Chapter 288: Slaughter

"Retreat!" Following Meng Yifan's order, those hundred-plus Second-grade Strongmen deployed their Lightness Skill and bolted toward Luolong County.

The avian Demon Beasts flew in the sky with the greatest speed, soon closing the distance to Meng Yifan and his group to within three hundred meters.

"Fire!" Meng Yifan shouted loudly, and Zhang Shagen and the others opened fire continuously with the AK47s in their hands, sending 72mm bullets flying out, causing the avian Demon Beasts to shriek incessantly.

However, because the vital parts of the avian Demon Beasts were covered in thick bronze armor and protected by Demon Power, it was difficult for the AK47 bullets to cause them fatal damage.

But Meng Yifan was different; he was now a Fourth Grade High Rank Immortal Cultivator with keen ears and bright eyes, and he was very skilled in Shooting Technique. Even from over three hundred meters away, he never missed a shot, each bullet precisely drilling into the eyes of an avian Demon Beast, taking down one flying Demon Beast with every shot.

"Swish!" A Third Grade Vulture Demon Beast opened its mouth and spat out a Wind Blade, slicing three bullets into fragments. Then, a cyan light surged over its body, and as its wings flapped, a cyan whirlwind whipped up in the surrounding area, causing the bullets landing in that zone to be deflected from their trajectory.

"Hmph! A Third Grade Demon Beast dares to act presumptuously before me." Meng Yifan let out a cold snort, formed a Sword Art with his right hand, and pointed forward. The Ghost Head Blade tore through the air, carrying the sound of Ghost Crying Wolf Howling, and charged toward that Third Grade vulture with the speed of lightning.

The Ghost Head Blade was too fast; the Third Grade vulture didn't even have time to react before its head was severed by a single slash, and it fell from high in the sky.

Not only that, but as Meng Yifan moved his mind, the ghost soldiers and generals inside the Ghost Head Blade, such as Zhang Butou and Jiang Tian, fired off large-headed needles one after another, all targeting the lower extremities of the avian Demon Beasts.

In an instant, the avian Demon Beasts seemed to be suffering inhumane torture; they all used their wings to protect their lower parts and let out miserable cries.

Before they could pull out those insidious large-headed needles, they felt a wave of intense numbness spreading from the puncture sites, and soon their muscles stiffened, making them unable to flap their wings, and they fell from the high sky one after another.

Meng Yifan used his Sword Control Technique to send the Ghost Head Blade spinning through the sky, knocking down over eighty Second Grade avian Demon Beasts, scaring the other avian Demon Beasts so much that they dared not pursue any further; they all spread their wings and flew high, widening the distance between them and Meng Yifan's group.

The Demon Race army had drawn from Second Grade and above Demon Beasts to form over a dozen elite squads. Their speed was indeed very fast; Demon Beasts were naturally good at running with their four legs, and humans of the same level were indeed not as fast as the Demon Race. Two elite Demon Race squads soon approached Meng Yifan and the others.

"Fire! Retreat while firing!" Meng Yifan shouted loudly.

Meng Dayong, Zhang Shagen, and the others held their AK47s and fired toward their rear. To increase their speed, the pursuing Demon Beasts were not wearing armor, and their bodies were either killed or maimed when struck by the AK47 bullets.

This tactic of Meng Yifan's was somewhat similar to the Mongol Mangudai archery method: shooting arrows while attacking, and also shooting arrows while retreating.

The Mongol cavalry of that era relied on this very maneuver to defeat the formidable European heavy cavalry, earning the illustrious reputation of the "Scourge of God" and carving out a massive empire that spanned the Eurasian continent.

The subordinates Meng Yifan brought were all Second-grade Strongmen or higher; their running speed was faster than horses, and the AK47 Assault Rifles they used were sharper than bows and arrows, causing the elite Demon Race squads behind them to fall into the dirt one after another.

These elite Demon Race squads also had Third Grade Demon Beasts that were not afraid of AK47 bullets, but even if they charged over, Third-grade Experts like Kong Sanqiang, Meng Da, and Shen Dahu could tear these Third Grade Demon Beasts into pieces.

Soon, these two fastest-charging Demon Race squads were completely wiped out.

Meng Yifan was in no rush to return to the city; instead, he charged toward another elite Demon Race squad.

"Kill!" Both sides were experts, and their attack speed was extremely fast. The Domains of Meng Yifan, Lang Jiao, and Meng Shuangdao expanded outward, directly covering the entire Demon Race squad.

Lang Jiao's Earth Domain made the Demon Race squad feel as if they had fallen into a quagmire, making movement difficult.

Meng Shuangdao's Black and Red Fire Domain made the Demon Beast squad feel the "two worlds of ice and fire," their bodies being burned one moment and frozen the next, causing them excruciating pain.

And Meng Yifan's Yin Domain was even more bizarre, as it had actually fused with Divine Soul attacks. The Demon Beasts inside the Yin Domain felt dizzy and disoriented, their vision blurred, and they couldn't even see where the enemies were.

Three Fourth-grade Experts joining forces to suppress one Demon Race squad was simply bullying the Demon Beasts. What followed was a one-sided slaughter; Meng Da and Meng Er brandished their massive Big Guan Blades and hammers, stirring up a bloody storm within the Demon Beast squad.

Both of their weapons were heavy, and when swung, they carried immense force; a graze meant a broken bone, and a touch meant death.

Kong Sanqiang and the other vampires were lightning-fast. As their figures flickered, one Demon Beast after another had their throats torn open, and then these vampires deployed their Blood Clan Secret Art; every time they killed a Demon Beast, they could instantly drain all the Blood Essence from its entire body.

The Demon Beasts killed by Meng Da and Meng Er became mangled fragments, while the Demon Beasts finished off by the vampires were left as nothing but dried corpses.

Human Martial Artists like Shen Dahu, Meng Dayong, and Zhang Shagen used the Stabbing Blades on their AK47s to stab the helpless Demon Beasts to death.

It lasted only a dozen seconds or so before this elite squad composed of thirty Second Grade and above Demon Beasts was completely annihilated.

Seeing this scene, Hu Dameng brought Zhu Meimei and She Qingqing over and roared angrily, "Meng Yifan, you are Fourth-grade Powerhouses; what kind of skill is it to slaughter our Third Grade Demon Race? If you have the guts, let's face each other squarely and have a fair fight."

"Hehe, now is not the time. In a while, there will be plenty of opportunities to play with you."

Meng Yifan's primary task was to accumulate experience and raise his own strength to the Fifth-grade as quickly as possible to prepare for the battle against Lang Batian; he had no time to waste on Hu Dameng.

"Retreat!" Meng Yifan led the group to withdraw, but Hu Dameng would not let them leave. With the speed of a Fourth Grade Beast, he easily charged ahead of Meng Yifan and the others.

"Surrender and be captured, and I might spare your life," Hu Dameng roared.

"Hmph! You really think I'm afraid of you?" Meng Yifan deployed his Lingbo Microsteps, his body flickered, and he charged right in front of Hu Dameng, unleashing his ultimate move, the Black and White Grinding Disc, the moment he attacked.

After Meng Yifan advanced to Fourth Grade High Rank, the Black and White Grinding Disc he unleashed already possessed a few traces of the charm of Zhang Sanfeng.

One must know that the true Black and White Grinding Disc was a Supernatural Ability of a Fifth-Grade Expert. Although this move of Meng Yifan's could only be considered a prototype of a Supernatural Ability, it was still enough to crush a Fourth Grade Beast.