In Zongman, the evil spirits are eliminated physically.

Chapter 35: The guys who said they had the advantage lost.

In the eyes of those who know the inside story, Lei Zi is just a girl who likes urban legends and has been fed magic knowledge by Lulutia like a duck egg. Most of her magic is elementary magic used to assist in life. It can be said that she is extremely harmless to humans and animals.

But people can only see one side of things. People like Ouyang Sun and Chloe who know the inside story naturally don't think that Lei Zi is a huge threat, but people who know Lulutia's reputation don't think so.

Lulutia came to the island country personally to recruit disciples. She has a close relationship with Ouyang Sun of the Tianshi Mansion, and is friends with the shrine maiden Hakurei Reimu of the Hakurei Shrine. She also has Riko Riko, a temporary worker for the outer world's secret agency. Her best friend Hatsuharu Shiki is also the discipline committee member of the school.

A person with so many identities sneaked into the cult. You said you were here to investigate urban legends. Who would believe you, a harmless little magician?

Lei Zi, who was knocked unconscious by the sneak attack, was subjected to the most rigorous body search to find all possible magic props, and then was thrown into the wine cellar and locked up. Outside, a layer of heaven-net-level barrier was set up using the magic tools sent by Quan Xing, for fear that Lei Zi, the great magician they imagined, would break out of the siege.

"That Lulutia... is she a very powerful person?"

The ninja from the island country didn't know Lulutia at all.

"She's a very powerful fellow. In terms of level, well, she's on the same level as big brother and Reimu. And big brother can't guarantee that he can definitely defeat Lulutia. After all, as a magician, there are many ways to save his life and escape."

"A strong person of the same level as the senior?"

Shinobu took a deep breath. The world here was indeed vast and boundless. There were actually people like Ouyang Falcon who seemed to be at the Zenith level.

"I have to become stronger."

Having broadened his horizons once again, Shinobu became even more determined to become stronger.

Standing at the door of the wine cellar, Chloe raised her hand to stop Kanao and Shinobu who had not yet walked down the stairs. Thinking that they had discovered the enemy, Shinobu and Kanao immediately raised their swords.

"Don't be nervous, no enemy has been found yet."

Chloe asked Shinobu and Kanao not to get excited.

"This barrier isn't just for defense and trapping people; it also has a certain counterattack capability. I was just worried that you'd get attacked if you just ran down here."

A lock was fastened to the door handle. If Ouyang Xuan was there, he would be able to recognize it at a glance. This was a very commonly used lock in his hometown. It had a black body and a yellow iron sign. It was the lock he had used since he was a child.

"Hmm, the magic of the Eastern Continent, how could those guys from the cult actually get this kind of thing?"

Chloe carefully studied the lock and the spell on it.

"Once the lock is fastened, it automatically transforms into a barrier, protecting the items behind it. This item is really simple and easy to use. If it could be used without magic power, it would definitely sell well as a regular lock."

The projection magic summoned two swords, but Chloe didn't chop them down immediately. There was a counterattack spell on the lock, but Chloe was not afraid of it. She was checking whether there was an alarm spell on it.

"Is it because of your confidence, or is this thing just used to lock up insignificant items? If there weren't any alarm spells on it, then the job would be much easier. I don't know how to dismantle the barrier, but I can still physically remove the magic item and resolve the barrier at its source."

In order to avoid the counterattack caused by her cutting the lock and injuring Kanao and Shinobu, Chloe asked them not to come down the stairs and to hold it up and cut it down.

Chloe raised her slender arm high, tightly grasped the white dagger in her hand, and swung it down towards the target in front of her. However, the blade had already traveled halfway in the air, and Chloe's arm, which was supposed to swing down vertically, suddenly turned and slashed towards her side.

"Oh, you've been hiding for so long, and you're finally coming out. But you failed at the last moment. You've been hiding for so long, but why did you attack me when I was raising my knife? You should have attacked me after I chopped it down, when I was in the backswing. Oh, that's not right. I don't have a backswing, so your sneak attack couldn't have succeeded from the beginning."

"Chloe!"

"enemy!"

