Gou in the world of comprehension

Chapter 1652 The Enchanting Night Demon
Night fell, and the light dimmed.

A few stars were embedded in the dark sky, their light as faint as a dying candle, unable to bring even a trace of warmth to the earth.

A crescent moon hung in the sky, its outline blurred. The cold moonlight it cast was not gentle at all; instead, it was like a icy blade, slicing diagonally across this desolate world.

The autumn night wind, carrying a biting chill, rolled in with thick, dark clouds, instantly obscuring most of the waning moon and plunging the world into darkness.

The scattered moonlight filtering through the clouds fell on the residence of the cultivation family, making it appear even more desolate, like a long-abandoned, lonely grave.

At this moment, in the deepest courtyard of the mansion, a thick, tangible stench of blood permeated the air.

In the very center of the courtyard, piles of human cultivators' mangled corpses lay, their blood soaking the entire bluestone slab.

Apart from the family patriarch who was bound by an invisible force and suspended in mid-air, the entire clan, including the old, the weak, women, and children, had been killed.

The cultivators stood steadily among the corpses and pools of blood, their faces twisted with grotesque grins.

Their eyes held no pity, only a bloodthirsty fervor, as they stared intently at the family patriarch suspended in the air, like a pack of hungry wolves eyeing their prey.

That old ancestor, who was at the Golden Core stage, had already been tortured beyond recognition.

There was no intact skin or flesh left on his body, and not a single intact organ remained.

His breath was as faint as a spider's thread, his eyelids were so heavy he could hardly open them, yet he still used his last bit of strength to glare at the demons in front of him with a venomous look.

At this moment, these people no longer possessed any aura of human cultivators.

Instead, they were enveloped in an intense, almost overwhelming, demonic aura. The dark purple aura writhed and coiled around them like a living thing, emanating a chilling, unsettling energy.

Even their facial features had long since lost their human form, revealing the ferocious nature of the demon race.

Their skin is bluish-black, covered with fine scales, and feels rough like rock.

His eyes were a cloudy, dark brown, with no whites, only endless greed and killing intent.

When the menacing corners of its mouth are stretched open, two rows of sharp, fang-like teeth can be seen, gleaming with a cold, icy light.

The person in the lead was a demon cultivator who had been disguised as a human and had been lying in wait for many days.

His hands flew rapidly, forming a series of strange and twisted hand seals that swept across the void.

A series of dark trails appeared, and eerie demonic energy surged into the ancestor's body along the hand seals.

Each time its hand seals changed, the ancestor would let out a heart-wrenching scream, his body would convulse violently, and the blood from his wounds would gush out even more rapidly.

The piercing sound was exceptionally clear in the deathly silence of the night, sending chills down one's spine.

The other demon cultivators each carried the corpses of human cultivators in their hands, chewing on them with their sharp fangs.

These individuals all belong to the most bizarre and ferocious race among the demons, the "Shadow Demons."

The "Shadow Demons" are a high-ranking race among demons, holding a transcendent position in the entire demon world. They are secretive and ruthless, and are feared by all races.

This race is naturally skilled in stealth, reconnaissance, and assassination. Their figures are as elusive as ghosts, capable of taking lives silently.

They also possess an extraordinary racial talent: the ability to parasitize.

The "Shadow Demon" can burrow into the bodies of other races, devour their souls, and take their place, perfectly disguising itself as the host without revealing any flaws.

From the day they are born, every Shadow Night Demon must undergo the most brutal training system in the clan, immersing themselves in demonic energy day and night to temper their physique and soul, and learn various bizarre assassination techniques.

Upon reaching adulthood, without exception, they will all become qualified assassins.

The vast majority of the sinister and cunning Night Demons are rigorously trained into assassins according to the standards of death squads.

To complete their mission, they will stop at nothing, and will never back down even if it means being shattered to pieces and their souls scattered.

More than a hundred years ago, the demon race secretly dispatched a large number of sinister night demon assassins to infiltrate various planes of the human world.

They found suitable hosts, inhabited the bodies of human cultivators, and began a long period of incubation.

For over a century, these sinister and elusive assassins have carefully concealed their identities.

They imitate the host's words and actions, and even cultivate human techniques, blending in with the human cultivators around them.

Now they are indistinguishable from real human cultivators. Even high-level human cultivators would find it difficult to distinguish between them without deliberately using powerful divine abilities to examine their souls.

