Apocalypse: My Tattoos are Ten Yama Kings-Chapter 158 - 156: Zhong Kui Devours Ghosts

At this moment, the clarity that had a hint of foolishness in Zhang Zhen’s eyes vanished, replaced by an incredibly shrewd gaze.

This clarity with a hint of foolishness can only be transferred, but never disappears.

Look, now that gaze has shifted to Zhang Peng’s eyes.

Now, Zhang Peng’s eyes were full of confusion, puzzlement, and bewilderment.

This sudden blow had directly stunned Zhang Peng.

The key point is, when that blow came, he was laughing heartily at the sky and didn’t see it clearly.

At this moment, Zhang Peng was uncertain whether it was Yang Dingguo in front of him who gave him the blow, or if someone was hiding in the dark shadows.

Zhang Zhen shrugged, spread his hands, and said with a helpless tone, "Kid, don’t accuse someone falsely with baseless assumptions."

"At my age, how could I possibly have sent you flying? This old man doesn’t have that kind of strength."

Zhang Peng frowned, seemingly not believing that "Yang Dingguo" had the strength to knock him away.

If it wasn’t Yang Dingguo, then there’s only one possibility, someone ambushed him from the shadows.

"Who?"

"Who is sneaking around in the dark to ambush, if you are a man, come out now!"

"Who’s there, stop hiding, I’ve already seen you, come out on your own!" Zhang Peng shouted around him, looking everywhere.

"Haha."

"Hahaha." Zhang Zhen couldn’t help but laugh as he watched Zhang Peng’s state.

This cat-and-mouse feeling with Zhang Peng gave Zhang Zhen a lot of satisfaction. At this moment, he felt a sense of intellectual superiority over Zhang Peng.

After all, there are not many people who Zhang Zhen can outwit like this!

Zhang Zhen’s laughter immediately caught Zhang Peng’s attention, and Zhang Peng, with a cold face and glaring at Zhang Zhen, said, "Yang Dingguo, what are you laughing about?"

What am I laughing about?

I’m laughing because you’re such a fool.

"Someone came to save me, of course, I’m happy!" Zhang Zhen replied earnestly.

Zhang Peng pointed the Fire-tipped Spear at Zhang Zhen, shouting at the surroundings, "I’ll count to three, if you don’t come out, I’ll stab him to death."

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

After the countdown, Zhang Peng pretended to stab "Yang Dingguo" with his spear.

"Damn it?" 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

"You’re serious!" Seeing Zhang Peng thrusting the spear, Zhang Zhen knew he couldn’t keep pretending.

If he kept this up, his little life would be over.

"Not playing anymore, not playing anymore!"

Zhang Zhen, saying this, spread his wind-thunder wings, quickly putting distance between himself and Zhang Peng, and also summoned his Golden Rod, which looked like a street lamp.

However, due to the effect of the transformation potion, although Zhang Zhen used his Tattoo Ability, his appearance was still that of Yang Dingguo.

Zhang Peng: "??????"

Zhang Peng, utterly confused, rubbed his eyes, wondering if he had seen wrong.

At this moment, in Zhang Peng’s eyes, Yang Dingguo suddenly grew a pair of wings and flew into the sky with a Golden Rod in hand.

"Damn!"

"This old man is really fierce!" Zhang Peng cursed, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and chased after him on the Wind-Fire Wheel.

In the sky, a figure full of fiery light and another with thunderous light all over engaged in battle.

Zhang Peng, wielding the Fire-tipped Spear, launched a fierce attack, the fiery gale from the spear felt overwhelmingly hot.

However, Zhang Zhen was no pushover, fearlessly meeting the attack with his Golden Rod.

As the Golden Rod was swung, it created a storm of infinite lightning, instantly breaking through the fiery gale of the Fire-tipped Spear.

"Clang."

"Clang, clang."

The Fire-tipped Spear and the Golden Rod collided fiercely, the intense impact producing a buzzing echo.

Energy waves rippled out, stirring up a massive sandstorm, cutting many trees in half.

Zhang Peng and Zhang Zhen’s fighting styles were quite similar; both used offensive tactics instead of defense, opting for fierce attacking methods.

For a moment, on the sky, fire light and thunder light were equally matched, it was a tie between them.

Last time the Zhang Family’s hunting team besieged the Wushan Shelter, Zhang Zhen was far from being Zhang Peng’s opponent.

But after that battle, Zhang Peng was severely injured and had to spend some time healing.

Meanwhile, Zhang Zhen followed Lin Yuan, dealt with major bosses like the Golden Armor Zombie and Mother-Child Deceitful King, and absorbed a lot of Deceitful Qi.

With one rising and the other falling, Zhang Zhen was now able to match Zhang Peng, making it an even contest.

The two fought for over ten minutes, yet still no victor, neither could defeat the other.

As the fight went on, Zhang Peng gradually realized something was amiss.

The more he fought, the more he felt something was not right.

Especially the fighting style of this "Yang Dingguo" in front of him, which seemed somewhat familiar.

"You’re not Yang Dingguo?"

"Who exactly are you?"

"It’s impossible for Yang Dingguo to have such fighting prowess?" Zhang Peng questioned while engaging in battle.

Zhang Zhen responded loudly, "If I’m not Yang Dingguo, then who am I? Could I possibly be Zhang Yuandong?"

"Wouldn’t it be unfair if only the Deceitful King Faction had methods to give ordinary people incredible strength, and the official side didn’t have similar means?"

