Chapter 214: Chapter 213
"I'm not listening, I'm not listening!"
Yan Chi Xia didn't even give Chen Ye a chance to speak. "Kid, this is not a place you should be. Get out of here!"
Chen Ye felt a bit speechless.
Although he knew Yan Chi Xia had good intentions, his tone was really quite irritating.
"Big beard, there's no need for you to worry. Isn't it just a thousand-year-old tree demon?"
"Hm?"
Yan Chi Xia was stunned when he heard this. "You know there's a demon here, and you still dare to come?"
"Of course, I came here specifically to exorcise demons!" Chen Ye replied.
Chen Ye wasn't afraid of the thousand-year-old tree demon.
Based on the movie, that neither-man-nor-woman demon, while disgusting in its methods, didn't actually have much power.
It was the Black Mountain Demon in the underworld that was more troublesome, and Chen Ye wasn't entirely confident about dealing with it.
He came to find Yan Chi Xia with the idea of teaming up to take down the big boss.
"You're so full of yourself!"
Yan Chi Xia scrutinized Chen Ye for a few moments before asking, "What level are you at now? How dare you talk about exorcising demons? Do you know that this old witch has a thousand years of cultivation? I advise you not to throw your life away!"
Chen Ye didn't feel like explaining much and directly asked, "Big beard, my target is the Black Mountain Demon hiding in the underworld. Can you take me to find it?"
"You're even thinking of taking on the Black Mountain Demon?"
Yan Chi Xia looked at Chen Ye as if he were an idiot.
The Black Mountain Demon had incredibly deep cultivation, a terrifying existence even he didn't dare provoke!
Chen Ye looked young, and even if he had started cultivating in the womb, there was no way he could be a match for the Black Mountain Demon.
"You really don't know your limits!"
Yan Chi Xia snorted coldly and questioned, "Who is your master? I'd like to ask your teacher how they could teach you such recklessness and send you to your death?"
Chen Ye was speechless!
Yan Chi Xia was too stubborn!
"Big beard, it seems you won't listen to what I have to say unless I show you a little of my strength. In that case... sorry!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he activated his mental power.
Immediately, Yan Chi Xia, who was standing opposite Chen Ye, felt his whole body freeze and, without any control over himself, began to fly toward Chen Ye.
He was shocked and struggled repeatedly, but found that he couldn't break free at all!!
Although Yan Chi Xia was a martial arts master, he was still within the range of human capability. With Chen Ye's current mental power, he could control objects weighing over a thousand pounds, so controlling Yan Chi Xia was no problem at all.
Chen Ye then formed his hand into a claw and reached for Yan Chi Xia's neck.
Seeing this, Yan Chi Xia shouted loudly, "Heaven and Earth Unbound, Xuan Tian Sword Technique!"
Buzz!
From the house behind, a heavy sword suddenly flew out.
"Sword and soul as one!"
Yan Chi Xia shouted again, and the heavy sword flew straight toward Chen Ye, aiming to strike him down!
Chen Ye knew this was Yan Chi Xia's Taoist technique and couldn't help but marvel at it.
However, such an attack couldn't possibly harm him!
In an instant, his hand was covered with Armament Haki.
At the same time, he used his mental power again to control the flying sword.
Chen Ye reached out and grabbed the sword's blade in mid-air.
Seeing Chen Ye attempting to catch the blade bare-handed, Yan Chi Xia was shocked and quickly warned, "Watch out…"
But the next moment, Yan Chi Xia's voice abruptly stopped, his face showing a look of astonishment.
He saw Chen Ye's hand tightly gripping his heavy sword, with only a small cut on his hand, slightly bleeding.
The divine sword he had summoned, with power enough to cut through iron and steel, couldn't even slice through a young man's palm?
What kind of monster was this young man?
...
What Yan Chi Xia didn't know was that Chen Ye was even more surprised at this moment.
When he caught the sword, he actually got injured.
This was the first time since he had started using Armament Haki that a weapon had managed to cut his skin.
"Ding! Special item detected…"
[Special Item: Xuan Yuan Divine Sword.
An ancient divine weapon, indestructible and highly effective against demons and ghosts!]
[Note: Only Taoist masters can unleash its full power!]
Hearing the system prompt, Chen Ye was taken aback once again.
Before coming here, he had read the guide and knew that Yan Chi Xia's sword was a special item.
But he hadn't expected it to be a legendary weapon.
No wonder the big boss Black Mountain Demon was slain with a single strike in the original story!
In an instant, Chen Ye's interest was piqued!
Even if he couldn't use Taoist techniques, this sword's ability to counter demons would make it extremely useful in future dungeons involving ghosts and monsters...
"Kid, who exactly are you? What kind of magic did you just use?"
Hearing this, Chen Ye withdrew his mental control and released Yan Chi Xia.
"Big beard, do you believe in my strength now?"
"Hmph!" Yan Chi Xia snorted coldly, "I admit you have some skill, but with just these tricks, you think you can kill the Black Mountain Demon? That's impossible!"
His specialty was exorcising demons, but in martial arts, he was only a master.
Chen Ye wasn't a demon, so naturally, Yan Chi Xia wasn't a match for him.
After all, Chen Ye's overall strength was already at an A-rank, no longer a rookie.
"Big beard, are you crazy?" Chen Ye frowned, his tone far from polite. "Since I dare to come after the Black Mountain Demon, I obviously have my ways. Stop with the nonsense and just tell me if you can take me to the underworld or not?"
"You…"
Being scolded by Chen Ye, Yan Chi Xia's face turned red with anger!
However, he still answered truthfully, "The Black Mountain Demon resides in Wangsi City at the border of Yin and Yang. The living cannot enter; the entrance to the living world must be opened from within. Otherwise, I have no way to get in!"
Hearing this, Chen Ye immediately recalled the scene in the original plot where Nie Xiao Qian was captured by the Black Mountain Demon for a ghost marriage, and Yan Chi Xia chased him into the underworld with Ning Cai Chen.
It seemed that to enter the underworld and take down the Black Mountain Demon, he still needed Nie Xiao Qian's cooperation!
"Hey! Kid, give me back my sword!"
Seeing that Chen Ye was still holding onto his sword without any intention of returning it, Yan Chi Xia finally spoke up.
"Here, catch!"
Chen Ye tossed the sword back to Yan Chi Xia.
It wasn't that Chen Ye didn't want the sword!
But for now, he needed Yan Chi Xia's cooperation to enter the underworld, so it wasn't the right time to forcibly take it.
Of course, if Yan Chi Xia somehow lost his divine sword in the Black Mountain Demon's territory, he couldn't blame Chen Ye for "picking it up."
"Big beard, I'm going to take care of the thousand-year-old tree demon first. After that, I'll figure out how to get the Black Mountain Demon to open the entrance from the inside. When the time comes, you'll take me in!"
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