Chapter 5: The Battle of Snake Demon Cave (Part 1)

  A few days later.

  "Oooo...ooooo...ooooo..." A majestic yet mournful horn sound echoed through the mountains of Kanyuan, and Lei Hao's face changed as soon as he heard it. He quickly gathered his 23rd squad and rushed to the training grounds outside the cave.

  Lei Hao stepped into the demon crowd and stood still, watching as the number of demon soldiers rushing out of the cave and charging into the demon army grew smaller. The horn on the stone platform was still blowing non-stop, which further confirmed Lei Hao's thoughts in his heart. Maybe, probably, today they would attack the Snake Demon Cave.

  After long preparation, this moment has finally arrived.

  Lei Hao's heart sank bit by bit, he didn't know if the battle formation he had been practicing would be useful, how many of his fifty brothers would survive today, and whether he himself would make it out alive.

  The battlefield, a battlefield filled with endless variables, is it something that a university student living in the 21st century crab society can fully grasp? But one variable could leave him and the twenty-three brothers of the squad on the battlefield.

  A tall and majestic figure slowly emerged from the shadows of the cave entrance. When the bright sunlight shone on its armor, it reflected a dazzling light that made Lei Hao's heart cheer with excitement at the sight of the surging aura.

  A certain demon king of the mortal world, as proven by this poem:

  Wearing a black and gold helmet, reflecting the bright sunlight;

  Wearing a silk robe with a sash, dancing in the wind.

  Wore black iron armor, tightly tied with leather straps;

  Wearing boots with flower-embroidered soles, he is as majestic as a general.

  Waist ten wraps around, body height three zhang

  Holding a single-edged knife, its blade is very bright.

  Known as the demon of chaos, with a fierce and sinister appearance.

  The first supporting character to appear in Journey to the West, the infamous Bull Demon King, looks so majestic and terrifying at this moment, with an aura of royal pressure all over his body.

  Feeling the pressure, Lei Hao's mind was filled with doubts. "Is this a demon king or a cow demon king? It looks so powerful, this world is really deep, Wu Dada's book can't be trusted, otherwise how would they know who died?"

  "My sons, the snake demon cave's group of soft-boned ones have repeatedly offended our Water Cavern, killing many of our demonic soldiers. Today, I will take you to wipe out that group of soft-boned ones." The voice of the Demon King was very thick and hoarse, with a tone that was almost devoid of emotion, his speech slow but with a hint of enticement.

  "Follow the great king, kill the soft-boned ones." As soon as the Demon King's voice fell, the demonic soldiers below immediately boiled over, and even Lei Hao almost followed suit, shouting along with them. Feeling that something was off, he used his strong willpower to restrain himself, turning his head to see his 50 underlings also hoarsely shouting, the little foxes directly shrieking. Lei Hao's heart felt a lingering fear: "What a terrifying power of temptation." Lei Hao did not want anyone to control his thoughts, not even for one second.

  "Go!" The Demon King of the Mortal World let out a loud shout and directly summoned a black whirlwind, sweeping up more than 3,000 demonic soldiers from the Water Cavern and flying northward.

  Lei Hao was drifting in the dark and mysterious wind, his consciousness a bit unclear, but in his heart he was shouting: "Damn it, what kind of scam is this? A mixed-up demon king who gets killed by Monkey King as soon as he appears on stage? Are you sure this isn't Ox Demon King? Or Qing Shi Wang? Or Jiu Ling Yuan Sheng? This is just a small mixed-up demon king?"

  When Lei Hao came to his senses, he saw a cave in the distance with three large characters "Snake Demon Cave" written on it. The ground beneath was also a vast empty space like the training ground in front of the Water Temple. The surrounding area was flat and open, and Lei Hao secretly made a hand gesture towards Niu Jiuer, Xiao Hu Li, and the others behind him. The demon soldiers quickly gathered around and formed the battle formation they had been training for several days. Thanks to Lei Hao's previous training in lining them up, it didn't take too much time for the formation to take shape, but whether it would work or not remained to be seen. None of his brothers noticed that Lei Hao's palms were sweating.

