Chapter 48.2

“This Disciple doesn’t like anybody looking at Master this way.” It would make him feel annoyed. After crushing the yuan souls of the lower level demons, Jiang Tan then softly explained to the youth next to him.

Usually, this degree of possessiveness was unacceptable to most people and might even cause them to escape. However, Gu Yan still reciprocated, raising his hand to the young man’s head and patting the soft black hair.

The touch on his head was very gentle, making Jiang Tan relax his eyebrows. Indulging him to this extent was only making it more difficult for him to control himself from doing anything more excessive.

“The Demon Palace is in the central region, aren’t we going to go?”

Stroking his hair and coaxing him, Gu Yan changed the topic lest the other person continued to immerse himself in his emotions. He had already accepted the other person’s paranoia, so he could also accept his possessiveness.

Although this extent of possessiveness seems to be a little extreme…

Gu Yan also asked his own system, probably somewhere along the lines of ’00, isn’t that right?’, and only got silence in response.

The host’s emotional intelligence tends to fluctuate. Often, in the face of his lover, he would dig a pit for himself. 037 couldn’t calculate whether to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’, and chose silence instead.

“Mn.” At the same time, Jiang Tan hugged the youth’s waist and directly used a teleportation spell. This was a skill he’d learned after his breakthrough. The downside was that it was unable to make a transfer between the two different dimensions and thus, they had to first go through the abyss of the Underworld.

It was not difficult to teleport to the general location in the central area. Upon reaching the largest building in the center, Jiang Tan extracted the demon from the Jade piece and let him lead the way.

This was also probably the last role that the demon can play for him.

So the Demon Palace ushered in a guest today, or perhaps, a new owner.

After the black matter brought them to their target, in front of the group of three high-level demons, Jiang Tan didn’t say anything. He merely pinched their yuan souls in his hands and gave them the choice to surrender or let their yuan Soul be destroyed.

Power was really a good thing. Jiang Tan narrowed his eyes and stared at the three souls in his hand.

In fact, he didn’t want to let his Master see this fierce and cruel side of him. When Jiang Tan was doing those things earlier, he would carefully observe the expression of the person next to him.

He had no other choice this time. In the future, he would make sure to do it discreetly in a place where his Master wouldn’t be able to see.

Gu Yan was very calm and only laughed a little when he discovered that his disciple would occasionally steal a glance at him.

His disciple was worried about what he would think, but in reality, he didn’t have any opinions on this matter. He already knew that when the Taotie beast grew serious, its existence was much more cruel and brutal than this. So, the yuan souls pinched in between his fingers were really not a threat…

Once the Taotie beast gets furious, it will truly be like the unfinished ending he had written.

The three yuan souls that were in Jiang Tan’s hands were coincidentally the top three powers of this abyss.

In front of this pure blooded adult Taotie beast, they were no better than the rest of the low-leveled demons, because the gap between their levels was too great.

Ants can only be ants, regardless of their size. They were all the same in Jiang Tan’s eyes. Nowadays, there was only one existence among all the creatures who was an exception.

As a demon elder, no matter how young they looked, each one of them was actually at an age beyond imagination. Having finally reached the height of immortality, who would choose to die? They would, of course, choose to surrender rather than let their yuan soul be destroyed.

“Do you know the method for restoring my master’s cultivation?” This result was within his expectations, Jiang Tan loosened his hold on the three souls in his hands. From the start, he didn’t intend to kill them all immediately. They were the top powers in the demon realm and these three demons were still useful to him…

There was no harm in handing the work he would otherwise have to dirty his hands with to these demons. 

“In order to restore his cultivation, you must first start by reshaping his spiritual veins with a molding spiritual stone. This spiritual stone, this mast … This servant has one that I will fetch for you later. Having called himself ‘this Master’ for over thousands of years, his speed of adaptation can still be considered relatively fast.

This was a Taotie beast in front of them. This realization made the three demons’ yuan soul shudder. After living for such a long time, they knew exactly how terrible this existence was.

Although they couldn’t understand why such a terrifying beast had a human being as his master, they wouldn’t think of asking.

Satisfied, Jiang Tan hummed an affirmative tone. Without even looking, he caught the ball of black matter that was trying to escape. The ink-black eyes that seemed to hold endless darkness narrowed maliciously.

“You took part in it. Did you think I will let you go?” The demon had realized it too late.

Jiang Tan slowly tightened his grip on the black matter, little by little… he wanted to let the other person clearly feel the process and the pain of its yuan soul being crushed.

Watching this whole process, the three demons, who treasured their lives, heard the piercing screams. They didn’t wish to experience such a painful ending.

At this moment, the three demons who used to sit on the throne of the highest power in the abyss of the Underworld had completely surrendered.

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T/n: so Yuan Soul is something like their core/primary soul