The others looked at Sinis and the others and saw their expressions, let alone the damage the Horn Demon suffered in that instant. The demon, who never cried, had tears glistening in its eyes. The Horn Demon endured the pain, too late to swing its long saber, and directly stopped its head from leaning back, using its head to fiercely smash towards Li Xi.
Li Xi grabbed the Horn Demon's clothes and used the momentum to smash himself towards the ground, causing the Horn Demon's half-hearted headbutt to hit empty air.
Li Xi landed, his fists clenched, and with a force that seemed to shatter the air, punched the Horn Demon's left leg.
"Crack"
The crisp sound of bone breaking rang out again. The Horn Demon's lower leg instantly bent into a 'v' shape as if it were lying down.
Li Xi's two attacks were swift and decisive. By the time the Horn Demon lost its balance and fell to the ground due to its broken leg, Sinis and the others realized that the Abyssal Horn Demon, comparable to a Level Six magical beast, was being toyed with by Li Xi as if it were a mere doll.
"Ah, you lowly worm, I will surely kill you."
The Horn Demon's fall gave it an opportunity to swing its large saber. With a length of four meters, its attack range was exceptionally wide when swung. Li Xi, too lazy to deal with the saber, jumped directly to the side of the Black Tiger Mercenary group's formation and said to them, "Give me a sturdy weapon. Today, I will nail this Horn Demon to death here."
The mercenaries of the Black Tiger Mercenary group looked at Li Xi, who was bare-chested and like a god of war descending, and recalled their attitude towards him along the way. Their hearts, which had just found peace after surviving a disaster, were instantly raised again. Was it possible that they had let a wolf in through the back door after sending a tiger out the front?
Sinis was the first to react and threw his greatsword to Li Xi, "Young brother, you truly are a hidden master. It is the honor of our Black Tiger Mercenary group to be able to undertake this mission with you today."
Li Xi took the greatsword, revealed his pearly white teeth, and smiled at everyone, "No problem. Let's chat after I kill the Horn Demon."
Seeing Li Xi smile, Sinis and the others did not dwell on the past and relaxed once more. Their hearts had been like a roller coaster today, going up and down. If they didn't have good health, they would have suffered a heart attack directly.
But Monk was different. His palms were already sweating. Sinis and the others didn't know what they had done to Li Xi, but Li Xi definitely wouldn't forget that he had given him to the succubus. As long as he killed the Horn Demon, he would definitely not let Monk off.
In the face of life and death, Monk's expression flickered several times, making the surrounding Black Tiger Mercenary group members think that Monk had never seen such a magnificent scene.
They then comforted him, "Master Monk, please rest assured. Judging by the current situation, young brother Li Xi will definitely be able to save us."
Sinis, after drinking the holy water, had also recovered some strength. He took out a spare sword from his spatial ring and loudly boosted morale, "Brothers, we can't defeat the Horn Demon, but can we not even defeat these lesser demons?"
"Follow me and kill!"
"Kill!"
The mercenaries echoed with a unified roar, and the lesser demons that had been in front of them suddenly increased their speed by more than three times.
Li Xi held Sinis's greatsword. It only weighed about twenty kilograms, which was a greatsword to them, but to Li Xi, it was just that. It was like comparing a giant holding a toothpick to holding an iron rod; the difference was not that great.
Li Xi casually made a sword flourish and then charged towards the Horn Demon, which was struggling to stand up.
The Horn Demon now hated this short, immensely strong man to death, but the pain in its left leg made every movement feel like a stab to the heart.
It forced itself to stand on one leg and weakly swung its saber at Li Xi, but its current speed and strength were not as good as before. This was like the difference between a man before going to bed and a man after getting out of bed – the former was strong and powerful, while the latter had weak legs and was soft.
Li Xi casually deflected the Horn Demon's saber and, with the Horn Demon's center wide open, delivered a sword strike from bottom to top.
The Horn Demon, slowed significantly by its broken leg, had no time to dodge. Li Xi struck it heavily with his greatsword, 'Slish!' splitting its abdomen open.
"Ah!"
"Ah!"
The Horn Demon roared to the sky, holding its saber in one hand and covering the intestines spilling from its abdominal wound with the other.
Seeing that the Horn Demon still looked unyielding and intended to eat him, Li Xi stomped heavily, his body flying into the air. He swung the greatsword horizontally, hitting the Horn Demon squarely on its temple.
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With a heavy sword strike, the Horn Demon's eye was directly smashed out by Li Xi. Simultaneously, the Horn Demon's body was sent flying like a kite with a broken string. The blood flowing from its eye socket was more than the total blood volume of a normal human.
With the Horn Demon knocked down, Li Xi did not pursue its advantage. Instead, he stepped on the Horn Demon's eyeball, measured it carefully, and muttered to himself, "Your eye is much larger than a honeydew melon, almost as big as a watermelon."
Li Xi's insulting tone enraged the Horn Demon. Blood gushed from its eye socket like a fountain, unable to be stopped. Seeing this, Li Xi guessed that even if he didn't act, the Horn Demon might bleed to death.
"Worm, I will not let you go." The Horn Demon was so furious that it wanted to grind its teeth to dust, wishing it could devour Li Xi alive. If someone had stood up at that moment and said they could kill Li Xi for the Horn Demon, the Horn Demon would have even offered its bucket-sized backside.
Li Xi dragged his greatsword and walked step by step towards the Horn Demon, asking with great interest, "Then how do you plan not to let me go? I'm very curious, why don't you tell me?"
Li Xi stared with his big eyes, appearing like a clueless newcomer, but this act completely infuriated the Horn Demon, making it determined to do so.
