One person: Orochi, starting with Feng Baobao's Eight Heroes.

"That fire dragon is Shuten-dōji's natal fire; even a tiny bit of it..."

"I said he won't die, and he won't die."

Lu Ci suddenly interrupted, a confident smile appearing on his lips.

"When have you ever seen that kid suffer a loss?"

Just as everyone was arguing, a crisp cracking sound suddenly came from the sky.

The sky, which had been shrouded in black flames, suddenly cracked open with countless fissures, allowing dazzling golden light to shine through.

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"That is..."

Wang Ai squinted, her fat jiggling.

"Summoning spirits?"

"wrong..."

After Zhang Shoucheng repelled the fire dragon, he landed with shock in his eyes.

"This isn't invoking a deity, this is..."

Before the words were finished, a figure stepped out from the shattered sky.

Chen Qi was surrounded by crackling electricity, with golden lightning dancing in every strand of his hair. His eyes were crimson gold like molten lava, and two beams of lightning shot out directly from his eyes, sweeping away the surrounding black flames.

... .. ...

"Fuck..."

Even the usually composed Lü Ren couldn't help but swear at this moment.

"When did this kid...?"

Ignoring the shock of the crowd, Chen Qi fixed his gaze on Shuten-dōji's newly regenerated head.

The head was still twisting and deforming, and the outline of facial features emerged from its bloody and mangled surface.

"Roar--"

Shuten-dōji let out a roar that sounded inhuman, spewing out foul-smelling black gas from his mouth.

Chen Qi's lips curled up slightly, and in a flash, he appeared in front of Shuten-dōji. His right fist, radiating dazzling golden light, slammed into the gaping maw without hesitation.

"boom!"

With a muffled thud, Shuten-dōji's newly formed head exploded, splattering blood and flesh, which then transformed into disgusting clumps of flesh in mid-air, writhing and trying to reform.

"It's not over yet."

Chen Qi sneered and waved his left hand, sending countless tiny bolts of lightning intertwined into a net that completely enveloped the chunks of flesh.

"Zizzizi..."

Amidst the crackling and sizzling of electricity, the meat chunks quickly charred and turned black, emitting a nauseating stench.

Chapter 273 Repulsive Field

Shuten-dōji's headless body trembled violently, and a raging inferno suddenly erupted from the broken neck.

That was no ordinary flame, but a bright red demonic fire, mixed with jet-black pillars of flame, spraying indiscriminately in all directions.

"not good!"

Lu Jin's expression changed drastically.

"Go back!"

"That's too late!"

Wang Ai's obese body trembled, her eyes filled with fear.

Just when everyone was in despair, Chen Qi spread his hands to the sides, and a spherical electric field with a diameter of tens of meters was instantly formed.

The incoming red and black flames crashed into the electric field wall and were bounced back.

　"623" "Repulsive field?"

Zhang Shoucheng's eyes widened.

"This isn't from Longhu Mountain..."

Even more shockingly, the flames that were deflected back struck Shuten-dōji himself with even greater force.

With a deafening roar, Shuten-dōji's massive body was blasted hundreds of meters away by his own flames, crashing heavily into a mountainside and causing the entire mountain to shake violently.

Chen Qi did not pursue, but slowly raised his hands, palms facing the sky.

Thunderclouds suddenly filled the sky, and countless lightning bolts flashed across the sky.

"Lightning Summoning Technique?"

Wu Gensheng narrowed his eyes.

"No, this is..."

"Heavenly Thunder Tempering!"

Zhang Shoucheng cried out in disbelief.

"This is a technique that the Celestial Master's Mansion has lost for a long time..."

Before he could finish speaking, a bolt of lightning as thick as a bucket descended from the sky and struck Chen Qi directly.

However, he absorbed all the lightning that was powerful enough to turn an ordinary person into a charred corpse.

The electric field around him suddenly surged several times, and the electric light changed from golden to dazzling incandescence.

Chen Qi clasped his hands together, and the lightning in the electric field condensed into a three-meter-long lightning spear, the tip of which crackled with terrifying arcs of electricity.

