Chapter 176: Leading the Demons, The Supreme Empress

"Stupid!" When Brother Qian Chen shouted out the true forms of the four demon heads, the Buddha Bone Demon disguised as the Northern Heavenly King suddenly said coldly: "Do you know what kind of stupid mistake you have made!"

The Six Desire God-Demon, disguised as the Southern Heavenly King holding a one-eyed demon sword, said: "We disguised ourselves as these four dharma images, originally having ten percent of our ability, but we could only show six percent..."

The Gandharva sound demon, disguised as the Eastern Heavenly King holding a pipa, sang softly: "This was your only chance..."

The Soldier Armor Corpse Demon, holding an iron mace, laughed loudly: "But you were clever, but in reality, you were seeking your own death!"

The four god-demons roared, revealing their true forms.

That Gandharva sound demon had a beauty's head and a demon's body, with a skin color of red flesh, and an eight-cornered crown on its top. It was shrouded in nine kinds of demonic incense, unpredictable, and various strange demonic images appeared in the fragrance. It squatted on one leg, and the other leg was coiled in the bend of the squatting leg, with the pipa carried on its back.

Li Mi was startled in his heart, secretly thinking: "Bad. These demons only used the power of demonic sound before, but now they have manifested their demon bodies, and it is a kind of demonic incense aura, formless and qualityless, capable of carrying musical notes."

"They were right!"

"These four demon heads didn't manifest their true bodies, so they could only use six percent of their ability. Now that this demonic evil fragrance and demonic sound are combined, how could it be just four percent stronger? This four percent ability is probably an underestimate!"

On the other side, the Six Desire God-Demon withdrew the demon eye on the sword, manifesting as a naked demon head, like a man and a woman entangled together, with four arms. The Six Desire Illusion Demon Eye grew in the palm of one arm, emitting dazzling demonic light. The palms of the other three arms each grew an ear, a mouth, and a nose, but the demonic light was dim and did not reach the level of the Six Desire Illusion Demon Eye.

Plus the entangled demon body of a man and a woman and the two heads of a man and a woman, it was the Six Desire Magic.

The Soldier Armor Corpse Demon was covered in red copper armor, and its face and body shape were hidden under the red copper divine armor. Bone spurs grew on the joints of its limbs, and from the gaps in the red copper divine armor, one could vaguely see blue-gray wrinkled skin.

The rolling corpse aura turned into black clouds, shrouding its body.

The red eyes were full of killing intent!

"Soldier-family cultivators imitate ancient gods and demons, practicing killing and martial arts, wearing divine armor, holding divine weapons. Their skills, sixty percent are in the soldier armor. This person must have been a great general of the soldier family!"

Seeing Yan Shu shouted to remind Brother Qian Chen. Soldier-family cultivators originated from the end of the Heavenly Zhou Divine Dynasty, during the chaotic times of the feudal lords. Some Daoist cultivators gave up refining magic treasures and spells, imitated ancient gods and demons, practiced weapon fighting, refined divine weapons, and fought with their flesh. Now in the Wei and Jin Dynasties of the Central Lands, soldier-family cultivators had long since declined, but in this era, the revival of the hundred schools of cultivation in the Great Tang, the soldiers and generals of the Tang army Brother Qian Chen saw along the way all practiced killing arts of the soldier family.

Li Mi saw the corpse demon in bright divine armor, with an iron mace in its hand that was unparalleled in power, and various hidden secrets in the palace flashed in his heart.

"Zhaoyao Black Tai Sui Helmet, Red Copper Heavenly King Armor, Fire Cloud Vermilion Bird Robe, Water Cloud Crossing River Shoes, Mixed Iron Xuanwu Whip... You are the son of the Duke of Pingyang, Xue Xue Dingshan, who was killed by the Empress back then."

The corpse demon was slightly stunned and said hoarsely: "I didn't expect anyone to remember my name, Xue Xue Dingshan. It's a pity that the Empress cut off my roots and bones, leaving only this remnant body... It's hard to fight with all my might."

"After the corpse demon is revived, it is already different from when it was alive! Many corpse demons are controlled by enemies, killing fathers and sons, and their consciousness is no longer the person they were when they were alive. They can only be considered a kind of demon creature revived!"