Under Chloe's knife, a man with long hair, a white coat and a beard was looking at Chloe with an incredible expression. He had temporarily transformed himself with the blood of a chameleon and should have been perfectly hidden in the shadows. Why did this little girl see him?

Lu Lu needed some time to think, and his arm, which had scales and sharp claws, was hit hard when he tried to launch a sneak attack on Chloe. If his bones had not been strengthened, Chloe's knife could have directly cut off his arm. But even if it had not been cut off by Chloe's knife, Chloe's knife had already been deeply embedded in it.

"White coat, are you a doctor? Yeah, I heard that the guy who kidnapped Minister Fujiwara was his family doctor. Could it be you?"

"Don't underestimate me, little brat!"

"Little brat? Ah la la, this is one of the adjectives I hate the most now, because if I say that, then I can't push my big brother down."

Chloe easily took on the sudden attack from the winch. The black knife flashed, and a large piece of flesh and scales on the winch's arm was cut off like tofu. With this knife as a signal, Chloe entered combat mode. The white knife stuck in the winch's arm was directly abandoned, and a new knife was projected out.

"Chloe! He's a ghost! Cut his head off!"

Shinobu could smell the aura of the evil spirit emanating from Ruri, but he couldn't smell it at all until Chloe cut off a large piece of flesh from Ruri's arm.

"I just hit it on the head."

"What!?"

The white knife immediately chopped off the winch's neck, but the neck that looked like a human a second ago suddenly swelled up, like a pufferfish, swelling several times its size, and rows of bone spikes protruded from under the skin, blocking Chloe's attack.

"Go to hell, you brat!"

"You can even grow an arm? You ghosts are really interesting."

Two brand new arms grew out of the pulley's ribs, and together with the red scales covering his entire body, he looked exactly like a four-armed overlord from BEN10.

Lu Lu thought that he had four arms and could definitely catch Chloe off guard, but two fists are no match for four hands, and the advantage in this battle is mine!

The confident winch controlled the two newly grown arms to attack, and thought that he could defeat Chloe with the advantage of numbers and speed. However, he found that the reality was not exactly the same as his idea, or at least it could be said to be a completely different story, because the four arms of the winch coordinated to attack Chloe, but he could only barely compete with Chloe, and Chloe, who was holding a knife, still had the upper hand.

How could this little ghost be so fast! He only has two arms, but his attack frequency and density are faster than my four arms. Impossible! This isn't human combat power at all! The Demon Slayer Corps' worth of rubbish can't possibly have this kind of combat power!

"Hey, hey, hey, are you really a ghost? That's it? That's it? Even the old lady selling cotton candy on the street is faster than you. Can you be faster? Your attack is so slow that I'm about to fall asleep. Hurry up, faster."

In the afterimages of the dark red scaly arms waving, there were even faster and sharper black and white afterimages. Every strike of Chloe's black and white swords could chop off a large piece of flesh and flying scales from Lu Lu's arms. It was obvious that four arms were launching a fierce attack on Chloe, but Lu Lu not only did not gain any advantage, but was beaten badly by Chloe. In addition to swinging her sword to block all of Lu Lu's attacks, Chloe also had extra time to attack other parts of Lu Lu.

The wine cellar in the basement is not small. It was built to facilitate the transportation of precious wine. The small platform in front of the main entrance of the wine cellar is as big as half a football field. Under the bright light, it looks like an iron cage arena, where humans and beasts are locked in to fight, but Chloe is the beast.

"Is this a magical weapon? They rely on this to hide their evil spirit aura?"

Chloe and Ruri's battle was a mobile war. After moving a certain distance away from the door, Shinobu and Kanao ran down. Shinobu picked up a bracelet on the ground, which fell off when Chloe started to cut off the flesh and scales on Ruri's arm.

Kanao held the knife and wanted to join the battlefield, but she couldn't find the opportunity to insert it. Chloe's two knives were flying like a storm, and she had already suppressed the winch. The attack gradually shifted from the winch's arms and neck. The big puffer fish neck was still there, still very hard. Chloe made sure that every time she cut her knife, she would cut it in the same place, and she couldn't help but break it.

