Chapter 634: Legal Demon
The demon bowed his head in obedience, and the bamboo man followed suit uncomfortably.
Lu Yao looked at the demon.
It has a complete human form, holding a rusty lantern, and is surrounded by a layer of gray mist.
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[Shadow Demon LV61] Bifrons
HP: 8140/8140 Mana: 1862/2705 Damage: 71 Defense: 66 Speed: 13 [Advanced Camouflage]
【Shadow Demon】
The projections differentiated by the devil, the shadow devils can merge and devour each other to enhance their own strength.
【Appraisal Expertise LV15】
Able to identify various items.
【Devil's Host (Takechi)】
Demons parasitize the host, share life with the host, and gain various ability gains from each other.
【Corpse lamp】
The collected corpses are set on fire to read the past experiences of the deceased.
【Naturalist LV2】
Skilled in astrology, geometry and art.
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[Godhood]: None
【Divinity】: Crumbling (1027)
[God Body]: None (93)
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Lu Yao was a little surprised.
Although this shadow demon does not have divine power, he actually possesses the fire of faith like a cursed insect and can gain followers.
Lu Yao asked the lantern demon with great interest: "You are the clone, where is the real person?"
"God, my Lord."
Bifrons answered honestly: "I don't know. I am just a projection differentiated from the original body to respond to a specific ritual. Although I am a clone, I know nothing about the original body. I only know the part that the original body has given me..."
Lu Yao asked again: "The purpose of responding to a specific ritual is to gain faith and believers?"
"My Lord, yes. Shadow demons like me come here to use the host to carry out long-term activities and expand the number of believers."
It said: "If it develops well enough and has a large number of believers, and if more shadow demons descend, we can gain more power of faith. However, our shadow demons usually don't live too long. In my case, it's 8140 years."
Zhu Zhi next to him was furious: "Didn't you say you have infinite life?"
"For mortals, 8,000 years is already a very long time! It's almost like infinity!" The Shadow Demon said stubbornly.
"Bullshit! Demons are really not good people! Pure liar!" Zhu Zhi cursed.
The Shadow Demon also got angry: "8,000 years is already a lot... Don't be so ungrateful. What kind of lie? You are the liar, okay? You said it was easy to take care of a child, but now I have to take care of the child every day. You use the excuse of holding a ritual to run away every time. I am the one taking care of Hua Zheng all the time? I am a demon, not a babysitter! How dare you say that to me!"
Lu Yao had to cough to remind them that the god was still asking questions.
"I'm sorry, please forgive our disrespect!"
The demon and the bamboo man quickly lay on the ground with their heads touching the ground.
Lu Yao said: "Go on."
"Yes, yes. If I die after my natural life span is exhausted, I will use the rules of the world to return to my original body. If I am killed in the middle of the journey, my memory will not be completely preserved, nor will all the information, faith, and believers I have accumulated will be preserved."
According to Shadow Demon's own description, its positioning is similar to that of a clone reconnaissance aircraft.
Through specific rituals and seals, it is separated from the main body, and once this mechanism is triggered, it will be anchored and appear. Then the clone will develop in the local area, and if it can die healthy, it will bring back a lot of intelligence and faith benefits to this world after returning.
In reality, it is difficult for the Shadow Demon to die peacefully and he is hunted by all parties for a long time.
Because this group can bewitch people's minds and attract believers and the power of faith, they are basically the targets of all gods.
In addition to the gods, various local monsters will also hunt shadow demons. Shadow demons have all kinds of strange powers. If they grow up, they will threaten the status of local extraordinary life.
In short, Shadow Demon plays a lurking game, and the mortality rate is very high.
Under normal circumstances, if they were caught by a god like Lu Yao, the shadow demons would obey them obediently. They were the demons' cannon fodder and spies, and all they knew were unimportant things.
"This is the situation..." Bifrons said cautiously, "If you can, please give me a quick death."
"Cooperate well and I won't kill you."
Lu Yao said: "To the Yao Clan, as long as you protect the interests of the Yao Clan, you are one of us. It doesn't matter if you are a cursed insect, a demon, a special object, or a winged person... it's all the same."
Now it was the Shadow Demon on the other side who was confused: "But I can neither generate the Fire of Faith nor be transformed into an Apostle by you. Will you really let me go?"
"That depends on how you do it."
