My wife is the stand-in.

The crystal giant, deprived of its magic power, shattered into pieces. Amanosaki burst forth from within, brandishing his spear and knocking away a slime-like demon. Hinata Hyuga then unleashed the Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms, evaporating the slime from its chakra before everyone's eyes.

Lin Shuyu and Spielberg hid in the middle of the warriors' battle group, their eyes wide with excitement, forgetting even to breathe for a moment.

Chapter 235: Chaotic Battle

Looking at Amanosaki and Hinata Hyuga, the Taoist priest said in a confident and excited tone:

"The information released by Qunxia Mountain was indeed outdated. The VIP's abilities have definitely reached the level of a branch leader. He could even secure a top-three position in the branch based on his own strength alone! Excellent!"

"Disciples, test his limits!"

The demons and heretics all agreed, and from among the dozen or so demons, four immediately abandoned their pursuit of the soldiers and pounced on Amanosaki.

A humanoid figure with short legs but long, narrow arms, a large belly, and bat-like eyes. What's terrifying is that on its back, there is a human without limbs, seemingly sharing a spine with it.

The human had its head tilted back, eyes rolled back, drool dripping from its mouth, and making constant "hoarse" noises.

The second one resembled a pheasant, with a long tail, but with two human arms and a huge tumor on its chest. This chicken-shaped demon was nearly two meters tall, with many fine hairs on its arms, making it look extremely bizarre.

The third one resembled a Taoist priest, but its lower body was that of a praying mantis. Huge scythes sprouted from its elbows, and two long, glossy black tails extended from its rear, capable of easily smashing armored vehicles. This appearance reminded Amanosaki of the horsehair worms that parasitize mantises.

The fourth one was superior to many others. It looked human from head to toe, except for its large eyes and blood-red skin, which made it impossible to discern anything else.

'Nozaki, be careful. These people smell strangely mixed, with a hint of madness about them.'

Hinata Hyuga offered a careful reminder.

Amanosaki nodded.

He could also see that these guys seemed to be a hybrid of humans and demons, and the more bizarre their appearance, the less clarity they had in their eyes, and the more mixed their scent and the flashes of their supernatural abilities.

These guys must be the ones the River Drive people were talking about who had undergone surgery.

However, those with human-like atrophy, like him, are probably all failures.

Only the guy with the big eyes was considered a success; the tall, thin, and pot-bellied guy was slightly less successful.

As he scanned the area, he found that most of the people around the Taoist priest were of this kind.

Recalling the conversations about the new world, the experiments, and himself that he had overheard in the cave through his keen hearing, Amanosaki finally felt a sense of reality.

These bastards have really pushed human experimentation to the clinical level.

He finally understood the relationship between Liu Nu and the Taoist priest.

It seems that the Taoist's goal from the very beginning was to create clones.

【饕餮】is the result of experiments in which animals or demons acquire human superpowers. Later, the Taoist used clones to study the fusion of humans and demons, or experiments in which humans controlled demons.

It was only because he himself had disrupted the experiment that he had to plan ahead and produce this batch of defective products.

But he also discovered new and better opportunities.

In other words, one's own "perfectionist" type.

He plans to change his approach, shifting from humans or heretics ruling over demons to demons and heretics together ruling over humans through supernatural abilities.

"What talk of magic? It's just self-aggrandizement... Shuyu, report the situation here immediately and make sure the Heroes' Mountain takes it seriously!"

Amanosaki quickly explained his speculations while rapidly approaching the demon.

Two for each person.

Amanosaki said so.

"Two? Can you handle that?" Hinata raised an eyebrow.

'I suspect the four-clawed scale fish is involved with this guy. Catching him would be worth it. Get ready, it's all in tonight.'

Amanosaki made up his mind and was the first to rush forward.

He encountered a chicken-shaped demon and a bald demon carrying no limbs, while Hinata stopped the other two with a substitution jutsu and a combination of ninja tools.

"[Qunxia Mountain] [Yushan Branch] [Standman] hereby report!"

Amanosaki roared, and the Spear of Longchinus poured out like a long dragon.

"I am the [Pleiades Star Lord]!" the chicken-shaped demon boasted shamelessly.

"I am the [Great Sun Demon]!"

"【Xuanhuang Daoist】!"

"【Unrivaled Swift Scythe】!"

Upon hearing these guys' self-designations, Amanosaki cursed, "Go to hell! What kind of nobodies dare to use names like that! You don't deserve it!?"

The Pleiades star deity formed a hand seal on its chest, opened its mouth and spat out a string of bright yellow flames, the fire serpent heading straight for Amanosaki.

The Great Sun Demon shook its shoulders, and the person on its back was now perched on its head, staring intently at Amanosaki, causing Amanosaki's vision to immediately become reversed.

His dodge attempt immediately went awry, and he was hit directly by the fire snake!

"Haha! Even tank armor will melt if hit by my Samadhi True Fire!" Pleiades Star Lord roared to the sky, clucking like a rooster.

