Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Succubus, the Fairy First Update

After taking a few steps, Ji Yu came to the female demon’s side and looked down.

At this moment, her body was covered in dreadful wounds. The largest lay along her lower flank, a gaping wound more than seventy centimeters across, through which her intestines and internal organs could be seen.

The only fortunate thing was that her head was still mostly intact.

Perhaps in the explosion, she had only managed to spare enough strength to protect her head and upper body.

She still breathed faintly. Her face was twisted with pain, and she had sunk into a half-conscious stupor.

“What a pity. Such a lovely little thing, and now she’s about to die.”

Ji Yu shook his deer’s head, preparing to deal the final blow.

But just as he lifted a hoof, his expression changed all at once, becoming thoughtful.

Looking at the female demon, Ji Yu ultimately did not strike the finishing blow. He lowered the hoof again.

He had suddenly remembered the little deer’s life-grafting trait, and intended to test it.

This was a rare specimen indeed.

A female demon was not like thornbramble; she was not a plant.

For a Purple Moon life-form that was not a plant, Ji Yu certainly could not pass up such an opportunity to experiment.

He wanted to see whether life grafting would produce the same terrifying decomposition effect on a being like this female demon as it had on thornbramble.

Still, before that, Ji Yu did not quite want her to die just yet.

And in order to cope with any possible changes she might undergo, he needed to make some preparations.

So Ji Yu guided the little deer to turn away and head for the forest outside the domain.

Leaving the domain was not difficult. When they reached its boundary, the little deer simply stepped forward and easily crossed the Purple Moon barrier, which was like a phantom.

There was no strange sensation at all, just as though one had walked normally out of any place.

Looking back at the hazy, illusory domain, Ji Yu began drawing life essence from the surrounding trees in the forest.

As he went, wisps of life essence drifted and swirled around the little deer.

Meanwhile, the herd of spotted deer that had already run out of the domain earlier began calling toward the little deer from the shadows of the underlings, their tones bright with joy.

They were glad that the prophet of their kind had emerged so unharmed from that terrible place.

Though most of the two thousand spotted deer did not yet possess intelligence, the emotions of their animal instincts could still be expressed.

Moreover, they had already approached the threshold of the extraordinary. Even if they had not yet advanced to the second tier, the sprouts of wisdom had already begun to emerge within them.

Ji Yu responded to the herd’s joy as well, having the little deer let out a call to reassure them. Only then did the deer gradually settle once more, quietly hiding in the shadows among the trees.

Seeing that most of the herd had quieted down again, Ji Yu smiled and then continued to guide the little deer farther and farther away.

Most of the forest here had already been “ruined” by the little deer a few days earlier, and draining too much life essence would be harmful to this forest.

So Ji Yu intended to go farther away to gather enough life essence.

The mountain range of Ridgewater Mountain lacked many things, but it did not lack trees.

In this linked chain of mountains, the trees were more numerous than one could imagine.

After running and traveling for about two or three minutes, Ji Yu once again guided the little deer back to the domain.

Returning to the ground where the female demon lay, he found that she still looked half-dead, and her breathing had grown even weaker.

Ji Yu guessed that a Purple Moon life-form like her might be a third-tier being.

Of course, her third tier could not compare with the little deer’s.

The little deer had the twentyfold amplification granted by life grafting.

After all, an ordinary second-tier spotted deer had an upper life force limit of only five points, whereas the little deer had one hundred.

The little deer’s monstrous amplification constitution, combined with the divine trait of life grafting, created a vast gulf between them.

“Let’s try it.”

At this moment, life essence was drifting and floating all over the little deer’s body like spheres of light, enveloping its entire frame.

Ji Yu extended a forehoof and had it lightly touch the female demon’s body.

Then, under the decomposing effect of life grafting upon the Purple Moon energy within her, the female demon’s body began to shrivel just as thornbramble had before, while countless purple-black particles rose from her flesh and scattered into the sky like black mist.

Seeing this, Ji Yu was not surprised.

However, just as her body withered and seemed as though it might die at any moment, Ji Yu began channeling life essence into her body.

And with that one action, the female demon’s previously feeble aura immediately began to strengthen.

She frowned, her face contorted with agony, even letting out unconscious whimpers.

The decomposition of life grafting continued, while the infusion of life essence also continued.

In the push and pull between the two, a scene soon emerged that aroused Ji Yu’s curiosity.

For the female demon’s body was actually beginning to shrink.

“Interesting.”

Ji Yu increased the speed and watched her changes intently.

A minute later, her body had shrunk by a full half, to about one and a half meters.

Her long purple-red hair had all fallen away, and thick layers of dead skin had formed across her body.

It was like a snake shedding its skin, layer after layer peeling off.

But while a snake sheds its skin to grow larger, was this female demon doing it in order to grow smaller?

By now, her breathing had become very steady, like that of an ordinary bald woman.

But because her entire body was covered in dead skin, her appearance was far from pleasant.

And the purple-black energy within her body had still not been completely cleared.

Naturally, Ji Yu had no intention of stopping the experiment there.

Then, two minutes later, the female demon awoke and began screaming in misery, but pinned beneath the little deer’s hooves, she had no power to resist.

By now, her body was already less than one meter tall.

Three minutes later, she was even under fifty centimeters.

Ji Yu found this utterly astonishing.

“Can she get even smaller?”

Frowning, he continued to increase the output.

Since the female demon had already fallen unconscious again, Ji Yu naturally showed no mercy.

After another minute, he finally discovered that life essence could no longer be infused into her body.

At this point, the female demon’s size was so unusual that even Ji Yu found it curious.

He exhaled.

The little deer blew away the great mass of black dead skin the female demon had shed earlier.

Like powder, the dead skin scattered and drifted apart at a single breath.

Thus, the female demon’s appearance was laid fully bare before the little deer’s eyes and Ji Yu’s.

Ten centimeters.

Only slightly larger than an adult’s finger.

This was the female demon’s final transformed size.

Her skin was translucent and crystal-clear, and the pair of tiny wings like cicada wings only made her seem even smaller.

Her features remained delicate and unchanged, but her hair had turned from red to a faint yellow-green.

Seeing this female demon—

No, rather, this fairy—Ji Yu was at a loss for words for a moment.

“Are you kidding me? Could she possibly be any smaller?”