Sauron’s corpse kept drifting south, drifting south…
That mere few millilitres of golden blood seeped bit by bit into Sauron’s charred corpse.
Then, brand new flesh sprouts grew little by little.
It was like a tree that had been cut down, then scorched by the fierce sun, completely dead.
But after a rainfall, this already dead tree sprouted new buds once more.
After three days and three nights.
Sauron had drifted south over one thousand three hundred li, and his charred corpse was left with only a small portion.
But the newly grown flesh sprouts gathered bit by bit, condensing into half a brand new heart, merely half.
After another three days and three nights.
Sauron had already drifted south three thousand li.
The brand new flesh sprouts had condensed into half a heart, a brand new heart about twice the size of an ordinary person’s heart, but it did not beat.
Then countless flesh sprouts squirmed, beginning to organise brand new blood vessels, spreading out little by little from the heart.
After another ten days and ten nights!
Sauron’s corpse had already drifted over eight thousand li to the south.
Around the brand new heart, dense blood vessels had already grown, many in number, but none longer than one foot.
Half a month…
One month…
Two months…
Three months…
Time flowed like water, the years passed like a shuttle.
No one knew how much time had passed!
Sauron also did not know how far south he had drifted.
He did not know how many sea regions he had crossed.
He passed through sea surfaces calm as a lake, passed through fierce and surging raging seas.
He did not know how many kinds of undersea beasts had swallowed him into their mouths, only to spit him out again, avoiding him as if he were a venomous snake or scorpion.
He passed through jellyfish as large as houses.
He passed through octopuses over a hundred metres in size.
He passed through undersea monsters as large as mountains.
Countless beasts had hunted him as prey, but in the end, all had spat him out.
He passed through countless icebergs, passed through seas bone-chillingly cold.
He still continued drifting south.
He had no idea how far he was from Tianshui City, nor how far from the human realm.
Perhaps thirty thousand li, perhaps fifty thousand li?
His internal organs, all his blood vessels, his brain, his bones had all grown back.
The only thing missing was the epidermis of his body. He was like a red muscular man, looking incomparably terrifying.
He still floated on the sea surface, drifting southward.
Still without breath, without heartbeat, without any sensation.
His body was still changing, his skin beginning to grow inch by inch.
Yet still he drifted south.
After who knew how much longer, Sauron’s body was washed onto an island, and he stopped drifting.
His body continued growing, his skin continuing to spread, wrapping around his entire body!
…
Truly, no one knew how much time had passed. Perhaps half a year? Perhaps even longer?
Finally, one day, Sauron’s entire skin had fully grown back.
Sauron, who had been completely dead, had regrown a brand new body.
From inside to out, from bloodline to heart, to blood vessels, to bones, to muscles, to skin, everything was brand new.
Then, he just lay there quietly, motionless.
After some time passed, he began to have a heartbeat, began to breathe.
But still he lay there motionless.
As if constructing his brain domain, his memories, his thoughts.
After a long, long time passed…
One day, suddenly Sauron’s body jerked violently, then he struggled to his feet.
First, he felt incomparable pain, pain tearing through his entire body from inside to out, heart-rending agony.
Zhiyan had pierced his heart with one sword.
Then Huai Bingyi, Ji Mengbai, and Fu Lingxi had each stepped forward and pierced him with one sword.
Finally, Ji Xiuning had pierced his skull with one sword.
At that time, Sauron had felt no pain at all, as if there were a delayed effect. Now this boundless, endless pain surged up.
“Ah… ah…”
Sauron rolled on the ground in unbearable agony, struggling, trying to dispel this pain.
Finally, the physical pain gradually faded.
What came next was the pain in his heart!
No sorrow is greater than a dead heart!
When a person encounters the most painful thing, their heart at that time is numb, unable to feel pain, because it has already exceeded the limit.
But after waking from sleep.
That pain would surge boundlessly into the heart, pain almost suffocating.
In Sauron’s mind, the scene of Zhiyan piercing his heart replayed over and over again.
After the wedding night, Sauron woke to see Zhiyan holding a butterfly in her hands.
At that time, Zhiyan already knew the Dragon Temple was coming to capture Sauron. But she did not speak to inform him. Instead, she took Sauron overseas, to a sea region hundreds of li from land.
Then, the boundless Dragon Temple aerial legion surrounded Sauron.
Then, she killed Sauron.
The entire process, apart from the Dragon Temple and Zhiyan, no one else saw.
The people on the ship were all killed.
So Sauron had seemingly evaporated from this world in an instant.
Immediately after, many faces surged into Sauron’s mind.
