48: Chapter 48 He's a madman

Upon hearing this, Liu Qiyue instantly grew anxious and struggled desperately, trying to break free from Li Xiaoxiao's control. However, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't break free.

"Don't be in such a hurry. Let me ask for you first, okay?"

Seeing Liu Qiyue's terrified expression, Li Xiaoxiao reverted to his perverted demeanor once more.

"Young Master Kang, what do you think?"

Kang Dalei waved his hand nonchalantly. "I don't care. Either way, I won't be holding back."

Hearing Kang Dalei say this, Liu Qiyue almost cried out of grievance.

"Kang Dalei, how—how can you just stand by and watch me die?"

"Sorry, you know how I am. I only care about demon cores, not people."

"You..." Liu Qiyue grew even more furious.

Just a moment ago he claimed to have designs on her, and the next moment he was leaving her to die.

"Kang Dalei, you really are a scumbag."

"Thanks for the compliment," Kang Dalei snorted, his gaze returning to Li Xiaoxiao.

"Let's do something meaningful instead. You commit suicide, I take the core and leave. How about it?"

"Hahahaha, hahahaha... Young Master Kang, do you take me for a fool?"

Li Xiaoxiao's tone shifted. "What I hate most in this life is being played. Get ready to receive my grand gift."

A black insect over ten meters long suddenly crawled out of Li Xiaoxiao's arm. Then, right in front of the unprepared Liu Qiyue, it burrowed into her body.

With a groan of pain, a terrifying aura began to emanate from Liu Qiyue's body—an aura that far surpassed that of an ordinary martial artist.

A ten-inch black insect, a Second-tier Demon King.

"Come, let's see if you can be just as ruthless to your little girlfriend."

"Ah!" Along with Liu Qiyue's roars, her eyes began to turn blood-red. Then, to Kang Dalei's bewildered expression, she took out the longbow behind her back and aimed it directly at him.

"Kang Dalei, this is what you get for looking down on me! Nine Stars Linking the Moon!"

Kang Dalei snapped back to his senses. Looking at the nine feathered arrows Liu Qiyue shot at him, he grinned, once again revealing his row of white teeth.

"Whether I'll be ruthless or not, won't Sect Master Li find out once he watches?"

Taking a step forward and swinging his fists, Kang Dalei, completely unafraid of Liu Qiyue's flying arrows, charged toward where she stood.

Body refinement is all about taking beatings; what did mere flying arrows even amount to?

But when the flying arrows actually struck his body, Kang Dalei instantly grimaced in pain, barely holding back a scream.

"Damn it, what kind of attack is this? Why does it hurt so much?"

After taking a deep breath, Kang Dalei's gaze as he looked at Li Xiaoxiao grew profound.

As if reading Kang Dalei's thoughts, Li Xiaoxiao couldn't have been happier.

"How is it? Quite comfortable, isn't it? Your little girlfriend's archery is pretty decent, right?"

"Comfortable my ass!" Kang Dalei suppressed the urge to beat him to a pulp, kicked off the ground, and charged at Liu Qiyue again.

There was something strange about Liu Qiyue's archery; it could actually damage his Sha Kasaya.

He had to deal with the Demon King inside her first.

Facing the suddenly charging Kang Dalei, the demonized Liu Qiyue smiled coldly, her hands continuously firing arrows from her bow.

"This is for daring to look down on me, looking down on me, looking down on me! I'll shoot you to death, shoot you to death, shoot you to death!"

Countless arrows blocked all of Kang Dalei's paths forward, forcing him to halt his charge and begin dodging the incoming projectiles.

"How is it, Young Master Kang? Are you satisfied with this gift? By the way, you didn't really think my Heavenly Demon Sect is full of useless trash, and that a mere Body Refinement Divine Venerable like you could overturn us, did you?"

"So, you look down on Body Refinement Divine Venerables?"

At some point, Kang Dalei's figure appeared behind Liu Qiyue. He plunged his hand into her chest and pulled out a desperately squirming insect.

"You really are ruthless, Young Master Kang. Aren't you worried at all about what kind of backlash your little girlfriend might suffer?"

