He pointed his left index finger below Jin Xinyue's left shoulder softly. A stream of spiritual energy cut open her skin and flesh, retrieving a drop of blood from her heart.
The translucent blood rolled on his fingertip and soon leaked into Li Yao's body.
Li Yao narrowed his eyes. His soul invaded the drop of demon blood and magnified the structure of the blood while he observed and analyzed it wholeheartedly.
Deep inside Li Yao's brain, a 3D hologram was gradually formed. His soul and the mental devil were studying it together.
At first glance, Jin Xinyue's blood was not much different from that of other demons. After it was magnified, it looked like a translucent, reddish ocean that was packed with countless jellyfish-like cells.
Most of the cells, such as the red blood cells and the white blood cells, were the same as those of human beings.
But some of the cells had blurred edges, like a drop of ink on a piece of paper. They were in a halo state and extended countless flagella in all directions.
Those cells were obviously more active than normal cells. They were running and jumping without any pattern. Some of them even grabbed a normal cell with their flagella and swallowed it. A moment later, they split into two or even four new active cells.
They were the demonized cells that were formed after being infected by the Demon God Virus. They were the greatest difference between demons and human beings.
As an animal, human beings boasted a stable membrane outside of their cells for the exchange of energy and materials.
After they were infected by the Demon God Virus, the cell membranes of normal cells would mutate. They would become fuzzy and active, and their invasiveness and ability to divide would be greatly improved. Hundreds of flagella would also evolve, helping them to absorb more materials.
It was with the help of the unbelievable demonized cells that the demons were able to trigger the most powerful techniques with their fleshly body and even compete with the Crystal Suit and crystal warships of human beings.
When Li Yao first arrived at the Dry Leaf Village, he had secretly collected the blood of a lot of villagers for studies. Therefore, he had a preliminary understanding about the various kinds of demonized cells.
"Huh. What's this? "
Li Yao secretly frowned. He discovered that a substance that he had never seen before had appeared in Jin Xinyue's blood. It looked like green particles. It dashed into the demonized cells at an extremely fast speed.
In the blink of an eye, Jin Xinyue's demonized cells shriveled. The flagella around fell off one after another, and the clear cell membranes appeared again.
The diameter of these particles was very small. It was only about a few ten thousandths of normal demonized cells, and had reached the level of a virus.
"Could it be a brand new virus?"
Li Yao commanded the mental devil to retrieve two cells from Jin Xinyue. One of them was a normal demonized cell, and the other was a demonized cell that had been infected by the green virus.
Other than the flagella on the cell membrane, the biggest difference between the demonized cells and the normal cells was the form and distribution of the mitochondria.
Mitochondria were the unit of energy production in cells. They were also known as the power source of cells. The structure and energy conversion efficiency of mitochondria directly determined the strength of a powerhouse.
The mitochondria of Cultivators. They were often more than a hundred times larger than that of ordinary people, and there were more of them inside the cells. Therefore, they could unleash unparalleled energy instantly or absorb the energy of lightning directly without suffering any damage.
The mitochondria of the demon race walked on a different path. Other than their enormous size, the surface of the mitochondria was full of bumps and hollows, as if it were a brain.
As a result, the area of the mitochondria after they were unfolded would be dozens of times larger than that of normal mitochondria. The efficiency of energy generation would be higher, and the demon race would be able to create the ever-changing, mysterious' demonized spiritual energy 'with the mutated mitochondria.
Under Li Yao's observation … In Jin Xinyue's first demonized cell, the mitochondria were indeed full of bumps and hollows.
But in the other demonized cell that had been infected by the green virus, the hollows of the mitochondria had been filled up weirdly!
The surface of the mitochondria was very smooth, and the cell membrane outside was clear, too. Not a single flagella could be seen. After the demonized cell was infected by the green virus, it was no different from the cells of a human being!
Right then, countless green particles spurted out from the depths of the infected cell. They penetrated the cell membrane easily and spread out in all directions.
In the beginning, there was only one green particle, but in only a few minutes, there were hundreds of them.
Very soon, more and more green particles appeared, transforming most of Jin Xinyue's demonized cells into normal cells.
Five minutes later, the drop of blood collected from the saintess of the demon race was no different from the blood of a normal human being.
"This — this is …"
Li Yao was dumbfounded. He vaguely felt that he had made an astounding discovery.
He looked at Jin Xinyue. She had finally calmed down after struggling in pain for a few hours. However, most of her long wings had been retracted. Looking from the side, she looked exactly like a normal human girl!
Li Yao swallowed hard and collected another few drops of blood from her body for analysis.
This time, all the demonized cells inside her blood were gone. She was a complete human being!
"So, the weird green virus can turn demons into human beings?"
