The Divine Nine-Dragon Cauldron
chapter-1423

“Third Brother, hold off that witch!” The Blood Demon gave his order.

The Duckbill Beast executed his order as best as he could, but the Giant Eagle was slightly discontented. He still walked towards Su Yu and suddenly slashed his large claw at Su Yu’s skull.

At that moment, Su Yu couldn’t activate the reverse scale of the World Annihilation Dragon; he was on the verge of being killed.

Su Yu had a placid look on his face as he said, “So you’re still willing to obey the Blood Demon? While you do all the hard work, the Blood Demon takes all the credit!”

“Without you, how could Wang Qingchen be captured so easily? How could you guys catch up with me so quickly? How could the severely injured Blood Demon still be alive?”

The Giant Eagle’s sharp claw halted in midair as he bellowed in a deep voice, “What are you trying to say?”

“Haha! Deep down, you already know what I’m trying to say!” Su Yu’s eyes gleamed with a light of wisdom.

The Giant Eagle shook his head gently and said, “Don’t waste your time. I did everything willingly for my master to come out of isolation, even if I’m doing all the hard work and given no credit!”

When he finished, he was ready to kill Su Yu at any moment.

But Su Yu said, “Oh? Do you think you’ll benefit from your master coming out of isolation? Think about it: has the Blood Demon, who claimed to be your brother, ever treated you as such?”

“The way I see it, you’re more like a servant while he acts like a leader and orders you around as he pleases. Answer me this: who will your master remember after he comes out of isolation? Would he remember a worker like you, or would he remember the Blood Demon as a general?”

“I told you, I don’t care about fame and fortune!” The Giant Eagle remarked coldly.

Su Yu said, “Surely, you care about your life! You guys are united for now because you have a common goal, but once your master is rescued, things might become peaceful if you’re still willing to bow to the Blood Demon.”

“As long as you have the slightest desire for independence, would somebody like the Blood Demon find the need to keep a person whose strength is on par with him, but has more contributions?”

His words irritated the Giant Eagle.

The whole time, he had been displeased with the Blood Demon’s status. He was neither any weaker than the Blood Demon in terms of strength, nor was he inferior to him in terms of contributions.

He was willing to silently swallow the insult and humiliation in silence for the sake of rescuing their master. Once the master was rescued, they would then go their separate ways.

Su Yu’s words had alerted him.

No one knew more about the Blood Demon’s character than he did. He was brutal, cruel, and cold-hearted. He was completely ruthless and inhumane, with a strong desire for control.

If he left the Blood Demon someday for real, it was likely that the Blood Demon would persecute him out of fear of his strength and contributions.

The Duckbill Beast might’ve been unafflicted, but the Blood Demon certainly wouldn’t tolerate him.

A tempting, luring voice floated out from Su Yu’s mouth, “Right now, an opportunity to finish things once and for all is right in front of you. It could both make you the greatest contributor to your master’s rescue and eliminate your future troubles. How could you turn a blind eye to such a precious opportunity?”

Taken aback, the Giant Eagle yelled in anger, “Are you asking me to betray my brothers?”

Su Yu shook his head. “No, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of a cure. If you don’t kill him today, he’ll certainly kill you the next day. This isn’t about betrayal, but rather an act of self-defense.”

The Giant Eagle’s eyes flickered as he was deeply moved by Su Yu’s words.

The Blood Demon happened to be severely injured and at his weakest. If he could be gotten rid of, then he would get everything!

At his side, the Blood Demon was laughing in anger. “You’re trying to pit us against each other using mere words? Ah, Su Yu. Such childish tactics will never work!”

The Duckbill Beast was burning with noble indignation. While assaulting Wuxin, he yelled in exasperation, “Second brother, why are you hesitating? Are you being fooled by his estranged tactic?”

Having been yelled at by the two of them, the Giant Eagle recovered from his hesitation.

The hesitant look on his face faded as resolution and tenacity took its place. He stared at Su Yu and replied placidly, “What a shame that I can’t do as you wish!”

His sharp claw came slashing down!

However, right before his sharp claw came into contact with Su Yu, the Giant Eagle turned around abruptly and charged his sharp claw towards the defenseless Blood Demon!!

Anger and ferocity were written all over the Giant Eagle’s face as he slyly sneered, “When you needed me, you called me your brother and bound me with the brotherhood. But when you didn’t need me, you called me the Giant Eagle and ordered me around as if you were my boss! Blood Demon, do you think I’m an idiot?”

“He is right: there is no way we could tolerate each other’s presence!”

Swish!

His sharp claw pierced right through the Blood Demon’s skull. After a round of stirring, the last tinge of the Blood Demon’s vitality was taken away.

He did not die at the hands of outsiders but was instead killed by one of his own.

The surprising outcome was unexpected.

“Brother Blood Demon!” As the Duckbill Beast’s eyes turned red, he bellowed and shoved Wuxin to the side before pouncing onto the Giant Eagle. “You heartless traitor, you’ll pay for this with your life!”

The Giant Eagle’s lips curled into a cold sneer. “Third brother, do you think you’re a match of me?”

His sharp claw slashed forward, leaving a deep and gruesome mark formed on the Duckbill Beast’s chest.

The Duckbill Beast went invisible right away, trying to attack the Giant Eagle with his mutating talent.

The Giant Eagle smirked, his sharp eyes seemingly seeing through it all. His sharp claw suddenly sliced at the air thirty feet ahead of him.

Ahh!

With a miserable whimper, the Duckbill Beast emerged from his invisible state.

Half of his body was torn apart by the Giant Eagle’s sharp claw.

The Duckbill Beast cried out in disbelief, “How could you see through my mutated talent? All you have is a pair of mutated wings and increased speed!”

