Chapter 23: I Will Not Accept This

The tremor in his heart made the Heart Demon Lord dare not be careless. Though he appeared arrogant and unrestrained on the surface, when the arrow came, he was still very cautious.

"Hmph." The Heart Demon Lord gave a cold snort, and his entire divine body began to transform into countless flowing streams, as if his body were condensed from countless water droplets.

Pfft!

The arrow instantly reached the Heart Demon Lord. He made no attempt to block it, letting the arrow pierce through his body. The streams flowed, and the arrow easily entered, then emerged from his back, flying far away.

Drawing a sword to cut water only makes it flow more; the arrow passing through water left no trace.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle~~~" The Heart Demon Lord's expression changed drastically instead. He showed terror as the wound on his chest was frantically corroded, the water droplets vanishing into nothingness one by one.

"Impossible, impossible." The Heart Demon Lord revealed a look of horror. "My Whirlpool River is perfected, I have an indestructible body. Impossible, it cannot harm me."

The mighty ones on the Side of No Return also panicked.

Meanwhile, Ji Ning, the Three Purities, and the others on Nuwa's side all showed joy.

But none of them understood, not even Ji Ning. Although Northrest World God had imparted some common knowledge, there was still much that Ji Ning did not know.

...

"Is this... Godslayer?" Watching from afar, the Great Demon Asura and the Blade Immortal, the One-Armed Blade Immortal murmured to himself, "Godslayer?"

"What, Godslayer?" The Great Demon Asura beside him asked in surprise via mental transmission. "What is Godslayer?"

"Godslayer is a peculiar offensive technique among the mysterious 'heartforce cultivators.'" The One-Armed Blade Immortal transmitted. "They can merge divine power and heartforce, then attack... Their divine power and the enemy's divine power consume each other, like a contest of attrition. The heartforce cultivator consumes their own divine power, while the enemy also consumes divine power, and even more."

"It's a method that kills a thousand enemies while losing eight hundred of your own, and it's an extremely fearsome technique." The One-Armed Blade Immortal transmitted. "Once a heartforce cultivator uses such a technique, they are almost invincible among Ancestral Gods and Ancestral Immortals. But at the same time, after killing the enemy, they themselves are severely injured and have little combat power left. Unless truly desperate, they generally won't use such a technique. Moreover, among heartforce cultivators, those who know this technique are relatively rare."

"Oh?" The Great Demon Asura listened in shock.

Although he took risks, he only did so in relatively familiar territories. But the 'Blade Immortal' was actually wilder and crazier at heart, having ventured to more places than him and knowing more.

"This Heart Demon Lord is finished." The Blade Immortal looked at the terrified Heart Demon Lord in the distance. "He actually encountered such a terrifying heartforce cultivator, and this heartforce cultivator will stop at nothing to kill him."

"According to what you said, after killing the Heart Demon Lord, that Houyi... probably won't be able to continue either." The Great Demon Asura showed a smile. "Then I still have a chance."

"This Houyi probably obtained the techniques of a heartforce cultivator." The Blade Immortal looked at Houyi in the distance. "I really can't believe he could comprehend such a technique on his own."

There are tens of thousands of methods for using heartforce.

Even at the fifth level of heartforce... some are only moderately threatening.

But some 'heartforce cultivators' are enough to make countless Ancestral Gods and Ancestral Immortals turn pale with fear. Houyi's 'Godslayer' secret art is one such art that terrifies Ancestral Gods and Ancestral Immortals.

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"It really works." Seeing the Heart Demon Lord injured, the killing intent in Houyi's eyes grew stronger. "I thought you were strong enough to ignore my arrows."

"Hum."

Houyi quickly drew his bow and shot again.

Swish!

Like lightning, another black arrow shot out.

"Hum!" Without stopping, Houyi took out another arrow and drew his bow again.

Arrow after arrow was shot out in succession, all streaking across the void, forming a dazzling, terrifying rainbow of light as if lined up in a queue. This was a strange secret art he had comprehended during the endless years of chopping trees on Mount Fangcun. Once used, it consumed a huge amount of divine power, but at this moment, he ignored his own condition and frantically shot arrows.

He shot nine arrows in one breath.

The nine arrows all turned into rainbows of light in the void, heading toward the Heart Demon Lord. With Houyi's strength, he could only control nine arrows at once.

