Grasping Evil

One day later, Chu He stopped and landed on the ground right below the rainbow-colored light barrier. He was completely unaware of Ning Fan who followed him all the way here.

It was because Ning Fan did not only just display the Sense Falsifying Art to hide himself as well as the two demonesses but also took out three High Grade Fourth Revolution Pills – Qi Concealing Pill and gave each of them one to consume in order to fully conceal their qi.

In their current state, even a Divine Transformation Realm Demon General would not be able to sense them!

For safety purposes, Ning Fan stayed ten thousand li* away from Chu He.

Although the range of detection for his Half-Step Divine Transformation Realm spirit sense was only three thousand li*, he secretly left a trace of scent on Chu He beforehand, making him capable of tracking the latter down.

Besides, in order to keep an eye on Chu He, Ning Fan also consumed a Mid-Grade Fourth Revolution Pill – Sense Enhancement Pill, which made his spirit sense become extremely fine for the next couple of hours. It enabled him to spread his thin spirit sense to a larger area, covering a vicinity of ten thousand li*. Despite the thin form of his spirit sense, the power of his sense remained the same.

Those were pills given by Xu Rushan before he entered into the Secret Realm. Now, they came in handy in the current circumstances.

Cautiously, Chu He made sure that no one else was in the area. Only then did he begin to establish the formation. He ground the Purple Demon Stone into powder, determined the location of the formation eyes and carved the formation marks with his spirit sense.

After one day, the ancient demon formation was completed. Even though it was a Divine Transformation Realm formation, it faintly resonated with the rainbow-colored light barrier. It was the key to open the World Passage to the Second World. With Chu He's current cultivation level, his power was just enough to set up the formation.

Once the formation marks were carved, Chu He took out tens of Offering Vessels of Ancient Demons and neatly arranged them around the formation. Now, the activation of the World Passage to the Second World only required the chanting of the ancient demon sutra and the blood of the king beasts.

However, Chu He did not immediately offer the blood of the king beasts. He left the formation instead and took out a six feet tall bronze demon beast statue, placing it in another corner. He then arranged eight dry corpses which had been dead for a long time to surround the demon statue.

Each of the dry corpses were once a True Wild Beast!

Next, Chu He successively took out eight human shark kings and killed all of them at the scene. He then wiped their blood on the dry corpses.

After that, he repeated the steps that he did to set up the ancient demon formation just now.

When the formation was completed, he began to chant the archaic and abstruse sutra. While he was chanting, he kowtowed at the demon statue.

Each time he did it, the demon statue would tremble once.

After ten times, the first dry corpse disintegrated and the blood on it was absorbed by the statue.

After a hundred times of kowtow, the second and the third dry corpses disintegrated one after another.

After a thousand times of kowtowing, the fourth, the fifth and the sixth corpses disintegrated.

After ten thousand times, the seventh and the eighth corpses decayed.

The demon statue emitted a ray of mysterious light and a crack started to form from its head down to its feet.

It seemed like it was going to collapse due to insufficient blood qi.

Ten thousand li* away, Ning Fan's eyes brightened. That demon statue appeared to be just like a normal statue. However, because of Chu He's action, a cloud of white mist came out from it. If Ning Fan did not see wrongly, that white mist should be the power that would only be possessed by a True Immortal. It was the power of Incense Fire!

This demon statue contained the power of Incense Fire that was accumulated by the Demon Sealing Sect for thousands of years.

He was going to use this power to open the World Passage which connects to the Demon World!

"The blood of king beasts isn't enough to fully activate the power of the Incense Fire…Hai…What a troublesome matter…It's all because of that Zhou Ming who killed many of the human shark kings…"

Chu He brought 12 king beasts and he only had 4 left after killing 8 of them. The remaining 4 were going to be used to open the World Passage to the Second World. In his current situation, however, he could not allow the Demon Generals to enter the Secret Realm from the Demon World. If they are unable to enter the Secret Realm, it will be pointless for him to open the World Passage to the Second World.

