His body was falling downwards, and a pungent stench assaulted his nostrils. Qianchen had only a dagger in his hand, helpless and unable to grab onto anything to support himself.

But Qianchen still didn't give up the chance to search for Lengyue, searching with all his might for her. Nothing, nowhere at all!

The monster's belly was completely dark; nothing could be seen. Qianchen called out, "Yueyue..."

Suddenly, a pair of arms wrapped around me from behind. "Grab me!"

It's Leng Yue! Qian Chen's eyes lit up with surprise, "You're not dead!"

"Hold on tight!" Leng Yue shouted, then began chanting the Golden Light Divine Incantation, "Heaven and Earth, Mysterious Origin, Root of All Qi. Cultivate through countless eons, Prove My Divine Power. Within and without the Three Realms, Only the Dao Reigns Supreme!"

Leng Yue chanted the Golden Light Mantra continuously, and slowly, golden light appeared on her body. Qian Chen held Leng Yue, motionless. Leng Yue's voice grew more and more urgent, and the golden light around her increased.

Golden light illuminated the monster's body, and Qianchen saw the undigested shikigami struck by the light and reduced to ashes. Qianchen also saw that Shangchuan was at the bottom of the monster's stomach, burned beyond recognition.

The golden light grew larger and more abundant, burning the monster's body like sunlight. The monster, aroused by the intense light, roared incessantly and rampaged wildly. It ran about frantically, pounding its chest.

As the monster fled, it headed directly towards the main force. Seeing the monster approach, Jiang Nan ordered the artillery to prepare. Once the monster was within cannon range, he gave the order, and all five cannons simultaneously fired at the monster's chest.

The monster was forced back by the cannonballs, and before it could react, a second wave of attacks came. After several attempts, the monster had no choice but to change direction and run away.

Jiang Nan acted decisively, leading the artillery in relentless pursuit of the monster. Inside the monster's body, Leng Yue and Qian Chen were also shaken violently by the impact of the artillery shells.

The golden light emanating from Leng Yue grew dazzling, its radiance becoming increasingly pure, until Qian Chen could no longer open his eyes. At that moment, he heard Leng Yue shout again, "Break!"

The monster became a leaky sieve, and under everyone's watchful eyes, its body shone with golden light before collapsing to the ground with a loud "boom."

"What's going on?" The artilleryman looked at Jiang Nan hesitantly. "Lieutenant, should we go find the young marshal?"

Jiang Nan's expression was solemn as he looked at the infantry behind him. "Your squad, come with me. The rest of you, stay put!"

After Jiang Nan finished speaking, he led his men toward the monster.

Before they could get close, Jiang Nan saw a dagger emerge from the monster's body, and two filthy people flew out. Yes, they flew out from inside. One of them had a bamboo dragonfly on his head, and it was this bamboo dragonfly that carried them.

Jiang Nan rubbed his eyes. "When did this bamboo dragonfly become able to carry people?"

The person behind shook their head, "Never seen it before..."

"It's the young marshal! Quick, it's the young marshal!" Jiang Nan looked for a while and recognized one of them as Qian Chen, whom they were looking for. He shouted and ran over excitedly.

"Young Marshal? Are you alright?" Jiang Nan fell several times on that short journey.

Qian Chen and Leng Yue landed in front of Jiang Nan and shook their heads. "We're fine."

"Why is the young mistress here too?" Jiang Nan looked for a while before realizing that the person Qian Chen was holding was the young mistress.

"Well, thanks to her, otherwise we wouldn't even have enough people to fill our teeth," Qianchen replied calmly, glancing at the monster on the ground.

"Stop talking. Now is not the time to relax. This is Shuten-dōji. We need to deal with him first." Leng Yue wiped her face and interrupted the two.

The moment Leng Yue was swallowed by the monster, she realized that the "Shuten-sama" that Kamikawa Rin had called her must be Shuten-dōji. However, she never expected that Kamikawa, an Onmyoji, would collude with Shuten-dōji and shamelessly call him "Shuten-sama"?

Leng Yue felt that Shangchuan's ancestors probably didn't know, and if they did, they'd probably crawl out of their graves! An Onmyoji and a yokai leader getting together and even addressing the yokai as "sir"—what is this if not a disgrace?

Shuten-dōji was skilled at transforming into handsome young men to seduce women, which he would then devour. Because of his heinous crimes, he was eradicated by humans. Afterwards, his body was divided into several parts and sealed away.

Leng Yue never expected that the Kamikawa family would restore Shuten-dōji and even try to use his power to achieve their ulterior motives.

"What is Shuten-dōji? Isn't he already dead?" Jiang Nan asked, puzzled.

Leng Yue glanced at Jiang Nan, "He will be resurrected, and after his resurrection, countless lives will be lost."

"What do we do?" Jiang Nan's eyes widened in fear. This monster was more terrifying than war. After all, on the battlefield, everyone fought ordinary people, evenly matched, with a 50/50 chance of survival. But this monster, once it appeared, swept through the enemy ranks. They had no way to even begin fighting; how could they possibly contend with it?

"Burn it with Samadhi True Fire!" In fact, Leng Yue had Ling prepare something even more advanced. She refused to believe that he was just a ghost king and that she really couldn't deal with him.

"Go prepare some kerosene and pour it on him. I'll then use the Samadhi True Fire to enhance the effect and make sure he's completely wiped out!" Leng Yue instructed.

Qian Chen nodded to Jiang Nan, "Go ahead, do as the young mistress says." After hearing this, Jiang Nan turned around to prepare.

Ten minutes later, everything was ready. Leng Yue threw out the last Samadhi True Fire Talisman, chanting incantations, and Shuten-dōji burst into flames.

During the fire, Leng Yue, wearing a gas mask, sprinkled some more substances on it. These substances made the flames even larger.

As the fire burned, the stench grew stronger and stronger. Some of the soldiers watching from the ranks began to vomit.

Leng Yue felt a little embarrassed; she had only been focused on putting on her gas mask. "Get away quickly, this smell is poisonous, it's all corpse poison."

As soon as Leng Yue spoke, the soldiers who had been watching scattered. Most of them chose to rejoin the main force, because the main force had been upwind the entire time, making it the safest spot.

After thinking for a moment, Leng Yue took out some antidote pills and asked Jiang Nan to distribute them to the soldiers who were vomiting uncontrollably from the stench. The soldiers felt much better after taking the pills.

It took a full hour for Shuten-dōji to be completely burned. Lengyue approached and took a look, poking at it with a twig, and discovered a black bead inside.

Leng Yue didn't touch it with her hands. Instead, she took out a box from her spatial storage, put the bead inside, and put it into her Qiankun bag before leaving.

After defeating the enemy's big boss, Leng Yue led a group of people into the base to search it. Actually, Leng Yue knew that the base was probably mostly burned down by her fire. However, just to be on the safe side, she still planned to search it again.

The towers had all collapsed, and the main building had been burned to ashes. After searching for a long time, they finally found a little boy at a small house at the end of a garden behind the main building.

The little boy was probably four or five years old, dressed in very tattered clothes, and looked like a villager who originally lived here. He wasn't afraid of Leng Yue and the others, and although his face and body were dirty, he looked at them with his big, bright eyes.

Later, they also found some information, as well as people who didn't have time to escape.