The moment the demons launched their invasion, the sinister night demon assassins lurking in every corner of the human race instantly tore off their disguises and revealed their hideous true forms.

They launched a frenzied destruction and slaughter against the human race's important facilities such as teleportation arrays and defensive fortresses.

They were familiar with the human race's defenses and knew their weaknesses; their attacks were ruthless and impossible to defend against.

This is the main reason why the various planes of humanity were in dire straits and suffered repeated defeats at the beginning of the war.

These "Shadow Demon Night Demons" assassins lurking in the human world are far more destructive than the demon cultivators on the front lines.

In the Battle of Xuan Guangtian, Su Fan emerged out of nowhere, not only completely defeating the invading demon army, but also leading human cultivators to fight their way back to the demon plane "Manrongtian".

He almost completely wiped out the demons there, turning this once prosperous demon realm into a barren wasteland filled with vengeful spirits.

This unprecedented and devastating defeat completely shocked all the high-ranking members of the Demon Clan, and instilled in them a deep-seated fear and apprehension towards Su Fan.

Enraged, the demon race's high command immediately issued orders to the "Shadow Demon Night Demons," who had been lurking among the human race for many years, instructing them to investigate Su Fan's situation at all costs.

Even if it costs the lives of many "Shadow Demon" assassins, they must thoroughly investigate Su Fan's background.

Upon receiving the order, a large number of "Shadow Demon" assassins lurking in the human world immediately sprang into action.

Using their mysterious stealth and reconnaissance abilities, they quietly investigated various human planes and, in just a few months, transmitted all the relevant information about Su Fan back to the demon race's high command.

After the demon clan's high-ranking members finished watching the footage of Xuan Guangtian's battlefield and combined it with the detailed information about Su Fan sent back by Yinmei Yemo, everyone fell silent, followed by overwhelming killing intent.

This human cultivator is truly monstrous.

He possesses the extraordinary strength to turn the tide of battle single-handedly, and can slaughter thousands of demon cultivators with a mere gesture.

Its power far exceeded the comprehension of all cultivators in the lower realms.

Even the high-ranking demons were no match for him.

A prodigy like Su Fan, whose strength surpasses that of all cultivators in the lower realms, should not even be present in this lower realm.

Therefore, the demon race's high command acted decisively and devised a massive assassination plan, sparing no expense.

No matter how many lives of the "Shadow Demon Night Demon" assassins are lost, Su Fan must be eliminated as soon as possible to prevent future troubles.

There was no other way; Su Fan posed too great a threat to the demon race.

The lurking Night Demon assassins, who had been lurking in the human world of the Yuanmang constellation, almost unleashed their entire force. They mobilized all the elite assassins within their ranks, searching frantically for Su Fan's whereabouts.

For nearly a year, countless eerie night demon assassins, relying on scattered intelligence and the repeated divinations performed by the demon race's high-ranking officials using secret techniques, finally pinpointed the approximate area where Su Fan was located.

These few sinister night demon assassins in front of us are the elites responsible for scouting the Gemstone Workshop area.

In order to force them to reveal Su Fan's exact whereabouts, they did not hesitate to slaughter the entire nearby cultivation family.

They also finally obtained a precious piece of information from this Golden Core Realm ancestor who was tortured to the point of near death, which was enough to make them ecstatic.

The owner of the "Talisman Hall" inside the "Gemstone Workshop" is very likely the Su Fan they have been searching for, who is hiding there.

At midnight, the sky was as dark as ink, completely swallowing up even the few dim stars, leaving only boundless silence and coldness between heaven and earth.

A pale crescent moon broke free from the shackles of the dark clouds, casting its cold, piercing light like a thin layer of frost, enveloping the entire Gemstone Workshop.

The outline of the market became even more eerie, and even the air was filled with a bone-chilling cold.

The Gemstone Workshop was no longer bustling with activity; instead, it was a suffocating scene of blood.

Those few sinister Night Demon assassins who had slaughtered the entire cultivation family had already left the mansion littered with corpses and, following Su Fan's trail, arrived here with murderous intent.

They were ruthless, leaving no survivors, and within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, they had slaughtered all the human cultivators in the market.

Whether they were cultivators guarding the market or shopkeepers, they all fell in pools of blood.

Fresh blood flowed through the cracks in the bluestone slabs of the market, gathering into tiny blood streams. The stench of blood in the air grew stronger, mixed with demonic energy, making people nauseous.

After slaughtering all the human cultivators in the market, the several eerie night demon assassins stopped and gathered in the inconspicuous talisman hall.

