Chapter 57: Sword Shadow's Defense

  Chen Tao didn't stop until he was completely exhausted, and then he lay down on the branch weakly, leaving everything to fate. However, in Chen Tao's heart, the chance of survival under such circumstances was extremely slim.

  Ye Xue similarly exhausted his internal strength, the Ice Palm was incredibly mysterious, but unfortunately it was only a fragment, and Xiao Xue had only been cultivating for a short time. Nevertheless, even so, she could still turn those demonic beasts into ice sculptures. Of course, there were also some mysterious circumstances that Ye Xue couldn't understand, allowing her to move freely within the icy layers.

  The congenital realm's demonic beasts are so powerful that they cannot be understood by the mortal world, even someone like Xiaoxue and Chentao who can counter with their strong techniques, still cannot truly defend against the attacks of the congenital realm's demonic beasts.

  The powerful force brought by various attacks caused the ice layer that Ye Xue had just laid out to shatter instantly, and Ye Xue spat out a big mouthful of blood. The blood flowed freely in the ice layer, unaffected by its freezing temperature.

  Ye Xue was ultimately unable to withstand the attacks of these demonic beasts, and after killing three third-level demonic beasts, the ice layer was finally broken through. The powerful force sent Ye Xue flying backward, crashing into the tent, which collapsed and covered everything inside.

  The tent's collapse should have pinned Ye Chen to the ground, but just as it was about to crush him, a red sword aura burst out of his body. The red sword aura rotated rapidly above Ye Chen, and in an instant, the tent was torn apart by the sword aura, revealing a hole large enough for one person. Ye Chen was exposed before the eyes of the demonic beast.

  This triggered such a large amount of heavenly energy, and it was actually from one person. This made these demonic beasts go even crazier. For the demonic beasts, there is an extreme craving for humans. In the world of demonic beasts, devouring humans is the most normal thing to do. Humans are the best food for increasing spiritual power.

  And people like Ye Chen, who have a large amount of innate spiritual power in their bodies, are the favorite food of these demon beasts. The eyes of all the demon beasts turned bright red. They let out loud roars and then charged towards Ye Chen. Ye Xue was completely ignored by the demon beasts at this moment.

  Many ferocious beasts rushed in, and this small circular area couldn't hold many at all. It was soon packed with beasts. Ye Xue stood beside Ye Chen, and at this moment, Ye Xue wasn't anxious. Death was so close, yet Ye Xue smiled as she gazed at her brother not far away.

  "Brother, Xiaoxue is useless and can't protect you. You should be the one to protect Xiaoxue instead, even in the afterlife! After a person dies, their soul will remain. Xiaoxue hopes that brother will always be Xiaoxue's brother, even in the next life... and the life after that. Xiaoxue only has one brother!" At this moment, Ye Xue seemed to have let go of her worries about life and death. Looking at Ye Chen, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes held a longing for a beautiful future.

  The monster didn't care whether Xiaoxue was sentimental or beautiful, in the monster's eyes, Yedust was the delicious and tasty one. A surge of tremendous power came from Xiaoxue's body, that was the force generated by the monster stepping on Xiaoxue's body.

  Xiao Xue was subjected to wave after wave of powerful forces, finally bleeding profusely and fainting, but the cold blood refused to congeal, instead flowing around Ye Xue's body. Ye Xue's body had already suffered severe injuries, if she were trampled a few more times, she would really be flattened.

  Ye Xue and Ye Chen were not far apart, with only one demon beast between them. The demon beasts behind couldn't squeeze in, so Ye Xue was still intact. If all the demon beasts had trampled over, Ye Xue would have been turned into mush long ago.

  Like this, Xiaoxue remained unconscious, with blood flowing profusely, and the blood that could flow even on the ice all flowed in the direction of Yuwang Stele. In this place where the spiritual energy was dense, the seventy-seven ancient characters on the Yuwang Stele gradually lit up, but this light was not very obvious.

  The monster rushed to Ye Chen's side, opening its bloody mouth and wanting to swallow Ye Chen. Of course, the monsters couldn't be polite, each one wanted to swallow Ye Chen, but there was only one Ye Chen. The situation of many monks and little meat usually triggers a war on the side with more people.

  These demonic beasts would not watch as other demonic beasts swallowed Ye Chen, so the fierce attack unfolded above Ye Chen. Each demonic beast refused to yield, and blood flowed even more profusely. Some demonic beasts fell, only for others to charge in. The demonic beasts at the back were equally unwilling to be left out, crazily attacking the ones in front of them.

  For a time, the entire square in front of Yuwang Stele was filled with blood and corpses of monsters. Ye Xue was pressed under the body of a monster, his life or death unknown. Some monsters finally got the chance to bite down on Ye Chen's mouth.

  Blood basin big mouth staring at Ye Chen, just about to devour him, when three sword shadows whizzed out from his body, one fiery red, one icy white, and one dark gold. The three sword shadows fluttered vaguely, yet all moved swiftly.

  The sword shadow moved very quickly, directly breaking through the monster's bloody big mouth, and rapidly stirred above Ye Chen. The three sword shadows intertwined into a net, and the monster instantly turned into a blood mist, leaving only half of its body falling down.

  This sudden change stunned all the demon beasts, and this originally harmless food actually hid such a huge crisis, making the demon beasts look at a loss. All the demon beasts in front stopped moving.

  Food should look like food. If all foods can hurt beasts, how can they be eaten? At this moment, the demon beasts around Ye Chen reached a consensus and took action collectively.

  The purpose of the move was not Ye Chen, but the three sword shadows above Ye Chen. Anyone who could threaten the beasts would be eliminated first, and then whoever got it would be theirs, with life and death no longer a concern.

  All the demon beasts attacked together, and the momentum was extremely grand. There were five demon beasts surrounding Ye Chen, and the five congenital realm demon beasts simultaneously extended their claws, with demonic energy filling the air, as one claw mark after another launched a fierce attack.

  It seems that he could sense the strength of this attack, and several sword shadows burst out from Ye Chen's body again, including tyrannical, evil, peaceful, sharp, and so on. There were a total of seven sword shadows, combined with the previous three, making a total of ten sword shadows.

  Ten sword shadows were illusory and unpredictable, yet all of them quickly revolved around Ye Chen's upper body. Those heavenly spiritual energies also revolved with these ten sword shadows, which led the way, while the spiritual energies were like tails behind the sword shadows.

  Ten sword shadows collided with five claw marks, without any comparability. Those innate claw marks shattered instantly in front of the ten sword shadows and dissipated into thin air.

  The true claw mark of the demon beast is much stronger than the virtual shadow, and the power is also different from the sky. Bang bang bang, the two touched together, making a loud noise.

  Wooooo!

  Five miserable cries rang out at the same time, a huge painful voice that made the demon beasts still charging forward in the back stop their attack with a tremble.

  His five limbs all turned into a bloody mist, and everything above the dust of leaves became nothingness. The swift sword shadow made those blood mists not see any decline, all blocked on top of Ye Chen's body.

  The five demon beasts all showed a look of terror, involuntarily retreating. This was too bizarre. Never had they seen anything so bizarre. A person who had been unconscious and unresponsive, yet somehow unconsciously defending themselves in such an otherworldly way - could it be that he was the illegitimate child of the Beast God, specifically sent to deal with demon beasts like them?