Great Demon King

GDK 564: Chaos Imminent

The troop advanced for a few hundred meters without running into any hindrance. Manticole and Leviathan scanned every inch of visible ground around him, but couldn’t find any truly valuable treasures.

Later, they found their path forward blocked by a boundary. Following their usual standard procedure, when the Demon Kings couldn’t detect what type of energy the boundary was made of, Leviathan instructed at once, “Anro, go and try.”

Although Leviathan and Manticole were both lowgods, they could only detect boundaries concealing the same energies that they cultivated in. If the elemental energy of the boundary was well concealed within the boundary, and the energy didn’t belong to lightning or darkness, then Leviathan and Manticole could only resort to employing the most primitive method ever – finding it out with lives!

The two couldn’t sense which energy it belonged to, but that didn’t mean Han Shuo couldn’t. Han Shuo couldn’t help but furrow his eyebrows when he saw that the boundary concealed the elemental energy of wind, but Anro, the Demon sent forward by Leviathan, cultivated in the element of water. He raised his hand to stop it, saying, “Hang on!”

Leviathan stared blankly for a second before revealing a beaming smile and politely said, “Yes Mister Han Shuo? Is there anything you’d like to share with us?”

Ever since the moment Han Shuo learned how this character would never even let his own follower off, Han Shuo lost every bit of friendly opinion towards him. But nonetheless, on the surface, Han Shuo still feigned civility and smiled, saying, “If you trust me, let that friend over there try it instead.”

Han Shuo held out a hand and pointed at a Demon under Manticole who cultivated in the element of wind. Han Shuo actually wasn’t that merciful. He didn’t care much about the lives and deaths of those Demons under Leviathan and Manticole. It’s just that, to push on with their approach would truly exhaust a lot of manpower. Han Shuo was only worried that with their trial and error it wouldn’t be long before all those Demons were dead. If that happened, they wouldn’t be able to venture deeper, thus affecting his own progress as well. It was solely for this reason that he would be so kind to give his opinion.

The face of that Demon cultivating in the element of wind pointed by Han Shuo suddenly turned deadly white. He shot a hateful glare at Han Shuo as he turned over in his mind ‘when did he offend Han Shuo and why would Han Shuo want to send him to his death at this critical moment’.

By contrast, Anro was clearly delighted. Although he couldn’t reject Leviathan’s order, he still knew how to treasure his own precious life. If that boundary ahead was made of the elemental energy of water, he would charge into it with sheer enthusiasm. But looking at Leviathan’s bearing, he didn’t seem to know which type of energy was inside the boundary. The chances of him dying while breaking into the boundary were truly too great, and thus, he couldn’t help but fear for his life.

“Huh? Divine Essence of Fire!” Leviathan let out a cry of surprise. His body, like lightning, charged straight at the unobstructed land ahead. He extended his hand, reached deep into the rocks, and grabbed onto a fist-sized crystal bedazzled by the light of a fire. He was overjoyed!

That fist-sized crystal contained some intensely fiery liquid. An incomparably scorching and frightening energy was emitted from it without restraint. From a distance, that little piece of crystal looked like a miniature sun. It was mesmerizing!

Divine essence, this rare treasure that could be directly absorbed by a god and converted into divine energy, actually existed in this place known as the Void!

“This is wonderful!” Manticole was exalted as well. He scrambled beside Leviathan and hastily said, “With this divine essence of fire, if the other two fellas discovered divine essence of lightning or darkness, then we will have the means of exchanging with them!”

Leviathan continuously nodded and heaved a long chuckle. It appeared that obtaining this piece of divine essence had very well roused him.

The two were definitely very friendly with each other. However, they clearly did not care about their partner cultivating in the energy of death and destruction called Han Shuo, for example. They had only been thinking for themselves all along. Han Shuo put a smile on his face as though to appease them as he looked at the duo who were somewhat beside themselves with joy. Although he was smiling, his heart, however, was as cold as ice. He became even more deeply convinced that the two had only thought of exploiting him.

Hehe, well then, we shall see who will reap the greatest rewards at this Void in the end, Han Shuo thought to himself.

As Han Shuo thought, two energies that had disappeared for a long time suddenly emerged inside Han Shuo’s consciousness – Cecrops and Golander, who cultivated in the element of fire and water respectively, were rapidly approaching the area.

Creak!

A few sharp and clear noises suddenly intruded from not far away. The tranquility of the surrounding was broken in an instant. Abruptly, the ground seemed to quiver, whooshing noises sounded, and ironstones came crashing down in the dark. Several Spatial Edges, which Han Shuo was very familiar with, in the fashion of the Reaper’s scythe, flew in an erratic and unpredictable trajectory and chopped mercilessly at anything in its path.

“Cecrops and Golander sensed the aura of the divine essence and are at full speed towards us. They’re so eager that they’ve demolished a few boundaries in their way. The two of you should get ready to face the enemy now!” Han Shuo described the truth in an incredibly calm and collected manner. Soon after, he raised his head and looked at the meteorite shower that was about to fall from the sky, and said, “Meteor shower and Spatial Edge is about to break out in large scale. While guarding against Cecrops and Golander, keep an eye on the energy erupting from those boundaries.”

At Han Shuo’s words, Manticole and Leviathan’s faces jolted. Leviathan hastily and carefully kept away the divine essence of fire before he rained curses in a flustered and exasperated manner, “Cecrops and Golander, those two imbeciles, how dare they rashly charge around this region! Have they forgotten about our agreement with Bechymos?”

Manticole let out a light groan and said, “When the agreement was made, they probably had never truly seen divine essence. Now that this kind of temptation is right in front of them, a fire divine essence that will allow Cecrops’ strength to greatly advance, you can’t seriously expect Cecrops not to lose his grip!”

“Cut the rubbish, get ready to face the enemy!” Han Shuo interrupted their conversation in a blunt and discourteous manner.

Displeasure simultaneously appeared on the Demon Kings’ faces. However, they did not flare up at this moment, but deployed their Domain of Divinity, getting ready for battle.

At this moment by the brink of a great battle, Han Shuo drew a sneer and pulled back. He quietly left the coverage of their Domain of Divinity, retreating far back towards that broken lightning magical matrix which previously exploded. No one but himself knew his intentions…