"No, no..." Seeing the huge rainbows of light coming one after another in the distant void, the Heart Demon Lord was terrified.

One arrow had already injured him so badly; if all nine arrows hit him, would he survive?

The arrows were too fast.

Even the speed of the Myriad Demon Lord could not match the arrows, let alone the Heart Demon Lord.

"I won't die, I won't."

A look of madness appeared in the Heart Demon Lord's eyes.

Whoosh.

The Heart Demon Lord in midair suddenly split apart, instantly transforming into over a hundred Heart Demon Lords, frantically fleeing in all directions.

"Pfft~~~" A rainbow of light instantly pierced through one of the Heart Demon Lords. After passing through, though its power weakened, it still attacked the other Heart Demon Lords. The first 'Heart Demon Lord' that was hit sizzled and completely annihilated.

The nine rainbows of light were all extremely fast, flying through the void and shooting at the Heart Demon Lords one by one.

...

"It's useless." The Blade Immortal watching from afar shook his head. "Each arrow is infused with a large amount of Houyi's divine power. As long as Houyi's divine power is not exhausted, the arrows will keep attacking. So splitting the divine body cannot evade this fearsome technique."

If Godslayer were so easy to dodge, it wouldn't have such a fearsome reputation.

...

The Heart Demon Lord also realized this method wouldn't work. He moved his mind, and the remaining 106 intact Heart Demon Lords all roared, transforming into surging rivers. These surging rivers turned into enormous hands, directly slapping at one of the arrows.

"Bang."

A frontal strike!

The arrow was sent flying backward, but the strange divine power within it instantly corroded the enormous hand, consuming a large amount of divine power.

"Dodging won't work, blocking won't work either. What to do, what to do?" The Heart Demon Lord suddenly let out a roar. The vast rivers tore through the void, creating a huge spatial rift. The rivers rapidly shrank and began to钻 into the rift.

Pfft.

The arrows chased after them into the spatial rift.

"Boom~~~" The void exploded. The rolling rivers were blasted out again and reformed into the Heart Demon Lord.

"Aaaahhhh~~~ I will not accept this, I will not accept this, I will not accept this aaaahhhh!!!" The Heart Demon Lord was completely mad. He looked at the arrows still chasing him in the distance, and the despair in his heart drove him insane. He had waited for endless ages, expended countless efforts, and finally gained freedom.

He had finally broken free from the Heavenly Dao.

He had thought he could easily conquer Nuwa's camp, and then he planned to leave the Three Realms to the other mighty ones of the Side of No Return, while he would take some people to explore the even vaster endless world. He felt that was his true domain! Nuwa had become a World God, and the Heart Demon Lord believed he could become a World God too.

The Heart Demon Lord had many plans for the future, many ambitions and desires.

But now...

He was about to die.

These terrifying arrows, which he had no way to block, truly made him despair.

"I will not accept this, I really will not accept this." The Heart Demon Lord's murmur echoed through the endless void. "Since that's the case, then die, die, all of you die!!!"

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

In an instant, the Heart Demon Lord transformed into surging rivers, each river shining with white light. He split into six rivers and frantically attacked Nuwa's camp. At this moment, he no longer cared about Houyi's arrows. He wanted to kill, kill. Since he was going to die, they would all die with him.

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The Myriad Demon Lord watched all this happen but could not stop it.

He was millions of li away from Houyi. Though his speed was fast, reaching sixty thousand li per instant at light speed, he could at most cover about a million li. Houyi could calmly shoot arrows from afar...

As the arrows were consumed one by one,

Houyi shot new arrows again, wanting to kill the Heart Demon Lord as quickly as possible.

"Hold on."

"Hold on a little longer. This is the Heart Demon Lord's final frenzy."

"Block him."

Ji Ning and the Buddha Jue Ming, who had formidable divine bodies, bravely charged to the front, trying their best to intercept. But just two surging rivers completely entangled them. Ji Ning felt that the Heart Demon Lord's strength seemed to have increased somewhat. He understood that in his final frenzy, the Heart Demon Lord was surely hysterical, using every desperate measure.

"Suiren." Ji Ning suddenly noticed that Suiren in the distance was in a very dire situation, already wrapped by two rivers. Suiren roared, his whole body burning with flames, wielding his wooden staff, his aura vast and overwhelming, but under the river's suppression, his aura began to weaken.