Chapter 815: After Binding the Child-Bearing System, Becoming a Winner in Life Chapter 816: Fantasy World Passerby A (36)

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

Jin Jue was sitting in the City Lord's Mansion thinking over a plan when, out of the blue, a message drifted in: the demons cooperating with the Sima Clan were coming to the City Lord's Mansion!

Jin Jue: …… Huh?

What do you mean?

Just the literal meaning!

Jin Jue exploded directly — literally exploded — completely clueless as to how he had become a demon target.

The message that drifted down vanished in a flash; if Jin Jue hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have thought it was just a trick of the eye.

He hurriedly summoned the clansmen from outside, and Jin Jue's chubby body circled the main hall.

"City Lord"

"Ancestor"

"Clan Head"

"……"

Jin Jue had many titles, yet all those titles pointed to a single beast.

"No more nonsense. This City Lord has just received word: the City Lord's Mansion is about to face a great calamity."

As his words fell, the clansmen who had entered exploded into an uproar: What does that mean? Could some force be planning to move against the City Lord's Mansion?

"City Lord, what should we do? Play along, defend and counterattack?"

Someone proposed striking back — they couldn't just take the bullying lying down. Besides, the City Lord's Mansion wasn't a place anyone could come and go as they pleased; they had to teach those forces who didn't know the height of heaven and depth of earth a lesson.

Jin Jue: ……

Still talking defend and counterattack — the opponent is demons, how would that work? Would they even get a chance to act?

He hastily waved his hand to silence the proposer: "This is merely a notification. This City Lord's meaning: you hurry and send all the clan's juniors away, temporarily leave Jin Jue City."

The clansmen: ……

This — this isn't just admitting defeat without a fight? Could the enemy be too strong for the City Lord's Mansion to handle?

Things having come to this, Jin Jue still did not say who their enemy was, but the fact that Jin Jue issued an evacuation order showed this enemy was anything but ordinary.

Who in Jin Jue City could make the City Lord this cautious and arrange for the clan's juniors to leave — could it be the Sima Clan and Xuan Yuan Clan have joined forces?

Not all the City Lord's Mansion clansmen knew the full story about the demons; only a few confidants understood everything. To the other clansmen, both the Xuan Yuan Clan and Sima Clan were of Human Race origin, so them joining forces against the Jin Yu Shu Clan was perfectly normal.

"Hmph! Humans truly are a treacherous, cunning lot. They speak pleasantly enough normally —" claiming a blood feud with the other side, yet when facing strange beasts they still strike at the strange beasts first.

What's that called again? Those not of our race must have different hearts!

Jin Jue stopped the clansmen from discussing these irrelevant matters. Right now the key was still the clansmen's arrangements — leaving was a must, and they had to seize time and go as fast as possible; otherwise, when the demons attacked, Jin Jue had no confidence he could protect these descendants who didn't have much ability.

"On the surface we must still keep defending the City Lord's Mansion — can't let them discover we already know everything. Secretly dispatch clansmen to send them away through the escape tunnel our Jin Yu Shu Clan dug out. Once all clansmen have evacuated, seal the tunnel shut."

This sealing shut was literal — a Seal Ban. From then on, no matter who it was, they couldn't open it. It amounted to the Jin Yu Shu Clan burning their boats — unless Jin Jue City could be held in the end, the Jin Yu Shu Clan would have nothing left.

As the City Lord Jin Jue sent down the arrangements he had thought up, the main hall fell quiet once more.

Jin Jue stared with eyes as big as lanterns, pondering what else he could prepare — he couldn't really just tie his hands and wait for capture, after all; the City Lord's dignity still had to be upheld.

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"Host, the City Lord's Mansion is busy evacuating — won't doing this make the demons fly into a rage out of humiliation?"

That thing was originally planning to feast heartily at the Sima Clan first, then go to the City Lord's Mansion to expand and grow stronger. But its own Host made it deliver a message to the City Lord's Mansion, letting all the even more exquisite, succulent food escape.

"Fly into a rage? They're a demon who achieves great things — they won't care about such trifling details."

Shen Yao waved her hand with a calm face, then turned and asked about the Xuan Yuan Clan's situation.

The Sima Clan doesn't know disaster is upon them; the City Lord's Mansion knows and is acting. Now the triangle is missing one corner — what is the Xuan Yuan Clan doing?

Uh

The Xuan Yuan Clan is quietly waiting for the right moment.

Shen Yao: ……??

"Just waiting like that, doing nothing?" Shen Yao was shocked. No wonder the Xuan Yuan Clan keeps declining — turns out they don't even strive for themselves.

It seems several days have passed since the surveillance of the City Lord's Mansion was discovered. The Sima Clan is accelerating its erosion of Jin Jue City. The Xuan Yuan Clan — once the victors, the Central State hegemon, and a Floating City aristocratic family — is actually doing nothing, just waiting there.

