Six paths exist in the cycle of reincarnation, with the Asura claiming one, also known as the path of demons.

The Asura race was created by Ancestor Minghe, Lord of the Blood Sea. In those years, Ancestor Minghe attempted to emulate Goddess Nuwa’s creation of humans, using his great divine powers to create the Asura race, hoping to achieve sainthood through this feat.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly Dao did not acknowledge this then, and Ancestor Minghe’s creation of the Asura path became… essentially creating a group of companions for himself.

It’s worth noting that among the strongest Asuras created by Ancestor Minghe, besides the Four Leaders and Four Asura Generals, were the Seventy-two Asura Princesses.

The Asura race was famously known for their males being fierce and females being beautiful…

Well, that’s something better left unexamined.

As for the twelve Asuras who attacked the Sea God Temple today, their cultivation wasn’t particularly high.

When a female Asura shouted “Come out and die,” Elder Li strode out from the hall, flicking his whisk as he stood proudly.

In secret, strands of colorless and odorless poison powder had already emerged from the ground, quietly coiling around these twelve Asuras.

Not knowing the Asuras’ drug resistance, Elder Li deliberately increased the dosage several times.

To be thorough, considering that the Asura race lived in the Blood Sea and might be immune to all poisons, thirty-six miniature-killing formations were ready to activate at any moment…

Since Elder Li had survived his Golden Immortal tribulation, these poisons, poison pills, and even this batch of paper warriors were all obsolete items, so he didn’t mind using them liberally.

Concepts like heated battles and narrow escapes were impossible for Elder Li.

“Never Get Carried Away” was his service philosophy;

“Flee from the Strong, Dominate the Weak” was his service principle;

Persisting in resolving enemies with the most direct truth while offering one-click cremation service was his consistent life attitude!

Scenarios like “Death by Excessive Talking,” “Lotus Fragrance Bath,” or “Shouting Attack Names”… such situations were unlikely to occur with him.

Therefore…

As soon as the twelve Asuras stepped past the ruins of the Sea God Temple’s main gate, the eight weaker Asuras at the back uniformly collapsed forward powerlessly;

The four four-armed Asuras only managed to turn their heads to glance at their companions before falling limply to the ground…

Four sturdy paper warriors immediately emerged from the ground to gather these half-dead bodies together for swift elimination.

Suddenly, Elder Li’s brow twitched as he looked down at the ground crack created by the earlier blade light.

The four paper warriors immediately retreated to the corners.

Space-time fluctuations appeared beneath this crack, clearly indicating a powerful expert secretly opening a teleportation portal.

Who was this expert?

Elder Li’s first thought was of Golden Cicada;

During the great battle in the East Sea, he had secretly observed Golden Cicada’s proficiency in space-time techniques, able to directly tear open space and enter the void from the seafloor.

However, directly pointing to the Western Religion now would be quite unwise.

Elder Li remained completely calm, immediately ordering his divine envoys who had been pushed outside the temple to evacuate the mortals.

Even if the great temple here was destroyed, as long as it didn’t increase the karmic burden, it wouldn’t count as a loss to him.

The sound of chains scraping against rock emanated from the crack as the ground began to tremble. Four muscular figures wrapped in black chains slowly flew out from the bottom of the crack, like demons crawling out from the earth.

These were four eight-armed Asuras, each with an aura comparable to a human Golden Immortal cultivator in the early stage!

Moreover, sixteen blood-colored vortexes appeared in the sky, from which emerged armored male and female Asuras, with cultivation levels ranging from Celestial Immortal to True Immortal.

Elder Li took a close look, and indeed, the males were fierce and the females beautiful…

Ahem, that’s not important.

In just an instant, hundreds of blood-surrounded figures stood in the sky above the Sea God Temple, with the sixteen blood vortexes slowly rotating. However, Elder Li’s gaze remained fixed on the four eight-armed Asuras.

Elder Li calmly said, “Asura race, aren’t you worried about future retribution from this poor Daoist?”

A silver-haired eight-armed Asura, eyes full of deathly stillness, spoke in the somewhat broken common language of the primitive world: “We… already, have nothing… to lose…

Sea God, borrow your life, for use.”

As the words fell, blood-colored lights flickered in the sky – over a thousand weapons gathering Asura power, with streams of energy locking onto the old divine immortal before the hall.

They were emotionless practitioners of slaughter!

Born into killing, condensing Blood Sea power, forging Asura bodies, today they would slaughter the Sea God, allowing the Asura race to…

“Wait!”

Elder Li suddenly shouted, his body bursting into flames, instantly consumed by the Three-True Flames, turning to ashes in an instant!

The hundreds of Asuras about to attack in the sky, as well as the four eight-armed Asuras on the ground preparing to swing their chains, all froze in unison.

Self-immolation?

The group of Asuras looked at each other in bewilderment. They had fought countless battles in the Blood Sea, killing numerous fierce beasts and ghosts, but someone who directly burned themselves before the fight even began…

Was rarely seen in their lifetimes.

