Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

After the old man, the sheep spirit demon, finished speaking, he snorted coldly, turned around with his hands behind his back, and said to the two prison guards, "Keep a close eye on those two! There must be no mistakes, understand?"

However, the two spirit demon guards remained completely still and did not react at all.

"Hmm?" The old man, a sheep spirit demon, frowned, noticing that the two spirit demon guards had blank stares and lifeless eyes.

As he was wondering what was going on, he suddenly noticed a thin line of blood around the necks of the two spirit demon guards.

The blood lines became more and more obvious, and then with a few hissing sounds, fresh blood spurted out from the gaps in the blood lines.

Like a water pipe that has been cut open, it splattered all 360 degrees.

The heads of the two spirit demon guards eventually fell off and landed at his feet.

"!?!" The old man's pupils shrank.

"What...what's going on?"

"An assassin broke in, what else could it be?"

The sound of Night Song rang out leisurely behind him, and as black mist surged forth, a jet-black Shadow Moon longsword was placed against his neck from behind.

The old demon sheep turned around, saw Ye Ge, and exclaimed incredulously, "You are... Ye...!?"

"Pfft——!"

Before he could finish speaking, the night singer lightly slashed with his straight knife, leaving a long bloody gash on his throat.

"flutter!"

The old demon sheep slowly collapsed into a pool of blood.

"!!!"

Chi Ling and Fei Yue, who were imprisoned in the barrier prison, were dumbfounded.

Ye Ge shook the blood off his straight sword and said slowly, "It seems I guessed right. There has been a coup in the Spirit Demon Kingdom."

"..." Chi Ling and Fei Yue finally came to their senses.

Fei Yue said, "Night... Night Song? It's you???"

“Who else could it be but me?” Ye Ge said.

"Uh...uh..."

The old sheep spirit demon lying in a pool of blood on the ground was not quite dead yet. He stared with his bloodshot eyes, clutching his throat which had been slashed and was bleeding profusely. He grabbed Ye Ge's leg with one hand and looked at him with pleading eyes.

Ye Ge glanced at him, then asked, "So, do you still need this guy? You didn't kill him with that last stab. If he's still useful, I'll sew his neck back up."

Upon hearing this, Fei Yue snorted coldly, "Useless. This traitor deserves to die!"

"Pfft!"

So Ye Ge delivered the final blow, piercing the heart of the old sheep spirit demon.

This time, he was completely dead.

Night Song kicked aside the hand that was gripping his trouser leg, lifted Shadow Moon, and with another horizontal slash, a long black sword aura swept across the barrier wall, shattering both walls of the barrier prison at the same time.

"Hey, come out," Ye Ge said.

Chi Ling glanced at the dead old man of the Sheep Spirit Demon Clan on the ground, then at Ye Ge: "Thank you... but why are you here?"

“It’s a bit complicated to explain, and it’s not very convenient here,” Ye Ge said. “Tell me first what exactly happened in the Spirit Demon Kingdom.”

"..." Chi Ling and Fei Yue remained silent for a while.

Then Chi Ling sighed softly: "Let me explain."

Just as Ye Ge had imagined, it was a coup within the Spirit Demon Clan.

The incident began about six months ago when the barrier protecting the Spirit Demon Kingdom from the outside world suddenly broke for unknown reasons, allowing demonic energy to leak into the kingdom and causing many city-states to be affected by the pollution.

The Spirit Demon Kingdom has a very special geographical location. They are very close to the territory of the dark races, so the pollution of demonic energy has always been a great threat to the Spirit Demon race.

Therefore, before this, Empress Su Yanling had to allocate a portion of her demonic power to maintain the barrier walls in order to keep out the demonic pollution.

But this time, for some unknown reason, after the barrier wall was broken, a large number of spirit demons were corrupted by demonic energy. Some died of illness, some went insane, and some were transformed into monsters by demonic energy.

Su Yanling went to great lengths to find a way to suppress demonic energy and treat the spirits and demons corrupted by it.

At this moment, an old minister, who was just the old man from the Sheep Spirit Demon Clan, introduced him to a person from a gene company, saying that he had a way to help her solve the current crisis of the Spirit Demon Clan, but on the condition that Su Yanling cooperate with their gene company to conduct some experiments.

"An experiment?" Ye Ge asked.

“Hmm.” Chi Ling said, “Those people from the gene company wanted to study and analyze the Empress’s superhuman cell gene data. The Empress hesitated for a long time, but because the situation in the country was too urgent, she agreed.”

"But for some reason, after Her Majesty the Empress underwent cell extraction, her condition became very strange, as if she had contracted some kind of strange illness." Fei Yue clenched her fists. "Several times outside the Empress's palace, I heard her agonizing cries, and her demonic power weakened day by day..."

"The Empress was already working very hard to maintain the barrier of the Spirit Demon Kingdom, and now that she has fallen ill, it is only making matters worse."

"While the Empress was in poor health, Prime Minister Yang, the old man you just killed, seized the opportunity to launch a coup, took control of the government within the palace, and imprisoned us and some important officials. He concealed this from the public, saying only that the Empress was unwell and had handed over all power to him. It was only then that we learned that he was actually an employee of the gene company!"

Bai Xueling was furious after hearing this: "That bastard, Elder Yang! He was supposed to be an old minister of the Spirit Demon Clan!" As she spoke, she kicked Elder Yang's corpse hard.

Chi Ling and Fei Yue looked at Bai Xue Ling with suspicion, not understanding why she was so angry.

Ye Ge stroked his chin: "So it seems that the destruction of your Spirit Demon Kingdom's barrier and the leakage of demonic energy might have been intentional..."

“Yes, that’s what I think too.” Chi Ling sighed.

Ye Ge: "Where is Su Yanling now? Has she also been taken into custody by the gene company?"

“No, no,” Fei Yue said. “The Empress seems to have realized what the Gene Corporation wanted from her, so when she felt her body was about to give out, she used her last strength to lock herself away and hide in an underground chamber, preventing the Gene Corporation people from approaching her…”

Fei Yue bit her lip lightly: "However, as I just said, the Empress's condition is getting worse and worse, and her illness is getting more and more serious. Her demonic power is gradually declining. I'm afraid that she won't be able to hold on for long."

Night Song: "Where is she now?"

“It’s inside this simulated palace,” Fei Yue said.