The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 379: Transformed into a Demon
When the Fourth Lady asked for the Phoenix Staff, Ergou didn't think much about it and subconsciously handed it over.

But before the fourth lady could reach out and grab the scepter, Ergou retracted his hand holding the scepter.

He said to the Fourth Lady with a smile: "The Fourth Lady just said not long ago that this scepter must not leave my hand before leaving Moon Dew Fortress. Why are you coming here to ask for it? Are you going to regret it?"

The fourth lady smiled slyly and said with seductive eyes, "I was just joking before, my husband, why don't you take it seriously? Quickly give me the key. Those rotten disciples have almost destroyed most of the defense facilities here. I want to activate the ultimate defense system of the Moon Dew Fortress to resist their invasion."

Ergou smiled slightly, and seemingly casually handed the scepter over again, saying: "Since you have this intention, why didn't you say so earlier! Here! Here is the Phoenix Scepter, take it!"

Upon hearing this, the fourth lady proudly reached out to take the scepter.

But when his palm was about to touch the scepter, Ergou's wrist suddenly shook, and the end of the Phoenix Scepter facing the Fourth Lady turned into four gun flowers and then pierced the Fourth Lady's face.

Ergou's move was too abrupt. He was smiling at the other person just a moment ago, and no one expected that he would suddenly turn hostile. As a result, the "Fourth Lady" who should have been on guard lost her vigilance, and then a big hole was poked in her forehead.

However, after being shot in the head by Ergou, the "Fourth Lady" did not die on the spot. With a broken head, she asked with a sad face: "Why did my husband hurt me?"

Er Gou smiled and said, "Fourth Lady and I know each other very well. How can you, who is pretending to be nice to her but has so many flaws, hide it from me?!"

The "Fourth Lady" heard this, but her expression changed, and she said angrily: "I am the Fourth Lady, how can there be any flaws! You are talking nonsense, I am afraid you have evil intentions towards me and are deliberately trying to harm me!"

Er Gou continued to thrust with the Phoenix Staff while laughing, "Fool! You don't know the truth, but you tried to deceive me. Now that your conspiracy has been exposed, you are still trying to argue. Isn't that a big mistake!"

While he was speaking, Ergou used his stick as a gun and made more than a dozen bloody holes in the body of the opponent who was pretending to be the Fourth Lady.

But the fake Fourth Lady seemed to be unaware. She screamed in a distorted voice, "My disguise should be flawless, how could a mere mortal like you see through it?! Tell me quickly, how did you see through me?!"

Ergou just swung his stick wildly and laughed, but he refused to respond to the other party directly.

He did this for a reason, not just to whet his opponent's appetite.

Among the evil demons, there is a type of monster that is extremely good at changing its shape. It can even grab the target’s memory through some means, and then disguise itself as the target with almost no flaws. What follows is all kinds of discord and mischief, which ultimately causes great damage.

Many outstanding people in the history of the Han Dynasty suffered from this.

For example, the last mortal king in history, the famous tyrant Zishou, was transformed by the evil demon into a person with the same appearance as the human race and broke with the alien army of the universe. As a result, when the chaotic army of the evil demon invaded the mortal world, there was no alien army of the human race to support it, so it had to turn to the celestial army for help.

Thereafter, there were struggles for supremacy during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Behind countless conflicts, there were shadows of evil demons hidden.

The most famous tragedy caused by the evil spirits in the human world was during the Han Dynasty, when it harmed three generations of General Li Guang and his sons.

In the fourth year of Yuanshou during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Wu sent General Wei Qing and General Huo Qubing, each leading 50,000 cavalry and tens of thousands of infantry, to march deep into the northern desert in two routes to expedition against the Xiongnu royal court, which worshipped evil gods.

At that time, Li Guang was already old, and General Wei Qing, with the instruction of Emperor Wu, did not give him important tasks.

However, Li Guang was eager for merit and took over the general's order. He led a small force to attack the enemy in a roundabout way. As a result, he got lost and missed the deadline, causing the defeated Xiongnu Chanyu to escape and the expedition to fail.

Soon after, the evil spirit transformed into Wei Qing's appearance, held Li Guang accountable, and humiliated him to the utmost. Li Guang committed suicide in anger. After the battle, when Li Guang returned to the court, the evil spirit transformed into a general of Li Guang's army and reported to Li Guang's youngest son Li Gan that Li Guang had died of humiliation.

Li Gan was furious and looked for an opportunity to beat and injure General Wei Qing.

Wei Qing was prudent and never made the matter public.

Unfortunately, they didn't know that there was an evil demon lurking nearby.

The evil demon then transformed himself into the image of Wei Qing being beaten, and deliberately let the cavalry general Huo Qubing see it.

Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were uncle and nephew, and their relationship was even closer than that of father and son.

When Huo Qubing learned that Wei Qing had been beaten, he became even more furious and shot Li Gan to death with one arrow while hunting in Ganquan Palace.

In the second year of Tianhan reign of Emperor Wu, Li Guang's grandson Li Ling was appointed as a general. He led 5,000 elite soldiers out of the border and attacked the Huns from afar. After a fierce battle, his army was defeated and Li Ling was captured by the Huns.

One year after Li Ling was captured, Emperor Wu sent a Han envoy to accompany Gongsun Ao and lead troops to the Xiongnu to bring Li Ling back.

The evil demon transformed himself into the appearance of Li Ling, met the Han envoy, and flattered him into surrendering to the Huns.

The Han envoy was shocked and reported to Emperor Wu, who was furious and executed all of Li Ling's relatives. Upon hearing the news, Li Ling, who was far away in the northern desert, surrendered to the Huns in anger.

After three generations of the Li family were corrupt, they transformed into evil demons and created several witchcraft disasters that destroyed the Han Dynasty.

After the witchcraft incident, Emperor Wu of Han invited the demon-suppressing master to trace the cause. He finally found out the culprit behind the incident and almost eradicated the evil demons lurking in the mortal world.

It was from this time on that the demon-suppressing people began to make more detailed records and analyses of these evil demons.

This also allows Ergou to have some unique ways to deal with the fake Fourth Lady.

For example, the illusionary demons are extremely proud and conceited demons. If they are exposed for no reason during the process of illusion and disguise, they will try their best to find the reason for their failure, and they will even betray other of their kind for this.

The reason why the phantom evil demon was able to be eradicated by the demon-suppressing master was because a shrewd demon-suppressing master discovered this characteristic of the phantom evil demon and took the opportunity to blackmail the demon, thus achieving complete success.

By the way, the Transmogrified Demon has another well-known weakness.

As a relatively high-level demon, if a phantom demon has a similar face to the disguised template during the process of disguise, that is, the disguiser and the disguised meet unexpectedly (usually the phantom demon will try its best to avoid this situation), and this incident is witnessed by a third intelligent creature, then the phantom demon will be forced to automatically downgrade and transform into the lowest level of demon among the demons - the pink fear demon.

The phantom demon that has transformed into the Pink Fear Demon can be completely eliminated by physical means, but it needs to be killed in three rounds.

When a pink Terror is killed, the cloud of ectoplasm from its corpse will split into two blue Terrors; and when a blue Terror is killed, two burning sulfur Terrors will be born from the choking smoke from its corpse.

If all the sulfur horrors are killed, the phantom demons that originated from them will be completely destroyed, instead of being killed and resurrected in the chaotic realm of the subspace like other demons.

(End of this chapter)