80: Chapter 80: Human-Demon Love?

I’ll Cut it Down with One Strike!

(Please Subscribe) 80: Chapter 80: Human-Demon Love?

I’ll Cut it Down with One Strike!

(Please Subscribe) The daughter of the prefectural magistrate, she’s actually carrying a monster’s child!

It’s utterly ridiculous!

Cold light surged in Qin Zheng’s eyes.

“Don’t hurt Qing’er!!”

Sensing the chill emanating from Qin Zheng, the handsome man let out an anxious roar.

His expression twisted savagely, and he was about to transform into his monstrous form as demonic energy surged through his body.

Qin Zheng turned his head, bringing down his blade in a sweeping motion, and struck the man on the back of his head with the flat of his sword.

The man immediately lost consciousness and collapsed to the ground.

“Jin Lang!!”

Seeing this, the woman cried out in alarm and, despite the pain in her abdomen, staggered toward him.

Her pale face was filled with panic as she reached out, pulling the man into her arms and continuously calling his name.

“What are you doing, you clodhopping peasant?!!”

“We are truly in love!

Are you so unwilling to see us happy?!”

“Give me back my Jin Lang!!”

Seeing the man unresponsive, the woman’s heart was thrown into chaos.

She raised her head to scream at Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng’s gaze was icy.

From Inspector Xu and the magistrate’s reactions, it was clear they knew this man was a monster!

The head of the prefecture was actually sheltering his own daughter’s affair with a monster, and she had even conceived a half-demon!

If not for the outbreak of rat infestations within Kaiyuan Prefecture, which alerted the demon slayers, it’s likely that no one would ever have found out!

Zhang Qing’er was crying so hard that she was like a pear blossom bathed in tears.

Facing Qin Zheng’s icy gaze, she shouted loudly, “Is it not just a few humans eaten?!!”

“There are so many people in the world, what’s the problem with eating a few?!

And you demon slayers, don’t you also constantly slay and devour monsters?!”

“When humans eat monsters, and monsters eat humans, what of it?!!”

“Our love is true, even the difference between human and demon can’t stop our love!!”

Qin Zheng nodded, said nothing more, raised his blade, and brought it down towards the corpse of the rat monster on the ground.

You’re free to love each other, but I’m also free to slay man-eating monsters!

Boom!!

However, at that moment, the ground beneath his feet abruptly began to tremble.

A surge of potent demonic energy suddenly emerged from beneath the ground!

Thump!

Immediately following, a tail as thick as an arm and hard as iron burst through the ground beneath Qin Zheng’s feet, piercing towards him like a spear.

Qin Zheng’s eyes tightened, and in response, he changed the direction of his greatsword, slashing towards the long tail that was thrusting at him.

Clang!

The greatsword collided with the tail, emitting a clear sound of metal striking metal.

Then the ground heaved as if some immense creature was about to emerge from below.

Qin Zheng frowned and leapt away in an instant.

At the same time, an enormous rat, as big as a cow, burst forth from the ground.

It was its tail that had stabbed towards Qin Zheng!

It turned out that there were two rat monsters hiding within Kaiyuan Prefecture!

“Ahhh!!!”

The instant she saw the rat monster as bulky as a cow, the magistrate’s daughter Zhang Qing’er screamed in fright.

Although she knew her husband was a monster and that he had a brother who was also a monster, she had never seen their transformed monstrous bodies.

Now, suddenly facing such a giant rat before her, she felt faint.

The rat monster glanced at her with a flash of greed in its eyes but immediately suppressed it.

It turned to look at Qin Zheng, who had jumped to the side, and spoke in a cold voice, “If you kill my big brother, Cangfeng Mountain won’t spare you!!”

Chirp, chirp, chirp~

At the same time, the squeaking of rats could be heard from all directions.

Then, a horde of gigantic rats, like a flood, emerged from various places and swiftly attacked Qin Zheng.

Qin Zheng sneered, gripping the Ghost Head Greatsword firmly in his hand, his spiritual power enveloping the area within fifty meters around him.

He also spoke, “Interesting!

So some monsters dare to threaten a Demon-Slaying Colonel!

“Let me see how your Cangfeng Mountain is going to deal with me after I slay you two rat monsters!”

Hum!!

A vast and mighty power surged within him like a great river coursing through his body.

Qin Zheng’s eyes flashed, and he shot out like a blur!

In the blink of an eye, he was upon the rat monster, and the Ghost Head Greatsword swirled with a crescent flourish, he hauled it upward in a fierce sweep!

But to the rat monster, Qin Zheng’s slash felt as though it contained infinite Divine Power, like a Divine Beast roaring, sweeping towards it from every direction!

From all around, from heaven and earth!

Such was the True Meaning of the Four Symbols and Six Harmonies!

The rat monster’s heart was immediately filled with intense fear.

This was no ordinary Demon-Slaying Colonel!

This was a terrifying being on par with any Minor General!

Whoosh!

It frantically waved its tail, hardened like steel, like a blur, whipping towards the sweeping greatsword.

But this time, Qin Zheng showed no mercy.

As soon as its tail touched the Ghost Head Greatsword, it was severed in one stroke and fell twitching to the ground.

Before it could scream in pain, the chilling blade had already cut through the air and landed on its rat head!

How could this be?!!

