The two swords brutally fell toward both Sect Leader Xuan and Matriarch Huang. With no way to escape the deadly blades, both elders used all their strength to block the impact. The nine tails of Matriarch Huang formed what looked like a huge fan right between her and the sword. Pushing her Dao of Fire to its limit, the blade itself began to vaporize before it even touched Matriarch Huang. Unfortunately, it wasn't nearly enough. Not only was the blade massive, but its momentum was incredible.
The blade slashed toward the nine tails. It literally began to cut through the flames, but Matriarch Huang rotated her body and used the tails to push the blade out of the way. Because of its momentum, the blade was very difficult to move. However, Matriarch Huang was more or less able to push herself out of the way. The emphasis was on the more or less. The air pressure alone crushed Matriarch Huang and slammed her toward the blood ocean below. But it wasn't all. Some of her nine tails were simply cut off. The cuts were extremely clean.
Matriarch Huang crashed heavily into the surface of the ocean of blood. Immediately, thousands of blood snakes attacked her. It looked like a piece of meat falling among piranhas. As her tails had been damaged, Matriarch Huang lost focus and was quickly overrun by the blood before she was able to spread her heat once more. With her wings injured, she had a hard time even moving around. That being said, she flapped her injured wings while screeching in pain and fury. She was desperately trying to get away from the surface of the blood.
On the other hand, Sect Leader Xuan manifested his understanding of the Dao of Space. The distance between him and the blade was getting bigger and bigger the closer the blade was. Ironically, the closer it was getting to Sect Leader Xuan, the farther away it was. However, space itself began to crack like glass. Demon God Da Mo exerted a bit more power, and the blade suddenly tore through space. The blade of blood radiated a powerful vitality, and even Sect Leader Xuan's Dao of Space couldn't stop it any longer. It crashed into the mountain on Sect Leader Xuan's back.
Although it was incredibly sharp, the blade was unable to cut through the shell. Sect Leader Xuan quickly brought his head and limbs back into the shell. Cracking noises could be heard, some rocks fell here and there, but the shell endured. In fact, Sect Leader Xuan was pushed downward. The giant black tortoise was being pushed deeper into the blood ocean. The blood ocean itself was resisting by pushing the legendary beast upward. Demon God Da Mo tried to put more effort into the blade. Slowly, cracks began to appear on the mountains and even in the scutes of the shell. Sect Leader Xuan's defense was much sturdier than Matriarch Huang's. However, he was unable to get out of the attack at the moment, trapped between the ocean of blood and the blade. He would have to risk it, or he would be either crushed or cut in half.
Matriarch Huang was ready to go help him when she realized that the blade that had hurt her was still going for her. Demon God Da Mo had barely put any effort into it as he was more focused on the resisting tortoise.
Suddenly, chains emerged from the two blackened suns. Immediately, they darted toward the wrists of the two gigantic skeleton arms. The chains pierced the bones and penetrated the marrow. There were a dozen chains attacking each wrist. Then, the chains literally began to coil around the wrists and hands. They moved like snakes, trying to ensnare the fingers and even grab the hilt of the swords.
As the chains spread, Demon God Da Mo felt a cold sensation. Those chains were made of pure Death Energy. As a result, he could feel his own Po getting unruly. Unlike the Weaver of Souls, Demon God Da Mo was unable to control his Turbid Demons, he was just suppressing them. However, those chains were injecting more and more Death Energy within his own Po. Demon God Da Mo could feel his soul slowly being turned into Death Energy.
Usually, Demon God Da Mo would have focused on that immediately, but he really wanted to kill Sect Leader Xuan and Matriarch Huang. It was difficult to say whether it was arrogance or not. Even he wasn't sure. Was he arrogant enough that he thought he could let this threat spread while he was dealing with his enemies? Or was he humble enough to admit that he had to kill those two enemies first before trying to deal with anything else? Anyway, he had made his decision and tried to focus his intent on the two elders.
