"While I don’t know what happened to them, it looks like they’re aiming for your blood," Yuan said when he noticed that both Lev and Purple were staring daggers at the crimson crystal in his grasp, looking like predators instinctively watching its prey.
"Can demon blood make other demons go crazy?" he then asked.
"Not literally," she shook her head.
"Perhaps it’s because of what you’ve done to it. Anyway, let’s try this..."
Yuan put the crimson crystal into his spatial ring and waited to see the results.
Lev and Purple immediately calmed down, but it took several minutes before they fully returned to their normal self.
"W-What the hell is this?!" Purple exclaimed in shock when she woke up and saw that she was being restrained by Supreme Ruler Dena.
"Kill me if you want because I won’t beg for my life! The Supreme Ruler will definitely avenge me!" she shouted while trying to act tough, but her terrified expression betrayed her.
"Uh... why am I suddenly being choked like this?" Lev asked in a puzzled tone.
Yuan raised an eyebrow and asked them, "You don’t remember what just happened? That both of you tried to steal Dena’s blood from me?"
"What?! I definitely have no recollection of doing anything like that!" Lev immediately replied, sounding genuinely shocked by Yuan’s accusation.
"I remember watching you drink her blood, and the next thing I know, I was being choked by you!"
"The same with me..." Purple muttered.
"I thought you had turned Forsaken for a second and was prepared to kill you, you know?" Yuan lied with a straight face, messing with them.
However, neither of them commented on it, as it was only normal—even the right thing to do when one turns Forsaken.
"Anyway, the two of you should distance yourselves from me for the time being since I will be consuming that blood soon," Yuan said a moment later.
They silently nodded and flew far away, until they were tens of thousands of miles away from Yuan.
Once they were gone, Yuan retrieved the crimson crystal again and quickly consumed it.
<You have consumed Supreme Ruler Dena’s Refined Life Essence>
’Refined Life Essence...?’
Yuan wondered how it differed from Blood Essence, but before he could dwell on the thought, a sudden sensation washed over him, forcing him to clear his mind and focus on it instead.
A sharp, searing pain erupted in his chest, as though a blade were being driven into his heart again and again. With each passing second, the agony only intensified, and the pain focused in a single point, magnifying the torment severalfold.
Supreme Ruler Dena noticed the agony contorting Yuan’s face and swallowed nervously. If he were to die from consuming her blood... she had no idea how she would respond.

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