Chapter 959 - 868 Demon Fiend
Demon Desolate.
True to its name, this land was filled with countless forces of the Demon Path, including the Tianmo Palace and Desire Demon Hall. Nearly all cultivators in the world practiced the Demon Path.
Jingmo Lake, known as one of the highest holy lands in Demon Desolate, was always controlled by the Tianmo Palace.
Today, the entire Tianmo Palace was shaken, and all disciples sensed that supreme demonic might.
On the shore of Jingmo Lake, a man in a black robe stood with his hands behind his back.
He was Yu Weicheng, the master of Tianmo Palace.
Yu Weicheng gazed at Jingmo Lake ahead, seeing the demonic Qi churning ceaselessly, the surface of the water rippling like blooming lotus flowers, various Demon Dao runes restlessly moving!
Yu Weicheng’s brows were tightly knit!
“Master, this aura is terrifying… Could it be that a supreme figure of the Demon Path has emerged?”
Behind him, elder Zhang Lingmu trembled as he spoke,
“Could it be the Tianmo King, his elderliness?”
The Tianmo King Zhang Lingmu referred to… was a former ancestor of Tianmo Palace.
A striking figure among the Tianmo, he was considered the most likely to restore the glory of the Demon Lord from the Era of the Ancient White Mist.
During a certain period, Tianmo King obtained a secret scroll left by the Demon Lord and then vanished without a trace.
—The Demon Lord, esteemed among Demon Cultivators, was known as the Demon Fiend among the common folk!
It was said that when Tianmo King left Tianmo Palace, he once stated that upon mastering the Demon Venerable’s Secret Scroll, he would fill the entire True Ancestor World with demonic Qi!
Now, a strand of Demon Dao’s energy had disturbed the heavens.
Causing Tianmo Palace… to remember the Tianmo King.
But Yu Weicheng shook his head and said,
“It shouldn’t be.”
“This Demon Dao energy… seems to surpass the Demon Path of the True Ancestor World!”
At that moment,
Above the Sky Vault, suddenly a few figures fell from the sky.
They headed directly towards Tianmo Palace’s Jingmo Lake.
Those were none other than Ge Qianming, Yafei, and Lu Fei.
Ao Wushuang and Song Jiyuan followed far behind them.
“Hmm, on this vast land, the demonic Qi here is the heaviest, suitable for nurturing the Ultimate Demon Codex. Let’s settle here.”
Ge Qianming spoke indifferently.
But as soon as his words fell, countless rainbow lights of the Demon Path attacked them from below.
That was the Tianmo Palace’s protective grand formation!
“Hehe, overestimating yourselves!”
Ge Qianming let out a cold laugh, flipping through the Ultimate Demon Codex.
Instantly, all the rainbow lights of the Demon Path dissipated!
The protective grand formation was broken.
They appeared above Jingmo Lake.
“Who exactly are you?!”
Zhang Lingmu shouted angrily.
At this point, all the experts of Tianmo Palace had already converged on this location, their faces filled with deep wariness.
“You do not have the right to ask.”
Ge Qianming chuckled coldly and said,
“From today onward, we are the masters of this place.”
“Either become our servants, or die.”
“The choice is yours.”
Overbearing, as if commanding.
Many Demon Cultivators in Tianmo Palace were extremely angered and wished to fight.
But Tianmo Palace’s master, Yu Weicheng, suddenly raised his hand to stop everyone, saying,
“Tianmo Palace… greets our new masters!”
“From today onwards, everyone in Tianmo Palace is your servant!”
…
Soon, the entire Tianmo Palace had come under the control of Ge Qianming and his group.
“This Ultimate Demon Codex is indeed peculiar. Every page is filled with dense questions…”
Looking at the Ultimate Demon Codex in Ge Qianming’s hands, Lu Fei said curiously,
“It is said that this Ultimate Demon Codex provides answers to a hundred ultimate questions of the Demon Path, containing the methods necessary to complete the ‘Four Sights’!”
Ge Qianming smiled faintly and said,
“Of course it’s true!”
“The Demon Ancestor is likely still in the Ghostly Phase, but with this Codex, they could surpass the Encounter with Immortals, Encounter with Saints, and reach the Encounter with Gods… as long as they sense it, they’ll definitely come.”
“Bring out the Blood Crystal and Divine Iron as well. The Blood Ancestor and Instrument Ancestor… will also be attracted.”
…
At this moment,
In Demon Desolate,
Inside a highly secretive cave.
Around the cave, a mysterious barrier blocked entry, seemingly completely isolated from the outside.
In the cave, a tall, bald man covered in dense demonic scripts was holding a scroll of sheepskin in his hands, studying it. As he read, the confusion in his eyes deepened.
Because, he found that he just couldn’t understand it at all.
The sheepskin scroll was filled with dense Demon Dao runes, which contained the mysteries of Demon Dao cultivation, including how demonic Qi circulated and how the internal organs absorbed and expelled it!
“Lord Demon Ancestor, are you sure… this is indeed the answer to the third question?”
After a long look, the bald man uncertainly raised his eyes to look at a middle-aged man in front of him!
The middle-aged man wore a white robe, exuding a calm and dignified aura, leaning against a coffin, seemingly tired, and said,
“Rest assured, in the world of Demon Dao, no one is more proficient than me!”
“This third question left by your Demon Lord must be solved in this way! Copy my answer, and you won’t be wrong!”
Hearing this, the bald man clenched his teeth and said,
“Alright, Lord Demon Ancestor, I trust you!”
—This bald man was none other than the illustrious Tianmo King of Demon Desolate!
