I guarded Impel Down for a hundred years in the pirate world.

The High Priest's position is equal to that of the Mermaid King, and his status in the Mermaid Kingdom is even higher. How could such a person be a demon in disguise?!

It's been a disguise for over 1300 years!

"How did you figure that out, King of the Stars?" Jimora said hoarsely. "Was there anything wrong with my performance just now? Grat's cycle ability attack really did hit me."

“Your performance was excellent, without any flaws. Normally, after today’s battle and his cover, out of respect for your merfolk, I would not doubt or investigate you, the elderly high priest.”

Figo said, "But there are two other loopholes. First, after spending so much time together, no matter how strong his abilities are, it's still unreasonable that you, the king who lit the five lamps, didn't notice anything unusual before I reminded him. It would be as if he was always dancing on the edge of a knife."

That's unnecessary, isn't it? He could easily find another job; he doesn't need to be responsible for cleaning the shrine, unless he never worries about you.

Secondly, he trapped the two queens and didn't leave. He clearly knew I was coming; even if I hadn't been directly targeted by some unforeseen circumstance, he couldn't have kept it a secret indefinitely. Why didn't he leave?

Unless, he has someone else he wants to protect!

Of course, the more direct reason that led Figo to the conclusion that High Priestess Jimora was also a demon was the events surrounding Grat.

His second character story clearly states that he wanted to cover for Jimora and keep her hidden!

Gimora, unaware of all this, simply remarked, "As expected of the King of the Stars, I shouldn't have harbored any illusions. You saw through me even with such a trick... But, King of the Stars, do you even know... your own identity?!"

"My identity?" Figo hummed softly.

"Do you know that you are actually a demon general with the blood of a king, just like me and Grat?" Jimora said shockingly.

Pry and Grenin were indeed shocked.

Figo: "This... I really don't know." He looked down at Gerald and found that Gerald's eyes seemed to agree with Gimora's statement.

"The King passed down his will and gave us missions," Gimora said hoarsely. "Glart's mission is to escort each demon general to where they are meant to go, and my mission is to guide the Mermaid Kingdom to seize the Mermaid Queen's power!"

An experiment from hundreds of years ago… Gening suddenly remembered that incident: seizing the power of the mermaid queen’s bloodline in Qinghai. Wasn’t it proposed and presided over by the high priest, Jimora?

“But that’s just on the surface.” Jimora continued, “On the surface, I want to take away the ability to control sea monsters from the little girl you brought, Shirahoshi, and have it inherited by a mermaid princess in the Mermaid Kingdom.”

But in reality, the more important purpose is to help the King establish his position, to define Qinghai, so that the King can spread his will there, allowing a demon general to be born in Qinghai and destroy the bloodline of the 13 kings from ten thousand years ago!

Figo squinted.

“That’s right, it’s you!” Gimora said in a deep voice, “Your ancestral power came out of thin air, didn’t it? And it wasn’t innate; it was only awakened decades ago. You control chains, and those chains have sealing power—do you know that this is the exact same ability as our king!”

"However, however..." Her old face darkened: "It's all that disobedient mermaid princess's fault, it's all Loulan's fault! The attempt to seize the power of the mermaid queen has failed, and it seems that the inheritance of our king's will has also been affected."

You only received the power, but not the will of our king, otherwise…

She snorted angrily.

Grin looked at Figo, "Is that so?"

Then Loulan...didn't they save the world?

He couldn't even imagine the scene of Figo standing on the side of the demon race, which would be a catastrophe for the races of the starry sky and the fire of the stars!

"My demon bloodline did awaken decades ago, but that was the reward for capturing Im. What nonsense about Lucifer, the Demon King." Figo shook his head, indicating no.

However, her statement is probably true.

But I am not the one who receives the power.

It's Teach, not Teach!

Figo finally unraveled the mystery of Teach having two hearts and the power of the demon royal family.

It turns out that a demon clan member had infiltrated the ship back then. Teach was also a demon general, the 73rd demon general after Balu!

Chapter 359 Sacrifice

"Hahaha..."

With his signature devilish laugh, Teach is drinking with two demons on a boat.