System: ……

That's true enough, but actually besides waiting, the Xuan Yuan Clan has only contacted the Floating City Master's House and schemed against the City Lord's Mansion and Sima Clan — all stuck at lip service. Because the Xuan Yuan Clan's internal factions argue endlessly and still can't produce a single decision.

Shen Yao: ……

"Outrageous. I said the demons would win, didn't I? Opponents are all this kind of trash — taking them down would take no effort at all."

"Host, putting it that way, in the end it still comes down to your performance."

Even if the forces in Jin Jue City banded together they wouldn't be a match for the demons, but doing nothing and surrendering directly is obviously even worse.

Shen Yao nodded calmly: "Right. Who told them not to take the demons seriously at all?"

They thought it was some little cat or dog they could pinch at will? They never checked whether they actually possessed that kind of strength. Moreover, some things everyone knows in their hearts — perhaps the demon threat doesn't even compare to the threat posed by their rivals. Humans are the race most skilled at internal strife. When would they choose a unified external front? Probably only when facing imminent extinction.

"Isn't that right now? Jin Jue City hangs on a single thought of theirs."

"What does Jin Jue City count for? It's just a small city — can't compare to other places in the Central State, let alone Chen Zhou, Qing Zhou, or Huang Zhou's territories."

Everyone still maintains a spectator mindset, not unwilling to use this opportunity to test the Xuan Yuan Clan's strength. Demons haven't appeared for too long, to the point they've all forgotten the power demons originally wielded ten thousand years ago.

Shen Yao simply switched hands to prop up her chin, thinking some things still need to be shown to these people for them to understand — after all, hearing a hundred times is not as good as seeing once. No matter how scary the legends, nothing shocks like dying right before your eyes.

System: ……

The General Manager always felt its Host was going to do something earth-shattering; hmm, could a system like it withstand that? There shouldn't be a problem, right.

Just after the City Lord's Mansion side had arranged for all their descendants to leave, the demon hiding in the Sima Clan's Mountain Villa Secret Realm swaggered away from here.

Before leaving, the demon fulfilled its promise, directly feasting on its original host body.

When Elder Sima was conscious, he saw the Sima Clan Residence awash with blood flowing like rivers, even the moon in the sky dyed red; he was immediately scared into nearly fainting, but fortunately bodyguards had always been attending him, so Elder Sima wanted to faint but had no place to do so.

"Th-this, what is going on? Where are the Sima Clan's people?"

With so many methods at their disposal, how could the Sima Clan be slaughtered so one-sidedly? Moreover, there was an even more dangerous demon in the rockery — just who is this?

Bodyguard:...

Who else could it be? Obviously, it's the horrific state caused by the biggest unstable factor, the demon.

Elder Sima had clearly realized the problem; he hurriedly shook off the bodyguards and ran toward the rockery, ignoring the severed limbs and broken bodies littering the ground, and finally reached the Mountain Villa Secret Realm.

Sure enough

The restraint outside the secret realm had loosened, the Sima Clan's unique array showed damage, the thing inside had come out, and conveniently slaughtered their Sima Clan people.

Elder Sima:...

"Why? Why is this? Was our Sima Clan not cooperative enough? We've collaborated pleasantly for many years — could it all have been fake?"

Elder Sima flew into a rage, wishing he could strike out and kill this demon.

The Sima Clan survivors who slipped through the net all gathered toward the Mountain Villa Secret Realm; their faces bore varying degrees of terror, especially upon seeing Elder Sima's crazed appearance — the younger ones wished they could return directly to Chen Zhou, their base camp, the only place they could feel safe.

"Host, how tragic; with the Sima Clan like this, their combat power will drop by half."

The system felt the demon still had some brains, weakening its ally's strength in advance; even if the ally turned enemy, it could no longer bring it any trouble.

"The Sima Clan brought it on themselves; conspiring with a tiger for its skin, the ending has always been thus."

Shen Yao sneered coldly, thinking she'd watched quite a lot of excitement these past few days — when would the story reach its climax? She was already impatient to enter the fray.

There was still a stretch of time before Shen Yao's move, because the three families' squabbling wasn't over yet.

Although the Sima Clan suffered self-inflicted consequences, played by the demon and losing some manpower and even younger clansmen, a great clan is still a great clan; even so, they still had many methods and trump cards to contend with the coming situation.

The system and Shen Yao watched Elder Sima finish his fit of madness, then begin having the fortunate survivors urgently deal with the current Sima Clan Residence.

So much bloody, messy stuff couldn't be kept; the demon's departure couldn't be spoken of; even those who vanished alive and left no corpse dead couldn't be mentioned.

