The male supporting character was actually myself.

As expected, Xiao Jiangchen dotes on me the most!

It's so satisfying to see him executed right in front of me! Great! I must kill him! That bastard has to die!

She now regrets it a little. She shouldn't have been so eager to eat a living person. If Xiao Jiangchen had just killed the bastard pretending to be a bandit, she would have been much better off with less energy than she is now.

When the guards unlocked the iron chains to arrest Huang Shenglang, he was still half asleep.

"What are you doing? What are you trying to do?" Startled awake, Huang Shenglang, who was already feeling guilty, felt the pain in his chest worsen, as if even his breath was burning.

The captain of the guard shone a lamp on him and sneered, "Don't you know what you've done?"

Jiang Chen tied him to the back of the horse and dragged him all the way from Yunshao City to Yongning City. Huang Shenglang's cotton clothes and shoes were all in bad condition.

His disheveled appearance, filthy and tattered clothes splattered with Zhang Xiyue's blood, gave off an unpleasant odor even in the dead of winter.

"That's him, take him away!" The captain covered his nose and took a step back.

Huang Shenglang panicked and tried to run away, but was punched and knocked to the ground, writhing in pain as he stammered, "Little demon! Help me, little demon!"

The Soul Vessel floated above, occupying the best spot to watch the drama unfold, providing a live broadcast for Jiang Chen, who was thousands of miles away.

"Little Demon! Hurry up and save me... Ugh!" Someone stepped forward and stuffed a rag into his mouth. Huang Shenglang could not make a cry for help and could only struggle to buy some time so that Little Demon could have a chance to escape with him again.

Seeing this, the captain of the guard stepped forward and kicked him hard in the head twice. "Damn it, you're keeping me up in the middle of the night, and you still dare to cause trouble?"

Before he fainted, Huang Shenglang still had many questions lingering in his mind—why didn't Xiao Yao take advantage of the chaos to take him away from the Marshal's Mansion? Even finding a place to hide would have been better, why did he come back here?

Moreover, while he was still half asleep, the little demon seemed to have fed him water or something.

Why does it feel so hot?

Is it because I drank too much demon blood that I'm absorbing so much spiritual energy and I'm about to transform into a demon myself...?

Zhang Xiyue, feeling both frustrated and angry and in excruciating pain, was barely holding on by sheer willpower.

When she saw the familiar, blood-stained face revealed after the black cloth bag was removed, a cold glint flashed in her eyes.

You've tried to kill me time and time again! Even if I die from overeating today, I'll still eat your flesh and drink your blood!

But not for the living. As long as they are still alive, that energy carries unique innate spiritual power, which will directly kill them. It's better to be cautious if you want to survive.

"You...get a clean basin and bleed him," Zhang Xiyue commanded weakly. "Make sure the blood is clean. Two people hold him down to prevent him from struggling and making a mess..."

She had talked a bit too much, so she leaned against the headboard and started panting.

The commander-in-chief has already ordered Huang Shenglang to be executed, and the others are not to be outdone.

Chunhua took a basin for washing vegetables from the small kitchen and placed it on the ground at one end of the bench. The captain of the guard ordered his men to lift the tightly bound prisoner onto the bench and hold him down.

With a swift motion, the throat was slit open, and blood gushed out.

The room was filled with a strong stench of blood after the fighting and bloodshed.

"Heh heh!" Huang Shenglang struggled desperately to shout, but his vocal cords had been severed by a knife, and he could only make strange, leaky sounds.

Apart from the little white cat who timidly hid to one side, everyone else in the room had been on the battlefield and fought through gunfire. They didn't even blink when it came to executing someone. Chunhua and the others were no exception.

Zhang Xiyue even took pleasure in torturing and killing humans, and at this moment she wished she could take his dog's life herself to vent her anger!

After struggling and convulsing for a moment, the second male lead went offline.

Everyone followed the commander's instructions and left the room, closing the door behind them.

The others lined up and left the mansion to continue their guard duty outside the gate, but the four of them—Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter—secretly peered inside through the windows.

"Finally, it's in my hands." Zhang Xiyue smiled coldly, slowly dragging herself off the bed. She scooped a cup of blood from the basin with a teacup and sniffed it carefully. "Hmm, the long-lost scent of flesh and blood. Of course, it's best enjoyed while it's hot!"

The startled fluffy ball paused for a moment, then took out a packet of medicine from her spatial storage and sprinkled a little into the blood while she was closed in a trance.

