This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder

Chapter 463: Casualty

Yujiao turned around to see the toad dragon’s body floating limply in the Vast Void. Jiaohu’s mouth was still open, as if someone had grabbed his throat, preventing him from screaming, and fear had permanently etched itself into his eyes. However, his eyes had already lost their shine,

He waved his arm, and the soulless corpse disappeared.

Ba Shifang’s sudden revival and Yujiao’s appearance attracted the demon kings and immortal monarch’s attention. Their attacks and maneuvers didn’t stop, but the tempo had obviously dropped—especially Meng Tingfeng. His previous ferocious killing intent directly halved. Joy that could not be concealed shone from his eyes.

Still, he did not let happiness cloud his judgment. The sword monarch continued to pressure Donghai Longzi. Instead of attacking the black dragon, he focused on the red dragon. This forced Donghai Longzi to shield Honglin with his body. Although most of the power disappeared under the black dragon’s defenses, it reduced the frequency of his attacks and prevented him from dodging.

Donghai Longzi roared and coiled around Honglin, forming a spherical barrier with his own body. Although the immortal monarchs didn’t know why he would turn himself into an easier target, it didn’t prevent them from bombarding him with all their attacks.

“Aren’t you going to help him?” Ba Shifang asked, staring at Yujiao.

“He doesn’t need my help,” the humanoid dragon said with a shake of his head. Then, he stared at Ba Shifang with narrowed eyes. “Besides, I feel that blocking you would help him more.”

‘Well, you’re not exactly wrong. If he and I weren’t on the same side, I do have the power to make his situation precarious,’ Ba Shifang thought. However, he didn’t know how Yujiao came to such a conclusion. Was it perhaps a dragon’s intuition? Even if that was true, then the latter had the confidence to block him for a time.

Ba Shifang didn’t waste any more words and attacked. Five different types of qi flowed from his body and formed the five elements: fire, water, earth, wood, and metal. They formed into projectiles and shot toward the humanoid dragon.

Yujiao didn’t attempt to block them head-on. Instead, he evaded as many as possible, but he couldn’t evade all the attacks. For those, Yujiao clenched his hands into a fist and punched them. His punches destabilized the elemental projectiles, scattering them into fragments that only dirtied his robes.

His powerful defense and offense surprised Ba Shifang. It reminded him of Donghai Longzi. “Your actions don’t match your words.”

The projectiles that Yujiao evaded flew past him and struck the coiled black dragon. Still, Yujiao didn’t show any change of expression. He kept his smile and said, “I have confidence in my comrade.”

Ba Shifang’s lips twitched. The gentle smile on Yujiao’s face seemed very punchable in his eyes. Still, his actions didn’t stop. He continued to unleash spell after spell upon the jade dragon. No matter how strong Yujiao’s scales were, he didn’t think the latter could last forever against his bombardment.

Before the scene envisioned by the former clone could appear, the situation on the other side changed.

Donghai Longzi’s body started to rotate. Even in the empty void, turbulent winds composed of gaseous, black qi formed. The spells of the monarchs from the Immortal Court disintegrated upon contact, and the swords used by the monarchs of the Numinous Court could not cut through this black wind. Forget cutting through it, they felt the artifacts deteriorating upon contact with it. A crack even appeared on one of their swords.

Sweat formed on that sword monarch’s brows. The artifact in his hand was at the immortal monarch level. If he had physical contact with the black qi, he could already imagine losing a limb. He wanted to retreat, as did his fellow monarchs, but the black spiraling sphere that was Donghai Longzi exploded, engulfing all of them. Screams of pain belonging to those sword monarchs rang from within.

The monarchs of the Immortal Court were much luckier. They had always kept their distance, so they only got caught on the edge of the explosion.

The monarchs from the Immortal Court glanced at one another. Should they or should they not help the Numinous Sword Sect monarchs? At the end of the day, it was only a tentative alliance to deal with the Demon Clan. The two sides would engage in a war to determine the hegemony of the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System in the future. The weaker the Numinous Sword Sect’s overall power became, the better.

So what was the answer? Naturally to help!

Although the alliance would remain even if those sword monarchs perished, it would cause fractures in the delicate alliance. It was better to wholeheartedly treat the others as allies until the correct time.

