My wife is the stand-in.

A chivalrous warrior shouted loudly, sharing intelligence with his comrades.

"Armor-piercing missiles, prepare!" Commander No. 3 calmly relayed the order.

The soldiers opened their equipment packs, each carrying two individual missiles. Following the command of Number 3, the front-line soldiers launched their missiles.

Four dim fireworks appeared, and amidst the thunder that seemed incongruous with their explosive spectacle, an earthworm was blasted in two and began to struggle.

The soldiers quickly bypassed the knights and sprayed the stored thickened gasoline onto the demon.

This thickened gasoline can adhere to the target and cannot be removed even if it gets stuck in the mud.

Under the fierce onslaught of flames, the earthworm turned into dried earthworms, and then into charcoal.

The heroes bypassed the flames and helped the warriors withstand the worms' attack. They followed Amanosaki, using weapons or their bare hands to grab the worms, preventing them from burrowing back into the mud and getting close to the warriors again.

"Nozaki! Based on the photos sent by the drone, her identity as a heretic has been confirmed! She's the one who accidentally learned Taoist cultivation techniques three years ago and fell into heresy! She calls herself Kawashiro-jin!"

Amidst the fierce battle, Lin Shuyu's voice reached Amanosaki's ears.

Chapter 223: This is the end!

"What does 'Heche' mean? I've only ever heard of 'Tu Heche' and 'Zi Heche'!"

Amanosaki smashes the worms and leads the charge.

Hinata Hyuga's Eight Trigrams Palm moves with lightning speed. In this environment, with her chakra-enhanced taijutsu and the Byakugan's blessing, she is many times stronger than Amanosaki's magic.

She snatched the task of clearing the way.

Amanosaki learned about the Earth River Chariot from the manga "Under One Person". All the sorcerers who practice Qimen Dunfa in the manga use this move, and among them, the "Feng Hou Qimen", one of the Eight Extraordinary Techniques, is the most outstanding. The line "Innately leading the Zhou Tian, ​​covering all the changes of the heavens, transforming myself into king" made Amanosaki so excited that he couldn't sleep for several nights.

As for placenta...

"Where did you hear about placenta?" Lin Shuyu asked, her eyes wide with surprise.

Amanosaki looked a little confused: "What's wrong?"

"This kind of saying only exists among heretics; orthodox sects never use it, and strictly forbid anyone from using or mentioning it!"

Lin Shuyu's tone was somewhat stern.

"The so-called placenta is a product made from human fetuses through processing and drying."

On Earth, this thing is just a traditional Chinese medicine, at most a raw material used in ancient alchemy to refine elixirs.

But in this world...

"To demons, placenta is no different from ordinary human flesh, but to heretics, placenta is an essential ingredient for refining healing and longevity pills."

Lin Shuyu said heavily.

"Placenta is a kind of medicine that is made by crossing the line of human morality. The finished product is quite effective, and the raw materials are available all over the world."

Without much thought, Amanosaki knew what the so-called raw materials were.

He felt a little nauseous for a moment.

"Extending lifespan? That's something many people can't refuse, right?" Amanosaki then turned his attention to another point.

"What are you thinking? Is it that hard to extend your lifespan?" Lin Shuyu said, exasperated. "Pay attention to your health, smoke and drink less, don't chew betel nuts or touch drugs, and who won't live a long life? The average lifespan in modern times is over eighty years (in this world). Compared to two hundred years ago, isn't that an increase in average lifespan?"

"Besides, orthodox Buddhist and Taoist sects, as well as various foreign faiths, all have their own methods for prolonging life. Moreover, once a superpower is awakened, the lifespan of a superpowered person will be much longer than that of an ordinary person. Why would they need to do this kind of business?"

"The reason why heretics are so despicable is that they regard humans as a great medicine, absorbing human emotions, torturing human bodies, and even dissecting humans alive to use as raw materials for making medicine. Therefore, in recent centuries, governments, sects, and superpower organizations around the world have labeled these people who try to take shortcuts as heretics, and everyone has the right to kill them!"