Jiang Chen: !!!

Xiao Bai, what medicine did you secretly put in? Don't do anything reckless!

However, the next second, Zhang Xiyue, who had not noticed anything amiss and was mentally prepared to potentially explode and die, swallowed a mouthful of blood containing powerful energy and unknown powder.

"Ugh!" Sure enough, the surge of hot blood caused Zhang Xiyue to clutch her neck and kneel on the ground, letting out a painful groan. Then, she gritted her teeth and guided the pure energy to desperately heal her wounds.

The neck, which had been almost torn apart, grew granulation tissue at a visible speed, and after only a few seconds of intertwined healing, only a piece of tender new flesh remained.

The little dumpling took the opportunity to grab two large bags of medicine powder, poured them into the basin and stirred them, then retreated to the back and muttered something under her breath.

After lying on the ground and struggling in pain for a while, Zhang Xiyue finally digested the energy, got up, scooped up another cup, and swallowed it without hesitation.

Struggling in pain yet unwilling to waste her flesh and blood energy, she quickly catalyzed the healing of all her wounds, and without caring about Huang Shenglang's filthy appearance, she began to tear and devour him.

The four people peeking through the window were terrified by this scene, their faces turning pale.

"It really is a man-eating monster, it's terrifying!"

"Her eyes turned red after she ate people!"

"Why don't we run away quickly... That's a man-eating monster! I've never seen one before, and now I've seen it with my own eyes. I'm terrified!"

"Shh! Look at that little monster, something seems off about him."

Chapter Twenty: Having me is your blessing

Zhang Xiyue, whose face was covered in blood from tearing flesh, felt very hot, probably because this body had never tasted flesh before.

She didn't care.

Her mind was a little fuzzy from the shock of consuming too much energy, and she felt incredibly hot all over. She reached out and pulled off the gauze covering her wound, throwing it aside.

"I can finally grow up, hahahaha!" In a frenzied state, Zhang Xiyue laughed loudly with her hands covered in blood, then guided the enormous energy she had refined within her body to fully catalyze her physical form.

The tiny, tender body began to grow at a visible rate.

This scene left not only the four people who were secretly watching in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but also the little white cat and Jiang Chen, who was watching the "live broadcast" from thousands of miles away, a little confused.

Is the female protagonist in the mission world setting really as fragile as an inflated balloon?

As long as there is enough so-called energy, they grow up as soon as they want, like a magic trick, showing no mercy to the biological and physical worlds. Bones and muscles are enlarged proportionally, and even hair grows longer and longer.

As everyone stared in disbelief, Zhang Xiyue's body gradually grew to the size of a seven or eight-year-old before finally stopping.

"No, that's not enough, I have to continue!" She was clearly not satisfied.

The closer the body is to normal, the closer its appetite and capacity will be to its maximum. Once the body has matured, it can slowly consume people to refine more energy to replenish its magic power and repair soul damage!

Having finally gotten a chance to eat fresh meat, she didn't want to waste any more time.

Therefore, even though she was mentally exhausted and her body was numb from refining energy, Zhang Xiyue still wanted to continue eating and growing.

She didn't know how much time had passed. She was so immersed in the cycle of devouring, refining and extracting energy, catalyzing growth and devouring again that she lost all sense of time. By the time she was exhausted and collapsed in a pool of blood, her mental energy was depleted and she was completely worn out. Zhang Xiyue had grown into a young woman of seventeen or eighteen.

She had a slender figure and a charming face. Her long, black, and shiny hair was draped over her body like a lush vine, making it difficult for outsiders to see her clearly.

"Gulp!" Chunhua swallowed and said in a low voice, "No wonder it's a monster, it's grown up so fast, just like a magic trick! And I must say, this little girl is pretty and has a great figure, she's really getting on my nerves."

Dongmei punched him in the back, "Are you fucking tired of living? That's a man-eating monster!"

"You're incredibly audacious to even try to take advantage of a monster! Aren't you afraid she'll bite your neck off and eat you?"

Reality poured cold water on her, and despite her envious gaze, Chunhua gave up the overly risky idea.

When the fluffy dumpling heard them muttering, she immediately became agitated. "What a bunch of idiots! I mixed packet after packet of medicine into it, and you guys act more like bandits, fierce and unreasonable, how about you beat her up?"

Jiang Chen: ? ? ?

How could you, little furball, have such wicked thoughts?

