It doesn't matter what the lord is.

"I also know that maybe you are lucky enough to think that I will never kill you, so you can get away with a beating -"

Having said that, Shetong stopped and said with a sneer:

"Then you are wrong. I gave you a chance, so I suppressed your realm by five levels. But after this, I will not hold back. If you die, there is no need to continue this business. I will immediately raze Yuxi City to the ground, send Filita to Shemi and torture her to death, and then send the demons to keep an eye on the land where the King of the North, Huxiao, borders humans. Once any suspicious humans are found, they will be killed on the spot."

There was not the slightest disorder in Reed's aura. Snake Eyes tried to sense the movement of his aura but frowned slightly.

It found that although both of them had reached the ninth level of perfection, Lid's cultivation suddenly became blurred in its eyes.

When it was looking down from above, it clearly felt that Li De's realm was only a hair's breadth away from the tenth level, so it must be the ninth level of perfection. But when it lowered its own realm to this level, it found that it instantly lost the ability to judge Li De's realm. That human was like a stone standing there, unable to read or see through.

No wonder he was able to assassinate so many East District Demon rookies. If he really wanted to hide his aura, those young rookies would definitely not notice anything.

Snake Eyes slightly recognized Lid's ability in his heart, but only a little. Although there are not many methods that can hide one's realm, it has seen some. Several years ago, it encountered an assassination attempt by a human magician at the border between humans and demons. The magician used his expert illusion to directly deceive its perception.

But no matter how hard he tried to hide his state, it was useless. Now Lid was here, standing in front of it. Lid had no choice but to take its attack head-on, and in a head-on confrontation, Snake Eyes had an absolute chance of winning.

So Snake Eye looked into Lid's eyes, not understanding why Lid still dared to look at it with such a cold look. This look made Snake Eye feel unhappy, so it said coldly:

"are you ready?"

Reed didn't say anything, because speaking would mean his breathing might become disordered.

He simply nodded almost imperceptibly.

So in the next moment, the snake pupil disappeared from his sight.

In a very short time, Snake Eyes appeared in the blind spot of Lid's vision, just below the right front of his body, as if teleporting. This process was only a short moment for Lid, but for Snake Eyes, every reaction of Lid was clearly seen.

It is as if the time of all external objects, including Reed, has stopped, and only it can move freely and calmly.

At this moment, Lid's sight was still focused on the place where Snake Eyes had originally stood, but there was only fog there now, and the black fog was so short that there was no time for it to surge.

Looking at Reed's still indifferent eyes that could only stare at the air in vain, a trace of disdain welled up in Shetong's heart.

This is human beings, humans who are only capable of impotent rage!

How many people looked at it with such eyes in Yuxi City back then, and what was the result? Snake Eyes let his subordinates play with their wives and daughters in front of them, and kill their offspring, watching the anger in their eyes gradually turn into despair, then into sadness, and finally into shameless pleas for mercy.

There were also those who did not beg for mercy, and the eyes of those people were fixed on the stage of despair or sadness.

Snake Tong clenched his fist, looked at Lid who hadn't reacted at all, and decided to punch him in the left cheek, first to break the lips and teeth of this sharp-tongued mouth. Lid had no defense at all, or even if he did, it would be useless. With the absolute speed advantage, no matter what kind of defense Lid put on, Snake Tong could play with him like prey by hitting other vital parts. Eyes, ears, lips, tongue, heart, lower abdomen, **, there are countless vulnerable parts of human beings, how can two hands defend them all.

This punch came whistling along with a fierce wind.

Snake pupil watched his fist hitting Lid's cheek little by little. Of course, this was just a picture slowed down countless times in his vision. In fact, in just a moment, his fist was at Lid's face, less than an inch away, and he was about to blast this daring human boy away.

Then, Shetong suddenly found that his eyes went dark.

It was a feeling of having one's vision taken away in an instant, just like when a candle in a secret room is suddenly blown out and darkness suddenly arrives.

But there is light coming in from everywhere in the hall, so how can we take away the light?

So Snake Eye reacted instantly.

It was not that the light outside suddenly disappeared, but that its eyes were covered by something at this moment.

When it found its body beginning to fall backwards uncontrollably, Snake Eye finally understood what it was.

It's a fist.

A fist that made your cheek concave!

Although Snake Eyes looks very similar to humans, it also retains some snake features and has a small head. The punch covered its eyes, nose, and teeth.

