### Chapter 841: Twist and Turn

**Translator:** flycrane01 **Editor:** Millman97

The male demon seemed to be rather familiar with the admiration of the low\-level demons. He waved his wings, triggering invisible airwaves that surrounded the high\-level demons like a barrier and kept the lowly chaotic\-blood demons from coming close.

He sniffed and shouted, "We are now pursuing the remnants of the Blade of Chaos. Those believers of Chaos are brutal and dangerous. In order to hide their traces, they have slaughtered all the villages that they have passed through. There was not a living soul left!

"For the sake of your village, you'd better confess honestly. Have you seen any suspicious demons over the past three days? If you keep your discovery to yourself, you will be regarded as an accomplice of the Blade of Chaos, and you shall not be pardoned!"

The mayor's face was as deathly pale, and he shook his head hard.

The male demon was not expecting a positive reply in the first place. Seeing that all the villagers were intimidated, he changed tack. "Does your village live on the Ghost Teeth Flowers?"

The mayor nodded cautiously.

"Excellent!" The male demon smiled coldly. "The remnants of the Blade of Chaos that we are chasing after have been heavily wounded. They are in desperate need of healing drugs such as the Gold Stamen Liquid. In case the Gold Stamen Liquid in your village is stolen by them, we will now confiscate all the assets in the name of the Gold Shadow Guardians!"

"What!"

At this moment, not only the mayor but also all the villagers started yelling despite the honorable identities of the high\-level demons.

The village was poor and the land barren. The livelihood of the villagers all counted on the Gold Stamen Liquid, which was collected from the Ghost Teeth Flowers.

The harvest season had just passed. Although the tax rate of the chaotic\-blood demons was even higher than that of the black\-blood demons, and seventy percent of the Gold Stamen Liquid had to be submitted, the villagers got to keep the remaining thirty percent after all.

The thirty percent of Gold Stamen Liquid had to be traded for the useful items that the villager could not produce as well as crystals and gear for training, which was the hope for the young demons in the village.

But those 'Gold Shadow Guardians' were claiming all the Gold Stamen Liquid now. How was the village going to survive the coming year?

Many chaotic\-blood demons had been reveling in the excitement of finally meeting some high\-level demons. But now, they felt as if their skulls had been opened and somebody had just poured a bucket of cold water into their heads.

However, the chaotic\-blood demons' reverence for the high\-level demons was almost natural. Nobody dared to refuse the demand however outrageous it was.

The mayor's facial muscles twisted for a long time, and his back was even more hunched than before.

The male demon was apparently used to the reactions of chaotic\-blood demons. "Other than the Gold Stamen Liquid that has been collected, there is still some left in the lumps of the Ghost Teeth Flowers. Also, if the lumps are pulverized into powder, it can be used to treat wounds, too.

"In case that the remnants of the Blade of Chaos get access to those things, we are going to destroy the garden of the Ghost Teeth Flowers!"

"What!"

It was a greater shock for everybody on the spot.

When all the Gold Stamen Liquid was claimed, it was going to be a tough year. But as long as they made it through the year, the villagers would be able collect new Gold Stamen Liquid in the harvest season next year.

But if the garden of Ghost Teeth Flowers was destroyed, they would be doomed!

The Ghost Teeth Flowers were extremely dangerous carnivore plants. Even many demon beasts were scared of them. The village had paid a high price to transplant and develop the Ghost Teeth Flowers, at the cost of the lives of more than ten villagers. After five years of sweat and blood, only a small garden had been established.

The garden of Ghost Teeth Flowers was the future and hope of the entire village.

But right now, just because some heavily wounded remnants of the Blade of Chaos were passing by the village, they had to endure such a disaster that was irrelevant to themselves!

"No. You can't destroy them!"

"The Ghost Teeth Flowers are what we live on!"

"Show some mercy, masters of the Gold Crow Kingdom!"

"Please, saintess!"

The demons in the Dry Leaf Village young and old all kneeled and kowtowed hard until their heads were all bleeding and the blood was all simmering.

The attractive high\-level demons, on the other hand, did not care for such drama. The male demon in the lead shrieked, and two golden eagles that were hovering in midair took a turn and suddenly lunged at the garden of the Ghost Teeth Flowers in the east of the village.

Hiu!

The two golden eagles opened their mouths, from which, two narrow, long, red rays spurted out and darted toward the garden.

BOOM!

The two red rays pierced into the garden. The Ghost Teeth Flowers that sensed the waves of energy had only just opened their bloody mouths when two loud explosions echoed deep below the ground. Like two volcanoes had just erupted, a lot of magma spurted out from the ground, and enormous fireballs soared into the sky. Flames thousands of degrees high in temperature soon wreathed the entire garden.

"Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!"

Countless Ghost Teeth Flowers were twisting weirdly in the flames and screaming miserably. Before long, they were only burnt into ashes without any lumps remaining.

"Ahh!"

Many villages collapsed to the ground in grief.

Dozens of healthy, strong demons were gnashing their teeth, their eyes red. Yet, they did not know where they should cast their furious eyes.

The high\-level demons were still talking and laughing. They seemed to be complimenting the owner of the two gold eagles, praising that he had trained them well and built the two biochemical beasts with such magnificent appearances.

"Mayor." The male demon ignored the weird vibe among the villagers and continued demanding from them. "Ask your villagers to help us move the Gold Stamen Liquid. Also, submit the Gold Stamen Liquid that is kept in your households as well as all the other healing drugs. No medicine is to be left to the believers of Chaos!"

Crack! Crack!

Many young villagers, including Lei Chuang, were already on the verge of an outburst. They were biting their teeth so hard that noises were echoing.

Li Yao inwardly frowned. He observed the positions of the high\-level demons and calculated the data, coordinates, and direction crazily.

Although he hated to expose his identity, he found it intolerable to watch the villagers be butchered should they get involved in a conflict with the high\-level demons.

Besides, if the newcomers decided to wipe out the village, it was not like they would spare him.

The air could not have been tenser.

A battle was going to break out at any moment.

Looking at the golden eagles hovering in the sky and the high\-level demons who were chitchatting casually, utterly unthreatened, the mayor slightly sighed and bowed deeply, while he replied obediently, "Understood, masters. We're going to check all the healing drugs right now."

The mayor then turned around and roared, "What are you waiting for? Did you not hear what the masters here said? Pack up all the Gold Stamen Liquid and healing drugs and offer them to the masters!"

The villagers looked at each other in bewilderment, not knowing what to do. They did not dare disobey the commands of high\-level demons, but they were unwilling to hand over their livelihood just like that, either.

The young demons' muscles were all bulging, their eyes bloodshot. They were as still as towers.

The mayor gritted his teeth and staggered close with his club. Then he beat the young demons with the stick and yelled, "Why are you not moving? How many heads do you think you can afford to lose if the masters are delayed while they are hunting the Blade of Chaos? Go now!"

Pada!

After the mayor beat them, he fell over due to a loss of balance.

"Mayor!"

The villagers immediately lost their cool. They hurried to help him to his feet.

Those who were timid were already walking to their homes, however reluctantly.

The younger demons who were gnashing their teeth in fury lost their determination, too. Those who had feet stomped on the ground, and those who did not, bashed the earth hard with their tails and squatted, covering their head with their hands.

All the villagers lost their will to resist. They prepared to pack everything up gloomily.

"Wait."

Right then, Jin Xinyue, the saintess of Pantheon of Demons who had been at the center of the high\-level demons, suddenly opened her mouth and stopped the villagers.

Her voice sounded very young, but it was sweet like a refreshing spring, making everybody who heard it feel comfortable from their ears to the heart.

The villagers looked at each other in a daze, confused. They sensed that the saintess was different from other Gold Shadow Guardians.

Jin Xinyue glanced over all the villagers warmly as she smiled and said, "The Gold Stamen Liquid is your livelihood. I did not expect that you would offer all of it willingly without any complaint. It is indicative of your loyalty to the Pantheon of Demons.

"Rest assured. We are not so unreasonable as to take your livelihood away just like that.

"Just now, it was only a minor test to determine your loyalty to the Pantheon of Demons.

"Now that you have proved your faithfulness, as a saintess of the Pantheon of Demons, will I simply let you suffer the losses?"

While talking, Jin Xinyue extended her jade\-like hand and snapped something silver into the mayor's hand, which turned out to be a glamorous silk bag.

The mayor swallowed hard and opened the bag. He gasped so hard that he almost fell over again.

The mystic rays inside the silk bag illuminated his face.

"The 'Five\-Colored Pearl' inside the bag should be three times more valuable than your garden of Ghost Teeth Flowers. If you sell it in the town, you should be able to get through the difficult times," Jin Xinyue said casually.

