The Evil Soul Master is actually myself

A desolate land was enveloped in a dark green, poisonous mist. Suddenly, the space surged, and two enormous, burly demons stepped out, cursing, "What bad luck! We've run into an army of the [Eye Demon Lord]."

"Our bloodline has been taken, and all our subordinates have been wiped out. How are we supposed to pay this blood tax now?" the Flame Demon said in fear, glancing at the three-headed baboon beside it.

Then, when Su Ming caught up, he saw the two chaotic idiots fighting to the death, clearly both thinking of using their companion to take the place of that blood tax.

"Is this Wriggling Mother so terrifying that even the Chaos Demons are terrified and submit to her?" Su thought to himself in surprise. After observing for a moment, he decisively made his move.

Rumble!

The two demons suddenly found themselves in a vast black mist and became wary.

Before they could break free, endless lightning and dazzling light clashed, turning the place into a scorched wasteland. The two demons were instantly torn apart, their black and red blood splattering out.

Su Ming suppressed them within the domain of the evil god, and the ominous black and red evil energy of calamity rose up, flowing into the body of the Flame Demon, which was struggling to release its crimson flames.

In no time, he felt the two high-ranking demons completely enslaved and become servants of the evil god.

Moreover, their aura was even stronger, with crimson eyes and an eerie, menacing presence. For demons, such chaotic and evil creatures, the erosion of the evil god's domain actually made their essence purer.

"Where is this place?" Su Ming summoned the two demons and asked them.

"Great Dark Lord, Lord of Calamity and Misfortune, this is the seventh level of the [Abyss of Return], the [Wriggling Poison Mist], ruled by the Wriggling Queen." Surprisingly, the three-headed baboon immediately knelt down and spoke devoutly.

Moreover, this form of address made Su Ming feel somewhat ashamed.

Both demons were quite clever, otherwise they wouldn't have survived to such a high level. When they were corrupted by the evil god's domain, they were horrified by the nature of this extremely high power. Given Su Ming's status in this abyss, such a title is not out of line.

“The Ruins of Return? The wriggling poisonous mist? And this wriggling worm mother…” Su Ming pondered, asking the two demons.

They were obedient and told everything they knew at once.

Guixu is the name of this continuous abyss, belonging to the dark side of the Douluo Universe. It has thirteen layers, and the seventh layer, [Wriggling Poison Mist], is named after the Abyss Lord, the Wriggling Insect Mother.

However, each layer of the abyss was formed from a world after its destruction. The area of ​​the Wriggling Poison Mist was vast, and the Wriggling Mother could not rule it all. Apart from the core essence she occupied, some desolate lands on the periphery were divided up and enfeoffed layer by layer.

There are approximately seventeen lesser demon lords, each a top-tier high-ranking demon, commanding hundreds or even thousands of guards, including many high-ranking demons who have pledged allegiance to them, ruling over a vast territory and wielding immense power.

They engage in mutual warfare and even form alliances. Although they all revere the Creeping Mistress as the Lord of the Abyss, they themselves are also eager to seize the throne.

Their subordinates and the demons wandering the wilderness are constantly killing each other, while also coveting the throne.

This is the characteristic of the Abyss: chaos and disorder, barely maintaining a certain order, which is not long-lasting and can change at any time.

Based on the strength of these two high-level demons, Su Ming deduced the level of the lower-level demon lords. They claimed to be newly entered high-level demons, roughly equivalent to top-level Soul Saints who have maintained their Martial Soul True Body for a long time.

So, a Lesser Demon Lord is at the Title Douluo level? I wonder what level the Mother of Creep is—a Limit Douluo, or a demigod?

"I wonder if the 'Lord of the Abyss' mentioned in the Seventh Trial of Evil refers to the [Mother of Creeping] or a Lesser Lord? If it's a Lesser Lord, that would be easier," Su Ming muttered to himself.

Of course, they shouldn't be underestimated. Even ordinary high-level demons have a large number of elite followers and can easily form armies, let alone lesser lords. It would be difficult for one person to shake them.

