Danger!
With a sudden roll, Er Dongsheng narrowly dodged the monster's swift strike from beneath him.
Blood dripped down his face. Even though he had dodged in time, the attack had still left a long, thin cut on his cheek!
He still held a long tongue in his hand. At its tip was another little head, packed with sharp teeth.
"Fuck. Just like the aliens I saw in my last life—you've got a head hidden inside your head! How many heads do you think you need?"
He squeezed hard with one hand. Splat! The monster's enormous tongue burst and snapped. The little head at its tip fell to the ground, rolled twice, and stopped beside the monster's corpse!
"Even dead, you're a pain in the ass!"
He shook the slime from his hand, scrubbed it hard against some leaves, and headed back.
By then, Little Succubus had crawled out from under the blanket. She beamed at her brother, who had finished the fight!
"Big brother, you—"
"Watch out!"
Whoosh!
A blade flashed.
Er Dongsheng froze. Almost without thinking, he sprang forward and barely escaped the gleaming blade.
The attacker had chosen the perfect moment and moved with deadly precision. She had missed by a hair!
Though that sneak attack probably could not have pierced Er Dongsheng's scales anyway.
But Er Dongsheng was not one to let an ambush go unanswered. His tail whipped around behind him!
Clang!
A clear, ringing sound echoed out. It was so familiar, so lovely to hear~
That was... that was...
That was metal!
Now Er Dongsheng was certain that a blade had struck at him! The impact against his tail and that familiar metallic clang told him everything: his attacker had used a metal weapon, something almost never seen in the Abyss!
Who was she? Who the hell was she?
A chill ran through him. He was absolutely certain that if the metal weapon had hit a less protected part of his body, he would have been badly wounded!
Metal in the Abyss was not only precious; it was exceptionally powerful!
But whoever you are, you dared to ambush me. You'd better be ready to die!
Er Dongsheng turned slowly and glared darkly at the newcomer.
Waist-length snow-white hair, long pointed ears, and no horns. Most striking of all was her skintight outfit, seemingly made of leaves. Her face was humanlike but finer and more beautiful, with leaf-shaped markings along both cheeks! She held an elegant curved blade engraved with beautiful, mysterious patterns, its tip aimed straight at Er Dongsheng!
The slight swell of her chest told Er Dongsheng she was a female Abyssal Fairy. And a powerful one, too—one look at the Abyss Star on her forehead made that clear. It was just like his own, though its markings were somewhat simpler!
"Well, well. You ambushed me and interrupted my hunt! You must be pretty confident in your strength, huh?"
He wiped the blood from his face and licked it off his fingers. Er Dongsheng's voice turned hoarse!
He was irritated. Very irritated. He needed an outlet, and the sight of this female Abyssal Fairy, who stirred something in him, made that need even stronger. And the way he would let it out was...
"Careful, or I might kill you!"
Boom!
Er Dongsheng vanished from where he stood.
Xierjie watched the terrifying Abyss Demon before her warily. They were both First-Level Demons, yet he was so powerful that he had beaten her companion without giving him a chance to fight back!
Was he really a First-Level Demon? That violent aura, the way he crushed a First-Level Demon as easily as chopping vegetables—she had only ever seen that in a lord!
How was this possible? How could such a powerful Demon be in a place this remote? He was clearly only First-Level! It made no sense. How had he beaten her companion so thoroughly that he could not even use his skills?
But she had to act to save her companion. The lord had assigned a task for the two of them to complete. Whether her companion lived or died did not matter to her, but if he died before they finished and she returned alone, she would be killed too! Her people would even be driven out!
"What's on your mind, pretty girl? Letting your thoughts wander in a fight is a bad idea!"
A voice suddenly sounded beside Xierjie's ear.
Oh no!
She swept her blade left to block!
"Too slow. I'm on your right!" A side kick came at her, without a shred of mercy for her beauty.
Bang!
With a rumble, she flew sideways.
"Go join your dead companion!"
Thud!
Xierjie stopped her tumbling body and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"On my right? How? When did he get there? Such speed, such strength! I can't fight back at all!"
A flush rose across the Abyssal Fairy's cool face. She tightened her grip on her curved blade, as though it might lend her courage.
Xierjie suppressed her shock and shouted furiously at the corpse behind her!
"Slav! How long are you going to play dead? Until we both die? Look what kind of monster you've provoked!"
The corpse...
"Oh? Interesting." Er Dongsheng watched the Abyssal Fairy suddenly start shouting at the corpse. Things were getting more and more interesting!
"He's really not dead? Haha, wonderful. This is wonderful!" Excitement surged through him. His demonic nature broke free completely. This time, he would have his fun and fight to his heart's content!
Those who cultivated the Dao sought to keep their minds clear and their desires few. For a Demon like him, that was hard. Though he usually joked around with Little Succubus, wandered through the woods, or played with the birds, he had to use family bonds and sheer will to suppress the violence and lust for slaughter in his heart!
But Demons were creatures that loved slaughter and destruction. The Chinese Martial Arts he practiced were formidable arts meant for killing. Their fierce intent blended with his dark, murderous, destructive nature like water and milk. Even when he did nothing, the aura and will of slaughter around him kept growing. It only tempered his Martial Dao Will further; it would not turn him into a puppet of darkness! He used every trace of Dark Will to forge his Martial Dao Will!
Even so, he still needed to let it out—let it out with everything he had. And in the Abyss, battle was the best way!
He had always longed for a fight!
What was the point of mastering all those martial arts if he never fought?
"Heh, heh. I'll give you time. Take it slow!"
Waiting for weaker opponents might go against the Demons' habit of cunning ambushes, but perhaps it was another side of their cruelty!
A cat played with a mouse before eating it!
He was no different!
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