"Three times!"

The desperation and fury of the villagers immediately turned into ecstasy and gratitude.

"Moreover…" Jin Xinyue's wings slowly stretched out. One of the golden feathers fell softly and flew to the mayor's pocket as if it were alive. "This feather is my badge. When the tax officer in charge of your village comes here, show him the feather and tell him that Princess Xinyue has decreed that all the taxes of the village will be reduced by half in the next three years!"

"Half taxes?"

Many villagers were already jumping to their feet.

"Lastly…"

Jin Xinyue glanced at the healthy, strong demons in the village with delight in her eyes. She then said crisply, "The new call of soldiers is coming soon. A new war between the Blood Demon Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector is about to commence.

"The war will be the final confrontation between the two Sectors. We will sweep across the Grand Desolate Plateau, break through the Giant Blade Pass, and march all the way to the capital of the Star Glory Federation, conquering all the human beings of the Heaven's Origin Sector!

"Only the bravest, most loyal soldiers are entitled to join the greatest war in the history of the Blood Demon Sector!

"Logically, one or two soldiers will be conscripted from villages such as yours.

"But just now, your loyalty moved me. I will conscript… fifty soldiers from your village!"

### Chapter 842: Deep Inside Hundred Desolation Mountain

**Translator:** flycrane01 **Editor:** Millman97

Hearing her words, all the chaotic\-blood demons could not help it any longer and yelled in excitement.

The disaster turned out to be a bless in surprise. Not only did they receive a high reward, half of their taxes had been waivered, too. Moreover, fifty villagers would be enlisted to defend the glory of the Blood Demon Sector on the battlefield.

Princess Xinyue was so merciful and benevolent. How could they not be grateful and loyal?

"Saintess, we—we can't return your favor even if we die—"

The mayor was crying, unable to control his voice.

The infuriated young demons were so embarrassed that they lowered their head, regretting their stupidity and rashness.

Jin Xinyue smiled and said in an even gentler voice, "I don't want you to die, but I want our enemies, the evil human beings and the sordid believers of Chaos, to be annihilated! Can you do that?"

"Yes. Of course!" the hot\-blooded young demons all shouted.

"Long live the saintess!"

"Long live Princess Xinyue!"

"Long live the Pantheon of Demons!"

"Break our enemies, annihilate the evil human beings, and conquer the Heaven's Origin Sector!"

"Obliteration! Rebirth! Immortality!"

Above the garden of the Ghost Teeth Flowers, the fire was still burning furiously, but the temperature there seemed to be lower than around the villagers.

Jin Xinyue looked at the villagers in a smile. There seemed to be both satisfaction and expectation in her eyes. Every villager who made eye contact with her experienced all kinds of hallucinations. They envisioned themselves fighting valiantly in brilliant suits and soaring into a magnificent palace in the high sky among the clouds where they ate, drank, and enjoyed the ultimate pleasure in the world.

All the demons were yelling in frenzy and shaking as if they were having a seizure. Their enthusiasm tore apart the dark night and echoed in the sky.

Jin Xinyue rolled her eyes and glanced over the villagers. Suddenly, she stopped at Li Yao.

Li Yao frowned and secretly cursed.

Although he was also raising his arms and shouting like all the other villagers, he was short of the wholehearted fervor. Therefore, he appeared much calmer than his companions.

Besides, his left eye and left arm were tied up in bandages, which was quite eye\-catching.

"Who is that?" Jin Xinyue asked the mayor very curiously.

But Li Yao sensed the coldness of a viper from the seemingly innocent, beautiful eyes.

Li Yao sneered in his heart. The mental devil in his brain bared its sharp fangs and released a lot of bloody streaks that were spreading among his brain cells.

Jin Xinyue was indeed a terrifying demon. After only several words, all the demons here were willing to die for her.

Li Yao did not believe that the poor story that the villagers had made up could fool her.

With a crooked smile, the mayor told her Li Yao's 'identity'.

"Is that so? The best hunter of the village was badly burnt in the forest fire half a month ago and lost his memories?"

Jin Xinyue was smiling even more delightedly. Her eyes were fixated on Li Yao's left eye and left arm, which were covered in bandages.

She observed the bandages so hard that bright golden bugs seemed to be crawling into Li Yao's body.

Li Yao sighed. He could not stop someone from killing themself. Now that the saintess was asking to be killed, he could only fulfil her wish.

Jin Xinyue was merely a demon king, and her subordinates mostly seemed to be demon generals. They were not worth mentioning in Li Yao's eyes.

Although they had 'biochemical beasts' that could boost their combat ability like crystal suits, it was not enough to stop Li Yao from killing anyone he wanted to kill!

After being infected by the Blood Stripe Virus, Li Yao was much more resolute in killing. He had made up his mind that, if Jin Xinyue interrogated him, he would slay the saintess from the Pantheon of Demons when he found the appropriate timing and position before he ran away in the riot!

Jin Xinyue had no idea that she was about to die.

She was indeed suspicious of Li Yao.

She officially joined the Pantheon of Demons at the age of seven for the saintess training. Saintesses were the sharpest claws and teeth for the Pantheon of Demons. They were a combination of spies, assassins, saboteurs, agents, and interrogators. The first lesson she ever learned was that those who lost their memories were the most suspicions suspects!

Real life was not some fairy tale. What were all the memory losses about?

The smile on Jin Xinyue's face remained unchanged. Her hands were kept in the original place, too. However, she shook her feathers and secretly informed the Gold Shadow Guardians behind him.

The Gold Shadow Guardians were the imperial guards of the Gold Crow Kingdom. They were sort of her private bodyguards, well\-trained, obedient, and capable. They immediately dispersed without alarming anyone.

The golden eagles in the sky were hovering in smaller and smaller circles, too. Feathers as broad as banana leaves fell slowly between Jin Xinyue and Li Yao.

At that moment, Jin Xinyue still had no idea what a terrible existence she was planning to deal with.

She was wondering who Li Yao really was. He could not be one of the suspects she was chasing after because he had appeared in the village half a month ago. The timing was not right.

*Forget it. Even if he is not related to the Blade of Chaos, he must have secrets that he would rather not tell. Let me take him down first!*

Jin Xinyue stepped toward Li Yao.

She did not know that death was only 0.5 seconds away from her.

Li Yao's left eye was burningly hot, and streaks of blood were leaking out of the bandage over it.

Suddenly—

A shriek echoed deep within the Hundred Desolation Mountain. A streak of golden brightness soared into the sky and split into a three\-legged bird.

The golden brightness that looked like fireworks made the faces of all Gold Shadow Guardians blanch.

The male demon observed the signal and said earnestly, "Princess, Zuo Shaochong and the rest of them have found the target. They are fighting hard and requesting immediate reinforcements!"

Pondering for a moment, Jin Xinyue looked at Li Yao deeply and waved her hands. "Let's follow up. We must get the item!"

All the Gold Shadow Guardians soared into the sky. The crazy wind that their wings raised almost blew everybody to the ground. Even Li Yao was shaking in the middle of the wind. He was becoming more and more curious.

*What item did the remnants of the Blade of Chaos bring exactly that a saintess of the Pantheon of Demons and the princess of the Gold Crow Kingdom needs?*

*To retrieve the item, she does not even have the time to investigate me, who has apparently caused her attention.*

*Is it true that the item can 'change the future of the Blood Demon Sector' as Lei Qi said?*

Seeing that Jin Xinyue and the dozens of Gold Shadow Guardians had turned into streaks of golden brightness and rushed toward the depths of the Hundred Desolation Mountain, Li Yao made up his mind and dashed into the forest, too, not caring about the surprised villagers.

After half a month of recovery, his wounds had recovered, and he had a basic understanding of the Blood Demon Sector now. There was no need to keep staying here any longer.

Besides, Jin Xinyue had grown suspicious of him. If he lingered in that place, he might have brought unexpected disaster to the Dry Leaf Village.

Li Yao was rather curious about the organization named 'Blade of Chaos'. He did not know how large the organization was and whether or not it had really been suppressed, but as long as the organization was not entirely dead yet, it could potentially stir trouble behind the high\-level demons during the head\-on clash between the Blood Demon Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector. If so, the pressure on the Heaven's Origin Sector would be more or less relieved.

With that in mind, it was necessary to get in touch with the Blade of Chaos and help them solve the problem at hand.

Besides, Li Yao was rather interested in the secret technique of the Blade of Chaos that allowed its members to freely change into different forms of demons. Such a secret practically overturned all his knowledge about the demon race.

In the Hundred Desolation Mountain, there were nothing but hills, ravines, and swamps. It was impossible to find a road.

Jin Xinyue and the other demons all had wings. They could fly in midair and ignore the roughness of the mountain.

