Long Hao's entire body emitted a thick black aura, and his expression changed. His eyes were sharp and his lips were dark. The powerful aura of the demon mark between his eyebrows impacted the waves in the air. One could vaguely see the airflow dispersing with the wind.
Long Hao's hand that was holding the saber trembled violently. Perhaps he was too excited to finally see the person he had been thinking about day and night. However, they met in a battle.
Seeing that Long Hao was still not making a move, the Eldest Princess Yu Shang conjured a soft sword in her hand and flew forward to point it at Long Hao's glabella. When the blade was only one millimeter away from his forehead, Long Hao held the blade with his bare hands.
Fresh blood slid across the blade of the sword and dripped silently. Long Hao looked at the person in front of him as if he did not feel anything. He was afraid that she would disappear in the next moment and kept looking at her greedily.
Many immortals and demons watched the two of them. They could not understand why the Demon Lord had stopped fighting after fighting so fiercely with the woman. Could it be that the Demon Lord was also a lecherous person who knew how to take pity on women?
Soon, everyone shook their heads. Impossible! Weren't those fairies killed by the Demon Lord one by one? All of them were so beautiful that even some Devil cultivators couldn't bear to be ruthless, but he was good. Each of them was so neat, as if he was pinching cotton.
The eldest princess Yu Shang saw that he had no intention of hurting her, but he was still holding onto the sword. The two of them were in a stalemate again.
Long Hao's eyes shone.
Eldest Princess Yu Shang wanted to pull out her sword, but he held it tightly again. Blood splattered out, and the wound was so deep that the bone could be seen. However, he was still unaware of it, only greedily looking at the person in front of him who he had always hidden in his heart and loved for a long time.
Now that she was standing right in front of him at such a close distance, Long Hao was very satisfied just by looking at her quietly. Even if he had to die now, he would have no regrets.
Because the two had been in a stalemate for too long, the Celestial Thearch could no longer hold it in. It could be seen that the Demon Lord seemed to have other thoughts about Yu Shang.
He secretly considered that it was better to sacrifice one for the sake of the overall situation than to let the world fall into the demonic claws. Anyway, he had sacrificed enough and did not care about one more. The Celestial Thearch took out the Heavenly Soul Sword and sheathed it at the two of them. As the name implied, if the Heavenly Soul Sword was injured, even the soul would be destroyed.
Eldest Princess Yu Shang didn't understand why the Demon Lord was looking at her with such a happy yet sad and gentle gaze. He had never had any contact with demons, so where did this gentleness come from?
Before he could think about it, he saw a sword emitting an incomparably golden light coming over. Eldest Princess Yu Shang slapped Long Hao with her palm and pulled out her sword.
Long Hao's shoulder was hit, and the sword in his hand was pulled out. His palm was cut again, and blood sprayed in the air along the edge of the sword. Seeing that the person in his heart was about to leave, he couldn't care less about what place it was at this moment. He rushed over anxiously and pulled the person's arm into his arms.
The Heavenly Soul Sword flew over and pierced through their bodies. Their pupils instantly widened in disbelief. Time seemed to have stopped. Everyone was dumbfounded and could not believe that the Demon Lord had been killed just like that!
Eldest Princess Yu Shang glanced at the Celestial Thearch in the distance. The Celestial Thearch had an unyielding look on his face, as if telling her that as the Eldest Princess, sacrificing for the people of the world was something she should do.
She spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground. Perhaps she also thought that this was what the eldest princess should do. She didn't notice any resentment in her eyes. Her eyes were as calm as ever. The last wave in her eyes was because Long Hao hugged her gently.
Long Hao's eyes were filled with guilt and pain.
Eldest Princess Yu Shang didn't know if she didn't want to see these sad eyes or if her soul was hurt by the Heavenly Soul Sword, but she quietly closed her eyes as if everything around her had nothing to do with her.
Long Hao did not expect that his appearance would cause the primordial spirit of the person he loved to be destroyed. Everything he did was supported by a single belief, and that was to see her again.
Long Hao, who was heartbroken, forcibly separated his soul essence and turned it into a protective light to protect Yu Shang's primordial spirit. Then, he picked up Yu Shang and disappeared in front of everyone, leaving behind countless puzzled gazes as they looked at each other.
Long Hao carried Yu Shang back to the Devil Palace at high speed and brought him to the huge black stone wall of the forbidden lake belonging to the Devil Race. Countless red leafless vines, as if they had drunk blood, climbed up in a crisscrossing manner, covering the entire stone wall. The only part of the stone wall that didn't have any vines was the place where the words were carved. One could clearly see the words 'Lake' at a glance. The two large black words, Lake, seemed to have a life of their own as they flowed slowly along the structure of the words like a river, emitting black smoke.
The dark air was oppressive. Countless bats flew past in the surroundings, and the sound of their wings flapping was particularly alarming here.
Long Hao looked at the person in his arms. His distressed expression turned into a firm gaze as he flew toward the surging black words.
Just as he was about to touch the words, he was stopped by a wooden walking stick that appeared out of thin air. Then, an old man in cotton clothes appeared and attacked Long Hao directly.
Long Hao hugged Yu Shang and dodged the attack. He retreated to the ground and stood firm.
The old man caught the wooden staff that flew out and spun his body before landing on the ground.
Only then did Lin Lin see the old man's face clearly. This…wasn't this the strange old man beside her? From the corner of his eyes, he looked at the old man standing on the edge of the cliff through the mirror and saw that he was still looking into the distance.
Lin Lin's gaze returned to the mirror. Seeing Long Hao hugging Yu Shang, his gaze met the old man's, and neither of them gave in.
After a moment of stalemate, the old man spoke first,""Demon Lord, you can't do this."
Long Hao's face was gloomy, and the green root on his back swelled up. He said in a low voice,"Uncle Weng, move aside, or else…don't blame me for being merciless.”
So the strange old man was called Uncle Weng! Lin Lin looked at the mirror and nodded secretly.
In the mirror. Uncle Weng placed the wooden staff in front of him and said calmly,"This old woman has been guarding this lake for tens of thousands of years, and no one has ever been so arrogant as to enter the lake in front of this old woman. Even if…you are the Demon Lord, you can't.”
Long Hao was angered by Uncle Weng's words. Deep Drink's pupils slowly expanded, turning from brown to dark red. The powerful aura she emitted made her weak hair fly up. The surrounding air condensed into a gale, and the dead leaves on the ground flew in all directions due to the whistling of the gale.
Uncle Weng held the staff with both hands and stabbed it into the soil on the ground to stabilize his feet and not be forced back by the wind.
Long Hao retracted his aura and said in a tone as calm as possible,""Uncle Weng, for thousands of years, you have been guarding the lake loyally. Your identity does not belong to the Divine Realm or the Devil Race. Even the Celestial Thearch will show some courtesy to you. I beg Uncle Weng to let me take her into the lake. I am willing to offer the throne of the Demon Lord with both hands.”
Seeing that Uncle Weng was not moved at all, Long Hao continued,""I just don't want her primordial spirit to be destroyed. I'll extract her primordial spirit before it's destroyed. That way, at least there's a chance for reincarnation.”He paused for a moment, his gaze firm." So you have to…enter, even if you don't want to…enter.”
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