Chapter 198 Take the initiative
It had already reached the critical moment of breakthrough, but as a result of Zhou Chen's intervention, not only did he fail to break through, but he was also hit back and suffered internal injuries.

At this time, the Demon King Zhentian turned his head and looked at Zhou Chen with cold eyes, "It's you, how did you get in? The ban on my cave entrance has not been triggered."

Zhou Chen knew that this was a rare opportunity so why would he waste time talking to him? The Void Demon Sword continued to increase its power while condensing the sword energy to launch the Sword Control Technique. His clone did not carry Yue with him, and did not have Yue's attribute blessing, but he had the advantage of time and place at this moment, and maybe he could really kill it in one fell swoop. This monster was about to break through to the third level, so the quality of the monster pattern it gave would definitely not be too bad.

Dozens of flying swords had condensed in the cave. As Zhou Chen thought about it, all the flying swords attacked the Demon King Zhentian together.

Upon seeing this, Demon King Zhentian became furious, and the demonic energy in his body instantly burst out, directly knocking the Void Demon Sword away. At the same time, the flying sword attacking him was also knocked away at this moment.

All the flying swords, including the Void Demon Sword, were suspended beside Zhou Chen. For this sneak attack, he used 90% of his own power to kill him in one fell swoop. However, it seemed that he had underestimated the strength of the Zhentian Demon King.

The Sky-shaking Demon King was able to catch his breath, quickly adjusted his state, and then pounced directly towards Zhou Chen. Zhou Chen's mind moved and his flying sword and the Void Magic Sword attacked the Sky-shaking Demon King together. Although the Void Magic Sword was the same size as the flying sword condensed by his true energy, its attack power was extremely strong.

The Demon King Zhentian could ignore the attacks of the flying swords, but he could not ignore the attacks of the Void Demon Sword. He ignored the flying swords around him and stretched out his big hand to grab the Void Demon Sword.

Although he was protected by demonic energy, blood was flowing from his hand that was holding the magic sword. The Demon King Zhentian could not help but exclaimed, "What a sharp sword, but why is there such a strong demonic energy on this sword?"

At this moment, Zhou Chen gave up control of the flying sword and concentrated on controlling the Void Demon Sword. At the same time, he pinched the sword seal with his hand, and a steady stream of true energy flowed into the body of the Demon Sword. Then, an extremely strong sword intent burst out from the Demon Sword, and at the same time, a sword energy shot out from the tip of the sword and hit his chest directly.

He was hit in the chest without warning, and blood gushed out immediately. In anger, his demonic power surged and gathered in his right hand, and then he crushed the Void Demon Sword with force.

Before Zhou Chen could react, the Zhentian Demon King had already arrived in front of him, "Boy, you are very good, but you also made me angry." He slapped Zhou Chen's body with one palm, causing it to explode on the spot. However, to his surprise, at the moment of the explosion, there was no blood mist as expected, but the body disappeared on the spot without even a trace of residue left.

"A clone? Humph, interesting."

Afterwards, Demon King Zhentian sat down cross-legged again. The sudden attack just now caused him to suffer considerable internal injuries. Now he had to recuperate quickly, otherwise there would definitely be hidden dangers.

In the far distance of the cave, Zhou Chen was eating dry food. Suddenly he felt something and murmured to himself, "Is it a failure? That's right. It would be strange if it was so easy to succeed."

He stuffed the last piece of meat in his hand into his mouth, then took out the jade pendant for transmitting sound. Not long after, Xuanwu and Zhuque came over with other demon-suppressing messengers.

Zhou Chen briefly explained the situation. Of course, he couldn't say that he had seen the situation of the Zhentian Demon King with his own eyes. He only heard it from the little demon.

The two hall masters praised it after hearing it, and then asked many demon-suppressing envoys to support outside, while Xuanwu and Zhuque went in to find out the specific situation.

