Instant kill, the Horned Demon Ancestor

Watching the Horned Demon's movements, Li Feng couldn't help wondering.

Could the Horned Demon have charged toward the Jinling Residential Complex earlier just to get a running start for jumping the wall?

He had thought the Horned Demon intended to smash straight through it.

It seemed these demons were different from anomalies and vengeful ghosts after all. They weren't idiots; they knew how to save their strength without attracting the attention of Night Patrol Officers.

What puzzled Li Feng, however, was why this Horned Demon was so fixated on the Golden Bell Residential Complex.

Was there really something special about the Golden Bell Residential Complex?

That was also the main reason Li Feng hadn't attacked immediately.

He wanted to see what the Horned Demon was up to.

The fog churned, rapidly spreading into the residential complex.

Normally, the mind fog covered a radius of thirteen meters.

But if he spread it thin, it could cover dozens or even a hundred meters around him. Enveloping an entire residential complex was no problem.

Yet even after covering the entire Golden Bell Residential Complex, Li Feng detected nothing unusual within it.

After vaulting over the Compound Wall, the Horned Demon immediately ran toward the center of the complex.

Watching its movements, Li Feng initially assumed there was something special at the center. He even gathered the surrounding fog to investigate, but found nothing.

To his surprise, the Horned Demon passed straight through the center without hesitation and continued running toward the other side. Only when it neared the Compound Wall on the far side did it stop.

Sensing this, Li Feng was somewhat speechless.

So if its destination was on the other side of the complex, why had it climbed over the wall on this side?

After a moment's thought, Li Feng circled the complex and reached the other side.

As he approached the perimeter wall, he faintly heard the Horned Demon's "whispers," barely containing its excitement.

"It's here, it's here...

"Yes, this is the place...

"Hehehe, as long as I can open the Spatial Passage and welcome the Ancestor's arrival, I'll definitely earn his favor.

"Then I'll definitely be able to reach the Advanced Danger Level..."

Well, despite the ten or twenty meters between them, Li Feng could hear the Horned Demon's voice perfectly clearly in the stillness of the night.

Sensing that the Horned Demon stood only a few steps from the building, barely three or four meters away, Li Feng was speechless. Are you really not afraid someone will discover you and notify the Night Patrol Bureau?

But after hearing the Horned Demon's words, Li Feng's heart stirred.

Open a Spatial Passage and earn the Ancestor's favor...

Could this Horned Demon be planning to open a passage to another dimension here and bring the Horned Demon Ancestor through?

If that was the case, he couldn't let it succeed.

Besides, now that he knew its destination, Li Feng had no need to wait any longer.

Only killing it outright would eliminate every unpredictable development and future threat.

As for what was special about that place, he could investigate afterward.

Even if he found nothing, that was fine. With his current strength, he shouldn't be meddling with powers far beyond his level anyway.

Once he grew stronger, he would naturally be able to uncover its secrets with ease.

Surely he wasn't supposed to act like someone in a horror movie and wait until the Horned Demon had completed its entire plan before making a move?

He certainly wasn't confident he could handle that Horned Demon Ancestor.

Li Feng pressed both hands against the top of the wall and raised his head slightly, looking at the building behind the Horned Demon.

Or rather, at the building's windowpane.

Although glass was transparent, it could still reflect images. Using it as a blurry mirror was no problem.

With a single thought, the Weird Mirror in his Mind Space appeared before Li Feng.

Then the Weird Mirror's ability activated, instantly establishing a connection with that windowpane.

With another thought, Li Feng clearly saw the Horned Demon three or four meters ahead through the glass.

Overall, the Horned Demon looked much like a human, only more powerfully built. Its knotted muscles had a blue-black sheen, and a sharp horn gleaming coldly rose from its head.

Li Feng had no doubt that a single blow from that horn would tear his guts out instantly.

The defenses granted by his major skin refinement might not be completely useless, but they would offer little protection.

Still, he had no need to face the Horned Demon's horn head-on.

"Hiss!"

In an instant, a hair above Li Feng's forehead shot out like an arrow, plunging straight into the Weird Mirror before him.

At the same time, ripples suddenly appeared in the windowpane behind the Horned Demon, and a strand of hair shot out of it.

Overwhelmed with excitement, the Horned Demon noticed none of this.

It was forming hand seals and channeling the demonic energy within its body, preparing to cast a technique that would tear open space.

But just as it mobilized its power, it felt a sudden stab of pain at the back of its head.

Then excruciating pain tore through its brain.

Before it could react further, its consciousness sank into eternal darkness, and its body toppled forward limply.

Thud!

A smile flashed across Li Feng's face as he watched the Horned Demon collapse.

Just as he had expected, when he combined his anomalous hair with the Weird Mirror's ability to launch a sneak attack, these low-ranking danger-level anomalies, monsters, demons, and ghosts had no chance to resist.

The fog around the Horned Demon immediately surged, rapidly devouring its power.

As he narrowed his eyes in pleasure at the steady flow of power, Li Feng also confirmed that the mind fog could devour the power of demons as well as that of anomalies and vengeful ghosts.

But absorbed in devouring its power, Li Feng failed to notice that the energy the Horned Demon had already mobilized hadn't completely dissipated after its death.

