Chapter 256 Leaving the City Alone
Before Zhou Chen could reach out his hand, the door was opened by an invisible force. At this time, Baihu was sitting cross-legged on the bed. He opened his eyes and looked at Zhou Chen, "Why did Zhuque come to my place if there was nothing wrong? Did you encounter something that you can't solve and need my help?"

Zhou Chen carefully observed the condition of Baihu. Judging from the injuries on his body, they should be the ones he left last night. But what puzzled him was that he could not sense any demonic energy on Baihu's body now. He couldn't help but wonder, "Could it be that the demon has left his body?"

Seeing that Zhou Chen did not respond, Baihu asked again, "Suzaku, what's wrong with you?"
Zhou Chen then came back to his senses and said, "Oh, it's okay. Baihu, how did you get such serious injuries?"
Baihu shook his head and said, "Don't mention it. I was attacked by a mysterious strong man while practicing last night. If it weren't for my strong strength, I would have been killed by now."

"Who is so bold as to commit murder in the Demon Suppression Division?"
Baihu smiled awkwardly and said, "This person is very powerful, and I don't know him. I don't think he is from Wu'an County."

"Could it be a demon clan?"
Zhou Chen talked to him about some random things. Seeing Baihu's expression, Zhou Chen couldn't help but wanted to laugh, but he held it back.

After Zhou Chen left, the smile on Baihu's face immediately disappeared, and a black shadow appeared behind him. "The aura on him is very familiar, very similar to the man last night."

Baihu said with cold eyes, "In this case, how about catching him and sucking his blood?"
The black shadow immediately smiled when he heard that, "Hahaha, if I had his flesh and blood, my strength would definitely be raised to another level."

A few days later, Zhou Chen received news that a half-step third-grade demon appeared in an area he managed. After receiving the news, Zhou Chen immediately put down the news in his hand and rushed to the scene.

He did not discuss it with Qinglong this time. First, a half-step to the third level posed no threat to him at all. Second, Qinglong's injuries had not recovered yet, so it would be useless to tell him. As for the others, it was even more unnecessary because he should be thankful that the two of them did not stab him in the back.

Baihu has been possessed by the demons. He cannot guarantee that Xuanwu is still the original Xuanwu. It is possible that Xuanwu has been possessed by the demons as well.

Zhou Chen was very fast. It took him ten minutes to reach the scene of the incident after walking on the void. By the time he arrived, half of the human beings in the village had been slaughtered by the monster, and the rest were hiding in fear.

After Zhou Chen arrived, he immediately released his aura. The half-step third-grade monster in the village also sensed Zhou Chen's aura, and instead of running away, it rushed towards him.

Standing in the void, he looked into Zhou Chen's eyes and said, "Who are you? You are quite strong and can be my blood food. With your strength, I will be able to break through the shackles and enter the third level."

"Haha, in that case I'll just stand here and you come and get it," Zhou Chen said, spreading his hands and motioning him to come over.

Seeing this, the monster narrowed its eyes slightly, and the demonic power in its body directly exploded into demonic energy, turning into sharp swords that stabbed towards Zhou Chen. In a blink of an eye, Zhou Chen was surrounded by a rain of swords.

Just when he was feeling proud, Zhou Chen snorted coldly, and the icy true energy in his body burst out with all his strength, fusing the true energy of the two mysterious ices. Normally, Zhou Chen needed to suppress it deliberately so as not to affect the people around him. Now that he let go of the suppression, the icy cold air instantly froze the surrounding flying swords.

Seeing this, the monster was shocked, "Wow, what a terrifying cold air." Even for someone as strong as him, after being affected by the cold air while standing so far away, his strength was absolutely suppressed, and he could only exert 90% of his strength.

After the flying swords transformed by the demonic power were frozen by the cold air, only ten seconds passed. With just a thought, Zhou Chen's ice swords suspended in the air immediately turned into ice chips all over the sky and slowly fell to the ground.

Zhou Chen raised his hand and said, "Use whatever skills you have." Seeing Zhou Chen's arrogant expression, the monster was furious, and rushed towards Zhou Chen with all its demonic energy. Zhou Chen sneered, and the moisture in the air condensed instantly, forming a spherical shield around his body.

No matter how the monster outside attacked, it could not break his defense. After three minutes, the monster realized that it was no match for the guy in front of it and wanted to escape directly. Zhou Chen snorted coldly and said, "Why is this not possible? In this case, then it's my turn to take action."

Zhou Chen waved his hand to break the defense around him, then he activated his magical power Ao Long You, and a hundred-meter-long dragon appeared beside him. The moment the ice dragon appeared, the monster felt an extremely strong threat of death and wanted to escape but it was too late, the ice dragon just moved slightly and came in front of him.

He swallowed it directly in front of his horrified eyes. The moment it entered his stomach, the extremely cold air in the ice dragon's body froze it completely. At the same time, a demonic pattern sank into his body. Zhou Chen opened it and took a look, "Damn, rubbish" and then directly decomposed it.

As his strength grew, the difficulty of obtaining demon patterns also increased sharply. It was not that he could not defeat the opponent, but that the number of high-level demon beasts was too small. Of the three-grade demon patterns he had obtained before, two were garbage and there was only one demon pattern of legendary quality.

During the period of time that followed, he had not seen any other demon beasts with third-grade strength except the Zhentian Demon King. He finally killed the Zhentian Demon King, but in the end it was all in vain for his clone.

Zhou Chen checked through spiritual exploration and found that there were no monsters in the village, so he left directly. Like the villages outside Wu'an County, the Demon Suppression Bureau usually has Demon Suppression Guards come to guard the village.

After all, Wu'an County is not that big, and it is impossible to bring everyone to live in the city. Of course, if you have money, you can live in the city, but those people don't have any money, so ordinary villagers can only accept their fate and live outside the city.

In today's world, even with the Demon Suppression Guards, they cannot absolutely protect their safety. It's okay for ordinary evil beasts, but if they encounter powerful monsters, the Demon Suppression Guards will be the first to run away.

This time the news was sent back by the Demon-Suppressing Guards who were in charge of guarding here. They were unlucky. Among the four Demon-Suppressing Guards in a team, only he, the messenger, came back, and the other three had all been killed.

Just as he was walking into the void and returning to the city alone, several space cracks suddenly appeared in the air in front of him, and four men in black walked out of them.

Zhou Chen stopped and looked ahead, he activated his skills and found that the four men were all of third rank strength. However, Zhou Chen was not happy. It was not because he was stopped by them, but because there were no demon patterns after killing these guys, because these guys were all demons.

According to his experience, the demon pattern can only be obtained after killing the demons, while killing the monsters will be useless and nothing will be gained.

These people were not like the white tiger before, who was covered in black air and whose appearance could not be seen clearly. Their facial features were clear, and except that they looked a bit disgusting and dressed in black, they were no different from humans.

At this time, a man in black slowly said, "You are Zhou Chen, right?"
Zhou Chen was not in a hurry to take action, "So what if it's me? Do you guys have something to ask me?"
"Haha, my name is Moying," and then introduced the other three people behind him, "They are Moqing, Moyuan, and Moyin."

(End of this chapter)