Way of the Devil - Chapter 281

Chapter 281
"And this Devil Essence… doesn't even need refining and I can directly condense it into liquid and integrate it with my body . "



Lu Sheng looked around again and soon found more items with Mental Energy .

After killing seven or eight giant wolf creatures, Lu Sheng finally stumbled upon the first creature that was close to "intelligent" in this cavern .

It was a giant, murky green wolf, rotting all over and with all sort of arrows that stuck out from his body .

In the dark, the giant wolf's glowing green eyes were examining Lu Sheng from head to toe .

"Another one… the ancient devils have been freed and broken through several layers of seals . Me and many other guardians have been contaminated… Did the Song Imperial Court send you?"

"You… can talk?" Lu Sheng was a little surprised .

"Why would I be unable to talk?" the wolf said nonchalantly in the ancient Great Song dialect . "You seem quite powerful, but you are still no match for the ancient devil . Why did you come alone?"

"Yes, it's just me . I came here by accident," Lu Sheng said honestly . "Just what is the Devil's Abyss?"

"Where is your Divine Weapon Master? Outside?" the rotting wolf said after looking around the cave .

"Ummm… Not really…" Lu Sheng, of course, didn't have a Divine Weapon . But the confident way the wolf said it made him decide to hide his situation for now .

"And you came down here? Are you trying to commit suicide?" The wolf gave Lu Sheng a weird look . At the same time, he slowly and quietly moved out of the dark, towards Lu Sheng .

"You must understand that an ancient devil is nothing like a typical devil king . It has a very special power to absorb things, as well as all the advantage of the ancient species…"

The great, rotting wolf approached Lu Sheng as he spoke .

Lu Sheng could finally make out the details of the wolf's body from this distance: it had a body over four meters tall with giant black rusting arrows sticking out all over its body . Some pierced through its belly, some through its chest, and some even through its eyes .

It was a demon wolf that should've been dead, but it was still talking to Lu Sheng as if everything was fine .

" . . . The devil kings sealed in the lower levels have been sucked dry by them . The purpose of letting them in is to better suppress the power of the sealed devil kings, but now they themselves are the problem . " The rotting wolf continued to approach Lu Sheng, "Did you seriously come here by yourself?" he asked .

"What are you trying to say?" Lu Sheng frowned . His gaze landed on the dense cluster of arrows sticking out from its body .

"Nothing . I just thought you alone shouldn't be enough to reinforce the seal . After all, back then it took all of us to—"



"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, a claw swept from the dark towards Lu Sheng's back . The claw split into five parts and closed in on Lu Sheng from all angles .

" . . . Since you will die anyway if you go down, might as well provide some fresh food for me who has guarded this place for centuries!! Too long… I haven't tasted live prey for too long…" The wolf roared and started to laugh with hatred and cruelty .

"Boom!!"

The claw landed on Lu Sheng's back, but the wolf roared in pain . It retreated several steps, holding its right paw .

Its entire right paw was covered in bloody punctures, and vast amounts of dark and thick liquid were dripping from its wounds . "You… you…!!?"

The wolf stared at Lu Sheng with a frightened expression—this human which a second ago, looked normal now had clusters of spikes growing out of his back .

Its paw was punctured by these spikes that were as sharp as swords when it tried to attack Lu Sheng .

"Boring trick . " Lu Sheng cracked open a smite, showing his sharp teeth and slender tongue . "You did provide a lot of information…"

"Whoosh!"

Lu Sheng suddenly moved, a tail striking from his back like a viper . It coiled around the wolf's neck and lifted it into the air .

"NO!!!!!!!" The absolute difference in power didn't give the wolf any opportunity to struggle .

It struggled with all its might, clawing desperately at the tail . Its mouth occasionally sprayed out black mist or flashes of green light .

A little pair of flesh wings even sprouted out of its back, desperately trying to get out of the tail's chokehold .

"I'll leave your body intact . "

"Snap!!"

The giant rotting wolf's neck snapped and its head dropped on the ground . Its entire body also suddenly turned into minced meat and sprayed onto the ground .

Lu Sheng didn't even look at the body and just casually dropped the head on top of the pile of meat with his tail .



"There . Intact body . "

"Whoosh . . . "

A cloud of pitch-black Devil Qi sprayed out of the wolf's body and abruptly flew away, disappearing deeper into the pitch black cavern .

Lu Sheng didn't pay any attention to it, and instead started to search through the body of the wolf carefully and quickly found a string of keys .

The keys made a crisp sound . They somehow had not rusted, and looked like they had been taken care of well .

Lu Sheng hesitated, but still threw the key chain into his bag and started to circle around the cavern once again .

Soon, he found a narrow space separated by a plank in the corner .

The space wasn't big, about as large as a normal house's bedroom . Inside were several barrels, a dressing table, a bookshelf, and a candle stand .

Somehow, there were still books on the shelf .

Lu Sheng approached it and took out a book . It was written in incomprehensible symbols, neither Song nor Ancient Song .