Matriarch Huang flew toward Sect Leader Xuan while avoiding the blood snakes attacking her because she was flying too close to the surface of the blood ocean. Matriarch Huang was forced to alter her trajectory a lot and flew all over Demon God Da Mo's sea of consciousness. Although he was fighting for his life, Sect Leader Xuan manifested his Dao of Space in order to help Matriarch Huang avoid the enemies.
As Demon God Da Mo was putting more and more strength into his attack, he felt a sudden piercing pain in his lower abdomen. Precisely, he felt as though someone had stabbed his kidneys. Several seals made of pure Death Energy had been activated. Clearly, someone had sabotaged his own body. The attack from the chains had finally activated those seals, and Demon God Da Mo felt his own soul slowly turning into Death Energy.
Before Demon God Da Mo could even react, a bone from the wrist of the hand attacking Sect Leader Xuan broke. The hand lost balance, and Sect Leader Xuan seized the opportunity to quickly escape from the assault of the blade. As the bone had snapped, something emerged from it. Rugged bones coalesced, and the shape of Bone General appeared. It was a giant bone creature with a large rib cage and several limbs. The bones kept breaking apart to shape its body. Only Demon God Da Mo recognized that it was literally the manifestation of one of his Turbid Demons. It was still rather weak, but Demon God Da Mo couldn't deny that he had lost control of his own Po.
Furious, Demon God Da Mo summoned golden chains from the ocean of blood right under his feet. The golden chains flew toward the Bone General while covered in blood and tried to grab it. The Bone General immediately fought back. However, it was too weak and got easily suppressed. That being said, Demon God Da Mo could feel his entire Po slowly turning into Death Energy because of the seals within and the chains of Death Energy assaulting him. Demon God Da Mo was fighting on many fronts.
Just as he was fuming, Demon God Da Mo felt the Black Death Prison poison spreading. Although he had recovered his body, he couldn't enjoy it because his entire flesh was rigged against him. Of course, he had realized that this was a trap. But this joyous occasion had turned into a very sour and bitter experience. The blood ocean under him began to turn darker and darker as the Black Death Prison poison was spreading throughout his flesh. Now, Demon God Da Mo couldn't easily leave his body. Forcing his way out would damage both his body and his Demon Soul. Besides, he didn't want to abandon his body after finally finding it. Even if he got his drop of blood back, it would take an extremely long time to regrow such a powerful Reborn Demon body. With this flesh, he had a real chance of becoming an Immortal Demon in a matter of centuries.
Demon God Da Mo would fight until the end. His golden and crimson True Fire suddenly erupted and spread throughout his blood and flesh. The True Fire was so powerful that it began to push back against the Black Death Prison poison. With enough time, the poison would be completely annihilated.
Of course, Sect Leader Xuan and Matriarch Huang couldn't let Demon God Da Mo focus on other threats. Their goal was to distract him and force him to weaken himself. Now that his giant skeleton hands were hindered by the chains of Death Energy, the two elders attacked Demon God Da Mo directly.
Matriarch Huang flew all around him and suddenly attacked him. In an instant, the chain still attached to her tightened and caught Demon God Da Mo by surprise. It was as if Demon God Da Mo had been unable to even sense the existence of this chain. It had popped out of nowhere as far as he was concerned. But when it touched him, he felt a painful coldness that spread throughout his flesh and soul. The chain had been made by Cao Yun using Matriarch Huang's own Death Energy. In a way, Matriarch Huang was tormenting Demon God Da Mo with her own death.
Under the pain, Demon God Da Mo stopped everything and simply grabbed Matriarch Huang. Her flames became hotter and hotter. With such intense heat, the skin of Demon God Da Mo's hand began to boil, but he kept on clenching his fist around Matriarch Huang's neck. Demon God Da Mo exerted enough pressure to literally crush her neck and even remove it. Matriarch Huang was only able to defend herself with her flames. Her tails were trying to burn through the large asura's hand, and even his wrist and forearm. Unfortunately, the demon simply took the pain and put more and more strength in his grip.
