What does my ancestor's pregnancy have to do with me, a mere servant?

Her chest heaved slightly, her tone tinged with suppressed anger and grievance: "Lie Yuan, we fought our way up from the lowest ranks of the Imperial Guard's suicide squad. I considered you a sister I'd risk my life for, and you actually colluded with Chi Ling to keep this from me?!"

Lie Yuan paused, a hint of wariness flashing in her dark red eyes: "What have I been hiding from you?"

"The blood in your veins!"

Lie Yuan pursed her lips and remained silent.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Bai Chan's eyes reddened slightly, and her tone softened: "Lie Yuan, I went to the top floor hall a couple of days ago to ask to see the Demon Ancestor. The Demon Ancestor told me personally that I should put away my arrogance, spend more time with the one in the hall, and that staying by his side is the real blessing."

"Now that the Demon Ancestor has laid it all out on me, what else do you have to hide from me?"

After listening, Lie Yuan took a deep breath and looked at her best friend with a complicated expression.

"Bai Chan, there are some things... it's not that I'm being disloyal."

Lie Yuan shook her head, her tone full of helplessness: "The Demon Ancestor has issued a death order to silence anyone who dares to gossip. Anyone who dares to spread rumors will have their soul extracted and refined into the Myriad Soul Banner. But since you've noticed my change, you probably already have a pretty good idea of ​​what's going on."

"It's just as you think. Young Master Lin does indeed possess extraordinary and heaven-defying opportunities."

Upon receiving Lie Yuan's personal confirmation, Bai Chan felt a wave of dizziness wash over her, and her heart began to pound violently.

A junior human in the Body Refinement stage actually possessed the supreme divine technique for creating the bloodline of the Primordial Heavenly Demon!

"Then...when can I go in?"

Bai Chan grabbed Lie Yuan's arm. The once cold and dignified junior commander of the guards now had eyes full of urgency and pleading: "Good Yuan'er, I beg you! We've been through thick and thin together for so many years, please help me get in touch! As long as I can get past the hurdle of the late stage of the Void Refinement realm, I'll do anything!"

"It's no use begging me."

Lie Yuan gave a bitter smile, pried her fingers apart, and sighed softly, "The huge benefits are indeed there, but now... that gold mine has been seized by someone else. Even I can only stand outside and starve. You can forget about it for now."

"Who has taken it over?" Bai Chan was taken aback.

"Don't ask questions you shouldn't, or you'll lose your head."

Lie Yuan waved her hand, her expression turning serious: "This matter must wait for the Demon Ancestor's approval. Before that, anyone who dares to force their way into the side hall is courting death. My demonic energy is restless, and I need to hurry back to my cave to refine it. I'll be going now."

After saying that, Lie Yuan stopped and transformed into a dazzling dark red light, tearing through the sky and rushing straight towards her private cave on the outer edge of the Bone Tower.

Lin Yuan was completely occupied by "Red Feather", so she couldn't gain any benefits in the short term. She could only seize every moment to completely refine and absorb the ancestral medicinal power that had accumulated in her body.

In the northwest corner of the bone tower, jagged rocks abound.

Lie Yuan pressed down on her escape light, her fiery red short hair undulating slightly in the fierce wind.

She raised her hand to break the seal in front of the cave entrance, but a chilling sensation suddenly shot up from the back of her neck!

boom!

Without warning, a pitch-black vortex, several tens of feet in diameter, collapsed into the void.

A hideous demonic hand, covered in dark demonic scales and the size of a small mountain, shot out from the air. Its five fingers snapped shut like a cage, carrying a world-destroying pressure as it slammed down!

"Who goes there?!"

Lie Yuan's pupils shrank abruptly, and the dark red demonic energy instantly transformed into a fiery shield.

But before that overwhelming hand, the demonic energy of a late-stage Void Refinement cultivator was like a fragile piece of paper, easily shattered upon contact.

Click!

The protective magical energy shattered instantly, and Lie Yuan didn't even have a chance to move half a step. She was pressed firmly to the ground by that overwhelming and terrifying force, unable to move an inch.

The flow of demonic energy completely stopped, and his bones groaned in agony from the unbearable strain.

"In this realm, besides the Lord, only those few old monsters could suppress me like this with a wave of their hand."

Lie Yuan lay on the hard black crystal surface, struggling to lift her head, her gaze piercing through the swirling demonic mist.

From where the black mist surged, a tall and imposing figure slowly emerged.

The man was shirtless, with several gruesome bone scars crisscrossing his chest, and two pale white fangs protruding from the corners of his mouth. He exuded a savage aura, like a ferocious beast unleashed from its cage.

Demon Lord Yanlie!

Behind the towering Demon Lord, Yan Hua, dressed in a dark red dress, stood with her arms crossed and a smug smirk on her lips.

"Commander Lie, you usually run rampant in the Demon City, why are you lying on the ground like a dead dog today?" Yan Hua stepped forward slowly, her eyes looking down at him with undisguised mockery.

A trickle of blood escaped from the corner of Lie Yuan's mouth. His dark red eyes were fixed on the burly man in front of him as he coldly said, "You dare to ambush and kill a Demon Ancestor's guard without authorization, Yan Lie? Do you really think the Demon Ancestor Ye Jia wouldn't dare to hold you accountable?"

"condemn?"

The Demon Lord Yanlie exhaled two scorching breaths from his nostrils, his voice like muffled thunder, causing the surrounding gravel to tumble down: "Teaching you a mere commander of the Imperial Guards a lesson? My dear sister wouldn't turn against me over such a trivial matter."

"Moreover, a few days ago you broke the bones of Hua'er's servant in public at the Nine Nether Tower, making her lose face in front of all the demons in the city. As an elder, it is only reasonable for you to seek justice for your own girl."

Upon hearing this, Lie Yuan sneered inwardly.

Would a powerful being at the Integration Realm deliberately ambush and kill the royal guards outside the forbidden area just because of a petty squabble between juniors?

If it was just to vent his anger, he should have smashed her into a pulp with that palm strike, instead of simply imprisoning her here.

The real target of these guys has always been that human kid in the side hall of the Bone Tower!

"Alright, stop with your high-sounding excuses."

Lie Yuan spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva and sneered without any politeness, "We've all crawled out of piles of corpses, so stop with the pretense. You're risking offending the Lord to attack me, so tell me, what exactly do you want?"

Demon Lord Yanlie was not angered.

His dark, abyss-like eyes narrowed slightly, and his immense divine sense, like a tidal wave, forcefully and ruthlessly penetrated into Lie Yuan's meridians and dantian.

After a few breaths.

Yan Lie, the Demon Lord, suddenly opened his eyes, and an uncontrollable look of ecstasy and greed appeared on his fierce and ferocious demon face!

"The essence of the ancestral bloodline... it's actually real!"

Yan Lie's breathing suddenly became heavy: "The purity of the bloodline within you has actually surpassed mine! You're only half a step away from crossing the threshold of the Demon Ancestor level!"

"How is that possible? You were just a useless fire-poison coward before!"