Chapter 652 - 637: One of the 5 Great Demon Generals, the Divine Beast Taotie

「Yunfeng Country. The Dream Corridor.」

Taotie had been in a very bad mood lately. A terribly bad mood.

As one of the Ten Great Divine Beasts of the Star Continent and the third-ranked of the Demon God Hall’s Five Great Demon Generals, his power in the Eastern Desolate was immense, and he was revered by billions.

But Taotie just couldn’t be happy.

The Five Great Demon Generals of the Demon God Hall...

Candle Dragon presided over the Southern Desolate;

Vermilion Bird presided over the Western Wilderness;

Taotie presided over the Eastern Desolate;

Qiongqi presided over the Northern Wilderness;

Bi Fang presided over Central Province;

In this Human Realm, there were incomparably powerful factions like the War God Hall and the Myriad Beasts Mansion.

But aside from a handful of experts within these factions, the people living in this world would never know... that the Demon God Hall was actually the true master of this world!

In the eyes of the Demon God Hall’s experts, the Human Realm was nothing more than their pasture.

All living beings in the Human Realm were just cattle and sheep raised by the Demon God Hall!

The so-called War God Hall, which led the Human Race, or the Myriad Beasts Mansion, which unified the Demon Race, were merely slightly stronger cattle and sheep in the eyes of the Demon God Hall’s experts.

Cattle and sheep were still cattle and sheep, no matter how much they struggled.

That was why the legendary and immensely powerful War God Hall had suffered a crushing defeat. In the end, when facing a clone of the Demon God Hall’s master, they only managed to escape by relying on the power of a self-destructing War Emperor to send the War God Hall into a Space-Time Rift.

Even though the Five Great Demon Generals’ cultivation had not yet reached the Great Emperor Level, there were still quite a few experts in the War God Hall and Myriad Beasts Mansion whose cultivation surpassed theirs...

But the fact that the Demon God Hall held the world’s lifeline in its grasp was indisputable.

Especially now, with the War God Hall having fled into a Space-Time Rift, only a few remnants were left, barely surviving.

The Myriad Beasts Mansion was isolated and weak, holed up in the Barbaric Lands, not daring to venture out again.

The Thousand Soul Hall was cowardly and timid, content to just get by in their corner of the world.

On the entire Star Continent, there was basically no power left that could contend with the Demon God Hall.

Furthermore, those old-timers from the Demon God Hall had gone off to conquer other planes.

On the Star Continent, Taotie and the other Four Great Demon Generals were essentially invisible sovereigns, each ruling one of the wildernesses with supreme authority.

A single command from them could make the heavens and earth change color, stain rivers and mountains red with blood, and cause billions of lives to vanish into thin air!

Their power and influence were so great that even the Four Directions Great Emperors could hardly compare!

The cultivation of the Five Great Demon Generals had all reached the Late Stage of the Emperor Martial Realm. Any higher, and they would be touching the threshold of a Great Emperor.

And Taotie already controlled a full five Elemental Power Fragments, far exceeding the number held by the other Demon Generals...

With all this, Taotie should have been overjoyed.

But Taotie still couldn’t be happy.

Because after spending a full ten thousand years, Taotie still hadn’t found the Candle Dragon’s hiding place, nor had he located the Candle Dragon’s true body!

Ten thousand years ago, the Candle Dragon led his experts in an attempt to destroy the North Netherworld Extreme Heaven Sect.

However, the Candle Dragon had underestimated the North Netherworld Extreme Heaven Sect. They used their Destruction Array and the Silent Extinction Divine Thunder to blast him to within an inch of his life. To this day, he was still hiding in some secret place, recuperating.

As for the Candle Dragon’s subordinates, the All Heaven Twelve Fiends, six of them died in that battle.

Among the Four Great Heavenly Kings, one fell and two were severely injured, causing a massive decline in their overall strength.

At the same time, most of the old monsters from the Demon God Hall had gone off to conquer other planes, with no time to spare for the Star Continent.

This was the perfect opportunity to kill the Candle Dragon!

If he missed this chance, Taotie had no confidence he could ever kill the Candle Dragon!

Taotie dreamed of killing the Candle Dragon. He wanted to kill the Candle Dragon more than anyone else.

Some said Taotie was jealous because the Candle Dragon was the master’s favorite.

Others said Taotie was jealous that the Candle Dragon’s talent far surpassed his own, that he was more capable, and that he was more handsome...

Only Taotie himself knew that his desire to kill the Candle Dragon had nothing to do with any of those rumored reasons.

Taotie wanted to kill the Candle Dragon for only one reason...

And the reason was very simple: every single woman Taotie took a fancy to was eventually snatched away by the Candle Dragon!

Without exception!

No man could tolerate such a thing!

And there was no way Taotie could swallow this humiliation!

But Taotie couldn’t defeat the Candle Dragon in a fight.

The forces under Taotie’s command were also evenly matched with the Candle Dragon’s, completely insufficient to deal with him...

Ten thousand years ago, the opportunity finally came.

The Candle Dragon was crippled by the North Netherworld Extreme Heaven Sect, and more than half of his experts were lost!

Nothing could have excited Taotie more.

Taotie mobilized all his forces, determined to find the Candle Dragon’s true body.

Then, he would use the cruelest methods to annihilate him, followed by a hundred million years of Soul Extraction and Refining!

However, a full ten thousand years had passed. Taotie had scoured the Four Wildernesses and Central Province, but had only managed to slay two of the Candle Dragon’s clones.

He still hadn’t found where the Candle Dragon’s true body was hidden.

Even the Candle Dragon’s subordinates had all vanished without a trace, no longer showing themselves...

The Candle Dragon also had a few Elemental Power Fragments. If he had used them for personal gain to heal his injuries, he would likely have recovered seventy to eighty percent of his strength over the past ten thousand years.

