TBOUMTBDK Chapter 64

Chapter 64: The Truly Ruthless One Is You

Yun Xia thought, as he was being kissed, that His Esteemed Lord was temporarily unwilling to reveal his identity. The thought flashed through his mind, and he lost all other thoughts.

The Holy Monarch Li Yu kissed him more and more passionately, holding Yun Xia in his arms. They were of similar height now, and Li Yu only needed to press Yun Xia against himself to reach his lips.

He kissed him while domineeringly pushing Yun Xia backward.

Yun Xia was forced to retreat a few steps, then was pressed into a flowerbed, covered in petals.

He went from being alert at the beginning to gradually being drawn into the kiss, and he began to respond to the Holy Monarch Li Yu.

As soon as he responded, Li Yu pressed him even harder.

At that moment, Yun Xia suddenly heard a voice, “Your Esteemed Lord!”

Yun Xia was startled. How could it be An He’s voice!

The moment the voice sounded, Yun Xia felt everything shaking before his eyes. An He’s spirit popped out of nowhere, fighting with Yun Xia for control of his body.

An He’s spirit was the same as before, fragmented, chaotic, and aggressive.

He seemed to have lost his anchor. All Yun Xia could feel from his spirit was a fanatical devotion to the Demon Lord.

Yun Xia was a little overwhelmed by this illogical spiritual attack. While his own consciousness was still relatively clear, he pushed the Demon Lord away with all his strength.

The Demon Lord was slightly stunned. He stood a few steps away, looking at him with a puzzled expression.

“What’s wrong?” he asked.

Then he raised his foot, wanting to approach again, seemingly wanting to kiss him again.

Moreover, he now seemed to be entering the same state Yun Xia had been in at the beginning. He didn’t find the now-transformed wooden house garden strange, didn’t ask Yun Xia why he was here, and didn’t even inquire about whose voice he had just heard or where it came from.

Knowing that the Demon Lord hadn’t yet “awakened,” Yun Xia leaned back against the tree trunk, panting, and said, “Don’t come near me. I… I have someone else in my head right now.”

“You have… someone else in your head?” The Demon Lord frowned and stepped forward, grasping his hand. “Who?”

Yun Xia couldn’t answer for a moment. The other spirit in his mind was constantly attacking his sea of consciousness seal, trying to completely replace him.

But such a powerful seal was difficult for a fragmented spirit to break through. After trying several times, An He turned to fighting for control of the body.

Yun Xia desperately held him back, while trying his best to say to the Demon Lord, “Can you help me? Come outside my sea of consciousness and drive him, drive An He out!”

The Esteemed Lord mainly cultivated the spirit. He was unparalleled in spiritual cultivation and could definitely help Yun Xia.

Seeing the pained expression on his face, the Demon Lord’s expression also turned grave. “Bear with it. I’ll try.”

He gently embraced Yun Xia, raised his hand, and pressed it against his forehead.

Yun Xia clutched his clothes, closing his eyes tightly. The closer the Demon Lord got, the more agitated the spirit in his mind became.

After a while, the Demon Lord stared at his hand with a grave expression, his voice heavy. “I can’t use any power.”

What!

Yun Xia was caught off guard. In his shock, An He seized control of his body.

The Demon Lord was then violently knocked down by “Yun Xia.” “Is it you? Have you come? You really came! Your Esteemed Lord!”

An He shouted, still calling him Your Esteemed Lord.

Because his consciousness was confused at the moment, Esteemed Lord and Jun Zhou sounded somewhat similar, so Mo Jun Zhou didn’t react.

“I’ve always, always liked you. I’ve been watching you. Your Esteemed Lord, you’re so high above. Have you ever noticed someone silently watching you at your feet?”

This person, seemingly crazy, was clearly not Yun Xia. The Demon Lord pulled him away, saying coldly, “Never.”

An He continued to speak on his own, pouring out his feelings:

“For so long, I’ve been using my own strength to approach you little by little, getting closer and closer. I’m happy and very content. But I never expected that you would come down from your high place for Yun Xia, showing the kind of smile and patience to the person you like that you never would to anyone else, just like countless men in the world.”

