"Wicked life, the first ancestor Dracula will avenge me, you will be drowned in a pool of blood, never to be reborn." Theodore, burning in flames, cried out his last dying curse. He now knew why his domain had no effect. It wasn't his domain that was malfunctioning; it was that this strange cat-like demon beast's body contained no blood at all, meaning it wasn't a creature of flesh and blood.
He hated it. If he had known from the start that his domain wouldn't work, he would never have been so overconfident as to engage in close combat, let alone waste most of his internal magic on the useless domain.
Otherwise, with his Level 8 strength, even if he couldn't win, he could still escape, or at least create distance. The outcome of the battle would have been uncertain.
But duels between masters are that simple. If you make just one mistake that your opponent exploits, you're doomed. This is why Li Xi was so confident facing an Level 8 Prince. A Tailed Beast is not a physical being but a combination of chakra energy. A blood-controlling domain would be useless against a Tailed Beast.
The moment the Blood Clan Prince Theodore, with arrogance, activated his domain and instantly killed those thousand demons, his defeat was sealed. He forgot that the struggle between life and death for masters lies in the minutiae. He arrogantly believed his domain would conquer all, and thus, he ultimately failed because of it.
Moreover, this wasn't the first time Li Xi had encountered a blood-controlling domain. The last time, in the underground world, Li Xi had seen it. It would be strange if the same move could be effective twice against the same master.
With intent against no intent, it was no wonder Theodore lost!
"Rest in peace. You don't need his forgiveness, because I never intended to spare him either." Li Xi, who had retracted the Two-Tails and reverted to his Flame Demon form, used his great hammer to send Theodore off, ending his painful torment.
On that day at his Kadu City home, the mysterious person who killed him and his two wives, Li Xi suspected it might have been Dracula. After all, Li Xi had disrupted Dracula's plans several times. It was reasonable for Dracula to want him dead. Before he could definitively identify the killer, Li Xi would suspect anyone with hostile intentions. Or rather, once his strength allowed, he would eliminate his enemies one by one, regardless of whether they were the actual killer.
The battle ended, and the red circular egg-shaped blood-controlling domain vanished. At the entrance to the underground cave, a silkworm-like creature, only half a person's size, floated out. Its two small, black bean-like eyes looked at Theodore's corpse on the ground. As if seeing a delicious meal, it licked its lips and asked, "You don't need his corpse, do you?"
Li Xi took the spatial ring from Theodore's finger and glanced at it briefly. This old fellow's inventory was truly abundant, befitting an immortal Blood Clan member. He then extended his arm to the silkworm creature. "I don't need it. Please, take your time."
The silkworm creature opened its small mouth from its fleshy folds. The golden thread that had captured Liander appeared, and it bound the scorched Theodore like a rice dumpling. It pulled him back. The silkworm's originally small mouth instantly expanded to its maximum, more than twice its body size, and it directly swallowed Theodore.
Even after swallowing Theodore, who was more than twice its size, the silkworm creature's body showed no change. It remained small, only half a person's size, and plump all over, as if Theodore hadn't been stuffed into its stomach but an alternate dimension.
Li Xi understood Liander's fate by observing the silkworm creature's actions. No matter how cute it looked, it couldn't change its fundamental nature as an evil god.
"I've dealt with an Level 8 Prince and the Abyssal Teleportation Gate. Should you now fulfill your promise to me?"
The silkworm creature blinked its innocent-looking black bean eyes and stealthily retreated. "I am far inferior to the powerful being within you. If he is so strong, what use could I possibly be?"
Li Xi narrowed his single eye, seeing through the silkworm creature's attempt to brush him off. It was trying to get a free meal.
He slapped his palm onto his stomach, and the blue-tailed great cat that had vanished earlier reappeared behind Li Xi. With two Tailed Beasts sealed within him, Li Xi never worried about dying if a Tailed Beast left his body.
The silkworm creature was less than a meter long, while Li Xi, in his Flame Demon form, was twenty meters tall. This great cat, burning with blue flames, was over a hundred meters long. The silkworm creature looked incredibly small in front of the great cat.