Although Li Yao had flying swords and crystal suits, too, they had to be kept a secret right now. He could not fly into the sky on one of the flying swords blatantly.

Therefore, he could only summon Black Wing in secret and slide just above the trees while making sure that his presence was not exposed. Naturally, he was much slower than Jin Xinyue.

When he approached the battlefield filled the stink of blood and noises of fighting, he was already several hundred kilometers into the Hundred Desolation Mountain. Giant trees almost a thousand meters high were everywhere amid the endless ridges. The crowns of the trees were so overwhelmingly huge that nearly all the sunlight was blocked.

Li Yao stowed away Black Wing quietly. Like a giant boa covered in mud, he slithered without making a sound among the bushes with the strength of his muscles.

In front of him, the trees had almost all collapsed, leaving an empty area.

Hundreds of demons, apparently on two sides, were confronting each other.

One side consisted of the shining, unbelievably elegant members of the Gold Crow Kingdom.

The other side was a mishmash of miscellaneous species. They were all wearing ragged soft armor, and they were exhausted and heavily wounded.

An old demon who had white hear and a giant turtle shell on his back that had grown long, crimson fur panted and yelled, "Jin Xinyue, kill me if you want to, but I will not give it to you!"

He looked like a turtle man who stood on his feet.

Jin Xinyue was shrouded in an entirely different air from when she was in the Dry Leaf Village. Her sweet and beautiful face resembling that of a young girl was brimming with the malicious smile, reminiscent of a cat that had caught a rat. She said unhurriedly, "Ning Zhongze, honestly speaking, although you are one of the four elders of the Blade of Chaos, I'm not very interested in you.

"In my opinion, the Blade of Chaos is just a bunch of nobodies. All the elders and deacons of yours are jesters who have been making a fool of yourselves. You used to be monkeys pretending that you were wearing a crown, and now you are no better than stray dogs.

"It's not unnegotiable if you want me to let go of you.

"But I'm really curious about one thing. What item have you found that makes 'Elder Nether Spring' hunt after you so crazily?

"In fact, in my opinion, with the miserable, devastated situation that the Blade of Chaos is in right now, you will not be able to make the best use of the item whatever effects it has. Why don't you give it to me? As a reward, I'll spare your lives. How does that sound?

"You all know that Elder Nether Spring and my father, Jin Tuyi, are the most hostile two among the twelve demon emperors. The two of them have been fighting for the post of the commander\-in\-chief of the coalition army of demons and are on the verge of an open fight.

"Therefore, I only wish for Elder Nether Spring to die sooner!

"If you really know a big secret about Elder Nether Spring, why don't you give it to me and let me deal with him? Isn't that a much better option?"### Chapter 843: Incoming Nether Springs

######**Translator:** flycrane01 **Editor:** Millman97


Ning Zhongze, one of the four elders of the Blade of Chaos, smiled bitterly and shook his head. "Jin Xinyue, you don't know the value of the item at all. It can possibly reveal a great secret between the Blood Demon Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector, or even between the entire demon race and human beings! You and Elder Nether Spring are just jackals of the same lair biting each other. If I give the item to you, it is very likely that you will make a deal with Elder Nether Spring!

"Besides, everybody knows that Jin Xinyue is the most cunning and ruthless one of all the saintesses of the Pantheon of Demons. There is no telling how many brothers of the Blade of Chaos have been killed by your seemingly innocent smiling face!

"Right now, you don't know where the item is hidden. That's why you are pretending to negotiate with us. I'm afraid that we will be killed immediately after we bring the item out, won't we?"

The sweet smile on Jin Xinyue's face remained unchanged, but the brightness deep inside her eyes was getting colder and colder. The two entirely opposite airs mixed with each other and gave a creepy feeling.

She continued smiling as she said, "No wonder your organization entrusted the item to you. Your tongue is harder than your turtle shell!

"But I wonder, after I shatter your turtle shell and pluck the pieces off your body, will your tongue be as tough as it is right now?"

The trees nearby all began glowing because dozens of eagles had landed on the top of the trees. The scorching heat that they released illuminated the forest as if it were an inferno.

The Gold Shadow Guardians grinned hideously and drew close to the remnants of the Blade of Chaos.

Holding her arms, Jin Xinyue observed with great interest.

Li Yao narrowed his eyes. Bloody strains seemed to be extending into his heart along his veins from the depths his brain. His heart was beating faster and faster, and a weird strength was released.

His withered left arm continued expanding. The thick bandages were not enough to block the unstoppable strength that was spreading out.

Li Yao locked onto the back of Jin Xinyue's head precisely. There was only a distance of ten meters between them.

*Three seconds!*

In the intense forest, a fierce battle between the Gold Shadow Guardians and the Blade of Chaos was about to begin, and Li Yao would perform an assault the moment the battle began.

With his terrifying Cultivation right now, when he was determined to kill a demon, even one of the twelve demon emperors of the Blood Demon Sector might not be able to stop him.

*Two seconds!*

The Gold Shadow Guardians and the Blade of Chaos all stretched out their claws and teeth slowly while they unsheathed their weapons. Weird noises of flesh being torn apart and bones being twisted were echoing inside their bodies, which kept expanding. Their spurs protruded out of their skin, and their hair was lengthened significantly. Their faces were deformed, demonstrating more of the features of ferocious animals. An intense air of killing was flowing around them.

The forest ten square kilometers nearby was caught in dead silence. All the wild animals within the range lurked in their nests, not having the courage to move anywhere.

Further away, the scared birds were fleeing away amid cackles.

"Hooo!"

When the demonic energy of the two parties was released to the maximum and they all turned into walking ferocious beasts, a wolf demon of the Blade of Chaos could not withstand the pressure anymore and lunged at the Gold Shadow Guardian that was closest to him.

"Hu!"

The eagles staying on the top of the trees spurted out crimson rays of light that turned into horrifying lotuses of magma in the crowd of the Blade of Chaos.

Bloody brightness was blinking in Li Yao's eyes as he squatted. In half a second, he would dash toward Jin Xinyue!

Right then, an abrupt change took place!

Almost ten shadows dashed out of the earth that was covered by leaves near Jin Xinyue. Almost a hundred thin threads that were emitting spooky colors under the illumination of the flames surged out of the shadows. Apparently, they had been coated in deadly poison!

Somebody was lurking in the underground and attempting to assassinate Jin Xinyue!

Jin Xinyue truly deserved her title as a saintess of the Pantheon of Demons and the youngest demon king of the Blood Demon Sector. She sniffed, and her bright gold wings abruptly unfolded. They were both like two broad shields and two swift sabers that turned into dozens of streaks of golden brightness and darted toward the shadows near her.

In the blink of an eye, all the black shadows were chopped into multiple pieces before they even had the chance to scream.

However, Jin Xinyue's glamorous golden wings were corrupted by the colorful poison, too. With burning sounds, black smoke was popping up, and the feathers were rotting, leaving ugly holes on her wings.

Li Yao secretly cursed and managed to stop himself from lunging out.

Jin Xinyue had escaped the assassination, but her subordinates were not so lucky.

Three to four shadows dashed out of the mud and trees near almost every Gold Shadow Guardian. Caught unprepared, all the Gold Shadow Guardians were heavily wounded!

The giant eagles staying on the top of the trees screamed miserably, too, because countless venomous bugs had been lurking on the trees and were dashing into the feathers of the eagles, biting, gnawing, and releasing lethal poison!

For a moment, a foul stench was blowing inside the forest. Disgusting air could be smelt everywhere.

Li Yao secret clicked his tongue. Even he did not notice that so many demons had been lurking inside the forest. The stealth ability of the demons was even higher than that of Spider's Thorn on Spider Den!

*Is it a trap of the Blade of Chaos?*

Li Yao observed carefully and found that those chopped into pieces by Jin Xinyue were demons that half looked like human beings and half insects. They seemed to have been made by transplanting the torsos of human beings onto spiders, scorpions, and centipedes.

The demons were extremely tenacious. Even when they were cut into multiple pieces, they were not necessarily dead. Red blood as well as green, weird liquids flowed out of their wounds, vaporizing into venomous mist the moment they touched air.

Li Yao thought that it was the Blade of Chaos' trap, but ten or so half\-human\-half\-insect demons lunged at Ning Zhongze after they assaulted the Gold Shadow Guardians.

Two members of the Blade of Chaos stood in their way, only to be ripped into pieces by the new demons with their limbs that were as sharp as blades!

Jin Xinyue seemed to know the identity of the assassins. The bewilderment on her face flashed and was soon replaced by fury. She raised her voice and shouted, "Yuan Hao, what's the meaning of this? Is the Nether Spring Kingdom declaring a total war on the Gold Crow Kingdom?"

