Chapter 699: Slaying the Fourth-Stage Beast! Transformation of the Soulhowler!

“Roar!!!”

The two-headed demonic lizard saw Lu Changsheng, with the aura of the Five Poisons Sect Master spreading around. Instead of feeling any fear, it perceived it as a challenge and let out an angry growl.

Sand and stones swirled in the air, resembling a sandstorm, as a thick, inky black poisonous miasma began to seep out.

Lu Changsheng chose this fourth-stage demonized lizard because it had attributes of earth and poison, making it relatively clumsy, and its venom was suppressed by him and the Five Poisons Sect Master.

So, facing the charging two-headed lizard, Lu Changsheng summoned the Da Luo Sword Embryo, unleashing brilliant sword light as he charged forward.

“Clang!!!”

With his body reaching the fourth-stage cultivation level, Lu Changsheng could further channel the blood energy within this innate sword embryo.

The radiant sword light illuminated the world, merging with Lu Changsheng’s imposing spirit that resembled a fourth-stage demon king, striking at the two-headed lizard’s claws, creating sparks as blood splattered and leaving a deep, foot-long wound.

Though the Golden-Winged Roc and the Soulhowler were only third-staird-stage beasts, they were unafraid while facing the fourth-stage two-headed demonized lizard.

The Soulhowler snorted forcefully, releasing a pale yellow soul-capturing radiance that swept forth like a hazy mountain, pressing down on the two-headed lizard.

The Golden-Winged Roc charged straight in.

Its wings resembled two golden, brilliant blades, reflecting a cold glint as if its claws, forged from celestial gold, swept across the back of the demonized lizard, tearing a bloody gash.

Though it paled in comparison to the Da Luo Sword Embryo, it still breached the lizard’s defenses and inflicted injury.

“Roar!!!”

The two-headed demonized lizard sensed the looming danger and let out a low growl, its breath surging explosively, the dark green scales on its body trembling as a layer of earth-yellow light membrane materialized, causing its massive body to swell.

“Boom! Boom! Boom!!!”

A terrifying, vast aura swept forth like raging waves, as the ground erupted with menacing stone spikes, aiming to impale Lu Changsheng, the Golden-Winged Roc, and Ah Youduo.

However, they were all prepared and wouldn’t be easily caught off guard. Lu Changsheng’s fourth-stage physique and Chaos Body rumbled and roared.

The Nine Treasures Dao Bone instinctively activated, channeling a tremendous force that intertwined with blood energy and magical power, causing the Da Luo Sword Embryo to explode with fierce sword light.

In the next moment, the earth-shattering sound of the sword echoed.

The earth-yellow light membrane of the two-headed demonized lizard was ruptured by the Da Luo Sword Embryo.

One of its massive claws was severed by Lu Changsheng, dark magic blood spraying onto the ground, causing corrosion.

The Five Poisons Sect Master seized the opportunity to cast her secret technique, employing venomous insects to corrode and impair the two-headed demonized lizard.

After all, this lizard possessed highly toxic attributes. She wasn’t afraid of it, but ordinary poisons couldn’t affect it much.

“Roar!!!”

In agony, the two-headed lizard let out a pained cry, realizing the danger and starting to go berserk.

Yet, the Soulhowler’s soul-capturing raring radiance enveloped it, making its scales and wounds emit thick black smoke continually, causing it excruciating pain and preventing it from approaching the Five Poisons Sect Master and the Soulhowler. Beast.

“Buzz!”

Its sinister dark pupils suddenly shimmered with a yellowish hue, staring intensely at the Soulhowler, creating ripples.ipples.

In an instant, the winds howled furiously as a cloud of flying sand and stones threatened to drown the Soulhowler, coating its body with a layer of yellow crystalline granules.

“Not good, that’s a petrification technique!”

Third-stage demon kings possess innate abilities, and this two-headed demonized lizard, as a fourth-stage beast, naturally had its own innate skill.

Lu Changsheng swung his Da Luo Sword Embryo abruptly, aiming to disrupt its technique.