"Fine. I should prioritize the arrival of the Demon Generals. I will think about the rest later…"

He took out another two king beasts and killed them to offer their blood to the demon statue. Now, the demon statue completely broke into pieces!

A column of white mist which was partially dyed in dark red penetrated through the Void Realm and formed a portal made up of red mist.

When the portal took its shape, it connected to the Demon World, allowing one to catch a glimpse of the Demon World within it.

Meanwhile, ten traces of Divine Transformation Realm qi and hundreds of Nascent Soul Realm qi were approaching from the other side of the portal.

One of them was extremely familiar to Ning Fan. It was Li Ban's!

"Interesting. After he left Great Jin, he actually went to the Demon World. Now, he brought some helpers from the Demon World and is about to transfer into this Secret Realm…Apparently, this demon and I are destined to meet each other. However, I wonder if they would die in the Void Realm if I destroy the portal when they are going through the passage! Li Ban, that day you destroyed my Teleportation Formation in Great Jin, today I am going to destroy your portal!"

Ning Fan's eyes shone in cold light. The feud he had towards Li Ban was deeply etched in his memories.

If it wasn't because of luck, I will definitely be dead in Li Ban's hands!

Actually, the reason why he allowed Chu He to set up the formation without interrupting the latter was because he was waiting for this chance.

He did not hold back his intentions towards the two demonesses in his arms. When the two of them heard that Ning Fan was going to sabotage Li Ban, they exchanged confused looks with each other. However, none of them tried to dissuade him.

If Li Ban knew they were at Ning Fan's side, perhaps he would mercilessly slaughter them…

If they had to choose either Ning Fan or Li Ban as their master, they would rather prefer Ning Fan.

The auras from the other side of the portal was getting closer!

When one of the Divine Transformation Realm Demon General had half of his body out of the portal, Ning Fan activated his sword sense and secretly pierced through the power of the Incense Flame that supported the World Passage, breaking the portal!

Due to the damage taken by the source of the power supporting the World Passage, the entire portal collapsed and the Void Realm engulfed the entire passage. The Demon General whose body was halfway through the portal had half of his body severed by the power of the portal!

"Ah!"

Almost at the same moment, countless shrieks echoed from within the portal. A second later, the atmosphere fell silent.

But Ning Fan knitted his brows. Among those painful wails, he did not hear the voice of Li Ban.

Seemingly, the Divine Transformation Realm Demon General that was torn apart by the portal wasn't Li Ban. Perhaps he is buried within the Void Realm…

Chu He was nearly shocked to death!

With great effort, he finally managed to set up the formation and established the World Passage connecting to the Demon World in order to welcome the arrival of the Demon Generals from that world. However, the portal he activated had now collapsed and the group of Demon Generals were missing! No one knew whether they were dead or alive.

Why did the portal collapse? Don't tell me it's because of insufficient king beasts' blood?!

If only I chose to kill all the 12 king beasts… If only I chose not to save the two for the next World Passage, perhaps the portal would not have collapsed…

"It's all my fault…It's over. If the mission fails, Lord Venerated Demon would surely never let me go…"

Chu He's eyes were filled with dread and terror. All of a sudden, the place where the portal was at just now formed into a hole into the void. Nine demons and one soul walked out from it. All of them were enraged!

The Divine Transformation Realm Demon General who was in the form of a soul was the only Late Divine Transformation Realm being among the ten of them. Before they could even wake the Demon Marshal, his demon body was crushed due to the collapse of the portal!

If it wasn't because of his powerful demon soul, he would probably be dead within the bottomless Void Realm…

"So you are the person who was sent by the Demon Sealing Sect to establish the formation?! What kind of freaking formation are you setting? Why would it collapse?! Damn you! You should die!"

The demon soul had the face of a young man. He wore a silver robe and his hair was white. His expression was cold. His eyes, however, became red due to his rage.

His large hand clawed at Chu He, immediately shredding Chu He's physical body and his Nascent Soul. But the white-haired young man was surprised when Chu He's Nascent Soul reformed with a trace of mysterious power after crushing it.

