Great Demon King

GDK 663: Omen Realm

The enormous quantity of mystical yin aura inside the Cauldron of Myriad Demon was condensed into a gaseous state before it gently flowed into Han Shuo through his mouth and nose.

The mystical yin aura gathered by the enormous Ninth Realm Mystical Yin Harvester all these years rapidly passed through the countless meridians from his head to toe before flowing into his demonic infant.

Following the Cauldron Spirit’s instructions, Han Shuo opened up his soul and set his consciousness go blank. He stopped thinking about anything. Han Shuo had discovered some time ago that his demonic infant could work better if he didn’t actively micromanage it. Therefore, after opening up his soul, Han Shuo merely performed every action with his subconscious mind and did not actively control them.

This was the most optimal state that would allow Han Shuo’s demonic infant to operate at its fullest capacity. Needless to say, the Cauldron Spirit also played an important role at this moment. It gathered the mystical yin aura in the air, condensed the energy, and fed it to Han Shuo’s demonic infant.

Han Shuo felt as though his consciousness was floating, fluttering in the breeze. Without him being fully aware, the demonic infant inside his body automatically assembled the enormous amount of mystical yin aura to replenish itself and converted it into demonic yuan before subsequently depositing it into each and every cell of his body.

Time passed rapidly and noiselessly. Han Shuo’s consciousness was in a vacant state. Under the stimulation of demonic yuan, his body started to crackle and rattle. It was undergoing metamorphosis yet again. The same gradual process of transformation also began on the demonic infant inside his body. The demonic infant was no longer blurry and indistinct, but completely visible as a carbon-copy of Han Shuo.

While the metamorphosis continued, Han Shuo’s consciousness suddenly trembled as a wave of disordered information surged into his consciousness.

Han Shuo was instantly awoken from that vacant and unthinking state. The piercing pain from the transformation overhauling his body and demonic infant immediately rushed to his head. He almost couldn’t restrain himself from loudly howling in pain.

“I believe you should know that transformation is always accompanied by pain. Not only must you continue to endure this pain, but you must also carefully comprehend those things in your consciousness which the Exalted Demonlord left for you. Should your realm state fail to progress in tandem with the growing energy inside your body, it will be disadvantageous to you in the future,” Cauldron Spirit transmitted to Han Shuo.

Without needing Cauldron Spirit’s explanation, Han Shuo could sense his newfound power. The demonic yuan circulating throughout his body seemed to have transformed into a different state. They gradually flowed through his limbs and bones like tiny water streams. Every cell and bone in his body felt like they were brimming with boundless energy which could instantly gush out with one thought.

The demonic infant didn’t seem to have transformed much. However, when Han Shuo carefully inspected it, he saw that the demonic infant, his fountainhead of energy, had turned from blurry to incomparably distinctive. It looked just like a newborn infant!

Han Shuo had yet to completely adapt to the sudden changes. There were significant changes that he couldn’t fully familiarize himself with within a short period of time.

“Master, you have now attained the Omen Realm. I believe you should now know how to further cultivate in this realm!”

Han Shuo stared blankly for a moment and exclaimed, “Huh?”

“Carefully comprehend things that the Exalted Demonlord left in your consciousness, and you will understand,” the Cauldron Spirit reminded.

When Han Shuo focused, he discovered that there was indeed some indescribable comprehension within his consciousness that he never had before. The next instance, Han Shuo suddenly recalled some of the insight about the Nine Changes realm which he gained in that wonderful state just moments ago.

“I got it! Haha, I have actually attained Omen realm! That Chu Cang Lan had painstakingly sought to break through the Nine Changes realm and attain Omen realm, but he never did manage to advance. I truly did not expect to simply cross that great barrier in one giant leap! They say that it is only in the Omen realm that one can ascend. Doesn’t that mean I’m now a so-called god back on the world from whence we came?” upon returning to his senses, Han Shuo chortled with laughter and loudly cheered inside the Cauldron of Myriad Demon.

Of course, Han Shuo was excited. Back then, Chu Cang Lan had fought a monk and a Taoist priest precisely because he was trying to make a breakthrough in his stagnated cultivation and reach ascension. But in the end, Chu Cang Lan lost everything and instead of having to use Han Shuo, whom he captured as his lifeboat, what resulted was Han Shuo arriving in this parallel-universe.

It was as though the heavens had been foreordained all along. Han Shuo was now on a realm that even Chu Cang Lan did not have a chance to touch, surpassing him in strength. He had finally walked out from the shadows of Chu Cang Lan.