Seeing Kang Dalei's movement technique suddenly become so fast, Li Xiaoxiao was surprised for a moment before bursting into wild laughter again.

After his wild laughter, Liu Qiyue suddenly turned her head to glare viciously at Kang Dalei. Then, two tentacles extended from her shoulders, wrapping directly around Kang Dalei's hand that was plunged into her chest.

"I knew you would do this. Kang Dalei, you really are ruthless."

Controlled by the Demon King, Liu Qiyue's face was filled with sheer malice.

"Let this lady see what right you have to look down on me!"

"Nine Stars Connected Arrow!"

After a flurry of arrow shadows, nine flying arrows began to gather behind Kang Dalei.

Each flying arrow carried a trace of Demon King power.

"Young Master Kang, still not summoning your God Venerable Body even now? Are you looking down on your little girlfriend?!"

Seeing Kang Dalei restrained by Liu Qiyue, Li Xiaoxiao doubled over with laughter, thoroughly ecstatic and frenzied.

Believing victory was within his grasp, he had already begun preparing to choose a burial plot for Kang Dalei.

"Indeed. If I have to use my God Venerable Body just to fight a Second-tier Demon King, wouldn't that be too disrespectful to me as the protagonist?"

The hand placed inside Liu Qiyue's chest suddenly clenched, and a burst of nine-colored white malevolent energy began to gather in Kang Dalei's hand.

"I was wondering earlier why a Demon King's attack could hurt me so much. So it was a soul attack."

With a single punch, Liu Qiyue was sent flying.

He closed in and threw a few more punches, and Liu Qiyue's bones began to fracture.

"Let's see how many impacts of my malevolent energy your soul can withstand!"

Kang Dalei did not stop. He grabbed Liu Qiyue and thrashed her around like a wild tempest, beating her so hard that she occasionally regained her sanity.

"Kang Dalei, stop hitting me! I'm Liu Qiyue!"

"Not enough, this is still not enough."

Punch after punch, Li Xiaoxiao was left completely dumbfounded on the side.

"You really are ruthless, Young Master Kang."

Under Kang Dalei's relentless assault, the Demon King inside Liu Qiyue could no longer bear it and prepared to leave her body.

However, how could Kang Dalei give it a chance now?

"Now that you're here, don't even think about leaving."

A punch carrying his full strength blasted directly toward Liu Qiyue, a strike comparable to the Great Sun Realm.

Seeing this, the Demon King inside Liu Qiyue panicked completely. Disregarding the consequences of a forced separation, it decisively severed one of its tails and rushed out.

"A lunatic! He's a complete lunatic!"

The demon insect that had left Liu Qiyue's body kept shouting, lingering fear gripping its heart.

At that moment, it felt as if it had sensed the aura of destruction—a powerful aura that it had only ever felt from Li Xiaoxiao, yet it was actually emanating from a young man.

No wonder Li Xiaoxiao valued this person so highly; it finally understood.

But even though it understood, its time of death had also arrived.

"You want to run after possessing someone? Do you think I'm just an innocent bystander?"

Pulling back the punch aimed at Liu Qiyue, he changed direction and charged straight at the black insect Demon King.

How could the black insect Demon King have expected that Kang Dalei could actually retract his force and strike at him instead? He was completely dumbfounded.

But after only a brief daze, it immediately gathered a layer of energy barrier, hoping to block Kang Dalei's fist wind.

However, it was already said to be comparable to the Great Sun Realm; how could an ordinary Second-tier Demon King possibly block it?

With just one punch, all the shields crumbled completely, and a massive crack appeared on its body.

With a slight movement from Kang Dalei, the black insect Demon King shattered into countless pieces, leaving only a Demon King core rolling to his feet.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for killing a Second-tier Demon King. You have received 100 points.]

After finishing off the Demon King, Kang Dalei looked at Li Xiaoxiao and said:

"Now it's your turn."

Li Xiaoxiao wagged his finger and said:

"Daddy, before you hit me, you'd better go check on your little girlfriend first. You don't know your own strength; even a Demon King couldn't withstand it, let alone your little girlfriend."