Chapter 83: The Waste She Defends

“Was that grenade and the barrage earlier your doing?” The girl strolled past the tiger and wolf demons and raised a hand to smooth her slightly messy bangs.

“Are you the snake demon who’s been stirring up trouble lately?” Maybe because he heard the faint anger smoldering in her voice, Zhu Ning didn’t answer. He only snorted. His eyes swept over the melted scales on her body. This snake demon was probably forcing herself to stand despite severe injuries. He knew this kind of demon too well. They always bluffed, but collapsed at a touch.

“Just a beast. I really don’t know how that waste Xu Zhi failed to catch you.”

The moment the word “beast” left his mouth, killing intent flashed in the eyes of the tiger and wolf demons. But just as they were about to raise their claws, ice crystals crawled onto their wrists and stopped them.

This was Bai Ling’s doing. The message was clear: she would handle this Zhu Ning herself.

“At least a beast has a mother, and it doesn’t fire on its own kind.” Cold air gathered in the girl’s hand. With a crackle of ice, a longsword forged of ice crystals appeared in her grip.

Actually, when Zhu Ning called her a beast, she felt surprisingly little. When her demonic power boiled, her emotions ran high. In that state, she didn’t care about a side character’s opinion of her.

But when he called Xu Zhi a waste…

That fury surged up, impossible to suppress.

This was the first time the girl had been so angry in her demonized state. Even the reactive rage she’d felt when Night Owl’s baleful aura intimidated her had not been like this, like a prairie fire that could not be put out.

The wolf demon shrugged at the tiger demon and sent him a look.

‘Young Miss is really angry.’

The tiger demon returned a look: ‘Judging by Boss’s teaching, this guy’s going to have it rough.’

‘So Young Miss is a total husband-protector…’

As the two demons exchanged glances, raindrops around them had already been condensed by demonic power into ice spikes and shot toward Zhu Ning like bullets.

At that density, even a Demon Suppression Bureau armored vehicle would be riddled like a sieve.

“Trivial tricks…” Zhu Ning confidently spun his long saber into an airtight wall. But his confident smile froze the moment the saber touched the first ice spike, and even his voice was cut off by the sound of shattering metal.

Those tiny ice spikes had actually punched countless holes of varying sizes into the saber’s blade!

The airtight blade light collapsed instantly. Countless ice spikes tore through his tactical suit, shattered ceramic plates, pierced his body, and burst out through flesh and skin. He shook like chaff, as if strafed by dozens of submachine guns firing over a thousand rounds per second.

“Thud!”

When the ice spike barrage ended, Zhu Ning collapsed to his knees, limp.

The tiny ice crystals formed from raindrops left hundreds of holes in him, each trickling blood.

But those ice spikes seemed to have eyes. They deliberately avoided every organ, every vital point, only piercing flesh to inflict pain enough to break his mind.

“Are you curious why I didn’t kill you outright?” The girl’s high heel cracked the standing water, and the splashes froze into ice flowers in midair.

Zhu Ning tremblingly raised his saber, but the girl’s ice crystal sword casually cut it in two.

That ice crystal sword, which looked like it would shatter at a touch, could easily cut through a Demon Suppression Bureau special demon-slaying saber?!

“Heat the blade with cinnabar fire! Don’t you understand elemental counters?!”

The ice crystal sword suddenly pierced Zhu Ning’s wrist. Half of his saber clattered to the ground and was quickly covered in frost.

Compared to demons, human bodies are fragile. Without using spiritual power to strengthen the body, even a battle-hardened demon slayer can be killed by ordinary iron.

That was why Xu Zhi prepared thoroughly before every mission, analyzing the demon’s weakness and switching to the most effective strategy.

For example, the Painted Skin demon enhanced by corpse poison earlier. After only a few exchanges, Xu Zhi had already deduced its weakness was high heat.

So he equipped his demon-slaying saber with the cinnabar fire module. After that, dealing with that thing was like chopping vegetables.

