I Have 10 Equipment Slots-Chapter 101 - 91: The Fifth Piece of Equipment

As dust and Demon Qi scattered, the Double-Faced Hero Demon Fiend staggered to its feet. It unleashed another burst of power, its two faces, front and back, deathly pale.

It crossed three mountain peaks in a single bound, blurring into an afterimage as it rushed into a sprawling mountain estate.

WHOOSH!

SWISH!

Tearing through the wind with a ferocious aura, Gu Zheng descended from the sky and slammed into an open courtyard on the estate. The impact dug a shallow crater, sending shattered stones flying in all directions.

"Who’s there!"

CLANG!

The sound of hurried, disorderly footsteps echoed as a group of guards with drawn blades rushed out from the corners. They advanced slowly on Gu Zheng.

"Sir, you are..."

SWOOSH!

In a flash, Gu Zheng shot forward. He crashed straight through the building’s wall with his own body, landing inside a bright and magnificent hall.

"The audacity!"

In the hall, a middle-aged man with a wide, fleshy face and a potbelly jumped in alarm. He exuded an air of wealth, and his small eyes were lecherous as he glared furiously at Gu Zheng, who had just burst in.

"Who are you? How dare you barge into my Prince’s Mansion... A Hundred Households of the Demon Slayer Bureau!?"

The man, who had been seething with rage, suddenly changed his tune when he got a clear look at Gu Zheng’s Silver Moon Armor. He was shocked and astonished, and his voice instinctively softened.

"You’re a Hundred Households from the Demon Slayer Bureau? What business brings you to my mansion?"

Gu Zheng ignored him.

His gaze swept the hall. Then, with a stomp of his foot, he shot toward the main chamber in the rear of the hall.

The moment he burst in...

"AH!"

A woman’s shriek suddenly pierced the air.

"Who are you? How did you get in? My Prince, my Prince!"

"Stop!" The middle-aged man outside heard the scream and rushed in, shouting, "I said stop! A Hundred Households of the Demon Slayer Bureau, since when do you have the right to barge into a man’s home and accost his consort?"

His face ashen with rage, the middle-aged man burst into the main chamber. He stood protectively before a stunningly beautiful woman with a delicate figure, who looked pitiful and terrified. He roared at Gu Zheng, "Get out! Get out right now! You’ve frightened my beloved consort, you..."

"Beloved consort?"

Gu Zheng scoffed.

SWOOSH~

His figure vanished, and he shot with incredible speed toward the woman behind the man.

SHIING!

WHOOSH~

Mist billowed, and afterimages blurred together.

The woman, who had been delicate and pitiful just a moment before, was now a series of afterimages, dodging rapidly around the room.

"My Prince, save me~!"

She continued to cry out in panic even as she moved.

"What do you think you’re doing!"

The middle-aged man was both furious and frantic. Watching the two blurred figures dart around the room, he choked back his rage and yelled, "Stop! I order you to stop! I don’t care if you’re a Hundred Households of the Demon Slayer Bureau—stop right now, and I can spare you! Do you hear me? You bastard! If you dare harm my beloved consort..."

SLICE!

The flash of a blade tore through the air, followed by a spray of dark green blood.

In the next instant, a figure crashed wretchedly to the ground, rolling over and over.

It was the Double-Faced Hero Demon Fiend, still in its female form. An arm had been severed from its body and sent flying into the wall, leaving a deep indentation. Dark green blood splattered across half the wall and the floor beneath it.

"AH!"

The middle-aged man saw this and screamed like a madman, "I’ll kill you! I swear I’ll..."

WHOOSH~

An afterimage flashed past.

With a THUMP, the middle-aged man was sent flying into a corner, where he crumpled, knocked out cold.

SWOOSH!

SLICE! SLICE! SLICE!

The light from the blade became a continuous blur as the Sword Gang enveloped the Double-Faced Hero Demon Fiend’s entire body.

With a series of wet, tearing sounds, the Double-Faced Hero Demon Fiend’s body was sliced into several segments. Its severed head, with its two beautiful faces, rolled several meters away before coming to a stop in a pool of dark green blood, completely still.

Spirit Capturing!

[Demon Points +11]

"Huuuh..."

Gu Zheng stopped moving, sheathed his Half-Spirit Soldier Battle Blade, and let out a long breath.

After the long chase, his tense nerves finally began to settle.

’The Double-Faced Hero Demon Fiend that fled to the estate was at the peak of the first Life Level, on the verge of breaking through to the second.’

’Combined with its Racial Talent, the pressure from my Super Body Life had little effect on it.’