However, the lizard’s body was covered with layers of earth-yellow light membrane, making it difficult for even Lu Changsheng to easily break through.

Nearby, the Soulhowler cried out sharply, arply, then roared as its pale golden fur glowed with an eerie light, swirling black mist surrounding its body as it tore away the crystalline granules on its surface.

Immediately after, the small Soulhowler shot upward at a viat a visible rate, with the surrounding black mist forming vague ghostly figures, clawing at the air.

“Roar!!!”

The Soulhowler, like a demonic apenic ape, howled at the sky, causing the surrounding ghostly figures to quake and merge into its dark fur, transforming into fearsome and terrifying demons.

Its form became more menacing, its tail gradually shading red, and a pair of curved horns sprouted atop its head, thick and fierce.

Abruptly, a blood-red demonic eye appeared in the center of its forehead, captivating the heart and soul.

In just a few breaths, the Soulhowler transformed dramatidramatically, going from a playful and adorable little beast to a terrifying demonic ape with a black face and sharp fangs, radiating a horrifying aura.

This was the battle form of the Soulhowler, the true beast of ast of punishment, a bane to evil spirits!

“Roar!!!”

With cold, dark pupils and surging black mist all around, the Soulhowler charged at the two-he two-headed demonized lizard, radiating a mist of ominous energy.

At this moment, the two-headed demonized lizard, pressured by Lu Changsheng and the Five Poisons Sect Master, appeared dazed.

“What kind of beast is this?”

Ah Youduo looked at the Soulhowler with a bewildered edered expression, utterly astonished.

Earlier, the Soulhowler’s soul-capturing raring radiance that devoured ghosts was already incredible.

Now it could even intimidate a fourth-stage beast; it was simply shocking.

“Buzz buzz buzz!!!”

The crimson radiance of the Soulhowler fell upon the two-he two-headed demonized lizard like countless ghostly figures biting at it, dulling its body membrane and causing filthy magic flames to erupt.

Then, a fist covered with bone spikes slammed into the two-headed lizard’s body, sounding like a divine drumbeat with each punch ringing out.

“The beast of punishment restrains all sorts of ghostly creatures and corpse demons; it truly is beyond ordinary.”

Lu Changsheng perceived through his Taiyi Spirit and Fiery Eyes of Truth that the black mist enveloping the Soulhowler would help it neutrt neutralize and consume ghostly energy.

Moreover, all of its attacks would offer additional boosts against this demonized beast, making its power exceed even that of the Golden-Winged Roc, a top-tier third-stage beast.

“And this is in the face of a demonized beast; if it faced a true demon practitioner or a fourth-stage ghost king, the Soulhowler’s combat power wouler would likely rise another level.”

From the situation before him, Lu Changsheng gained a rough understanding of the Soulhowler’s situation.uation.

Now at the third-stage peak, it could very well take down a fourth-stage ghost king! Without overthinking it, and with the Soulhowler sharing the burden,burden, he repeatedly swung the Da Luo Sword, cutting the scales off the two-headed demonized lizard as its blood sprayed everywhere.

Even though this demonized lizard lacked intelligence, it still sensed great danger and attempted to struggle to escape.

Yet, facing the onslaught from Lu Changsheng and the Soulhowler, along with Ah YoudAh Youduo and the Golden-Winged Roc’s interception, it found it impossible to flee.

“Prevent it from counterattacking!”

Looking at the wounded and gradually maddened two-headed lizard, Lu Changsheng urged.

After years in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range and Da Mengze hunting demon kings, he had accumulated considerable experience.

He knew that a demon king would typically initiate a desperate counterattack at this point.

Such a desperate counterattack from a fourth-stage beast could very well injure one of them, even if it didn’t kill.

He and Ah Youduo still had to explore the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons, and he didn’t want to get hurt at the hands of this two-headed demonized lizard.

“Don’t worry, my Lord.”

With Lu Changsheng and the Soulhowler attacking head-on, ad-on, Ah Youduo found it easy to fight. The life’s magical treasure in her hand, the Five Poisons Ten Thousand Demonic Banner, waved vigorously, releasing poisonous miasma.

