Way of the Devil - Chapter 552

Chapter 552: 552






'Finally, it's time to open the door . '

Lu Sheng summarized what he gained from his recent experience . He calmed himself down, focused his spirit, and held his breath .

His consciousness slowly slipped into an ethereal, effervescent realm .

He quickly saw the door of the limit .

It was a great black door with two savage-looking bat-like creatures perched on top .

The door was in the deepest parts of his consciousness . All the essence of what he'd learnt was carved on the door in densely packed rows .

The essence of the Infinity Technique was converted into simple runes that were engraved on the door .

The lower bodies of the two bat-like monsters were merged with the door . They seemed to be the guardians here .

Lu Sheng slowly got close and raised his hand . He wanted to touch the door .

"Hiss!"

The two black bat-like monsters immediately hissed furiously at him, baring their fangs .

'What kind of conditions have to be met?' Lu Sheng hesitated .

Nobody pointed out the way for him . Hence, when he was here, he had no idea what he should do .

At this moment, the bat on the left slowly said, "We're the obstacles in your heart . " 

"We are a part of you . There's no point in suppressing us . You should use your heart to convince us," the bat on the right continued after it .

"Convince the two of you?" Lu Sheng was stunned . He had not expected there to be such an obstacle to overcome to rank up to a Weapon Grandmaster . Could he not overcome this by brute force alone?

"In that case, how should I convince the two of you to let me pass?" Lu Sheng questioned .

"I'm the beast side of you," said the left bat in a sharp voice .

"I'm the devil side of you," said the right bat in exactly the same voice .

"Together, we're you!" said the two bats at the same time .





"…" Lu Sheng .  

"What about my human side?" He was immediately amused . "Are you telling me that the complete me is just a devil beast?"

"Do you think that you still have any humanity left? Give it up, you've been a devil beast for a long time now," the devil-side bat chided him .

"Impossible . " Lu Sheng shook his head slightly . "I can still feel it in the depths of my heart . I'm still a human . No matter how many forms I take, I'm still a human . "

"So, tell us . What is the definition of a human to you? Is it the form of a human, or is it a human heart?" asked the beast-side bat in its sharp voice . "If you're only looking at the heart, then how is a human different from other intelligent life forms? You've consumed so many devils and other species . From a certain point of view, how are they different from humans? Are you sure that you weren't consuming humans?"

When faced with that question, even Lu Sheng fell silent . In truth, he could sense that these bats were not wrong in what they said . They were actually him, they were a part of him . Rather than viewing this as him being barred by them, he was the one who was stopping himself here . He had not completely persuaded himself and faced his own distracting thoughts .


"If you're only looking at the outer appearance, then your current main body is no longer human . Are you still a human? Really?" the devil-side bat chimed in .

"Isn't desire the nature of life? Go and let loose . Throughout the entire Nine Bright Province, there are countless humans and demons under your protection . You can have a go at any of them that catch your fancy . This includes your cousins in the Lu Manor, Lu Qingqing and Lu Yiyi, your disciple . . . all the members of the opposite gender in the Autumn Moon County are yours for the taking . If you grow tired of them, you can just eat them up to replenish your nutritional requirements . There won't be any waste . "

"You're the master here . Nobody can stop you if you do what you want . Free yourself from the shackles of your heart and follow the most primal of your desires . "

The two bats spoke in lower and lower voices . They sounded more and more tempting .

"Go and find the deepest desires of your heart . Let it out, satisfy it… You'll soon discover that the world is like a gourmet course before your very eyes . You'll learn that after doing away with responsibilities, logic, and morals, everything will become wonderful…"

Lu Sheng drew a deep breath . His eyes started to slip into a daze .

"Yes… My power is unbelievably powerful . What's wrong with satisfying myself once in a while? The weak are meant to serve the strong… I'm the overlord of everything…"

"Yes… Go ahead… It's meaningless to keep suppressing yourself . Go and find everything that you want most…" the two bats tempted in their soft voices . "Enjoy… Wreak havoc…"

As their voices resounded, Lu Sheng's body started to shift .

Six sharp, threaded dark red horns grew from the top of his head . Fierce-looking, peculiar flame patterns surfaced on his skin .

"Pcchht!"

A pair of black feathered wings spread out from the sides of his arms . Shortly after, a thick black spiked tail grew out from behind him .

"Hahahaha!" The bats laughed shrewdly .





"See that? This is who you really are! The real you— ah!"

"Bam!"

The two bats were suddenly held by two big hands which covered their mouths .

"Rip . "

The two bats were directly torn away from the door . They were stuffed into Lu Sheng's huge open mouth, skin and blood . They were swallowed in a matter of seconds .

"What a noisy pair…"

Lu Sheng sucked on his fingers and looked at the great door before him again .

'I feel like I've eaten something that I shouldn't…' He felt a slight pain from the depths of his heart as if something was being torn apart .

