When Lev refused to calm down even after his movements were restricted by the Demon Sealing Zone, Yuan realized he had no choice but to take more drastic measures.
Without hesitation, he summoned the Swords of Eternal Torment and impaled Lev with a single blade, unleashing intense agony upon him like brutal shock therapy.
"Ah! I’m dying!" Lev screamed after experiencing physical pain for the first time.
However, as the agony persisted and he realized that he wasn’t actually dying, he slowly turned toward Yuan and begged, "P-Please..."
Yuan deactivated the techniques and asked, "Have you finally calmed down a little?"
Lev nodded, but when his gaze noticed Supreme Ruler Dena again, his body started to tremble uncontrollably.
"I-I’m sorry... I don’t know what’s happening to my body... It’s not listening to me..." Lev said as he struggled to stop himself from running away again.
Yuan glanced at Supreme Ruler Dena and sighed. "I completely forgot that your presence can terrorize others. Can you do something about it like before?"
"What a pain in the ass," she muttered before suppressing her presence.
However, even after Supreme Ruler Dena suppressed all of her presence, the aura naturally emitted by her soul could not be completely concealed, not to mention her naturally cold gaze.
Although he no longer felt the overwhelming urge to flee, Lev’s body continued to tremble slightly.
"You’ll get used to it," Yuan said to him.
Lev nodded and quickly bowed to Supreme Ruler Dena. "I-I apologize for my earlier reaction. It was disrespectful of me. This lowly subject greets the Supreme Ruler."
"..."
Supreme Ruler Dena remained silent, not even bothering to acknowledge his greeting.
Lev didn’t mind in the slightest.
Genuinely.
In the Demonic Realm, the Supreme Rulers stood above all, and they rarely spared even a glance at those beneath them. For her to simply look in his direction without turning away was already an immense honor.
Of course, Yuan also knew of this, so he didn’t mention it.
"Lev, where’s Duck?" Yuan asked a moment later.
"Oh... he left shortly after he could no longer see you, saying that it would only be a waste of time to wait for your return," Lev sighed.
"Well, I can’t blame him for that," Yuan said with a slight chuckle. "Then why did you stay?"
Lev scratched the back of his head awkwardly. "To be frank with you, I would’ve left if I could. But with my cultivation, there’s no way I’d make it back alone. So my only options were to wait for your return... or wait for death to come for me here."
"Sorry..." Yuan couldn’t help but pity Lev.
"You have no reason to apologize. I was the one who decided to follow you here while knowing full well that I would probably never return alive."
Yuan then said to Supreme Ruler Dena, "He’s going to leave the Deprived Crimson Valley with us."
In response, she gave a simple head nod.

It was, without question, the perfect barrier.
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