Crushing Evil Spirits with Bare Hands, I Am the Demon

"Suck me dry?"

Shen Fei looked at the evil spirit lunging at his face, yet he showed none of the panic Chu Ye had expected.

He raised his right hand slightly.

And grabbed the evil spirit by the neck.

There was no roar of erupting true qi, nor were there any dazzling visual effects.

It was just an extremely simple, extremely brutal movement.

Like grabbing a crowing rooster.

Mid-air, the Hong Yi evil spirit suddenly froze.

Its shrill shriek was forcefully caught in its throat, turning into a teeth-grinding gurgling sound.

In its completely black eyes without any whites, a trace of extremely human-like fear actually flashed.

This was impossible!

Evil spirits had no physical bodies!

They were bizarre lifeforms condensed purely from dark, malevolent energy!

Physical attacks were absolutely useless against them!

Even true qi at the Grandmaster level could only forcefully disperse the outer black mist, unable to touch their core essence at all.

But now.

Shen Fei's pale, slender hand was like iron tongs, tightly clamping onto its throat.

The surrounding temperature dropped madly.

The yin energy on the evil spirit began to run wild uncontrollably, attempting to freeze Shen Fei's arm into an ice sculpture.

White frost spread upward along Shen Fei's wrist.

"Just this little bit of cold?"

Shen Fei looked at the white frost on his arm with an extremely flat gaze.

"It doesn't even cool as fast as my refrigerator at home."

SS-rank Heavenly Demon Body.

Immune to all toxins and dark-attribute damage below C-rank.

This kind of yin energy that could instantly freeze an ordinary person's blood didn't even have the qualifications to break through the surface defense of the Heavenly Demon Body.

Standing ten meters away, Chu Ye's expression changed instantly.

His face, pale as paper from dealing with ghosts all year round, was written with disbelief.

"This is impossible!"

Chu Ye cried out in shock.

"How could you touch Hong Yi's main body! What kind of magical artifact did you use?!"

His proudest trump card.

The SSS-rank bizarre lifeform he used to assassinate the scions of major aristocratic families in the capital with unfailing success.

Was actually grabbed single-handedly by a mortal?!

"Magical artifact?"

Shen Fei turned to look at Chu Ye.

"To kill a small fry like you, I need a magical artifact?"

"System."

Shen Fei issued a command in his mind.

"Deduct 30,000 villain points."

"Redeem the final volume of the Heaven Swallowing Demon Art!"

Ding!

Command confirmed.

30,000 points deducted.

The final volume of the Heaven Swallowing Demon Art has been issued! Automatically fusing...

At the very moment the fusion was completed.

An extremely terrifying aura, deeper and more evil than the Hong Yi evil spirit, erupted explosively from Shen Fei's body!

There was no fierce wind.

There were no shockwaves.

There was only pure darkness.

The dark golden Heavenly Demon true qi instantly mutated, turning into thick, ink-like black demonic energy. This demonic energy followed Shen Fei's arm and rapidly coiled around the body of the Hong Yi evil spirit.

"Screech!!!"

The Hong Yi evil spirit let out an unprecedentedly shrill scream!

It struggled madly, its red sleeves whipping against Shen Fei's body like steel whips, making loud banging sounds. But even attacks that could snap reinforced concrete couldn't even make Shen Fei furrow his brows when they hit him.

Because it despairingly realized.

The black demonic energy wrapping around it wasn't suppressing it, let alone dispersing it.

It was...

Eating it!

Crunch!

The demonic energy acted like a massive abyssal maw with countless tiny jagged teeth, taking a bite out of the evil spirit's shoulder.

A large chunk of the red malevolent yin energy was forcefully torn off and instantly swallowed by the demonic energy.

Chu Ye only felt a burst of severe pain in his brain.

That was the devastating backlash from the soul contract binding him to the evil spirit.

"Stop! Stop it right now!"

Chu Ye went crazy.

He formed hand seals, attempting to forcefully recall the Hong Yi evil spirit.

"Come back! Hong Yi! Come back!"

A dark red array rune lit up beneath Chu Ye's feet.

The evil spirit's body was pulled by a massive suction force, trying to break free from Shen Fei's control.

"Trying to leave?"

Shen Fei sneered.

"I've never had the habit of spitting out something that has already entered my mouth."

He suddenly increased the strength in his hand.

Crack...

The sound of shattering bones rang out. Even though the evil spirit had no real bones, the sound of its core essence being crushed was still clearly audible.

Shen Fei opened his mouth.

He circulated the Heaven Swallowing Demon Art.

A profoundly deep black vortex appeared in his mouth.

"Devour!"

Shen Fei took a fierce breath.

Like a giant whale drinking the ocean!

Whoosh...

The black mist on the entire street, the bone-chilling yin wind, along with the madly struggling Hong Yi evil spirit.

All turned into an extremely dense torrent of malevolent energy.

And were swallowed into Shen Fei's stomach in a single gulp!

Burp.

Shen Fei gave a very slight shiver.

Not out of fear, but because this high concentration of yin energy entering his body felt just like chugging a whole bottle of ice-cold Sprite in the middle of summer—chilling to the bone and incredibly refreshing.

"The taste is alright. Just a bit fishy."

Shen Fei wiped the corner of his mouth.

A faint, unsatisfied glimmer flickered in his eyes.

Silence.

Deathly silence.

The streetlights on the road lit up once again.

The scene that had just been howling with ghostly winds, resembling a living purgatory, vanished without a trace in an instant.

The temperature in the air rapidly rebounded.

Only the not-yet-fully-melted white frost on the ground remained to prove that everything just now was not an illusion.

Chu Ye stood frozen in place.

His hands still maintained the posture of forming seals.

But the summoning array beneath his feet had completely shattered.