His son Zhi Yu, his daughter Qin Qin, his elder sister Sauron Ningbing, his wife Yan Nair, Zhi Ning, Yan Xueer, Ashi Yuanba…
At that time, Gui Qinshao was already five or six months pregnant, and Fu Yan’er was already four months pregnant.
His aunt Yan Chuo’er was at that moment leading the Yan Pirate Legion toward Wangcheng Zhidu.
And Ashi Liren was right in Zhiyan’s residence!
If Zhiyan was so heartless toward Sauron, killing him with one sword, what more need be said of others?
What fate would await these family members, these relatives?
Would they be implicated? Would they suffer total annihilation?
Instantly, Sauron went mad wanting to go back, to return to the human realm, to return to Tianshui City!
But…
Sauron quickly realised he could not go back!
How far was this place from Tianshui City, from the human continent?
He did not know. Perhaps thirty thousand li, perhaps fifty thousand li, perhaps even farther!
Moreover, he had clearly already died, his heart pierced through, his skull pierced through.
Why had he come back to life?
How much time had passed?
Half a year? A year? Or even longer!
If anything unfortunate had happened, wouldn’t it have already occurred?
No, absolutely nothing unfortunate would happen, absolutely not!
Qin Qin could no longer speak, which was unfortunate enough. How could heaven bear to let her be harmed again?
Baby Zhi Yu had nearly died at the hands of that madwoman Tu Lingduo, but in the end was safe and sound. One who survives great disaster is destined for good fortune later.
The children would be fine, absolutely fine!
What about elder sister Sauron Ningbing?
What about Yan Nair?
She had demon blood in her body. She was the legitimate wife of the World-Destroying Demon Emperor.
What about Gui Qinshao, Fu Yan’er, and the babies in their bellies?
The more Sauron thought, the more painful it became, the more furious he became…
“Ah… ah… ah…”
He suddenly let out a series of roars.
Amazingly, his roars pierced through the clouds, like a demonic horn, high-pitched and far-reaching.
Like the roar of some beast, yet belonging to no beast.
Then, he swung his fists and fiercely pounded the hard rock wall.
“Ow… ow… ow…”
Sauron pounded madly.
In a short moment, he pounded both fists into a bloody pulp, bones broken, yet felt no pain.
Then, he placed both fists before his eyes, looking at the blurred blood, at the broken bones within.
His entire heart was filled with a desire for dark destruction.
Toward the entire world, even including himself, he was filled with a desire for destruction.
Then, an extremely bizarre scene appeared.
His broken bones quickly recovered as before, and his wounded wounds also healed rapidly.
In mere seconds, both his hands were completely healed, restored to their original state.
He suddenly snapped a wooden stick and fiercely stabbed it into his own chest, then pulled it out.
Instantly, blood sprayed!
But in mere seconds, the wound in his chest vanished, as if he had never been injured.
Immediately after, Sauron felt something strange at his neck.
He reached out to touch it and actually felt dense scales.
He touched his ears again. They were completely pointed!
He touched the top of his head and faintly felt two horns. Although they had not pierced through the scalp, they could be felt.
He touched his back and actually felt two rows of bone spurs directly piercing through the flesh, as if wings were about to grow.
And the most bizarre thing was his two feet. The soles were normal, but his ten toes were like sharp claws. It was impossible to tell which beast’s claws they were, incomparably sharp and mighty.
Sauron hurriedly rushed to the water’s edge to look at his reflection!
The face in the water was neither Sauron’s nor Lanling’s, but like a combination of the two.
Still incomparably handsome, even more handsome.
A peerlessly beautiful face, cold as if carved from jade, expressionless!
A nose as perilous as mountains and rivers!
This breathtakingly handsome face inspired fear, inspired terror!
The most astonishing thing was his eyes. They were actually double-pupiled.
It was not two pupils growing side by side in one eye, but two pupils overlapping and growing together, like concentric circles.
The key point was that neither of these two pupils was human.
Sauron blinked, and a golden yellow pupil flashed. He blinked again, and a blood-red pupil appeared.
When the golden yellow pupil appeared, Sauron let out a sudden roar.
At this moment, an incomparably far-reaching and majestic roar, filled with incomparably noble and terrifying energy, swept past like a storm.
When the blood-red pupil appeared, Sauron roared again.
This time, it was a sharp shriek, incomparably high-pitched and thin, as sharp as a needle tip.
…
What had he become?
Sauron did not know. He began calling for the Demon Star!
Previously, every time he called for the Demon Star, he received an instant response!
But now, there was no response at all.
“Demon Star, Demon Star!”
Still no response. The Demon Star seemed to have vanished without a trace.
At this moment, Sauron suddenly felt three pairs of greedy eyes staring at him from behind.
That’s right, from behind!
But Sauron’s mental power still saw them clearly.
