Read Novel Full Chapter 357 - 321: Slaying Another Tier 6
Chapter 357: Chapter 321: Slaying Another Tier 6
"Commander!"
The battalion leaders and their soldiers all turned to Yan Song in unison, their eyes filled with astonishment and disbelief.
The original target was clearly Demon Cave Two, yet they suddenly turned to attack Demon Cave One—this was no different from pushing the First Battalion and Third Battalion, who were deeply entrenched in Demon Cave Two, towards their doom!
Everyone knew that there was more than one Tier Six demon entrenched in Demon Cave Two, and both Qin Tian and Li Wufeng were below Tier Six in strength. Just one Tier Six demon would be enough to crush both battalions completely.
Even if Qin Tian possessed the ability for spatial transportation, how many could he save from the claws of a Tier Six demon?
Even the several battalion leaders whom Yan Song had always valued looked completely bewildered, clearly not expecting him to change his decision at this critical moment.
"Commander!" The Sixth Battalion Leader looked anxiously at the increasingly distant outline of the demon cave below, and spoke urgently, "Doing this..."
"This is a military order!"
Yan Song’s voice was cold and commanding, the pressure from a Tier Six powerhouse swept over the entire battlegroup, his gaze as sharp as a knife: "Anyone who dares to question the order will go down to accompany them."
Once his words landed, silence instantly enveloped the surroundings. Although the warriors dared not speak further, their eyes involuntarily reflected the sorrow of seeing someone else’s fall and foreseeing their own.
Seeing this, a trace of sinister coldness flashed in Yan Song’s eyes.
He had entered the Demon Suppression Abyss with one purpose only—to establish merit.
Only with tremendous military achievements could he quickly advance in rank, becoming the most dazzling presence among the young generation of the Yan Family in the military, regaining the family’s focus and resource allocation.
In recent years, because of that incident, his lineage had fallen from the direct to a collateral status, and the resources they could receive plummeted.
He himself, from being the family’s rising star showered with admiration, became an object of pity, ridiculed openly.
Those clan members who once bowed and scraped before him now dared to humiliate him publicly; those elders who once saw him as a rough diamond now turned a blind eye to him.
Pain, struggle, despair... ultimately all transformed into a refusal to accept it deeply ingrained in him. He had to rise, by any means necessary, to reclaim everything that belonged to him.
To quickly accumulate military merit, the most direct way was to destroy demon nests and demon caves.
Demon nests were heavily fortified, even the lowest level housed tens of thousands of demons, far beyond what he could currently challenge.
Therefore, he set his sights on the demon caves.
Near the Chijin Battlegroup’s station, there were two demon caves.
Through his personal investigation, he found that the number of demons in Demon Cave One had surpassed ten thousand—a demon cave of such scale surely harbored a Demonic Qi rift.
A Demonic Qi rift was the source from which demons emerged endlessly, and anyone who could destroy it would gain military accomplishments so great that they would be astronomical, enough to promote him from Colonel to Major General.
The treasure in his hand could destroy Demon Cave One and the Demonic Qi rift, but activating it would leave him temporarily weakened.
Demon Cave One and Demon Cave Two were not far apart, and once the rift in Demon Cave One disappeared, the several Tier Six demons in Demon Cave Two would likely notice the anomaly and come to aid, making it not entirely safe for him, even if he had a Tier Six powerhouse by his side.
Therefore, he needed a force strong enough to hold the Tier Six demons in Demon Cave Two in place.
Previously, he couldn’t find a suitable candidate, leading to the plan’s delay.
However, with the arrival of Qin Tian, things finally took a turn.
In terms of strength, Qin Tian alone could kill hundreds of demons with a wave of his hand; among all the battalion leaders, he was undoubtedly the strongest. Tier Five demons couldn’t withstand even a few of his heavenly thunders, and even when facing a Tier Six demon, he could certainly hold it off for a while, even if he couldn’t win.
Moreover, the combined nearly thousand warriors of the two battalions were an irresistible feast of flesh and blood for a Tier Six demon, enough to make them hesitate between investigating the Demonic Qi rift anomaly and slaughtering humans.
To achieve great things, how could one be soft-hearted?
The nature of a commander is to view thousands of soldiers as chess pieces.