Suddenly, he got pulled downward and felt a painful bite in his thigh. Sect Leader Xuan was right under Demon God Da Mo. The snake tail of the giant black tortoise had coiled all around Demon God Da Mo's leg and had bitten into the major veins in his thigh. The demon began to bleed profusely, but it had almost no impact on him in such a realm of blood. From Sect Leader Xuan's back, the chain made of his own Death Energy began to coil around the other leg. It was as if Sect Leader Xuan was trying to tear apart his limbs.
With his other hand, Demon God Da Mo grabbed the head of the black snake. With no hesitation at all, Demon God Da Mo pulled it out of his own thigh. Blood flew everywhere as his leg was deeply injured. But the wound healed in a mere instant. Immediately, Demon God Da Mo jerked the head of the snake upward and bit it off. Sect Leader Xuan was in incredible pain just as Demon God Da Mo spat out the head of the snake into the blood ocean. In less than a breath, thousands of blood snakes had already devoured the giant head of the black snake.
Demon God Da Mo trampled on Sect Leader Xuan's back. His feet got impaled on the nine peaks, but the shell of the black tortoise began to crack. Despite the pain, Demon God Da Mo kept on trampling and trampling. His hand tried to take away the chain around his other leg, but the pain was too intense. Simply touching the chain with his hand was painful. It was easier to simply kill his two enemies now and deal with the chains and the poison later.
Honestly, Demon God Da Mo had to admit that he was sincerely getting desperate at this point. He put his two hands around Matriarch Huang's neck and squeezed tighter and tighter. If the heat had been less intense, he might have tried to bite off her head, too. Thankfully, his hands were in so much pain and the skin was boiling so intensely that Demon God Da Mo didn't want to approach the matriarch with his own head. Besides, he didn't know whether she had other hidden cards.
While Sect Leader Xuan and Matriarch Huang were in agony just trying to distract Demon God Da Mo, Mo Tian was observing everything. Until now, the demon god had not perceived his presence. The traitor was biding his time. To be honest, he was wondering whether he could betray Cao Yun. Unfortunately, he couldn't because Cao Yun had put seals on him, too. However, he still had enough room within his oath to gain some freedom. Mo Tian enjoyed watching Sect Leader Xuan suffer. More than that, Mo Tian was calculating. He didn't want to end up like them. Although he had promised to help, he had no intention of sacrificing himself. He could accept a large amount of pain, or even humiliation and degradation, as long as he stayed alive in the end.
At this very moment, Mo Tian was wondering whether he could still salvage this Reborn Demon body. It didn't seem likely, but it would be such a waste. Anyway, Mo Tian was still looking for his opening. Considering how much Demon God Da Mo could still fight back, Mo Tian wouldn't risk it. Even the Black Death Prison poison was being pushed back. Maybe Demon God Da Mo would lower his guard after killing one or two of the elders. It was worth waiting for the opportunity. No one could blame Mo Tian for that. After all, the two elders had already chosen death. In fact, he would make their deaths worthwhile if he used them to strike down the tyrant. Even Mo Tian couldn't lie to himself. He simply hated Sect Leader Xuan and wanted to see him suffer.
Finally, Sect Leader Xuan's shell broke. Pieces of scutes flew everywhere, and blood began to pour from his wound directly into the blood ocean below. As soon as his blood touched the ocean, Sect Leader Xuan felt intense pain. His very soul was being slowly devoured by this ocean of blood. Demon God Da Mo didn't lessen his assaults. In fact, he increased his savagery and released some tension on Matriarch Huang. He wanted to make sure that Sect Leader Xuan was dead before taking care of his other enemy, and then the multitude of threats all throughout his body and outside it. Humans had no way of winning against him. No matter how much effort he had to put in, in the end, he would prevail.
Sect Leader Xuan was in agony, but he didn't relent. He suddenly jumped toward his enemy and crashed his shell into Demon God Da Mo's back. The shell cracked some more, but so did a few vertebrae of the demon god. Using this opportunity, Matriarch Huang bit a finger off Da Mo's hand and was able to free most of her neck from his grip as Da Mo was already distracted.