Inside the inn, Yin Kuisheng transformed into a demon and charged laughing wildly at those surrounding him. Like a bulldozer crushing everything in its path, he left people tumbling in disarray wherever he went. Figures were sent flying backward one after another, coughing up blood.
This scene stunned everyone. Their faces darkened like still water, and chills ran through their bodies.
No one had expected the situation to reverse so swiftly. Yin Kuisheng, who had just been pinned down and beaten by them, had actually swallowed a Demon Core and undergone Demonization, his strength soaring.
"Everyone, stop holding back. Join forces and attack the horns on his head—they're his weak points. Or use sonic attacks to disrupt his mental will. He's only just swallowed the Demon Core, so he definitely can't have fused with it perfectly. Once his mental will is injured, he'll surely suffer a backlash from the Demon Core..."
A loud shout rang out.
It was Li Da's voice. The Demon Suppression Division truly did deal with demons regularly. As a Senior Demon Slayer, Li Da had spotted Yin Kuisheng's weakness at a glance.
While loudly warning the others, he formed a battle formation with Qin Qing, Niu Zhenye, and the rest. After forcibly blocking Yin Kuisheng's strike, he suddenly pressed forward with overwhelming momentum. His warblade flashed, following a bizarre trajectory that evaded Yin Kuisheng's defense, and he viciously chopped at one of the horns on Yin Kuisheng's head.
Clang... Bang...
The blade flashed, and the horn was sliced clean off as though cutting tofu.
"Ah..."
The instant the horn broke, Yin Kuisheng let out a shrill scream, his entire body convulsing. His eyes, already as large as bronze bells, erupted with terrifying blood-red light. The violent demonic aura pouring from his body seemed about to solidify.
"Die... You all deserve to die..."
Looking utterly crazed, he roared and lunged toward Li Da and the others.
"Quick, attack his horns!"
"Beast, taste my Buddhist Lion's Roar..."
"Hahaha... So this beast has so many weak points. Let's see how he dies this time! Attack together and kill this beast! You wanted to scheme against us? Eat shit!"
At this moment, the martial artists burst into wild laughter. After seeing Li Da sever one of Yin Kuisheng's horns, they could clearly sense that Yin Kuisheng's aura had weakened and his strength had dropped. Knowing that Li Da was right, they were overjoyed.
Immediately, they joined the attack, crazily targeting Yin Kuisheng's horn or using sonic attacks to disrupt his mental will, hoping to make him suffer backlash from the Demon Core.
However!
Yin Kuisheng's strength was right there for all to see. He was clearly far stronger than any of them. Trying to strike his horn or affect his mental will with sound waves was no easy task.
For a time, the two sides fell into another stalemate. Amid their frenzied clashes, miserable screams rang out without end, and terrifying shockwaves swept through the area, smashing the entire inn to ruins.
At this moment!
Outside the inn, Lin Baichuan hid alone off to one side, his warblade resting at his waist as he stared fixedly at the inn collapsing with a thunderous crash, his mind taut with concentration.
At the same time, quite a few people were gathering from all directions.
Such a huge disturbance had long since spread throughout the town. Yet no one dared approach; they could only watch from afar.
This was a battle between martial artists. Let alone ordinary people like them, even Ninth Rank or Eighth Rank martial artists could lose their lives if they rushed in carelessly.
Boom... Bang...
Within the ruins, Yin Kuisheng's huge body charged about like an iron tower. His pair of iron palms hammered down continuously like massive hammers, sending figures flying one after another. Those below the Seventh Rank coughed blood immediately, some even having their organs knocked out of place.
However, Yin Kuisheng himself was not having an easy time either. Besieged by Li Da and the others, constantly ambushed by those Seventh Rank Organ Forging Realm martial artists, and subjected to sonic attacks that ravaged his mental will, he had long lost his earlier might. Blood covered his body, his aura was weak, and he was clearly at the end of his tether.
"Beast, I'll finish you with one slash."
Suddenly, at that moment, a figure leaped up from the ruins. A streak of blade light gleamed, and amid surging waves of force, it forcibly tore through Yin Kuisheng's arms held before him, then savagely slashed at the other horn on his head.
"Ah..."
The blade flashed, and the horn snapped off at once. Yin Kuisheng immediately let out a shrill scream. Terrifying demonic power rampaged within his body. With both horns severed, the demonic power inside him lost balance and ran wild, much of it even bursting out through his body and forcibly blasting away the Seventh Rank Organ Forging Realm expert who had struck with the blade.
"Since that's the case, then all of you can be buried with me!"
Yin Kuisheng suddenly roared. Opening his huge mouth, he spat out the Demon Core. It abruptly burst with dazzling light, radiating violent, savage Killing Intent.
"Not good, he's going to self-destruct the Demon Core!"
Li Da truly deserved to be a Senior Demon Slayer. He was the first to react. His face changed drastically, and with a roar, he turned and fled.
However!
His reaction was not slow, but compared to the Demon Core's self-destruction, he was still half a beat too late.
Boom...
At that instant, the Demon Core glowing with dazzling light exploded like gunpowder. Visible waves of energy shockwaves swept out, forcibly throwing every person besieging Yin Kuisheng—including Li Da—into the air.
Under the sweep of those terrifying energy shockwaves, everyone vomited blood without end. Some of the weaker ones had their bodies burst apart in an instant, turning into a sky full of blood mist.
At the same time!
At the very instant the Demon Core detonated, bloody light suddenly flashed within Yin Kuisheng's already weakened body. His speed surged severalfold in an instant, and before the Demon Core exploded, he actually rushed out of the blast radius and fled straight toward Qili Slope behind the town.
This was Yin Kuisheng's scheme.
The self-destruction of the Demon Core was real, but dying together with them was false. At the final moment, he used the remaining demonic power in his body to activate a secret technique, explosively increasing his speed and fleeing at high speed.
"It's Yin Kuisheng. This guy truly has quite the methods."
Outside the inn, Lin Baichuan, who had been watching all along, saw Yin Kuisheng fleeing and immediately guessed everything. His eyes lit up. After hesitating for less than 0.01 seconds, Lin Baichuan took a stride and immediately chased after Yin Kuisheng.
Lin Baichuan knew full well how powerful Yin Kuisheng was. Especially after this fellow had swallowed a Demon Core, his strength had become absurdly formidable. But he also understood one thing: Yin Kuisheng was injured now, and severely so. His strength had been greatly diminished.
This was his best chance—and also his last chance—to seize the Earth Spirit Milk. Once he missed it, and Yin Kuisheng rushed into Qili Slope's vast mountain forests, finding one person would be like looking for a needle in the sea.
Thus, though Lin Baichuan knew the danger within, he still followed without hesitation.
As the saying went, fortune was found amid peril. If one did not actively seek an opportunity, could one really expect it to fall onto one's head? That was simply unrealistic.
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