"Hmm? This junior seems to know the 'Life Technique'…"

The white-haired young man sneered and grabbed the Nascent Soul which was shivering in fear into his hands. He intended to swallow it in whole as a way to vent out his anger on Chu He.

No matter how many lives you have, you will only be dead after your Nascent Soul is swallowed!

"Wait! General Wang, please be calm! If this man is killed, who is going to be our messenger to the Demon Sealing Sect?" An Early Divine Transformation Realm Demon General in purple robes advised.

"Fine! For the moment, I will let you live! Tell me, why did the portal collapse?!" The white-haired young man roared.

"I…I think it's because of insufficient king beasts' blood…"

The miniature Nascent Soul of Chu He almost passed out because of fear when he was being held in the white-haired young man's hand.

After his body was destroyed, leaving him with just a soul, his cultivation level greatly worsened. Despite that, he still maintained the combat power which was comparable to that of a Mid Divine Transformation Realm expert.

A Mid Divine Transformation Realm expert. In the Internal Endless Sea, a being like that would be considered a top expert. Chu He, who was just an inconsequential Peak Nascent Soul Realm expert would not have the audacity to provoke such a being, let alone the person who was a Demon General from the Land of Demons. Besides, he was a member of the Immortal Demon World – an expert from the upper world… An insignificant Nascent Soul Realm mortal cultivator like Chu He would surely not have the guts to offend him.

However, Chu He would certainly not able to think that the collapse of the portal was not caused by the lack of the king beasts' blood for offering, but Ning Fan instead.

Because of this incident, hundreds of Nascent Soul Realm demon partners of the Demon Generals were all dead in the Void Realm.

Because of this incident, the Late Divine Transformation Realm Demon General lost his body.

Now, the rewards of accomplishing the mission are just wishful thoughts that can never be realized. Even if this white-haired young man is not going to kill me, I will also be punished by Venerated Demon once I return to the Demon Sealing Sect…

Hai. Why am I so unlucky?!

It's all Zhou Ming's fault! It's him! If he didn't indiscriminately kill the human shark kings, I wouldn't have chosen to keep the remaining human sharks… Zhou Ming! Zhou Ming! As long as I am still alive, I will surely kill you!

This old man was innocently killed once just now. I still have 6 left!

I will finish Zhou Ming off even if I have to sacrifice all six of them!

Chu He would never realize that his accusation actually was not wrong. Coincidentally, his finger was pointed at the right person.

But as soon as the poor Chu He mentioned "insufficient king beasts' blood", the white-haired young man immediately became even more furious.

He tightened his grip and squeezed Chu He's Nascent Soul to death without any hesitation. Again, Chu He's Nascent Soul reformed, but he was now only left with 5 lives.

"You said the portal collapsed because of insufficient king beasts' blood?!"

"Argh!"

Once again, Chu He shrieked in pain. He only had four lives left.

"King beasts! Haha! Because of those mere Nascent Soul Realm king beasts' blood, I, Wang Xiao, had to suffer the implication of losing my physical body?! Dear boy, this joke isn't funny at all!"

*Bang*

The white-haired young man brutally squeezed Chu He's Nascent Soul until the miniature version of Chu He burst into pieces. Without giving time for the Nascent Soul to regrow, the white-haired young man threw the remains of the Nascent Soul which looked just like a pile of mud onto the ground. Chu He's lives was now reduced to three. As soon as his Nascent Soul reformed, the white-haired man lifted his leg and stomped directly on him!

*Bang*

Two lives left!

*Bang*

When he landed the last stomp on it, the mountains and rivers within a vicinity of ten thousand li* crumbled!

Pitifully, Chu He had only one life left!

The white-haired man curled his lips.

"You can't die again, can you? Hmmph! Return to your sect and tell your Master to prepare a Late Divine Transformation Realm demon corpse for me to fuse with so that I can remold my physical body! Now, hurry up and establish the World Passage to the Second World. If you make one more mistake, I will make sure you never live another second!"

No matter how the white-haired young man trampled upon Chu He, the other nine Demon Generals including the red-haired Li Ban with a body full of red scales did not dare to stop him.

