Chapter 392: Fierce Battle, Meteor, and the Appearance of the Little Nian Beast (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
A few minutes ago, Haifan Mountain.
On the cliff, the Wolf of Daylight wore a magic crown on his head. At this moment, he was more powerful than the king.
It spread out its pair of bone wings that covered the sky and immediately carried the Nian Beast Lord and the eight-headed demons of the Zodiac Team from the cliff of Haifan Mountain to the night moon.
A thunderous gust of wind descended, sweeping across the wilderness. Bathed in the bright moonlight, the Daytime Wolf slowly descended to the ground.
After a while, the demons fell from Bai Tanlang's back and stood a thousand meters in front of the wall of Haifan City, looking up at the huge city wall.
The wall in front of us is a hundred meters high and a thousand meters long. It stretches across the wilderness at the bottom of Haifan Mountain and connects to the sea at the end.
At this moment, the bright light of the full moon was like a tide, pouring in from a corner of the horizon and covering the magnificent city walls.
The construction of the city wall began a year after the war ten years ago. At that time, the Lake Hunter Clan organized many local and foreign exorcists, and it was completed within the specified time.
The entire project took two months in order to prevent the Nian Beast Lord from attacking the city again in the future. Ten years later, on August 23, 2020, it finally played its due role.
"superior……"
At a command from the Nian Beast Lord, the members of the Zodiac Team quickly dispersed and approached the four corners of the wall.
They understood that they were the attackers. If the Lake Hunters wanted to completely block them outside the city walls, they would have to split into four groups. Only by using this method, and drawing the four Lake Hunters apart, would they have a chance of defeating them one by one.
If the four Lake Hunters gathered together, they would have no chance to take advantage of them. Every one of this generation of Lake Hunters is a monster, unprecedented and unparalleled.
In the distance, a huge black tripod stood in Haifan City, with nine magnificent ancient dragons engraved on the body of the tripod. At this moment, the four people from Hu Lie were standing at the edge of the tripod's mouth.
"Let's go, Jiuya, Wujiu, and Ahui. It seems that they plan to attack the city separately, so let's do as they wish and fight separately. I will go to protect the prince, and the rest is up to you." Lin Xingshi exhaled, and his long fiery red braid fluttered.
Zhong Wujiu nodded silently, his black coat fluttering in the night wind.
"Got it, boss." Zhuge Hui waved his folding fan with a faint smile on his lips.
"It's your birthday tomorrow, so finish it early." Zhou Jiuya snorted coldly and said to Lin Xingshi.
Lin Xingshi was stunned: "If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten it."
"Let's go." Zhou Jiuya said, putting his hands into the pockets of his Zhongshan suit, and at the same time put the "Nine Dragons Cauldron" used to defend the city back into the Tonggu Compass.
As the mouth of the giant tripod they were standing on disappeared, the four people from Lake Hunter immediately fell from the sky above the city.
Soon, their figures disappeared into the night, and then they scattered and guarded the outskirts of Haifan City - Lin Xingshi guarded the city gate in the middle, and the other three were scattered to guard the other three corners of the city wall.
City gate, northwest direction.
Zhou Jiuya stepped on the huge wall of the city wall, as if ignoring gravity, and walked up step by step with his body sideways, and then reached the top of the wall.
With a slight leap, he landed on top of the iron-blue wall that stood like a giant, and then looked up silently.
At this moment, a palm-sized mouse was carrying a palm-sized chicken on its back, running on the ground outside the city wall using all four limbs.
The former is the Rat Demon, with black shadows dancing all over its body, and the latter is the Chicken Demon, with tail feathers as beautiful as a peacock. At this moment, the two are attacking the city wall at an extremely fast speed - their appearance seems to be inferior to that of livestock, but in fact their abilities should not be underestimated, and they are both indispensable members of the Zodiac Team.
The Rat Demon's ability was to greatly enlarge or shrink an object, so it turned the bulky Gluttony Demon into a small meat ball and held it in its claws.
At this moment, it raised its head and looked at the man in a Zhongshan suit standing on the top of the wall, looking down at him.
"Can we do it, Old Chicken?" The Rat Demon laughed.
"Quack." The chicken demon raised its comb and responded.
Zhou Jiuya tucked his hands into the pockets of his Mao suit, his face stern. He lowered his eyes to look at the Rat Demon crawling over from the ground, and couldn't help but frown slightly.
"They actually sent a mouse and a chicken to compete with me. I'm really being underestimated."
As he spoke, Zhou Jiuya summoned Tianqu, and the "Tonggu Compass" suddenly rose from above his head.
Immediately, large groups of bronze pillars fell from the sky and landed on the ground like missiles, blocking the path of the Rat Demon while attacking it.
This behavior was like shooting a sheep with a bazooka. But Zhou Jiuya was completely furious and didn't care about it at all.
"Boom... Boom..." The whole world was shrouded in deafening noises. Giant bronze pillars slammed into the ground one after another, and soil and grass debris flew everywhere. In a blink of an eye, the earth was riddled with holes, and huge strip-shaped pits were born.