Lu Yao changed the subject: "I just saw the sacrificial ceremony you held. Did you find the prayer for the [Double-Faced Door God]?"
"It's me."
Bifulongs stole a glance at Xing Tian behind him and said with a stiff face, "This is a gift given to me by the main body. It records how to worship this god. In this way, I can first gather the god's believers, and then gradually transform them into followers of the devil."
When Lu Yao heard this, he exclaimed, "Wow!"
The devil knows how to divert people's attention, and he harvests people's faith under the guise of God.
If executed well, this combination of punches can really gain a lot of believers and the fire of faith.
There is indeed a reason why shadow demons are killed by all gods.
Lu Yao continued to ask it: "Why did the ritual of [Extinction Incarnation] Kali summon you?"
"According to the vague memories in my mind, I was once - or rather, my original form was a god, but later I became a demon. The sacrificial ceremony performed by the [Extinction Incarnation] will trigger the demonic ritual about me."
"I think this god must have found a way to use the Demon Seal. Since the Shadow Demon is killed by his power every time and cannot pass the message back, it means that the Avatar of Extinction is also using the power of the Demon."
Lu Yao was happy.
It seems that the gods are not just passively taking the beating, but are also using the demons' rituals and characteristics to fight back.
The gods and demons are also engaged in an information war centered on "sacrifices" and "believers." Whoever controls more rituals and prayers, and continuously upgrades and changes these processes and information, will have the initiative.
Lu Yao thought to himself, luckily my buddy didn’t have any prayers, so he just set up the local area network.
"Can your [Corpse Lamp] work on gods?"
"Uh... yes, you can."
Bifrons showed an awkward smile on his face: "But how can a weak shadow demon like me obtain the corpse of a god... These are impossible, so we basically hang out in the secular world of mortals and dare not enter the realm of gods to seek death."
"What if I let you try?"
"ah?"
"Try one and let me see your strength."
Lu Yao snapped his fingers.
Isabel appeared in the [Pearl World], and she brought a strange corpse with her.
The corpse was wrapped in a red robe, and inside was a bunch of strange plants made of tangled tree roots. On the surface of these brown roots, there were golden symbols shaped like insects and fish, like some kind of strange scripture.
The corpse was placed on the ground in front of Bifrons by Isabel.
The Shadow Demon froze, and the lantern in his hand trembled: "This, this is... the body of the titled god... I... I..."
Lu Yao frowned: "No?"
You just said it well. Now bring the whistleblower's body here, but you can't do it on the spot. Are you wasting my time?
Ability is something that you have if you have it, and you don’t have it if you don’t.
If not, I'll send you on your way.
“Okay, okay!!”
The shadow demon nodded vigorously.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Its face gradually regained its sternness, and it held the lamp and approached the tree-root-like corpse of the god: "My Lord God, if I light it on fire, it will damage part of the corpse, and this process is irreversible. So for the sake of safety, as soon as I recognize it, I will extinguish the burning corpse fire."
Lu Yao nodded.
Finally it looks a bit professional.
The Whistleblower's divine body is indeed still of great use, and is the best sample for studying the Shen element. However, Dog City is purchasing the corpses of gods everywhere, so if it is severely damaged, it will not be a problem to go there to purchase more.
This is not only a test of Bifrons' ability, but also a verification of the whistleblower.
The shadow demon raised the lantern, and wisps of gray mist on its surface slowly flowed into the lamp, passed through the green fire, and then condensed into a gray candle in the air on the other side.
The surface of the candle was engraved with geometric patterns, exactly the same as the seal on Bifrons' left cheek.
Bifrons placed the candle on the whistleblower's body, and then some light gray mist floated out of the body, which merged into the candle, making the candle light up green. Some gray smoke rose from the flame and flowed back into the lantern little by little, forming a complete cycle.
At this time, Bifrons' entire face turned black, but the seal on his left cheek turned silver-white.
His eyes were closed and his body was shaking slightly, as if he was experiencing some severe shock or enduring pain.
About half an hour later, Bifrons' body became lighter and lighter, as if the large amount of gray mist representing his body had been burned out.
It quickly blew out the candle on the god's body, and the candle disappeared without a trace.
Lu Yao noticed that Bifrons' health had dropped to 80, on the verge of life and death.
The seal on the face of the shadow demon became blurred, and it said tiredly: "My Lord God, I have gained the experience of this fallen god with the title [Whistleblower]."
