TBOUMTBDK Chapter 58

Just as Yun Xia was carefully asking about the Demon Lord’s health, suddenly, a violent explosion resounded from afar. The energy was extremely vast, so far away, Yun Xia and the others could still clearly feel it.

Yao Yun looked in that direction, “This is…a self-detonation?”

Yun Xia was immediately shocked, “Self-detonation? Xiao Tongfu self-detonated?”

The Demon Lord narrowed his eyes slightly and said, “I’m afraid it’s not that simple.”

Soon after, the group who went to pursue Xiao Tongfu returned, each looking a bit disheveled. Although they were many in number, with Xiao Tongfu’s Cultivation Base, the energy from his self-detonation was still too great. If they hadn’t been prepared, some of them would have been lost there.

“Your Venerable, that person self-detonated, his physical body destroyed.”

The Demon Lord asked, “What about his Divine Consciousness/Spirit?”

“After he self-detonated, we immediately searched for his Divine Consciousness/Spirit. Logically, the Divine Consciousness/Spirit of someone who just self-detonated should be very weak, but we couldn’t find his Divine Consciousness/Spirit. He must have had another way to escape.”

Just then, someone else rushed over from the direction of the Holy City. Upon reaching the Demon Lord, he bowed and reported, “Your Venerable, all those in the Holy City who had previously gone undetected carrying Purple Demon Pearls have been forcibly activated. The baleful aura contained within the Purple Demon Pearls has completely erupted, so the energy is extremely large. The turmoil caused by these people is also very great, the Holy City is in chaos.”

What?

Everyone present was shocked.

“About how many people are there?” A guard from the Star Demon Pavilion couldn’t help but ask.

That person said, “It’s not clear yet. Some are randomly attacking others on their own, while others have formed small groups of several or even a dozen people. The combined power of these people is even greater, so there are many chaotic scenes of all sizes. Before I left, there were already dozens of large-scale chaotic scenes that could be seen with the naked eye, and the smaller ones are estimated to be countless.”

“How can there be so many? Weren’t we constantly searching for Purple Demon Pearls in secret? How could there still be so many that slipped through the net?”

Another person said, “It’s not strange. There are so many people in the Holy City. The places we searched were mostly specific locations, and we didn’t have enough time to search the entire city. But it should be alright, the time is still short, and the Purple Demon Pearls in their bodies shouldn’t have had time to take root too deeply. Even if the baleful aura has completely erupted, there is still hope for salvation.”

“I just find it strange, how could they all erupt at once? What were those people thinking?”

Although this group of Demon Soldiers and Demon Guards all have a certain status, they are not the highest-ranking people, and they don’t know much. So, they spoke to each other in front of Esteemed Lord Li Yu.

The person who came to report stood silently to the side, not joining the conversation.

Yun Xia was startled listening from the side. The Purple Demon Pearls throughout the city had been activated? There were still so many!? And it just so happened to appear after Xiao Tongfu’s self-detonation, he wondered if his self-detonation had anything to do with this.

He only felt that one bad thing after another was coming.

The Demon Lord patted his back reassuringly, without showing any panic on his face, and said, “Let’s return to the Holy City first.”

After that, everyone quickly returned to the Holy City. Only then did Yun Xia realize how chaotic the Holy City was.

As long as you were located high in the sky, you could see fights erupting in many places in the Holy City. Baleful aura was an extremely domineering and ferocious power. It could affect a person’s mind from within and had amazing offensive power externally.

Once it erupted, it could even take on multiple opponents, especially since those who were affected had lost their minds, making them even more unscrupulous in their fighting.

The Holy City, which had originally been joyous because of the Netherflower Festival, instantly turned into a chaotic land.

At this moment, before Yun Xia could say anything, a figure appeared in front of them. Yun Xia took a closer look, it was Xiu Wu!

“General Xiu Wu is here!”

“General!”

