Great Demon King

Akley stared foolishly and gaped at the divine essences poured on the ground. He was absolutely stupefied.

Earth elite zombie, who emptied the gunny sack filled with divine essences on the ground, looked at Akley with a hostile gaze. It was as though he would pounce on Akley and tear him into pieces as soon as Han Shuo gave him the signal.

Han Shuo heaved a sigh of relief when he learned from earth elite zombie that metal elite zombie was alright. He crouched to sort out the divine essences piece by piece before he reported, “Earth divine essence – nine pieces. Wind – thirty-two pieces. Death – twelve pieces. Lightning – twenty-eight pieces. Destruction – sixteen pieces. Light – five pieces. Life – four pieces. Altogether that’s a hundred and six pieces of divine essence!”

“They, they really are divine essences! You actually did it!” after a long while, Akley wore an overjoyed expression and cried out in surprise.

“Of the one hundred and six divine essences, my son and I will take seventy percent and you will take thirty percent, which is about thirty pieces. I’ll let you have ten divine essences for each of the energy of destruction, wind, and lightning.” Han Shuo raised his head before he continued to Akley, “Any objections?”

Akley understood that Han Shuo and his son gave the most work and labor in obtaining these divine essences. Aside from providing an address, he had practically contributed nothing to the success. On top of that, all along the journey, he had been relying on and troubled Han Shuo to preserve his life. He was lucky to have even taken thirty percent in the end.

Besides, given the current circumstances, even if Han Shuo wanted to take all the divine essence for himself, there was nothing that Akley could do to stop him.

“I don’t have any objection with the allocation, but, since you don’t cultivate in the edict of destruction, why don’t you give all sixteen of the destruction divine essence to me? You can have all the wind and lightning divine essence. How about that?” Akley hesitated before he came up with a counter-proposal.

“That won’t do. I need a few destruction divine essences as well. I have use for them!” Han Shuo rejected the counter-proposal resolutely and suggested, “You can exchange the twenty wind and lightning divine essences for crystal coins that would give you a footing on Elysium, or exchange them for more destruction divine essences. In short, you cannot have them all!”

“What use do you have for destruction divine essences?” Akley asked as he forced a smile. He had no clue why Han Shuo was so insistent on taking a portion of the destruction divine essences.

“Don’t worry, I’m saving it all for you!” Han Shuo was amused as he inwardly thought, <i>These little ones are getting greedier and greedier!</i>

“You must keep it for me. I will fully comprehend that old dragon’s divine soul very soon!” earth elite zombie exhorted Han Shuo yet again as though he was afraid that Han Shuo would lose those earth divine essences somehow.

“Don’t worry, they’re in safe hands!” Han Shuo assured him smilingly and proceeded to send both earth and metal elite zombies back to the Netherworld.

After earth and metal elite zombies returned, Han Shuo flew towards the City of Shadows following the directions indicated by a villager.

Han Shuo’s mind was rather burdened with indecision during the journey there. Based on earth elite zombie’s words, the five elite zombies could grow better on Elysium. However, of the five, four of them cultivated in the energy of earth, life, fire, and water. These energies were incompatible with the Dominions of the Calamity Overgods where Han Shuo was. Were they to stay with Han Shuo, they would attract trouble sooner or later.

However, Han Shuo could not be completely at ease letting them off to the four respective Dominions separately. This plane was, after all, the Plane of Gods. There were all kinds of mighty gods all around. Han Shuo was concerned about their safety.

With that, Han Shuo was at a total loss for what to do. He had chosen to stand in the camp of the Calamity Overgods. If others were to discover his relationship with earth and wood elite zombie who cultivated in the earth element and life edict, he would be in great danger and might even be taken as a traitor by the Calamity Church.

<i>Ugh, forget about it. I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. I’ll just worry about it later in time!</i> When Han Shuo could not make up his mind, he decided to just stop thinking about it. He hurried on with his journey to the City of Shadows.

The Dominion of Darkness was many times larger than Profound Continent. The City of Shadows was one of the five major cities in the Dominion of Darkness. Although it was called a city, it in fact contained several dozen smaller cities and forts of various sizes. A fort there could be bigger than the territories of the Lancelot Empire.

When Han Shuo entered the sphere of influence of the City of Shadows, he discovered that there was still a long journey ahead to the actual City of Shadows.

There were small villages all around its perimeter. After passing through thirteen or so villages, Han Shuo arrived at a fort in the perimeter of the City of Shadows.

But before Han Shuo even got close to the fort, six tall boundary towers that reached through the clouds entered his eyes. The apex of the barrier towers was glowing with deep dark radiance. They took the shape of a six-tipped star which constantly spread a powerful boundary around the fort.

Without a divine tablet and crystal coins, it was impossible to enter the fort.

Divine guards could be found stationed in the gaps between the boundary towers. Their figures were blended with darkness and their appearances indistinguishable as they coldly observed the movements of all those walking into the fort.

Han Shuo found himself mixed among a crowd of gods cultivating in the energy of darkness, death, and destruction heading to the fort. After carefully observing his surroundings, Han Shuo discovered the presence of gods who cultivated in other energy like space, earth, and fire. It appeared that the Dominion of Darkness actually did allow gods of other energies to enter.

After a moment of careful observation and listening, Han Shuo learned that, with the exception of gods who cultivated in the edict of life and element of light, all other gods were allowed entry. This was because the Calamity Overgods were eternal opponents of the Overgods of Light and Life.