“I don’t think it’s your fault. After all, you’re still a person and can’t escape life and death. So, is there a chance for some of my delusions to come true? I don’t want much, just this last obsession. Can you grant it to me?”

The Demon Lord lowered his eyes, looking at him. “You said your name is An He?”

An He immediately nodded happily, his face glowing with excitement. “Yes, yes! I’m An He. Hearing you say my name is one of the happiest things for me.”

The Demon Lord looked at him, raising an eyebrow. “Looking at you now, I realize that even with the same face, the feeling people give off when they smile is completely different.”

He chuckled softly, his gaze sweeping over “An He’s” face. He said softly, “You better get out of your own accord and stop occupying his body. Otherwise, I will personally send you to hell.”

He said it so casually, but the familiar feeling reminded both An He and Yun Xia of the Demon Lord, sitting high in the Demon Palace, his hand supporting his forehead, not caring about the life or death of those below him, the Demon Realm’s Supreme.

Even if he was only using a stand-in at the moment.

“An He” suddenly froze, his whole body trembling, and he instinctively knelt on the ground, his back shaking.

The Demon Lord looked at the familiar person kneeling before him. Even if it wasn’t Yun Xia, but only using Yun Xia’s body, he wasn’t happy, so he said, “Aren’t you leaving yet?”

As soon as he finished speaking, An He’s spirit directly retreated back to Yun Xia’s sea of consciousness, turning into An He’s appearance outside the seal, tightly embracing his own body, his face filled with fear and fanaticism.

His mouth was still muttering, “It’s Your Esteemed Lord’s original appearance. It’s his original appearance. It’s been so long. It’s been so long! Your Esteemed Lord, Your Esteemed Lord even called me, even touched me… Does he not want to see me? Because I’m not Yun Xia? Who is Yun Xia? Oh right, the person Your Esteemed Lord likes. But Your Esteemed Lord won’t like anyone, anyone! But in fact, he does like someone, strange, what went wrong?”

His logic had collapsed. He wrapped himself up in his own thoughts, then debated with himself.

At the same time as he retreated, Xiao Tongpu’s angry voice rang out, “What? Useless! What are you afraid of him for! In this place, you can do anything you want!”

Xiao Tongpu didn’t understand. He knew how deep An He’s obsession with Holy Monarch Li Yu was. He had been delighted to see this obsession and felt that even the heavens were helping him.

Who would have thought that there would be someone by Li Yu’s side who coveted him so much?

It perfectly matched a key part of his plan—

Using An He to lure Yun Xia over. Then, making the most of it, in the Disintegration Illusion Array, everyone would act according to their desires. An He, who was already close to collapsing, would definitely not be able to resist the rules of this array. Logically, An He’s extremely strong desire for Holy Monarch Li Yu would directly overwhelm Holy Monarch Li Yu.

Even if Holy Monarch Li Yu knew that the person in front of him wasn’t Yun Xia himself, it didn’t matter. Faced with such an intense emotional impact, he would eventually succumb.

When he succumbed, the emotions would be at their most intense, and that would be the time for the array to fully activate.

But Xiao Tongpu never expected that Li Yu would make An He kneel with just one sentence? And give up?

No, something must be wrong.

A desire for someone couldn’t disappear because of one sentence. Xiao Tongpu recalled the situation just now.

At that time, Li Yu… had a feeling unique to someone in a high position.

When an ant loves someone unattainable, they are often blinded by the feeling of the difference in status.

When these people fall in love with this type of person, they also extremely like their position and status. These external things combined are what they are fascinated with.

That made sense. Li Yu’s position in An He’s heart must be too high. An He extremely liked, or rather, was more impressed by Li Yu’s commanding appearance in this high position.

Xiao Tongpu looked at Yun Xia with a complex expression. It was all because he had been too anxious and didn’t have enough time to completely turn An He into a spirit puppet.

That’s why An He’s spirit puppet was only a semi-finished product.

