Before the army of Heavenly Demons, a black-clad woman walked forward as leisurely as if strolling in a courtyard. With each step, there was a captivating rhythm and an extremely powerful aura.
It was Zhao Yue.
A cruel smile curled on her bright red lips. She held a string of bells in her left hand and gently shook them. "Yaohua, long time no see."
As the bells rang, the Heavenly Demon Seed stirred.
The moment the bells chimed, Zhao Yue suddenly flashed in front of Yaohua, who was sweating in pain, and carried her away. Her speed was incredibly fast, leaving everyone no chance to react.
"Let her go!" Chongming pointed his sword straight at Zhao Yue. The chilling air and killing intent around him were like a tangible substance.
Zhao Yue seemed to have heard the funniest joke. "Who do you think you are, daring to interfere in how our Demon Race deals with traitors? Do you believe I'll strangle her to death right now?"
As she spoke, her hand gradually tightened. Yaohua's face turned pale with pain. It seemed that she was taking in less air and exhaling more.
Looking at the girl held in the enemy's hand, Chongming was heartbroken. "What on earth do you want to do to let her go?"
Seeing his helpless look, Zhao Yue couldn't help but smile. "You really have deep feelings for her! If I ask you to disperse all your spiritual power and come to be my hostage in her place, would you agree?"
"Are you daring enough to swear by the Heavenly Dao on this?" Chongming asked without hesitation.
Swearing by the Heavenly Dao was the most solemn oath among cultivators. Once sworn, it could not be violated. If violated, one would either regress in cultivation at the least or be directly struck by heavenly thunder and vanish into thin air at the worst.
Zhao Yue's eyes flashed. "Sure, I'll swear right now! If after Godly Lord Chongming disperses his spiritual power today and becomes my hostage, I still don't let Yaohua go, may I be struck by lightning and never make any progress in my cultivation!"
With the Heavenly Dao oath in place, everyone believed her.
Tears welled up in Yaohua's eyes. "No... Master, if you disperse all your spiritual power, you will surely be severely tortured by these Heavenly Demons. Moreover, they will use you to threaten the Three Realms. From now on, the Three Realms will fall into the hands of the God Lord and the Heavenly Demons!"
Zhao Yue looked at her coldly. "You still have the strength to talk now? It seems I'm still pinching too lightly."
Having said that, she increased the strength in her hand.
Yaohua rolled her eyes in pain. In a daze, she saw Chongming disperse all his spiritual power. His long sword clanged to the ground. "Now... is it okay?"
Zhao Yue immediately threw Yaohua aside and instead grabbed Chongming.
Although she deeply hated Yaohua, now that she could hold Godly Lord Chongming in her hand, it meant removing the greatest threat to the Heavenly Demons' dominance over the Three Realms. How could she not be happy and proud? "Hahaha! I never thought that a dignified Godly Lord would abandon his spiritual power because of love and ignore the overall situation. Even Godly Lords would violate the Heavenly Rules. It shows how false and useless the rules of this world are."
"The Three Realms should fall into the hands of the Demon Race!"
"The Demon Lord is mighty. Unify the Three Realms!"
The sensible Heavenly Demons immediately knelt in a circle. The vast army of Heavenly Demons behind them also knelt on the ground one after another and flattered in unison, "The Demon Lord is mighty. Unify the Three Realms!"
Zhao Yue tightly pinched Chongming's throat. Only when he couldn't breathe did she suddenly let go.
Chongming had exhausted all his spiritual power at this moment. He was even weaker than an ordinary mortal. After she let go, he immediately fell to the ground.
He had already been a little injured today because of divining the Heavenly Secrets. Now, due to this rough treatment, a lot of fresh blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
Even at this moment, he still insisted and said intermittently, "Fulfill your promise and let Yaohua go..."
Zhao Yue seemed to have heard the funniest joke and burst into laughter, bending forward and backward. "You don't really think that the oath of the Heavenly Dao is useful to the Heavenly Demons, do you? Moreover, even if it is useful, I have plenty of ways to bypass it!"
Having said that, she pointed with her hand and said proudly, "I did let her go. But she didn't have the strength to walk, and the Heavenly Demons around grabbed her back. Does this count as violating the oath of the Heavenly Dao?"
Chongming's face instantly turned deathly pale. He had only thought of asking the Heavenly Demon to swear an oath in a hurry. He never thought that there would finally be an oversight.
Now both of them had lost the ability to resist and could only be at the mercy of the Heavenly Demons.
Watching the Heavenly Demons beside him approaching Yaohua step by step under Zhao Yue's order, his eyes were almost bloodshot. He shouted miserably, "No—"
"Such a loss of grace is not the style of a Godly Lord like you."
Suddenly, a silver-bell-like soft laugh came from the horizon. A beautiful figure appeared among the group of Heavenly Demons.
Yaohua, who was in great pain and torture, suddenly opened her eyes wide. "Fairy Yuanzhi? Why are you here?"
Just as her voice fell, a white teleportation light suddenly shone around that beautiful figure. As soon as she showed up, she took Chongming away at lightning speed.
Before leaving, she seemed to look back, but in the end, she didn't rescue Yaohua either.
Zhao Yue couldn't believe what she saw. After being in a daze for a moment, she was extremely furious. "How dare you snatch someone right under my nose! Yuanzhi, you wait!"
Yaohua let out a sigh of relief. Her head hit the ground heavily, and she completely passed out.
At the moment when her consciousness went blank, under the intense summoning of the bell sound, the Heavenly Demon Seed in her dantian suddenly broke through the barrier of the spiritual power around it.
"Chi"
The sound of the tender sprout breaking through the flesh came out. A small black sprout pierced through her chest. Under the urging of the bell sound, it shook violently and blossomed into a black poppy flower.
The Heavenly Demon Seed had matured!
When the poppy flower bloomed, wisps of black demonic energy dispersed, completely replacing her pure and flawless spiritual power with demonic energy.
Moreover, she couldn't even maintain her human form. A long phoenix tail transformed out. Its colorful colors were eroded and turned black.
Zhao Yue, who was in a fit of anger, seemed to have found an outlet. She took out the long whip from her waist and whipped the girl on the ground hard. "Bitch, if it weren't for you, how could my plan have failed again and again?"
"Didn't you hate the Demon Race and would rather be a spy than accept my favor? Then I'll make you watch with your own eyes how you fall into the path of demons!"
The barbs on the long whip tore off a lot of flesh. Every time it whipped, there was a gush of blood.
The intense pain finally woke Yaohua up. With her last bit of sanity, she called out to the system with difficulty. "Quick, come out quickly. There is the purest demonic energy here."
After the system saw the scene in front of it, it didn't dare to be negligent for a moment. While devouring the demonic energy greedily, it complained, "Didn't I just take a break? How did you get yourself into such a mess? Where's Chongming? Where's your sweetheart? Didn't he die?"
"He's fine." Yaohua was already physically and mentally exhausted. Hearing what it said, she was so angry that she almost died.
Thanks to the system's intervention, the black phoenix tail gradually returned to its original color.
This scene made the surrounding Heavenly Demons extremely amazed. "No way? Is there really someone in the world who can resist the Heavenly Demon Seed with willpower?"