As long as the Demonic Qi rift could be destroyed, some sacrifices were reasonable; even if this matter were reported to the battle zone headquarters, there wouldn’t be a flaw found in his plan.
Yan Song looked at the distant, demonically qi-filled sky with a cold smile on his lips.
......
"Roar!"
A roar containing boundless fury exploded from afar, the terrifying pressure unique to a Tier Six demon crushing across miles of canyon, causing Li Wufeng and his soldiers to change color, their hands gripping their weapons instantly drenched in cold sweat.
"The Tier Six demon has come out." Li Wufeng gripped the knife handle tightly, his knuckles white as bone, his eyes sweeping sharply towards where the Chijin Battlegroup was gathering.
According to the plan, reinforcements should have arrived by now.
The Tier Six demon single-handedly charging towards the canyon was a godsend opportunity for the battlegroup—as long as Yan Song brought the Tier Six expert in time, they could kill the demon two against one, making the subsequent plan to destroy Demon Cave Two much smoother.
But in the next second, his pupils contracted into pinpricks.
The massive battlegroup carried by the wind carpet was moving across the horizon, but instead of heading toward the canyon, they were turning straight to the other side.
"Yan Song!!!"
Li Wufeng’s furious roar erupted in the canyon, his eyes instantly blood-red.
He had long known Yan Song had little regard for the First and Third Battalions, so he had always been on edge during missions, afraid that the other side might sabotage the timing of the reinforcements or the use of the Spiritual Energy bombs.
Yet he never imagined that the other side would be so decisive—abandoning them to face death, leaving nearly a thousand warriors to face the fangs of a Tier Six demon!
This was undisguised murder!
At this point, the other soldiers also saw the wind carpet move away, their faces immediately draining of blood.
"Commander."
The leader of the company beside Li Wufeng grabbed his arm tightly, his voice trembling, "What is this situation, has Director Yan really abandoned us? What should we do?"
The aura of the Tier Six demon grew ever closer, the air so scorching it seemed ready to ignite, shattering rocks on the cliff began to heat up, and even breaths carried sparks.
Li Wufeng’s teeth ground with a crackling noise, veins bulging on his forehead like earthworms, his eyes finally filled only with a resolute determination fueled by blood: "There’s no choice, we fight! Even if we die, we’ll tear a piece off this beast!"
He roared this in his heart: Yan Song, just wait! Even if I become a vengeful ghost, I won’t spare you!
Whoosh—
The silhouette of the Magma Demon tore through the air, appearing above the canyon, dragging two fiery trails behind it that charred the sky.
It flapped its flaming wings, looking down from above at the humans on the rocky wall and the demon corpses littering the ground, its vertical pupils swirling with rage.
Boom!
The flames around it suddenly boiled, hundreds of fist-sized lava balls condensed out of thin air, each emitting a heat comparable to a mini sun, lighting the canyon as if it were daylight.
The Magma Demon slowly raised its lava-covered hand, and the lava balls floated upward with its motion, only waiting for a command to completely engulf the humans below.
At that moment, the soldiers’ eyes filled with deep despair; in the face of the absolute power of a Tier Six demon, they couldn’t mount any meaningful counterattack and could only wait for death like lambs to the slaughter.
Some young soldiers even closed their eyes, their bodies shaking uncontrollably.
At this critical juncture—
Bang!
A muffled thud came from above, as if someone had smashed a red-hot iron bar with a giant hammer.
The Magma Demon’s massive body abruptly shuddered, half of its head shattering like a watermelon hit by a sledgehammer, spraying dark green blood mixed with scorching magma into the sky, burning sizzling black holes into the rocky walls.
In an instant, everyone froze in place, staring blankly as the suspended lava balls lost control and fell into the canyon, dragging long fiery tails and bursting into a sea of flames in the canyon’s depths.
Silence.
Not a sound came from the walls of the canyon, with only the crackling of burning lava echoing within.
The soldiers looked at each other, their eyes filled with confusion and shock—that was a Tier Six demon, how could it... simply die like that?
Who exactly killed it?
Li Wufeng kept his eyes on the demon’s remains at the canyon’s bottom, a flash of amazement and doubt passing through his eyes.
This wound...