Chapter 52
The Demon Palace was located at the top of the Mount of Demons, and at the foot of the mountain was a thick city wall, built along the already towering mountain walls, separating the entire demon domain from the outside world.
Lin Queli stood on the city wall and looked down. He saw that not far from the city gate, there were banners everywhere, and under the banners were the disciples of the Myriad Sword Sect. The inner sect of the Myriad Sword Sect had no more than ten people, but the outer sect had a large number.
And everyone knew that if they were disciples of the Myriad Sword Sect, even if the number did not exceed a hundred, it was enough to intimidate people.
Lin Queli swallowed hard.
Just then, he saw a man in white walk through the crowd and come to the front of the team.
He was riding on a horse, looking up at him.
Lin Queli was stunned.
Helan Xue was staring at him. It was already severe cold, but Helan Xue’s arrival made the Mount of Demons instantly covered in frost, and a blizzard was about to come. The surroundings seemed even colder.
Lin Queli subconsciously took a few steps back, just because the aggression hidden in those golden eyes was too much, as if it were saying to him…
“Come here.”
Lin Queli couldn’t handle it.
In a short while, a layer of snow had fallen on Lin Queli’s shoulder. He quickly left the city wall and hid inside.
“Your Highness has seen it.” Elder Jin led Lin Queli to the altar at the foot of the mountain. On the way, he said, “And does Your Highness know that Taxue Xianzun has proposed a deal with us?”
Elder Jin glanced at Lin Queli and said with a smile, “Taxue Xianzun said that if we hand over the Demon Lord, that is, you… he can consider retreating.”
“…!?”
Huh?!
Satisfied to see Lin Queli’s pale face, Elder Jin said, “So does Your Highness know the importance of the Demon Sword now? Only the Demon Sword can protect the Demon Clan!”
Lin Queli muttered in his heart, Helan Xue didn’t mean to slaughter the Demon Clan… it’s clearly the Demon Clan, with this old man in the lead, who is causing trouble first, trying to forge the Demon Sword to overthrow the Righteous Path and coveting the power of the three realms.
If the Demon Clan stopped forging the Demon Sword, then wouldn’t Helan Xue and the Demon Clan have lived in peace for thousands of years!
Helan Xue specifically asked for him, probably just because he had become the scapegoat…
Damn this old man, two slaps, and Lin Luo, who is using the System’s cheats, deserves the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms!
Lin Queli and the two came to the altar. The altar was at the junction of the south city wall, and it was also the place to summon the Demon Sword.
Stepping up the high steps, the altar at the end was in the shape of a round compass. The altar was surrounded by ten huge torches, and there was also a stone altar in the middle.
Now Lin Queli was going to hand over the fragments with Lin Luo. The sacred fire would melt these fragments, and after twelve hours, the Demon Sword would be forged on the altar. But before the Demon Sword was formed on the altar, it was already filled with fruits, fine wine, and candles for worship. The candles were sustained by evil fire and would not be extinguished no matter how strong the cold wind was.
At this moment, many demons had heard the news and came, surrounding the altar to witness the forging of the Demon Sword.
Lin Luo took out a brocade pouch, and Lin Queli saw four pitch-black fragments float into the torches. The next moment, the torches rose with a blazing fire.
Lin Luo looked at Lin Queli.
Lin Queli took a deep breath and added the last fragment.
When the fifth torch lit up, the entire altar buzzed and trembled. The runes on the ground emitted a strange red light, and the demonic energy around almost rushed out to the sky.
Lin Queli swallowed hard.
【Congratulations, Host, for completing the first step of the plan! Now the Host has to worry about the most difficult second step…】
—That’s right. After learning that Elder Jin and Lin Luo were going to use the Tiandi tribe to threaten him, Lin Queli and the System discussed and decided to play along.
As the Demon Lord, Lin Queli could not be constrained by Elder Jin and Lin Luo, but the result of a head-on confrontation was that the Tiandi tribe and the snowball might be in danger, and Lin Queli had no guarantee that he could kill both of them. After all, Lin Luo still had the System.
Taking a step back, even if he killed these two, Elder Jin’s minions and many demons were still eyeing the Demon Sword fragments, and the Demon Sword could still be activated.
As long as the Demon Sword still existed, there was a risk of widespread devastation.
The future Long Aotian might have one more disaster, and Helan Xue would also be in danger. Although Helan Xue was powerful, what if? Even Helan Xue was killed by the plot in the original novel.
So Lin Queli wanted to completely destroy the Demon Sword.
He thought, since I’m leaving anyway, then I want to do this one more thing before I go.
Now Lin Luo had successfully forged the Demon Sword, but what they didn’t know was that Lin Queli had not only obtained a fragment that Elder Jin had temporarily thrown to him before, but also another one after defeating the tree demon with Helan Xue.
Now Lin Queli still had one fragment.
And this one piece was enough to turn the tide!
As long as Lin Queli successfully obtained his four fragments from Helan Xue in the next twelve hours, he could also successfully forge the Demon Sword.
But if he wanted to separate it from Lin Luo’s Demon Sword, then Lin Queli naturally could not use this altar. What he had to do was to turn himself into an “altar.”
At this time, Lin Queli was actually glad that he was a furnace cauldron and the Demon Lord. The furnace cauldron constitution allowed him to accept powerful spiritual energy from the outside world, and his identity as the Demon Lord made him naturally attractive to the Demon Sword fragments. After he and the sword became one, he became a container for the demonic energy of heaven and earth. At that time, Lin Luo’s Demon Sword would also follow the “fusion” nature of the Demon Sword fragments and be attracted to him.
After Lin Queli had all the Demon Sword fragments and had forged the complete Demon Sword, he would leave with the Demon Sword with the help of the System.
