CHAPTER 376: CHAPTER 249: CHALLENGE

Boom!

Rumble!

Suddenly, with a single step from Chen Ku, the power of the Six Dragons within his entire body seemed to materialize into a tangible wave, causing the ground beneath his feet to ripple like the tide!

Spreading over a hundred feet!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!

The nearly hundred demons charging at Chen Ku suddenly had their bodies stiffen, and then they were swept away by the shockwave beneath them, as if a massive volcano had erupted beneath their feet.

Boom! Boom! Boom!...

Amidst a series of loud explosions, those demons were like beans on a springboard, catapulted dozens of feet into the air.

"Ha, take this stick of mine!"

Catching the moment when all the demons within a hundred feet were airborne, Chen Ku took out the Coiled Dragon Staff from the pouch at his waist, using the Electric Light Divine Walk to flash out...

Suddenly, dozens of afterimages simultaneously struck the bodies of many demons.

Bang! Bang bang bang!

In the blink of an eye, he killed dozens at an incredible speed, causing their bodies to explode in mid-air.

[Diagram Master has acquired thirty strands of First Realm Evil Qi...]

But in that instant, that was all he could kill, and soon...

Countless more demons rushed toward Chen Ku, resembling swarms of bizarre, variously-sized zombies.

Clang clang clang clang!

Though he had killed many demons immediately, facing the endless flood of demon hordes, in the next moment he could only manage to parry, swinging the staff into a blur, continuously blocking the claws, demonic energy, and various abilities from all directions.

Even though Chen Ku swung the Coiled Dragon Staff like a windmill, he still couldn’t block the omnipresent attacks from various demons.

Thud thud thud thud!

Their claws, teeth, and lunges rained down on Chen Ku like drops of rain, and despite wearing the Yuan Tuo Silver Armor, a top-grade named weapon, he felt his entire body crawling with ants!

"Golden Light Technique! Activate!"

Chen Ku shouted loudly, activating the Five Elements Body, his entire body bathed in the Golden Light Technique, like a golden statue, began to employ various methods...

Five Elements Body! Golden Light Technique, Kunlun Technique, Wood Emperor Technique, Li Fire Technique, Weak Water Technique!

All kinds of martial arts techniques were fully displayed, Thousand One, Furious Ape Mighty Staff, Dragon Subduing Refining God Sword, Spiritual Capture, Spiritual Heavenly Eye...

If someone could see the scene inside the Evil Summoning Banner at this moment.

They would be shocked.

Under the siege of so many demons, Chen Ku appeared like a martial arts master, effortlessly deploying various martial arts moves, even transforming the Coiled Dragon Staff into a shape-shifting ’Golden Stick’...

At one moment it became a sword, then a staff, and during Chen Ku’s airborne combat, it turned into a bow and arrow, with which he shot down one demon after another!

Even so.

Chen Ku was still sweating profusely because among the thousand demons, there were many flying ones, each possessing various demon art abilities...

Some could spit ice, others exuded poisonous gas, some discharged flower buds, and others could blow winds, shoot swords, possessed immense strength, or were fast like afterimages...

These thousand demons were not of a single type; the Evil Summoning Banner had absorbed various demons from the Demon Mountain Forest into this place!

As time slowly passed.

Despite using all his skills, Chen Ku had only managed to barely kill two to three hundred demons.

And looking at his Golden Stick, it actually showed many scratches and nicks.

This discovery shocked him:

"Is this the difference between large-scale warfare on the battlefield and a two or three-man duel in the Jianghu?"

His shape-shifting Golden Stick, though only of ordinary famous weapon level, was supposed to be indestructible, yet it had scratches and nicks after confronting an army of a thousand First Realm demons.

Looking again, there were still about two-thirds of the First Realm demons remaining in this First Layer.

Chen Ku had to accept this fact, he smiled bitterly and said:

"That story of Li Yuanba’s dual hammers killing 1.8 million troops, leaving only 600,000 alive, is simply nonsense!"

He had just attempted to challenge a demon army equivalent to a thousand people at the Inner Qi Realm, having slain over three hundred demons, and he was already feeling exhausted.

Of course, this exhaustion was under the premise of not getting injured.

If it were a battle to the death, where he fought the demons unafraid of dying, he reckoned he could kill another three to four hundred, but that would be under the premise of exhausting everything.

"Taking the Inner Qi Realm army as an example, if a real Inner Qi Realm martial artist army were formed, my strength currently would be around that of ’an enemy of five hundred people’."

He once again felt the terrifying combat power of a regimented army.

"In this world, unless one truly possesses the strength of a Daluo Golden Immortal, then even the Fourteen Realms Mountain-Lifting Heavenly King Xiong Ying, or the Fifteen Realms Hero King Pei Dongliu, also died on the battlefield."

Chen Ku felt this only illustrated one point.

Too many ants can kill an elephant!

If Mountain-Lifting Heavenly King Xiong Ying was here with his Fourteen Realms martial force, he could easily crush a thousand First Realm demons with a single slap, sure.

But what if there were a thousand five, six, seven, or Eight Realms Martial Practitioners forming a thousand-man army?

In a past life, even in a country of over a billion people, it was possible to select all sorts of soldier kings and military gods to form a super team.

Let alone a world hundreds and thousands of times larger than the previous one.

A single Qiu Dragon Mansion already had a dozen Seven Realms Martial Practitioners, not to mention the entire world.

"Let’s end the first layer challenge of this Evil Summoning Banner here."