The proof of Emperor Wu began with daily rewards for diligence.

Even after three warehouses were looted, Zhang Wei was still not giving up.

He led his four groups deeper into the backyard, where the last warehouse of Kaiyang Garrison was located.

At this time, the sun had not yet risen; the sky was only dimly lit, dark and somewhat oppressive.

As soon as Chen Jue stepped onto the paved area in front of the warehouse, he felt a chill run down his spine, as if he were being watched by some ferocious beast.

He stopped in his tracks, and Wu Nanyuan behind him also stopped.

"What's wrong?"

When Zhang Wei saw the two people who had been closely following behind the group suddenly stop moving, he felt a chill run down his spine and a bad premonition arose in his heart.

In the dim light of day, a massive figure emerged from the top of the warehouse, its pitch-black shadow casting an almost invisible projection that enveloped everyone except Chen and Wu.

"Hooray!~~"

The monster perched on the warehouse roof let out a low, terrifying breath, and foul-smelling saliva dripped from the roof, hitting the heads of some of the patrolmen in the fourth group with a hissing sound.

"Ding ding ding..."

Zhang Wei's teeth chattered, his heart filled with fear, as he slowly raised his head.

Above the warehouse, under the dim sky, a pair of large, scarlet eyes were staring straight at him.

"Zhang Wei! Take me to that man named Chen Jue! My fourth brother specifically asked for his head before he died!"

The monster revealed its true form: a high-arched nose, a blue face, and fangs—another boar demon mutated from a human.

"You, you, you...you are Lord Dong Ling?!"

Upon hearing the pig demon's familiar tone, Zhang Wei's boundless fear instantly transformed into extreme ecstasy!

That voice belongs to Dong Ling, the second-in-command of the Rat Gang!

I remember serving this man tea when I visited the Rat Gang before, so I have a deep memory of him!

He turned around impatiently and pointed at Chen Jue.

"It's him! It's Chen Jue!"

This is an excellent opportunity to kill someone with a borrowed knife. As long as Chen Jue dies, not only will his hatred be relieved, but future hidden dangers will also be completely eliminated.

Kill two birds with one stone!

The inspectors under Zhang Wei's command were all stunned, standing there dumbfounded like geese.

They didn't understand why their boss would know such a demon.

Meanwhile, the moment the pig demon peeked out from the roof, Chen Jue had already begun to quietly move backward.

then……

He stepped on the small foot of "King of Pole Stakes" Wu Nanyuan.

Chen Jue really wanted to ask the girl, "Are you alright?"

They have absolutely no sense of observation.

When Zhang Wei excitedly pointed out that he was Chen Jue... Chen Jue's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally calmed down.

Damn it! He knew it; trouble would find him before he could back down!

These are all incredibly talented people!

Chen Jue reached out and touched the knife at his waist.

"You're the ant who caused our Rat Gang to be wiped out by the Inspection Bureau?!"

Dong Ling's eyes were bloodshot like lanterns, his gaze filled with boundless killing intent, enveloping Chen Jue's entire body.

"How can you say that? I am the garrison inspector; patrolling is my duty."

"But those who provide you with false information, hoping to use you as a tool to kill..."

"They are the real culprits who caused the Rat Gang to be charged with 'assaulting the inspector' and ultimately led to a heavy blow from the Inspectorate."

Chen Jue presented the facts and reasoned with the public, turning black into white.

"Don't talk nonsense! It was clearly you who refused to lay your neck out for the rat gang to chop! It has nothing to do with us, the ones who provided the intelligence!"

Zhang Wei panicked, never expecting that Chen Jue, a dying man, would try to drag him down with him.

He was flustered and looked up at the pig demon that Dong Ling had transformed into, shouting loudly.

"My lord! This man is a liar and his crimes are heinous. Kill him quickly, and please don't blame us!"

"snort!"

Dong Ling snorted coldly and jumped down from the top of the warehouse.

His massive body, nearly three meters tall and as heavy as a mountain, crushed an inspector who had no time to dodge as soon as he jumped down, killing him instantly.

brush!

Before the four patrol teams could even realize the danger, death had already arrived.

With a swing of his four-foot-long ghost-head broadsword, Dong Ling unleashed a burst of crimson flames and true energy, cleaving more than a dozen inspectors in half as easily as slicing wheat.

In front of the warehouse, a bloodbath erupted, with mangled bodies scattered on the ground, emitting mournful howls.

"You! You! Why?!"

Zhang Wei screamed in terror and instinctively stepped back, but Dong Ling grabbed him.

"Do I need to answer why I do things?! Stop being so noisy!"

Dong Ling opened his blood-red maw and bit Zhang Wei's head like a watermelon, with crimson blood dripping down his fangs.

Upon seeing Zhang Wei's headless body fall straight backward, even Chen Jue, his enemy, showed a hint of relief.

If you try to negotiate with a tiger for its skin, you must be prepared to be devoured and become its accomplice.

Dong Ling turned to look at Chen Jue.

The colossal three-meter-tall body stood amidst the lake of blood and flesh, resembling a demon god emerging from hell.

His eyes were bright red, radiating boundless murderous intent.

A layer of blood flames was rising around him, and his blood and qi were like a furnace, radiating scorching heat.

"This aura... is too strong, almost twice as strong as the pig demon that was transformed from the priest last night."

Sensing the faint, simmering tension in the air, Chen Jue drew his long sword from his waist and held it in his hands.

Dong Ling's bloodshot eyes were fixed on Chen Jue. When he saw Chen Jue draw his sword, his eyes were filled with violence and mockery.