"But because it was downgraded from a god and committed a great deal of self-harm, what we can get is not complete. I think that probably all the experiences of all gods cannot be fully extracted. The following is the part I found after igniting it..."
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The Whistleblower is a wandering god.
He relied on his innate control ability to cast a large net and search for resources in various ruins and ruined kingdoms of God.
Entering the Kingdom of the Forest God with the Skinner and sending his followers to sneak into Dog City were common ways for him to gain benefits.
The Whistleblower's greatest reliance and secret is to summon a swarm of giant valley elephant insects. Through continuous operation and accumulation, he can eventually awaken the "Monarch Surrounded by Stars" - Xing Tian.
However, unlike what Lu Yao thought, the whistleblower awakened Xing Tian not in order to control him, but wanted to enable Xing Tian to ascend to heaven.
The whistleblower was certain that as long as he could obtain the help of a winged man, the god would be able to complete the process of metamorphosis and enter the other side of the void universe, becoming an immortal being.
But how to do it specifically, how he knew this method, and even the source of the whistleblower himself, all of these cannot be traced because of the damage to his body.
Even so, Lu Yao also obtained a very valuable piece of information: some god players wanted to transform into winged people.
Whether it is for the pursuit of immortality or to break through limitations, ascension is still very tempting to gods.
Think about it carefully.
If you become a winged person, you will not only be immortal, but also be able to jump back and forth between the two worlds. In terms of your own choices and abilities, you do have an innate advantage over ordinary god players.
This is another besieged city. People inside want to get out, and people outside want to get in.
The old man from Wanqu came over to chat with people everywhere, complaining that immortality means continuous death, but they still have connections, and they have to keep breathing until their last breath, and be tortured by being alive.
The gods here envied the winged people's near immortality and tried every possible means to ascend to them.
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Lu Yao remembered all this and looked at the weak shadow demon: "Your ability is good and indeed very valuable."
"Thank you for your compliment..."
Isabel collected the whistleblower's body.
Lu Yao asked Bi Fulongs: "Do you want to come work for me?"
"Ah? You really want to... But I'm just a shadow demon, and I'm dying."
The shadow demon had a bitter expression on his face: "Demons cannot recover their lives, because this is their lifespan. I am already on the verge of death..."
"I have a plan."
There was a red peach in Lu Yao's hand. He threw it lightly, and the shadow demon subconsciously grabbed the peach.
After seeing what was in his hand clearly, he stammered, "This, this, this kind of treasure...are you really going to give it to me?"
"Eat it, and do my work."
Bifrons showed an incomprehensible confusion on his face: "I am just a weak shadow demon. Why would a powerful Lord God like you spend such precious things on an insignificant cannon fodder like me..."
"Because the Yao clan doesn't have any demons yet."
Lu Yao smiled and said, "We, the Yao clan, also need our own demons."
"If you are short of lifespan, I will give it to you. I also have peaches. If you need support or resources, you can look for the cat grass in the Resurrection Kingdom. If it can't solve the problem, you can come to me directly."
"I have only one request... In the Mystic Kingdom, only you, Bifrons, are a legal demon, a demon recognized by the Yao Clan."
"Any other illegal demons are prohibited from appearing here, or even in the entire Yao civilization. I allow you to hunt and annex other demons without restriction. Can you do it?"
"able!!"
Bifrons gobbled the peaches voraciously, and its health suddenly increased by 47,000 points, making it extremely excited and grinning.
"Almighty God Yao, humble Bifulongs praises your boundless power!"
The shadow demon held a lantern in one hand and placed the other hand on the seal on his left face. He said seriously: "Bivrons will follow your oracle and defend the dignity of the Yao demons! We will never allow illegal demons to exist! All foreign demons will be hunted down and punished by Bivrons!"
Lu Yao nodded.
That's right.
It is difficult to completely eliminate the group of demons no matter how hard we try to guard against them day and night. It is better to guide them than to block them.
Let the devil fight the devil, this is the professional match.
Lu Yao raised his hand and an apostle seal flew out, landing on the head of Zhu Zhi, who was standing there in astonishment.
"From now on, you will cooperate with Bifrons as an apostle to deal with the demon problem in the Mystic Kingdom and collect relevant information about other gods' beliefs."
Zhu Zhiren was originally in a daze, but he immediately reacted and his body suddenly tensed up.
"Yes, Lord God!"
(End of this chapter)