Chapter 529
The bloodline of the Human Emperor would be coveted by anyone, and she must have been found by the Metal Emperor and hidden from the eyes of the Demon Lord.
Dave waved his hands, and the soul of the Metal Emperor appeared. He had collected it and didn't kill him directly.
After all, he still needed to extract information from him. His soul would also be nourishment for Dave's cultivation once he devoured it.
A demi-god's soul was beneficial to him. The skills of the Gluttony Lineage are very potent because they can devour anything and convert it into energy, but there are some restrictions on using them.
Some demons from the Gluttony Lineage cannot absorb all the energy of what they devour and can only absorb ten percent of it.
Another restriction is that devouring so many souls would burden them with huge karma.
Additionally, their souls would start to dilute, losing purity, which might affect their cultivation.
Even the Demon King of Gluttony, Beelzebub, had some restrictions, while Dave could ignore all of those easily.
He could absorb the energy completely without being tied to the karma of those souls.
His soul was so powerful that it was untouchable.
That's the reason he could devour his enemies without fear.
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Dave looked at the bottle containing the bloodline extracted from Alisha.
From the looks of it, 97 percent of the Human Emperor's bloodline had already been extracted.
If Dave had been any later, Alisha might have died completely once her bloodline was fully drained.
After extracting her bloodline, her life force would have started to be sucked away as well.
The bottle in Dave's hands was no ordinary container; it was specially designed to store such powerful bloodline. While examining it, he couldn't help but laugh.
"Hahaha! Who would have thought that the Demon Lord had been fooled by his subordinate all along? Hahaha!"
Dave chuckled. Learning the goals of Irethane from the emperor's memories, he couldn't help but feel pity for Irethane.
Now, he understood why the demons were so keen on conquering this place and killing a lot of humans from the Wu Clan bloodline.
The immense power of the Human Emperor was something that even made the demon kings wary.
Demon King Satan had faced the Human Emperor before, after Lucifer decided to retreat.
When the war between gods and demons erupted, the Human Emperor had faced one of the most formidable demon kings of all time, Lucifer, the Demon King of Pride.
Though the Human Emperor was slightly weaker than Lucifer due to his youth and lack of fighting experience, he managed to fight the Demon King for ten days.
Lucifer retreated not just because he feared the Human Emperor, but also because the Abyss was being besieged by the Ten Commandments, and his power was needed there.
The Human Emperor still wanted to continue the fight, but Satan appeared and took Lucifer's place.
Satan and Lucifer were the two strongest demon kings in terms of attacking and damage, but Satan was the craziest one, willing to do anything to kill his enemy.
Lucifer disdained fighting weaker beings, so he let the Human Emperor, Emperor Wu, fight Satan, while he focused on battling the Ten Commandments.
During their fight, Satan and Emperor Wu clashed for 100 years, destroying numerous planes and planets.
The outcome of the battle remained a mystery, leading many to believe it was a draw.
However, from Irethane, Dave learned that Satan had won by a small margin and inflicted a deadly curse on Emperor Wu.
Satan's goal was to kill the Human Emperor and extract his bloodline to enhance his powers.
However, the Human Emperor was saved by the Light Goddess and managed to escape.
Despite her efforts to heal him, the wounds were severe, affecting his internal organs and soul.
The curse was not lethal but could trace the location of those who shared his bloodline.
After the battle, the Human Emperor seemed to disappear.
Satan knew he had died, which enraged him as he still wanted to extract the Human Emperor's bloodline.
Despite his curse on the Wu Clan, no one managed to acquire the Human Emperor's bloodline for millions of years.
But after waiting for so many years, the Demon King sensed the Human Emperor's bloodline again.
Although it was weak and he couldn't pinpoint its exact location, he learned that someone with this bloodline was inside a desolate plane guarded by the Goddess of Light.
He couldn't act on his own, so he sent his subordinates and even dispatched a demon lord. Their goal was to find the human with the Emperor Bloodline.
Irethane had been searching for the target for thousands of years, but they lacked the means to detect it like the Demon King himself.
Only those with the same lineage as the Wu Clan could detect the bloodline. Therefore, he decided to accept the Metal Emperor, who also came from the Wu Clan lineage.
The Metal Emperor was greedy and betrayed the human race. He needed to assist Demon Lord Irethane in locating the one with the Human Emperor Bloodline.
Finding the target was difficult and required being near the Metal Emperor to detect the bloodline.
The Metal Emperor and the demons began their siege on the human empires but still hadn't found their target.
It was a year ago when the Metal Emperor detected something. When he saw the daughter of one of his dukes, he sensed a fluctuation in his body as if he wanted to worship her.
If not for his strong cultivation, he might have kneeled.
Alisha had just turned 18, and her bloodline made the Metal Emperor feel a greed to collect it.
He hid this matter from the demon lord and decided to capture her and even threatened the duke to serve him loyally.
He didn't plan to spare Alisha once he had extracted the bloodline.
He intended to absorb it and then take revenge on the demon lord, killing him to replace him as a demon lord.
The demon lord hadn't realized that their target was almost within his grasp but had been hidden very well by the Metal Emperor.
The Metal Emperor paid a high price to extract the bloodline, but it would take a whole year to complete the extraction.
Sadly, for him, his long-awaited goal vanished because of Dave's interruption.