Seeing Yan Shu didn't know who this Xue Xue Dingshan was, only fearing that Li Mi would be confused by it, so he hurriedly reminded him.

The last Buddha Bone Demon manifested its true form, but it was twenty-eight bone Buddhas, with a skull-like head, ribs joined together, holding a thirteen-story bone stupa, with hidden demonic light in its eyes, and a skeleton body with dark golden Buddha light. Its lower jaw opened and closed: "Can see the identity of the corpse demon, worthy of being the Crown Prince's white-clothed prime minister... But can you guess who I am?"

Li Mi said: "Although it is a demon of Buddha bones, you were not refined from the remains of high monks, but practiced the demon path when you were alive."

Brother Qian Chen laughed: "I know who he is! He is the Empress's favorite, the demon monk Xue Xue Huaiyi of that generation. The Empress ordered people to kill him under the tree in front of the Yaoguang Palace, and the carriage carried the corpse to the White Horse Temple, burning his corpse to build a pagoda. It seems he was not worshipped in the Buddha pagoda, but was refined into a Buddha Bone Demon."

"Empress... Hahaha... A generation of Empress!" The Buddha Bone Demon Xue Xue Huaiyi laughed wildly: "Since you have guessed our identities, haven't you guessed who wants to destroy Chang'an?"

Li Mi whispered: "The Daoist sect has those who supervise the world called Heavenly Masters, and the demon sect has those who lead all demons called Heavenly Demons."

"The Heavenly Demon is the leader of the demon path, the head of all demons. Legend has it that the Empress Wu Zhao back then was the demon path leader, the Great Heavenly Demon... No wonder Chang'an can hide you demons; no wonder the dignified Buddha temple enshrines a group of demon path gods and demons."

Brother Qian Chen said lightly: "The Empress flourished Buddhism back then, claiming to be Maitreya descending. It turns out she was borrowing a shell to list, mixing sand into Buddhism!"

"Haha... Of course." The Buddha Bone Demon Xue Xue Huaiyi laughed: "This was the idea I gave her, turning demons into Buddhas to dominate the Great Tang. Back then, those Buddhist experts had to recognize this matter while pinching their noses, which was really funny... If Buddhism and Daoism joined forces to suppress, how could my demon sect have a chance to get ahead, how could the Empress ascend the throne. If I hadn't offered this strategy to make Buddhism fall into internal strife, how could she... What a heartless, snake-hearted woman..."

"Ah!" Blood-colored fire burned on the Buddha Bone Demon, and it screamed in the fire, as if it were refining its soul and pulling its tendons and bones.

Demon Lord's punishment... After thoroughly subduing the god-demon, even if it was a deep hatred that could not be washed away by the water of the three rivers, it was difficult to express any evil words to the Demon Lord, and it was not allowed to raise a trace of resentment in its heart. Otherwise, there would be punishments like demon fire refining the soul and pulling tendons and bones.

Therefore, in the demon sect, not only did they not mind refining enemies into demons, but they even liked this kind of taking enemies as claws, not only torturing them day and night, but even letting the god-demon transformed by the enemy hurt the people they loved.

After killing, they still wanted to punish the heart.

That Xue Xue Dingshan saw this miserable scene, but remained motionless like wood and stone... This was the appearance of the consciousness before death being worn away by pain after punishment. What Seeing Yan Shu said, that after the god-demon was refined into a demon, it was no longer the consciousness before death, was seven-tenths correct. The remaining three-tenths were that even if the consciousness before death was retained, it would only be more painful, wishing to wear away this bit of consciousness and turn into an ignorant demon.

Xue Xue Dingshan had obviously experienced this kind of torture after being refined into a corpse demon.

Only then did his consciousness completely collapse.

It was a long time before the demonic fire on the Buddha-bone demon Xue Xue Huaiyi slowly extinguished. He gripped the White Bone Pagoda tightly and sneered: "The Li clan relies on the Profound Heaven Sect, honoring the Supreme Daoist Ancestor as their forefather, and three Celestial Masters have entered the imperial court."

