The Great Demon Lord of the American Comics World

Chapter 88, 88, one set and it's done! Hell is in turmoil!

"You've heard of me? That's right, I am Luke Cage."

The Black police officer cracked his neck, producing a series of crisp snapping sounds, then slammed his fists together with a loud thud. He then stared intently at Li Xingzhou, threatening him menacingly:

"Pretty boy, listen carefully. If you don't want me to break all your ribs, you'd better hand over Jessica!"

"Sounds like a tough character..."

Li Xingzhou chuckled, flicked his cigarette ash, and looked at the Black policewoman, Misty:
"Officer, are you just going to stand by and let this barbarian threaten me?"

Misty said coldly:

“Listen, Luke doesn’t joke around. He’s a violent maniac. If you don’t do what he says, I can’t stop him from hurting you.”

Li Xingzhou shook his head helplessly:
"Okay, I knew it, this is the beautiful policeman..."

He had a cigarette dangling from his lips, his sleeves rolled up, and he joked:
"It seems I have no choice but to protect myself."

Luke Cage sneered:

"Protect yourself? Pretty boy, I hope your bones are as hard as your mouth!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Luke Cage rushed to Li Xingzhou and delivered a vicious hook punch to Li Xingzhou's ribs, as if he really wanted to break them.

However, although this guy came from a gang and had a lot of street fighting experience, he had not received any systematic fighting training and fought purely on instinct.

Even if such a completely untrained fighter possesses superpowers like invulnerability and immense strength, he would be no match for Li Xingzhou, just like a punching bag, full of flaws and completely vulnerable.

Snapped!
With a soft thud, before Luke Cage's fist could even touch Li Xingzhou's clothes, his wrist was already gripped tightly.

Luke Cage was startled, a look of disbelief flashing in his eyes.

His strength was so great that he could send a car flying with a single punch. Although he only intended to break the other person's ribs and did not use his full strength, the force in his fist was something that ordinary people could not resist. How could this seemingly weak pretty boy so easily grab his wrist and stop his punch?

"you……"

Before Luke Cage could speak, Li Xingzhou's fist slammed into his face with a loud bang, shattering the air.

This powerful punch sent Luke Cage's head flying backward, blood spurting from his mouth and nose. His supposedly invulnerable body was breached by Li Xingzhou's single punch!
Then Li Xingzhou grabbed Luke Cage's wrist and pulled him in front of him, while simultaneously raising his right knee and slamming it into Luke Cage's lower abdomen.

With a roar like a tire exploding, Luke Cage's clothes burst open in his lower abdomen, and even the hem of his shirt at the back of his waist exploded with a snap, revealing a circular hole as the force that had pierced through his body blasted it apart.

His body, which had been leaning back, turned forward the instant he received the heavy knee strike, arching forward like a shrimp, his mouth wide open, his eyes almost bulging out of their sockets.

Li Xingzhou continued his offensive, raising his elbow and striking Luke Cage hard on the back of the head with a deafening thud.

Luke Cage plummeted downwards, his head slamming heavily into the ground with a thud, cracking the paved road surface.

Li Xingzhou took a step back, kicked the ball out, and the ball struck Luke Cage squarely in the cheek.

boom!
With a thunderous crash, Luke Cage spun like a windmill, hurtling across the ground before slamming into the curb and shattering a large section of it.

After finishing the attack, Li Xingzhou glanced at Luke Cage, who was half-buried in the rubble, his limbs twitching twice before he fainted. He took another deep drag on his cigarette, flicked off the ash, and smiled slightly at the horrified Misty.
"Officer, wouldn't this be considered self-defense? I remember Luke Cage is a wanted fugitive? Shouldn't the NYPD give me a medal weighing a ton?"

"..."

Misty didn't speak, but gritted her teeth and pulled the trigger on Li Xingzhou.

bang bang bang...

American police officers habitually empty their magazines before firing, and spent cartridge cases fly out one after another, clattering to the ground.

But as soon as the gunshot rang out, Li Xingzhou had already moved with ghostly steps, avoiding the gun's aim—although he was no longer afraid of pistol bullets, and now even rifles and sniper rifles couldn't kill him, it wouldn't be dignified to have his clothes ruined!

Misty emptied her magazine, but none of her shots hit their mark. Li Xingzhou anticipated each shot and dodged it.

