Chapter 124: Sweep Them All Clean
Bang!
Bang!!
The underground mine cave without the Snake Demon had an even more ferocious Demonic Creature arrive.
Over eighty Martial Artists, when entering the Demon Realm for Pioneering and fighting against the Snake Demon, suffered more than half dead or injured, and the remaining Martial Artists were slapped to death one by one by Li Ye.
The Snake Demon could withstand it, but Li Ye could not.
Dragon Gate Realm Martial Artists didn’t even have the qualification to take a palm; once the Palm Wind arrived, they turned into dust and scattered.
They couldn’t escape either; they used Lightness Skill, and their movement Trace could still be seen. Li Ye used Teleportation, with no Trace visible.
Clearly the Speed was the same; several Martial Artists who had broken through the Divine Movement Pass had the most say, and they could confirm that Li Ye’s Speed was the same as theirs, even a bit slower.
But they just couldn’t outpace him; they wanted to flee, but Li Ye seemed to know in advance, flashing ahead to their escape direction.
His movements changed unpredictably, with only afterimages flickering and Frame Skipping-like movement, impossible to fathom.
Once he caught up, it was one palm, turning the person into dust.
“I’ll fight you to the death!”
A Second Realm female Martial Artist from the Chen Family who had survived showed despair in her eyes and charged straight at Li Ye, who had just slapped her uncle to death with one palm.
She wielded two small branch halberds, dancing them not with grand sweeps like that person, but in a yin-soft style; it looked fierce, but upon close inspection, it hid needles in iron, catching the unwary off guard.
“Take my strike!”
In response, Li Ye slapped out with one palm, turning the person along with the two halberds into ashes.
Fast Speed, great power; in the blink of an eye, one after another turned into flying ash.
Not even fully scattered clean, and not a single person remained, all vanished.
His Martial Arts naturally had Moves.
After activating Strike Malice, he adeptly used his strongest Claw Technique, condensing Fiendish Energy, combining Dragon Qi and Tiger Power; upon eruption, it resounded with Thunder Sound, indestructible, nothing could block it, and those struck instantly became flying ash.
Even Three Realms with Human Origin Status couldn’t withstand this one palm.
Once the ashes dispersed, Li Ye then looked at those Demonic Creatures killed by the Martial Artists, opened his mouth and inhaled, turning everything around into a whirlwind; including the Ore split by the Snake Demon, he swallowed it all into his mouth, turning it into Nutrients.
“Time to do some proper business.”
With Demonic Creatures removed, Pollution greatly reduced, Li Ye proceeded deeper.
The Demon Realm wasn’t just this big; there was more space behind, and he needed to measure how large this proliferated Demon Realm was, while conveniently swallowing the Pollution and Demonic Creatures inside.
This Demon Realm was probably about the size of the Mine, equivalent to doubling the underground space in the Tongguan Mountain Region.
The main Demonic Creatures were the No. 1 and No. 2 Demonic Creatures Li Ye had seen, with No. 2 as the main body, No. 1 created by that Snake Demon; the attire of the Demonic Creatures vaguely still showed Ming Dynasty traces, after all, fused as one with the Ore.
“Resentment manifesting from that time?”
Li Ye recalled the derivative Demonic Creatures that appeared on the periphery and couldn’t help pondering.
Those Demonic Creatures were recorded, mostly appearing during the Wanli Era.
He couldn’t recall any records of the Demon Realm, but it definitely didn’t generate out of thin air; it seemed time-related, like manifesting from another spacetime; thinking carefully, each of these Demonic Creatures was closely tied to Ming Dynasty Mine incidents.
There were prototypes of tax supervisors, soldiers, and forced labor artisans.
Plus, when the Chen Family was originally Mining Ore here, they found ways to suppress Salary and bully people, leading to rampant Resentment, even making the News, regardless of whether that News was fabricated or covering other Purposes.
But Demonic Creatures appearing certainly wasn’t fake.
“Rampant Resentment also a trigger for the Demon Realm? Not that simple, right? Is it with affinity, or just pure coincidence?”
Li Ye murmured, continuing to swallow the Demonic Creatures and Pollution along the way.
Such a large expanse of Pollution, can’t waste it.
The Devour Ghosts authority could swallow all Pollution; it was the same facing the Demon Realm.
This was also why Li Ye chose to come down in the end.
But the reason the Demon Realm was a Demon Realm was that its Pollution couldn’t be eaten all at once; Li Ye swallowed the current Demon Realm’s Pollution, but the Demon Realm itself remained, and Pollution would regenerate, requiring time and demon elimination together to dilute it.
But Pollution would gradually weaken, and the core Demonic Creatures wouldn’t be so strong.
Normally, no need for Six Dragon Gate; if used properly, Three Dragon Gates with specific Weapons could Annihilate the Demonic Creatures here.
Without Pollution, these lingering Demonic Creatures went from a dish to a side dish for Li Ye, even easier to eat.
Strength gap too great, Li Ye didn’t need to act at all, just open his mouth to swallow.
By the time Li Ye finished a lap and confirmed the Pollution was dormant, waiting for the next trigger to spawn Demonic Creatures, a strong light emerged from behind.
“Li Ye, Li Ye, are you there?”
Fan Tie’s voice rang out from behind.
“Didn’t I tell you to guard outside?”
Li Ye first made a sound, then his figure flashed, appearing in front of Fan Tie.
Fan Tie was first startled, then seeing it was Li Ye, he couldn’t help relaxing.
“The demonic creatures in the Mine are gone, and you haven’t come out for a long time, so I had to come in and check.”
Fan Tie wiped the sweat from his head. “Good thing you’re okay.”
He was sweating not from fear, but from relief.
If this great genius had something happen to him in the Demon Realm, even if he chopped himself into minced meat clones, he probably couldn’t account for it.
A hundred more of him might not measure up to one Li Ye.
Good thing nothing happened.
“What about the others?”
Fan Tie looked around. “How come there’s no one around? Did they escape?”
“Pretty much, they’re gone.” Li Ye said.
“Gone where? Are there other exits around?”
Fan Tie relaxed and started joking. “I thought you could keep an eye on them, turns out after all this time.”
But before he finished speaking, he saw Li Ye’s gaze, and inexplicably trembled in his heart, stammering: “Gone, gone?”
“Gone.”
Li Ye nodded. “No loose ends, I killed them all.”
“Wait, what are you doing?”
Fan Tie said in shock: “This is all the Martial Artists in Jinze City, including the Disinfection Bureau. You took them all out? What about Jinze City?”
“Don’t talk nonsense, I didn’t touch the Martial Artists who were properly doing Business.”
Li Ye said: “When did Jinze City ever rely on Local Tyrants to protect people? Isn’t it the Disinfection Bureau? Just recruit a new batch. Plus, I kept the Martial Artists who came with me from Ningjiang. They can maintain stability for now.”
“Doesn’t your Disinfection Bureau have enough people?”
Fan Tie was stunned for a moment, then shook his head. “Forget it, if you can manage it, two cities are fine too. The demonic creatures here are gone too?”
“Yeah, let’s go up. I’ll give you the intelligence and information, then wait for people to do the Analysis.”
Li Ye said: “I don’t know if this is the pollution stabilization you mentioned, but future demonic creatures should be much weaker. You can have your men approach, surround this place first, control it, and prevent the pollution from spreading again.”
This casual remark scared even Fan Tie.
What does it mean that future demonic creatures will be much weaker?
When he arrived, it was empty—not only no people, but no demonic creatures either.
Did he clear everything out?
Actually weakened the pollution?
Even Breaking Six Passes isn’t this powerful, right?
