Chapter 82: Dark Clouds Press Down on the City, the City is on the Verge of Collapse!

Dark clouds press down on the city, the city is on the verge of collapse.

As the alarm bell rings.

On the walls of Jinque City, a large number of martial artists and the City Defense Army are moving as many Crossbow Catapults up as possible.

On several large platforms on the city walls.

There are even large Catapults being assembled on-site.

These massive war machines are difficult to maintain, so to save money, they are only deployed and assembled on-site when trouble arises.

As the war weapons become more densely packed, the officers and soldiers looking at them gain a bit more confidence.

However, Su Ping knows that these war weapons are merely providing a bit of psychological comfort to the mortals in the city.

If the enemy is truly an adult Demon Beast equivalent to the Qi Refining Late Stage.

Whether it is crossbow bolts or stones from a Catapult, they are simply too slow; if they cannot keep up with the opponent's speed, then high power is useless.

Under normal circumstances, when the time comes for Demon Beasts to attack the city, one can only rely on the battle formations composed of Loose Cultivators and martial artists to fight to the death.

All the current preparations are merely to buy time for the wealthy families and above to hide.

These Demon Beasts cannot stay in one place for long; if one can run into a cellar or similar place in time, there is still a chance to save one's life.

"Why do these Demon Beasts have to come here? I clearly never take the initiative to provoke you!"

"As for meritorious service to the Immortal Sect, I don't need that right now!"

"But! Why do you still have to come and disturb my great cause of Fishing!"

Su Ping inspected the city defenses; his mere appearance greatly boosted morale and public sentiment, and he appeared calm and composed on the surface.

Yet in his heart, because he is constantly linked to Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui, he discovered the movements of those Demon Beasts in advance.

These Demon Beasts, weaving through the mountains, forests, and rivers, have actually already entered the territory of Jinque City.

And judging from the nodes where the scattered mice discovered their tracks.

These Demon Beasts, which have split into three paths, are not targeting the Jiuye Mountain Market, but this Jinque City—they are targeting Linyue Villa in the outskirts of Jinque City!

On one hand, Su Ping is angry in his heart that these Demon Beasts are bullying the weak and fearing the strong, not going for the Market with more Cultivators, but coming to find him, an Inspector of the mortal world, first.

It is clearly bullying him, a lone Cultivator; it is truly lacking in demon morality!

On the other hand, he is somewhat glad that he contracted Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui.

Relying on their innate divine abilities to control the swarms of mice, he has achieved an intelligence-gathering capability for the surrounding area that even a Foundation Establishment master might not be able to do!

It is not only because mice are inconspicuous in most areas, being common and numerous enough to cast a wide net and compensate for the lack of individual ability with sheer numbers.

More importantly, these controlled mice are under the mental control of Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui, and they themselves have no Spirit Qi fluctuations!

This point makes them nearly invisible in the eyes of Cultivators and Demon Beasts!

Even those spirit birds that can fly into the sky cannot compare to this advantage.

Especially the invading Demon Beasts, which are more sensitive to demon aura; once they discover a spirit bird in the sky, they will immediately realize they have been spotted.

How could it be like now, where even if they accidentally step to death one or two controlled mice.

They are still completely unaware that their tracks have long been exposed to others!

"There cannot be a battle near Linyue Villa!"

"If Linyue Lake is damaged because of this and the fishing spot becomes invalid... then the loss will outweigh the gain!"

"Although I don't know if the terrain will have problems after being damaged once a fishing spot is formed, for the sake of safety, this risk cannot be taken!"

"Even if I am curious about this question in the future, I must wait until there are more fishing spots and find those spots with useless specialty catches to experiment."

"The Red Blood Rainbow Carp is related to my Saint Body and cannot be allowed to have any issues!"

Su Ping no longer wastes time; after boosting morale, he heads straight toward one of the paths of the Demon Beasts.

Just in case, Su Ping redeems Life Spirit Medicine and Purification Spirit Medicine.

He also hides a Teleportation Rune and a Strange Tree Seed in his sleeves.

