The Great Demon Lord of the American Comics World

Chapter 79, Martial Arts Innate Stage! The Demonic Array is Initially Completed!

The manor's main castle has a small rooftop garden.

Li Xingzhou sat cross-legged in the garden, gazing intently at the approaching dawn, trying to capture the first wisp of purple aura from the rising sun.

The purple aura of the rising sun was the kind of special energy that could help him break through the barrier and enter the innate realm.

It is not spiritual energy, but a conceptual energy that represents the beginning and new life. It is of great benefit to refining essence, energy, and spirit, as well as breaking through cultivation barriers.

However, precisely because it is not spiritual energy, but rather a more mysterious conceptual energy, capturing the purple energy of the rising sun requires extremely high cultivation. Ordinary cultivators, and even so-called Nascent Soul Ancestors and Deity Transformation Old Monsters, cannot even touch it.

Although Li Xingzhou's cultivation had not recovered, his accumulated Taoist power from nine lifetimes remained, and his primordial spirit power was also quite extraordinary. Capturing the morning purple aura was not only easy for him, but also not difficult.

Wait quietly for a while.

The moment the sun truly leaped above the horizon, revealing its brilliant morning light, Li Xingzhou instantly sensed a wisp of ethereal and mysterious energy. He immediately concentrated his primordial spirit power to capture and draw upon that energy.

The progress is going very smoothly.

Soon, Li Xingzhou drew that energy to the top of his head and poured it down from his fontanelle.

When the Qi (vital energy) surges in from the top.

Li Xingzhou felt a purple light shine into his fontanelle, illuminating his entire body from head to toe, making his skin, muscles, tendons, internal organs, blood vessels, bones, meridians, acupoints... everything clear and bright.

Under this mysterious light, subtle changes were taking place inside and outside Li Xingzhou, constantly adjusting and evolving towards a more perfect state.

Li Xingzhou did not wait passively.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he circulated his inner energy throughout his body.

As the true energy circulates, it is illuminated by the mysterious light and begins to undergo profound changes.

When the true qi completes three major cycles and returns to the dantian, the original acquired true qi suddenly exudes a fresh and vibrant vitality.

If the previous true energy was likened to an "inanimate object," then the true energy at this moment is like an inanimate object infused with a soul, coming to life.

After patiently adjusting his breathing for a while, until the opportune moment passed and the purple aura of the rising sun completely disappeared, Li Xingzhou finally opened his eyes, a flash of lightning-like brilliance appearing in his pupils.

"Finally... I have broken through the gate of the Innate Realm and returned to the Innate Realm of Martial Arts."

He muttered to himself with delight, stood up, looked at a large tree below the main fortress, and suddenly flicked his finger, sending out an invisible sword aura with a clang.

That "innate formless sword energy" swept across more than thirty meters in an instant, slashing at the crown of the big tree and cutting off a small branch.

Li Xingzhou then formed his fingers into a knife shape and slashed horizontally, unleashing a blood-red blade of light that was as solid as a bolt of lightning and as dazzling as a blood rainbow, which shot into the sky and slashed more than twenty meters away.

This strike, named "Blood-Transforming Demon Blade," not only cuts through iron like mud, but if it strikes a human body, even if it only causes a superficial wound, the Blood-Transforming Blade's energy will seep into the body and, within a short time, turn everything inside into blood.

"His skill is still too shallow; he can't unleash a forty-meter-long sword aura..."

Li Xingzhou shook his head and sighed softly, but he didn't seem to have much dissatisfaction.

He has only been awakened for a month or so, and he has already returned to the Innate Realm in just one month. This speed of cultivation is already unbelievable.

More importantly, with innate true qi, one can directly cast spells, refine weapons, make talismans, and set up formations without relying on external forces.

After entering the gate of innate nature, one can seamlessly connect to the path of Qi cultivation and refine true Qi into spiritual power. However, the minor cultivation stages of Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment only cultivate spiritual power. One must cultivate to the "Golden Core" realm to refine true magical power.

As for the difference between spiritual power and magical power...

When casting spells with spiritual power, one cannot connect with the laws of heaven and earth or leverage their power. Casting spells with a unit of spiritual power will only unleash the power that unit should have.

Magical power can connect with the laws of heaven and earth, and to a certain extent, it can leverage the power of heaven and earth, amplifying one part of magical power to unleash three, five, or even ten parts of its power.

Therefore, in the cultivation world, it is common for genius Qi Refining cultivators from prestigious families to use their advantages in cultivation techniques, magical artifacts, and formations to defeat those below them and even rogue Foundation Establishment cultivators. However, it is extremely rare, even for a Foundation Establishment cultivator to defeat a rogue Golden Core cultivator, to do so, even if it is a genius from a prestigious family.

