My brother is so cunning

Chapter 985 Heavenly Court's Demon-Slaying Rapid Response Force

Yun Zhongzi did not sense any demons approaching within a thousand miles, and looked up in surprise at the "sky" mentioned by the cat demon.

Upon closer inspection, they indeed discovered dozens of shooting stars slowly descending from the heavens.

From a distance, the dozens of meteors appeared to be falling at a slow speed, but in reality, they had already exceeded the speed of sound by many times. In just a moment, the meteors in the distant sky grew larger and larger, and fireballs with trailing flames hurtled straight toward Yun Zhongzi at speeds imperceptible to the naked eye.

Yun Zhongzi neither dodged nor evaded, but instead formed a sword incantation with his hands. His flying sword was unsheathed and hovered in front of him, ready to slash down Fei Xing.

For an immortal of his caliber to fight a mere celestial being like him, dodging would be beneath him, something that the demon could boast about for a lifetime.

Although puzzled as to why a fairy's innate supernatural power would be to summon meteors, Yun Zhongzi didn't have time to think too much and decided to neutralize the attack first.

The ability to summon a fiery meteor from outer space and unleash it during a battle between immortals is already considered an extraordinary supernatural power.

Even if those meteors were just ordinary meteorites flying from beyond the heavens, their weight and extremely high speed would make even a Golden Immortal stagger if they were hit.

Even celestial beings and immortals could not guarantee they wouldn't perish instantly if struck by such meteors in succession.

For mortals, a meteor falling from the sky is a world-destroying miracle. If these dozens of meteors were to fall into a human city, they would immediately and completely destroy a city of 100,000 people.

However, Yun Zhongzi didn't take a mere few dozen meteors seriously at all. He dared to show off his petty skills in front of a peak Golden Immortal, which was really ignorant of his own limitations.

As the meteor drew near, Yun Zhongzi was about to draw his sword to slay it when a sudden change occurred.

Dozens of meteors changed direction, scattered around Yun Zhongzi, and flew toward him, suddenly hovering in a way that defied the laws of physics, as if they had suddenly frozen in the air.

The meteors formed a surrounding pattern, encircling Yun Zhongzi from all directions.

Once the flames on the meteor died down, Yun Zhongzi could see clearly that it was not a meteor at all, but dozens of tall metal puppets huddled together.

After hovering, the metal puppets stretched out their curled-up bodies and returned to a standing position. Red light flashed on their heads where their eyes should be, and their gazes were all focused on Yun Zhongzi.

"We are the Heavenly Court's Demon-Slaying Rapid Response Force. You have been arrested. Lay down your weapons immediately and surrender, or we will take all necessary measures to disarm you!"

One of the puppets issued a gruff warning, while the others raised their metal arms, from which protruding dark gun barrels were aimed at Yun Zhongzi.

"The Heavenly Army? You don't look like heavenly soldiers and generals! I know your Marshal Li Jing, the Heavenly King!"

Yun Zhongzi was also taken aback. He had only been in seclusion for two hundred years, so how did everything become so unfamiliar?

The cat demon's invisibility technique, which he had previously used to deceive the immortal-level creature, had greatly surprised him, as had its unpredictable telepathic abilities, all of which exceeded his understanding of magic.

Pu Na's innate divine ability is to conceal her aura, but relying solely on this ability is not enough to evade the divine sense scan of a veteran Golden Immortal like Yun Zhongzi.

It was the nano-steel armor she wore, specifically designed for civilian officials of the Demon Alliance, that proved its effectiveness. This armor wasn't for combat; its primary function was survival and escape, ensuring the safety of the Demon Alliance's civilian personnel to the greatest extent possible.

Civil officials shouldn't participate in battles in the first place. It was just that Yun Zhongzi happened to run into the demon immortal Pu Na. If he had gone to another county, the county magistrate he encountered might have been just a mortal who hadn't even broken through to the Qi Refining stage or a minor demon in the Golden Core stage.

Because the recruitment standards for special post officials have been relaxed, many clever little demons who have only recently transformed into human form at the Golden Core stage have also passed the exams and obtained the positions.

These little demons face far greater risks than humans when they go to the Great Zhou Dynasty to serve as officials. Occasionally, cultivators who have just emerged from seclusion will come to their door to subdue the demons for no apparent reason. If no measures are taken, the Demon Alliance, which is already short of manpower, will find it even more difficult to replenish its ranks if a few are lost.

As a result, each dispatched official was issued a set of nano-Iron Man armor specifically for civil servants.

This armor is so strong that even cultivators below the Immortal Rank cannot break it with its high-interaction materials. If one encounters a cultivator above the Immortal Rank, one can activate the advanced stealth function attached to the armor and escape unscathed to save one's life.

The invisibility ability attached to the armor is not just the divine sense reflection material coating that Wen Rui had previously developed, but rather the Hunyuan invisibility great divine ability derived from the analysis of the Hunyuan Banner.

The Hunyuan Invisibility Divine Power is so powerful that even Golden Immortals would find it difficult to see through, thus ensuring the safety of civil officials to the greatest extent.

As for the sound transmission technique coming from all directions, it wasn't that technically sophisticated. Puna simply used the nano-dust units floating in the air in this area to manipulate them into creating countless small speakers, which then played voice messages.

Even such a low-level technique seemed mysterious and unfathomable to Yun Zhongzi, a veteran Golden Immortal who had never been exposed to new knowledge of the Jie Sect.

"I repeat, human cultivator, you have been arrested for attacking officials of the Demon Alliance and disrupting the order of the mortal realm. Immediately lay down your weapons, put your hands on your head, squat down, and surrender. If you resist, you will bear the consequences!"

The metal puppet completely ignored Li Tianwang, whom Yun Zhongzi mentioned, and continued to issue warnings in a cold, mechanical voice.

"Hmph, let alone a puppet cobbled together from a pile of scrap metal, even if a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals came, they wouldn't be able to capture me!"

Yun Zhongzi also got angry and said in an unfriendly tone, "I'll teach you a lesson and dismantle all of you, leaving only one to go back and report to Li Tianwang so he can come to see me in person!"

After saying that, he no longer held back. With his hand forming a sword incantation, he pointed in the air, and the floating sword transformed into a streak of light, slashing heavily at the puppet that had issued the warning to him.

The flying sword grew longer as it flew into the wind, and by the time it reached the puppet, the blade was as wide as a door panel, and it slashed down with tremendous force.

This is Yun Zhongzi's natal flying sword, the "Juque Sword". Back when he intended to kill Daji, he carved a Juque wooden sword out of pine wood. The wooden sword, made of ordinary wood with only slight carving, contained a wisp of the Juque sword spirit, and the power it emitted almost took the life of the fox demon.

The sword that is now being unleashed is the very essence of the Giant Sword, its power being a hundred or even a thousand times greater than that wooden sword from back then.

As the giant sword slashed down, the puppet reacted with extreme speed, advancing instead of retreating, stepping forward to meet the sword's edge, and slamming its fist down, the fist striking the enlarged and widened blade of the Giant Sword.

The flying swords of sword immortals at the Golden Immortal realm are as fast as lightning. Even though Yun Zhongzi's flying sword is not as fast as the Golden Spirit Mother's Flying Golden Sword Technique, it is still one-third the speed of light. However, the metal puppet's punch was incredibly precise. It actually grasped that one instant, and the fist landed on the flying sword at the most correct time, without even a millisecond error.

(End of this chapter)