Chapter 724: The Blood Demon Acknowledges Its Master

The moment those blood-red tentacles were about to touch the Immortal’s body, he suddenly opened his eyes, emitting two streams of purple light that shattered the tentacles into pieces. He patted the non-existent dust off his clothes and slowly stood up. “I thought some creature dared to disturb my cultivation. It turns out to be a blood demon. Too bad its strength is a bit lacking…”
Ye Feng and the blood demon were both stunned. The blood demon thought he was just bluffing and ignored him, continuing to charge at the Immortal. Countless red tentacles swarmed toward him.
The Immortal seemed unfazed at all. He simply stretched out his left hand, creating a barrier in front of him that blocked all the tentacles. Ye Feng noticed that each time the tentacles touched the barrier, they would instantly burn up. None of them could penetrate the barrier.
“Bastard… I’ll kill you…” the blood demon roared frantically.
The Immortal retracted his left hand and stretched out his right, fingers slightly parted. He pressed down sharply, forming a huge palm above the blood demon’s body and slapping down hard. “So noisy!”
The blood demon’s voice instantly ceased, and its red humanoid form, formed from blood, was flattened into a pancake. But it wasn’t over yet. The Immortal seemed to be enjoying himself, slapping again and again. In just a few breaths, he must have delivered tens of thousands of slaps.
By the time he withdrew his hand, the blood demon was barely alive, unable to even speak.
Ye Feng watched helplessly as this unfolded. He finally realized just how big the gap in strength was between him and the Immortal. That blood demon could trap him, preventing him from moving. But in front of the Immortal, it was no different from dough at someone’s mercy, with no chance of resistance.
“Xiao Feng, this blood demon is roughly at the sixth level of strength. You can barely absorb it,” the Immortal said, looking at Ye Feng. “I forgot to tell you—blood demons are creatures from other realms and the best supplements for enhancing our bloodline. I estimate that if you devour it, your bloodline strength can rise directly from the fourth layer to the fifth. With some time to refine the remaining energy, it might even reach the sixth layer. My own bloodline reached the ninth layer mainly through devouring blood demons. I’ve consumed hundreds of them, of various sizes. The strongest one was the Second Elder—his strength was truly formidable. It was after devouring him that my bloodline evolved from the eighth layer to the ninth.”

“So you’re… Immortal… Why are you in a place like this?” After hearing Immortal’s explanation, the Blood Demon finally figured out his identity and felt extremely distressed. He never expected that one of the people he least wanted to encounter was standing right in front of him right now.

“Mind your own business. Anyway, you’re about to be eaten. As food, you have no right to speak.” Immortal stomped his foot, and another giant foot formed in Ye Feng’s mental sea, slamming down on the Blood Demon.

“Don’t eat me, please! I’m not tasty at all…” The Blood Demon’s voice was filled with tears.

“To be honest, this thing doesn’t taste great, but its effects are excellent.” Immortal turned to Ye Feng. “You decide.”

“Don’t eat me! I’ll acknowledge you as my master…” The Blood Demon pleaded with Ye Feng. Knowing Immortal was around, he realized Ye Feng was his only hope for survival. “I can do many things—control puppets silently, and I’m almost immortal. I also have many puppets with me now, tens of thousands of them, each containing powerful beings from large universes. Eighteen of them are at level nine or above, and there’s one at level ten. Moreover, all the monsters at level four or above in this secret realm are under my control. As long as you let me acknowledge you as my master, these powerful beings will be your servants…”

“A level ten powerhouse? Are you lying?” Immortal slowly stepped forward toward the Blood Demon, as if killing him on the spot if he uttered even one lie.

“I swear by the Supreme Demon God—that I truly have a level ten puppet, and not a single word of it is false,” the Blood Demon swore.

Immortal frowned slightly. He had dealt with many creatures from other realms and knew that oaths sworn to the Supreme Demon God could not be broken. In other words, this guy really did have a puppet with strength comparable to his own. “Tell me, how did you get that puppet?”

“It’s from the Divine Eye clan. That guy, Tian Dao, severely injured him, and I stole his nearly destroyed body. While he was weak, I corrupted his consciousness and turned him completely into my servant. But his body is severely damaged and won’t recover in a short time, so I’ve never used this puppet either,” the Blood Demon hurriedly explained.

“Are you talking about the second elder of the Divine Eye clan?” Immortal was astonished.

“Yes, though I didn’t know at first. I found out later,” the Blood Demon replied.