After a hearty meal, the two powerful demons led him to a cabin to rest. Once they were out of Teach's sight, one of the tall demons' expressions turned slightly serious, and he whispered, "Can this guy really be trusted? A Level 4 King of Light suddenly appearing at a time like this... could he be a spy from the human or half-demon race?"

“No problem, I tested him, otherwise why would I have brought him to the ship?” another demon said. “He has the blood of a king.”

"...The bloodline of a king?" The tall demon warrior exclaimed in surprise, "Two abilities? Besides Lord Baimon and that traitor, how many people possess the bloodline of a king now? Why haven't I heard of this Marshall before?"

After saying that, he began to imagine the rest: "Could he be...?"

"It should be."

"This……"

"It's alright, let's be wary of him for now and wait for Lord Baroishi to test him. Many of our reclusive clansmen have indeed appeared recently, so let's trust them for now!"

The two demons nodded to each other, reaching an agreement, while Teach, who was resting in the cabin, was no longer as friendly and boisterous as he had been at the dinner table.

He knew, of course, that he was being guarded against.

However, he originally came here as a spy.

His task is to infiltrate the core of the demon race through layers of tests, monitor the demon race's movements in the war, and sabotage some of the demon race's actions or pass on information about important demon race operations to the human race in an appropriate manner.

He knew it was dangerous, and Figo had never given him such an order. Figo might not even know that he had arrived at the Star of Light, but he did it anyway.

A few years ago, he vowed that he would not come to the planet of Light and Fire. In a world where Figo exists, there is no soil for his ambition to grow. It would be better for him to cultivate and adventure in the starry sky as the Demon Child, and wait and see what changes will happen after Lucifer's resurrection, and wait for the future.

But something happened to him first.

Not long ago, he awakened his third ability and became a triple ability user!

Even Lucifer's first descendants only have two abilities at most, so he is the only person with three abilities besides Lucifer in the past ten thousand years!

After that, his body underwent subtle changes, and his cultivation speed increased dramatically.

Moreover, he increasingly felt that what he was finding in his lineage was not the 13 kings from ten thousand years ago, nor some king in the middle, but Lucifer himself, and Lucifer's five lamps!

These unexpected events made him somewhat nervous. Given his personality, he was unwilling to entrust his fate to someone else unless absolutely necessary, even if that person was Figo. So he didn't tell Figo about these things, but instead came to the Star of Light himself.

The first thing to do after the arrival is to stabilize the situation.

Even if Figo knew, he wouldn't punish him for voluntarily becoming a spy, would he?

Next, I will study the changes in my body and my special circumstances.

"I hope Lord Figo discovers I've arrived at Lantern Star a little later, hahaha..."

……

"Huh, when did Teach sneak off to the Starfire? This direction... seems to be towards the Demon Clan's sea area?"

In the Mermaid Kingdom, after learning the origins of Teach's two abilities, Figo casually pointed at Teach using the prison files, resulting in an unexpected outcome.

After a moment's thought, he looked at Jimora in front of him and said, "So, you've said everything you needed to say. Are you going to put up a fight, or surrender?"

Jimora smiled reluctantly and closed her eyes.

Even with her hidden abilities, her combat strength is far inferior to Grat's, making her one of the weakest among the five kings. Fighting Figo would only be asking for trouble and getting beaten up.

Soon, she was bound by chains and imprisoned in the Mermaid Kingdom's jail, while Grat, whose abilities were too dangerous and difficult to defend against, was executed by Figo!

As for Baru, he was also arrested and detained.

After eliminating the 13th, 59th, and 72nd demon generals in one fell swoop, the riot gradually came to an end. The fear of the people of the Fishman Kingdom was also calmed down under the soothing words of the Fishman King Norton, but this was not the end.

“Five, five more!” Norton said to Figo in a somber voice, “During the three days that Genning and I were trapped, five of our kind who are usually not very noticeable went missing. I think they have most likely left the Mermaid Kingdom.”