"I've fought with those brats of yours before. Although your strength isn't that great, you're pretty weak. Your abilities may seem messy, but they're useful. You should be considered a small cadre, so how did you end up guarding the dungeon? Hey, didn't you fail your mission, get scolded by your superiors, and then be forced to guard the gate?"

Facing the enemy, Chloe displayed her little devil temperament to the fullest. Not only did the double swords in her hands suppress the attack of Lu Lu, but her mouth skills were also not neglected. Kotoko had joked before that if Chloe's mouth-cannon skills were given to Ouyang Xuan, Ouyang Xuan's combat effectiveness could be improved to a higher level. No one can resist the humiliation of being suppressed and beaten by a faceless man who mocks him expressionlessly.

Lu Lu wanted to refute or even teach Chloe a lesson, but he couldn't do it. He had four arms to attack Chloe, but not only did he not gain any advantage, but the pufferfish's neck was almost chopped off by Chloe.

Lu Lu is not a demon who specializes in fighting. Just like the identity he uses to hide in the surface world, his abilities and advantages are auxiliary and medical. Unlike those blood vampire arts that can kill people with just one move, Lu Lu's blood vampire arts have a very alien flavor. He can extract the blood of animals and then inject it into his own body to gain the abilities of animals.

The four arms are from the genes of spiders, the ability of invisibility comes from chameleons, the scales covering the whole body are from armadillos, and the bulging defense around the neck is obviously from pufferfish. For a demon who is not good at or specialized in fighting, this set of configuration is quite sufficient. If he encounters a member of the Demon Slayer Corps on one side, he can crush him. If he encounters a pillar like Kanae, he can also resist for a while and wait for rescue.

Ruri has been using this formulaic fighting style for a long time, but it is now completely useless. The speed and attack frequency of his four arms are not as high as Chloe's. His invisibility ability was discovered before Chloe went downstairs, and he deceived the enemy by telling Shinobu and Kanao that there was no enemy. His defensive scales were like fish scales on a chopping board in front of Chloe's double swords. The only thing that could withstand Chloe's attacks was this big neck.

Although Chloe was just talking nonsense, she was right about one thing. The reason why Rokurei ended up guarding the gate here was because in the battle with Kanae, he almost fell over and was chopped to death by Kanae. Kanae also summoned four arms, but she did not have Chloe's attack speed and suffered some losses. This made Rokurei proud all of a sudden, thinking that he was another member of the Demon Slayer Corps who came to die.

When the pottery was most careless, Kanae burst out with amazing speed, using her abdomen to bear the risk of the pottery's heavy blow, in exchange for a close combat opportunity, and slashed at the puffer fish's neck, which the pottery had not opened due to carelessness and had not had time to open. The knife had already cut halfway into the neck, and she was almost able to kill the pottery, but unfortunately, Douma came at this time.

However, facing a weak woman like Kanae, even though Ruri was beaten so badly, Douma did not have any disdain or anything like that. Or maybe Douma did not have such a feeling at all. He just thought that Ruri was so weak that he would definitely delay his work in the future, so he sent him to guard the gate. But later he threw Ruiko in and added a barrier, and Douma forgot about Ruri and continued to let him guard the gate.

There are also gaps between the Twelve Kizuki. The gap between the upper and lower chords may be greater than that between a person and a dog. When his strength is completely crushed, no matter how aggrieved Ruri is, he can only obey Douma's arrangements. After all, Douma, a guy who can't understand human emotions at all, will really kill him.

"Okay, the last cut!"

Facing Chloe's so-called final blow, Lu Lu got anxious and abandoned all defenses. He used all four hands to protect his neck, and the two hands close to his neck were directly cut off. Before the remaining two hands could reach out, Chloe's dagger had already slashed across Lu Lu's neck. Without the power of the sun, magic power could be used instead.

The head of the winch flew across the sky with an extremely ferocious expression on his face. The battle was not over yet.

36

Chapter 36: Why don’t you, an octopus monster, go to the night market?

"It's not over yet, it's not over yet!"

Windlass's head was flying in the sky, screaming hysterically.

"The head is the body? Are you a flying barbarian? There is no one called Xiaozhi here."

