Super Invincible Immortal Doctor
Chapter 1469 - 1470: The Cost of Betrayal

Chapter 1469: Chapter 1470: The Cost of Betrayal

"I understand. Let’s do as he said. Although the Mountain Lord still finds me distasteful, everything he does is ultimately for the Demonic Path."

"Lord Cui is magnanimous. If the Mountain Lord had the same breadth of spirit as you, sir, he wouldn’t always be hiding deep within the General’s Tomb, ignored by..."

"Demon Child!"

From inside the mirror, Cui Manlou spoke up, cutting off Demon Child’s words, leaving him stunned on the spot. Cui Manlou shook his head and said,

"There’s no need to discuss this further. Although the Mountain Lord has some prejudices against me, his capabilities are acknowledged by all. Even though he’s but a Hollow Vacuum, his research in The Technique of Beast Mastery could rival that of Celestial Beings."

Demon Child paused, then said, "If that’s the case, what about those Demon God Lords..."

"Do you really think the Mountain Lord is stationed at this place because he is not valued by those old geezers?"

"Isn’t that so? Wasn’t the Mountain Lord exiled here?"

Cui Manlou looked at the pitiable fellow in front of him, snorted coldly, and said softly, "The longer he stays here, the more he will be valued. A Mountain Lord who no longer delves into The Way of Beast Tamer is nothing but a useless person who has no hope of becoming an Earth Immortal in this lifetime. But by staying in the Xuanyuan Burial Mound, he is the future of the Demonic Path. At the very least, he is one of the possible futures."

Demon Child swallowed hard and said softly, "I was presumptuous. By the way, Lord Cui, the White Tiger you predicted has come knocking, but it seems she’s not alone."

"Not alone? The Bei Tang Family?"

In the entire northern region, the only ones who now have the strength to arm-wrestle with the Demonic Path are from the Four-sided family lineage of the Bei Tang Family.

Demon Child pondered for a moment and then shook his head, "It seems it’s not just the Bei Tang Family..."

Within the round mirror, Cui Manlou’s gaze suddenly turned icy: "They really did come, huh? What’s the Mountain Lord’s stance?"

"Kill without mercy. But I’m worried."

"There’s nothing to worry about."

Cui Manlou spoke indifferently, his eyes filled with deep hostility: "No matter who it is, since they’ve discovered the Xuanyuan Supreme Tomb, they can’t be allowed to leave alive."

On the matter of how the Demonic Path should be revived, Cui Manlou had his disagreements with the Mountain Lord, who had experienced centuries of war here and had different opinions on the path they should take, but on this point, Cui Manlou was clear there was no second choice.

"Lord, didn’t you say that Su Chengyu might come to the north and we should keep a low profile during this time?"

Cui Manlou looked at him with a cold laugh: "But now you all have been chased to your doorstep, is there still a need to be cautious? Either he dies, or you die, there won’t be a second possibility!"

After saying this, the image of Cui Manlou in the painting suddenly started to blur. Demon Child paused and picked up the round mirror, wanting to say something else, but in the next second, Cui Manlou’s figure had completely disappeared from the spot.

A thousand miles away, looking at the interrupted image in the round mirror, Cui Manlou chuckled and shook his head. Guessing what had happened, he completely crushed the round mirror in his hand into Fragments, knowing that after this incident, Demon Child would no longer contact him in this way.

Even whether he could still be alive was an unknown.

Meanwhile, inside the General’s Tomb, while Demon Child was still puzzled, the middle-aged Mountain Lord had already appeared behind him.

Without making a sound, he swept past and picked up the round mirror.

"So this was your method of communication."

"Mountain Lord?"

Bang!

The round mirror shattered, and the middle-aged Mountain Lord looked at Demon Child, who was now kneeling on the ground, with utter indifference.

Having been betrayed by a subordinate who followed him for decades, he wished nothing more than to kill the man in the next second.

Yet in the end, Mountain Lord restrained himself: "Cui Manlou is indeed very clever, it’s highly likely that he’d already noticed that I detected your communication with him."

"Mountain Lord..."

"Although I have an innate distaste for this sudden upstart, he did say something correct; even though our Dao differ, everything we do is for the future of the Demonic Path. So..."

With a raise of his hand, Mountain Lord caught the demon child in the next second; how could a mere Nascent Soul demon child be a match for the middle-aged Mountain Lord? After struggling in vain, he looked at Mountain Lord in fear and begged for mercy.

"Mountain Lord, I know I was wrong, please spare my life, I was only secretly in contact with that guy Cui Manlou, I definitely did not do anything that would harm you."

"I know, otherwise you would already be dead."

Mountain Lord spoke coldly, clearly understanding that the person before him was merely seeking to follow Cui Manlou’s logic, not genuinely intending to overthrow Mountain Lord himself.

However, even so, his eyes still could not tolerate all this.

"Didn’t that Cui Manlou also say he would show no mercy to any who approach? Let’s have you do this."

The moment his words finished, what appeared before the demon child was the vial of Gluttonous Essence Blood entrusted to him.

Under Mountain Lord’s control, a drop of the full vial of Essence Blood was drawn towards the demon child, spreading fear as the child desperately pleaded for mercy, but the middle-aged Mountain Lord showed no sign of stopping.

"Don’t you think that Cui Manlou is working hard for the future of the Demonic Path? Since you have such resolve, then sacrifice yourself for the future of our Demonic Path!"

As his words ended, the Gluttonous Essence Blood had already penetrated the demon child’s body through the center of his eyebrows.

A wild aura erupted instantly inside the demon child’s body, and the middle-aged Mountain Lord promptly used his Technique to help the demon child absorb the violent Gluttonous Essence Blood.

"Beasts have spirits, humans have spirits too, but do you know why there are Techniques of Beast Mastery and not Human Controlling Techniques in the world?"

"Sub... ordi... nate... does... not... know..."

The demon child spoke in agony, the violent power rampaging inside his body made him feel extremely uncomfortable, and even his consciousness was on the verge of fading.

"This world is the Human Clan’s ancestral land, the fundamental place where the Human Clan can become celestial beings that ascend among the Myriad Heavens and Worlds. The Heavenly Dao protects the Spiritual Platform and consciousness of the Human Clan, making it nearly impossible for humans to become puppets of others; this is a rule of the Heavenly Dao that no one can change."

The middle-aged Mountain Lord was adept in The Way of Beast Tamer; he had found the answer to this question a hundred years ago.

"Thank you for the guidance, Mountain Lord..."

The demon child felt relieved after hearing this, thinking that he wouldn’t become a puppet like those ferocious beasts, but the next second...

"Don’t thank me prematurely, because not long ago, I’ve found a way to employ the Technique of Beast Mastery on humans."

That statement made the demon child tense up again, looking at the middle-aged Mountain Lord with sheer horror.

"If the Human Clan won’t do, then isn’t it just a matter of not letting them be human anymore?"

As his words fell, a powerful force surged directly into the demon child’s Sea of Consciousness. The powerful Divine Sense instantly locked onto the demon child’s conscious existence inside the Sea of Consciousness, giving no chance for escape, and in just a blink, completely destroyed the demon child’s consciousness from the Spiritual Platform!

The frenzied Gluttonous Breath took the opportunity to occupy the demon child’s Sea of Consciousness. By the time Mountain Lord withdrew from the demon child’s Sea of Consciousness, the demon child in front of him had become something neither beast nor human.

The middle-aged Mountain Lord looked at his own creation with satisfaction, and smiled as he spoke.

"Go, kill all the invaders."