The Horn Demon spat out a string of abyssal language from its mouth as rapidly as a Maxim machine gun. Just as Li Xi felt uneasy and wanted to end the fight quickly, the Horn Demon unexpectedly pierced its own chest with one hand, violently digging out its own massive heart.
Seeing this, Li Xi thought the Horn Demon couldn't bear the humiliation and was going to commit suicide. However, Sinis shouted anxiously from a distance, "Brother Li Xi, this Horn Demon is going to cast a curse on you, you must not let it succeed!"
"You son of a b*tch!"
Upon hearing that the curse was at the cost of its life, Li Xi knew it was definitely not a good thing. He cursed inwardly, bent down like Hou Yi shooting down the sun, and shot the greatsword in his hand towards the Horn Demon. The greatsword tore through space and instantly arrived at the Horn Demon's brow.
The moment Li Xi moved, the Horn Demon knew what it was facing, but the curse, at the cost of its life, had already begun. The Horn Demon increased its speaking speed by another double, speaking so fast that even it couldn't understand what it was saying.
Finally, its effort paid off. A moment before Li Xi's greatsword smashed its head, it also crushed its own heart. A red light shot from the shattered heart into Li Xi's brow, which he could not avoid.
Li Xi quickly touched his brow, but found nothing. His body showed no abnormalities.
As for the Horn Demon, its entire head exploded like a crushed watermelon. It was undeniably dead.
Since he was fine for now, Li Xi decided to ignore it for the moment. Looking at the lesser demons still pouring out of the secret passage, Li Xi said to Sinis and the others, "Hold on for a while, I'm going to break the teleportation gate."
"Brother Li Xi, be careful."
"Be careful."
Li Xi picked up the greatsword he had thrown away earlier and killed his way back against the direction the lesser demons were coming from.
With a greatsword in hand, Li Xi didn't know any specific techniques. He merely swung it wildly at an imperceptible speed, creating a shield of sword light in front of him that formed a meat grinder, shredding every lesser demon in his path into pieces, covering the entire secret passage with bloody rain of gore.
Soon, he reached the black mist teleportation gate formed by the coffin.
At this moment, the teleportation gate looked like a mirror made of black mist. The surrounding black mist churned, and lesser demons continued to gush out in a constant stream, pushing and shoving each other.
According to the Abyssal Demon Stele discovered in the underground of Cado City last time, teleportation gates required energy supply.
Moreover, this teleportation gate was able to transport so many lesser demons and a Horn Demon, so there must be an extraordinary energy source.
Li Xi's gaze immediately fixed on the coffin beneath the teleportation gate. He had witnessed it with his own eyes: Monk, that old scoundrel, had taken something from the coffin before the teleportation gate was activated.
Li Xi first walked around the coffin and tapped the lid, only to find that it was made of the most ordinary material.
He raised the greatsword and swung it heavily, easily splitting the coffin in two. As the coffin was cleaved open, the hidden energy source was revealed.
A magic crystal, the size of a human head, was continuously supplying energy to the teleportation gate. It provided such a large amount of energy every moment, yet the magic crystal showed no signs of weakening.
Looking at this magic crystal, Li Xi's eyes gleamed with a chilling blue light, like a starving wolf seeing a delicious lamb.
"What level of magical beast's magic crystal is this? If I hand this in for a quest, wouldn't the final reward be explosive!!!"
The first thought Li Xi had upon seeing the magic crystal was to use it for a quest and exchange it for a huge reward. Last time, just handing in fifty-five magic crystal stones had earned him the Ghost Luo Bud Technique, which allowed him to absorb five types of bloodline limits. Now, he could barely imagine the reward for this head-sized magic crystal.
Li Xi poured out all the wooden sticks from his spatial ring and then placed the magic crystal inside. The reason was that Li Xi's spatial ring had a too small internal space, and he couldn't fit many things. He had to discard the cheapest wooden sticks to make room for the magic crystal.
The magic crystal disappeared, and without an energy supply, the teleportation gate gradually shrunk. Within a few breaths, it shrank into a small ball and disappeared with a 'pop.'
With the spatial teleportation gate gone, Li Xi looked at the lesser demons, who were less than a meter tall, and a cruel smile appeared on his lips.
The greatsword in Li Xi's hand once again transformed into a life-reaping machine, continuously harvesting the bodies of the lesser demons, just like a farmer in autumn, the more grain there was, the happier he would be.
At this moment, Li Xi truly understood the power of Tsunade's divine strength. He was invincible below Level Six, and if he encountered anything above Level Six, he would deal with it then. In any case, Li Xi had not yet seen the peak of his strength.
He cut through the lesser demons like chopping melons and vegetables all the way back to the underground space. He saw that the Black Tiger Mercenary group was also cleaning up. Faced with the teamwork and good equipment of the Black Tiger Mercenary group, these scattered lesser demons were no match. No matter how many kindergarten children there were, they would not be a match for a college student.
"Brother Li Xi, are you alright?" Sinis asked, his complexion still not fully recovered. Li Xi had already put back on the clothes he had taken off by the gauze tent.
"I'm fine, I just have a few more matters to settle." Li Xi's gaze was unfriendly as he looked at Monk.
Sinis followed Li Xi's gaze and saw Monk, whom he had flattered all the way, but who had tried to sell them to demons. He gritted his teeth and said, "If Brother Li Xi hadn't said it, I would have sought him out for an explanation. I have never met such a despicable, vile, and shameless person."
Li Xi led Sinis towards Monk. The other mercenaries saw that their boss had stepped up and they couldn't just stand by. They also had a stomach full of anger. They had almost died today, and they all followed behind the two with imposing momentum.