Su Ping is confident that even if a Foundation Establishment master comes in person, it is impossible for them not to give him a chance to escape.

After all, which Foundation Establishment master could imagine that he, a Mid-stage Qi Refining Cultivator, has so many life-saving items and can respond in advance.

Boom!

In the forest about a thousand meters away from the official road, accompanied by the sound of muffled thunder in the sky.

A six-meter-tall long-armed giant ape suddenly pauses, its chest exploding with a flower of blood as it falls from the high air where it had leaped.

"Roar!"

The giant ape bounces back up the moment it hits the ground.

But it is still hit in the left leg, and a bowl-sized wound suddenly appears on its thick leg muscles.

"Despicable human!"

The giant ape roars, its roar filled with grievance and anger.

As a leader among the Qi Refining Late Stage Demon Beasts.

This giant ape actually discovered Su Ping hiding in the tree canopy.

Feeling Su Ping's vigorous blood and Qi, the giant ape immediately thinks this is a human Body Cultivator no weaker than itself.

Deep in its heart, the giant ape, which has long been tired of slaughtering those weak ants, cannot help but feel its blood boiling.

It wishfully thinks that since the other party is a Body Cultivator willing to come alone to wait for it.

It must be here to have a hearty one-on-one duel between Body Cultivators!

Yet!

This despicable human Cultivator actually takes advantage of the moment it closes the distance and leaps high into the air with nowhere to leverage force to launch a sneak attack with a strange weapon!

This damn well cannot be the life-and-death duel between Body Cultivators it expected!

Facing the giant ape's anger, Su Ping does not ask or answer, but simply holds the Heavy Sniper Rifle at a distance of a hundred meters, pulling the trigger to aim and fire without a moment's pause.

The giant ape's legs were wounded, and facing bullets traveling at four times the speed of sound and Su Ping, whose senses were no weaker than its own, it had no chance to dodge.

Within seconds, it had been shot multiple times in the head and chest, and it collapsed to the ground unwillingly, seemingly devoid of life.

Su Ping looked at the giant ape lying motionless on the ground, hesitated for only half a second, then opened fire again, blowing a hole in the head of the giant ape as it lay on the ground exposing its large skull.

He noticed the giant ape with the blown-open head twitch all over, then slowly stop trembling.

Only then did Su Ping heave a sigh of relief:

"Sure enough, even among the most impulsive Demon Beast species, they are cunning and fickle."

"Furthermore, the vitality of these Demon Beasts is simply incredible; those few shots I just fired must have at least shredded its heart."

Su Ping whispered in his heart, yet he still did not put down the sniper rifle, while Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui let out barely audible squeaks from inside his sleeves.

In the mountain forest, several large rats crawled out from the soil and rushed onto the giant ape's corpse; unable to gnaw through the fur, they began to follow suggestions to look for its weak points.

Su Ping waited for one minute, only then confirming one hundred percent that this long-armed giant ape with the blown-open head was truly dead.

Only then did he walk over quickly, simply butchering the giant ape and placing it into several Storage Bags.

He put a piece of Demon Beast Meat Jerky into his mouth, bit it a few times, and swallowed it to recover his stamina.

Immediately closing his eyes to observe the routes of other Demon Beasts through the rats, Su Ping set off quickly, rushing toward the next path of Demon Beasts.

There were two Demon Beasts on the second path, and when they passed by a village in the mountains, they conveniently solved their food problem in that village.

By the time Su Ping arrived, these two Demon Beasts had just finished their meal and simultaneously discovered each other.

These were two wolf demons, both over three meters tall and seven or eight meters long.

However, both their blood-energy intensity and spiritual power fluctuations were much weaker than the solitary long-armed giant ape from before.

Su Ping suspected that the giant ape might have been the strongest one among the Demon Beasts attacking this time.

However, this did not make Su Ping lower his guard.

Su Ping had intended to use the same trick again, waiting for the wolf demons to leap up before opening fire.