"What's even more despicable is that some heretics specifically infiltrate towns and target pregnant women! They take both the baby and the pregnant woman clean! These guys deserve to die a thousand times over!"

"well said!"

Amanosaki crushed the worm with a single blow, and his Gandr shot out, carving a path together with Hinata.

The soldiers quickly caught up using the jetpacks in their equipment packs, and the group had already reached the mountainside.

"This 'Heche' has nothing to do with placenta, but it is related to medicine making."

Lin Shuyu continued her introduction.

"The Book of Changes and the Cantong Qi states: 'The master of the five metals is the River Chariot in the north.' According to the materials I obtained from Wudang Mountain, the so-called River Chariot should refer to the product of the smelting of mercury and lead."

"So, this guy can refine pills?" Amanosaki concluded.

“No, he won’t,” Lin Shuyu denied.

"But he wanted to refine elixirs. Back then, He Che was a petty thief who would steal from a chemical plant at night. During a police chase, he fell into a sewage pool, his skin ulcerated all over his body, and his lungs were severely damaged. He didn't live more than a few years. In order to prolong his life and cure his illness, he stole something from some heretic who had infiltrated human society. This guy was quite talented and mastered it without a teacher."

"It's a pity that the technique he practiced didn't lead to longevity but to earth-遁 (a type of earth-遁 is a term used in Chinese martial arts), so it was all for nothing."

Then, Lin Shuyu raised her voice: "Nozaki, your mission is to capture him alive if possible. This guy is very obsessed and will do anything to survive. The heretics are more intelligent than the demons, and he is someone we can communicate with. We urgently need information about the Taoist Master Ziledao."

"You want to grab my tongue, huh... I get it!"

Amanosaki Tora roared, and a dazzling magical light burst forth from his legs.

Hinata Hyuga sensed something and unleashed the Gentle Fist Technique: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms to clear away the worms around her. Using the Substitution Jutsu, she teleported behind Amanosaki.

Then, he kicked Amanosaki hard in the back!

With a clear and loud crash, Amanosaki's back armor, filled with reinforced ceramic pieces, shattered, and with the combined boost from charging up and Hinata, he soared into the sky!

Can it burrow underground? Can it cause mudslides?

I'm flying! Let's see how you stop me!

Amanosaki leaped high into the air, and Li Junzi swooped down, grabbed his arms, swayed him for a while, and then flapped his wings vigorously toward the mountaintop!

The mountain began to shake the very moment he leaped into the air!

The pedestrians on the river lane triggered another landslide!

"The topsoil is absorbing water rapidly! Damn! It's faster than a sponge!"

The knight who led the creation of the hardened road surface was covered in a bead of sweat that was hard to tell if it was water or sweat. He shouted anxiously to those behind him, "You guys better fly up now!"

Number 3 yelled back, "If we could fly, we would have been up there already! The fuel in our gear packs is only enough for us to make a jump dash!"

Zeng Aman, having somehow led her men to the front of the group, stood in the way of the beginning of the shaking and collapsing soil, and took over the command: "Then jump!"

All the warriors jumped up, and the knights from the Qianmiao Village branch took out bone knives made from the bones of some kind of wild animal, cut open their arms, and planted seeds inside.

Each wound corresponds to one pill; an ordinary swordsman's face would lose all color after burying two or three. But Zeng Aman and the leading swordsman each had five pills buried in their left and right arms!

They tensed their muscles and pressed the seed into their flesh.

Terrifying veins grew beneath the skin, and each seed sprouted a delicate embryo, its tender green leaves swaying in the wind.

The shrubs around the landslide area began to grow wildly and strangely, with roots, stems and leaves growing wildly, quickly forming a large net that covered half of the surface soil!