"It's killing me, it's killing me..." The Rat Demon ran with all his might, dodging the bronze pillars that were coming towards him with his agile body, while throwing the rotten meat ball in his claws forward.
The next moment, the ball of rotten flesh swirled in mid-air, magnifying countless times. The gluttonous demon's body was exposed to the moonlight. It was composed entirely of piles of rotten flesh, with a hideous face with dislocated features.
"Huh?" Zhou Jiuya tilted his head as he looked at the gluttony demon. "Where did the Seven Deadly Sins come from... Is that rat's ability to shrink other demons? No wonder I didn't see it."
The gluttonous demon raised his head and looked towards the sky. His mouth suddenly opened and expanded countless times in an instant. Then a violent suction force came from the abyss-like throat, sucking all the pillars that hit it into his mouth.
This is the ability of "Gluttony" among the Seven Deadly Sins. Its stomach can hold an entire city, and a few bronze pillars are no problem for it.
This also opened a path for the Rat Demon. If it was a second later, the running Rat would be bombarded by the bronze pillar and turned into a pile of mud.
At this moment, the gluttonous demon absorbed a large number of bronze pillars, and its body surface continued to expand. Groups of rotten flesh dripping with pus continued to expand outward, covering an area of 100 meters in radius, like a sea of rotten flesh.
"Help me draw some fire, outsider."
The Rat Demon took a deep breath, looked up at the Gluttony Demon, and continued to run towards Zhou Jiuya.
The next moment, the gluttonous demon suddenly lowered its head and opened its mouth towards Zhou Jiuya.
"Roar!" Countless bronze pillars erupted from its mouth, carrying the stinking gastric fluid and sweeping towards Zhou Jiuya. A foul-smelling wind blew towards Zhou Jiuya's face.
"It's so dirty..." He frowned, "That's why I hate demons."
The Tonggu compass flashed, and then a five-meter-long silk scroll suddenly appeared in front of Zhou Jiuya and opened quickly.
"Along the River During the Qingming Festival", created by a Northern Song Dynasty painter in the 12th century, is known as the "Encyclopedia of Northern Song Dynasty Society". It depicts the prosperity and urban life of Bianliang, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The moonlight illuminates the painting, and the brushstrokes that transcend time outline a beautiful and prosperous scene.
At this moment, the long scroll hanging in the air is showing the suburbs, rivers, and streets of Bianjing.
Farmhouses nestle amidst the newly sprouted trees, the fields green. Marketgoers, along with mules and horses laden with goods, journey along the paths into the city. A rainbow-like arch bridge spans the river. Pedestrians and carriages crisscross the bridge. Along the shoreline, vendors gather, hotels and teahouses line the streets, and colorful pavilions and gates adorn the streets. Within the city, the streets are bustling, the towering city walls towering. Streets crisscross, shops line the streets, and pedestrians jostle shoulder to shoulder.
The next moment, the huge bronze pillars spewed out by the gluttonous demon were all incorporated into the long scroll of Along the River During the Qingming Festival.
In the scroll, huge bronze pillars fell into the river next to the Rainbow Bridge, and the pedestrians on the bridge screamed and ran around; the colorful pavilions in the city were razed to the ground by the falling pillars, and the merchants knelt on the ground trembling, shouting "God's punishment!"
After a while, Zhou Jiuya used "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" to absorb all the bronze pillars spit out by the gluttonous demon.
"Don't hang around in front of me, you dirty thing." He said coldly.
As soon as he finished speaking, the gigantic Nine Dragon Cauldron suddenly dropped from the sky, accompanied by a whistling air and flying sparks, and smashed into the body of the gluttonous demon.
The gluttonous demon was instantly crushed into ash, its rotten flesh splattering everywhere. Its body, like being run over by a steamroller, spread out in the bottomless pit and turned into a pool of blood.
"I can't hold you to death, idiot."
Zhou Jiuya spoke coldly, and once again put away the Nine Dragon Cauldron. At this moment, the Rat Demon sacrificed the Gluttony Demon and gained the opportunity to approach Zhou Jiuya.
"Hey, Gluttony, even though you're a foreign devil, I'll remember you."
As Zishu said this, he rushed towards Zhou Jiuya with the Divine Chicken Demon on his back, then raised his claws to grab the Divine Chicken Demon's feet and threw it towards Zhou Jiuya.
"Old Chicken, it's up to you!" shouted the Rat.
The chicken demon flipped in mid-air, taking a deep breath with all its might. Its lungs instantly filled with tons of air, its fur twitching all over its body as a final surge of overwhelming strength gathered in its throat.
The next moment, its cheeks suddenly swelled up and its mouth opened.
The chicken demon roared angrily at Zhou Jiuya, and the high pitch was so deafening that it spewed out sound waves that were enough to shatter countless tall buildings!
"roar--!!!!"
"Have you been hiding for so long, just for this?"