But the problem was.
Lin Queli: “There’s only one day left. How can I get the remaining four pieces from Helan Xue… I can’t just barge into the Righteous Path’s territory, right? I’m afraid I’ll be misunderstood as having ulterior motives and then be immediately killed by Helan Xue.”
While Lin Queli was worrying, he saw many demons kneeling and worshiping before the altar.
Elder Jin stepped forward, picked up the wine cup on the altar, and with a flick of his sleeve, spilled it on the ground.
With Elder Jin’s action, the demons began to chant something. The big drum on the side was also beaten, and the sound was deafening.
The first cup of wine was a toast to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Elder Jin picked up the second cup of wine and spilled it on the stone altar.
The stone altar was carved with the origin and major history of the Demon Clan. This second cup of wine was a toast to the ancestors of the Demon Clan. From ancient times to the present, the Demon Clan had been fated to be crusaded against by the Righteous Path. The ancestors had forged the Demon Sword with the souls of the dead demons, initially just to resist and protect themselves.
The righteous and evil paths were hostile to each other because of their different bloodlines. It was not until the last thousand years, when there were fewer and fewer cultivators and they were replaced by ordinary people, and the war had affected too many innocent people, that the two sides gradually ceased fighting.
The third cup of wine, Elder Jin handed it to Lin Queli with both hands.
Elder Jin lowered his eyes. “Thank you, Demon Lord, for your dedication to the Demon Clan!”
The sound of the drums grew heavier, and the kneeling demons turned to kowtow to him. For a moment, it was like some kind of evil cult ceremony.
Lin Queli looked at the wine cup before him and thought to himself, I haven’t been that dedicated.
【Host, be careful! The wine before you has been drugged. It can knock you, this Demon Lord, out!】
Lin Queli: “…”
Huh?
Lin Queli came back to his senses.
Wait a minute, what Elder Jin meant by “dedication” was not because…
【Host, could it be that they are going to knock you out and hand you over to the Immortal Venerable to complete the deal with him and make him retreat?!】
Lin Queli: “…It’s possible.”
【Then isn’t that…】
Lin Queli: “A pillow for a sleepy person!!”
They can help me see Helan Xue, and I won’t be suspected by Helan Xue of having ulterior motives!
“Hehehe, no thanks, no thanks. It’s what I should do.”
Lin Queli took the wine cup with a smile and drank it all in one go.
Just in case he was really killed, Lin Queli exchanged for a detoxification gadget, filtering out half of the poison in his body and retaining a bit of a dazed consciousness, at least to let the System still operate.
As his vision became more and more blurry, Lin Queli staggered back a few steps.
“Aiyo… is Your Highness tired?”
Elder Jin stepped forward to support him and left. In his daze, Lin Queli felt someone put handcuffs and shackles on him, and he was tied to a cage with chains. It was a very cramped space, and the cage was made of cold iron.
Not to mention that the shackles made it impossible for him to move, it seemed that some kind of spell had also been cast on him.
He vaguely heard the conversation between Elder Jin and Lin Luo.
“Jin Chan, are you sure this can hold down the Demon Lord? Don’t underestimate the Demon Lord’s strength.”
“This is already a three-layer forbidden art. Of course it can hold him down. Besides, we only need to hold on for an incense stick’s time. As long as we hand him over to Helan Xue before he wakes up, everything will be fine.”
“You’d better pray that Helan Xue keeps his promise.”
“He prides himself on being righteous. He should keep his promise. Besides, they don’t know about your existence, right? They probably won’t believe what this Demon Lord says. They’re probably thinking that killing the Demon Lord will solve everything…”
“Rumble…”
The cage was put on a carriage, and it passed through the city wall and left the demon domain.
Feeling the strong wind and snow, Lin Queli groggily opened his eyes in the bumpy ride.
He saw a tall man in white standing not far away.
He came alone, with no one behind him, but even so, it was enough to make people afraid.
Lin Queli’s heart was pounding.
I’m about to see him. Helan Xue probably won’t kill him so quickly. At least he’ll ask him to hand over the fragments, right?
Then how can I steal the fragments from Helan Xue’s hands in return?
【Hmm… good question. How about a honey trap? The Host can use the exchanged ‘naughty hands’ item to tempt him to do it with you. While he’s lost in passion, you can secretly reach into his spirit pouch and steal the fragments!】
Lin Queli: “?”
【After all, didn’t the Immortal Venerable want to dual cultivate with you again last time? I heard that the furnace cauldron constitution can be addictive. Maybe the Immortal Venerable also likes it?】
Lin Queli: “If you were talking about someone else, I would believe you. But Helan Xue indulging, and even liking this kind of thing, is too magical!”
【Then does the Host still remember the drug Elder Jin gave you before? You can put it on Helan Xue for a few minutes, and then you can take this opportunity to steal!】
Hmm…
It doesn’t seem easy to put into practice.
Lin Queli was still thinking when the carriage stopped.
He saw the man outside the cage, but his consciousness was not yet completely clear. And he was already in a bad state because of the furnace cauldron poison, and now he had been drugged with a knockout drug, so he was even more dazed.
Lin Queli couldn’t see Helan Xue’s expression, nor could he speak. He could only breathe faintly and adjust his breathing.
Click.
And so Lin Queli did not hear the sound of the prayer beads colliding, as if the owner of the prayer beads had lost control of his fingers for a moment.
Subtle and imperceptible.
A blizzard began to fall around them, and the frost on the trees crushed the branches. A layer of snow fell on Lin Queli’s shoulder and hair. Perhaps because of the suppression of his spiritual energy, he completely fainted.
Ugh no, is he going to self-sacrifice ?
Thank you for the chapter 😘