Chapter 816: Bound to the Birth System and Becoming a Winner in Life Chapter 817: Cannon Fodder in the Xuanhuan World (37)

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

Shen Yao had always believed that the protagonist would always appear at the very last moment.

System:...

"Host, are we appearing too late? Everyone here is already dead!"

The system screamed in surprise, as if it had seen a student who was late for class and left early.

Shen Yao rubbed her forehead helplessly, indicating that she would not be late no matter when she appeared, hadn't they seen the demon still smugly complacent over there?

Moreover, her previous preparations were not in vain; some things looked fine but would reveal their use at a critical moment.

Use?

What use?

"Of course a positive use. The array has a problem, and the demon is using the array to carry out its plan."

"You say, the more important the array, the greater the backlash if it fails midway, wouldn't it?"

Because this was a matter against the heavenly way, going against the sky had never been easy to succeed.

Don't look at how arrogant the demon was now, appearing as if everything was under control; in fact, this demon itself felt guilty in its heart, merely putting on a brave front.

System:...

Is that so? How come I didn't see that?

Speaking of which, ever since her host came over and set up a concealment array for herself, she had been standing aside watching, saying on her lips that it was time for her to appear, but the array was not withdrawn and she did not appear; hmm, surely she didn't have other plans, right?

"System, you're finally smart once," Shen Yao snapped her fingers heedless of others. Even though there were many people around her, these people could not break Shen Yao's concealment array at all and could not see Shen Yao at all. "Do you think the Xuan Yuan Clan and Sima Clan have only this much skill? Could they be easily counterattacked by the Luo Family?"

The system shook its head to indicate disbelief. The Xuan Yuan Clan and Sima Clan were both existences that liked to contact their families whether there was something or not. Right now, the two family heads of Jin Jue City had died one after another, and the family head of the Meng Family was seriously injured. This was obviously too smooth to the point of being somewhat fake.

What about the trump cards of the Xuan Yuan Clan and Sima Clan at the very least?

"Here, they're about to come out," Shen Yao casually pointed outside, and the system saw a large number of hidden cultivators hurrying on their way.

The ground began to shake left and right. The fawning family head of the Luo Family stiffened in expression. He waved his hand to gather his own people, turned around, and rushed into the City Lord's Mansion controlled by the demon.

The old ancestor of the Jin Yu Shu Clan of the City Lord's Mansion, Jin Jue, was hiding at the doorway slacking off. Outside, separated from the City Lord's Mansion by only a wall, a wall formed by humans soon appeared. The flag banners of the Xuan Yuan Clan and Sima Clan fluttered in the wind, and a smell of blood was mixed in the air.

"Sir, Sir, they're coming!"

The family head of the Luo Family realized too late and hurriedly shrank behind the demon in a cowardly manner.

Previously, relying on the demon's backing, he had been arrogant and domineering. Now he obviously discovered that the opponent had long been prepared. The rationality of the family head of the Luo Family took the high ground, and he began to reflect: if the demon could not suppress them, would he himself need to jump another layer of a false identity? Their Luo Family was not a match for the Central Province and Chen Zhou.

"Panicking, what are you afraid of? Since they're here, this seat was just worried about not finding suitable blood food," and as a result, he actively delivered himself to the door to be eaten.

Hmph!

The demon snorted coldly, then did not wait for the other party to speak or attack, but directly waved a big hand. The mother body of the parasite, hidden who knew how long, suddenly drilled out from underground of the City Lord's Mansion.

Compared to the long rope size of the parasite child body, the parasite mother body seemed to have been enlarged many times. With mysterious blood-red patterns all over its body, plus jointed limbs that made it look mighty and imposing, as soon as it appeared, it relied on its murderous aura to scare away the incoming people.

It had long been known that Jin Jue City was unstable, but it was not expected that Jin Jue City could be played into such a state of delay. The two plastic allies of the Sima Clan and Xuan Yuan Clan, who had allied midway, had a hundred thousand thoughts and tacitly retreated one after another.

Hmm

Even if the two families of Jin Jue City suffered heavy losses, Jin Jue City would be destroyed accordingly. The Sima Clan and Xuan Yuan Clan still did not forget to harbor some petty thoughts and scheme against each other.

"This is what aristocratic families are like; a dog can't change its habit of eating shit."

Shen Yao evaluated impolitely. She playfully glanced at the two sides facing each other, neither of which had taken the initiative to attack, and suddenly mentioned Lu Yan, who was still at home.

Ah?

System:... What does this have to do with Lu Yan?

"Can't I ask even if there's no relation?" Shen Yao felt the system really couldn't chat. She had not forgotten the situation when they first came to Jin Jue City, being blocked by parasites batch after batch.

