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Boom! Boom! Boom!

The pig demon, its eyes destroyed, went into a complete frenzy.

His body exuded true energy, which overflowed into his hand and slammed it wildly into the ground, causing gravel and mud to fly everywhere.

Chen Jue watched with great interest from the side, his hands busy as he reloaded his invincible musket.

Before a martial artist reaches the Spirit Realm, firearms are still far too overpowered.

No wonder firearms were banned in civilian life, with violators facing confiscation of their property and extermination of their entire family.

If ordinary people held such powerful weapons, it's hard to say whether the sons of powerful families and government inspectors would still have the courage to bully the common people in the streets.

Even an ordinary martial artist, after ten years of training, is no match for a child raising a gun.

Chen Jue watched coldly as the crazed pig demon approached the emerald lake behind him step by step.

The lake breeze was gradually drowned out by the pig demon's roar. It stepped into the water, which was up to its ankles, and in an instant, it felt as if it were walking on lava. Steam rose up as it retreated violently.

"Oh, it even has a fear of water..."

Chen Jue lightly strode past the raging pig demon, avoiding the shallow water, and stood on a lake shore with varying elevations.

He stopped reloading and didn't bother to aim. He simply raised his hand and fired a shot in the direction of the pig demon.

A few scattered steel needles pierced into the pig demon's flesh, as if activating its fearless, underlying code.

It turned around and, without hesitation, pounced fiercely in the direction from which the attack came.

Chen Jue calmly turned to the side, causing it to leap and plunge straight into the lake.

Sizzle! ...

The moment the pig demon touched the lake water, billowing white smoke suddenly rose from its body, emitting a sound like a branding iron being quenched.

At the same time, the blood flame true energy that danced wildly like tentacles at its wound site also rapidly withered under the wear and tear of the water-attribute spiritual energy contained in the lake.

"Roar roar roar!"

The pig demon screamed in agony and lunged toward the shore.

Having finally found a weakness, Chen Jue was determined not to let this guy get ashore.

Without hesitation, he leaped and landed behind the monster, pressing down on its pig-like head with one hand while stabbing its neck with a knife and forcefully slamming it into the water.

At the same time, Chen Jue attempted to inject the Five Elements True Qi into the pig demon's body through the blade in order to accelerate the consumption of its true qi.

However, after injecting only a few strands of the Five Elements True Qi, he gave up completely.

There's no other reason than that this guy's internal energy is too bloated. To completely eliminate his internal energy, at least 50% of it would have to be destroyed.

He's not crazy enough to do such a losing deal for this pig demon.

The moment he violently pressed down on the pig demon's head, a blood-flame tentacle quietly wrapped around Chen Jue's right leg, dragging him roughly into the water.

"Ora ora ora!~~"

The pig demon suddenly turned around, and its fist, like a machine gun, carrying wildly burning blood flames, smashed into the bottom of the water.

Caught off guard, Chen Jue choked on a mouthful of lake water, but as he entered the water alone, his swimming dragon technique became even more agile.

Faced with a barrage of punches, he channeled his inner energy and swung his sword to sever the restraints binding his right foot. His movements were like those of a swimming fish, narrowly dodging the boar demon's frenzied attacks.

"Holy crap! It's hot! It's hot! It's hot!"

The area struck by the pig demon's furious punches is now churning with steam, and the water temperature at its center has reached as high as 100 degrees Celsius.

Chen Jue leaped from the bottom of the lake, which was as deep as a person, his skin turning red from the boiling water.

What a god!

Seeing that martial arts practitioners were gradually approaching and spying on him from the shore, Chen Jue, who had suffered a loss, suddenly became ruthless. He took out a musket from his spatial ring and frantically loaded it with an excessive amount of gunpowder and steel needles.

"I'll blow you up, kid!"

Chen Jue leaped back onto the pig demon's shoulder, attempting to stab the pig's brain with his long knife... but failed because the skull was too hard and slippery, managing only to slice off a piece of the pig's ear.

He had no choice but to settle for second best and plunge the long knife into the man's shoulder.

The pig demon roared in agony as it looked up at the sky and reached out to grab Chen Jue.

Chen Jue gripped the hilt of his sword, executed a perfect Thomas Flair, lit the musket, and, like an incense stick inserted upside down, forcefully shoved the large-caliber musket headfirst into the pig demon's gaping maw.

boom!

