The Invincible Bodyguard Starting by Escorting the Doomsday Imperial Princess Chapter 92 : Chapter 92

Chapter 92: The Suppressed Thousand-Year Demon!

“Uh!!” Luo Li was left completely speechless by that line.

Any normal person would be afraid of sothing this eerie and terrifying, all right?

Still, she forced herself to steady her mind and carefully looked toward the corpses again. Sure enough, just as Chen Guan had said, every single one of the dead had a gaping, mangled hole torn open in the chest.

The murderer’s cultivation was not low. So of the weaker mortals had been unable to withstand the force and had simply been torn apart.

Seeing that she had cald down a little, Chen Guan continued, “Look again. Who do you think the murderer was?”

“I...” Luo Li almost shook her head at first, but then her mind quickly caught up. This man was clearly taking the chance to test her eyesight and her nerve.

Suppressing the nausea roiling inside her and the fear deep in her bones, she carefully examined the horrifying scene again and again. At last she drew a deep breath and said, “This... definitely was not done by a human.”

“Mhm.” Chen Guan nodded. “Then tell —why not?”

“Humans usually would not be this cruel to their own kind.”

“Even with a blood feud, no one would slaughter an entire town like this.”

“Only demons treat humans with such utter ruthlessness, so this must have been the work of a demon!”

Chen Guan turned his head and gave Luo Li a look, utterly speechless. “I was originally planning to find a chance to praise you, but you’ve left without even the slightest excuse.”

Then he asked, “We’ve traveled nearly five hundred li over the last two days. Did you see even a single demon’s shadow?”

Luo Li’s pretty face flushed red with embarrassnt. Great Zhou was not even known for producing many demons, so where would demons co from?

Even so, she still protested stubbornly, “Then what do you say it was?”

Chen Guan’s eyes swept over one hollow chest cavity after another. His gaze beca cold and grave as he slowly uttered a few words: “It was a Demonic Being. Most likely... a thousand-year Painted Skin Fiend.”

“A P-painted Skin Fiend?!”

Luo Li’s voice changed pitch again, and once more she clung to Chen Guan like a sloth.

If there was one type of thing among Demonic Beings that most made people’s skin crawl, then a Painted Skin Fiend would absolutely rank in the top three!

According to rumor, such a creature ca into being when soone died while clinging to a powerful obsession and was then infected by uncanny qi. The flesh rotted away, while only a single piece of human skin, filled with undispersed resentnt, beca a sinister thing of Yin.

But the reason everyone called it a Demonic Being was that, like a demon, it could cultivate by devouring the vital essence, spirit, and energy of living humans. It could even perfectly disguise itself as anyone.

And the most terrifying thing about such a Painted Skin Fiend was that it had to devour human hearts in order to preserve its own existence and continue cultivating.

Once such a Demonic Being erged into the world, it always ant devastation for all living creatures.

Before the terror in her heart had even settled, a new question rose up in Luo Li’s mind, and she could not help but ask, “Brother Chen, why are you so certain... that this is a thousand-year Painted Skin Fiend?”

Chen Guan looked at her as though she were an idiot. After a long mont, he finally said, “Because an ordinary Painted Skin Fiend couldn’t kill this many people, nor would it need this many hearts.”

“A Painted Skin Fiend that needs to replenish itself with more than a thousand human hearts in one go is, at the very least, thousand-year grade.”

“A thousand-year Painted Skin Fiend...” Luo Li murmured under her breath. Yet this ti, strangely enough, the fear in her heart was gone.

Because she understood that before a taboo-level Demonic Being like this, fear had already beco aningless.

The mont such a monster appeared in the world, an entire nation would be shaken.

“Wait, that’s not right!” Luo Li suddenly thought of sothing and at once spoke up.

“Brother Chen, as far as I know, aren’t the few thousand-year Painted Skin Fiends recorded in Great Zhou’s state annals all supposed to have been suppressed by successive emperors in the various forbidden lands?”

“How could one suddenly appear here out of nowhere?”

“Then you’ll have to go ask that wonderful uncle of yours. I certainly don’t know.”

With that, Chen Guan ignored her, hefted the Horse-Cleaving Saber onto his back, and walked toward his own sowhat restless horse.

Luo Li hurried after him. Before stepping across that sticky pool of blood, the two of them mounted almost in unison and continued forward.

Only, the liveliness Luo Li had so painfully regained vanished again without a trace, and she fell into complete silence.

Chen Guan’s reasoning was not without sense.

She had co to Great Zhou to rebel.

And since it was rebellion, then naturally one would use any ans necessary.

She was just about to reach Shangjing City, and at this exact critical juncture, a thousand-year Painted Skin Fiend had been released.

The purpose was obvious—it had been intentionally let loose to wreak havoc upon the world, forcing Great Zhou’s court to mobilize large numbers of troops to suppress it.

If that happened, the defenses around the capital region would inevitably be weakened.

This... this...

Luo Li dearly wanted to refute it. She wanted to say that all this had nothing to do with her uncle, yet no excuse she could think of was enough to convince even herself.

Because she simply could not imagine who besides the people on her uncle’s side would possess both the ability and the motive to release a taboo-level thousand-year great fiend like this.

Thus the two of them rode on in silence, winding around one congealed patch of blood after another, until at last they passed through that dead, silent town.

Luo Li kept her head lowered, not saying a word.

At last Chen Guan could not bear to look at it any longer. He turned and glared at her. “With that half-dead look on your face, you still want to stage a rebellion? I think you’d be better off turning back right now!”

“Go back to your little Sanhe backwater. I happen to know quite a few young and handso lads there. I’ll play matchmaker for you, and you can settle down at ho, support your husband, raise children, and stop dreaming about rebellion.”

“You!” Luo Li’s pretty face flushed scarlet with anger, and she glared furiously at him.

Lifting her chin, she protested stubbornly, “When I reach Shangjing City, I will definitely stop this kind of thing from happening!”

“Heh.” Chen Guan burst into loud laughter.

“What are you laughing at?!” Luo Li snapped, annoyed.

“This ti I’m not laughing at you,” Chen Guan said with a perfectly serious face.

“Uh?” Luo Li was completely confused by him.

Chen Guan continued, “I’m laughing at that dead old ghost of yours—Su Jingyan.”

Although Luo Li disliked the way he kept calling her grandfather a dead old ghost, she still could not help but ask, “Why?”

Chen Guan fell silent for a few seconds before saying, “Fine. Let tell you a few things you don’t know.”

Though Luo Li had no idea why he was suddenly speaking in riddles again, she could not stop herself from pricking up her ears.

“Let’s talk about Demons and Uncanny Fiends,” Chen Guan began slowly.

“A thousand-year Demonic Being like the one you saw today—forget Great Zhou, even our Great Yun has suppressed at least a thousand of them.”

“A thousand?!” Luo Li was so startled her heart nearly leapt from her chest.

“Th-then if all of them were released, wouldn’t the world be thrown into chaos?”

But another doubt rose in her mind. “If they’re such disasters, then why suppress them instead of killing them outright?”

Chen Guan said, “Because every single one of them is part of an imperial dynasty’s foundation.”

“Why would anyone kill them?”

“Foundation?!” Luo Li’s face was full of incomprehension. “Once things like that are released, they’re bound to bring devastation to all living beings in an entire region. How can that be called a foundation?”