Otherwise, after he had completely entered An He’s sea of consciousness and understood all of An He’s memories, he could have been prepared for what happened today.

But, although the first attempt had failed, there was no need to rush. There was still plenty of time.

The two people were still trapped in the array. As time passed, they would eventually succeed.

Xiao Tongpu was very confident in the Disintegration Illusion Array.

Underneath the tree house, Yun Xia and the Demon Lord both heard Xiao Tongpu’s exasperated voice.

Yun Xia paid attention to observing the Demon Lord and found that the Demon Lord really didn’t have any reaction to it, as if he hadn’t even heard it.

He tentatively asked, “Jun Zhou, you heard that person’s voice just now, right?”

The Demon Lord intimately grasped his fingers and played with them. “Of course I heard it.”

“Uh, don’t you have any other thoughts?”

The Demon Lord was slightly startled. “What thoughts?”

Yun Xia thought that it must be Xiao Tongpu’s doing.

He added, “You can’t even use Demonic Energy either? Let me try… Ah, I can’t either.”

Here, they had become the most ordinary of mortals, without Cultivation Base, unable to break through here, and unable to let An He’s spirit leave?

The Demon Lord had obviously thought of this as well. “An He’s spirit is a bit troublesome. I’ll teach you a cultivation method in the future. We can’t run spiritual power, but you can strengthen your own spirit, right?”

Yun Xia nodded.

“That’s good. As long as your spirit becomes strong, he won’t be able to affect you again.”

Yun Xia breathed a sigh of relief. That was good. With the Esteemed Lord here, even if he was being controlled by the array and didn’t have any intention of leaving, Yun Xia wasn’t worried.

They couldn’t stay in the array forever. However, he believed that the Esteemed Lord would eventually “wake up.”

After Xiao Tongpu figured it out, listening to the two of them talking, he laughed to himself.

They didn’t know that the longer they stayed here, the more assimilated they would become by the array, and the harder it would be to leave.

In a good mood, he said generously, “Yun Xia, Junior Brother, you’ve really exceeded my expectations. You ‘woke up’ so quickly. Actually, you should thank me. Isn’t life good here? Without others disturbing you, without external conflicts, without schemes, without betrayals, and without the Immortal Realm or the Demon Realm. Your identities are both quite complicated. Do you really think that your past companions would accept you without any suspicion after you exposed your identities? You’re thinking too simply.”

Listening to his endless chatter, Yun Xia secretly tried to determine where he was.

The voice was coming from above. Was he in the sky?

While thinking, he provoked him to speak. “That’s better than living in a false world.”

“So what if it’s false? Do you think the person next to you is false? Don’t forget what you just did. As long as you want, anything can happen. Then what’s the point of Cultivation Base?”

At this time, the Demon Lord pulled Yun Xia to sit down next to him on the huge, soft meadow Yun Xia had created, saying, “Don’t talk to others. Talk to me. This is the home you arranged, right? It’s good for us to live here.”

Yun Xia was shocked. “Jun Zhou! I want to leave here!”

He looked at the Demon Lord anxiously. Although he still didn’t know what the Disintegration Illusion Array wanted to do, if the Demon Lord also became immersed in this place, Yun Xia had a feeling that it would be very bad.

So, he grabbed the Demon Lord’s hand hard, saying word by word, “We must leave here together!”

The Demon Lord’s pupils contracted slightly. He looked at Yun Xia’s face, and a storm seemed to flash in his eyes.

But in the end, everything returned to calm.

He pulled Yun Xia up, glanced at the surroundings, his expression unchanged, his voice soft but determined, “We will.”

Yun Xia blinked, suddenly feeling that the Demon Lord had changed slightly, but he couldn’t see it clearly.

You couldn’t lie within the array, so he really thought they would go out.

Yun Xia immediately became happy.

From that day on, the two people began to live in the array.

This was a boundless giant tree world.

Xiao Tongpu said that you could do whatever you wanted and achieve anything you wanted in the array, which was obviously a lie.

For example, they couldn’t leave here.

In fact, there were many things they couldn’t do.

