LGHTNOVELBOOK 24: Demon Lord Yan Wangxing
Concealed by the dense branches and leaves, Chu Sang followed with a concealment talisman, maintaining a safe distance from Qin Xixue.
Fortunately, cultivators had keen senses. Even at this distance, she could see a tall, well-built man in black emerge from the shadows of the forest. He embraced Qin Xixue, and they talked with their heads close together, like a pair of celestial lovers…
Although his face was turned away, judging by his build, he was clearly a very strong, tall adult man, not the male protagonist Mo Qingchen.
Wow, as expected of the female protagonist who captivates everyone, she’s already giving the male lead green hat so quickly.
But who was this man?
Chu Sang held her breath and continued listening, even attaching an amplification talisman to herself.
“Little beauty, that pill you gave me really worked. All my wounds have healed.” He embraced the woman’s slender waist, chuckling softly. “I came all this way specially to thank you. Don’t I get any reward?”
This flirtatious and frivolous tone was that of a complete libertine.
A faint blush appeared on Qin Xixue’s lotus-like face. She gently pushed against his chest, her watery eyes containing a hint of shyness as she bit her red lips. “Don’t be like this. We’ve only known each other for a few days, we’re still not familiar with each other…”
“It doesn’t matter if we’re not familiar. We’ll get to know each other better, and then we’ll be familiar, won’t we?” The man tilted up her small, pointed chin, smiling ambiguously and blatantly, meaningfully squeezing her soft waist.
Tsk, this guy was a bit greasy.
Chu Sang evaluated in her heart.
Seeing the man lower his head to steal a kiss, Qin Xixue, like a startled little white rabbit, hurriedly pushed against his chest and stepped back, coquettish and shy. “I- I have to go. If my senior brother discovers I’m gone, he’ll come looking!”
“Your identity is inconvenient, you should leave quickly too. There are cultivators everywhere here. If you’re discovered…”
“So what if I’m discovered?” The man laughed arrogantly and confidently. “Those ants, I could crush them to dust with a flick of my finger.”
“……”
The two exchanged a few more words of reluctant parting. Qin Xixue stood on tiptoe and gave the man a light peck on the cheek, like a dragonfly touching water, before hurriedly lifting her skirts and leaving.
My, my, as expected of the soft, captivating female protagonist. She had mastered the art of playing hard to get, giving a little sweetness while keeping them hooked. Any male creature would be enthralled.
“Tsk, truly a beauty. This lord must have her.”
The man chuckled, touching his face where she had kissed him. He folded his arms and leaned against a tree, watching the woman leave, probably eagerly anticipating his next meeting with Qin Xixue.
Chu Sang raised an eyebrow. Judging by this man’s arrogant tone, he didn’t seem like an ordinary cultivator. He sounded more like… someone from the demonic or ghostly cultivation path?
She recalled the content of the original story. Could it be… the start of the “Domineering Demon Lord Falls in Love with Me” plot?
No, at this point in time, he shouldn’t have ascended to the position of Demon Lord yet, but was one of the Seven Demon Lords, Yan Wangxing.
In the original story, Yan Wangxing was ruthless and evil, having committed numerous atrocities. He had once been jointly attacked by the Eight Great Immortal Sects, falling off a cliff severely injured, only to be coincidentally saved by the female protagonist.
Perhaps due to the life-saving grace, or perhaps due to the female protagonist’s Mary Sue halo effect, coupled with this Demon Lord’s own weakness for beauty… anyway, Yan Wangxing fell in love with Qin Xixue at first sight. Then the two began a domineering love story spanning several million words, truly a feast for fans of overbearing romance.
The sudden outbreak of magic beasts in the Central Continent seemed to be related to him as well.
In the following days, as if to confirm Chu Sang’s suspicions, more and more beasts in the beast forest underwent magical transformation. Reports of magic beast attacks on civilians in the surrounding dozen or so towns also became frequent.
More cultivators joined this magic beast extermination.
The most eye-catching were Chu Sang and her two senior brothers. It wasn’t for any other reason than… they were too ruthless in killing magic beasts.
When others killed magic beasts, it was to escape death, to seek survival in danger, to punish evil and promote good, to benefit the common people.
When the three killed magic beasts, it was ten thousand spirit stones per head, one thousand spirit stones per beast core, even the horns, hide, meat, and bones could be sold after stripping. If one wasn’t enough, they’d take out a whole nest!
Magic beasts were so frightened of these three King Yamas that they would take detours, turning to attack other cultivators instead.
“Second Senior Brother, Seventh Senior Brother, how many magic beasts have you slain?” Chu Sang sat cross-legged amidst a sea of corpses and bones, completely unconcerned as she took out her qiankun bag from her waist to count the spoils.
Tantai Ming, “Twenty-one.”
Ling Yu, “Exactly fifty.”
“I have eighteen here.” Chu Sang was unsatisfied. “Not even a hundred in total, too few!”
Ling Yu and Tantai Ming: ……
This was too few?
“Killing them one by one is too troublesome. Is there a way to lure them all over at once and take them out in one go?”