Weird laughter echoed inside the forest, but nobody replied. Soon, blood\-freezing hums filled the clearing, as if countless honeycombs had been broken at the same time and a swarm of bees was rushing out!

Li Yao raised his head only to find dozens of deep purple tornadoes that looked like half\-frozen blood sweeping down amid restless humming sounds.

The giant eagles staying on the top of the trees were tortured by the venomous insects and rendered unable to fly. The purple tornadoes crashed into them and consumed them, turning them into enormous purple lumps.

The purple lumps wriggled, struggled, and fluctuated. The giant eagles screamed miserably. The scorching flames they spurted out burnt the trees into ash one after another, but they could not clear the venomous insects, which were attached to them like parasites.

After a few seconds, the purple tornadoes dispersed. The only thing left in the middle were skeletons riddled with holes. They collapsed to the ground with rattling noises.

It was only then that Li Yao realized that the purple tornadoes consisted of mosquitoes larger than dragonflies. The wings of the purple mosquitoes were translucent and multi\-colored. Six eyes in a weird pattern could be found on them, too.

*Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes?*

Li Yao gasped.

Before his spiritual root was awakened, he had once encountered a beast tide outbreak on a train to the Grand Desolate Plateau. The beast tide made of the Ghost Face Silver Mosquitoes had almost caused a catastrophe. Seven Cultivators had sacrificed themselves in order to delay their attack. In the end, crystal warships had to be deployed in order to annihilate all the Ghost Face Silver Mosquitoes.

Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes were the strengthened version of the Ghost Face Silver Mosquitoes. Only after feeding on the bodily fluids of multiple kinds of venomous insects mixed with the blood of dozens of demon beasts could one Ghost Face Purple Mosquito be born out of thousands of Ghost Face Silver Mosquitoes.

For Ghost Face Silver Mosquitoes, there had to be thousands of them in order to deal sufficient damage.

But one Ghost Face Purple Mosquito was enough to kill a strong demon beast!

Here, so many Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes had been gathered. What a terrifying strength it was!

Hum! Hum! Hum! Hum!

After swallowing the giant eagles, the purple brightness around the Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes was even more eye\-catching, as if weird purple flames were burning around them. They congregated into purple torrents and flooded toward the Gold Shadow Guardians and the Blade of Chaos.

If the Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes so much as touched them, regardless of whether they were the Gold Shadow Guardians or the Blade of Chaos, only their skeleton would be left.

"Ning Zhongze!"

Jin Xinyue's face blanched, and she yelled, "Do you see? Elder Neither Spring's subordinates are going to kill us both!

"If the item is in my hands, maybe it can still be put into use in the future. However, if it falls into the Elder Nether Spring's control, you will be hopeless!

"Hurry up and give me the item!"

Ning Zhongze's beard quivered. He failed to come up with anything for a long time, but he could not help but look at a colorful leopard that was standing like a human being.

"So, it is kept by you. Now give it to me!"

Jin Xinyue flapped her wings. Dozens of clusters of dark golden flames immediately darted toward the Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes as if they were alive.

The Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes were surrounded by purple halos, and they were not scared of normal flames. The giant eagles had also been wreathed in fire, but the Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes had not been hurt at all.

However, the dark golden fire that Jin Xinyue fanned out was like a pesticide to the Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes. Those that were hit by the fire were ignited immediately and turned into fireflies.

Jin Xinyue took the opportunity to lunge toward the leopard man. "Give it to me!"

Her wings seemed more agile than her hands. They swept at the leopard man within her wings before the demon was crushed!

Ning Zhongze and the leopard man both screamed.

Jin Xinyue smiled. Her wings brought back a tiny bloody ball that looked like a heart. Her eyes beaming with interest, she mumbled to herself, "Is this what's making Elder Nether Spring unable to sleep at night?"

"Watch out!" Ning Zhongze furrowed his eyebrow and shouted loudly, "It is very unstable. Don't break it no matter what!"### Chapter 844: Sharpness of the Foreign Blood

**Translator:** flycrane01 **Editor:** Millman97

Hardly had he given his warning when the withered tree behind Jin Xinyue turned into what seemed to be a human being. The dry branches turned into sharp limbs, which pierced toward the middle of Jin Xinyue's wings!

The demon that looked like dry wood, a beetle, and a human being was covered in multiple layers of gray and brown armor. Except for his arms that were particularly long, almost ten blade limbs had grown out of his ribs and his back. His legs were twisted backwards, but his speed was unbelievably high.

His attack was as quick as a lightning, but Jin Xinyue seemed to have grown eyes on the back of her head. Her golden wings slashed at the knees of the demon, one from left and the other from right, like two fast sabers.

"Yuan Hao, I knew you'd been hiding here!"

The demon named 'Yuan Hao' seemed to be caught off guard by Jin Xinyue's sudden counterattack. He hurriedly aborted his attack and dashed backward.

However, a sharp thorn suddenly protruded out of the ground where Jin Xinyue was standing and pierced through her foot!

Jin Xinyue gasped because of the excruciating pain. She fled back to the forest, but another ten or so sharp thorns spurted out of the ground again and blocked her path of escape like haunting ghosts.

Yuan Hao, who had just retreated, stomped on a giant tree and lunged at her again with the counterforce amid hideous laughter.

The two of them passed each other. Jin Xinyue grunted. Countless feathers fell off from her to the ground slowly like golden scales.

Like a wounded crane, Jin Xinyue stood on a branch on one foot while she eyed the insects crawling out of the earth, her sweet smile entirely gone. She gnashed her teeth. "Yuan Du!"

Jin Xinyue was certainly not as tranquil as she appeared to be.

Yuan Du and Yuan Hao were both princes of the Nether Spring Kingdom. They were also Elder Nether Spring's most distinguished disciples and both in the level of demon king.

She might have been confident if she had to deal one of them, but her odds of winning were little to none when she was faced with the two of them at the same time.

Besides, the Nether Spring Kingdom was a nation of the underground Insect Clan. In a forest with rough terrain, the Insect Clan boasted natural advantages. The Feathered Clan, including Jin Xinyue, soared in the sky and was known for its speed. They could not make use of their advantages in a forest.

*What did the Blade of Chaos steal from Elder Nether Spring exactly? He has sent his two most distinguished disciples to hunt it down after such a long trip even at the cost of the invaluable Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes!*

Every Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes was more precious than a regular demon beast. In every battle, it was not uncommon for hundreds of Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes to be killed. Even though Elder Nether Spring was one of the twelve demon emperors, he would not use the Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes randomly.

Jin Xinyue glanced over the entire battlefield. Inside the dim forest, the Gold Shadow Guardians that she had brought with her had mostly been killed by the sudden assault of the Insect Clan, especially those who died of blood loss because of the absorption of the Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes. They were nothing but skeletons and could not have looked more miserable.

Jin Xinyue secretly cursed. She glanced at the sky, too, which was blocked by the dense crowns of trees. She was quite certain that the crowns of the trees must have been packed with deadly venomous bugs. She could even feel that lethal poison was dripping from the tops of the trees slowly.

Yuan Du, prince of the Nether Spring Kingdom who crawled out of the earth just now, was just as ugly as other insect demons. He looked like a tall human being who was wearing bionic armor. Glamorous stripes were spotted on the finely\-made shell of the armor, which were emanating splendid colors despite the dimness of the forest.

Two long horns that looked like spears were protruding from his face, which was also covered in the shell. He looked rather handsome by the standard of human beings.

However, a hint of evilness was flowing in his eyes, and his eyeballs were flickering all the time, which made whoever saw him feel that there were bugs crawling all over their heart.

"Yuan Du, Yuan Hao, you two brothers are really outrageous!" Jin Xinyue shouted. "Are you not afraid of a total war between the Gold Crow Kingdom and the Nether Spring Kingdom after this?"

Yuan Du and Yuan Hao looked like each other with a smile. Yuan Du extended his hand to Jin Xinyue and said casually, "Give it to me."

His voice was dull and thick, mixed with humming noises, as if a cluster of earth was stuffed in his throat.

Jin Xinyue rolled her eyes and giggled. "Yuan Hao, as I recall, weren't you the one in charge of the pursuit of the item? Why is your big brother here, too? It seems that Elder Nether Spring does not trust you at all. But it makes sense, too. Everybody knows that your brother is the real powerful one in the Nether Spring Kingdom; you are just his lackey! Even in front of Elder Nether Spring, your brother has always been the one that your master likes more. This time, it is still your brother who finished the hunting task and retrieved the ultimate treasure. It seems that his position in the Nether Spring Kingdom and in the eyes of Elder Nether Spring is even more unshakable now, isn't it?"

Yuan Hao was dazed for a moment. His grin somehow turned rigid.

