Chapter 145: 140. Fox Demon! Desperate Situation! (1/2)

140. Fox Demon! Desperate Situation! (1/2)

"Who goes there?"

Chen An suddenly swooped down from the clouds, startling the members of the Red Fire Gang below, who all revealed nervous expressions.

Among them, the Gang Leader of the Red Fire Gang, Zhou Tianyi, Gang Leader Zhou, stared at Chen An with a vigilant expression and asked:

"Who is this fellow Daoist?"

He had just killed the people from the Black Wind Gang in a double-cross.

Such an act of burning bridges would greatly affect the gang's reputation and must never be leaked.

Chen An condensed a Light Sword from his fingertips, walked slowly toward the members of the Red Fire Gang, and said indifferently:

"I am merely an unremarkable loose cultivator from Baicao Lane. Because I have been exploited by you many times in the past, I have come to collect the debt now."

A loose cultivator from Baicao Lane?

How could a loose cultivator from that place have the strength for Sword Flight?

Gang Leader Zhou felt that Chen An was hiding his identity.

Seeing Chen An walking over with a sword, he knew that this matter certainly could not end well.

However, he had never intended for it to end well either; from start to finish, he had only thought of killing them to silence them.

Thus, he said in a deep voice to the gang members behind him:

"Attack together, finish him off quickly!"

As soon as his voice fell, the Deacons and Elders behind him launched their attacks one after another, coming at him with full-force killing moves without holding back in the slightest.

Chen An had restrained his aura, so they could not judge Chen An's cultivation level and simply used their full strength to avoid any complications.

"Truly weak."

Chen An said in a cold voice.

After his cultivation broke through to the Golden Core stage and his Divine Sense strength broke through to the Third-tier initial level, the movements of these Foundation Establishment Late Stage and Golden Core Early Stage cultivators before his eyes were as slow as snails.

"Puff... puff... puff!"

Soon, only a series of muffled sounds were heard.

The members of the Red Fire Gang, who a moment ago were showing off their various abilities and attacking Chen An fiercely, all had their expressions frozen the next moment, with an extra blood hole on their foreheads.

Then, they fell to the ground one after another and died, their eyes wide open and bloodshot, dying with deep resentment.

Until the very last moment before death, they had not realized how they had died.

"This, this is impossible!"

The only remaining Gang Leader Zhou, seeing this, could not help but reveal a look of terror, then turned and ran without a word, using the Wood Escape Technique to flee frantically through the bushes.

Chen An did not bother to loot the corpses and immediately used the Wood Escape Technique to pursue him.

"Who exactly are you!"

Gang Leader Zhou shouted, and seeing that Chen An's Wood Escape Technique was three parts faster than his own, his entire heart twitched with fear.

Chen An did not respond, caught up to Gang Leader Zhou in an instant, and slashed off his head with one sword strike.

However, although the head was severed, Gang Leader Zhou continued to flee frantically and did not die.

Then, in the next instant, a new head grew from his severed neck.

"He doesn't die even after being decapitated?"

Chen An felt somewhat shocked; Gang Leader Zhou's method was too powerful, likely some kind of formidable secret technique.

But it did not matter; burning him with Pill Fire would suffice.

A mere Golden Core minor cultivator could not withstand the burning of Third-tier Pill Fire.

After all, Pill Fire could directly burn a living being's soul.

"Zeng!"

With a thought, Chen An condensed a wisp of purple-black Pill Fire in his palm.

Seeing this, Gang Leader Zhou knew that he could not escape.

Thus, he simply decided to fight to the death, suddenly turned around to launch a surprise attack, opened his mouth, and roared loudly:

"Die for me!!!"

While shouting, he mobilized all his Spirit Power, transformed himself into a three-headed, six-armed monster, and used a set of fist techniques wreathed in blood energy, smashing fiercely toward Chen An.

Chen An was not afraid in the slightest and directly used the Shadow Kill Technique with a thought.

The next instant, he appeared behind the monster-transformed Gang Leader Zhou and slammed the wisp of Third-tier Pill Fire in his hand onto the opponent's back.

Once the Pill Fire touched him, it instantly spread over Gang Leader Zhou's entire body, burning him into a human torch.

"Ahhh—"

Accompanied by a heart-wrenching scream.

Gang Leader Zhou soon fell to the ground in despair, his whole body charred black, emitting the scent of roasted meat.

For a Golden Core major cultivator, having one's body charred was not fatal.

The real reason Gang Leader Zhou died and his soul dissipated was that the soul within his body had been completely incinerated by the Pill Fire.

"Alchemists are truly formidable."

"While their ability to make money is excellent, their combat power is not weak either."

