Outside Xiao Fei's cave dwelling, within the great formation, Huang Feifei, at this moment, abandoned her own defenses, allowing the flaming ring to shatter her body.
Just as she believed she was about to die, her consciousness blurred, leaving only two sections of lotus root in her place.
When Huang Feifei, using a life-replacing puppet to substitute for her death, reappeared, all the divine sense interference imposed by the Nine-Eyed Demon Race on her was rendered ineffective, and her consciousness instantly recovered.
"That was close! I almost died in this Nine-Eyed Demon Race's illusion just now."
Huang Feifei had previously slain Nine-Eyed Demons with Xiao Fei. This race was particularly adept at divine sense and illusions. Xiao Fei himself had fallen prey to them several times in the past.
With her guard up, Huang Feifei protected her divine sense, unified her will, and no longer allowed external disturbances to affect her.
However, after the previous blow, although the life-replacing puppet had substituted for her death, her own magic power, vital blood, and divine sense had all suffered severe damage, greatly reducing her strength.
Especially the place where she reappeared after substituting for death was now outside the great formation she had set up.
Without the assistance of the formation, her strength was greatly diminished. Now, she had to face two Nascent Soul stage powerhouses, one human and one demon, and she had no chance of winning.
The best course of action was to turn and flee, luring the two powerful enemies towards Old Ancestor Shangguan, thereby adding to Old Ancestor Shangguan's burden.
Huang Feifei, originally a decisive and straightforward person, acted as soon as she thought of it. She immediately turned and flew away into the distance.
The gaunt cultivator wielding the flaming ring wanted to continue pursuing Huang Feifei but was stopped by the Nine-Eyed Demon Race.
"Fellow Daoist, don't forget, our true objective this time is that cultivator named Xiao Fei."
The gaunt cultivator slapped his forehead.
"Right! I almost forgot the main business!"
For the Demon Race, Xiao Fei posed too great a threat and had to be eliminated.
Therefore, they had gone out of their way to attack Mount Lu this time, with Xiao Fei being the primary reason.
As long as Xiao Fei was not present, the Demon Race could spread their demonic seeds at will and rapidly expand their population.
Huang Feifei turned and fled at extreme speed, instantly covering several miles.
However, when she looked back, she found that the two had not pursued her but had turned to attack Xiao Fei's cave dwelling.
This made Huang Feifei anxious. Xiao Fei was currently in seclusion, attempting a breakthrough, and was defenseless and susceptible to disturbances at this time.
She immediately turned back and flew towards them, blocking their path!
"Oh! The fairy is quite loyal!"
The Nine-Eyed Demon Race mocked her, transforming into a mass of black smoke and launching mental interference towards Huang Feifei.
Concurrently, the gaunt cultivator once again unleashed his flaming ring, striking towards Huang Feifei.
With her strength greatly diminished, Huang Feifei could not withstand the combined assault of these two.
Within just two or three exchanges, Huang Feifei was once again shattered by their combined attack, turning into two sections of lotus root.
Having died again, she reappeared, appearing even more weakened, but she still did not hesitate and lunged at the two once more.
"You crazy woman! Get lost!"
The gaunt cultivator's flaming ring once again blasted Huang Feifei apart!
But Huang Feifei still did not die. She reappeared from a distance, only now even more weakened.
Seeing Huang Feifei continue to pounce like a mad dog, the two found her unbearable but could not shake her off.
"Do not kill her. Capture her alive."
The Nine-Eyed Demon Race said. He was very interested in Huang Feifei's method of infinite life-replacing. If he could find it, it would be a great gain.
Capturing a cultivator of the same level alive was difficult, but the current Huang Feifei was extremely weak, and with their combined efforts, it was achievable.
The Nine-Eyed Demon Race imposed divine sense interference, while the gaunt cultivator switched to a flying sword and severed one of Huang Feifei's arms with a single strike.
Then, with several consecutive sword strikes, Huang Feifei's limbs were all severed by the flying sword.
"You lunatic! You should have fled when you had the chance, but instead, you had to come back and court death! Now, I will make you wish you were dead, but unable to die."
"If you hand over the substitution method you use, and open the defensive formation of this cave dwelling, I will grant you a swift death!"
The Nine-Eyed Demon Race, proficient in various torture methods, injected a surge of demonic energy into Huang Feifei's body at this moment, causing her soul to tremble in pain.