In her hand, she wielded a whip-shaped Dao-Comprehending Artifact, continuously striking out to disrupt and limit the two-headed lizard’s movement.

“Roar!”

After a quarter of an hour, the two-headed demonized lizard, with crimson eyes going mad, tried to retaliate but had no opportunity. Instead, it chose to stop struggling and fully activated its technique, wrapping its entire body in poisonous fog in an attempt to petrify itself.

Lu Changsheng recognized this to be a technique similar to that of True Lord Tiancang’s cocooning.

Once it completed its petrification, its defensive power would significantly increase through the Nirvana seal, making it hard to kill and requiring more blood energy and magical power.

However, in the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons, filled with demonic energy, murderous qi, ghostly energy, and foul air, there was nearly no spiritual energy to recover from, making it quite troublesome to restore magical power and stamina using pills and spirit stones.

“Five Poisons Ten Thousand Demonic, rise!”

As a Nascent Soul cultivator, the Five Poisons Sect Master had long been prepared. Seeing this, she quickly formed seals with her delicate white hands, and the five-colored banner fluttered around her.

Instantly, the venomous energy that previously corroded the two-headed lizard’s body surged, interrupting its technique.

Meanwhile, Lu Changsheng’s eyes shimmered with brilliance as he aimed the Da Luo Sword Embryo at the nearly detached neck of the lizard, covered in blood.

“Crack, crack, crack!!!”

Flesh flew apart, and bones shattered.

Seeing this, the Soulhowler focused the crimson divine light onto the neck.

“Puff!”

With a terrifying slash, one of the lizard’s heads was severed. Dark blood gushed like a fountain, eliciting a heart-wrenching scream from the two-headed demonized lizard.

“Kill again!”

Seeing this, Lu Changsheng teamed up with the Soulhowler, seizing the opport opportunity to swing his sword again, aiming to decapitate the lizard’s other head.

Wounded and at the end of its strength, the two-headed demonized lizard had no strength left to resist and lost another head.

However, as a fourth-stage beast, even with two heads severed, it wasn’t dead yet. Its head and body instinctively tried to reconnect.

But Lu Changsheng wouldn’t give it that chance, unleashing Yin-Yang Qi Great Capture to tightly bind the two heads.

Moments later, the massive body of the two-headed demonized lizard collapsed like a small mountain, its life essence completely extinguished.

“Huh, this fourth-stage beast, even without its wits, is incredibly hard to kill.”

Lu Changsheng gazed at the fallen two-headed demonized lizard’s body, exhaling a long breath.

Earlier, he had felt nothing while relying on the Sun-Moon Yin-Yang Mirror to slay the Void Kun.

Now, having personally slain this two-headed demonized lizard, he deeply realized how resilient the life force of a fourth-stage demon king truly was.

If he hadn’t set up backup plans and multiple constraints, if it were to escape on its own, he alone would have been hard-pressed to stop it.

“A fourth-stage beast.”

The Five Poisons Sect Master looked at the demonized lizard with a somewhat complicated expression, glancing at Lu Changsheng and the Soulhowler. Beast.

In this battle, although she contributed, it was mostly Lu Changsheng and the Soulhowler doing the heavy lifavy lifting.

The combined might of one man and one beast was simply terrifying.

“Ah Youduo, do you need any materials?”

Lu Changsheng, who never hoarded for himself, inquired about the spoils while looking at the fallen creature.

As he spoke, he took out a gourd and began to absorb the blood of the two-headed demonized lizard.

Though this lizard’s blood was tainted and demonized, making it far less valuable than the blood of the Void Kun,

it was just right for him, who practiced the True Saint Skill of Brahma and Demons.

This was also one of his purposes for hunting fourth-stage demonized beasts.

“This two-headed lizard should have two hearts. If you don’t need it, I can use the one with poison attributes to cultivate insect toxins.”

Ah Youduo spoke, neither refusing nor appearing too greedy.

“Alright.”

Lu Changsheng nodded and began to dissect the demonized two-headed lizard before him.

