Chapter 24: The Villain Senior Brother Is About to Turn Dark, the Psychotic Junior Brother Pretends to Be Blind [24]

Chapter 24: The Villain Senior Brother Is About to Go Dark, and the Crazy Junior Brother Pretends to Be Blind [24]

717 was taken aback when Bai Yan suddenly asked about Ye Beiyu, and couldn't help but freeze for a second.

After all, since Bai Yan had talked some sense into him last time, he'd done some real soul-searching and hadn't been paying much attention to Ye Beiyu's side for quite a while.

Because what Bai Yan said was right.

The male lead had plot armor—he wasn't gonna die that easily. At most, he'd just get a few extra lucky breaks.

If something really serious went down, his alarm system would've pinged him long before now.

He was Bai Yan's villain system, after all. His job was to stick with Bai Yan and do villain stuff—why the hell was he so focused on the male lead?

But he'd figured Bai Yan was too busy going on a killing spree in the demon realm to even remember Ye Beiyu existed. So the sudden question caught him totally off guard...

717 finally snapped back to reality and checked on Ye Beiyu. While scanning, he said:

[Big Shot, hold on a moment, let me take a look...]

[Hiss, the male lead's still down at the cliff. Something's blocking me, so I can't see what's going on down there, but I doubt it's anything serious.]

Bai Yan wasn't surprised by 717's answer. He just raised an eyebrow and headed back to the place the Demon Sovereign had set up for him.

After today, the whole demon realm was gonna know.

This newly found young prince was way stronger than the other princes with pure demon blood.

And those "good brothers" of his—he'd already met every single one of them.

They didn't seem to take him seriously at all, and after that first meeting, they never bothered to come find him again.

Now that word of this had reached them, they were probably getting antsy.

A faint smile tugged at the corner of Bai Yan's lips. But even so, it didn't matter.

After all, just 'cause those guys had been ignoring him didn't mean he hadn't been up to something.

To get rid of the Twin Gu Worm in his body, he'd picked up a lot of tricks in the demon realm during this time...

Bai Yan frowned slightly at the thought and dropped his gaze to his palm.

But this Twin Gu Worm was a real pain. He'd tried all kinds of methods and still hadn't managed to get rid of it.

Especially since the one who'd planted it was Ye Beiyu—leaving this worm in him was just asking for trouble down the line.

717 could tell what he was worried about and tried to reassure him:

[It's fine, Big Shot. I think the male lead actually likes you a lot. Otherwise, he'd have activated that worm in you a long time ago if he really held a grudge.]

717 paused, thought for a moment, then added: [Maybe the male lead planted the worm in you, but he can't actually trigger it?]

Either he liked Bai Yan too much to do it, or Ye Beiyu just couldn't control the Twin Gu Worm in Bai Yan's body.

Those were the only two possibilities 717 could come up with, though he personally leaned toward the first one.

Bai Yan didn't answer, his eyes dark and unreadable—hard to tell how much he actually believed.

But he still couldn't figure out why the method he'd found to get rid of the Twin Gu Worm just wasn't working.

Could Ye Beiyu have done something else to it?

Bai Yan still hadn't given up on getting rid of the Twin Gu Worm—he wasn't the type to leave loose ends.

But there were bigger fish to fry right now, so he'd have to put that thought on the back burner for the moment.

Sure enough, when the Demon Sovereign heard he'd taken down a Demon General in one move, he didn't scold him at all—instead, he praised him up and down, saying he had quite a bit of his own style.

Precious treasures poured into his palace like water.

Including stuff the other princes had wanted for ages but never gotten.

With that kind of extreme favoritism, plus a little nudge from 717—

In just half a day, the whole demon realm knew exactly how spoiled this newly found young prince was by the Demon Sovereign.

No denying it—Bai Yan now had the Demon Sovereign's favor and indulgence, plus absolutely terrifying strength. Nobody dared to mess with him.

Even the ones who wanted to take him down didn't dare do it openly—they could only scheme behind his back.

And word of Bai Yan's existence reached the cultivation world through demons who'd snuck out and gotten caught.

Especially Yue Qingxian, who'd been searching like crazy ever since he found out Bai Yan was gone.

To be exact, the whole cultivation world now knew that Bai Yan, the senior disciple of Spirit Mountain Sect, and Yu Beiyan, the "Holy Maiden" of Divine Sword Sect, had both disappeared without a trace at the same time.

For a while, a lot of people started speculating about the two of them—some even said they'd fallen in love at first sight and secretly pledged themselves to each other...

Yue Moci checked out the loosened seal of the demon realm, could only try to patch it up, and then captured a few demons that had already slipped out and brought them back.

He'd wanted to discuss with Yue Qingxian and the heads of the other big sects how to deal with the seal problem.

But right at that moment, the demon realm's seal had loosened, and they'd also found a young prince said to have half-cultivator blood with terrifying power.

Especially since the description the captured demons gave matched—it was unmistakably Bai Yan.

Yue Moci and Yue Qingxian naturally refused to believe it. In their eyes, Bai Yan was incredibly talented and treated everyone with warmth and respect.

And it wasn't just them—not a single disciple at Spirit Mountain Sect believed Bai Yan was that supposedly vicious demon prince.

Unfortunately, the fact remained that they couldn't find Bai Yan, and that young prince really had only shown up in the demon realm after Bai Yan disappeared...

717 sighed and told Bai Yan that the cultivation world had already turned upside down over all this.

But Bai Yan just calmly ground a pill into powder and casually sprinkled it into another jar of ointment.

When 717 saw he had no reaction, he couldn't help asking:

[Big Shot, I can tell Yue Moci and the others really care about you. Your junior brothers and sisters all think you got captured by demons and taken back to the demon realm.]

[Everyone at Spirit Mountain Sect thinks there's more to this—that you didn't go willingly—and they're secretly planning to sneak into the demon realm to save you.]

[But Yue Moci and the others stopped them all. Otherwise, you'd be seeing them at the demon realm's entrance in a couple days.]

717 was still sighing about it, but Bai Yan kept doing his own thing, only pausing once he'd finished listening.

"It's fine. Once the demon realm's seal is completely broken, they'll understand."

Seeing him like this, 717 didn't say anything else, just figured Bai Yan didn't care about any of it.

After all, in his view, Bai Yan had absolutely nailed the role of the villain and wouldn't care at all about those junior disciples of the Spirit Mountain Sect.

But in reality, when he brought it up, Bai Yan's fingers twitched slightly, and his long eyelashes drooped, hiding the complicated feelings in his eyes.

It's not that he didn't care—he just wasn't used to it yet.

After all, in the past, to play a convincing villain, he'd always stuck to the character during missions. Now, he'd rather just do what he wanted.

He could tell the Spirit Mountain Sect folks were treating him a bit differently.

But he'd never imagined that after they learned he was a demon, they wouldn't hate him or want to cut ties completely.

Instead, they figured there was more to it and even wanted to bring him back...

Bai Yan pursed his lips slightly, absently stirring the ointment in his hand, but his thoughts were clearly elsewhere.

717 seemed to recall something and spoke up again:

[By the way, Big Shot, the male lead has already crawled out of the abyss.]

Bai Yan snapped back to reality, his eyes dark and unreadable.

"Hmm?"

[He... not only crawled out...]