Chapter 498

The Soul-Devouring Empress nodded, then shook her head.

"His strength is above mine. If he resists, I can only get some fragmented memory pieces; I cannot read complete memories."

Ye Lin squinted his eyes, a dangerous light flashing in the depths of his eyes.

"Since that's the case... then I can only wrong you for a moment!"

He grabbed the Soul-Devouring Empress by the neck and lifted her up. The Soul-Devouring Empress widened her eyes, her eyes full of disbelief, as if she had never expected Ye Lin to attack her.

With a bang, Ye Lin slammed the Soul-Devouring Empress onto the ground, just like throwing a broken sack, showing no mercy at all.

In an instant, dust flew and smoke rolled.

The strange man's pupils shrank violently, as if he hadn't expected Ye Lin to be so decisive in his actions.

"This guy... what a heartless mind, what ruthless means!"

The next second, a figure flew out from the smoke and dust, heading straight for the strange man; it was the heavily injured Soul-Devouring Empress.

The strange man immediately restrained her.

But even having taken the Soul-Devouring Empress hostage, the strange man still felt no sense of security in his heart.

He highly doubted whether Ye Lin would slash him and this Demon Clan member together with one sword.

"Speak, what exactly is the secret." Ye Lin's voice came from the smoke and dust.

The strange man took a deep breath, then spoke slowly, and as soon as he spoke, it was earth-shattering!

"The true Demon Venerable has actually been dead for a long time!"

The strange man's words were short, but enough to set off an astonishingly huge storm in the Demon Realm!

You must know, the Demon Venerable was the existence with the highest status and strongest power in the entire Demon Realm.

If the Demon Venerable was dead, then who was that Demon Venerable currently in the Demon Venerable Hall?

"Do you have evidence?" After a long silence, Ye Lin asked.

"Yes! Because the old Demon Venerable's corpse is in the cave where I live. I also discovered the things and the corpse left behind by the old Demon Venerable, which is why I hid in there! If you don't believe me, you can go in and see later!" The strange man nodded.

"Then who is the current Demon Venerable?" Ye Lin asked further.

"I don't know..."

On that dirty face of the strange man, a rare expression of fear appeared.

"Zhuge Wei calls that new Demon Venerable... the Heaven-Stealing Person!"

"He also said that above the nine heavens, in the dark, there has always been a pair of eyes watching all living beings in this world."

Ye Lin's heart jumped wildly in an instant.

This was too terrifying.

There was a pair of eyes in the dark, always watching your every move; what you said, what you did, how many times you went to the bathroom, all were seen by those eyes.

This was definitely a complete horror story.

"His divination shows that whether it's the Human Clan or the Demon Clan, there is only one ending in the end, and that is destruction. This world of ours is just a pasture raised by some indescribable existence. The war between the Demon Clan and the Human Clan has no meaning."

"Just like two pigs in a pigsty, no matter how they fight or how they get along, as long as the New Year comes, they will both be killed."

The strange man's tone carried a hint of despair.

"This is everything I know."

"No other secrets?" Ye Lin asked again.

"No, that's all I know." The strange man shook his head.

"Then you can die." Ye Lin's tone turned cold instantly.

"You don't keep your word?"

The strange man instantly grabbed the Soul-Devouring Empress's neck, murderous intent exploding in his eyes.

"Kid, you killed me to improve the strength of this Soul-Devouring Demon Clan member, right? If she dies, what good can you get from killing me? We have no grudges, and I don't want to interfere in the Human-Demon war. I just want to live. Why can't you let me go?"

The strange man roared loudly.

"Once a person only wants to live, they will do anything to survive, becoming an existence that completely loses its humanity."

"I once had a friend named Gu Yue. That person had a simple mind and just wanted to live. In order to live, he sacrificed millions of people just to refine a cicada monkey."

"So, you must die today."

Clearly, Ye Lin was determined to kill this strange man.

"Kill me? Since you won't let me go, then your little Demon Clan lover will die too!"

The strange man roared, choosing to perish together, and twisted the Soul-Devouring Empress's neck!

The Soul-Devouring Empress widened her eyes, dying with a grievance, her fair neck twisted into a spiral shape.

After twisting the Soul-Devouring Empress's neck, the strange man turned to run, but at this moment, the Soul-Devouring Empress who should have been dead suddenly reached out and grabbed him.

"Return my life... I died so unjustly... Return my life..."

The strange man's scalp went numb instantly; he hadn't held back at all in that strike just now, this Soul-Devouring Demon Clan member should definitely be dead!

He looked back and saw that the Soul-Devouring Empress behind him had turned into Ye Lin at some point!

A thunder-fire golden sword pierced through his chest instantly, strangling his vitality.

The strange man retreated several steps, his face full of despair.

"Why... why is it like this..."

"Speaking of which, I should thank you."

Ye Lin revealed a kind smile.

"If it weren't for you leading the Human Clan to invade the Demon Realm back then, causing some humans to be skinned and then infected by demonic Qi to become skin corpses, I really wouldn't have been able to get such a good treasure as the Corpse-Underworld Hidden Clothing."

That moment when he slammed the Soul-Devouring Empress just now was to use the cover of the rolling smoke and dust to use the Corpse-Underworld Hidden Clothing to turn into the Soul-Devouring Empress for the strange man to take hostage.

As for Ye Lin hiding in the smoke and dust, that was naturally disguised by the Soul-Devouring Empress. Being extremely skilled in illusions, she wouldn't be seen through by the heavily injured strange man while disguised as Ye Lin at such a distance.

"Cause of the past... fruit of today?"

The strange man revealed a strange smile. Seeing that he was truly going to die, he instead felt a sense of relief.

"Tell me... since everyone has to die in the end, what is the meaning of living?"

The strange man looked at Ye Lin with clear eyes, as if wanting to hear Ye Lin tell him an answer before he died.

Ye Lin thought seriously for a while, then said solemnly.

"The meaning of living? That is, of course, to keep the shit warm. The essence of a human is a dumpling with shit filling."