It was already late at night, the young lady at the front desk was dozing off.
But she was immediately startled awake by the situation, her legs refused to move, and she was helped out by two approaching officers.
With such a grand scene, she would believe if someone said a new Demon Nest had emerged inside Chaoyang Mansion.
Long Jiu followed closely, simultaneously pressing the right ear of his earpiece.
"Everyone, please respond if you hear this."
"Awaiting Chief's instructions!"
"Though it's late at night, some Chaoyang Mansion businesses are working overtime and haven't left.
Remember the eighteen target room numbers, the captains are responsible for breaching them,
other room numbers also need to be searched carefully to avoid missing any, controlling any personnel inside to prevent any stragglers from sneaking in."
"Understood!"
"Received!"
The fierce black ape shadow reappeared, carrying its master swiftly past everyone to the forefront.
Long Jiu's already massive figure became even more terrifying, he completely released the Ape God Dharma Aspect within him.
"I'll head to the eighteenth floor, the rest follow their pre-battle assignments, assist others after controlling their areas.
Remember, don't come to me."
Should the True Spirit of Thousand-Headed Jiao Demon appear, save for him adorned in nuclear energy armor, everyone present would be instantly killed.
Soon, Long Jiu stood at the entrance of the Myth Entertainment company on the eighteenth floor.
There was no need for a greeting, he clenched his palm, bent his arm and stretched, a gigantic ape shadow materialized behind him, mimicking the same forceful movement.
The next second, the steel framework emitted a creaking groan, bent into a twisted maze under the ape's mighty arm.
Unable to hold even for a second, half the room was instantly crushed into ruin.
Amidst the dust, a silhouette drew green marks, deftly dodging the sudden assault.
"Why do you, Mountain-Shaking Ape, not even greet?"
"Old Ghost Fan, what greeting is needed for a rampant demon path thief like you?"
Fan Sacristan wasn't dressed in a bishop's robe, but rather a crisp suit, the gold watch on his cuff dazzlingly eye-catching.
His originally old face and shriveled body had somehow rejuvenated recently.
Long Jiu suspected that these changes must be due to the escaped remnants of the Jiao Demon's True Spirit from the Demon Nest!
"Chief Long, don't act hastily, how about I leave Yong'an for your political achievements?"
Long Jiu was too lazy to waste words, the giant ape's shadow behind him roared to the sky.
In the next moment, Long Jiu's heavy fist together with the ape shadow attacked Fan Sacristan!
The air on the entire floor was vacuumed by the blow, intending to press the opponent with overwhelming force!
The gold watch above Fan Sacristan's cuff exploded into a dark mass, instantly transforming into hundreds, hellish touches of demonic qi winding towards the ape's neck.
Accompanied by distant sniper shots, armor-piercing bullets equipped with twisted steel broke through Fan Sacristan's assault!
Bam! Bam! Bam!
The sound of consecutive triggers resounded together, outside the Demon Nest, human technology was not weak.
Despite Fan Sacristan being such a top-tier demon path martial artist, he had to avoid their edge!
Seeing this, Long Jiu seized the opportunity, throwing his left fist, releasing the Sound Burst Cloud, the ape god's dharma aspect actually grasped the tip of the devil's touch with bare hands.
His bulging muscular arms, under the armor's support, erupted in thunderous roars like a mountain and sea!
"Mere tricks."
The bullets nearly five centimeters wide brought no injury to Fan Sacristan.
In Long Jiu's perception, a transparent barrier suddenly appeared on its surface, blocking the bullets.
"You traitorous humans are utterly shameless.
The Celestial Demon Force Field and the Celestial Demon are indistinguishable; are you still human?"
He could instantly recognize the bullet-blocking technique.
It was precisely the key research topic for countless scientists at present.
——[Celestial Demon Force Field]
If there were an opportunity, Long Jiu still wanted to capture it alive.
With living cells, allowing the researchers to study what the Celestial Demon Force Field equipped on humans was all about.