Xiu Wu didn’t have time to care about them. He immediately said to Esteemed Lord Li Yu, “Your Venerable, all the Purple Demon Pearls in the city have been activated.”

Yun Xia was slightly stunned listening to these words, feeling that something was wrong.

But soon he heard the Demon Lord say, “Okay, let’s close the net.”

Xiu Wu nodded, “Yes! Your Venerable.”

After speaking, he didn’t leave immediately, but waited on the side.

Everyone else felt a bit strange in their hearts. In their eyes, General Xiu Wu’s status was higher than Esteemed Lord Li Yu’s. Although Esteemed Lord Li Yu was the Esteemed Lord, he didn’t actually hold real power. The reason why they listened to Esteemed Lord Li Yu’s dispatch before was also because General Xiu Wu had greeted them in advance, telling them to just listen to Esteemed Lord Li Yu and not refute a single word.

But now that General Xiu Wu had arrived, why did he still look like he was planning to follow Esteemed Lord Li Yu’s orders?

Someone even looked at Yao Yun.

Yao Yun’s identity as the City Lord of Demon Phoenix City had not been leaked. To the outside world, he didn’t look like his original self, but had slightly changed his appearance, acting as a guard beside Esteemed Lord Li Yu.

At this time, Yao Yun glanced at them faintly, and those few people inexplicably shrank back, not daring to say a word, all waiting for Esteemed Lord Li Yu to speak.

The Demon Lord looked at Yun Xia and said, “Rong Feng.”

Rong Feng, who had been silent all along, stepped forward.

“You send Yun Xia back.”

Rong Feng said, “Yes, Your Venerable.”

Yun Xia immediately said, “What about you?”

The Demon Lord looked at him, “I need to command from a central location, properly close the net, and capture all the masterminds behind this.”

He smiled slightly, “Not a single one will escape.”

Yun Xia’s eyes lit up, and he immediately said, “With you here, you definitely can, but… the Demon Transformation Pill…”

He quickly remembered that the Demon Lord had taken the Demon Transformation Pill, and in order to help him stop self-detonating, he had output too much magic power. The Esteemed Lord’s Demon Nucleus had already dissolved into his body.

He anxiously grabbed the Demon Lord’s sleeve, leaned close to his ear, and whispered, “Your… Black Lotus, can it still be used?”

The Demon Lord wasn’t in a hurry to command right now. He stretched out his palm, stared at it, as if feeling something, and then shook his head, “Not for the time being.”

He couldn’t even use the Black Lotus?!

Then wasn’t he easily in danger now?

Yun Xia had never thought that the Demon Lord would also face such a situation, and immediately grabbed him, “I’ll follow you!”

At the same time, he thought, in that case, he absolutely couldn’t expose the Esteemed Lord’s identity, otherwise, what if someone took this opportunity to harm him!

The Demon Lord smiled and said, “What are you doing following me?”

Yun Xia, “Of course, I’m protecting you. You’re now… aren’t you that thing!”

The Demon Lord raised his eyebrows, “Do you think that after I take the Demon Transformation Pill, I’ll be at everyone’s mercy?”

Yun Xia’s gaze immediately swept over the people around him, “In any case, it’s going to be much more dangerous than before.”

He suddenly thought of many things, such as someone leaking the information, being betrayed, taking advantage of the situation, etc. He should have been more careful at the time and not exposed the fact that the Esteemed Lord had taken the Demon Transformation Pill in front of so many people.

But at that time, how could he have cared about so much?

“Don’t worry, nothing will happen to me.”

Yun Xia was about to say something when Yao Yun stepped forward and said, “That’s right, Esteemed Lord, don’t you know? I definitely won’t let anything happen to Esteemed Lord, don’t you believe me?”

Others didn’t know, but Yun Xia knew Yao Yun’s identity, and his heart was slightly more at ease.

The Demon Lord reassured him again, “And even if I’m like this now, it’s not that easy to die. As long as you ensure your own safety, I can rest assured.”