“It’s not necessarily only five.” Figo shook his head: “When I was violently searching for the hidden demons in the circular space created by Grat, he got nervous, so at least one or two should have been left behind. I will try to find them next. I hope the Mermaid King will cooperate.”

Norton was too ashamed to look at Figo.

So there are likely more than 10 demons lurking in our Mermaid Kingdom? And our sacrificial rituals have become a conduit for Lucifer to send spies? In the end, my and Gening's recklessness allowed at least five demons to escape?

This is an utter disgrace that cannot be washed away!

"I entrust this to you, King of the Stars." He clenched his fist and said, "Once things are settled here in the kingdom, I will pass the throne to Pray and personally lead the troops to the front lines to make up for our mistakes."

"Don't blame yourself too much, Fishman King. The Demon King is cunning; no one could have predicted something like this."

Norton shook his head, his expression resolute, and then said, "King of the Stars, I want to see Princess White Star, a descendant of the Queen, and apologize to her."

“She’s still a child, don’t frighten her.” Figo nodded and said, “I brought her here not to apologize, but for another purpose. How do you perform the rituals for the Mermaid Queen? Can she participate?”

Norton was taken aback and exclaimed, "Of course, she is a direct descendant of the Queen, but isn't that too dangerous? Aren't you worried that Shirahoshi might be invaded by Lucifer's bloodline and turn into a demon? Besides, Shirahoshi can obtain the Queen's power through bloodline tracing without any sacrifices!"

Figo: "It's alright, she's just the assistant officiant. I'll preside over the real ceremony!"

……

Some time later, a simple sacrificial altar was built on the cleared ruins of the sacrificial temple. In the center of the altar, Bai Xing stood beside Figo with tears in her eyes.

"Lord Figo, please be gentle..."

Figo, who was standing next to him, had transformed into a mermaid with a human body and a fish tail. Having captured Shirahoshi, he also possessed the power of a mermaid royalty!

He nodded reassuringly to Bai Xing, then lightly tapped Bai Xing's finger with his index finger. A sharp pain made Bai Xing's face contort, and tears were about to fall. A large drop of blood was then drawn out of Bai Xing's body by Figo.

Then Figo flicked his little finger, breaking through the defense that others couldn't break, creating a bloody gash on his own fishtail, and then controlling it so that it wouldn't heal.

They transferred Shirahoshi's blood into it.

He then took a drop from a container of blood and put it into his body as well.

That's the blood left behind by the Mermaid Queen ten thousand years ago! The most important reason why the Mermaid Clan can hold sacrifices to obtain the Mermaid Queen's power is that the Mermaid Queen left behind a lot of blood in advance according to King Raibur's prophecy!

This is a necessary part of the mermaid clan's sacrificial ritual, incorporating the bloodline of the mermaid queen and resonating with it.

There are some unnecessary procedures to follow, such as praying to the statue of the Mermaid Queen and spreading the will of the mermaids who are watching.

Figo omitted everything.

Because the only people currently gathered around the 'altar' are Norton, Grinning, Pray, Nami, and Linlin. Nami is feeling sorry for Shirahoshi, while the other four are watching Figo's actions.

Figo slowly closed his eyes.

The blood of Shirahoshi and the blood of the Mermaid Queen flowed through his body. The foreign blood should have caused a rejection reaction in his body, but under Figo's control, it blended well with his own blood.

Having identified the Mermaid Queen's bloodline, Figo's consciousness extended without limit through the bloodline tracing.

If it were the high priest presiding, she probably wouldn't have such a clear feeling, but Figo's will is too strong. His level six Conqueror's Haki even allows him to leave behind a clone of his will, a manifested form of his will, like a ship spirit.

He felt his consciousness pass through the bubble membrane of the mermaid kingdom, through waters more than 100,000 meters deep, and rise into the sky!

He will search for the light of the Mermaid Queen from ten thousand years ago and ask her for the ability to control sea beasts. Lucifer may interfere in the process, which will be Figo's first close encounter with the Demon King!

But just as Figo felt his consciousness about to break through the clouds, a strange force suddenly refracted it away.

In the darkness, his consciousness traversed the endless sea and arrived before a colossal turtle of immeasurable size!