Slay the Great Ape Demon!

"One year after joining the Jinyiwei, I leaped five stages with a common Body Tempering Fist to reach the peak of the Spirit Concealment Realm. Just how terrifying must his martial arts talent be!"

Lu Xuenning couldn't help but sigh.

She had undergone medicinal baths to temper her bones and muscles since childhood. After her bones and muscles matured, she began practicing martial arts at thirteen. In five years, she leaped five stages to reach the peak of the Spirit Concealment Realm.

Such speed could already be considered outstanding, but compared to Chen Fan, she felt utterly inadequate!

The Great Ape Demon, once again defeated and thrown to the ground by Chen Fan, endured the intense pain in its body and quickly got up. It then leaped, climbing up a pillar in the hall to the crossbeam. There, it retrieved a Dark Black Cudgel about a zhang and a half long!

"Even with the Ruyi Jingu Bang, you won't become the Great Sage Equal to Heaven!"

Chen Fan grinned as he looked at the hunched Great Ape Demon standing on the crossbeam, wielding the Dark Gold Cudgel.

"I admit I underestimated you, but you're dead today!"

Gripping the Dark Gold Cudgel, the Great Ape Demon leaped, swinging the cudgel down from the sky directly towards Chen Fan's position!

"Draw Sword Slash!"

Chen Fan drew the Hundred Refinements Embroidered Spring Blade from his waist and unleashed the Great Perfection Level Draw Sword Slash. With a single slash, a cold glint appeared out of nowhere.

This slash was accompanied by fierce winds and continuous sonic booms. The terrifying force, carrying a perfectly unified sword technique, surged towards the Great Ape Demon.

This single strike represented Chen Fan's highest combat power at this moment. It was as if he had performed thousands of slashes, concentrating all that momentum into this one strike!

Clang!

The Hundred Refinements Embroidered Spring Blade collided with the Dark Gold Cudgel in the Great Ape Demon's hand, emitting a sound like metal striking stone. With a loud crack, Chen Fan's blade split the Dark Gold Cudgel apart. The momentum of the slash did not diminish, continuing directly towards the Great Ape Demon's neck!

Slish!

As he swung his blade, a bloody gash appeared on the Great Ape Demon's neck. Its movements abruptly ceased. Its massive body seemed to lose control and fell naturally from mid-air. Its ten-foot-tall body separated from its head, and demonic blood gushed from the severed neck, quickly dyeing a large area of the ground red!

[Killed the fifth-stage Spirit Concealment Realm Great Ape Demon, stole 99 years of lifespan!]

"The sword technique you just used, was that Draw Sword Slash?"

Lu Xuenning asked, a hint of disbelief in her voice.

Although she hadn't practiced Draw Sword Slash, many people did. Even if she hadn't eaten pork, she had seen pigs run.

The slash Chen Fan had just executed clearly carried a formidable momentum. To be able to imbue Draw Sword Slash with such momentum was simply fantastical!

"Great Perfection Level Draw Sword Slash!"

Chen Fan corrected Lu Xuenning's phrasing.

"So it was the Great Perfection Level Draw Sword Slash. I've never seen that before."

Lu Xuenning nodded dazedly. After all, no one would be so bored as to cultivate a common Draw Sword Slash to the Great Perfection Level.

Today, she had truly seen it!

"Do you know any other information about the demonic creatures in Ping'an County?" Chen Fan asked.

He now had a general understanding of his own strength.

As long as it wasn't a great demon of the Spirit Aperture Realm, he should be able to kill it. Even a peak Spirit Concealment Realm great demon, he could kill.

Although the White Ape had only just stepped into the fifth stage of the Spirit Concealment Realm, the Marrow Asura level, and had not yet completed the tempering of its entire body's bone marrow, he hadn't exerted much effort to kill it.

He had stunned it with two punches, then finished it off with a single saber strike.

Therefore, he felt that facing a peak Spirit Concealment Realm great demon should not be a problem. After all, he was now also at the peak of the Spirit Concealment Realm, and he had cultivated all five stages of the Spirit Concealment Realm to their extreme. Thus, his physique was comparable to that of a great demon!

Although Lu Xuenning was also a peak Spirit Concealment Realm martial artist, she was still inferior to him. By inference, even their Jinyiwei's Hundred-Household Officer Cao De might not be his opponent!

