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

In the VIP lounge, Fang Zhuo strode up to Chen Shaohui, looking down at him condescendingly: "Chen Shaohui, I am now formally arresting you on charges of illegal smuggling, organ trafficking, and large-scale torture and slaughter of humans and demons in the name of the Zhenye Division!"

Chen Shaohui's smile froze completely. He glanced at Fang Zhuo, then at Zhao Changfeng, who had already placed his hand on the hilt of his knife.

He neither resisted nor cried out for justice. Because he knew all too well the modus operandi of the Zhenye Division, this national-level superhuman violent organization.

Once they openly break off relations and start arresting people, it proves they have irrefutable evidence to condemn you. To resist the powerful figures of the Fifth Realm of the Night Guard here is tantamount to suicide.

"Click."

Two fierce special forces soldiers rushed in, roughly tied Chen Shaohui's hands behind his back, put heavy spirit-locking shackles on him, and took him away.

"Attention, action team! This is Zhao Changfeng!"

Old Zhao pressed down on the headset and began issuing battle orders in place of Fang Zhuo.

"The target building is now completely sealed off! All special operations teams are to immediately conduct a thorough armed search and control all security checkpoints! Any resistance is to be met with immediate elimination! After the search is complete, notify the local police station to take over the case of ordinary suspects!"

Then, Lao Zhao switched to another frequency: "Squad Three on the rooftop, Chang'an, be careful both underground and on the upper floors. If you find any relevant ledgers or experimental data, save them immediately. The special operations assault team has gone down and is ready to support you at any time!"

"Sizzle—"

However, as soon as Lao Zhao finished speaking, a series of noisy electrical sounds came through his earpiece.

Immediately afterwards, the channel for Squad Three crackled with the sounds of intense fighting and terrified cries for help: "Captain! Over here! Ah—!"

Before Lao Zhao could figure out what had happened to Squad Three, Shen Chang'an's solemn voice rang out on the channel:

"Old Zhao! Tell the special forces not to come down yet! Something's not right down here!"

"Sizzle—!"

The piercing high-frequency electrical hum instantly drowned out Shen Chang'an's voice. Then, all communication on the underground frequency band was brutally and completely cut off, leaving only a chilling dial tone.

......

Shen Chang'an looked at the tactical headset whose signal had been forcibly cut off and cursed, "Damn it, these lunatics are really daring."

At this very moment, outside the spacious cold storage room where Shen Chang'an was, the once empty corridor was now densely packed with monsters.

Those are a bunch of puppets!

Some are "human puppets" sewn together from human corpses, while many more are "demon puppets" modified from the corpses of various demon races!

Among them, Shen Chang'an even saw Wang Hai, the antique shop owner who had been missing for five days, at the very front of the puppet! However, Wang Hai's eyes were rolled back, and his body was covered with strange black stitches, clearly indicating that he had been turned into a killing machine without the ability to feel pain.

This horde of demonic puppets was enormous, roughly estimated to be no fewer than forty or fifty. The vast majority of them were at the third realm, but at the very front of the horde stood six berserk fourth-realm demonic puppets and two fifth-realm demonic puppets radiating terrifying pressure!

"That's a big move. They've even brought out their entire fortune just to silence witnesses and buy time."

Shen Chang'an's eyes instantly turned cold and sharp. He opened his tactical backpack, and with a swift movement of his hands, he neatly pieced the two pieces of the Calamity Cloud Spear back together with a "click".

"Since communication is cut off, let's fight our way out."

Faced with the surging army of puppets, Shen Chang'an decisively formed a hand seal with one hand.

"Wind and Flame Barrier!"

"boom--!!!"

The raging black flames, like a flood bursting its banks, instantly spread wildly in all directions from Shen Chang'an as the center! Fueled by the gale, the black flames reached terrifying temperatures and instantly filled the entire corridor!

Faced with this devastating black flame storm, those third-realm puppets without protective spiritual energy didn't even have time to scream before they were instantly turned into dust upon contact!

Even the six fourth-realm demon puppets were terribly burned by the sudden black flames, their stitched wounds bursting open and emitting a foul, burnt smell.

With just one move, the entire area was wiped out!

Shen Chang'an held the gun in one hand, looking at the ashes emitting black smoke on the ground, and muttered to himself, "With a demonic puppet of this scale, there must be a mastermind hiding nearby. It can't be too far away... I need to deal with these troublesome guys in front of me first."

In such a narrow, enclosed space, the power of the explosive character is too great; it could easily cause a chain reaction of collapses, burying you alive. It cannot be used.

Shen Chang'an made a tactical decision instantly.