“Since that’s the case, Xiao Feng, sign a master-slave contract with him.” After hearing this, the Immortal immediately changed his mind. “Don’t use an ordinary contract; the contracts in this world don’t have much binding power over him.”
“You…” The Blood Demon had barely spoken a word before realizing he shouldn’t have reacted that way.
“You want to ask why I know this, right?” The Immortal smiled. “It’s because that second elder of yours, whom I ate, tried the same trick. After signing a contract with me, he pretended to obey. Later, he tried to sneak back to the Outer Realm, but I caught him, which is why I ate him. If a contract can be successfully signed, I’d actually like to keep him, as he does possess quite a few resources.”
As he spoke, the Immortal turned to Ye Feng and transmitted a message to him, “Using the Supreme Privilege to sign a contract with him should work.”
Ye Feng nodded. With the power of his soul, he communicated with the Void Realm, “Use the Supreme Privilege to sign an eternal master-slave contract with the creature before us!”
“One use of the Supreme Privilege. The use was successful,” came the voice from the Void Realm.
Soon after, a milky-white light burst from Ye Feng’s forehead and disappeared into the Blood Demon’s body. After a while, countless strange secret patterns appeared on the Blood Demon’s body. Once all the patterns vanished into his body, a drop of black blood slowly floated out and entered Ye Feng’s forehead.
Ye Feng clearly felt that within his sea of consciousness, a complex giant contract pattern was rapidly taking shape, with that drop of black blood falling into it. The contract pattern emitted colored lights before finally calming down.
Every move and even every thought of the Blood Demon could no longer escape Ye Feng’s detection.
“Master…” The Blood Demon, who had originally planned to trick Ye Feng, was now completely submissive. He no longer had any desire to resist Ye Feng at all. The contract signed under the guidance of the Supreme Privilege was truly absolute.
“Was it successful?” the Immortal asked eagerly.
“Mm, it seems successful. His thoughts can no longer escape my detection. Moreover, he no longer has any intention of resisting,” Ye Feng nodded.
“Then it’s successful. The contract I signed with that second elder was just a drop of ordinary red blood entering the contract pattern—there was no sense of complete control like with a successfully signed contract. That’s why I suspected he had tampered with it,” the Immortal said with a smile.

“That’s one of our special abilities. Since we are based on blood, we can use our own blood to deceive contracts, making them think it’s our lifeblood. In reality, what signed the contract with you back then was just a part of the Second Elder. Though it’s just a part, given enough time, it can still grow to reach the Second Elder’s level. There’s one more thing I must mention: our Blood Demon clan shares some similarities with your Immortal Bloodline. As long as there’s a drop of blood left, we remain immortal. So, although the Second Elder’s main body was eaten by you, he isn’t actually dead. He has trillions of physical puppets, each containing a drop of his blood. However, to restore his original strength, it’s as if he had to start training from scratch. Even now that his main body is gone, he can still control all those puppets. The reason I don’t want to be eaten is also because I don’t want to start training over again. Moreover, I once thought of using fake contracts like the Second Elder did to gain your trust and then sneak away. That’s why I surrendered.”

“Wait, if the main body has been destroyed, its consciousness should be gone too. Then why can it still control those physical puppets?” Ye Feng couldn’t help but ask.

“Actually, each drop of blood contains our consciousness. When the main body is destroyed, the strongest consciousness automatically becomes the main consciousness, and all memories are passed on. That’s why our Blood Demon clan is so powerful—we’re almost indestructible. Especially at our level, we have trillions of puppets. As long as one of them is alive, the drop of blood within it can fully inherit our memories. With enough time and resources, we can restore our original strength,” explained the Blood Demon.

“Then, suppose after one of your clan members’ main bodies is destroyed and his memories are passed on to one of his drops of blood, but another drop suddenly becomes stronger than the one that received the memories for some reason, what would happen?” Ye Feng asked.

“That hasn’t happened yet, but I know the outcome. The memories will be passed on again, and the transfer will automatically choose the drop with the strongest consciousness,” explained the Blood Demon.

“Dad.” After asking this question, Ye Feng turned to Immortal. “Is the drop of blood that signed the contract with you still there?”

“Yes, that contract hasn’t vanished, nor has that drop of blood. I was upset about it for quite some time,” Immortal nodded. Hearing this question, he also guessed what Ye Feng wanted to do. “Do you intend to use the Supreme Privilege to strengthen the consciousness of that drop of blood?”
“No, I want to use the Supreme Privilege to completely restore that drop of blood that formed the contract with you back to Second Elder’s form,” Ye Feng said with a smile. “Dad, bring out that drop of blood.”
“Is that okay?” Immortal was delighted and immediately took out the drop of blood.
“It can’t hurt to give it a try, regardless of whether it works or not,” Ye Feng said as he took the drop of blood. “Use the Supreme Privilege to restore this blood to its strongest, most complete life form!”
“One use of the Supreme Privilege. The use was successful.”
A strange light suddenly shone from somewhere, and the drop of blood began to grow at a visible speed. Ye Feng placed it on the ground, where it quickly grew to the size of a lake, then continued to expand until it reached the size of an ocean before slowly stopping.
At that moment, a drop of black blood slowly floated out of that ocean-like mass and merged into Immortal’s forehead.
“Master…” The ocean-sized sea of blood reverted to human form and bowed to Immortal.
“Haha, this time it’s a real contract,” Immortal said happily. Then he turned to Second Elder. “Have those flesh puppets returned under your control?”
“Yes, Master. All of them are under my control again,” Second Elder nodded.
“Good, we’ve gained a lot this time. Xiao Feng, once my cultivation is complete, you can come to me directly and ask for whatever you want,” Immortal said cheerfully. “I need to continue studying this fragment of the Heavenly Dao. But I’ll need you to use the Supreme Privilege again—my sudden enlightenment was interrupted…”
“Hmm, no problem. There are still fifteen uses left of the Supreme Privilege,” Ye Feng nodded. “As for what you mentioned, Dad, I think I should make a list to see what else I’m lacking.”