Zhou Jiuya sneered coldly and immediately summoned the "Wind God and Thunder Drum" from the bronze drum compass. It was a pair of lacquered gold drums, with the drum heads covered with white rhinoceros skin and the drum bodies painted with a picture of the battle between the Wind God and Thunder God.
At the same time, this was also one of the antiques he had snatched back from the White Crow Brigade at the Tokyo auction.
A huge drum hung above the city wall, and suddenly the drum surface vibrated, as if an invisible giant was beating it hard. The drum sounded, and circles of loud tremolo blocked his way.
The "divine roar" of the divine chicken demon counteracted the sound of the drum, and for a moment the roar of the divine chicken demon actually prevailed.
"Good job!" The Rat Demon clenched his fists in the distance.
But the next second, a thunderbolt shot out from the center of the Wind God Thunder Drum. Suddenly, the lightning ripped through the tremolo and shot straight at the Divine Chicken Demon.
In an instant, the palm-sized chicken demon was shattered into pieces by the lightning, and even its blood was destroyed in the lightning.
"No way?" The Rat Demon was stunned. "It's over. I have no other options. The stranger and the old chicken are both dead."
Zhou Jiuya turned his light golden eyes to look at it.
The Rat Demon trembled all over, turned around and ran, rushing towards the battlefield on Zhong Wujiu's side.
On the other side, on the southwest side of the Haifan City wall, outside the wall, on a vast mountain field, the Totoro Demon sat blankly on the shoulder of the Aries Demon with a paw in his mouth.
The blue kitten wagged its tail, blinked its sapphire eyes, and raised its head together with the mad bull demon standing in front of it with its shoulders crossed, looking at the top of the wall.
At this moment, under the night moon, on the city wall, Zhong Wujiu, wearing a black coat, was standing there alone.
"Be careful, old cow."
The Aries Demon retracted his fake smile and gently reminded, "Zhong Wujiu is just like Zhou Jiuya and Zhuge Hui. Their Heavenly Drive doesn't allow them to contract demons, so we just need to be wary of them."
They knew that most people in the Lake Hunter family, including the invisible executor "Su Wei", would not choose to contract demons in order to maintain the "purity" of Tianqu.
Instead, he trained the potential of Tianqu to the extreme in order to surpass other exorcists.
Among them, only Lin Xingshi is an outlier - she has no resistance to contracted demons. Despite repeated obstructions from her elders, she still finds the demon she likes in the mountains alone and signs a contract with the other party without authorization.
According to rumors, the four Lake Hunters only have two contracted demons in total, and these two demons live in the empty slot of Lin Xingshi Tianqu. She is the most special Lake Hunter captain in history.
"I understand... I'll attack first, and you can ask that cat kid to come over to help." As the words fell, the mad bull demon hugged his shoulders and fell to the ground with his hooves.
“Boom!”
Amidst rumbling sounds, its front hooves stamped the ground in place, gathering strength. Cracks began to appear under its feet, and the pits it created grew deeper and deeper.
In the end, it was like an earthquake. The mad bull demon, accompanied by a raging gale, released all its accumulated strength and rushed forward. At this moment, it was like a high-speed iron-black train, crashing straight into the huge city wall.
Seeing this, Zhong Wujiu calmly summoned his Tianqu, and a crimson mask appeared in his palm.
Zhong Wujiu’s Heavenly Driver is - “Twelve Beast Nuo Masks”.
As the name suggests, each Nuo mask corresponds to a mythical beast recorded in the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty".
Zhong Wujiu must resonate with the soul of the mythical beast in order to comprehend the corresponding Nuo mask form.
At present, he has only mastered four forms: Xiongbo, Boqi, Qiangliang, and Qiongqi. The fighting style of each form is closely related to the legend of the mythical beast.
Xiong Bo: A legendary deity who can eat "metaphors" and resembles a tiger.
He put on a crimson Nuo mask engraved with ferocious tiger patterns, and fell straight down from the city wall, standing alone in front of the mad bull demon.
At this moment, the edge of his figure seemed to be outlined with a faint ink color.
No matter how big or small Zhong Wujiu's movements were, there would be animal-shaped ink paintings floating and swaying behind him, enough to make the onlookers' vision blurry as if they were drunk.
Facing the mad bull demon that was charging like a landslide, Zhong Wujiu descended from the sky and advanced instead of retreating.
Instantly, a vast, ink-painted mist rose from his surroundings. Behind him, the shadowy figure of a tiger, outlined in black and with bared fangs, completely solidified.
The ink shadow let out a silent roar that shook the wilderness. Zhong Wujiu's palms tore through the air like tiger claws, leaving behind ink marks.
"Bang--!"
The shadow of the tiger's claws clashed fiercely with the mad bull's horns! The power of ink and wash wasn't a direct resistance to brute force, but rather, like a swamp, it gently absorbed the momentum of the mad bull's horns.