When Misty's pistol fired without a sound, Li Xingzhou was already in front of her, smiling slightly at her and pointing a finger at her brow.

Misty shuddered, froze on the spot, and her eyes became dazed and confused.

Li Xingzhou pointed to Misty's brow and said slowly in a faint, deep voice:

“You didn’t see Luke Cage today, nor did you see me… You don’t know where Jessica Jones and Luke Cage went… You have no idea what they’ve been up to lately…”

Taking down a police officer would be troublesome. As a law-abiding and legitimate businessman, Li Xingzhou didn't want to clash with the beautiful police officer right now, so he decided to let Misty forget everything that happened today.

Misty turned around in a daze, got into the police car, and drove away.

Li Xingzhou then picked up Luke Cage and tapped him more than a dozen times, planting more than ten true qi restrictions in one go—even the so-called invulnerable body could not stop the infiltration of innate true qi.

After placing the restriction, Li Xingzhou tossed Luke Cage into the back seat of his Lincoln Navigator, got into the driver's seat, and made a phone call to Emma:

“Send a prison van to the Dream Bar to pick someone up and take them to prison.”

"Okay, Boss."

The bar is in Queens, and Rex Island is also adjacent to Queens. The only bridge connecting it to the mainland is also on the outskirts of Queens, so it wouldn't take long to send a car from Rex Island.

When Li Xingzhou drove to the parking lot of the Dream Bar, less than ten minutes later, a prison van sped over.

The two heavily armed Death Walkers escorted the vehicle. After greeting Li Xingzhou, they lifted Luke Cage onto the prison van and shackled his hands and feet.

Having resolved this minor issue, Li Xingzhou went into the bar to meet Iliana, while the two Death Walkers drove Luke Cage back to Prison Island.

When the prison van reached the prison island bridge.

Luke Cage groaned in pain inside the carriage and opened his eyes.

His supposedly invulnerable physique was indeed extraordinary; despite being brutally beaten by Li Xingzhou, he was only unconscious for less than half an hour. Upon waking and realizing his predicament, Luke Cage's face twitched twice, and he muttered through gritted teeth:
"Leonardo Victor... I underestimated you. I didn't expect you to be a superhuman as well. But you underestimated me too!"

As he spoke, he was about to unleash his divine power and break free of the shackles on his hands and feet.

However, as soon as he exerted his strength, Luke Cage felt excruciating pain in all his internal organs.

The pain was like countless tiny knives rapidly churning inside his body, frantically cutting into his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, instantly draining all his strength. He curled up like a shrimp, drenched in sweat, his mouth wide open but unable to utter a single scream, only hissing sounds like air leaking from his throat.

Li Xingzhou planted more than a dozen restrictions on him, so that if he dared to exert any force, his internal organs would be in excruciating pain.

No matter how invulnerable he is or how strong he is, this intense pain originating from within his body can instantly turn him into a weakling.

……

Manager's office, second floor of Dream Bar.

Iliana sat in Li Xingzhou's leather executive chair, her long legs crossed and propped up on the desk, chugging down bottles of liquor without any ladylike demeanor.

Li Xingzhou was unfazed and sat down at the table with his wine glass to drink with her.

The young Hell Lord was wearing a black tank top under her denim jacket, and underneath the tank top was nothing at all. So much so that when she tilted her head back and drank heavily, from Li Xingzhou's vantage point above her, her biggest secret was almost completely exposed.

Of course, Iliana didn't care about being exposed in front of him. After all, she had already pinched and eaten him, so what was the big deal about taking a look?
After downing most of the bottle in one gulp, Iliana slammed the bottle on the table, exhaled a satisfied breath, and said:

"Your place is the best; I can always drink to my heart's content here."

Li Xingzhou raised an eyebrow:
"From what you're saying, you've also been to other people's houses for drinks?"

Iliana waved her hand, looking bored, and said:

"Don't even mention it, my brother, a big, dumb guy with a saintly heart, who, apart from being able to click his tongue, is no longer like a Russian at all. Every time I go to his place, he advises me to read more books and drink less... and keeps urging me to join the X-Men... I even suspect that he has been brainwashed by that bald old man with terrifying mental abilities."

Li Xingzhou smiled and said:
“Your brother is just concerned about you. Drinking should be done in moderation, but you really drank too much.”

