587: Chapter 588 Taking Kickbacks

"Pfft!!"

Immediately, a mouthful of fresh blood spewed from Su Wanqing's mouth.

Her originally pretty face was now mottled with bloodstains and crisscrossed with scratches, completely devoid of her arrogant look from just a moment ago.

She collapsed amidst the ruins, sharp pains radiating from her sternum, with every breath carrying a tearing agony.

Chen Xuanbi was even more miserable; one of his legs was twisted at an irregular angle, and the bone was clearly broken.

The sharp bone fragments pierced through his skin, revealing a ghastly white color, and his entire body curled up among the gravel, letting out bursts of painful and suppressed low howls.

Although the two of them did not die, they were already critically injured and on the verge of death.

It was fortunate that they were Foundation Establishment Cultivators whose dharma bodies had long transformed, otherwise they would have melted into a pool of blood and mud on the spot.

After all, a strike from a Golden Core was no child's play, even though ninety-nine percent of its might had been worn down by the Five Elements grinding mill.

However, the remaining power of the Law falling upon the two Foundation Establishment Cultivators was still like a million-jun giant mountain crashing down overhead, enough to crush most of the bones in their entire bodies.

At this moment, the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord stood in the center of the ruins, his figure looming vaguely amidst the billowing smoke and dust.

Those eyes, churning with coldness, looked indifferently toward the two figures collapsed among the gravel.

However, at this moment, his state was not too good either.

It could be seen that fine cracks had already begun to appear on the surface of his body, covered with spiderweb-like fissures just like broken porcelain.

Clearly, forcibly driving the power of the Law with the body of a Foundation Establishment had made him suffer immense backlash.

However, before taking action, the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord had already considered these things, so he successively used several profound secret techniques.

The Qi and blood throughout his entire body were forcibly locked within his body, not allowing a single bit to escape.

As a result, not a single trace of fresh blood seeped out from those cracks, making it look very eerie from the outside.

But right now, the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord wouldn't care about these; he would deal with them after matters here were settled.

After all, although he won this battle, the commotion he caused was simply too huge.

Engaging in a brawl in a hospital almost brought down a building, and the casualties were countless.

According to local regulations, the consequences would be very serious.

Therefore, before anyone came, he had to quickly resolve these two eyesore fellows and then leave this place promptly.

Seeming to also sense the icy killing intent of the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord,

Su Wanqing, who had fallen to the side and was in an extremely disheveled state, shuddered.

Disregarding her injuries, she struggled to crawl and finally propped up her body.

Without saying another word, she knelt and prostrated herself on the ground with an unprecedentedly humble posture.

"Qin Ming! Qin Ming, I was wrong! Please spare me, okay?"

"Actually... actually I love you! I never thought about breaking the engagement!"

As Su Wanqing spoke, tears and snot began to stream down, and her voice turned shrill yet pitiful.

"It was all him! It was all Chen Xuanbi who forced me! He threatened me with the Family, and I had no choice but to agree."

This speech came across with such genuine emotion that it sounded just like the truth.

Yet before the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord could react at all, Chen Xuanbi, who was covered in blood and had a broken leg on the side, blew his top.

"Bitch! What are you talking nonsense about?!"

Chen Xuanbi was so angry he wanted to jump up and down; this bitch really threw every single blame onto him just to save her life!

Since that was the case, they would die together, and neither of them should expect to have a good time!

"Bitch, who was the one who took the initiative to crawl into my bed back then? Who was it that said that trash didn't deserve you and even asked me to find people to teach him a lesson?"

"Damn it, now you're acting like a good person and dumping all the blame on me?"

Hearing Chen Xuanbi blurt out such intimate matters, Su Wanqing's face instantly twisted.

She still cautiously glanced at Qin Ming.

Finding that Qin Ming had no reaction to this whatsoever, she breathed a slight sigh of relief and continued to find excuses for herself.

"You're talking bullshit! Clearly, it was you who threatened me with my Family! What could a woman like me do?!"

"Heh, did you resist? You cried out so loudly, didn't you enjoy it quite a bit?"

"Chen Xuanbi, you bastard!"

The two of them cursed at each other and exposed each other's shortcomings like street shrews.

Those sweet words of love from the past had now all transformed into the most vicious sharp blades, stabbing one knife after another into each other's most painful spots.

All kinds of unmentionable words poured out like a breached flood embankment.

Meanwhile, the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord stood there, coldly watching the two dogs bite each other.

He was never a good person to begin with, and previously he only endured it again and again out of worry about bringing unnecessary trouble.

But now he not only possessed cultivation, but also held a System that allowed him to grow stronger by killing, leaving him with far fewer scruples.

