The Void Piercing Shuttle carried its breaching momentum, violently crashing into the dark space after the Demon Nest entrance. Violent bumping and metal-distorting harsh sounds echoed inside the cabin. From outside the shuttle came teeth-grinding scraping sounds,.
"Energy reserve forty-seven percent, multiple outer shell damage, rear thruster efficiency decreased forty percent." Second Senior Brother's voice remained calm, quickly reporting shuttle status, "We are currently in a passage... similar to a biological esophagus, descending."
Outside the observation window was a viscous darkness. Only the Void Piercing Shuttle's own rune-glow illuminated surrounding continuously writhing, secreting corrosive viscous liquid flesh walls. The overwhelmingly thick demonic energy almost materialized, crazily eroding the shuttle's defensive light screen, producing sizzling sounds.
"Cannot stay—accelerate!" Xiao Qi piloted the Void Piercing Shuttle, ignoring damage, forcefully accelerating through this slick twisting passage.
After roughly the time for a incense stick to burn, the path suddenly opened up ahead! The Void Piercing Shuttle violently, bursting into a relatively spacious area.
This seemed to be a connection hub inside the Demon Nest. The space was irregularly circular, roughly a thousand zhang in diameter. The ground and walls were still writhing flesh membrane tissue covered with demonic patterns, emanating dark red ghostly light, bathing the entire space like some giant beast's internal organ. The air reeked with thick blood and sulfur, mixed with demons' unique stench.
And right at this hub space's center, two enormous objects stood!
Two demon statues, each a hundred zhang tall! Their bodies entirely composed of some dark as obsidian substance, surface flowing with magma-like crimson demonic patterns. The statues' forms were grotesque, humanoid yet with four arms, respectively holding a giant axe, demon blade, bone whip, and a great shield carved with suffering faces. They knelt like slumbering ancient guardians, heads bowed, yet the energy fluctuations emanating from their bodies unmistakably reached Nascent Soul late-stage!
The instant the Void Piercing Shuttle burst in, the two statues' bowed heads abruptly lifted. In their eye sockets burned two, locking onto this uninvited guest!
"Intruders... die!"
A muffled like boulders grinding spiritual roar, directly impacting everyone's consciousness sea!
Without hesitation, the two statues instantly moved! Their enormous bodies displayed speed contrary to their size, one left, one right, like two moving mountains, carrying the momentum to crush everything, attacking the Void Piercing Shuttle! The giant axe tore air (though, yet that might still brought tearing sensation), the demon blade hacked out jet-black crescent blade waves, the bone whip coiled like a venomous snake, the great shield emanated a powerful force field attempting to imprison space!
"Abandon shuttle! Act per plan!" Xiao Qi decided instantly! In such confined space, the damaged Void Piercing Shuttle absolutely could not engage these two powerful demon statues.
Cabin door instantly opened!
"Left one, leave to us!" Third Senior Sister Liu Yun coldly shouted. She moved with her sword, transforming into a, first charging toward the left statue holding axe and shield! Her sword intent was pure and resolute,!
"Here I come!" Zhao Tiezhu roared. Vajra Subduing Demons Divine Art operating to extremes, his body seemed to, skin taking on. He charged like a mad bull,, rushing ruthlessly toward that statue! His task was frontal absorption of the statue's attacks, creating a one-strike kill opportunity for Third Senior Sister!
"Right side!" Xiao Qi and Mu Xue exchanged glances, their forms simultaneously flickering, lunging at the right statue holding demon blade and bone whip.
Combat erupted in an instant!
On the left battlefield, the demon statue's giant axe, violently slashing toward the lead Zhao Tiezhu! Zhao Tiezhu didn't dodge or evade, arms crossed to block. His collided with the axe blade, emitting earth-shaking metal clanging! Violent force knocked him flying backward, heavily crashing into the flesh wall, causing the entire space to shake, yet he shook his head and stood up as if nothing happened—only leaving a deep white mark on both arms.
And precisely when the statue's attack missed, Third Senior Sister's sword arrived! Her sword light was not grand or torrential, but condensed to extremes, like one cold star, silently stabbing toward the demon statue's shield-bearing arm joint connection—where demonic patterns were relatively sparse!