From outside, Ba Shifang formed a final hand seal and stayed. His brows twitched, even as he tried to show an indifferent expression.

The pill was the Planetary Purgatory Pill concocted by Tianyi himself. Although it was an alchemical pill, it resembled a talisman even more. It allowed the user to perform the Planetary Purgatory once. However, the user must have at least mastered half of the Law of Fire, Law of Water, Law of Earth, Law of Wood, and Law of Metal. The more they mastered, the more powerful the Planetary Purgatory Pill would become.

Strictly speaking, Ba Shifang could perform it on his own, but the qi requirement was far too high for him to use as he wished. Even if he cultivated the Nine-Five Scripture, this fact did not change. The Five Phases Formation was actually a result of Ba Shifang attempting to perform the Planetary Purgatory using his own method.

He originally thought he could just trap Yujiao with this technique and then chase after Donghai Longzi and rescue the sword monarch, but Yujiao proved more difficult than he expected. He had to maintain a certain amount of focus and distance, otherwise, Yujiao might escape.

Ba Shifang didn’t plan on not chasing Donghai Longzi. Motes of light gathered around him. They clustered into groups colored red, black, yellow, green, and white.

Nine Heavens Art - Stellar Incarnation

Tianyi could easily form thousands, but Ba Shifang only formed a hundred. The hundred incarnations exuded auras of fire, water, earth, wood, and metal. Under his mental command, the hundred incarnations chased after Donghai Longzi. They didn’t use any technique or spells, but directly kamikaze into the black dragon, exploding upon impact.

Soon, spheres of light appeared in the Vast Void, illuminating the empty darkness. Luckily, Ba Shifang held his hand and did not aim for the claws, or else the sword monarch might have perished first. His actions gave his fellow immortal monarch a chance, but only that.

Donghai Longzi persisted, refusing to give up the sword monarch in his clutches. If anything, he increased his efforts to kill the latter. There wasn’t any grand movement or sign. So before anyone realized, the sword monarch died and Donghai Longzi chucked the corpse like some trash.

His fellow sword monarchs grabbed the body, thinking they had forced Donghai Longzi to give up, but that thought only lasted a second upon sensing the missing soul within the immortal body. The sword monarchs roared and gave chase.

Ba Shifang sighed. He hadn’t tried his best, but trying his best would reveal too much about Tianyi, so he didn’t. Instead, he contacted the other immortal monarch. “It doesn’t seem like we can stop those two dragons. Rather than focus on stopping them, we should kill the dragon trapped by me. Even for the Demon Clan, losing that space dragon and a dragon demon king will make them feel an immense loss.”

Although they were seething from their companion’s death, the sword monarchs could still think rationally. They stared hatefully at the fleeing Donghai Longzi and flew toward Ba Shifang. When they observed the Planetary Purgatory, their expression couldn’t help but become wary.

“With this technique, do you really need our help? I can feel that it is not a bit weaker than a peak emperor’s technique,” one sword monarch said. “The dragon trapped inside should have no hope of living, much less escape.”

Ba Shifang shook his head. “I didn’t create this. It’s something I used by borrowing the Nine Heavens Emperor’s power.”

“I see,” the sword monarch said. “So, what should we do?”

“I think I can kill the dragon, but my intuition is telling me that it’s not that simple. I want to prevent any accidents and stop that black dragon from destroying it.”

The sword and immortal monarchs nodded in agreement. Meng Tingfeng seemed like he wanted to say something, but held his tongue. Now wasn’t the time. As Ba Shifang predicted, Donghai Longzi returned, but without Honglin to accompany him.

The sword and immortal monarchs fought head-on, especially Meng Tingfeng, to stop him from interrupting Ba Shifang.

Within the Planetary Purgatory, Yujiao’s once immense body had shrunk by nearly half. It wasn’t by choice, but because of the immense gravity compressing him. His body trembled as it attempted to resist the pressure. Each shiver caused his bones to grate against each other and the muscle. Were it not for his strong willpower, he might have already screamed out in pain.

He didn’t scream out in pain, but he did shout something that caused Ba Shifang to feel a chill crawl up his spine. “Help me, Empress Bluefeather!”