“But I can drink a lot without getting drunk.” Iliana said nonchalantly, “Drinking two or three bottles in one go is just an aperitif for me, and ten or eight bottles is just the right amount.”

Li Xingzhou knew that she had a special constitution—as a demon lord whose veins flowed with magma and fire, darkness and magic, how could she get drunk so easily?
Even if she drank ten or eight bottles of vodka, she would only feel slightly tipsy.

"You don't want to join the X-Men?"

Iliana looked disdainful:
"Why join the X-Men? Am I after their sexy bodysuits, or because they have so many rules and restrictions?"

Li Xingzhou nodded in agreement:
"That's true. It's more enjoyable to be a lord of hell."

"Yeah, as the Lord of Hell, I can do whatever I want. As an X-Men member, I get lectured for ages just for killing a bad guy..."

As the two drank and chatted, three empty bottles appeared at Iliana's feet before she realized what was happening. She then reached out to Li Xingzhou for more wine: "Another bottle, please. Vodka this time."

"Shall we call it a day? We still have to learn incantations later."

"The last bottle! Don't worry, even if I drink another bottle of vodka, I'll still have sharp eyes and steady hands, and drawing talismans will be no problem at all."

Li Xingzhou smiled and shook his head, then took a bottle of vodka from the liquor cabinet and handed it to her.

Iliana gently slammed the bottle on the table, blew a breath to the side, tilted her head back, and downed about half the bottle in one gulp.

After finishing her drink, she suddenly remembered something and said:
"By the way, there have been some problems in several hell dimensions recently. A lot of demons have escaped. Something might happen in New York."

"Is there trouble in Hell again?" Li Xingzhou asked curiously. "Doesn't each dimension of Hell have a lord in charge? Why are there always problems? Could it be that the lords of Hell are deliberately letting demons sneak into the human world to harvest souls?"

"The lords of hell wouldn't be so reckless. Lords usually harvest souls by using various lures to entice humans into signing contracts with them and voluntarily offering their souls. They rarely send demons to the human world to harvest souls."

Iriana explained:
"In fact, once an ordinary demon comes to the human world and obtains a human soul, its power expands rapidly, making it easy for it to escape the control of the hell lords. Even if an out-of-control demon harvests a soul, it will not obediently offer it to the lord, but will only enjoy it itself. Therefore, the lords are very wary of their subordinate demons sneaking into the human world, fearing that after they obtain power, they will return and challenge their position."

Li Xingzhou nodded. "I understand. What exactly happened in Hell?"

Iliana was also a little confused, and gently shook her head:

“I’m not entirely sure either. Several hell dimensions have been experiencing frequent earthquakes lately, and the frequency of volcanic eruptions is far beyond normal. Speaking of which, the last time Jason and Freddy escaped from my territory was because of an unexpected major earthquake that shook several large holes in my Demon Palace prison.”

She paused, then said uncertainly:
"A hell lord suspects that this may be an anomaly caused by a dimensional collision."

"Dimensional collision?"

"Hmm... it's about one or more extradimensional dimensions with properties similar to the Hell Dimension colliding with the Hell Dimension at the spacetime level, causing spacetime instability and various abnormal changes in the Hell Dimension... Of course, this is just a guess, because the lords haven't discovered any signs of the existence of extradimensional dimensions..."

Upon hearing this, Li Xingzhou seemed to be deep in thought:
"Remember that red-haired werewolf with what seemed to be hellish power? Its power was similar in nature to hell itself, and we once suspected that some hell lord had 'summoned' the werewolves and lent them power... But you didn't detect any familiar aura of a hell lord on that red-haired werewolf..."

"You mean..."

Iliana frowned slightly:

"Could the evil god or demon that summoned werewolves and granted them power come from that 'other dimension' that we have not yet discovered?"

“That’s possible,” Li Xingzhou said. “My men are tracking the werewolf lair. Once we find it, we can go and see which evil god or demon the werewolves are worshipping…”

"no problem."

Iliana nodded, then reminded him:

"You need to be careful lately. When demons come to earth, they're bound to cause a lot of trouble. Some people with dark hearts might even be possessed by demons and gain their power... Your Rex Island prison has so many hardened criminals and even psychopathic killers in there, there might be one of those lurking right now."

Li Xingzhou smiled and said leisurely:
"If demons dare to seek possession targets in Rex Prison... I will treat them well, make them feel the warmth of home, and make them never want to leave..."

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