As they further utilized their supernatural abilities, the fibrous roots that sprouted from the shrubs began to absorb water from the sparse soil and transformed into fragile, juicy stems that stood upright.

With the help of the water-controlling heroes, a group of people united as one and stopped the landslide attack that the river carters had planned for a long time!

"Free fire!"

Commander Wu Zu landed in front of the members of the Qianmiao Village branch and took over the important task of eradicating the worms.

Seeing this, Hinata nodded to Number 3, her figure vanished, turning into a cluster of pixels, and she chased after Amanosaki.

Amanosaki landed on the mountaintop, but due to the landslide, the mountaintop was now much narrower than before, making it easy to spot the enemy.

A massive rock was barely held together by an array, covered in scribbles drawn with blood so thick and vile that even torrential rain couldn't wash it away. A short voice, draped in a baggy Taoist robe, stood inside the mouth of a giant, worm-like demon, maintaining a bizarre spell.

Amanosaki fell from the sky, crashing onto the giant rock like a meteor, sending rocks flying. He destroyed the magic circle with the potential energy generated by his own weight and gravity.

"That's it."

Amanosaki shook his gun and spat out saliva mixed with dirt.

The buzzing spearhead pointed directly at the dwarf-like figure, yearning for blood.

Chapter 224: Trampling

The appearance of the people on the river crossing was truly indescribable.

Despite being an adult, the body resembled that of an infant, with short arms and legs wrapped in bandages that smelled strongly of herbs. Through the area around the eyes, one could vaguely see ulcers and skin as dry as an old person's.

Despite its small size, it commands a truck-sized, fat worm-earth demon.

Old yet young, weak yet strong.

These elements intertwined eerily, staring greedily at Amanosaki through eyes that had turned a dull yellow due to illness.

He clapped his hands, and the tail of the giant earthworm lashed out of the hill, swinging in the air. The flesh-colored giant earthworm sprayed out of the demon's cloaca like a burst of urine, quickly piling up around Amanosaki.

The river cart driver grinned, revealing a set of yellow teeth that didn't match his baby-like appearance, and continued to mutter incantations, trying to make the land absorb the rainwater and leverage the power of nature.

However, due to the witchcraft abilities of the heroes from the Qianmiao Village branch and the water control abilities of other branches, the new round of landslides did not proceed as smoothly as expected.

Earthworms rolling down steep mountain ridges are nothing more than piles of rotten flesh, no matter how many there are, in front of soldiers who have set up heavy weapons such as machine guns, bomb guns, and flamethrowers.

These earthworms have no armor or skeleton, not even an exoskeleton. They can only rely on the powerful vitality of earthworms as annelids to push their own flesh and blood over them and crush them with their weight.

But with chivalrous heroes around, this task could not be accomplished.

The expedition also included a large number of other heroes, some skilled in reconnaissance, some in combat, and some in medicine preparation.

With the support of the heroes, these slightly strange creatures, once piled up, would be swept away by the heroes who emerged from the formation.

But what troubled Kawasaki was Amanosaki, who stood firm like a rock against the torrent of flesh-colored worms.

These wriggling, struggling, and frantically dancing worms, densely packed and twisted together, surrounded the entire hilltop. From a distance, they looked like flesh-colored "living" mushrooms growing on the dark mountain.

With its nauseating visual chaos and the stench of carrion, it is enough to send chills down your spine just by looking at it from a distance, conjuring images of some indescribable monster.

Amanosaki and Hinata Hyuga were in this writhing, flesh-colored ocean.

Beneath my feet, on my body, and in all directions, all I could see were these slimy, cold creatures covered in slime.

The two joined forces to withstand the surging worm tide. Under the bombardment of soft fist techniques and magic, the pressure on the soldiers and knights behind them was greatly reduced, and they began to climb rapidly.

"Great hero, wait for us!"

The heroes cheered loudly and crossed the mountainside, struggling to climb up the narrow path with its drainage system and shrubs.

"Hey! They think you're not good enough!"