As the black flames dissipated, only eight demonic puppets remained standing in the corridor: two enormous fifth-realm tiger demonic puppets and six fourth-realm demonic puppets.

"roar--!"

Seemingly sensing Shen Chang'an's terrifying strength, under the faint command of the hidden controller, the remaining eight demonic puppets, like ferocious beasts, launched a deadly charge towards Shen Chang'an, wanting to quickly take him down.

The fastest were the two fourth-realm wolf demons. They moved on all fours like two black lightning bolts, pouncing on Shen Chang'an's neck from the left and right.

"die!"

Shen Chang'an's eyes narrowed, and the Tribulation Cloud Spear in his hand shot out like a venomous snake.

"Pfft!"

The spear tip pierced precisely through the wolf demon's hard skull on the left. Shen Chang'an's wrist flicked suddenly, and a domineering internal force erupted from the spear shaft!

"Bang!"

The wolf demon's entire upper body was shattered into a disgusting mass of minced meat by this terrifying force!

Using the force of the piercing blow, Shen Chang'an nimbly tilted his body slightly backward, narrowly dodging the wolf demon's fierce claw attack from the right. Then, he gripped the butt of the spear with both hands, as if swinging a heavy iron rod, and with a swift and violent counterattack, the spear shaft struck the wolf demon heavily in the waist.

"boom!"

The wolf demon was sent flying like a terrifying cannonball, crashing violently into the hard wall and instantly turning into a pitiful pile of flesh.

The instant he swatted the wolf demon away, Shen Chang'an's eyes blazed with a blinding fire. The faint wisp of black flame clinging to the tip of his spear ignited instantly, burning the pile of flesh to ashes.

In just two seconds, he slew two beings at the fourth level!

The mastermind behind these demonic puppets seemed to have realized Shen Chang'an's exaggerated close-combat abilities, knowing that ordinary fourth-realm cultivators would only be foolishly throwing their lives away.

"hiss--"

The remaining six powerful demons tacitly stopped their charge and instead blocked the entrance to the cold storage.

The two slender, fourth-realm serpent demons suddenly opened their terrifying, blood-red maws. A thick, purplish-black poisonous mist, like a deadly sandstorm, surged wildly towards Shen Chang'an!

"Guard."

Shen Chang'an calmly crushed a talisman that he had previously clipped to his fingertip.

"Buzz—"

A barrier of flames, radiating a pure crimson light, instantly materialized in front of Shen Chang'an. The deadly purplish-black poisonous mist struck the barrier, emitting a piercing sizzling sound, and was instantly evaporated by the intense heat.

"Want to play ranged? Then let's see who has the longer reach."

Shen Chang'an's lips curled into a cold smile as he swiftly drew a line in the air with his left hand.

"control!"

"Splash—!"

Dozens of thick chains formed from black flames burst forth from the runes like raging poisonous dragons!

Shen Chang'an had a clear goal: he planned to first use chains to control the two troublesome snake demons that could spew poison, and then deal with the rest in close combat.

However, the two Fifth Realm Tiger Demon Puppets that had remained motionless suddenly charged forward fearlessly, attempting to use their powerful bodies to block the Black Flame Chains!

"Heh, my Black Flame Chains aren't so easy to block."

Shen Chang'an chuckled dismissively.

"Sizzle—!"

The moment they made contact, the domineering black flame chains completely ignored the thick protective spiritual energy on the bodies of the Five Realms Tiger Demons, instantly breaking through their defenses. Like a terrifying giant python coiling around their bodies, they tightly bound the two behemoths into twisted dumplings!

In the half-second that the two tiger demons were briefly subdued.

Shen Chang'an decisively planted the Jieyun Spear into the ground. He then quickly pulled out three sharp, specially made steel darts from the side pocket of his tactical backpack.

"Enchant!"

A wisp of solidified black flame instantly coiled around the blade of the dart.

Shen Chang'an narrowed his eyes slightly, and his terrifying arm strength suddenly erupted.

The instant he threw the dart, he skillfully added a wind spell to accelerate.

"Whoosh—! Splat! Splat!"

The black flame darts, accompanied by a sharp, piercing sound, were incredibly fast!

Two muffled thuds were heard as the darts, like deadly sniper bullets, pierced the hard skulls of the two fifth-realm tiger demons in an instant!

"Thump! Thump!"

The massive bodies of the two fifth-realm demon puppets suddenly stiffened, then slammed heavily to the ground, unable to move any further.

"Tsk..."

Shen Chang'an looked at the charred, bloody hole on the tiger demon's head and muttered something in surprise.

"The penetration damage is much higher than I expected. It seems that concentrating black flames into sharp throwing weapons through rune enchantment is far more terrifying than applying black flames directly to the surface of an object for single-target damage."