Chapter 773 – Deciding Without Negotiations (1/2)

Chapter 773 – Deciding Without Negotiations

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

”Now, no one will disturb us.”

After the Demon Lord said this, he began to cough.

His coughing was like the echoing of a waterfall in a deep valley, very deep and very far. As he coughed, the landscapes covering his face slightly deformed.

Chen Changsheng looked at him and said, ”Your injuries are much more serious than they were at Mount Han.”

Countless years ago, the Demon Lord was defeated by Zhou Dufu and was heavily wounded, and his injuries had still not recovered. He had infiltrated Mount Han that year for the express purpose of drinking Chen Changsheng's blood and curing his wounds. In Mount Han, he and the Elder of Heavenly Secrets came into conflict, resulting in the Demon Lord's consuming a great deal of mental power. While returning to Xuelao City, he encountered the White Emperor, who had been patiently waiting for quite some time, on the snowy plains.

In that battle which shook the heavens and earth, he and the White Emperor had both lost, inflicting serious wounds against each other, and it was these wounds that directly led to that rebellion two years ago.

In this rebellion, he was knocked by the combined might of Black Robe and the Demon Commander into the abyss. Although Nanke had placed herself at enormous risk to save him, his injuries had still worsened.

For the past thousand years, he had always been the Demon Lord, but in reality, for the past thousand years, he had been a casualty, an invalid.

His current level of strength was not even a fifth of his peak. Earlier, he seemed very elegant and natural when he waved his sleeve to defeat Hai Di, but in the past, would have even needed to stretch out his hand? Most crucially of all, the state of his injuries was so awful that he might die at any moment, causing him to hurriedly seek out Chen Changsheng…to eat him.

The Demon Lord indifferently said, ”Even if my injuries are worse, there are still few that can fight against me in this world.”

Chen Changsheng knew that this was the truth. As he glanced at his sheath, he said, ”But now you have no means of threatening me.”

He had already stowed An Hua and the deputy general in the Garden of Zhou. Even if he now died, the Demon Lord had no means of killing them.

This fact and the fact that he temporarily did not need to worry about Zhizhi's safety made him even calmer.

Tonight, the demons had lost an expert like Hai Di. As long as he made sure to completely burn all the blood in his body into smoke before he died, the Demon Lord's death was assured.

He was the Pope, but he was still incredibly far from the Divine Domain, and this plan would assuredly bring a profit, at least to the Human race.

The landscapes on the Demon Lord's face suddenly became utterly frigid, like watercolor transforming into ink. ”You plan to commit suicide?”

As he watched a panicked ant clamber out of a hole in the scorched earth to the right and about three feet in front of him, Chen Changsheng said, ”It's all I can do.”

The Demon Lord pointed at the string of stone pearls on his hand and noted, ”You still have another choice.”

Chen Changsheng knew what the Demon Lord was speaking of and shook his head.

At the start of the battle, he had thought that he might be able to temporarily hide in the Garden of Zhou or the Green Leaf World, but he had already given up on the notion.

Firstly, this might easily lead to the Demon Lord finding traces of his traversal through space and following him in.

This might not be much of a risk with any other opponent, but he was currently facing the Demon Lord. He knew that many years ago, the Demon Lord had entered the Garden of Zhou and snatched away a Heavenly Tome Monolith, presumably that broken monolith that Hai Di had just been using. By this point, it had already returned to being that small stone seal tied to the Demon Lord's waist.

Secondly, he had already received confirmation in Mount Han that at such a close distance, crossing through space in front of the Demon Lord was extraordinarily difficult.

Finally, Chen Changsheng was not willing to take this risk.

Even if there was only a tiny risk of being captured alive by the Demon Lord, he could not accept.

He could only negotiate. Of course, the basis of these negotiations lay in the fact that he was truly resolved to die and that the Demon Lord could clearly sense this.

Thus, he could not even carry the notion of hiding in the Garden of Zhou, not even allow himself to harbor the smallest thought of it.

The Demon Lord declared, ”I will not let you die.”

Chen Changsheng replied, ”I became well-versed in the Daoist Canon as a child and have also cultivated for a few years, going through many hardships. Now, I can at the very least guarantee that though I don't know where I came from, I know where I am going.”