For example, they couldn’t leave the canopy. The canopy was tens of meters away from the ground, but they could only fly up to the bottom of the canopy and couldn’t pass through the canopy to reach the top.

They couldn’t carry out large-scale destructive activities here, such as destroying the array.

While exploring, they advanced towards the center of the array. Yun Xia found that he would get hungry and tired here, just like ordinary people, and had to eat every day.

However, he could imagine delicious things, and he found that he couldn’t make himself directly full. There had to be a step of eating.

It seemed that this array still had limited power.

However, he quite liked the process of eating.

If his idea was known by Xiao Tongpu, Xiao Tongpu would definitely spit out a mouthful of old blood.

Was this still limited power?

The Disintegration Illusion was already one of the top-level arrays. You wanted to make yourself directly full, did you also want to become an immortal directly?

During these days, Xiao Tongpu would also talk to them occasionally.

“How is An He’s spirit doing? Tsk tsk tsk, still cultivating? Wasn’t it controlled very well already? I say, you’re really asking for trouble.”

“I say, aren’t you tired? Why run around? Isn’t it good to settle down in one place? Anyway, it’s the same everywhere.”

“Oh, you have a good relationship? It’s actually all real? Let me tell you, many couples who came in before revealed their true colors. The superficial affection, the vows that they had to have each other were all fake. In fact, they all had ulterior motives and their own purposes.”

Xiao Tongpu liked to watch people who seemed to get along well bite each other, a pair of beautiful couples who seemed very suitable to outsiders, cursing each other after coming in. The original patience was fake. In fact, they were constantly cursing in their hearts, regretting that they had to be with such a person.

Or after coming in, they would draw their swords at each other at the first meeting. It turned out that they were only with each other for the treasures of the other’s family.

Xiao Tongpu liked to talk about these things, telling Yun Xia and Demon Lord with relish.

After listening, Yun Xia rolled his eyes. “You’ve lived for many years and seen many people, right? Don’t you know that you can’t just look at the outside? That everything others show you is correct and real, and that the world is full of good people?”

Xiao Tongpu: “…”

After coming in, Yun Xia didn’t hide his disgust for Xiao Tongpu and would retort at him at every opportunity.

Of course, he couldn’t hide it either.

Apart from the vague sense of crisis that was always looming over them, Yun Xia thought this kind of life was not bad.

These days, he found that people were happiest when they couldn’t do everything and achieve everything. Because he had everything he wanted now, the delicious food he had eaten, the fun things he had played with. He even fantasized about various entertainment facilities: an ancient version of the amusement park.

He even moved the most bustling street in Holy City over here.

However, it was only this time that he knew that thinking about these things consumed spiritual power. After an entire street appeared, Yun Xia himself almost passed out.

There was no one on the street. However, when Yun Xia recovered and opened his eyes, there were people coming and going on the street.

His eyes widened.

Without thinking, the people on the street must have been “imagined” by Demon Lord, and they were very realistic. Everyone had their own appearance, expression, and purpose.

At first glance, he thought they had really returned to Holy City.

However, as long as he took another look, he would find that the street was combined with the giant trees on both sides. Because the sunlight leaking from the canopy was limited, the “street” had to be lit.

During these days, Yun Xia and Demon Lord walked and played, holding hands, kissing, and sleeping in the different wooden house Yun Xia made every day.

Every day was very fresh.

In addition, under the guidance of Demon Lord, he would take time every day to temper his own spirit.

Such days seemed peaceful and interesting.

However, as he had thought before, after such days had passed for a long time, they were actually quite boring. But with Esteemed Lord by his side, he felt pretty good.

Here, there was no Demon Lord, no Holy Monarch Li Yu, only a man who had opened his heart.

Thanks to the rules of the array, Yun Xia knew that every word Demon Lord said was true. The two people were unreservedly good to each other, looking like a couple with a very good relationship.

Standing on the street, fireworks exploded overhead. Yun Xia immediately remembered what happened in Holy City that night.

Demon Lord had given the whole city a fireworks display. In fact, it was also for him alone.