"In order to compete with the Daoist sect, the Empress turned demons into Buddhas, borrowing Buddhism to fight against the Daoist sect."

"At the same time, she hid my demon sect in Buddhism."

"Otherwise, why do you think we stole these four Heavenly King god images, but the Ghost King Zhong Kui had no reaction? Why can we hide in this Chang'an, which is called the Divine Capital?"

"You... don't you know what you are facing yet?"

"Haha... This is the foreshadowing left by the Empress to destroy this Li Tang dynasty, it is the Great Tang's demon calamity! Demon calamity!"

Xue Xue Huaiyi was close to madness, pointing to the sky and roaring.

Li Mi was terrified, muttering: "These four hundred and eighty Daoist temples and monasteries in Chang'an, and Luoyang has countless temples... How many are occupied by demons. How many of the ghosts and gods worshipped are transformed by demon gods?" Under the flourishing age, such terrifying shadows were hidden. At this moment, even Cen Can felt a heavy sense of crisis in his heart.

Only then did he feel that what Brother Qian Chen and the others said about saving Chang'an might not be empty words.

Both of them had been fascinated by the prosperity of this flourishing age, feeling that these undercurrents were just minor ailments, just a part of the various calculations and murders of Chang'an dignitaries for hundreds of years. But until today, when the demon head lifted a corner of the chessboard, they saw the heavy shadows and the diseases that had rotted into the internal organs.

"Countless!" The Buddha Bone Demon Xue Xue Huaiyi sneered.

Facing these four completely manifested demons, this Chang'an... Luoyang even had an unknown number of demon gods lurking among the countless ghosts and gods. Brother Qian Chen finally touched the location of the calamity of this main mission. He pressed his hand on the sword of affection and whispered: "Very good... Thank you for telling me this."

"The demon calamity is imminent, and Chang'an will be destroyed. We don't have much time left!"

He said this as if to Seeing Yan Shu, and as if to Li Mi and Cen Can, and even more to the four demon heads.

"Send you on your way!"

The sword of affection unsheathed again. Between the light and dark of the sword light, there seemed to be countless smoke, clouds, and fragrance, forming a strange scene of a mirage. In the sword light, the smoke and waves were faint, and the Yingzhou Xiandao appeared vaguely, and the demonic light emitted by the Six Desire Illusion Demon Eye of the Six Desire Heavenly Demon could not fall.

At this moment, Brother Qian Chen seemed to be on the Yingzhou Xiandao, far away from the world, not stained by the six dusts.

He came to the Six Desire Heavenly Demon, and no matter how it shook the six dusts and aroused the six desires, it could not fall on Brother Qian Chen at all.

Brother Qian Chen's figure stood alone, appearing slow but fast, and came to the Six Desire God-Demon, falling with one sword, slashing the Six Desire God-Demon. In the sword light, the god-demon with entangled man and woman, four arms, and two heads of a man and a woman let out a horrified scream, and then saw the sword light fall, and the god-demon died.

Everything happened in an instant. The four god-demons, including Li Mi and Cen Can, did not expect Brother Qian Chen to take action so suddenly.

And one of the four god-demons, the god-demon transformed by the six desire dust roots, was so easily slashed by this sword.

At this moment, Cen Can's brain was blank, only hearing Brother Qian Chen chanting softly:

"Sea guests talk about Yingzhou, the smoke and waves are faint and hard to seek."

"Wu Yue people talk about Mount Tianmu, the clouds and clouds are bright and dark or can be seen."

The next sword Brother Qian Chen fell from the Yingzhou far away from the world, the sword momentum turned into a group of bright and dark, ethereal and changing clouds and smoke, Brother Qian Chen's figure turned into Mount Tianmu Mountain, hidden in the sword light of the clouds and neon, falling towards the Gandharva sound demon.

That pipa demonic sound, that heavenly demon fragrance, were all broken by this sword under the sword light of the clouds and neon.

The beautiful head of the Gandharva sound demon was separated from its neck, falling into the dust. It was originally a formless fragrance, hard to hurt its essence, but this sword was a sword of cloud and smoke changing, completely restraining its essence.

Second sword... killed another demon! ===== CHAPTER 177 =====