But the Jiao Demon was hidden somewhere, leaving Long Jiu reluctant to hold back.
Fan Sacristan remained silent, his shriveled right arm swelling into a claw full of reverse scales, reflecting harsh cold light with five long blades.
"Insulting the divine, it's a capital offense!"
The next moment, Fan Sacristan twisted into a green shadow, his fingers forming a cone instantly striking towards Long Jiu's face!
Upon seeing this, Long Jiu calmly resisted, the ape god's dharma aspect suddenly clasped its palms together, intercepting the opponent's attack.
Simultaneously, the remnants of the palm wind crushed three hidden tendrils lurking in the shadows.
Then his figure kept moving, suddenly flashing towards the window.
Long Jiu already saw through, this old chap was feigning an attack, with the real intent to escape!
The plan revealed and pursued, Fan Sacristan's lagging left leg immediately turned into a mist of demon trying to veil his retreat but was scattered into pieces by the ape's fierce roar.
Seizing the upper hand without pause, Long Jiu's martial will instantly erupted into a deep yellow dazzling brightness!
The dharma aspect joined him in throwing punches, tide-like True Qi enveloped in fist intent, poured out like a dragon whale spouting water!
This was the Innate Holy Ape Skill, the [Ape King Demon-Slaying Spear]!
Forced to turn, Fan Sacristan helplessly took on the spear of the Great Ape King.
The recklessly unleashed fist strength blew his suit into ragged strips, exposing the wriggling Jiao scales beneath.
"Power ultimately isn't something you get on your own, Old Ghost Fan, look at your half-human, half-ghost appearance."
Fan the Priest didn't reply, knowing that a death match with the opponent here would bring no benefit.
He connected with the strange cauldron in his chest, and in an instant, his entire figure dispersed and transformed into countless illusory demonic shadows.
The demonic shadows twisted unnaturally, each appearing as real to Long Jiu's senses.
Without waiting for him to carefully ponder, the demonic shadows instantly shot off in all directions.
This was the — [Celestial Demon Disembodiment Technique]!
The demon path martial artists had some sinister and ruthless means, some eccentric and bizarre.
But the common trait is, these guys are damn good at running.
Martial Arts is power obtained through rigorous training, making it difficult for these people to confront directly.
So they switched strategies, focusing on body technique and escape skills.
The Celestial Demon Disembodiment Technique was established several hundred years ago by the then demon path giant, [Formless and Unforeseen·Lian Baisheng], as an escape method.
Although this person was executed by the Grand Ancestor, the technique left behind became a must-learn sinister body technique for every later-day martial artist level demon path successor.
But nowadays, the demon path forces no longer rely solely on their predecessors.
The newly developed Celestial Demon Force Field, along with Fan the Priest's transformation into a Celestial Demon Body,
are new abilities [borrowed] from the Celestial Demon by those from the Demon Summoning Hall.
In recent years, the number of Demon Nests within the Great Chu territory has surged like bamboo shoots after the rain.
Taking this good opportunity, some demon path forces turned their attention to the Demon Nests, worshiping their masters as gods, attempting to suppress human Martial Arts with the Celestial Demon's methods.
The Demon Summoning Hall is a leading figure among them, and [Thousand-Headed Venerable] is their new so-called alliance with [Thousand-Headed Dragon Venerable God].
Seeing Fan the Priest about to escape, Long Jiu's ape eyes shot out a dark golden fierce light, scanning around.
Boom!
The eighteenth floor couldn't bear the pressure any longer, and the floorboards cracked and collapsed, along with the flying dust falling to the seventeenth floor.
It turned out to be the Ape God Dharma Aspect behind Long Jiu, which suddenly transformed into nine shadows, and in a flash, together turned into a ferocious giant ape several feet tall!
This was the Elephant Form Sect's Ape Form Secret Skill — Great Success Level [Nine-Phase Ape Divine Skill]!