A female Asura in the sky asked in the Asura language: “General, what should we do?”

The leading eight-armed Asura general spoke: “This is an avatar. Capture some humans, use mortal human blood to defile his divine statue, force his true body to appear.”

“Yes!”

Immediately, several Asuras in the sky turned to dive toward Anshui City;

But a light chuckle promptly rang out, reaching these Asuras’ ears…

“Don’t waste your effort, don’t you know that only my avatar is here?”

As the words sounded, Elder Li’s figure stepped out from the hall.

Although he hadn’t understood the Asura language earlier, he roughly grasped its meaning and had no choice but to appear.

At this moment, he was only trying to buy time;

In Anshui City, his divine envoys and the mortal soldiers guarding the Sea God Temple were quickly evacuating the mortals from around the temple.

Elder Li had thoroughly considered various situations beforehand, and this emergency evacuation had been practiced many times.

Although the mortals were startled by the Asura aura and mostly panicked, their overall evacuation speed wasn’t slow, and there were no cases of the elderly or young being left behind.

While this paper warrior of Elder Li was attracting the Asuras’ attention, around the Sea God Temple’s perimeter, arms kept emerging from tree trunks in various shaded spots, secretly dropping spiritual beans filled with immortal power…

Before the great hall, Elder Li continued to stall these Asuras:

“Are you all so willing to be used as chess pieces?

Listen to the dragon’s roar in the distance, dragon experts are already on their way here in support.”

The leading eight-armed Asura stepped forward, the ground continuously trembling beneath his feet.

“Chess pieces…

Better than, discarded pieces!”

Lifeless eyes suddenly flashing with fierce light, the Asura general’s left and right pairs of muscular arms tensed, and a black chain as thick as a bowl shot out like a python toward Elder Li’s avatar!

This strike was merely a probe, its force not particularly strong.

Elder Li’s brow relaxed as he stepped forward as if taking a casual stroll. His whisk swayed gently, drawing an irregular circle in which appeared a red and blue alternating yin-yang diagram, steadily blocking the chain.

The yin-yang diagram turned slightly, and the chain carrying enormous force immediately went limp, powerlessly crashing onto the temple steps with a clanging sound.

Elder Li’s paper warrior slowly stepped forward, with each step causing a pure white lotus to flicker beneath his feet;

After seven steps, he stood proudly in the air before the hall.

A gentle breeze passed by, making his bound white hair dance lightly with the whisk’s fine tips, his wide-sleeved white robe swaying along.

This old immortal stood in midair, facing hundreds of Asuras, still speaking with casual charm, saying unhurriedly:

“This poor Daoist offers fellow Daoists two paths.

Withdraw today, and I won’t pursue the matter of disturbing my peace.

Insist on invasion today, and I shall come to the Blood Sea another day to settle accounts with you Asuras.”

“Fight!”

An eight-armed Asura raised his head and roared, weapons in the hands of Asuras throughout the sky flickered with light again, waves of shocking blood-killing energy surged skyward, and darkness fell over Anshui City!

“Are you certain about fighting?”

Just as the four eight-armed Asuras were about to move simultaneously, Elder Li suddenly chuckled, his confidence growing.

For no other reason than the mortals had now retreated far enough!

This light laugh echoed through heaven and earth, rumbling sounds emerged from the ground of Anshui City, and a brilliant blue light pillar suddenly shot skyward from ten zhang outside the Sea God Temple walls!

With only three zhang between them, two more light pillars burst from the ground!

In an instant, three hundred and sixty-five light pillars surrounded the Sea God Temple’s perimeter, trapping hundreds of Asuras inside like a prison!

Outside these light pillars, immortal soldiers wearing armor either condensed from the ground or emerged from underground, holding great shields and longbows, rising skyward row by row!

Hundreds, over a thousand, several thousand…

Thirty thousand!

In an instant, immortal shields formed walls, arrows formed forests!

The situation reversed in the blink of an eye!

Not only that but on the walls of the Sea God Temple’s front courtyard, pea shooters swayed their simple yet flexible bodies, brewing a wave of ‘chaos spitting’!

At this moment, looking again at Elder Li’s figure, still hovering before the hall, he remained completely composed.

Golden light flashed in the hall again as paper warriors with identical faces and white hair stepped out one after another, their auras connecting, subtly forming into a battle formation!

“Fellow Daoist,” the voices of eighteen paper avatars merged, “won’t you make your move?”

This was just part of the Sea God Main Temple’s defensive force.

Of course, it couldn’t compare to Lesser Qiong Peak’s defense system.

…

Actually, at this point, Elder Li still didn’t want to spark a major battle, he was merely using offense as defense, making these Asuras retreat in the face of difficulty.

The Asuras in the sky didn’t matter, they couldn’t withstand one volley from the bean soldiers.

But if these four eight-armed Asuras went berserk in Anshui City, countless mortals would likely die.

Karmic burden and catastrophic tribulation were like a pair of lovers!

Ahem, meaning they were deeply connected.

