Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 744 Not a single one of them will escape!
As Dai Long finished reading the last line of the imperial edict with his last breath, the voice carrying his final will seemed to have exhausted the last bit of his remaining energy.

The light in his eyes flickered like a candle in the wind, suddenly extinguished, and the blood-stained bright yellow imperial edict slipped from his limp fingers.

"Cold!!" This was Dai Long's last thought.

The empty wound on his chest now resembled a bottomless black hole, drawing away the last bit of warmth and consciousness from his body.

Dai Long's body fell heavily to the ground.

At the same time, the demons also found that their bodies began to twitch uncontrollably.

Before long, the body decayed and rotted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The dark skin and bulging muscles, which were originally as hard as steel, were as if they had been splashed with an invisible strong acid, and foul-smelling yellow-green pustules quickly appeared, and then large patches of them turned black and dissolved.

A pungent stench instantly filled the air, a smell a hundred times stronger than the acrid odor of the most filthy sewers mixed with burning sulfur.

"No! Ah!!"

A demon god closest to the imperial edict felt his power rapidly draining and his life force rapidly slipping away. Instinctively, he struggled to rush forward and destroy the edict.

But taking just one small step forward seemed to have exhausted the last bit of balance and cohesion supporting this broken demonic body.

"Smack! Smack smack!"

As his body swayed, his left arm, which was barely held together by viscous demonic blood, tore off from his shoulder blade and slammed heavily onto the scorched, sticky ground, making a series of chilling, wet, and sticky thuds.

Looking at these decaying demon gods, Xiao Ran immediately understood the key to the matter.

As the saying goes, it's easy to invite a god, but difficult to send him away.

Whether it's a benevolent or malevolent deity, it's your skill to invite them over, but sending them away is entirely up to them.

Not to mention these demon gods who have finally managed to possess and descend into the realm.

Everyone was eagerly anticipating taking the elevator from the Ghost City directly to the real world so they could enjoy a fresh, unlimited, luxurious buffet.

No imperial edict can make them leave their physical bodies.

Wang Qiang, the eunuch, understood this as well. So after receiving the blank imperial edict, he thought it over and decided to solve the problem at its root.

How to solve this? Those candidates who participated in the imperial examinations were not actually living people, but under the special rules of the Ghost Capital, they were resurrected from the past.

Wang Qiang tackled the problem from this root cause, returning everything to its original state. Once he removed the influence of the Ghost Capital's rule, the bodies possessed by those demon gods, no matter how powerful, would immediately crumble.

The decaying physical body could no longer bear the will of the demon god, so the so-called dilemma was resolved by itself.

From this perspective, this old eunuch Wang Qiang is quite something.

But Xiao Ran didn't have time to think about these things now. These demon gods and demon kings in front of him had lost their physical bodies, but their spirits would not be sent to the underworld immediately.

"what!!"

With a scream, the flesh and blood of a demon god collapsed, unable to bear its own will any longer. Wisps of demonic smoke were forcibly squeezed out of its body.

Before the demon could recover from the pain of having his physical body stripped away, a strong gust of wind suddenly rose up before him.

He looked up and saw that Xiao Ran's primordial spirit had already attacked him, and with a swift movement, it pierced through the demonic shadow.

The blade's edge carried an unparalleled divine might, leaving the demonic shadow utterly defenseless, and it was instantly cleaved in two.

The cleaved demonic shadow screamed and twisted, its demonic energy torn apart by the heavenly might, like hot oil poured on snow, quickly melting and dissipating, not even having time to escape, before returning to nothingness.

The power of this heaven did not come from Xiao Ran, but from Huang Chao. Xiao Ran did not devour Huang Chao's soul essence. Instead, he used soul cultivation techniques to use Huang Chao's soul essence as fuel, covering his own primordial spirit with an invisible membrane.

Using the essence of celestial beings as weapons. Such extravagance is unimaginable even to these demon gods who regard all living beings as worthless!
After all, that was the spirit of a celestial being. Although the physical body had passed away, the spirit remained and guarded Ruzhou, preventing the six-eyed Nuomen from easily revealing their true nature.

In the end, he even cleaved Liu Mu in two with a single sword strike. It was this incident that allowed Xiao Ran to gain an advantage and acquire Liu Mu for free.

"Next!"

Xiao Ran's primordial spirit roared, emanating a terrifying killing intent.

His figure, imbued with overwhelming divine might, lunged at the next demon god who was briefly thrown into chaos by the collapse of his physical body.

puff!puff!
Wherever the blade flashed, the remaining primordial spirit of the demon god was shattered.

These demon gods' primordial spirits, having lost the protection of their physical bodies, were like targets stripped of their armor, slaughtered one by one by Xiao Ran, screaming in agony.

With the blessing of Huang Chao's divine spirit, these demons had no power to resist at all.

She let out a sharp curse, but this only fueled Xiao Ran's anger.

Because of this battle, those around me have already sacrificed too much.

The golden toad's blood dried up, and its fate was unknown. Wu Man suffered severe injuries, and her body was shattered.

Dai Long had been pierced through the chest and was no longer breathing.