’On the contrary, the Double-Faced Hero Demon Fiend’s Enchanting Power—whether in its voice, movements, or aura—had a terrifying Enchanting Soul effect.’

’I had to concentrate my full attention on resisting it just to hold out this long.’

...

CLATTER! CLATTER! CLATTER!

The sound of chaotic, heavy footsteps approached from all sides.

Guards and Soldiers clad in Iron Armor poured into the main hall through the open doors, armed with bows and aimed Crossbows.

Upon entering, they aimed their arrows at Gu Zheng, their faces a mixture of shock and uncertainty.

"Who are you, sir? Why did you trespass in the Prince’s Mansion and murder the... the Princ..."

A Commander in his thirties, who appeared to be their leader, was cautiously questioning Gu Zheng. But before he could finish his sentence, he caught sight of the Princess Consort’s body on the floor. It was sliced into pieces. The head, lying in a pool of dark green blood, had one face on the front and another on the back.

The Commander was completely dumbfounded.

It wasn’t just him. The other guards and Soldiers all stared wide-eyed at the dismembered corpse and the two-faced head, their expressions a mix of shock, astonishment, confusion, and fear.

"A... a Demon Fiend?"

In the end, it was the thirty-something Commander who recovered first. He swallowed hard and asked with difficulty, "The Princess Consort... was a Demon Fiend?"

"You all saw it for yourselves."

Having regulated his breathing, Gu Zheng spoke calmly, "A Prince? What kind of Prince is he?"

As he spoke, Gu Zheng gestured toward the unconscious man in the corner.

"...He is King Xingyang."

The Commander sighed. "Even though King Xingyang doesn’t have much real power these days, he is still a Prince by title. If you killed him..."

"Who said he’s dead?" Gu Zheng interrupted calmly. "He’s just unconscious."

’That kick was just to shut the lecherous fool up.’

"Ah? The Prince isn’t dead? That’s wonderful."

Hearing this, the Commander breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile broke out on his face.

The others also exhaled in unison, their bodies relaxing.

"King Xingyang?" Gu Zheng continued, "Never heard of him. Isn’t the royal surname Zhong?"

"...No."

The Commander answered in a low voice, "King Xingyang is an Alien King, a title granted by the Sovereign over a hundred years ago. Back then, the title came with a fief, authority, and an army. But by now, all that’s left is a private force of one hundred men and the title itself."

’I see.’

’Jing Country has quite a few Alien Kings who were granted their titles for military merit.’

’King Runan, who has residences in various counties of Nanyun Prefecture, is one of them.’

’These Alien Kings can pass down their royal titles, but with each successive generation, the imperial court reclaims some of their powers.’

’After about three generations, the royal title is nothing more than an empty honorific.’

’I have no reason to fear this kind of Prince.’

’Of course, even if it had been a true Prince of the Zhong clan, I still would have acted when necessary!’

...

...

When he returned to Golden Fate Mountain with the "Princess Consort’s" corpse.

Jinshan Temple had been completely taken over by the Fengzhou Army.

The only Double-Faced Hero Demon Fiends found were the three that Gu Zheng had killed.

A follow-up search would be needed to see if any more were hiding in other areas.

The incident at Jinshan Temple was more or less concluded.

All the monks and pilgrims were bound and awaiting interrogation.

On Gu Zheng’s orders, a small unit of a dozen or so Soldiers was dispatched to awaken and relocate the men and women who had been held captive in the underground caverns.

Among those who had fallen victim, there were seven Demon Suppression Guards in total, not just Zhang Boshong.

After the seven woke up, they were overwhelmed with shame and quickly fled the scene.

This left Zhang Ning running around in circles.

Gu Zheng didn’t make an appearance. The subsequent cleanup, including what to do with the captive monks and pilgrims, didn’t require his direct involvement.

While waiting for personnel to arrive from the State Government Office and the Demon Slayer Bureau headquarters, Gu Zheng took the opportunity to wander around Jinshan Temple.

As a result, he found several secret lairs the Double-Faced Hero Demon Fiends had used, located within a larger cave system on the back of Golden Fate Mountain.

Stepping inside, Gu Zheng discovered that the Double-Faced Hero Demon Fiends had actually brought a considerable number of plants and ores with them from the Demon Realm.

Among them were a few things...

[Equippable Item Discovered]

[Thousand-Eyed Flame Flood Dragon’s Eye]

[Equipment Requirement: Constitution 108, Strength 108, Spirit 108]

[Equipment Effect: Eyes of Golden Flame]

[Eyes of Golden Flame: Discern Truth from Falsehood, Reveal True Forms, Bright Ten Thousand Flames]

[Equip?]