“I have just used up the mystical yin aura that the Ninth Realm Mystical Yin Harvester gathered all these years on you. I’m afraid that this place cannot be kept up for much longer,” Cauldron Spirit suddenly said after Han Shuo gradually calmed down from the excitement.

“What do you mean?” Han Shuo was jolted.

“Everything here can be destroyed and must be destroyed. Otherwise, there will be a constant flow of experts coming to investigate. Right, those who came with you are probably just the scouting units. If this place doesn’t get destroyed, more will continue to come and investigate after them. I have been maintaining this place for a long time and know their work ethics,” Cauldron Spirit calmly explained.

Han Shuo was immediately enlightened by the Cauldron Spirit’s words. He was indeed correct. The Ninth Realm Mystical Yin Harvester was a mysterious place. Many experts from high-level material planes had disappeared in this place without any apparent cause or reason. Surely, their interests in this place would do anything but subside.

Donna and the others ought to be the first batch of experts sent to probe this place. If they did not hear back from Donna, Kaiser, and the others, they would surely dispatch more experts. Even if Han Shuo were to destroy the only remaining interplanar transportation matrix on Profound Continent, they would just find their way by some other means, just as Olde had. The only surefire way was to destroy everything there and not leave a single vestige that could marvel them. Only then would those experts abandon further missions to probe this place, and Profound Continent would truly see peace, no longer interfered by experts from distant material planes.

“Luckily you have come over and made contact with me. In fact, the existence of this place is no longer necessary. With the two of us, we can rebuild anything here. And when you have sufficiently mighty strength, you can deploy anything and everything here, anywhere you’d like, with just your own power.

“However, before you come to possess that strength, you must conceal the fact that you cultivate in demonic arts as much as possible. That existence who battled the Exalted Demonlord is extremely mighty. If the person was to learn of your existence, you would surely be terminated. Even if that existence had yet to recover from its injuries, it could still kill you with a snap. Therefore, from now onwards, you better not reveal to anyone the fact that you practice demonic arts, lest that it finds out,” the Cauldron Spirit reminded Han Shuo. It seemed very apprehensive of that expert who battled Gu Tian Xie the Exalted Demonlord.

After hearing those words, Han Shuo solemnly nodded, and said, “Understood. From now onwards, I will not perform demonic arts before others as much as possible. But if I were to use demonic arts, I will make sure my opponents don’t live to tell anyone about it!”

“It’s good that you understand. Additionally, now that your body has metamorphosed, you could use the energies of your two avatars to conceal the fact that your main body cultivates in demonic arts. You may give it a try.”

Han Shuo was pleasantly surprised to hear that. He immediately experimented with moving the energy of his avatar of death. At the next instance, Han Shuo cried out in surprise, “You’re right! It flows smoothly!”

Han Shuo sensed that the energy of death inside his skeletal staff avatar could circulate throughout his main body unimpeded. Han Shuo’s aura transformed in the blink of an eye and his main body seemed to have turned into his avatar that cultivated in the energy of death. But Han Shuo clearly recognized that this energy all came from the skeletal staff inside his body and his main body had merely borrowed the energy inside the skeletal staff.

“You can use both energies of your two avatars. As long as you do not use demonic arts, no one will be able to tell that you cultivate in it. Also, that avatar you formed using that demonic weapon contains too many impure souls and even carries demonic aura. I will help you remove the negative energy and those weak deceased souls. Otherwise, it will affect your avatar’s comprehension of the energy in this world!” Cauldron Spirit continued.

Han Shuo suddenly recalled that the Demonslayer Edge had absorbed some negative energy and deceased souls. After hearing Cauldron Spirit’s reminder, Han Shuo suddenly realized the reason that his avatar of destruction couldn’t make much progress in its cultivation of the edict of destruction could be because it contained too many impurities and the energy wasn’t pure enough!

However, all that negative energy and those dead souls were also a form of energy. Han Shuo was rather reluctant to have them erased by Cauldron Spirit.

“Don’t worry, the three spirit demons you refined could completely take over those energies. I will help you finish everything. With that, your spirit demon will grow, and your avatar won’t have any hindrance in comprehending the energy it cultivates. Everyone’s satisfied!” as though it could read Han Shuo’s mind, Cauldron Spirit explained.

“That would be wonderful!” Han Shuo was overjoyed and he laughed out loud. He figured that with this Cauldron Spirit as his assistant, he could really save a great deal of effort.