Cultivation Online

”Divine Paragon?”

”…”

Yuan remained silent despite being called out to, his gaze fixed solely on the portal just a few steps away.

Without uttering a single word, he began walking toward it.

Seeing this, the Demon Sealers standing in his path instinctively moved aside, their eyes locked onto his face without blinking.

Once Yuan reached Qian Chu’s supporters, he lowered his gaze to the person standing before him.

The man immediately began sweating profusely, his clothes darkening within moments as cold sweat drenched his body.

”Three…”

Yuan suddenly started counting down, sending shivers down everyone’s spine.

”Two…”

”Y-You can’t fool me!” the Demon Sealer suddenly shouted, his voice cracking at the very beginning.

”The Divine Paragon has long since died! How dare you use his face for such a shameless stunt?!”

The moment the other Demon Sealers heard those words, they finally snapped out of their stupor, as though abruptly regaining their senses.

”Wait a second… there’s no way the Divine Paragon could be here!”

”Shameless bastard! What are you trying to achieve by disguising yourself as the Divine Paragon?!”

They began shouting in anger, even surrounding him like an enraged mob closing in on its target.

Suddenly, the Demon Sealers from the Seventh Heaven jumped in while shouting, ”This is not a stunt! He is really the Divine Paragon!”

”What?”

The others halted their movements to stare at him.

”We were ambushed by over a thousand demons when we went to check on the seals for the Demonic Realm! If the Divine Paragon hadn’t appeared, all of us would have died!”

”It was also the Divine Paragon who removed the seals, as he had been trapped inside the Demonic Realm and needed to return to our world!”

”Wait a second… What do you mean the Divine Paragon had been trapped inside the Demonic Realm? He was the one who sealed it when he returned last time, and it hasn’t been unsealed since then, so how did he get back to the Demonic Realm?”

”He accidentally discovered another entrance to the Demonic Realm, but it only functions one way.”

”So he came out of the Demonic Realm? How are you so certain that is the real Divine Paragon and not some demon disguised as him?” asked one skeptical Demon Sealer.

”Because he got rid of all the demons by himself, using the ’Divine Paragon’s lost techniques’ showcased by Yan Hara!”

”No way…”

The Demon Sealers slowly turned to look at Yuan.

”Huh? Where did he go?”

However, to their surprise, Yuan’s figure had vanished without a trace.

Unbeknownst to them, while their attention had been diverted by the Seventh Heaven’s Demon Sealers, Yuan had already slipped into the Valley of Demons.

”I-I think I saw a shadow enter the portal…” the Demon Sealer closest to the portal suddenly said.

”He must have entered the portal already! Let’s follow him and see for ourselves whether he’s truly the Divine Paragon or just a fake!”

The next moment, nearly every single Demon Sealer rushed into the portal, leaving just a few behind to ensure the other spectators didn’t follow them.

Inside the Valley of Demons, Yan Hara tried her best to survive the demons’ onslaught.

Fortunately for her, the Demon Sealing Treasures functioned without her control and would protect her as needed, as if they had a will of its own.

”She’s exhausted herself and won’t be able to last much longer! Kill her! Quickly!” Demon Emperor Carnage shouted at the other demons while he and Qian Chu focused on the Demon Sealing Treasures.

”Come at me, you fiends! I’ll seal every last one of you, even if it costs me my final breath!” Yan Hara shouted, her eyes blazing with unwavering resolve—the resolve to die.

Yan Hara paid no heed to conserving her strength, sealing demons one after another without pause.

In the end, she managed to seal nearly every demon present before exhausting the very last bit of her energy.

The Demon Sealing Treasures, which had been operating solely on their reserve energy, also began to run dry and soon ceased functioning altogether.

Qian Chu and Demon Emperor Carnage slowly approached Yan Hara, who knelt weakly on the ground, barely conscious as faint, shallow breaths escaped her lips.

”I have to admit, Yan Hara… you far exceeded my expectations, even startling me a little just now…” Qian Chu muttered.

A cold sigh escaped his lips before he continued, ”If only you had stood on my side instead… you could have gone much farther.”

”Any last words?”

Yan Hara spat out the blood in her mouth and spoke in a low voice, ”Go… fuck yourself… you damn… puppet…”

Qian Chu’s eyes twitched at her words.

Then, without another word, he raised his arm and brought it down toward the back of her neck in a chopping motion.

The Demon Sealing Flag, which had been lying motionless on the ground after exhausting its energy, suddenly erupted with an unfathomable amount of Demon Sealing Aura.

It rose into the air on its own and shot toward Qian Chu, aiming directly for the back of his head.

Sensing the deadly attack behind him, Qian Chu abruptly turned and redirected the strike meant for Yan Hara toward the incoming flag, attempting to block it.

In the next instant, a piercing scream tore from Qian Chu’s lips as the Demon Sealing Flag not only reflected his attack, but completely obliterated his arm in the process.

”?!?!”

Seeing this, Demon Emperor Carnage immediately leapt backward, putting distance between himself and the others.

However, he abruptly stopped when his back slammed into something hard. Assuming he had collided with a tree, he instinctively swung around to cut it down—only for his arm to be caught mid-motion by another hand.

”Y-You are—?!”

Demon Emperor Carnage’s eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets as he realized that what he had collided with was not a tree, but a human—one he was very familiar with, no less.

”DIVINE PARAGON?!?!”

He screamed at the top of his lungs, so forcefully that his lungs actually burst from the strain.