Wizards pursue the truth

Chapter 384 [384] One Day at the Heavenly Gate: The Devouring Demon King

The surging true energy transformed into a torrent, causing the entire underground ruins space to tremble. Large amounts of rubble fell continuously, and Xu Tianzheng's figure transformed into a streak of blood-red light, rushing towards Wang Ya. His face was filled with ferocity, and he attacked ruthlessly the moment Wang Ya uttered those words. The Blood Demon True Energy of the Blood Demon Art provides several times the enhancement to the physical body compared to other Heavenly Gate Divine Arts; its only weakness is that its power diminishes when released outside the body.

His hands were like blood claws from the underworld, leaving traces of blood in the void. He was too fast and made too decisive a decision. Even the Iron Sword Sect Master and Sun Xing of the Cold Moon Sword Sect did not react in time, as if he had always planned to do so.

After all, he was an old demon of the Blood Demon Cult, and his thoughts and combat experience were extraordinary.

"Heavenly beings of the upper realm, die!"

The Blood Demon Lord's hands were covered with crimson true energy, almost tangible, and illuminated by crimson light, extending directly to about three meters.

"Ancient texts record that even celestial beings from the upper realm are not invincible in the lower realm; they also have periods of weakness. Now is the perfect time for me to kill you."

His eyes blazed with the same crimson light as his hands, and the thought of tearing the celestial beings of the upper realm apart arose in his mind.

However, facing the ever-approaching, enlarging blood-red claws, Wang Ya's expression remained unchanged. His aura didn't stagnate at the Earthly Gate Realm; instead, it continued to rise, albeit at a much slower pace than at the Earthly Gate Realm. Like climbing a mountain, he proceeded step by step.

He raised his right hand, his fingers long and slender, his skin as white and spotless as jade, forming a stark contrast to Xu Tianzheng's filthy, dark, and bloody Blood Demon True Qi.

His black eyes were utterly calm.

Her rosy lips moved up and down.

"The Blood Demon Technique absorbs the true energy and life essence of others to enhance one's own power and rapidly increase one's own life essence and true energy, but it has a major hidden danger: other people's things all carry the imprint of their information."

"The Human Gate, the Earth Gate, and the Heaven Gate—each gate represents a leap in life level, elevating an ordinary mortal to a superhuman. There exists spiritual energy between heaven and earth, though it is scarce, it enters the body during the tempering of the body and the refinement of qi and blood, subtly changing the physical body. When absorbing and exhaling true qi and giving birth to the seed of true qi, this process is amplified to the maximum."

"Martial artists are no longer the same species as ordinary people. The more powerful a martial artist is, the more they resemble animals. Such spiritual substances of heaven and earth also exist in plants. Martial artists consume rare and precious herbs and rare beasts as a result of further absorbing spiritual substances of heaven and earth and transforming themselves."

Wang Ya's eyes flickered slightly, and a smile curved his lips. "To put it another way, the cells in your body have already been nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, undergoing transformation. However, absorbing the extraordinary cells of others will only cause your own extraordinary cells to become disordered. The Blood Demon Pearl in your heart is the most important key to the Blood Demon Technique, helping you to remove most of the imprints of other people's information and the influence of their cellular gene chains, thereby maintaining your own purity."

Xu Tianzheng's expression changed drastically in an instant, and his eyes looked as if he had seen a ghost. This celestial being from the upper realm had revealed the great secret of his Blood Demon Technique in a flash.

The Blood Demon Technique is not important; in fact, many sects in the martial arts world have obtained it, but whether they secretly practice it or not is unknown.

The Blood Demon Pearl is the most important thing, and it is also the core inheritance of the Blood Demon Cult.

How did he know?!

Are the celestial beings in the upper realm truly so unpredictable and mysterious?

A ruthless glint flashed in Xu Tianzheng's eyes. Instead of canceling his attack because of this unexpected turn of events, he unleashed all of his Blood Demon True Qi.

The blood-red claws on his hands expanded from three meters to ten meters in an instant. Some of the broken stone walls that came into contact with them turned into dust in an instant. The terrifying aura turned into pressure, crushing some scattered stones into dust. The two people at the Earth Gate Realm looked at Xu Tianzheng's outburst with horror.

Cracks appeared on the walls, ceiling, and even the floor, and wisps of bloody aura spread out. Even the slightest trace of it required them to exert all their strength to activate their protective true energy to resist it.

