I Have 10 Equipment Slots-Chapter 147 - 108: Why

As Gu Zheng was startled awake, he didn’t forget to continue his onslaught, remotely blowing up swaths of Beast Demons. This caused his Furious Fist Intent to constantly solidify, bringing it further under his control.

The deep ink-colored scale had blocked the Black Sheep Demon Race’s psychic attack, just as Gu Zheng expected.

Still, the sneak attack from the Black Sheep Demon Race was infuriating.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

He launched punch after punch from a distance, killing the Beast Demons and forcing them to constantly retreat toward Old Ox Mountain.

Several thousand Demon Fiends perished under Gu Zheng’s fists and Fist Intent.

The remaining Long-haired Oxen, Fire Wolves, Two-headed Tigers, and Three-tailed Pythons finally snapped out of it. Driven by their survival instincts, they temporarily broke free from the psychic control the Black Sheep Demon Race had cast upon them.

The power of the psychic control was limited to begin with, especially when covering so many Demon Fiends at once.

Now free, they turned and fled in droves.

As they fled, a five-foot-seven Black Sheep Demon wielding a Sheep Skull Staff was suddenly exposed.

"I see you!"

Gu Zheng’s Eyes of Golden Flame locked onto the target from afar, and the corners of his mouth curved into a smirk.

On the mountainside, the Black Sheep Demon was horrified. From within its hollow eye sockets, green points of light glanced at Gu Zheng from across the distance before it spun around and scrambled up the mountain.

SWOOSH!

WHOOSH!

A fierce wind swept by.

Gu Zheng broke into a sprint, crossing hundreds of meters in an instant. Locking onto the Black Sheep Demon, he threw a punch from across the distance.

BOOM!

The air boomed and rippled, forming a clear channel in the shape of a Fist Seal.

At the end of the channel, the fleeing Black Sheep Demon had just set one foot across the line where the two realms merged when its entire body was ravaged by a terrifying force.

First, a mass of Furious Fist Intent slammed into its brain, destroying its Spirit and will and annihilating its consciousness. Then, the tyrannical Fist Force tore its body to shreds, blowing it into a shower of bloody gore.

The Black Sheep Demon was dead!

Spirit Capturing!

[Demon Points +1]

[Demon Points +2]

...

Spirit Capturing! Spirit Capturing!

He chased after the Long-haired Oxen, Fire Wolves, and Shadow Rhinoceroses fleeing up the mountain, slaughtering them and absorbing Demon Points as he went.

Soon, Gu Zheng reached the spot where the Black Sheep Demon had died.

Spirit Capturing!

[Demon Points +5]

That was about all the condensed Bloodshed a Tier 1 Black Sheep Demon was worth.

Of course, it was still better than low-level Demon Fiends like the Long-haired Oxen and Fire Wolves.

Gu Zheng scanned the area, searching for any treasures it might have dropped. He found nothing but the Sheep Skull Staff, which gave off an eerie and sinister feeling.

BOOM!

He smashed it with a single punch, destroying the Bone Staff.

SWISH!

The moment the Bone Staff shattered, a few wisps of gray-white light scattered from it, shooting into the sky and disappearing from sight.

Gu Zheng focused his senses for a moment. After confirming that nothing else unusual had happened, he started walking toward the foot of the mountain.

As he walked, he used Spirit Capturing to collect Demon Points.

He finally stopped at the mouth of the tunnel, watching the Long-haired Oxen, Shadow Rhinoceroses, and Two-headed Tigers that had escaped back inside.

These Beast Demons, scared witless, fled in a panic and disappeared around the various bends.

The Domain had vanished. As the nexus connecting the mortal world and the Demon Realm, the strange energy on Old Ox Mountain was now extremely active.

Standing at the entrance and looking in, one could see the dim, crimson-black sky of the Demon Realm and the brilliant golden sunlight of the mortal world tearing at each other, yet miraculously fused together.

...

...

「Demon Realm.」

Just as Gu Zheng stood at the tunnel entrance in the mortal world, peering in, a dozen or so Black Sheep Demons, all around five-foot-eleven, stood at the other end on the hard, pitch-black ground, their hollow eye sockets gazing back into the passage.

Suddenly, a sphere polished from some unknown bone, resting in the palm of a Black Sheep Demon slightly taller than the rest, erupted in green light.

Amid the surging green light, a crimson ray shot out from within the sphere, soaring into the sky before dissipating.

"Otu’s soul-light has gone out! He’s dead!"

"I knew the humans had an ambush set up outside the tunnel! We drove so many of those low-level wastes through, but they were slaughtered and sent running back. You can just imagine how many powerful humans there are on the other side."

"So what? Otu is dead! We must have revenge!"

"Revenge is one thing, but how do we get it? This Tunnel Between Two Realms only allows Tier 1 life forms to pass through. What good is sending another Tier 1 into the human world? They’ll end up just like Otu, dead the moment they cross over!"

"We still have to get revenge!"

...

The group of Black Sheep Demons let out strange cries as they began to argue.

