I Can Strengthen Infinitely-Chapter 40 - 39: Abilities of the Celestial Demon Evil Blade
A night of murder under the dark, windy sky.
Qin Yuesheng stayed in the room alone, wrapping the Celestial Demon blade with black cloth until its shape could no longer be discerned. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
On the table lay a set of rakshasa mask, ten daggers, and two firesticks.
Qin Yuesheng opened the closet by the window, and a bunch of flamboyant clothes immediately revealed themselves to his eyes.
One had to admit the original owner’s fashion style was quite flamboyant; there were all sorts of men’s robes in the wardrobe.
Black, purple, red, and blue.
With peony designs, embroidered with bamboo.
And even one embroidered with a hundred women grinding tofu pattern, all in one glance, barely clothed.
Flamboyant, truly flamboyant to the extreme.
Qin Yuesheng didn’t have the thick skin to dare wear such clothes when going out.
After some selection, he changed into a black outfit that was beneficial for action.
"This should be sufficient."
Qin Yuesheng picked up the Celestial Demon blade and rakshasa mask, then swiftly climbed out of the window.
Since tonight’s plan required concealing his identity, Qin Yuesheng utilized his lightweight skill to leave, and after departing Cyan Yang City, he found an isolated spot to don the mask, removed the cloth wrapping the Celestial Demon blade, and dashed quickly into Meteor Mountain, rushing directly towards the eastern Three-cone Peak.
The night affected his view, and Qin Yuesheng leapt quickly among the treetops, like a nimble squirrel.
The blood-red Celestial Demon blade emitted a faint red glow under the moonlight, with countless faces on the handle silently screaming madly.
Finally, the outlines of Three-cone Peak and the Hulao Stronghold appeared in Qin Yuesheng’s vision.
"I still have 108 points of All-Purpose Essence, nothing worth saving anymore, just to be safe, use them all now." Qin Yuesheng distributed the 108 points of All-Purpose Essence into strength, agility, and physique.
Strength 6.0→9.0
Agility 4.0→9.0
Physique 9.0→11.8
Buzz!!!
Qin Yuesheng’s entire body inflated, like a chubby person, but after a few breaths, quickly shrank back, returning to normal.
Qin Yuesheng immediately felt the changes in his body, his entire skeleton seemed to have grown slightly, causing him to become taller.
However, the growth wasn’t much, perhaps just a few fingers in height.
Feeling the surging power within his body, Qin Yuesheng hesitated no longer and rushed swiftly towards Hulao Stronghold.
Compared to before, his speed was more than doubled.
Getting closer and closer to Hulao Stronghold, those torch piles became extremely striking, and when Qin Yuesheng saw the bandits standing on the wooden walls, naturally they also saw him.
More than ten bandits raised their bows and arrows at Qin Yuesheng and immediately launched a round of volleys.
"Enemy spotted!!!"
Having just suffered an assault from foreign invaders yesterday, nearly losing their chief, these bandits were naturally more vigilant today.
Suddenly, from low to high within Hulao Stronghold, torches lit up continuously, like the beacon towers used for frontier communication, very quickly a gigantic copper cauldron at the highest point burst into fiery flames, igniting into blazing infernos, flames soaring into the sky, dying the heavens, resembling a gold crow descending upon the sky, illuminating half of Three-cone Peak.
"Woo!"
"Woo!"
The dull horn sounds reverberated across the mountain stronghold, and every bandit picked up their weapons, ready and waiting.
Hulao Stronghold enjoys a wicked reputation even in Meteor Mountain and on the capital’s route for a reason.
When Qin Yuesheng knocked away the arrows shot at him with a slash, he looked up at the entire Hulao Stronghold upon landing, momentarily struck by the grandeur of the mountain stronghold.
The entire Hulao Stronghold built along the mountain, layer by layer like terraces, over ten layers high, and on the first layer of the fort gates, a giant silver tiger head was mounted, its mouth roaring, directly facing Qin Yuesheng standing below.
Under the shadow of the entire Hulao Stronghold, his silhouette appeared very small and insignificant.
But...
Qin Yuesheng gripped the Celestial Demon blade tightly, a trace of excitement couldn’t help but surface on his face beneath the mask.
Kill!
With a fierce stomp, the ground beneath Qin Yuesheng instantly cracked and sunk a large piece, while he used the momentum to leap a yard and a half high, effortlessly landing on the perimeter wall of Hulao Stronghold.
A rain of arrows came pouring, dense and airtight, easily over a hundred, Qin Yuesheng unleashed a dozen Sea One Slash, bursts of blade energy erupted, directly slicing through those incoming arrows mid-air, splitting them into multiple fragments.
The sound of them falling to the ground echoed with a rhythmic beat.
Many bandits hurried down from above along the stairs, heads swarming, so numerous, Qin Yuesheng couldn’t estimate accurately at the moment.
Before any bandit actively approached, Qin Yuesheng charged forward himself, raising the Celestial Demon blade high against a bandit and delivering a slash.
Without using Blade Skill, the person was instantly cleaved by Qin Yuesheng from neck to thigh root with a single strike.
Blood splattered, immediately spraying across Qin Yuesheng’s face.
"Good blade!" Qin Yuesheng spun around and struck, directly hitting the iron blade of another mountain bandit.
But how could the inferior iron of a mortal weapon compete with the Celestial Demon’s sinister edge? It was instantly split in two, and the blade struck the bandit’s chest without interruption.
Slash!
