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Chapter 402: Killing the Leopard Monster
Chapter 402: Killing the Leopard Monster
Last time we talked about Li Yi and his four companions coming to Sanyan Village. When they heard the head of the village Dong An say that there was a monster village a hundred miles away, they immediately set out to eliminate the monster. How will the story develop next? Let us read on together.
On the way, Lan Ze asked, "You seem to know about this matter of killing demons for money?"
"I came up with this idea, so how could I not know about it? But I didn't expect that someone would profit from it, not only hunting rare animals, but also wanting to hunt monsters."
Zhang Hongchen asked, "Is this your idea? Just to get more people to come here to kill monsters?"
"Yes, there will always be brave men when there is a big reward! I heard that even Nanliang has a spontaneously organized demon-slaying team coming here to slay demons."
Lan Ze asked, "So it was your idea to collect the demon spirits? No, the reason you agreed to help them kill the demons was to find out who was collecting the demon spirits?"
"That's right. However, this leopard monster is too close to the salt village. It should be the vanguard of the monster army, so we must wipe them out in one fell swoop. Yu Jiu, your chance to show off has come."
Yu Jiu took out the Lingyu Arrow and nodded firmly.
Lan Ze asked doubtfully, "After all, he is a demon king, can Yu Jiu do it?"
Li Yi smiled and said, "Demon King? If there is a great demon in the extraordinary realm within a hundred miles, I will naturally know about it. The people of Sanyan Village are probably scared out of their wits by this demon king. An ordinary small demon can be dealt with by a sixth-rank warrior. A demon general is at the level of a fourth-rank warrior. A demon commander is stronger and is probably on par with Yu Jiu."
As they were talking, the group could already see the demon village, but Li Yi showed no intention of slowing down.
Lan Ze immediately asked: "Are you planning to just rush over like this?"
"This is the first battle with the demon army, so naturally we need divine soldiers to descend from the sky to let them know how powerful the human race is! Yu Jiu, burn a big one!"
Yu Jiu immediately formed a magic seal with his hands and shouted, "Meteor shower!" Countless huge fireballs condensed around the measuring ruler. With a wave of Yu Jiu's hand, all the fireballs fell rapidly and smashed into the demon village.
However, the imagined rain of fire did not appear. The fireballs were intercepted by the barrier above the demon village and exploded prematurely, but this attack also broke the barrier. The shock wave of the explosion spread in all directions, and Li Yi and his men were naturally affected.
Li Yi summoned a 50-meter-tall Martial Saint Ming Wang Dharma Image to protect everyone, then frowned and said, "It's still a lich, which is a bit troublesome."
Yu Jiu asked: "What is a lich? Is it a wizard from the demon race?"
"That's understandable. It looks like this leopard monster is not easy to deal with. Yu Jiu, you and Zhang Hongchen should join forces... Hey, where is Zhang Hongchen?"
Lan Ze was surprised and asked, "She was here just now, why is she gone now?"
"Forget it, forget about her, I'll take action instead."
"Master, didn't you say that you would let me try? If I really can't defeat you, you can help me."
Seeing Yu Jiu's unwilling expression, Li Yi said helplessly: "Okay, then you better be careful. I'll help you clear the field first."
While controlling the flying sword to descend, Li Yi took out three spirit feather arrows, mobilized the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the righteous energy to inject them, and then shouted: "The sky is sending out murderous intent, and the spirit arrows turn into rain!"
Confucianism and Taoism, try not to use your hands when you can use your mouth, especially after Li Yi became a great scholar, he became even lazier. But seeing arrows falling like raindrops, the group of little monsters below were instantly solved.
Li Yi and others landed in the middle of the monster village and saw a humanoid leopard monster with yellow and black cloud-like patterns all over its body walking towards them.
The leopard demon held a long-handled staff knife with a Tianyan pattern engraved on the handle, which was a symbol of the lich's identity and a unique spell of the demon clan. The leopard demon wore a pair of Miao-style shorts with four human skulls hanging on each side of his waist, making the sound of bones colliding when he walked.
The leopard demon's gaze swept across Yu Jiu and Lan Ze, and finally landed on Li Yi. He said in a low voice: "You are not here to offer sacrifices? It seems that the people of Sanyan Village still refuse to accept their fate."
