Chapter 150 The Blood Fiend's Dark Past

What those blood-gold ancient characters actually were, Ye Wuya had no idea. He only knew that his ability to peer into the past and the future had been bestowed upon him by that cluster of blood-gold characters.

"Since you are already awake and cannot possess me, why don't you leave?" Ye Wuya asked with curiosity. At this moment, he was no longer intimidated, placing himself on an equal footing with the Blood Demon. Since you cannot possess me, what on earth do I have to be afraid of?

"Sigh!" The Blood Demon sighed, then said viciously, "This deity originally intended to leave, but was later blasted right back by that cluster of blood-gold light in your sea of consciousness!"

"Meaning you still can't leave?" Ye Wuya rolled his eyes, speaking in a speechless tone.

"There is a way! Later, this deity came up with a method—"

"What method?" Hearing that there was a way, Ye Wuya quickly asked. He did not want a grand demon lord staying inside his body at all, especially one who might possess him at any moment. As for what that cluster of blood-gold characters was actually for, Ye Wuya had no clue; what if it suddenly disappeared one day? When that happened, if the Blood Demon seized his body, who could he cry to?

"It was ruined by you, you bastard!" At this point, the Blood Demon was visibly a bit agitated, even starting to curse.

Ye Wuya picked at his ear and said, "Your method was for me to touch your bones when I came out, which passed the ability on to me, right?"

"Humph!" A cold snort came from the dark space.

Ye Wuya certainly did not believe that had he not ruined the inheritance, the Blood Demon would have obediently left. Being able to bypass the blood-gold ancient characters in his sea of consciousness to get out meant the demon could naturally possess him as well. Therefore, Ye Wuya felt not a single shred of regret for destroying the ability of the Blood Demon's inheritance.

"Then do you have any other way to get out?" Ye Wuya asked suspiciously.

He wanted the Blood Demon to get out of his body, yet he worried that the moment the Blood Demon left, the first thing the demon would do was kill him. After all, an ancient big shot had suffered so many "grievances" under a minor cultivator like him; it would be a wonder if the demon didn't kill him to vent his anger!

"If you can get that cluster of power away, this deity can leave!" The Blood Demon also seemed bored staying here; whatever Ye Wuya asked, he answered, showing an attitude of a dead pig not fearing boiling water.

Hearing the Blood Demon's words, Ye Wuya breathed a long sigh of relief. If the Blood Demon couldn't get out, he couldn't kill him, which meant he had enough time to grow stronger. As long as he grew as powerful as the Blood Demon, he would no longer need to worry about him.

"Why did you save me?"

Ye Wuya asked a crucial question. Judging by what the Blood Demon had said, if not for him, he would likely have died.

If that was the case, wouldn't his death have made it much easier for the demon to possess him?

"If you die, this deity cannot live either," the Blood Demon said indifferently, offering no further explanation.

Ye Wuya carefully weighed the Blood Demon's words. Naturally, he wouldn't be foolish enough to ask why he couldn't live. Being given an answer at all made Ye Wuya quite satisfied; if the Blood Demon had simply remained silent, he would have been stuck here indefinitely.

He wasn't worried that the Blood Demon was lying to him; there was simply no need for it. As a sensible person, when someone didn't volunteer an explanation, you shouldn't press the issue, lest you anger them.

"Then why do you stay in my body?" Ye Wuya asked.

"Waiting for an opportunity, and then cracking the mysterious power in your sea of consciousness! As long as this deity can obtain that power, I will surely step into the Imperial Dao. In the vastness of heaven and earth, who could still block this deity! Hahaha!" The Blood Demon burst into loud laughter, appearing utterly arrogant!

"Then how did you die?"

The laughter stopped abruptly, as if the Blood Demon had been choked by Ye Wuya's question.

"Humph! This deity refuses to answer!" The Blood Demon barked coldly.

"Don't be like that, tell me, tell me. I've heard of your legendary deeds—holding your own at the Saint realm while defying twenty half-Emperor powerhouses, and even dragging half of them down with you to their deaths," Ye Wuya said with a smile. "By the way, I saw your leaving message. Were you slapped to death by a Great Emperor?"

Blood Demon: "..."

Can you even speak human words, huh? Do you have to keep poking at people's sore spots?

After waiting for a long time without hearing from the Blood Demon, Ye Wuya smiled awkwardly and said, "Fine, fine, I won't ask anymore."

"I was beaten to death by a veiled little girl," the Blood Demon finally said after a long silence.

Seeing that the Blood Demon had spoken, Ye Wuya instantly regained his interest and asked suspiciously, "Tell me about it?"

"That day, I initiated a battle against twenty half-Emperor powerhouses of the heavens, intending to slaughter them and absorb their cultivation to break through to the Great Emperor realm."

The Blood Demon seemed to sink into his memories as he continued, "That day, this deity remembers it clearly! A fellow who was neither monk nor Daoist priest walked by with a veiled young girl."

"Are you talking about that Heaven-Defying Venerable, the 'Amitabha' guy?" Ye Wuya suddenly thought of his fellow countryman from Earth.

"You know him?" the Blood Demon asked suspiciously.

"I don't know him, just met him once. You go on." Ye Wuya had already obtained the answer he wanted.

"They strolled leisurely right through my battlefield. For a moment, greed got the better of this deity, and I wanted to devour these two who didn't look weak together. Who would have thought that they wouldn't attack if not provoked, but once they did, it possessed the might to shatter heaven and earth!

"I was sent flying by a single palm strike from that Daoist priest! I refused to accept it—ancient Great Emperors do not appear for ten thousand years, so he couldn't possibly be a Great Emperor! Then I charged forward with towering demonic might, only to find..."

"What happened?" Just as Ye Wuya was listening with great relish, the Blood Demon suddenly stopped.

"I was beaten to death by that veiled little girl with a shovel!"

"What the heck? A shovel beat you to death? Right on your main artery?"

Ye Wuya thought he had misheard. A shovel beat you to death? Are you pulling my leg? What kind of shovel is that overpowered? Where can I buy one? I'm going to get one too!

"Right after that came a second shovel strike, which knocked me into the place you came out from. I managed to leave a few words behind before drawing my last breath, fusing my soul into my abilities in order to achieve an alternative form of survival!" the Blood Demon said indifferently, as if discussing something utterly trivial.

"So you think that veiled young girl was a Great Emperor?" Ye Wuya asked suspiciously. Being able to beat the Blood Demon to death with a shovel meant she had to be terrifying beyond measure. It seemed this world was far more terrifying than it appeared on the surface!

There was the Demon Emperor he had seen in the ruins, and the Daoist priest and veiled girl spoken of by the Blood Demon!

Ye Wuya had always thought that reaching the Blood Demon's level meant standing at the pinnacle of this world. He never expected that above the pinnacle, there were even stronger beings!

"No!" The Blood Demon sighed and said.

"Not a Great Emperor?" Ye Wuya didn't understand the Blood Demon's meaning. No?

"This deity feels that that veiled young girl was even more terrifying than a Great Emperor! At the very least, she belongs to a tier of powerhouse unknown to this deity."

"Are you saying there are stronger beings above the Great Emperor? Isn't the Saint realm the absolute peak of this world?" Ye Wuya asked.

"This world is not as simple as you imagine. This is the Primordial era; nobody knows what happened in the previous Desolate era, causing a historical fault line without a single record of that time remaining, and even the Great Emperors vanished along with it!"