As long as the white-haired man did not kill Chu He, the mission would not be obstructed. If the mission is not obstructed, no one would be willing to provoke Wang Xiao for an unimportant being, not to mention Li Ban himself! It was because Li Ban was only an Early Divine Transformation Realm demon. Amongst the ten Demon Generals, his power was ranked at fifth. Three out of the four Demon Generals who were more powerful than him were Mid Divine Transformation Realm demons while the strongest was the injured Late Divine Transformation Realm Demon General, Wang Xiao!

"Interesting. Although I didn't manage to sabotage Li Ban, I inflicted some damage on the strongest Demon General among them…Wang Xiao… With my current power, I have 80% assurance of killing Li Ban and 20% confidence to tie with him. However, there will be no possibility of winning against the three Mid Divine Transformation Realm Demon Generals if I encounter them. Instead, I only have a 70% chance of fleeing alive. If I fight against Wang Xiao, even though he is only in soul form, I will only have a 10% chance of escaping. If he were to be in his complete form, I am literally not his match… A Late Divine Transformation Realm Demon General…This demon seems to possess the Immemorial Demon Veins…Besides, I am able to sense a trace of Eight Grade Divine Intent from his body. If this person is at his peak state, perhaps he would be able to put up a fight with the weakest being among the Venerated Seven of the Internal Endless Sea!"

The miniature Nascent Soul had grief all over his face. No matter how much hatred he harbored towards Ning Fan, he would never dare to put his last life on the line by confronting him.

Originally, Chu He a.k.a Seven Lives should've gain merits by welcoming the Demon Generals from the Demon World. With the meritorious service he did, he would be rewarded by Venerated Demon. Besides, it would be very likely that he would be given tips and guidance to achieve the Divine Transformation Realm.

However, because of a minor mistake of which he was at fault, he lost all his potential merits. Not only that, out of the seven lives he had, six were lost…

"I am truly out of luck!"

He muttered inwardly. In the meantime, he took out the last two human shark kings and killed them to offer their blood to activate the ancient demon formation which connects to the Second World.

However, two human shark kings were clearly not enough to open up the World Passage.

"Haha! You intend to open up the World Passage with two king beasts?! It's no wonder the portal would collapse! Is that how you opened the portal for the Demon World to welcome me?!"

The white-haired young man broke into laughter even though his heart was filled with absolute rage. He deeply wished that he could immediately erase Chu He from his sight. It was because opening a World Passage would at least require 18 king beasts and it was supposed to be common sense for everyone who had to establish the ancient demon formation!

Doesn't the Demon Sealing Sect have the slightest bit of common sense?!

"What a hassle! Fine. In this First World, there should still be quite a number of Fake Wild Beasts. Quickly hunt a few of them before this world crumbles. There should be some beasts that could replace the king beasts.

"Please wait, General Wang. We don't have to spend time on that… In my hands, I still have a few king beasts. Their blood can be offered for the activation…"

Li Ban sneered and slapped on his storage pouch. Seventeen illusory demon Nascent Souls were taken out from it.

They were his demon partners who lost their bodies in the Void Realm.

The reason why they were not completely dead was not because Li Ban was kind to them. On the contrary, he kept them because they were king beasts.

"General Li, they are your partners. Wouldn't it be inappropriate to use them as offerings?" It was the purple-robed Demon General who voiced out his opinion again.

"Inappropriate?! Why would it be inappropriate?! Everything they possess belong to us, the Demon Generals. I don't see anything wrong to sacrifice them to activate the formation!"

Li Ban's five fingers turned into a claw and slashed at them, killing all seventeen Nascent Souls on the spot.

With a flick of his sleeve, he sprinkled their blood on the formation.

Immediately, the formation glowed in a strange, primitive blood light.

Li Ban shot a cold gaze at Chu He and harshly warned, "If something goes wrong with this World Passage, you will be dead!"

"No…It won't…19 traces of king beasts' blood are enough…More than enough." Chu He's heartbeat quickened out of fear. He silently chanted the ancient demon sutra to activate the formation.

