I can find treasures in my dreams.

Chapter 575 Ancient God's Netherflame, Originating from the Power of the Ancient God
Just as Vivian was hunting demons.

Yang Fan, disguised as Mr. Ghost, quietly appeared in the icy and snowy landscape of southern Gameni.

Night had just fallen, and a light, sparse snowflake began to drift down from the sky.

He stood quietly on a small hilltop, watching a dozen or so people fleeing south.

The so-called "southern refugees" are those who attempt to escape Gameni and travel south until they enter Azik territory.

Since Gameni became a land of demons, the entire Federation has transformed overnight into a country with a strict hierarchical system.

With hundreds of millions of civilians at risk of becoming blood sacrifices at any moment, they naturally wanted to leave the Federation.
However, this escape route can be described as fraught with difficulties.

Because demons aren't stupid, how could they just sit idly by and watch their human sacrifices flee?

The federal government swiftly enacted a law declaring that any act of fleeing the Union would be considered treason.

The military has deployed a large number of drones along the border, patrolling the border area day and night, which has greatly increased the efficiency of the search and capture operation.

Many of those who fled south were arrested by the army, and only a very small number managed to escape into the Aztec Union.

It is entirely conceivable that these arrested fugitives will meet a very tragic end.

Because the success rate was too low and the risk was too great, fewer and fewer people were leaving.

But there are always some daring Gamenese who are unwilling to be kept by demons, so people keep trying.

The sudden invasion of the Azik League by the Gamenes was also partly due to their efforts to stop the southward escapees.

after that.

Using its advanced communication technology, Daxia began to punish Gameni, initiating a long-term electromagnetic suppression campaign.

The Federation was powerless to counter Great Xia's information dominance; all base stations within its borders were either paralyzed or damaged, causing communication technology to regress by decades.

The federal military's drone swarm was heavily suppressed; its navigation and control systems were completely rendered useless, turning them into scrap metal.

With fewer drone patrols and the Federation and Azik Federation locked in fierce fighting, it was impossible to concentrate on hunting down fugitives. As a result, the border became riddled with loopholes, and the number of people fleeing south increased again.

At this moment.

Yang Fan encountered a group of fugitives who planned to take this opportunity to escape to the Azik Alliance.

There were no elderly people in this group, only two children, and the rest were all healthy adult men and women.

For safety reasons, they all hid in concealed locations during the day and only came out to travel at night.

Everyone wore a white cloth as camouflage, making them difficult to spot in the snow.

Yang Fan gazed at the two children's red, frostbitten faces from afar and sighed inwardly, "Fine, I'll help them out."

The little girl among the two children looked a lot like Tracy, the girl he had lived with under the alias Jack for more than half a year, so he felt a rare pang of pity for her.

Through his astronomical insight, he had already foreseen the tragic end of these people.

In half an hour, a border defense squad belonging to the federal military will intercept this group of people fleeing south.

The border patrol squad did some truly horrific things to the refugees who fled south. Six women were gang-raped, two children were beaten to death, and four men were tortured to death.

It's hard to imagine that this was something a country's soldiers would do to their own civilians.

This is because many federal soldiers are now using a substance called "loyalty potion," which has caused a significant change in their personalities.

They became cold-hearted and ruthless, cruel to their own kind, and at the same time, they regarded the commands of demons as gospel.

Yang Fan could sense that the loyalty potion had slightly corrupted the soldiers' souls, but had not affected their intelligence.

Relying on the loyalist badge system and loyalty potions, the demons firmly controlled a violent class of over 3000 million people, thereby controlling a vast country with a total population of hundreds of millions.

After all, power comes from guns. Those at the bottom who do not control the machinery of violence will only face death if they resist.

The transformation of the Gameni Federation from a capitalist nation into a demonic kingdom—a "large-scale social experiment"—truly broadened his horizons.

This is clearly the result of demons gradually accumulating rich experience in the process of destroying countless civilized worlds.

This made Yang Fan think more deeply about the path of demons.

The essence of demons is indeed heterogeneity and loss of control; the corruption of the loyalty potion represents heterogeneity, and the collective depravity of a nation represents loss of control.

However, being out of control does not necessarily mean complete chaos, disorder, or even collapse.

This loss of control maintained a strange balance. If there were no external intervention and the demons did not resort to excessive blood sacrifices, the Federation could have survived for several hundred years without perishing.

Yang Fan vaguely felt that this point was very important for the path of demons.

At this moment.

With a slight thought, a phantom gray flame appeared out of thin air before him.

This flame didn't seem powerful, but its level was far beyond imagination, even beyond the reach of Venerables.

It has a name that sounds extraordinary just by its name—Ancient God Netherflame.

As the creators of the primordial world, anything related to the ancient gods is undoubtedly beyond imagination.

After he suddenly realized the principle that "spacetime must follow a balance", he immediately noticed a subtle change in the Ancient God Netherflame.

Yang Fan carefully sensed it for a while and smiled with satisfaction: "The Ancient God Nether Flame seems to have become a little more solid. It seems that my judgment was correct. Out of control is not absolutely out of control, otherwise it would surely bring about its own destruction."

The origin of the ancient god Netherflame was entirely accidental.

This story begins a long time ago.

At that time, his status as Mr. Ghost was only just beginning to gain worldwide fame, which is a bit low compared to the current description of him as "globally renowned".

