0110 Unexpected Control (Votes, Votes, Votes)
The female demon felt as if something was being injected into her from her waist. From that point, the demonic energy within her rapidly dissipated, replaced by a strange, intense heat flowing through her body. This heat quickly spread throughout her, causing her vision to blur, and she dropped to one knee.
Jiang Feng lifted his eyes and gave her a strange smile before suddenly coughing up a mouthful of blood and collapsing face-first onto the ground.
At that moment, the top of the celestial ranking board above the prefectural office suddenly flickered. A name bathed in golden light replaced Jiang Huaiming’s and appeared at the top.
“Jiang Feng, two thousand three hundred fifty-two points!”
Wan Qiyu, Wang Xuandi, and others looked up simultaneously, their expressions changing drastically.
This young man named Jiang Feng had instantly gained an extra two thousand points. What did this mean?
One point for miscellaneous demons, ten for soldier-rank demons, thirty for sergeant-rank demons, three hundred for captain-rank demons, and three thousand for colonel-rank demons.
A doubled score meant the demon’s strength was effectively doubled as well.
This indicated that a colonel-rank demon had appeared and Jiang Feng, along with others, had defeated it. Moreover, the celestial ranking board attributed over sixty percent of the credit for eliminating this colonel-rank demon to this young man!
Impossible!
Among all the candidates participating in the grand examination, the highest realm reached was only the early dawn stage, with the vast majority at the dawn stage.
How could a dawn-stage candidate possibly defeat a colonel-rank demon three ranks above?
Silence fell near the command post. Everyone stared at the celestial ranking board, utterly stunned.
After a long moment, the area gradually stirred to life. Wan Qiyu and Wang Xuandi simultaneously gave orders, “Go check it out! Find out what’s really going on!”
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Jiang Feng was completely unaware that most of the credit for the score was attributed to him.
He had collapsed onto the ground and immediately entered a chaotic and strange state.
He was able to clearly sense everything happening around him, but his attention was utterly unfocused.
The female demon’s palm had struck his chest just moments ago, a surge of powerful demonic energy piercing through and directly impacting his Tianxin seed.
The Tianxin seed trembled violently. For the first time ever, the swirling vortex at its core halted its rotation, and the Heavenly Mechanism Magic Cube at its center began to vibrate intensely.
The demonic energy flooded in, filling the entire Tianxin seed. Born to repel luminous energy, it instantly dispersed all the luminous force inside, even breaking through the Tianxin seed to assault Jiang Feng’s primordial branch.
The powerful demonic energy collided relentlessly within the Tianxin seed. The luminous force continued to collapse, and the primordial branch wobbled on the verge of collapse.
If this continued, Jiang Feng would be like Hua Su before him—his primordial branch shattered, his realm regressing. No, it would be worse.
Hua Su, after all, had a solid foundation. Even after losing two primordial branches, he still had four left to slowly withstand future assaults.
Jiang Feng had only just opened his second primordial branch; his foundation was pitifully weak. If this one and a half primordial branch were shattered by the demonic energy, he would instantly become a cripple, never able to stand again.
Gritting his teeth, Jiang Feng forced the Tianxin seed to spin, absorbing the luminous energy in the surrounding air.
As long as the luminous energy could be activated, it might sustain the primordial branch from collapsing!
Fortunately, when the female demon appeared, she absorbed most of the demonic energy around, making this area unusually clear.
“Demon Dissipation Taoist,” Jiang Feng thought. With less demonic energy, the luminous energy would increase.
At this moment, the only luminous energy in the air was being frantically absorbed by Jiang Feng. Around him, a subtle vortex began to form.
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Although the celestial ranking board showed the points, in truth, the female demon was still alive.
She knelt halfway on the ground, her expression unclear, her body trembling slightly.
Two strong figures, a man and a woman, unaware of what had occurred but sensing an opportunity, glanced at each other and immediately launched an attack.
An ice arrow shot before the female demon. She stretched out her hand, caught it, and crushed it completely.
Slowly, she lifted her head and fixed her gaze on Jiang Feng not far ahead.
The two strong figures rushed forward, one wielding a bow, the other a spear, both carrying tremendous force.
Suddenly, two curved blades appeared in the female demon’s hands, identical in shape to those wielded by her previous duplicates, only longer and larger.
With a light clang, the curved blades blocked the two attacks but did not counterattack.
At that moment, two sergeant-rank demons leapt from the demon lair, scanning their surroundings. Seeing Jiang Feng closest, they extended their claws to grab him.
The female demon’s pupils contracted sharply. With a piercing scream, she risked a bloody wound on her arm and instantly dashed past the two strong figures toward the demons.
A swing of her curved blades turned the two demons into fragments, their demonic cores smashed into pieces by the handles.
The two strong figures stood dumbfounded. What was happening? Why had the demons started killing each other?
