Chapter 350: The Victim of Long-Term Vegetarianism

When Jia Ji saw Xian Shui Ren knocked out cold by You Hu, possessed by the Spirit of the Fighting God, he couldn’t help but send a message.

[Big Dream God: Xian Shui Ren? What level is she even at to warrant my intervention? Hmph, she’s just a low-tier S-class warrior! How pathetic!]

【Yin Yang Eye Jianzi: People who say lines like that usually end up becoming comedians, don’t they? But… you already are one, so it probably doesn’t matter.】

Compared to Jianzi watching remotely, Esdeath felt it more deeply.

【Ice Queen: That’s Lei Chan… he looks like a powerful incarnation…】

【Big Dream God: I just realized—from a certain angle, gender-swapped Lei Chan ≈ celibate wife-style Lumia… Not good, now I can’t stop thinking about it.】

【Forever Seventeen: Wait, what does Lumia have to do with this?】

【Big Dream God: First, they’ve never appeared together. Second, both are man-eating demons. Omitted… Proof successful.】

In fact, the two demons do share a slight similarity.

It is well known that Lei Chan is a man-eating demon who once killed and devoured humans at random just to satisfy his hunger, earning him the human nickname “Man-Eating Ogre.”

But that was long ago.

Demons who gain power by eating humans are considered extremely lowly, whether in the Demon Realm or the Human World; typically, demons above B-class look down on such acts.

To feed on corpses and attack the living—not out of cruelty or perverse pleasure, nor to savor human flavor—but truly as “food”—is undeniably strange.

Yet Lei Chan, who rose to the apex of the Demon Realm’s countless demons as a Man-Eating Ogre, has not eaten in seven hundred years.

About seven hundred years ago, it was a turbulent era; the nations of the Human World were controlled by corrupt men, and the people suffered in dire misery.

At that time, there was no boundary between the Demon Realm and the Human World; the Spirit Realm had not yet erected barriers to block demons, and specters and ghouls roamed freely across the human world, while nations even allied with demonic clans to fend off foreign invasions.

Back then, countless man-eating demons walked the earth; Lei Chan, though exceptionally powerful, was no exception.

But later, for reasons unknown, after returning to the Demon Realm before the Spirit Realm established its barrier separating the two worlds, he ceased eating humans.

Aside from human flesh, nothing else could fill the Man-Eating Ogre’s stomach. Lei Chan imposed a self-imposed restriction: for the next seven hundred years, he endured constant torment from hunger, his strength and life steadily weakening and withering.

All because of a human woman.

Lei Chan swore never to eat humans again.

“Until I meet her reincarnation, I will not eat another human… This is my promise to 【her】—Lei Chan’s promise.”

But this wait lasted seven hundred years.

By the time Lei Chan was on the brink of death, he still had not met the one he waited for; this demon overlord ultimately received not 【her】, but his and 【her】’s descendant—the one whose blood awakened through the Great Demonic Generation, Pu Fei You Hu.

It truly resembles the tale of the man-eating demon Shang Da and the shrine maiden Shang Xiao; no wonder Jia Ji equated Lei Chan with Lumia.

【Lan Yuan Yanzhu: Uwaa, it feels like a tyrannical demon lord falling in love with a human doctor…】

【Big Dream God: But because of this, Lei Chan has become a long-term vegetarian victim; now, he’s grown weak.】

【Ice Queen: Past his peak?】

【Big Dream God: This time, he’s actually right—it really is past its peak.】

In Jia Ji’s eyes, “Lei Chan·You Hu” was a gaunt figure with protruding ribs and atrophied muscles; though still strong, he could not hide the deathly pallor on his face.

Demons of the Demon Realm can strengthen their demonic power by consuming human souls, but lacking human souls doesn’t harm them much, since they rarely get to feast on lost souls anyway; their main path to strength is cultivation. Some even die without ever encountering a human soul, perishing only in mutual slaughter.

But Lei Chan was different.

He didn’t just consume human souls—he devoured human flesh, and even the very concept of “humanity.” Otherwise, whether weak or strong, all demons would have become his meals; how could he have become so nutritionally deprived?

Like the most absurd joke, the demon who most needed to eat humans was the one who most opposed it.

Since he upheld his vow until death, how could such a demon overlord not command the awe and respect of all demons? Not merely because of the Fighting God’s strength, but because Lei Chan possessed the rare Demon Realm virtues of “integrity” and “righteousness.”

Yet he was still going to starve to death.

…

The Demon Realm has a device called the “Demonic Power Meter,” capable of measuring the energy within a target. If one measured Fei Ying, Cang Ma, and others now, their values would be around ten thousand.

Currently, Hu Yu Lu Di’s demonic power is roughly thirty thousand; ordinary S-class demons are at this level, and even Xian Shui Ren and You Hu at their peak still remain under one hundred thousand.

Then, across the boundless Demon Realm, are there those stronger than them?

Even though the Demon Realm is vast, filled with countless powerful beings who can trigger disasters, reshape terrain, and whose mere presence could destroy a human nation—even nuclear weapons cannot harm them…

Still, three stand above the countless demons.

“Huang Quan, Qu… and Lei Chan.”

These are the three supreme experts who rule the three great nations of the Demon Realm.

After Lei Chan stopped eating humans, his power began to slowly decline; now, he stands in a three-way stalemate with the younger generation of the Demon Realm: Qu and Huang Quan. Yet even so, his power still exceeds one million!

More precisely, it is one hundred thirty-two thousand.

The mere remainder of his demonic power could forge an S-class demon!

Qu’s demonic power reaches 1.57 million; Huang Quan’s is 1.55 million. On paper, they seem far stronger than Lei Chan, now half-dead—but is that truly the case?

“Qu? Huang Quan?”

In Jia Ji’s view, they are not enough!

Or any other unknown experts or reclusive masters in the Demon Realm—none compare to that “starving ghost,” Lei Chan!

What use are demonic power values?

The strongest in the Demon Realm is the Fighting God—Lei Chan!

He was the strongest in the past, and he is still the strongest now!

He could swear: that man’s power utterly surpasses all demons, utterly surpasses the entire Demon Realm—even weakened, on the brink of death, Lei Chan still possesses overwhelming strength until his final breath.

“Only Lei Chan is worthy to be my opponent!”

Jia Ji swung his guaranteed-hit hand blade and charged toward the very edge of world-level power.

“FIGHT!!!”

(End of Chapter)