Chapter 261: Died Too Peacefully
Under the burning of the black flames, Yi Xu's body began to melt.

He did not struggle or beg for mercy, but calmly welcomed his failure and death.

However, before he died, Yi Xu made an unexpected request to Shen Cheng: "Can you inherit the position of president and keep the Red Dinner going for me?"

Shen Cheng was very surprised: "You want to give the Red Dinner to my enemy?"

"Who else can I give it to if not you?"

Yi Xu sighed, "Bi Lei and Fang Wei will definitely not survive. Even if they can survive, if we hand over the Red Banquet to them, they will squander it sooner or later. These two idiots are already the most qualified vampires in the headquarters. The rest are just rotten fish and shrimp that are not even worth a table."

Yi Xu's complaints are very similar to those of the founders of large companies, who, when they are old and frail, look at a group of incompetent second generations and sigh sadly and helplessly.

"The fight between us is just a fight for the Eternal Blood. There is no personal hatred between us."

Seeing that Shen Cheng did not agree, Yi Xu continued to persuade him: "The Red Banquet is the only organization for all vampires living in the Human Federation, and it is also our only support. As long as it exists, we will not be completely wiped out by humans, and we will not return to the days of hiding and fear. You are also a vampire, I hope you can stand in the position of a vampire and consider it from your perspective."

Yi Xu actually had a selfish motive. After all, the Red Dinner was an organization he had created, and he didn't want to see the hard work of his life die.

Shen Cheng was unmoved and shook his head to refuse: "When you were forced to retire, the Red Banquet headquarters was already in name only, and the branches in various places were developing very well, which was equivalent to sowing a large number of seeds on the vast land of the Federation, and they have begun to take root and sprout. It doesn't matter whether there is a headquarters or not."

This was just polite talk. In fact, what Shen Cheng was worried about was that if he became the president of the Scarlet Dinner, he would be targeted by the federal government and might even be shackled by them and forced to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests like the president and lose his freedom.

Therefore, this position has no value to him and is not worth the risk at all. The title of branch director is enough.

Seeing Shen Cheng's refusal, a hint of disappointment flashed in Yi Xu's eyes.

However, what Shen Cheng said was not wrong. The branches in various places are developing so well, it doesn’t matter whether there is a headquarters or not.

Yi Xu had never expected that the split between the headquarters and branches had once made him extremely angry, and he vowed to take back all the branches.

Unexpectedly, these separated branches have now become the spark of the bright red dinner.

Maybe I really should let go.

With a sense of inexplicable relief, Yi Xu slowly closed his eyes and calmly welcomed his death.

However, if Yi Xu left peacefully, Shen Cheng would not be at ease.

"Wake up."

Shen Cheng asked Yi Xu, who was waiting to die with his eyes closed, "Do you have any last wishes?"

Yi Xu shook his head as the black flames burned him. "No, I do have many regrets in my life, but the biggest regret is that I can't revive the Red Banquet. But you're right. Since those branches have already taken root in various parts of the Federation, it doesn't matter whether there is a headquarters or not. I feel relieved."

No way, brother.

If you passed away so peacefully, how could I touch your body?
"Is there really no last wish?"

Shen Cheng couldn't help but say, "What do you think if I destroy the entire Red Banquet and wipe out all the branches in various places?"

I wonder what the hell you have against me?

Yi Xu opened his eyes wide in shock, as if he wanted to say something, but his life had come to an end, and he couldn't even utter the last word before he turned to ashes in the burning black flames.

Until the end, Yi Xu did not pass away peacefully, and even wanted to take Shen Cheng with him.

At the moment of his death, a huge resentment emerged from his body, rising into the air like thick smoke and forming rolling dark clouds.

The battle with Yi Xu forced Shen Cheng to enter the full activation state, which lasted about five minutes from start to finish and consumed 5% of his resentment, leaving only 14%.

Seeing so much resentment now, he felt like a long-awaited rain, or an old virgin meeting a welfare girl, and quickly raised his hand to absorb it.

Demon Armor +20%
It’s not bad. I didn’t lose money. I actually made 1%.

