With a major battle imminent, let's join hands and move forward together.
Sheyang spat out a cloud of poisonous mist at Shen Zhi, but it was blocked by Ji Yao's fireball. Ji Yao and Sheyang then engaged in a fierce battle in the sky.
The black dragon's scales were like knives, and when it wrapped around Ji Yao, the scales scraped against her body. Soon, Ji Yao's demon body was covered in wounds. Not to be outdone, Ji Yao used her sharp beak to peck at the black dragon's seven-inch spot. The black dragon was in pain, and Ji Yao was able to escape.
Ji Yao fell heavily to the ground, struggling to prop herself up in an attempt to fight, but ultimately collapsed back to the ground, panting heavily. Her feathers began to dull and lifeless, and a cloud of black mist surrounded her.
"I've crushed your heart. Now you're only using your demon core to fight me. You're at your last gasp. While you can still move, find a secluded place and wait to die quietly. Let's see if you have the luck to cultivate back into a human in the future." Sheyangfei mocked Ji Yao, who was lying on the ground unable to move, from the sky.
Looking down at Shen Zhizhou and the demons, Sheyang spat out a wooden doll covered in mud and threw it on the ground. The mud on the wooden doll automatically spread and expanded, turning into a swamp the size of a playground in the blink of an eye.
"Oh no, he wants to flood the human world with the swamp!" Shen Zhizhou saw through Sheyang's intention and immediately dispersed the demons, sending them to rescue the humans.
The swamp spread from the mountaintop, sweeping rapidly to the edge of the city like a mudslide.
Pedestrians driving along the mountain and passersby admiring the scenery at the foot of the mountain stopped in their tracks, curiously watching the swamp that stretched down from the mountaintop. Someone in the crowd shouted, "Oh my god, it's a mudslide! A landslide!"
The crowd was terrified. Those without transportation ran forward, while drivers accelerated to escape. By the lake, a mother and child were standing. The mother was holding her child and calling out to her husband who was not far away. The husband kept pushing through the crowd, trying to return to his wife's side.
Seeing that the swamp was about to spread to the feet of the mother and child, the carp monster in the lake disregarded the danger of being exposed, leaped out of the lake, and knocked the woman aside.
The woman collapsed to the ground, clutching her child tightly in her arms, watching in horror as the carp demon rolled onto the ground and was instantly swallowed by the swamp. She told the child to cover his eyes, then with all her might threw the child toward her husband, shouting, "Run!"
The man lunged forward, catching the terrified, wailing child, and watched as his wife smiled through her tears before he was swallowed by the swamp.
All of humanity began to flee, and the swamp spread from the city's outskirts to its center. By the time Shen Zhizhou and Shu Yi arrived, it had become a living hell.
People fled toward the center while covering their faces and weeping. The mystery-eliminating masters and police stood in rows, forming a human wall, trying their best to stop the swamp from spreading.
Shen Zhizhou and Shu Yi knew that to stop the swamp, they had to destroy the puppet doll. Shu Yi took off the jade ring from her right ear and slashed at the puppet doll.
The wooden doll, which had been keeping its eyes closed, suddenly opened them, its eyeballs rolling around wildly. The humans and monsters that had been swallowed by the swamp suddenly crawled out of the swamp one by one.
They discovered that after the humans and monsters were swallowed by the swamp, they merged together, becoming a monster that was neither human nor monster.
Just like the shadow demon that night.
"What the hell is this? Sheyang, what the hell have you done?!" Shen Zhizhou stared at the monsters in disbelief and roared at Sheyang.
She Yang exhaled a puff of black smoke from his nostrils: "I've been researching this for decades before I finally mastered it. It turns people into demons, and the demons become even stronger, and they only obey me! Haha ...
As soon as he finished speaking, thunder roared and lightning flashed. She Yang glanced at the sky and sneered, "Shen Zhizhou, you're stalling for time just to bring down the tribulation lightning, but it's useless... With so many hostages in my hands, the tribulation lightning won't dare to come down."
Looking at the black dragon that had shed its Sheyang skin and returned to its original form, Shen Zhizhou was inexplicably reminded of the times they had grown up together, bickering and playing together. He shook his head, trying to banish those inappropriate images, but the more he resisted, the clearer they became.
Sheyang, who looked down on everything with disdain, and Shen Zhizhou, whose gaze was dark and unfathomable, were both on guard against each other, yet a hint of tenderness appeared in their eyes.
I wish you would die, but I also don't want you to die like this.
"If you stop now, I can still let you enjoy your old age as a human being."
Sheyang advised Shen Zhizhou not to be ungrateful, saying that this was already the limit of his tolerance.
"Enjoy your retirement? Don't talk about it like it's some great blessing. If it weren't for you, these people could have lived to enjoy their retirement. Now you've taken all of that away from them!"
"You're right, so there's absolutely no room for communication between us."
As soon as he finished speaking, the black dragon's claws manipulated the puppets, which were then guided by black threads to extend their right hands. The mud figures, which had been frozen in place and transformed from humans into demons, suddenly opened their eyes as if they had come to life.
Dark pupils filled their entire eye sockets, and their bodies trembled like toddlers learning to walk, dragging their joints. In that tense moment, the clay figures aimed at Shen Zhizhou and the demons and charged forward.
"What's going on, Boss Shen? I don't dare to kill him..." The monsters only dared to retreat and hide, not daring to fight back at all.
Shen Zhizhou walked to Ji Yao, who was panting heavily. Looking at Ji Yao's pained appearance, he lowered his eyes. Ji Yao's gaze was fixed on Shen Zhizhou. She didn't even have the strength to sit up and talk to him. She could only open and close her mouth to speak.
Shen Zhizhou bent down and put his ear close, and heard Ji Yao panting and shouting intermittently, "Run, run!"