Tantai Ming and Ling Yu seemed to have heard something shocking, their mouths twitching involuntarily. Other cultivators were all secretly praying that the magic beasts wouldn’t come in groups, yet their little junior sister actually wanted to take out all the magic beasts at once?
“Got it!”
Chu Sang snapped her fingers.
“What good idea have you thought of?” Tantai Ming leaned in close. His little junior sister’s thought processes were always so strange.
“Spring has come, it’s a good season.” Chu Sang pushed his head away, stood up and patted her clothes, looking confident. Her eyes shone as she looked at Ling Yu, “Senior Brother, go catch a few female beasts, remember, one of each species!”
“It’s the breeding season for beasts now. Catch one female and it will attract a whole group of males. Then we can set up traps in advance and wait for them to fall into our net!”
“……” Even the gentle and calm Ling Yu almost couldn’t maintain his expression.
Chu Sang didn’t notice the strange looks from the two men beside her. She took out several large iron chains from her qiankun bag. “These are beast-binding chains given to me by Third Senior Sister. They can change size according to the beast’s body, and can also suppress the beast’s ferocity. Second Senior Brother, take these, and lure the beasts here.”
“Alright.” Ling Yu nodded, took the beast-binding chains, and left with his blade.
“Seventh Senior Brother, stay here with me to make traps.”
Tantai Ming directly used spiritual power to blast out a pit several dozen meters deep, in a violent and crude manner that left nearby cultivators stunned.
Chu Sang threw a handful of thorn seeds into the bottom of the pit.
The thorn seeds would instantly grow into a large number of vines as soon as they were touched, like giant pythons entangling living things, making it difficult to escape.
Fearing the effect might not be enough, Chu Sang even attached over a hundred enhancement talismans. Even a Golden Core stage magic beast falling into the trap wouldn’t be able to escape.
Still not enough firepower?
She thought for a moment, then threw in several hundred burning talismans and explosive talismans.
Now, if any living thing went in, not one would be able to crawl out alive!
“Boom—”
A moment later, the earth trembled. A large area of trees collapsed. A dense, black mass of magic beasts, like a swarm of locusts, frantically chased towards the southwest direction. There were at least a hundred!
What had happened?
It’s said that two tigers cannot share the same mountain. Magic beasts, being brutal, heartless, highly aggressive, and with an even stronger sense of territory, were usually solitary. How could they suddenly gather in large numbers? And all rush madly in one direction?
Most of the cultivators in the beast forest were disturbed by this commotion. Thinking something big had happened, they all flew on their swords to check it out.
When they arrived, they saw that the group of magic beasts was chasing a white-robed male cultivator at mid Golden Core stage.
Everyone sighed in regret. What grudge or enmity could make someone attract over a hundred magic beasts seeking his life with his power alone? It was truly impressive.
Everyone thought this male cultivator was doomed, but halfway through the chase, the magic beasts disappeared.
They had all fallen into the pit.
Almost in the next breath—
An earth-shattering explosion sound came from underground, and the angry roars of the magic beasts all disappeared without a trace.
Were they… blown up?
“Holy shit, what’s going on? What happened? I don’t understand this operation?”
“I was here this morning, when did such a big pit appear? Who dug it?”
“Someone dug a trap here in advance, letting this group of magic beasts walk right into it…”
“Which genius came up with this idea?”
The observing cultivators were all stunned by this unprecedented and unrepeatable operation.
“Ahem.”
After the dust settled, three figures emerged from behind the trees, covering their noses and mouths. Without a word, they began to pack the spoils into their qiankun bags.
Someone in the crowd let out a strange cry, “How is it them again?”
Who else but Chu Sang and her two companions?
Some cultivators had already witnessed these three’s methods before, especially the red-clad young woman in the middle, who was terrifyingly formidable!
“The heads of over a hundred magic beasts, converted to spirit stones, that’s a full ten million spirit stones! Even just picking up a few leftovers would be a considerable income.” Someone’s eyes turned red with envy, intending to kill and rob. Before the nearby cultivators could stop him, he charged out with his sword.
The outcome was undoubtedly tragic.
This act undoubtedly served as a warning to others. Even if some still had thoughts of action, they had to give up this idea.
After Chu Sang filled her qiankun bag, she patted her hands, about to call her two senior brothers to leave this place of trouble.
The ground shook violently again. The ground beneath the three’s feet cracked like a spider web. The intensity of the mountain collapse and earth split was tens of times greater than before. Even she and Tantai Ming almost lost their balance. Fortunately, Ling Yu supported one with each hand, avoiding the tragedy of their faces meeting the ground.
A deep, angry roar shook the nine heavens.
“It was you three despicable human cultivators who slaughtered over a hundred of my beast children and grandchildren. Die!”
An enormous being blocked out the sky, its full form impossible to see.
It was a Nascent Soul stage magically transformed beast!
Oh no, they had accidentally angered the old creature hidden in the deepest part. Chu Sang pulled out more than ten Speed Talismans. “Second Senior Brother, Seventh Senior Brother, run quickly!”
A giant tail burst from the ground, directly wrapping around her waist and violently dragging her underground.
