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Novel: [Night Without Boundaries]
Chapter 146: [The Young Demon Slayer]
Author: [Chen Dong]
Translator: [Shadow Knight AK]
Editor: [Shadow Knight AK]
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The Land of Divine Lament Plains stretched out before Qin Ming, a vast expanse of lush greenery. Yet under the Night Mist, the boundless forest loomed dark and oppressive, its verdant hues obscured by the gloom.
The trees swayed, their leaves rustling softly as a faint green mist swirled around Qin Ming, enveloping him like a shroud.
He felt himself rising slightly, as if floating forward, his movements effortless and weightless.
Moving through the forest, his body felt light and agile, completely immersed in Yi Mu Qi.
Every step he took carried him great distances, as if the verdant mist were lifting him forward.
"Yi Wood (Mu) Qi has such wondrous properties," Qin Ming mused, slightly surprised.
Not only did it conserve his energy, but the faint green glow enveloping him felt like a potent Spiritual Medicine entering his body, slowly purifying his flesh and nourishing his Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
In this Great Environment, his steps were as swift as the wind, as if he were riding the very essence of the plants and trees.
His hair danced in the night breeze, making him resemble a banished Immortal traversing the darkness.
Across the inky night sky, crimson lightning flashed like streaks of molten fire, threatening to strike the earth.
"Is a storm coming?" Qin Ming tilted his head back.
Dark clouds churned on the horizon, deepening the already oppressive darkness that blanketed the vast plains.
Several human figures appeared in Qin Ming's field of vision.
He recognized three of them—individuals who, like the mutant creatures, had once hunted him as prey.
Enshrouded in green mist, he shifted direction, his footsteps silent as he glided through the grass like a forest spirit, seamlessly blending into the environment.
None of the five humans noticed him immediately, still hurrying along their path.
It wasn't until he was less than two meters away that one of them abruptly turned, his face contorted in alarm.
He hastily thrust his spear forward, its cold light glinting menacingly.
With a flick of his right hand, Qin Ming unleashed a surge of green energy.
Amidst a clanging sound, the refined iron spearhead shattered into fragments, scattering across the ground.
"It's you!"
The group recoiled in shock.
This youth, once hunted by demons and left for dead, now radiated the fresh vitality of plants and trees, his overwhelming power sending shivers down their spines.
"Who organized you to hunt me?" Qin Ming demanded.
A young woman replied, "Brother, don't misunderstand. We heard the demons were fighting over the Silver Heart and wanted to seize it ourselves. We never expected to encounter you."
A middle-aged man nodded. "That's right, brother. We never intended to target you. We just happened to cross paths. We even wanted to help you, but you misunderstood us and immediately fled."
Qin Ming's expression remained cold.
What was the point of such a flimsy excuse?
Even they seemed to recognize its weakness, their hands already tightening around their weapons.
He unleashed a punch, drawing in all the surrounding Yi Wood Essence Qi.
The fist's glow surged beyond its normal limits, erupting with a thunderous boom. The man wielding the broken spear and his weapon shattered into pieces.
"Brother, we're both human! You... you can't do this!" the woman said, but her silvery sword suddenly flashed toward him.
Qin Ming struck out with a palm.
Her silver longsword shattered into seven or eight fragments.
The green palm energy swept past, severing her head.
The headless corpse collapsed to the ground.
In an instant, the other three attackers were also critically wounded, lying on the ground coughing up blood.
"Brother, spare us! We shouldn't have let greed lead us to join those Demons in ambushing you," a young man pleaded.
Qin Ming used Spiritual Resonance to confirm their motives were indeed rooted in greed.
Yet he showed no mercy.
Yi Wood Essence Qi surged beneath his feet, detonating them into oblivion.
"Scared me half to death!" a Blue Sparrow muttered to itself, pondering how to report this. "His aura is ethereal, almost Immortal, but when he attacks, he's more terrifying than any Demon!"
"Poof!"
The sparrow exploded, its blue feathers stained with blood as they drifted through the night sky.
Qin Ming lowered his bow and continued on his way.
Deep in the night sky, a colossal white peacock hovered.
A smaller bird flew up to it, reporting, "This mission is too dangerous! We've already lost over a dozen brothers. We refuse to continue guarding this territory—this isn't bird work!"
The Land of Divine Lament Plains was no longer as chaotic as before.
Most of the Old Demons had retreated to their own territories.
Only a handful of Demons still roamed the plains, each possessing formidable cultivation and posing a significant threat.
Qin Ming immediately spotted the massive One-Eyed Black Elephant. Its pitch-black, rough trunk swung wildly, crushing swathes of forest and shattering massive boulders in its path.
The elephant was enraged. Its right eye had been blinded by a Jade Iron Arrow, leaving its sole remaining eye burning with cold fury.
Now more volatile and dangerous than ever, the old beast sought revenge.