Of course, the girl’s weakness was also high heat and open flame. Xu Zhi’s actions back then had almost forced her to reveal her true form in front of him.

As for Zhu Ning, he always sent his subordinates ahead to take risks while he waited in the rear for the demon to be gravely injured and barely breathing before claiming the kill. In truth, he had never fought a demon from start to finish. Not once.

“You don’t even understand elemental counters, and you have the nerve to call someone else a waste?”

An ice spike fell from the sky, pierced Zhu Ning’s shoulder blade, and nailed him to a broken wall.

“I won’t kill you with one sword. That would be too easy for you.” The girl’s ice crystal sword slowly traced across the hole-riddled protective plate on his chest. “I will cut through every bone in your body, inch by inch!”

“Let’s start with your fingers, how about that?”

A silver light suddenly cut through the rain. Zhu Ning’s scream traveled hundreds of meters.

“Quiet. I haven’t even moved yet.” The girl sneered. The ice crystal sword was still several millimeters above his finger, and Zhu Ning was already screaming his throat raw.

A foul stench suddenly rose from his pants, already soaked with blood and rain. This guy, a Demon Suppression Envoy, had actually wet himself in this situation?

“Now, who’s more like a waste?”

The ice crystal sword suddenly slashed down. Zhu Ning’s left arm hung limp as if it had lost its bones.

That strike had not damaged skin or flesh. It had passed through flesh to shatter his bones.

I said I’d shatter every bone, so I absolutely won’t harm your skin or flesh!

“Does it hurt?”

The tip of the sword lifted his chin. The girl didn’t know that, in the eyes of the tiger and wolf demons, her posture right now perfectly overlapped with Guan Qing. That woman always did the same, using her tobacco pipe to lift a prey’s chin.

“That waste you speak of caused me no small amount of trouble.”

The ice spike piercing Zhu Ning’s shoulder blade turned into a puddle. He slid down the broken wall to the ground, clutching his left arm and howling.

“Half an hour ago, he almost killed me. He almost subjugated a level-seven demon like me alone. That would be a great merit on your side, wouldn’t it?”

Xu Zhi had wanted Feng Yi to rest as a human. He knew the Xuan Shu Sequence was still in testing. He knew the Po Jun Protocol would cause the baleful aura in his body to run wild. Yet he still chose this way to send Feng Yi off.

The girl didn’t know how painful the loss of control over the baleful aura was for Xu Zhi. That violent energy was unbearable burning pain at the slightest touch to skin. A tiny wisp of baleful aura could completely incapacitate Gu Xiyan. But he, during the entire half hour after activating the Po Jun Protocol, endured the baleful aura eroding his heart meridian every second.

After the baleful aura completely lost control, he actually used his last shred of reason to keep himself in place, waiting for the baleful aura to evaporate the last drop of his blood.

And someone like that, you call a waste?!

The girl crouched down, meeting Zhu Ning’s gaze. “Don’t say I didn’t give you a chance.”

She tossed the ice crystal sword in front of Zhu Ning.

“Now, pick it up. See if you can kill me like the waste you speak of!”

And Zhu Ning did not disappoint her. His limp body could only produce hoarse wails.

Gunshots suddenly rang out at the edge of the ruins. The demon-suppression officers, badly wounded under the tiger and wolf demons, looked at Zhu Ning’s miserable state and actually mustered the courage to fire continuously at the girl, trying to save their commander from this monstrous demon.

But the bullets all struck an ice wall formed from the rain and shattered, sending only metal fragments flying.

“Your subordinates have more guts than you.” The girl sneered.

“Crack!”

A crisp sound like shattering ice suddenly came from Zhu Ning’s whole body. Rainwater that had seeped into his wounds suddenly condensed into ice crystals and crushed all his bones without damaging his skin or flesh.

Looking at him now, like a dead dog, the girl’s anger had mostly drained. It was time to think about how to end this.

“Vile beast!”

A furious shout suddenly pierced the rain clouds. The girl jerked her head up.

‘Was this the classic plot where beating the small one brings out the old one?’

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