Although there was a formidable enemy watching from afar like a tiger eyeing its prey, Bai Ling was in a pretty good mood. The one who was truly upset was the Supreme God Xuan Cang who was paying attention to them.

Seeing Bai Ling and Lu Linsheng getting along harmoniously, there was no way he could be happy. Right now his mood was as terrible as if his personal belongings had been used by others without permission.

For a moment, he wanted to directly eliminate Lu Linsheng. Although this extremely rare natural anomaly was difficult to kill, it was not impossible. However, he quickly gave up on this idea.

If he killed Lu Linsheng now, wouldn't that be letting him off too easily? Moreover, the female lead Bai Ling would never forget him. This was not what the Supreme God Xuan Cang wanted.

What he wanted was to let Bai Ling see the so-called "true heart" of her current beloved, and to completely shatter this relationship that shouldn't exist.

Originally, the Supreme God Xuan Cang had planned to appear and bestow favor after the Demon Dragon came and gave them a painful lesson. But now he changed his mind. Before Lu Linsheng was killed by the Demon Dragon, he would arrange a good show for his female lead Bai Ling.

The Supreme God Xuan Cang waved his sleeve and headed towards the East Sea.

...

Lu Linsheng brought Bai Ling near the East Sea, passing the Yuyan Mountain that she had always wanted to visit. At this time, the East Sea presented a peculiar and magnificent sight.

At the junction of sea and sky, there were large patches of scarlet clouds, almost dyeing the blue seawater red. The red clouds spread across half the sky, forming various flying dragon shapes. The red cloudy dragons looked fierce and domineering, as if they were real dragons.

There was a deep and narrow crack on the seashore, with gray-black fog cascading down from it like a waterfall, gathering into a layer of gray smoke below the crack.

The East Sea was quieter than Lu Linsheng expected. Not only were the rampaging demons gone, but even the Demon Dragon that should have broken the seal was nowhere to be seen. He only felt a faint lingering dragon aura.

He released Bai Ling from his body and casually hugged her. Because the journey was a bit long, she had fallen asleep long ago and hadn't woken up yet.

Lu Linsheng didn't wake Bai Ling up either, just held her and checked the surroundings for any other abnormalities. It was Old Seashell who couldn't stand it anymore and used voice transmission to wake up Bai Ling.

When Bai Ling opened her eyes and saw a dark humanoid yarn right in front of her eyes, she was still a bit dazed. Lu Linsheng noticed that she was awake and turned his head to smile at her. Of course, considering that he was in his original form now, he had no face at all and couldn't make the action of smiling.

Bai Ling couldn't even find where his eyes were, let alone see that he was smiling.

"This place seems a bit off," Bai Ling said, jumping down from Lu Linsheng's dark striped body and sniffing.

Lu Linsheng transformed into a human. "I also feel that something is not quite right. The Demon Dragon doesn't seem to be here."

Bai Ling: "Yeah, it seems he left. I can't smell him."

Old Seashell was even more nervous. If the Demon Dragon was here, he would be scared, but with the Demon Dragon not here, he was still frightened by his own imagination. "Is he lurking around?"

Bai Ling: "If he wanted to kill me, he could just charge straight at me. Why lurk? Lurking my ass. I think he just came out and was too hungry, so he went to find something to eat."

Old Seashell was convinced by her. "Then we're really lucky. Let's hurry into that Demon Abyss while we can!"

Bai Ling: "Hey, old man, you change your tune pretty quickly. On the way, you were still nagging and crying to me."

Old Seashell was silent for a moment, slightly guilty. "Isn't this, isn't this that we're already here? Let's just, just go in and take a look."

The fact that Lu Linsheng had been wrapping Bai Ling the whole way without eating made Old Seashell feel a little relieved.

Although they had some doubts, with the threat of the Demon Dragon, they quickly entered the Demon Abyss. Just as their figures disappeared into the crack, the figure of the Supreme God Xuan Cang appeared in front of it.

