High-level martial arts: Long spear with black flames to suppress demons.

Are there any civilians around?

Shen Chang'an asked the most crucial question.

"Not at the moment. This is an old industrial area; most of the factories are abandoned, and the people moved away a long time ago."

Hearing this, Shen Chang'an breathed a slight sigh of relief. The absence of commoners meant there was no need to be constrained.

"Baiyin, listen carefully. Your current task is only reconnaissance. If the target appears, absolutely do not engage it directly. Your claws won't even be enough to tickle it."

"What if it finds me?"

"Try everything you can to stall it, or just run away."

There was no hint of joking in Shen Chang'an's voice.

"Remember, your life is more important than the mission. We'll talk about everything else when I get there."

"Boom—Buzz!"

A deafening roar erupted at the intersection as the motorcycle slid along the curve at a dangerous angle, its taillights leaving a scarlet afterimage before disappearing around the street corner in an instant.

"Damn! In such a hurry to reincarnate? These kids on stunt bikes these days have absolutely no manners!"

"Driving that fast, you're bound to crash into a tree sooner or later!"

Several passersby, still shaken by the noise, pointed in the direction the motorcycle had disappeared and began cursing. Shen Chang'an ignored them; the red dot on the holographic screen was only two kilometers away from him.

......

The old industrial area in the southern part of Qingzhou District.

This area was once the most prosperous heavy industrial zone in Qingzhou District of Beijiang City, but now only abandoned factory buildings covered with ivy remain, looking particularly eerie under the moonlight.

On the roof of the tallest factory building, Bai Yin landed silently and steadily.

She was dressed casually in grey sweatpants and white sneakers, with a canvas bag printed with a cartoon cat paw slung across her shoulder. If she weren't standing on the eerie rooftop of this abandoned factory, she would look like a high school girl who had just finished shopping.

Baiyin raised her wrist and pressed a button on a specially made digital watch of the same model.

A small blue holographic screen unfolded in mid-air. The red dot on the screen was flashing intensely, as glaring as a beating heart.

"Very close..."

Bai Yin closed her eyes, and her keen senses, characteristic of a cat demon, instantly spread outwards. A few seconds later, she suddenly opened her beautiful amber eyes and stared intently at due north.

"The distance is less than two hundred meters."

Having determined the approximate location, Baiyin took out a palm-sized silver metal disc from her crossbody bag, which was covered with intricate runes.

This is a tactical tool uniformly distributed by the Night Guard – a small isolation barrier launcher.

Before engaging the monsters in the city, the primary task is to set up a barrier to prevent the aftershocks of the battle from destroying real-world buildings, and also to prevent ordinary people from accidentally entering the battlefield.

Baiyin infused the disc with spiritual power and casually slapped it onto the concrete ground of the rooftop.

"Buzz—"

A semi-transparent spiritual energy shield, imperceptible to the naked eye, instantly spread out from the center of the disc, completely enveloping the abandoned factory area within a three-mile radius.

"The barrier is set up, now we just wait for the boss..."

Before Baiyin could finish speaking, a sudden change occurred!

"boom!"

The roof of a factory less than 100 meters to the north suddenly exploded without warning. Amidst the flying debris, a twisted, dark shadow, carrying a nauseating stench, shot towards Bai Yin's location like a cannonball!

too fast!

Baiyin's pupils contracted sharply. Relying on the cat demon's sensitive nerve reflexes, her body instantly arched and twisted to the right at an incredible angle.

"Whoosh!"

A jet-black energy blade grazed Bai Yin's afterimage and cleaved through the air.

But before Bai Yin could even stand firm, the dark shadow forcefully reversed its physical inertia in mid-air, and a sharp claw wrapped in thick black energy slammed down on Bai Yin!

"Bang!"

Unable to dodge in time, Baiyin could only cross her arms in front of her chest and take the hit.

With a dull thud, Bai Yin was sent flying like a kite with a broken string. She tumbled seven or eight times in mid-air before finally managing to stop herself by using the concrete water tank on the roof of a low factory building.

"cough......"

A trickle of blood escaped from the corner of Bai Yin's mouth. She looked down and saw that the clothes on her crossed arms, which she had been using to defend herself, had been corroded with a large hole, and three deep, bone-revealing scratches were left on her fair skin, emanating a black, fishy smell.

"Such terrifying power... and this inherent corrosive property..."