  "Cartilage head, the Demon King of the Mortal Realm has come to visit you, why haven't you opened the door to welcome him?" The Demon King's voice was not loud, but it seemed as if he was speaking right next to your ear no matter how far away he was.

  "Hiss…… So it's you, this filthy thing, daring to intrude into my palace…… Hiss, have your wounds healed?" The cave door slowly opened, and the first one to come out was not a green-faced, fang-toothed monster, but a slender middle-aged man. However, as soon as he spoke, a long, narrow, fork-tongued tongue emerged from his mouth, very much like a snake's tongue, looking particularly terrifying. He should be the Green Snake King. Quietly following behind the Snake Demon King were the small demons of the Snake Demon Cave, countless small demons pouring out from beside the Green Snake King, forming an army similar to that of the Water Cavern Demon Army in no time.

  The Demon King of the Mixed World was enraged as soon as he heard the Green Snake King mention his wound. "You soft-boned dead fish, I don't want to engage in a war of words with you, let's settle this with our hands instead!" As soon as he finished speaking, the Demon King chopped out with his knife. When he raised his hand, the Demon King was still in front of the three thousand demon soldiers at the Water Cavern, but when he chopped down, the blade of his knife traversed hundreds of feet and appeared directly in front of the Green Snake King's chest.

  The Green Snake King's eyes gleamed brightly as he said, "So you've broken through. No wonder you dared to come knocking on my door. You're a Demon King? And the lowest of the low among them at that."

  The Green Snake King's right hand suddenly appeared with a long sword emitting green light, blocking the Devil King of Chaos' large knife. In an instant, he directly reappeared in mid-air.

  "Chaos Demon King, I now acknowledge you as a worthy opponent. Come, let me properly measure your strength." A rolling voice came from the high sky.

  The demon king of the mortal world, who had just been lightly blocked by the green demon king, looked gloomy and shouted at the water cave demons: "My sons, kill!" Then he also flashed into the air. Although the small demons in the snake demon cave were right next to him, even if he could kill a large group of snake demons with one move like cutting wheat, the demon king of the mortal world didn't even glance at these snakes. He was a demon king, and a demon king had his own demeanor.

  The four great leaders of the Water Cavern Cave heard their own Great King's loud shout and also let out a loud shout: "You little ones, follow me and charge, kill all these weaklings!" Then the three thousand little demons of the Water Cavern Cave followed the lead of these four great leaders... just like in the previous life when Lei Hao watched "Young and Dangerous", they swarmed forward in a frenzy. Although Lei Hao had already anticipated this scene, he was still shocked to the point of being stunned.

  "It's only now that I realize how terrifying it is to be uncultured. These little monsters aren't even qualified to be small-time hooligans on Earth. On Earth, you need to have a tank, damage dealer and healer just to play World of Warcraft...” Lei Hao squeezed among the crowd of demons, but his mind was filled with all sorts of absurd thoughts.

  "Ninety-two oxen, eighty-seven tigers, follow me closely, and you brothers in the back, also follow me closely... Kill them." As Lei Hao shouted to the demon soldiers behind him, he suddenly thought of the time on Earth when he fought with his brothers, wasn't it the same, charging forward without caring about anything? The only difference was that this wasn't a fight, but a battle for the demons' lives.

  Getting closer, getting closer, Lei Hao can already see the small scales on the snake demons' faces in the Snake Demon Cave and their sharp fangs. His heart is beating faster and faster, and the Wolf Tooth Club in his hand has started to tremble slightly. The usually light-as-air Wolf Tooth Club now feels like it weighs several thousand kilograms.

  "Are we really going to kill them? Are we really going to kill them?" The humanoid little demon easily trapped Lei Hao in the cage woven from his past twenty years of river crab life.

  The Water Demon Cave's demonic army and the Snake Demon Cave's demonic army finally converged, just like two great rivers that had traveled from opposite directions through countless hardships and finally merged together, bursting forth with a beautiful crimson wave.