As Chen Jue dropped his knife into the water, he heard a loud bang from behind as a musket exploded.

The steel needles, like fairies scattering flowers, pierced the pig demon's skull, turning it to shreds. Blood and brain matter mingled with the lake water, splashing everywhere and into the emerald lake.

"Burn my broken body, in the blazing holy fire."

"To die for the cause and return to the Kingdom of God."

"Flesh and blood are used as offerings, and countless sparks are lit."

"Burn away the illusion and extinguish the delusions, use the Dao to prove myself..."

As the flames died down, the pig demon's mangled body, as if all its power had been drained, slowly collapsed into the lake while chanting the scriptures of the Fire Sect.

Chen Jue pounced on the corpse with a speed even faster than the martial arts practitioners on the shore.

The strange phenomenon reappeared as if it were yesterday.

A stream of true fire energy, perfectly concealed within the pig demon's body, transformed into a crimson streak of light the moment Chen Jue approached, and plunged straight into Chen Jue's lower abdomen, dantian.

"Haha! I was just afraid you wouldn't come!"

This time, Chen Jue didn't even put up a resistance, letting the wisp of Chamber Fire True Qi, which was even more powerful than the daytime fire, rush into his dantian furnace like a moth drawn to a flame, and then turn into a drop of water sprinkled towards the sun, instantly evaporating.

"Hiccup! ~~~ Thank you for the meal!"

Chen Jue had swallowed quite a bit of lake water and couldn't help but let out a burp.

He reached out to grab the boar demon's valuables. Apart from the slightly damp Ascension Pill in the box, all that was left in his pocket was a handful of blood-red "Crimson Repentance Coins".

"You poor wretch! What bad luck!"

Chen Jue spat at the pig demon's corpse and dragged his knife ashore.

Seeing this, some of the martial arts practitioners on the shore were eager to try their luck, while others instinctively backed away.

"Taking this pill will turn you into a demon; the pig demon I just killed is proof of that."

"Now I only have this one pill left, and it's been soaked in water, so its medicinal properties have been greatly reduced."

"If any of you are considering taking action to seize it, you should weigh the pros and cons carefully."

Chen Jue held up the box, showing off the water-soaked pill.

Seeing this, the martial arts practitioners realized there was no profit to be made and retreated into the darkness.

Chen Jue breathed a sigh of relief, feeling the sudden surge of four hundred strands of fiery true energy within his dantian furnace.

His heavy, wet night clothes did not extinguish the flames in his eyes; instead, they burned even brighter.

Tonight, heroes gather to attack the Fire Sect.

Such opportunities may not be nonexistent in the future, but they certainly won't be plentiful.

If he didn't take this opportunity to kill more of the Fire Sect's boar demons, he feared he would slap himself hard when he woke up in the middle of the night.

Having already obtained a pill, Chen Jue had no intention of stopping.

He used his surging blood and energy to dry his soaked clothes, and, accompanied by several martial arts practitioners with good lightness skills, continued to pursue the other priests of the Fire Sect.

On the other side of Emerald Lake.

Meng Liang, using the alias "Fansheng," is wielding double maces and brutally beating another Shihuo Sect priest who has taken pills and transformed into a pig demon.

The situation is different from that on Chen Jue's side.

Meng Liang doesn't know any light-body skills, so he can't dodge and move around without getting hurt.

Therefore, he chose to confront them head-on, using force against force, and trading injury for injury.

Fortunately, blessed by the gods, his strength had increased by leaps and bounds compared to twenty days ago.

The "Four Wood True Qi" within his body was like a boundless ocean, inexhaustible and ever-flowing, granting him not only unimaginable terrifying strength but also an astonishing speed of life recovery!

"Strangling with vines!"

Meng Liang's attacks were haphazard, but he possessed an immense amount of internal energy!

He stomped his foot on the beach, and hundreds of strands of "Four Wood True Qi" would transform into tough and unruly vines, binding the pig demon of the Shihuo Sect.

Then, he swung his heavy mace and smashed it down.

The pig demon had no way to dodge and could only watch as a large chunk of its pale red membrane and flesh was brutally torn away.

When it was restored, the color of the ligament had faded by two shades.