Mitsuko held his hand, and her initial tension eased considerably.

She gave a relieved smile and moved a little closer to Morikawa Yu.

However, Morikawa Yu was still riding Chizuru.

She came so suddenly that she almost bumped into Chizuru.

Chizuru, however, understood the atmosphere between the two and remained silent.

After a long while, the sound of a building collapsing came from the ground.

Morikawa Yu and Mitsuko turned their heads together to look at the main hall deep inside the Abe family manor.

The three demon kings had dealt with most of the Abe family members and demons blocking their way in the manor and arrived at the main hall's entrance.

The place had been broken into by Abe no Haruhiko before, and it had been repaired with great difficulty. Now it had been cut open again by Ibuki's greatsword, causing the surrounding walls to collapse and revealing the scene inside.

However, to their and Morikawa Yu's surprise, apart from the figure sitting at the deepest part of the hall, the floor was covered with emaciated corpses with black spots on their skin.

These corpses were undoubtedly members of the Abe family, including many demons, as well as six demon generals besides Aohara.

They too turned into corpses just like everyone else.

Of course, there are also those who aren't corpses.

But those guys lay on the ground, their expressions of shock and grief, barely alive, their bodies covered in black spots, their lives clearly nearing their end.

Morikawa Yu couldn't help but look at the only figure still sitting in the hall.

The other person had slightly dark skin, a beautiful face, and a very tall stature. Even when sitting, he appeared much more robust than the average person. His dark blue eyes were filled with a fierce look, and he had a hideous, dark blue horn on his forehead.

He had seen the other person's photo and confirmed that the other person was the ancestral deity of the Abe family, the lord of the demon clan, Seiro.

Even without a photo, he could recognize the other person's identity.

Because above the other party's head was a swirling, solidified black mist, which was the same resolve he had seen when he killed Qingyuan—"Domination."

This mass of black mist, which now seems less like determination and more like a malevolent ominous fog, looks even more bizarre than before.

It was as if something else could be born from it at any moment.

"You are finally here."

In the hall, Qingluo slowly stood up.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time."

She glanced at the three ghost kings outside the main hall, then at the four people including Morikawa Yu in mid-air, a cold smile playing on her lips, seemingly unconcerned about her predicament of being surrounded and killed.

Ibuki looked at her, let out a long roar, raised his crimson-gold greatsword, took a few steps to close the distance between them, and slashed down with his sword!

But Qingluo simply raised one hand, reached out to Ibuki, and directly grabbed the blade of his crimson-gold greatsword.

The massive shockwave instantly overturned everything around it, blowing away the corpses on the hall floor and shattering the floorboards, sending dust billowing everywhere.

But Qingluo stood there, gripping his blade, without taking a single step back, and the floor beneath his feet remained completely intact.

Ibuki's eyes narrowed, and she paused for a moment.

He immediately recalled how he had just been awakened, fought Qingluo out of anger, and lost to her.

The current Qingluo seems to be much stronger than before!

He suppressed his surprise and instantly exerted force with both hands, trying to retract the greatsword.

No matter how hard he tried, the greatsword remained firmly held by Qingluo, its blade motionless.

This gap in strength far exceeded his understanding.

He was stunned.

Qingluo finally made a move.

She pulled back the hand that was gripping Ibuki's greatsword, causing Ibuki to stumble. Then she released her grip on the greatsword, clenched her fist, and punched him in the stomach.

The impact point instantly unleashed a shockwave far greater than the one before!

Everything around them, even the walls of the hall, was overturned and toppled.

The dust that had just been stirred up was now blown away, revealing the figures of the two people who had been standing there.

Ibuki's body trembled.

He lowered his head, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, released the greatsword, clutched his abdomen with one hand, and knelt down helplessly.

There was a horrifying void there, ripped open from his front abdomen to his back, with his spine and ribs blown off, leaving only the broken internal organs on both sides.

Qingluo withdrew her hand.

She sneered, walked right past Ibuki's body without even glancing at her, and let Ibuki slowly fall down.

Ibaraki and Hoshiguma stared at Seiro in astonishment, finding it hard to believe that she could knock out Ibuki with a single punch.

They hesitated for a moment, but still charged towards Qingluo.

Especially Ibaraki.

He was the fastest of the four Demon Kings, so he rushed ahead of Hoshiguma.

Qingluo gave another cold laugh.

She clenched her fist, and in a flash, she was in front of Ibaraki almost instantly, about to deliver a punch.

Chapter 274 The Demons and Gods of Evil Desire (Fourth Update)

Although Ibaraki was much taller than her, her punch had even knocked down Ibuki, the strongest of the Oni Kings, so no one believed that Ibaraki could withstand it.

Even Ibaraki himself didn't believe in himself.

He launched the attack only because Ibuki had fallen and her fate was unknown, and because of the Demon King's pride.

Qingluo threw a punch at him!

He also swung his katana at Qingluo.

But Qingluo was much faster than him, and blocked his blade with her arm, leaving not even a white mark where she blocked it.

She flung away Ibaraki's sword, leaped up, and was about to punch Ibaraki's head!

If this punch lands, Ibaraki's fate will probably be even worse than Ibuki's.

At the critical moment, Asaka appeared in front of Ibaraki.

The tails behind her pushed Ibaraki backward, while more tails protected her in front, barely blocking Qingluo's punch.