Instead, a trace of that power was drawn into the hand seal it had formed.

In an instant, the power circulated, and a strange fluctuation swept through the Horned Demon's body.

Bang!

The Horned Demon's body abruptly exploded into a cloud of bloody mist mixed with Demonic Energy, which rapidly converged on a point ahead.

Fuck!

Startled, Li Feng cursed inwardly.

But sensing the movements of the bloody mist after the Horned Demon exploded, he had no time to worry about anything else. He immediately sent the surrounding fog swarming toward it.

For the moment, he couldn't figure out why the Horned Demon had exploded or what the bloody mist was doing.

But Li Feng knew one thing: whatever the enemy wanted to do, he had to stop it.

The fog churned, instantly growing so dense that it nearly became a solid gray wall. It enveloped the bloody mist in an instant, unleashing a powerful devouring force that rapidly consumed the energy within.

It devoured that power so swiftly that even Li Feng, who had grown much stronger, once again felt a bone-piercing chill and shuddered several times in succession.

At the same time, strange visions appeared in his mind.

A towering, mountain-sized, one-horned demon god stood between heaven and earth, inspiring awe and worship, compelling anyone who saw it to kneel in submission.

But the instant the vision appeared, the Bedroom door in Li Feng's Mind Space locked with a snap, cutting the vision off abruptly before it could affect him.

The mind fog outside the Bedroom also churned violently, rapidly devouring the power that had entered his mind space.

Li Feng's actions had a very clear effect.

The mind fog devoured the vast majority of the bloody mist's power.

The small amount remaining was no longer enough to pass through the wall of fog.

However...

In a dimension flooded with Demonic Energy, a one-horned figure seated on a throne, radiating overwhelming demonic might, suddenly opened his eyes. Fury flashed through them.

"Damn it!"

"Please calm your anger, Ancestor! We deserve ten thousand deaths!"

Terrifying demonic might erupted, and countless Horned Demons instantly dropped to their knees.

The Horned Demon Ancestor swept his furious gaze across the assembled Horned Demons below and spoke in an icy voice.

"You do indeed deserve to die!"

Hearing this, the Horned Demons felt a chill in their hearts and immediately begged loudly for mercy.

"Spare us, Ancestor!"

"Spare us, Ancestor..."

"Hmph!"

The Horned Demon Ancestor snorted coldly and abruptly brought his palm down.

Boom!

Splat!

In an instant, his palm crushed the kneeling Horned Demons below into bloody pulp, splashing blood all over the Horned Demons who had survived by virtue of standing farther away.

Yet even with filthy blood pouring over their heads, they didn't dare move. They merely bowed their heads low and awaited their final fate.

"Whew!"

After venting his anger, the Horned Demon Ancestor finally calmed somewhat. He exhaled a stale breath, then spoke in an icy voice:

"Pass down my orders. Send more of our kind into the earthly world. You must find a way to open the Spatial Passage.

"If you fail again, there's no need for you to remain alive..."

"Yes! We will obey your command, Ancestor!"

The kneeling Horned Demons below answered respectfully in unison.

At the same time, they finally breathed inward sighs of relief. They no longer had to die.

"Hmph!"

The Horned Demon Ancestor snorted coldly again. Ignoring the Horned Demons below, he leaned back slightly and slowly closed his eyes.

Hmph! You dared ruin my plans. I'll remember you...

But I won't let you get away unscathed...

The Horned Demon Ancestor snorted inwardly and moved a finger slightly. A streak of Demonic Energy flashed and vanished.

In the real world, at the Golden Bell Residential Complex, the bloody mist enveloped by gray fog, its power nearly devoured completely, suddenly churned violently. It contracted sharply into a single point, then exploded.

Caught off guard, part of the fog wall was finally blasted apart.

But that wasn't the most important thing.

More importantly, space began to ripple where the bloody mist had exploded. Streams of Yin Energy mixed with wisps of Demonic Energy poured out.

Seemingly sensing this, the Horned Demon Ancestor's lips curled into a smile.

"I hope you enjoy my little gift..."

Because the bloody mist had lost most of its power and hadn't reached the proper location, it couldn't fully open a passage to the dimension inhabited by the Horned Demons.

But opening a few cracks into the Horned Demon Dimension and other neighboring dimensions was still no problem.

For humans in the earthly world, that mixture of Demonic Energy and Yin Energy was absolutely lethal poison.

Even a top-ranking Ghost Cultivator at the Danger Level couldn't absorb such power.

Otherwise, they would inevitably suffer cultivation deviation. Even if their energy didn't run wild and cause their bodies to explode, they would inevitably fall onto the demonic path.

Based on the Horned Demon's earlier death, the Horned Demon Ancestor had already determined that whoever had ambushed and killed it was no higher than the Intermediate Danger Level.

Even if that person had some tricks that had destroyed most of the Horned Demon's power, they certainly couldn't easily withstand the invasion of the yin-demonic energy.

Even if they could withstand its invasion, what about its spread?

Once ordinary humans, or even ordinary cultivators, came into contact with the yin-demonic energy...

Their minds would inevitably be warped and their bodies demonized, transforming them into savage, bloodthirsty Demon-Humans. That would certainly cause considerable chaos.