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Chapter 123 Rat Demon
"The Thunderclap Spear Technique and the Divine Firmament Thunder Technique truly complement each other perfectly."

Wu Ming stepped forward and pulled out the black iron spear that had pierced through the centipede demon's body. When his fingers touched the spear shaft, he felt a faint, tingling electric current, but it was very weak and had no effect on him.

The power of the Thunderclap Spear Technique lies in its speed and penetration, rather than its destructive power. It mainly relies on speed and penetration to strike the enemy's vitals. However, with the blessing of the Divine Firmament Thunder Technique, even if the attack does not strike a vital point, as long as it causes injury, a follow-up thunder technique can be used to penetrate into the enemy's body along the Xuan Tie spear and cause damage.

Even a powerful, three-transformation demon could not withstand such an attack, let alone a human martial artist.

Looking at the two centipede demon corpses on the ground, Wu Ming nodded slightly. No matter which type of a three-transformation demon is, it has a high value. Sending the corpses of these two centipede demons to the Demon Suppression Division will probably earn them a lot of merit.

His Blood Essence Pearl, after so long, is now only a tiny bit the size of a thumb, and it's about to run out. With this new income of merit points, he can exchange it for another one to replenish it.

It's worth mentioning that the batch of pills he obtained from Xu Mo were indeed of the blood-nourishing type, with very strong medicinal effects. He had used most of them up in bits and pieces over the past few days, and his own blood energy had become much stronger than when he first broke through.

……

Since Wu Ming used thunder magic to deal with the centipede demon, he did not simply send its corpse to the Demon Suppression Division to earn merit. Instead, he moved the demon's corpse back to the Cautious Punishment Division and handed it over to Liu Muyuan for disposal.

A patrol officer who had dealt with two three-transformation demons would normally be worthy of praise, but Liu Muyuan did not offer any commendation. He simply took the two centipede demon corpses, gave Wu Ming a few more instructions, and then dismissed Wu Ming.

As far as Liu Muyuan was concerned, Wu Ming was skilled in both Daoist and martial arts, and his methods in both paths were quite remarkable. Defeating ordinary three-transformation demons was not as easy as eating and drinking, but it was a piece of cake for him. There was nothing to praise about it. As for Wu Ming handing him the corpse of the demon he had defeated, he knew that Wu Ming did not want to expose his Daoist methods. To him, this was a trivial matter.

After disposing of the centipede demon's corpse, Wu Ming returned to the Night Patrol Division to continue investigating the missing persons cases in the city. There had been many missing persons cases in the city recently. Although not all of them were the work of demons, it was clear that there were far more demons lurking in the city than just these two centipedes.

……

under night.

Wu Ming walked in a courtyard.

A faint smell of blood lingered in the courtyard, and there were signs of damage to the houses everywhere.

Squeak!

Wu Ming, holding the Xuan Tie spear, used it to pry open a door, revealing a scene of utter chaos. Tables and chairs were overturned and broken, and the floor was littered with tattered pieces of clothing and bloodstains.

The entire courtyard was filled with this scene, but there was not a single person in sight. Although the bloodstains scattered everywhere had dried, the smell of blood was strong and pungent. Judging from the situation, the attack here should have occurred no more than two hours ago.

"A step too late?"

Wu Ming's gaze swept across the surroundings, and with his soul sense probing, he felt that the place was filled with demonic energy, and there were still remnants of it.

Based on his observations, it seemed that the attack on the courtyard was not just by one monster, but by a considerable number of them. Moreover, these monsters did not seem to be very large, as the doors and windows of the houses were either only broken in a corner or only in the lower half.

Furthermore, apart from this courtyard, Wu Ming did not detect any trace of demonic energy outside, nor could he sense the whereabouts of these demons; it was as if they had appeared out of thin air.

However, this is Jingye City. Monsters cannot appear out of thin air, nor can they roam the streets and alleys on a large scale without being detected, even though it is the middle of the night. Therefore, they must have either flown in from the sky or crawled out from underground.

After some investigation, Wu Ming finally found a hole about the size of a human head in a corner of the backyard. The hole sloped downwards, leading to an unknown destination. The interior was filled with demonic energy, much stronger than in the courtyard.

The hole leading underground is neither too big nor too small. A seven- or eight-year-old child might be able to squeeze through, but an adult could not possibly squeeze in.

After a moment's thought, Wu Ming flipped his right hand, and the Starry Thorn flew out from his sleeve. He then used his primordial spirit to control the Starry Thorn, which pierced into the cave entrance and continued its descent along the sloping hole.

Following the demonic aura,

Wu Ming soon encountered his first demon, which was a rat demon. It was extremely fat and agile, but its demonic power was not strong, only at the level of the first transformation.

Not all demons are extremely powerful. The difference between the first and second transformations of demons at the lower level is very obvious. For example, the rat demon is one of the weakest of the low-level demons. Although a first-transformation rat demon has a certain killing power, a grown man with a weapon, even if he is not a martial artist, has a chance to take down a rat demon that is only at the first transformation level.

laugh.

Under Wu Ming's control, the Starry Thorn pierced through the void in an instant. The transformed rat demon didn't even have time to make a sound before its head was pierced through, and its corpse collapsed, its limbs twitching uncontrollably.

Wu Ming rode the Starry Thorn downwards, constantly dealing with rat demons along the way, until he had gone nearly thirteen feet underground and finally arrived at the bottom of the cave.