After a while, the charging momentum of the mad bull demon was abruptly stopped. The power of its horns was like a drop in the ocean, sinking deeper and deeper, and was gradually dissolved by the power of "Xiong Bo".
Immediately afterwards, Zhong Wujiu used the force to spin around.
A whip kick wrapped in ink-like gale swept across the mad bull's side, knocking its huge body away and smashing it into the distant rock wall, sending rubble flying everywhere.
However, at this moment, the Aries Demon suddenly threw away the little blue cat sitting on its shoulder.
The little chinchilla was stunned at first, then slowly raised its head and angrily took its paw out of its mouth.
In an instant, its body suddenly expanded in mid-air like an open parachute, gradually revealing the outline of a dragon, covered with layers of overlapping black scales.
"roar--!"
The blue dragon's enormous wings, covering the sky and the sun, spread out, its dark red pupils erected. It fluttered its wings and hovered in mid-air, like a giant blue bat.
Zhong Wujiu saw this scene out of the corner of his eye.
He immediately raised his hands to cover his face, and the Nuo mask changed, with a strange totem shaped like a hedgehog and a cow's body engraved on it.
Qiongqi resembles an ox, with hard, thorny fur on its body. Its claws are like hooks, and its hands are like saws. In mythology, it preys on the righteous but protects the wicked, making it a strange and evil beast.
At this moment, Zhong Wujiu's aura suddenly became cunning and ferocious. The ink no longer surged, but instead covered his entire body like a layer of cold, hard hedgehog armor.
Each inky "spike" is filled with a rebellious aura.
The Totoro Demon flapped its wings and flew over, gathering all its strength and swung one claw forward.
Zhong Wujiu did not dodge or evade, and even deliberately faced forward. Just as the dragon claw was about to touch Zhong Wujiu, the ink-and-water thorn armor burst out with a dazzling black light.
"clang--!"
Amidst the loud sound of metal clashing, the Totoro Demon's power, which was enough to shake a mountain, was bounced back by the seemingly fragile thorn armor!
Not only was the charge forcibly stopped, but its arms were also twisted by the huge recoil force.
The sound of scales breaking can be clearly heard.
The next moment, Zhong Wujiu took the opportunity to stretch out his ink-colored claws covered with scales. His five fingers dug into the arm of the Totoro Demon like iron pliers, and violently tore off a large piece of scales and flesh!
Dirty blood splattered and the blue dragon howled.
Zhong Wujiu turned over and slowly landed on the ground, looking up at the Blue Dragon and the Mad Bull.
At this time, the Aries demon in the distance suddenly clasped his hands together, forming a ball of pure white light.
The ball of light instantly disintegrated into thousands of flying spirits, scattering like stars on the bodies of the Mad Bull Demon and the Totoro Demon. Their wounds, bathed in the white light, healed visibly.
After a while, the injuries caused by Zhong Wujiu to them disappeared completely.
"Should we deal with the sheep first?"
Seeing this, Zhong Wujiu raised his hands to cover his face.
The Nuo mask on his head suddenly changed, transforming into a bird-like face that seemed to be mourning and crying, and his temperament also changed from violent to tragic. He spread out a pair of huge ink-like wings.
Just like the mythical "Birch Bird", soaring under the night moon.
Boqi is a bird that resembles a stork. He was originally a human, but his father, believing his stepmother's slander, killed him. He then transformed into a Birqi bird. Upon realizing his mistake, his father shot his stepmother to death. Although he was transformed into a bird, Boqi's mind remained as clear as a mirror, allowing him to perceive and experience nightmares.
At this moment, Zhong Wujiu was hanging in the air like a nightmare, with a faint light flowing in the eye sockets of the Nuo mask.
At this moment, the Bull Demon and the Totoro Demon suddenly felt their consciousness sink. Countless hideous, twisted fragments of consciousness pierced their minds like poisonous thorns.
"Berqi, know dreams and eat dreams." Zhong Wujiu's lips murmured silently.
At that moment, the Bull Demon's eyes were bloodshot, and it let out a shrill roar. The Chinchilla Demon lay on the ground, its wings drooping to protect its body, drooling profusely. It must have been dreaming of delicious food.
Zhong Wujiu passed the two and swooped down, the wing-like ink edge turned into a sharp blade, silently passing over the side of the Aries Demon's neck, leaving a deep ink mark.
The next moment, the Aries Demon's neck broke, and ink marks and blood mixed together.
Zhong Wujiu fluttered his black wings, slowly turned around in mid-air, and looked behind him.
After a while, the mad bull demon and the chinchilla demon crawled up from the ground together.
"Aries..."
The Bull Demon spoke hoarsely, breathing heavily through his nostrils. The Blue Dragon lowered its head in silence, its azure pupils as deep as the ocean in the moonlight.
Seeing the two regroup, Zhong Wujiu transformed into the form of Nuo mask again, this time into "strong and violent".
He moved forward alone, once again facing the two giant beasts.
The outer perimeter of the central side of the city wall.