At this moment, Xiao Ran had completely gone berserk, his cold face and eyes flashing with uncontrollable killing intent.

"Kill! Kill!! You like killing, don't you? Come out here and kill!!"

The blade sliced ​​through the primordial spirit of a demon god, instantly cutting it into pieces.

Seeing this, the other demon gods desperately tried to maintain the balance of the physical body, but this time, in order to seize the body, the thoughts that each demon god separated were extremely heavy, several times heavier than those of the Six-Eyed Demon and the Green-Bodied Demon. How could such a decaying, muddy physical body bear their weight?

Just as Xiao Ran's blade was about to touch yet another demon god, a sudden change occurred! At the location where the decapitated Bone-Scraping Demon King's head had been, a terrifying demonic thought, far more powerful and pure than that of an ordinary demon god, suddenly erupted!
A gigantic ghost eye, formed from pure resentment and malevolent demonic fire, suddenly took shape!

The eerie demonic flames locked onto Xiao Ran's primordial spirit, and the invisible power, carrying a hatred that could crush the soul, crashed down upon him!

Xiao Ran's primordial spirit trembled, and the invisible membrane formed by Huang Chao's essence fluctuated violently, as if a giant rock had been thrown into the surface of a lake! The intense pain pierced straight to the core of his soul.

"Quickly, seize that brat's body for me!!"

Taking advantage of Xiao Ran's mental shock, the Bone-Scraping Demon King roared and rushed towards Xiao Ran's physical body.

It must be said that the Bone-Scraping Demon King's thinking was extremely sharp. Realizing that they had lost the means to fight against Xiao Ran, he simply abandoned his burdens and rushed towards Xiao Ran's physical body.

By seizing this body, they could not only turn the tide of the battle but also obtain the banner that symbolized power.

"Bang bang bang..."

In an instant, the remaining dozens of demon gods no longer suppressed the decaying flesh and suddenly broke free from it, forming a black torrent that rushed towards Xiao Ran's body.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran remained calm. After recovering from the shock, he flashed and chased after these demonic figures. With a swift stroke, he cleaved the slower demons in two.

In the blink of an eye, the single eye that gleamed with cruelty and greed, like a black meteor condensed with endless malice and ambition, crashed into Xiao Ran's body.

"puff!"

It wasn't a physical impact, yet it seemed to resonate like a muffled thud on the soul level within the deathly silent Ghost City. The demonic shadow of the Bone-Scraping Demon King vanished instantly from Xiao Ran's forehead.

Following closely behind the Bone-Scraping Demon King, the demonic spirits that had lost their decaying bodies transformed into filthy demonic shadows that were either pitch black, dark red, or pale green. Like a swarm of sharks attracted by blood, they rushed towards Xiao Ran's body!
One after another, the demonic shadows disappeared into Xiao Ran's brow.

When Xiao Ran caught up and saw this scene, a ferocious look appeared on his face, and he plunged headfirst into his own body.

When consciousness returned to the mind through the portal between the eyebrows, demonic smoke was already surging in the sea of ​​consciousness.

The demons let out triumphant laughter; this place was their territory now.

"Kid, you were too arrogant! Now you've lost everything, hahaha! We're here, and we're not leaving! We're not leaving!!!"

Accompanied by shrill laughter, the demons that had entered Xiao Ran's body appeared in Xiao Ran's sea of ​​consciousness with various faces.

The Bone-Scraping Demon King reappeared in his original form, standing tall like a giant in Xiao Ran's sea of ​​consciousness, looking down at Xiao Ran with a contemptuous expression.

"A pearly luster like a grain of rice!"

This is the evaluation of Xiao Ran's mental strength by the Bone-Scraping Demon King. This is not an intentional belittling. At least in the eyes of these demon gods, Xiao Ran, who can only condense a thought, is not worth mentioning.

only……

"Haha...hahaha..."

Xiao Ran's laughter made the Bone-Scraping Demon King uneasy, and he roared, "What are you laughing at?!"

"Laugh... Hahaha..." Xiao Ran's laughter did not diminish, but instead grew louder and louder. It could be seen that Xiao Ran's thought gradually flashed with a dazzling light.

"I laugh at your stupidity. If you had scattered and fled back then, hiding in some nook or cranny, it would have been really difficult for me to find you all in a short time. At least before the Lost City was built, I wouldn't have been able to kill you all."

"But you were too greedy. You coveted not only my physical body, but also the power of the Yin-Yang Inspectorate. You rushed in with all of that, truly..."

……

Walk right into the trap!

After Xiao Ran finished speaking, that single thought suddenly shone brightly, and then the entire sea of ​​consciousness underwent a complete upheaval.

One of the demons tried to escape, but when he ran headlong into it, he was bounced back by a force.

They then realized that Xiao Ran had shut down her five senses, which was equivalent to locking the door and trapping them all inside.

Xiao Ran's thoughts grew increasingly piercing. He suddenly activated his Soul Cultivation Technique, illuminating his entire sea of ​​consciousness with his thoughts: "Since you're here today, none of you will leave alive!!"

(End of this chapter)