After a long silence, Shen Zhizhou's expression was complicated as he looked at Ji Yao, whose eyes were cloudy and whose pupils were beginning to dilate, and felt a mix of emotions.
Looking at the monsters fleeing in all directions in the distance, Shen Zhizhou sighed, took out a talisman from his Qiankun bag, cut his finger, and began to write and draw.
Shen Zhizhou used a talisman to create a heart and placed it into Ji Yao's body.
As the light in Ji Yao's eyes gradually returned, Shen Zhizhou knelt on the ground and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Shen Zhizhou, you are truly merciful. Even the hatred of killing your own family can be put aside, and you are willing to sacrifice ten years of your own lifespan to help your enemy. Your saintly heart just can't learn to be ruthless..."
She Yang mocked Shen Zhizhou for being too soft-hearted, saying that one should not be merciful to the enemy. But the next second, Ji Yao directly exposed the puppet's fatal weakness.
"The puppet's weakness is its joints. Once the eyes are gouged out of that joint, all spells will be rendered useless!" Ji Yao took a breath and launched an attack on the black dragon, holding off She Yang for Shen Zhizhou so that he couldn't control the puppet.
"Thank you, Sister Ji!" Shen Zhizhou grabbed the peach wood sword and charged at the puppet's joints.
The puppet sensed the danger, and the clay figures that had been attacking the monsters were immediately summoned back to the puppet's side to protect it.
The puppet had most of the clay figures surrounding it, while it remained in the center controlling everything, with the remaining scattered clay figures waiting for instructions.
Ji Yao and the black dragon were locked in a fierce battle, while Shen Zhizhou and Shu Yi focused on dealing with the wooden puppets and clay figures. The monsters, on the other hand, went to help humans stop the swamp from encroaching on the city.
Shu Yi and Shen Zhizhou charged forward one after the other, with Shu Yi clearing obstacles for Shen Zhizhou in front, while Shen Zhizhou, carrying his sword and throwing talismans, stood behind Shu Yi, their teamwork impeccable.
The jade ring flew through the air and severed several black threads controlled by the black dragon, causing the puppet's control to drop instantly.
Shen Zhizhou seized the opportunity, raised his sword and slashed at the puppet's face. The puppet was startled and quickly used its left arm to defend itself.
With a snap, the puppet's left arm broke off and hung limply at its side. The puppet's tightly pursed lips opened and closed, and its mechanical tongue spat out a poisoned needle. Shen Zhizhou was unable to dodge it and it pierced his shoulder.
"I have to thank you for teaching me this. You said technology changes lives, and humans use technology to eliminate monsters. Now the boomerang has pierced your own body. Isn't that ironic?" The black dragon's yellow vertical pupils stared intently at Shen Zhizhou, watching him use his sword to support himself before collapsing helplessly into Shu Yi's arms, a mocking smile on its lips.
Upon seeing Shen Zhizhou injured, Ji Yao let out a howl and launched an even more ferocious attack, plunging the sky into darkness.
Shu Yi watched as Shen Zhizhou coughed up blood and breathed heavily in her arms. Large tears dripped onto Shen Zhizhou's cheeks as she anxiously wiped away the blood. Shen Zhizhou still had that nonchalant smile. He raised his hand to wipe away Shu Yi's tears, but his eyes were filled with deep sorrow and unyielding affection.
"Why are these good days so short? I thought we could grow old together..."
"I won't let you die, Shen Zhizhou. I won't allow you to go before me!"
Shu Yi used her magic to try to forcibly absorb the toxins from Shen Zhizhou's body and transfer them to herself. Shen Zhizhou realized Shu Yi's intention and scolded her for doing something foolish for his sake.
"Now! Kill them!" the black dragon commanded in a deep voice. The puppet nodded and once again directed the clay figures to launch an attack.
Before the clay figures could even get close, they were blasted away by powerful magic. As golden light and black lines danced around Shu Yi and Shen Zhizhou, the thunder in the sky grew louder.
The anomaly exterminators who were holding out on the edge of the city center to protect the people there have been mostly swallowed up by the swamp. The remaining small group is fighting desperately. In their despair, they see monsters led by Wong Tai Sin coming to their aid.
Huang Daxian gave the magical artifacts that Shen Zhizhou had given him to the mystery erasers, telling them that if these artifacts were also unable to resist the swamp, then the only option would be to relocate the humans to other places, and that they were there to help the mystery erasers.
The mystery eraser, disbelieving that any monster would help humans, pointed at Wong Tai Sin and said, "Get lost! Otherwise, I'll risk my life to erase you now."
Huang Daxian quickly took out the Shen family seal and a video recorded by Shen Zhizhou to show the sorcerers: "You don't believe me? You don't believe Boss Shen either?"
The anomaly removal specialists looked at each other, and finally an older one stepped forward and said, "Let's give it a try. The result can't be worse than it is now."
...
After absorbing the poison into herself, Shu Yi spat out a mouthful of blood, gently placed Shen Zhizhou in a safe place, set up a protective shield, and then rushed towards the puppet without looking back, holding the jade ring.
Shu Yi's moves were filled with murderous intent, almost a style of destruction, and he didn't care at all about the wounds left on his body by the clay figures and puppets, because Shu Yi's moves were even more ruthless.
After knocking down all the clay figures of the puppet, he stepped on one of the clay figures' shoulders and jumped towards the puppet. When the puppet looked up and saw the black dragon flying up from mid-air with a jade ring coming down on it, it anxiously asked the black dragon for help.
But he had no chance. Yu Huan severed all his joints, and Shu Yi gouged out his eyes.
It lay alone on the ground, the swamp receding, leaving behind a vast black ocean with no end in sight.
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