But the next moment, the evil imprint in his mind sent out a message, making Su Ming shake his head and smile bitterly.

The Abyss Lord required for the assessment is actually at the level of the Mother of Creep; one must rule at least one level of the Abyss to pass the test.

A single Abyss Lord is a headache, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of demons under His command and His followers.

"No, perhaps there are other ways. Demons are in chaos, and countless attempts to usurp the throne are possible. We can form alliances and unite against each other," Su Ming thought with a furrowed brow.

"What about the blood tax? If you can't pay it, can't you just avoid it? Why are you so afraid?" Su Ming asked curiously, wanting to know more about the Mother of Creep.

Upon hearing this, the two demons couldn't help but complain bitterly: "My lord, you may not know this, but the Wriggling Mother evolved from the Blood Pool Protector and ascended to the position of Abyss Lord. She is favored by the Abyss Will and, with the help of various great powers, has infiltrated and controlled the true blood of this high-level demon. She can take life and death from them, and if you don't pay the blood tax, you will surely die."

Those blood taxes are actually vital energy and life essence, which are a great tonic for every demon. After hundreds of years of this, the power of the Wriggling Mother has probably been underestimated.

Su Ming was alarmed, especially after learning about the [Will of the Abyss] and [Lord's Rank] from the Flame Demon, which made him feel uneasy. He quickly asked for clarification.

"Any secondary lord who rules a territory is favored by the will of the abyss. With the blessing of that territory, their combat power will increase significantly, and their cultivation speed will also increase considerably. This is why we are eager to usurp the lord's position."

The three-headed baboon said enviously.

Su Ming was now deeply worried. The Abyss Lord was like a local deity; as long as one was within the domain, one would receive the power of the abyss. An entire layer of the abyss was equivalent to a plane lord, at least a true god, although it was a virtual godhood, its power was still boundless.

In addition to the true blood control methods mentioned by the Flame Demon, Su Ming vaguely saw a vast hierarchy, like a pyramid, where first the high-ranking demons, then the demons with hidden dangers bestowed their true blood, and the mid-ranking demons were also affected.

As for low-ranking demons, they are simply cannon fodder. Unless the higher-ups lose power, they would never dare to besiege high-ranking demons.

Because the Blood Cocoon requires the help of high-level demons to increase its success rate, even if some mid-level demons manage to escape this framework, their numbers are small and they are simply unable to resist this trend.

Su Ming sighed. This level was a dead end. How could they defeat the Wriggling Mother and the endless demons under her control?

However, within this [Return to the Void], in the thirteenth layer of the abyss, there might be unclaimed planes. There's no need for him to stubbornly cling to one path. He also doesn't know if the demon lords of other planes have this method of controlling true blood.

He quickly asked the two demons about information regarding the other abyssal layers.

Unfortunately, they grow here and know little about the other layers of the abyss, only a few names, such as the Lava Purgatory, which is named after the Fire Demon Hell. The fire element is dense there, which is conducive to the growth of Fire Demons. The lord who rules that layer of the abyss is a Balor Fire Demon.

Fortunately, a moment later, Su Ming received some good news.

"The True Blood Control Technique was formed because of the unique abilities of the Wriggling Mother, combined with the application of numerous methods. Other Abyss Lords do not possess this great power," the Flame Demon said, shaking his head.

"Thanks to our lord, who used the power of the ultimate evil to purify our true blood. Even the many hidden dangers within it have been eliminated, and we no longer need to pay the blood tax," the three-headed baboon said thankfully.

Wait a minute, Su Ming's eyes lit up when he heard this. He hadn't expected the Evil God Domain to have such a wonderful use.

Because in the human realm, Su Ming had always restrained his use of the Evil God Domain, even suppressing some of his power in battle, and was not proficient in using the Evil Domain.

Now it seems that the journey to the abyss was indeed an opportunity for him. If he could not unleash the nature of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul, how could he bring his power to its fullest potential?

