"Wait... Schleya...! You misunderstood me...!"

Mo Mingzhi raised her hands as she stood in front of Davis while Davis was actually dumbfounded that this masked woman recognized him.

She was none other than the Young Blood Demoness of the Blood Pledge Villa! It was even surprising to him that she reached the eighth stage from the peak level of the seventh stage and having an overbearing prowess for her age.

However...

"Why are you always perceptive at the wrong time, Young Blood Demoness? Do you want to get dishonored by me so badly, you virgin woman?"

Davis couldn't help but grit his teeth in annoyance.

At that time, he was masked, so how did this woman discern him this time?

"You took everything away from me! Now die!"

*Sila!~* *Sila!~*

Blood energy ran rampant inside the cave, almost destroying the surroundings as the power of blood bled through everything as if it was corroding, but abruptly, the blood energy that was about to attack both him and Mo Mingzhi were all immensely suppressed as they fragmented.

Davis raised his hand and began to start closing his palms.

*Gasp!~*

The Young Blood Demoness's body went stiff as she held her throat, beginning to feel that she was going to be squeezed, no, imploded to death from within. The mask fell off from her face as it smashed on the floor, revealing her gorgeous face that was twisted into one of sheer horror. Instantly, tears began running down her eyes, making her wonder if this was the end for her when she suddenly felt the pressure disappear.

"Wait...!"

Only that vague voice could be heard in her muffled hearing before she fell on her knees and placed both her hands on the ground, taking deep breaths as her bosoms heaved.

Davis's narrowed eyes looked at Mo Mingzhi grasp his hands, stopping him from making a move.

"Mingzhi, she saw me..."

He had no choice but to kill her, and although needless as it was, it was needed to be done in his mind.

"Wait...! Please wait... It isn't what you think it is..."

Mo Mingzhi was absolutely stuck within both parties trying to kill each other. Her charming eyes were already wet with tears from seeing Davis alive, but knowing that Davis was about to kill Schleya unknowingly, she felt like she had to stop it no matter what.

"Because she saved you...?"

Davis couldn't help but ask as the Young Blood Demoness said along the lines of something like that.

"No, I could've survived by myself, armed with so many protective artifacts underneath my clothes."

"Uh?" Davis became confused.

Then why?

"You did her wrong once already, so I won't let you do it twice...!"

Davis pursed his lips before he sighed.

"Mingzhi, you only heard her side of the story-"

"No! I already know about you two, about how you tried to scare her."

"Then why...?

"Because she's innocent. She hasn't taken the life of a single innocent in her entire life!"

Mo Mingzhi waved her hand with utter confidence in her face, causing Davis to be taken aback.

"Her targets are magical beasts. She refines their blood in great quantity to increase her cultivation, and that's why she is called the Young Blood Demoness, not because she is a terrorizing psychopath vampire who drains the blood of the innocents."

Davis couldn't help but take a step back and rubbed his forehead, sensing a headache coming. He looked at the trembling Young Blood Demoness, who looked at him with sheer terror in her crimson eyes before he returned his gaze to Mo Mingzhi.

Should he argue that magical beasts were innocents? Unlikely since they hunted down other magical beasts to survive and increase their strength, claim territory, and whatnot.

"What's your evidence?"

"The All-Seeing Towers..." Mo Mingzhi pursed her lips before she looked at Schleya, "She saved me coincidentally when I was slaughtering everyone here to practice my darkness laws, but I then investigated her past under the guise of investigating something else so I would not be backstabbed, but the results of her past were astonishing."

"So you insist that we let her go?"

"I'm not." Mo Mingzhi shook her head, "I'm not that stupid. We bring her back to our place and protect her, giving her a life."

"What?"

"Davis, because of what you did, almost everyone thinks that she lost her purity to you, and to the Blood Pledge Villa who reveres blood as their deity, losing the primal yin essence as a woman before marriage is as good as earning a death sentence."

"What the...?" Davis couldn't help but laugh at this farce, "With a bit of scrutiny I felt that she deserved, they would've known that I didn't do anything to her."

Mo Mingzhi nodded but then shook her head.

"You know what the wicked path is like. A dog eats dog world from head to toe. People already judged that she lost it, so Schleya knew that her death was near and escaped without proving herself, but that put an end to her status as the Young Villa Mistress and the entire Blood Pledge Villa now calls the Humiliated Demoness. Now, she is nothing but a woman who is pursued by all men in this Territory but pursued to be killed instead."