Yuan Du burst into fury. "Jin Xinyue, what are you talking about?"

Jin Xinyue was smiling even more delightedly. "Fine. Today, I miscalculated and fell into your trap. It does not matter that I must give away the item now, but I will only give it to you, Yuan Hao!"

Before the two princes of the Nether Spring Kingdom responded, Jin Xinyue raised her hand, and a streak of redness rushed toward Yuan Hao.

Yuan Hao intended to pick up the object out of natural instincts, but Yuan Du simply retreated without a comment.

Yuan Hao's reaction was slower. He tried his best to stop, but there was already no time. After a boom, a dark golden fireball burst out into countless flames in the shape of feathers that pierced through the trunks and the bodies of demons like the sharpest blade, hurting and killing the Blade of Chaos, the demons from the Nether Spring Kingdom, and those from the Gold Crow Kingdom indiscriminately!

It was not the item that they were chasing after at all but a bomb refined out of a demon core!

"If I can't get the item, nobody is going to get it!"

Jin Xinyue dashed toward the depths of the forest after lighthearted giggles. She turned into a streak of brightness and stretched her wings out to the maximum, felling all the giant trees near her like two sharp sabers, blocking the way of her pursuers as the trees fell to the ground!

"After her!"

Brutality beamed out of the eyes of the two princes of the Nether Spring Kingdom. Yuan Hao blew a whistle made of the empty shell of a cicada. With the weird sound, the dozens of Ghost Face Silver Mosquitoes congregated into furiously burning ghost heads, their uneven surfaces wriggling for a long time. They darted toward Jin Xinyue like lightning!

In a primitive forest with dense trees, a pair of wings dozens of meters long was definitely a burden. The giant trees deep inside the Hundred Desolation Mountain had grown for thousands of years and were more than ten meters in diameter, not to mention that they were as hard as steel.

Sharp as Jin Xinyue's wings might have been, the brightness on them dimmed significantly after she slashed through hundreds of giant trees.

Jin Xinyue meant to soar into the sky many times, only to be pushed back by the ghost heads made of the Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes. Besides, many insects of the Nether Spring Kingdom were adept at flying, too. If she flew to the sky where there was no cover, it was even more likely that she would be attacked collectively.

Pu!

After shattering the ghost heads made of the Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes for the seventh time, Jin Xinyue finally could not hold it any longer and vomited a mouthful of blood, the aura around her quickly fading.

Yuan Du and Yuan Hao grinned hideously and launched fatal attacks. Thin greenness was dyed to the tips of their blade limbs while a foul smell was spreading out from the stinky wind raised by the blade limbs!

However—

When Yuan Hao's attack reached the furthest point and his blade limbs were about to pierce through Jin Xinyue's wings, he suddenly jerked up and crouched weirdly as if he were hit by an invisible streak of lightning!

The five or so blade limbs that he had failed to retract left his body without a sign!

It was not until the blood drew a few thin lines in midair that Jin Xinyue and Yuan Du discovered that many extremely slim threads had been tied among the giant trees near them.

The threads were almost transparent and much thinner than the spider threads, but they were extremely tensile like the sharpest blades.

Thanks to his keen senses, he noticed something wrong the moment he was about to hit the threads and folded his body abruptly. Otherwise, the threads could have cut his upper body and his lower body apart!

However, his dodging movement only extended his life by half a second.

The moment Yuan Hao was about to land on the ground, a streak of redness suddenly rose up and, passing by him, leapt to the crown of a tree.

Yuan Hao's ugly head soared to the sky with an expression of bewilderment on his face. He did not know what was going on even at his death.

There were many independent neurons on the bodies of the insects. After he lost his head, Yuan Hao's body did not collapse but cramped crazily as if it were dancing the dance of death.

Deep inside Jin Xinyue's eyes, the streak of redness gradually froze.

It was the suspicious villager she had met in the Dry Leaf Village!

But right now, the villagers looked entirely different from a moment ago.

The bandages on his left eye and left arm had turned into ash, revealing a demonic eye that was darker than a ruby and more sizzling than magma.

The withered left arm had now been expanded, too. Bloody stripes interweaved into complicated runes that were changing all the time as if they were alive.

Three dark golden rings were worn on the left arm. They seemed to be a certain strong barrier that locked an invincible strength inside the left arm so that he could make use of the strength without losing control of it.

*What is this demon?*

Jin Xinyue felt her blood freezing. She had not felt so scared when she was faced the two princesses of the Nether Spring Kingdom. But the aura from the mysterious demon for some reason reminded her of her father Jin Tuyi, who was one of the twelve demon emperors and the commander\-in\-chief of the coalition army of demons!

*Who is he?*

*He killed Yuan Hao in just one attack. Although it was an ambush with a trap, his own capability must be in the high level of the demon king stage, if not the level of demon emperor!*

*He cannot be with Elder Nether Spring, and he cannot be a remnant of the Blade of Chaos. There is certainly not such an expert in the Blade of Chaos!*

*Is he a mysterious expert from the Kingdom of Lion Butchers or the Sea Dominator Kingdom?*

*Unlikely. It was a pure coincidence that I chased after the remnants of the Blade of Chaos to this place, but he arrived in the small village half a month ago!*

### Chapter 845: Li Yao's New Ability

**Translator:** flycrane01 **Editor:** Millman97

There was no time for her to think because the unbelievably strong blood\-eyed demon had dashed at her in a streak of redness.

For a moment, Jin Xinyue felt that it was not a demon that she was faced with but an overwhelming red tide!

Hiu!

Seeing that his brother's head had soared to the sky, Yuan Du, prince of the Nether Spring Kingdom, quickly made up his mind. He blew a long whistle, and the ghost heads formed of the Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes all charged at the blood\-eyed demon in suicidal attacks.

Yuan Du turned around and shouted at Jin Xinyue, "He is not with us and will not let go of you and me. Let's work together and take him down first!"

Just as he was talking, the Ghost Face Purple Mosquitoes, which could not stand the burning of the demonic fire, collapsed like a melting candle into mud under the corrosion of the bloody mist surrounding the enemy's left arm.

"Alright!"

It was quite a shocking scene for Jin Xinyue, who was not naïve enough to think that the stranger was her friend just because he killed a prince of the Nether Spring Kingdom. It was more likely that he was planning to kill both her and Elder Nether Spring's subordinates so that the secret treasure would be his alone!

Compared to the terrifying blood\-eyed demon, Yuan Du was as kind and innocent as a three\-year\-old. Jin Xinyue bit her lips and had to choose the lesser of the two evils by attacking the critical parts of the new enemy with Yuan Du and the remaining ghost heads!

Shua!

Hundreds of sharp gold feathers tore apart multiple bloody shadows, only to touch not even the armor of the enemy. Jin Xinyue suddenly shook hard, feeling that an immense force pierced through her chest and that her heart seemed to have been plucked out of her body!

What was a hundred times more terrifying than her pain was the intimidating killing intent rippling out in the enemy's left eye.

The thousands of streaks of killing intent turned the forest into a boundless slaughterhouse within a moment.

Jin Xinyue's soul immediately reduced to the size of a bean. The will to resist that she had managed to form collapsed.

She even heard gloomy, creepy music of terror playing from various directions.

*What kind of monster is this?*

After her head was pierced through by the music, Jin Xinyue felt as if her head was about to explode.

As the saintess of the Pantheon of Demons, she had been chitchatting with countless unparalleled ferocious demons. Neither Elder Nether Spring, the real controller of the Nether Spring Kingdom; Elder Blood Robe, the support of the Kingdom of Lion Butchers; or Jin Tuyi, her father and the commander\-in\-chief of the coalition army of the demons, had ever released such sharp, terrifying and fatal killing intent around her, even though they were the strongest demon emperors of the Blood Demon Sector!

For some reason, she felt like she was a small bug pinned on a chopping block, and the enemy would dissect him easily with just a quick look!

"Pu!"

Jin Xinyue vomited blood crazily. Her body did not seem to belong to her right now, and she could feel that she was flying backwards rapidly by the quickly moving giant trees on her two sides.

She was too scared to lower her head to check her wound, anxious that she would find a hole the size of basin and all her internal organs gone.

A weird thing happened at this moment.

Something cool and comfortable flowed into her body from her left shoulder and spread to her heart, her internal organs, and all of her limbs, giving her brand\-new strength in the numbness.

With the help of the new strength, Jin Xinyue bit her tongue hard and freed herself from the suppression of the enemy. She looked around, only to find that Yuan Du, prince of the Nether Spring Kingdom, was also struggling in midair like a kite whose string had been cut off just like herself.

Jin Xinyue narrowed her eyes and flapped her wings, raising a wind that blew Yuan Du to the terrifying blood\-eyed demon again!