The green snake demon hid in the shadows of the bushes, the monkey demon climbed on the mountainside, and the rainbow horse demon stood in the wilderness. They raised their heads and looked at the figure on the city wall who was wearing a Republic of China-style long gown and jacket and holding a folding fan.
Zhuge Hui curled up the corners of his lips, looked up at the moonlight, and there was a sharp light in his eyes like a sword.
"The moonlight is so beautiful tonight... Don't you think so?" He opened his folding fan and covered his face with it.
"Fuck you... stupid thing."
The Monkey Demon lowered his voice and spoke lazily, and suddenly a bunch of brightly colored dragon fruits appeared on his right palm.
This is the ability of the Monkey Demon - "Explosive Fruit". Lava is flowing inside each dragon fruit. The high temperature of the lava causes the skin of the dragon fruit to crack, and flames are faintly overflowing.
The monkey demon dug one hand deep into the dirt on the mountain, allowing himself to hang on the mountainside, while the other hand spun at high speed to gain leverage, and then suddenly threw the explosive fruits in his palm towards the city wall viciously.
Zhuge Hui put one hand behind his back and waved his folding fan with the other, which summoned the celestial phenomena. Slender meteorites streaked across the sky and the stars, and suddenly fell down, landing accurately in front of the city wall, covering and intercepting all the exploding fruits in the air.
“Bang!”
Flames exploded, and Zhuge Hui waved his folding fan again, and a Tai Chi Bagua formation suddenly formed above the sky. From the black and white Bagua formation, a rain of fire fell and drifted towards the monkey demon on the mountainside.
The Monkey Demon dragged the huge object and climbed the mountain flexibly, then landed in the wilderness, side by side with the Rainbow Horse Demon, and raised his hand to scratch the hair on his head.
"It's up to you, Old Ma." The monkey said lazily.
The Rainbow Horse Demon said nothing, but just waved its tail which swayed like a rainbow.
A rainbow light flashed by, and immediately it spread to the sky like ink. The hazy rainbow ink met the rain of fire, and soon swallowed up the falling flames.
A moment later, except for the two zodiac demons, the remaining mountains and plains were completely ravaged by flames, leaving no trace of grass. The entire landscape was desolate and desolate, with no sign of life within a few hundred meters.
Immediately afterwards, the Rainbow Horse moved its body, transformed into a running rainbow, and rose into the air.
It rushed towards Zhuge Hui, who stood on the city wall. Zhuge Hui remained calm. He waved his folding fan, and a green sea of bushes, thorns, and trees rose from the city wall, growing and spreading violently. Then, like a giant hand from nature, it grabbed Hongma.
The rainbow horse demon was indomitable and its speed did not slow down. The rainbow light on its body engulfed the entire forest.
But with every piece of wood and thorn it devoured, the rainbow light on its surface dimmed a little. By the time it approached Zhuge Hui, the rainbow light had completely faded, and the rainbow horse was now only a body of flesh and blood - but the power of this body was still not to be underestimated, and it could easily knock over a skyscraper.
Just as Hongma was about to collide with Zhuge Hui, Zhuge Hui waved his folding fan, stirring a nearby river. A shadowy figure of the Tai Chi Bagua appeared on the surface of the river, and then the river surged up and overturned, forming a huge water prison in mid-air, trapping Hongma inside.
"Rainbow Horse!" The monkey growled in the distance. It held a bunch of explosive fruits in its hands, but did not dare to throw them casually because it might endanger its friendly forces.
"Why bother?"
Zhuge Hui covered his face with his folding fan, tilted his head, and sighed. A Tai Chi Bagua formation rose above the earth, and then a huge, sharp spike shot up, piercing the Rainbow Horse Demon's body in an instant.
The blood gushed down like a waterfall from the sky, merging with the river in the water prison, and then scattered down together, almost dyeing the entire city wall red.
The Rainbow Horse lost its color and was lifted into the air by the hard ground spike, unable to move.
After a while, the spike disappeared, and the rainbow horse fell from mid-air to the ground, landing in a pool of blood, raising a cloud of flying dust that covered the mountains and fields.
"Rainbow Horse--!" the monkey shouted, and his voice lost its casual laziness.
It lowered its head in anger and threw the explosive fruit in its hand towards Zhuge Hui, but the other party waved his folding fan, and a rain of fire poured down, detonating all the fruits.
At this moment, the long-dormant green snake demon finally took action. It snaked its way up the city wall, then shot out from the darkness and attacked Zhuge Hui with lightning speed. If its venom could be injected into the victim's body, no matter who it was, it would surely die.
"Oh? There is a snake?" Zhuge Hui glanced at it out of the corner of his eye, pulled the corner of his lips and waved his folding fan.
Immediately, the black and white Bagua formation appeared in the air, and an endless strong wind suddenly rose from it.
The green snake demon was about to open its mouth to bite Zhuge Hui's back, but the strong wind stopped its body and blew it away like a piece of paper.
"So, you still want to struggle?"
