I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle

Barrow's flesh quickly dissipated, leaving only a heart, throbbing "thump, thump" in mid-air.

Huh? Could it be the Heart of Valor?

Li Yue didn't expect that the material Jesse wanted most would drop from the corpse of a male robber. He grabbed it with his tentacle, intending to put it away first, and then saw an unusual scene in his mind.

In that scene, Li Yue was in his original form, without any concealment, a bald brain, but the setting was his home in his previous life.

At the dining table, during dinner.

His parents placed his brain on the table, using chopsticks to pick up his favorite braised pork from the bowl, patiently stuffing it into the brain's sulci.

"Eat, if you eat enough, you won't be sad, only when you're full will you have the strength…" His mother's tone was still so familiar, with worry and a hint of flattery.

The brain on the dining table began to wriggle, using its tofu-soft sulci to squeeze the braised pork, the oil dripping down the crevices…

Li Yue felt trapped in a nightmare, unable to move.

Then Li Yue remembered Jesse's description of the "Heart of Valor," and in an instant understood that this was the scene he feared most.

The nightmare seemed to last only an instant, yet felt infinitely long.

When the scene disappeared, Li Yue found his tentacle empty. The Heart of Valor had already landed in Abaddon's money bag.

Before it could even warm up, it was traded away?

Li Yue remembered that before Barrow died, Abaddon and Bonnie were performing a sacrifice together, using "Trade" on him…

Did they succeed?

Li Yue didn't detect any danger, but clearly received a malicious prompt from Abaddon, and also sensed that he had lost something.

Lost something very important.

Fortunately, his body was still his own. Li Yue released the Bone Sea to hide his original form, and continued to pressure Abaddon and Bonnie.

Having fought to this point, Li Yue felt there was no need to avoid it anymore. While he still had the Withered Thorn and some magic left in the Library, as long as he could stab Abaddon and kill the debtor, they would be even.

【Analyzing? 18%? What is analyzing?】

Li Yue, while charging, heard Abaddon's thoughts and was suddenly dumbfounded—how could it sound so familiar?

The Demon Illustrated Handbook was traded away?!

Li Yue's brain almost exploded with anger.

But soon, Li Yue realized that he could still hear Abaddon's thoughts, and could still exchange for Self-Healing Bones…

Perhaps Abaddon only traded for part of the Demon Illustrated Handbook's functions?

Abaddon used a portion of the debt Li Yue owed, plus Barrow's debt, to trade for a castrated version of the Demon Illustrated Handbook.

Of course, it wasn't that he didn't want to buy Li Yue outright, it's just that the value of the Demon Illustrated Handbook was too high, and the debt wasn't enough.

Now, Li Yue fully realized the horror of a high-level merchant—even his cheat could be traded away. Once he advances to the 9th rank, what else couldn't he buy?

Li Yue accelerated.

【Hmm? He's a Brain Spirit? Not a Skeleton?】

Abaddon, having traded for the Demon Illustrated Handbook, was as puzzled as Li Yue was at first by the prompts given by the Demon Illustrated Handbook, but quickly got the hang of it.

Obviously, Abaddon had completed the analysis of Li Yue, and saw through Li Yue's true form.

"How is it~ What did you trade for~" Bonnie drove the Bone Chariot back, asking about Abaddon's gains.

Abaddon first found two doses of magic potion to temporarily replace the cerebral cortex walnuts and took them, before carefully savoring the spoils he had just traded for.

"Heavens! I seem to have received some kind of blessing? Or a curse? Wonderful! I can determine the true form of demons!" Abaddon was extremely excited, "With this, I can appraise everything!"

【78.34 million… This is all the remaining value of this Brain Spirit!】

With the help of the Demon Illustrated Handbook, Abaddon quickly completed the appraisal of Li Yue.

【Debt remaining 530,000… 19% interest per day… It's best to increase some of its debt, then I can go back to Loushan and wait patiently, waiting for it to fall into my pocket…】

【Malice +4444…】

Li Yue, however, could tell from Abaddon's actions that although he had obtained the analysis function, he had not mastered his action prediction rate, otherwise he should have been wary of his rear…

There's still a fight to be had.