He couldn’t carry away all this flesh, so he let the Golden-Winged Roc and the Soulhowler indulge themselves.selves.

However, the Golden-Winged Roc hadn’t yet refined the essence of its Nascent Soul, and after eating a few bites, it stopped to avoid tainting itself with the demonized meat.

The Soulhowler, unaffected, went s went straight for the two-headed lizard, devouring its blood and flesh without restraint, surrounded by a mist of ghostly energy.

Lu Changsheng paid no mind to this, instead digging out the earth-yellow beast core of the two-headed demonized lizard, which shimmered with a ghostly green hue.

The entire beast core radiated thick demonic energy, corrosive qi, and foul energy, enough to taint many beasts and practitioners.

The Soulhowler couldn’t help but ep but eye the beast core, a glimmer of desire shining in its eyes.

Ordinary beasts wouldn’t dare consume this kind of beast core, as it could easily corrode and taint them, but for it, it was perfectly suitable.

“Do you want it?”

Lu Changsheng raised an eyebrow and casually tossed the invaluable fourth-stage beast core to it.

During this trip to the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons, the Soulhowler had already demonstdemonstrated its battle power and value.

Thus, Lu Changsheng willingly aimed to cultivate it so it could rapidly advance to the peak of the third stage or even the fourth stage!

“Roar, roar, roar!!!”

The terrifying Soulhowler eagerly growled, reled, receiving the fourth-stage beast core, before taking a deep breath to absorb the essence within.

“Finish eating these first. Don’t waste anything.”

Lu Changsheng advised the Soulhowler. Beast.

Hearing this, the Soulhowler glanced reluctantlyctantly at the beast core in its hand, before resuming its feast on the two-headed lizard’s flesh.

After giving the poison-attribute heart of the two-headed lizard to Ah Youduo, Lu Changsheng processed the bones, sinews, eyes, claws, and other valuable materials, taking a pill to recover a bit before heading with Ah Youduo to find the lair of the two-headed demonized lizard.

This kind of demonized beast, while lacking intelligence, would still instinctively gather valuable materials as a beast.

“You stay here and eat your fill.”

Lu Changsheng directed the still happily feasting Soulhowler, hoping it would deould devour as much as possible.

Shortly after, Lu Changsheng and Ah Youduo arrived at the lair of the two-headed demonized lizard.

The area was dark and deep, littered with stones, resembling a den of demons.

“This… is Soul-Devouring Grass!”

As soon as they entered the lair, Lu Changsheng spotted several black-leaved, odorless, and glossy peculiar grasses growing ahead, and couldn’t help but approach to examine them closely.

This was an extremely rare spirit herb known for nourishing the soul and enhancing soul power.

Of course, the side effects were quite pronounced.

During the refining process, it would cause heart demons to interfere with the mind.

However, for Lu Changsheng, who practiced the Six Desire Heart Demon Technique and had a tree king at home, this side effect was practically nonexistent.

“Although the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons lacks rare spiritual materials, a lair of a fourth-stage beast should contain plenty of treasures.”

Lu Changsheng mused, collecting the four Soul-Devouring Grasses and placing them into a brocade box, planning to use one for himself later to experience its effects.

Then he would give one to his son, Lu Lingxiao, and his daughter, Lu Wangshu, among others, to enhance their souls, allowing them to experience the heart demon effects in advance.

The two continued searching the cave but found no other exotic treasures.

However, as a fourth-stage beast, the two-headed demonized lizard had collected quite a bit of crystal ore in its lair, just like most demon kings.

Many of these were fourth-stage crystal ores, suitable for crafting Dao-Comprehending Artifacts or making puppets, which was no small reward.

After thoroughly rummaging through the lair, Lu Changsheng and Ah Youduo returned the way they came, setting up a formation barrier, meditating with spirit stones and the Spring of Spiritual Eyes, waiting for the Soulhowler to finish its meal.s meal.

Meanwhile, Lu Miaoge, Lu Ping’an, Lu Wangshu, Li Xingruo, and others arrived at Daya Mountain’s Li family.