Yun Xia suddenly felt very touched, and something was constantly stirring in his heart. He followed his heart and turned to face Demon Lord, taking off a jade pendant from his waist.

It was the Phoenix Rainbow Jade Pendant. It was the first task Xiao Nanli had given him in the Demon Palace, to bring the Phoenix Rainbow Jade Pendant out of the Demon Palace. Then Xiao Nanli had given it to Yun Xia as a reward.

Of course, Yun Xia had never intended to hand the jade pendant over in the first place.

“Jun Zhou,” he called out.

Actually, he was calling Demon Lord’s name in his heart, Mo Jun Zhou.

He didn’t bother to pursue why he could directly call Demon Lord Jun Zhou. Because in the Disintegration Illusion Array, which was said to be impossible to fake, even Demon Lord’s appearance couldn’t be truly displayed.

There might be a reason Yun Xia didn’t know.

He smiled and said, “I’ve wanted to give you this Phoenix Rainbow Sword for a long time, but it was delayed until the end of the Netherflower Festival. I don’t know how many days have passed outside now, but the Netherflower Festival must have passed, right?”

Demon Lord noticed something, quietly looking at him, his eyes filled with a gentle smile. “Yeah, it doesn’t matter.”

Yun Xia smiled. “Yes, then what does it matter? You gave me a fireworks display, and I’ll give you the Phoenix Rainbow Sword.”

The smile on Demon Lord’s lips deepened. “Giving each other things? Do you know what that means in our Demon Realm?”

“Of course I know. It means engagement.” Saying that, he handed the jade pendant to Demon Lord.

Demon Lord raised his hand and took it. Their fingertips touched. Even though they had been holding hands often these days, Yun Xia was still moved, because Demon Lord grasped the jade pendant and his hand together in his palm.

“It’s an engagement. We’ll always be together well in the future.”

Demon Lord reached out his hand to Yun Xia.

Yun Xia silently recited in his heart, always, be together well.

What beautiful words.

He raised his hand, intending to grasp Demon Lord’s outstretched palm.

Then he saw his hand suddenly take a turn, pressing Demon Lord’s wrist down.

Then he heard himself say, “No, we won’t be together forever.”

Yun Xia and Demon Lord were both stunned.

Demon Lord asked, “Why?”

Hearing the question, he had to answer.

Yun Xia quickly thought of something, his heart pounding wildly. He had forgotten one thing!!

But in this place, he had no way out. He could only watch himself say, “Because you have no heart. You can’t fall in love with anyone. You don’t really love me. You just think I’m interesting and want to keep me by your side forever. That way, you can be happy forever, so of course you can say such things.”

Yun Xia’s lips were constantly trembling. No, don’t say it!!

Demon Lord’s face had already darkened. He stared straight at him, not missing any of his expressions.

Yun Xia’s voice was light, but his lips were white. He tried desperately to control himself, but he couldn’t stop it at all.

The words flowed out so smoothly. “You cultivate the Black Lotus. This is the most difficult path in spiritual cultivation. Many people want to cultivate it, but from ancient times to the present, only you have succeeded. To walk this path, you’ve already cut off some of your own escape routes. Of course, you don’t care at all. It’s just that you can’t fall in love with others, what a small price to pay. If you really fall in love with someone, the Black Lotus will backfire on you. But all along, you’ve been telling me that you’re fine, that the Black Lotus hasn’t backfired on you, right?”

This was a question.

And Demon Lord’s lips moved slightly. “Right.”

Yun Xia smiled miserably. “See? Many people have told me not to fall in love with you, because there can’t be a result. Before, I wasn’t pursuing the result. I just wanted the process to be happy, so I followed you to Holy City. But in reality, I know this is the result, but I still fell in love with you inextricably.”

Demon Lord stared at him without blinking, the previous calm and relaxed expression gone from his face. He asked in a low voice, “So, you’ve always known?”

Yun Xia nodded. “Yes, I’ve always known.”

He shouted in his heart, but I don’t think so now!!

He finally said what he wanted to say, “It doesn’t matter if you don’t like me. I’ll love you.”

