Chapter 908: Choices (9)
Chao Feng looked at Xiang Tiandi before him and said indifferently, "Xiang Tiandi, are you delivering yourself as fodder for me today?"
Tangible dragon power emitted from his body, so intense that visible ripples could be seen sweeping across the air.
The shadows surrounding them let out layers of terrified cries, retreating towards the distance.
Si Yi Heavenly Lord couldn't help but frown, feeling his Primordial Spirit momentarily uneasy.
Xiang Tiandi treated the dragon power like a gentle breeze brushing against his face, standing still as he looked at Chao Feng and continued to say, "The situation has changed. I need your essence blood to enhance my demon body's power."
Chao Feng slowly opened his mouth, revealing dragon teeth as sharp as swords, while his dragon eyes fixed on Xiang Tiandi. The air around them gradually solidified, appearing like layers of diamonds floating in the darkness.
Chao Feng: "Every thousand years, I can only refine one drop of essence blood. And now, you open your mouth to ask for it?"
Xiang Tiandi straightened his back, looking at Chao Feng, and said, "After this battle in the Heavenly Arena, other demons have come to assist Li Xiuzhu. The Sky Flipping Sect has clearly made contact with Zhu Long."
Chao Feng's eyes narrowed as waves of dragon power erupted like shockwaves, even forcing Si Yi Heavenly Lord to take a step back: "Zhu Long?"
Xiang Tiandi continued, "Zhu Long has emerged, clearly intending to use the Sky Flipping Sect to revive the Mixed Blood Demon Clan.
Given the increasingly severe distortion of the Heavenly Dao, if they start to massively awaken demon bloodline, their power will quickly escalate."
Xiang Tiandi snorted coldly: "The five major cities combined have nearly 1.3 billion people, which means 1.3 billion mixed-blood demons. Once they all awaken, even if only one ten-thousandth inherit a high-level demon's blood, it would be a terrifying force."
Chao Feng said coldly, "Even if mixed blood, if they awaken, they are demons."
Xiang Tiandi's aura gradually rose as golden lightning flashed back and forth in his eyes, sending sharp sensations through the air.
He shouted, "Chao Feng, today's mortals... what do you think they'll do once they gain the power of the demon bloodline? Do you think they will truly see themselves as demons, aligning with us? How could that be?
There has been significant resentment among mortals against the celestial realm for many years.
Especially those common folk, who make up ninety-nine percent of humanity. They have exhausted all their strength just to fill their stomachs in the past. But once they possess power enough to threaten us, do you think they'll be satisfied with merely eating enough?
Whether or not they adhere to demon nature, they will be our enemies. Either they continue to be oppressed by us, or they will obliterate us.
Even though they may have demon strength, they still have human mentality; most of them will stand from the human perspective in the short term.
And these mortals, having been our beasts of burden for years, if they grow, there will be no chance of reconciliation between both sides.
Moreover, the Sky Flipping Sect is not only activating the demon bloodline within mortals, but they are also developing mutated weapons.
To keep mortals suppressed and maintain our rule, we must demolish the Sky Flipping Sect and all related personnel with absolute power.
Especially Li Xiuzhu and Zhou Bai—if we allow them to continue growing, they will be a tremendous threat, and we must eliminate them."
Chao Feng said calmly, "Is your current strength still insufficient to kill them?"
Xiang Tiandi said, "Theoretically, I only need one move to defeat them as they were a month ago.
But I mentioned they are making mutated weapons, and whether Zhou Bai or Li Xiuzhu, they are extraordinary geniuses among today's humans. We must estimate their growth speed by the highest standards, not treating them as ordinary mortals.
Our last failure in the Heavenly Arena was due to our insufficient preparation. This time we must gather stronger forces and prepare more comprehensively to deliver them absolute defeat with absolute difference."
"Zhou Bai's capabilities and power growth should be estimated to increase threefold.
Li Xiuzhu's power change should be estimated to increase at least twofold.
We must also prepare for them having at least ten mutated weapons and the possibility of Zhu Long personally appearing to support them."
"Prepare under this premise to eliminate them, and don't give them a third chance."
"Moreover, aside from mortals, there are immortals. Supreme Heavenly Venerate and those Spiritual People have never abandoned their plans to revive. This time our demon body exposure has already aroused their suspicion. We should prepare to initiate the third human-demon war and even prepare to simultaneously battle immortals and mortals."
Chao Feng shook his head in denial, saying, "We cannot lightly start a conflict with the immortals; this may expose our plans."
Xiang Tiandi: "But we should still prepare comprehensively. We and Spiritual People are natural enemies. It's either they kill us all, or we kill them all. Since there's a risk of exposure, we should prepare for war and strike first."
As he said this, Xiang Tiandi reached out towards the dragon head: "Chao Feng, we cannot place all our hopes on the God Emperor's plan.
Think of the first human-demon war's outcome. We were utterly defeated, freshly born demons slaughtered like pigs and sheep. They peeled off our skins, dug out our inner cores, drained our blood, and hung our companions' corpses in rows, selling them like merchandise.
We must not give Spiritual People a single chance.
Do you want to return to that era? If not, give me your essence blood, for our survival and our future. I need stronger power to combat mortals and immortals."
Si Yi Heavenly Lord stood beside and spoke, "Chao Feng, give it to him. We feel it's necessary to make some preparations ahead of time."
In the darkness, silence prevailed for a long time, until a drop of ruby-like liquid fell onto Xiang Tiandi's hand.
Looking at the scorching dragon blood in his hand, a slight smile appeared at the corner of Xiang Tiandi's lips.
Chao Feng was one of the Demon Kings from the period of the human-demon war, a grand demon who could rival the Four-Section Heavenly Lords of the time.
And this droplet is Chao Feng's essence blood, crafted over a millennium, containing powerful evolutionary information and demon power within his body, enough to let Xiang Tiandi's demon body once again evolve and grow, while mastering part of Chao Feng's demon abilities, enhancing his strength overall.
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Within Sky Flipping Sect's base, Qian Wangsun looked at the scene inside the cell, his breath gradually growing heavy.
In the cell were bizarre beings of varying appearances: some were covered head to toe in animal fur, others were completely covered in scales like fish, and some had feather-covered arms resembling wings...
These were the real demons Zhu Long had sent to support Li Xiuzhu, great demons who had participated in the human-demon war, several of whom possessed power comparable to immortals.
However, at the moment, most of them appeared weak, bound from head to toe and chained with runes, imprisoned in a tiny cell.
"Li Xiuzhu! What are you doing?"
"We haven't eaten anyone!"
"You liar! You tricked us!"
"We were the ones who saved your life from the celestial realm!"
Qian Wangsun looked at the pleading demons in the cell, his gaze somewhat complicated.
Ever since Zhu Long sent them over to support, these demons had diligently followed orders, showing no resistance. For a month, they hadn't harmed anyone, mostly just sleeping, appearing well-behaved, showing no signs of abnormality.
Seeing Qian Wangsun's expression, Li Xiuzhu beside him said, "Humans and demons won't coexist. If you can't bear to see this, then leave. We'll take care of it ourselves."