Chapter 362 - 361: Elephant Demon King (2)

Lin Yuan’s deep purple eyes became completely devoid of warmth!

He had already encountered enough demons to understand that arrogance was common among those who believed themselves superior, but the Elephant Demon King’s behavior had crossed a line. It had slaughtered the young cultivators gathered at the plaza, captured his beast, and now treated the lives of others as though they were nothing more than objects for its amusement.

"Release the beast," Lin Yuan commanded.

His voice was calm, but the spiritual Qi circulating through his True Elemental Body began to resonate with a terrifying frequency. Golden-purple thunder flickered faintly beneath his skin, while the Dao Fruit of Three Rebirths rotated within his Sea of Consciousness.

The surrounding spiritual Qi responded to the subtle pressure of his aura, and several broken jade tiles near his feet cracked under the invisible force.

The Elephant Demon King laughed, its ten arms flexing as it raised its weapons. "Come and take it, human! I want to see whether the infamous anomaly of the Nine Provinces can survive a single exchange with me. You may have killed a few weaklings, but you will discover that the gap between us is not something your little tricks can overcome."

Lin Yuan vanished.

He reappeared directly before the Elephant Demon King, his right palm already gathering the power of his Palmstrike. The surrounding air compressed beneath the force of his movement, and a tremendous palm imprint surged toward the demon’s chest.

The attack carried the destructive might of his physical cultivation, reinforced by the principles his Dao Fruit had comprehended, and its force was sufficient to shatter an ordinary Demon King’s defenses in a single strike.

Yet the Elephant Demon King was far from ordinary.

Three of its massive arms moved simultaneously, crossing before its chest to intercept Lin Yuan’s palm. The collision produced a deafening explosion that shattered the remaining plaza and sent waves of destructive energy sweeping across the ruins.

The demon’s enormous body slid backward several feet, crushing the jade tiles beneath its feet, but it managed to hold its ground. Its ten-armed physique allowed it to distribute the impact across multiple limbs, reducing the force that would otherwise have struck its core directly.

"Is that all?" the Elephant Demon King laughed, its crimson eyes shining with excitement. The three arms that had intercepted Lin Yuan’s attack trembled slightly, but the demon ignored the discomfort and immediately launched a counterattack. Its remaining seven arms moved in a blur, unleashing a storm of blades, axes, and other weapons toward Lin Yuan from several directions at once.

The weapons struck with different rhythms and angles, making it difficult for an ordinary cultivator to predict the next attack. One blade aimed for Lin Yuan’s throat, another descended toward his shoulder, and a massive axe swept toward his waist while the remaining weapons targeted his limbs and vital points.

The Elephant Demon King had clearly mastered the advantages of its unusual physique, transforming its ten arms into a coordinated killing formation that left almost no obvious opening.

Bai Qingyue reacted immediately.

"Heavenly Fortune: Resonant Shield!"

Crystalline blue light erupted around her body as a formation of interlocking arrays appeared between Lin Yuan and the incoming weapons. The shield was infused with Heaven and Earth luck, and its runes rotated rapidly as they adjusted to the trajectories of the attacks.

Three demonic blades struck the barrier almost simultaneously, but instead of piercing through, their paths were subtly redirected, causing them to pass Lin Yuan’s blind spots by the narrowest of margins.

The remaining weapons collided with the outer layers of the shield, producing a series of violent flashes. Bai Qingyue’s expression tightened as she poured more spiritual Qi into the formation, maintaining its structure despite the overwhelming force of the demon’s attacks.

She understood that she could not overpower the Elephant Demon King through raw strength alone, but by interfering with the trajectories of its weapons, she could create opportunities for Lin Yuan to counterattack.

The Elephant Demon King’s gaze snapped toward her.

"A Core Formation insect dares to interfere?" it snarled, its voice filled with contempt. Several of its arms continued attacking Lin Yuan, but one arm suddenly detached from the coordinated martial formation, its surface glowing with a sickly, inverted silver light.

Unlike the other limbs, this arm carried no weapon. Instead, strange runes spread across its skin, and the surrounding spiritual Qi twisted as though the very laws governing fortune had been disturbed.

"I was born with ten arms, human!" the Elephant Demon King declared, raising the silver-glowing limb toward Bai Qingyue. "Each one possesses its own purpose, and this arm holds an innate ability to steal fortune and overturn karma. Let us see how lucky you truly are when your own destiny becomes my possession!"

The demon thrust the silver arm forward.

It did not travel through physical space in the ordinary sense. Instead, the strange silver light bypassed Bai Qingyue’s crystalline shield and penetrated the invisible layers of Heaven and Earth luck surrounding her soul. The attack ignored the defensive arrays she had carefully established, reaching directly toward the karmic foundation that had accompanied her throughout her life.

Bai Qingyue’s expression changed as she sensed the danger.

She attempted to withdraw her fortune and reinforce the protective cocoon around her body, but the silver arm had already seized the invisible threads connecting her to the surrounding Heaven and Earth.

The Elephant Demon King clenched its fingers, and the silver runes upon its palm flared brightly as it began pulling those threads toward itself. Bai Qingyue felt a sudden, wrenching pain deep within her soul, as though something fundamental had been torn away from the foundation of her existence.

The consequences were immediate.

Her crystalline blue aura flickered violently, and the Heaven and Earth luck that had protected her for so long began pouring out of her body in streams of golden light.

The stolen fortune flowed toward the Elephant Demon King’s silver arm, where it gathered into a brilliant sphere that pulsed with an extraordinary concentration of karmic energy. Bai Qingyue staggered backward, her Golden Core trembling as the sudden loss of her foundational fortune destabilized the spiritual Qi circulating through her body.

"Qingyue!" Lin Yuan roared.