Rat demons are common in Jingye City. Since low-level rat demons are not a big threat, and once rats become demons, their underground nests are often interconnected and extremely difficult to eradicate, Wu Ming did not consider killing all the rat demons by himself. He only planned to kill the ringleaders as much as possible and get rid of the rat demons of the second transformation and above.

"squeak!"

Deep within the underground cave, a massive, snow-white rat suddenly raised its head, facing the pitch-black cave, and let out a hiss filled with ferocity and warning.

Within its vision, a glimmer of starlight could be seen rapidly approaching from the pitch-black passage.

Ding!Ding!
The Starry Thorn cleaved through the dark cave, its starlight illuminating the surroundings as it struck the snow-white demon rat. The rat, however, remained unfazed. It instantly reared up, its sharp claws slashing and tearing as it clashed with the Starry Thorn. Sparks flew, accompanied by a crisp, ringing sound. While Wu Ming's Starry Thorn was far less powerful than a weapon wielded using the "Soldier's Technique," it was still more than any ordinary rat demon could withstand. This snow-white rat, able to block his attack, was undoubtedly a three-transformation great demon.

"squeak!!!"

After blocking the attack from the Star Luo Thorn, the white-haired demon rat suddenly let out a sharp screech.

This shriek was unusual; it contained a fierce power, an attack at the level of the soul. Wu Ming instantly felt as if thousands of hairpins were attacking from all directions, trying to crush his soul.

"Little tricks."

Wu Ming's expression remained unchanged. With his current Daoist techniques, let alone a mere rat demon, he might not be afraid even if ten or eight Daoist cultivators at the third stage of Nascent Soul cultivation joined forces.

At this moment, as soon as the thought arose, the "Lin" technique was activated, remaining completely still. The primordial spirit instantly became like a towering mountain, unmoving. The soul impact brought by the rat demon's shriek was like ocean waves crashing against a reef, having no effect whatsoever.

Upon realizing that even unleashing its innate divine power was no match for Wu Ming's Starry Thorn, the white-haired rat demon ceased its howl and, without any hesitation, plunged headfirst into a nearby passage, quickly fleeing into the distance.

"Want to escape?"

Wu Ming rode the Starry Sky Thorn, breaking through the air in pursuit. With one stab, the rat quickly escaped into the depths of the underground cave.

Although the Star Luo Thorn was far inferior to the weapon in the Demon Subduing Diagram in terms of speed and power, Wu Ming's primordial spirit was strong after all. He caught up after a short distance, and then he activated his soul thought, causing the Thunder Talisman to bloom.

Divine Firmament Supreme Purity Thunder Technique!

boom.

A blinding bolt of lightning exploded, instantly illuminating the dark cave passage.

The white-haired rat demon was fleeing, but due to the narrow passage, it had no way to dodge the lightning strike and was hit squarely. In an instant, it squeaked and its fur stood on end, the white fur being charred by the lightning.

but,

Because Wu Ming's lightning strike did not originate from within the rat's body but rather struck from the outside, the rat demon managed to withstand it and did not die on the spot. However, it was clearly injured, which affected its escape and greatly reduced its speed.

In the blink of an eye, Wu Ming's Starry Thorn caught up from behind.

Swish! Swish!

The star-like spikes, radiating starlight, crisscrossed within the cave, battling the white-haired rat demon.

The white-haired rat demon was already injured by the lightning strike and could no longer escape. It could only swing its sharp claws to desperately defend against the Star Luo Thorn's attack. It then let out a series of squeaks that echoed throughout the cave.

Crash.

As soon as the squeaking sound spread, Wu Ming immediately sensed that a large amount of demonic energy was approaching from all directions. He didn't know how many rat demons were being mobilized by the white-haired rat demon from all directions, converging on this place.

"Well come."

Wu Ming remained calm, as he had even anticipated this.

With his strength, he could easily defeat the white-haired rat demon in an instant by summoning a weapon and wielding it with the "Weaponry Technique." The reason he didn't do so was not to hone his thunder magic skills, but mainly to use the white-haired rat demon to see if he could force it to summon more rat demons hidden underground, and then deal with them all at once.

"Squeak, squeak."

In the pitch-black passage, hordes of enormous rats surged forth like a tidal wave, each carrying a demonic aura. Some of them had even reached the second stage of transformation. Such numbers would make even a martial arts master who had achieved the third stage of blood coagulation change color.

However, Wu Ming remained calm and composed. At this moment, the Starry Thorn stretched and retracted, and he suddenly abandoned it, inserting it diagonally into the ground. At the same time, his primordial spirit suddenly flew out from the Starry Thorn, and then a blood-red flying sword silently appeared.

"squeak!"

The white-haired rat demon let out a hiss. It didn't know what Wu Ming was going to do, but it knew it was definitely not a good thing. However, it was no match for Wu Ming at the moment, so in order to save its life, it could only summon the nearby rat demons to help it.

Soon the first group of rat demons arrived, led by three giant rats at the second transformation stage, followed by more than a dozen rat demons at the first transformation stage. But just as this group of rat demons got close, a beam of blood-red light pierced through the void and spread across the area in an instant.

Swish.

All the rat demons froze in place.

Immediately afterwards, a clear blood hole appeared on the bodies of all the rat demons, and they all collapsed to the side, their limbs twitching and writhing, their life force rapidly dissipating.

(End of this chapter)