“Little Junior Sister!”
Tantai Ming’s face changed dramatically, and he was about to rush over.
Ling Yu stopped him, “If you go, you’ll only die. Leave quickly, I’ll take care of Little Junior Sister.”
Chu Sang felt herself being dragged away by an enormous being. Its strength was far greater than hers. Any strategy became laughable in the face of this absolute disparity in power. She had no power to resist.
The ground split open with a huge crack. At the moment she was dragged into the abyss, the crack closed rapidly like a giant mouth.
In the last instant before the crack closed, another figure followed closely.
Was it Second Senior Brother?
A second before Chu Sang hit the ground, Ling Yu quickly turned his body to land first, allowing Chu Sang to fall right on top of him, serving as a dutiful cushion.
“…Little Junior Sister, are you hurt?” Ling Yu asked gently.
Chu Sang shook her head and quickly got up from his body. “Second Senior Brother, are you alright?”
She was fine, but Second Senior Brother seemed… not quite alright.
Ling Yu coughed lightly, his face a bit pale. He held his chest as he stood up, finding that they had fallen into an underground valley—it seemed they had been dragged into the magic beast’s lair.
The terrifying, thick stench appeared again. Chu Sang finally saw the true face of the magic beast and couldn’t help but widen her eyes slightly. Nascent Soul stage beasts not only had extremely high intelligence but also possessed the initial ability to shapeshift.
The beast before them had transformed its upper body into human form, while its lower half was an earthen-brown dragon tail.
“It’s an earth dragon, capable of transforming earth into shape and shapeshifting into earth. It’s extremely adept at sneak attacks.” Ling Yu frowned. “I didn’t expect this beast forest to hide a Nascent Soul stage earth dragon. It’s truly unexpected.”
“Earth dragon?” Chu Sang had seen this kind of beast in the beast encyclopedias in the library.
This type of beast didn’t have high innate talent. It was very difficult for a snake to evolve into a dragon. Obviously, the magic beast before them had taken a shortcut.
“You’ve been used by the demon race and have devoured the yang essence and flesh of many cultivators to cultivate to such a realm.” Ling Yu’s face turned slightly cold as he gripped his long blade.
“Hahaha, what of the demon race, what of cultivators? They’re all just a bunch of selfish beings. As long as I eat more and more cultivators, my power will grow stronger and stronger!”
The earth dragon’s strange mouth almost split to its ears. It licked its lips with its long tongue, its gaze burning as it stared at Ling Yu. “This aura on you… is extraordinary. You’re actually a rare Golden Core cultivator.”
“Digging out your golden core to taste, it must be delicious!”
Its long tail plunged into the ground, becoming one with the entire surface, then burst out from behind Ling Yu in a sneak attack.
Ling Yu was already prepared. Sensing the sudden change in aura, he immediately turned and slashed with his blade.
The moment the cold, gleaming blade struck the earth dragon’s giant tail, it was as if it hit an iron wall, emitting a harsh metallic sound.
“Ugh…” Ling Yu instantly felt his arm go numb, losing most of its sensation.
Chu Sang threw several explosive talismans at the earth dragon. Although they couldn’t cause substantial damage, they successfully attracted its attention.
Ling Yu took the opportunity to infuse spiritual energy into his right arm. A sharp blade energy slashed out, cutting a deep mark on the earth dragon’s iron-hard body.
“Ahhh, damn human cultivators! Die, all of you!”
The earth dragon was enraged and attacked more frantically.
Although Ling Yu was a blade cultivator, he didn’t have the typical heaviness of blade cultivators. Instead, his movements and steps were exceptionally light and agile. With Chu Sang’s interference on the side, he successfully left several wounds on the earth dragon’s body, even nearly blinding one of its eyes.
However, the difference in their realms was too great. The injuries on Ling Yu’s body were equally heart-wrenching.
His tiger’s mouth was split and bleeding, and his robe had several bloody gashes.
He gripped the handle of his blade tightly, his chest heaving violently, his strength rapidly depleting.
Just as the earth dragon launched another sneak attack from behind, and Ling Yu was almost powerless to dodge, as the earth spike was about to pierce his chest, Chu Sang’s flame-burning sword energy shattered the earth spike.
The earth dragon, exhausted by the two, its eyes almost spitting fire, finally realized that the human female cultivator he had underestimated from the beginning was his biggest obstacle.
Since he couldn’t take down the Golden Core male cultivator, he might as well silence this small Foundation Establishment female cultivator first. “A mere Foundation Establishment cultivator dares to repeatedly hinder me? Annoying ant, I’ll eat you first!”
Between Golden Core and Nascent Soul was an insurmountable gap, let alone between Nascent Soul and a mere Foundation Establishment.
For the earth dragon to attack her was merely a matter of moving a finger. No matter what techniques she used, she could hardly escape.
In this moment of life and death crisis, a tall figure leaped in front of Chu Sang. His cyan hair ribbon came loose, his three thousand ink-like strands falling softly like a gentle breeze on her face, turning white inch by inch, as if touched by December frost.