"Pah! If my predecessor lived as a bandit, he never expected any good ending. Whatever joy he once had, it was offset by an equal share of suffering. What’s to fear now!!"
"But that was your predecessor. You haven’t enjoyed anything, yet now, before seeking pleasure, you’re about to die a grueso death."
"Bullshit!" the toxic venom demon roared, struggling against his chains, which creaked tensely. A string of curses followed, accompanied by venom spraying from his mouth: "If it weren’t for you! I would have had that little girl in my grasp long ago. If it weren’t for you, would I be in this damned place eating chaff and hard bread!?"
Seized by extre fury, the toxic venom demon’s body started swelling, and his fat began to dissolve. The lting fat reacted with the chains, hastening their dissolution.
Crack—
The toxic venom demon looked at his arm, now free, with a look of astonishnt. His arm was emaciated and decayed due to the swelling and flesh dissolving, but he saw an opportunity for freedom.
The rest of the chains were also pitted and weakened, a slight exertion of force would be enough to break free. A sinister smile on his face, the toxic venom demon was ecstatic but also felt an extre hunger. That didn’t matter; his cellmate was quite delicious.
Both were associated with poison, but the alien demon Shao Heng followed a different path. No matter, though, even a different approach was a hefty tonic in his eyes. Shao Heng could absorb his poison, and he could regard the opponent as nourishing fruit.
Just then, a hand reached out and yanked the toxic venom demon over. His eyes widened in shock as he saw that Shao Heng’s chains had also corroded, though not as severely as his, and a massive cloud of poison had ford around Shao Heng.
Although the poison cloud did not have the sa corrosiveness as the venom dripping from his own body, the effects of the amassed poison were formidable. Plus, given Shao Heng’s robust physique, the chain’s corrosion had allowed him so freedom of movent!
"You—" the toxic venom demon’s eyes bulged, about to say sothing when a large hand pressed onto his head, causing the whole dungeon to shake violently. In the midst of the toxic venom demon’s struggles, Shao Heng’s fists crashed down heavily.
Fluids that were indistinguishable as either blood or venom splattered, and when they landed on Shao Heng, they seeped through his thick, bark-like skin. Yet Shao Heng seed unfazed, his strikes growing heavier and heavier.
The toxic venom demon’s unwilling roars grew fainter and eventually disappeared entirely, and the poison cloud in the cell slowly dissipated.
The body of the dead toxic venom demon quickly dissolved, its venom swiftly converting into new poison clouds. These, too, were entirely absorbed by Shao Heng. The venom’s ability to penetrate his skin indicated that its potency had surpassed his body’s tolerances, but the poison clouds were different.
Once the poison cloud had completely cleared, leaving only a shattered dark green skeleton, Shao Heng’s skin, which had been penetrated by the poison, also healed. He looked at his skin, reminiscent of dead tree bark, with a hint of regret. In his mory, his predecessor, though nearly middle-aged, had been rather handso.
Now this... beyond comnt.
"Quite the unexpected boon." Shao Heng clenched his fists. His martial arts-based inner strength had not increased with this ordeal, but as an alien demon, his physical body had greatly enhanced. The toxic venom demon had seen him as nourishing fruit, and having eliminated him, Shao Heng felt an almost instant maxing of his level.
He was now very powerful, but even so, Shao Heng still felt uncertain when it ca to facing Zheng Yichen and that other dangerous entity he had sensed before.
He looked at the cell door, which had also beco pitted due to the poison. It was an opportunity to escape, but he did not leave. Instead, he waited. It wasn’t long before the door was opened from the outside. Lin Yaoyao, coming here again, wore so device that ford a unique barrier around her.
"What happened?" Lin Yaoyao, observing the remains of the dark green skeleton on the ground and Shao Heng’s intact body but torn clothes, asked.
The alien demon Shao Heng didn’t keep silent: "I killed him."
"And your reason?" Lin Yaoyao frowned slightly. She had learned from Qi Xiangyun about the uniqueness of these two as dicinal subjects. Initially, she had considered disposing of them later. The toxic venom demon was sowhat useful, convenient to test a certain hallucinogenic poison.