After absorbing the resentment, Shen Cheng looked down and saw two things left behind by Yi Xu after his death.

One is the eternal blood left after the source blood was burned, weighing about half a kilogram, which was completely beyond Shen Cheng's expectations.

The other one is the ashes left after Yi Xu's death. There is a faint white light on the ashes, which means that he left a last wish.

For Shen Cheng, getting the Eternal Blood has already accomplished his original goal and is the biggest gain.

Now being able to touch Yi Xu’s body is an unexpected surprise.

Without hesitation, he reached out and touched it, sucking the light into his fingertips and began to watch Yi Xu's memory.

After seeing the memory, Shen Cheng finally confirmed that Yi Xu and the president were indeed two people, but they later became one person.

Because what he saw were the memories of two people.

First of all, it is the president’s memory. He is also a vampire who escaped from the Eternal Empire.

At that time, vampires were treated the same as demons in the Human Federation. They had to hide their identities every day. Once discovered, they would be captured and hunted by demon hunters.

The president didn't want to see the vampires scattered again, so he began to unite every vampire he met, organizing them all to help each other and advance and retreat together.

Soon, the prototype of an organization centered on the president was born.

However, the federal government had long been aware of the existence of this organization and began to ruthlessly suppress it, quickly destroying this small organization.

The president who escaped death did not give up, but he learned from his experience and realized that without the tacit approval of the federal government, even if a vampire organization could succeed, it would never be able to grow big.

So the president changed his strategy and used the advantages of vampires, who are immune to disease, have long lifespans and can remain forever young, to create the source blood extracts needed by humans.

He used the source blood extract to eliminate the hostility and oppression of human beings towards him.

This move was indeed very effective. The president quickly used it to win over a large number of officials and even reached a private agreement with the federal government, in which he provided source blood extracts on a regular basis in exchange for the ability to legally form a vampire organization.

Because the president would take the initiative to host a dinner every time the extract was handed in, the name of his organization was also determined to be the Bright Red Dinner.

The Scarlet Banquet developed extremely rapidly in the beginning, and it easily united all the vampires who were in constant fear of being hunted by demon hunters. The number of members in the headquarters exceeded four digits in just a few years, and even branches were expanded to other states and cities.

Just when the president was ambitious and wanted to unify all the vampires in the federation, the federal government began to suppress him.

The federal government only wanted the Red Dinner to be a pet that regularly provided blood extracts, and did not want it to grow into a beast that could harm its owner. As a result, the president was forced to retire at the height of his popularity, and the Red Dinner headquarters and branches began to split and were no longer united.

The president was even confined to a secluded place, not allowed to leave or go out, and completely lost his freedom.

It's not like he didn't think about fighting back and making some secret moves, but he failed in every attempt.

Because his strength is, after all, just a trump card, and he cannot threaten a behemoth like the federal government.

After many failed attempts, the president gave up control of the headquarters and began to concentrate on studying how to increase his own power.

And what he studied was the Eternal Blood.

As the president of the Scarlet Dinner, he knew far more secrets than other vice presidents.

For example, the Eternal Blood is the source blood of the Eternal Emperor. After the three Blood Kings divided the Eternal Emperor, most of the Eternal Blood was divided among them, and only a small part was lost outside.

The Eternal Emperor is not really dead. His consciousness will be revived in the Eternal Blood, and he will eventually be successfully resurrected and take revenge on the three Blood Kings.

This is also the reason why one's personality will be affected after absorbing the Eternal Blood, because the consciousness belonging to the Eternal Emperor in the Eternal Blood is stirring, creating a conflict with the original consciousness of the absorber.

The president absorbed a lot of Eternal Blood, and his research direction is also how to overcome the sequelae.

As long as he could overcome the aftereffects, he would be able to absorb more Eternal Blood and push his strength to the legendary realm.

Once he becomes a legend, he will no longer have to look at the face of the federal government, and the relationship between the two sides will change from a captive pet to collaborators.

After decades of research, the president finally found a way to overcome the sequelae.

When Shen Cheng saw this, he was happy for a moment, thinking he had won the lottery.

But when he looked back, he found that the president had not found a way to overcome the sequelae at all. Instead, during the long period of research, he himself had unknowingly become a different person under the influence of the Eternal Blood.

