"Mixed-Blood Demon Seed?" Jiang Yan pondered for a moment, seeming to understand something.
His face filled with shock, as though he had suffered an unimaginable blow. He staggered back a step uncontrollably, his face flushing slightly as if someone had unearthed his secret.
"How did you know?!"
Jiang Yan looked at the Celestial Demon in terror.
The Celestial Demon laughed soundlessly. "We're the same—mixed-bloods not acknowledged by the Devil Race. You were stranded outside since childhood, so it's normal that you don't know these things."
"No! Impossible!" Jiang Yan clutched his head, unable to accept it. "This must be fake!"
The Celestial Demon gripped Jiang Yan's shoulder, his tone sincere.
"Though this may be hard for you to accept, the truth is that you and I are half-brothers, born of the same father!"
"Our father is the current Demon King!"
"The blood of a supreme being flows through us! And the Life and Death Law inherited through your bloodline is the best proof!"
The Celestial Demon spoke urgently, brimming with the excitement of finding one of his own kind.
From childhood to adulthood, he had lived amid cold stares and reproach. Even though his father was the Demon King, he could not change the ingrained beliefs of Devil Race history spanning countless years.
Impure bloodlines were a Demon Race Taboo.
He, a generation's Celestial Demon, was a hybrid of a Celestial Demon and a Life-Death Demon Skeleton. To escape those cold stares, and to spare his parents the pressure from their own kin, he had decisively chosen to leave the homeland where he had lived for over a hundred years.
He had wandered all the way, relying on his extraordinary talent to slaughter countless transcendent creatures. In the end, he arrived at Tian Yuan Star.
At that time, he killed