Shi Feiyang had already made a plan. At this moment, he sprang out of the water, shot up into the sky like a dragon leading the way, and spat out his Divine Fire Inner Core—a treasure bead the size of a bowl, red-hot like burning coal, glowing incandescent as it spun in the air, with five fire dragons in red, green, yellow, white, and black wrapping around it and smashing straight towards the Iron Umbrella.

The umbrella was a treasured possession that Tie San had meticulously cultivated for hundreds of years. Even as a demon, his subconscious could manipulate it at will. Now, besieged by a horde of demons both internally and externally, Tie San's mind and spirit were tormented, dividing his attention to control the magical umbrella with significant effort. Despite this, the umbrella still carried the weight of tens of thousands of tons.

Hagenib released two mighty Divine Demons who grasped the umbrella, attempting to lift it with great force, as if raising a mountain peak, though their speed was not swift.

Shi Feiyang spat out his inner core, aiming it at the Demon who had grasped the umbrella.

One of the Demons was locked on by the inner core; twisting its head almost completely around, it howled at the inner core, spewing out a Demon Fire that resembled a cloth strip against the incoming inner core. The two clashed mid-air, pausing the inner core momentarily. However, once Shi Feiyang sent a breath of True Qi over, the inner core suddenly accelerated, pushing through the Demon Fire with force.

Before the inner core could reach, the five fire dragons had already flown over, entwining the Demon's limbs and body. The Demon frantically sprayed Demon Fire, ready to transform and ascend, but the inner core exploded onto it, striking its chest and blasting it into bone and ashes.

With a loud boom, the mighty Divine Demon dissipated into strands of Demon Light. This Demon Light flew into the distant sky and regathered, tumbling about as the demon reappeared.

Shi Feiyang ignored it and used the inner core to blast another Demon. Xiang Ji arrived just in time.

He said to Xiang Ji, "I'll deal with this Demon Monk; you quickly take the umbrella away!"

At that moment, Dharma King Hagenib raised the Vajra Pestle, and those five Demon-Subduing Pestles rose into the air, transforming into a treasure pestle, tens of meters long and shimmering with golden light, smashing down like Mount Taishan. Shi Feiyang held it up with his inner core, showing a very strained expression, and kept urging Xiang Ji to hurry up and take the magical umbrella and leave.

Xiang Ji dared not delay and summoned the Golden Talisman given to him by Geng Kun.

The Talisman, made from Geng Kun's own feathers, turned into a beam of golden light with a "crack" of thunder noise upon its release, striking the magical umbrella and fusing with it. The umbrella began to spin, flying higher and higher. Xiang Ji flew over, grabbed the umbrella, and used the Spiritual Light Escape Technique to speed towards Roc Bay.

Hagenib tried to block him by casting, reaching out with an empty hand to create a giant Golden Light Hand out of thin air, reaching for Xiang Ji overhead.

In the palm of the Golden Light Giant Hand, a spell imprinted itself. Before it could reach, it locked on Xiang Ji, preventing him from flying away, and then swooped down to grab him.

Xiang Ji's space in all directions was sealed by invisible barriers, and as the Golden Light Giant Hand descended, fear shattered his courage.

At this point, Shi Feiyang again used the Divine Fire Inner Core, slamming it hard onto the Golden Light Giant Hand, producing another loud explosion. The hand burst into a fireball the size of a mu, with Golden Radiance scattering wildly. This display illuminated Heaven and Sea, turning a large expanse of seawater golden.

Hagenib flew into a rage, "You beast courting death!" and once again launched the Demon-Subduing Pestle.

Shi Feiyang still held it up with his inner core. This time, without needing his urging, Xiang Ji bit his tongue, mixing a breath of True Qi with Essence Blood, and sprayed it out. Exerting all his strength, he used the Spiritual Light Escape Technique, transforming into a streak of jumpy halo light, twisting with lightning speed and flying away at an extreme pace.

Hagenib urged his powerful Divine Demon to pursue, and at the same time, he redirected the Demon Fire Poison Sand that was attacking Tie San back towards Shi Feiyang, coordinating an assault with the Demon-Subduing Pestle.

Shi Feiyang's inner core could not withstand the onslaught, and he was quickly defeated. He wanted to escape but found himself surrounded by the Demon Fire-laden Poison Sand. As the Demon-Subduing Pestle descended from the sky once more, he had no choice but to dive into the sea below.

