I adopted a child demon from the Gap, and I'm a special agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Ab

Almost simultaneously with being blasted away, the monster unleashed a piercing, incomprehensible roar. The roar intensified, gradually acquiring sonic power. Finally, amidst the monster's deafening roar, the magic cannon was forcefully pushed back by the sonic shockwave. The monster roared back again, and Li Cheng had to grab Marisa and move aside to prevent her from being hit by his own rebounding magic cannon.

"Wow, he actually managed to knock back the magic cannon with his voice! It's such a waste that a guy like that isn't participating in a tenor competition!"

Marisa was utterly shocked by the fact that the opponent had directly knocked the magic cannon back.

"After all, they were once beings at the level of transcendent beings. Even if only their remains remain, they are still beings that ordinary people cannot match."

Li Cheng frowned as he watched the approaching black monster, muttering to himself. For some reason, this humanoid monster, completely black with its features destroyed and blurred, gave him a very familiar feeling—so familiar that it was as if he knew it.

But that's probably unlikely...

"■■■■——!"

Amidst a roar comparable to high-frequency noise, the black monster was already upon them. Li Cheng knew this wasn't the time for idle thoughts. He released Marisa and faced the monster head-on. At the very moment of impending collision, the black monster simultaneously opened a gap in front of and behind him, allowing it to pass directly through Li Cheng's path. Immediately afterward, without giving the monster time to react, Li Cheng spun around and delivered a powerful punch to the monster's back. Demonic power erupted from his palm, sending the monster crashing to the ground below.

"cough--"

He clearly intended to use his internal energy to attack the opponent's internal organs, but his attack was clearly rebounded by the black monster's body, almost injuring his own internal organs and causing him to cough up blood.

"You rascal, even a pig doesn't have such thick skin."

Shaking his numb arm, Li Cheng looked at the black monster in the pit below with even more caution... Wait, it's gone?

"Watch out for the guy on the left!"

At Marisa's warning, Li Cheng hastily deployed his defenses, but a heavy punch unleashed unparalleled power, shattering the demonic energy barrier he had hastily erected with overwhelming force. In that instant, Li Cheng felt as if he had been slammed into by the wing of a heavy military aircraft operating at top speed; the mist within a radius of tens of meters also instantly exploded under the impact of this punch.

Taking such a heavy punch, Li Cheng should have been sent flying like a tennis ball, but as he was struck, the monster reached out its other hand, grabbed Li Cheng's arm, and forcefully pulled him back from the ground. Then, it forcefully yanked him back, followed by an even heavier punch that viciously struck Li Cheng's stomach. Li Cheng clearly heard the sound of bones shattering—the sound of his intestines and entire lumbar vertebrae being crushed. Beneath the skin of his abdomen, Li Cheng's entire abdomen was ripped apart by that punch.

The third punch that followed was aimed at Li Cheng's chest. The violent force poured completely into Li Cheng's chest cavity, and fragments of his lungs sprayed directly from his mouth, staining the monster's half-dissolved skull face blood red.

For a human being, such damage would be certain death, and the same conclusion was clearly reached in the monster's still functioning brain. So it discarded Li Cheng as if it were a bag of garbage.

Then Li Cheng kicked him away.

"Wow, Uncle, you're still alive! I was planning to visit you at the King of Hell's in seven days! Oh my god!"

Marisa, who flew to Li Cheng's side, said in a low voice.

"Although nothing serious happened, I was almost killed," Li Cheng said, touching his chest with lingering fear. "If we were still in the human era, I'd probably be dead by now."

With the immense boost to his physical strength from his half-demon body, and by utilizing the power of his realm, he transformed his "damaged" internal organs into a "whole" state. Most importantly, he tossed the crucial source of his demonic power—his heart, reconstructed by Zi—into the gap the moment the black monster's third punch landed, and then placed it back the instant the monster withdrew its attack. This bizarre feat was something the original Li Cheng would never have dared to imagine.

"■■■!"

Meanwhile, the black monster, realizing it had failed to kill Li Cheng, charged forward again with a furious roar. This time, Li Cheng could see the air currents swirling around its body, clearly indicating that the monster was facing a transcendent being who had reached the pinnacle of internal energy cultivation.

A normal punch would kill him, but this guy is adding internal energy to his punches. Wouldn't he be turned into a mosaic with one punch?

Li Cheng subconsciously looked in the direction of Zi and found that it was a patchwork of black and red, indicating that the battle was far from over.

“Uncle can’t handle this by himself, right?” Marisa said with a grin as she rode her broomstick aside. “How about it, do you need my help?”

"If you really have a way to deal with this African Hulk, instead of risking your life."