Bai Yin gritted her teeth, took a deep breath, and looked up at the dark figure that had finally stopped.

It was a monster with a humanoid outline, its entire body composed of thick black mist. It had no facial features, only a pair of eyes that emitted a scarlet light.

Without a doubt, this is a genuine Tier 4 monster!

Demons have physical forms; they are animals and plants that have awakened their intelligence.

"Demon," on the other hand, is a complete aggregate of energy.

Extreme resentment, despair, and murderous intent in human society, when combined with wandering spiritual energy and influenced by demonic energy, can give birth to these monsters that only know how to kill. These humanoid monsters often retain the outline of their deepest obsessions from their previous lives.

"Kill...kill you all...you're all going to die!!!"

The humanoid black shadow let out a piercing roar, and its violent resentment radiated outwards as if it were a tangible force. Under the erosion of this force, the surrounding concrete ground began to weather rapidly.

Bai Yin took a deep breath, knowing that she absolutely could not fight head-on.

Her body began to change. Two snow-white, fluffy, upright ears grew on either side of her head, and a long, slender cat tail swayed nimbly behind her. Her originally neatly trimmed nails suddenly grew larger and transformed into ten demonic claws that gleamed with a chilling light.

But Baiyin had no intention of attacking.

She lowered her center of gravity, adopting a defensive stance, her amber vertical pupils fixed on the monster in front of her, with only one thought in her mind:

"Pull things up, wait for the boss to come to the rescue!"

"die--!"

The demonic shadow let out a mournful roar, and its massive body left an afterimage in the same spot.

The next second, a bloody stench swept over us!

Bai Yin's hair stood on end, and with a sudden burst of strength in her legs, she slid backward, almost touching the ground, onto her knees.

"boom!"

The demonic figure slammed its fist into the concrete ground where Bai Yin had just stood, creating a spiderweb-like crater half a meter deep.

Using the momentum from her sliding knees, Bai Yin twisted her waist strangely, braced herself with one hand, and her long right leg lashed out like a whip at the side of the demon's neck.

With a muffled thud, the demonic shadow staggered half a step, but Bai Yin felt as if she had kicked a piece of cast iron, the shock making her leg bones go numb.

"This is way too hard!"

Bai Yin cursed under his breath, his figure leaping wildly between the abandoned steel frames like a ghost.

The shadowy figure relentlessly pursued, its dark claws lashing wildly like a storm, tearing the surrounding steel and concrete to shreds.

"Sizzle—"

While dodging, Baiyin seized an opening and suddenly crossed her ten demonic claws, tearing two huge "X"-shaped wounds in the demon's chest.

However, before Bai Yin could catch her breath, the black mist surged at the wound and miraculously healed completely in the blink of an eye!

"How are we supposed to fight this? It has maxed-out super armor and can heal itself from the fountain!"

Baiyin was so angry that she started cursing.

Her stamina was rapidly depleted during the intense tug-of-war of two or three minutes. She decisively pulled out three specially made silver darts from her tactical pouch, flicked her wrist, and threw them in a triangular pattern toward the demon shadow.

"Sizzle—!"

The dart exploded in mid-air, transforming into a high-voltage electric grid that instantly enveloped the demonic shadow.

Lightning flashed wildly, causing the demonic shadow to emit a piercing roar.

"Now's the time to create distance..."

Just as Bai Yin was about to retreat, the demonic shadow actually withstood the high-voltage electric grid and tore through the lightning. A large hand, like an iron clamp, burst out from the air and grabbed Bai Yin's ankle, which was a beat too slow!

"Oh no!"

Bai Yin's heart sank suddenly, and she was pulled away by an immense force.

"Bang!"

The demon's other hand clenched into a fist, carrying a strong corrosive black aura, and slammed solidly into Baiyin's abdomen.

"Wow--"

Bai Yin's pupils dilated instantly, and acid mixed with blood spurted out.

The punch was extremely powerful, and the intense pain almost made her faint on the spot. Fortunately, the cat demon's body was tough enough that it wasn't directly pierced through.

She was then thrown far away like a rag doll, crashing heavily onto an abandoned boiler more than ten meters away before rolling to the ground.

"Cough cough...it hurts so much..."

Bai Yin clutched her stomach, cold sweat pouring down her face, her vision blurring. "Boss... if you don't come soon, you'll lose your only little kitten forever..."