Chapter 71: The Blackened Lou Yunxiao
Ning Ke was slightly stunned.
He thought that Lou Yunxiao must be protecting him like this because he thought he was A-Ke, right?
After all, three months ago, in Ning Village, the meeting between Ning Ke as the Demon Venerable and Lou Yunxiao had a significant impact on him.
Lou Yunxiao, who hated him so much, made him feel startled.
And now, having shed that identity of an enemy, it was as if the two had returned to the time they spent together before.
Ning Ke wasn’t sure what kind of mood he was in now.
He just felt both sour and astringent.
He wanted to continue to get along with Lou Yunxiao as recklessly as A-Ke did, but he was afraid that when their feelings deepened and he returned to his identity as the Demon Venerable, he wouldn’t be able to bear it.
Damn it.
Ning Ke pinched his own thigh.
He pinched away all those messy emotions.
Never mind, he had to deal with what was in front of him first!
“Then I’ll kill you first!” The demoness shouted sharply, and her claws, wrapped in demonic Qi, rose high and slashed at Lou Yunxiao.
Unexpectedly, on the sword blade she touched, a layer of fire had been attached by Lou Yunxiao at some point.
It burned her so much that she retreated half a step.
Lou Yunxiao then took advantage of this gap, his divine sword moving so fast it left an afterimage, carrying sword intent as he slashed at the demoness.
In a short time, the two had exchanged a hundred moves.
Lou Yunxiao’s long boots pressed firmly against the ground; he didn’t retreat a single step.
His expression was firm.
The question Wu Gou asked him was completely figured out at this moment as he stood in front of Ning Ke.
He hoped Ming Xin was A-Ke.
Because he wanted to make amends, to repay, and to do his best to protect this person who was the most important to him.
Only by staying by this person’s side would he no longer live like a walking corpse.
His world would not only be left with revenge.
“How much longer can your spiritual power last?” The demoness laughed mockingly. “A mere Soul Transformation brat, and you still want to fight a demon of the Integration stage? It’s simply wishful thinking!”
But as she spoke, she suddenly found that Lou Yunxiao was laughing.
“I didn’t want to use demonic Qi.” The handsome young man narrowed his red eyes, and the demonic patterns on his cheeks seemed to come alive, clear and eerie.
Demonic Qi rose around him, actually transforming into substantial black flames lingering on his robes.
The two divine swords in his hands were also wrapped in demonic Qi.
Turning into a deep, dark ink color.
“But now it seems that in order to protect my beloved little mouse, I have to do this.”
What do you mean, beloved little mouse?
The distant Ning Ke slowly had a question mark appear over his head.
He looked at the Lou Yunxiao, whose temperament had changed along with him, in shock, feeling his brain buzzing.
Who could explain to him why the blackened Lou Yunxiao would become like this?
[Uh, Host, it’s your own fault for not watching the Water Mirror properly before.] Xiao Yuan popped up and said to him: [When he was in the secret realm, Lou Yunxiao became like this. It’s probably because the stimulation he received back then was too great, causing this situation to occur when he uses demonic Qi more than spiritual power.]
[One of your tasks in the third stage is to use the Buddha Lotus Lamp to make him “um” a little more normal and prevent him from going berserk.]
Just as Xiao Yuan finished speaking.
Ning Ke saw Lou Yunxiao suddenly turn around and smile at him.
His smile, combined with his devastatingly handsome face, would be a critical strike to anyone.
But as soon as he opened his mouth, his handsome and evil temperament changed.
“Mouse!” He waved the sword in his hand at Ning Ke, excited like a schoolboy. “Watch carefully, I’ll be super powerful this time!”
“When I kill this bad woman, let’s play together again!”
“…”
“What big words are you speaking?!” The demoness’s expression was sinister.
Her claws attacked again, only this time hitting the long sword, she suddenly found a suction force passing into her body from the surface of the long sword.
It was… Lou Yunxiao was absorbing her demonic Qi!
“I’m not speaking big words.” Lou Yunxiao’s red eyes were clear, looking as if he were harmless to humans and animals, but in the depths, there was the cruelty of a demon.
He grinned and said, “I just want to show off in front of my beloved mouse.”
“So, I hope…” Lou Yunxiao’s long sword slashed violently, the demoness retreated quickly, but was still injured by his speed, which had suddenly increased several times.
A very deep sword wound was left on her body.
“You can also understand my feelings. And then…”
Stepping on the ground, Lou Yunxiao was in front of the demoness in the blink of an eye.
Under the other party’s astonished gaze, he instantly cut off her arm!
