Great Demon King

GDK 695: Invincible Omen Body

Han Shuo rapidly departed from the House of Lavers, went to some other block, and spent five purple crystal coins renting a gymnasium. This gymnasium was only five hundred square meters in size. It was encircled by a defensive boundary that was supported by two boundary towers.

After sealing off the gymnasium, Han Shuo let both his avatars come out from the Cauldron of Myriad Demon. His avatar of death continued to absorb the death divine essence he obtained from his last mining expedition. His avatar of destruction continued condensing the Orb of Destruction and slowly fumbled around with the method of making the Orb of Destruction compliment with the domain of divinity.

During the incident at the Fort Verka gymnasium, Han Shuo had placed his attention on the Orbs of Destruction released by Brovst’s dark gold sphere. Using his consciousness, Han Shuo did his utmost in memorizing the trajectories of those Orbs of Destruction and how they traveled on the surface of the gymnasium boundary.

With this, Han Shuo now at least had a general direction in conducting his experiments of figuring out how to use the Orbs of Destruction. With the help of his consciousness’ powerful ability to recall, Han Shuo reenacted the trajectories taken by those Orbs of Destructions back in Fort Verka, sending his Orbs of Destruction flying all around his domain of divinity.

Whenever Han Shuo concentrated on a task, he would lose track of passing of time, especially in a closed space such as the gymnasium he was in. He repeatedly experimented with finding the proper trajectory for the Orbs of Destruction. Gradually, Han Shuo discovered that the Orbs of Destruction were becoming more agile under his manipulation and that the trajectories seemed to be in conformity with the edict of destruction.

Han Shuo’s main body and avatar of death were also hard at work. Unknowingly, Han Shuo’s avatar of death had absorbed all the divine essence of death that metal elite zombie and earth elite zombie obtained. As his avatar of death had previously absorbed a midgod soul without self-awareness, his understanding of the energy of death would increase in tandem as his divine energy deepened.

After absorbing all the divine essence, Han Shuo had a vague feeling that the divine energy in his avatar of death was on the verge of another breakthrough. This meant that his avatar of death could advance to the midgod realm soon.

Advancing from lowgodhood to midgodhood was an enormous hurdle. But once Han Shuo overcame this barrier, his standing on Elysium would escalate a class higher. For example, in the City of Shadows was an uncountable number of lowgods like Han Shuo. However, the count of midgods was steeply below that of lowgods. Practically every midgod would be invited and recruited by at least one of the family clans and claim some decent position in the City of Shadows.

While Han Shuo’s avatars cultivated to improve themselves, Han Shuo’s main body constantly investigated some demonic arts techniques with the Cauldron Spirit. He started practicing “Invincible Omen Body”, a demonic technique that could only be mastered by those in the Omen realm. The demonic technique could strengthen the body and increase its physical defense power by a significant magnitude.

After entering the shop, Han Shuo had to admit that this was genuinely a big shop. After walking to the section for advanced understanding about the edict of destruction, Han Shuo had to get a second take at the price tags as his eyes flickered. All the scrolls were denominated in black crystal coins. They were so expensive that even Han Shuo felt a little dizzy looking at them.

The cheapest scroll was priced at three black crystal coins and the most expensive scroll, targeted for midgods, was priced at nine thousand black crystal coins, far exceeding Han Shuo’s current net worth.

“Every scroll for sale in our shop has been examined by professionals to make sure that what you buy is worth what you pay for. To advance in realm is to fundamentally advance in strength. Therefore, it’s to be expected that these are slightly more expensive,” a young and handsome looking shopkeeper explained to Han Shuo in a very polite manner. Shortly after, he asked, “Have you come across any difficulties in your cultivation? I can select a suitable scroll specifically for you.”

Han Shuo was stunned for a moment before he answered, “I’m at midstage lowgod realm. I have a vague feeling that I will break through to late-stage but unfortunately, I couldn’t seem to grasp the key to it and have no idea which aspect I am lacking in. I want to see if there’s any scroll here that could help.”

The shopkeeper flipped through a small booklet and after a while, lifted his head, withdrew a scroll from underneath the sales counter, and said to Han Shuo with confidence, “This scroll! This contains the realizations of a person who has attained late-stage lowgod realm. The selling price is forty-seven black crystal coins. I believe this should be useful for you!”

Wow! A professional! Han Shuo was impressed and his confidence in this shop grew a little. Without any hesitation, Han Shuo forked out forty-seven black crystal coins and handed it to the shopkeeper, saying, “Alright, I’m buying it!”

“Before selling, as per the shop’s policy, I must give you a word of warning. Although this scroll contains the understanding of a person who succeeded in progressing in their cultivation, everyone has different paths in their cultivation. Their experience may or may not be suitable for you. This scroll could give you some new insight, but it does not guarantee that you will make a breakthrough,” the shopkeeper explained to Han Shuo.

“Alright, I understand. I’m buying it,” Han Shuo naturally knew that scrolls might not be a hundred percent useful and he didn’t need the reminder.

“Please hand me your divine tablet. We need to keep a detailed record of all sales of scrolls,” the shopkeeper said apologetically.

Han Shuo handed his divine tablet along with the forty-seven black crystal coins. After a smooth checkout process, Han Shuo received the scroll. But after impatiently reading the scroll once through, Han Shuo had a big, bitter smile on his face. The author of the scroll was very poor at conveying his thoughts. The contents and descriptions were absolute mumbo-jumbo and so confusing that Han Shuo had no idea what the heck was he actually writing about.

Perhaps the only thing that was useful was his experience with hatred. He said that hatred begets the impulse to destroy all things. Under immense hatred, the author’s mind was only filled with the thought of utterly destroying his enemy. Then, on the instant that he killed this enemy of his that he hated with his heart and soul, he made a breakthrough.

“As we have agreed upon earlier, we cannot refund even if you found your purchase unsatisfactory,” the shopkeeper hastily reminded Han Shuo as he immediately realized from his bitter smile that he did not gain the enlightenment he sought.

“Forget about it. I should have known better. Every person’s cultivation experience is different. If divine scrolls were actually useful, there wouldn’t be so many out there who are stuck in the same realm,” Han Shuo sighed helplessly. No longer placing his hopes on divine scrolls, Han Shuo turned around and left the scroll shop.

“Hatred… Hatred begets impulse to destroy all things… Hatred… Hatred…” Han Shuo kept thinking about the phrase after walking out from the scroll shop. He felt that this could be something.

However, Han Shuo had long murdered off all his enemies with bone-deep hatred. Currently, Han Shuo did not hate anyone deeply enough. Even if he wanted to try, he had no target to put his hand on.

Suddenly, Han Shuo raised an eyebrow. He stopped his footsteps and turned around to look behind his back.

Soon enough, a group of City of Shadows divine guards hurried over to Han Shuo and surrounded him, pulling a cloud of dust behind them. The man leading the group was that green-haired man Han Shuo met at that godhunter’s valley. He coldly shouted as soon as he saw Han Shuo, “Are you Bryan?”

“That would be me. What’s the matter?” Han Shuo was dazed for a moment and looked at him in a confused manner.

“You should know best about your own deeds. Come with us!” the green haired divine guard shouted angrily, “Such a shameless fella to snatch us of our spoils of war. We will make you spill it all out from your stomach!”