Feeling the immense life essence flowing towards the stage from the audience, Leo became frantic.
We’re talking about almost thirty thousand people’s life essence.
If all were absorbed by Demon Cultivator Rafferty, it would be unimaginable.
Without further thought, Leo formed seals with his hands, striking towards Rafferty on stage.
Rafferty reacted swiftly, strumming his guitar, a wave of sound emitted, confronting the seal Leo had cast.
Boom!
Like the sound of a dull drumbeat.
The impact of the two forces created a wave, rushing from the stage like a gust of wind, making it hard for Leo to keep his eyes open, but it still failed to awaken the sleeping audience.
Not just the fans, but also the backstage sound engineers, lighting technicians, photographers, and security guards were asleep.
Starlight had disappeared.
At this moment, the scene in the entire stadium was utterly bizarre.
A grand concert abruptly turned into a mass sleeping event for thirty thousand people. Could there be anything more strange in the world?
Knowing his identity had been exposed, Leo no longer hid, stood up from his seat, and leaped onto the stage.
Rafferty continued to strum the guitar gently, an expression of enjoyment on his face, seemingly lost in music.
Leo just watched him calmly, quietly listening to him play guitar.
Suddenly acting, he disrupted the guy’s process, who didn’t rush to absorb the fans’ life essence anymore.
“Cultivator,” Rafferty spoke three words after a while of playing.
Leo responded indifferently with three words: “Demon Cultivator.”
“Cultivation does not differentiate between righteous and demonic, why make such distinctions?” Rafferty unexpectedly began a banter with Leo.
Leo replied coldly without a second thought: “Harming the heavens and reason, that is what’s considered demonic!”
“What a statement, harming the heavens and reason equates to demonic,” Rafferty stopped strumming, his deep eyes looking at Leo. “But do you know, in this world, rules, morals, even laws, and lives, are all in the hands of the powerful.”
Leo retorted without contemplation, “Nonsense. A true powerhouse wouldn’t strip others of their lives for selfish gains. To me, you’re nothing but a despicable weakling.” As he spoke, Leo’s Spiritual Power surged, pressing against Rafferty.
This remark enraged Rafferty, evil light flashed in his eyes, and demonic power surged towards Leo like a tsunami.
The sound of “crackle and pop” accompanied the clash of Spiritual Power and demonic energy, cracking the stage’s ground.
Rafferty’s demonic energy was formidable, forcing Leo’s externally directed Spiritual Power to be pushed back.
As the demonic energy surged, fans seated in the first row started bleeding from their nostrils and eyes.
Leo, concerned for Madame in the third row, feared she might be in danger if he couldn’t withstand the demonic energy.
Biting his lip, Leo formed a seal with his hands, fully activating his body’s Spiritual Power to counter the demonic energy.
Judging from Rafferty’s level of demonic energy, his cultivation level wasn’t lower than Leo’s.
The counterattack of Spiritual Power made Rafferty’s eyelids twitch; he suddenly proposed, “How about we find another place to settle this? I genuinely don’t want to harm my fans.”
His words were ridiculously hypocritical, making Leo sneer, “Suddenly you’ve grown a conscience? Didn’t see you hesitate when absorbing their life essence.”
“It seems you don’t understand me,” Rafferty shook his head with a bitter smile. “I was just planning to absorb a part of their life essence, at most shortening their lifespan by ten to twenty years.”
“But if I killed you here, it’s inevitable that many would die as collateral damage, especially some of my hardcore fans, I really can’t bear that, after all, I still need to make a living in the entertainment industry.”
“Shameless!” Leo gave Rafferty four words in response.
“Ha ha ha…” Rafferty laughed loudly, and amidst this laughter, his body emitted black smoke, enveloping him completely.
The next second, a black bat flew out of the smoke into the night sky.
This was… a transformation technique!
Leo was startled, locking his spiritual perception on the bat and using a movement technique to follow.
Rafferty’s arrogant move wasn’t an escape but to lead Leo to a construction site.
Under the city’s lights, the entire site appeared desolate and deserted, with several buildings half-constructed before being abandoned, evident signs of a failed project.
The black bat transformed back into Rafferty amidst a swirl of black smoke upon landing.
“Five Elements Escape Technique, not bad. Your cultivation level must have reached the Spirit General Realm, huh? To achieve such cultivation at a young age, I’m quite envious and resentful.
“When I was your age, after absorbing tens of thousands of people’s life essence, I had only reached the Great Spirit Master Realm.”
Rafferty continued to speak to himself, head slightly raised, gazing at the stars at a forty-five-degree angle.
“Enough talk, your evil cultivation ends tonight!”
Rafferty shouted, spreading his arms, summoning countless screeching bats from behind, diving towards Leo.
“Petty tricks!” Leo snorted coldly, activating his Spiritual Power to cast a Talisman.
Instantly, fierce flames erupted around him, forming a sea of fire within a three-meter radius.
The attacking bats were engulfed by the flames, turning into ashes in the intense heat.
Rafferty changed his seal form, moving his lips silently. The remaining bats not yet consumed by the flames circled the fire in a rapid whirl.
Soon, the swiftly rotating bats formed a fierce tornado, attempting to extinguish the flames.
Leo controlled the fire with his mind, morphing it into a ferocious fire dragon. With its giant claws swinging and its fearsome mouth wide open, it bit towards the black tornado.
Rafferty shifted his hand to another seal, pointed towards the sky a few times, and shouted, “Devour!”
The black tornado, bitten by the fire dragon, transformed into a huge black ellipse, resembling a black hole. The violent fire dragon was almost instantly swallowed whole.
Not just the fire dragon, but the surrounding air, dust, debris, and construction waste, all were sucked into the black ellipse.
If it weren’t for Leo’s strong resistance with his Spiritual Power, he would have been absorbed along with the fire dragon.
Leo stretched out his hand, summoning the Divine Dragon Sword into his grip. Infusing the sword with Spiritual Power, he swung it forward and yelled, “Break!”
A tangible sword aura burst from the sword, hitting the black ellipse in the next second.