Way of the Devil - Chapter 222

Chapter 222: Three Nights (4)
Lu Sheng walked forward and put his hand against the door .



But at the final moment, he hesitated after all .

Truth be told, right from when he had first heard about the Hundred Lineages Meeting, he had decided not to attend it . The Prime Devil Sect's destruction was inevitable . It was the law of nature, the survival of the fittest . Even if he were to prevent it from happening in the short term, he could not change things in the long run . Unless he decided to stay to reform the entire sect .

But Lu Sheng had no such intention .

He was but a mere guest . His agenda behind joining the Prime Devil Sect was not to learn its secret arts, but to learn about the Noble Families and understand the state of the world today .

After a pause, Lu Sheng sighed silently . With both hands, he pressed against the door and pushed it open .

:Rumble . . . :

The heavy and rusty metal door screamed as it scraped against the ground .

As the door slowly opened, the scene behind the door fell into Lu Sheng's gaze .

"Oh? I didn't think that someone would really come out through here?" Unexpectedly, a tall and wide silhouette cloaked in black robe was sitting in boredom on the ground outside the door .

A wide and dry underground cave lay behind the door . From here, one could see the light of day .

Yet the only exit that this path led to was presently blocked .

Lu Sheng fixed his gaze on this man but did not do anything .

"Eh? Scared witless, are you?" The tall figure slowly rose to his feet . A large cleaver was strapped to his back . "It's normal . It's understandable to be scared out of your wits at the sight of me, Lord Demon Bear . "

He pulled out the cleaver from his back with a backhanded grip and strode towards Lu Sheng .

"Remember . The one who killed you is the Wandering God—Bear!"

A circle of colorless air current burst out from him . His roughly two meters tall body covered Lu Sheng entirely in its shadow as he lifted up his giant cleaver slowly . The blade of the cleaver itself was already half the width of Lu Sheng's body .

"DIE!"



Lifted high, the cleaver blade came slashing furiously down at Lu Sheng's head .

Watching the approaching cleaver blade, a grin suddenly cracked open on Lu Sheng's face, revealing a row of razor-sharp savage beast-like teeth .

Without warning, he lifted up his arm .

"CLANG!!!"

A loud clang reverberated across the entire cave, sending tremors across it as an intense stream of air burst out between them .

"YOU . . . !!?" Wandering Ghost Demon Bear focused his eyes as he stared at Lu Sheng, who had blocked his cleaver with his bare hands .

"Is this a saber? Or a toothpick?" Holding on to the cleaver blade, Lu Sheng's eyes were dark . He pinched lightly .

"Ka-cha . "

The portion of the cleaver he had been holding shattered into smithereens instantly, sending countless shards falling to the ground .

"Oh, it shattered . " Lu Sheng looked at the shards in his hand in surprise, then tossed them aside with a casual flip of his hand . "I was planning to leave . But a pity . . . It's not that I didn't want to go . But rather . . . " He licked his lips . A murderous, dangerous glint flashed across his eyes .

" . . . I ****ING HATE TRASH LIKE YOU WHO JUST LOVE TO WAVE YOUR TOYS AROUND!!"

"KA-BOOM!!!"

Almost instantly, Lu Sheng's entire body ballooned and inflated . In the blink of an eye, he was three meters tall . He slammed his palm on the Demon Bear's waist .

Before he could register what had happened, the Demon Bear felt his whole world spinning . Like a cannonball, he was launched into the air and slammed into the rock wall .

"BOOM!"

Demon Bear's gaping mouth was now meshed in the rock wall . His eyeballs almost ruptured in his sockets . Mucus and saliva streamed down his face and his entire body balled up like a shrimp .

Compared to the three-meter-tall Lu Sheng, Demon Bear, who was only slightly taller than two meters, was like a kid—unbearably weak .

"Ahh . . . it's been a long time since I've last stretched . I've been holding my body in so tight that my bones feel like they're going out of shape under compression . . . " Lu Sheng swung his arms and shoulders, visibly satisfied with his present form .



This three-meter-tall form was his body's true form . That ordinary body size earlier was the result of him compressing his body forcibly so that he would not look too out of this world .

But in actual fact, that was like somebody walking with a hunched back all the time . It was bad for his body .

"BAM . "

Several stalactites the width of thighs were in the way of Lu Sheng's arm movements . He smashed them all with a swing of his arm .

"YOU . . . YOU!! What on earth are you???" Stuck in the stone wall, Demon Bear's eyes widened in terror .

Right now, blood was streaming all over his mouth, nose, ears . . . etc . , flowing ceaselessly .

Lu Sheng's strike might have seemed like an ordinary punch, but Ultimate Crimson Nine Furies Skill's fire poison was more than a handful for Demon Bear . Add to that Aquarius Qi's needle piercing effect, and his internal organs were instantly smashed into pulp . The fact that he remained alive and was able to speak already showed Demon Bear's astonishing recuperative abilities .

"Me?" Lu Sheng walked over, clutched his neck and lifted him up . "I'm just here on vacation . "

He pulled Demon Bear's face up to the side of his face .

"Why does every single one of you like to force me to do this? Is there any wrong in me taking a vacation after working so hard?"

"We . . . we . . . just . . . " Demon Bear seemed to have sensed something and turned agitated . Hurriedly, he opened his mouth, trying to say something .

"Anybody who disturbs my vacation must DIE!" Before Demon Bear could finish, Lu Sheng grabbed his head and twisted hard .