"In that case, it's not impossible to overthrow the rule of the Mother of Creep. I'll go and participate in the Blood Tax Conference for a few days, observe them, and find out their details before making a decision," Su Ming muttered to himself.

The main reason was that he learned from the demon that it was very difficult to cross the layers of the abyss, and if one was not careful, one would be stuck in the spacetime rift, which was worse than death, and there was no fixed entrance.

Each layer of the abyss is a separate plane, and going to other abysses is like crossing realms, which is not so easy.

Su Ming instructed the two enormous demons to lead the way to the core territory where the Mother of Creeping resided.

The two demons looked at each other, but dared not refuse, and led the way.

The boy also boldly revealed his true form and followed. He released the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger Martial Soul, with pitch-black wings that blotted out the sky, a scorpion hook on his tail, and crimson eyes. His demonic aura was overwhelming, and the marks of destruction and evil were shining. He was truly a high-level demon that couldn't be more real.

He also learned that this abyss had not encountered humans for a long time. In the eyes of demons, Su Ming might even be a noble demon race, or a great demon lord.

As the three demons marched forward, Su Ming had two of them cast demon summoning spells three times a day while gathering up the lone lesser demons wandering the wilderness. In just a few days, they actually formed an army of several hundred demons.

Although the process was disorderly and chaotic, like a vegetable market, it was still passable.

From then on, whenever Su Ming encountered a mid-level demon, he would use the Evil God Domain to refine and control it, and then let it control the lesser demons below it.

As long as demons of intermediate rank or above possess summoning abilities, the situation snowballed. Coupled with the impending Blood Tax and the ongoing battles between other demon lords, many deserters were born.

The final stretch of the road was remarkably similar to the previous demon army, with over five thousand demons marching in a mighty procession, crushing even the eerie and poisonous creatures rising from the desolate landscape.

"No wonder the Abyss is feared like a tiger by the multiverse. Isn't this kind of manpower replenishment ability abnormal? It's also why these high-level demons don't care about the lives of their subordinates. If they die, they can just summon them again." Su Ming glanced at the two gatekeepers beside him.

"But to go to the Mother of Creeping, we must pay the full amount of blood tax. It seems we need to keep an eye on collecting it in the next few days," Su Ming thought, looking at the thronging army. If all else fails, he could follow the example of the two demons.

As soon as the thought was made up, the dozen or so mid-level demons around them felt a chill for some reason.

Fortunately, Su Ming was very lucky.

One day, the army encountered another army of tens of thousands of demons while marching in a grand procession.

Without a word, the subordinates of the two armies charged into battle, howling and screaming uncontrollably. However, the demons who had reached the mid-level or higher had some sense of reason and stood calmly in place.

Su Ming didn't pay any attention. He opened his Evil Eye of Destiny and immediately discovered who the visitor was.

"I never expected to run into a familiar demon like this," Su Ming teased the two demons.

The demon army was led by the Eye Demon in the center, which looked like a sphere of countless eyeballs crammed together in mid-air. It had a large, black and red vertical pupil as its main eye, and dozens of slippery tentacles that spread out, with each tentacle tipped with an eyeball of various colors as its secondary eye.

The Eye Demon Lord is one of the seventeen sub-lords, possessing immense ferocity and strength that places him among the top ranks. He also commands seven or eight high-ranking Eye Demons under his command, making him the Eye Demon Overlord.

This large army was commanded by a bewitching overlord, who was accompanied by several high-ranking demons of other races and hundreds of mid-ranking bewitching demons. They had just swept through the surrounding demons and collected enough blood tax to pay it.

"Hehe, I didn't expect to find desserts. The blood tax is now complete, these will be our nourishment." The Eye Demon Overseer said with great joy.

Rumble!

The two armies clashed. Even the lesser demons possessed offensive techniques such as fireballs and poison mists. The battle between nearly 20,000 demons created a tremendous commotion. The earth continued to rumble and tremble, countless cracks appeared, and the land was scorched.

