Chapter 503: What a Coincidence, I'm Not Afraid

Lu Sangjiu was stunned.

If Li Qifeng had suddenly attacked her, she could have understood.

But attacking Ye Wucheng out of the blue like this… what kind of bizarre plot twist was this?

Of course, Ye Wucheng was quick to react, so Li Qifeng’s sneak attack naturally failed.

And so, the two of them began to fight, trading blows back and forth in the cramped space.

Lu Sangjiu stood to the side, weak and helpless, forced to protect herself tightly within a protective shield to avoid getting caught in the crossfire.

At that moment, Li Qifeng suddenly shouted, “Fellow Daoist Lu, hurry up and help me!”

Lu Sangjiu: ???

‘What’s going on now? Why is he talking like we’re supposed to be on the same side?’

Just as she was about to voice her confusion, she saw Ye Wucheng suddenly frown. He feinted, then once again dashed toward the Demon Eye Fire!

Previously, neither Lu Sangjiu nor Li Qifeng had seen how Ye Wucheng had been attacked by the Demon Eye Fire.

But now, at least, as he suddenly approached it, he wasn’t attacked by the flames.

Lu Sangjiu managed to remain calm, but Li Qifeng couldn’t hold back and chased after him.

Perhaps because he saw Lu Sangjiu hadn’t moved, he couldn’t help but quickly try to persuade her as he gave chase.

“Ye Wucheng’s cultivation is extremely high! Neither of us is a match for him alone. If you don’t join me to eliminate him first, he’ll definitely get rid of us—the two witnesses—as soon as he gets the Demon Eye Fire!”

Lu Sangjiu raised an eyebrow, finally understanding Li Qifeng’s intention.

‘So he wants to seize the treasure and is trying to rope me in to eliminate the strongest one first.’

‘This guy gets red-eyed with greed the moment he sees something good. He’s clearly the type to be motivated by profit, with no good intentions at all.’

‘He was probably eyeing me earlier for my wealth, too. I just don’t know which treasure he was after.’

But in any case, Lu Sangjiu wasn’t that foolish. What if she helped him get rid of Ye Wucheng, only for him to turn on her right after?

‘Although both of them are my targets, since they’ve started fighting each other, I should naturally sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight!’

As for the Demon Eye Fire, while Lu Sangjiu wasn’t particularly interested, both men before her were her enemies. She couldn’t just stand by and watch either of them claim the fire, or she feared she wouldn’t be able to handle the victor.

With this in mind, Lu Sangjiu neither advanced nor retreated, simply remaining a short distance away, watching their every move.

Ye Wucheng rushed up to the Demon Eye Fire. He immediately circulated Demonic Qi in his palm and reached out to absorb the Abnormal Fire.

However, this action seemed to have finally touched a raw nerve of the Demon Eye Fire. Its flame suddenly swelled, baking the area until the air itself seemed to twist from the intense heat.

As a result, Ye Wucheng, who was closest to it, was once again sent flying. Li Qifeng, who had been chasing him, was thrown back as well.

Only Lu Sangjiu was far enough away. Although she felt the air grow hotter, she was largely unaffected.

At that moment, Ye Wucheng suddenly grabbed something and threw it directly at Li Qifeng.

Li Qifeng reacted quickly enough to block it. He had expected some kind of hidden weapon, but then he discovered it seemed to be a liquid…

Before he could fully process this, the Demon Eye Fire went berserk. From within the small cluster of flames, something like a hand shot out, sweeping directly toward Li Qifeng.

Targeted by the attack, Li Qifeng was thrown into a panic.

Meanwhile, Ye Wucheng seized the opportunity, took out another small porcelain vial, and formed a hand seal as he moved toward the Demon Eye Fire.

Although Lu Sangjiu couldn’t see everything clearly, she guessed he was preparing to snatch the Demon Eye Fire amidst the chaos.

‘I’m still here. How could I let him get his way?’

Instantly, her Domination Map Blade flew out, striking at the porcelain vial in Ye Wucheng’s hand.

Startled, Ye Wucheng was forced to withdraw his hand and dodge.

He then turned his gloomy eyes to Lu Sangjiu. “You want to stop me too?”

He had seen Lu Sangjiu holding back earlier and thought she wasn’t going to interfere, but now she had suddenly made a move.

Lu Sangjiu wore an innocent expression. “As they say, those who see the treasure get a share. Just because I haven’t joined the fight doesn’t mean you can act like I don’t exist, right?”

“…Very well!” Ye Wucheng sneered. Several Thunder Bombs suddenly appeared in his hand, and he hurled them straight at Lu Sangjiu.

Having witnessed the power of these things before, Lu Sangjiu naturally wouldn’t underestimate them.

The Heavenly Origin Infinite Shield instantly materialized before her, blocking the Thunder Bombs.

She thought that would be the end of it, but as the Thunder Bombs exploded, even though her Heavenly Origin Infinite Shield didn’t break, she still felt a piercing pain from a burst of electricity on her body!

‘No way, can this thing ignore my shield and hit me from a distance?’

The lightning’s power wasn’t exceptionally strong, but it still inflicted considerable damage on Lu Sangjiu in an instant.

As for Li Qifeng, he was already entangled by the Demon Eye Fire. Now, after a sneak attack from Ye Wucheng, he finally couldn’t hold on any longer and was reduced to ashes in the flames!

It was… quite a pathetic end. His ambition had barely taken flight before he was gone.

However, Lu Sangjiu quickly realized the situation had turned sour. With Li Qifeng dead, she was now Ye Wucheng’s only opponent. How could this be good?

She hastily recalled her Domination Map Blade, preparing to fight seriously.

At that moment, after devouring Li Qifeng, the Demon Eye Fire seemed rather satisfied and shrank back to its original size.

‘It’s the same size, but it seems a bit stronger than before?’

‘Is it because it devoured Li Qifeng?’

Just as Lu Sangjiu was pondering this in surprise, Ye Wucheng suddenly repeated his earlier trick, flinging some kind of liquid toward her.

Having learned from the previous example, Lu Sangjiu certainly wasn’t going to let the substance touch her. She immediately retreated to dodge.

She evaded the liquid, which splattered onto the ground. Instantly, it provoked another reaction from the Demon Eye Fire!

Taking advantage of this moment, Lu Sangjiu finally got a clear look at what the liquid was.

“Demon Spirit Liquid?”

To put it simply, this substance was similar to the Spiritual Liquid or Immortal Liquid of the Cultivation World, except this one was formed from a high concentration of Demonic Qi.

‘In other words, the Demon Eye Fire is simply greedy for Demonic Qi?’

‘The few of us Cultivators have it too, but at our Realm, we can control our Demonic Qi to prevent it from leaking out.’

‘The minor fluctuations during a fight aren’t enough to interest the Demon Eye Fire. Only a concentration as high as Demon Spirit Liquid would provoke it to attack on its own.’

Lu Sangjiu suddenly had a flash of understanding. ‘So the Earth Fire Demon Lotus outside isn’t just being nourished by the Demon Eye Fire… the Demonic Qi it produces is also nourishing the Demon Eye Fire in return?’

‘The two have a symbiotic relationship, growing together.’

In that instant, Lu Sangjiu figured out many things. Seeing that his attack had missed, Ye Wucheng immediately launched another one at her.

Lu Sangjiu’s eyes narrowed, but then she suddenly smiled.

“So… you haven’t dared to use any techniques with large Demonic Qi fluctuations because you were afraid of being targeted by the Demon Eye Fire?”

“What a coincidence. I’m not afraid.”