The pain didn't have time to reach its brain, and its mind was blank at this moment.

Before countless doubts emerged, its mind was completely blank. That was the instinctive reaction of all creatures when an extremely unexpected situation occurred.

Common name: confused circle.

After all, the scene at the moment is like a ball of water vapor that bounces off an equal volume of water, a rooster with its head held high presses an eagle to the ground with one claw, a ping-pong ball as light as a feather directly knocks the compressed basketball away, a mysterious elementary school student jumps on the spot, blocks the shot of Jordan in an incredible way, and gets the ball first to perform a slam dunk.

And the next moment after the snake pupil reacted, what came to its mind was not the perception of pain.

But the perception of murderous intent has a higher priority.

At that moment, it seemed to hear Reed's emotionless voice.

——I am not optimistic, nor am I certain that you dare not kill me.

——I just thought that since you took the initiative to lower your realm to the ninth level of perfection, I might as well take this opportunity to kill you.

68. Life and death hang on a thread

Snake Eyes only felt his body falling backwards uncontrollably. After escaping from Lid's fist, he finally regained some light in front of his eyes. However, the surrounding scenery was very blurry, and he couldn't tell where the ceiling was and where the ground was. He could only vaguely see the boy who had taken a step forward without knowing when, still maintaining the posture of a hook punch.

It could see a few drops of blood floating in the air in front of it. They should have flowed out of its nostrils and had not yet had time to fall. It could also feel the strong smell of blood in its mouth. It had often tasted this taste before, but this time its mouth was filled with its own blood.

Shetong's back hit the ground heavily, his head smashed the floor tiles of the hall, his feet bounced up first, and his whole body flew backwards in circles like a broken sack.

After enduring such an attack, Shetong could no longer suppress his own realm. The power around him was like a spring that had been pressed for a long time and suddenly released, instantly exploding a circular wave of air. A huge magic circle appeared behind it, and the black mist condensed into sharp needles, covering Lid like a violent storm.

"Oops."

By the time Snake Eyes realized that if they didn't control themselves, they would unconsciously kill the human, it was already too late. These needles condensed from the black mist did not come from a demon who had reached the ninth level of perfection, but were scattered during the process of Snake Eyes' rapid recovery of strength. Snake Eyes didn't know what realm it was in at that moment, but it was certain that these things were like the Judge's death warrant for Lid, and would take him straight to the eighteenth level of hell.

The sound of the sharp weapon entering the flesh could be clearly heard, like a needle puncturing a balloon.

After rolling several times, Snake Eye stabilized its body. It did not wipe the blood off its face, because its strength had once again overflowed to the fourteenth major perfection, and the injury had healed instantly. Its distorted facial features had been reorganized and returned to their original appearance, but the blood remaining in its nostrils and mouth was still reminding it that it had just been severely punched by the human in front of it.

absurd.

As absurd as a dream.

Snake pupil wiped his mouth with his hand, and the palm of his hand was red. Snake pupil had not seen what his own blood looked like for many years, and his eyes were a little dazed. It took him a few seconds to suddenly remember that he should check on Lid's condition, and then he moved his eyes away from his palm and looked forward.

The scene was in a mess.

Afterwards, Snake Eyes saw Reed among countless large and small pits.

There were nearly ten black thorns made of magic stuck all over his body, each as thick as a forearm. At this moment, he looked like a frightened hedgehog. Blood flowed down his body to the ground, dyeing the bricks around him scarlet. With just one glance, Snake Eyes knew that although Lid was alive, it was impossible to predict how long he could live. He might fall down in the next moment, or it might take several minutes for him to die.

Then, Snake Eyes saw Lid calmly stretch out his only movable right hand, grab the black thorn that pierced his left shoulder, pull it out with force, and throw it on the ground. The blood that was originally just flowing slowly suddenly became a violent spurt.

Lid pulled out the thorns in his body one by one. When each thorn left his body, a hole would be formed in his body. It took two or three seconds for the flesh to stretch and the blood to spurt out to plug the hole. He kept pulling out the thorns in his body. Every time he pulled out a thorn, his injury became more serious. But without the thorns in his way, his body regained some flexibility.

From beginning to end, he did not even groan in pain, as if he was a person who could not feel pain at all. But the snake pupil could clearly see the cold sweat on his face, which washed away the blood and left streaks of sweat.

