Inside the private room, not a sound could be heard.
Apart from the gambling house's dealers and maidservants, everyone present was a prominent figure in Guangping County.
Yet at this moment, every one of them was silent as cicadas in winter. Some could not even stop their legs from trembling and their teeth from chattering.
Shi Hongyuan, whose throat Wang Chen gripped, no longer looked human.
A hideous mass of flesh struggled desperately to burrow out from beneath the human skin, tearing through it as dark-red tentacles emerged and waved wildly, emitting sharp "whoosh-whoosh" sounds.
Every tentacle ended in a maw lined with sharp teeth, enough to make anyone shudder.
Several pretty gambling house maidservants had collapsed onto the floor in terror, desperately shrinking back into the corners. Beneath their skirts, everything was wet.
This was the first time in their lives they had seen the true form of an evil demon. The fact that they had not fainted on the spot was already commendable.
The Demonic Beast occupying Shi Hongyuan's body struggled fiercely while hissing in a hoarse voice, "Let me go, or die!"
Though its words were threatening, they could not conceal the weakness and fear in its tone.
For the Demon Slaying Spearhead pierced into its body was ceaselessly draining its demonic aura, leaving it weaker and weaker!
This Demonic Beast had felt the terror of death!
Outer Realm Heavenly Demons possessed no emotions and acted entirely on instinct. But after taking over a human body and devouring that person's soul, essence, and blood, they developed the seven emotions and six desires.
Greed for wealth, gluttony, lust, cruelty, bloodthirst...
To satisfy these desires, they would devour still more people!
And with desires came the fear of death.
"How many more of your kind are here?"
Wang Chen