Hearing this, Lan Ze looked at Li Yi with a puzzled look on his face. The latter also realized the problem. Why did the demons need sacrifices? In addition to eating them themselves, they could only be used for sacrifices, and the only god worshipped by the demons was Tai'an Niangniang.
The demon tribe has no human souls, and thus no power of faith, and Niangniang Tai'an does not need the power of faith, so the demon tribe's sacrifices appear to be very sloppy. Most of them just hang a portrait or statue, put a few fruits on the table, and then eat and drink.
Li Yi asked: "What other sacrifices do you demons want? Who do you want to sacrifice to?"
"What does our demon clan's affairs have to do with you, a dirty, smelly, hairless monkey! Speaking of monkeys, I grew up eating monkeys! My favorite thing to eat is monkey brains, prepare to die!"
The leopard demon casually took off a skull from his waist and threw it at Li Yi and others. The skull continued to expand when it was thrown out, and finally turned into black gas and condensed into a monster. It looked like a tiger, but had a pair of sharp horns on its head, sword-like bone plates along its spine, and wings on its back, which were flesh-membrane wings like those of a flying squirrel.
Yu Jiu looked at the monster with sharp teeth and fangs and asked, "Sir, what is this?"
Li Yi pulled Yu Jiu behind him and said, "You can't deal with this witchcraft of the ancient ferocious beast Qiongqi. Let me do it!" After that, he waved his hand and a Buddha's hand fell, directly defeating Qiongqi along with the black air.
The leopard demon was shocked. Although he knew that the human in front of him was not simple, he did not expect that this guy was so extraordinary. His ultimate move was broken in an instant, so he had only one thought, which was to escape.
However, Li Yi formed seals with his hands and shouted loudly. The six-petal lotus seal under his feet lit up and quickly expanded, forming a barrier around the demon village. He said, "Yu Jiu, you can go! But be careful, this guy is much faster than you."
Xiao Yujiu drew out his sword and rushed forward. This sword was the one that Jiang Hongyu had made for Yu Jiu using the ghost blade during the Southern Liang Dynasty. However, the sword was only half completed at that time. After Jiang Hongyu married Lu Shu, she recast the sword eight times before she was satisfied. That's why the sword was named Chi Jiu.
As mentioned before, Jiang Hongyu is an abandoned disciple of Sanchijin, the number one sword-fighting gang in the martial arts world. All disciples who join Sanchijin must start by learning sword-forging. If they want to practice sword-forging, they have to forge a sword for themselves. Jiang Hongyu was kicked out because he failed to forge a sword that satisfied the sect.
After Jiang Hongyu forged the Chi Jiu, she finally understood what she lacked at the beginning. Not only did she forge a sword, but she also succeeded in making it clear, and was promoted to the fourth rank of martial arts. All this was inseparable from the help of Lu Shilang, and they came together because of sword forging. This sword can be regarded as the fruit of their love.
Yu Jiu rushed towards the leopard monster with a sword in hand, but the leopard monster dodged both his magic and sword skills flexibly, so it can be said that not even a hair of the leopard was hurt.
Lan Ze asked, "Yu Jiu's attack is completely ineffective. Now the leopard monster only wants to escape and has no intention of killing. If he really gets anxious, you have to protect Yu Jiu."
Li Yi smiled and said, "Don't worry, Yu Jiu is a very smart kid, and his current fighting method is correct."
Lan Ze turned her head to look at Li Yi, and saw several little demons shooting arrows at them. She shouted to be careful and was about to block the arrows for Li Yi, but was stopped by the latter. Li Yi just stared at the battle over Yu Jiu, and ignored the hidden arrows.
Ding ding ding, Zhang Hongchen's flying knife intercepted the hidden arrows, then quickly penetrated the bodies of the little demons, and flew into an exquisite pocket with their souls. After doing this, Zhang Hongchen tightened the bag, showing a happy smile, and then ran to deal with the other little demons.
"Sister Hongchen is collecting demon spirits. Does she want to exchange them for money? She doesn't seem like a money-hungry person."
"Don't worry about her. Can't you see she's enjoying it?"