Matatabi, the Two-Tails, enveloped in blue flames, looked at the silkworm creature with evil intent in its eyes. Compared to it, the evil god silkworm that had just swallowed the vampire seemed like a mere baby. "Do you know what happens to children who lie?"
At close range, the silkworm creature could feel the scorching heat, as if it were about to be roasted into dried insects. This was like a moving volcano. Moreover, the Theodore, whom it couldn't defeat, had been smashed into a meat patty by this creature in just a few swipes. The evil god silkworm felt a little scared facing Matatabi. "Uh, well, I wasn't going to break my promise. I was just curious. With you here, why would you still need me?"
The evil god silkworm blinked its innocent black bean eyes and pleaded weakness. "My strength is very weak. I usually like to be lazy and sleep. I can only bully Level 7 professionals. I can't help you at all. I even had a lot of blood drained by those detestable vampires before, so my body is very weak."
Li Xi ignored it. He bit his finger and began to draw complex magic circles on the ground with his blood. This seemingly honest and cute evil god actually wanted to break its contract. If he didn't teach it a lesson, it wouldn't know its place.
Matatabi directly swiped its paw in front of the silkworm creature, leaving a claw mark over a meter deep in the ground. The tip of the claw touched the forehead of the evil god silkworm. "We don't need you to fight, nor will we ask you to risk your life. Instead, we will protect you, nurse your body back to health, and fatten you up. Work hard to manage this small dimension, expand your faith, and one day you will become a true deity."
The silkworm creature was stunned for a moment, thinking there was such a good deal. It immediately realized something. "You're also after divine power, aren't you?"
Matatabi smiled but said nothing. Meanwhile, Li Xi had already finished drawing the ninjutsu inscriptions on the ground. "Don't say so much. You just need to know that signing the contract will bring you only benefits and no harm."
After speaking, Li Xi gave Matatabi a look. Matatabi extended its two colossal claws, brought them together in front of the silkworm creature, and flicked them lightly. With a 'pop,' the silkworm creature was flicked into the center of the ninjutsu inscriptions.
Li Xi clapped his hands together on the ground and shouted, "Rise."
All the inscriptions, written in black blood, instantly came alive, twisting and quickly wrapping around the evil god silkworm.
"I don't even know what I'll be doing in the future yet. No need to rush. I still have things to say..." the silkworm creature shrieked in panic. But seeing Matatabi staring at it, as if any movement would bring a storm of blows, it knew this was a powerful being it couldn't afford to provoke. It could only complain inwardly but dared not move. Covered by the inscriptions, its murmuring mouth was sealed.
Li Xi, now quiet, turned to Matatabi and instructed, "I need some time. I'll leave the matters of the dimension to you."
"Don't worry. Just don't blame me if I kill too many."
Li Xi pondered and then advised, "Try to kill fewer. These are future sources of faith. Killing too many will significantly weaken the increase in divine power. I believe you don't want to live in constant fear, do you?"
The demon army and insect soldier army in the distance were already approaching en masse. The demon army was here to worship their leader, who was truly powerful. Clinging to this powerful figure meant no more worries.
The insect soldier army, seeing their Mother of Ten Thousand Insects trapped, was advancing aggressively to defeat Li Xi and rescue their mother.
Matatabi was about to eliminate these insect soldiers with a single Tailed Beast Bomb, but Li Xi stopped it, so it withdrew its killing intent. "I understand."
Li Xi cut open the thickest vein in his wrist, and slightly golden black blood flowed out, connecting to the ninjutsu inscriptions on the ground. These inscriptions seemed to come alive, continuously flowing into Li Xi's veins. Sudan Novel Network.
The evil god silkworm, bound by countless ninjutsu inscriptions, was naturally drawn towards Li Xi's veins along with the inscriptions.
Li Xi's body was twenty meters tall, but his veins could accommodate a silkworm creature about a meter long. So, with a slight movement of his finger, the ninjutsu inscriptions automatically compressed. Amidst the silkworm's muffled groans, it was compressed into a golden worm only the size of a chopstick.
The silkworm creature looked fearfully at the flowing blood. It bit through the inscriptions on its mouth. "Let's talk nicely. I didn't say I wouldn't agree. But you need to explain clearly why you're shoving me into your body."