Zhuge Hui no longer paid attention to the green snake that was blown away. He fanned the breeze on his face and then looked up at the furious monkey in the distance.
At the same time, in the center of the city wall, right in front of the huge city gate, stood a figure in a white shirt. Lin Xingshi had black hair on his forehead and a fiery red braid on the back of his head.
Directly opposite her were two giant beasts with extraordinary auras - the Nian Beast Lord who stood like a mountain, and the Daytime Wolf with red eyes and a faint aura of violence due to wearing a "demon crown".
The Lord of the Nian Beast walks side by side with the Wolf of Day.
The two enormous demons slowly raised their eyes and looked at Lin Xingshi who was guarding in front of the city gate.
At this moment, Lin Xingshi had one hand behind his back and raised the other hand with his palm facing forward, his palm slightly turned up, with no expression on his face.
Tonight she did not deliberately put on masculine makeup. She had thin eyebrows, a slightly straight nose, and eyes as clear as the blue sky.
"I'm only advising you this once: take your people back to the mountains. And never set foot on human territory again." Lin Xingshi raised his head, looked at the Nian Beast Lord, and said expressionlessly, "Ten years ago, you were no match for the Lake Hunters, and ten years from now, you won't be either... The old, weak, and sick must recognize their own limitations. Do you understand?"
The Nian Beast Lord suddenly laughed hoarsely.
"You have no respect for your parents," it said coldly. "How dare a mere human child speak to me like that... I may be old and sick, but that doesn't mean I will kneel."
The Daytime Wolf was silent, its eyes as bright as midnight staring directly at Lin Xingshi's figure.
"Then there's nothing I can do. I'll beat you until you wake up." Lin Xingshi said calmly.
At this moment, the heavy murderous aura almost condensed into substance.
Lin Xingshi was alone, facing two huge monsters that exuded terrifying pressure.
The Nian Beast Lord remained silent.
The next moment, the Daytime Wolf unleashed a deafening roar, its ferocious aura soaring into the heavens. Under the influence of the Demonic Crown, it had lost most of its rationality, completely driven by its instinct to tear its opponent apart. It pawed the ground, growled menacingly, and charged at Lin Xingshi with the power to crush everything in its path!
Facing the pincer attack from the two giant beasts, Lin Xingshi showed no fear.
"The stake demon," she said quietly.
The wooden stake demon was Lin Xingshi's second contracted demon. She contracted this demon so she could flexibly apply the lion dance skills she had learned since childhood to actual combat.
In an instant, a shaking roar was heard from the earth.
Countless thick wooden stakes with an ancient wood grain luster rose from the ground and were inserted precisely and densely within a radius of 150 meters.
In an instant, the contracted demon set up a solemn and majestic "lion dance wooden formation" in the wilderness.
This is exactly the ability of the "Wooden Stake Demon" that Lin Xingshi contracted.
The tops of the wooden stakes are not flat, but are sometimes high and sometimes low, as if following some kind of celestial trajectory.
Lin Xingshi called it the "Seven-Star Plum Blossom Stake." Hidden beneath the stake were peach wood nails that gleamed with a cold light.
The moment the wooden formation was completed, Lin Xingshi's aura changed. At that moment, she summoned the Heavenly Drive—the "Nanming Fire Kirin Head." The lion's head, forged from the keel of a South China Sea shipwreck and volcanic colored glaze, contained seventy-two fire-cleansing spells.
But after years of training, Lin Xingshi had now completely merged with Tianqu. As a result, her Tianqu did not appear in a physical form, but instead transformed into a fiery red lion shadow, rising from the air behind her.
This is like "the integration of the strange news and the generation-level strange news", which is the highest level of the exorcist using "Heavenly Exorcism".
The next moment, the lion's shadow had completely taken shape. Light and shadow surged behind Lin Xingshi, and a massive, solid lion shadow, as majestic and imposing as burning glass, suddenly appeared.
Although the size of the Fiery Red Lion Shadow was not as huge as that of the Great Lord and the Daytime Wolf, and was even several times smaller, it surpassed them in momentum.
Lin Xingshi took a deep breath.
The lion's shadow stepped down with incredible precision, landing on the top of the tallest wooden stake. Lin Xingshi seemed to be one with the lion's shadow, her movements mirroring its own.
With the help of the "Taqinglian" body movement, she carried a huge lion shadow and flexibly jumped and moved between the high and low wooden stakes.
It's like a peerless lion dancer performing the thrilling "Breaking Formation Dance", but there is murderous intent hidden in the dance steps.
The Day Wolf's frantic pounce missed. Its massive body struggled to fully deploy against the dense array of wooden stakes, and it clumsily knocked aside a few, only to be pierced by the mahogany nails, causing it to roar in anger.
The devilish flames above the head of the Nian Beast Lord bloomed wildly. It waved its giant claws, and the tips of its claws lifted up a purple-red curtain of flames. Even the strong wind it brought about could easily shatter a rock mountain, but Lion Shadow stepped on a wooden stake sideways and easily dodged it with a nimble move.