Once underwater, he swam with all his might towards the deep ocean, disappearing into the seabed in the shortest amount of time. He then employed the "Thousand-Li Shrinking-In-A-Bag" technique, rapidly shifting toward Roc Bay with movements as swift as teleportation. After several shifts and hundreds of miles covered, he had already lost Hagenib's assault and saw above that Xiang Ji was being chased by two powerful Divine Demons.

How formidable were these powerful Divine Demons! Even Wu Qiming would have found them troublesome. Xiang Ji's flying knife penetrated the chest of one Divine Demon, which seemed unfazed by the blade that went straight through its body, the handle protruding from the front and the tip from the back.

Xiang Ji formed a Spiritual Formula with his hands and urged the knife to cut the Divine Demon into pieces, but the Demon Blood had tainted the blade and sullied its Spiritual Energy, rapidly losing its connection with him.

The Divine Demon pulled the knife out from its body, grabbed the handle with one claw and the tip with another, and with a gentle force, snapped it into two before placing it in its mouth. With a "crack and crunch," it chewed and swallowed the blade like a crunchy snack.

Unable to retrieve his knife, Xiang Ji was then grabbed by the other Divine Demon, with one claw seizing each shoulder. A slight tear, and his body was ripped in two.

Xiang Ji's Divine Soul emerged from within him, enveloped in bloodlight, attempting to flee. The Demon, with an open mouth, exhaled a wisp of pale red Demonic Qi and engulfed the soul within it, fiercely inhaled, prepared to suck it into its mouth.

Terrified to his very core, Xiang Ji's Divine Soul struggled above, as if trapped in a pale red plastic bag, suffocating, desperate, and wailing loudly, "Master, save me!"

The master he called out to was Geng Kun, who was at that moment furiously attacking the Buddha Light, attempting to kill Tie San, for if he did not exert himself, Tie San's Heavenly Tribulation would pass and the moment the Heavenly Demon retreated, the monks of Shaolin would be able to use Buddhist Law to gradually strip away the Yin Demon released by Hagenib. At worst, they could send Tie San off for Soldier Disintegration reincarnation, something Geng Kun could not tolerate.

Just as Xiang Ji's Life Soul was about to be devoured by the Demon, suddenly, from within the waters below, a purple Qi shot forth, slicing straight past the Demon's face like a sharp blade, gently severing the Demonic Qi.

Xiang Ji broke free from the Demonic Qi and flew into the sky. Looking back, he saw a short-haired young man rising from beneath the waters, holding a Jade Ruler, flying through the air.

Shi Feiyang had transformed into human form, wielding the Nine Heavens Yuan Yang Ruler as he flew out, first using a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi to break the Demon Light and rescue Xiang Ji.

Xiang Ji, like a fly that had just escaped a spider's web, was shaken and unsettled, but Shi Feiyang paid him no heed. Waving the Nine Heavens Yuan Yang Ruler, he raised a barrier of purple Qi extending over tens of miles, both connecting to the sky and reaching down to the ocean, blocking the path of another Demon who had snatched the Iron Umbrella and was trying to escape.

One Demon bared its teeth and fangs at Shi Feiyang, screeching angrily, and roared as it transformed into a beam of Demon Light flying towards him. Approaching Shi Feiyang, a Golden Flower materialized out of nowhere and intercepted the Demon.

In ancient times, Guang Chengzi cultivated the Dao at Kongtong Mountain, and after three hundred years, he attained the Three Flowers at the crown. Predicting the Yellow Emperor had not yet been born and that his own cultivation was not yet perfected, he plucked the three flowers and sealed them into the Jade Ruler, repeating this thrice until he met the Yellow Emperor coming to the mountain to seek the Dao at the age of twelve hundred years.

Guang Chengzi sealed nine Golden Flowers into the ruler, each a crystallization of his lifelong essence, energy, and spirit, which he then fused with incomparable methods and the Hongmeng Purple Qi to create a Magical Treasure. The Hongmeng Purple Qi belonged to the Innate, while the three flowers on top of the cultivator's head represented the return from the Acquired to the Innate. Their combination formed the "Yuan Yang," the primordial inception of the Innate, Pure Yang without Yin, a treasure for protecting oneself from demon refining.

Shi Feiyang had only roughly grasped the use of the ruler and learned part of its history. He was far from unleashing its full potential, but even so, the release of a single Golden Flower was too much for the formidable powerful Divine Demon, meeting its bane. Still a dozen yards away, the Demon was already pushed by the radiant light, and, skewing sideways, it fled dozens of miles away!

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