The Ox Demon Commander panted heavily, wisps of white mist spouting from its enormous nostrils.

It clearly sensed that the human before it was weaker, yet every time it swung its huge hammer, the opponent dodged with minimal movement, narrowly avoiding the strike.

Such effortless dodging meant a vast space for counter-attacking! That sharp long saber, whenever it sliced across its body, was fully powered, repeatedly hitting its weak defensive spots, causing critical damage!

Worse yet, the long saber was coated with potent poison. Its life force was slowly and steadily draining away! Its proud strong physique proved utterly useless against the poison!

(Scorpion-tailed Lion's Sting +4 Special Effect: Poison Purification: Passive, allowing the Scorpion-tailed Lion's poison to ignore the opponent's resistance, dealing full damage. This effect's priority is added as (3).)

Before the Ox Demon Commander, things grew murky as the hateful human's figure seemed to multiply into two, into three.

It knew this wasn't due to the illusion technique of the Hundred-eyed Demon traitor, but was hallucinating from the severe blood loss and life force depletion.

Death drew so close.

The Ox Demon Commander bellowed muffledly, raising its hooves high to launch a small-scale trample!

Seizing the chance as Bai Pu slowed down, the Ox Demon Commander abruptly lowered its head, its massive horns rushing toward Bai Pu's chest with lightning speed.

Horn Strike!

The next step was to lift Bai Pu high, paralyzing him with demonic power infusion, followed by the Ox Demon Commander's proud skill—Earth Splitting!

This was the Ox Demon Commander's last retaliation.

However, this counterattack was also futile.

Bai Pu slightly turned, narrowly dodging the tip of the horns! Holding the saber with both hands, he slashed out a cut, precisely hitting the Ox Demon Commander's... nose.

This slash was so deft that it seemed the Ox Demon Commander had offered its nose willingly under Bai Pu's blade!

The strike was terrifying, as it combined both the Ox Demon Commander's [Horn Strike] power and speed, and Bai Pu's saber force and speed!

-158!

The entire nose of the Ox Demon Commander was sliced off by the force of this strike, blood gushing wildly! It tried to bellow, yet its mouth was also cleaved open, losing even the ability to cry out.

Bai Pu stepped forward and thrust a stab into the Ox Demon Commander's throat!

The Ox Demon Commander's eyes widened before the blood-red light in its pupils slowly faded away.

Bai Pu grabbed the golden treasure chest dropped by the Ox Demon Commander.

The battle between the Demon Spider Lady and the Human-faced Flower Demon was also nearing its end.

Such plant-like demons like the Human-faced Flower Demon usually face inevitable death when their big move [Drunken Flower Poison Miasma] cools down, and they are engaged in close combat with the high-agility Demon Spider Lady.

Not to mention, nearby was the traitorous Hundred-eyed Demon, using illusions to interfere with the Human-faced Flower Demon. Both Flower Demons' skills of blade petals and Strangling Vine had completely failed.

Bai Pu had no time to open the treasure chest and hurried forward to assist the Demon Spider Lady in killing the two Flower Demons, one of which dropped a blue treasure chest that Bai Pu grabbed before quickly fleeing the scene with the Demon Spider Lady.

Through the perception of the Hundred-eyed Demon, a powerful demonic energy was sensed, like a hurricane passing through in the distance. It was undoubtedly a lurking Demon General!

Facing such a monstrous strong foe that could rival Dongbo Cheng, Bai Pu had no intention of confronting them, especially since he was currently injured and exhausted.

...

Hanging Mountain, the Demon Spider Lady's lair.

A high-ground, dry and ventilated cave, with relatively faint stench.

Inside the cave lay many human skeletons, remnants of past humans slain by the Demon Spider Lady.

The Demon Spider Lady prodded the spider legs, helping Bai Pu clear a spot.

Bai Pu sat crossed-legged, with four treasure chests floating before him.

One golden treasure chest from the Ox Demon Commander donning golden armor.

Three blue treasure chests dropped by the Human-faced Flower Demon and Snake-tailed Cat Demon.

Bai Pu first opened the three blue treasure chests, obtaining around 900 Spiritual Points.

Each chest allowed only one draw, with no option to exclude low-valued cards.

From the Human-faced Flower Demon's chest, he drew a [Strangling Vine] scroll, a C-level item, able to summon two large thorny vines to whip the opponent, causing damage and slowing.

Notably, [Strangling Vine] can be taken out of this dimension.

The two Snake-tailed Cat Demon chests yielded a dagger-shaped item and a yellow bell.

[Cat Demon's Claw: B-level Demonized Weapon. Equipped skill: Fierce Poison Claw. Cannot be carried out of this world.]

[Fierce Poison Claw: Upon use, can summon (1) Demonic Power Cat Claw to circle oneself. The demonic power claw will automatically launch random claw strikes against enemies within close combat range, inflicting poison damage. Disappears when the Demon Power Value is exhausted, lasting a maximum of 120 seconds.]

[Warning: This demonized weapon recognizes you as its master and cannot be traded; otherwise, it will cause self-destructive demonic power.]

This demonized weapon [Cat Demon's Claw] is evidently similar to the [Ox Demon Shield], able to combine with similar equipment into golden equipment.

Yet, four identical Cat Demon's Claws must be collected to initiate the merging!

Currently, slaughtering some nearby demons has provoked patrols by leader-level demons, along with schemes from lurking Demon Generals.

Further killing would undoubtedly lead to dire consequences, possibly even triggering a cosmic surge from the demon lord of the Black Swamp—the Black Emperor, breaking free and coming in person!

The challenge of collecting one demonized weapon is rated as 2, but collecting 5 identical demonized weapons certainly wouldn't be the simple sum of 10 from five 2s, but multiplied: 2*2*2*2*2=32!

Thus, this [Cat Demon's Claw] can only be regarded as a special piece of equipment, with power lying between C-level and B-level items.

Bai Pu glanced over the yellow bell, frustratingly realizing it was a miscellaneous item, sellable to the Spirit Realm Will for about 100 Spiritual Points.

The climax arrived as Bai Pu placed his hand on the Ox Demon Commander's golden treasure chest.

[You received Spiritual Points: 2988 points.]

[Based on your battle difficulty, you have (2) chances to draw Spoils Cards.]

Within the treasure chest, golden light spun, 30 golden cards appeared before Bai Pu.

[Based on your battle evaluation, you received a privilege: Exclude (15) Low-Valued Cards. Do you wish to exclude?]

Bai Pu chose to exclude. Instantly, the number of cards halved to fifteen.

Bai Pu directly clicked on the first and last card.

The first card flipped over, golden light flickered, revealing... a heavy armor pattern!

[You acquired golden equipment: Strong Strike Armor.]

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