Yun Xia grabbed Demon Lord’s hand.

He repeated, “It doesn’t matter if you don’t love me. I’ll love you. That’s the truth!”

Demon Lord didn’t speak.

The warmth between the two of them had turned into coldness, extremely simple.

Because the truth was merciless.

Xiao Tongpu had originally been very happy to watch. He knew that there couldn’t be no conflicts between the two people. In this array, the conflicts would be magnified, so he had been very patient, waiting for them to collide.

Originally, he had been a little anxious. Over the years, no couple had been able to last so many days, but these two had done it.

Just when he was extremely confused, finally, this moment had arrived.

But as he listened, he sensed that something was wrong.

Black Lotus?

Was Li Yu cultivating the Black Lotus? That was impossible.

Was Yun Xia talking about that Black Lotus?

But as far as he knew, there had only been one person in the entire Three Realms who had successfully cultivated that Black Lotus for thousands of years.

That was a person who had made the Three Realms tremble, a person whom the Immortal Realm had planned to kill before he had fully grown, a person who had united the Demon Realm, which had been chaotic for countless years.

No one knew what that person looked like, but no one could help feeling a trace of fear in their heart when he was mentioned.

He was like a mountain, pressing on everyone’s heads.

As a result, countless powerful figures, whether from the Immortal Realm or the Demon Realm, had secretly joined forces, trying to destroy the peace that this person had created.

And he, Xiao Tongpu, was just a small fry who had gotten involved because of personal desires.

Although the Disintegration Illusion Array was one of the top arrays, even a Demon King-level powerhouse would have to suffer before leaving.

But if it was that Demon Realm Supreme, Xiao Tongpu didn’t have any confidence at all!!

That’s right! It couldn’t be Demon Lord. How could Demon Lord let him be so arrogant and stay in the array for so many days?

Xiao Tongpu opened his mouth, but that question couldn’t be asked for a moment.

He could find out the truth by just asking, but he was so afraid that he didn’t dare to ask!

The Black Lotus was too special. Almost no other cultivation method was similar to it. Plus Yun Xia’s words, Xiao Tongpu almost collapsed.

On the street, Yun Xia was waiting for Demon Lord’s reply. Demon Lord suddenly said softly, “Didn’t you say that you would never leave me? Don’t you feel sorry for me? Seeing the former me, don’t you want to go back to the past and personally hug the former me? I’ve already shown you those scenes.”

Yun Xia was stunned, thinking of the things Demon Lord had shown him before. He first answered his question, “Of course I feel sorry for you. I also want to hug the former you. After that day, I was always thinking, if I could have come to this world earlier, then maybe I could have met you earlier.”

He felt that Demon Lord’s words were a bit strange. He asked in astonishment, “You just said that you’ve already shown me… Do you mean that you deliberately let me see that kind of you that time?”

Demon Lord nodded. “Yes.”

Yun Xia murmured, “Why?”

“To make you feel sorry for me, to make you not leave me.”

Demon Lord gently embraced him. “I’ve said it many times. You can’t leave me, but you don’t seem to have taken it to heart, little Yun Xia.”

Yun Xia was embraced by him, his chin resting on his shoulder, slightly looking up at the canopy above.

“As expected of someone without a heart. Can even my pity be deliberately triggered?”

Demon Lord’s hands tightened. “So what? That doesn’t matter. It’s good as long as I achieve my purpose. Do you think I didn’t know? Actually, you’ve been planning to leave me, to leave the Demon Realm, right?”

Yun Xia shuddered violently, and the tightly bitten lips were torn with blood. “Yes.”

Demon Lord let him go, his fingers gently stroking his lips. The bloodstains disappeared. He smiled, but the smile didn’t reach his eyes. “From the Demon Palace to Holy City, you’ve been recklessly approaching me, but you’ve also been firmly pushing me away. So, the truly ruthless one is you, little Yun Xia.”

Yun Xia was speechless.

“So, let’s call it even, can we?”

