Several people were looking for materials separately in silence, and the sound of metal colliding was particularly harsh in the empty shop. No one spoke, only the sound of breathing and the light sound of parts being spliced together, which was so heavy that it made people breathless.
When the bomb was ready, Dean squatted next to Qiao, his throat was tight, and he could not speak for a long time. He looked at Qiao's pale face and remembered the first time he saw her in the bar, flamboyant and proud, like a rose with thorns.
"Okay, that's it." Qiao smiled, reached out and patted Dean's arm, "See you later when we go out."
"See you later." Dean's voice was a little hoarse, and he looked away and did not dare to look at her smile.
"Yeah." Joe nodded.
Sam also squatted down and whispered "Take care" in a low voice, and Qiao winked at him.
The two turned around to climb to the roof, but heard Ellen's voice coming from behind. "Wait a minute."
Dean and Sam turned around and saw Ellen squatting next to Joe, putting the detonator in Joe's hand while he reached out to untie the salt line and chain at the door.
"Mom, no." Qiao's tears burst out instantly, her voice trembling with a cry, "Don't stay here. Go away, go away quickly!"
"Someone has to open the door and let the dog in. You can't move." Ellen turned around, squatted down and touched her hair, his movements as gentle as coaxing her to sleep when she was a child. "You are right, this matter is very important. I will never leave you here alone."
"Ellen..." Dean wanted to speak to persuade, but when the words came to his mouth, he was choked up.
"Let's go." Ellen raised her eyes and looked at them, her eyes were too firm to refute, and there was no room for change. "Let's go quickly. Dean--" She paused, and a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, "Do it well. Don't miss it."
Dean clenched his fists, and his nails dug into his palms. It hurt so much. In the end, he pulled Sam and climbed up the ladder on the roof. As soon as the two of them climbed to the roof of the building next door, they I heard Hellhound slamming into the door behind me, followed by Ellen's angry curse, "Go back to Hell, you ugly beast!"
On the other side, Castiel followed the moving Death to an abandoned building.
The building was full of dust and broken glass. Sunlight shone in through the holes, and dust floated in the beams of light. As soon as I opened the door, I felt a familiar, cold pressure on the back of my neck, like a piece of ice sticking to my skin.
He turned around suddenly and saw Lucifer standing in the shadows.
Lucifer was wearing a white suit, his face was a little sickly pale, and his lips had no color. He stood in the shadow, like an illusory shadow, but there was a heavy sense of oppression around him.
"You came here with Winchester Brothers, right?" Lucifer said in a calm tone, as if he was chatting about his temper.
"I came alone." Cass frowned and clenched his fists.
"Loyalty." Lucifer smiled, with a hint of appreciation in his tone, and slowly walked out of the shadows, "Loyalty is rare these days. Castiel, right? I heard you came by car?"
Cass was stunned for a moment, a little confused but still nodded. "Yes."
"What's it like to ride in a car?" Lucifer's eyes were filled with genuine curiosity, like a child who had never seen anything new, with strangely clean eyes.
"Hmm..." Cass paused and thought about it seriously, "It's very slow. It's very boring."
"You are such a strange guy." Lucifer chuckled, very softly.
Cass stared at his face, frowned and asked, "What happened to your skin?"
"Oh, Nick can't hold it anymore." Lucifer touched his cheek and said in a calm tone, as if he was talking about a trivial matter, "He can't pretend to be me for much longer."
"Don't even think about Sam." Cass took a step forward, his eyes as cold as ice, "I won't let you succeed."
"Castiel, I really don't understand why you are the one who opposes me among all the angels." Lucifer sighed, with a bit of regret in his tone, "You rebelled, and you were expelled Heaven. Now most of the angels in Heaven want me dead. If they win, you will be the next public enemy number one. We are essentially on the same side, whether you want to admit it or not. Why don't you just go with the flow and do something good for yourself?"
"I won't help you even if I die." Cass's voice was decisive, without any hesitation.