Li Cheng sighed and then took the lead in facing the black monster that was swooping down.

The black monster grew increasingly ferocious. Li Cheng even suspected it intended to transform into a comet and crash into Earth. He charged straight forward, opening the gap once more to send the menacing black monster in another direction. But this time, the black monster seemed to have anticipated everything. The instant it was teleported, it locked onto Li Cheng's location again and unleashed a blast of energy, blasting Li Cheng, who hadn't had time to open the gap again, into a pile of rubble nearby.

Then it roared, suddenly took a deep breath, and released another incredibly powerful sonic boom, shattering all the ruins within a hundred meters of Li Cheng's location into dust. Li Cheng managed to escape into a gap in the gap at the first moment, thus avoiding this ferocious attack.

A pink light bullet suddenly emerged from the rubble beside the monster, exploding unexpectedly and causing it to stagger. It roared and turned, only to see Marisa's figure flash past amidst the ruins.

With a furious roar, it chased after Marisa without hesitation.

"Ugh, although I've been in life-or-death battles before, this level of ferocious killing intent is really, really unbearable!"

It almost reminded her of her past battle with a monstrous blonde vampire, the kind who would tear her to pieces at the slightest provocation. Wait, judging from her fighting prowess just now, this monster in front of her probably wanted to dismember her into atomic pieces.

That's even more terrifying than being dismembered into eight pieces!

So you'd better fight hard. Even if I can't beat this guy, I can escape using the gaps. But you might really die here.

Li Cheng used his own demonic power and Marisa's magic to create a channel, and his voice rang directly in Marisa's mind.

[Wait, is this guy going to run away by himself? Is this what they call a middle-aged man's version of a scumbag who starts a relationship and then abandons it?]

【What kind of nonsense is this? What does it have to do with scumbags?!】

The banter didn't last long. The black monster was incredibly fast, catching up to Marisa at full speed within seconds and reaching out to grab her. But before its fingers could tighten, a gap silently swallowed Marisa, and the next moment, a magic cannon shot down from the sky, blasting the black monster to the ground.

Li Cheng's figure flashed behind it like a phantom, his demonic power condensing into a blade. Enhanced by his "Sharpness" realm, he slashed fiercely at the monster's arm, only to be shattered by the recoil in the next second. Even so, Li Cheng finally succeeded in piercing the monster's layer of dark, festering skin. However, being too close to his opponent resulted in Li Cheng being grabbed. The monster clenched its other hand, about to smash it down on Li Cheng's forehead.

Marisa, who was a broom, suddenly emerged from the monster's lower body and pierced straight into its anus.

"Wait a minute, isn't there something wrong with the position you're aiming for?"

Amidst Li Cheng's loud complaints, Marisa grabbed the broom and channeled her magic power into it. In the next moment, the entire broom began to spin rapidly, and astonishing lightning began to entwine around it.

"Any move that works is a good move. Ascend to heaven, Chrysanthemum Electric Drill!!"

Amidst the monster's piercing howl, Marisa's broom pierced more than thirty centimeters into its rear end, and intense lightning bolts shot directly into its body along the spinning broom. The terrifying stimulation forced it to release Li Cheng and turn to deal with Marisa, but by the time it turned around, Marisa had already been hidden back into the gap by Li Cheng, and Li Cheng was already far away on the other side.

"Tsk, it's a real shame that the broom is wasted da☆ze."

Looking at the broom stuck in the monster from a distance, Marisa's expression showed a rare hint of heartache.

"I think you're much scarier than I imagined."

Li Cheng wiped the cold sweat from his brow, looking at the black monster that was painfully pulling out the broom and tearing it apart. For some reason, he had a strange feeling of empathy.

"■■■!"

"It's spotted us again, sir! Keep fighting!"

"understood."

Once again, using the gap in their movement, Li Cheng drew the monster's attention first. Marisa unleashed various magical bullets, further disrupting the battlefield and interfering with the monster's senses. Then, Marisa shoved a bottle of potent magical explosive directly into the monster's anus. As the monster turned to retaliate in pain, Marisa appeared directly in front of it through the gap in Li Cheng's movement, unleashing a magical cannon at point-blank range, blasting it towards its lower body.

The roar of the monster, which was sent flying far away, carried a hint of pain.

Leaping out from the gap and stepping onto a suspended roof beam, Li Cheng confronted the black monster that had just staggered up from the ruins. He smashed it to the ground with a hook punch. Marisa jumped out from another direction, hooked her feet on the monster's head, and flung it into the air. A magic bullet hit the monster's open mouth in mid-air. Li Cheng's figure appeared above the monster, gathering all his strength. He crashed into the monster like a cannonball, smashing it through the ruins in front of him and into another pile of broken debris.

