Dual Cultivation: I Summon Villainesses of Mythic Era-Chapter 33: Do not disappoint me again, Heavenly Demon
" Well, well what must I do to prove that I want to cooperate with you. "
He did indeed want to cooperate, but his ultimate goal remained unchanged: to strengthen this karmic link until these Villainesses, these S-rank and SS+ targets, became his exclusive property, devoted instruments to his will even before they realized it.
" To start with, kill the Dao Executor, at that moment... We will see if you are clearly better than what you were back then. " Retorted the dragoness.
The Dao Executor was the ultimate weapon of the heavens, an elect chosen by the Temple of the Dao to track and eliminate the Devourer in every era. The fact that the Dao had already designated its champion meant that the chess game against the heavens was accelerating.
BaiShe adjusted his monocle again.
" I was moved to discuss with you, Master... And Demonic Dragoness ~ "
Long Huang let out a contemptuous growl.
" Stop with your smug face you annoy me. I am going into seclusion to recover part of my powers " she said while her body transformed into a column of dark flames before completely disappearing, leaving behind only a slight smell of ash.
Heavy silence fell back in the room, leaving only BaiShe and LingBao facing each other.
LingBao never showed affection, treating her disciple with a distance bordering on indifference, which only fueled BaiShe’s desire to corrupt her completely.
" Do not disappoint me again, heavenly demon... " she said in a voice devoid of emotion before volatilizing herself too in a shimmer of energy, leaving the persistent perfume of wild lotus.
BaiShe remained alone in the pavilion, hands crossed behind his back, observing the landscape through the window.
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The system set up by Xuan BaiShe does not function like an enslavement spell that would rewrite the consciousness of the invoked beings to turn them into slaves without will.
On the contrary, the Villainesses who are pulled from nothingness retain the entirety of their ego, their legendary arrogance as well as the majority of their original power, even if the latter is sometimes bridled by the laws of the current era.
Like most entities that belonged to past eras, their memories are often fragmented or troubled by the process of temporal transition... Long Huang, for example, displays a visceral and apparent hatred toward BaiShe, unable to bear the idea of being linked to him, despite the existence of a Karmic link.
The system truly acts as a complex temporal bridge that pulls souls from the Origins Era toward the current era in exchange for Luck Points accumulated by BaiShe.
The system can also display the level of the Karmic Link, a capital data for the continuation of his projects because the higher this statistic is, the more BaiShe possesses control and influence over the actions and will of the invoked Villainess...
For the moment, the tension remains palpable between the master of the system and his invocations, because the latter remember, even vaguely, the terror once inspired by the Heavenly Demon.
***
In a suspended garden of the Supreme Dao Sect, where the spiritual energy is so dense that it forms iridescent mists between the jade pillars, LingBao stood motionless, observing the horizon. The Sword Demoness felt a familiar presence approaching. It was Long Huang, the demonic dragoness with black flames.
Long Huang stopped a few meters away, fixing LingBao with incomprehension.
She did not understand why a warrior of LingBao’s caliber, whose Immortal Heart of 100 Swords commanded respect, seemed to grant her trust to this heavenly demon, a being as unpredictable and cruel.
" Why do you trust him ? " asked Long Huang.
" He carries within him the essence of the one we all learned to hate... How can you stay by his side as if nothing happened ? "
LingBao did not turn away from the view of the mountains, her presence remaining perfectly calm. She took a moment before answering. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
" Unlike us, who keep certain scraps of our memories and past grudges, he is perfectly a blank page... " replied LingBao in a monotonous tone.
" BaiShe is not the heavenly demon right now... He has no memory of his previous lives nor of the atrocities committed under that name. It would be useless to consider him as such or to punish him for crimes he knows nothing about. "
Long Huang narrowed her ebony eyes, immediately understanding the strategic implication behind the Sword Demoness’s words.
" So you are insinuating that we should influence him, in such a way that he does not become a mad psychopath like before ? " asked the dragoness.
LingBao slowly nodded.
" We have the opportunity to shape the most powerful entity of the eras to come... " she added softly. " Or do you intend to go now ? "
Long Huang turned her head toward the south, where the domains of the demonic clans extended under darker skies.
" I felt the qi of my disciple, I am going to visit him... " she declared before rising into the air with no apparent effort.
She transformed into a trail of dark light, cleaving the Qi clouds at a dizzying speed.
While she flew toward the energy signature she had identified, Long Huang could not help thinking about the one she had formed long ago while she was sealed.
" Sijin, you have really become powerful these last years... " murmured Long Huang to herself while observing the emanations of the Shadow Dragon Physique that surrounded the entire area.
However, despite LingBao’s hopes and Long Huang’s plans of influence... If BaiShe perhaps did not have his conscious memories, he remained identical to his intrinsic self, to the very essence of his soul.
Even if he had changed his approach, trading the brute violence of the Heavenly Demon for scholarly manipulation and the charm of the young Xuan master, he remained the same psychopathic bastard, incapable of truly loving and ready for anything to achieve supremacy.
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*Era of the Dao*
*Domain of the Demonic Clan of Pride*
The Domain of the Demonic Clan of Pride was a monument to the power of the ancient Dragons, a fortress of steep peaks and obsidian palaces.
It is in this environment that the hardest wills were forged, there where the lineage of the Dragons imposed its absolute sovereignty over the other races. To understand the stature of the current Matriarch, Xuan Long Sijin, one had to go back to a certain era... well before she reigned over this domain with an iron grip.
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