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Chapter 162: Chapter 159: Crushing Defeat
"Roar!"
The Demon Ape Commander bellowed, striding like a shooting star.
Beneath its feet, the solid rock was like fragile tofu, crushed into powder.
Its body, over a dozen meters tall, displayed astonishing agility.
Mixed with violent rage and fierce flames, when this colossal figure burst out from the flames, it was as terrifying as a real Demon God.
Even with five gaping wounds on its body, two of which were deep enough to see bone and with organs squirming, its presence still billowed out, enough to send a normal human army into immediate collapse.
"Too terrifying!"
"Is this... is this an Upper-level Demon?!"
"How is it not dead?!"
Watching the Demon Ape Commander wrapped in fierce flames relentlessly advancing, Zhao Qian, Zhan Hongying, and others widened their eyes.
Even Gu Chifeng, Gu Luochen, and the others were filled with terror.
They knew better than anyone the power of the artillery specifically designed against defensive demons, with armor-piercing bullets.
Yet this Upper-level Demon was undeterred not just by the machine gun bullets shooting like nothing, but even the artillery’s armor-piercing bullets couldn’t blast it dead on the spot; its vitality, its defensive power...
sent chills down everyone’s spine.
"An Upper-level Demon that has condensed an Undying Demon Body..."
Gu Jinlai, facing the Flame Demon Ape Commander rushing out of the rolling dust, strode forward, gripping the Giant Sword tightly in both hands, his gaze fixedly stared at the monstrous colossus charging at him, his spirit, consciousness, and energy seeming to merge into one at this moment.
All was silent.
The sounds of the wind, the fire, the machine guns, the roars...
All disappeared.
In his eyes, there was only the Demon Ape Commander in front of him, burning with blazing flames, carrying an overwhelming menace.
"Stomp!"
When the two were about fifty meters apart in their charge, the wildly running Gu Jinlai’s power suddenly surged beneath his feet.
Crossing the World·Four Seas!
The majestic power surged like a dragon emerging from the sea, soaring into the sky, coursing through his entire body, accompanied by the intensely erupting power built up in his body, the two streams of power merging into one, all poured into the four-meter-long Giant Sword in his hands, facing the terrifyingly fierce Demon Ape Commander, he ferociously struck...
The Demon Ape Commander’s eyes flashed with murderous light, and the Demon Flames surged as if they were solid, pressing down on the air and drastically raising the temperature around it.
Watching Gu Jinlai slashing towards him, it swung its fist, larger than a sand pot, with explosive power, the Fist Force breaking the sky.
The air in front was violently compressed and exploded in the next instant, forming a visible white mist.
"Die!"
A growl, a roar.
Terrifying to the core!
However, just when the two were about to collide, a dazzling radiance emanated from Gu Jinlai.
Under the full force of his burning Spiritual Sense, a luminous Great Sun evolved above his head, releasing a soul-piercing Divine Light, temporarily paralyzing the thoughts of the Demon Ape Commander.
Great Sun Divine Light!
As he unleashed the Great Sun Divine Light, his body sharply shifted to the side, avoiding the strike from the Flame Demon Ape Commander that could pulverize hundreds of tons of boulders!
Crossing the World·Eight Desolates!
Immediately after, he swung his heavy sword vigorously with the momentum of his body, aiming it fiercely at the wound on the Demon Ape Commander’s waist that had already been blown open.
A man, an ape...
Passed by each other.
The rolling flames nearly ignited the clothes on Gu Jinlai’s body...
But in that moment of intersection, Gu Jinlai’s Giant Sword ferociously slashed across the waist wound of the Demon Ape Commander, which was already a Blood Cave, and further sliced into its body, touching the bones...
"Roar!"
The severe pain woke the Demon Ape Commander, which had been intimidated by the Great Sun Divine Light.
It suddenly let out a roar of shock and anger, as if some power within it erupted, spreading through its spine and shaking in all directions.
"Thump!"
A muffled sound.
Gu Jinlai instantly felt an overwhelming rebounding force slam into his hands that gripped the Giant Sword, causing his whole body to shake violently, the base of his palms to burst open, and the bones in his hands to rattle.
This force traveled through the blade and shook his entire body, turning the capillaries in the hands that held the sword blood red. The further onslaught of shocking force seemed to snap the ulna, the radius, and the humerus in his hands, then with the momentum to send him flying.
Seeing the now awake Demon Ape Commander at close quarters, Gu Jinlai’s eyes shone with Divine Light.
He knew he had no retreat in this situation.
If he retreated...
One swing from the Demon Ape Commander would suffice to smack him dead on the spot.
An Upper-level Demon that has formed an Undying Demon Body definitely had that strength.
"Ten Directions Annihilation!"
With that thought, Gu Jinlai experienced a Spiritual Explosion, his heavy sword entering a Super Boost Co-spirit State, vibrating rapidly.
Inside his body, which had manifested the Great Sun True Demon Body, the Eternal Furnace operated at high speed. The fusion of all the Heavy Hydrogen and Super Heavy Hydrogen within him was like detonating a nuclear bomb inside his body, all the energy transforming into a surging and violent Power pouring into his hands that held the Giant Sword, causing the nearly rebounded Giant Sword to ferociously slash into the Demon Ape Commander’s spine, as tough as diamond...
