Chapter 27 Self-Power Generation Jiang Li An
Jiang the Witch stood silently, taking some time to accept the memories that were being unsealed.
So, I'm not Jiang Liyan, I should be... Li An?
I am... the Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon?
No sooner had this thought arisen than all the fear, pain, despair, and reluctance that lingered in her heart vanished in an instant.
Jiang Liyan and Jiang Lian were not the difference between an alternate persona and a primary personality, but rather different responses due to her own weaknesses and strengths at various stages.
The Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon, standing at the pinnacle amongst the many extraterritorial Heavenly Demons, was born an immortal and indestructible being. Hence, the witches did not feel fear, pain, despair, or reluctance. They could only absorb these emotions from the souls of the living beings in the Lower Realm by devouring them.
The absence of imperfection is, in itself, an imperfection.
However, Jiang Lian, who had cultivated her Demonic Techniques to near Perfection, "reincarnated as a human," cleansing herself thoroughly from the perspective of the first person in the Mortal World and filling the final missing piece of her Realm.
Consequently, those witch sisters who only knew how to stay in the Upper Realm and enjoy their comfort were no longer a match for her.
Li Chou and Li Hen, her two sisters, both appeared jubilant, but Jiang Lian only pondered for a moment before turning her gaze to the other two present.
The figure in the black cloud suddenly transformed into a streak of light and fled outwards desperately.
Elder Cai'e activated all the sinister traps in the vicinity by performing the Daoist Formula.
All the measures originally prepared for Wei Dongliu were now unleashed upon the three Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demons.
Before the glow and aftermath of the spells had dissipated, the black cloud, which had nearly made it to the cave entrance, suddenly let out a violent scream.
The black cloud swiftly vanished without a trace, revealing the woman inside, who turned out to be Xu Ruyan, the Sect Leader from the Mortal Life Path of Lingxiu Mountain.
Sect Leader Xu's eyes were bulging, her hair stood on end, and she seemed to have endured an extremely brutal mental torment... Her body quickly collapsed, turning into a drained husk.
Li Hen emerged as a black mist from inside her rapidly and, retching, said:
"A complete and utter schemer, a longing devoid of any emotion, the soul is like jerky dry wood, tough to swallow."
Jiang Lian walked out from the half-ruined chamber, her body weaving through the debris like black smoke, as if there wasn't a physical entity that could be harmed.
She looked at Elder Cai'e, who was pale with fright, and suddenly smiled sweetly:
"Little sister, you must not disrespect our Master."
As Elder Cai'e was about to say something, her mouth suddenly began to open and close uncontrollably, and from within came the voice:
"Sister, why don't you let me eat her?"
"During the time I was a human, although Master was violent, cold, and cruel, I still owe her a deep debt of gratitude if I consider the deeds not the intentions," Jiang Liyan said with a guilelessly innocent smile, speaking slowly. "To repay Master's kindness, I must fully extract her worth before sending her off, right?"
"That's exactly right, sister," Li Chou said in a low chuckle, combining with Elder Cai'e's gruff voice, it sounded particularly sinister, "Is there anything you need me to do with Master, sister?"
Jiang Lian pondered for a moment and then turned her head to look at her own corpse.
The corpse had completely turned into a husk, sagging lifelessly on the stone platform, mixed with blood and sweat, beyond use.
But as the Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon, she naturally possessed the Divine Skill of shapeshifting with a mere twist of her body, she reconstituted a solid, slender figure identical to Jiang Liyan.
Then, with a flick of her finger, her body was covered in countless silver needles, as if she had been turned into a pin-cushioned blood person, looking utterly miserable.
Sitting back down on the stone platform, Jiang Lian asked her two younger sisters:
"How about this? Does it differ from the original body?"
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"No difference," Li Hen floated to Jiang Lian's side and said with a giggle, "Wei Dongliu has been lured over, and he will definitely not be able to tell anything unusual about you."
"Once he's fooled by your appearance, I'll quietly circle behind him and pounce, devouring him from the inside out..."
Before she could finish speaking, Jiang Lian pointed a finger, and Li Hen's head exploded on the spot.
Then, from her neck, now oozing with black energy, a muddled head struggled to grow back, crying out indistinctly:
"Why did sister kill me!"
"Li Hen, let me tell you," said Jiang Lian with a smile that filled her face, "Wei Dongliu is mine, and none of you are allowed to touch him."
She turned her head to look at Li Chou inside Elder Caie's body, her smile becoming even more radiant:
"Whoever touches him, I will kill. You have been forewarned."
"Understood," Li Hen said with a sob, "but even so, there was no need to kill me!"
"It was just to teach you a lesson," Jiang Lian continued to adjust her posture to appear as though she had been subjected to cruel torture, barely able to hold herself upright, "Now go, bring me Wei Dongliu."
"But we don't know where he is," Li Chou said in a low voice.
"Then go find him," Jiang Lian said leisurely, "I want to see him holding my corpse, crying his eyes out in remorse and regret."
"Hurry up, don't make me rush you."
The two witches looked at each other, only managing a grunt before they swiftly flew towards the cave entrance.
This cave was originally on a secluded island overseas, and after discerning the direction for a while, the witches flew towards the Divine Land Continent.
"Come to think of it," Li Hen said moodily, "sister hasn't fallen in love with Wei Dongliu, has she?"
"Who knows," Li Chou, controlling Elder Caie, said enigmatically, "Can Heavenly Demons even experience love?"
"Isn't love our food?" asked Li Hen, puzzled, "If sister really did fall in love, wouldn't that mean her desires would be self-generated and endless?"
The two witches fell silent in unison before finally realizing.
"Truly worthy of sister," Li Chou snapped back to reality and exclaimed admiringly, "Always thinking ahead, with meticulous plans, beyond our reach."
"So sister deliberately fell in love with Wei Dongliu," Li Hen also said enviously, "As long as Wei Dongliu is alive, she will continue to generate a vast amount of desire for him, which in turn will become her own power."
"In this way, looping eternally, accumulating constantly, sister will eventually complete the Supreme Demon Technique and dominate other sisters to ascend to the throne of the Demon King in the Desire Heaven," Li Chou summed up in awe, "It's only now we understand, but sister had already figured it all out before descending to the Lower Realm."
The two witches went back and forth, singing Jiang Lian's praises as being astonishingly capable in every aspect.
But what impressed them the most was that Jiang Lian could actually fall in love with a human—for most Heavenly Demons, humans were nothing more than sustenance.
For the sake of growing stronger, she would even romance her food—what a wild idea!