【It turned out that the more a person possessed, the more they feared death.】

【That was exactly the state Bai Qingsong was in now.】

【As long as Ye Yu did not return, he was the supreme ruler of the Demon Race, an emperor among emperors.】

【But the moment Ye Yu appeared, two of those "emperor" titles disappeared, and he became the lowest of the low.】

【To continue living comfortably and enjoying life, Bai Qingsong was willing to treat Ye Yu like an ancestor and serve him faithfully. Once Ye Yu left, he could go right back to ruling the Demon Race.】

【It was already clear that the ugly Du Shuang had left this esteemed ancestor thoroughly dissatisfied.】

【So Bai Qingsong immediately promised that even if he had to search every corner of the Demon Race, he would find a perfect demoness to cheer the ancestor up.】

【Ye Yu had little interest in that.】

【First, he had never lacked companions. Second, a man should ultimately put his career first.】

【So ascending to the God Realm and breaking through to higher realms was his true goal.】

【As for some random demoness, it hardly mattered.】

【But Bai Qingsong did not see it that way. When a man said no, most of the time he was just being polite.】

【Thus, Bai Qingsong immediately began taking action.】

【Before leaving, he specifically instructed that if anything came up, it could be handed over to Chief Steward Jiao Tianao.】

【Ye Yu waved his hand in acknowledgment.】

【Afterward, he devoted himself to studying the newly acquired Demon Immortal Art: Ultimate Imitation.】

【He had obtained this technique from Du Shuang through God's Touch.】

【However, he had only acquired the technique itself. None of the cultivation arts Du Shuang had learned through Ultimate Imitation were inherited.】

【Furthermore, Ye Yu had no idea what the upper limit of this Demon Immortal Art actually was.】

【To find out, he spent two months conducting tests.】

【As long as his reaction speed was fast enough, Ultimate Imitation could begin casting at exactly the same moment as the opponent and continue all the way until completion.】

【The resulting power was also nearly identical.】

【However, the greatest flaw of this Demon Immortal Art was that imitating a divine technique did not mean mastering it.】

【At most, he could retain three copied techniques at one time. That was the limit.】

【Once he copied a fourth technique, the first one would dissipate and could no longer be used.】

【Moreover, copied techniques had time limits.】

【The stronger the technique, the shorter it could be preserved. The weaker the technique, the longer it would last.】

【After careful consideration, Ye Yu concluded that this Demon Immortal Art's greatest value lay in battle. It allowed him to use an opponent's own methods against them while delivering an additional psychological blow.】

【Beyond that, it was not particularly unique.】

【After all, copied techniques expired with time.】

【As expected, a Demon Immortal Art was only a Demon Immortal Art. It was not a true divine technique.】

【Even so, Ye Yu was already very satisfied.】

【Following his instructions, Chief Steward Jiao Tianao continued searching for demons who possessed unusual techniques. This time, however, Ye Yu added one specific condition.】

【Those who came merely to provide comic relief should not be brought before him. He did not have that much time to waste watching performances.】

【Jiao Tianao immediately agreed and began a new round of searches.】

【As for Ye Yu, he had no intention of sitting idle. During a break, he checked on that old man, Ye Bancheng.】

【He discovered that Ye Bancheng's situation was exactly as Bai Qingsong had described.】

【His business had truly expanded across the entire Demon Race.】

【That was good enough. Consider it payment for being an old man.】

【This god has bestowed a fortune upon you. Go and devote yourself to business.】

【After leaving Nirvana Province, Ye Yu had no intention of remaining in the Demon Race indefinitely.】

【He planned to visit the Demon Beast Realm and the Underworld, hoping to discover some eye-opening techniques.】

【As for Dream Talent, Ye Yu intended to continue pursuing a quality-over-quantity approach.】

【After all, casting a wide net simply did not produce cultivation gains or techniques very often.】

【Rather than running around like a lunatic and touching everyone he met every day, it was better to carefully select a few suitable candidates and try his luck with them.】

【What Ye Yu did not know was that not long after he left the Demon Race...】

【Bai Qingsong returned to Eastern Sway Province.】

【At that moment, his hair was disheveled, his robes were torn, and he looked as though he had just escaped from some great disaster.】

【Yet Bai Qingsong appeared extremely excited.】

【He had successfully completed his mission.】

【He had brought back a sleeping demoness.】

【Bai Qingsong firmly believed that Ancestor Ye Yu would be extremely pleased with her.】

【The reason was simple: this sleeping demoness looked exactly like the woman Du Shuang had copied through Ultimate Imitation.】

【To be precise, she was the actual woman from the portrait that Du Shuang had spoken of.】

【Just thinking about Ye Yu's delighted expression upon seeing this demoness was enough to make Bai Qingsong click his tongue in satisfaction.】

【But why was Ye Yu's aura nowhere to be found within the Demon Lord City?】

【After searching everywhere without success, Bai Qingsong changed into a fresh robe and was about to call someone over.】

【At that moment, he happened to run into Jiao Tianao returning with several demons.】

【Bai Qingsong immediately asked, "Where's Brother Ye Yu? Have you seen him?"】

【Jiao Tianao looked puzzled. "A couple of days ago, he said he was going to take a tour of the Demon Beast Realm and the Underworld. Didn't you know?"】

【The question left Bai Qingsong speechless.】

【He truly had not known. Ye Yu had never told him.】

【But why did Jiao Tianao know?】

【A sense of being neglected suddenly arose in his heart, leaving Bai Qingsong feeling strangely bitter.】

【Jiao Tianao looked Bai Qingsong up and down.】

【"Demon Lord, why did you suddenly change robes? What happened to the old one?"】

【"I put it..."】

【"Why do you care where the old robe went? That's none of your concern."】

【Bai Qingsong snorted coldly and turned away.】

【In the blink of an eye, ten years passed.】

【By the time Ye Yu completed his journey through the Demon Beast Realm and the Underworld, he had successfully advanced to the early stage of the Demon Emperor Realm.】

【After ten years of verification, Ye Yu had essentially confirmed one thing.】

【Although the rewards from God's Touch were random, from a long-term perspective, touching fewer people was actually more efficient than touching ten thousand people a day.】

【That was the reason his cultivation had advanced so rapidly over the past decade.】

【The only regret was that throughout all this time, he had not encountered any truly astonishing techniques.】

【So in the end, luck still played a major role.】

【With his ascension to the God Realm drawing near, Ye Yu decided to return to the Demon Race.】

【He wanted to see whether Bai Qingsong and Jiao Tianao had managed to prepare any pleasant surprises for him.】

【Hopefully, over the years, they had found some unusual demons worth his attention.】

【Demon Lord Manor, Eastern Sway Province.】

【The moment Ye Yu stepped into the place again, he immediately sensed that something was very different from before.】

【In the past, servants filled the estate, and every demon coming and going carried themselves with boundless arrogance, as though they ruled the heavens themselves.】

【But now?】

【He could walk hundreds of meters before seeing only two or three servants.】

【And every one of them avoided eye contact and behaved timidly and fearfully.】

【What exactly had happened here?】

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