When the last thorn fell, Lid raised his head, looked at Snake Eyes with a smile, and said:

"Do you want to continue?"

Those five short words were like a huge hammer hitting Snake Tong's heart.

It became furious and roared:

"Just now, you clearly used the tenth level of strength to kill me!"

"I haven't reached the tenth level yet. The King of the East should know this better than me."

Reed answered in a neither humble nor arrogant manner, which immediately choked Shetong speechless.

Indeed, it has now recovered to the state of fourteenth major perfection, and naturally it can be seen that Lid is still a step away from the tenth level. But where in the world is there such a nine-level perfection? The punch just now was not only incredibly fast, but it was not a simple boxing technique at all. This punch was like a knife, a gun, a sword, a halberd, a whip, an axe, even like a bow and arrow, a flying knife, and many weapons that Snake Eyes had never heard of. Moreover, for example, the knife intent contained in it, Snake Eyes couldn't tell which knife technique it was, or hundreds of knife techniques were integrated together, and there was no way to distinguish them, and naturally there was no way to find a way to crack it. Countless means of killing gathered together and turned into an ordinary punch. Even Snake Eyes, who had been perfected by fourteen majors, could not cope with it at all and was blown away in an instant.

The snake's pupil stared at Reed's eyes, and Reed looked back at it without flinching.

This one punch couldn't get rid of all his anger. If possible, he would like another punch.

Aren't there two more chances? She Tong's three moves only made it through one.

Just when the atmosphere was tense, Shetong suddenly lowered his head, spat out the blood in his mouth, and after his shoulders twitched a few times, he raised his head and burst into laughter:

"You are very good, so you are qualified to cooperate with me!"

The look it gave Reed was less murderous and more fanatical.

Lid also loosened his clenched fists, his muscles were no longer tense, and although the blood was still flowing, the flow rate was slower than before. He knew that this sentence meant that She Tong truly recognized him, and it also meant that he had no chance to throw those two punches. So he felt a little regretful, but he also knew that even if he tried again, he still couldn't kill She Tong, who had suppressed his realm. After all, he couldn't completely destroy She Tong's head in an instant. As long as he gave She Tong a little bit of time, the King of the East could instantly recover to the realm of the fourteenth major perfection. This was cheating.

After a brief confrontation, both sides returned to the path of [trading].

Because of the excessive blood loss, Lid's eyes were blurry for a while, but he forced himself to ask:

"What about the elves?"

Snake pupil replied indifferently:

"Why should I care about their attitude? They are a bunch of idiots. Do you think they dare to trouble me for a princess? Don't worry. I will allow you to tell me the details of the transaction."

After taking a few breaths, Lid offered a series of conditions. After repeated discussions with Shetong, these unilateral conditions turned into a series of transaction terms that both parties agreed to.

"The King of the East has opened up 600 miles of land in the Demon Clan's Eastern District, specifically for growing crops."

"Depending on the type of crops and the environment, crops can be harvested two to three times a year, but all output is divided equally between the Demon Clan East District and Yuxi City."

"Before the first crop matures, the King of the East will purchase sufficient seeds and anti-magic drugs from Yuxi City. After that, Yuxi City will only provide anti-magic drugs every month, and the King of the East must keep enough seeds from his own harvest for the next planting."

"After the seeds are planted, all care will be taken care of by the lower demons under the King of the East. Yuxi City will send some farmers to provide guidance, and the King of the East may not harm or detain these farmers for any reason."

"Yuxi City is no longer allowed to sell anti-magic drugs to other demon kings and the demons under their rule in any form."

"The King of the East shall no longer wage any form of war against Yuxi City for any reason."

"Regarding the revenge and temptations of the other three demon kings, the King of the East needs to deal with them alone, and they must not affect Yuxi City. The attitude towards the elves needs to be decided by Yuxi City and the Demon East District after consultation."

"The King of the East is no longer pursuing Delis's whereabouts."

"If any demons from the Demon East District join Yuxi City, the King of the East shall not stop them, or secretly retaliate afterwards. However, Yuxi City shall not accept demon generals above the tenth level from the Demon East District."

"From now on, if humans appear in the East District and do not actively harm the demons or conduct intelligence gathering or other illegal activities, the East District demons are not allowed to harm them."

"The King of the East must appoint a demon general to report to Yuxi City every month on the latest intelligence about the three demon kings of the West, North, and South and their followers."

After the last discussion, Reed breathed a sigh of relief.