The ape shadows completely blocked all the escape routes of Fan the Priest, as nine figures simultaneously extended their wide giant palms and pressed down fiercely!
As the giant palms pressed down, the explosive momentum instantaneously made countless tables and chairs underneath creak and groan under the unbearable pressure.
Following that, the immense sea of energy brought forth by eighteen palm strikes annihilated everything it touched into dust!
With the settlement of the dust, the other fake demonic shadows were instantly crushed, revealing Fan the Priest's true body.
His figure was like a fly, smashed flat by a fly swatter.
The thick will of the Ape God attached to the back of Fan the Priest, continuously eroding his protective demonic Qi.
He could sense the opponent's aura gradually fading into nothingness.
The Ape God's technique was quite mentally exhausting; Long Jiu retracted the remaining eight ape shadows and opened the mysterious helmet, exhaling a breath of cloudy air.
"Is he dead?"
Ignoring Fan the Priest on the ground, he focused his heart and senses on the unknown Jiao Demon's True Spirit in every direction.
The Thousand-Headed Jiao Demon, its true form is a country destruction level great demon, a top-level formidable character even the Six-Limit Celestial King couldn't resist.
Only the extreme of today's humanity, the Martial Arts Great Saint, can eliminate it.
Therefore, even a very weak and incomplete true spirit that escaped from the Great Saint is not to be underestimated by him.
At this time, Fan the Priest's body suddenly underwent a strange transformation!
"Useless!"
The voice, as hoarse as a dragon's roar, shattered all the glass curtain walls within a radius of ten miles, even the entire mansion!
In an instant, Fan the Priest's withered body suddenly swelled like a balloon.
The places where the buttons of the tattered suit burst off, azure-black Jiao scales pierced through the skin and multiplied crazily, with the spine twisting into the shape of a Jiao tail, winding and growing from top down.
The remnant one-eyed Jiao head crawled out from within his chest cavity.
The terrifying concentration of demonic Qi dyed the entire sky above the mansion an intense inky black!
Fan the Priest now was a completely different person from before, transforming entirely into an upright Jiao Dragon monster.
His entire body was enveloped by a thick Celestial Demon aura, and even the escaping demonic Qi roiled ferociously like mountain cries and sea roars, paired with a body of azure-black scales, as if an overwhelming evil demon stepping out of hell!
The top-level great demon of the Celestial Demon Realm, [Thousand-Headed Jiao Venerable], has resurrected from the human world.
The arrival of the Celestial Demon world, once again assails!
The sound of triggers being pulled reverberated again, countless special alloy bullets for hunting demons in reality were fired in unison with falcon-like whooshes.
The Jiao Demon's body slightly twisted, and in the blink of an eye, it crushed all the bullets into fine powder in its hand.
Then, it didn't move a single step.
The lone horn on its forehead erupted with a silent destroying demonic light, which obliterated Long Jiu's battle armor as if thin paper, the muffled sound of a chest bone collapsing mixed with the metallic clashing of the dharma aspect behind him shattering blasted forth!
Afterwards, the whole person shot through layer after layer of the concrete barriers of the high-rise like a meteor, with the steel bars along the way snapping like brittle bamboo, and a mist of blood pulling a thousand-meter scarlet trail through the ruins!
Fortunately, with the nuclear-powered battle armor protecting him, had his armor failed within the Demon Nest of Celestial Demon Realm, even a casual light beam strike from the Jiao Demon could turn him into ash!
The world was swept by fierce winds!
Long Jiu struggled to rise, looking towards the enormous crimson dragon claw reaching out from under the ink-colored clouds!
The silhouette of a fire dragon cast the night sky from inky to fiery red, with red scales like armor forged by lava, a pair of dragon eyes like two blazing suns, descending from the clouds in a dive!
"I am Yin Tianshou, paying respects to the Jiao Venerable!"
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Bailiu District, third basement floor of the casino.