Boom~!

The magnificent explosion and gas burst shattered the flames. Amanosaki strode out of the fire pit, grinning maliciously at the crowing rooster:

"This is supposed to be called Samadhi Fire? Are you trying to light a candle here?"

"No...impossible! I've already disrupted your five senses!"

The Great Sun Demon was shocked.

"Only villains explain the names of their moves."

Amanosaki scoffed and immediately charged forward. His crystal armor, which had shattered once, was quickly replenished by the infusion of magic gems. He picked up his gun and engaged the Great Sun Demon in a fierce battle.

Only Amanosaki knew that even now, his five senses were in disarray.

However, there is a connection between him and Hinata Hyuga that feels as if he were there in person.

His five senses were in disarray, but Hinata's were not!

Moreover, they also have the ability to see through all illusions and reach the truth.

Amanosaki narrowed his eyes slightly, focusing all his attention on Hinata's perspective, and could even clearly see the flow of energy on the two of them.

'His energy flows incredibly fast, rivaling even a branch-level martial arts master, but his weaknesses are also obvious.'

Amanosaki, who used the explosion of his crystal armor to neutralize the flames, knew he couldn't fight a protracted battle with his opponent. He still needed to save his gem to deal with the Taoist priest.

Fortunately, he had stumbled upon the Taoist's plan in advance, preventing the Taoist's modification experiment from reaching perfection.

Therefore, during his battle with the two demons, Amanosaki quickly discovered their problem.

All energy interactions need to flow between the demonic entity and the proliferating tissues formed by humans or heretics.

In other words, the power of these evil forces is the integration of their main body and the fused parts.

By severing the connection, you can expose your opponent's true nature.

Amanosaki, relying on the soul-destroying power of the Spear of Longchinus, launched a wide-ranging attack. Hinata Hyuga, with her Byakugan, skillfully dodged the flames of the Pleiades Star Lord in advance. For a time, the three fought fiercely and evenly matched.

It wasn't until about three minutes into the fight, when Amanosaki's crystal armor nearly shattered several times, that he finally found an opportunity.

"This is the moment!"

He used magic to his advantage the moment when the Pleiades opened his mouth to exhale.

Suddenly, an ice spike rose from the ground and pierced straight into the chest of the Pleiades Star Lord!

The ice spike shattered instantly, but the remaining ice fragments on its chest absorbed most of the magic power and spread throughout its body!

"What's going on? What's going on!"

The Pleiades star celestial being flapped its wings and screamed loudly.

Chapter 236: The Stand User, Full Power Unleashed!

Amanosaki's magic is undoubtedly much more rudimentary compared to the orthodox Type-Moon magicians.

Let alone Rin Tohsaka, even if it were Waver, Alexander the Great's Master in the Fourth Holy Grail War, if he knew how to use water or ice elemental magic, he would have frozen Pleiades Star Lord with ice crystals by now.

He can turn the tide in just a few seconds.

Unfortunately, these ice crystals grew slowly, only slightly slowing down the energy flow of the Pleiades Star Lord.

Upon seeing this, the Great Sun Demon's knees buckled, and he knelt on the ground, performing the grand ceremony of three kowtows and nine prostrations before Amanosaki!

As it knelt down, Amanosaki felt a sudden, excruciating pain in his brain, and his internal organs churned as if they had their own thoughts and wanted to leave his body and break free from him!

Through the Byakugan's perspective, Amanosaki suddenly realized that there was a strange connection between his body and the energy surrounding the other person.

Each time it bows its head, Amanosaki's organs become more active.

This is a curse!

Similar to Gandr, but one causes flesh and blood to wither, while the other activates certain body organs!

Whether it's making organs feel like animals or activating cells to cause cancer in the body, it's all bad stuff that will seriously affect the fight that follows!

Fortunately, he had been soaked in a medicinal bath, so his physical condition was far superior to that of ordinary people. The moment he realized something was wrong, Amanosaki swallowed a gem, which covered all his organs with magical patterns.

Gem Magic: Full Body Enhancement!

Amanosaki raised his hand and threw a punch. A shockwave exploded around the huge crystal fist after his punch triggered the crystal armor. The force of the punch blew down the Great Sun Demon who was kneeling in worship!

His full-force punch broke the sound barrier!

The price was that the crystal armor on his right arm cracked, and his bones groaned.

'It's not broken, thank goodness.'

Amanosaki secretly felt lucky and lunged forward.

The Pleiades Star Lord was well aware of the troublesome nature of Amanosaki's weapon and feared that the Great Sun Demon might be lost.

Even with the Great Sun Demon disrupting his five senses, this person could still walk steadily. Moreover, with a divine weapon in hand that could harvest souls at any time, if he were to face the demon alone, he would probably at most exchange death for injury.

So, disregarding the energy trapped in its chest, it coughed up blood mixed with ice shards, forcibly clearing its energy flow, and spitting out blood-red flames.

Amanosaki rolled on the ground to dodge the attack and threw the Spear of Longchinus.