"Being able to use poison to weaken opponents, take pills to enhance oneself, and even use Pill Fire to burn an opponent's soul is truly exaggerated."

Looking at Gang Leader Zhou, who was dead beyond any doubt on the ground, Chen An felt smug about his identity as an Alchemist.

Then, very quickly, he spread his Divine Sense to search for the Storage Bag on Gang Leader Zhou's corpse.

Not long after, he successfully found the Storage Bag.

With a thought, he opened it to take a look.

Then, he was immediately stunned by the things treasured inside.

Over a thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.

Countless Middle-grade Spirit Stones and Lower Grade Spirit Stones.

There were many Dharma Spells, Talismans, and medicinal pills.

There were also Dharma Artifacts, arrays, and so on.

Extremely wealthy!

"To be this rich just from being at the Golden Core Early Stage, it's clear this dog of a man must have exploited the residents of Baicao Lane quite a bit."

"And before stationing himself in Baicao Lane, he surely must have done plenty of burning, killing, and looting."

"He is human scum; he deserves to die."

Chen An whispered as he looked at the corpse of Gang Leader Zhou.

Killing such a person weighed nothing on his conscience.

Very quickly.

Chen An left this place and returned to the spot where he started, intending to loot the bodies and extract the demon core of that Heavenly Demon Bear.

When he had extracted the demon core from the Heavenly Demon Bear's body and finished looting the Storage Bags from the people of the Red Fire Gang and the Black Wind Gang, and was preparing to use Sword Flight to leave, a familiar voice suddenly rang out from behind him.

"Young Master, we meet again."

This voice, soft enough to melt one's bones... it was that fox demon!

Chen An's heart sank, and he immediately used the Sage's Art, instantly forcing himself into a state of Sage Mode where his carnal desires were reduced to zero.

Then, without a second thought, he directly cast the Wood Escape Technique to flee.

But having escaped less than a hundred meters, he suddenly slammed into an invisible barrier and could not penetrate it no matter what.

Manifest a Light Sword!

Slash!

Chop!

Stab!

However, the invisible barrier remained completely unmoved.

The area he was currently in seemed to be covered by a large, transparent glass bowl.

And Chen An was an ant trapped inside; no matter how hard he tried, he could not break the glass bowl to escape.

"Young Master, don't waste your energy. This is an array I specifically set up for you, called Draw Ground as Prison. With your cultivation at the Golden Core Early Stage, you cannot break this array."

The voice of the woman in the purple dress came from behind, charming enough to make one's bones go soft.

Chen An turned his head at the sound, and what met his eyes was the familiar woman in the purple dress; her beautiful eyes were soul-stirring, and the pair of snow-white calves beneath her dress were slender and alluring, making his head throb and his heart itch.

"By the way, in this array, your Shadow Kill Technique is useless too."

The woman in the purple dress gave a charming smile, then snapped her fingers with a "pop."

Following that, the area within the array suddenly went dark, without a single glimmer of light.

And without light, there were no shadows, and thus the Shadow Kill Technique could not be used.

However, Chen An did not panic.

He narrowed his eyes, then produced a wisp of Pill Fire in his palm and flicked it toward the surrounding vegetation.

Since the sunlight from outside couldn't shine in, he would use fire to create artificial light!

As soon as the Pill Fire touched the vegetation, it instantly spread over everything, burning ruthlessly and rapidly.

In an instant!

The previously pitch-black interior of the array became bright.

The shadows of all things appeared once again.

Chen An did not waste time; he quickly moved his thoughts to use the Shadow Kill Technique and escaped into the shadow behind the woman in the purple dress.

Then, he instantly burst out from the shadow and swung his sword, fiercely slashing toward the snow-white neck of the woman in the purple dress.

Since he couldn't break the array with brute force, he would kill the one who set the array to break it!

"Clang—"

A crisp sound of hard objects colliding rang out.

The Light Sword in Chen An's hand had slashed viciously against the snow-white neck of the woman in the purple dress, but it was as if a steel pipe had struck an iron block; the powerful recoil numbed his entire arm.

He looked closely and discovered that a layer of faint Gold Light had emerged on the woman's neck, blocking his highly explosive slash.

He did not know if it was a Dharma Spell or a Dharma Artifact.

"This is bad!"

"I can't break her defense!"

Chen An's heart sank, and he quickly cast the Shadow Kill Technique to hide in another shadow, putting a safe distance between himself and the woman in the purple dress to avoid a counterattack.

The woman in the purple dress sensed the surroundings, but failing to detect Chen An's presence, she couldn't help but smile sweetly:

"The Shadow Kill Technique is truly a formidable Dharma Spell; when combined with the Breath Concealment Technique, it can both attack and defend."