With a wave of his hand, the crack abruptly closed and turned into a small tripod falling into his hand. The original Demon Abyss crack was still in place without any abnormality.

It turned out that the so-called "Demon Abyss" that Bai Ling and the others had entered before was just a trap set by the Supreme God Xuan Cang.

The Supreme God Xuan Cang used the Zhenshan Tripod, one of the divine artifacts of Mount Youfu, and attached it to the entrance of the Demon Abyss with an illusion technique, luring Bai Ling and the others into the net.

This Zhenshan Tripod could even trap gods, so now trapping a little dragon and an immature Demon entity was naturally very easy. The tripod could isolate auras. At this time, Xuan Cang's purpose was obviously not to protect these two from the Demon Dragon, but to see something interesting.

He returned to the divine temple of Mount Youfu, suspended the small tripod in mid-air, and looked down at the situation inside from a high position. At the same time, he grabbed a virtual image of the tripod and handed it to his disciples and immortal servants, instructing them: "Dispatch all disciples to the lower realm to eliminate demons. Those captured demons, regardless of life or death, throw them into the tripod. Remember, only demons, not monsters."

The immortals of Mount Youfu were puzzled, but they followed his arrangement and went to the lower realm to find demons.

The Supreme God Xuan Cang wanted to use demons to feed the Demon entity in the tripod.

As an Upper God, Xuan Cang had lived for many years. In his memory, there was such a Demon entity. It was a very peculiar existence. Even he didn't know how this kind of thing was produced, but he knew that the Demon entity would be changed by what it devoured. The stronger its devouring ability, the more obvious its weakness—it would be influenced by whatever it devoured.

Even if this influence was negligible, it would accumulate and become obvious what they would eventually turn into.

Just like when Lu Linsheng was in the Demon Abyss, most of what he devoured were demons born in the Demon Abyss. Those demons had never seen the outside world and were mostly dominated by greed, muddleheaded. So apart from inherited obsession and vague memories, Lu Linsheng was also muddleheaded.

When he left the Demon Abyss and began to devour various demons in the human realm, he gained more and more fragmentary memories and was influenced by more complex emotions. His joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, and desires became more and more obvious.

Supreme God Xuan Cang remembered the Demon entity that appeared a long time ago. When it first appeared, it caused a storm of blood and wind. Because such things are mostly born in sinful places, they are initially the embodiment of "evil". So that Demon entity went around doing evil, causing living beings to suffer.

At that time, there was no Immortal Court yet, and the gods, who were still few, were all helpless against him. Later, in order to stop him, more than 100,000 pious and kind monks from the Western Buddhist country went to enlighten him, but they were all devoured by him. As a result, that Demon entity was influenced and developed a "good heart".

He began to loathe his own actions, unable to accept devouring any living beings, and was deeply remorseful for his past killing sins. He changed from a great demon to a monk, doing good deeds everywhere and restraining his appetite.

But this was against his nature. The Demon entity would become weak if it didn't devour flesh and blood for a long time. He became weaker and weaker, and finally starved to death.

Supreme God Xuan Cang just wanted to see what kind of person Lu Linsheng, this Demon entity, would become after devouring so many demons. When he reveals his true face and wants to eat his accompanying "lover", that naive little white dragon, she should know to be afraid. At that time, the scene of them killing each other would be brilliant.

He looked at the people in the tripod with malice and a hint of subtle pity, waiting for their tragic end.

As soon as Lu Linsheng entered that pitch-black space, he felt something was wrong. He pulled Bai Ling and wanted to retreat, but it was too late. He hit a barrier and could only continue to fall. When he landed on the ground, Bai Ling sat on the ground silently, holding her forehead with a look of forbearance.

Lu Linsheng was beside her. After a while, seeing that she didn't move, he asked, "Are you better?"

Bai Ling waved her hand. She had a severe fear of heights. Although she couldn't see the process of descending from above, she instinctively felt that she was in a very high place, so she was dizzy and weak in the legs. It took her a while to recover.