"Jin Xinyue!"

Yuan Du's shocked, angry, and desperate screams were echoing in the forest.

Jin Xinyue secretly chuckled. She changed her posture in midair and darted into the depths of the forest.

She did not want to waste a single second and, therefore, did not even dare to look back. She merely sprinted as fast as possible in a random direction while she listened to what was happening behind her.

The forest sounded as lively as a casino. Hums, hisses, screams, and explosions were echoing nonstop, not dying down at all.

*Yuan Du's subordinates!*

Jin Xinyue quickly distinguished the sounds. *But they do not seem to be at an advantage. No. It is more like a one\-sided slaughter!*

The conclusion nearly froze Jin Xinyue's heart.

Elder Nether Spring was one of the most terrifying demon emperors of the Pantheon of Demons. As Elder Nether Spring's most beloved disciple, Yuan Du was carrying out a secret mission that was to wipe out the blood daughter of another demon emperor. Naturally, it must have been the elites of the Nether Spring Kingdom that had gone with him.

The Gold Shadow Guardians that Jin Xinyue had brought with her were already the top\-tier warriors of the Gold Crow Kingdom. Even so, they had been killed by Yuan Du's subordinates within a breath!

But right now, the mysterious blood\-eyed demon was slaying the experts as if they were harmless chicken purely on his own in a forest, which was the Insect Clan's favorite!

Suddenly, Jin Xinyue's legs shook hard, and she nearly fell over.

She noticed that the sound of combats had suddenly ended. The forest resumed its dead silence, so quiet that one could hear a mosquito when it was passing by.

*Has—has the blood\-eyed demon been killed by Yuan Du and his lot, or—*

Jin Xinyue's long golden hair nearly all stood up, and her pupils almost burst out of her eyes because she saw a slender shadow fall from the sky in front of her.

In a trance, the enemy's left arm seemed to have turned into a bloody dragon that snatched at her skull.

Her every cell seemed to have been corroded by the overwhelming killing intent of the enemy, and she could do nothing except wait to be killed.

Shua!

The bloody dragon brushed past her face and pierced into a giant, green rock behind her. With a crack, the rock broke into the tiniest powder, and the dust covered her head and face.

"Enough!"

Li Yao gripped his left arm with his right hand so hard that his fingers had pressed into his left arm and were almost crunching all the veins and nerves.

He bellowed loudly deep inside his brain. As the lightning was released by his soul, the bloody mental devil, which had expanded greatly, was suppressed again and shrieking in dissatisfaction.

*It was the right decision to not go back to the Heaven's Origin Sector.*

*My killing intent is too strong, and I hunger for slaughter every once in a while. Thankfully, it was only demons that I killed. Otherwise, my beliefs would certainly have been shaken.*

*It seems that I still need to get better control of myself, at least the killing intent, in the Blood Demon Sector before I return to the Heaven's Origin Sector.*

Li Yao took a deep breath, dwelling in the ecstasy of killing and unable to free himself. It was almost ten seconds later that he finally calmed his pounding heart. He repeated to himself deep inside his brain, *She is a princess of the Gold Crow Kingdom and daughter to Jin Tuyi, a demon emperor, but now, Elder Nether Spring, another demon emperor, is trying to kill her. She can be used to trigger a conflict between the Gold Crow Kingdom and the Nether Spring Kingdom. Therefore, it is more useful to keep her alive than to kill her right now.*

Jin Xinyue had no idea that she was wandering on the threshold of hell right now. She only felt the 'hot spring' on her left shoulder gradually turn into 'magma'. Her mouth was dry, her head was dizzy, and she could barely keep her body steady.

Li Yao noticed the anomaly. He looked at her shoulder and was dazed.

The secret treasure, which, according to Ning Zhongze, the elder of the Blade of Chaos, could 'change the future of the Blood Demon Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector', was stuck to Jin Xinyue's left shoulder like a dry octopus.

It had a narrow, long crack in the middle from which several veins protruded out into Jin Xinyue's body.

The veins were fluctuating and injecting fluorescent, green liquids into Jin Xinyue.

It seemed that the secret treasure had accidentally been activated in the violent movements during the fierce battle with Jin Xinyue as the subject.

Jin Xinyue was wearing a weird expression. She seemed to be laughing in a trance. Her golden eyes were infiltrated by a streams of bright green liquid, which was bouncing crazily like two clusters of weird green fire.

Jin Xinyue finally could not hold it any longer. She moaned and collapsed to the ground, losing consciousness.

Li Yao frowned and pondered for a moment. He examined her temperature remotely and discovered that Jin Xinyue's body temperature was more than eighty degrees and still counting.

Li Yao took out a bone blade and touched the secret treasure attached to Jin Xinyue's shoulder.

Surprisingly, the secret treasure fell to the ground in multiple pieces like a dry shell.

The shell was empty. All the green liquid had been absorbed by Jin Xinyue.

Jin Xinyue had almost ten wounds large and small on her shoulder, but they were all recovering quickly in greenish colors and soon disappeared.

*The secret treasure that the Blade of Chaos, the Gold Crow Kingdom, and Elder Nether Spring are all fighting over seems to be the green liquid that is stored in such a weird way. Now it has all been absorbed by Jin Xinyue, what kind of changes will happen to her?*

Li Yao had never been a chivalrous man, but he was more than interested in Ning Zhongze's declaration that the secret treasure could 'change the future of the Blood Demon Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector'. After considering carefully for a moment, he picked up Jin Xinyue and moved deeper into the forest

…

The Hundred Desolation Mountain spanned over ten thousand kilometers. Waterfalls, valleys, and cliffs were everywhere. At dawn, Li Yao found a natural cave behind a waterfall. After he drove away the snakes, insects, and mice in the cave with his killing intent, he threw Jin Xinyue inside.

Jin Xinyue was caught in a super high fever. Her skin was burningly hot, but green liquid was spreading to her internal organs and her limbs, as if two weird forces were fighting inside her body.

The weird state lasted quite a few hours. Jin Xinyue seemed be to in the most excruciating suffering. She would be screaming in agony one moment and moaning miserably the next. She even rolled on the ground unconsciously until she curled up into the fetal position in the end.

Bright green liquid was gradually secreted from the pores all over her body, which flowed around and formed a thin green membrane that enshrouded her.

Li Yao had quite a lot of healing drugs with him in his Cosmos Rings, but Jin Xinyue's symptoms were quite uncanny, and the body structures of demons and human beings were different. Even their cells were vastly different. Li Yao did not dare give her random medicine and could only observe carefully and consider.

After waiting for a long time, he decided to activate the Blood Stripe Virus' ability that he had recently grasped to examine Jin Xinyue's bloody.### Chapter 846: Humanization

**Translator:** flycrane01 **Editor:** Millman97

Li Yao touched Jin Xinyue's left shoulder with his left index finger. Part of his spiritual energy pierced through her flesh and retrieved a drop of blood from her heart.

The drop of blood rolled on his fingertip like a pearl and was soon absorbed into his body.

Li Yao narrowed his eyes and focused his attention on the drop of blood. He magnified the blood while he observed and analyzed wholeheartedly.

A 3D projection was gradually formed deep inside Li Yao's brain as his soul and the mental devil studied the picture together.

At first glance, Jin Xinyue's blood was no different from that of other demons. After being significantly magnified, it looked like a translucent, scarlet ocean that was packed with cells resembling jellyfish.

Most of the cells were erythrocytes and leukocytes, like in human beings.

But some other cells had a fuzzy edge, like a drop of ink on a tissue. There seemed to be halos behind them, and countless flagella extended in various directions from such cells.

Those cells were apparently more active than regular cells. They were dashing and jumping without a pattern. Sometimes, they captured a regular cell with their flagella and soon multiplied into two or even four active cells.

They were the demonized cells that were the result of the infection of the Demon God Virus. Such cells were the greatest difference between the demons and human beings.

The cells of human beings, just like those of any other animal, had a stable membrane outside of them that was in charge of the exchange of energy and materials.

But after being infected by the Demon God Virus, the membrane of normal cells would mutate and turn fuzzy and active. Their aggressiveness and fission ability were both significantly improved, too, and they grew thousands of more flagella, which could help the cells grab more materials.

It was with the help of the unbelievable demonized cells that the demons could practice powerful techniques and compete with the crystal suits and crystal warships of human beings with their bodies of flesh and blood.

When Li Yao just arrived in the Dry Leaf Village, he had secretly collected the blood of a lot of villagers for his study, and he had a preliminary understanding about different kinds of demonized cells now.

*Huh. What's this?*

Li Yao inwardly frowned. He found a material in Jin Xinyue's blood that he had never seen before. They were green particles that were infiltrating the demonized cells at an amazing speed.