Beside it stood another creature of similar size, also bearing two snow-white tusks and a body rippling with muscle—a Boar Demon.
"Hmm? I smell his scent!" The Elephant Clan's sense of smell is even sharper than a dog's.
The Black Elephant detected Qin Ming approaching.
Of course, this was because Qin Ming hadn't bothered to conceal himself, wanting to test his skills against the creature.
"Same fat heads and big ears, wide mouths and tusks—you two really are alike, except for the length of your noses. No wonder you're called pig-headed brothers!"
Qin Ming's taunt instantly turned the faces of the two behemoths cold.
With a thunderous roar, the black Wild Boar charged forward, shaking the earth and sending rocks flying. Its immense momentum shattered trees in its path.
But instead of attacking Qin Ming, it abruptly turned and fled into the dark forest.
"This has nothing to do with me!" it shouted, its two short knives crafted from boar tusks clattering against its back as it crashed into the undergrowth and vanished completely.
Qin Ming froze, stunned.
It just ran away?
The Black Elephant flew into a rage.
Good riddance to such a useless brother!
But then it too faltered, sensing the terrifyingly dense Yi Wood Essence Qi radiating from the youth, which made it uneasy.
Qin Ming was enveloped in a green mist, as if about to ascend into the heavens.
He floated lightly, carried by the wind, rapidly closing the distance.
The Black Elephant gritted its teeth.
Since there was no avoiding this confrontation, and reconciliation was impossible, it had no choice but to fight with all its might!
It let out a thunderous elephantine roar that shook the wilderness.
Nearby vegetation shattered under the massive sonic wave.
The elephant swung its trunk, stomped the ground into rubble, and charged forward, the earth trembling violently beneath its feet.
By virtue of its species' innate abilities, the Black Elephant's raw power far surpassed Qin Ming's.
After all, such a massive creature, having evolved to a high level, possessed unparalleled brute strength.
However, once a human cultivated the Heavenly Light Force to a certain level, they could stand fearless against even the mightiest Giant Beasts, like a nail facing a block of hardwood.
Qin Ming evaded the elephant's charge, his body wreathed in emerald light.
With a swift movement, he positioned himself beside the behemoth and unleashed a right-handed strike.
Yi Wood Essence Qi erupted in a blazing, flame-like radiance as his fist exploded outward.
The Black Elephant howled in agony, staggering backward and nearly collapsing.
A bloody hole had appeared in its left flank, and terrifying crimson fissures radiated outward from the wound.
"Where's my Jade Iron Arrow?" Qin Ming demanded.
The Black Elephant was both shocked and furious, yet utterly humiliated.
In the eyes of this human youth, it was clearly less important than a mere arrow.
With a whoosh, Qin Ming swung his Jade Iron Sword, slicing off half the Black Elephant's trunk.
Now it truly resembled a pig-headed beast.
"Ah..." The Black Elephant flicked its ear, sending the Jade Iron Arrow flying. It had finally bowed its head in submission, then turned to flee.
Qin Ming intercepted it, forcing the old elephant to fight for its life.
Finally, Qin Ming soared into the air, unleashing a dazzling sword strike with all his might.
The massive black elephant head crashed to the ground.
The colossal corpse collapsed, blood gushing like a spring.
Qin Ming felt compassion for the weak, elderly, and disabled, but how could he forgive an Old Demon who had nearly hunted him to death just because it bowed once?
Decapitation was the only fitting end.
An enemy whose death brought closure, even a willingness to remember, deserved nothing less.
Qin Ming moved silently, capturing several wolf demons and extracting the current locations of Black Peng and the Fire Scale Lion.
Blood-red lightning crackled across the sky as a light drizzle began to fall.
Through the rain-soaked mist, illuminated by flashes of lightning, Qin Ming spotted a towering figure on the plains ahead—a being as colossal as a demon god, wandering with a Bone Blade in hand.
It was the ferocious Mountain Ape, its lifespan nearing its end.
Desperate to secure silver blood for its offspring's advancement, it stubbornly refused to leave.
Standing over ten meters tall, its dense fur gleamed under the lightning flashes, radiating a savage and terrifying aura.
The Mountain Ape spotted Qin Ming approaching. Though sensing the danger, it grinned, revealing its massive fangs.
As one of the most dangerous elder creatures, with little life left to lose, it feared nothing.
During their previous encounters, Qin Ming had narrowly avoided being crushed beneath its colossal feet, barely escaping with his life.
Now, without a word, he unleashed a heaven-shattering sword strike.
In terms of raw power, Qin Ming still couldn't match the Mountain Ape—a gap rooted in their species' inherent differences.
However, his Heavenly Light Force was now on par with the Force Techniques of Tathagata, the Six Imperial, and Heaven-Shattering.
At least, in the Awakening Realm, he had caught up!