But he discovered that the opponents also didn't play by the rules, opening their mouths to spray Wind Blades!

Su Ping let out a scoff and retreated quickly into the dense forest.

The Wind Blades struck the ground, carving out several trenches before dissipating.

Su Ping, with his one-fifth Saint Body, moved with a speed that caused the two wolf demons preparing to pursue him to abruptly halt their steps.

"So fast!"

"This human Body Cultivator is not simple!"

"The dense forest is problematic; we must not go deep!"

Beyond their astonishment, the wolf demons tacitly prepared to retreat.

Seeing that these two wolf demons refused to enter, Su Ping sighed and raised an Automatic Rifle in each hand.

Did they think they would be fine if they didn't enter the dense forest?

Hah! How naive; in fact, the moment I appeared, you were already within the range of my thermal weapons!

The sound of *da-da-da* rang out in the dense forest!

The wolf demons sensed the crisis, their fur standing on end as they leaped up violently.

Yet they did not expect that this was exactly what Su Ping was waiting for.

The gun barrels fired continuously in bursts, his reactions keeping up with the wolf demons.

Full-power bullets capable of penetrating five-millimeter steel plates struck the abdomens and lower legs of these wolf demons.

Although they did not penetrate deep into the flesh, they ultimately broke through their defenses and caused wounds, making the two wolf demons howl as they fell to the ground, only to be hit by more bullets!

Su Ping finished his ammunition and simply loosened his hands, letting the Automatic Rifles fall to the ground.

On the ground, Spirit Mouse Xiaobai and Xiaohui stood on their hind legs, immediately catching the empty Automatic Rifles.

And then, just as the wolf demons were glaring viciously at Su Ping, thinking that this guy's strange weapons must be out of ammo.

They stared in dumbfounded silence as that hateful Body Cultivator actually pulled out a pitch-black metal rod that looked even thicker and aimed it at them!

A chill rising, the wolf demons ignored their severe injuries and wanted to flee.

Bang!

The sound of the heavy sniper rifle rang out.

Bang, bang!

One sound, then another!

Like a funeral bell, it tolled for the wolf demons to be buried alongside the village that had suffered behind them.

Blown-open head, then decapitation, and finally collected into the Storage Bag as materials!

After Su Ping gathered the wolf demon remains, he looked at the village that no longer had any signs of life, shook his head slightly to memorize the location, and left.

All he could do now was provide the location to the City Lord Mansion of Jinque City when he returned to the city, and then let them arrange for people to come and handle the aftermath.

Hopefully, the belongings that these wolf demons had no interest in could be tallied and handed over to their descendants.

The second confrontation with Qi Refining Late Stage Demon Beasts.

Although he had taken a shortcut with a little help from his weapons.

Su Ping still keenly realized that his current self, in every aspect of his physical constitution, was even faster and stronger than these Demon Beasts!

This was also a major reason why he could leverage the advantages of his weapons!

"So I have already become this strong? These Qi Refining Late Stage Demon Beasts that cause the mortal world to suffer and keep the Patrol Envoy running constantly, I actually feel that they are... nothing much?"

Su Ping sped to the side of a small river.

Then, he transformed into an old fisherman, set up his spot, and began to fish.

He was still using a hook without bait.

The heavy sniper rifle rested against his shoulder, appearing harmless to humans and animals alike.

In the river, the last group of Demon Beasts that had invaded Jinque City, two mountain spirits, were swimming upstream.

Mountain spirits are similar to large, entirely snow-white monkeys, though their builds are slightly leaner and longer, while their faces and noses are quite large.

When biting people, they can open their mouths and swallow an adult's head whole.

They thought their movements were stealthy and even used a bit of cunning, relying on their ability to hold their breath to dive underwater for a sneak attack.

Yet they did not know that when they entered the water upstream, they had already been discovered by a large rat gnawing on a fruit nearby.

Su Ping, having judged that their target was clearly the Linyue Hubo where he was located, simply ran back to the riverbank upstream of Linyue Lake and transformed into a fisherman to start Fishing!