"This is the power of a Heavenly Gate Realm expert, the true power of the Blood Demon Cult Master. What a joke, it's actually this terrifying."

Sun Xing's longsword, Cold Moon Sword, was stuck in the floor and bent into an astonishing arc as he exerted all his strength to resist the remaining power of Xu Tianzheng's Blood Demon Technique.

The Iron Sword Sect Master trembled violently, his gaze fixed on the figure gleaming with blood-red light as he charged towards the Celestial Being from the Upper Realm. Even the aftershocks were like this; could that so-called Celestial Being from the Upper Realm possibly withstand Xu Tianzheng?

"The Myriad Formless Devouring Heaven True Scripture is something I just created. Combining some of the external manifestations of your Blood Demon Technique with some wisdom in my mind, I'll use you as a test subject."

Wang Ya smiled slightly. Faced with Xu Tianzheng's powerful offensive, she not only did not retreat, but took a step forward.

"I can also kill the celestial beings of the upper realms."

Xu Tianzheng's eyes were filled with cold killing intent. He waved his hands down, which transformed into an astonishing blood-red streak, like a bloodline that shattered the void. The coverage area reached an astonishing 100 meters, enveloping a large area of ​​the underground ruins space.

The black cloth shoes were unstained by any blood on the ground, the white robe billowed slightly, and a pair of jade-like hands reached out, the right hand pointing towards Xu Tianzheng's forehead.

Xu Tianzheng felt a surge of secret delight. He was actually going to use his palm to directly touch the Blood Demon Silk. Even divine weapons would be cut into pieces by the Blood Demon Silk, unless they were spiritual weapons.

A cool touch came from his forehead, and Xu Tianzheng's pupils contracted, then suddenly widened as the slender fingers touched his forehead.

How could this be?!

Are you kidding me?!

"You!!" Xu Tianzheng seemed to have been scared out of his wits, his face turning green with fright.

A voice devoid of any emotion rang out, "Don't you understand yet? You're only five meters away from me. A martial artist at the Heavenly Gate Realm, even at full strength, will still have to wait until after I've said all that."

There can only be one outcome!

Xu Tianzheng was already dead a moment before he made his move, and the other two were also dead.

Chi Chi!

The moment Wang Ya activated the [Myriad Formless Devouring Heaven True Technique] and completely absorbed the essence, true energy, and souls of the three, the aura belonging to the Heavenly Gate Realm transformed into a whirlwind, rushing out of the ruins and sweeping away a large amount of broken stones and blood.

A figure dressed in a white robe, with spotless black cloth shoes, stepped out of this underground ruin space.

The moment he stepped out, everything behind him turned to ashes and vanished, leaving only emptiness and nothingness.

With each step he took, Wang Ya's aura intensified, and his true energy became stronger.

As he walked along the corridor walls, his true energy unconsciously released, turning any parts that came into contact with it into dust, like the passing of time, the matter of the past vanishing.

The true energy born from the Myriad Formless Devouring Heaven True Skill is extremely special and is called Myriad Form True Energy. It can simulate the true energy of any martial art in the world.

Based on the characteristics of the infinite black kernel.

Harak's other talents also evolved from this skill.

The aspects involved are the corresponding martial arts moves.

The Flesh and Blood Furnace, as one of the core elements of this true skill, can devour the true essence and true energy at the level of flesh and blood.

The Infinite Black Core devours souls and consciousness, thereby enhancing Wang Ya's own spiritual consciousness.

That's right, the extraordinary spiritual power consumed can be slowly replenished. However, because the essence of a wizard's consciousness is extremely high, at least a martial artist at the Heavenly Gate Realm is needed to enhance and restore his wizard's consciousness along with his extraordinary spiritual power.

This is probably because martial artists at the Heavenly Gate Realm have already integrated their spiritual consciousness into their true qi, forming true qi with some spirituality.

After absorbing Xu Tianzheng, the Iron Sword Sect Master, and Sun Xing, three natives, Wang Ya's extraordinary spiritual power increased from 20% to 25%, but it was still a long way from returning to the level he had when he first entered this world.

As for observing the dream world, entering it, and planting a dream anchor point, that is even more difficult.

Wang Ya conservatively estimates that at least 300% of extraordinary mental strength would be needed to build the Dream Anchor Point.

But it doesn't matter, he is looking forward to the rewards this martial arts world can bring him.

Even a newly resurrected and extremely weak Tianguan native can recover five percent of his extraordinary spiritual power.

How much recovery and improvement can those hidden martial artists on the Heavenly Ranking bring?