Although after arriving at Jin Jue City, various troubles did not find them, Shen Yao did not relax her vigilance because of this. Coupled with Lu Yan's memory problem, Shen Yao had once used means to investigate. The facts showed that there were indeed traces of artificial tampering with Lu Yan's memory. The sealing technique was quite sophisticated. Unless Lu Yan himself broke through this shackle, no one could know the content of this memory.

Of course, this naturally included Shen Yao. However, Shen Yao could use means to break the seal, but after breaking it, Lu Yan would have problems. Lightly, he would become an idiot; heavily, he would lose his life.

"I suspect Lu Yan's mother has a great relationship with this demon."

The parasite mother body was controlled by the demon. The ones who attacked them at the beginning were definitely arranged by the demon. Combined with the token discovered in the Sima Clan's secret realm, Lu Yan's mother was a cultivator who liked to wander around everywhere. The demon and Lu Yan's mother had old grievances.

"Old grudges, right? The demon is so bad, using humans without mercy. The system finds it hard to imagine that the old grievance between Lu Yan's mother and the demon was anything good."

"More or less, and this grudge is very deep. When dealing with them, there was no reservation at all. This is because Shen Yao's strength is strong and she doesn't fear parasites. If it were someone else, they would have long died on the way to Jin Jue City."

"Lu Yan, stay at home. When you went out today, didn't you tell him not to wander around?" Lu Yan was obedient and honestly accompanied the Blazing Lion to improve his aptitude, completely unlike those people who acted on their own initiative.

"Hmm, help me send a message. Tell him to go to my room until I return."

System:...?

Didn't understand but respected. After all, the system had long had experience in this aspect. In just a moment, the matter was settled. The system discovered that the fight here had not actually started yet. If they delayed any longer, the demon would really resurrect.

"We must not let the demon successfully activate the array to resurrect. By then, we will all become nourishment."

The study of the aristocratic family had many handed-down books, which naturally were not lacking in descriptions of demons.

To say that the Master's House far away ten thousand li did not know about the matters of Jin Jue City was a lie. However, what the Master's House knew was indeed not much more than this side.

It was a pity that Elder Xuan Yuan and Elder Sima had already died. The living people did not know much about this. Otherwise, they could have known even more.

"After the matters of Jin Jue City are settled, we all need to clean up the sect. Why not take this opportunity to save some means?"

"Is this the meaning of the Sima Clan?"

"Isn't this the idea of the Xuan Yuan Clan?"

The two family heads who came this time were the true confidants of the Master's House. They could be said to act on behalf of the master and also possessed the power to execute first and report later.

The two glanced at each other, the corners of their mouths slightly hooked. A fierce attack then landed on the parasite mother body.

The originally peaceful battlefield suddenly changed; Shen Yao let out an "aiyo" and immediately her body rose into the air — this was to more conveniently observe the situation before her.

The Luo Family hiding behind the Demon were all thrown out by the Demon to do the work.

After all, the Demon does not support idle people; those who cannot create value for him get fed to the Parasite Hosts — the Demon does not care whether you are a confidant or not; in the Demon's eyes, only he himself is important.

The Parasite Mother waved jointed limbs several times larger than those of the offspring, attacking the Sima Clan and Xuan Yuan Clan nonstop; because both sides countered each other relatively well, neither gained much advantage nor suffered much loss.

Once the Luo Family joined the battlefield, they became the soft persimmon in both sides' eyes.

Luo Family: ……

The Parasite Mother has no concept of companions; even offspring are expendable cannon fodder in her eyes; therefore the Luo Family got no good treatment at all, miserably struck down by the combined forces of both sides, until soon only the Luo Family Clan Head remained stubbornly resisting.

"Hmph! Self-inflicted!"

As the Jin Jue City Lord who slacked off yet had thick skin and tough flesh and could keep lying low, it also couldn't help mocking its plastic ally still nominally in the same camp.

"We all sell our lives for the Demon Lord; do you think you're nobler than me?"

The Xuan Yuan Clan and Sima Clan held nothing back against Jin Jue either; however, every attack method that landed on Jin Jue was rebounded by that thick hide of his, not even a single trace appearing.

The Parasite Mother was even more excessive, practically attacking indiscriminately; even the Demon had to dodge himself — not a shred of reason to speak of.

"This City Lord was forced; unlike you, who actively cooperated with the Demon."

As an exotic beast, Jin Jue looked down on the Luo Family — they're not as good as the Meng Family; even though the Meng Clan Head's life or death is unknown, at least he preserved the rest of the Meng Family.

Luo Family Clan Head: ……

As if he didn't want to learn from the Meng Family? It's just that when you're in the thick of it, you have no choice.

The Luo Family Clan Head was also very wronged; he didn't throw himself into the Demon's embrace from the start — it was only after coming to Jin Jue City that he secretly contacted the Sima Clan, but who would have thought the Sima Clan actually colluded with the Demon? The Luo Family Clan Head had thought of resisting, but at the time he was neither a match for the Demon nor for the Sima Clan, so he could only helplessly submit.