’I don’t have much time left,’ Taotie thought.

’If I miss this chance, with the Candle Dragon’s talent and luck, I’ll probably never get another chance to kill him for all of eternity...’

At this thought, Taotie’s brow furrowed, and he let out a long sigh.

At times like this, the woman beneath Taotie knew he had started thinking again.

When Taotie was thinking, he would always forget what he was doing. His entire mind and body would become absorbed in the problem at hand...

The woman glanced up at Taotie, merely pouted, shook her head, and began to hum a little tune again.

This wasn’t the first or second time this had happened. She was already used to it.

Taotie had an honest, simple look and long hair. For a Divine Beast, he was at an age of great ambition and potential.

In truth, Taotie wanted to be accomplished in matters between men and women, too. He tried very hard every time, wanting to give his partner a good experience.

In a sense, Taotie was truly an anomaly... He was a very responsible person. He didn’t just care about his own pleasure; he also wanted the woman to have an extraordinary experience.

But for Taotie, this was just a little too difficult.

It wasn’t just his fault; it was also the woman’s... His current woman was a Nine-tailed Fox in her true form. Everything about her—beauty, figure, and intellect—was outstanding. The only problem was that she was a bit "cold."

What kind of cold?

She just couldn’t get interested in... that sort of thing.

And that was a killer.

For example, at the beginning of their session today, Taotie had prepared for a long time, but...

The enchantingly beautiful woman had lazily asked, "Are you in yet? If you’re in, I’ll start moaning!"

Taotie always found this sort of opening line hard to accept.

But he didn’t know if others were also like this, so he could only say gruffly, "This is serious business! You must treat it with respect! You have to fix your attitude!"

"Oh, I know," the Nine-tailed Fox replied, nodding obediently.

After a moment of stunned silence, Taotie managed to remember what he was doing and asked, "Do you want it fast or long?"

The woman yawned and said, "It’s fine. You just have your fun."

Every time he heard words like that, Taotie wanted to bang his head against a wall. But he could never understand why things were this way.

Besides the woman’s issues, Taotie knew he himself was also responsible.

Taotie tried very hard every time, wanting to give his partner a good experience, a different kind of feeling.

But his efforts always went astray...

In Taotie’s view, when it came to this sort of thing, one should just forget what they were doing, focus on the act itself, and make it last as long as possible...

Taotie believed that only by doing this could one be considered a real man.

But as for how his woman felt, Taotie had no idea at all.

While doing all this, listening to the croaking of frogs and the chirping of insects outside made Taotie feel even more lonely.

It made him feel like he was playing with a wooden doll—it was uninteresting, boring... and shameless.

To drive away this feeling, Taotie would force himself to think about other things during the "exercise."

For example, pondering profound questions like, "Which came first in this world, the chicken or the dog?"

Or contemplating how to catch the Candle Dragon, then cut off his little ’doodle,’ dry it, turn it into a specimen, and put it on display in the Eastern Desolate.

No matter what he was thinking about, Taotie would become completely immersed, sinking deeper and deeper as his imagination ran wild.

In this respect, Taotie had the makings of a great thinker or philosopher.

For instance, when he thought about cutting off the Candle Dragon’s little doodle, he would then think about animal reproduction and growth. And once he thought about animal reproduction, his thoughts would circle back to matters between men and women.

At that moment, Taotie’s passion would suddenly ignite, and he would say to the woman beneath him...

"Hey, how about we have some fun?"

The woman beneath him, knowing by now that he had started philosophizing again, would raise her hand and slap him.

"You idiot! Do you even know what you’re doing right now? Aren’t you ’having fun’ already? What problem are you mulling over now?"

Every time he got hit, Taotie would feel very embarrassed.

He felt he had wronged the woman...

This time, as Taotie was in the middle of things, he once again began to frown and sigh.

But this time, the woman didn’t slap him.

Because she knew Taotie was thinking about the Candle Dragon again...

To be precise, he was thinking about killing the Candle Dragon.

Because besides killing the Candle Dragon, very few things could make Taotie frown like that.

That expression, like someone who’s been constipated on the toilet for days, would only appear on Taotie’s face when he was thinking about the Candle Dragon.

The woman sighed. Just as she was about to try and console Taotie...

Suddenly, Taotie’s body shuddered, and a ferocious light erupted in his eyes!

Before the woman beneath him could react, Taotie slammed his right hand on the edge of the bed, pulled himself up, spun around, and vanished into thin air!

The next moment, Taotie, now clad in Battle Armor, appeared in the sky above the Dream Corridor.

Appearing with him were three of his subordinates, members of the "Star Constellation Thirteen Kings."

Any one of the Star Constellation Thirteen Kings was an earth-shattering existence, with cultivation that had reached the Emperor Martial Realm.

The four of them stood side by side, their gazes fixed on the direction of Cangxia Mountain in the Purple Chu Country, their eyes filled with shock and fear!

What had drawn the attention of Taotie and the others was the very Divine Demon Power that had severely wounded the Scythe of Death!

"My lord, how can such pure Divine Demon Power appear in a place like the Purple Chu Country? Could it be that an Upper Realm Divine Demon has appeared there?"

"This power isn’t very strong; it seems to be deliberately concealing something. But it is definitely Divine Demon Power, and it’s incredibly strange... I can actually feel the power of the stars within it! Which Divine Demon is this powerful?"

"My lord, the Candle Dragon’s clone is currently in the Purple Chu Country. He’s planning to enter the Yumu Cave Blessed Land when it opens to search for any Elemental Power Fragments that might be inside. Could this Divine Demon Power have something to do with him?"

The three mighty experts asked one after another, their expressions grave.