The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 380: Demonic Demons Fight Against Demons
Ergou was not very sure that the fake Fourth Lady in front of him was the illusionary evil demon. After all, there were more than just illusionary evil demons in the world who could disguise themselves as others to deceive people. Others such as shapeshifters (a subspecies of humans), mimics (an amorphous gelatinous alien), and shape-stealers (an alien similar to shapeshifters) all had the ability to camouflage.

However, it is very likely that the imposter who jumped out to cause trouble in the Moondew Fortress, which had been besieged by the army of plague demons for tens of thousands of years, is actually a demon.

That's why Ergou took a gamble.

Some people might say, what if the person in front of him is the Fourth Lady herself, and if Ergou pokes her with his stick, wouldn’t he be killing a friendly force by mistake?

There is still a possibility of accidentally injuring friendly forces, but it is unlikely to happen.

The physique of celestial beings is far superior to that of humans, and Si Niangzi is the best among them. However, Ergou also left some leeway. The stick could at most cause Si Niangzi a concussion, and the chance of killing her with a headshot was not high, unless Ergou targeted vital parts such as the eyes and throat.

It turned out that Ergou's plan was not wrong.

The evil demon's skull was far less hard than that of the Fourth Lady, and it was really blown off by a stick. However, the opponent's tenacious vitality was beyond Ergou's expectations.

Even though Ergou almost poked this guy into a human hornet's nest, the fake Fourth Lady was still alive and kicking and chattering with him.

This guy was determined to find out why his identity was exposed.

As for why it cares so much about this issue, the reason is related to an inherent defect of the evil demon.

When the transformed evil demon disguises itself as a target, as long as it does not expose itself, it can change the transformation template at any time, just like the seventy-two transformations in mythology, and change freely.

They can even use this to avoid having faces similar to each other.

However, if its disguise is exposed by someone like Ergou, then before the evil demon finds out why its disguise failed, it can only temporarily maintain its disguised appearance and cannot transform into other forms.

At this time, if the template disguised as the Phantom Demon is also nearby, the Phantom Demon will easily encounter a face-to-face incident and be forced to be downgraded.

The price that the transformed demon paid for being forced to downgrade due to a similar face was not only the decline in its strength but also the threat of absolute death.

What's more, this kind of demotion is the most painful humiliation for the evil demons.

To make an analogy, we can refer to the caste classification of the third brother's family. The illusion demon is essentially equivalent to the Brahmin nobles among the chaos demons. Once it is downgraded to a pink fear demon, it is equivalent to permanently falling to the fourth-class Shudra class.

If the phantom demons at this stage still have a slight chance of returning to the peak, then if the pink demons are split into blue demons, sulfur demons and the like, then they will truly fall to a point where they can no longer recover and become the "absolute pariahs" among the chaotic demons.

Even those fallen souls that have been corrupted and abducted by evil spirits are essentially more respectable than these "absolute untouchables".

It is precisely because of the absolute fear of this tragic future that once the disguise of the evil demon is exposed, it will try every means to find answers and remove restrictions.

The fake Fourth Lady's urgency about this matter, combined with the secret records of the demon-suppressing master, has basically revealed her origins and confirmed her identity as a transformed evil demon.

At this time, could Ergou tell the other party that he was just guessing because he saw that something was wrong with the other party?
Of course, he wouldn't be so foolish as to give up his biggest advantage. He's not stupid.

You know, the fact that the phantom evil demon appeared in the Moondew Fortress that had been sealed for tens of thousands of years basically means one thing.

This phantom evil demon has probably been lurking inside the Moondew Fortress for a long time.

It should be noted that there are also factions among the Chaos Demons.

The fights between the various factions are even more cruel and tragic than the conflicts between the demons and the real races in the material world.

The phantom demons and the plague army outside the Moondew Fortress are naturally not from the same faction. To be precise, they are hostile to each other.

Otherwise, with the phantom evil demons causing trouble inside the fortress, Yuelu Fortress would have been breached by the army of evil demons long ago. How could it have been delayed until now and still be able to hold on?

It is even possible to make a blasphemous guess that the Moondew Fortress can resist the erosion of the plague demon for a long time, and the role played by the phantom demon in it cannot be underestimated.

To put it more bluntly, the Moondew Fortress has not fallen so far, and this magical demon has made a great contribution to this.

And this transformed evil demon indeed proved this in the following conversation.

Ergou held the Phoenix Scepter and kept attacking the phantom evil demon. Even though the opponent was covered in blood, Ergou did not show any mercy.

Seeing Ergou poking it endlessly, the transformed evil demon said angrily, "Slow down! Slow down! Human brother, I am an immortal ghost. Even if you poke me for another hundred years, you can't kill me. Save your energy and tell me how you found out where I am!"

Er Gou pretended to be angry and shouted, "Don't be so arrogant! Even if I can't kill you, I will swear to stop your conspiracy to destroy Yuelu Fortress and protect this miraculous city that has not been conquered for tens of thousands of years!"

The transformed evil demon laughed and said, "You little human boy, you don't know that the Moon Dew Fortress has been able to survive until now not because of other things, but because I put in more effort and used it effectively. Otherwise, the plague bugs would have conquered this fortress thousands of years ago."

Er Gou shook his head and said, "Evil demon, don't lie to me and try to deceive me with your own merits! I don't believe you have such good intentions. Besides, even if you want to fight against the evil demons outside the fortress, what can you do?"

Having said this, Ergou stopped attacking the evil demon and just sneered while leaning on the Phoenix Scepter.

The illusionary demon shouted excitedly: "Don't underestimate me, kid. I am the son of the Thousand Changes under the Lord of Ten Thousand Changes. I have been to the Aidari tribe to plunder knowledge and secrets."

One of the favorite things of the demons under the Lord of Change is to go into the real civilized society and plunder knowledge and secrets. They even have a more common psychic spell that can permanently plunder knowledge and secrets directly from the minds of mortals through a certain ritual.

Those who have been robbed of their knowledge and secrets will not only suffer irreversible damage to their brains, but will also completely forget what has been robbed.

The transformed evil demon shouted, "The Moon Dew Fortress was built by the master craftsman of the Yangying clan. Unfortunately, when I went to hide among the survivors of Mount Li ten thousand years ago, I plundered the brain of an elite disciple of the Yangying clan and learned many secrets of the Moon Dew Fortress from him."

(End of this chapter)