Madman

Fourth Master Huang suddenly sprang into action, his sharp claws lunging toward Lu Jun.

Lu Jun neither dodged nor evaded. His expression was calm, silent as stone.

He simply stood there in plain sight, as though he had abandoned his final resistance.

The sharp claws tore straight through Lu Jun's body.

But the result was nothing like what everyone had imagined—not flesh flying and blood splattering everywhere.

Instead, there came a crisp crack.

It sounded like the brittle ice formed when a frozen winter lake was smashed apart by a heavy hammer.

Lu Jun's figure shattered into countless fragments of light and shadow.

"What's going on?" Fourth Master Huang's pupils contracted. He had no idea what had happened.

"Whoosh—"

The howling sound of something slicing through the air reached his ears.

Immediately afterward, pain shot through Fourth Master Huang's neck.

"Old man, I suppose it's time to say goodbye..."

Lu Jun's faint voice suddenly came from behind Fourth Master Huang.

Fourth Master Huang instinctively tried to turn his head.

But to his horror, he found that he couldn't.

His line of sight dropped straight down against his will. In the end, all he could see were Lu Jun's straw-sandaled feet...

And the blade hanging from Lu Jun's hand, bright-red blood dripping from its edge...

And the enormous headless demon corpse slumping limply to the ground.

"That's his own body..."

"Am I dead?"

That was the final thought in Fourth Master Huang's mind.

The entire scene fell deathly silent.

No one had seen clearly how this sudden reversal had happened.

"Mirror Flowers and Water Moon... What an excellent ability..." Lu Jun turned around and looked at the dumbstruck demons before him. A faint smile appeared on his bloodstained face. "Next, it's your turn."

"I'll leave not a single one of you alive..."

"I'll slaughter every last one of you..."

A humanlike look of astonishment appeared on the village chief demon's face. He immediately waved his hand and shouted shrilly, "Attack!"

"He's only one man."

The many demons had not seen clearly how Lu Jun had killed Fourth Master Huang.

They assumed Lu Jun had used some underhanded trick, and so they were not particularly afraid of him.

Thus, they swarmed forward.

But very soon, the demons discovered that they had been wrong.

Whenever they approached Lu Jun, they thought they would be able to slap him to death in one blow.

Yet the result was completely unexpected.

The instant their claws and attacks struck Lu Jun's body,

Lu Jun's figure would shatter into an illusion. Then his true body would emerge from some unexpected position and viciously chop off their heads.

It happened in the blink of an eye.

Countless demons became headless corpses.

The remaining demons grew frightened as they watched Lu Jun stroll leisurely among the headless corpses, step by unhurried step.

They panicked and began fleeing wildly.

But they did not know that Lu Jun had mastered the divine ability—Soaring Wind.

When it came to pursuit, he was a true professional.

He soon arrived before one of the demons.

The demon broke down, realizing it could not escape. It abruptly collapsed to its knees, tears streaming down its face.

"Ah... Ah Jun! I'm your Uncle Huazi! When you were little, I even carried you..."

After saying this, the demon's face shifted repeatedly. Its disgusting, loathsome weasel face transformed into that of a middle-aged man with rough skin, small eyes, a flat nose, a square face, and a thin mustache.

"Heh." Lu Jun chuckled twice and swung his saber down without hesitation.

Then he took light, quick steps toward the next demon kneeling on the ground.

"Brother Jun, I'm Fubao! You carried me just the day before yesterday..."

This was a demon still in its childhood. Upon seeing Lu Jun, it hurriedly transformed its face as well, revealing a tender child's features as it gazed pitifully at him.

"I don't kill the old, the young, the sick, or the disabled..." Lu Jun said calmly.

The child demon's eyes suddenly burst with an intense hope for survival.

"Unfortunately, you only qualify as one of those."

Lu Jun swung his saber.

He swung it five times.

He severed all five of the young demon's limbs—its four limbs and its tail, naturally.

He left it in agony, bleeding to death, and departing this world anything but peacefully.

"Heh. You became a demon, and you're still trying to sell that pathetic cuteness..."

Lu Jun sneered disdainfully and walked toward the next demon.

