This Is Not the Female Demon Lord I Remembered
Chapter 122: Red-named Monster! Where Do You Think You Are Going!

Chapter 122: Chapter 122: Red-named Monster! Where Do You Think You Are Going!

Liang Yi anticipated the greatest possibility was that the Devouring Spirit Sect would make their move after the competition ended, as that would be when they would let their guard down the most, unaware that he and his people already knew of their actions.

Moreover, they were currently being hunted by the Mystic Bureau, scurrying about like rats skittering across the streets. Hence, a surprise attack—that returning jab—launching their plan now would indeed yield unexpected outcomes.

While the proud son led the team to conduct the inspections, Ying Xi himself was anything but idle. Standing at the very center of the arena, he signaled with his eyes for Liang Yi and the others to step back.

His sleeves trembled, mana swirled!

A complex and profound Array Map lit up from the peak’s ground surface. Seen from outside the mountain, the bright light atop the peak shot straight into the sky, shattering large swaths of clouds!

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"The Transmission Array is shut down, let’s start the plan!"

Elsewhere, Ying Tianxing slowly twisted the neck of a guard in his arms. Releasing his grip, he let the body slump to the ground, eyes wide and round, the Communication Talisman in hand powerless to activate.

"Crack!"

He removed the Crystal Stone of the Array Eye from the Transmission Array. The sole connection between the external world and the mountain bamboo realm was now severed, and the patterns of the Array gradually dimmed.

The Shadow Guards, brought by Ying Tianxing, eliminated the rest of the guards, removing their headgear to reveal themselves as members of the Devouring Spirit Sect who had intercepted Wu Yangshuo before.

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"Black-and-White, did you just see a red-named monster pass by?" Ju Xiaobei nudged Bai Xiaomo, who was engrossed in filming Su Youyi.

"What the heck? A red-named monster!?" Bai Xiaomo exclaimed in shock. How could there be a red-named monster here?

"I’m not sure either. Just now, I caught a glimpse of something red from the corner of my eye, but when I went to look for it, it was gone." Ju Xiaobei was also visibly upset, originally enjoying his view of the Beast Girl, when suddenly the corner of his eye caught a flicker of red light.

That color was all too similar to the time he was helping an ugly woman with a task, and by accident, he stumbled upon her husband cheating on her. At that moment, as the favorability plummeted, the man who entered a hostile state was also shown as a red-named monster.

"Who else is in a hostile state besides that?" Ju Xiaobei fell into deep thought. Leopard Girl can be ruled out; although the System indicated a drop in favorability, it had only turned yellow, and she wouldn’t become red-named unless provoked.

"That leaves only····"

Ju Xiaobei clapped his hands, the realization striking him! The force that had killed him on the day the task was triggered, what was it called―the Devouring Spirit Sect!

"Let’s go, let’s go find the big shot, I’ve noticed something!" Ju Xiaobei hurriedly pulled his best buddy, ready to report the situation to the big shot.

"Whoosh!"

The Array that covered the whole mountain suddenly shone brightly, soaring towards the heavens!

"Ding! Congratulations on completing the task [Darker Clouds Over the Immortal Dynasty Competition]!"

Liang Yi and Ju Xiaobei both heard this System notification at the same time.

"Ding! The next phase of the task [Mutation] is triggered!"

"Your Task Experience Points are this high??" Bai Xiaomo was surprised to see his best friend level up from 5 to 7 just from one task.

"It’s alright, just a drop in the bucket!" Ju Xiaobei casually replied, his focus now on the second phase of the task.

On the other hand, after checking the task, Liang Yi’s expression changed. Was the Devouring Spirit Sect about to make their move?

Ying Xi at the center had already fully activated the Array, raising a transparent barrier that encircled the peak, upon which tens of thousands of images densely appeared.

Su Youyi, standing next to her senior, was seeing this kind of Array for the first time. It was something akin to surveillance.

Liang Yi focused his gaze and saw that on top of each screen there was a crystal stone about the size of a human body. Observing different screens, these crystals seemed to be distributed in different locations. But upon closer observation, Liang Yi was surprised to discover that each crystal actually enveloped a person!

"These crystal stones just let the people enter a sleep state and have no other function." He Zhiqing explained quietly to the puzzled Liang Yi.

"The display above shows the location of all the participants and their nearby surroundings. Each of them has a token of their own. The loss of their last token means disqualification from the competition. The final ranking upon arriving at the mountain summit will be decided by the number of tokens on each person."

Ying Xi looked up at the images shown by the array and summarized the rules.

Liang Yi cautiously surveyed his surroundings but did not find anything unusual among the people on the mountain summit.

The only strange thing was that Yu Wei hadn’t shown up.

"Senior brother, look, isn’t that Liang Yuan we met before?" Su Youyi pointed out a crystal stone to Liang Yi unexpectedly.

Liang Yi looked up and, oh well, it really was. However, Liang Yi didn’t pay much attention to it. Their friendship wasn’t deep, and he was happy that Liang Yuan had made it this far, and that was it.

"Big shot! Big shot!"

While everyone on the summit was observing the barrier, Ju Xiaobei came running over with Bai Xiaomo.

"What’s up?"

Bai Xiaomo caught his breath, looked around sneakily, and when he saw no one paying attention to them, whispered to Liang Yi:

"We just saw people from the Devouring Spirit Sect."

"Are you sure?" Liang Yi felt like he had heard wrong. Were the people of the Devouring Spirit Sect so bold and fearless to just show up like that?

"Really! I pledge it on my integrity! The Devouring Spirit Sect bunch definitely harbors malice towards us, and we’re very sensitive to malice," Ju Xiaobei told a serious tall tale, trying to bluff Liang Yi.

"Give me a break!" Liang Yi complained internally.

Now the sensitivity to malice, try deleting the faction favorability. The Devouring Spirit Sect could probably strip your pants while you sleep and you wouldn’t even know.

Liang Yi also understood why Ju Xiaobei could discover the Devouring Spirit Sect. Ever since the Devouring Spirit Sect killed Ju Xiaobei, the favorability must have been rapidly dropping. In his eyes, all members of the Devouring Spirit Sect were marked as red-name monsters!

In the previous life, the reason players could not see through it was that nobody had ever opened the Devouring Spirit Sect’s faction favorability.

"No, someone did actually open it," Liang Yi muttered thoughtfully to himself.

Those previous life players who had used the Great Dark Escape Technique must have turned on the Devouring Spirit Sect’s faction favorability. They probably did not understand the in-depth details of the faction, thinking it was just a regular faction, and later, these players were virtually all killed to the point of quitting the game.

The few remaining stragglers probably didn’t dare to show their faces, so many of the NPCs replaced by the Devouring Spirit Sect were eventually discovered and eradicated by a former junior sister turned dark.

Liang Yi’s face lit up with joy. This was brilliant news!

He had thought the people from the Devouring Spirit Sect would be hard to detect, but they had stumbled upon this group of cheating players.

No matter how well you hide, the red name above your head has already betrayed you!

Liang Yi looked at Ju Xiaobei as if he had found a treasure; right now, he was the only one who had this mine-detector function and wasn’t afraid of death!

"Where is the person now?"

"Gone, I only caught a glimpse before the person disappeared." Ju Xiaobei was a bit uneasy, this without picture, without proof, his words seemed like a scam.

"No worries! I believe you, next time you sense this kind of malice, tell me first!"

"Ding! Congratulations on triggering the quest [Liang Yi’s Request]"