As early as when Qinglu caught Ibuki's greatsword, she sensed something was wrong.

The two were too close together to be rescued in time.

Although Ibaraki rushed in quickly, she was prepared and managed to save him.

"Hmph, little kitty, you finally dare to come looking for me?" Qingluo looked at Qianxiang coldly.

Asaka frowned deeply.

Hoshiguma finally arrived behind Asaka and hugged Ibaraki, who was being pushed backward by Asaka, while stopping in her tracks.

She could sense that Qingluo had changed.

Moreover, this change made Qingluo exceptionally powerful.

Unlike Ibaraki and Ibuki, who knew they would die but still went for it, she decisively bypassed Asaka and Seiro, picked up the heavy shield, carried Ibaraki on one arm, ran towards Ibuki, hoisted him onto her shoulder as well, and retreated in the direction they had come from.

At this moment, some of the Oni clan members who had been standing far away outside the main hall rushed up, trying to stop Hoshiguma.

Hoshiguma ignored them completely, charging at any oni that tried to block her way, breaking their bones and trampling them underfoot, before charging straight past them.

She couldn't defeat Qingluo, but she was still a true Ghost King, and the one with the strongest brute force among them.

These guys trying to stop her are practically asking for their own deaths.

Standing there, Asaka's face darkened, she did not respond to Qingluo's provocative words.

She also sensed that Qingluo was different, and guessed the reason for this difference.

When she arrived, Morikawa Yu and Mitsuko told her something: the secret technique of Qingluo.

This secret technique can instantly elevate the demon race's realm by one level, transforming them from a great demon into a superior great demon, and from a superior great demon into a top-tier superior great demon.

Moreover, as long as one replenishes their life force in time after it is depleted, they can avoid the side effect of death.

Qingluo clearly also used this secret technique.

The humans and demons who died in the hall with bizarre deaths were probably killed because she used a secret technique to drain their life force.

This was unacceptable to Asaka.

She knew Qingluo had a wicked personality, but she never expected that Qingluo would even turn on his own people. He was ruthless and outrageous.

In the sky, Morikawa Yuya stared blankly at the scene below.

He persuaded Ibuki and the others to defect, hoping they would help him, but more importantly, he wanted to join them in avenging their defeat against Qingluo.

But he never expected that Ibuki would be killed with a single punch.

If it weren't for Asaka's timely rescue, even Ibaraki would have been in danger, and even more so than Ibuki.

As for Qingluo's sudden increase in strength, he had a premonition of it.

Seeing the corpses of humans and ghosts on the hall floor, he understood that Qingluo had used a secret technique, and that she had extracted life force in advance, rather than using it first and then replenishing it.

However, because Ibuki rushed too fast, he didn't have time to warn her before he saw Ibuki arrive in front of Aoro.

Now, seeing Ibuki fall, his heart was filled with rage.

This anger stemmed from his expectations.

He knew that Ibuki had been tricked and sealed away by Seiro, and that Seiro had also deceived Ibuki, making her oppose the shrine.

She transformed Ibuki, the historically spirited and powerful demon king who dominated his territory, into a middle-aged, miserable-looking office worker.

Therefore, he secretly hoped that Ibuki could turn the tide and even gain the determination to fight against Aohara.

Whether we win or lose, at least we'll have a good fight.

I don't care about anything else as long as I get a free kill.

Unfortunately, despite Ibuki's fearless spirit, she lacked something. Instead, Qingluo became even stronger and defeated Ibuki with a single punch.

She probably already made preparations.

Whether it was summoning all the demons and members of the Abe family back to the Abe family in Kyoto, or arranging cannon fodder in the manor, or extracting the life force of those humans and demons in the main hall, it was all within her plan.

She intends to forcibly elevate her cultivation level before killing him and the big fox.

This is her trump card.

I guessed what she wanted to do, but I didn't expect her to be so direct and so ruthless.

The corpses in the hall were all her subordinates and worshippers, whom she betrayed and abandoned without mercy. Judging from their terrified and angry expressions before they died, they probably never expected to end up like this.

It was only at this point that Qingluo began to truly change.

Her body suddenly swelled to nearly three meters, her muscles bulging and tearing her clothes. Only a few strands of clothing remained to cover her vital parts, while the rest of her skin was completely bare, covered with dense black ghost patterns.

These ghostly markings seemed to be alive, like snakes crawling all over her body.

Sometimes they converge into eyes, gazing at everything around them; other times they seem to break through her skin and reach for the fragrance in front of her.

Her demon horns became deformed and curved, yet sharper; her eyes turned completely dark blue; her aura was immense and oppressive; and behind her appeared a series of familiar black halos.

Asaka sensed something was wrong and tried to back away.

Qingluo grabbed at her with one hand, black patterns on his hand extending with a dark, eerie light, pressing towards Qianxiang!

Asaka was completely unable to resist and retreated rapidly.

Kurozo finally landed from mid-air, hugged Asaka, and protected her body.

However, she was no match for them either, and even her resistance was extremely difficult.

Morikawa Yu remained silent.

He had been watching the malice above Qingluo's head, and finally saw the eerie light shrouded in black mist change.

The original word "dominate" began to dissolve, eventually transforming into a new malice: "the demons of evil desires".

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