When the Heart of Valor left his hand and he regained his senses, Li Yue used Deceive to change Abaddon and Bonnie's perception, reversing their sense of direction.

They were now driving the Bone Chariot, charging towards the Bone Sea.

The Library's magic power was running low again. Although the remaining magic power was enough to deceive the two of them once more, it would also use up the remaining chips.

Li Yue decided to deceive Abaddon first.

Because Abaddon was riding Bonnie.

The Withered Thorn had just been forced back by the Light Shield, and could now be used again.

This opportunity was the last chance, otherwise it would have to be delayed until tomorrow.

Li Yue summoned the Withered Thorn in advance, first allowing the aura of death from the Bone Sword to take shape, and then thrust it straight towards Abaddon's neck!

The female robber pressed tightly on Galarec's spine, the Bone Chariot was always at full speed, and the Withered Thorn was about to hit in the blink of an eye; when the merchant realized that he was extremely close to death, he immediately woke up and punctured the illusion of the Staff of Deceit.

【Crap, another teleportation…】

This time the intent of death was fully extended, and there was no time to use the Holy Shield Technique again.

Abaddon subconsciously added a small amount of "distance" between the tip of the sword and his neck, a slight misalignment between his head and body, about the thickness of a coin.

At the same time, Abaddon directly pushed the Galarec's spine in Bonnie's hand, and the Bone Chariot started in the opposite direction.

It wasn't that Copper Spoon made the Ideal Land so sensitive, but that Galarec, riding on the Bone Chariot, had this blessing.

【Escaped…】

Abaddon realized that the tip of the sword was stationary relative to his neck, and knew that the speed of the Bone Chariot was enough to avoid this sword.

But the next second, Li Yue turned over the "Attention" and "Abominable" cards together, attracting the female robber for another instant.

This instant just made up for the distance of a coin's thickness—after the lightning-fast confrontation between the two sides, the Withered Thorn finally pierced Abaddon's neck, and the intent of death began to spread.

Die, Abaddon, go to hell to collect debts…

Li Yue's tense nerves finally relaxed a little, but Abaddon's thoughts were not as desperate as Li Yue had expected.

【Bonnie's debt… exchange for my life… transfer it to the Brain Spirit's debt… not a loss!】

Abaddon was still calculating debts, and this time his debtor became Bonnie beside him!

【Start trading… buy the chariot, buy her life, buy her driving skills, buy the spoils she obtained…】

Like sacrificing Barrow, Abaddon once again cashed out Bonnie's debt, trading her injury and directly transferring the injury caused by the Withered Thorn to the female robber!

Although the Bone Sword had pierced Abaddon's neck, the intent of death was spreading on Bonnie's body.

The fiery female robber quickly lost her eyes, and her entire body quickly collapsed.

Abaddon's pierced neck healed and reorganized, and the Bone Chariot finally broke free from Li Yue's control and drove out a safe distance.

"Hehe, the core members of the Hunting Country all owe me, with their lives as my capital, you can't kill me." Abaddon looked at Li Yue, with a smile on his face, one hand holding Galarec's spine, the other hand filled with coins.

【Debt 1.04 million… Interest 21%…】

Listening to Abaddon's thoughts, Li Yue was still thinking about whether he could use the Staff of Deceit to keep him.

【The value of the transaction is enough, the trade route to the Mouth of the Abyss has also opened, I can finally go back to Loushan…】

Abaddon's body gradually became round and smaller.

Li Yue scattered Egg's particles around the merchant, but found that he had forcibly stuffed an ultra-long distance nearby.

The space was not broken, but completely elongated, and Egg's particles could not reach the starting point of the trade route, so there was no way to affect it.

"It's an honor to do business with you, Brain Spirit." Abaddon counted the gains in his money bag, "Heart of Valor, Bone Chariot, Blessing, a sea of materials, and…"

"And your life." Abaddon had completely turned into a perfect circle of a coin, and was continuing to shrink.

【When the debt accumulates enough… I can directly buy this Brain Spirit… In a few days, he will be mine, hehe…】

【This is my ceremony to advance to a 9th rank National Guardian…】

"Goodbye, my friend." Abaddon shrank into a coin and disappeared into thin air.

Egg's particles fell to the ground. Before Abaddon left, Li Yue only "deceived" him one last thing.