'Oh well, what's use of thinking about it? Didn't they want me to follow my deepest desires? My current deepest desire right now is to rank up . Since they were in my way, they were practically asking for it . '

He quickly walked up to the door . He gave it a push, but the door stayed put .

He quickly saw a row of words in the Language of E appearing on the door .

'You can only push away everything with your heart . '

"My heart…" Lu Sheng seemed to have understood something .

He stretched out both hands and looked at his ten fingers which were as sharp as blades . He looked at his pitch-black armor of scales as well . It was reflecting everything around him like a mirror .

"My heart…"

He closed his eyes slowly .

He replayed the scenes from since he came to this world . Everything that happened, his experiences, his struggles .

Hesitation, despair, dilemma, pain .

Struggle, distortion, madness, fury, and… destruction .

From the Nine Links City to the Autumn Moon County, everything that happened in between replayed in his mind like a movie .





"So… I've never forgotten…" Without him noticing it, his face was already streaked with tears .

When he opened his eyes again, all that was left of the great door which stood before him were the two final pieces in his hands—he had eaten the rest .

"I…" Lu Sheng could not help but grip the final two black fragments . Tears blurred his eyes . "I… when did I f*cking eat this?!"

This was bad . He could say goodbye to ranking up . He had accidentally consumed the Boundary Door!

It tasted… good?!

"Bam!"

The final two biscuit-like fragments completely exploded, and were reduced to nothingness .

'This seaweed-flavored door… Oh no! I've f*cking followed my deepest desires, and now the door is gone! What am I supposed to do now?!' Lu Sheng did not know whether he should cry or laugh . He had been looking forward to ranking up to a Weapon Grandmaster for so long, yet he had ruined it just like that .

He suddenly felt that something was wrong with his surroundings .

'Shouldn't I be kicked out from the depths of my spirit? The Boundary Door has clearly disappeared . ' Lu Sheng snapped back to the present and took a look at his surroundings .

He was still surrounded by darkness . However, there seemed to be something floating and dispersing slowly within the darkness .

Lu Sheng drew a deep breath to calm his emotions . He started exploring this space in his heart .

There seemed to be something supporting his feet in the dark .

"Tap… tap… tap…"

Crisp footsteps resounded throughout this space .

He had no idea how long he had been walking .

Suddenly, everything brightened up before him .

He felt as if he had just walked out of a pitch-black alley . There was a deserted but well-lit street before him .

Lu Sheng stopped in his tracks and looked behind . The alley was pitch-black and deep . It led to where he came from .

A streetlight that was more than three meters in height stood before him . Its pale yellow light shone on a silent path flanked by grass .

The path was grayish white in color . Rubble and bits of grass were strewn across it .

"This is…" Lu Sheng was stunned . His pupils dilated and contracted .

"The road… near my house…" He stood among the darkness and cast his gaze beyond the streetlight . He looked far beyond it .

A row of modern residential houses with red roofs and white walls vaguely appeared . The eight-story residential building was slightly battered with some parts of the wall's coating peeling off, revealing the gray concrete underneath .

He was silent for some time . He walked slowly out of the darkness . He passed the streetlight and went right toward the residential building in which his home was .

'Building number 17… Apartment number 503?' An old memory welled up in his heart .

Lu Sheng followed the sense of familiarity in the depths of his memory . He walked into the area along an empty path and slowly came to the building in which his apartment was located .

Other than the streetlights, the buildings in the area were pitch-black without any light . There was no sound, either . Other than his hollow footsteps, there was no other movement .

Lu Sheng quickly shrunk his body to the size of an ordinary human . Then, he walked along the pitch-black corridor and quickly went up to the fifth floor .

The pitch-black corridor was deserted and cold . It felt as if the stairs continued endlessly above and below him .

Lu Sheng stood before the security door . He reached out a hand and placed it lightly on the ice-cold door .

Everything was too real . It was as if he had actually returned to Earth, to the time before he traveled to another world . If it were not for the abnormal surroundings, Lu Sheng would have thought that he had actually returned to Earth .

"Clack . "

The door opened . To the current Lu Sheng, all he had to do was to use a bit of his Devil Qi to unlock the door .

However, the scene beyond the door was not an empty house as he had first expected . A big, tall square-faced guy with a gentle smile was standing at the door with his eyes fixed on Lu Sheng . At the same time, the man barred the entrance .

Lu Sheng silently stared at this person in the dark . The familiar face of this person was one which he had looked at in the mirror for more than 30 years .

Other than being slightly paler, this person looked exactly as his memory of himself on the day before he traveled to another world . He had just come home from work .

'What's the meaning of this?' Lu Sheng reached out and wanted to touch this man's face .

In no time, his fingertips touched this man's skin . However, what he felt was an ice-cold and hard sensation .

He quickly placed a finger under the man's nostrils .

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