Moreover, he alone couldn’t control so many bean soldiers, could only simply order them to fire volleys and block enemies, and absolutely couldn’t stop these four eight-armed Asuras…

The dragon experts must have been ambushed, Western Religion’s calculations wouldn’t leave such a huge flaw.

Lure these four giants to the back hall and eliminate them with the power of the Taiji Diagram.

That was the only plan now.

These so-called ‘demon’ Asuras were now intimidated by the sky full of bean soldiers, after all, facing enemies a hundred times their number, most Asuras sensed mortal danger.

The four eight-armed Asuras also showed signs of wavering, obviously hesitating between advance and retreat.

No help for it, the current situation was truly intimidating.

They had no idea what unprecedented displays might come next…

In Elder Li’s mind, a series of preset scenes had already appeared, how to retreat, how to lure enemies, how to eliminate enemies, how to contain the battle’s aftermath in this location, the plans were roughly complete.

However, what neither Elder Li nor the present Asuras knew was…

Behind the corner-most vortex among the sixteen blood vortexes in the sky, two pairs of particularly bright eyes were watching the current situation in the Sea God Temple.

The owners of these two pairs of eyes were making “wo wo” sounds of admiration.

These were two sturdy figures, still at the edge of the Blood Sea in the Netherworld, crouching before a blood-wreathed [Well];

The well showed the scene within Anshui City’s Sea God Temple.

Behind the two strong men lay Asuras scattered everywhere, the vast majority already dead, each with a terrifying fist or foot mark on their body, while a few who hadn’t drawn their last breath were spitting blood…

The two strong men were heard muttering:

“Horse, the Sea God is impressive.”

“Ox, I think we don’t need to step in, those eight-armed Asuras aren’t a match for the Sea God.”

“Can’t say that, if we don’t help out, how will we get close to Lord Sea God? Don’t you still want those delicacies?

To encounter such an opportunity while out hunting, is destiny, understand? Today, we brothers must show our skills before Lord Sea God!”

The two chuckled, each glancing at the tasteless roasted fierce beast meat in their hands, and couldn’t help but slurp a few times.

They stared down for a while longer, and then the strong man on the left suddenly laughed:

“Haha! They’re about to fight! Those old Asuras are gathering power! Getting ready to strike!

One, two… smash them!”

These two strong men moved with perfect coordination, almost simultaneously throwing several objects beside them directly into the blood well!

This batch of special hidden weapons included, but was not limited to, several large pieces of roast meat, a barbecue rack, and some unidentifiable head-shaped object…

“Mother! My headdress!”

Looking back at Anshui City’s Sea God Temple!

The four eight-armed Asuras roared in unison, having resolved to continue fighting the Sea God.

Eight large feet exerted force simultaneously, stomping a series of large holes in the ground, as their three-zhang tall muscular forms leaped up together, pouncing toward Elder Li’s eighteen avatars!

Elder Li responded instantly;

The eighteen avatars each took up positions, half retreating, half dodging left and right, streams of immortal power rapidly gathering, forming various images of birds, beasts, insects, and fish, moving to meet these four sturdy muscular figures…

Suddenly, strange sounds of space breaking appeared overhead, and faint wrinkles appeared in the space above the Sea God Temple!

Elder Li immediately caught sight of four streaks of light falling, precisely striking the backs of these four eight-armed Asuras!

The four Asura leaders fell with the impact, as if pressed to the ground by four large hands, sending stone fragments flying everywhere…

The entire Sea God Temple grounds sank several inches, with rumbling sounds coming from underground.

What situation was this?

What did it mean?

And when Elder Li saw the objects that had struck down the eight-armed Asuras yet remained intact themselves, his forehead was instantly covered in black lines…

They were two pieces of roast meat the size of lamb legs, an oil-stained barbecue rack, and a lifelike ‘ox head’…

“Sea God, don’t worry! I’ve come to help!”

A shout was heard as a bloodlight shot from the corner vortex, almost instantly reaching the ground, condensing into human form, and standing before one of the eight-armed Asuras struggling to rise!

The newcomer folded his arms, raised his long leg, then casually dropped it, forming a ten-zhang-long earth-yellow [Big Foot] in mid-air, which directly stamped the eight-armed Asura into the ground…

The earth rumbled and shook again, and all fell silent;

The other three eight-armed Asuras jumped back several dozen zhang as if they’d seen a ghost.

The newcomer who had effortlessly subdued an eight-armed Asura gently shook his horse head, his meticulously groomed mane falling perfectly into place, exuding complete confidence.

Netherworld’s Horse-Face.

Then Horse-Face imperceptibly retrieved the ‘ox head headdress’ from the ground and tossed it skyward.

Another blood light shot from the corner vortex, precisely striking the headdress, and upon landing had already donned it completely, joining Horse-Face in jumping before Elder Li and saluting with clasped hands.

“Netherworld Soul-Collecting Envoy, Ox-Head!”

“Horse-Face!”

They spoke in unison: “Here to pay our respects!”