Chapter 578: Chapter 542: Poisoning

The affairs in the Demon World were manifold, and as a ruler of a realm, she naturally couldn’t be too idle every day.

Moreover, having been sealed inside the Bronze Gate for so many years, now that she was back in control of the Demon World, countless scrolls and dark axes were stacked inside the inner hall.

Baili An originally thought reviewing petitions was the lord’s secret affair, naturally not allowing outsiders to pry.

But the Demon Lord did not confine his freedom, and while she was reviewing the petitions, he could sneak back to Chao Mu Hall to find Ning Feiyan. After all, the Monarch’s Return Banquet was imminent, yet he didn’t even know what Ning Feiyan was planning to do next.

He hadn’t expected that the Demon Lord would share her own bed with him and the cat, let alone review petitions, such a ‘leisure’ matter.

As a matter of course, she set up another desk and soft couch beside her in the inner hall. While reviewing the petitions, she kept Baili An by her side, complete with tea cakes, sweet treats, dried fish, and even various styles of wool balls for the cat to play with.

For a lazy cat, this was undoubtedly the most wonderful paradise.

Unfortunately, he wasn’t a real cat, so naturally, he had no interest in the elaborate preparations the Demon Lord had made for him.

Unable to break free from her control for the time being, Baili An also kept his composure and did not act rashly.

He lay on the cushion, and soon settled into meditation.

He still couldn’t mobilize any Spiritual Power in his body, and the Corpse Pearl was also lifeless. Ning Feiyan’s methods were extremely ruthless, sealing all his cultivation tightly.

He didn’t know what Secret Technique she used to turn him into a demon cat, even deceiving the Demon Lord’s eyes.

Unable to practice meditation, Baili An who was trying to concentrate couldn’t help but think of the dream he had last night again.

He knew that there were no such coincidences in the world. Sometimes the dreams of a corpse demon cryptically revealed traces of the past and future. In the dream, he saw a cat identical to him.

The unconscious young Female Demon Lord muttered to her master amidst the mountains of Bone Corpses.

Did this mean that when he was born as a human, he was already entangled with her?

But she had been sealed in the Bronze Gate world for over a thousand years, while he had departed this life barely two hundred years ago. No matter how he calculated the timeline, it was difficult to align.

Baili’s mind was nearly scrambled into chaos. The effect of Immortal Tears was not as good as he had imagined; instead, it made his memories even more complicated and obscure.

Sometimes he even felt that the past events had perished with his death. Perhaps, as a reincarnated corpse demon, he shouldn’t be entangled with these matters anymore.

The past life is dead; the events unknown.

The more he pursued the past, the deeper he sank into those fragmented memories with no end in sight.

Just like now, recalling the past dreams, Baili An wondered if he would still be able to remain calm and pure if he became enemies with the Demon Lord in the future, as he did in the Bronze Gate world.

He was now vaguely understanding why clinging to human memories was a great Taboo for the Corpse Demon Clan.

After several dreams, Baili An became less obsessed with Immortal Tears than before.

Since Baili An had entered the hall, the vast Demon World had not seen the sight of a blood moon.

In the past few days, the Demon World had been quite peaceful.

Occasionally bored, Baili An climbed onto the Demon Lord’s desk and saw several petitions she had reviewed:

Two hundred years ago, on an autumn night, a Malevolent Spirit stirred, thirteen cities in Qingzhou were disrupted, eleven Demon Generals perished, Malevolent Spirits gathered resentment and formed a mountain, invaded cities causing chaos, intending to possess the ruler of Qingzhou, the whereabouts of Wang Yi from the Three Rivers were unknown.

Demon Lord reviewed: Abandon Wang Yi, secure Qingzhou.

One hundred and thirty-eight years ago, the Demon King of the Jiaolong clan assembled his followers, initiating a civil war within the Demon Clan, the Nine Snake clan siding with the Demon King causing turmoil.

Demon Lord reviewed: Execute!

Another petition documented recent secret matters.

For instance, the Resentful Demon clan gathered their entire clan’s power for a Blood Sacrifice to forge a Godslaying weapon capable of killing, the leader of the Resentful Demons underwent a drastic transformation, hiding among the seventy-six tribes of the Ming Continent, waiting for an opportunity to use the Godslaying weapon to assassinate the Demon Lord and the Six Rivers.

Demon Lord reviewed: Entice them.

Another petition stated: Extreme North Forest, the Beiyuan Demon Emperor awakened and returned with fury, stirring Cangming, causing the Four Seas to burn together, a revenge battle.

Demon Lord reviewed: Suffering from hunger for over a thousand years, upon breaking the seal, he must consume demons, throw the flowers of myriad poisons into the forest, lure with a hundred thousand Enchanting Demons to draw the poison into their bodies, present to the Demon Emperor and poison him!

Her strokes were not numerous, but each revealed a towering potential, the intent to kill, cruel and decisive!

Baili An silently observed these petitions, thinking to himself that the Demon World was truly not at peace. The Demon Lord had just returned a few days ago; how could this vast Demon World already be on the brink of disintegration?

With her being so busy, it was no wonder she had no spare time to bring the flames of massacre into the Mortal World.

Looking at the mountain of petitions on the desk, Baili An truly didn’t know how many more troublesome matters were waiting for her to handle.

Moreover, he remembered that among the Six Rivers, there were not many River Lords who truly ended up serving the Demon Lord; he knew of Erhe Zangxin and Si He Ning Feiyan, who seemed to obey the Young Lord of the Demon Clan.

There was also Xing Wu from the Demon Prison, who harbored resentment towards her, desiring to kill her to relieve his hatred.

The current situation of the Demon Lord could not be described as being surrounded by enemies on all sides, but it was indeed a situation of being attacked from the front and rear.

Baili An watched as she reviewed the petitions with clean and sharp strokes, full of killing intent.

But to perfectly resolve these matters one by one, it would not be as easy as she made it seem while reviewing them.