Transmission!
"Rip!"
Bones broke!
Blood spurted!
Forms interchanged!
"Ah!"
Gu Jinlai held his sword with both hands, roaring skyward.
The Eternal Furnace instantly detonated all the frenzied strength brought by the heavy hydrogen and super heavy hydrogen, causing blood to seep from multiple areas of his body as if it was overburdened...
Yet, seizing this terrifying power, he clenched the giant sword in his hand, and after cleaving into the body of the Demon Ape Commander and cutting through the spine—the dragon within any creature—he released and exploded all the contained power within the sword.
For a moment, it was as though a bomb had detonated inside the Demon Ape Commander.
In the muffled roar, this massive creature, standing twelve meters tall, was split in two from the waist by the frenzied force of Transmission.
In an instant, the Demon Ape Commander who had awakened and struck down with rage widened its eyes, watching its own fist, which was about to smash onto Gu Jinlai’s head and flatten him on the spot, lose accuracy as its body was blasted apart and fall harmlessly to the side, creating only a gust of air explosion near him.
"No!"
This Demon Ape Commander let out a powerless and painful wail as its upper half of the body heavily fell to the ground, shaking the ground violently and raising dust.
Gu Jinlai’s ears rang.
The blast of air from the fist that the Demon Ape Commander exploded beside him caused blood to flow from his ears.
However, his form didn’t slow at all. As the Demon Ape Commander was split in two and lost balance, Gu Jinlai turned swiftly.
As he turned, he flung the giant sword from his hand, using the force of Ten Directions Annihilation to send it flying like the sharpest blade, piercing the head of the Demon Ape Commander, who was handicapped and couldn’t dodge without its lower half!
"Bang!"
Blood exploded.
The head of the Upper-level Demon was directly penetrated by the sword.
Yet even so, the Great Demon still glared deathly at Gu Jinlai, with blood covering its terrifying and fierce face, filled with unwillingness and madness.
"Humans..."
Seconds later...
Its life force completely dissipated.
Both halves of its body also stopped moving.
...
The battle between Gu Jinlai and the Demon Ape Commander seemed slow but was decisively quick.
Life and death were determined in the space of an encounter.
It was just that the terrifying aura of the Demon Ape Commander was too shockingly oppressive. In such a nightmarish scene, every second was suffocating, every second was agonizing, to the point that although it was just an instant, everyone felt as if ages had passed.
As the Demon Ape Commander died, the suffocating oppressive aura finally dissipated, and with it, Zhao Qian, Zhan Hongying, and even Gu Chifeng, Gu Luochen, and others, who had been holding their breath, finally had a chance to breathe.
"Dead... It’s dead... Finally dead!"
Zhao Qian gasped heavily as if he had just been dragged out of water, his voice trembling with shock.
"This Upper-level Demon... is dead! Killed by Heavenly Monarch Gu’s own hands!"
Zhan Hongying then looked at the still fierce and mad upper half of the Demon Ape...
Putting himself in that situation, he thought if it had been him facing the Demon Ape Commander, he probably would have had weak knees and turned to flee as soon as it charged.
Otherwise, in a single encounter, he, a so-called Peak Refining God, would have been smashed into a meat patty.
"This is... an Upper-level Demon that had condensed an Undying Demon Body..."
The remaining Hugging Pill realm experts had faces full of lingering fears.
The higher one’s cultivation, the more they understood the terror of an Upper-level Demon.
This kind of monster, so strong that not even a Primordial Spirit True Monarch with a flying sword could necessarily kill it, was outside the standard scope.
If it weren’t for the fact that Upper-level Demons could not fly, or if Primordial Spirit True Monarchs didn’t use sword control to hover in the air, any alone would be easily smashed to death by an Upper-level Demon.
...
Gu Jinlai took a moment to catch his breath and then stepped forward, raising his War Sword and thundering across the battlefield, "The Demon Ape Commander is dead, the remaining devils are headless and nothing but a mob! Hear my command, open fire with all your might, spare no ammunition, and kill all these devils!"
Seeing the towering three-meter-tall figure next to the Demon Ape Commander’s corpse by the riverbank, resembling a Demon God, there was a brief pause in the atmosphere, and in the next moment, everyone burst into cheers.
"Open fire! Open fire! Fire at full force!"
"Kill! Kill all the devils!"
"Long live! Long live Ancient City Lord! Long live Heavenly Monarch Gu!"
Morale soared.
The morale that had been suppressed by the relentless and fearless assaults of the devils rose thunderously amidst these cheers.
Machine guns, artillery shells, rockets sprayed down towards the Jade Belt River like there was no cost, raising waves of blood and water.
Occasionally, a devil that managed to cross the river would quickly be besieged by many spirited Qi Refinement, Gang Condensation, Hugging Pill realm masters with high morale, preventing any devil from stepping west of the Jade Belt River.
In contrast to the soaring morale on Gu Jinlai’s side, the devils fell into panic with the fall of the Demon Ape Commander.
Some low-witted devils didn’t matter much, but those who still possessed enough intelligence seemed to see the tide had turned. Knowing they couldn’t match Gu Jinlai with their power, they immediately turned around, retreating towards Taihe City and towards the Yunqi Mountain Range.
In an instant, the devils were routed, collapsing a thousand miles at a blow.