Swish!
Sword light accurately struck! At that joint, comparable to hard, this single sword pierced half a chi deep! Green energy leaked from the wound! The statue emitted an angry spiritual roar; the shield violently swept sideways, attempting to smash Third Senior Sister to pieces.
But Zhao Tiezhu roared forward again, using his shoulder to forcefully withstand the sweeping shield, buying precious time for Third Senior Sister to. The two—one attacking, one defending—their coordination yet relying on extreme offense and defense, forcefully engaged this Nascent Soul late-stage demon statue!
On the right battlefield, combat ended faster yet was also more dangerous!
That statue's four arms brandished—the demon blade hacked out, blocking all Xiao Qi and Mu Xue's evasion space, while that bone whip was ghostly and elusive. Sometimes like a spear thrusting straight, sometimes like a python coiling, the whip tip tearing air, emitting ear-piercing whistles.
Mu Xue's hands danced; countless ice lotuses bloomed and spun in. Not only did they freeze part of the blade waves, but also laid on the bone whip's incoming path, greatly retarding its speed and bizarre changes.
Xiao Qi directly faced that dense blade net! He formed sword fingers; Green Lotus sword energy pulsed unsteadily. Each sword energy strand precisely struck the blade net's weakest point, constantly dismantling it. Simultaneously, he stepped Swimming Dragon Nine Turns, his form shuttling through blade light and whip shadows like a ghost, rapidly closing distance to the statue's body.
The statue seemed to sense Xiao Qi's threat. Four arms danced; the great shield—though not in the right statue's hands—its chest demonic patterns lit up, forming an invisible energy shield.
"Mu Xue!" Xiao Qi low shouted.
Mu Xue understood; she fully activated ice system spiritual power: "Absolute Zero · Stasis!"
An erupted from her center, instantly shrouding that demon statue! The statue's movements visibly slowed; even a thick frost coating formed on its surface, the energy shield's flow becoming sluggish!
Right now!
Xiao Qi's eyes blazed with essence light. His form, actually directly passing through the now-sparse blade net, instantly appearing before the demon statue's chest! His right hand's five fingers spread open; in his palm, Green Lotus Origin, purifying power, and comprehension of spatial laws, transforming into a continuously rotating green light sphere, its interior!
"Shatter!"
He low growled, forcefully pressing the light sphere onto the demon statue's chest—that invisible energy shield!
No earth-shaking explosion, just one. That powerful energy shield, before the light sphere containing purifying origin and chaotic power, like snow and ice under sunlight, instantly melted and collapsed!
The light sphere continued unimpeded, directly entering the demon statue's chest!
The statue's enormous body abruptly stiffened. In its eye sockets, the soul fire intensely flickered and pulsed uncertainly. Its surface demonic patterns, attempting to resist that invading destructive energy, but all was futile.
One breath later, countless streams of pure green light from every seam of the demon statue's body!
Heng!!!
The demon statue's enormous body, from inside to outside, exploded violently! Transforming into countless burning green-fire rubble, scattering in all directions!
Right statue, solved!
Xiao Qi and Mu Xue didn't linger at all, immediately turning, rushing toward the other statue still engaged with Third Senior Sister and Zhao Tiezhu.
That statue, seeing its companion instantly destroyed, its soul fire, revealing a trace of terror; its offensive momentum inevitably slowed.
And this slowdown was a fatal flaw!
Third Senior Sister's sword, Zhao Tiezhu's fist, Xiao Qi's purifying light sphere, Mu Xue's ice seal and restraint—four powerful attacks, almost simultaneously, from different angles, slammed onto its vital points!
In a spiritual wail filled with unwillingness and despair, the second demon statue followed its companion's fate. Its enormous body disintegrated into four pieces, becoming a pile of burning wreckage.
The entrance battle, with the infiltration team resolving two Nascent Soul late-stage demon statue guardians with thunderous force, concluded. Yet the five's faces held no joy; instead, they were even more solemn. This was only the first checkpoint after entering the Demon Nest; even more danger lurked deeper, awaiting them.