They were set on revenge.

But how to get it was the problem.

With a Tier 1 tunnel, any Black Sheep Demon sent through could only be of average strength.

"Enough."

Amid the squabbling, a hoarse voice, like metal scraping on stone, suddenly cut in. "If it’s revenge we want, then the more destructive, the better. The tunnel may limit our strength, but it doesn’t stop other things from passing through."

"The human experts are guarding the other side of the tunnel, aren’t they? Then let them have a taste of our Anomalous Fire!"

"Clan Leader, you don’t mean..." A nearby Black Sheep Demon heard this, the green points of light in its hollow eye sockets flickering.

"That’s the one."

...

...

The battle was over.

Gu Zheng, all by himself, had repelled the charge of over ten thousand Beast Demons.

He had also slain the Black Sheep Demon that was hiding in the back and launching sneak attacks.

Yet, he had only gained a little over five hundred Demon Points.

Compared to the number of Beast Demons he had blasted apart, the ratio of kills to points was more than ten to one.

This showed just how low the life-level of these Long-haired Oxen and Fire Wolves was. In the eyes of the Black Sheep Demon Race, they were likely just cannon fodder to be expended.

Fortunately, Gu Zheng had made other gains.

Fist Intent!

The Furious Fist Intent he comprehended through the Hundred Beasts King Fist!

Sword Intent and Fist Intent could kill the body and wound the Spirit.

Gu Zheng was now capable of killing a person with a weak will from a distance with a single punch, completely annihilating their consciousness.

Of course, the reason he had so smoothly honed his Fist Intent was largely thanks to the deep ink-colored scale he had stripped from the Tier 2 Cyan Scale Demon.

This scale was undoubtedly a treasure—a priceless one at that!

"Gu, I won’t say much else. There aren’t many people I, Liangqiu Changkong, admire, but starting today, you’re one of them."

Liangqiu Changkong cupped his fist and bowed to Gu Zheng with deep admiration. "That was truly incredible. To withstand the charge of thousands, even tens of thousands of Demon Fiends without flinching, to meet them head-on, and to ultimately drive them back... not many in the Super Body Realm could do something like that."

"Indeed."

Su Zhenyun added, her voice full of admiration, "Those in the Super Body Realm are certainly strong, but they have their limits. Not everyone can push themselves beyond those limits."

"’Not everyone can’ implies that some people can,"

Gu Zheng said softly. "So I’m not that special. Besides, I was only able to confront them head-on without any distractions thanks to your help, Miss Su, Liangqiu."

As he spoke, Gu Zheng faced them both and bowed again.

"Hah, all we did was guard the exit. It was nothing,"

Liangqiu Changkong waved his hand dismissively. "Gu, you thwarted this probing attack by the Black Sheep Demon Race, but based on my knowledge of them, I doubt they’ll let this go. They’ll be back for more!"

"Thank you for the warning."

Gu Zheng cupped his fist. "I will stay for a few more days. I’ll leave once reinforcements from the Government Office arrive to take over the post."

"In that case, Gu, you might be waiting a while."

Liangqiu Changkong rubbed his bald head and said bluntly, "According to news I just received, another Tier 3 tunnel has appeared in northern Fengzhou—a fully formed one! On top of that, Four Directions Perfecture was enveloped by a Domain half a month ago. Judging by the fluctuations of the Domain Wall, it’ll most likely be a Tier 3 when it opens, too!"

"Two new Tier 3 threats?" Gu Zheng’s expression turned grim.

"That’s right."

Liangqiu Changkong said gravely, "The Demon Realm’s invasion of our world started off slow; it couldn’t have been fast. But as time goes on, the speed and frequency are increasing."

"It’s been almost a year since the first invasion."

"With the invasion approaching the one-year mark, the frequency of new Domains is naturally accelerating, and their tiers are rising as well."

"And it’s not just Fengzhou; the same is happening everywhere else."

"With more and more Demon Fiends running rampant everywhere, aren’t the folks at the Demon Slayer Bureau swamped beyond belief?"

Liangqiu Changkong threw up his hands. "As for this Tier 1 tunnel here in Mutun County... I seriously doubt the Fenzhou Demon Slayer Bureau can spare anyone to come take over guard duty!"

Gu Zheng fell silent.

In truth, he had suspected as much for a while.

He suspected the situation in other parts of Fengzhou was growing increasingly chaotic.

Liangqiu Changkong’s words were confirmation.

A new Tier 3 tunnel and a suspected Tier 3 Domain.

’No wonder Meng Taiqi and Xie Bisheng haven’t responded to my messages.’

’As Demon-slaying Grand Generals, they must have gone to preside over the situations in the north and at Four Directions Perfecture.’

"Miss Su."

Taking a deep breath, Gu Zheng turned to Su Zhenyun and said earnestly, "There’s something I’d like to ask you."

He quickly gave her a summary of the Demon Creation incident in Wulong Mansion.

Gu Zheng pleaded, "With Demon Fiends already running rampant, why are these people still so depraved, so utterly devoid of humanity!?"