"go."

He gave a soft shout, and the lightning spear shot towards Shuten-dōji like an arrow.

Shuten-dōji had just struggled out of the mountain wall when he saw this and roared angrily. Suddenly, the ground cracked open, and countless skeleton soldiers burst out of the ground, forming a wall of white bones.

"The mantis' arm is like a chariot."

Chen Qi snorted coldly, and with a few taps of his fingers, three more lightning spears materialized and shot out in succession.

The first spear struck the wall of bone shields and exploded instantly, blasting hundreds of skeleton soldiers into dust.

The second spear followed closely behind, piercing through the remaining defenses.

The third shot struck Shuten-dōji precisely in the chest, blasting a huge bloody hole.

"Roar--"

Shuten-dōji let out a painful howl, but instead of bleeding from the wound, countless black tentacle-like fleshy buds surged out, writhing wildly in an attempt to repair it.

"This isn't going to kill you?"

Lu Jin gasped.

"This monster..."

Chen Qi frowned slightly and summoned heavenly lightning with both hands once again.

This time, nine bolts of lightning descended from the sky simultaneously, swirling and coalescing around him, transforming into nine uniquely shaped lightning weapons—a spear, a battle axe, a greatsword, and a warhammer.

"Nine Heavens Thunder Soldiers!"

Zhang Shoucheng was so excited that he trembled all over.

"It really is...it really is my little darling..."

Just as Chen Qi was about to launch his final attack, Wang Ai suddenly screamed.

"Look! What is that monster doing?"

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw that Shuten-dōji's mangled body was frantically absorbing the surrounding Yin energy...

Even more bizarrely, Nurhaci's corpse on the ground suddenly turned into blood and was completely absorbed by Shuten-dōji.

"not good!"

Wu Gensheng's expression changed drastically.

"It's exploiting the characteristics of that corpse..."

Before he finished speaking, Shuten-dōji's broken body began to expand rapidly, and the demon gourd that had been lying to the side suddenly flew up and merged with his body.

In the blink of an eye, a colossal creature, twenty meters tall, appeared before them, its body covered in bone spurs, its head completely replaced by a ghost gourd, its mouth wide open, revealing a bottomless darkness within.

"Is...is this still Shuten-dōji?"

Lu Ci swallowed hard, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

Chen Qi suddenly stopped moving, and the Nine Heavens Thunder Soldiers hovered in mid-air.

His expression became unusually solemn, and golden light flickered in his eyes.

"what happened?"

Lu Jin asked anxiously.

"Do it quickly!"

"Something's not right. 3.9..."

Zhang Shoucheng keenly noticed that Chen Qi's condition was abnormal.

He seems to be...

Chen Qi suddenly groaned, knelt on one knee, and the electric light around his body began to flicker erratically.

He struggled to lift his head, his crimson eyes filled with pain.

"True Martial... Feedback..."

He gritted his teeth and squeezed out a few words.

"What feedback?"

Lü Ren was completely bewildered.

At this critical moment, Shuten-dōji, having merged with the Demon Gourd, had completed his final transformation.

Chapter 274 Immense Pain

It let out a deafening roar, spewing out a sky-covering black mist from its gourd mouth, instantly engulfing the entire battlefield.

"It's over..."

Wang Ai collapsed to the ground.

"It's all over now..."

Within the black mist, countless pairs of blood-red eyes lit up, densely packed and innumerable.

Those were countless demons summoned by Shuten-dōji, each exuding a suffocating aura of evil.

"Chen Qi!"

Zhang Shoucheng shouted.

"Think of a solution quickly!"

Chen Qi remained kneeling on the ground, his body trembling, as if he were enduring some kind of immense pain.

The electric light around him grew weaker and weaker, and the Nine Heavens Thunder Soldiers began to appear illusory.

"Hahaha!"

Shuten-dōji's voice came from all directions, no longer the previous roar, but human language with a sinister smile.

"How did the True Martial Emperor feel about this? Forcibly borrowing the power of the Upper Realm from 06 will ultimately come at a price!"

"I see..."

Wugensheng suddenly realized.