"Sister Hongchen is an evil cultivator, right? How could you, a cultivator of the Three Religions, have such a close relationship with her?"
"Hey, don't get me wrong. I don't have any feelings for her. We just get what we want. I use her to do things that are inconvenient for me to do, and she..."
"Why didn't she tell you what she was using you for?"
"You will know in the future. Just focus on Yu Jiu, the winner will be decided soon."
Lan Ze turned his gaze to Yu Jiu, who was currently engaging in close combat with the leopard demon, and immediately asked, "What kind of couple is this? Has Yu Jiu improved his skills again?"
"No, it's the leopard monster that has slowed down. Leopard monsters and snake monsters have the same weakness, which is lack of endurance. So Yu Jiu launched attacks without regard for consumption just to survive the period when the leopard monster has the most energy."
"In that case, doesn't that mean Yu Jiu is sure to win?"
Li Yi shook his head and said, "If it were an ordinary leopard monster, Yu Jiu should have won by now, but this leopard monster has other tricks hidden, probably to save its life. Watch carefully, the victory or defeat depends on one move."
The leopard demon was naturally aware of his own weaknesses, but he still had the illusion of escape. He looked down at the three remaining skulls on his waist, and then glanced at Li Yi who was guarding Lan Ze. He secretly made up his mind, not knowing that his calculations had already put him in a dead end.
Yu Jiu stabbed with a sword burning with spiritual fire. The leopard monster took off a skull and threw it to the ground. It instantly created three clones. Not only did they avoid the attack, the four leopard monsters also launched a counterattack at the same time, and each of them was extremely fast.
Seeing a leopard demon circling behind Yu Jiu and stabbing Yu Jiu's back with a long-handled cane knife in its hand, Lan Ze shouted, "Why don't you take action!"
Yu Jiu turned the sword and pierced the leopard monster's chest from the side. At the same time, he shouted, "Fire Spirit Essence!" First, the fire mark on his forehead appeared, and then his eyes, hair, and even the Chi Jiu Sword in his hand turned red!
Yu Jiu simply blew at the three leopard monsters in front of him, and a huge fireball erupted, instantly burning the three leopard monsters to a crisp.
Lan Ze exclaimed: "Yu Jiu is so powerful?"
"More than that, I taught him more than just the use of spiritual power."
Lan Ze sneered, "Humph, I heard from my senior sister that you call that teaching a disciple? I think Yu Jiu is self-taught!"
Li Yi said unhappily: "What are you talking about!"
With a bang, the four leopard monsters exploded at the same time and turned into golden smoke, blocking the sight of Li Yi and others. Yu Jiu stretched out his hands and used the Fiery Palm to disperse the surrounding smoke, but found that he was in another world. He was under an illusion.
But even though he knew that he had fallen into an illusion, Yu Jiu had also heard Li Yi talk about methods to break the illusion, but when he recalled the scene when his own master taught him, he could only sigh helplessly.
In fact, it was Yu Jiu who insisted on learning illusion from Li Yi, but Yu Jiu did not have the conditions to practice illusion, so Li Yi did not teach him. He just told him the method to crack it. How simple was it? Just one sentence:
"Illusion is a spell that uses mental power to influence other people's hearts and five senses, so you just need to use your mental power to regain control of your five senses."
The great talent Li didn't even explain how to take back control, nor did he let Yu Jiu experience it personally. He just finished his explanation with this one sentence. So there is nothing wrong with Lan Ze saying that Yu Jiu is self-taught!
Generally speaking, there are two types of illusions: one is to use mental power to forcibly control, and the other is to use psychedelic drugs to assist. In terms of actual effect, the effect of psychedelic drugs is definitely stronger.
Dianzhou is rich in this kind of hallucinogenic drug, that is, mushrooms, so Yu Jiu was unlucky enough to be controlled by the leopard demon's illusion. If there is no external force, he cannot break the illusion by himself. So, Yu Jiu looked for a way out in the illusion and tried to break it by himself.
On the other side, Lan Ze was also caught in an illusion, but it was quickly resolved by Li Yi. To her, it was just smoke. She blinked subconsciously and felt that nothing had happened.