However, Huang Feifei endured the intense pain, glaring fiercely at the Nine-Eyed and gaunt cultivators, remaining silent.
"It seems I've been too gentle with you. I have ten thousand methods to make your life worse than death!"
As the Nine-Eyed Demon Race spoke, he cast dozens of incantations onto Huang Feifei.
The effect of this incantation was to subject the body to various torturous torments, while the soul would not die or even lose consciousness.
In the Demon Realm, no one had ever endured his set of tortures.
After casting the incantations, the Nine-Eyed Demon Race took out a short saw that gleamed with cold light...
...
"Hahaha..."
"Hahaha..."
As Xiao Fei opened the cave dwelling's doors with a laugh, he witnessed a scene that would forever remain in his memory and ignite his fury.
"You court death!"
The Nine-Eyed and gaunt cultivators turned, seeing Xiao Fei walking into a trap. They casually threw Huang Feifei to the ground and surrounded Xiao Fei.
"Hahaha..."
Xiao Fei was enraged at this moment, but the only sound that emerged was laughter.
Concurrently, a soul-stabilizing rune appeared in his hand, flashing and landing on the gaunt human cultivator. This cultivator immediately froze, losing all consciousness.
The longer the soul-stabilizing rune was nurtured, the more powerful it became, and the longer it could stabilize. However, it was consumed with each use.
Just as Xiao Fei stabilized the gaunt cultivator, the Nine-Eyed Demon Race transformed into a mass of black mist, enveloping Xiao Fei.
The countless black mists, formless and traceless, began to penetrate into Xiao Fei's body. Xiao Fei felt his divine sense being affected, and illusions appeared before his eyes.
The average strength of the Demon Race was slightly higher than that of the Human Race. The Nine-Eyed Demon Race was considered one of the weaker varieties in terms of combat power among demons, but its unpredictable nature, shifting between cohesion and dispersal, made it extremely difficult to deal with.
Xiao Fei's divine sense was already affected, and his movements had become much slower.
"Hahaha... Hahaha..."
With his divine sense affected, his control over the law of "laughter" also weakened considerably, and he couldn't help but laugh again.
However, he discovered that when he laughed, the influence the Nine-Eyed Demon Race exerted on his soul was completely eliminated, leaving no trace. His consciousness instantly returned to clarity.
As he laughed, a complex rune quickly appeared in his hand, which he casually slapped into the surrounding black mist.
The moment the rune condensed from the law of "laughter" entered the black mist, the mist churned violently, then gathered together to form the Nine-Eyed Demon Race, who rolled on the ground clutching his stomach, laughing uncontrollably.
The Nine-Eyed Demon Race didn't know why he was laughing, laughing like an idiot, and his laughter caused his divine sense to scatter and his magic power to become uncohesive.
He watched helplessly as Xiao Fei condensed a ball of lightning in his hand, instinctively feeling fear. He could have transformed into black mist and escaped, but at this moment, due to the inexplicable laughter, he was unable to turn into smoke.
Then, this golden divine lightning struck him. The lightning moved like golden snakes on his body. The Nine-Eyed Demon Race's entire body trembled violently. By the time the lightning stopped, his body had turned into charcoal!
The Primordial Divine Lightning was naturally antagonistic to the Demon Race. After being struck like this, the Nine-Eyed Demon Race was left with only a sliver of life.
However, ever since Xiao Fei's wood spirit root aptitude greatly increased, his Primordial Divine Lightning had also undergone changes. Amidst destruction, it contained a trace of wood's vitality.
Then, Xiao Fei struck him several more times with Primordial Divine Lightning, but the Nine-Eyed Demon Race was kept alive by this trace of wood's vitality.
The Nine-Eyed Demon Race was repeatedly tortured by Xiao Fei with divine lightning, yet he refused to die, forced to endure pain round after round.
"Hahaha..."
In addition to the pain of repeatedly nearing death, he also had to emit constant laughter like a masochist.
The pain he had just inflicted on Huang Feifei was soon inflicted upon himself.
Seeing that the Nine-Eyed Demon Race would not die anytime soon, Xiao Fei waved his hand, collecting the Nine-Eyed Demon Race and the gaunt cultivator into his spatial dimension, intending to torment them slowly later.
Saving Huang Feifei was the priority now.