She had planned to deal with it later...
But now the alien demon, destined for disposal, was left with nothing but a skeletal fra, with many bones violently smashed to pieces.
"He wanted to escape, and I didn’t want to die, young lady. Your research was dood to fail."
"... I already knew that. Just continue waiting here for now," Lin Yaoyao said, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, as she prepared to close the cell door. Although the alien demon Shao Heng didn’t show any ill intent, she was still not letting her guard down.
"Wait, young lady, I would like to understand so things about the outside world."
"I can’t right now, wait here for a bit, it won’t be too long."
After Lin Yaoyao finished speaking, she completely closed the dungeon door and found Qi Xiangyun: "Sothing’s happened in the dungeon... I’m having so doubts."
"What is it?" Qi Xiangyun asked curiously.
"We’ll talk on the way."
They returned to the dungeon, and Qi Xiangyun, looking at the alien demon Shao Heng who showed no intention of resisting, also hesitated, mainly because the other side was too cooperative. After they took the initiative to co here, the alien demon Shao Heng began to describe his own situation.
It made Lin Yaoyao completely clear that her research had indeed gone astray.
Lin Yaoyao composed herself: "Thank you for the information. Do you have any questions?"
Shao Heng pondered briefly and asked, "How is the dynasty now?"
"The dynasty is now just so remnants, considered part of the princes and nobility."
"So the dynasty has fallen?"
Lin Yaoyao slightly curled her lips: "Indeed it has fallen, but so people just refuse to accept it."
She had also had contact with people from the dynasty. Although educated by the tis to see so truth, those remnants of the dynasty still retain an indelible pride. Even though they have now fallen to the level of ’princes’, they still have confidence.
People can be distorted by the influence of the Demon Flower, but the secret vaults left by the dynasty do not change. Those are important resources in this era. At first, so people coveted those vaults, yet the remnants of the dynasty were not so fragile.
In a ti when everyone was in disarray, remnants of the dynasty withstood several bouts of pressure. After opening so of the secret vaults, they quickly grew stronger. With increased strength, their once-suppressed arrogance began to resurface.
"What about alien demons?"
"Alien demons are everywhere, but unless there’s a surprise, a war between the alien demons and the human race is inevitable." Qi Xiangyun answered, watching Shao Heng closely, the ’human’ in front of her also an alien demon.
"The alien demons do not represent my stance, even though I am one as well." Shao Heng said, tapping his head: "Although mories of my forr self are incomplete, my brain was well preserved when influenced by the Demon Flower. At least eighty percent of its mories can be considered my ’experience’."
"I don’t know how other alien demons who have regained intelligence are, but I now lean more toward humans." Speaking of this, Shao Heng turned to look at Lin Yaoyao: "If my situation is different from that of other alien demons, then your research can be considered very successful from another angle."
"..." Lin Yaoyao couldn’t help but fall silent, not desiring this kind of success. The main part of her research was to repair the brain, then stimulate it, so as to awaken the body’s original mories.
As to whether Shao Heng’s situation differed from that of other mory-regaining alien demons, there was indeed a difference. Her dungeon held alien demons that had regained intelligence.
So of these alien demons were communicative, while others were very aggressive, with many behaving like oversized gorillas raised by humans, and even the more rational ones that could speak smoothly had significant issues, exhibiting unstable values and personalities.
"How about discussing it with Brother Chang Qing when he returns?" Qi Xiangyun suggested to Lin Yaoyao.
"Let’s wait for Brother Chang Qing to return then." Lin Yaoyao glanced at Shao Heng, who revealed a smile across his bark-like face and presented a damaged skeleton on the ground: "Then I shall await good news."
"It may also be bad news," Lin Yaoyao emphasized.
Shao Heng nodded: "If it is bad news, then I can only struggle for the last ti."
Leaving, Lin Yaoyao left behind two books, nothing special, just from the bookshelves in her ’parents’’ room she had grabbed at random.
As they left the dungeon, Zheng Yichen and Liu Hongzhao just left the Dusk Territory...
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