Furthermore, he had zero affection for Su Wanqing to begin with; in his eyes, women were nothing more than pink skeletons.

Therefore, the conversation between the two had no impact on him whatsoever; instead, he found it noisy and annoying.

Thus, the next moment, he pressed his fingers together like a sword, and two streams of Sword Qi silently swept past.

Two fine heads of people who died with lingering grievances rolled down simultaneously, and fresh blood gushed from the broken necks like two crimson fountains.

Su Wanqing and Chen Xuanbi had fallen!

Looking down at the corpses all over the ground, the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's expression was indifferent.

He had no intention of inspecting them in detail, letting the System autonomously absorb the cultivation of the two.

As for himself, he casually picked up and stored the silver ring on Chen Xuanbi's finger, the pair of bracelets on Su Wanqing's wrists, as well as the Storage Pouches on the bodies of several bodyguards.

Based on his experience, there should be some valuable gadgets among these items; as for what they specifically were, it wouldn't be too late to slowly inventory them after leaving.

Having finished all this, he looked toward a layer of spiritual light-flowing Formation rising from outside the building.

Clearly, this Formation not only confined the shock of their fighting movements to this square inch of space.

At the same time, this was also a trapping Formation, preventing the people inside from getting out.

"Tap, tap, tap..."

Right at this moment, a chaotic and hurried sound of footsteps rang out in this dilapidated hallway.

Clearly, sensing that the battle inside had already ended, someone was finally preparing to step forward to check.

As for why they didn't appear earlier...

With just that little bit of money a month, who was going to risk their life?

What did the hospital's condition have to do with them?

Think about that golden book's might; if they stepped forward to mediate and got slapped to death by a powerful Cultivator, who could they reason with?!

Therefore, it was better to have less trouble than more trouble, and best of all if it had nothing to do with them.

And it was precisely because of such a decision that ample time was given to the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord.

The Soul-Devouring Demon Lord unhurriedly walked over to the wall, his gaze sweeping across the Formation outside, and finally locked onto several Formation pattern nodes.

Then, with a flick of his fingertips, several streams of spiritual light quickly flew out and landed on those spiritual pattern nodes.

That movement was smooth and flowing, as if he had long since fully understood the structure of this Formation in his heart.

And the truth was indeed so; in the eyes of the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord, this kind of Formation was simply full of flaws, and with just a slight modification—

the trajectory of the Formation's spiritual power circulation was forcibly rerouted by him, thereby opening up a gap just wide enough for one person to pass through.

Looking back once more at the mess all over the ground, the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord no longer hesitated, transforming his body into a stream of sword light and soaring into the sky from the window.

In the blink of an eye, he vanished into the boundless night of South City.

And just when the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord was busy escaping into the night and fleeing in a hurry,

deep within a misty and dim consciousness space, a speck of spiritual light suddenly lit up.

That speck of spiritual light was initially as weak as a candle in the wind, but it slowly condensed and stretched within the Void Realm, eventually transforming into a figure.

After the spiritual light faded away, it revealed the handsome face of a young man.

Who else could this person be if not Lu Ming?

Looking around, Lu Ming gazed at that gray and endless Void Realm, letting out a lingering sigh.

"Sigh, what kind of mess is all this?"

Come to think of it, he was truly wronged.

He had originally hidden himself well, lurking within the Clone and quietly waiting for the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord to harvest the Dao of Reincarnation so he could reap the fisherman's profits.

This plan was originally airtight and everything was going smoothly, waiting only to sit back and harvest the fruits of victory.

Yet who would have known that within this Seal grand Formation, there was actually some damned Reincarnation trial?

Hey, call it a trial if you want, but at least figure out the trial mechanism clearly before dragging people in!

He himself had inexplicably been dragged into it as well.

However, when Lu Ming calmed down and thought carefully about it, he figured out the crux of the matter.

Although the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord occupied the dominant control of that Clone's Physical Body, ultimately, that Physical Body had been converted by him using a secret technique, and fundamentally belonged to him.

Furthermore, the two of them were in a wondrous state of coexistence within the Physical Body, much like two tenants living in the same residence.

Under the judgment mechanism of the Reincarnation trial, any existence with Karma ties to that Physical Body would be incorporated into the scope of the trial together.

Consequently, he, this landlord, was also swept along and dragged in.

It was just that before entering the trial, the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's consciousness occupied the dominant position.

Therefore, right now within this Reincarnation world, the other party was still the main protagonist.

Meanwhile, Lu Ming's consciousness was like a tenant squeezed into the neighboring room, able only to quietly observe the movements outside through the cracks of the window.

Lu Ming sighed once more, looking at this dim consciousness space, and helplessly shook his head.

Originally, he had already recognized the current situation.