Wedding Guests:...

Then what is the Sima Clan to do?

"Do? Nothing needs doing," Elder Sima rubbed his aching, swollen head, thinking the demon's departure might not be a bad thing for them.

Originally the Sima Clan never fully trusted the demon; the prior cooperation was only for greater profit.

In truth, the parasite's god-slaying, buddha-slaying momentum over these years had already let the Sima Clan reap quite a few advantages in the surroundings.

Jin Jue City is the final destination; Elder Sima himself isn't certain he can really take Jin Jue City smoothly — if they can't get it, they'll destroy this place, then pin everything on the Xuan Yuan Clan, using the chance to drive the Xuan Yuan Clan out of the Central State, then return to seize the Central State and become the new overlord, expanding and strengthening the Sima Clan.

"Elder, but the demon has already left the Sima Clan; if the Xuan Yuan Clan and City Lord's Mansion learn of it, they will surely come settle accounts with us."

The Sima clansmen worried they couldn't cope — escaping the tiger's den only to enter the wolf's lair, is there any way to survive?

Hearing this, Elder Sima let out a light laugh, "Rest assured, they won't find out."

A rather vicious scheme slowly surfaced in Elder Sima's mind; he simply waved his hand, "Just stay peacefully in the Sima Clan Residence; this counts as a blessing in disguise — the demon won't return for a short time.

You needn't worry too much; the rest, leave to me."

Wedding Guests:...

Fine, anyway the Sima Clan currently only has the Elder, so naturally the Elder's word carries the most weight.

The others nodded in agreement and turned to leave; after all, the Sima Clan Residence had been blood-washed by the demon, corpses piled everywhere in a gruesome spectacle, and their tasks were heavy.

The system on the other side was also surprised at why Elder Sima was so confident, as if the one who went mad in the Mountain Villa Secret Realm wasn't him.

"Nothing more than feeling this matter can be exploited; the demon left for the City Lord's Mansion.

Now the City Lord's Mansion is an empty shell; besides the Jin Jue City Lord still holding the fort, the Jin Yu Shu have already left until almost none remain.

The demon's control methods — the Jin Jue City Lord couldn't possibly reveal anything.

The Xuan Yuan Clan is completely unaware; if I were the Elder Sima who just lost power, I'd run to the Xuan Yuan Clan to surrender — whether sincere or feigned, it would get the Xuan Yuan Clan moving," as long as they move, there's no fear of no problems arising; "the more they do, the more wrong they go" describes exactly this.

The system, hearing the Host's words, reacted: Elder Sima wants to team up with the Xuan Yuan Clan, regardless of what the Xuan Yuan Clan actually intends.

System:...

Humans, insidious and cunning! Truly does not deceive it!

"Little mouse, why so nervous? Could this seat still want your life?"

The demon arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, originally intending to kill the chicken to warn the monkey and give the Jin Yu Shu a show of force, but the entire City Lord's Mansion had no one left besides the Jin Jue City Lord.

Tsk

Truly refreshed its understanding of exotic beasts; as expected, the cowardly nature still can't be changed.

Jin Jue City Lord:...

His fat, bulky body curled into a ball, the Jin Jue City Lord buried his head extremely low, thinking this is a demon who kills without blinking — who knows if it would take his little life.

The Jin Jue City Lord gave up; the demon came to the City Lord's Mansion but couldn't pin down the Jin Yu Shu Clan, so it could only focus its energy on its own reincarnation array — after all, it had done so much, cooperating with the Sima Clan and cultivating a parasite, its main purpose was still to live again.

Immortality is too hard; when pursuing immortality becomes an obsession, whether human or demon, they can do any bottom-breaking thing.

The demon began striving for its great enterprise, while Elder Sima also brought his sincerity to the Xuan Yuan Clan who were only busy quarreling.

Who knows how those two sides negotiated, but they actually planned to use the Meng Family and Luo Family as cannon fodder.

The key is the Luo Family and Meng Family are both double-dealers — front foot sent to charge into battle, back foot realizing it's a suicide mission; can the Meng Family and Luo Family endure? Absolutely not.

The subsequent plot began entering a dreamlike, illusory degree.

How to put it?

It's just that the demon in the City Lord's Mansion was ultimately exposed; when the Jin Jue City forces surrounded the City Lord's Mansion, planning to strike first, the parasites hiding among them — already evolved — launched an attack, directly beating those forces into disarray.

After that came the thunderclap revelation of the Four Great Clans' people; the fiercest was the Luo Clan Head, who turned out to be an inside agent cultivated by the demon.

This leads to Elder Sima dying first, Elder Xuan Yuan following closely behind, the Meng Family Clan Head suffering heavy injuries, and Evil Demon victory in sight.

Shen Yao:... It's my turn to go on stage.