"I think so." Lucifer shrugged and raised his fingertips.
Cass was instantly restrained in a circle of blazing holy fire. The golden-red flames shot up very high. The flames made him frown and his skin hurt like needles. He gritted his teeth without making a sound, straightened his back, and stared at Lucifer.
Lucifer looked at him for a few seconds, turned around and walked away, his figure disappearing into the darkness.
Not long after, Meg pushed open the door and walked in, her high heels clicking. She circled around the sacred fire, humming a tune, and looked proud.
"Do you feel it? We are going to win." Meg smiled and looked at Castiel in the circle, with a boastful tone, "You trash in the sky can't even defend the entire universe. Lucifer will occupy Heaven, and we can all live in Heaven, Clarence."
Cass ignored her, lowered his eyes, and secretly exerted force with his fingertips. When he came in, he noticed the rusty pipe above his head, and most of the bolts had already been loosened. At this moment, he was using his remaining weak holy power to loosen the bolts of the pipe joint little by little, and his movements were very gentle, for fear of being noticed.
"Really?" Cass suddenly spoke, in a calm tone, as if he was mentioning it casually, "I heard a demon named Crowley say that's not the case. He said that Lucifer is just using you, and when the matter is done, he will destroy you all."
"Nonsense!" Meg immediately changed his face, his tone was angry, like a cat whose tail was stepped on, "Crowley is just a villain. Lucifer is our father and our creator. Your God is a waste that doesn't care about anything, and my God is walking in the world!"
She approached the holy fire circle, bent down, and was about to continue taunting her. Suddenly, there was a squeaking sound of loose metal above her head.
As soon as she raised her head, a heavy metal pipe came down and hit her back. Meg grunted, jumped forward, and fell into the circle of the holy fire, landing right in front of Castiel.
Cass immediately reached out and pressed her forehead, trying to use the Holy Power to destroy her, but there was only a faint light at the fingertips and nothing happened. The Holy Power was too severely depleted.
"Oh, that's not possible?" Meg endured the pain and laughed, with a mocking tone, "We are disconnected from Heaven, so we have no energy, right? You useless waste, what else can you do?"
Cass said nothing, his eyes were very cold.
He pressed her head directly into the holy fire, stepped on her back, and walked out of the flames step by step.
Meg was burned so hard that he screamed repeatedly, and the sound was shrill and shrill, echoing in the empty building.
By the time she rolled out of the fire, Cass had disappeared.
After Bai Haorui cleared away all the demons and Hellhound in the surrounding area, he just sheathed his sword and was about to rush towards the farm, when suddenly his mind moved.
The energy in the direction of the hardware store fluctuated violently - the smell of propane, the roar of Hellhound, and the burning sensation of an explosion, piercing into his Divine Sense like a needle.
He felt a thump in his heart and thought to himself that it was not good.
Without any hesitation, he immediately raised his sword and rushed over at full speed. Purple-gold True Gang poured into his legs. His speed was as fast as an afterimage. The wind blew in his ears, and the scenery on the roadside quickly retreated.
In the hardware store, Ellen had already untied the salt line and chain at the door. Hellhound's roar was right outside the door, making the door clang.
Qiao cried and asked her to leave, with tears falling down her cheeks. Ellen just touched her head gently and refused to leave her regardless of anything.
As soon as Dean and Sam climbed to the roof of the building next door, Hellhound opened the door and rushed in. The smelly wind blew in their faces, and the one in front had already rushed to the shelf. Ellen picked up the detonator, looked at it sharply, and cursed, "Go back to Hell, you ugly beast!"
His fingertips were already on the detonator.
At this critical moment, the iron door of the back door was knocked away with a clang, and even the door frame was deformed.
Bai Haorui rushed in, waved his left hand, three King Kong Talisman lights up at the same time, and the golden True Gang shield instantly opened in front of Ellen and Qiao., like a transparent wall. At the same time, he swept the mahogany sword in his right hand, and a Pure Yang True Fire sword energy came out of the sword, burning the two Hellhound that rushed forward into ashes, and he didn't even have time to scream.
