“oh my, i didn't think i was so well-known by others. this is embarra.s.sing.” lord demon covered his mouth with a paper fan in his hand as he made a coquettish expression.

after hearing that, both tang ningyu and mu chaoran felt gooseb.u.mps forming on their arms. out of the 13 lords, only lord demon liked to wear the clothes of the opposite gender. adding to that, he would be caked with heavy make-up to further disguise himself as close to a woman as possible. this habit of his was known by almost all of the lawless lands. if they still didn't guess who lord demon was, they would actually be idiots.

“the two of you look quite handsome. i really like that. hmm, what should i do?” lord demon's eyes glanced at them with reluctance. it had been a long time since he had encountered such high-quality men, and he was really tempted to have a taste of them. “but lord qian told me to kill everyone. hmph! it is so difficult.”

lord demon's feverish gaze towards tang ningyu and mu chaoran sent a chill down their spines. they quickly remembered an interesting fact about lord demon; he was someone who frequently toys and plays with men.

“how about we play for a while?” lord demon got into a jubilant mood after seeing some handsome prey. he was initially thinking about joining the raid of the rainbow palace just for some entertainment, but it seemed he found some good entertainment of his own. after he had had his fun and got bored of them, he would immediately kill them and that way, he wouldn't be late to the real show.

immediately thinking about the fun he could have, he quickly appeared beside tang ningyu and his long powered finger caressed tang ningyu's cold and stern face.

bang!

before the finger could caress his face any further, tang ningyu immediately slapped away the finger before retreating back many steps.

the coordination between mu chaoran and tang ningyu had been slowly growing ever since they first started working together, and now they were like a well-oiled machine. while tang ningyu was backing away, mu chaoran also backed up as well, staying in sync with tang ningyu.

lord demon gingerly sniffed his finger and smiled sweetly. “such a fresh smell. it has been so long since i've smelled a man with such a nice smell. augh! i love it so much!”

tang ningyu's veins popped out of his forehead. he was trying his best to push back the puke he could feel coming up his stomach in order to maintain his composure. however, his clenched fists proved that tang ningyu wasn't as calm as he put himself out to be.

“i really don't want to kill you. how about this? if you continue to follow your lord gen, you all will eventually die. so, you should go back with me and i'll make sure you stay alive.” lord demon felt that he should give them an olive branch in their time of need.

“heh!” tang ningyu snorted coldly. “how about you think about how you're going to be able to leave here alive?”

“huh?” lord demon frowned at the unexpected arrogance coming from one of his toys. he was enraged that his kindness was rejected by them. “you really don't know your place.”

in the next second, a spectral claw appeared on top of tang ningyu's shoulder. with the claws bared, it ruthlessly went towards tang ningyu's shoulder blades.

bzzz!

purple lightning s.h.i.+ned brightly along with a deafening thunder. tang ningyu's entire body was enveloped by lightning which in turn destroyed the spectral claw that was coming towards him.

“lightning.” lord demon's eyes narrowed. he quickly disappeared from his position in the next second.

bang! a fire dragon suddenly emerged from the ground from where he was previously standing.

“bzzz!” lightning and thunder appeared everywhere in the hall. almost at the same time, a purple lightning dragon suddenly came cras.h.i.+ng down from the sky and rushed towards a place where there was no one standing there.

did the dragon miss?

suddenly, a human figure appeared out of the location where the lightning dragon had struck. it was indeed lord demon, who had evaded mu chaoran's fire dragon. the position he chose to evade towards was indeed the position the lightning dragon was rus.h.i.+ng towards.

tang ningyu made the correct judgment in an instant.

bang! the purple lightning dragon fearlessly bit down on lord demon.

“ah!” a deafening cry was heard.

the lightning dragon, that was originally s.h.i.+ning brightly with purple lightning all over its body, was suddenly devoured by a heap of darkness. in the end, it could no longer give off any purple lightning before getting completely dissipated.

the ground began to tremor. the darkness suddenly split into a part into countless black threads.

no, they weren't threads. they were more like tentacles.

no, they weren't tentacles either. it was because at the end of the tentacles, there were slithering snake heads with blood red fork-like tongues.

“medusa!”

tang ningyu and mu chaoran's eyes widened slightly. this was something from western mythology. legend said that she was the witch who represented death. they didn't think they could actually see it for their own eyes…