He argued with the King of the East about some of the points. Both sides made some concessions. Take the first point for example. Six hundred miles of land is actually equivalent to half of Yunyang. It is already quite large for Lid, but not large enough for the King of the East. Unfortunately, with the current capacity of Yuxi City to produce anti-magic drugs, six hundred miles is already the limit. If there are more, the anti-magic drugs cannot be supplied, and the crops will hardly survive to the day of maturity. So Lid could only promise that with the development of Yuxi City, he could give the King of the East more anti-magic drugs, and only then did the King of the East agree.

Another example is the rule that "the demons of the East District shall not launch any form of war against Yuxi City". In fact, Lid wanted to say that they should not attack human territory at the beginning. But the King of the East refused to agree no matter what, so Lid had to compromise. The three territories in the north of Yunyang, including Zhaochen, still border the Demons' East District. Lid only helped them fight for peace from the perspective of a fellow tribe. If they couldn't fight for it, they could only rely on their own efforts. Anyway, if the King of the East really took people there to collect money, Tiance Mansion would not ignore it.

After all, among humans, the only ones who were isolated and helpless when attacked by alien invaders were him and his Yuxi City.

After confirming in his mind that nothing was wrong, Lid pressed his hands on his temples, feeling his body getting colder and colder. He forced his eyes open, but his vision became increasingly blurred, and the sound of blood dripping on the ground became increasingly distant. After struggling for several times, he finally fell heavily to the ground, falling into a pool of his own blood.

"Filita...treatment..."

Reed managed to utter a few words and then fainted.

Fileta hurriedly got up from the ground holding the staff and trotted towards Lid. When she was about to reach him, she was stopped by a tall figure.

Snake Eyes turned her back to Fileta and simply raised her hand, and the black mist turned into chains that bound her up, making her unable to move.

Then, Snake Eyes quietly looked at Lid who was lying on the ground, his eyes were cold, and he neither treated him nor killed him immediately. Instead, he just stood in front of Lid who was covered in wounds, watching his vitality drain away bit by bit, watching him walk towards death step by step, squinting his eyes, and no one knew what he was thinking.

69. Eyes that examine everything

In fact, the reason why Snake Eye hesitated in the end was very simple. First, Lid actually had the courage to punch it, and second, Lid actually punched him in the face.

The deal between the two parties was actually based on mutual threats. If Snake Eyes broke the deal, Lid could destroy the anti-magic medicine and sell it to other kings, making it impossible for Snake Eyes to become a demon king and even endanger his life.

The method Snake Eyes uses to threaten Reed is very simple, which is pure strength, crushing strength, and almost invincible strength.

But now, there is a very serious problem. When both were at the ninth level, Lide punched it and sent it flying. Does this also mean that once Lide reaches the tenth level, it will completely lose the means to check and balance Lide? After all, there is a national defense formation on the human side, and Snake Eyes will be suppressed to the tenth level when it arrives in Yuxi City. If that day really comes, and both are at the tenth level, can it beat Lide? Will it be inexplicably beaten and sent flying again like before?

In the recent confrontation, Shetong, as both the person involved and the victim, was very clear about one thing.

If it hadn't recovered to its original state instantly, Reed's punch might have really killed it!

And the most important thing is that killing She Tong seems to have no effect on Lid. Once She Tong dies, the East District Demon Clan will inevitably be in turmoil. The demon generals will first fight each other, and then elect a new King of the East. No matter who sits in this position in the end, the strength of the East District will inevitably be greatly reduced. The new King of the East will only rely more on the anti-magic medicine in Lid's hand, and Lid's deal can be carried out as usual.

And its snake pupil almost became an insignificant victim because of its momentary carelessness!

So when he looked at Lid again, there was no more enthusiasm or appreciation in Snake Eyes, but only a kind of scrutiny.

It still wants to continue doing business with Lid, so it has no intention of killing this little guy from Yuxi City.

However, it cannot allow Reed to grow at the original speed, at least it cannot allow him to easily enter the tenth level.

Therefore, Shetong planned to let Lid continue to bleed until his life was completely in danger, and then save him. This would allow him to survive, but his scarred body would miss the best time for medical treatment, which would inevitably leave serious sequelae, causing his realm to plummet, and even turn him into a disabled person.

That's it, the reason to stop Fileta.

……

What Snake Eyes was thinking about was also what Reed thought of the moment he fell down.