yichen in locating the Supreme Demon. Selecting the Land of Calamities was also because its ’proximity’ to the Supreme Demon was closer; if Liu Hongzhao could lure out some dormant Supreme Demons, their location process would become much easier.

Liu Hongzhao didn’t sit down; she didn’t share the mentality of the local powerhouses who would stay here permanently after failing a challenge. Her challenge was aimed squarely at defeating the ’Supreme Demon’!

The presence of the Supreme Demon in the environment was stirred, and through Zheng Yichen’s thermal vision, he could see Liu Hongzhao being surrounded by converging heat sources in the environment. Such manifestation of heat sources as mist wasn’t normally distributed evenly in the Supreme Demon battlefield.

Liu Hongzhao’s challenge caused the Supreme Demon aura to actively converge, forming a vortex that spread across the entire Supreme Demon battlefield. Within this ’vortex’, she was fighting against its influence, not in a physical battle, but to Zheng Yichen, it felt as if someone had jumped directly into a vortex in the ocean and was trying to swim against it to break free.

If she succeeded, she would rise to the ranks of an unparalleled elite; if she failed, she would vanish without a trace.

Twirling the fishing rod in hand, Zheng Yichen kept an eye on his surroundings, ready to act promptly should any abnormal traces appear.

At first, everything within the ’heat source’ vortex that blanketed the Supreme Demon battlefield was normal, but as time passed, Zheng Yichen saw some abnormal ’turbulence’ forming within the heat source vortex.

The mist now contained distinct ’liquid’ elements, and without waiting for the Diviners to speak up, Zheng Yichen took action first.

"Wait—" Just as Diviner Huan Zhen was about to warn about something, he fell silent. Zheng Yichen ignored the dangerous influence of the Supreme Demon aura and rushed directly towards the anomaly they also had noticed.

The telescoping fishing rod unfolded, covered with a layer of black substance, and a blood red dragon emerged on the black spear, striking the abnormal ’heat source’ area and producing a pronounced explosive impact in the air.

"Uh... Sky Dragon Spear Technique?" Diviner Wei Xue said with a slightly odd expression as he watched the blood dragon covering Zheng Yichen’s weapon. He placed great importance on the heritage of the human race, having collected and learned much about its knowledge, which included martial arts.

Therefore, as soon as Zheng Yichen used that move, he recognized it; the color of the war dragon condensed by the Sky Dragon Spear Technique is related to the user’s Inner Strength. A martial skill from the Righteous Path would manifest as a holy dragon, while one from the Evil Path would manifest as an evil or demonic dragon.

Of course, the distinction between righteousness and evil mattered when the world was normal, but in this era, any martial art that could have an immediate effect and help the human race survive was considered good.

Although Sky Dragon Spear Technique was decent in this world, according to Wei Xue’s memory, it should be considered a mid-tier spear art. Of course, how powerful a martial art is not only depends on the martial art itself but also the person using it. Hero Qiao Feng could defeat all comers with a set of Patriarch’s Boxing.

Yet a formidable expert with better martial arts would naturally become even stronger.

If they were to fight against Supreme Demons, then maxing out their martial art configuration wasn’t overkill.

Wei Xue and the other Diviners exchanged glances; they truly hadn’t inquired what martial arts Zheng Yichen was skilled in. They had initially thought that since Zheng Yichen was so formidable, the martial arts he used couldn’t be poor, but bringing this up now seemed a bit late.

On Zheng Yichen’s end, although he was employing the Sky Dragon Spear Technique, his display was already sufficient, and he completely intercepted the Supreme Demon’s petty tricks.