Even Extraordinary Prodigy from the Great Sect Ancestral Courts, armed with "True Transmission Sheets" for cultivation, couldn't yet fuse so many Force Techniques.
The sword's radiance erupted, cleaving through the rain-soaked night like a lightning bolt, striking the Mountain Ape.
The Mountain Ape was undeniably terrifying. Its eight-meter-long Bone Blade swung with earth-shattering force, repeatedly cleaving through stone and earth, obliterating the ground.
Forests and solid rock alike shattered into fragments, its destructive power threatening to annihilate the entire mountain range.
In the rain-soaked night, lightning flashed and thunder roared.
Qin Ming channeled the Wind Thunder Force, his body crackling with lightning.
Wind Force surged beneath his feet, propelling him far faster than before his Seventh Awakening, rivaling even races renowned for their speed.
He circled the Mountain Ape, his sword flashing like lightning, tearing through the darkness.
Each strike left a bloody gash on the ape's massive body, blood mingling with the rain and cascading to the ground.
The Mountain Ape dwarfed the Black Elephant in power, a true Old Demon who had cultivated to the limits of its kind. Its Bone Blade slashed through the night, scattering the dense rain, again and again targeting the rapidly moving youth.
Finally, Qin Ming leaped skyward like a bolt of lightning, piercing the pitch-black rain curtain.
He soared dozens of meters into the air, his entire body enveloped in emerald radiance.
The Yi Wood Essence Qi of the entire forest surged toward him, becoming his weapon.
As if treading on air, he unleashed a dazzling blade strike that illuminated the heavens, crashing down upon the Mountain Ape's head.
The terrifying Heavenly Light Force erupted, splitting the ape's skull in two!
The Mountain Ape's cleaved face twisted into a grotesque grimace, its fur drenched in blood.
It released the Bone Blade and crashed backward to the earth with a thunderous roar that shook the entire forest.
Qin Ming drifted down, landing gracefully atop a towering tree.
Emerald mist swirled around him, vibrant life force rapidly infusing his flesh and nourishing his Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
Beneath the dark clouds, he stood atop the tree, ethereal and detached, his depleted energy fully restored.
"If the Yi Mu Scripture is already this miraculous, what must the Everlasting Green Life Scripture be like?" Qin Ming mused, his eyes filled with longing.
The Yi Mu Scripture, merely a foundational fragment separated from the Everlasting Green Life Scripture, was already considered a top-tier Extraordinary Technique.
How astonishing must the complete Secret Manual be!
Qin Ming descended to the Land of Divine Lament Plains, where he roamed alone, relentlessly slaying demons.
Any who dared to obstruct him were cut down without mercy.
He slaughtered countless lesser demons and several Old Demons, shaking the very foundations of the Land of Divine Lament Plains.
Now, he had ascended a Great Mountain, arriving at Black Peng's "Cultivation Domain." His path was marked by the corpses and bloodstains of his enemies.
Dark clouds blanketed the vast plains, the rain intensifying, accompanied by flashes of lightning and thunder that periodically illuminated the majestic mountain.
The Cultivation Domain was an expansive area with numerous grand structures, easily accommodating Black Peng's thirty-meter-long body.
The creature stood atop the mountain, impervious to the torrential rain.
Dark light emanated from its entire body, distorting space around it, radiating terrifying power.
Nearby, the bloodied hole in the Fire Scale Lion's skull had vanished, its wound completely healed.
Both demons glared at the youth ascending the mountain, their eyes burning with icy killing intent.
"Roar!"
A pack of blood lions roared and charged at Qin Ming, only to be cleaved in two with a single strike each, their corpses and blood splattering across the mountainside.
Among them, two exceptionally robust blood lions had reached the Outer Saint-level, yet even they couldn't withstand Qin Ming's blade.
During the onslaught, raptors swooped down from the night sky in a surprise attack.
Qin Ming responded with a flurry of sword strikes, blasting over a dozen of them apart—all servants of Black Peng.
"Eldest Brother, Second Brother, he's truly transformed. His cultivation is unfathomable," Old Donkey said, his voice trembling slightly as he wore a scholar's robe.
"It's nothing we can't handle!" Fire Scale Lion said.
Its scales clattered, radiating a crimson glow like intense flames that burned through the night sky, even evaporating the intensifying rain. Its surging demonic aura shook the mountain peaks.
It launched the first strike, its massive claw erupting with blinding redglow as it slammed toward the approaching youth.
Qin Ming raised his palm in response.
Instantly, every blade of grass and tree on the mountain rustled in Spiritual Resonance with him.
A surge of verdant light, brimming with vital energy, erupted, lifting him into the air as if he were about to float into the sky!
He thrust his palm forward.
The entire mountain's vegetation seemed to roar in unison as a vast expanse of green mist and radiant light coalesced before his hand, forming a colossal green palm print that hurtled forward!
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