“Who said that the mutated wings are all I have? I am a rare kind of double mutant. Since my eyes have also undergone partial mutation, I can easily see through your invisibility!” The Giant Eagle laughed scornfully as he revealed his long-hidden secret.

With indignant grievance in his eyes, the Duckbill Beast said in sorrowful anger, “So you have been guarding against us from the beginning!”

The Giant Eagle was wearing a callous look. “We all knew that the five of us brothers are going to disband sooner or later! Farewell, third brother!”

His sharp claw wavered, and the Duckbill Beast was at the brink of being torn apart!

Right at that critical juncture, a spine-chilling voice suddenly sounded behind him.

“Then I’ll let you in on a secret, too; your big brother is also a double mutant!” The Blood Demon, who should’ve been dead by now, suddenly opened his eyes as a powerful surge of vitality rising within him.

The Giant Eagle shuddered, petrified. “You’re also…”

His words trailed off as the Blood Demon sprung into action, his sharp fingers piercing through the Giant Eagle’s chest.

As he did so, a gush of Power of Asura erupted from his palm, shattering the Giant Eagle from the inside out into countless fragments.

Torrents of blood sputtered in the air and drenched the Blood Demon, making him already hideous face even more horrendous.

“Ahem…!” The Blood Demon coughed forcefully a couple of times. He stared at the Giant Eagle’s wide-eyed corpse with a cunning grin on his face.

He taunted, “My second mutant ability is the body of immortality! As long as my body remains, I can come back to life!”

As he sneered, he crushed the Giant Eagle’s body with his feet and looked at Su Yu with a cold grim smile. “I was right, you do not deserve a chance to catch your breath. You’re too precarious!”

He felt that Su Yu’s schemes were far more dangerous than his 4,000 Divine Paths.

He was so utterly meticulous, he could easily identify the Giant Eagle’s displeasure towards the Blood Demon. With a couple of words, he poignantly pricked at the Giant Eagle’s vulnerability and successfully incited his betrayal.

That ability of his was way too horrendous!

“Duckbill Beast, look after that witch, I will destroy him myself!” The Blood Demon growled as he strode towards Su Yu. Without any hesitation, his sharp claw reached for Su Yu’s chest with unwavering resolve.

However, an enormous mouth had just clasped him without any warning!

The Blood Demon was startled. He turned around to look, and he couldn’t help but be stunned. “Duckbill Beast?”

The Duckbill Beast opened his huge mouth and clasped the Blood Demon tightly, continuing to bite into him.

Under the tremendous pressure, the Blood Demon’s body was crushed until cracks were formed.

In the Duckbill Beast’s quiet and serene eyes, there were hints of complex emotions and weariness. “I’m sorry, big brother.”

“You’re betraying me, too?” The Blood Demon couldn’t believe that after risking his life to go through fire and water for him, the Duckbill Beast was now betraying him.

The dark redness in the Duckbill Beast’s eyes gradually faded, revealing a streak of clarity.

He said, “Big brother, is it a good idea to release the master? The master regards lives as petty insects and us as his slaves.”

“There were ten of us brothers back then, but five of us died at the master’s hands all because he was in a bad mood at the time. Do you think it is a good thing for us to release such a master?”

The Blood Demon was outraged. “How dare you doubt our master! What is wrong with your eyes? How come they are clear?”

“I am not doubting him, but our memories of the five brothers have been erased!” The Duckbill Beast retrieved some wizard tools, which happened to be the relics left by the five Chu Clan Masters.

“Using their tools, I managed to suppress the Power of Asura within me. Not only have I regained some of the memories that have been erased, but I have also recovered the rationality that I once had.”

“Big brother, even our minds have been manipulated by the master! I cannot believe that such a master wouldn’t finish us off as soon as he comes out of isolation. He would want to prevent us from raising a rebellion once we come to our senses,” the Duckbill Beast said.

The Blood Demon was stunned. “Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”

The Duckbill Beast smiled bitterly. “I was the only one sober, and the only one who recalled the things in the past. If I divulged it, big brother and the three other brothers would have murdered me since you were being manipulated! Hence, I was holding it back all this time and waiting for the right time to tell you!”

The look on the Blood Demon’s face softened and he said, “So that is the truth. I have been so trusting of the master before. Good job, Duckbill Beast. Now leave with me.”

As he spoke, he tried to pry open the Duckbill Beast’s mouth as a signal to let go of him.

Not only did the Duckbill Beast refuse to release him, but he also tightened his hold on him and crushed him into pieces. Feeling sentimental, he said, “You don’t have to pretend anymore, big brother.”

“Your eyes are still blood red, which means that you’re still under the master’s latent influence. You… you would never betray the master! If I let go of you, I would meet the same fate as the Giant Eagle did.”

Seeing his scheme fail, the Blood Demon did not bother to pretend anymore. With a hideous look, he growled, “You’d better let go of me now! Traitor! If our master learns of this, he will never forgive you!”

He pummeled the Duckbill Beast’s mouth with all his might, but he was almost at his limit; he couldn’t muster enough strength to free himself.

The Duckbill Beast heaved a deep sigh. “Farewell, big brother. I shall thank the Giant Eagle for making you use your hidden mutant ability.”

Creak!

With a dull noise alongside an anguished, horrendous scream, the Blood Demon was crushed to death by the Duckbill Beast. As he turned into a downpour of blood, even his soul was destroyed. He had been deceived into meeting his demise.

The brutal massacre between brothers had come to an end.

Even Su Yu did not expect the reserved, composed Duckbill Beast to turn out to be the cruelest among them.

Wuxin’s eyes flickered, fully prepared to launch an attack on the Duckbill Beast.

As he was the only one left, she was somewhat confident that she could kill him.

“Hold on!” Su Yu stopped him. “He has no intention of killing us. He has shown you mercy at least twice by now.”