Great Demon King

GDK 780: Trapped

Han Shuo always has a few demon generals that patrol around him at all times. As soon as Han Shuo get that very uncomfortable sensation, his demon generals fluttered around him and probed everywhere.

Although his demon generals discovered nothing, the uncomfortable feeling had not left Han Shuo for a moment. This made Han Shuo even more alarmed. He had the seventeen flying swords on standby, ready to handle any sudden assault.

At present, Sanguis, Gilbert, and some Fifth Corps divine guards were listening to Bollands’ lecture on the techniques of assassination some distance away. The nearest divine guard to Han Shuo was three hundred meters away.

Everything looked perfectly fine but everything felt totally wrong. The inexplicable feeling of great danger continued to threaten him even as his demon generals found no abnormality in the surrounding. Han Shuo did not take it as a sign that he should relax, but rather to be more careful. His heart may be as turbulent as the sea in a thunderstorm but he nonetheless wore the same old calm and unruffled expression on his face. He sat silently on a boulder with his head hung as though he was pondering something.

All of a sudden, the space before Han Shuo seemed to have been torn as a dazzling light warped the region. The space-time started fluctuating violently.

In the next instance, Han Shuo found that the space seemed to have frozen. The wind, the grass, and everything instantly turned still as though time has been stopped.

Several humanoid figures made of light and shadow suddenly appeared out of the region with intense space-time fluctuation. They assembled a potent binding power in no time and sent it towards Han Shuo. The power came swiftly and suddenly. Before Han Shuo could react, he found that his body had been solidly restrained as though incorporeal chains had firmly tied his arms and legs.

The figures that emerged from bright light then charged towards Han Shuo. Every one of them wore a thin mask of pale-white shade. There were no openings on the mask save for two slender gaps that revealed their eyes. It made the attackers appear eerily terrifying.

The attackers were made up of five highgods. The one in the front cultivated in the edict of destruction. He was rather low in height. He wore a dark glove made using an unknown but precious material. It was pierced with bizarre speckles and carried an astonishing aura of destruction around it.

Each of the Pearl of Annihilation was injected with one drop of Han Shuo’s blood essence when they were produced. It was the key that enabled Han Shuo to remotely control and maneuver the Pearls. The blood essences boiled and splattered while the Pearls of Annihilation that flew undetected to the back of the assassins detonated.

The Pearls of Annihilation made using an improved formula erupted with an astonishing amount of explosive force. With the five assassins located near to each other, the force of the explosions managed to impact every one of their domains of divinity. The Soulpiercers inside the Pearls were sent shooting towards the five attackers in densely packed swarms. The five were pricked from head to toe.

Simultaneously, under the control of Han Shuo’s consciousness, the seventeen flying swords severed off the formless chains that bound him to the five. Once the energy channels were broken, using Omen Invincible Body, Han Shuo instantly overcame the remaining binding energy around his body. He was finally free.

<i>Rumbles… </i> The Pearls of Annihilation produced deafening explosions. The tremendous blunt force of the explosions compressed and stressed the attackers’ domains of divinity, which caused them to lose their balance. The five attackers along with their domain of divinity were swept by the shock wave of the explosions. They were sent smashing into Han Shuo’s domain of divinity which in turn caused Han Shuo who had just freed himself to stumble along.

But luckily for Han Shuo, he had expected this to happen. As soon as the Pearls exploded, he withdrew his domain of divinity and was therefore able to get back to his feet faster than the attackers could. The seventeen flying swords suddenly whistled loudly and went towards the shortest attacker.

Han Shuo had also been assembling the demon generals made using highgod souls located in the distance and transformed them into material state the very moment he started attacking. The demon generals fiercely pounced at the other four highgods, keeping them busy at all costs. The four assassins were overwhelmed by attacks from the demon generals and had no time to bother with Han Shuo.

The rumbling explosion had alerted everyone nearby. Rose who was bathing in the pool under the waterfall quickly exited the water and put on an oversized robe without drying her drenched voluptuous body. She immediately rushed to Han Shuo.

Bollands and other divine guards who were nearby were also rushing to Han Shuo. These divine guards who had been tempered by the Eight Desolation and Torment Formation had no fear of danger. Wearing grave and stern faces, they boldly and rapidly flew to Han Shuo’s aid.

As soon as Han Shuo freed himself from the invisible shackles, he attacked the assassins with everything he had. While maneuvering the seventeen flying swords against the shortest but most powerful assassin, he summoned every demon general to attack the rest of the assassins. Those demon generals refined from highgod souls he reaped in Hushveil City were incredibly terrifying. The four assassins were completely occupied with defending themselves and couldn’t assist their short leader.

When Rose and the divine guards arrived at the scene, they saw Han Shuo’s prowess in all its glory, handling five masked highgod assassins all by himself.

The highgod auras emanated by the assassins were very obvious, especially so with the shortie. He had the energy of destruction wildly overflowing from his body – a clear sign that he had reached the pinnacle realm in the cultivation of the edict of destruction. Han Shuo, however, was able to keep him and his four associates in check with just his own power. On top of that, he wasn’t showing any sign of being on the back foot. The divine guards who witnessed Han Shuo’s power were all dumbfounded.

The divine guards had been secretly guessing Han Shuo’s strength among themselves. They reckoned that Han Shuo was slightly stronger than Avery, the former Chief of Fifth Corps. But now, having witnessed the scene of Han Shuo fighting against five highgods at once, they realized that Avery wasn’t even on the same level as Han Shuo!