Immortal after a Hundred Reincarnations

HISS!

The Enchantress hissed violently, trying to break free from the Evil-Subduing Buddha Chain binding it.

But of course, it couldn’t. It was trapped fast.

At the same time, a flicker of horror crossed its eyes.

It was because—it had never expected—Xu Lei to be so vicious.

He had even killed the human woman it was having an affair with, felling her with a single slap.

After all, in the stories it had heard about Human Cultivators capturing Demons, they rarely acted against their fellow humans.

They only targeted Demons like itself.

Yet Xu Lei had acted without the slightest hesitation.

He had killed the woman with a single slap.

It made the Enchantress’s heart tremble.

It had been furious at the woman for poisoning it.

That was why, in a reflexive outburst, it had sent her flying.

But now, seeing her die just like that, it couldn’t help but feel conflicted.

It knew the woman hadn’t betrayed it.

She had been completely in the dark about the poison.

Of course, it didn’t have time to dwell on it.

Xu Lei struck again.

He raised the black alms bowl. As his Magical Power surged, the bowl began to glow.

A beam of light shot from the mouth of the alms bowl, enveloping the Enchantress.

The Enchantress was instantly wracked with excruciating pain.

Its body twisted as it struggled violently.

But it was no use.

Xu Lei sucked it right in!

Seeing his smooth success, Xu Lei felt a flash of satisfaction.

Then, without lingering, Xu Lei turned and left.

As for the woman Xu Lei had slapped to death, what her husband’s reaction might be... Xu Lei didn’t care.

He had been wearing a Human Skin Mask when he met the husband, anyway.

Even if the husband reported it and the Government investigated, the trail would never lead back to him.

Besides, the husband had been cheated on by his wife—cuckolded—and his health had been ruined by her Demon lover.

Judging by the furious look on his face the day he learned the truth, he probably wanted to kill the woman himself.

If she had been left alive, the husband might have killed her himself, only to be arrested by the Government and thrown in jail.

She was, after all, his principal wife.

Under the marriage laws of the Great Shang Dynasty, a principal wife was legally protected.

Concubines and bed-servants could be beaten or killed at will.

A principal wife, however, could not.

Now, Xu Lei had solved the problem for him, saving him the trouble.

「In the blink of an eye, Xu Lei was back at the Celestial Zen Temple.」

He hadn’t killed the Enchantress yet.

He had only suppressed it at the bottom of the black alms bowl.

Only now, safely back at the Celestial Zen Temple, did he feel comfortable releasing it.

The Evil-Subduing Buddha Chain had sealed its Magical Power.

This Magical Artifact seemed particularly effective at restraining Demons like the Enchantress.

As a result, the Enchantress was now like an ordinary person.

It was powerless to resist Xu Lei.

It had reverted to its true form.

It no longer had the human appearance it had used during its affair with the woman.

Its skin was unnaturally white, with four fangs—two upper, two lower—and razor-sharp nails.

A hooked tail extended from its rear.

Without a single word, Xu Lei began to torture it relentlessly.

First, he ripped out all of its nails.

He watched its body twist in agony.

Then, Xu Lei hacked off its tail and its genitals.

Next, he smashed out its fangs.

Then he gouged out its eyes.

These were the very tortures the other Enchantresses had once threatened to inflict on him.

Now, Xu Lei was enacting them, one by one, on this one’s body.

After all, if he hadn’t died so quickly back then, he would have likely suffered these same tortures himself.

Of course, the threat of being flayed alive was one he didn’t carry out. It was too troublesome and would get his hands dirty.

As for being thrown into the Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons to be devoured, he couldn’t do that either; he didn’t have a Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons.

But after this first round of torture, the Enchantress was already a bloody mess.

It passed out from the pain, only for Xu Lei to splash it awake with water.

Seeing it curled up, wailing and grimacing in agony, Xu Lei finally felt some of his anger dissipate.

But he didn’t continue torturing it endlessly.

After that one session, Xu Lei finished by piercing its eardrums, deafening it.

Then he activated the Lotus Treasure Fragments.

They flew out and sliced its body open.

He then directly extracted the Demon Core from within.

This killed it instantly.

After all, dragging things out could lead to complications.

The only disappointment was that the Enchantress wasn’t carrying any other Treasures.

The only thing of value on it, for Xu Lei, was its Demon Core.

When he killed the Enchantress, Xu Lei didn’t reveal that he was the one who its twelve siblings had ganged up on and hacked to pieces.

After all, the other eleven had yet to be captured.

If this one, even in death, had some way to send a message back to them, it would be a problem.

Not unless he was down to the very last one.

Only when he was killing the final one could he reveal the truth.

For now, Xu Lei wasn’t willing to take any risks.

"You’re just the first!"

Afterward, Xu Lei held the Demon Core and looked at the Enchantress’s corpse. "Don’t worry," he said. "Your brothers and sisters will be along to join you soon enough!"

Then, with a pulse of power, Xu Lei used the Evil-Subduing Buddha Chain to pulverize the Enchantress’s corpse.

It dissolved into Yin Qi, which was then absorbed into the Buddha Chain.

’Time to refine the Demon Core.’

With that, Xu Lei entered his Cultivation Room. ’With this Demon Core, I might be able to reach the Late-stage Bodhisattva Tree Realm in just a few years.’