Zhang Zhen was speaking nonsensically with a serious face, his words were completely illogical drivel.

However, even if it was Zhang Zhen’s nonsense, Zhang Peng still had to consider it carefully.

After all, the Yang Dingguo in front of him, with such formidable combat power, was undeniably real.

Based on Zhang Peng’s intelligence, he pondered for a long time, his brain almost overheating, yet he couldn’t figure out the reason behind it.

Since he couldn’t figure it out, he decided simply not to think about it.

Zhang Peng roared angrily, "I don’t care whether you are Yang Dingguo or not, today, I must kill you?"

"You want to kill Yang Dingguo?"

"Do you have the strength?" Zhang Zhen responded loudly.

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On the other side.

Within the special space of the Punishment Department, Yang Jing was evenly matched with Lin Yuan.

With the protection of the Seven Treasures Canopy formed by the eighteen arhats, the Power of Rules from the Punishment Department could not affect Yang Jing.

Thus, Lin Yuan was fighting with great difficulty.

Yang Jing, after demonization, was undeniably the Deceitful King Faction’s top combat force. Without the Punishment Department’s support, Lin Yuan found it incredibly hard to defeat him!

Still, Lin Yuan was someone who always liked to hold back his strength.

No matter the situation, Lin Yuan always kept a trump card hidden.

This trump card, he would not use unless it was a matter of life and death.

Now it seemed that without the trump card, there was no way to win against Yang Jing.

All along, Lin Yuan had been using the power of the Punishment Department, yet he hadn’t used the most powerful force of the Zhong Kui tattoo.

Lin Yuan refrained from using this most potent force because using it would come with severe side effects.

Lin Yuan didn’t know if he could withstand these side effects.

Now, regardless of these concerns, Lin Yuan had to use this final lethal move to defeat Yang Jing and the eighteen arhats.

With this thought, Lin Yuan began to fully exert the ability of the Zhong Kui tattoo.

In the next moment, a majestic voice echoed through the Punishment Department.

"Summon, all evil spirits and malicious deceits within a hundred miles."

"Summon, all evil spirits and malicious deceits within a hundred miles."

"Summon, all evil spirits and malicious deceits within a hundred miles."

The majestic voice spoke thrice, and then countless eerie black lights dispersed from the Punishment Department.

These black lights automatically sought out, and apart from the Tier Five evil spirits with the Power of Deceitful Demon, no other evil spirits within a hundred miles could resist the summoning power of the Punishment Department.

Once the black lights found the evil spirits and malicious deceits within a hundred miles, in the next moment, they brought them all into the Punishment Department.

Throughout the process, these evil spirits and malicious deceits had no power to resist at all.

In just a moment, the Punishment Department became crowded with over a hundred evil spirits and malicious deceits, all looking bewildered, not knowing why they appeared here.

There were three Tier Six evil spirits and malicious deceits, over ten Tier Seven, and the rest were Tier Eight or Nine.

Upon seeing these suddenly appearing evil spirits and malicious deceits, Yang Jing was initially somewhat stunned.

After the surprise, he sneered, "Lin Yuan, are you out of tricks?"

"Do you think manipulating these evil spirits and malicious deceits with such childish methods can handle me?"

Besides the possibility of some trouble from the three Tier Six evil spirits and malicious deceits, the rest of them, in Yang Jing’s eyes, were nothing but trash.

Controlling these evil spirits and malicious deceits to attack?

Lin Yuan’s methods would certainly not be so childish.

Zhong Kui’s characteristic is to eat.

That’s right, to eat.

However, it’s not food being consumed, but deceits.

"Boom!"

Lin Yuan stomped on the ground fiercely, his form began to expand rapidly, in the blink of an eye, he grew to over three zhang tall, becoming a complete giant.

Furthermore, his appearance started to change, turning into one with a leopard’s head, round eyes, an iron face, and a bristly beard.

This appearance was precisely like that of Judge Zhong Kui from myth and legend.

Transformed into Zhong Kui, Lin Yuan reached out to grab the nearby evil spirits and malicious deceits, with one large grasp, these evil spirits and malicious deceits shrank and fell into Lin Yuan’s hand, unable to resist at all.

"Crunch, crunch."

Lin Yuan was like eating peanuts, swallowing these evil spirits and malicious deceits into his belly.

As these evil spirits and malicious deceits were swallowed, black demon flames began to billow from Lin Yuan, transformed into Zhong Kui.

The more evil spirits and malicious deceits he ate, the more intense and dense the demon flames grew.

The three Tier Six evil spirits and malicious deceits saw the unfavorable situation and attempted to flee.

However, this was the Punishment Department, every move they made was within Lin Yuan’s surveillance range.

These three Tier Six evil spirits and malicious deceits did not have Yang Jing’s power, nor the protection of the Seven Treasures Canopy condensed by the eighteen arhats.

"Clatter."

"Clatter, clatter."

Several chains appeared out of nowhere in the Punishment Department, directly binding the three fleeing evil spirits and malicious deceits, and then a large hand, steaming with scorching demon flames, reached out to grab them.

From the moment Lin Yuan transformed into Zhong Kui and started eating deceits, although it sounds complicated, all of this happened within a dozen seconds.

When Yang Jing realized Lin Yuan was strengthening by eating deceits, only three Tier Six evil spirits and malicious deceits remained in the Punishment Department.