More than an hour later, Xuanwu and the other man returned to the original place. They were in an extremely miserable state. It seemed that things were not going well this time. They then evacuated from here with everyone, leaving only two people to monitor the situation here. They did not leave Wuhua Mountain, but evacuated to a farther place.

Afterwards Zhou Chen and his companions rested here. Two days later, Qinglong and Zhen Nantian came here. Although Zhen Nantian was not fully recovered at this time, he was 90% better.

Zhou Chen and his team also each received a command flag. According to Zhen Nantian's introduction, this was a magical tool temporarily lent to them by the higher-ups, specifically for dealing with the Heaven-shaking Demon King. This thing was used to set up the formation. As long as Zhou Chen and his team inserted the formation flag into a specific position, the person in charge of the formation could use the power of the earth to increase their strength. However, there was also a weakness, which was that someone had to input a steady stream of true energy into the formation flag, otherwise the power of the earth could not be mobilized.

For this reason, they had to split up into groups of two. They each came to the vicinity of the base camp of the Zhentian Demon King. After Zhou Chen and a colleague arrived at the designated location, they inserted the flag into the ground. Then the colleague transferred true energy to them first, while he sent a message to Zhennantian.

The Zhentian Demon King, who was in retreat, suddenly felt uneasy, and then suddenly opened his eyes. At this time, Zhen Nantian led the three hall masters and appeared directly outside the cave.

"Demon King, I am here, come out and die quickly."

Upon hearing this, Demon King Zhentian was furious. When he came out, Zhen Nantian and his three companions had been surrounded by hundreds of monsters. Although there were only four of them, they were not afraid at all when facing such huge monsters.

He had originally planned to wait for a while, but when Zhen Nantian learned that the Demon King Zhentian had gone astray in his training and was seriously injured, Zhen Nantian immediately brought treasures to eliminate the demon.

The Demon King Zhentian could sense the abnormality around him, and then he ordered his men, "They have set up a large formation around us, find it out and destroy it quickly."

Zhen Nantian immediately drew his sword and attacked the Demon King Zhentian. The sword was naturally borrowed from Zhou Chen.

Qinglong and his two companions did not hold back either, with the added power of the formation, their strength was greatly enhanced. They immediately used their martial arts to join forces with Zhennantian to kill the Demon King Zhentian. With his injured body facing the siege of four masters, he naturally had no chance of winning.

The big monsters under his command also flew into the sky to help him, but they were no match for Qinglong and his men and were ruthlessly crushed.

On the other hand, on Zhou Chen's side, the formation had already been activated. As Zhen Nantian and his companions drew on the power of the earth, the guy in charge of supplying true energy to the formation flags suddenly felt a lot of pressure. The guy next to him only had 150 years of skill, which was already pretty good among the demon-suppressing envoys.

According to Zhen Nantian's introduction, this formation of flags could consume ten years of his energy in one minute. With his strength, he could only last fifteen minutes at most. Although he had the elixir given by Zhen Nantian, his recovery speed would definitely not be able to keep up with the consumption speed.

The strength of the Demon Suppressors varies, some have only a few decades of skills, and with the help of elixirs, it would be considered good if they can hold on for ten minutes.

Fortunately, even if this formation loses a few flags, at most the strength of Zhen Nantian and his men will be slightly increased, and the formation will not be directly broken.

Soon Zhou Chen noticed that a large number of monsters were rushing towards them. They were probably here to destroy the formation flags.

"Brother Zhou and the others are here."

"Don't worry, I'm here for you to protect the formation flag, and leave the rest to me." Within a minute, a large number of monsters appeared in the field of vision, but they were all low-grade monsters. No matter how many more came, they would only die.

When they saw Zhou Chen and the other person, they immediately rushed towards them. Zhou Chen sneered, and the true energy in his body burst out. They were frozen into ice sculptures before they could reach them. The surrounding trees were also instantly frozen at this moment. The monsters that were far away luckily escaped and were not frozen by the cold, but they were also frightened and stood there in a daze.

(End of this chapter)