Chapter 3: Save Him with Your Fox Fire and Demon Core
As the Supreme of the Demon Race, the only Nine-Tailed Demon Fox across the Human, Demon, and Devil realms, and the biggest villain in the early stages of this book, Ning Ke actually had quite a few tricks up his sleeve.
Take this Lifebound Fox Fire, for instance. It was comparable to the ultimate exotic fires born of heaven and earth, several times stronger than a human cultivator’s Fire Heaven Spiritual Root cultivated to the extreme.
It was also one of the killer moves that allowed him to become the Demon Sovereign.
At this moment, he wrapped his jade-white palm in the Lifebound Fox Fire and tentatively reached into the Demon Soul River. Those Demon Souls immediately retreated rapidly (swish swish swish). That small patch of pitch-black river water cleared up at a speed visible to the naked eye, causing Ning Ke to raise an eyebrow.
“I’m really awesome.” Ning Ke marveled at his own cultivation base. swaying left and right, his hand chased those Demon Souls. His mouth even chanted: “Scared now, little punks? Weren’t you chasing me just now? Chase me now, go on, chase?”
The fingers wrapped in Fox Fire even flashed a middle finger in the water, taunting: “You—come over here~”
[…] Xiao Yuan couldn’t help reminding the host who had just been cursing her for not explaining Lou Yunxiao’s location earlier: [Dear Host, if you don’t save Lou Yunxiao soon, once the protagonist dies, this small world will collapse, and no matter how awesome you are, you’ll kick the bucket too.]
Ning Ke froze. He dared not delay any longer. With a tsk, he quickly made a protective shield with the Fox Fire and dove into the river with a splash.
The Demon Souls screamed in terror and fled in all directions.
Borrowing the light of the Fox Fire, Ning Ke dived dozens of meters down before finally seeing the boy lying amidst the silt and rubble at the river bottom.
He remembered his sister writing this plot point, saying that the male lead, Lou Yunxiao, had a “White Moonlight” in his heart. This person saved him in the Demon Abyss when Lou Yunxiao was at his most destitute.
Later, when the heroine confessed to Lou Yunxiao, the reason he didn’t refuse was because he mistook the heroine for that White Moonlight.
Ning Ke couldn’t help asking Xiao Yuan: Xiao Yuan, according to the novel plot, wouldn’t it be better to change it so the heroine saves Lou Yunxiao here? Wouldn’t that fill the plot hole better?
[Host, the person who saved him originally wasn’t the heroine, but someone else. However, your author sister didn’t say who it was. So, this is a pit, and you must be the one to fill it~]
Now Ning Ke shut up.
Anyway, take it one step at a time.
The reason the male lead was so miserable was partly his responsibility, so saving the male lead was only right and proper. He stopped asking questions.
Having thought this through, he came to a slow halt in the river water. His white dress rippled gently with the waves. Under the illumination of the Fox Fire, his peerlessly beautiful face revealed a cool, aloof arrogance different from his usual flamboyance. When he leaned over, his black hair brushed past Lou Yunxiao’s face.
It scared those Demon Souls clinging to Lou Yunxiao into scattering.
Revealing the boy’s body covered in cuts and bruises, miserable and pale.
After such a catastrophe, it was a miracle Lou Yunxiao had even a breath left.
Just looking at those injuries made Ning Ke’s teeth ache. He reached out and pulled Lou Yunxiao into his arms. Converting his own demonic energy into spiritual energy that human cultivators could absorb, he slowly injected it into the boy’s body through his right hand pressed against Lou Yunxiao’s back.
Using this to keep him alive.
Then, he dispersed the Demon Souls and floated toward the river surface with Lou Yunxiao.
During this time, he didn’t notice that the person in his arms frowned slightly and unconsciously reached out to grab the corner of his clothes.
Like grasping the last straw of life.
Doing his utmost to crave this warmth.
He had fished the person out of the river.
But Xiao Yuan told Ning Ke there was no notification for the completion of the first mission.
Ning Ke wasn’t in a hurry either.
After all, in the time regression, he was still the all-capable, sky-defying big villain. Once he went back, he would become a prisoner waiting to be slaughtered. Comparing the two, life was much more comfortable right now.
It didn’t matter if he spent a few more days here.
So, he carried Lou Yunxiao, who was as light as a chick, found a spacious place to put him down, and fed the kid a bunch of pills for healing external injuries.
Then, he turned to study the original host’s spatial storage ring.
This investigation was just like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden.
He kept saying “My god,” “Holy crap,” “What the hell,” and “Awesome” incessantly.
“The original host was too rich, right?”
“An armory, a herb warehouse, and he can do alchemy and artifact refining?”
“With so many high-level magical artifacts, just throwing one out at random could smash someone to death, right?”
“These jewels, these accessories, these hairpins, these dresses? This lipstick? This rouge?? This erotic book???”
As Ning Ke looked further, things got stranger and stranger, until he dug out a fragrant illustrated book titled My Days and Nights with the Daoist Supreme from a nook. Ning Ke slapped his forehead, speechless.
Curious, he opened the first page. The little figures could move, and it was two men!
[Oh my, not suitable for children.] Xiao Yuan feigned covering her eyes, peeking through the gaps in her fingers while saying: [Hmm, I didn’t expect you to be into this, Host.]
“It’s not me, okay! It’s the original host!”
As a straight man, Ning Ke had never thought in that direction and turned bright red with embarrassment.
He quickly threw the book into the corner of the spatial ring.
Instead, he pulled an entire small wooden house out of the space and tossed it onto the open ground.
This would be his and Lou Yunxiao’s “home” for the future.
The small wooden house had everything needed: a bed, table, chairs, desk, and wardrobe.
Ning Ke carried Lou Yunxiao to the bed, cast a cleaning spell on him, changed him into clean clothes, and covered him with a quilt. Only then did he feel that Lou Yunxiao looked like a human being again.
He no longer looked as miserable as when he first saw him.
Seeing that the boy was handsome and fair, Ning Ke couldn’t resist reaching out to poke Lou Yunxiao’s cheek. But after poking twice, he remembered how this person had strangled him in the dungeon, and quickly retracted his hand.
But the moment he pulled his hand back, Lou Yunxiao suddenly coughed violently. Blood foam spilled from his lips, scaring Ning Ke into quickly helping him up, saying “I just touched you, don’t you dare try to scam me!” while turning him onto his side.
The blood Lou Yunxiao spat out shimmered with a black light, looking exactly as if he had been poisoned.
“Mother of God, Xiao Yuan, what’s wrong with him?”
[His damage is too severe, and the Demon Souls have eroded his internal organs. If you don’t take measures, he probably won’t survive the night.]
At this point, Xiao Yuan reminded him: [Dear Host, if he dies, you can’t live either.]
“…” Ning Ke’s scalp tightened, and he said angrily, “You know the consequences, so hurry up and tell me how to save him!”
Having spent this time together, Xiao Yuan already knew Ning Ke’s temper. She didn’t waste words, looked up the data, and told Ning Ke.
[There is only one way to save him.]
[That is to give him your Demon Core and Fox Fire.]
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