NFBE Chapter 474 They were after the Pure Ice Lotus
Chapter 474 They were after the Pure Ice Lotus
"Does it have to be this way?"
A chilling voice from the inner demon echoed in her mind, causing Xue Lan's hands to pause slightly.
"There's no other way!"
No sooner had she finished speaking than a hand reached out from beside Xue Lan and pressed against her cheek.
Xue Tong's cold voice came:
Are there any risks associated with your method?
Xue Lan quickly shook her head:
"Absolutely not!"
Xue Tong forcefully pushed her backward, then met the gaze of her inner demon:
Is she telling the truth?
My inner demons are full of questions:
"You're asking me this? Don't you know I'd rather she were dead?"
Xue Tong looked at her inner demon:
"You said it or not!"
The inner demon quickly averted his gaze, speaking clearly:
"It's nothing, it's just that controlling my demonic body through the barrier between the upper and lower realms is a bit taxing on my soul."
After listening, Xue Tong asked:
"Is it just a drain on the soul?"
The inner demon looked at Xue Tong:
"What do you mean by 'only depleting the spirit and soul'?"
Xue Tong glanced at Xue Lan, who had been pushed to the back by the two of them, and wore a well-behaved smile on her face:
"Hasn't she exhausted her spiritual energy?"
The inner demon gritted his teeth, wanting to retort but unable to find the words. After a moment, he spoke:
Are you aware of the Wan Gong Fang project?
"All right!"
Xue Lan emerged from behind like a caterpillar, separating the two people who were talking.
The woman's expression looked rather grim; when facing her inner demons, she resembled a man-eating monster.
The inner demon looked at Xue Lan with a smile:
"Oh dear, what's going on? Our Lord Wolf has indeed devised a terrifying plan while Xiao Tong is away at the Heavenly Forging Hammer Trial!"
Xue Lan:
"Shut up, please!"
He cursed venomously during the telepathic transmission, but Xue Lan's outward voice was gentle and polite, like a spring breeze.
"All right!"
The woman had one arm around each person, smiling broadly.
"There will be many conflicts in the lower realms. You two are my right-hand men, so please don't quarrel!"
In the next instant, she withdrew all her arms and legs, allowing Lord Wolf to have a close encounter with the stone table.
The inner demon patted non-existent dust off its shoulder and whispered:
"unlucky!"
Xue Lan: "It wasn't you..."
"Get your demonic body moving! Emberlight has started fighting those people!"
Xue Tong's voice interrupted Xue Lan's output, and the woman turned to face the light screen in front of her.
As expected, a great battle had already broken out in Beiyue City.
With a slight flick of the woman's wrist, the enormous demonic body that had just been awakened in the Ice Flower Pool stood up, its snow-white, soft fur swaying like water plants in the clear pool water.
The phantom wolf head slowly raised, and two clusters of icy blue flames ignited in its empty eye sockets.
Looking at the giant wolf demon from Xue Lan's perspective, Xue Tong couldn't help but speak:
"handsome!"
"What do we do next?" Xue Tong looked at Xue Lan beside her.
"How do you control it? Do you need to perform corresponding actions here?"
Xue Lan was startled by the girl's words, and her mind uncontrollably conjured up images of herself using a human body to mimic the actions of a wolf. Finally, she spoke coldly:
Do you think I'm mentally ill?
Xue Tong looked at her and suddenly realized:
"Wasn't he sick before?"
Xue Lan suspected that Xue Tong was insulting her, but she had no evidence.
After Xue Tong finished speaking to Xue Lan, her heart, which had been hanging in suspense, was finally at ease. The girl looked at the light screen she had summoned again, which was now radiating magical light and blurred into a hazy expanse.
Amidst the howling wind and snow, and the clash of swords, the girl suddenly raised her hand and pointed to a corner of the screen:
"There are also those who try to take advantage of the chaos here!"
The inner demon followed the girl's gaze and discovered that amidst this earth-shattering battle, there were actually those who were taking advantage of the chaos.
Two figures turned into transparent wisps of green smoke in the corner of the picture and flew at an extremely fast speed toward the distant Thousand Mountains and Light Ink Painting.
"This isn't about Jin Guang!" The inner demon looked at Xue Lan beside her. The woman was trying to split a red thread on her wrist into five to better control her demonic body. Hearing this, she spoke easily:
"They weren't here for Ember?"
The woman frowned slightly.
"The Thousand Mountains and Pale Ink Painting should be a training ground now. Do they want to sever the bloodline of my Silver Moon Wolf clan?"
The inner demon shook its head:
"Absolutely not!"
While the struggles between the demon races of the upper realm may sometimes lack restraint, they would never be this insidious.
"That's the Pure Ice Lotus!" Xue Lan exclaimed.
"These people are after the Pure Ice Lotus in the secret realm!"
The woman's voice carried a strange laugh:
"Logically speaking, Lin Shuang is already dead, and we haven't even obtained the Ice Spirit Root of the Silver Moon Wolf..."
"Why are you still so hung up on the Pure Ice Lotus!"
Upon hearing Xue Lan's words, a thoughtful expression appeared in the inner demon's icy blue eyes:
"If the Lin family didn't want it themselves, then it must have been authorized by the Demon Clan."
"Didn't Ji Ping break into Beiyue City at night before?"
"So... why do the demons want the Ice Purifying Lotus?"
Xue Tong, standing to one side, raised the most important question.
"Is there anything special about the Pure Ice Lotus?"
"Actually, there's nothing special about it!" Xue Lan said softly.
"It only contains a trace of my essence... wait..."
The woman suddenly turned her head towards the direction of her inner demons:
Do you still remember that life-or-death battle?
The inner demon understood upon hearing Xue Lan's words:
"Back then, you used your essence in conjunction with the art of time and space to force this demon god into slumber, and now they want to break the seal."
The woman's voice was full of mocking laughter:
"They are just a few Pure Ice Lotuses. If we want to break the seal on the Demon God, we will probably have to sacrifice both of us to complete the task."
Xue Lan slowly moved her fingers, and the red thread on her wrist had split into five afterimages during the conversation, wrapping around the woman's fingers.
Xue Tong heard Xue Lan's somewhat sinister voice:
"That's not necessarily true. There's no such thing as a flawless seal in the world, as you know..."
"Our Demon Lord is most skilled at piecing things together from all sides!"
The inner demon slowly nodded in agreement.
Xue Lan's grayish-white eyes darted around, and then she suddenly pounced on Xue Tong:
"My dearest little Tong!"
"I have something to discuss with you!"
Xue Tong quickly refused: "I don't have time, I don't want to go!"
But the person lying on top of me seemed deaf and kept talking to themselves:
"Why don't you go and take a look inside the Thousand Mountains in Light Ink Painting? I know you're capable of anything, from the heavens to the earth!"
Enraged, Xue Tong slapped Xue Lan's hand that was wrapped around her neck:
"Get off me! What do you take me for? A temporary worker who doesn't pay you?"
The inner demon sighed.
A few breaths later, Xue Tong, the Wolf King's temporary worker, stood by the herb garden on Qingyu Peak and waved to another temporary worker inside:
"Landwind Landwind!"