Seeing the hook and sword, Mo Xiang exclaimed with joy, "Elder Brother Yuan has arrived!"

No sooner had he spoken these words than the newcomer was already overhead, deploying the hook and sword in combat against the Ape Demon.

It was indeed Yuan Hua!

Years ago, after being slain by Su Yin, the chief disciple under Master You Tan, and reaching the state of a Ghost Immortal through his soul, Yuan Hua had the fortunate coincidence to come under Shi Feiyang's tutelage. First, he received the Daoist books and swords left behind by his past-life master, the Green-Haired True Master Liu Lao Gen, and then he visited Outer Heaven Divine Mountain with Shi Feiyang. Over the years, he had jointly managed the Demon Kingdom with Jin Xunu.

Jin Xunu was a Heavenly Official, responsible for astronomy and calendars, establishing rites and laws based on astrological observations and infrequently showing himself before people, with Yuan Hua handling all the specific tasks.

Having originally been an enlightened ape, he greatly admired human civilization and thrived after learning the Three Emperors Dao from Shi Feiyang. He made his mark in the Everlasting City, bringing order to all aspects and diverse families and handling both major and minor matters efficiently.

The Three Emperors Dao encompassed cultivating oneself, managing household, governing the country, and pacifying the world; it was multifaceted, one Dao giving rise to four laws, and each law also leading to the Dao. In the process of governing the country and pacifying the world, one could still contemplate and cultivate oneself, and the more one did, the deeper one understood human nature and the Heavenly Dao, increasingly able to reflect the human heart on the Heavenly Heart and witness nature itself.

Thus, Yuan Hua's Daoist power had advanced by leaps and bounds in these years, quickly moving from the level of an Earth Immortal to that of a Heavenly Immortal.

The hook and sword techniques passed down by Master Mao were now as facile to him as using his own limbs. Using dual forces with a hook and a stab, the bluish-white radiance first ground a blood-red skull to dust, then trapped the Ape Demon within, about to grind it into several pieces.

The Ape Demon, not expecting the newcomer's swordsmanship to be so formidable, let out a low roar, releasing ten blood-red Sword Qi arcs, bending outwards, intending to blast apart the hook and sword.

However, he was unaware of Yuan Hua's unique sword tricks, managing to deflect the sword but the hook caught two strands of Sword Qi, twisting into a twine, the Ape Demon attempted to use Sword Qi to sever the hook; with a spell cast, white light exploded and red light wildly burst, only reducing the hook's radiance but failing to sever it.

Yuan Hua felt distressed, inwardly exclaiming at the formidable demon!

This hook, left by Master Mao and refined by him over many years, had somewhat lost its sharpness when caught by the two strands of Sword Qi, perceiving the opponent's formidable Sword Qi, he decided he could no longer forcefully clash with the hook and sword. He opened a crystal jade gourd carved at his waist, depicting five highly venomous, six-winged giant batfish; normal gourds carved with bats suggest "fortune and prosperity", his depicted sea monsters from Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, with the gourd's mouth being an open mouth of a giant batfish, complete with vicious fangs.

With his guiding hand, the gourd immediately ejected dazzling crystalline sand.

This treasure, forged from special crystal jade and Divine Sand from the seabed of Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, had been personally collected by him for a long time and also bought with money. Serving substantively as the prime minister of Great Yu Country, others wanting to send gifts couldn't find ways to do so, and now they had their chance; hundreds from the Demon Clan dispatched at once, all collecting crystal sand from the seabed and even refining it beforehand to send to him.

Yuan Hua insisted on paying with Dragon Coins, but even if bought at market price, others were willing to do this for him. When Yuan Hua's salary wasn't enough, they let him owe what was to be settled later.

Thus, he had accumulated thirty million jin of crystal sand, refining it into three hundred and sixty Sand Mothers, which unfolded to generate ten billion grains of sand dust.

He placed the Sand Mothers into the furnace, repeatedly smelted and refined with literary, martial Five Elements True Fire, and finally introduced the Bipolar Magnetic True Qi, turning each sand grain into a magnetic core capable of emitting Yin Yang Magnetic Energy and releasing Magnetic Light.

Upon opening the gourd, the sand dust was released; each particle was crystal clear, radiating colorful light and in the air, forming a rainbow Milky Way that enveloped the Ape Demon inside.

This dust was inexhaustible, continuously emanating from the gourd, quickly forming a cluster of stars spanning dozens of miles, each particle of sand shining light, reflecting each other, brilliantly illuminating like clouds and sunset glows, trapping the Ape Demon.

The Ape Demon's ten Taiyin Heavenly Gang Sword Qi used Taiyin Essence of the West, also metallic; the dust could generate magnetic force, attracting and repelling the Sword Qi, and when the Yin Yang Magnetic Forces attracted and repelled, a massive burst of colorful light exploded, shades of purple and rouge, illuminating the black clouds and malefic mists in the skies with splendid colors.

The Ape Demon, relying on the sharpness of the Sword Qi, flew everywhere cutting and slashing, but the surrounding sand swarmed like billions of iron filings sticking to the sword, making its operation sluggish.

"Roar!" The Ape Demon spewed red Demonic Flames from its mouth, intending to smelt the sand with fire.

However, Yuan Hua's treasure had been refined using Antarctic True Sun Fire, least afraid of being burned. The blood-red Demonic Flame burned between gaps in the sand, mutually reflecting with the sand, adding much brilliance to the entire "nebula."

The Ape Demon was taken aback, originally believing that combining the Heavenly Demon Immortal Slaying Sword's Sword Qi with the Ape Elder's Taiyin Heavenly Gang Sword Qi would allow this sword to sweep the world, invincible, but he had not expected the enemy to have a method to counter it. The ten strands of Sword Qi, trapped in the sand, unable to operate freely, and no matter how they unleashed Demonic Flame, they couldn't burn even a bit.

He hastily exerted his Demon Skill transformation, ejecting five streams of blood Qi from the crown of his head, manifesting five demon shadows within it, one in each direction: east, west, south, north, each a Divine Demon Shadow, reminiscent of the four evil Divine Monarchs he had slain at Yangjiao Ridge previously, with a central Demon Lord resembling an emperor, bearing a slight resemblance to Han Ling Emperor and largely to Xu Wan.

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