“Ah—”
A piercing scream rang out. Lou Yunxiao caught the severed arm, his fingers digging into the flesh, and in the blink of an eye, he merged the demonic Qi within it into himself.
Throwing away the severed arm, he added one last sentence.
“Be a good girl and go die, okay?”
Ning Ke, who was watching the battle, opened his mouth and, after a long while, only managed to get out one sentence.
“Amazing.”
Sure enough, novels and anime didn’t lie to him.
The blackened attribute was indeed powerful!
Although there was a risk of going berserk, it was really useful!
It made him want to bring out a small stool and mindlessly cheer for Lou Yunxiao while eating melon seeds!
But he was still rational enough to know to reinforce the Fire array first.
So he pinched his throat and shouted to Lou Yunxiao over there: “Benefactor Lou, you are so powerful~ keep being powerful~ I’ll reinforce the array first, you take your time fighting~”
Lou Yunxiao paused, clutching another arm he had shaved off the woman, waved it at Ning Ke, and nodded obediently: “Okay!”
“What kind of monster are you?!” The demoness’s mentality completely collapsed.
She screamed and hid back.
“How can a human absorb demonic Qi and not be assimilated?!”
“Is the prophecy of the Heavenly Dao true?!”
“Impossible, absolutely impossible!”
The demons appearing in the Five Elements Array were actually clones of the great demon suppressed under Beiyou City.
It had taken ten thousand years for the seal to slightly loosen, releasing demonic Qi to possess humans and destroy the array.
Being so calculating and yet being destroyed by Ning Ke and others, they would never be reconciled!
“What’s possible or impossible.” Lou Yunxiao licked his lips and said, “If you can treat humans and demons as food, I can also treat you as food.”
“The cycle of all things is just like this.”
After saying that, he held two pitch-black divine swords and used his sword intent to the extreme.
Attacking from both sides, he instantly cut the demoness in half!
“Ahhh—”
Black blood splattered on the ground.
The upper body of the demoness fell to the ground, her eyes frightened, but still extremely venomous.
“Everyone come!”
She lay on the ground, the blood flowing out quickly sinking into the soil and disappearing, as if transmitting information.
She shouted: “Come to the Fire array—”
Ning Ke had just found the eye of the Fire array. Hearing the demoness’s words, he hurriedly shouted to Lou Yunxiao: “Benefactor Lou, kill her! Be quick!”
Lou Yunxiao narrowed his eyes, swung his long sword, and slashed the demoness sword by sword, a cruel and joyful smile appearing on his face.
Like chopping meat filling, he turned that body into a pile of crushed mud!
Fragments of bone were stuck together with rotten meat, hair, and brain matter, mixed with mud, disgusting to the extreme.
Lou Yunxiao finally stopped.
But he frowned.
He quickly retreated to Ning Ke’s side, picked him up, and flew into the air on his sword!
Ning Ke’s breath caught.
In the next instant, he saw the ground crack.
Countless Youhun Grass vines emerged from the ground, with thousands of human corpses stuck on the tips.
At the same time, three sounds of breaking through the air came from a distance.
Looking closely, they were the demons guarding the Water array, the Earth array, and the Wood array.
They all had various degrees of injuries on their bodies.
They looked very pathetic.
The three demons stood in front of the pile of rotten meat and said, “Boss, how could you not even handle a Soul Transformation human? You ate so many people for nothing.”
“What a waste.”
“You guys don’t look much better than me.” The rotten meat of the demoness absorbed the flesh and blood in the Youhun Grass and gradually formed a meatball with one eye and one mouth.
Her eyeball turned to look at the three demons, and the demoness said, “Why don’t I see Old Fifth?”
Old Fifth was guarding the Metal array. Although his strength was the weakest among them, he had also reached the early Soul Transformation stage, which was definitely enough to kill ordinary cultivators.
Just as she finished speaking, a figure came flying on a sword.
The white disciple uniform the girl was wearing was stained red with blood from several wounds.
Her face was as pale as paper.
But her eyes were as bright as the stars.
Ning Xiaoxiao said coldly.
“Because that demon has already been killed by me.”
Translator’s Note:
“Mouse” (老鼠 – Lǎoshǔ): In his blackened/berserk state, Lou Yunxiao’s personality takes a 180-degree turn. He becomes playful, possessive, and quite creepy, calling Ning Ke his “mouse.” It’s a sign of his mental instability!
Prophecy of the Heavenly Dao: A classic trope where a “child of destiny” (usually the protagonist) is prophesied to destroy the demons. Lou Yunxiao is definitely fulfilling that role now… even if he’s using demonic powers to do it.
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