“Bang!”
The heavy claws slammed into the wooden stake, sending wood chips flying, but the lion was not harmed at all.
On this wooden formation, Lin Xingshi has an absolute advantage in skills. She started learning lion dance under the guidance of her family since she was a child. Day after day, this girl jumps on the wooden stakes wearing an old lion head.
Every day she faced hundreds of wooden stakes with only one thought in her mind: this time she wanted to jump higher, more steadily, and farther on the stakes. The continuous efforts day and night for more than ten years have rewarded her with a nimble body position and lightning-fast reaction speed that gave her an overwhelming advantage in battle.
At this moment, the scarlet lion shadow stepped onto the top wooden stake, looking down from above. Its huge body, combined with the exquisite steps of the lion dance, suppressed the instinctive brute force of the two giant beasts with unimaginable flexibility.
The lion suddenly leaped forward, and its powerful and huge claws stepped on the shoulder of the Wolf of Daylight. The force that was already not to be underestimated, coupled with the downward momentum, made the Wolf stagger.
The Daytime Wolf's body slammed into the wooden stakes, stirring up a swarm of mahogany nail barbs. It howled, and a waterfall of saliva fell from its wolf kiss.
Lin Xingshi didn't give it a chance to breathe. The lion shadow turned around, swung the indestructible huge lion head, and smashed it on the side of Wolf Wen with the sound of wind and thunder.
The Nian Beast King came to support, and his huge body knocked down several wooden stakes in succession, surrounding them from the corner.
"Too slow, old man."
Lin Xingshi caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of his eye and sneered.
She danced like a lion, not retreating but advancing, and flipped over with a kick.
At this moment, the lion displayed astonishing flexibility. Its hind legs planted themselves on the top of another wooden stake, using it as a fulcrum. Then, with a twist of its waist, its powerful front legs, like a stunt performed by a lion dance, viciously kicked the Nian Beast Lord in the chest and abdomen with enough force to crush a tall building!
This kick is not only powerful, but also contains the inch force of the lion dance footwork.
Even though the Nian Beast King had thick skin and flesh, he couldn't help but groan after being kicked. He took several steps back and collapsed several wooden stakes under his feet, making his footing unstable.
Under the crimson glow of the fire, the ferocious lion figure twisted and turned on the plum blossom wooden stake with extraordinary agility. Sometimes it leaped high, stirring up a fierce wind with its claws; sometimes it crouched low and swung its head to strike hard.
In the wilderness, the howls of wolves and the roar of the Nian beast tore through the night, but were immediately drowned out by the dull sound of wooden stakes smashing. The dense sound, like a rainstorm, never stopped.
Relying on his lion dance skills and combat skills that were perfectly combined with the wooden stake formation, Lin Xingshi firmly occupied the triple advantages of body movement, terrain and skills in the huge wooden stake field.
These two giant beasts, which were much larger than her, were suppressed by her and were unable to move, and were forced to retreat step by step.
The crimson lion figure stood on the top of the wooden stake, looking down at the two giant beasts with arrogance.
"I feel really guilty," Lin Xingshi said, "I better get rid of you quickly."
As soon as the words fell, the lion's shadow shot out from the wooden stake under its feet. Its huge body seemed to turn into a stream of light carrying crimson flames, circling rapidly around the Nian Beast Lord.
The Wolf of Daylight was wrapped in a blazing white light, coming like a meteor.
However, at this moment, the scarlet lion's tail swept out and hit the claws and wrists of the Daytime Wolf as it pounced again, forcing the Daytime Wolf's attack to slow down slightly.
Seizing this opportunity, the red lion shadow used the recoil force to flip upside down in the air and shook off the white wolf.
In mid-air, the lion's shadow first swung its long tail sharply, stirring up a cloud of broken wood, which spread across the sky like a rain curtain in front of the pursuing daytime wolf. Then, it used its hind paws to kick the broken wood stake spinning in the air.
"Bang!"
The moment the wooden stakes shattered, a lion shadow fell from the sky, hanging upside down, heading straight for the figure of the Nian Beast Lord.
"roar--!"
The lion raised its head, a long, clear roar emanated from its throat, and it charged towards the Nian Beast Lord, a curtain of flames. The Lord roared, its body shattering countless wooden stakes and sinking deep into the ground. Blood flowed from its body, and it could no longer rise.
"Get one."
As he spoke, Lin Xingshi clapped his hands and once again let Lion Shadow return to the wooden stake.
She turned to look at the Daytime Wolf and raised an eyebrow.
"No wonder it can withstand such a beating, is it because of that helmet?" At this time, Lin Xingshi's sight was fixed on the "demon crown" on the head of the Wolf of Day.
The Demonic Crown is a treasure obtained by Bai Tanlang and the White Crow Brigade in the Whale King's Court. It is also the reason why its strength can be forcibly raised to the disaster level.