He thought about it and put the book back, and instead looked at the wood carving on the barrel .

It was a little statue, carved with red and black stone .

"What is this…"

Lu Sheng held up the statue and noticed that there were candles in front of where the statue was placed . There also appeared to be a smooth dent on the ground right in front of his foot .

The resident here seemed to be worshiping an idol .

Before Lu Sheng got around to checking how sturdy the idol was, he was first shocked by the amount of mental energy in it .

"This much!!?" He was so shocked he nearly dropped the idol .

If the door covered in roots before was impactful, then this idol was the equivalent of winning the lottery .

He thought it was just an ordinary object, but in fact, it was a treasure!

'Burning, Destruction, Longing, Nothingness, spread the message: let this pain redeem all lives, let this destruction ignite all sinful thoughts…" A faint voice, like it was reciting some scripture, entered Lu Sheng's ear .

Even though he didn't know what language the voice was in, he could still strangely understand all of the words .

"Mind-altering power field?" Lu Sheng ignored it and pointed his index finger at the face of the idol .

Soon, a drop of dense dark-red blood dripped onto the idol .

"Hiss…"

A vast amount of mental energy started flowing into Lu Sheng's body . He hadn't used his blood to absorb mental energy in a very long time . It wasn't because he couldn't, but rather because there weren't many items with enough mental energy worth using this method .

Normally, for just a couple hundred points, a touch was enough . It was unnecessary to force out blood .

But this idol was different .

This blood-red idol, about as large as a palm and wearing a veil disguising its gender, stored more than 600 units of Mental Energy .

With this amount of Mental Energy, blood-dripping was the only way to absorb all of it in a timely fashion .

As a faint white smoke started to rise from the idol, the Mental Energy within soon all surged into Lu Sheng .

After its Mental Energy had been sucked dry, the idol glowed faintly before breaking into several pieces with a snap .

Lu Sheng ignored the pieces on the ground: they were useless without Mental Energy . Instead, he focused his attention on evolving his body even further .

The Ultimate Eight-Headed Devil Way had evolved his body to an incomprehensible level . After absorbing the Devil Essence from the altar, his body had long since been altered to match the state of a Divine Weapon . Also known as Origin Power .

But Lu Sheng didn't know where exactly on the Origin Power level he was at . This level was quite foreign to him . Without something as a reference, he didn't know if he had reached the level of Divine Weapons or not .

"Currently, I'm probably at the level of Holy Weapons, but I think I still can't match a Divine Weapon yet . " Lu Sheng examined his body again after absorbing the Mental Energy .

His Prime Devil Qi had undergone a fundamental change and was now a special Devil Qi that glowed faint purple . Aside from an increase in size, nothing else changed .

He was in his Extreme Yin Form, but luckily, he was able to control his body and repress his height back to nearly two meters .

But some weird features on his body couldn't be covered .

For example, the whole mouth of sharp teeth . Before, he could have covered it with muscles, but after a third row appeared, that didn't work anymore .

In the dark, Lu Sheng walked towards the altar in the middle, where the entrance to the next level should've been .

The first choice to use the Mental Energy on was of course the Ultimate Eight-Headed Devil Way . But the amount of Devil Qi required for that was also immense . . .

"Luckily there is nothing here but Devil Qi . Great for improving all my Devil Body related secret arts!"

This was a rare opportunity . Without much thought, Lu Sheng summoned Shadow Devil to guard himself and started cultivating .
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The West Infinity Court .

The Thousand Phoenix Pavilion is West Infinity Court's largest weapon warehouse and acted as a place to store weaponry reserves .

Noble families and sect disciples, of course, wouldn't use normal weapons . Their weapons often included special materials, and some even included Divine Weapon shards, making them special weapons with divine markings .

The Devil Horde Calamity happened at the City of a Thousand Sails, but right now they were at the general headquarters of the West Infinity Court, quite a distance from that city

Hence, when the huge battle was going on, this place was still working on the various details of the Minor Sect Alliance .

Zhao Zhi, in his purple robe decorated with two dragons playing with a pearl and amber crown with a background of clouds and mountains, was casually talking to two other sect masters who just arrived .

Suddenly, a disciple urgently ran up to them and gave an encrypted letter to Zhao Zhi .

Zhao Zhi opened a corner of the letter and only glanced at it before folding it back and burning it to dust .

"You may leave," he ordered .

The disciple retreated slowly .

"The city gate has been shut . The formation has been set up . With the Hundred Transformations and Thousand Chances Formation, even if we attack from both inside and out, we might not be able to break through . How generous of Brother Zhao—you even brought out such a sect treasure to protect everyone," the sect master next to him complimented him with a smile .

"I'm only doing my job . As the host, the West Infinity Court will try its best to make everything perfect . Deploying the formation is only because of some recent intelligence on security issues . It's only on for one day to make sure that no one can interrupt us . " Zhao Zhi's eyes flashed with a cold light, but he still smiled at the same time .