"SPLAT . "

Demon Bear's entire head came free of his body .

"Boom!" His body began lighting up in flames instantly . In a few breaths, it turned to ashes .

Lu Sheng flicked the ashes off his hand .

He looked around him . Apart from Demon Bear, there did not seem to be anyone else here . Only then did he return to his previous size and form .

"It's still early anyway . And I haven't finished the books in the library . If I go now, wouldn't it be a waste of all that work I did up till this point?"

Satisfied with the excuse he found himself, Lu Sheng glanced at the tightly-woven black robes which had been on his opponent earlier . Some parts of the black robes were torn and tattered . But it was at least better than the scraps he had on his body now .

Lu Sheng put it on .

'Nice material . It's stretchy and elastic . Looks like Nobleman often find themselves in such embarrassing moments . This material looks specially treated . I should get Shangyang Jiuli to make me a few pieces after this . ' Lu Sheng discovered to his surprise that the black robes were very stretchy and elastic .

He checked out the other items all over the ground .

This Demon Bear was only a minor character . That "Wandering God" he mentioned seemed to be the name of an organization . Since it was an organization, he must've had had partners .

'Looks like teacher sent me away via this passageway because he saw the invasion coming . But he just didn't expect that there'd be someone guarding this exit as well, even if he's a weakling . Looks like somebody tipped them off about this secret passageway . '

Lu Sheng quickly tidied up the items on the ground .

Apart from some broken pieces from a waist tablet, only a torn money pouch was left . Some black coins here and there were left inside . There was also a white neckerchief, which looked like a scarf .

'I'll head back first . ' Lu Sheng stuffed them all in the pocket of his black robes . Then he turned around and retraced his steps .

Lu Sheng was very familiar with the route this time . He sped along very quickly . Ever since he had mastered the Light Void Force Step Skill, his explosive speed far surpassed his normal speed and he was generally more than twice as fast as before .

***

Secret arts hall .

"Secret Art—True Night!" Grand Elder's right arm slashed in front of him like a saber as his leapt into the air . His legs first pulled up, then kicked down forcefully .

At the same time, thick inky black smoke erupted form within his body . It was the lethally toxic Devil Qi he had stored in his body for so many years .

But it did not help him .

With unhurried confidence, the two black-robed men evaded the saber slash and kick easily as they coordinated their movements with each other's . They speed was too fast . Grand Elder's secret art had only been half-activated when they had already changed their move in the blink of an eye .

Each one of them alone was no match for Grand Elder . They had only just barely made it into the realm of Snake .

But somehow, when coordinated with each other, the might they could produce together was a handful to handle even for a senior and experienced sect master who had achieved full-mastery of the lower three grades for a long time . And now, Grand Elder was increasingly at a disadvantage .

The black snake Yin Devil had been defeated and dispersed . Even the flaming lion Yin Devil which he had combined with his own body was burning out .

The three of them exchanged blows in the Courtyard of Punishment . Though they looked as if they were ordinary martial artists striking and evading, the lethalness and danger in their battle was unimaginable to martial artists .

But whenever they got hit, be it a broken bone or a flesh wound, they could easily heal and recover . Hence, the fight between the three of them became a battle of attrition .

In actual fact, that was how most fights between Noblemen went . Unless there was a wide difference in power, most fights took a long time .

"Who on earth are you!?" Another wound was inflicted on Grand Elder's shoulder . The giant halberd blade slashed through his flesh and cracked his bone . Large amounts of black pollutants adhered on to the wound from the halberd, preventing it from healing .

One of the black-robed man pulled his halberd back and answered softly, "We're the Wandering Gods . "

"Liu Shanzi, do you remember the black triangular letter you got in the past?" the other among them said . "If only you agreed then, you'd be one of us today . How would you possibly land up in this sorry state?"

Grand Elder paused . Immediately, a strange incident came to his mind .

At that time, he had received a letter out of the blue . It was an invitation to join a mysterious organization formed to protect and preserve the balance between the Hundred Lineages .

At that time, he had thought that someone was pulling his leg and so ignored it . In fact, he continued to ignore their subsequent contacts . Who would have expected that today . . .

He gouged out the flesh around the wound . Once again, new flesh and bones began forming around the wound at a visible rate .

The flaming lion Yin Devil brought him higher speed and destructive capabilities . Especially those black toxic flames . They were the flames of the poisoned fog—a unique feature of the Prime Devil Sect's Phantom Listening Skill . They were a significant threat even against Noblemen .

But these two black-robed men were basically freaks . They did not bother about the threat of the poisonous flames . Their speed matched his as well and while they did not inflict as much damage, they were capable of unleashing terrifying force when they coordinated their moves with each other . At any time, they were able to block all of his offensive moves . Grand Elder felt as if he had struck against an iron wall .

"The two of you . Finish him quick . We can't afford to be held up here for too long," the short man in black hurried them .

"Fine then . " One of the black-robed man retreated suddenly . "It's not a bad idea to end this early . " He lifted the halberd high above his head and begun spinning it . An blinding red light glowed at its tip .

Grand Elder was seized with the sense of an enormous threat . Staring at the black-robed man's actions, color drained from his face as he suddenly recalled something .

"This trademark pose . . . could it be . . . !!?" His jaw hung loose . The black flames all over him swiftly gathered in front of him, forming a large ball in a bid to stop his opponent .