"It's a pity that it requires certain environmental conditions to be cast."

"Its weakness is still quite obvious."

As she finished speaking, a faint blue light flickered in the woman's beautiful eyes.

The next moment, the temperature within the array plummeted, and everything instantly froze, with a thin layer of frost forming on the surfaces.

The fire was extinguished.

Both the firelight and the shadows vanished.

Chen An had nowhere to hide and was squeezed out from a shadow that had disappeared.

Looking at the frost covering the ground, he realized the woman in the purple dress ahead was a Water Spirit Root cultivator.

This was a huge problem.

"Young Master, don't waste your energy; it would be better to just obediently surrender."

"Rest assured, I won't take your little life; at most, I'll just keep you as a boy toy and drain your vital essence every day, nothing more."

"Although it will cause some damage to your body, it won't be enough to kill you."

The woman in the purple dress walked slowly toward Chen An, whispering persuasively the entire way, her voice filled with a trace of intoxicating magic that made Chen An's heart waver.

That's right, why resist?

This fox demon is so beautiful; becoming her boy toy is a good thing.

Anyway, it's just draining some vital essence, it won't kill me; at worst, I'll just be a sickly person.

Even if I die, it's no big deal.

After all, as the saying goes, to die under a pomegranate skirt is to be a romantic ghost.

So... just submit to her.

Yes, submit to her, be her boy toy... wait!

Something's not right!

What has happened to me?!

I've been charmed!

Chen An suddenly sobered up, realizing he had just fallen for the woman in the purple dress's Charm Technique.

"Damn it, fight to the death!"

Knowing he couldn't escape today, he suddenly narrowed his eyes, condensed a Light Sword at his fingertips, stomped the ground with a "Bang!", and his body instantly turned into an afterimage, charging straight at the woman in the purple dress.

So fast!

The woman in the purple dress was shocked, stunned by the speed Chen An had erupted with.

She reacted immediately, twisting her body to try and dodge his strike.

Unfortunately, it was too slow!

Compared to Chen An, the speed of the woman in the purple dress was simply too slow!

Before she had even moved a step, Chen An's figure had already rushed in front of her.

Then!

Dozens, even hundreds of sword strikes landed on her body.

Eyes!

Throat!

Chest!

Lower body!

Every sword strike aimed directly at vital points, every strike lethal, attacking with extreme cruelty.

However, what made Chen An despair was that although his sword strikes were sharp and fierce, when they landed on the woman in the purple dress, they were blocked by a layer of faint Gold Light just like before, emitting "Clang! Clang! Clang!" collision sounds, failing to harm the woman in the purple dress in the slightest.

Chen An refused to accept this, unwilling to give up, and continued to swing his sword to slash fiercely at the woman in the purple dress.

He guessed that the Gold Light had a limit; as long as he attacked enough and hard enough, he would surely break through the Gold Light's defense.

"What is going on with this person!"

"How is he so strong!"

"And, why did my Demon Sound Piercing Ears just now, and the previous Charm Technique, have so little effect on him?"

"Could it be that he has long since seen through the vanity of the world and is no longer obsessed with female beauty?"

The woman in the purple dress tried her best to parry Chen An's strikes, unable to understand it at all.

This was her first setback since arriving at the Red Cedar Forest, and she felt extremely frustrated.

"Crack!"

Suddenly, a crisp cracking sound came from the woman in the purple dress.

It was her membrane that had broken!

The layer of golden light membrane on her body had broken!

The woman in the purple dress showed terror on her face.

In contrast, Chen An showed joy, swinging his sword even more crazily.

His guess was right!

This light membrane on the woman in the purple dress had a damage-bearing limit!

It had now reached its limit!

"Clang... Clang... Clang!"

"Crack... Crack... Crack!"

As the strikes continued to fall, more and more cracks appeared on the golden light membrane on the woman in the purple dress.

Until finally, with a "Clang" sound, the golden light membrane shattered completely, and the woman in the purple dress finally lost her protection.

"Die!"

Chen An swung his sword fiercely at the snow-white neck of the woman in the purple dress, showing no mercy just because she was beautiful.

He wanted a lethal blow to end it once and for all!

"Hum—"

The Light Sword at Chen An's fingertips swept across the neck of the woman in the purple dress, but it passed through as if cutting through air, feeling no resistance at all, only creating a whistling sound.

"Where is she!"

Chen An looked at the empty space in front of him in disbelief, for a moment thinking he was hallucinating.

He immediately tensed up and quickly put distance between himself and the spot, terrified of being ambushed by the woman in the purple dress.