Since he had been dragged in, he would just let the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord continue to charge ahead, clear stages, and break through dilemmas while he himself peacefully became a lying-flat winner in the back.

Once the Reincarnation trial ended, he would just quietly steal the fruits of victory.

In this way, it was actually no different from the initial plan, except with a few more steps and a change of camping spot.

However, when he used the connection of coexisting consciousness with the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord to quietly observe the external situation, his expression gradually turned subtle.

It was too cliché.

Being looked down upon, the fiancée coming to break the engagement, childhood sweetheart bringing a new lover to humiliate him to his face...

These plots combined together were practically a complete assembly line of web novel face-slapping tropes.

For Lu Ming, he couldn't possibly be more familiar with them.

Lu Ming also quickly realized that this Reincarnation world was generated in real-time based on the tester's world cognition and some profound memories.

As a native of the Xuanxiao Realm, the world recognized by the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord should naturally be a pure cultivation civilization.

However, the problem lay in the fact that Lu Ming, who coexisted with him, was a Soul who had undergone Transmigration from the modern era.

When the two entered the Reincarnation vortex, an uncontrollable fusion of consciousness occurred, and fragments of Lu Ming's past-life memories got mixed into the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's memories.

Those brainless face-slapping web novel clichés about modern cities, breaking engagements, and the Dragon King's return were like pebbles tossed into water, stirring up layers of ripples during the construction process of this Reincarnation world.

Thus, the ultimately generated world turned into its current appearance.

Cities and cultivation coexisted, towering buildings and spiritual swords flew together, exuding an eerie and absurd sense of patchwork everywhere.

However, these were not the issues Lu Ming cared about the most.

Once he confirmed that cultivation was still possible in this world, an even more realistic problem was placed before his eyes.

Once the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord recovered his cultivation, with the capability of that Nascent Soul True Monarch, discovering that there was an extra lurking conscious entity within his Sea of Consciousness would probably be a matter of time.

Although Lu Ming had the karma golden book to shield him, how could someone who frequently walked by the river avoid getting their shoes wet?

Therefore, hiding it was impossible to keep up forever.

Since that was the case, it would be better to take the initiative and expose himself.

But the question was, how to expose himself?

He couldn't just jump in front of the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord and say:

"Hey bro, how are you?"

Therefore, Lu Ming pondered over and over, and finally had a flash of inspiration, coming up with a brilliant idea.

That was... the System!

Since this world was already so absurd and bizarre, an extra "System" seemed to be within reason.

After all, the vernacular novels of this world were full of System stories and Golden Fingers, and the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord had also seen related concepts when understanding this world.

At this time, if a "Slaughter System" appeared in his Sea of Consciousness, according to a normal person's logic, he would only treat it as an auxiliary mechanism of the Reincarnation world, and would not think in the direction of "someone is playing tricks behind the scenes".

But just this alone was still not secure enough.

The Soul-Devouring Demon Lord was not afraid of ordinary people, so naturally one could not fathom the other party with ordinary people's thinking.

If the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord insisted on probing to the bottom, the Origin of the System would sooner or later expose clues.

Thus, Lu Ming utilized the karma golden book to shield his Karma layer by layer, hiding it deeply.

At the same time, he also secretly used the "Primal Desire Law" to covertly influence the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's degree of importance attached to this matter.

If it were the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord at his peak, this method wouldn't work at all.

Anyone acting clever and playing such tricks in front of the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord would simply be confessing without being coerced.

However, right now, the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord was equivalent to living a second life, and his entire cultivation had not been brought back at all.

At this time, he was also in an unprecedentedly weak state, so influencing him would instead not take up too much mental effort.

However, coming to this step, there was still one problem that needed to be resolved in time, and that was the "slaughter and devour" effect of the System.

Fabricating a System was certainly not generated out of thin air, but required a certain means to support it.

Therefore, Lu Ming utilized the Asura Tribulation Prison Scripture, which he hadn't used for a long time, using the devouring power within it to intercept the cultivation and dao attainment of those who were slain.

Then he used the Law of Karma to wash away the karmic marks upon it, restoring it to a ball of pure and crystal-clear spiritual power Origin, and finally fed it back to the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord through the System.

Of course, Lu Ming had never been a person who gladly dedicated himself.

Dedicating oneself to others was simply not his life philosophy.

Those devoured cultivation and dao attainment were actually one hundred percent intercepted.

But after passing through Lu Ming's hands, seventy percent of the kickback was withheld by him.

In the end, only thirty percent flowed into the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's body.

The remaining seventy percent was entirely used by him to strengthen his own cultivation and consolidate his Foundation.

In this way, his cultivation would always be a notch higher than the Soul-Devouring Demon Lord's, making his concealment and disguise even more handy and smooth.