Chapter 149 Night Demon Clone
The forest stretched as far as the eye could see, seemingly without end.
As soon as Chen Leying finished speaking, Qin Jiu also faced a dilemma: "With a forest of this size, we'd probably lose our way if we went in. How are we supposed to find the Night Demon's clone?"
Lu Cheng's eyes lit up: "I have a plan!"
Qin Jiu looked at him, very suspicious: "What?"
Lu Cheng: "Let's just set the forest on fire! That way we can kill the Night Demon without breaking a sweat, right? Anyway, this is a secret realm, so we don't have to worry about damaging the environment."
Qin Jiu was taken aback, feeling that something was wrong, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
Meng Qingyin shook her head: "I'm afraid that won't work."
Lu Cheng: "Why not?"
Meng Qingyin explained, "Forest fires mostly occur in the dry, windy spring and autumn. At these times, the forest temperature is higher and there are many dead branches and leaves. Combined with the wind, this makes forest fires easy to start and difficult to extinguish. But if you come in and look at this forest..."
She pointed to the lush forest ahead, "The ground is covered with snow, the trees are full of leaves, and there are no fallen leaves or dead branches. Moreover, there is not a breath of wind here, so it is impossible for a fire to start."
Meng Qingyin's reasonable and well-founded words completely dispelled Lu Cheng's idea of setting the fire.
Lu Cheng scratched his head: "Then how do we find the Night Demon's clone?"
Meng Qingyin looked at the little one: "Little one, is there any food here?"
The cubs that feed on monsters have an extremely keen sense of smell and are highly sensitive to the scent of monsters.
It had once smelled the scent of mine spiders in the mine.
This time, maybe Zai Zai will be their most powerful helper.
The little one twitched its nose and pointed to the right with its paw: "There it is."
Meng Qingyin bent down and patted its head: "You're such a great little one!"
Lu Cheng looked surprised: "Hey, your pet lamb's fur is really peculiar. But weren't we looking for the Night Demon's clone? Why did we change our focus to finding food?"
His current foolishness is just like his past self, and Qin Jiu has a hard time explaining it.
Although she still doesn't know what Meng Qingyin's pet is, but...
“It’s not a lamb,” she snorted. “What kind of look is that!”
Lu Cheng didn't mind her mockery: "Then what is it?"
Qin Jiu was speechless for a moment: "Uh..."
She glared at Lu Cheng, "Why do you care so much? Just follow the baby."
Meng Qingyin ended their childish conversation, saying, "Alright, we're short on time, let's go."
Qin Jiu followed, "Let's go, let's go!"
The little one led the way, and the group followed behind it, venturing deeper into the forest.
After walking for about five minutes, a completely black Night Demon clone stood out conspicuously on the white snow.
It was somewhat different from the Night Demon that Meng Qingyin had killed before; its height was similar to that of a human male.
Other features don't seem to be different.
The group was some distance from the Night Demon's clone, so the Night Demon did not notice them.
Qin Jiu gritted her teeth in hatred and whispered, "It's this thing! How are we going to deal with it?"
This time, Zai Zai didn't rush forward impulsively, but waited for Meng Qingyin's command.
“Just to be safe,” Meng Qingyin said, “let’s test its strength first.”
It's still better to be cautious, since it's an avatar of the Night Demon.
She had the Snow Child control the snow, condensing it into a snowball and throwing it in the opposite direction from the group towards the Night Demon clone.
The snowball landed about three meters in front of the Night Demon clone. It sluggishly raised its head and slowly walked towards where the snowball had landed.
It doesn't seem to be very fast.
Lu Cheng took out a slingshot and aimed it at the Night Demon clone: "Let me give it a try."
As soon as he finished speaking, a pebble the size of a grape hit the back of the Night Demon clone's head with a crisp "smack".
The Night Demon clone covered the back of its head, grinning as it looked this way.
Upon seeing the crowd, it roared and strode heavily toward them.
Even when angered, their speed is so slow that they are nothing to fear.
Regardless of its strength, careful handling will surely lead to its successful defeat.
Everyone knew what was going on, and they dispersed to find suitable positions to launch their attacks.
Lu Cheng still held the same slingshot, but the pebbles had been replaced by an unknown hidden weapon, with a thin needle at the top of the metal sphere.
Lu Cheng aimed at the slowly moving Night Demon clone, "Take this!"
The hidden weapon shot towards the Night Demon clone's eye at extremely high speed.
I, the unlucky one, seized the opportunity and with a slight flick of my finger, a faint white light appeared on the hidden weapon, which then pierced the eye of the Night Demon clone with even greater force.
In an instant, the Night Demon clone's left eye became a bloody mess.
Lu Cheng was somewhat surprised; the power of his Pear Blossom Needle had greatly increased.
Over here, the Night Demon clone, in excruciating pain, changed direction and crashed straight towards Lu Cheng, its speed increasing by more than two times!
Lu Cheng inwardly cursed and quickly dodged to the side.
But he also knew that the other party was too fast and he couldn't dodge in time.
At this critical moment, a century-old tree was uprooted and then thrown in front of Lu Cheng.
"Crack!"
The Night Demon clone crashed into the ancient tree, breaking it in two!
Lu Cheng looked at Qin Jiu in shock. She had just uprooted an ancient tree with her bare hands and thrown it in front of him like a sandbag.
What kind of power is this?
Qin Jiu shouted, "What are you all standing there for? Get out of the way!"
Lu Cheng retreated more than ten steps, increasing the distance between himself and the Night Demon clone.
The Night Demon clone wasn't in much better shape either, its body covered in cuts from broken branches.
It turned around, having already changed its target, and pounced on Qin Jiu with bared teeth and claws.
The next moment, a steel fork flew over and pierced straight into the abdomen of the Night Demon clone.
The force of the flying steel fork forced the Night Demon clone to retreat repeatedly, but at this moment it seemed to have suddenly lost its sense of pain, directly pulling out the steel fork and throwing it towards Chen Leying, then crashing into Qin Jiu.
Meng Qingyin and Qin Jiu were not far apart. Seizing the opportunity, she struck the wound on the Night Demon clone's abdomen with her staff.
The next moment, the Night Demon clone convulsed and collapsed to the ground.
Meng Qingyin unleashed her heavy blade and finished it off in one fell swoop.
With everyone's cooperation, the Night Demon clone was killed.
This process was much easier than most people imagined.
Lu Cheng stepped forward, withdrew the pear blossom needle, wiped away the blood, and put it back in his backpack. "This Night Demon clone is weaker than I imagined. It's too easily defeated."
He even thought they would fight a bloody battle, but they won so easily?
Chen Leying shook her head: "It's not that it's weak, it's that we're too strong."
This is not arrogance.
If even one person had held them back, they wouldn't have been able to kill the Night Demon clone so easily.
First, Lu Cheng shot the Night Demon clone in the eye, drawing its attention; then, Qin Jiu pulled up a tree to save people, attracting the Night Demon clone's attention.
Chen Leying's steel fork left a wound on the Night Demon clone, and Meng Qingyin took the opportunity to insert a stun baton into the wound to stun it.
Any mistake at any step will likely lead to dire consequences.
Both strength and teamwork are indispensable.
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