Within a moment, Jin Xinyue's demonized cells shrank in size, and the flagella on the cells fell off. A clear membrane reappeared.

The particles were extremely small. Their diameter was only one ten thousandth of the normal demonized cells, the same width of most viruses.

*Is this a brand\-new virus?*

Li Yao commanded the mental devil to retrieve a normal one of Jin Xinyue's demonized cells and one that had been infected by the green virus.

The greatest difference between the demonized cells and regular cells, except for the flagella on the membrane, was the form and distribution of mitochondria.

Mitochondria was the unit in charge of the production of energy in a cell. It was known as the power source of cells. The structure and efficiency of the mitochondria decided the capability of an expert.

The mitochondria of Cultivators were usually dozens, if not hundreds, of times larger than those of ordinary people. Their percentage in a cell was much higher, too, which allowed the Cultivators to release the immense energy in the blink of an eye or to absorb the energy in lightning and thunder without getting hurt.

The mitochondria of the demons had their unique features, too. Except for their large size, there were bumps and dents all over them, making them uneven like cerebra.

As a result, the coverage of the mitochondria would be significantly larger than regular mitochondria, and their efficiency to generate energy would be higher, too. It was with the mutated mitochondria that the demons created the unpredictable, mysterious 'demonic energy'.

According to Li Yao's observation, inside Jin Xinyue's first demonized cell, the mitochondria were indeed full of bumps and dents, but the unevenness of the other demonized cell that had been infected by the green virus was gone!

The surface of the mitochondria inside the second cell was smooth, and the membrane was clear without the slightest trace of flagella. After being infected by the green virus, the demonized cells became no different from the cells of human beings!

Right then, the demonized cell that was infected spurted out countless green particles, which penetrated through the membrane easily and spread out.

In the beginning, there was only one green particle, but in a few minutes, there were already hundreds of them.

Soon, as the number of the green particles grew larger and larger, most of Jin Xinyue's demonized cells had been transformed into regular cells.

Five minutes later, the drop of blood collected from a saintess of the demons was no different from the blood of a human being.

*What—what the heck?*

Li Yao was dumbfounded. He vaguely felt that he was onto something groundbreaking.

When he looked at Jin Xinyue again, she had finally calmed down after struggling in pain for quite a few hours. However, her long wings had been mostly folded back into her body. Looking from the side, she was just a random human girl!

Li Yao swallowed hard and collected another few drops of her blood for analysis.

This time, all the demonized cells inside her blood were gone; they were just like the regular cells of human beings now!

*So, the weird green virus can turn a demon into a human being?*

Li Yao felt a headache coming on.

The high\-level demons often boasted the 'polymorphing' ability, which allowed them to hide their demonic features and pretend to be human beings.

But it was only a change of appearance. A lot of demonized cells were still inside their body.

In the Heaven's Origin Sector, it was with multiple examinations of the blood, hair, and excrement that human beings identified the spies of the demon race. It almost never failed.

But right now, a demon had turned into a human being from head to toe and from outside to inside right in front of Li Yao's eyes!

How could he not be shocked?

Li Yao was not sure if the transformation was reversible. Would she turn back into a demon after a while, or would she stay as a human being forever?

Either way, the elder of the Blade of Chaos was quite right. The secret treasure could indeed completely change the future of the Blood Demon Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector!

What if countless experts of the Blood Demon Sector snuck into the Heaven's Origin Sector after turning themselves into human beings in such a way?

Or rather, had they already done it? Did a lot of demons already go to the Heaven's Origin Sector decades ago, live as human beings, and even rise to power in the federation?

*The demon race boasts the polymorphing ability. If their cells are no different from those of human beings, what is the essential difference between human beings and demons?*

*Who are human beings, and who are demons? What are human beings, and what are demons?*

Watching the last feather on Jin Xinyue's body gradually fade away, Li Yao was deep in thought.

…

Maybe the transformation into a human being was too exhausting for her soul and physical strength, but Jin Xinyue did not wake up until three hours later.

The excruciating pain deep to her bones and the weird feeling of her back leaning the ground immediately reminded her of the bad situation she was in. After she triggered her soul power and summoned her demonic energy, she felt that her body was empty. All her strength seemed to have been sealed, and she could not access any of it.

Jin Xinyue immediately recalled the terrifying eye before she fell into coma.

She shuddered in a chill.

It was the last meaningless movement she allowed herself to make.

As a saintess who had received the harshest training in the Pantheon of Demons from a young age, Jin Xinyue did not waste a single second in useless fear or complaint. She immediately started thinking of ways to escape and reverse the situation.

Since she had not yet been killed, she still had a chance.

Jin Xinyue sat straight and observed her surroundings calmly.

It was a shabby cave with the sounds of rushing torrents outside, indicating that the cave was behind a waterfall.

Dry branches were piled up messily on the ground. More than ten holes had been dug on the wall in which some simple tools were kept.

The tools made Jin Xinyue's pupils constrict violently. She almost exclaimed loudly.

*Fangs of the Purple Jade Phantom Poison Spiders!*

*Tails of the Purple Cloud Mystic Electric Birds!*

*The spine of the Desert Wild Wolves!*

Jin Xinyue felt like her blood was freezing. They were the only three items that she could recognize among the dozens of tools. But they were all invaluable treasures from the ancient demon beasts more than thirty thousand years ago.

Even though her father was the monarch of the Gold Crow Kingdom and one of the twelve demon emperors, he did not have too many files regarding the ancient demon beasts, either. She had only seen similar illustrations in the ancient classics that her father treasured.

Although she did not know the specific names of the rest of the materials and scraps of ancient magical equipment, she could tell that the vintage feeling of the objects could not have been achieved without withstanding the test of time.

*Any of the invaluable treasures would raise a riot in the auctions outside, but the mysterious demon is just stuffing them into the holes on the wall randomly as if they are garbage?*

*He is so strong, yet he was lurking in a remote mountain village and does not care for the materials of ancient demon beasts and the scraps of ancient magical equipment. Who is he exactly?*

Trying to hold back her pain, Jin Xinyue took a deep breath and sorted through all the information she knew.

She was on a mission to hunt the remnants of the Blade of Chaos. The real purpose of the mission was a top secret. There should not have been a third force other than Elder Nether Spring that knew of it.

The mysterious demon was certainly not a member of the Blade of Chaos. Otherwise, he could have taken the item away long before she arrived.

He did not belong to the Blade of Chaos, Elder Nether Spring, or her father's subordinates, but he had hidden in the mountain village half a month in advance?

Was it possible that she had gotten the whole thing wrong and that the stranger had nothing to do with her mission but ran into her by accident?

Right then, the water sound out of the cave was lowered. A slender shadow entered the cave and moved toward her unhurriedly.

Jin Xinyue's heart shivered. She was unwilling to face the weird, bloody eye again, but the stranger had stopped right in front of her. She could only struggle to raise her head.

Thankfully, the left eye and the left arm of the stranger were tied up in bandages.

However, the better they were concealed, the creepier Jin Xinyue felt. She could not help but imagine how terrifying and mysterious the bloody eye behind the bandage was!

Inside the narrow cave behind the waterfall, the princess of the Gold Crow Kingdom and the saintess of the Pantheon of Demons shuddered uncontrollably.### Chapter 847: Bone Fire and Elegant Accent

**Translator:** flycrane01 **Editor:** Millman97

Shua!

Li Yao picked up a handful of bluish powder with his right hand. He then curled his index finger and made a weird posture before he opened his hand like a blossoming lotus. A bluish fire suddenly popped up from his palm, making the small cave look like a deep ocean and making him even more mysterious.

"Before the bone fire dies down, give me a few reasons why I shouldn't kill you," Li Yao said casually in a rigid tone.

The movement to make the fire and his tone raised surging tides in Jin Xinyue's heart.

As a princess of the Gold Crow Kingdom and a saintess of the Pantheon of Demons, Jin Xinyue had read a lot of books from a young age. The divine classics of the demon race in the Demon Beast Empire thirty thousand years ago, the notes and books of human beings, and even anecdotes from the era of the ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago were all familiar to her.

When Li Yao made the fire with the weird technique, she already felt that the movement was both strange and familiar. When Li Yao uttered 'bone fire', the pores all over her body constricted violently, and she could not help but shudder.

Making a fire in midair was not difficult for Cultivators and demons with reasonable expertise.

But the spiritual fire or the demonic fire would release very strong waves. They were like fireflies in a dark night, and it was more than easy for the enemies to detect them.

During an adventure or battle, if somebody made a fire in a dark environment, they would be committing suicide by turning themselves into a target for everybody.

By the same logic, normal fire would emanate light and heat incessantly, too. Not just the Cultivators, even a regular animal would be able to sense it.