"Young Master, how does it feel to have the person in front of you suddenly disappear?"

The voice of the woman in the purple dress suddenly came from behind him.

Chen An turned his head abruptly and saw the woman in the purple dress ten meters behind him.

At this moment, the woman in the purple dress had a charming smile on her beautiful face, completely devoid of the panic she had shown when being chased and slashed earlier.

Just then, the voice of the woman in the purple dress sounded from Chen An's side again.

"Young Master, you disappeared from in front of me twice before; I was so heartbroken then."

Chen An looked in the direction of the voice, and what met his eyes was another woman in a purple dress.

Two identical women in purple dresses?

Before he could figure out what was going on.

The voice of the woman in the purple dress appeared from all directions, and her voice rang out one after another.

"Young Master, are you very confused?"

"I know Clone Technique!"

"Young Master, don't listen to her, she is lying to you; she doesn't know any Clone Technique."

"Young Master, just surrender obediently."

"Young Master..."

The voices of the women in purple dresses grew more numerous, wave after wave, like ghosts whispering in his ears.

Chen An felt as if his head were about to explode, and he soon realized that he might have fallen under an Illusion Technique.

Because this was a method that fox demons excelled at.

However, knowing it was useless; faced with an Illusion Technique, he had absolutely no way to counter it.

"When exactly did I fall under the Illusion Technique?"

"Was it from the very beginning?"

Thinking of this, Chen An could not help but feel a deep, terrifying chill, a sense of horror creeping over him.

This fox demon was too difficult to deal with, possessing countless methods, easily able to play people in the palm of her hand.

"Young Master, be infatuated with me!"

"Give your heart to me!"

"I am your true love!"

"You are willing to do anything for me!"

The demonic voice of the woman in the purple dress continued to echo all around.

Then, very quickly, a large amount of heart-shaped mist emerged from all directions and drifted slowly toward Chen An.

Charm Technique!

Dozens or hundreds of Charm Techniques!

But there must only be one that is real!

The others are all Illusion Techniques!

That's right!

I am still in the Sage Mode right now, I can use her own strategy against her!

Chen An's mind raced, and he immediately thought of a way to respond.

Thus, as all the heart-shaped mist struck his body, he feigned being under the Charm Technique, suppressed the nausea in his heart, looked at the woman in the purple dress with a dazed expression, and foolishly muttered:

"Master..."

"Master..."

"..."

Listening to this muttering, the woman in the purple dress stood still in her original spot from start to finish, watching Chen An's state the entire time.

Last time at the Qin Clan Firm, Chen An had also fallen under the Charm Technique.

But he had only been infatuated for a while before quickly sobering up.

She felt very puzzled by this, and to figure it out, she had to study him carefully now.

About half a quarter of an hour later.

Seeing Chen An still muttering in a dazed state, the woman in the purple dress could not help but mutter to herself:

"It seems last time was just a coincidence."

After speaking, she smiled charmingly and beckoned to Chen An with her finger, saying:

"Young Master, come here to me~"

At this time, the clones around her had already disappeared.

No, to be more precise, the Illusion Technique had been lifted.

There was only her alone within the formation.

Chen An saw her true form in an open space ahead, continued to feign the appearance of being under the Charm Technique and infatuated by her, and walked toward her like a terminally ill sycophant, his eyes filled only with her.

Not long after.

He walked to the front of the woman in the purple dress and stopped.

"Mm~ so fragrant!"

Smelling the scent radiating from Chen An, a scent of extremely rich vital essence, the woman in the purple dress could no longer hold back.

She reached out, grabbed Chen An's lapels, and pulled his handsome face down until it was level with her own pretty face.

Then, she parted her red lips slightly, aimed them at Chen An's Heavenly Gate, and began to suck from a distance.

Under her suction from a distance.

Wisps of white mist soon appeared at Chen An's Heavenly Gate, flowing one after another into her red lips, which she inhaled with an expression of enjoyment.

Conversely, Chen An, being sucked, felt his entire body aching, as if the marrow inside his bones were being pried open and dug out, the pain so intense that his muscles were on the verge of spasming.

Such a realistic sensation of pain!

This is definitely not an illusion!

The woman in the purple dress before me is real, and I am being drained of my vital essence by her!

After confirming this in his heart!

Chen An's gaze immediately sharpened, and in an instant, he mobilized all his Spirit Power, directly unleashing his Golden Finger at close range and thrusting it violently toward the right side of the purple-dressed woman's heart.

That is the location of a demon's Demon Core!

As long as the Demon Core is damaged, the demon will either die or be injured, completely losing its combat effectiveness.

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