Chapter 580 – The Traitorous Demon Sword (1/2)

Duoge waved his teeth and claws about with Lietu beneath him. His claws filled with power pressed down on Lietu’s shoulders firmly, completely ignoring the swords that pierced through him as he mauled at Lietu desperately with his bloody mouth. His scarlet tongue constantly swept about, wanting to swallow the demon heart in Lietu’s chest.

Lietu no longer bore any resemblance to his past self. Sword-like spines covered his body, penetrating deeply into Duoge, but they were unable to stop his huge, teeth-ridden mouth from constantly pressing down. The smell of the demon heart attracted Duoge. He did not care at all about how many holes there were through his body.

Blood flowed out like spring water, dyeing the golden ground red.

Originally, Lietu possessed the ability to see the location of the demon heart with the Evil Eye sword in hand. No matter where his opponent’s demon heart was hidden, he could take it out in a single strike. However, who knew how many demon hearts Duoge had eaten as he followed Li Qingshan and Xiao An. He was unable to digest them immediately, so they were all stored in his body, preventing the Evil Eye from discerning the location of the true demon heart.

Lietu raised his head, blurrily making out Li Qingshan and Xiao An’s existence. He could feel his will being assimilated into the Evil Eye. He would be completely devoured before long.

“Aaaaaaaargh!”

Lietu let out a hysterical roar of despair. The swords all pulled back into his body, and his chin dropped to an unbelievable angle. A streak of light suddenly shot out of his mouth, moving as fast as lightning as it aimed straight at Li Qingshan.

As it happened right next to him, Li Qingshan was unable to dodge, or perhaps it would be better described as being unable to use his true power to dodge. He remained composed as the Demon Suppression Tower descended from above, enveloping him with a boom.

That had been from a moment of inspiration. Indeed, as it turned out, not only could the Demon Suppression Tower trap the opponent, but it also could protect its user. Although it could not kill the opponent, it was still an extremely practical move.

And, he could feel the glow of his demon heart subsiding drastically inside the Demon Suppression Tower. The Demon Suppression Tower was not for suppressing evil demons alone. More importantly, it was for suppressing his own demonic nature.

He could not help but recall the third Demon Suppression statue, the figure of the demon man wrapped in chains. He must have used chains for self-restraint and a tower for self-suppression when he was unable to control his madness.

However, it was pitch-black in here. He was unable to see what was going on outside.

Lietu’s desperate counterattack was definitely valiant. Probably even the Spirit Turtle’s Profound Shell could not block it easily, but it was unable to pierce the Demon Suppression Tower. That was not because the Demon Suppression Tower was more powerful than the Spirit Turtle’s Profound Shell, but because the Demon Suppression Tower possessed a power to suppress demons. It specially restrained demonfolk, so no matter how powerful their attacks were, they would be whittled down to a shell of their former strength when they landed on the Demon Suppression Tower.

Duoge used this opportunity to lunge at the eyeball. Li Qingshan waved his hand in the Demon Suppression Tower and black chains flew out, wrapping around Duoge.

Duoge put up a violent struggle, and the chains broke one by one before even more chains immediately replaced them. He had already become heavily injured from the battle earlier, so he no longer possessed his original ferocity.

Lietu’s final strike finally ran out of energy too. He collapsed onto the ground powerlessly, turning into a corpse.

The Demon Suppression Tower flew up once again, falling over Duoge. Li Qingshan smiled. “I can’t just let you eat the sword that has caught my eye.”

At this moment, something unexpected happened. Duoge’s scarlet tongue suddenly extended rapidly, and a mouth with long, vicious teeth opened up, biting towards the eyeball in Lietu’s chest.

Xiao An was about to swing her sword and sever the tongue when something else happened again. Lietu’s corpse began to move again, flying towards Li Qingshan.

“Hmph, so you even know to play dead!”

Li Qingshan extended his hand and grabbed Lietu’s neck, but to his surprise, Lietu did not put up a struggle. He only stiffened up without moving at all as his flesh and blood rapidly withered away. Only the eyeball in his chest remained the same.

A while later, a black residue scattered across the ground, and Lietu vanished completely. All that was left was a strange sword in Li Qingshan’s hand.

“Interesting. Looks like divine swords aren’t the only ones with intelligence. Demonic swords are the same. This sword actually knows how to avoid trouble and how to defect to the enemy. Not bad, not bad.”

Li Qingshan stroked the sword and said with a smile. This demonic sword that had just lost its master seemed extremely docile. Its eyes swiveled around, even actively transmitting its power to Li Qingshan as if a voice was whispering into his ear, “I’m very sharp. I’m very strong. Take me. I will help you kill all your enemies!”

If regular people obtained a strange, demonic sword like that, they would not be able to help themselves but to develop some disgust even if they loved its power and could not bear to part with it or see it destroyed. However, Li Qingshan liked it very much. He said to the strange eyeball on the hilt.

“Sword, oh sword. Probably every single master you’ve served has suffered this fate! You’ve abandoned and betrayed them all, but that’s not your fault. You’re merely a sword. There’s nothing you can do if they’re too weak.”

People always hoped that everything would be loyal to them. Their women had to be loyal, their friends had to be loyal, and even their dogs and horses had to be loyal. However, eternal loyalty never existed. If horses were loyal, they would be ridden. If dogs were loyal, they would be ordered around.

Li Qingshan had no plans to be loyal to anyone, nor did he need anyone or anything to be loyal to him.

“From today onwards, your name will be ‘Betrayal’. Yep, the Demonic Sword of Betrayal. I’ll just call you ‘Traitorous Demon sword’.”

The sword shone brightly as if it was making a gleeful reply.