Chapter 137: Scolding and Exposing Shortcomings

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Boom—!!!

A deafening thunderclap exploded, and bolts of lightning illuminating the heavens and earth erupted from the clouds; by the light of the electricity, everyone saw the giant object in the clouds for the first time.

A gargantuan head, wreathed in thick black mist, was slowly emerging from the high clouds; the roar that had just made the Ancient Capital tremble was emitted by this very head!

"What... is that thing?" Zhu Meng's composure was somewhat shattered.

The head alone was bigger than the Mountain Corpse; what about the body?

What kind of thing had they summoned!?

"It's opening its mouth!"

The giant head, thousands of meters above the ground, opened its abyss-like maw in an extremely discordant way, as if it were tearing its upper and lower jaws apart.

"It shouldn't be planning to fire a Dragon Blast at the ground, right?" Ximu's eye twitched wildly.

"No," Shendu paused.

"If I'm not mistaken, it's hungry!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a black vortex rapidly formed within the abyssal maw, churning and tearing, as if it were Sha Yuan itself.

Boom—!!!

As the thunder roared, a terrifying suction force, even greater than that of Sha Yuan, erupted from the black vortex, and a bizarre scene ensued.

The dense masses of Undead on the ground seemed to lose control of gravity; they slowly left the ground, gathered in a spiral, and flew toward the vortex. It looked just like a waterspout, only instead of water, it was dense masses of Undead being sucked away!

Seeing this, the entire city began to cheer.

The Undead were being swallowed; the Ancient Capital was saved!

"No! Why is my Magic Array malfunctioning?"

Daolong's expression stiffened.

Why had Lv Cheng started devouring the Undead?

These filthy things shouldn't be eaten!

And why hadn't the soul energy filled with impurities that had accumulated in his body started to burn yet?

"The one who is a picky eater is Lv Cheng, not the Demon," Shengdoushi Lvcheng said faintly.

"Demons are never picky; he will devour everything until nothing remains."

"Besides, do you think this bit of Undead can feed him?"

"..."

The group of Demons turned their gazes toward Bogang.

Gluttony and devouring everything in sight—this was Bogang's Demon Qi!

"Uh... I don't really understand either," Bogang said awkwardly.

Having been hungry in Hell for thousands of years, she had been starved out of her wits and had forgotten many things.

"Gluttony, and being easily hungry, is because of your greed," Shengdoushi Lvcheng said faintly.

"You were once incomparably greedy, and your devouring of the world never ceased for a moment, which is why you once had a body larger than a mountain."

"But in the thousands of years in Hell, you were not only locked up until you became foolish, you were also deprived of your desires; your greed was restricted, so your power weakened."

"Your appetite shrank as the greed in your heart diminished."

"This Demon obtained your Demon Qi, so he has the same characteristics as you: gluttony."

"You became easily satisfied after a long period of abstinence, but he did not."

"The emptiness in the depths of his heart cannot be filled!"

"..."

"Don't you dare tell me he's going to keep eating forever!" Daolong's eye twitched wildly.

His plan didn't include Lv Cheng absorbing the Demon Qi of the Demon Bogang!

He hadn't even considered this possibility!

"Unfortunately, he really will keep eating forever," Shengdoushi Lvcheng shrugged.

"He is very greedy, yet he doesn't know what he wants, so he relies on gluttony—the fastest way—to seize everything; but if he doesn't get what he wants, he will become angry, and the anger will consume his energy, making him hungrier and hungrier."

"The more he devours, the emptier he becomes."

"He can never be full."

"Roar!!!!!"

"Oh my~ hungrier the more he eats; he's starting to get angry."

"..."

Watching Shengdoushi Lvcheng's "just watching the show" attitude, the group of Demons had extremely strange expressions.

That's not right, is it?

You're really not planning to intervene?

The devouring speed of that Demon in the sky is clearly getting faster and faster; if he really gets hungrier the more he eats, there will only be one outcome in the end!

That guy will eat this world!

To be honest, they weren't panicked; if he eats it, he eats it. Even if that Demon really swallowed Earth, they wouldn't be affected; they could just move to another world.

But could a Saint Warrior really sit by and watch such a thing happen?