"Ah Jun, don't kill me! I was the one who prescribed medicine for your soul-loss illness!"

"Oh, an old acquaintance. Physician Shuanzi, is that you? You're the damn one who likes prescribing sleeping pills to people!"

Crack!

Lu Jun once again finished off an old acquaintance, and his heart practically bloomed with joy.

It felt so good!

Killing demons really was the way to go!

Lu Jun was drenched in blood, a faint smile on his face.

"He's a damn madman!"

"Damn it, this Human Race member has gone insane!"

"Who says otherwise? I saw it just now. Quite a few of our kind tried playing the emotional card with him, but it didn't work at all!"

"Use your divine abilities! Stir up a sandstorm, then split up and run!"

The next moment, the panicked Weasel Demons inhaled fiercely. A massive amount of air rushed into their mouths before they suddenly spewed it out.

A gale swept up sand and dust, instantly turning the entire village a hazy yellow.

On top of that, the Weasel Demons already had yellow fur. Once mixed into the raging sandstorm, their figures vanished completely from sight.

"Run!"

The dozen or so remaining Weasel Demons scattered in all directions.

Lu Jun furrowed his brows. "Troublesome..."

Then the corners of his mouth lifted slightly. "Still, before dying outright, experiencing the torment of waiting for death is rather wonderful too."

"I'll find you one by one and smash every inch of your bones to pieces."

Lu Jun murmured softly.

At that moment, at the entrance to Huang Family Village,

three figures darted through the sand-filled Huang Family Village at astonishing speed.

"Faster!" The blind old beggar rarely showed such a solemn expression.

The three of them had rushed into Huang Family Village the instant Misty Mirage was slain and the domain covering the entire village shattered.

Their purpose was to rescue Lu Jun, who was fighting alone.

"Golden-Robed Sir, there's an enormous amount of demonic aura carried in this sandstorm!" said the male Demon Slayer Envoy.

"It seems that those Weasel Demons' talent is related to this sandstorm," said the female Demon Slayer Envoy.

"Hey, Yilin, do you think that kid can survive?" the male Demon Slayer Envoy asked the female Demon Slayer Envoy beside him.

"Eighty percent," Yilin said. "According to our estimates, the duration of the Concealment Lamp hasn't ended yet. Besides, Misty Mirage is already dead."

"That means the boy has succeeded, and those demons can't discover his whereabouts."

"As long as we find him, everything will be fine."

"Moreover, the Golden-Robed Sir can sense the aura of the saber he lent that boy."

"Couldn't the demons have killed him, taken the saber, and then run around with it?" the male Demon Slayer Envoy asked instinctively.

"..." Yilin fell silent.

"That boy is still alive..." the blind old beggar said, his tone carrying a hidden meaning. "And it seems he's brought us a few surprises as well..."

A look of delight also burst from the blind old beggar's murky eyes, because he sensed faint True Qi flowing through the Bright Saber he had lent to Lu Jun.

Just then, the male Demon Slayer Envoy suddenly raised his voice and pointed toward two figures in the distant, sand-shrouded haze. "Such a dense demonic aura! Those are demons!"

The blind old beggar also stopped moving, his cloudy eyes fixed tightly on a certain spot within the sand ahead.

He said calmly, "Li Tuo, I'll leave them to you."

The male Demon Slayer Envoy named Li Tuo's eyes lit up. He abruptly removed the massive axe from his back and charged toward the distant demons.

"Demons, prepare to die!"

Li Tuo descended from the sky and arrived directly before the two demons. Raising his axe high, he brought it down with tremendous force.

"Why are there Human Race members here too?!"

"No, wait—it's the Demon Slaying Division!"

"We just escaped that madman, and now we've run into the Demon Slaying Division!"

The two demons were filled with despair.

Just as Li Tuo, wild with delight, was about to cleave the two demons apart,

a flash of cold light silently swept through the yellow haze beside them and violently knocked Li Tuo's massive axe aside.

"Quit stealing my kills and get lost!"

Li Tuo's expression changed drastically.

A tremendous force surged through Li Tuo's palm. The next second, the massive axe was suddenly knocked from his grasp, and his entire body was sent flying.