Chapter 460: Completely Demonized
Since no one interfered and Fan Zhibao couldn’t suppress his mental demon, his body gradually escaped his control.
The black gaseous flames that he emitted were called demonic energy.
This demonic energy was filled with all sorts of negative emotions.
There was anger, resentment, hatred, envy, greed…
It contained almost all the negative emotions in the world.
If one’s mind wasn’t strong enough and they came into contact with the demonic energy, they could lose their rationality and become the fiend’s slave.
The demonic aura exuding from Fan Zhibao’s body was the obvious characteristic of demonization.
Apart from that, his body was also changing.
His muscles expanded like balloons.
As his muscles expanded, his figure was also growing, bursting his clothes.
In just two to three seconds, he had become a five-meter tall giant.
Apart from his body, his appearance and some of his physical characteristics had also changed.
His eyes turned blood-red, and he exuded a hostile aura.
His mouth had fangs similar to that of a wild boar. It was hideous and quite terrifying.
When the transformation stopped, an even stronger aura erupted from his body.
In an instant, demonic energy surged into the sky and formed a pitch-black vortex cloud.
The spectating disciples were especially shocked.
They found it hard to believe what they were seeing.
“Oh no, Senior Brother Fan has been completely demonized.”
“Why didn’t the elders intervene? Where did the elders go?”
Some disciples flew into the sky to seek help from the elders.
Above the clouds, the elders wore ugly expressions. They wanted to say something but hesitated.
At this moment, those disciples arrived.
They were about to speak when they saw the figure in blue.
“Elder… Lan Lang?” The disciples were stunned.
They didn’t understand why Lan Lang was here.
When they came back to their senses, they immediately turned to Lan Lang and explained the situation.
Lan Lang said nothing.
Seeing this, the blue-robed elder comforted, “Disciples, don’t panic. Everything is under control.”
The disciples were stunned.
Senior Brother Fan has been completely demonized, and things are still under control?
They were puzzled, but the elders were still here. This meant that they were aware of the situation below.
Is this really under control?
The disciples were doubtful.
At this moment, a deafening roar suddenly erupted from below.
The sound wave even affected the area ten thousand meters above in the sky where the elders were, creating a huge hole in the clouds.
The Arena of Life and Death.
Fan Zhibao glared at Qin Chuan with his huge eyes and roared.
“Zhu Xiaoming, Zhu Xiaoming!
“I’m going to kill you!”
His mind was completely controlled by his mental demon, and he had lost himself.
In such a situation, it was almost impossible to return to his original appearance.
He had really become a fiend through and through.
There were two stages of change for a fiend.
The first stage was called the Enraged State. For example, Fan Zhibao, who had just been demonized and had lost all rationality, was unable to control his strength well. He was like a beast without intelligence that had gone berserk.
The second stage was called the Sober State.
After the first stage, the mind of a fiend would slowly recover and eventually return to the state that a normal person should have.
However, the mind of the fiend would have already been replaced by a mental demon.
Mental demons had no emotions, no pity—they were completely cold-blooded animals.
With the mindset of a normal person, such fiends are also called fiendish cultivators.
Fiendish cultivators were extremely terrifying. Not only were they powerful, but they could also cultivate and increase their cultivation like immortal cultivators, thereby becoming even stronger.
Ever since the human race created immortal cultivation, fiendish cultivators had been beside them.
Before the Demon race appeared, fiendish cultivators were the biggest threat to humanity.
In order to destroy the fiendish cultivators, the Immortal realm had paid a huge price.
There was a period of extreme darkness.
The fiendish cultivators were everywhere, corpses were everywhere, and the human race was in danger. The Immortal realm was almost replaced by fiendish cultivators.
This piece of history had always been a nightmare that humanity could not shake off.
However, they ultimately defeated the fiendish cultivators and ushered in a peaceful era that lasted until today.
After turning into a fiend, Fan Zhibao’s battle prowess was multiplied.
Although he was only in the first class of the Heaven Immortal realm, with the boost from the demonic energy, it was not a problem for him to fight opponents a major realm above.
On the other hand, a genius like him should be able to kill Immortals who were from a realm higher than him, which meant that he possessed the strength to kill Mystic Immortals.
Against an opponent of this level, Qin Chuan had no choice but to be serious. He couldn’t be as casual as before. If things went wrong, he might get into trouble.
The spectating disciples were in an uproar.
Chaos.
However, no one left.