"Boom--!"
The propane bomb was knocked over by the Hellhound that rushed in and detonated instantly. A huge shock wave overturned the entire store. Flames and heat waves swept in. The red tongue of flames licked everything, and the shelves and metal parts were instantly distorted by the high temperature.
Without thinking, Bai Haorui instantly flashed in front of Ellen and Qiao, with his back to the center of the explosion. He condensed all the remaining True Gang in his dantian on his back, forming a thick purple-gold shield. True Gang condensed into substance, glowing with a faint golden light. The whole person stood in front of the two people like a wall, with his back straight.
The impact of the explosion hit the shield hard, making a deafening noise, like a heavy hammer hitting the heart. Bai Haorui groaned, a fishy sweetness welled up in his throat, and blood oozed from the corners of his mouth; the clothes on his back were scorched black by the heat wave, and there was a burning pain in his skin, like countless red-hot needles being pricked.
But he gritted his teeth and held on, and the shield never broke even a bit.
The fire gradually dissipated, and the hardware store turned into a messy sea of fire, with broken walls and ruins smoking. The air was filled with a burnt smell and a heat wave that made breathing painful.
Bai Haorui was half-kneeling on the ground, protecting the unconscious Qiao and Ellen whose forehead was bleeding. He slowly stood up with his mahogany sword and coughed up a mouthful of blood, which spattered on the charred ground.
The clothes on their backs were scorched black, and they could even smell the burning flesh, but they still reached out to check their noses - they were both still alive.
"I sealed their acupuncture points and the bleeding stopped." His voice was hoarse and he said to Dean and Sam who had just jumped from the roof of the building next door.
Dean looked at his charred back and the blood at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes suddenly turned red. He rushed over to help him, but stretched his hand into the air and then retracted it, fearing that it would hurt him. After holding it in for a long time, he only yelled out, his voice shaking. "You don't want to die?!"
"We don't have time to talk about this." Bai Haorui waved his hand, took out the healing elixir from his backpack, bent down and fed one pill each to Qiao and Ellen.
The elixir melted in the mouth and slid down the throat, "Midnight is coming, Lucifer is going to summon Death Horseman."
You can go to the farm without delay. I will send them to the woods outside the town to hide them, and I will rush over immediately to provide support."
Dean still wanted to argue, but Sam held him back and shook his head at him.
Both of them know that time waits for no one, and assassinating Lucifer is the only chance at the moment. Even one minute late may lead to catastrophe.
"Be careful." Sam left a message, turned around and ran towards the farm with Dean.
The two figures quickly disappeared into the night.
Bai Haorui watched the two people's backs disappear, then bent down to carry Ellen and Qiao on their backs respectively. They put one on the left and one on the right, and ran quickly out of the town.
Nearly 70% of the True Gang in Dantian had been consumed, and the burn on his back was burning. Every step he took involved the wound, and the pain caused cold sweat to break out on his forehead.
He knew in his heart that when he rushed in just now, he was not sure that he could completely withstand the impact of the explosion. But he couldn't just watch two people die here - Qiao was still so young.
It doesn't matter if you waste some cultivation points, it's worth it if you can save your life.
He hid the two of them in a hidden place in the woods outside the town, and set up a simple hiding array around them to ensure that the low-level demon and Hellhound could not be found. Bai Haorui immediately turned around and rushed to the farm.
While he was running, he was running his mind and breathing. The True Gang in his Dantian was slowly recovering. The light gold Lotus Seal between his eyebrows was slightly hot. The pure Power of Faith stored in his body began to be slowly replenished and consumed, like a warm current slowly flowing through the meridians.
He knew that the real tough battle was yet to come.
Lucifer is today's ultimate opponent.
As midnight approached, Dean and Sam touched the periphery of Jasper Farm.