Pairs of crimson demonic eyes warily scanned every corner of the shop, their demonic aura growing ever more chilling.

The leader, the "Shadow Demon Night Demon," raised his hand, his fingertips swirling with dark purple demonic energy, and gently brushed across the counter and chairs of the talisman hall.

Wherever the dense demonic energy passed, a faint aura of a human cultivator slowly emerged.

A glint of wild joy flashed in its eyes, and it immediately stopped what it was doing, its hands quickly forming a strange hand seal for communication.

Waves of dark demonic energy emanated from its body, spreading in all directions and quickly connecting with its kin scattered around.

Almost the instant the handprint was placed, countless subtle fluctuations of demonic energy responded within a radius of tens of thousands of miles.

Ghostly figures, following the scent of the message, were rapidly converging on the Gemstone Workshop.

These gathered eerie night demons are far more complex than the low-level assassins who previously slaughtered the sect.

Among them were battle-hardened, high-level assassins skilled in stealth and assassination, as well as dozens of figures whose terrifying auras were enough to make one's heart tremble; all of them were at the level of ninth-order Great Demons.

With each step they took, the void trembled slightly, and dark purple demonic energy surged like a tide.

Wherever it passed, the grass and trees withered instantly, and even the moonlight was stained dark purple.

Meanwhile, Su Fan, who was hiding in a secret underground cave, was completely unaware of what was happening on the surface.

He never imagined that the demon race had infiltrated so many sinister night demons among the human race.

Little did they know that these demons, who had been lying in wait for centuries, had now come out in full force and were approaching the Gemstone Workshop from all directions.

In order to completely eliminate Su Fan, this major threat, the Demon Clan is sparing no expense this time.

They mobilized all the elite Night Demons lurking in the human world to this place, laying a net that could not be cast, determined to kill Su Fan here.

At this moment, Su Fan was sitting cross-legged on a flat blue stone in the center of the cave, with spiritual energy slowly flowing around him.

The air inside the cave was damp and chilly, but it did not affect his mind in the slightest.

Now that we have found such a secluded and safe hiding place, there is no need to stay any longer. It is time to get up and leave.

Thinking of this, Su Fan slowly stood up, then raised his hand and snapped his fingers with a "snap".

A crisp sound echoed through the silent cave, and the evil spirit domain that had permeated the entire underground cave began to slowly dissipate, like a bubble that had been punctured.

The dark gray aura of the magical domain gradually faded, eventually merging completely into the coldness of the cave and disappearing without a trace.

After the evil spirits completely retreated, the cave system deep in the mountains was no longer what it used to be.

The once rough but intact ground and cave walls have now turned pitch black, as if a layer of the surface rock has been scraped off, or as if it has been completely eroded by intense demonic energy.

Everywhere you look, there are mottled black marks, exuding an eerie stillness.

Su Fan didn't linger any longer. Following the faint scent and traces he had left behind, he soon emerged from the hidden cave he had initially entered and returned to the surface.

By this time, the sky was gradually brightening, and the inky black sky was being replaced by a slightly grayish-white hue, leaving the world shrouded in a hazy gray.

There was no warmth from the morning sun; instead, there was a damp chill, like after the rain, and even the air felt thick and oppressive.

Su Fan's eyes suddenly narrowed, and a strange unease rose in his heart.

Without the slightest hesitation, he instantly released his divine sense.

The immense divine consciousness, like an invisible tide, spread out instantly, sweeping across all directions.

Every blade of grass and every rustle of wind within a radius of tens of thousands of miles was clearly imprinted in his mind, without the slightest omission.

what……

As his divine sense swept across the direction of the gem shop, the shocking crimson color within the market instantly entered his perception.

Corpses littered the ground, blood streams flowed everywhere, and the stench of blood and demonic energy was so thick it was almost overwhelming.

The horrific scene gave him a sudden shock and startled him.

In particular, the densely packed demon cultivators that Su Fan sensed constantly converging from all directions left him completely bewildered.

His doubts grew stronger. Lao Tzu had been hiding here incognito, keeping a very low profile and never revealing his whereabouts.

This is...

Su Fan frowned, his eyes sharpening instantly, his heart filled with surprise and doubt.

Why are there so many demon cultivators here all of a sudden?

Moreover, even more demon figures are rapidly approaching from all directions, continuously converging on the Gemstone Workshop, clearly indicating that they came prepared.

(End of this chapter)