Anyone who can accomplish such a feat as Foundation Establishment and Golden Core Formation is undoubtedly a peerless genius. As long as they do not perish prematurely, they are destined to stand out from the crowd in the cultivation world, shine brightly, and even become revered ancestors.

After briefly practicing the innate martial arts, Li Xingzhou formed hand seals and used his innate true energy to cast a spell, casually flicking out a blood flame.

This seemingly insignificant blood flame has the power to melt iron and gold, easily scorching through even a steel plate only an inch thick. When it lands on a human body, it ignites instantly upon contact with blood, burning the person to ashes without leaving even a trace of bone.

Of course, casting spells with innate true qi consumes far more energy than casting spells with spiritual power. For spells of equal power, casting with innate true qi consumes about 1.5 times more energy than casting with spiritual power.

Li Xingzhou had just entered the Innate Realm and had not yet refined his True Qi into Spiritual Power. His True Qi reserves were also not abundant enough. He stopped after only a few attempts at performing minor techniques.

After sitting down and regulating his breathing for a while to replenish his depleted true energy, he returned to the main castle and went to his hibernation chamber.

Deep within the hibernation chamber lies a blood pool ten meters in diameter.

The blood pool was filled with fresh blood, but it had no foul smell. Instead, it emitted a strange fragrance. If an ordinary person smelled it, they would feel intoxicated, as if they had drunk fine wine, and their mind would become drowsy and confused without them realizing it.

Three antique coffins, simple in design and elegant in decoration, floated in the center of the blood pool. Around the three coffins, dozens of bodies covered with blood-red curse marks floated, one of which was Marcus.

If any superhero saw this scene, they would surely consider Li Xingzhou the most powerful demon they had ever seen, but Li Xingzhou would definitely feel wronged:

Although this scene looks bloody and evil, the blood is all vampire blood, and all those bodies are vampires. I am doing this to rid the people of evil and to act on behalf of heaven. It is the behavior of a superhero. How did I become a great demon?

Although he had a perfectly legitimate reason, Li Xingzhou also knew that worldly views were often full of prejudice and probably couldn't understand his noble sentiments, so he wouldn't easily expose the blood pool.

now.

Li Xingzhou leaped onto the coffin that originally belonged to Marcus, sat cross-legged on the coffin lid, then formed hand seals, channeled his true energy, and began practicing his magic.

As one magic seal after another was quickly formed, the blood pool began to surge and splash, and under the guidance of Li Xingzhou's hand seals, it transformed into scarlet talismans that twisted and wriggled like insects, and were imprinted on the three coffins.

The blood-red runes on the bodies of dozens of vampires in the blood pool began to writhe and slowly glow with a scarlet light, illuminating the entire hibernation chamber in a crimson hue, like a blood-soaked demon's lair.

The eerie spellcasting scene lasted for about an hour.

Only when his true energy was almost exhausted did Li Xingzhou end his cultivation technique, meditate for a while, and return to the edge of the blood pool.

"After refining it with innate true energy, the blood pool is almost ready to be stored away..."

He whispered something, and with a gentle wave of his hand, the lids of the three coffins opened simultaneously, emitting a powerful suction force.

The blood in the pool immediately boiled, gushing forth streams of blood that carried the bodies of the vampires into the three coffins. The coffins were originally designed for limited capacity.

After Li Xingzhou refined it for seven days, and then refined it again today with innate true qi, the three coffins seemed to have become bottomless pits, actually swallowing up the pool of blood completely. Even the blood bodies of dozens of vampires were collected into the three coffins.

Boom!

The coffin lid closed and fell to the bottom of the pool, where not a drop of blood remained.

Li Xingzhou nodded in satisfaction, took out his phone, and dialed Andrew's number:
"Anzhu, arrange a large truck to help me transport some goods back to the prison..."

The Blood Sea Burial God Formation requires not only extremely yin and evil blood, but also a massive amount of negative emotions.

Rex Island prison, which holds tens of thousands of criminals, is undoubtedly a perfect mine for generating negative emotions.

Unfortunately, the grand formation is only in its initial stages. With Li Xingzhou's current cultivation level, he is not yet able to shrink the three coffins, which already have their own internal spaces, using methods such as "shrinking talismans." Otherwise, there would be no need to call a truck to transport them.

……

Monday morning.

After finishing his weekend vacation, Li Xingzhou returned to downtown New York City and sat down in the MASA company headquarters office building.

In the CEO's office, Li Xingzhou sat in his executive chair, listening to Emma report on her work from across the desk.