Under Lin Xingshi's control, the crimson lion shadow suddenly lowered its body, with its four claws tightly gripping the top of the pile, ready to strike, like a taut bow.
Through the gaps in the flaming mane, the black crown on the head of the Day Wolf is clearly visible.
"Isn't this the seizure of youth?"
Lin Xingshi suddenly laughed.
The so-called "winning the green" is the most exciting part of the lion dance performance.
The lion dancer needs to control the lion head to jump onto a high pole and pick off the "green color" hanging from the top - usually lettuce, or a red envelope to symbolize good luck.
This not only tests the lion's agility in climbing and jumping over the poles, but also requires the skill to accurately grab the target. It is a perfect combination of bravery and dexterity.
At this moment, in Lin Xingshi's eyes, the magic crown on the head of the Wolf of Day was just like the "green color" hanging high on the top of the pole.
Lin Xingshi closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes again, a smile appeared at the corners of his lips.
She kicked the wooden stake with her toes, her long fiery red braids flying, and the lion shadow shot out like an arrow from a bow, immediately piercing the head of the demon wolf.
Immediately afterwards, the giant lion's phantom twisted in mid-air, its jaws precisely grasping the edge of the Demon Crown. Using the momentum, it swung its head and yanked!
“Sizzle!”
The pitch-black crown detached from the Day Wolf's head with a clang. The crown, gleaming with black light, was now grasped by the lion's mouth, its dim light flickering in the crimson lion's mouth.
At this moment, Lin Xingshi had already landed back on the top of the pole with the trophy in her mouth, just as naturally as she had used her lion head to hold the shaking colorful ball in thousands of training sessions before.
"Aren't you giving up yet?" Lin Xingshi said, "You've completely lost your chance of winning."
After saying that, she controlled Lion Shadow and spit the Demon Crown onto the ground in the distance.
At this moment, the Daytime Wolf's momentum suddenly dropped, and it collapsed to the ground with a whine. The muscles on its body and its claws shrank rapidly, and its pupils turned gray.
The Nian Beast King was already deeply trapped in the pit, gasping for breath, unable to struggle any longer.
Lin Xingshi looked at the Nian Beast Lord silently, "Ten years ago, you killed my parents. I let you live for so long, so killing you now shouldn't be too much, right?"
After she finished speaking, her eyes suddenly turned cold.
But just as she was about to control the Lion Shadow to end the Lord's life, she suddenly saw a green snake flying towards the Lion Shadow like a moth to a flame.
Lin Xingshi casually waved his right arm, and the lion shadow roared, turned around and slapped out his right palm, grabbing the snake, and the flames instantly engulfed her whole body.
The green snake demon roared, its face horrific, every inch of its scales rapidly corroded by the crimson flames. She narrowed her icy blue eyes at the Nian Beast Lord, seeming to want to say something, but no sound came out.
"Green snake..."
The Nian Beast Lord was startled and stared at the green snake held in the Lion Shadow's claws with wide eyes.
Lin Xingshi was silent for a moment, "Why bother?"
At this moment, she slightly restrained her strength, and the green snake demon was swatted away dozens of meters by the lion shadow's palm. Its charred corpse smashed through countless plants and trees, and finally sank into the rolling mud.
"Isn't it the same?"
She whispered to herself, slowly controlling the lion shadow to move on the wooden stake, step by step approaching the Nian Beast Lord.
"Were my parents also so desperate when you killed them?" she asked.
The Nian Beast Lord remained silent in anger. In the distance, the Daytime Wolf had transformed into a humanoid form, collapsing in a cloud of blood-soaked steam. At this moment, the world was completely silent.
It looked at the corpse of the green snake, then at Bai Tanlang, and finally at the rainbow horse demon lying on the ground in the distance. The demonic flame above its head slowly dimmed.
After a moment, the Maharaja lowered his head.
"I see, I lost..." It said hoarsely, "That's right, I should have accepted my age a long time ago. What am I struggling for?"
Lin Xingshi stood on the wooden stake with his shoulders folded, looking down at it condescendingly.
She was silent, without a trace of pity in her eyes.
Lin Xingshi didn't know what she was hesitating about, knowing clearly that the enemy who had killed her parents was before her. After a moment's silence, she slowly manipulated the lion's body, causing it to sway and ignite with flames.
But at this moment, on the cliff of Haifan Mountain in the distance, a purple-red enchanting figure suddenly fell from the sky.
Lin Xingshi was stunned for a moment, then slowly raised her head. At that moment, in her clear eyes, a huge purple-red lion appeared out of nowhere in the moonlight, its roar shattering the sky.
Wrapped in a wild sea breeze, the enchanting shadow suddenly swooped down under the moonlight like a blooming mandshurica.
"Let my dad—go—on!"
The little Nian beast attacked with purple flames, growling in its mouth.
Lin Xingshi stared at the giant shadow falling like a meteor and froze in her tracks. After a moment, her lips moved slightly, uttering a name that was both unfamiliar and familiar:
"Xiao Nian?"
(End of this chapter)
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