The farm is large and overgrown with grass. In the open space stands a row of expressionless men, all of whom are townspeople possessed by demons. They stand like wooden stakes, motionless. Lucifer stands beside a large pit.
There were many corpses piled beside the pit, all of which were women and children from the town. The layers were stacked on top of each other, which looked particularly dazzling in the night.
The smell of blood mixed with the smell of earth wafted far away.
Dean and Sam squatted behind the grass slope. Dean took out Colt handgun and checked the bullet. The metal bullet case glowed coldly in the moonlight and was heavy.
"Are there any last words?" Dean asked in a low voice.
Sam shook his head. "There's nothing to say."
"Me too." Dean took a deep breath and tightened his grip on the gun, "Come on."
Sam stood up, raised his shotgun and shouted in the direction of Lucifer: "Don't you want to see me? I'm coming!"
Lucifer slowly turned around and saw Sam. A slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and his tone was as calm as meeting an old friend. "Sam, you don't need to hold a gun. You know, I will never really hurt you."
"Really? Then I can." Dean came out from the side, Colt handgun steadily aimed at Lucifer's forehead, his eyes were as cold as ice, "Take a shot from me."
Bang--
The sound of gunshots pierced the night sky and spread far across the empty farm.
Lucifer A blood hole appeared in the middle of his forehead, and black blood seeped out. His body shook, and he fell straight down, hitting the soil and raising a cloud of dust.
Dean and Sam stood there, holding their breath.
They looked at Lucifer lying on the ground, and they couldn't tell whether they were relieved or shocked - was it over like this? Apocalypse just stopped like this?
But the next second, Lucifer, who was lying on the ground, suddenly took a breath and shouted in pain, "Ouch..."
He sat up and covered his forehead. The bullet hole on his forehead healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. His muscles and skin grew rapidly, and soon even the traces disappeared, becoming as smooth as if he had never been injured.
Dean and Sam froze in place, their blood running cold, as if a basin of ice water had been poured from head to toe.
"Where did you get this thing?" Lucifer stood up, patted the dirt on his body, pointed at the gun in Dean's hand, his tone was a little curious, as if he had seen something interesting.
He raised his hand and waved, and an invisible force hit him. Dean flew out as if he had been hit by a truck, and hit the tree trunk in the distance hard. He groaned and fainted.
"Don't be too sad, Sam." Lucifer patted the dust on his clothes and said calmly, "Among all things in the world, there are only five things that can't be killed by a gun. And I happen to be one of them."
Sam ran to Dean like crazy, squatted down and checked his breathing, but luckily he was still breathing.
He stood up and stared at Lucifer with red eyes. His voice trembled with anger and his whole body was shaking. "You bastard..."
"Speaking of which," Lucifer said in a casual and casual tone, "Can't you nod your head and say 'agree' now? This will save us all the trouble."
"Dream! Never possible!" Sam gritted his teeth and said word by word, each word seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.
"I don't think so." Lucifer smiled, with a certain tone in his tone, as if he was talking about something that was already destined, "I think it will be. In less than six months, Detroit, you will promise me."
He looked at the anger in Sam's eyes, nodded with satisfaction, and said in a bewitching tone, "Yes, that's it, it will make the fire in your heart burn brighter. I will still need it in the future."
"What on earth have you done to this town?" Sam swept through the densely packed corpses in the pit, his stomach rumbling, and his face turned pale.
"I have been very generous to this town." Lucifer shrugged, with a calm face, "Every strong man is equipped with a demon possessed. The rest... are in the pit. I know it is cruel, but these knights ask too much. There is no way, the women and children can only come first."
He paused, looked at Sam's face, and added in a very sincere tone, "I know what you think of me. But I have to do this. You... should understand me best."
"What do you know?" Sam sneered, his eyes full of disgust.