The so\-called 'bone fire', on the other hand, was made by igniting the powder of the bones of special beasts.

The constituents inside the bone powder could suppress the waves in the fire and cover up the source of light.

As a result, those within the range of the bone fire could see their surroundings clearly.

But if somebody was three to five meters away from the bone fire, they would not see a burning fire however hard they strained their eyes. They could not even feel the tiniest waves from there.

This was the most amazing part of the bone fire!

However, triggering a bone fire was an ancient secret technique that had been lost forty thousand years ago. The recipe for the bone powder and the gesture and spell to trigger the bone fire had been lost with the passage of time.

Even Jin Xinyue had only read the descriptions of the bone fire in the records of the Demon Beast Empire from more than thirty thousand years ago.

The records also stated that the bone fire technique had been lost thousands of years earlier.

*Bone fire! A technique that has been lost for at least thirty thousand years!*

*Who is he exactly? Why can he perform such an ancient secret art?*

*Besides, his voice—*

The mysterious demon's accent was as rough as iron, and every word lingered on after it was spoken. It sounded quite vintage.

In the demon race, there was a special name for such an intonation, which was 'Elegant Accent'.

It was the accent of forty thousand years ago. Ancient Cultivators often talked in such a tone.

When the demon race rose up and established a Demon Beast Empire across the entire universe, the stronger demons naturally adopted the tone, too.

However, after forty thousand years, especially after the collapse of the Demon Beast Empire and the establishment and fallout of the Star Ocean Imperium, the tones of the demon race and human beings both changed a lot. They were vastly different from the ancient Elegant Accent now.

Right now, the Elegant Accent, which was a mimicry of the tone of forty thousand years ago, would only be used during major ceremonies of the royal family in the demon race.

As a member of the royal family, Jin Xinyue had learned the Elegant Accent, too, but she had to admit that the stranger's accent had a certain unadorned, uncouth feeling to it. His Elegant Accent was not only much more proficient than hers but also far exceeded that of the teacher who had taught her Elegant Accent.

*A mysterious and strong demon lurking in a small village!*

*He seemed to have popped out of nowhere in the weird forest fire half a month ago.*

*He considered the ancient secret techniques petty tricks, he has left the materials of the demon beasts and the scraps of ancient magical equipment from forty thousand years ago lying around so randomly, and he can speak such standard, authentic ancient Elegant Accent!*

*Who can he possibly be?*

Jin Xinyue thought hard for a moment. Suddenly, she shuddered as if hit by a lightning, because she came up with an impossible answer, and she almost exclaimed.

*Could it be—*

Li Yao stared at her coldly and quietly. The bone fire that was bouncing weirdly left twisted shadows on his face that looked like his unpredictable killing intent.

The bone fire inside his palm was like a candle in wind. It was flickering and shrank to the size of a bean multiple times, but it shone stubbornly again every time it appeared to be dying down. Jin Xinyue felt her heart pounding, and her head was dizzy.

*It's time for a gamble!*

After connecting all the weird behaviors of the stranger together, Jin Xinyue figured out a shocking answer.

She made up her mind and blinked before she shouted quickly, "Senior, please don't kill me. I'm very useful for you!

"My name is Jin Xinyue. I am the First Princess of the Gold Crow Kingdom, which is the best of the four most powerful kingdoms of the Blood Demon Sector. We govern all the Feather Clan in the world and dominate the sky!

"My father, Jin Tuyi, is one of the twelve demons of the Pantheon of Demons as well as the commander\-in\-chief of the coalition army of the demon race. Billions of demons listen to his command!

"If you are lenient enough to pardon me for my disrespect, senior, you will be an honorable guest of the Gold Crow Kingdom and receive the help from the entire country!"

Li Yao laughed in contempt. There was no interest in his eyes at all.

Jin Xinyue was even more positive about her assumption, so she probed further. "Senior, do you know that you have made a quite troublesome enemy?

"The insect demon that you killed just now was named Yuan Hao; he was a prince of the Nether Spring Kingdom, another one of the four most powerful kingdom. Elder Nether Spring, his master, is also a top expert of the Blood Demon Sector. He is brutal, sordid, and petty. Now that you have pissed him off, he will certainly not stop asking for your trouble!"

"Okay." Li Yao nodded. "Are you done yet? You are going to die if you are."

Jin Xinyue observed the stranger. She could tell that the mysterious demon really did not care about the friendship of a demon emperor and the threat of another demon emperor.

Judging from his easiness, it was even possible that this was not the first time he had slain an important figure such as Yuan Hao.

It was definitely not a threat that he claimed that he was going to kill her; he was merely stating an unimportant fact!

"Senior!"

Jin Xinyue was ninety percent sure about his identity now. In her last try, she raised her voice and said, "I'm a saintess of the Pantheon of Demons, and I'm familiar with the history over the past tens of thousands of years. I also possess countless secret techniques for the training of demons that have been developed in the recent thousands of years!

"There are also many other secret arts that I can find in the library of the Gold Crow Kingdom and the Pantheon of Demons even if I don't know them myself!

"I assume that you must be familiarizing yourself with 'modern' society when you hid in the small village, right?

"But for such a far\-flung village, the best they had must have been preliminary body\-training techniques. There would have been nothing advanced at all. You were completely wasting your time there, senior!

"Only I can help you fit into 'modern' society quickly!"

Jin Xinyue intentionally stressed 'modern'.

"Huh?"

Li Yao narrowed his eyes. His killing intent, as if tangible, spurted out of his bandages and congregated into an unstoppable tornado that pressed Jin Xinyue to the ground, making her unable to move anymore.

"Are you forcing me to kill you?"

Tears in her eyes, Jin Xinyue replied in a shivering voice, "Spare my life, senior! I really don't know anything. I'm trying hard to think how I can possibly be of value to you!

"I would be privileged to die in the hands of an unparalleled expert such as yourself, but if I must die, why don't you wait until I tell you everything that I know? If you kill me then, I will be able to die in peace!"

Li Yao gazed at her for a long time and retracted his killing intent after a snort.

Cold sweat pouring out, Jin Xinyue panted hard and managed to say, "Senior, the world is different today. Human beings have risen again, and the demon race is declining. However, human beings and the demon race have both developed unbelievable methods of training in the past thousands of years that… are possibly different from those that you are familiar with.

"Are you not interested in the methods of training at all?"

Li Yao was silent. The cold bone fire constricted yet again into the size of a needle tip before it shivered and faded out.

In the darkness, Jin Xinyue felt her heart palpitating.

While she was preparing her last words, the stranger did not attack her but said coldly, "Tell me why the three parties were attacking each other. I'm told that the Blood Demon Sector is at war with a world of human beings named the Heaven's Origin Sector. The demon emperors should know what they are doing in the internal fights. Do they never consider the consequences of their decisions at all?"

Jin Xinyue was slightly relieved, knowing that her life was saved, for now.

She swallowed hard and said, "Senior, it was beyond my expectations, too.

"Since you know about the war between the Blood Demon Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector, senior, have you heard of an organization named 'Blade of Chaos'?

"Half a year ago, the 'Battle of Dawn', a large\-scale attack that the Blood Demon Sector carried out against the Heaven's Origin Sector, failed. A lot of soldiers returned to the Blood Demon Sector.

"The Blade of Chaos took the opportunity to gather the defeated soldiers and rebelled, which was known as 'Riot of Bloody Blade.

"When the rebellion was at its peak, they occupied 'Bone Sand City', a city governed by the Nether Spring Kingdom in the north.

"My father, Jin Tuyi, was the commander\-in\-chief of the coalition army of the demon race. He was responsible for annihilating the rebels and suppressing the insurrection.

"I was helping my father by hunting the leadership of the Blade of Chaos. But I discovered that Elder Nether Spring's subordinates were chasing after the Blade of Chaos in secret, too.

"Bone Sand City, which was taken over by the rebels, was the Nether Spring Kingdom's territory. It was normal that Elder Nether Spring hated the Blade of Chaos' guts. I didn't think too much of it in the beginning. But later, I discovered that Elder Nether Spring's subordinates were not chasing after the Blade of Chaos randomly. Instead, they were focused on one squad of the Blade of Chaos and meant to kill them at any cost.

"Truth be told, my father and Elder Nether Spring are political rivals. They have been attacking each other openly and in secret for decades. Now, for the post of the commander\-in\-chief of the coalition army, they are almost engaged in an open fight.

"After I discovered the anomaly of Elder Nether Spring, I investigated and found out that Elder Nether Spring had a confidential laboratory in Bone Sand City that was compromised in the Riot of Bloody Blade. Something extremely precious was stolen by the Blade of Chaos."