Urban Most Awesome Dad

Chapter 589

?Chapter 589: Chapter 589: Devour Again_1 Chapter 589: Chapter 589: Devour Again_1 Shuten-doji brought up this boastful remark, surely suggesting that this mythical beast was anything but ordinary in life?

If it really had an impressive origin…

Xu Fan frowned, but it seemed to have no effect on him.

“Then let me enlighten you in death,” Shuten-doji said with a face full of smug satisfaction.

“The owner of this inner core was a creature of legend, a very famous divine beast from the Island Country, Orochi.”

“Long ago, when I had healed and returned to the Island Country, I happened upon Orochi during its Tribulation Transcendence, transforming and shedding its form.

Had it succeeded, it would have become a True Dragon, enjoying eternal life and possessing the power to destroy this world.”

“You wouldn’t believe the scene, even now, just thinking about it, I shudder in fear.

A single bolt of the Heavenly Tribulation would have reduced me to nothingness, turning me to ash and utterly obliterating my body and soul.

But Lord Orochi, with its Demon Ancestor level of cultivation, withstood the first eight bolts of Heavenly Tribulation, merging its eight heads into one, forming a dragon head, only one bolt away from completely transforming into a True Dragon.”

“Unfortunately, it ultimately fell at the last Heavenly Tribulation, leaving behind only this inner core.

After obtaining it, I’ve been refining it day and night, nurturing it with my own essence.

I have a feeling that within ten days to half a month, this inner core will transform into a dragon pearl.”

“And when I consume and refine this core, I will definitely ascend to the realm of the Demon Ancestor, by then all demons will heed my command, hahaha…

What an unbridled glory it will be.”

His tone became increasingly agitated, as if the scene he described was about to come true instantly.

Having heard all this, Xu Fan couldn’t help laughing dismissively, “I thought it was something actually formidable.

You gave me quite a scare.

It turns out to be just an Orochi, heh, such a creature might be considered a great demon in the Island Country, but in Yan Country, it is at most a well-known mythical beast.

Perhaps you don’t know that it originally had nine heads.

Thousands of years ago, when the ancestor Great Yu dealt with the floods in Yan Country, he encountered this creature causing trouble and promptly sliced off one of its heads.

With nowhere to escape, it then fled east to the Island Country to find refuge.”

“In Yan Country, Orochi had to live with its tail between its legs; but upon reaching the Island Country, it found no rival in the mountains and monkeys call themselves kings for lack of a tiger, becoming almost invincible, thoroughly wreaking havoc and changing its name to Orochi.”

“You talk as if it was a most remarkable legendary divine beast, yet that was all the ability it had, and now that it has fallen into a state of having only a single strand of lingering soul, there’s even less to worry about.”

Upon hearing these words, Shuten-doji, unable to suppress his anger, said coldly, “Boy, you sure have a sharp tongue, but your abilities do not match it, and you are fated to die.”

“Dragon Soul Suppressing Heaven!”

With a thunderous shout, the remnant soul of Orochi let out a long roar, its form twisting as it launched towards Xu Fan with terrifying might.

And Xu Fan, who had been calculating in his mind, beckoned with a gesture and took out the Four Symbols Creation Flag.

Previously, this flag had devoured the battle soul of the Flying Ghost King Tiger, activating the White Tiger Creation Formation within it, giving Xu Fan an extra trump card, the White Tiger Killing Formation.

Now, if he could get the Four Symbols Creation Flag to devour the remnant soul of Orochi, which was only one step away from becoming a dragon, it would likely activate the Azure Dragon Creation Formation within the Four Symbols Creation Flag.

The White Tiger Creation Formation specializes in offensive power with tremendous lethality, and Xu Fan was secretly looking forward to what the Azure Dragon Creation Formation would be like.

Thinking this, Xu Fan’s eyes flashed with a spark of electricity, his hands becoming as smooth and translucent as jade.

“Void Cage, Body-Binding Soul-Imprisonment!”

Xu Fan called back the Heavenly Fiend Great Demon, positioning his palms opposite each other toward the Four Symbols Creation Flag.

In an instant, two colossal energy hands appeared in the night sky, taking shape from the void on either side and reaching for the remnant soul of Orochi.

At the same time, the space around the remnant soul of Orochi turned to sludge, the Orochi’s form struggling to twist and turn, unable to break free, as if trapped in a prison.

This time, the power of the Void Cage that Xu Fan unleashed had increased significantly, even more effortlessly than when he had previously subdued the battle soul of the Ghost King Tiger.

“Awoo!”

Suddenly, the fractured soul of Orochi let out a roar tinged with fear.

Although its strength was much greater than that of the Ghost King Tiger’s war soul, Xu Fan had already fallen from Grandmaster level to Foundation Establishment level.

Thus, once trapped inside the Void Cage, his movements became hard and labored, unable to break free.

Shuten-doji immediately noticed the abnormality of Orochi’s fragmented soul and couldn’t help but be greatly shocked, his face changing color.

Before he could react, Xu Fan, manipulating the energy giant hand, violently clapped it closed, gripping the shattered soul of Orochi tightly in his palm.

No matter how wildly it struggled and twisted, it had no way out.

“This…

impossible!?”

Seeing this, Shuten-doji was stunned and cried out in shock, completely unbelieving.

Even he couldn’t restrain the fragmented soul of Orochi to such an extent, yet a young man from Yan Country, whose cultivation was much lower than his own, easily imprisoned it.

This method was beyond the comprehension of this thousand-year-old demon.

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At that moment, the Four Symbols Creation Flag whizzed and landed above Orochi’s head, spinning on its own.

On the flag, golden patterns appeared, and at the same time, ancient golden characters emerged in the void.

Xu Fan fixed his gaze and found that the patterns and symbols that manifested were clearly different from those when he devoured the Ghost King Tiger’s war soul.

It must be the symbols of the Azure Dragon Creation Formation being activated.

This sudden change made Orochi’s fragmented soul fight even more desperately, roaring angrily as it twisted frantically.

Since it was a mere soul fragment, its memories and original intelligence from its living days had all dissipated, leaving only a trace of instinct behind.

At this moment, it felt an unprecedented fear.

It seemed that when it was undergoing the Heavenly Tribulation in the past, it had felt similarly.

But no matter how panicked and terrified it was, Xu Fan paid it no heed.

He swiftly formed incantations with his hands, inputting them all into the Four Symbols Creation Flag.

Suddenly, the flag trembled, and a rainbow bridge was established between it and Xu Fan for the transmission of energy.

As the energy from Xu Fan’s body kept pouring into the Four Symbols Creation Flag, its power surged.

Mysterious golden seals flew from the flag onto the dragon head of Orochi’s fragmented soul.

The more seals that landed, the smaller the body of the soul fragment became.

In a scream filled with reluctance, it shrank to the size of a palm, a mere baby snake without any fierceness, even somewhat cute and clueless.

The mini Orochi soul fragment, unable to muster any resistance, was sucked into the Four Symbols Creation Flag.

Simultaneously, Shuten-doji suffered a backlash, his face turning red, his blood and qi in turmoil, seemingly uncontrollable.

With a “puh,” a mouthful of fresh blood sprayed out, and the previously vigorous and oppressive aura of Shuten-doji no longer remained, becoming somewhat weak.

He had no choice; it had taken him three hundred years to nurture and temper this inner core, consuming an unknown amount of essence blood, and it wouldn’t be an overstatement to call it his second life core.

Thus, he was deeply connected to Orochi’s fragmented soul in spirit and mind.