"I was once a son and a younger brother, just like you." Lucifer's voice deepened, and there was a distant pain in his eyes, as if he was trapped in memories, "I have a brother, I love him and admire him. One day I I went to him and begged him to stand by me. But Michael... he turned around and called me a monster and an alien, and beat me black and blue. Just because I am different from others, just because I have my own ideas."
He looked at Sam, his tone was bewitching, and his voice was very soft, but it hit Sam's heart like a hammer. "Sam, don't these words sound familiar to you?"
Sam froze in place, his heart seemed to be clenched tightly by a hand.
His past with Dean, those quarrels, disagreements, conflicts in blood, those pulls about "justice" and "alien", were actually so similar to Lucifer and Michael.
"Okay, no more chatting." Lucifer picked up the shovel, turned and walked towards the pit, "Midnight is coming, I have to complete the ceremony."
Just when Lucifer turned around and was about to continue the ceremony, a purple-gold flaming sword energy came through the air, carrying a scorching wave of air that twisted the air and struck directly at the back of his heart.
Lucifer ducked sideways, his movements were not fast, but his movements were eerily accurate.
The sword energy hit the ground hard, blasting out a pit half a meter deep. The surrounding soil was burnt black and crispy by True Fire, with green smoke rising, and the grass clippings instantly turned into fly ash.
Bai Haorui was standing at the entrance of the farm holding a mahogany sword. His clothes were stained with blood and dust. A large piece of the clothes on his back was still burnt and the edges were curled. The broken hair on his forehead was stuck to his face with sweat.
But his waist was straight, the pale gold Lotus Seal between his eyebrows was so bright that it was dazzling, and the purple gold True Gang all over his body was burning like a god of war coming out of the fire.
"Lucifer." His voice was not high, but it carried the power of penetrating the night, and his words were clear, "Your opponent is me."
Lucifer turned around, looked at him, raised his eyebrows, and there was a hint of scrutiny in his eyes. He could just feel the power of this sword energy, which was specifically designed to restrain dark energy.
"It's interesting." Lucifer smiled, his tone casual.
Bai Haorui didn't give the other party time to react. He flicked his left hand and five Five Emperor Coins seals were engraved with his name. The ink line flew out with golden light and accurately landed in the eight directions around Lucifer - Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen and Dui, exactly.
At the same time, he stepped quickly on Steps of Yu with steady steps, making a slight sound when he stepped on the ground. He chanted Eight Trigrams Soul-Suppressing Incantation in his mouth, and his voice was steady and powerful, like the roar of an ancient bell:
"Qian Yuan Henry Zhen, Kan Li Zhen redeems points. Qian Kun determines Yin and Yang, Soul Subduing locks away all evil!"
A golden Eight Trigrams Formation with a diameter of twenty meters suddenly appeared on the ground, and the runes were flowing continuously, as if they were alive.
Powerful repressive force pressed against Lucifer from all directions, and even the air became thick and heavy, like it was soaked in glue.
The Five Emperor Coins at the eye of the array kept flashing, and the imperial yang energy kept burning the dark holy light of Lucifer, making a sizzling sound.
Lucifer sneered, and black holy light energy erupted all over his body, shaking outwards. There was a muffled sound, like metal colliding, Eight Trigrams Formation shook three times, and fine cracks appeared on the surface, like broken glass, but it did not break after all.
"That's right, it hasn't been broken yet." Lucifer raised his eyebrows, finally sounding a little serious.
Taking advantage of the gap when the formation suppressed Lucifer's movements, Bai Haorui flashed and rushed to him on Seven Stars Gang Steps. The mahogany sword was wrapped around Pure Yang True Fire, and the tip of the sword was pointed directly at Lucifer's heart. The speed was so fast that only a purple-gold afterimage was left, and the sound of wind was hunting.
Lucifer dodged sideways, condensed a black blade of holy light on his fingertips, and slashed towards Bai Haorui's neck with his backhand. The blade of holy light, carrying a cold breath of death, grazed Bai Haorui's neck, cutting a layer of skin, and blood seeped out instantly.