Chapter 173

That was the place where the girl was nurturing life. Under the fair and smooth skin were strands of black, faint patterns. Accompanied by Father Manli's stroking, goosebumps rose on the girl's skin.

Nuel watched in horror, but for some reason, it was as if her throat had been gripped by fate, and she couldn't make a sound at all.

What scared her most was that something seemed to be moving inside her body!

She could feel that some kind of power was forcibly entering her body, just like the feeling of a wooden splinter accidentally getting stuck in the flesh when she was a child, but being unable to pull it out—a sense of foreignness, awkwardness, and pain.

Eventually, all these feelings converged in her lower abdomen.

She couldn't help but open her mouth, her eyes widening.

Seeing this, Father Manli knew the time had come. His aged hand gripped the dagger, aimed precisely at the lower abdomen, and stabbed down, just like a skilled doctor, expressionless, with only focus and professionalism.

The cold blade broke the skin, swift and decisive, just like slaughtering cattle or sheep.

Mindful of the proportions, avoiding difficult areas, careful of blood vessels and intestines.

When he cut it open and saw the unformed fetus with only a silhouette inside, Father Manli finally revealed a trace of a smile.

He threw away the dagger, tremblingly reached his hand inside, and dug out the fetus alive.

"Hahahaha!"

At this moment, some kind of power began to rapidly move from Nuel's body toward the fetus, and the summoning array on the ground also began to emit a faint light.

If it weren't still daytime, the scene would surely be extremely terrifying.

Subsequently, he threw the flesh and blood in his hand into the roaring bonfire.

Boom!!

In an instant, the flames surged up a notch as if gasoline had been added, vaguely outlining a blurred, ferocious face in the air: a pointed chin, giant eyes, curved goat horns, and a mouth full of sharp teeth, with a scarlet tongue licking its lips.

"Oh oh oh oh..."

A group of believers also let out cheers at this moment.

The demon Abam had officially descended!

"Now, human sacrifice!"

Father Manli shouted.

Several young men immediately tied up a person and walked over. Looking at his attire, he was actually also a priest.

Puchi!

The priest's blood soaked the array, and the ferocious face in the flames above also laughed loudly, gradually beginning to solidify. A flame demon face looked greedily at Nuel.

Suddenly, it looked toward a corner and opened its big mouth.

Boom!!

The forest burned out of thin air, spreading rapidly.

But the next second, all the flames extinguished as if the air had been sucked out.

Clap... clap... clap...

Applause rang out.

At this moment, all the believers stopped their voices and looked over here.

Louis, who was hiding in the forest watching the summoning, said to Jiali beside him, "Well, it seems that Hidden Arts still can't be hidden from the eyes of a demon after its true body has descended."

Jiali nodded, she asked, "Louis, do you need to kill it?"

"Of course, not just that, everyone here can be killed," Louis said with a smile.

"Okay." Jiali understood.

"Human, what do you want to do?"

Abam made a sound. These two people were the two powerhouses it had just sensed.

One had the scent of a god on them, and the other had the scent of a witch; neither were easy targets to provoke.

"Abam, still remember the prophecy you made? You don't recognize me anymore?" As Louis said this, his magic power was secretly circulating, and surging flames rapidly condensed, falling from the sky like raindrops, setting this piece of land on fire.

These flames might not be much to supernatural existences, but to mortals, they were no less than divine punishment. A single drop of fire rain could ignite a person. The flames would burn the clothing, ignite the human body along the grease of the skin, and finally, with the help of the body's oils, turn them into running, moving torches!

This was Louis's brand-new application of the Fire-Manipulation Art. Although the fire dragon was cool for showing off, the temperature was too dispersed, and he wasn't using the Samadhi True Fire, so the method of condensing the flames might be more practical.

Seeing Louis make a move, Abam roared and rapidly condensed from its flame form into a solid body.

Its whole body was fire-red, tall and ferocious, with a long tail. Most importantly, it also had two rotating lower-body organs, which were extremely distinctive.

No wonder it was a lewd demon; it certainly made sense.

Facing these acts of slaughtering its believers, it completely ignored them, "Hehehe, so it was you. I originally wanted to wait until I appeared in the world to find you, but I didn't expect you to deliver yourselves to my door."

It grinned at Louis, and a terrifying invisible force rapidly attacked Louis.

Hum!!

The Wan Huan Yi fluctuated faintly. When the ground around Louis collapsed, Louis still stood in place, motionless, with only his hair floating slightly.

Beside him, Jiali's face showed anger, and an equally terrifying invisible force pressed down toward Abam.

Bang!

A powerful pressure pressed firmly on Abam's body. At three meters tall, it couldn't help but lower its head, and its scaly thighs were forcibly driven into the ground.

But even so, it didn't suffer any substantial damage.