Before he fell into demonic possession, he had already reached the late stage of the True Qi Realm.

After falling into demonic possession, his strength more than doubled, and he was only one step away from the Spirit Seed Realm.

This mere clown at the first level of True Qi dared to draw his sword at him; it was utterly laughable.

The blood-stained broadsword in his hand dragged along the ground, rubbing against the hardened cement floor, sparking and making a sizzling sound.

"My gang was destroyed because of you! My third and fourth brothers died to kill you!"

"If I don't tear you to pieces today, how can I quell the hatred in my heart!"

Dong Ling muttered incantations, his overwhelming killing intent materializing and transforming into a torrent that surged towards Chen Jue.

Standing behind Chen Jue, even though they were five steps apart, Wu Nanyuan felt like a small boat caught in a storm at sea, her breath caught in the oppressive aura of murderous intent.

However, looking at Chen Jue holding knives in both hands...

His face showed no sign of panic; he even took two steps forward, his eyes burning with fierce fighting spirit.

Seeing that Chen Jue was not only unfazed by his aura but even dared to approach him with a knife, Dong Ling was instantly consumed by rage and roared at Chen Jue:

"You're asking for it!"

*Crack!* The hardened cement ground suddenly exploded under Dong Ling's hooves.

His figure was like a hundred-ton heavy truck, carrying crimson flames all over his body as he rushed towards Chen Jue. The ghost-headed broadsword in his hand slashed down vertically, like an axe splitting Mount Hua, heading straight for Chen Jue.

The wind howled fiercely, like the wailing of ghosts and wolves.

Wu Nanyuan's pupils suddenly contracted, and she thrust her long sword forward, her three elemental true energies of water, ice, and frost merging into a chilling ice spear that shot towards Dong Ling's left heart.

However, how could an attack of this magnitude possibly harm a Fire Boar Demon at the peak of the True Qi Realm?

Dong Ling didn't even bother to dodge, letting the ice spear pierce through his left heart and the frost spread across his chest. He continued his momentum, determined to cleave Chen Jue in two!

Chen Jue gripped the sword horizontally, and the spiritual patterns on his right arm suddenly lit up with a dazzling golden light. The patterns flowed endlessly, frantically pulling and absorbing the spiritual energy of the surrounding world, layer upon layer, and pouring it all into the blade.

At the same time, thousands of strands of pure Five Elements True Qi poured out without reservation, surging forward along the spine of the blade. The Five Elements True Qi of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth intertwined and condensed into a thick and refined layer of colorful radiance.

Snapped!

The next moment, the concrete ground beneath his feet suddenly exploded!

A blood-red setting sun!

Turn it up to the maximum!

Sa!

A blinding crimson hue spread throughout Chen Jue's body along his meridians, causing the blood and qi beneath his skin to surge and boil, coating his rapidly moving figure in a crimson hue.

The surging blood and qi, exceeding their limits, surged wildly through his veins, transforming into near-limit power that propelled Chen Jue to unleash the most dazzling killing move in the Six Harmonies Blade Technique.

The Six Harmonies Knife Technique, the true essence of my art!

The explosive, domineering, and overwhelming true meaning of the sword technique, "All directions and six realms, I am supreme," was unleashed with a thunderous roar.

Not bound by techniques, nor confined by realms.

All things in heaven and earth crane their necks, but I alone am supreme; if it is within my power, I can cut them down with a single stroke!

hum!

The blade flashed, like the setting sun falling to earth.

Crimson light intertwined with the five elements' colors, piercing through the hazy dawn and dusk, flashing past Dongling's blade cleaving Mount Hua, precisely penetrating the blood flames surrounding him, and along with the melting ice spear, directly poured into his chest!

Dong Ling's sword cleaved through the air, and his chest exploded open.

Beneath the skin, the extremely deep red ligaments crumbled and dissolved at an alarming rate under the violent destructive power of the Five Elements True Qi and the Reversed Blood Remnant Sun.

"What?!"

Dong Ling lowered his head, his pupils suddenly contracted, and his blue face and fangs showed disbelief.

"Impossible!" He tried to unleash his evil fire energy to counterattack and repair the ligaments in his body, but an extremely powerful force suddenly exploded within him!

That was hundreds of strands of pure Five Elements True Qi that Chen Jue had painstakingly extracted by working tirelessly day and night!

Now it all turned into terrifying energy fluctuations, rampaging and exploding inside Dong Ling's body!

Boom!!!

A muffled explosion echoed through the backyard.

Dong Ling's nearly three-meter-tall demonic body exploded like a dead hippopotamus soaking in water.

A torrential downpour of blood rose high into the sky, then fell in a steady drizzle.

Chen Jue was thrown a long way by the shockwave and crashed into a high wall behind him, causing the entire wall to collapse.

"If I die... you won't live either!"

Dong Ling's skeletal demon body crashed heavily into the pool of blood. A wisp of crimson, malevolent true energy pierced through the blood rain, carrying a hateful and perverse obsession, and rushed into Chen Jue's dantian.

Then, it was instantly evaporated by the blazing sun.

The first rays of dawn pierced through the clouds and fell into the backyard.

Wu Nanyuan stared blankly in the rain of blood, her fox-like eyes, reddened at the corners, wide open.

The battle that had just taken place in front of the warehouse was so shocking that it made her feel like the world was unreal.

A Fire Demon in the late stage of the True Qi Realm.

He killed him instantly with a single strike.

Is Chen Jue... really still human?