Gu Qingfeng was stunned by the Blood Demon's words. What was going on?
Wait, he hadn't even attacked me yet, right? The system's notification hadn't come through either.
"System, did you do something?" Gu Qingfeng silently asked.
The system's cold voice replied, "No."
This made Gu Qingfeng even more puzzled. So, what was wrong with the Blood Demon?
Thus, two equally confused souls turned their bewildered gazes outward, toward the palace.
Inside the palace, it was still the same scene: two demons and one human—Gu Qingfeng, the Blood Demon, and Demon Pu.
However, at this moment, Demon Pu was standing beside the Blood Demon's body, placing a pale hand on the Blood Demon's head.
That hand acted like a suction pipe, voraciously draining the power from the Blood Demon's body.
"Demon Pu! What are you doing?!" the Blood Demon's soul roared furiously.
Demon Pu tilted his head slightly, calmly looking at Gu Qingfeng—or rather, at the Blood Demon's soul within Gu Qingfeng—and said indifferently, "As you can see, Lord Blood Demon, I am devouring you."
His calm tone carried an air of absolute confidence, and there was no trace of the previous respect he had shown the Blood Demon.
At this moment, Demon Pu seemed like a completely different person, with no resemblance to his former self.
"You dare betray me!" the Blood Demon let out a thunderous roar, his soul surging out of Gu Qingfeng's body and rushing toward his own, clearly trying to regain control.
Gu Qingfeng watched this exaggerated scene, feeling a bit dizzy.
Well done, Demon Pu! A spy within a spy within a spy!
Wait, no! It seems like I didn't get beaten up after all??
Damn it! Gu Qingfeng suddenly realized.
You two really know how to play games. Is it really that hard for me to take a hit?
The Blood Demon's soul charged toward his body, but just as he was about to reach it, a golden light suddenly flashed from the Blood Demon's body, forming a faint golden barrier.
Boom!
The Blood Demon's soul was violently repelled by the golden barrier.
Seeing the golden barrier, his expression changed drastically: "The Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars Spirit Seizing Array!"
"Oh?" Demon Pu let out a soft chuckle. "You still have some discernment."
The Blood Demon no longer had time to retort, as he could see the power within his body flowing relentlessly into Demon Pu, whose aura was growing increasingly terrifying.
If he didn't regain control of his body soon, it would all be over.
He frantically scanned the surroundings with his soul force, trying to locate the array's core to destroy it. However, no matter where he looked, he couldn't find it.
At that moment, Demon Pu's calm voice sounded: "Stop looking. The array's core is inside your body."
The Blood Demon was shocked: "My body? Impossible!"
He couldn't believe it. As a peak Dragon Transformation realm expert, even if he hadn't fully recovered his strength, there was no way Demon Pu could have set up an array inside his body.
But when his soul force swept through his own body, he froze.
Thirty faint golden array cores were neatly arranged within his body.
At that moment, the Blood Demon suddenly understood. Demon Pu had been planning this for a long time—this array had been set up two hundred years ago.
Demon Pu smiled faintly: "Figured it out? Over the past two hundred years, every Blood Divine Son you acquired was personally brought to you by me. With my strength, I couldn't tamper with your body directly, but tampering with the Blood Divine Sons was much easier.
This array took me two hundred years to complete. I originally planned to wait until you had gathered all thirty-six Blood Divine Sons, and my array had reached the full Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars, before making my move. But who would have thought that heaven would send a Gu Qingfeng to help me? When you attempted to possess him, it was the moment your control over your body was at its weakest, giving me the perfect opportunity."
The Blood Demon's expression grew increasingly grim: "Demon Pu, I treated you well. Why would you do this?"
"Why?" Demon Pu's lips curled into a mocking smile, and a hint of madness appeared in his eyes. "Naturally, to become a god!"
"Do you think I submitted to you back then because of your charm?
You wanted my strength, but little did you know, I also wanted yours!"
Gu Qingfeng, the bystander, felt a shiver run down his spine after hearing this. What kind of twisted relationship was this? Two grown men, eyeing each other like that... gross.
"I knew that relying on my own strength to become a god was nearly impossible, so I set my sights on you centuries ago, my dear Blood Demon."
The Blood Demon felt a chilling coldness. He never imagined that his most trusted subordinate had been hiding such deep schemes for hundreds of years!
He forced himself to stay calm: "Demon Pu, our power sources are incompatible. If you forcibly devour me, your foundation will become unstable, and you will never become a god."
"Keh keh keh..." Demon Pu suddenly burst into a cold laugh. "Lord Blood Demon, you don't honestly think my true form is just a dandelion, do you?"
The Blood Demon's heart skipped a beat, and a terrible suspicion arose: "What do you mean?"
"Let me tell you the truth. My true form is the Blood-Sucking Dandelion!"
The Blood Demon's face instantly paled: "The legendary Blood-Sucking Dandelion, a rare species that feeds on blood?!"
"Exactly. So you don't need to worry about power incompatibility, because you, the Blood Demon, are my perfect nourishment." Demon Pu's smile grew even brighter.
At that moment, Gu Qingfeng's voice suddenly chimed in: "Wait, a Blood-Sucking Dandelion... isn't that still just a dandelion?"
Uh...
Demon Pu's smile froze.
"Shut up, Gu Qingfeng! I'll deal with you later!" Demon Pu roared.
Demon Pu had endured for centuries and was finally enjoying the thrill of his moment, only for Gu Qingfeng to ruin it with his nonsense. What did it matter if it was still a dandelion? Was that the point? Couldn't he see who was in control here?
It was like someone boasting about how they killed without blinking, only for someone else to ask if their eyes were dry.
"You treacherous scoundrel! I never expected you to hide your schemes so deeply! You've been plotting against me for two hundred years!" the Blood Demon shouted in despair. "Damn it! If it weren't for the Demon Suppression Bureau scattering my soul two hundred years ago, you would never have succeeded!"
"Keh keh keh..." Demon Pu laughed coldly again. "Lord Blood Demon, do you know why you were surrounded by the Demon Suppression Bureau and the righteous alliance two hundred years ago?"
Hearing this, the Blood Demon's expression changed drastically: "Was it you? Did you leak my location back then? Was it you?!"
"Indeed, it was me," Demon Pu replied with a faint smile. "And let me remind you, don't try any sneaky tricks."
The Blood Demon's gaze turned icy. He hadn't expected Demon Pu to notice his covert actions. He had been stalling with his words to prepare for this strike, but now there was no point in hiding it.
"Die, traitor!"
In the next moment, a highly concentrated soul spike materialized behind Demon Pu and shot straight toward his sea of consciousness.
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.