I only used the Horcrux to give her a slow-acting poison to gradually paralyze her body so she couldn't harm anyone. But you poured such a large bag of medicine into her. Aren't you afraid the script team will find out and accuse you of murdering the female lead?

He slumped on the sofa and rubbed his temples with his fingers, feeling a bit of a headache.

The heavy snow has blocked the mountain. Even if many troops shovel snow every day, it will take at least three to five days to get back. Hopefully, everything will be under control in the next few days.

"Ring ring!"

Just as Jiang Chen was about to go to sleep, the phone rang urgently again.

As soon as he picked up the phone, he heard a slightly sorrowful voice on the other end say, "General, Master Lingquan has passed away."

A faint, lingering chime could be heard in the cold wind; it was hard to tell if it was just his imagination. Jiang Chen hung up the phone, sighed, and opened the window to look out at the towering Lingyu Mountain across the street.

The winter night was long. Although the wind and snow had stopped, the sky was overcast with no moonlight or starlight. The whole world was as black as an upside-down bell, pressing all living beings into a heavy unknown.

The inns in the small town naturally couldn't see the Supreme Temple located deep in the top of Misty Mountain. Jiang Chen could only bow in the direction of the Supreme Temple and send off Daoist Ren Lingquan.

Next, we'll see how the new Lingquan Daoist integrates.

He should have already entered the cauldron by now, and when he comes out again, the world will be at peace!

"I hope everything goes well." With a hint of worry, Jiang Chen turned off the light and lay down to sleep.

He didn't sleep well that night. He vaguely felt like he had a long dream, a dream filled with chaos and noise of war and migration. Even when he woke up, he felt dizzy and weak all over.

As usual, I casually picked up the script and glanced at it. I didn't have high hopes, since the script team would have to rack their brains for a couple of days to figure out how to make up for the fact that the second male lead was cut.

To my surprise, the script has already been updated!

Jiang Chen was instantly wide awake and got up to carefully read through the subsequent plot.

The script team's updates were a bit perfunctory; they just brought in a second male lead to fill up the word count for the female lead's romance. Zhang Xiyue's subsequent development is still the same: cannibalism—becoming stronger—leaving the Marshal's Mansion—cannibalism again—returning to her peak—returning to the Marshal's Mansion, using magic to bewitch Xiao Jiangchen into sending troops to deal with the newly appointed, unintegrated Lingquan Daoist.

Perhaps worried that the second male lead would be devoured by the weakened female lead again, this time she was given a handsome, wealthy young man whom she couldn't bring herself to harm.

After escaping from the Marshal's Mansion, Zhang Xiyue went into hiding in Yongning City, hiding by day and going out at night to lure drunk, lone peddlers and women who were secretly soliciting customers in the alleys.

Given that the new government has issued a new decree banning red-light districts, single men who want to drink and get drunk, and prostitutes hiding in secluded alleys, have become the easiest targets to overlook. Even if they disappear, few people will notice or investigate.

The female protagonist heals her soul wounds by constantly luring humans to devour her.

During the process of luring her prey, she accidentally encountered Yang Tianhua, a rich young man who had drunk too much and gone astray. The two, a human and a demon, were brought together by a twist of fate, giving the female lead a classic scene of a domineering CEO falling in love with her.

Under the influence of the second male lead's halo, Zhang Xiyue fell hopelessly in love. So after Xiao Jiangchen captured Lingquan Daoren, she prioritized letting the soul of her beloved Yang Tianhua occupy the immortal body, and the two spent a happy life together.

After Yang Tianhua's soul died, Zhang Xiyue took over and merged with the immortal body to gain eternal life. Using her magic, she rose through the ranks to become the emperor, opened a harem, and enjoyed eternal wealth and glory...

"They cut the Best Supporting Actor's scenes, huh? They didn't even devour me after using me this time. Does this mean the script team compromised with the Best Supporting Actor?" Jiang Chen frowned slightly after reading the new plot. "The Spirit Spring Daoist clearly said that the body can judge for itself whether the soul is pure."

Why was he able to force the corrupted original soul out back then, but later on, he allowed Yang Tianhua and Zhang Xiyue's souls to merge at will?

We can't just use the protagonist's halo to solve all the problems, can we?

He recalled carefully that the Yang family of Yongning City was indeed a prominent family with a strong economic foundation, whose family businesses involved coal mines and factories, and which had even secretly supported the army during the war.