Chapter 77 The Birth of a New Ghost King!
Chapter 77 The Birth of a New Ghost King!
Chapter 77 The Birth of a New Ghost King!
However, while Muzan was dumbfounded, Li Ke did not stop moving.
While the parasitic flesh buds attacked those poor, heavily armored demons.
Li Ke took the opportunity to manipulate the parasitic buds that glowed with an eerie red light back into his body, and infused them with blood energy!
Li Ke is neither a fool nor arrogant.
The reason Li Ke dared to stand alone against an army of 5 and confront the hidden military demons and Muzan was because he had his own confidence.
This confidence stems from research on blood energy.
While conducting animal research, Li Ke discovered that the energy in the blood could significantly accelerate the self-healing speed of animal wounds, much like the legendary vitality.
However, as the research progressed, Li Ke discovered that the physical energy consumed by animals could be quickly restored with the injection of blood energy.
Why this is the case remains unclear to Li Ke.
However, the lack of clarity does not prevent Li Ke from using this characteristic for his own purposes.
So Li Ke decided to play along, allowing the island nation's army to surround Yunqu Mountain and create a buffer zone.
Li Ke even launched a preemptive attack on the general headquarters, bringing together soldiers from the three divisions.
The goal was to turn these 50,000 soldiers into mobile blood energy collection bags.
Thus, Li Ke consumed more than half of his physical strength and internal energy to create a massive infrasound attack.
His aim was to paralyze those tens of thousands of soldiers, rendering them incapable of movement and escape.
After that, Li Ke can unleash the Blood Demon Art: Parasitic Flesh Bud to parasitize the island nation soldiers and synchronize with them.
Then, the parasitic granulation tissue forcibly extracts the blood energy from the island nation's soldiers and injects it into his own body.
This is equivalent to having unlimited vitality and unlimited physical strength in disguise.
Most importantly, Li Ke wanted to know if his strength would be greatly enhanced after the blood energy of tens of thousands of people was injected into his body.
So Li Ke waited for them to create an isolation zone at Mount Yunqu, and even deliberately stepped into the trap set by the island nation's military and Muzan.
"Something's not right, this is very wrong!"
Inside the Infinite Castle, through Nakime's perspective, one can feel Rick's increasingly powerful aura.
Muzan finally realized what was going on and noticed that something was wrong.
Although he still doesn't know what Li Ke's plan is, looking at Li Ke's increasingly terrifying aura, he knows that Li Ke's strength is growing rapidly.
Even knowing that Rick's strength was rapidly increasing, Muzan still did not make the decision to kill Rick even at the cost of everything.
It's just that Muzan has lived for too long, hiding in the shadows for too long, and he has long lost the courage to fight to the death.
Faced with the possibility of losing everything, or even dying on the spot, Muzan did not choose to fight to the death.
There's a reason why netizens call Muzan a "scumbag boss"—it's because someone else had Muzan's abilities and opportunities.
He probably wiped out the Demon Slayer Corps long ago, found the Blue Spider Lily long ago, and became the millennium-old god emperor of the island nation long ago.
Of course, whether one could actually achieve what Muzan did if they were in Muzan's position, possessing his abilities and opportunities, is another matter entirely.
However, it is a fact that Muzan's operations over the past thousand years have been truly terrible.
However, Li Ke would not wait for Muzan while Muzan hesitated.
Those heavily armored demons that attacked Li Ke but were instead countered by the parasitic flesh buds were finally annihilated.
Thus, these thousands of heavily armored demons changed from attacking Li Ke to guarding Li Ke, becoming Li Ke's heavily armored demons.
What's even more chilling are the heavily armored demons infested with parasitic flesh buds; they seem to have become stronger and faster.
Gone is the sluggish feeling of before; every move has become agile, making them even harder to kill and more terrifying.
This naturally caused the Pillars who were watching this scene to show expressions of despair.
The heavily armored demons they had encountered earlier had already put them under immense pressure.
After all, those thick shields and heavy armor turned the military demons into a tortoise shell, making them impossible to attack.
Now that the heavily armored demon has become significantly more agile in terms of both strength and speed.
It will become more difficult for them to kill such military demons, especially if there are many of them.
For example, if dozens or even hundreds of people are engaged in team battles, even the strongest Stone Pillar would die on the spot.
After all, human strength is limited, while there are now thousands of these heavily armored demons!
Faced with this outcome, how could the entire Demon Slayer Corps not feel utterly hopeless?
What made them even more desperate and angry was that Li Ke did not stop harming innocent soldiers.
Hundreds of parasitic buds, like the most diligent bees, kept crawling in and out of Li Ke's body, bringing him a huge amount of blood energy.
This resulted in Li Ke leaving behind a desolate hell of corpses wherever he went.
All the soldiers' bodies were withered and dried up, their faces showing fear, and their deaths were quite gruesome.
This naturally led the Demon Slayer Corps to believe that Richard was the prophesied Demon King who would destroy the world.
Otherwise, why would Li Ke continue to torture those island soldiers who were already wounded and unable to resist?
It just goes to show that different perspectives lead to different viewpoints.
In their eyes, Li Ke's slaughter of those soldiers was evil.
But in Li Ke's eyes, his actions were righteous, and he was seeking justice for Northeast China, for Taiwan, and for the countless people who had been bullied and killed by the island nation.
Moreover, Li Ke believed in the principle of "I will not attack unless attacked," which gave these soldiers the courage to launch an attack on him.
Then don't blame Li Ke for being ruthless. It can only be said that when they dare to wield their swords, they should be prepared to pay the price.
Time passed slowly, and the Demon Slayer Corps remained furious.
But they were ultimately too far from Li Ke to stop him from massacring his soldiers.
So when the blood energy of tens of thousands of soldiers on site was infused into Li Ke.
Li Ke's body continuously emitted a chilling red light, like a thousand-year-old ghost king from a horror movie, with gusts of cold wind blowing, making it extremely eerie and inexplicable.
This also caused Muzan to completely abandon his plan to fight to the death, and even consider leaving the island nation.
The idea of moving to another country to live—after all, if you can't afford to fight, can't you at least avoid it?
The world is so big, there's absolutely no need to fight to the death with that traitor for a tiny island nation, only to end up dead and with nothing.
Li Ke had no idea what Muzan was thinking.
"It looks like it has reached its limit; any more would just be a waste of energy leaving the body."
With some regret, Li Ke turned and walked toward the command post, which was more than ten kilometers away.
After all, the accounts haven't been settled yet.
These soldiers were just henchmen; killing them doesn't mean the matter is over!
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