Strands of crimson lightning flickered across the sky, a vast and mighty force coalesced, and a hazy, crimson world descended, igniting the bloody battle in the abyss, with the demons who had entered the fray descending into a frenzied slaughter.

After observing for a moment, the Eye Demon Overlord decisively ordered his hundreds of Eye Demons to attack. In an instant, countless multicolored rays burst forth, silently wiping out a large group of demons, numbering in the hundreds.

Soon, the eyes at the tips of the dozen or so tentacles of those eye demons began to gather energy. A moment later, the dense eyeballs shone with a crystalline light, and another round of bombardment began.

Upon seeing this, Su Ming frowned. The enemy's military strength was even greater, and they even had a legion of mages. If they attacked a few more times, they would be defeated.

"All of you, come at me together," Su Ming ordered, and then unleashed his first three soul skills. His body shimmered with an obsidian-like metallic luster, as clear as black jade, resembling an unparalleled golden body.

"Kill!" The youth took out a jade staff and bravely endured the evil eye rays of hundreds of eye demons, pushing through countless demons and carving a bloody path through the army to reach the center.

Wisps of blood mist rose, following behind Su Ming, forming a thick cloud of crimson haze. Bathing in it made him look like a blood-red Asura.

The dozen or so demons that followed them also unleashed their bestial instincts, charging forward with bloodshot eyes, thus leading many of their lesser demons to form an arrowhead that pierced straight into the center of the Eye Demon army.

Rumble!

Upon seeing the approaching enemy, the Eye Demon Overlord remained calm. His enormous main eye gathered energy, its pupil as clear as a piece of amber as tall as a person. The surrounding dense eyes also shone with various lights, and finally focused together to form a colorful pillar of light that shot towards the sky, with endless demonic energy surging and shaking the heavens and the earth.

As soon as the colorful beam of light appeared, Su Ming sensed that its power was equivalent to a full-force attack from a peak Soul Douluo. In this sense, the Eye Demon Overseer was roughly equivalent to a Soul Douluo in terms of cultivation.

"Hmph! Easily defeated." Su Ming snorted and formed a hand seal. An astonishingly dark vortex appeared in the void, and a huge devouring force burst forth, sweeping across the heavens and the earth. It actually swallowed and dissolved the five-colored rays with ease.

The boy shouted, and the black hole descended from the sky, unleashing immense power that instantly crushed the Eye Demon into a pulp. The black hole also annihilated most of the hundreds of mid-level Eye Demons around it.

Beyond a single strike, the Heaven-Slaying Seal is incredibly powerful.

With their commander dead, the entire demon army began to collapse and flee in all directions.

Su Ming instructed the controlled demons to gather their troops, while he himself looked at the crystalline crimson glow that had condensed after the bloody battle. Its blood and energy were quite pure, without any impurities.

However, Su Ming dared not absorb it, since after being purified by the will of the abyss, who knew if it would leave any hidden doors.

On the desolate land, dark red blood flowed freely, and blood cocoons appeared one after another. Su Ming was quite curious and wondered if he could gain anything by using the Evil God Domain to erode and intervene.

Chapter 291 Demon Gene Tree

On the battlefield, the Eye Demon Legion was routed, and the nearby demon servants were scattered to gather the remnants. This is a common occurrence in the Abyss; the defeated side is always swallowed up and devoured by the victor.

It is normal for lesser demons to change their formation at any time. Most of them are forcibly confined and used in war, resulting in countless deaths and injuries. Only a very few of them can be promoted from blood battles to become mid-level demons and have a slight chance to catch their breath in this infernal furnace.

The translucent, round blood cocoons before you are the Lucky Demons. There are about thirty of them, but without the help of high-level demon blood, at most only four or five can transform into mid-level demons.

Su Ming was unwilling to rely on the hands of two high-level demons to induce the growth of these blood cocoons. On the other hand, the Flame Demon and the three-headed baboon might not have enough true blood to enlighten them.