The Celestial Demon’s sinister edge was sharp, slicing directly from the front of the chest to the back, with the backbone rendered completely useless.
"Roar!"
Just as Qin Yuesheng prepared to engage the next opponent, the bandits struck by the Celestial Demon’s sinister edge, who should have already fallen dead, suddenly stood up and howled.
Their muscles rapidly expanded, bones growing wildly, and their bodies visibly enlarged.
In just a few blinks, they grew to a height of over a zhang, like small giants.
But this wasn’t the key point; their clothes shattered, their skin turned green, horns sprouted on their foreheads, their eyes were blood-red, their mouths grew fangs, and their hands and feet transformed into sharp claws.
"What is this!" Qin Yuesheng suddenly recalled.
Their appearance was almost identical to the Celestial Demon in the Celestial Demon’s heart realm, although not exactly the same, it was at least sixty or seventy percent similar.
Qin Yuesheng instantly became alert, adopting a defensive stance, fearing these Celestial Demon-transformed bandits would attack him.
Yet, what surprised Qin Yuesheng was that these two monsters immediately turned and faced the approaching bandits.
They possessed immense strength and a hardened body; each swing of their hand resulted in a mountain bandit from Hulao Stronghold dying tragically on the spot, filling the ground with a bloody red and a pungent blood scent.
Within five breaths, the two Celestial Demons suddenly collapsed, their muscles and skin melting like ice cream on the ground, leaving even their bones in a muddy state, making it impossible to distinguish that these sticky lumps were actually two corpses.
This series of changes left Qin Yuesheng unable to react, and with a renewed flurry of blade strikes, he finally understood the crux of the matter.
It turns out that anyone wounded or killed by the Celestial Demon’s sinister edge would undergo Celestial Demon transformation, depending on their physical quality and timing.
Those transformed into Celestial Demons wouldn’t attack Qin Yuesheng; instead, they would become his allies, charging and battling alongside him.
Of course, this boon came with limitations; the time for collapse varied with the individual’s physical condition, ultimately leaving them as a pile of mushy corpse mud.
The Celestial Demon’s sinister edge wasn’t a Divine Weapon.
But rather a demonic weapon imbued with sinister power.
After consecutively dispatching over ten bandits, Qin Yuesheng gained over ten Celestial Demon allies, making him like a divine messenger descended, killing back and forth among the crowd without leaving an opening.
Watching the minions suffer heavy casualties, finally, someone leaped down from above, wielding twin blades and pressing towards Qin Yuesheng.
Feeling the wind overhead, Qin Yuesheng swept the Celestial Demon’s sinister edge horizontally, counterattacking, and fiercely clashed with the assailant’s attack.
Clang!
Qin Yuesheng’s weapon dominated, empowered by his strength advantage; the opponent couldn’t withstand it, their blades shattered instantly, and they were sent rolling back.
The more Qin Yuesheng chopped, the more fervent he became, a faint red glow emerging in his eyes, oblivious to the ongoing absorption of blood mist by the Celestial Demon’s sinister edge, making it more crystalline.
"Who dares invade my Hulao Stronghold?!"
A sudden roaring voice boomed from the sky, as loud as a bell, with thunderous momentum.
Qin Yuesheng immediately felt his ears tremble, his mind buzzing.
"What powerful sound force!" Qin Yuesheng covered his ears, looking upwards, his face turning serious.
After slaying so many minions, the big fish finally emerged.
Above the high wall, a white-haired, white-bearded Great Han stood firm, showing his strong stature, each hand holding a golden cauldron hammer, clearly not a mere mortal.
Seeing Qin Yuesheng with a Rakshasa mask, Gong Fenghan frowned, curious as to when his stronghold attracted such a figure.
"Could it be the accomplice of those from last night?"
No time for thought—since this person was wreaking havoc in Hulao Stronghold, Gong Fenghan, as Xu San’s hired helper, could not stand idly by.
Before Gong Fenghan could act, Qin Yuesheng had already leaped, continuously flying across varying heights of the wall, reaching Gong Fenghan’s position in just a few blinks.
Without any words, he struck with a blade immediately.
"Come, let me see your might!" Gong Fenghan roared, stepping forward with the golden cauldron hammers in hand, adopting the stance of a giant crushing the mountain, releasing twin hammer strikes.
Boom!
The two seemingly golden hammers were instantly carved with a dent by blade aura, like fragile watermelons.
Without waiting for a reaction, Qin Yuesheng was already close with the Celestial Demon’s sinister edge, slicing the golden cauldron hammers in half and pressing towards Gong Fenghan’s neck.
Despite his weapon disadvantage, Gong Fenghan remained incredibly calm, tilting his waist backward to effortlessly dodge Qin Yuesheng’s lethal strike, supporting himself on one arm while his legs kicked towards Qin Yuesheng like a whirlwind.
All this happened in an instant, Qin Yuesheng secretly admired the opponent’s agility while launching a tiger-shaped punch with his left arm to engage in direct confrontation.
Feeling secretly pleased, Gong Fenghan had used the golden cauldron hammers as a disguise, creating the illusion of specializing in Hammer Skill.
In reality, Gong Fenghan was a master of Leg Technique for over a decade, possessing a full force within his legs, with leg power amounting to over seven hundred pounds. Ordinary martial artists could not withstand the power of his kick, with bone fractures being a common outcome.
In Gong Fenghan’s secret joy, his right leg had already collided with Qin Yuesheng’s fist.