Abam looked at Jiali with apprehension. It discovered that among these two guys, this witch's power was the strongest. If possible, she might even be able to restrict it.

No, I must solve her first.

I need to retrieve more power.

"@#%..."

It started chanting an incantation, and the red skin all over its body became even brighter.

Louis and Jiali looked at each other and nodded.

In an instant.

Invisible telekinesis tore the earth apart. Two terrifying forces wanted to forcibly bind Abam, and they did indeed forcibly bind it. Under Jiali's powerful telekinesis, the surrounding mud actually began to solidify, turning into stone.

That invisible telekinesis seemed to turn into two big hands, wanting to forcibly gather it into their palms and squeeze it flat.

And Louis threw out the Blood River Bead. Under the infusion of magic power, it struck Abam's body at an extremely fast speed, bang bang bang!

Every impact was like an iron ball hitting refined steel. Dents appeared one after another. In the blink of an eye, Abam's body was full of pits, and fine cracks covered its whole body, with magma-like blood faintly flowing out from inside.

But even so, it was still chanting the incantation, and at the same time, the people around who hadn't died began to run toward this side regardless of everything, their faces fanatical, taking out daggers and starting to commit suicide.

The souls of those who committed suicide carried the meaning of sacrifice.

And for a demon, the souls obtained through sacrifice were not just food, but also a source of power.

Especially for a true-body demon like Abam who had come from hell to the world, if it wanted to retrieve more power, it had to use souls to open a gap.

Unfortunately, these believers were not pure girls. To it, they were like moldy food; although they could be eaten, the taste was truly not very good, and the power they could bring was relatively small.

However, it didn't matter, it was coming, it was coming, sacrifice a few more!

Its power had climbed from 50% to 70% in these short ten-plus seconds, but the next second.

Swish swish swish—

A roar like bullets rang out in the surroundings with the continuous sound of a machine gun.

It could be seen that while the Blood River Bead was attacking it, it was killing the believers who were constantly approaching and wanting to sacrifice themselves to it.

This was murder, not suicide, and could not achieve a sacrifice!

With such souls, it couldn't open a gap to retrieve more power even if it ate them!

"Seeking death!"

It decisively paused the chanting, a pair of blood-red eyes staring at Louis.

"Roar!!"

An inexplicable roar that sounded neither like a human nor a beast.

Crack crack crack—

A silent tearing sound rang out, and Jiali's telekinesis was forcibly torn open!

This was the strength of a demon whose true body had descended into the world.

Swish!

It disappeared instantly.

When it appeared again, it had already arrived beside Louis.

Sharp claws combined with powerful magic power, faintly bringing about violent sonic booms.

All the protective talismans on Louis's body exploded collectively at this moment, and the intense golden light, like a flashbulb, illuminated the entire sky.

Inside the forest.

Cotton was trembling all over. Behind him, the cameraman and the sound engineer were already speechless.

The scene in front of them completely subverted their worldview. What was this? A war between gods and demons?

"Oh God—"

The cameraman couldn't help but kneel on the ground. At this moment, he seemed to have become a pious believer in God.

There was no other reason; since demons existed, God was naturally real and undeniable. So, as weak and powerless humans, in front of such terrifying existences as demons, wouldn't they only be able to pray to God?

The sound engineer beside him wasn't doing much better, his legs twitching, collapsing on the ground. But unlike the cameraman, his gaze was always fixed on Louis. If that was a demon, then who was this man?

And Father Cotton, who was standing at the very front, was staring blankly at this scene. Demons existed, and God existed too.

Then his blasphemy against God all these years... his blasphemy against those patients...

Among those patients, were some of them really cured by him? Had he delayed their lives? Was he... too self-righteous?

At this moment, Cotton felt genuine shame.

Under this emotion, when he saw the girl who seemed to still be alive on the stone platform protected by the demon, he resolutely made a decision.

He took out his cross.

He straightened his priest's robe.

A glow of courage shone in his eyes.

Humanity is never lacking in the courage to sacrifice; it just needs a small reason.

And Cotton was undoubtedly such a person. He was willing to save others and willing to make up for his mistakes, even if it meant sacrificing his life for it.

"You guys leave quickly. If you can, go to the Vatican. It's said that they've opened an exorcism academy there. I hope you can embark on a brand-new path in the future," Cotton said, looking back at the cameraman and the sound engineer.

"Then, what about you? Cotton!"

"Me? I'm going to atone for my sins." Cotton took a deep breath.

Subsequently.

He held the cross high, chanting the language of the Bible, and stepped into the earth-shattering battlefield without hesitation. The flames also scorched his body, but they couldn't stop his forward pace.

At this moment, he truly became a priest.

"Demon! The Lord commands you to get out!"

"Hallelujah!"

(End of chapter)