Gradually, a portal emerged on the rainbow-colored light barrier which allowed them to pass through.

"This time, you all walk first. I will walk at the back of the group!" The white-haired young man solemnly spoke, as if he had a psychological trauma for portals."

"Yes!"

None of the Demon Generals dared to disobey Wang Xiao's order.

The ten of them successively entered the light portal.

This time, it was truly difficult for Ning Fan to destroy the World Passage that was supported by the blood of nineteen king beasts, causing him to be unable to sabotage anyone else.

Besides, even if he could destroy the portal, all of them would be fine as they were not in the Void Realm.

The moment when the Demon Generals entered into the World Passage, a flattering voice echoed from the other end of the passage.

"I am Lu Bei. Hehe. Greetings to all Demon Generals…"

Chu He faintly heaved a sigh of relief as this time the World Passage did not collapse…

However, his mind was filled with worries once more when he thought of how he should report to Venerated Demon when he returns.

"Hai…This is really an unfortunate day!"

Before he left the Secret Realm, there was some matters he had to talk in the welcoming of the Second World.

…

Ten thousand li* away, Ning Fan was unable to make up his mind.

Since Chu He has already opened up the World Passage, I don't have to trouble them to set up the formation and worry that they might fail in the end.

This portal would last for a few days. Once Li Ban and the others go further into the Second World, Ning Fan would then sneak into the Second World.

But there were 10 Demon Generals involved in this plan.

Four of them possess greater power than me. Without a doubt, the danger within the Second World became far greater than before.

Should I enter or not…

While he was hesitating, the two demonesses in his arms were feeling depressed.

What Li Ban did earlier was truly cold-hearted…

After witnessing the way Li Ban treated his demon partners, the last shred of guilt in their hearts which was aroused due to their betrayal to him dissipated.

"Li Ban is not as good as Master…" Their expressions were slowly filled with resolution.

Ning Fan had more than a thousand human cauldrons. Even so, all of them lived peacefully in the Cauldron Ring.

Even if Ning Fan faced great danger, he would never allow them to help, let alone sacrifice them for his own benefits like what Li Ban did…

Ning Fan was merciless and cruel towards his enemies. However, towards his loved ones, he was really kind.

As Ning Fan's human cauldrons, the two demonesses did not have to worry that someday their Master would slaughter them for fun out of a sudden impulse.

"Is there something wrong? Look at those expressions… Are you feeling confused because you saw your former master?" Ning Fan teased.

"You are our only master!" They firmly replied.

"Oh?" Ning Fan smiled.

They seemed to be even more loyal to me after recognizing Li Ban's true behavior.

If that's the case, it's indeed a good thing.

"I need the two of you to enter the Cauldron Ring for the moment. The Second World is full of danger. You two don't have to be involved…"

"Thank you for Master's kindness." They bowed and expressed their gratitude. Entering the Second World with their current cultivation level would be extremely risky. They were powerless to even defend themselves and they would only be a burden to Ning Fan. Therefore, it would be safer for them to stay inside the Cauldron Ring.

"Mm-hmm…"

After keeping them, Ning Fan revealed his presence and headed towards the portal. The closer he got, the more serious his eyes became.

He waited a few days in front of the portal. However, during these few days, the Secret Realm of the Broken World experienced a massive change!

The arrival of ten Divine Transformation Realm Demon Generals caused the originally unstable Secret Realm to collapse!

Of course, it was only the First World that collapsed!

Beginning from the western domain, the Secret Realm was consumed by the Void Realm. Countless Old Monsters immediately activated their Transmission Formation Disks and evacuated from the Secret Realm. But a minority of them were forever buried within the Void Realm!

Outside the Secret Realm, Xu Rushan's expression drastically change.

"The Secret Realm collapsed?!"

Xu Qiuling's face turned pale and her eyes were filled with anxiety.

On the Stele of Slaughter, some of the experts' names turned from black to grey…They died…

"Young Master Zhou! What happened to you?!"

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<strong>Translator Team:</strong>

G-Team [Tommy (TL), Roel (Editor)]