"The prison has already built a bulletproof vest workshop, a military boot workshop, a glove workshop, and a lighter workshop. Inmates are currently being trained to produce them, and production is expected to be on track within a week at the latest..."

Li Xingzhou nodded in satisfaction and asked her:

How were the raw material sourcing issues resolved?

Emma adjusted her non-prescription glasses and said calmly:
"The bulletproof vest fabric and bulletproof steel plates are all imported from a foreign trade company in a certain Eastern country. Military boots, tactical gloves, and windproof firearms are also semi-finished products ordered from that same Eastern country. We only need to perform the final sewing and assembly processes. The landed prices of various materials and semi-finished products are... After deducting material costs, production costs, logistics costs, and sales costs, the preliminary estimate for net profit is approximately twelve to fifteen times..."

After listening to Emma's report, Li Xingzhou's expression became subtle:
"Is that certain major Eastern power India?"

Emma paused for a moment, then nodded:

"Yes! It is India."

"That's good." Li Xingzhou nodded in satisfaction, giving a fair assessment: "India is still quite reliable."

Emma nodded seriously:

"Boss is right, Indian manufacturing has a great reputation. By the way, Boss, I invented an electric-assisted handcart when I was bored in college, and I've already registered a patent. Could we try marketing this handcart to the military?"

"Electric-assisted handcart? What's the story behind that?"

"It's a battery-powered all-terrain handcart. When encountering complex terrain where vehicles can't go, a soldier can push it alone. It can carry a maximum load of 220 kg and has a range of 48 km. I consulted a major foreign trade company in the East; if I order one from them, the landed price for one of these handcarts is three hundred dollars..."

"A handcart with a landed price of $300, how much do you think is a reasonable price to sell it to the military?"

"It's an electric-assisted handcart."

Emma slightly corrected Li Xingzhou's statement, and said without hesitation:
"If you can successfully sell this to Boss, I think asking $15 per vehicle would be appropriate. After all, this is a brand-new piece of technology that is unique to this company, unlike ordinary equipment such as bulletproof vests and military boots, which have extensive competition."

"..."

Li Xingzhou looked at Emma with a subtle "Are you the devil?" look in his eyes.

Seeing this, Emma quickly explained:
“This is no joke. I have carefully studied the military’s various procurement plans. Even bushings with almost no technical content are purchased by the military for $90,000 a bag. How much more so for this kind of high-tech equipment that I invented? $150,000 a unit is definitely a fair price.”

However, no matter how technologically advanced it is, if you place an order with a certain major Eastern country, the landed price is only $300 per vehicle. It can be seen that it is just a "local technology equipment" that any small factory in a small town can manufacture!
Li Xingzhou let out a soft breath and exclaimed in admiration:
"Emma, ​​I knew I hadn't misjudged you. With you as my assistant, I firmly believe we can make America strong again together! Okay, go place the order, a thousand cars to start, I'll sell them. Hmm, since it's your patent, I'll give you a 10% commission on the net profit."

Emma smiled sweetly: "Thank you, Boss!"

If all one thousand cars are sold, that would amount to 150 million dollars.

After deducting the procurement cost of $300,000, as well as other costs including sales and marketing, and then deducting taxes, a net profit of $100 million is no problem at all. With a 10% commission on the net profit, that's $10 million!

Emma doesn't particularly value money.

But it's especially satisfying to be able to earn money through your own abilities and then squander it, isn't it?

……

night.

After a long day of dealing with company affairs, Li Xingzhou was having dinner with Emma at a small restaurant when he suddenly received a call from Gwen.

"Gwen, you've been like this these past two days..."

Before he could finish speaking, Gwen interrupted him urgently:

"Li Ang, come to Harlin District quickly!"

"Harlin District?" Li Xingzhou asked, "What happened?"

"Something terrible has happened! A huge monster that looks a lot like the Hulk is wreaking havoc in Harlem, and the army can't handle it! I'm dealing with it, but I need some help..."

"A giant monster that looks a lot like the Hulk?"

Just then, a loud bang came from the receiver, followed by Gwen's muffled groan.

Li Xingzhou frowned slightly:
"Gwen, are you hurt?"

"I'm fine... It hit me with a car, damn it, that thing is so strong..."

"Be careful, I'm coming right away!"

Before she could finish speaking, another dull thud sounded from the other side, followed by Gwen panting heavily as she said:

"Wait! You can't come over... That guy's gotten stronger again! I could barely catch his punch just now, but now when he throws one, I can't even defend myself with both hands, and I'm sent flying more than ten meters away... Coming over now won't help, it'll only put you in danger..."

(End of this chapter)