This was because the barrier around the Arena of Life and Death was very defensive. Only powers above the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Realm could destroy it.
As such, as long as the barrier remained, they would still be safe.
However, Zhu Xiaoming, who was inside, was in trouble.
Everyone thought that if the elders did not come, Zhu Xiaoming would definitely be killed by the demonized Fan Zhibao.
There was already enmity between the two parties. After Fan Zhibao was demonized, this hatred would be magnified infinitely. He certainly wouldn’t let Zhu Xiaoming off.
At once, everyone felt pity for him.
Right at this moment, a massive wave of air suddenly erupted within the barrier, causing the entire mountain to shake violently and many cracks to appear on the ground.
“Look! Zhu Xiaoming and Senior Brother Fan are fighting!” a disciple suddenly shouted.
Startled, everyone looked towards the Arena of Life and Death.
At this moment, the area was not only filled with demonic energy. It was also covered in billowing smoke and dust. It was impossible to see what was happening with the naked eye.
Fortunately, they still had the divine consciousness that allowed them to observe the situation inside.
Fan Zhibao, who had turned into a fiend, clenched his fists and attacked Qin Chuan madly.
His agility hadn’t decreased even with his bigger body.
In his enraged state, Fan Zhibao’s movement speed was incomparably fast. He was able to keep up with Qin Chuan’s speed.
Of course, Qin Chuan did not use his full strength.
Just now, he was just testing to guess Fan Zhibao’s combat strength after turning into a fiend.
The defense and strength of a demonized body had been greatly enhanced. At the very least, it was slightly stronger than body cultivators of the same realm.
Everywhere Fan Zhibao passed, not a single piece of ground was intact. There were either cracks or large pits.
After this test, Qin Chuan had an idea.
He no longer hid.
“Sword Soul · Liberation!”
The next second…
Countless sword energies appeared around Qin Chuan. The biting cold sword energy was like a hurricane, instantly dissipating the surrounding demonic energy.
The spectating disciples were stunned.
“Sword… Sword Soul!” Their eyes were filled with shock.
“Zhu Xiaoming has a Sword Soul? The spirit body that sword cultivators dream of?”
“Oh my god, this can’t be real!”
“Please, heaven, please don’t joke with me.”
Everyone found it hard to believe.
They couldn’t help but doubt the crazy rumors from before.
According to the rumors, Zhu Xiaoming was a good-for-nothing. His gift of the gab was his only good thing. He was very good at making girls happy.
Therefore, Gu Mengyao was fooled by his flowery words.
However, now that they had personally witnessed the liberation of the Sword Soul, the rumor was naturally cleared up.
He didn’t have flowery words but true ability.
The Sword Soul alone gave him the capital to be proud.
“No wonder he dared to challenge Senior Brother Fan and issued a life-and-death challenge. He does have confidence.”
In an instant, most of the disciples came to their senses and started to worship Qin Chuan.
After releasing the Sword Soul, Qin Chuan launched an attack.
Countless sword energies poured down like a silver river, drowning Fan Zhibao.
Qin Chuan knew that this wouldn’t kill him.
Not only could the demonic energy around Fan Zhibao boost his strength, but it also had a powerful self-healing ability, like an endless health potion.
Countless sword energies had penetrated Fan Zhibao’s body, but with the presence of demonic energy, he could recover quickly by covering his wounds with it.
A disciple outside shouted, “Junior Brother Zhu, fiends are afraid of fire. Use fire to burn him.”
Qin Chuan immediately released two large fireballs.
When the demonic energy touched the fireballs, it squeaked and emitted wisps of green smoke.
Unfortunately, there was too much demonic energy, and the two fireballs were like a drop in the bucket, unable to do much.
The disciple outside shouted again, “Junior Brother Zhu, ordinary fire-elemental spells don’t have much effect on demonic energy. Switch to something stronger.”
“Thank you, Senior Brother.” Qin Chuan thanked him from afar.
“Since fire-elemental spells are ineffective against demonic energy, let’s use fire-elemental divine arts.”
Qin Chuan chanted an incantation and circulated the dharmic powers in his body.
“Divine Art · Samadhi True Flames!”
Qin Chuan opened his mouth and spat flames at Fan Zhibao.
The Samadhi True Flames were no ordinary flames. The high temperature was as terrifying as that of a star.
The surrounding temperatures rose.
The disciples outside could feel the terrifying heat emitted by the Samadhi True Flames through the barrier.
Qin Chuan had once again shocked them.