"Hmph! Nonsense! Our Chen Zhou Sima Clan has always been irreconcilable with the Demon; don't you dare slander us."

The Sima Clan member attacking the Luo Family Clan Head began to defend himself, conveniently shifting the blame onto others — even the dead Sima Elder, now transformed with a shake, became a clean and white hero.

Luo Family Clan Head: ……

Truly shameless; no wonder these people didn't show up when I was killing the Sima Clan — turns out the Sima Elder had long become a discarded pawn, and he was just the tool for disposing of pawns; now that the tool has lost its use, the Sima Clan naturally wants to silence him by killing him.

Jin Jue City Lord: ……

Didn't expect humans to be the real masters of scheming — there's even more behind the scenes; aiya, fortunately I listened to that person's words and arranged for the clan's younger generation to leave in advance; otherwise, staying behind would probably have meant becoming cannon fodder too.

Jin Jue hurriedly dodged; it didn't want to fight these things to the death — it's an exotic beast, not a human, and has no grand ambition to exterminate the Demon; right now it just wants to fish in troubled waters, and will strive to leave once it finds an opportunity.

Someone from the Sima Clan wanted the Luo Family Clan Head's life; this person naturally couldn't dodge; thus, the Luo Family Clan Head ultimately died with hatred in his heart.

The death of one Luo Family Clan Head brought no relief to the situation at hand; the Parasite Mother struck just as ruthlessly — whoever she touched got a slap.

The Sima Clan and Xuan Yuan Clan could hold on at first, and even their Contract Beasts could provide long-range support; but as time dragged on they fell back one after another — the Parasite Mother is simply too over-standard; whether jointed limb length, body hardness, or resistance to arts, all are pushed to the extreme — how can such a Parasite Mother be dealt with?

"No way; the Parasite Mother is not an offspring — essentially she has no weak points." She didn't come out of the Secret Realm before because she wasn't strong enough; now, having eaten the flesh and blood of so many cultivators, her physical strength has smoothly stacked up to a pretty good Node; unless the Parasite Mother can't sustain herself.

"Can those offspring threaten the Mother too?" The System looked at the offspring beside the Mother — some severed in two lying on the ground, oozing liquid similar to fresh blood, emitting a foul fishy stench.

"Theoretically yes, but do you know how many offspring there actually are?" To threaten the Mother via offspring, you'd have to slaughter offspring to a certain quantity and degree.

The Parasites have developed in the west of the Central State for so many years; no one knows how many Parasite offspring exist. The Sima Clan, as the party cooperating with the Demon, might vaguely have a blurry concept in their hearts, but judging by the force of their current attacks, they most likely still think killing the Parasite Mother is more reliable.

System: ……

That would be completely hopeless; don't be fooled by the traces of arts left on the Parasite Mother — dense and numerous, looking somewhat hopeful — but the System knows these traces are all superficial; she hasn't the slightest injury.

The System is deeply worried, feeling that the Sima Clan and Xuan Yuan Clan's trump cards hold not a shred of surprise; if piling on people could really solve the problem, the Demon's Parasites can mass-produce troops endlessly — why would they need to cooperate with the Sima Clan?

"Host, we"

The System's voice hadn't even landed; the words at its mouth still hadn't been spoken — when it saw the originally one-sided situation suddenly change.

Someone actually burst out from behind the Demon, carrying incomparable thunder power, horizontally cleaving the Demon.

Ah?

There's another expert?

"Pity it's useless."

Shen Yao shook her head, thinking: if the Demon were really this easy to deal with, he wouldn't have lasted until now — he should have vanished cleanly ten thousand years ago.

The cleaved Demon recombined into one, incidentally sucking the person who attacked him into a dry corpse.

"You lot — just this much ability?" Waited and waited, until even he was getting bored — turns out you're still pulling assassination tricks that weren't even third-rate back in the day.

The Demon opened his mouth to mock, continuing to command the Parasite Mother to strike.

Blood fiend qi even more brutal than before swept horizontally toward the Xuan Yuan Clan and Sima Clan.

The first to suffer erosion, to be invaded by Parasite offspring, were cultivators with insufficient cultivation and Contract Beasts.

The offspring's control ability is sufficient; these cultivators and Contract Beasts rebelled on the spot — those with reason severed their own lives, those without reason directly became puppets; in the end, the losses still fell on the Sima Clan and Xuan Yuan Clan.

This……

Can't beat them in a fight, can't escape — what other way is there?

"Wait"

Shen Yao pointed at the Meng Family Clan Head who had already woken up and been dragged to the rear and placed there, then tossed the token she had taken from the Sima Clan into midair.

System: …… Huh?

How did the token change color? Before it was clearly jade-colored; now it's glowing.