The two swords were thrown aside, and a bow and arrow appeared in Chloe's hand. This was Chloe's real weapon. Her use of it was even ingrained in her bones. She could shoot by just raising her hand.

"You have seen my last means of survival. You will all die here! I will not die! I will live forever! I will get more of Lord Muzan's blood and survive!"

If the current Ruri was the same person he was a month ago, Chloe's split-stroke attack would have killed him. After absorbing the blood given by Muzan, Ruri was further strengthened. This strengthening directly made this coward who feared death give up his body. In other words, his body was just a head, and the so-called body was nothing more than a parasitic machine.

Quan Xing came to the island country to cooperate with Muzan and the evil spirits. Quan Xing's weapon refiners created an exclusive magic weapon for each of the Twelve Demon Moons, the strongest fighting force among the evil spirits. The magic weapon given to Lu Lu is called the Orb of Ten Thousand Beasts. Since Lu Lu's blood demon art can use the abilities of animals for his own use, as long as he can use enough animal power at one time, he can become an indescribable chimera.

The magical instrument called the Orb of Ten Thousand Beasts was embedded in Lu Lu's brain. He felt that this was the safest place. Protected by the hardest skull, it could avoid many accidents. An external one might be damaged or taken away, but one placed inside the body would not.

Facing the arrow shot by Chloe, Lu Lu opened his mouth and bit it. His shark-like steel teeth actually bit Chloe's arrow into pieces. But it didn't matter, because Chloe's arrow didn't attack by penetrating damage, but by the subsequent explosion.

The smoke from the explosion enveloped the not-so-large basement, and Shinobu and Kanao could only squint their eyes.

"Did you succeed?"

"Shinobu, Kanao, run, leave immediately through the stairs."

Chloe's voice lacked the mischievousness of a little devil and was full of seriousness.

"Want to run? It's too late! The magic weapons brought by the mainlanders plus my abilities! Now I am capable of fighting even if I face one of the upper ranks!"

"I don't know who that Upper Rank One you're talking about is, but you won't have a chance to compete with him, because I'm going to kill you right here."

"Arrogant little brat, let me show you my true self!"

There was no exhaust equipment in the basement, and the smoke and dust were rampant inside. The only way to exhaust the dust was through the stairs. The battle began again in extremely low visibility.

Without summoning the double swords again, Chloe directly locked the giant claws of the winch with the bow and bowstring, and her petite body burst out with huge power. This was the first time that Chloe squeezed out magic power from it at full power since she got Ouyang Falcon's origin in Vienna and used it to repair her own spiritual core.

"Kanaho, run!"

Shinobu remembered what Chloe had just instructed him to do, and saw the windlass turned into a monster and attacked. Although the specific appearance could not be seen clearly due to the smoke and dust, the huge claws alone could tell how huge and ferocious it was. This claw alone was half the size of Chloe.

Pulling Kanao, Shinobu relied on his memory and ran towards the stairs.

"None of you can escape."

"Hey, hey, hey, your opponent now is me, do you still have the energy to pay attention to others?"

Chloe followed Ouyang Falcon and learned some of Ouyang Falcon's fighting methods. The action of holding the bow with both hands to control the giant claws changed to holding one hand behind the back and pressing up with the waist. The free hand projected again, and a dark red pistol appeared in Chloe's hand. This was Cu Chulainn's pistol, which was projected by Chloe for use. The moment the projection was completed, it was thrown out fiercely. Although the power was not as strong as Cu Chulainn's treasure, it was enough to make Lu Lu suffer and screamed, reducing the strength of the giant claws.

The smoke and dust finally settled a little, and Chloe could see what the winch had become. It had goat horns and stood on two feet. Its body was a combination of marine and terrestrial creatures. Octopus-like tentacles grew on its chest and back, wriggling in the air like seaweed. Its body was as huge as a mountain of meat, but its head remained the same size. At first glance, it looked like Little Head Son.

"A wingless Cthulhu? I say, you're not an octopus monster transformed into a demon, are you? If you don't have these octopus tentacles growing out of nowhere in your body, what are they for? Are you saving them for grilling when you're hungry?"

