Chapter 33

The Birth of Two Demons [双魔降世 Shuāng Mó Jiàng Shì] is the thirty-third chapter of Tong Yao's Guardians of Night.

Summary
Paralleling Wang Shengli's group of the new generation of guardians, Yan Wen plans to send the new generation of demon lords as the Underworld's representatives to seize the Heaven Crystal. As the nearby demons look on in fear as the two demon lords walk out of the Blood Pool and towards them, they begin to exposit their origins. The two ruthless demon lords once massacred the human world and Underworld, but due to their excessive slaughtering and supercilious attitudes, high-ranking individuals from both realms cooperated with each other to formulate a strategy to kill them. At the cost of countless powerful warriors, they barely managed to kill the two demon lords. With severely weakened souls, the demon lords nourished themselves for a century before finally reincarnating.

As the demons express their horrified confusion as to why bloodthirsty beings like the two weren't killed off for good and question if it is necessary to release such indiscriminate killing machines, Che Yongtai compares the noisiness of the crowd to a horde of flies in annoyance, prompting the demons to silence themselves. He then orders the demons to kneel and lick his and his "follower"'s shoes, while at the same time Xi Sha commands them to kneel and greet her and her "servant". Taking offense at each other's title for the other, the two begin to childishly argue with each other, much to the chagrin of everyone else present. A random demon then explains that their reincarnations must have been "inferior in quality", causing their new forms to retain less than 10% of their original power. The other demons agree, noting that Che Yongtai and Xi Sha did not exhibit obvious demonic auras. Some even suggest that they probably have less than 1% of their original strength while the two continue to argue.

Two large demons, identified as the demon generals Crimson Blood and Black Water then appear, remarking that failed reincarnations do not deserve to represent the Undeworld. Crimson Blood then walks up to Che Yongtai and mockingly degrades him as an embarrassing and intellectually disabled weakling before attempting to test his ablities. He then attacks Che Yongtai with his signature technique Crimson Blood Demon Claw. An onlooking demon explains that the move reduces any organism it hits into a pool of blood which Crimson Blood then absorbs to augment his own power, and realizes that the demon general intends to kill the demon lord and absorb his powers. Upon contact, a large pool of blood splashes out from Che Yongtai's location, leading the surrounding crowd to assume he died.

Chapter Notes

 * Che Yongtai and Xi Sha's origins are introduced.
 * Crimson Blood attacks Che Yongtai and seemingly kills him.