If the demon lair remained unsealed for even a day, a huge number of demons would emerge. Now, more miscellaneous and low-level demons appeared. Before they could even land, the female demon charged ahead and shredded them to bits.
In an instant, this powerful female demon became the most unwavering guardian of the battlefield. Every invading demon, regardless of rank, was completely wiped out by her!
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On the celestial ranking board at the prefectural office, the score behind Jiang Feng’s name began to fluctuate wildly.
Two thousand three hundred sixty-two... two thousand three hundred ninety-two... two thousand six hundred ninety-two... three thousand one hundred seventy-five...
Almost every moment, the number changed at an astonishing speed.
This signified that demons were being continuously eliminated!
In such a tense battle, this was undeniably good news. But it was also extremely strange—could a dawn-stage candidate really achieve this?
Just moments ago, he had taken down a colonel-rank demon, and now he was slaughtering various captain-rank and below demons?
Yes—slaughter. The speed of killing was only fittingly described as slaughter!
Wan Qiyu and Wang Xuandi had just sent subordinates to investigate the situation here, and now they didn’t hesitate to dispatch a second wave. They repeatedly ordered, “Go check! Find out what’s happening over there!”
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“This female demon… is protecting this young man!” the man in black muttered after analyzing the situation. The silver-haired woman lowered her bow and nodded in agreement.
Clearly, the female demon’s protection centered on Jiang Feng. Anyone approaching him with hostile intent was mercilessly slain.
They still didn’t understand why the female demon had turned against her own kind, nor that all the demons she killed were counted toward Jiang Feng’s score!
From the moment the female demon appeared, she wiped out every soldier in this battlefield zone. Where there should have been a breach, it had instead become the most impregnable fortress.
“What happened to that young man? Go check quickly!”
Though unsure what was occurring, given the circumstances, all they needed was to remain vigilant—they did not need to immediately attack the female demon.
Their attention turned to Jiang Feng, and they immediately sensed something wrong.
“His Tianxin seed is injured… Right, that female demon just struck him squarely in the chest!”
An injury to the Tianxin seed was akin to internal injuries in a martial cultivator—extremely difficult to repair.
The man in black strode over to Jiang Feng, bent down, and placed his right hand over Jiang Feng’s heart, beginning to inject luminous energy.
Whether Tianxin seed or primordial branch, the first reaction after injury was to absorb luminous energy.
They would automatically absorb a large amount of luminous force, attempting to heal. Only if luminous energy failed to replenish quickly would the injury leave a lasting scar.
The man in black thought, Jiang Feng was only at early dawn stage and wouldn’t need much luminous energy. With his ability, replenishing it would be effortless.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Feng’s body seemed like a black hole. The moment luminous energy touched his skin, it was voraciously absorbed!
The suction was so strong it wasn’t satisfied with just the incoming energy—it began drawing luminous energy from the man in black’s own body!
In an instant, the luminous energy within the man’s body gushed out like a waterfall, unstoppable.
The man’s first instinct was to pull his hand away from Jiang Feng, but looking up at the female demon, he forced himself to resist the impulse and instead pushed harder, accelerating the injection of luminous energy.
The earlier battle had already drained most of his luminous energy; now, with this drain and output, his primordial branch emptied rapidly, and he collapsed against Jiang Feng’s body.
At that moment, the silver-haired woman noticed something was wrong. She hurried forward, and the man beckoned to her with his other hand, whispering, “You take over...”
The woman immediately understood his intent.
Taking a deep breath, she knelt halfway, placing one hand behind the man’s and the other on Jiang Feng’s chest.
The Tianxin seed was like a bottomless black hole, greedily absorbing every bit of luminous energy nearby.
The luminous energy absorbed earlier had been tainted with demonic energy, but the Tianxin seed accepted it nonetheless. Now, the pure and potent luminous energy from these two strong figures was absorbed with even greater enthusiasm.
The faint cracks on the primordial branch vanished completely, the subtle trembling stabilized, and the Heavenly Mechanism Magic Cube, which had been violently shaking, calmed as well.
Each of these two was at least three realms above Jiang Feng. The luminous energy within them surged like mighty waves, pounding against the Tianxin seed.
Even for healing, an ordinary Tianxin seed would struggle to withstand such intensity. But this Tianxin seed was sturdy and greedy.
It effortlessly absorbed all the luminous energy, quickly stabilizing and beginning to reinforce itself.
Jiang Feng’s primordial branch became saturated, the luminous energy condensing into a dark golden gel-like substance.
Beneath its semi-solid surface, this gel contained immense power, relentlessly surging forward until it completely filled the fourth section of the primordial branch, then launched an assault toward the fifth portal!
Jiang Feng had only opened the fourth portal less than a day ago, and now the fifth portal suddenly burst open!
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