Davis's brows twitched. This was on him now.

He certainly felt bad, but should he kneel and ask for forgiveness now?

"So we bring her back, then what?" Davis gestured.

"Please, I just don't want you to be wrong. You still have a chance to rectify this mistake."

Davis appeared a bit flabbergasted by looking at Mo Mingzhi's earnest appearance.

She did not want him to be wrong?

How could she still say that after he killed her father? It didn't matter if he was right in that matter. Unlike the deranged Tina Roxley's father, whom he killed in the derailed fate, Mo Mingzhi's father doted on her when she was little HuanHuan. It could be very well said that he was wrong in that matter in her perspective no matter what, but she completely forgave him for that?

He reached out his hand, touching Mo Mingzhi's forehead with his finger. Instantly, he saw that her soul sea was similar to Evelynn and Sophie's, appearing to be covered in darkness, but unlike their silence that bordered on the level of creepiness, Mo Mingzhi's excluded a calmness unseen as if she brought it under her control.

While Mo Mingzhi was scared that he would hit her as she closed her eyes, she slightly opened it and saw that he had a shocked expression on his face.

"Mingzhi, how did you control the darkness in your soul?"

"Darkness in my soul?" Mo Mingzhi widened her eyes, "Is that what it's called? I don't know, and when I asked the All-Seeing Towers about it, it cost a shit ton of money I don't have, so I decided to stray away from it since it didn't do anything harmful but just blended within me while I practiced my darkness laws."

'It can't be...' Davis was utterly confused before he saw Mo Mingzhi slightly blush.

"It's just... my dark soul became rather calm when I thought that you made a mistake, wanting to rectify it no matter what. That's why I stayed with Schleya, wanting to protect her until you came for me..."

Davis's heart shook.

This... this was the power of forgiveness against darkness?

If it couldn't be any more obvious, she completely forgave him for killing her father! In the same way, she didn't want him to be wrong in all matters since she considered him to be a righteous person in her heart. She wanted him to rectify this mistake he made that would put him on the right path in her mind.

If he wasn't wrong, she was on the right path to comprehending Heart Intent as she understood both sides of the matter!

"Protect me? A little girl like you...?"

Schleya hatefully uttered from the side, causing the both of them to look at her.

"A little girl? How rude." Mo Mingzhi suddenly smiled and wrapped her arm's around Davis's arm, pushing her bosoms against him as she smirked at Schleya.

"Surely, you identified my man from the scent of blood but couldn't you recognize him from somewhere else...?"

Schleya narrowed her eyes, wondering what nonsense Mo Mingzhi was speaking about for a long time before she suddenly noticed Davis's appearance. Those facial features... They looked very similar to the dead...

"Emp- Emperor of Death!?"

She shrieked, her body heavily shuddering that she didn't even realize that she was shaking from sheer terror.

Davis pursed his lips, wondering why Mo Mingzhi revealed that if the other party didn't recognize his face first, but nevertheless, there was no room for doubt anymore. However, he couldn't understand how Schleya discovered him in the first place that he sent Mo Mingzhi a soul transmission, asking her how Schleya managed to do that.

"It was through the scent of blood, or so that's how she says it and differentiates people based on their blood aura."

"Blood aura? Do you mean human aura as it is the same with magical beasts? Is that even discernible to an individual level?"

"To people who train in Blood Laws, apparently, it is, especially when they get closer to that someone to the point of touch..."

Davis's brows couldn't help but twitch.

Was it the time when he was pinning her down in order to scare her into submission that she learned of his unique blood aura?

"You're coming with us, Schleya."

"Just kill me and be done with it...!"

Despite still shuddering, Schleya gnashed her teeth and spat out those words with a hateful look on her face. It seemed that she had given up fighting against them.

After all, even she knew that it was absolutely futile against the Emperor of Death!

"Mingzhi, I don't have time to do this..." Davis couldn't help but sigh.

"That's what makes it all the more convincing that you're trying to make amends for your mistakes, Davis."

Mo Mingzhi separated from him and gazed at him with all seriousness in her eyes.

Davis gazed at her for a few seconds before he shook his head.

"Sigh, don't blame me if I make love with her later on..."

Mo Mingzhi was just about to smile that he consented, but her expression froze, her mouth opening agape.

"Hey...!"

Soon, they moved out with an unconscious Schleya in tow.