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Chapter 112, page 111: [Is this guy really ten years old?]

[Size Manipulation]: A Taoist technique for manipulating the volume of matter. This technique can make living beings or inanimate objects grow larger or smaller.

As the size of a living being changes, its weight and strength will increase or decrease accordingly; while the weight and strength of an inanimate object will also change proportionally.

Chen Sheng was already a Qi Transformation Realm cultivator with considerable strength. After using the Size Manipulation Tool to enlarge his body, he naturally became even more terrifying.

He once tested himself and found that, with the blessing of the [Size Ruyi], he could lift more than ten tons with one hand and push with more than twenty tons with one leg.

If you fight someone, the impact of punches and kicks will be two to three times that of pushing force.

At the second tier, this is a terrifying physical attribute that surpasses even that of a monster. Chen Sheng's current strength is enough to easily crush a bear demon like the Black Wind Monster, who excels in brute force.

When faced with a black bear that was ten feet tall charging menacingly, he simply bent down and pressed his palm heavily onto the bear's head, shoving its entire upper body into the ground.

boom!
The stone slabs in the square were cracked, and dirt flew everywhere.

With a single blow, Chen Sheng knocked the Black Wind Monster into a pit and knocked him unconscious.

After defeating one monster, Ling Xuzi's cleaver came from behind as a sneak attack.

Unlike the Black Wind Monster's brute strength, that large sword was covered with countless thin wind blades.

These demonic winds were extremely thin and extremely sharp, both brittle and razor-sharp, capable of easily slicing through the flesh and blood of those of the same level.

As the moment approached, goosebumps rose all over Chen Sheng's skin.

The crisis behind him caused the true energy of [Zhouyou Liuxu Gong] to become unbalanced, and the eight energies circulated in disorder, causing a powerful surge of chaotic true energy to erupt from his hand, shattering those thin wind blades.

Then, Chen Sheng's five fingers gripped the blade of the large sword.

Following the momentum of the blade, he slammed it heavily onto the ground, and Ling Xuzi, who was holding the blade, was also slammed into the ground.

The wolf demon, whose bones were far weaker than the Black Wind Monster's, was instantly crippled, its bones broken and tendons snapped.

Then came the venom sprayed by the white-robed scholar.

call!
Chen Sheng dealt with this move with the ease, simply blowing forward. His breath, under the influence of the Earthly Fiend Seventy-Two Arts [Wind Control] technique, transformed into a whirlwind, blowing all the poison back onto the white-robed scholar.

Hissing white smoke rose from the white snake's body.

The venom burned away the scales on its body, corroded its flesh, and exposed its internal organs, causing it to writhe in pain on the ground.

In the blink of an eye, he defeated three second-tier demons. Even though the three demons were under the influence of the golden headband and were in poor condition, he still left the abbot of Feiyun Temple, who was hiding in the corner of the square, dumbfounded.

"Is this guy ten years old?"
Even if one is blessed with Buddhist protective energy, one shouldn't possess such supernatural abilities at the age of ten, right?

"Can I beat him?"

The abbot of Feiyun Temple now regrets his greed and his participation in this demon feast.

A moment of regret flashed through his mind, and he quickly followed the example of his disciples who had not drunk alcohol, pretending to be tormented by the headband and rolling around on the ground, trying to get away with it.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield, Chen Sheng had already shrunk his body back to its normal size.

He glanced at the monkey troop with a cold smile, but ignored them for the time being. Instead, he stopped the tight headband that he had been maintaining and shouted loudly.

"Get up, all of you! Stop lying on the ground pretending to be dead."

Since you have chosen to wear the golden headband, you are now my people, my subjects. You will live a life of luxury, much better than the wild monsters you used to live in the mountains.

From now on, I'll still be doing the same work as before.

Occasionally, they can come out along the Oujiang River to scare people, but they are not allowed to actually hurt anyone, and they can receive their monthly salary on time every month.

The monthly salary will be three times what it used to be. Are you willing to accept that?

Perhaps it was because they heard that Chen Sheng wouldn't kill them, or perhaps it was because their status had suddenly changed from partners to employees, but the more than one hundred monsters in the square were momentarily bewildered.

Seeing them looking at each other blankly, with no one responding, Chen Sheng could only repeat, "Tighten!"

The pain of the tight headband lasted only a moment before it stopped, but it shattered the psychological defenses of most of the demons. One by one, they all prostrated themselves, shouting things like "Greetings to the Great King!" and "Swearing allegiance until death!"

Only a few monsters were too stubborn to kneel down and bow without kowtowing, so Chen Sheng specially rewarded them with an extended version of the torture of being bound by a tight headband.

Then, Chen Sheng stepped forward and spoke to the three half-dead demons.

"You three, stop pretending to be dead. Answer me: surrender or die?"

Upon hearing this, the Black Wind Monster raised his head from the pit, shook off the dirt, and crawled down in front of Chen Sheng.

"You are very capable, I am willing to acknowledge you as my king."

Ling Xuzi and the white-robed scholar, both severely injured, could only lower their heads helplessly.

"Greetings, Your Majesty! *2"

Monsters are relatively simple-minded, lacking a strong sense of honor and shame or heroic spirit. Once you defeat them, subduing them is relatively easy.

"Oh right, I didn't tell you earlier that the demons' triple monthly salary is to be taken from your share of the profits."

From now on, you won't be receiving such high dividends as in previous years.

The three demons exchanged glances and had no objection to the move. They were already grateful to have saved their lives, so they dared not mention money.

After dealing with this matter, Chen Shengcai looked at the monkey demon in the corner of the square and said loudly.

"Isn't this Master Qingxu from Feiyun Temple? How come you and your disciple have turned into monkeys?"

"What are you doing sneaking into my Miaochan Temple like this, so furtively?"

These words struck Master Qingxu like a thunderbolt.

He paused for a few breaths before using his magic to remove the disguises from himself and his disciples, revealing their true forms.

"Abbot, you misunderstand. I was just passing by Miaochan Temple with my disciples when we came in to ask for a drink because we were so hungry and thirsty."

Chen Sheng burst into laughter.

"Since you are thirsty, why don't you drink the flowing wine of our temple?"
In my opinion, the Taoist priest must have come specifically to kill a mere child like me.

As he spoke, Chen Sheng pointed to the sky, and a mirror-like surface of rippling water unfolded in the sky, displaying the scene on the banks of the Oujiang River two hours earlier.

In the scene, the Taoist Qingxu is full of vigor, raising his sword and speaking eloquently in front of his disciples.

"...The successor was a mere nine-year-old child...We stormed their door and killed their new abbot."

To display our might before the demons… and bring the Oujiang River under the control of my Feiyun Temple. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

The sounds coming from the screen made Qingxu break out in a cold sweat.

But now that his purpose for this trip had been discovered, he simply stopped pretending and slapped the head of the crane beside him with his big hand.

He, a Taoist priest, was reciting Buddhist verses.

"Namo Shakyamuni Buddha, whose three bodies are perfectly illuminating the universe!"

Wei Tuo, wielding his pestle, clears the way forward; the monks, brandishing their swords, sever evil ties.

The Four Heavenly Kings guard the four corners, and the Eight Dragon Gods protect the eight sides.

Vajrasattva merges into my body, Prajnaparamita casts a lotus in my heart.

"Om, Amogha, Vairocana, Maha Bodhisattva!"

After the Buddhist verse was finished, a golden aura of malevolence left He'er's body and fell into the hands of Qingxu Daoist.

(End of this chapter)