Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest-Chapter 956: Slaying Demons and Eliminating Evil (End)

Wang Chen watched as the purple-robed man was about to fall into the deep pit behind the wall and, without any hesitation, hurled the long spear in his hand.

"Thud!"

The Qiling Spear hit the right thigh of the purple-robed man, its head piercing through flesh and bone into the wall, brutally interrupting his escape and contorting his body in an odd posture.

"Ah!"

The purple-robed man, who seemed like a demon, let out a shriek and abruptly twisted his head around.

His head rotated 180 degrees from front to back, and his originally pitch-black eyes instantly turned blood-red and elongated into vertical pupils!

"Hiss hiss!"

In the next instant, the purple-robed man stuck out his tongue, making a strange sizzling noise.

And his tongue was slender, with a forked tip.

Not only that, but beneath the skin of the purple-robed man’s face and neck, layers of black scales began to emerge!

Was he about to reveal his true form?

Wang Chen sneered as he stepped forward and reached for the Qiling Spear.

Instead, the purple-robed man opened his mouth and spewed out a stream of dismal green poison, shooting lightning-fast towards Wang Chen’s head and face.

Wang Chen raised his arm and brandished his hand, releasing a deadly force that shattered and deflected the incoming poison.

The poison splattered onto the wall behind, immediately emitting wisps of smoke, clearly possessing a potent corrosive toxicity.

At this very moment, the purple-robed man could no longer retain his human shape, his long snake body struggling to break free from the human skin’s binding.

However, its tail was firmly nailed to the wall by the Qiling Spear, rendering it immobile!

A devilish horn emerged on the forehead of the purple-robed man, and two long fangs broke through his lower jaw, but the look in his eyes towards Wang Chen had changed at this moment.

What was once filled with savage rage and bloodthirsty brutality now betrayed fear and doubt.

The demon couldn’t help but lower its head to look at the Qiling Spear embedded in its tail.

This long spear contained a power that terrfied and shook the demon, consequently draining its demonic energy without ceasing.

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Trying desperately to break free, the snake-headed demon found that whenever its power traveled downwards, it would instantly vanish into thin air like a clay ox entering the sea, altogether futile.

For the first time in its life, the snake-headed demon felt the fear of death!

"Afraid?"

Wang Chen, however, was in no rush to retrieve the Qiling Spear. He acutely sensed the emotional change in the demon and calmly drew the Goose-quill Saber, "Don’t be afraid, my saber is very quick, it won’t hurt for long!"

But these words jabbed at the demon’s sore spot, and it went into a rage, suddenly opening its gaping maw towards Wang Chen and spat out a large amount of poison from its throat.

This poison instantly transformed into emerald green flames upon contact with the air, splashing everywhere.

It covered a large area, completely enveloping Wang Chen within it!

Yet Wang Chen stood fearlessly, slashing forward with his saber.

The bright saber glow instantly ripped through the toxic flames and struck the demon’s head.

"Thud!"

The demon’s head was cleaved, the saber blade lodging into its hard skull, unable to penetrate a fraction further.

The Goose-quill Saber was of good quality, but to deal with such a powerful demon, it was clearly not sharp enough.

Wang Chen let go of the saber handle and pulled out a Long Saber from his storage space.

He then swung the saber in a wide arc, decapitating the demon in a single blow!

[Fate +5]

The message that flashed across his vision caused Wang Chen to raise an eyebrow.

The demon that he had previously slain had granted him 2 points of fate, while this one provided a whopping 5 points.

Excellent!

Wang Chen pulled the Qiling Spear from the snake’s tail, then used the spearhead to tear open the long snake corpse, whereupon the red and green innards immediately spilled out, emitting a foul stench.

But a silver-white crystal pearl rolled out along with them.

Indeed, a Demon Pearl!

Wang Chen nodded in satisfaction.

He lightly tapped the Demon Pearl on the ground with his spear, and the moment the spear’s tip touched the pearl, it "popped" into a cloud of white mist.

Immediately, the mist was absorbed cleanly by the Demon-Slaying Spear’s head!

This scene made Wang Chen’s heart stir.

He knew that the Demon Pearls could replenish the "energy" required by the head of the Demon-Slaying Spear, but this time the situation seemed different from before.

Could it be that in the future, whenever he encountered a demon, a single thrust into the Demon Pearl could instantaneously kill it?

Keep in mind that the Demon Pearl was the life source of a demon; although not all demons possessed them, those harboring pearls within were certainly powerful.

The only big problem with this idea was—how could he precisely locate the position of the Demon Pearl?

Wang Chen shook his head, dismissing the thought from his mind.

Next, naturally, came the time to clean up the battlefield.

First, the demon’s head should be bagged and packed up—a weighty merit indeed, and the basis for his actions that night.

Secondly, he opened and inspected each box stored in the secret chamber.

Most of them turned out to contain gold, silver, and jewelry, as well as gold notes, silver notes, and land deeds and house deeds, in addition to a variety of Mysterious Weapons.

Worth over a million!

Such astonishing wealth even surprised the otherwise well-off Wang Chen.

Bear in mind that what he had previously obtained was the accumulated wealth of several generations of the Ling Family, whereas, according to his intelligence, the Peony Pavilion had only been operating in Guangping County for a mere decade or so.

This fortune couldn’t possibly be all of their earnings, yet it was so vast!

Wang Chen unabashedly selected a portion for himself, estimating it to be about fifty percent of the wealth, and deposited it into his storage space.

His cultivation consumed money like flowing water, and no amount of gold and silver would be enough; not taking advantage of the opportunity would be idiotic.

However, Wang Chen would not take everything. As the saying goes, one cannot grow fat by eating alone. If he were to leave nothing behind, he would undoubtedly invite unnecessary troubles and potentially draw the attention of certain interested parties.

After organizing everything, Wang Chen then left the secret chamber and returned to the surface through the secret passage.

But as soon as he surfaced, he saw beside Duan Yongfeng an elderly man dressed in the official uniform of the county magistrate, with a head of white hair, plus some constables and attendants from the Government Office.

Upon seeing Wang Chen, the old county magistrate immediately frowned, "Sir, may I ask if it was you who killed my Guangping County Magistrate?"

They were accusing him?

Wang Chen was inwardly shocked but replied composedly, "Indeed, and may I inquire as to who you are?"

"I am Zhou Hongming, the County Magistrate of Guangping!"

The old county magistrate puffed up his beard and glared, displaying a face of intense anger, "Although you may be the Head of the Hundred Households, wantonly killing my Guangping County Magistrate and commanding troops to blockade the Peony Pavilion is simply lawless!"

Wang Chen chuckled, then his face turned stern, "County Magistrate Zhou, I am on orders to investigate a demon matter. This Peony Pavilion was harboring demons. Your county magistrate wanted to obstruct my search; if he doesn’t die, who does?"

The old county magistrate burst out furiously, "Then I ask you, where is the demon?"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a bundle smashed into his face!

Caught off guard, the old magistrate staggered, nearly falling to the ground, his face turning red with a tinge of purple.

Meanwhile, the bundle thrown by Wang Chen fell to the ground and out rolled a demon’s head!

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