Seeing that he still had to worry about him, Yun Xia said, “Okay, I understand. I won’t cause you any trouble. I’ll go back to the inn now, there’s a barrier you set up there.”

The Demon Lord nodded, “Okay, wait for me to come back obediently there.”

Yun Xia nodded vigorously, “You also need to be careful. I will wait for you to come back safely with Grey Pupil and Wei Ying. After this matter is resolved, I will immediately take you to find a way to resolve the matter of the Demon Transformation Pill.”

The Demon Transformation Pill was always a sharp blade hanging in Yun Xia’s heart, constantly reminding him.

The Demon Lord didn’t wait any longer and flew towards the city with his people.

Only Rong Feng, An He, Wei Ying, Grey Pupil, and Yun Xia’s group were left, walking in another direction.

However, they didn’t fly back, as doing so would make them too visible in the air, and they could easily be caught up in the fighting.

Among them, An He and Yun Xia had the lowest Cultivation Base. The others surrounded the two of them in the middle, quickly heading towards the inn.

Yun Xia had one hand on Grey Pupil’s neck, looking uneasily at the destroyed houses along the road.

He also saw many damaged Netherflowers.

Each Netherflower was like it had been ravaged, scattered all around. Yun Xia couldn’t even find a single good one.

Not a single… good one?

Yun Xia’s heart once again stirred with a strange feeling. This shouldn’t be.

Afterwards, he deliberately looked at the Netherflowers on the road. The more he looked, the stranger his expression became. He really couldn’t find a single good one…

What was going on?

It was like a layer of fog had been shrouding his eyes since just now, but he lacked a clear line, so no matter how he thought, he couldn’t connect the scattered strange feelings together.

“Yun Xia, that immortal race person called you Junior Brother Yun Xia before, what was that about?”

Yun Xia was startled, turned his head to look, and saw that it was An He asking him.

He was instantly pulled out of his thoughts, his expression a little embarrassed.

As expected, many people had heard it, but how was he supposed to explain?

Should he say that Xiao Tongfu was crazy and talking nonsense?

Before he could think it through, he heard An He continue to ask, “Could it be that you are also an immortal race person? He was a spy, are you too?”

An He’s expression was very cold, staring at him as he walked, his tone icy, almost interrogating.

Yun Xia’s first thought was, here we go again?

He would occasionally become completely unlike himself before, why was it happening again now?

And it was at this time.

Yun Xia suddenly felt a bit uneasy.

The people next to them naturally heard it as well. Wei Ying said almost without hesitation, “What are you talking about!”

And Rong Feng only turned his head to look at them, not saying anything, turning back to continue watching the road, leading them forward.

As for Grey Pupil, it didn’t raise its head at all.

An He ignored Wei Ying, still staring at Yun Xia, with not a single smile in his eyes, but instead flashing with a dim light, looking quite scary, “Why aren’t you speaking? If you don’t deny it, are you admitting it?”

Yun Xia wasn’t intimidated by him, glanced at the road, and then said in a normal tone, “No, I’m just wondering why you would think that way.”

“Naturally because I heard it before. You have a Demon Transformation Pill in your sleeve. Why would that thing be with you? What is your relationship with that spy?”

“You really suspect me? Suspect that I would be detrimental to the Esteemed Lord?”

An He immediately said, “Of course. Your Venerable is the supreme of the Demon Realm. Nothing should happen, and nothing has ever happened. He is high above, he should be able to get whatever he wants, and he should have whoever he wants. He wants you, so you should completely belong to him, with your whole heart and soul belonging to him. But what about you? How are you repaying him?”

At the beginning, Yun Xia was listening properly, but as he listened, he felt more and more strange.

He thought that An He was blaming him for his unknown identity, which might be detrimental to the Esteemed Lord, and for letting the Esteemed Lord take the Demon Transformation Pill. But… but how did it turn into the point of completely belonging to the Esteemed Lord??

An He’s brain must have gone wrong!