CH 289

289: Are You a Demon Wind?

Demon Wind knew the temple was guarded by a powerful phoenix clan, but he had never seen the phoenix, nor did he know that the phoenix guarding it now was a different phoenix.

Some time ago, while in the deep sea, he had found a tianwai ore. He wanted to use it to create a holy item. Since then, he had collected thousands of precious metals, hoping to use them to supplement the tianwai ore.

The three brothers had invited a master forger to the island to forge the holy item. It was not difficult to create a holy item with the tianwai ore. The difficult part was the payment. The master had wanted a Hell Black lotus.

Demon Wind could tell the master didn’t want to actually help them and was only using it as an excuse to get out of forging.

It would have been impossible for a normal person to get the flower, but this was Demon Wind and Demon Wind had the island. His predecessor had been to the underground temple and had seen the lotuses. Demon Wind already knew what to do in order to convince the master forger to come to the island.

He wanted to get the flowers, but he didn’t intend to break the seal, well not unless he had a death wish. He knew perfectly well how powerful the entity under containment was.

He was finally able to go down to the underground temple and not fear being contaminated by the flowers’ poison after merging with the drop of water essence. He never expected to find an intruder in the sealed underground. Not only that, the woman planned to destroy the seal. He was pissed! There was no way he could let her off the hook. It surely lead to disaster for the island.

“If I’m not wrong, you are the master of Demon Wind island... Demon Wind.” Zi Cheng quickly guessed the man’s identity despite never meeting him before. In part this was because of his weapon.

He was a swordsman and yet he used a knife. The knife was a demon weapon made of bones which threw strong wind attack.

There were monsters in the world, so naturally there would also be demons. Most were bloodthirsty and cruel, used to living with ongoing war, so they were naturally warlike. They lived in the demon world and rarely forayed into the human world.

The knife in Demon Wind’s hand was made by the first Demon Wind out of the bones of a holy level demon. It was a powerful weapon because of this.

“You’ve got good eyes. Yeah, I'm Demon Wind, but I don’t care who you are. You’re dead if you dare break that seal.”

Demon Wind instantly harbored murderous intentions toward Zi Cheng. He loved beautiful women, and Zi Cheng was indeed a beauty, but that didn’t matter if she dared break the seal. Even if she was a goddess, it was life over beauty!

Zi Cheng took out the sub-divine staff and preemptively attacked him with the five elements.

Demon Wind was from a great sword sect, so even if he was only a junior, his weapon’s aura barreled toward Zi Cheng and broke her attacks like an unstoppable flood.

Demon Wind had mastered intent. His was water and wind so his techniques surged like a flood and moved as quick as the wind. But he didn’t have to use his weapon’s intent to deal with a character as minor as Zi Cheng. He only needed to press her with the aura of his knife to make her sweat.

Even if the sub-divine Staff of Life was an amazing item, it was impossible for Zi Cheng to use its maximum potential. Zi Cheng was only an intermediate magician. It was like giving a small child a handful of god artifacts and expecting wielding expertise.

The only reason she wasn’t killed in the battle against Little Seven was because Little Seven didn’t have the heart to kill. She had only wanted to chase Zi Cheng away. Otherwise, with Little Seven’s strength, Zi Cheng would have been burned to a fiery cinder.

Zi Cheng's level was several realms below Demon Wind’s, so unless she could redeem an instant win item from her system, winning would be next to impossible. An item to overcome that many levels wasn’t too expensive though. However, she had used nearly all her points to deal Little Seven, so although it would have been inexpensive, she didn’t have enough.

She carefully avoided a strike. But though she avoided one, she couldn’t avoid them all. Demon Wind’s knife attacks were as swift as the wind, so soon she was cut. A slash on her shoulder made her fall into the black pond water.

Had she been at full strength, considering all the good items she had, it wouldn’t have been hard for her to defeat him, or at least escape. Unfortunately, she was suffering from severe internal injuries from the backlash of the failed blood contract that Jier interrupted with his fireball.

The healing and recovery potions she took earlier were working, but they weren’t instantaneous. Considering all this, it would have been understandable if Zi Cheng were to be horribly defeated, after all even the heroine of a story is not invincible from the get go.

Ming Xi arrived after Zi Cheng had sunk into the pond. The water was calm, without a ripple.

Demon Wind was about to engage the new intruder when he saw the entity next to Ming Xi. His eyes lit up and widened in disbelief. Was he dreaming?

“Master Phoenix! This isn’t a dream, right? I’m seeing Master Phoenix for real?!” Neither his father or grandfather before him had ever laid eyes on the phoenix said to be guarding the temple. Demon Wind was so excited, it was like his eyes were twinkling stars.

“Your friend?” Ming Xi asked Little Seven after glancing nervously at the overly enthusiastic beefy man in front of him.

Little Seven tilted her head to one side as she thought it over. “I don’t know him personally, but I think I know who he is.” She had internally transmitted her thoughts to Ming Xi.

“Are you the Demon Wind of this generation?” What came out weren’t bird chirps but the common language of the continent. Sure enough, people only understood her if she wanted them to understand her.

“Yes, yes, that’s me! I didn’t expect to ever see the true face of Master Phoenix. My father and grandfather would be so jealous!” Demon Wind said as he wiped tears of excitement from his face.

If it weren’t for the fact that the guy admitted to being Demon Wind, the leader of the Red Skull, Ming Xi would never have associated this guy, who was wiping tears away as he gazed adoringly at his contracted beast, with a murderous pirate.