Its pair of rat eyes, at this moment, were filled with an unbelievable terror.

Just now, in the exchange of blows, the gap didn’t seem so great, but now it was like heaven and earth apart!

A strong sense of death, along with the flash of the blade, burst open in its heart in an instant!

Whoosh!

The freezing blade light flashed past.

This bull-sized Rat Monster, with hardly any strength to resist, was beheaded by Qin Zheng with a single strike, brutally killed!

Thump!

With no strength left to support its body, the Rat Monster collapsed with a loud bang, as stinking blood gushed forth without end from the severed neck.

Qin Zheng then shifted his gaze to look around.

Those large rats, upon the Rat Monster’s death, seemed as if they had become dazed, and froze on the spot, motionless.

At this moment, he also confirmed that these creatures were not yet Monsters, but rather ordinary rats that had the chance to transform into Monsters.

Martial Artists in the Flesh Refining Realm could handle them.

He then withdrew his gaze and looked toward Zhang Qing’er, who appeared to be shocked into stillness, standing there dazed.

At this moment, the Rat Monster in her arms showed no signs of awakening.

The blow from Qin Zheng, although not exerted with much strength, was still decisive, and it was likely that the Rat Monster would never awake.

He stepped forward, instantly appearing in front of Zhang Qing’er.

Only then did Zhang Qing’er seem to snap back to reality, her gaze turning to Qin Zheng, no longer throwing a loud tantrum as before.

She opened her mouth as if wanting to say something but found herself unable to speak.

“Stand up, move aside.”

Qin Zheng spoke with a cold voice.

Zhang Qing’er’s gaze was full of conflict.

She first glanced at the handsome face of the man in her arms, then raised her head to look at the Rat Monster corpse that Qin Zheng had slain beside her, her pupils shrinking slightly as fear surfaced on her face.

In the end, she still put down the man, enduring the pain in her abdomen, and stood up.

Whoosh!

With a casual swing of his blade, the man was instantly decapitated, his true monstrous form revealed—a bull-sized giant rat.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Qing’er’s expression shifted slightly as if recalling something, and she suddenly bent over and began to vomit.

Qin Zheng paid her no attention and turned to look at those mutated giant rats.

With a stride, he executed his Qinggong, instantly dashing out like a phantom.

At the same time, the blade light fell like a torrential rain, instantly striking down.

This place was on the edge of Kaiyuan Prefecture, where there were few inhabitants, and because it was night, no one noticed the commotion here.

Otherwise, the sight of so many giant rats would likely cause ordinary people to pass out in fright.

At this time, Situ Qing and the others also hurriedly arrived.

Upon seeing the scene before them, their pupils immediately contracted.

Two bull-sized headless Rat Monster corpses—they had never seen rats of such a massive size!

Feeling the intense demonic energy emanating from the two rat corpses, they also understood that these two Rat Monsters were likely the prime culprits behind the rat plague in Kaiyuan Prefecture.

Soon after, they saw the woman who was standing to one side, covering her stomach and retching, they exchanged glances, surmising something in their minds.

Thus, Zou Xi and Liu Yi, the two women, stepped forward and walked over to Zhang Qing’er, helping her up.

Situ Qing, Wu Meng, and Xin Yi, the three men, drew their swords and followed, slaughtering the mutated giant rats that were emerging around them.

After a short while, once the giant rats were slain, Qin Zheng was the first to sheath his sword and return.

Looking at Zhang Qing’er, still clutching her stomach, her face pale, and full of pain,

Zou Xi and Liu Yi, standing beside her, also seemed at a loss, unsure of what to do.

“The Half-Demon spawn inside her feels that its father is gone and is causing a ruckus,” Qin Zheng said, his eyes narrowing slightly.

His spiritual power naturally allowed him to sense what others could not.

Hearing this, Zhang Qing’er looked at him in agony and pleaded, “Help me!

My stomach hurts so much!

Please help me!”

Qin Zheng withdrew his gaze and paid her no mind.

Her unborn child might be a Half-Demon, but it wouldn’t hurt Zhang Qing’er for now because it still needed her body to mature.

The pain she was experiencing now could serve as a lesson for this foolish woman.

He turned to look at the two Demon Corpses while a strand of his consciousness sank into his Heart Sea, observing the two lines of text on the Merit Scroll.

[Shu Yan, with a violent nature and laden with sin; upon its death, merit of three catties and three taels can be obtained.]

[Shu Jin, delights in eating human flesh and is laden with sin; upon its death, merit of two catties and four taels can be obtained.]

By slaying these two Rat Monsters, he had obtained a total of five catties and seven taels, which was Fifty-seven taels of merit.

Such thoughts circulated in Qin Zheng’s mind.

At this moment, Situ Qing and the others also sheathed their swords and came to Qin Zheng’s side.

“What about the prefectural magistrate of Kaiyuan Prefecture?” Qin Zheng asked.

“He came out on his own to find us, claiming he had no choice and begged us to come, hoping you would spare his daughter,” Situ Qing replied.

Hearing this, Zhang Qing’er’s eyes reddened, and tears streamed down her cheeks.

Qin Zheng’s eyes narrowed slightly, then he said, “Let’s go!

We’re going back!”

“To think that the magistrate could tolerate and even protect his daughter’s illicit affair with a Rat Monster to the extent of bearing a child, there must be something amiss!”

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