Hopefully, we won't disappoint him; the number of martial artists in this realm should be large enough.

Another gain was Xu Tianzheng's memories, as well as some knowledge and understanding of this world. He learned about spiritual weapons, various sects, treasures of the upper realm, and some hidden information about shattering the void. However, it was still too little, and his understanding of this world and even the upper realm was still too shallow.

He needs more knowledge of the hidden memories of martial artists in this regard.

He used his extraordinary mental power sparingly, and was no longer prepared to distort reality. The strength of his current physical body was already sufficient. The initial investment had been made, and now it was time to recoup his losses.

His gaze seemed to penetrate the barrier of the underground ruins, allowing him to see the outside world: the powerful martial artists of Sanhe City, and the figures of martial artists gathering from even further afield.

Come on, come on, the more the better.

The powerful natives of this realm control the means of production and rule the world for life. Ordinary people and low-level martial artists are not among his targets. He needs powerful natives, the stronger the better, because that means they will know more hidden information.

He was eager to know the truth about this world.

And the so-called upper realm after the shattering of the void.

Wang Ya raised his head slightly, gazing at the ceiling, as if he could see through the earth to the outside sky, the unique celestial phenomena that had gathered because of the Blood Demon Cult Master and his newly ascended Heavenly Gate.

His extraordinary spiritual power was slightly stirred.

"The world's malice, don't let me down!"

As for whether the upper realm after the void was shattered will be a powerful transcendent civilization, that remains unknown.

However, right now he is just a native of the martial arts world.

The scale of global malice is not very large. Perhaps it has been noticed, but before it causes a greater impact, the malice is unlikely to amplify.

However, what he's thinking about now is spreading it around the world.

The cost of malicious spread differs in different worlds, and this world just happens to be one he can afford.

With a slight smile playing on his lips, he strolled along at a leisurely pace, as if he were heading to a poetry gathering.

Sanhe City will be his hunting ground; it remains to be seen how many prey will come.

As for the bait to attract prey, Wang Ya gently tossed a bead radiating blood-red light with his right hand. Upon closer inspection, one could discover the exquisite fine lines on the bead, which also emitted an undeniable and powerful essence and true energy, like a radiation source that was constantly radiating radiation.

Such radiation would be fatally attractive to any martial artist.

Even martial artists at the Heavenly Gate Realm can sense from the Blood Demon Pearl an opportunity that can greatly benefit them, or even a breakthrough in their realm.

He had already prepared the bait; now it was just a matter of seeing how many fish would take the bait.

Thick, dark clouds gathered above Sanhe Mountain, extremely conspicuous. A dark, blood-red light appeared with a clap of thunder and lightning, illuminating a great distance. A strong wind was blowing, and the trees in the mountains were swaying. The wind was so strong that it seemed that a storm or a torrential downpour could come at any moment.

Strangely, this celestial phenomenon only occurred on Sanhe Mountain, covering at most a hundred meters around it. The more distant areas were clear and sunny, without even a breeze, let alone thick dark clouds.

The people of Sanhe City were all surprised by this situation. Some of the elderly muttered strange words in a daze. The young people in the family naturally did not believe the strange words of the elders, and they did not take the advice to stay at home and not go out seriously.

The martial artists, their faces filled with excitement, gathered in Sanhe City. Even with the combined pressure from several major sects near Sanhe City in Jiangnan Province, they were almost unable to suppress the crowd. There was a strong tendency for the martial artists to flock to Sanhe Mountain.

With the increase in the number of martial artists, conflicts within the city also increased, inevitably leading to street killings and brawls. The atmosphere in Sanhe City became increasingly oppressive, and ordinary people sensed something was wrong and danger, staying indoors and hoping that these damned martial artists would leave someday.

However, some shop owners were all smiles, as their hotels and inns were fully booked.

Outside of Sanhe City, a steady stream of martial artists continued to gather.

"It's like a storm is brewing."

"The Iron Sword Sect, the Sword Forging Manor, and the Hundred Flowers Sect... these sects are probably about to lose control. I wonder if those old guys have discovered anything from the Three Harmony Mountains."

In a room on the second floor of an inn, the window was open. A middle-aged man with arched eyebrows and a beard that resembled four eyebrows held a bottle of wine in his hand and looked in the direction of Sanhe Mountain.

He suddenly sighed, "If we really get the stuff, that would be even better. But if there are too many people, it will be chaotic, and the common people will suffer."

(End of this chapter)