He looked at Shen Fei.

On that pale face, aside from fear, there was a kind of utterly absurd despair.

Eat... Eaten?

He had painstakingly nourished it with blood in a desolate graveyard for three years to cultivate an SSS-rank Hong Yi evil spirit capable of slaughtering a minor family.

And by the man before him.

In one bite.

It was swallowed alive?!

"You..."

Chu Ye trembled all over, pointing at Shen Fei with a voice that sounded like sawing wood.

"You are not human..."

"You are a devil!"

Chu Ye's entire worldview completely collapsed.

He had always thought that by mastering bizarre powers, he had become the dark overlord of this world, able to hunt down those high-and-mighty aristocratic scions like pigs and dogs.

But he never imagined.

In front of this top-tier secular young master.

His bizarre entity was just like a little cookie!

"Devil?"

Shen Fei took a step forward.

His black trench coat flapped loudly in the night wind.

"I'll accept that title."

"In return."

Shen Fei's figure instantly vanished from his spot!

Leaving behind only an afterimage.

Chu Ye's pupils shrank abruptly.

Too fast!

It was even faster than the speed at which he controlled evil spirits during his peak!

By the time Chu Ye reacted.

One of Shen Fei's hands had already clamped tightly around his neck, lifting his entire body into mid-air like holding a little chick.

A sense of suffocation instantly rushed to his brain.

Chu Ye's legs kicked wildly in the air.

"I... I am..."

Chu Ye struggled to squeeze a few words out of his throat, his eyes filled with unwillingness.

"I still have a trump card... I can summon a Night Parade of a Hundred Demons... You can't kill me..."

"Night Parade of a Hundred Demons?"

Shen Fei looked at Chu Ye's face, which was gradually turning purple from a lack of oxygen.

"Those wandering ghosts and wild spirits of yours aren't even enough to fill the gaps between my teeth."

Chu Ye indeed had a trump card.

In his past cultivation, whenever he was driven to a corner, he could sacrifice his own lifespan to open the Gates of Hell and summon hundreds, even thousands, of vicious ghosts to self-destruct.

This move was extremely terrifying; he even estimated it could collapse the entire defense line of the capital.

But it was a pity.

Shen Fei didn't give him the chance to cast his ultimate ability at all.

Crack.

Shen Fei's five fingers suddenly tightened.

The crisp sound of his neck bones shattering became the last sound Chu Ye heard in this world.

His head slumped weakly to one side.

His eyes were wide open.

Dying with a remaining grievance.

Ding!

Congratulations to the host! Successfully killed the SS-rank Child of Destiny, Chu Ye!

Completed the first kill of the supernatural anomaly system!

Extracting the target's origin of destiny...

An extremely cold, dark purple glowing cluster of energy drifted out from Chu Ye's corpse. Shen Fei grabbed it and absorbed it into his body.

Destiny plunder complete!

Congratulations to the host for obtaining the supernatural anomaly exclusive rewards:

1. Domain Skill: Extreme Cold Ghost Domain (Can create extreme cold and terrifying illusions within a hundred-meter radius. The speed of all living entities within the domain is reduced by 50 percent)!

2. Item: Undead Summoning Talisman (Can summon one hundred D-rank vicious ghosts to assist in battle. Duration: ten minutes)!

3. Heaven Devouring Demonic Art Passive Upgrade: Demonic Devour (Can devour any non-material energy, including supernatural abilities, spiritual power, and dark yin energy, converting it into the host's cultivation)!

Listening to the series of rewards echoing in his mind.

Shen Fei casually threw Chu Ye's corpse onto the ground.

Like throwing away a bag of trash.

This hunt went even smoother than he had imagined.

A Child of Destiny like Chu Ye, who relied on external forces like vicious ghosts to fight, was actually incredibly fragile once his strongest trump card was countered.

"Young Master!"

Ling Shuang finally ran out of the Maybach.

She held a submachine gun in her hands, looking around vigilantly.

Everything that just happened occurred too fast.

From Shen Fei getting out of the car, to the vicious ghosts being swallowed alive, and finally to Chu Ye being crushed to death.

From start to finish, it took less than a minute.

Ling Shuang did not even see clearly what method Shen Fei had used.

"It's fine now."

Shen Fei turned around, took out a pure white handkerchief from his pocket, and wiped his hands.

"Notify the hidden guards to clean up this corpse. Do not leave any traces behind."

"Yes." Ling Shuang glanced at the exceedingly ordinary corpse on the ground and quickly put away her gun.

Shen Fei walked to the side of the car.

He pulled the door open and sat inside.

"Back to the ancestral estate."

The Maybach restarted, rolling over the white frost on the ground, and disappeared into the night.

...

At the same time.

Inside an extremely secretive underground base somewhere in the capital.

The place was filled with all sorts of highly precise instruments. Dozens of researchers in white coats were busy at work.

On the large screen was an electronic map of the capital.

Suddenly.

A red dot in the Western District on the map flashed extremely abruptly, and then instantly went out.

A piercing alarm echoed throughout the entire base!

"Reporting to the commander!"

An operator stood up abruptly, his face deathly pale.

"The high-risk energy source codenamed Hong Yi, near Nanchizi Street... has disappeared!"

A middle-aged man in a military uniform, clearly the one with the most authority here, strode over to the screen.

He looked at the extinguished red dot, his brows furrowed tightly together.

"Disappeared? Was it transferred, or did it naturally dissipate?"

"No..."

The operator swallowed hard, his voice trembling.

"According to the final data feedback from the energy detector."

"That SSS-rank anomaly energy, which could easily destroy an armored battalion."

"In an instant."

"Was forcibly erased by someone."

The middle-aged man's face instantly became extremely solemn.

"Since when did a monster of this caliber appear in the capital?"