The silkworm creature didn't understand the connection between signing a life-and-death contract and being shoved into someone's veins.
Because the silkworm creature resisted, the ninjutsu inscriptions struggled slightly. Li Xi used his other hand to continuously push the silkworm creature's body, speeding up the process. "My life-and-death contract is different from what you understand. You'll understand after it's completed. Don't resist. You'll thank yourself for this decision in the future."
"I'll thank your grandpa."
Ever since the silkworm creature was bound by the ninjutsu inscriptions, all its abilities were sealed. Facing the dark, cavernous veins, half of its body had already entered. It cursed furiously.
Li Xi pushed hard, and the silkworm creature's entire body was shoved into the vein. "So much nonsense. Go in."
As soon as the silkworm creature entered the vein, a powerful suction force came from its depths. It was drawn further in with no ability to resist.
Li Xi lightly tapped his palm, and the severed vein healed. He then closed his eyes, sensing the silkworm creature being carried by the blood towards his heart.
He quickly formed hand seals, initiating the Aburame clan's insect control secret technique. His mental energy transformed into golden wheels that continuously entangled the evil god silkworm.
However, in the vein, the silkworm creature, being carried by the blood, felt Li Xi's mental energy. It claimed to cooperate, but every time Li Xi's mental energy tried to latch onto its head, it was repelled by a force within its body.
Li Xi smirked. Still unwilling to give up?
He changed his hand seals, and beneath his eyelid, a six-petaled Mangekyo Sharingan appeared. The silkworm creature, which had been struggling with its soul power against Li Xi's mental energy in the vein, suddenly felt its body unable to move. It wasn't the feeling of being bound by inscriptions, but rather that its body no longer felt like its own, or rather, its soul and body were separated. It had completely lost the ability to resist, becoming a controlled puppet.
The evil god silkworm didn't see that its two black bean-like eyes both reflected a six-petaled Mangekyo Sharingan. Unknowingly, it had already been controlled.
The Sharingan could always be relied upon for its ability to control other beings!
After being controlled by the Mangekyo Sharingan, the evil god silkworm's soul could clearly feel Li Xi's mental energy latching onto its head. This time, nothing could resist. The mental energy directly imprinted a mark on its body, which continued to spread throughout its body, reaching into the depths of its separated soul.
Within the evil god silkworm's body, as the controlling mark grew closer, its soul struggled and screamed in desperation, "Don't come here, you accursed human, how can you do this to me!"
"I am a deity who rules a small dimension!"
"Damn it, if it weren't for those vampires draining me to exhaustion, I could take eight of you, eight!"
But all it could do now was curse Li Xi in its mind. In reality, it could do nothing.
It was controlled by ninjutsu inscriptions on its body and the Mangekyo Sharingan within. It was like a wooden dummy.
But soon, amidst its chaotic frenzy, a mark, black with a hint of gold, was placed upon its soul.
Two streams of tears flowed down. The evil god silkworm's soul felt as if all its strength had been drained. "It's over. I'm no longer pure."
Meanwhile, in the outside world, hundreds of thousands of insect soldiers charged forward. Their formation was so orderly that their deterrent and oppressive aura made the enemy tremble and give up before the fight.
But was Matatabi afraid?
Matatabi leaped high into the air and then slammed down onto the ground. The ground, already ravaged by the shockwaves of the explosion, was instantly shattered over a large area by Matatabi's impact. Facing a terrifying existence that even prehistoric beasts would turn and flee from, the insect soldiers and demons halted their advance before the collapsing ground.
Matatabi opened its hellish maw, and the blue flames on its body surged twofold, illuminating the entire circular plain in blue. "Your Mother of Ten Thousand Insects and Richard are signing a contract. Do not act rashly."
Lashi secretly swallowed a few times, looking at the insect soldiers behind him who dared not advance. He understood their feelings. With this hundred-meter-long beast blocking their path, they had no desire to resist. It had nothing to do with courage, but a selfish choice for survival, especially after seeing how this giant beast had killed an Level 8 vampire prince just moments ago. It was too monstrous.