Li Yao felt that his teeth were aching.
High-level demons boasted the ability of 'shapeshifting'. They could hide their features and pretend to be human beings.
But it was just a change in appearance. A lot of demonized cells still existed inside their bodies.
In the Tian Yuan Realm, it was through multiple tests on blood, hair, and excrement that the existence of the demonized cells could be detected. It had been a well-tested approach to find out the spies of the demon race.
But right now, a demon had turned into a human being from head to toe and inside to outside right in front of Li Yao!
How could he not be horrified?!
Li Yao was still not sure whether or not the change was reversible. Would she turn back into a demon after a while, or would she be a human being forever?
In any case, the elder of the Blade of Chaos was not wrong. The secret treasure could indeed change the future of the Blood Demon Sector and the Tian Yuan Realm!
What if countless experts of the Blood Demon Sector had disguised themselves as human beings in such a way and lurked in the Tian Yuan Realm?
Or rather, could they have done so a long time ago and lurked in the Heaven's Origin Sector twenty years ago to live, study, and work as normal human beings, and even climb to the high positions of the Star Glory Federation one step after another?
Demons have the ability of shapeshifting in the first place. If even their cells are exactly the same as human beings, what is the difference between human beings and demons?
Who is a human being and who is a demon? What is a human being and what is a demon?
Watching the last feather on Jin Xinyue's body slowly fading away, Li Yao was deep in thought.
…
Perhaps it was because turning into a human being was too exhausting for her soul and her mental strength, Jin Xinyue did not wake up until three hours later.
The excruciating pain deep inside her bones and the weird feeling when her back touched the ground immediately made her realize that she was not in a good situation. But when she summoned her soul and summoned her demonic energy, she felt that her body was empty, as if all her strength had been confined, and she could not summon any of it at all.
Jin Xinyue immediately recalled that she had seen the dreadful eye before she passed out.
She shuddered coldly.
It was the only meaningless action that she allowed herself to make.
As a saintess who had received harsh training in the Pantheon of Demons since childhood, Jin Xinyue did not waste half a second on useless fear and complaint. She immediately began to think of a way to escape and turn the tables.
Since she had not been killed by the enemy yet, there was still a chance.
Jin Xinyue stood straight and observed her surroundings calmly.
It was a shabby cave. The sound of rushing water could be heard from outside, indicating that the cave was hidden behind a waterfall.
A pile of dry twigs was scattered on the ground. More than ten holes seemed to have been dug out on the walls of the cave, where some shabby tools were stored.
The tools made Jin Xinyue's pupils constrict violently, and she almost exclaimed aloud.
"The fangs of the Purple Jade Phantom Spider!
"The tail of the Purple Cloud Mystic Lightning Bird!
"The spine of the Desert Wolf!"
Jin Xinyue felt that her blood was freezing. Of the dozens of tools, she only recognized three of them. However, they were all invaluable treasures from ancient demon beasts thirty to forty thousand years ago.
Even though her father was one of the twelve demon emperors and the retired emperor of the Gold Crow Kingdom, he did not have many of them in his collection. She had only seen similar pictures of such ancient demon beasts in the classics that her father had collected.
As for the remnants of the demon beasts and the scraps of ancient magical equipment, although she could not tell the specific background of the items, the rusticity of the items suggested that one could not have picked them up without thirty to forty thousand years of hard work.
"There are so many treasures here. Any one of them would cause a commotion in an auction outside. Yet, this mysterious person treated them like scrap metal and stuffed them here?"
"He is so strong, but he is lurking in a remote mountain village, and he is not interested in the remnants of demon beasts and the scraps of ancient magical equipment from thirty to forty thousand years ago … Who is he exactly?"
Holding back the pain, Jin Xinyue took a deep breath and sorted through her messy thoughts.
The real purpose of her hunt for the remnants of the Blade of Chaos was a top secret. Other than Elder Nether Spring, there should not be a third force that knew about it.
The mysterious demon could not be a member of the Blade of Chaos, either. Otherwise, he would have had plenty of time to take the items away before she arrived.
He was not the Blade of Chaos, not Elder Nether Spring, and certainly not her father's subordinates. But why had he been hiding in the mountain village half a month in advance?
Had she been wrong about everything? Did the guy have nothing to do with the issue and was just a coincidence?
Right then, the sound of water outside of the cave changed. A tall, slim shadow moved toward her unhurriedly.
Jin Xinyue's heart palpitated. She did not want to face the weird bloody eye anymore, but since the guy was standing right in front of her, she could only grit her teeth and raise her head.
Thankfully, the guy's left eye and left arm had been covered by bandages again.
But the more they were covered, the more Jin Xinyue could not help but imagine how terrifying and mysterious the bloody left eye below the bandages was!
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