He saw them clearly, not merely sensed them!
They were three wolves, giant wolves over one metre tall and over two metres long, with teeth as sharp as daggers, terrifying claws over two inches long.
The human realm had no wolves this large!
The first evil wolf, like lightning, howled as it pounced toward Sauron.
Its speed was extremely, extremely fast!
But after Sauron condensed his mental power, in his field of vision, this wolf’s movements became incomparably slow.
Sauron suddenly turned, grabbed its mouth, and fiercely tore!
“Ow…” A miserable howl.
This giant wolf was torn apart alive by Sauron.
But at the same time, another evil wolf pounced like lightning, its sharp teeth fiercely biting into Sauron’s neck.
Teeth several inches long easily bit through Sauron’s neck.
Sauron, who should have died, was completely unharmed. He suddenly twisted his neck and opened his mouth.
Instantly, Sauron’s snow-white teeth suddenly lengthened, turning into terrifying fangs.
His fangs aimed at the evil wolf’s neck, fiercely bit down, then savagely sucked blood.
It was not that Sauron wanted to suck blood, but an incomparable impulse suddenly surged within his body, an incomparable hunger.
So, he instinctively sucked blood.
“Ow… ow…”
The evil wolf let out an incomparably mournful howl, struggling desperately.
But in a mere half minute.
This calf-sized giant wolf was sucked dry into a mummy alive.
All the blood in its body was completely sucked dry by Sauron.
But Sauron’s stomach did not bulge at all. After this wolf blood entered his body, it instantly transformed into energy, filling his entire body.
Instantly, his entire body felt incomparably fiery, a surge of surging energy.
After sucking it dry, he fiercely threw away the mummified wolf.
His neck retained several terrifying blood holes directly piercing through the entire neck, blood flowing out.
But in mere moments, these wounds healed rapidly, restored to their original state.
Even all traces of blood vanished without a trace.
Then, Sauron picked up the first wolf he had torn apart, opened his fangs and fiercely bit into its blood vessel, madly sucking blood.
In a short moment, this wolf too was sucked dry into a mummy alive.
The energy was not as great as the previous wolf. After all, it was a dead wolf, and the blood energy had already declined.
And at this moment, the third giant wolf fiercely charged over, wanting to tear at Sauron.
But seeing this terrifying scene, it stopped dead in its tracks, its entire body trembling.
This incomparably fierce giant wolf, this fearless evil wolf, was actually so frightened it pissed itself, collapsing limply to the ground.
Sauron threw away the sucked-dry wolf corpse, licking the blood from the corners of his mouth with his tongue.
Then, his terrifying fangs disappeared, returning to normal human teeth, white as jade.
Moreover, his face became even more handsome, like jade, cold and snow-white!
…
Sauron stood completely naked under the sun, letting the sunlight scorch his body, letting the waves wash over his body.
This body still looked human.
This face still looked human.
But some places had changed, especially internally, where everything had completed its transformation.
“What am I now?”
“A vampire?”
“A demon?”
“A blood-sucking demon?”
But why was he not afraid of the sunlight at all? On the contrary, when sunlight shone on his body, his entire body was also absorbing energy, golden yellow energy.
What had Sauron become now?
Was he still human?
He did not know, nor did he care!
After sucking the blood of three wolves!
Sauron felt his blood boil within his body.
A powerful energy surged within him.
“Ow…”
He suddenly raised his head and roared toward the sky!
His pupils constantly changed, sometimes turning into golden yellow pupils, sometimes into blood-red pupils.
His roars were sometimes fierce, far-reaching, and majestic.
Sometimes sharp, high-pitched, and terrifying!
“All you people of the Dragon Temple, since you call me the World-Destroying Demon Emperor, then I am the World-Destroying Demon Emperor!”
“Since you want to occupy righteousness, then righteousness is yours. From this day forth, I am the incarnation of darkness and evil.”
“I will return. I will return to Tianshui City. I will return to the Raging Waves Kingdom. I will return to the human realm!”
“But absolutely not I alone. I will bring countless Demon Race legions with me. One day, my Demon Race legions will cover the sky and block out the sun, will completely envelop the entire human kingdom.”
“One day, I will skin Huai Bingyi, Ji Mengbai, and Fu Lingxi alive, tear their tendons out, and execute them by a thousand cuts. I will rape Ji Xiuning before killing her, then rape her again and kill her again.”
“One day, I will lead tens of millions of Demon Race legions to destroy the Raging Waves Kingdom, destroy the Flame Empire, destroy the entire Dragon Temple!”
“Zhiyan, Ji Xiuning, Dragon Temple, you wait for me!”
“Elder sister, you also wait for me to come save you!”