Chapter 72

Chapter 072: Once Upon a Time (Part One)

Living beings!

Lu Ye’s blood-red eyes stared at the weak Demon Clan members.

Although the Demon Clan was weak, their youth and vitality resembled the rising sun; wiping them out would quench the thrill of slaughter by snuffing out their burgeoning lives.

All the weak demons looked at Lu Ye.

They wore eager smiles on their faces.

Truly, there are prodigies among humans, even more formidable than this demon.

Come on, kill me!

Lu Ye didn’t bother with any nonsense and swung his sword.

Puh puh puh…

Blood soaked the ground.

The strong scent of blood filled the air as one young demon after another was cleaved in half by the sword energy, their faces adorned with strange smiles as crimson streams of energy surged toward Lu Ye after their demise.

Lu Ye didn’t care and continued to kill.

Young demons poured continuously into the Genius Ancient Battlefield.

But their numbers were still too slow; it simply wasn’t enough for Lu Ye to keep up with the slaughter.

His blood-red eyes glanced at a dirty firebird that was practically blind.

He raised his hand and delivered a punch!

“Boom!”

The firebird fragmented into pieces, feathers flying everywhere.

“Huh?”

Lu Ye let out a light exclamation.

Another punch, and the heavens seemed to lend him strength as a whirlwind erupted.

The Vermilion Bird was eroded by boundless regret; her body shattered under Lu Ye’s strike, and she unexpectedly felt a sense of liberation within.

Die, it’d be better to just die.

Lu Ye had saved her twice, and she owed him two lives.

At that moment, memories flooded back like it was yesterday.

“Vermilion Bird? The Four Divine Beasts? Why are you such a tiny thing?”

“Anyone who knows you’re a Vermilion Bird would think you’re just a little chick.”

“Hello there, little chick, nice to see you again!”

“Tsk, with that dirty face of yours, come here, let me wash you!”

“Cough cough cough, you little rascal, how dare you repay kindness with ingratitude? I help you bathe, and you drag me into the water?”

“Little sparrow, here we go again! What is wrong with your Demon Clan? Why are they chasing you so relentlessly? Please, you’re a Vermilion Bird, aren’t you? If the Demon Clan knows your kind, it’s outrageous they’d still hunt you!”

“Come with me; if you don’t, you’ll be dead before you know it.”

“That Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor truly is terrifying! But don’t worry, little sparrow, I’ll deal with him!”

…

Lu Ye and the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor engaged in a peak battle of the First Heaven.

The more they fought, the more silent Lu Ye became.

Until the end.

“Lu Ye, have you killed so many demons?”

“What can I do? If I don’t kill them, they’ll kill me.”

At that time, Lu Ye’s face was a mix of exhaustion and murderous intent.

“How could such weak demons kill you?”

“Weak demons? Do you have any idea that the weak demon behind you is the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor?”

“Impossible!”

“I’ve never lied to you!”

“Get out of the way!”

The Vermilion Bird believed Lu Ye.

But too many had died, way too many, including those poor newborns, all slaughtered by Lu Ye.

Tragic!

Yet, she only saw the demons’ misery while failing to notice the pain in Lu Ye’s eyes.

For Lu Ye, slaughtering the weak was, tragically, a profound torment.

But he had no choice.

If he didn’t kill, everything would have been in vain.

The demons he had previously slain would have been for nothing.

Eventually, the Vermilion Bird forced herself into the path of a young beast, one that had just been born a few days ago, its eyes barely opened!

How could such a newborn be part of the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor?

“Get out of the way!”

Lu Ye’s face bore an intense murderous intent.

He pointed his Stone Sword at himself.

“If you want to kill it, you’ll have to kill me too! It’s just a newborn!”

“But it is the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor!”

“It is not!”

The Vermilion Bird couldn’t imagine how that young beast, which she once sheltered, could be hiding a vicious and malevolent expression she couldn’t see at that time.

She hadn’t told Lu Ye that she secretly kept a young demon hidden away, a fledgling firebird that hadn’t grown its feathers yet.

She wanted to see if this was indeed the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor.

Because of her repeated interventions, Lu Ye knocked her out.

When she awoke, nearly half of the demon realm had been slaughtered by Lu Ye.

Especially the young demons.

Lu Ye later tried explaining to her, and while she knew he was right, she simply couldn’t accept it at that moment.

She waited for that young bird to grow.

Under her protection, that young bird lived for a long time.

It lived for a long time, and through an unfortunate event, that firebird perished without ever revealing itself as the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor.

Later on, while she couldn’t accept this fact, watching the broken demon realm slowly restore life, she began to come to terms with it.

Now, recalling those memories, she suddenly realized.

The time that young bird grew under her protection was, in fact, Lu Ye’s most difficult period.

From the Second Heaven to the Fourth Heaven, it seemed the entire world was against Lu Ye, even provoking the Eternal Order Sect.

So many things seemed like mere coincidences, so illogical.

Until, until she found a demon scripture in the ancestral grounds of the demon clan in the Seventh Heaven.

**Ten Thousand Spirits Transformation Blood Demon Sutra**…

Hahaha, she thought the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor who practiced the **Ten Thousand Spirits Transformation Blood Demon Sutra** didn’t even know the name of this technique.

The Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor is the **Parasitic Celestial Demon**.

She thought she had saved a firebird, but little did she know she had saved a horrifying existence that threatened the entire demon race and could lead to its complete annihilation.

She couldn’t die!

She absolutely couldn’t die.

If she died, Lu Ye wouldn’t have to go after the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor in this lifetime.

Because Lu Ye had become so powerful this time around that he needed no opponents; with all his strength in cultivation, he could leave all enemies far behind.

She wanted to kill the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor.

She wanted to feel the pain Lu Ye had experienced while killing the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor.

After experiencing the suffering that Lu Ye once endured, she would return to Lu Ye and let him kill her with his own hands!

“Phoenix Fire!”

A sharp cry of the bird echoed through the heavens.

Blazing golden-red flames erupted high into the sky, revealing a massive Vermilion Bird amidst the fire, the supreme breath of the Four Spirits of Heaven and the Four Symbols of the Earth.

Blood-red chains suddenly wrapped around Lu Ye; this was the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor’s intervention.

The host it desired could not simply be killed by Lu Ye.

For an ordinary host, it didn’t matter how many died—the likes of the Vermilion Bird were rare hosts; as long as there was hope, the Ten Thousand Spirits Demon Emperor wouldn’t give up.

What if it succeeded?

Yet, it underestimated Lu Ye.

The blood-red chains couldn’t hinder Lu Ye in any way.

He punched out.

The chains shattered on the spot.

“Boom!”

The Vermilion Bird True Flame was forcibly extinguished with a punch, and a faint red light rushed into the teleportation vortex, vanishing within.

A whole new wave of young demon beasts surged in.

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