Years ago, he had obtained a treasure scroll of the Demon Path.
The Demon Venerable’s Secret Scroll!
Forged from extremely special materials, the Demon Venerable’s Secret Scroll concentrated the efforts of the Demon Lord from the Era of the Ancient White Mist and was filled with the rules of the Demon Path.
And the Demon Venerable’s Secret Scroll consisted of only three pages, each containing a question about the Demon Path!
For instance, the question on the first page was at the Open-gate Level, requiring one to use Demon Blood to evolve the transformations of the Three Souls and Seven Spirits when opening the gate to obtain the cultivation method on the first page.
Demon Dao cultivation is extremely difficult; the path taken is too overbearing and brutal, so the more it is like this, the more precise one must be about every detail.
As one reaches higher levels, comprehension becomes more important; methods like devouring Primeval Souls and seizing other cultivators’ Cultivation Levels, which lower-level demon cultivators would use, are utterly useless.
One has to rely on enlightenment.
Thus, high-level Demon Dao inheritances are always passed down in the form of secret scrolls.
If one does not possess sufficient talent and profound mastery, even if the cultivation methods are made public, it would result in death for each that tried!
After Tianmo King obtained the Demon Venerable’s Secret Scroll, he too pondered over it for countless years, finding it extremely difficult.
It was not until he forcibly practiced the answer to the first question that he summoned the man before him.
This man claimed to be… Demon Ancestor, Wuye!
Moreover, what the Demon Ancestor was guarding… was actually the corpse of the Demon Venerable from the Era of the Ancient White Mist!
At that time, Tianmo King simply did not believe it.
But later, when he felt the Supreme demonic Qi of the Demon Ancestor, he could no longer doubt it.
During this period, under the guidance of the Demon Ancestor, he had actually managed to solve the first two pages of the Demon Venerable’s Secret Scroll.
And had obtained the corresponding cultivation method.
But, the third page was extremely challenging, even Demon Ancestor Wuye had to ponder for a long time before giving out the answer.
Even with this, he had gotten it wrong three or four times—this was the fifth attempt!
Tianmo King took a deep breath and decided to try answering for the fifth time.
Immediately, he opened the third page of the secret scroll.
This page’s question required mobilizing all the demonic Qi in one’s body to construct a path of demonic rules!
Extremely challenging!
If successful, he would obtain the third page, the Ascendant Path method.
Following the method given by Demon Ancestor Wuye, he began to circulate his demonic Qi.
On the special material that made up the Demon Venerable’s Secret Scroll, he attempted evolution.
Boom!
A muffled sound.
Tianmo King collapsed to the ground, the Demon Venerable’s Secret Scroll, not moving at all!
On the Demon Venerable’s Secret Scroll, the demonic rules left by the Demon Venerable slowly revealed a line of black text:
“Does not match the answer.”
…
“Lord Demon Ancestor… wrong again?”
Tianmo King felt somewhat aggrieved; this Demon Ancestor… seemed not very reliable.
The first two questions were manageable, but now this third question, he had tried five times in a row, and each time, it was wrong.
Each mistake caused his meridians to become disordered, a very painful experience needing a long time to recover!
Demon Ancestor Wuye, seeing this scene, was also indignant, saying:
“It’s impossible; there’s absolutely nothing wrong with my method of circulation…”
“It must be the answer that’s wrong!”
The answer was wrong?
Tianmo King momentarily didn’t know what to say.
“This question is not that difficult; it only requires constructing a path of demonic rules… As the Demon Ancestor, I wrote five different answers for you, constructing five completely different paths of Demon Dao, and it’s still not working?”
“That shows that the standards of your Demon Venerable are too poor, the question is faulty, and the answer is wrong!”
The Demon Ancestor shook his head, adamantly refusing to admit fault.
But after he finished speaking, he found Tianmo King staring at him blankly, with a shocked expression.
“What’s wrong? Did I say something incorrect? The realm of your Demon Venerable is much lower than mine… She posed the questions, how could I not answer them? It must be that her preset answers are incorrect!”
The Demon Ancestor spoke defiantly!
But, he only saw Tianmo King blankly raising his hand, pointing towards something beside him.
Demon Ancestor sensed something, turned his head subconsciously, only to see that, somehow, the coffin had opened!
And from it, a miserable gray little hand stretched out!
The miserable gray hand gripped the edge of the coffin, pulled hard, and then, a little girl stood up from the coffin.
She appeared to be about eight or nine years old, her large eyes filled with gray.
“Hmm?!”
Demon Ancestor exclaimed:
“How did you climb out?”
The little girl moved her body a bit, then said:
“You angered me back to life!”
“You don’t even know how to solve such a simple question and still say my left answers are wrong?”
“Hey, aren’t you of the Encounter with Immortals level? How shameless can you be?”
Her words were icy cold, very angry, she flicked her hand towards Tianmo King, and immediately the secret scroll in his hand floated into hers.
She snapped her fingers, and demonic Qi flowed over the scroll.
But with a slight sound, the scroll still showed no signs of movement!
“Does not match the answer.”
Still just that line of text.
Upon seeing this, Demon Ancestor immediately shouted:
“Look, even you can’t do it… and still say there isn’t a problem with the answer?”
He was very scornful.
But, the little girl said:
“Shut up!”
She looked annoyedly at the scroll, saying:
“I once thought the path of Demon Dao needed to be laid out with both good and evil to go far, so to answer this question, even as a demon cultivator, one needs to harbor a trace of pity, kindness, and love… Only then can the path of Demon Dao constructed match the answer I…