"Kid, I am a member of the sea clan who has practiced for three hundred years. I was originally just a member of the countless unknown sea tribes. It was only after I received the blood of Master Muzan that I broke through the limitations of genes and race."

"what--"

Chloe frowned in disdain: "You really are an octopus. Why are you coming out to the surface when you shouldn't be in the sea? You should be going to the night market."

"You are not human either. You are a kind of monster I have never seen. Lord Muzan sent us to the east to expand the number of tribes and gain more companions. With your strength, if you join us and become a demon, you will soon become one of the Twelve Demon Moons."

"Turning into a disgusting look like you guys? I don't want that. I'm already super cute the way I am now. I can easily conquer big brother. I don't want to become an ugly monster."

The black and white swords turned into blades in a meat grinder, chopping off pieces of flesh from Ruri's arms and claws. Shinobu and Kanao had already run away, and Chloe thought the barrier was safe enough, so she fought with all her might. She was a Heroic Spirit and didn't need to breathe, so she wasn't afraid of fighting until the basement collapsed.

"Because I didn't know how to fight, I thought all I had to do was get bigger. But that's a big no-no in combat. While being bigger does have some advantages, it's useless if you can't hit anyone. Your huge size will just become a burden."

"You have such a small body, I can crush you with one slap. Your attack won't hurt at all."

The attack speed and flexibility of Lu Lu's huge body are not low, even faster than when he was in human form, but he is facing Chloe, a magician's archer who has maxed out her agility and uses melee weapons.

Sometimes moving quickly on the ground, sometimes jumping onto the wall, every flash of the knife in Chloe's hand can leave long and thin wounds on the body of the winch. The wound caused by a single time is insignificant, but if there are ten or twenty wounds in a second, it will be like a fine-wire meat grinder.

The battle between Chloe and Ruri only lasted two minutes before the basement began to shake. Because of the soundproofing effect of the barrier, Ruiko, Kanae, and Fujiwara Daichi in the wine cellar thought it was just an earthquake.

The battle was not absolutely one-sided. There were several times when Ruri's attacks narrowly missed Chloe's body. Each of his punches shook the entire basement. If Ouyang Sun had not already started fighting with Douma at this time, the noise would have attracted Douma over.

"Don't hide, kid. What's the point of dodging? Attack me head-on. Come on."

His own attacks were ineffective, but Chloe's attacks could constantly open up loopholes for him. Even though the ghost's self-healing ability was sufficient, it made Lu Lu become manic.

"You want to use up my energy this way? I'm telling you, no way! The energy in my body is enough to keep me going all day!"

"What a coincidence! With the essence injected into my body by big brother, I can fight for two days. Since we are both so durable, let's see who falls first!"

Chloe once again threw the two swords as throwing weapons. The black sword among the short swords hit the body of the winch and got stuck, while the white sword flew past his body.

Chloe pulled the bowstring to its full length and fired five shots in rapid succession. The explosion range and magic output were limited by Chloe, and raising too much smoke would not be beneficial to her.

"Hey, so the tentacles on your body are not just decorations, they can attack?"

As Chloe looked on in surprise, several tentacles broke through the smoke and stabbed at Chloe like spears. When she summoned her double swords, she fought with the tentacles of the winch again.

Don't stop, because the road will continue to extend. The tentacles waving from the windlass are roads forward for Chloe. Her petite body soars into the air and lands on the tentacles of the windlass. Like lightning, she uses the tentacles of the windlass as a runway and runs towards the head of the windlass.

"No matter how big you get, your weakness is the same. I just need to chop off your neck. This time I'll chop you right at your chin. Let's see if you survive."

"Don't even think about getting close to me!"

The tentacles of the windlass danced rapidly, trying to throw Chloe off. The other tentacles also slapped over, but Chloe dodged them all. But in the end, the windlass' arms plus several tentacles that came around from behind forced Chloe to jump into the air.

It is difficult for people to adjust their posture when they are in the air, so they often become extremely vulnerable at this time. Even Lu Lu, who is not good at fighting, understands this. So when he saw Chloe jumping into the air, a hint of ecstasy flashed in his eyes, as if he saw a chocolate cake that had fallen into a trap.

"caught you!"

"Why are you saying that? The last person who said that to me is dead."