Moreover, that thing was not just a broken Demon, but also the other side of this Saint Warrior; just as Daolong said, this was his responsibility.

"Roar!!!!!"

The speed of the gravitational devouring seemed unable to satisfy the Demon's needs; the clouds in the sky surged rapidly, and tornadoes descended from the sky, landing on the battlefield of the Undead Army, scooping up tens of thousands of Undead and sending them into the Demon's mouth.

"At this rate, in less than an hour, the Undead on the ground will be eaten clean by him," Daolong's expression could no longer hold up.

How did this plan deviate from its course so much?

"Um, what if the Undead are all eaten up?" Ling Xi had an ominous premonition.

"..."

"I said it before, the Demon isn't picky." Shengdoushi Lvcheng shrugged.

"The Undead are currently the beings on the ground that contain the most energy, so they have become its priority target; once the Undead can no longer satisfy it, it will naturally shift its target."

"This city is also a decent breakfast."

The sky had already brightened!

But the darkness swallowed the dawn that belonged to this city and this land.

"Are you... still my child?" Su Meng looked at the Shengdoushi with a complex expression.

Shengdoushi Lvcheng nodded, then shook his head, "Yes, and also no. I am mostly the past, with only a tiny bit of the present; Lv Cheng is less than one percent of me."

"Perhaps you won't believe this, but strictly speaking, that guy sleeping in the sky is more truly your child."

Lv Cheng's understanding was correct; he was indeed closer to his side as a Demon, because that Demon was newborn and empty, so after they merged, the so-called "Emo Lvcheng" produced was dominated by Lv Cheng in terms of consciousness.

And for him, compared to the long past as a Shengdoushi, the little bit of experience in this lifetime could hardly even stir up any major waves.

He was the past, a failed Shengdoushi.

Lv Cheng was the present and the future, and moreover, he was not a Shengdoushi; he was a human, and also half a Demon.

He chose another path.

"Perhaps Righteous Qi is indeed too pedantic, but I have walked too far on this path to turn back now." Shengdoushi Lvcheng took a deep breath.

"Alright, the jokes end here. Demons, it's time to return to Hell!"

"Wait a minute!"

Looking at the Pure Yang Sword aimed at him, Shendu panicked.

"Don't you think you should stop that guy in the sky first?"

"We haven't done anything yet!"

"Haven't done anything?" The Shengdoushi narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Are you questioning my judgment?"

All the current problems were because his previous actions had been interrupted and sabotaged time and time again!

Back in Bo City, if Shendu hadn't brought that little girl into the battlefield, causing him to lose focus, the Demon problem should have been over by then.

As long as the Demon was sealed in Hell, so many of the subsequent messes wouldn't have happened!

As for Lv Cheng, the sacrifices in the fight against Demons were countless; he could die, so many Shengdoushi in the past could die, so many Mage could die, why couldn't Lv Cheng die?

Moreover, Lv Cheng had already prepared himself mentally when he came into contact with Demon power; whether he lived or died, succeeded or failed, he could accept it.

He understood this point, because they were the same!

The only difference was that the former him chose to pursue the power of Righteous Qi, while this Lv Cheng chose the Demon.

"I am not questioning your judgment, but..."

Shendu pointed at Zhou Lan and his group, who were sneaking into the Dark Plane gate.

"Perhaps we could have another way of resolving this."

"Compared to those beings in the Dark Plane, don't you think we Demons are more humane?"

"Ha!" The Shengdoushi sneered.

"What kind of character you have? Do you think I don't know?"

"Old thing, you have ruled over humans for too long and are most tainted by the human aura; you are too much like a human, but unfortunately, you have only learned the unspeakable things of humanity."

"Insidious, despicable, profit-seeking, treacherous, selfish, and shameless; for the sake of a little immediate benefit, you can easily betray and abandon your brothers and sisters, and you can even kill your own son with your own hands!"

"If it weren't for the restrictions of the Contract, this world would already be a different scene with someone like you!"

"Uh..." Shendu's eye twitched.

Don't expose people's shortcomings when scolding them!

Why is everyone picking on my dark history?

Besides these, do you have nothing else to say?

(End of this chapter)