At that time, the Mount Gods organization, a group of superhumans from Gameni, sent a team of superhumans carrying a strange artifact called the "Destroyer Tiger Skull" to hunt him down.

Yang Fan easily defeated the group of "delivered" Gameni people, destroyed the artifact using the Soul-Stealing Cicada, and gained an unexpected supernatural power.

That is—the source of the ancient god's curse (the Nether Spring).

The essence of the mysterious artifacts is that after the fall of the ancient gods, the power of their laws dispersed to every corner of the primordial world and deeply integrated with various objects.

This is the process by which the mysterious artifact was created.

The father who destroyed the tiger's skull was a fallen ancient god whose revered name was "Mingquan". This source of the ancient god's curse was kept within the treasure until Yang Fan began to study the blood sacrifice secrets in the "Qingyang Book".

When he mastered dozens of blood sacrifice techniques, he remotely transformed Vivian into a demon, orchestrating a demon war in Gameni.

This demon was officially revealed to the world, and the Great Xia took this opportunity to overturn the table and dethrone Jamini from its throne.

From that moment on, Yang Fan suddenly discovered that this source of the ancient god's curse had undergone an extremely slight change.

He carefully studied this power, or rather, the power of the Nether Spring, and was extremely surprised to find that it seemed to be particularly compatible with the power of demons.

Even more incredibly, since he began to come into contact with the power of the Nether Spring, his research progress on the secret technique of demon blood sacrifice has been advancing by leaps and bounds.

Until the day before yesterday, Yang Fan used a secret technique called the Green Sheep Technique.

He successfully separated a wisp of energy from the power of the Nether Spring.

Frankly, this is a very dangerous move.

If the ancient god Mingquan had not perished, and if the jade cicada had not been able to devour the power of the ancient god, thus effectively preventing it from being eroded, he would never have done this.

Yang Fan fused the power of the Nether Spring with a small fragment of his soul, and thus obtained this wisp of the Ancient God's Nether Flame.

He then discovered that his mastery of the demonic path had undergone a tremendous leap.

He can master many extremely difficult blood sacrifice techniques, such as the Netherworld Soul Sacrifice at the knight level, with ease.

He understood perfectly well that the Ancient God Mingquan must have been a demonic ancient god, but for some unknown reason, he had perished.

Ten minutes passed.

Yang Fan looked in another direction.

As predicted, the border patrol team discovered traces left by those fleeing south during their patrol.

These are traces left intentionally by someone.

Because one of the fugitives was actually a federal agent who had infiltrated the group.

Yang Fan did not intend to deal with the Federation soldiers personally, but instead planned to use another method.

He reached out and made a grabbing motion.

The ancient god's dark flames fluctuated slightly.

A faint, ethereal figure appeared out of thin air before me. Judging from the figure's blurry face, it was an undercover agent among the fleeing group.

This is a very high-level demonic secret technique—the Soul Mirror.

Simply put, it means using the power of demons as a "mirror" to "reflect" the target's soul in the mirror.

Even if the target's strength reaches the level of a knight, it is often difficult to detect the imprinted target unless the target's soul possesses extraordinary sensitivity.

Yang Fan turned his head and glanced at the Ancient God Netherflame, then pointed at it with a finger.

A speck of gray light separated from the Netherflame, instantly struck the Soul Mirror, and disappeared within it.

Not long after.

A good show is about to begin.

Based on the traces, the border guards divided into two groups and blocked the fleeing people from the front and back.

"Da da!"

The gunshots came from two directions in an instant.

The dozen or so people fleeing south were gripped by terror, and the two children trembled with fear, clinging to their mother.

Because they all knew that once captured, they would become terrible blood sacrifices.

The leader of the group glanced at the two children and made a decisive decision: "We'll split into two groups to lure away those damned Federation dogs. Lillian and Sophia, you take the children and go in the other direction. Maybe you'll still have a chance to escape."

At this critical moment, the team leader decided to leave the last hope of survival to the two children.

at this time.

Something happened.

"Ah~"

The undercover agent suddenly cried out in pain and collapsed to the ground, rolling around in agony.

His body rapidly changed; his mouth protruded forward, a short horn sprouted from his forehead, and patches of grayish-white scales grew on his body.

It only takes a breath.

The undercover agent had completely changed his appearance.

He—no, we should call it now—looked nothing like a human; he looked more like a hunting dog.

The refugees were stunned to see their companions in this state.

The leader immediately raised his gun and aimed it at the scaly hunting dog.

"Wow~"

The little girl was so frightened that she cried.

the other side.

Yang Fan watched this scene from afar, a slight smile curving his lips: "The White Flame Clan is most skilled at raising 'Unicorn Demon Dogs.' Since the Holy Son is about to arrive, I might as well stir things up even more."

The Crimson Flame Clan is based in the Gameni Federation. They do not raise unicorn demon hounds; this is a specialty of the White Flame Clan.

The transformation from human form to non-human form is not merely a change in physical appearance, but also involves a profound transformation of the soul.

The Book of the Green Sheep records the method of the demon dog blood sacrifice, but it is somewhat vague and missing many key parts.

Having comprehended the Ancient God's Nether Flame, Yang Fan easily deduced and completed the missing secret techniques, and effortlessly mastered the Demon Dog Blood Sacrifice.

(End of this chapter)