Yun Xia was slightly stunned. He had never heard Demon Lord ask him in this tone. The Esteemed Lord had always been gentle but domineering, saying one thing and meaning one thing.

He had always underestimated this person, always feeling that he could control everything.

Yun Xia thought that this was Demon Lord’s way of survival. He was different from himself. The era he lived in was different, and the dangers he faced were even different.

He couldn’t ask others to do things in his way.

So—

“Okay, it’s even.”

Demon Lord finally smiled.

At this time, Xiao Tongpu finally couldn’t listen anymore, loudly asking, “What are you talking about? What Demon Palace? Aren’t you Holy Monarch Li Yu? Holy Monarch Li Yu clearly came from the Demon Phoenix City!”

Demon Lord glanced at him faintly, not showing any sign of embarrassment from being forced to answer. “No.”

“What did you say? You’re not Holy Monarch Li Yu? How is that possible!” Xiao Tongpu’s voice was tearing.

“I never said that I was Holy Monarch Li Yu himself. But it’s okay for you to call me Holy Monarch Li Yu, because I used to be Holy Monarch Li Yu.”

He had truly become Holy Monarch Li Yu, so the array’s judgment was correct and didn’t count as a lie.

Even Xiao Tongpu himself had never discovered this small loophole.

Xiao Tongpu was already on the verge of collapse. “So, so you’re Demon…”

Then he saw the youth slightly curl the corners of his lips, saying, “I am.”

Xiao Tongpu only felt his mind explode.

Demon Lord? He really was Demon Lord!

As the temporary holder of the Disintegration Illusion Array, he certainly knew the array’s power. Even Demon Lord had to tell the truth after coming in.

But it was also because of this that Xiao Tongpu was praying for the first time that the array would occasionally make a mistake and tell him that what Li Yu said was a lie.

He recalled everything he had done since coming to Holy City, and his repeated contacts with Holy Monarch Li Yu. He suddenly realized that everything he had done had failed.

If it wasn’t like this, how could he have fallen to where he was now?

He had self-destructed, his body was gone, his spirit puppet, his spirit puppet was even An He, and An He had been by this person’s side all along. Had he really not noticed An He’s abnormality at all?

Xiao Tongpu gasped for breath, asking, “Was the person who fought me at the beginning sent by you?”

Demon Lord said, “Yes.”

“An He, you knew about An He’s situation all along?”

Demon Lord raised Yun Xia’s chin. Yun Xia, hearing their conversation, also recovered slightly.

“I knew. That was what I did on purpose, using your own plans against you. Little Yun Xia, you’ve suffered. But after this, your spiritual power will increase by leaps and bounds.”

Yun Xia was silent.

The price was An He.

Just like Demon Lord had said before, he wouldn’t let anything happen to Yun Xia. As expected, An He, who had been so powerful before, became completely unable to resist after Yun Xia cultivated with Demon Lord’s method.

“You, you…” Xiao Tongpu’s spirit was torn apart because of the self-destruction, and his mental state was already bad. Now that he knew the truth, the entire array shook.

He suddenly came back to his senses, desperately stabilizing the array. “Even if you’re Demon Lord, you’re in the array now. You can’t leave, right!”

Demon Lord smiled slightly, saying, “Not right.”

Then, he said to Yun Xia, “Yun Xia, let’s break the array together.”

Yun Xia nodded. “Okay.”

Xiao Tongpu’s eyes widened. “Wait! You can’t break the array! The reason why the Disintegration Illusion Array is so terrifying is because it can’t be broken. Even if the array collapses, you can’t stop the array’s power from completely impacting your body. Even if you’re Demon Lord, you’ll be injured!” Xiao Tongpu said hastily.

“Oh? Then what are you worried about?”

Xiao Tongpu choked. “You, you are Demon Lord after all.”

The array shook more and more violently with the fluctuations of his emotions. Things on the street were constantly falling, and the people inside were running around in panic.

“This time, I’m counting on you, Yun Xia.”

Yun Xia was stunned. “Counting on me?”

“Yeah. Tell me, where are you from? You’re from outside the Three Realms, right.”