37: Kill the three demons and gain a thousand years of life!

In a blink of an eye, the white snake, nearly eight feet long and possessing seven heads, had already lunged in front of Jiang Lan.

It didn't even land on the ground; instead, it sprang directly from the altar table, shooting towards Jiang Lan like an arrow.

Jiang Lan was unafraid, holding his long blade horizontally across his chest.

The Blazing Sun Demon Suppression Blade was activated, and a large amount of True Qi was poured into the blade, causing it to instantly turn a red color, like a branding iron.

“Sizzle!”

The three leftmost heads of the snake demon were cleanly severed by Jiang Lan.

The three unfamiliar women's heads fell to the ground, and the crowns they wore also scattered, rolling a few times.

The cuts on the snake demon's neck were clean, but not a single drop of blood flowed out.

The three headless necks of the white snake were now charred black, as if they had been carefully ironed with a branding iron.

“Hiss—”

The snake demon raised its remaining four heads, its massive body twitching incessantly, and its four mouths let out a chorus of pained hisses.

Just as Jiang Lan was about to strike again, the pheasant with colorful long feathers also flew from the altar, heading straight for Jiang Lan.

As it flew, the pheasant's long feathers drew a brilliant streak of color in the air, and Jiang Lan was so captivated by the colors that he lost focus for a moment.

Immediately after, a huge croak echoed in his ears.

“Croak!”

Jiang Lan felt a wave of dizziness.

By the time he regained his senses, the scenery before him had completely changed.

It was no longer the dilapidated God of Wealth Temple from before, but an incredibly vast palace.

And he was seated high on the throne within the palace.

Beneath Jiang Lan, countless gold and silver, and mountains of jade, glowed with a brilliant golden light that enveloped the entire hall.

Further ahead, dozens of alluring women, whose faces were indistinguishable, danced gracefully to a continuous, seductive melody.

Such a scene would likely cause an ordinary person to immediately become lost in it, unable to extricate themselves.

However, such tactics were useless against Jiang Lan.

He at least had memories from later generations in his mind; while he hadn't experienced or seen everything, to put it bluntly, the scene before him wasn't enough to stir much emotion within him.

Moreover, Jiang Lan knew clearly that all these things were fake.

Illusion?

Jiang Lan wanted to get up from the throne, but found his body was bound by something, unable to move at all no matter how hard he tried.

Memories flashed rapidly through his mind.

Immediately after, Jiang Lan bit down hard with his mouth closed.

“Pfft!”

A mouthful of fresh blood spurted out, splattering onto the ground in front of the throne.

Immediately, the scene before Jiang Lan changed again, from the palace back to the dilapidated God of Wealth Temple.

Before Jiang Lan's eyes, a woman's head rapidly enlarged.

The woman's head's mouth was grotesquely agape, even wider than the entire head, appearing extraordinarily bizarre and ferocious, as if it intended to swallow Jiang Lan whole.

Seeing this, Jiang Lan's long blade drew a fierce red light through the air.

The long blade struck first, directly slashing into the snake demon's wide-open mouth.

“Sizzle!”

The large mouth was instantly split in two; the upper half, still attached to the crown, was flung directly to the ground, while the lower half remained on the snake demon's neck.

At this moment, the pheasant had also arrived, letting out a sharp cry.

“Screech—”

Its beak, under the sunlight, reflected a faint, captivating rainbow of colors.

However, this time, Jiang Lan was no longer affected by it; he directly activated the Flood Dragon Swim, appearing directly in front of the pheasant the next instant, and swung his blade.

A human-like look of astonishment flashed in the pheasant's eyes, but it quickly reacted, flapping its wings to fly rapidly upwards, narrowly dodging the blade, and was about to rush out of the God of Wealth Temple's door.

But how could Jiang Lan give it such an opportunity? With a flick of his left wrist, three willow leaf blades shot out simultaneously.

The willow leaf blades, enveloped in True Qi, emitted a series of piercing sounds as they flew.

“Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!”

Three sounds of a Sharp Weapon tearing through flesh rang out almost simultaneously.

“Screech—”

The pheasant let out a cry of pain, its body plummeting diagonally to the ground.

Seeing that the situation was dire, the snake demon furiously thrashed its long tail, also attempting to escape out of the temple door.

But the pheasant just now was already at the initial Qi Gathering Middle Stage Realm, and even it couldn't escape, so how could the snake demon possibly run out of the temple door?

Jiang Lan's figure flickered, appearing directly behind the frantically fleeing snake demon, and he struck again with his long blade.

“Sizzle!!”

The sound of burning flesh rang out, and the base where the snake demon's several slender necks connected was directly severed by Jiang Lan's blade.

Before Jiang Lan's eyes, a light screen appeared, displaying several lines of text.

[Killed one Qi Gathering Fourth Stage pheasant demon, gained three hundred and forty years of lifespan.]

[Remaining lifespan: six hundred and seventy-three years.]

[Killed one Qi Gathering Third Stage snake demon, gained three hundred and thirty years of lifespan.]

[Remaining lifespan: one thousand and three years.]

Jiang Lan merely glanced at the light screen, then turned his gaze towards the golden toad on the altar table.

The golden toad still stood on all fours on the altar table, its position unchanged.

A look of pleading appeared in its pair of jewel-encrusted eyes.

“Don't kill me! I surrender! Croak, croak!”

Jiang Lan was unmoved, walking step by step towards the toad.

The golden toad panicked.

“I'm useful! You're from the Demon Suppression Division, I can help you investigate cases! I can also...”

It thought for a long time but couldn't come up with anything else it could do.

However, seeing Jiang Lan approaching step by step, it had no choice but to eagerly continue: “Croak! I've never harmed a human life! Sir, please let me go!”

“Sizzle!”

The golden toad's head was immediately separated from its body.

Coins and gold ingots flew everywhere, clattering onto the ground with a jingling sound.

[Killed one Qi Gathering Fourth Stage golden toad, gained three hundred and forty years of lifespan.]

[Remaining lifespan: one thousand three hundred and forty-three years.]

“Hoo...”

Jiang Lan slowly exhaled a turbid breath.

Investigate cases?

He hadn't fallen to the point of needing a demon to investigate cases for him.

As for never having harmed a human life, Jiang Lan didn't believe a single word of it.

Even if the golden toad was truly as it claimed and hadn't harmed anyone.

But what did that have to do with Jiang Lan?

Just a demon, killing it was just killing it.

If all the demons in the world were killed, there would certainly be innocent ones.

But if he killed ten for every one, there would still be many that slipped through the net.

Given this, Jiang Lan couldn't possibly meticulously distinguish between the good and evil of those demons.

He looked down at his long blade; its temperature had dropped considerably, and the blade no longer had the branding iron-like color it had at first.

Somewhat to Jiang Lan's surprise, there was not a single drop of blood on the long blade.

That was good, it saved him the trouble of wiping it.

Sheathing his long blade at his waist, Jiang Lan first looked around.

After a moment of thought, he stepped forward and pulled off the Black Robed Man's black robe, using it to wrap the several heads scattered on the ground.

The Black Robed Man's, the pheasant's, the golden toad's, and the snake demon's heads, which were somewhat similar to that martial artist's from that day.