"I don't know for now."

"The demonic creatures that infiltrated Ping'an County are very cautious, and someone is helping them cover their tracks, so it's hard to find their traces."

"This Ape Demon acted too ostentatiously and went too far, which is why I was able to track it down." Lu Xuenning replied.

"This large Spring View Pavilion should have more than just this White Ape. Perhaps there are other demonic creatures obeying it. Let's search it and see if there are any others." Chen Fan's interest waned when he heard Lu Xuenning didn't know the whereabouts of other demonic creatures, so he thought of thoroughly searching the Spring View Pavilion.

"That makes sense." Lu Xuenning also nodded.

The two of them patrolled the Spring View Pavilion. Chen Fan found a Rat Demon and a Pig Demon and killed them cleanly.

[Killed a second-stage Spirit Concealment Realm Black Pig Demon, stole 33 years of lifespan!]

[Killed a first-stage Spirit Concealment Realm Rat Demon, stole 45 years of lifespan!]

Lu Xuenning, on the other hand, found a Fox Demon who had become a courtesan, and a Dog Demon guarding the cellar cages in the backyard of the Spring View Pavilion!

In the cellar cages in the backyard of the Spring View Pavilion, innocent women recently abducted by the Spring View Pavilion, as well as women sold there by their parents, were imprisoned.

As for the women sold to the Spring View Pavilion by their parents, the vast majority of their parents didn't truly intend to sell them. Instead, they were tricked by the Spring View Pavilion into incurring exorbitant debts, leaving them with no other recourse but to sell their sons and daughters.

Chen Fan felt a bit regretful looking at the Fox Demon and Dog Demon that Lu Xuenning had killed. If he had killed them, it would have been another two sources of demonic creature lifespan.

However, this trip to Spring View Pavilion today has been quite rewarding. We rescued many innocent people, and I also killed three Demonic Creatures, gaining one hundred and seventy-seven years of lifespan from them.

Lu Xuenning and Chen Fan directly threw the corpses of the Demonic Creatures they killed into the main hall. The guests of Spring View Pavilion were dispersed by them, and soon people from the County Yamen and the Jinyiwei arrived.

This time, it was the Jinyiwei Zongqi Officer Li Mo leading the team, bringing along a few trusted Xiaoqi Officers and Jinyiwei members under his command.

As for the people from the Yamen, they were summoned by Lu Xuenning under the guise of a constable.

Killing Demonic Creatures and monsters is the duty of the Jinyiwei. Moreover, Spring View Pavilion not only harbored Demonic Creatures and monsters but also some Human Race accomplices who forced women into prostitution and harmed the common people. Therefore, it was reasonable for the Yamen to intervene.

In fact, many times, Jinyiwei members would collaborate with the local Yamen on cases. After all, a case involving Demonic Creatures often involved these two departments, and the stakes included both the Demonic Creatures and the victims.

"Your subordinate Chen Fan greets Zongqi Officer Li!"

Upon seeing Li Mo arrive, Chen Fan stepped forward, cupped his fists, and bowed as he spoke.

"Are you from Ninth Squad?"

Li Mo glanced at Chen Fan, then nodded and asked.

There were only two Zongqi Officers in the Jinyiwei Baihu Office. Although they could mobilize any squad, there were always degrees of closeness and distance.

For example, Chen Fan's direct superior, Wang Chao, was closer to Huang Chengyue. Therefore, Li Mo rarely called upon people from Ninth Squad to help him with tasks.

Thus, he only had a general impression of Chen Fan, a member of Ninth Squad, especially since Chen Fan was not an old hand in the Jinyiwei; he had only joined last year.

"Yes."

Chen Fan replied.

"Return to your squad for now."

Li Mo nodded upon hearing this.

He didn't care why Chen Fan was at Spring View Pavilion, but since Chen Fan had voluntarily stepped forward, he couldn't just ignore him.

As for the matter of Chen Fan killing the Great Ape Demon, Lu Xuenning had helped him keep it a secret at his request.

This was because someone was targeting him from behind. He had previously suspected Huang Chengyue, but with Lu Xuenning vouching for Huang Chengyue, and after secretly following Huang Chengyue for several days without finding any signs of him colluding with Demonic Creatures, He felt he had suspected the wrong person.