  Lei Hao finally broke out of the water cave, and in his eyes, all the snake demons seemed to have squeezed into his line of sight. A demon soldier with a face full of black scales and a lower body still in snake form slashed at Lei Hao with a knife, and that slash seemed to slow down frame by frame in Lei Hao's eyes, he just needed to dodge to one side to smash the snake demon to death with his wolf-toothed club, but Lei Hao's eyes flickered for a moment, dodging the blade sideways without swinging out his wolf-toothed club.

  He hid, but this knife directly chopped onto the left arm of Niu Jiu Shi Er, who was guarding Lei Hao's right side. Because Lei Hao didn't notice him, Niu Jiu Shi Er obviously didn't understand what was happening and endured the chop on his left arm. He turned his head to look at Lei Hao, his foolish eyes slightly dazed.

  Lei Hao was suddenly stunned, and in his eyes the entire world slowed down, leaving only the bright red blood gushing out of Niu Jiuer's left shoulder making a 'hissing' sound. Lei Hao's mind seemed to shatter something, directly freezing for a second, then the next second Lei Hao let out a howl like an injured lone wolf charging at a lion pride: "Kill, kill, kill." He turned around and swung his Wolf Tooth Club directly at the black-faced snake demon, smashing its upper body into a ball of bloody mist, with its lower half flying towards the incoming group of snake demons.

  Those snake demons were also shocked by this powerful attack, and they looked at Lei Hao with some fear, but in just a few seconds, one of the snake demons couldn't resist its desire to attack again and rushed towards Lei Hao.

  Lei Hao directly used his Wolf Tooth Club to create a dark, shiny semicircle in the midst of the chaos. Within this semicircle, several bursts of blood mist suddenly exploded, clearing out a patch of empty space. In the densely packed battlefield, this was an utterly unthinkable occurrence.

  Here is the translation:

  It's necessary to mention the strength of small demons here. Small demons are deformed demon creatures summoned by the matured Demon King using the Enlightenment Technique, and they are at the bottom of the demon tribe's power pyramid. Generally, a small demon has combat power equivalent to that of an adult human male, and some may even be weaker. A simply trained small demon can have the strength of a human soldier, and can take down two or three ordinary small demons. A strictly trained small demon is comparable to a third-rate general from ancient times, and can take down ten ordinary small demons. Someone like Lei Hao belongs to the category of demonic prodigies, his power is already among the top in the small demons, but power does not equal strength, and it's not necessarily possible to fully bring it out.

  Those little monsters with slightly higher IQs are usually fox spirits, rabbit spirits and the like. They have congenital deficiencies and their physical bodies that cannot retain spiritual energy also have limited development potential. Like tiger spirits, lion spirits, cow spirits and other physically gifted demon clans, it is difficult for them to have high intelligence, they simply do not know how to cultivate their physical bodies. Little monsters like Lei Hao who possess both high intelligence and strong physical bodies are extremely rare, and even rarer are those who can persist in cultivating their physical bodies like Lei Hao.

  Lei Hao's eyes were blood red as he swept out a semicircle with his wolf-toothed club, not stopping for a moment before charging forward, swinging the club wildly. Although he didn't have any particular technique, Lei Hao's immense strength made even the simplest of attacks - straight smashing and horizontal swings - unleash terrifying killing power. No enemy had ever been able to withstand a single blow from his wolf-toothed club, which left a blurry shadow as it flew up and down through the Snake Demon Army.

  At this time, the twenty-three squads led by Lei Hao in a triangular formation also exerted tremendous lethality. Fifty small demons, except for the little fox demon and forty-nine generally two-level stronger demons than the surrounding snake demons, gathered together like a battlefield meat grinder. The snakes that approached them did not survive, and individual powerful snakes that approached were also killed by four or five brothers of the twenty-three squads simultaneously striking out. After the massive triangular formation swept through the snake demon army, only a field of corpses was left behind.

  The number of Shui Xuan Diao's demon army and the snake demon army was not much different, and the two masters who could turn the tide of battle, Hun Shi Mo Wang and Qing She Wang, were also fighting in mid-air, so the entire battlefield was in a stalemate.