He thought he had succeeded, but in fact he had failed completely.

The president, who thought he was successful, began to collect other Eternal Bloods, and first set his sights on several vice presidents at the headquarters.

After he was forced to retire, the Red Dinner Banquet headquarters became worse and worse. From the top management to the ordinary members, everyone was reduced to just passing the time, and even the vice presidents no longer had any ambitions.

After all, even the most powerful president cannot resist the suppression of the federal government. If these vice presidents are too capable, they will only die faster.

But the president doesn't see it that way. He is extremely disappointed with the unambitious young generation at the headquarters, so he decides to take back the eternal blood from the five vice presidents and contribute to his cause of reviving the Red Dinner.

The first person to be targeted was Yi Xu, because he was the weakest and had the smallest influence.

Yi Xu's memory is unremarkable, there is nothing special about it. Like Zhu Jing, he also absorbed too much Eternal Blood and began to suffer from sequelae. He was secretly looking for ways to overcome the sequelae.

The president used this as an excuse to trick Yi Xu into the castle alone, and personally took away his eternal blood and source blood.

Everything was going well until an accident occurred when the president was fusing Yi Xu's Eternal Blood.

The president did not overcome his sequelae. After absorbing the new eternal blood, his sequelae became even more serious. Yi Xu, who was absorbed by him, was also in a state of being deeply affected.

Thus, when the two sides were confronting each other in consciousness, all the consequences broke out at once.

Under the influence of the Eternal Blood, Yi Xu and the president's consciousness actually merged into one, becoming an entirely new consciousness that possessed the memories and personalities of both.

At the same time, he was also able to control two bodies, but under the drag of Yi Xu, the president's strength declined instead of increasing, and he actually fell from an ace to a master.

Only when their bodies merged into one could he barely return to the realm of Ace.

After the fusion, the president could no longer tell whether he was the president or Yi Xu.

However, he still remembered what he wanted to do and did not give up his plan to recover the Eternal Blood. So he set his sights on Zhu Jing, killed him when he was weak, and stole his Eternal Blood.

Yi Xu said before that he didn’t want to kill anyone, but that was just his own residual thought. The president didn’t think so.

The reason why the president didn't kill everyone at once was because his strength had declined. He was afraid of accidents in the process, so he had to choose a slow approach.

If Shen Cheng hadn't accidentally interfered, the president might have successfully taken away the eternal blood of all the vice presidents.

Therefore, in this incident that wiped out all the top management of the Red Dinner Headquarters, the murderer was not Yi Xu but the president. Yi Xu was just the first victim.

After reading the memory, Shen Cheng had an extra card in his hand.

He really hoped it was the president's poisonous blood, but unfortunately it was Yi Xu's ability, a four-star substance manipulation, chaos type.

Because the president passed away too peacefully and left no last wishes after his death, only Yi Xu had a dream, and his last wish was, as expected, to overcome the aftereffects of the Eternal Blood.

After using the controlled substance, Shen Cheng vaguely saw Zhu Jing's soul standing aside, looking down at the wreckage on the ground.

His last wish was to confirm whether the murderer had really found a way to overcome the sequelae. It turned out that he had not, but the president just thought he had succeeded.

Now that the truth is known, Zhu Jing's last wish has been fulfilled and his soul has dissipated.

Shen Cheng also gained his complete ability, molecular reconstruction.

Molecular reconstruction and Yi Xu's manipulation of matter, these two abilities do not seem to be very powerful, but they are both chaotic abilities and can be combined together.

The prerequisite is to fulfill Yi Xu’s last wish.

But Shen Cheng had no confidence in this and could only put it behind his mind for the time being.

He collected the president's eternal blood and then went to look for Bi Lei and Fang Wei.

The two people were found quickly. We thought we could still get some water with them, but we didn't expect that the two people were already dead.

He was poisoned to death by the president's poisonous blood.

Their deaths were rather miserable, with distorted expressions and bleeding facial features. Although the source blood in their bodies was still there, it had all lost its activity and no longer possessed the powerful self-healing ability.

(End of this chapter)