Chapter 2

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Zhang Dongyun’s words stunned everyone.

That young man was taken back. “Fellow… brother, what do you mean by that?”

Without needing Zhang Dongyun’s explanation, the one-eyed young man at the side suddenly made a move.

He pressed the young man against the ground.

“This senior said that you were lying just now,” the one-eyed young man said coldly. “I don’t know what flaw he saw in you, but I know that your breathing and heartbeat were normal at first. But then you panicked when you heard him say that.”

The young man shuddered all over as he replied in a trembling voice, “Senior Brother, I’m wronged… Save me, Senior Brother Cao!”

The tall man looked solemn but did not utter a word. Instead, he looked around.

When he found no enemies nearby, he looked at the one-eyed young man. “Could it be a mistake?”

“Let’s see if the food and water are okay.”

The one-eyed young man dragged that young man deep into the forest.

Not long after, he returned.

“Something’s wrong with this guy. The food and water have been drugged.”

The tall man’s expression changed, and he grabbed that young man. “You ungrateful thing!”

The young man flushed red, and his expression turned fierce. “I just want to kill you, you bastard!”

The one-eyed young man said, “The drug is a secret concoction from the Mountain Tiger Hall. They’re probably ambushing nearby and waiting for the drug to kick in before killing us and benefiting from it.”

The tall man sneered. “Then we’ll wait for them and see who’s the hunter and who’s the prey!”

Under his orders, the Cold Mountain Sect disciples ambushed in the forest.

Zhang Dongyun was unconcerned regarding this.

However, someone clearly did not forget him.

The one-eyed young man followed by his side.

“That guy just now was full of lies, yet his heart wasn’t even pounding. Without your discerning eyes to point it out, we really wouldn’t have found anything wrong with him at all.”

Zhang Dongyun only smiled faintly and did not say a word.

It was true that there were no flaws on the young man’s face just now, and he did not even blush nor did his heart pound when he made up the lie.

However, Zhang Dongyun realized that his eyes darted slightly upward and then to the right as he was replying to the question.

This seemed fine to someone from this world.

But Zhang Dongyun suddenly recalled a theory he had read when he was surfing the internet on the Blue Planet before he transmigrated.

In a nutshell, when someone recalled something real, their eyes would look up and then to the left.

If they tried to make up an image, their eyeballs would move just the opposite when telling a lie—looking up first and then to the right.

To find out whether a person was lying or not, you could try to ask them about details they had to recall to remember while observing their eyes.

If this person being tested understood this theory and was prepared for it, they might be able to fake it by deliberately controlling their movements.

However, the young man just now clearly did not know this.

The one-eyed young man did not understand either.

Zhang Dongyun had exposed the young man just now, which caused various thoughts to arise in the minds of the Cold Mountain Sect disciples.

Even the tall man surnamed Cao had curbed his arrogance and did not dare to disrespect Zhang Dongyun on the surface.

He looked uneasy and would secretly size up Zhang Dongyun from time to time.

When Zhang Dongyun looked over, the tall man, who was normally fierce, would avoid his gaze and feel slightly guilty.

On the other hand, the Cold Mountain Sect disciples mainly focused on their enemy, the Mountain Tiger Hall.

After ambushing for a while, another group of people secretly approached.

The Cold Mountain Sect eventually caught them off guard.

As the two sides fought, Zhang Dongyun was thinking about whether to take the chance to escape or to continue fooling the disciples of the Cold Mountain Sect.

At that moment, a fat figure suddenly appeared within his sight.

Before he could see what the other person looked like, that person reached out and grabbed him.

Then Zhang Dongyun’s ears and mouth were full of wind.

Within his line of sight, he could see those fighting in the battle from the two sects rapidly growing smaller.

The shouts and curses all went away.

Zhang Dongyun found that someone had grabbed him and was flying through the dense forest.

He tried his best to turn his head and saw that the other party was a tall, fat man with an expressionless face.

Neither Zhang Dongyun’s own memories nor Evil Emperor Ming Tonghui’s memories contained this person.

“Your Majesty!” A voice suddenly came, but it was not from the fatty.

Zhang Dongyun searched for it before discovering that the voice was coming from the other party’s finger.

It was a silver metal ring that flashed with a dark-red flare, as though a ferocious beast had opened its eyes.

But the voice sounded very flattering.

“Please forgive me, Your Majesty. I will settle scores with those treacherous bandits. Their deaths will not be enough for disturbing you.”

Zhang Dongyun had inherited the memories of his body’s original owner, so he knew what this ring was.

An old demon who had entered the White Cloud Abyss, met the Evil Emperor, and surrendered to him was sealed in this Blood Demon Ring.

The other party was terrified because the Evil Emperor had ordered this old demon to guard the spirit jade fetus while he was trying to refine the immortal ruins’ core.

Due to its negligence, the old demon in the Blood Demon Ring had allowed the disciples of the Cold Mountain Sect to take away the spirit jade fetus.

While sealed in the Blood Demon Ring, it possessed and controlled the fatty to chase after them with the help of the ring before finally snatching back the spirit jade fetus that was the new body reincarnated by the Evil Emperor.

Although the old demon had snatched it back, it was panic-stricken, as it feared the Evil Emperor’s punishment.

Zhang Dongyun looked at the ring expressionlessly.

He was actually perturbed as well.

When the Cold Mountain Sect disciples had taken him away, he was thinking of a way to get out of the situation and had not considered the Blood Demon Ring.

If the Evil Emperor were alive, the old demon would be willing to serve him loyally.

Even if he were to reincarnate, the Evil Emperor had left behind a restriction on the Blood Demon Ring that could handle the old demon inside it.

But since the Evil Emperor’s remnant soul had vanished, the restriction on the Blood Demon Ring did so as well.

Although Zhang Dongyun had inherited the Evil Emperor’s memories, he could not make the restriction reappear.

Right now, this new body transformed by the spirit jade fetus had unlimited potential, but it was currently a blank slate and no different from an ordinary person’s. How could it fight against the old demon in the Blood Demon Ring?

Once the other party sensed this, it would become the master instead.

As time went on, the old demon in the ring gradually sensed something amiss.

“That immortal ruins is really powerful. Please relax and be at ease, Your Majesty.” Between the flashes of bloody glow, a seemingly respectful voice came from the ring.

The old demon sensed that the restriction had disappeared.

It did not know that the Evil Emperor’s remnant soul had vanished and that Zhang Dongyun had replaced him inside this body.

However, it knew the immortal ruins was powerful and hard to refine, so it was normal for something to have gone wrong.

It was normal for the Evil Emperor to pay a higher price than expected for his failure.

After being trapped in the ring for so many years, it had hopes of regaining its freedom.

It might even be able to seek revenge…

The fatty placed Zhang Dongyun down.

The Blood Demon Ring trembled slightly as a red glow flashed, and a faint blood mist gushed out.

Due to the former master’s accumulated prestige, the Blood Demon Ring did not make the first move.

However, Zhang Dongyun clearly saw the blood-red mist flowing out of the ring becoming increasingly thicker.

The other party seemed to be further perceiving his physical state.

The clearer it understood, the more restless it became.

Zhang Dongyun could even smell the fishy stench of blood.

He was out of the frying pan into the fire.

If I had known earlier, it would have been slightly better for those people to take me away… Zhang Dongyun sighed.

He secretly told himself to stay calm before he combed through the memories left behind by his body’s original owner and sought a way out.

At this moment, a sound echoed in his mind.

[The Impenetrable Fortress System activated.]

[System binding…]