The roaring monster easily kicked Li Cheng, who was pressing down on it, away. But Marisa, who followed closely, sat directly on its face. The huge impact sent it flying dozens of meters away. Li Cheng reached out from the gap, grabbed its ankle, and threw it into another pile of ruins. Marisa raised the Eight Trigrams Furnace high and slammed it down on the monster that had just crawled out of the ruins. Before the monster could retaliate, Li Cheng used his power to shatter the ground, causing it to lose its balance and fall.

This time, Li Cheng met his opponent head-on and punched him hard in the face. In the monster's momentary daze, he stretched out his hands and plunged his fingers into the monster's eye sockets. The fully unleashed demonic power surged wildly into the monster's skull, and black viscous fluid sprayed directly onto Li Cheng's face.

This time, the black monster that had fallen into a building ruin went silent.

"Phew, phew, uncle, have you finished it yet?"

After continuous battles and the release of magic, the enlarged and somewhat tired Marisa looked at Lee Seung, who had returned to her side through the gap, and asked.

"I'm afraid that's not enough..."

Li Cheng was also breathing heavily, looking at the quiet pile of rubble below with a complicated expression.

"After all, I can now recognize who this guy is... or who he used to be."

Looking at the black monster struggling to stand up from a pile of rubble and bricks, Li Cheng's expression was extremely complicated.

I never imagined I would see you in this state in this world. Is this... the ending you faced in another world?

My teacher, Mr. Ji Wen.

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Section 319, Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Sudden Pause

Li Cheng's teacher, who had previously taught him combat skills and had always treated him well, eventually became angry at his desertion from the Huaxia Alliance. He later found him once and asked him to return, and the two even had a battle.

Ah, no, it can't be called a battle. Li Cheng was just beaten up that time. Although he was always jokingly called the "weakest transcendent," Ji Wen was a genuine transcendent. At that time, Li Cheng had no chance of winning at all.

Li Cheng's teacher, Ji Wen, was a transcendent who broke through during the global war that nearly destroyed all of humanity. After the war ended, the transcendents made a treaty promising that, except in special circumstances, no new transcendents would be allowed to appear. Ji Wen then became the so-called "youngest transcendent," and of course, the "weakest."

However, this kind of teasing is only a horizontal comparison with other transcendents. Li Cheng knows very well that no matter how weak Ji Wen is among the transcendents, for cultivators who have not been able to see that step, and for A-level cultivators, Ji Wen is still an invincible existence.

In Li Cheng's view, Ji Wen's existence could be described as both a teacher and a father figure. Without his guidance, Li Cheng might have remained just an ordinary martial artist for his entire life. This kindness was enough to make Li Cheng sincerely grateful and respectful to Ji Wen.

It's hard to imagine meeting you in such a place.

The black monster, having suffered a series of heavy blows, swayed several times before finally regaining its footing and pulling its body out of the scattered rubble. Li Cheng slowly landed in the ruins, looking at the black monster, which had become somewhat weakened, with a complex expression.

"Although it's not the same person, this posture, this way of fighting, it really is you, teacher."

Li Cheng looked at the black monster in front of him and spoke softly.

"■■■——"

With a low roar, the festering black monster looked in Li Cheng's direction again, and black energy seemed to flow slowly from its empty eye sockets.

"It's hard to believe you're this weak..."

Even so, I almost got beaten to death by you, but let's just leave it at that.

Li Cheng closed his eyes, no longer looking at the black monster that roared and charged at him once again. Completely dominated by its ferocious instincts, it was no different from a wild beast. Even people who resembled his former teacher were no longer of any significance to him.

Since that's the case, then let's send you on your way properly.

"Marisa, please, you absolutely must—deal with this guy completely!"

"Oh, wow, what an energetic uncle!"

Slipping through the gap, Li Cheng and Marisa simultaneously struck the monster from behind, one on each side. Utilizing the gap's agile movement and Marisa's powerful attacks, the two relentlessly pursued the weakening monster, their roar echoing across the ruins.

……

The fighting is fierce in both directions.

The man, carrying heavy firearms, stood on a platform, looking at two battlefields, one large and one small, with a calm expression, as if he were pondering something.

"Hey, you over there with the gun, what are you standing there for? Let's go!"

Clad in full-body black armor, a group of people carried sealed metal containers one by one into a large, white-glowing array. The containers quickly disappeared. Then, the uniformly dressed individuals followed suit, entering the array one by one, until only one person called out to the man to come along.

Is this the only one left? That's good.

The man calmly turned around, raised his hand, and fired a shot that blew the other man's head off before he could even react. Then, he glanced at the array that was tinged with purple light, pressed his communicator, and left without looking back.