"This is not the Demon Abyss." Lu Linsheng's tone was certain. He had been in the Demon Abyss for so long that he was familiar with the smells and various auras inside. It was completely unfamiliar.

Bai Ling finally raised her head, casually wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, and patted her buttocks to stand up. It was dark here, and she couldn't see clearly. She took out a few huge night pearls and let them float high in the sky.

Only then could she see the surroundings clearly. The ground was flat, and when tapped, it made a metallic sound, though it was duller than that of ordinary metal. Bai Ling had been in Blazing Flame Valley for several years and had never seen this kind of metal.

She snapped her fingers, and those night pearls flew in all directions. As they moved, towering dark green walls appeared at the edge of their vision. It was a very spacious space.

"It seems that we have been thrown into a big box." Bai Ling said, looking up. It was pitch black above. She snapped her fingers again, and those night pearls floated upwards. When they reached a certain height, they could no longer go up. At this time, when they looked at those night pearls from below, they could only see a few spots of light, like stars in the sky.

"I tried, I can't go up." Lu Linsheng said.

"Which turtle grandson who has nothing to do after eating his fill locked us in here!" Bai Ling was so angry that she jumped up and pointed at her head and shouted, "If you have the ability, come out, playing tricks..."

She had just jumped up and hadn't landed yet when Lu Linsheng grabbed her waist and retreated a long distance. Bai Ling heard a bang, and something heavy slammed into the place where she was standing just now.

Bai Ling scattered another handful of night pearls, and the entire huge space was covered with a hazy glow. She saw clearly that what had just fallen was a very ugly demon. Before she could take a closer look, the sound of banging kept ringing.

She pulled Lu Linsheng and retreated to a dark green wall, watching more than a dozen demons fall from above like rain. Some of these demons were dead, some were disabled, and some were dazed. They gathered together and made all kinds of strange noises, creating a horrific cacophony.

Because the space was large and had its own echo, the effect of this group of demons screaming was terrifying.

Bai Ling knocked her head against the wall behind her, "It's so noisy."

Lu Linsheng pounced and devoured them all, leaving only the heavy overlap of echoes before the space returned to silence.

He returned to Bai Ling's side and found that she had a thoughtful look on her face, as if she was thinking about some serious issues.

"I thought it was the enemy who locked us both in here just now, but now that I think about it, it seems strange." Bai Ling pulled him to analyze, "Look, maybe it was to save me that we were locked in here to avoid being found by that Demon Dragon, and they didn't forget to send you food."

Old Seashell: "Little master, you're confused! How could locking you in this broken place possibly have good intentions!"

Lu Linsheng said to Bai Ling, "Mm, you're right."

Old Seashell: "..." I always seem out of place because I'm not young enough to keep up with your train of thought.

Bai Ling: "So who the hell... is the turtle son who locked us up!" After speculating that the other party might have good intentions, Bai Ling politely upgraded the turtle grandson to turtle son, giving the behind-the-scenes mastermind a generational upgrade.

While they were talking, more demons were thrown down.

Bai Ling: "Isn't the speed of sending you food a bit too fast?"

After another period of time. Bang bang--

Bai Ling: "The person who locked us up must know that you have to eat a lot."

Lu Linsheng: "Crunch crunch."

Bai Ling: "...Are you full?"

Lu Linsheng, who had turned into a demon form, spat out a skeleton that had been eaten clean and dragged it to her, "There's nothing inside, this can be used as a bed for you to sleep on."

Bai Ling knocked on the demon skeleton, "The bones are too sparse to sleep well, but I can do this."

She turned the skeleton over, took out a circle of shark silk from her spirit sac, and wrapped it around to make a hammock. "You try this, when I was in Luoshui before, I slept in this kind of hammock!"

Lu Linsheng lay down to try it, and smiled at her like a flower, "It's comfortable to lie on."

--

Supreme God Xuan Cang, who was watching outside, had a blank expression: "..." I locked you in here to torture you, not for you to come and talk about love???