Great Demon King

GDK 534: Giant Leap in Strength

Han Shuo racked his brain, yet he couldn’t understand what had really happened during the short few seconds of soul shuttling that caused such a phenomenon. It was all so strange, but it also made him incredibly happy!

Lowgod Datara and basegod of death Haley, every last trace of their wicked souls had been banished to obscurity and replaced with Han Shuo’s memory and awareness.

Simply put, lowgod Datara and basegod of death Haley may have just as well never existed at all. Their souls had been occupied by Han Shuo’s separate demons, and become attached to the Demonslayer Edge and the skeletal staff in a way that Han Shuo couldn’t yet understand, granting Han Shuo total control over the three souls, forming the so-called ‘avatars’ in demonic arts.

Datara became a lowgod by cultivating in the energy of looting. However, as the energy of looting wasn’t as widespread as the eight elemental energies and four edictal forces were among the material planes, after cultivating to the heights of lowgod, Datara progressed very slowly. He couldn’t advance further even after tens of thousands of years had passed.

Datara, this lowgod whose very nature it was to plunder, also participated in the great battle five thousand years ago on Profound Continent. However, he did not stand on either side of the battle but like a sneaky thief, he waited for opportunities for himself to plunder. In the end, his divine body was destroyed by a Druidic Order’s midgod cultivating in the edict of life, sealing his soul in the Purple Demon Eye formed of what remained of his divine body.

It was rarely heard of for a god cultivating in the edictal force of life to commit such acts as destroying a person’s body and soul unless forced to the last resort. In spite of the fact that Datara did not mix well with those evil gods of death and destruction, he managed to escape death, and was only sealed and imprisoned. It was even returned to the forest trolls.

Datara was a god after all. Although he was sealed by the eye-patch, he still wielded divine energy. During the endless days of five thousand years, the forest trolls remained faithful to their Datara. Hence, Datara still gained divine energy from the constant stream of faith that those forest trolls offered to him.

Not a moment went by that Datara had not thought about breaking free from the seal. Back then, when Little Skeleton inadvertently removed the eye-patch, dug out the Purple Demon Eye and placed it in his empty eye socket, Datara was overjoyed and immediately attempted to occupy Han Shuo and Little Skeleton’s souls.

When Little Skeleton and Han Shuo could no longer bear the pain, Han Shuo reminded Little Skeleton to put on the eye-patch that had kept Datara under. The eye-patch detected Datara’s plundering nature, and released energy left behind by that midgod of life, immediately causing heavy injuries to Datara.

Once Han Shuo and Little Skeleton’s souls fell inside, the two skeletal bodies regained their vitality. The Purple Demon Eye in the left eye socket of Little Skeleton had completely shattered. Speckles of purple starlight absorbed into the jade-like bones of Little Skeleton’s.

This soul of Han Shuo’s was in the realm of basegod and had a tight affinity with the element of death. At a single thought, the element of death would gather, and release its might through all kinds of wonderful magic at Han Shuo’s.

Although this soul had all the memories, awareness, and ability to remember just like the consciousness of the main body, this soul was not the consciousness. Han Shuo couldn’t transfer his own memories using this death basegod soul of his. The process of memory transfer could only be achieved using the consciousness refined using demonic arts.

Han Shuo did not rush to anything. Using that skeletal body he congealed with the element of death, he cast his gaze at the army of undead that charged along with Haley.

No changes took place there either. Ahead of the Penta-elemental Undead Formation, the cloud of green smoke hovered still in the air. The three skeletal kings and two bone dragons behind it were silent and submissive as they waited for further commands from their master.

Han Shuo discarded the skeletal body he had congealed before turning into a shadow and entering the smoke. The green smoke lingering in the air gradually dissipated, revealing a rhombus-shaped green crystal.

The crystal was precisely Haley’s body. But after Han Shuo’s soul fused with the skeletal staff, this piece of green crystal formed of the pure and highly concentrated element of death was no longer needed. It served now the same purpose as an Origin Crystal, the only difference being that the former was used to fuse with the body, while the latter was used to fuse with the soul. A being cultivating in the element of death could fuse their body with this green crystal to form a Body of Death Element.

While Han Shuo had no need for it, he figured Fanny the necromancer would. As long as Han Shuo came to fully understand the method of cultivating the physical body in the Abyss realm, he would be able to assist Fanny in forming a Body of Element using the green crystal that was a Body of Element itself once he finally returned to Profound Continent.

Using the soul that had occupied the basegod soul of Haley’s, Han Shuo entered the green crystal and emitted Haley’s aura. The three skeletal kings and two bone dragons, as well as other high-level undead creatures, immediately kowtowed on the ground, and dared not twitch a muscle.

In this moment, Han Shuo was Haley. Those undead creatures naturally grew silent in his formidable presence. Han Shuo pointed straight at Little Skeleton in the distance and commanded, “From this day forth, you shall concede to this creature in addition to myself!”

Those high-level undead creatures were intelligent lifeforms. When they heard Han Shuo’s words, they revealed thoughts of confusion. However, the division of classes was deeply rooted among creatures of the netherworld. Even though they were puzzled and doubtful at heart, they dared not to disobey Han Shuo’s command. As they crept on the ground, the respectfully replied, “Yes, master!”

“There is a rather peculiar gravestone in Nethervalley. It has an intricate cryptic pattern engraved on it. Cultivate there in the future, you will improve a little faster. Also, spend some time and see if you can comprehend anything from it,” Han Shuo looked at Little Skeleton and transmitted in an amiable tone.

“Got it, father! Congratulations father! I now understand so much more. A remarkable transformation has befallen you. I know that father has become even mightier now!” said Little Skeleton.

He’s indeed the most intelligent of them, Han Shuo thought to himself. He replied, “Alright, I need to leave for a while. Soon, when I have the time, I will transfer my memories of necromancy to you using my main body.”

Shortly after, Han Shuo handed Haley’s green crystal to earth elite zombie and did a soul transfer back to the Abyss realm. Afterwards, he summoned earth elite zombie, collected the green crystal, and sent the naive and simple-minded earth elite zombie back.

Although Han Shuo’s soul could freely travel back and forth between the two planes, he couldn’t carry any material object with him. Therefore, he used earth elite zombie as the delivery man.

Han Shuo still couldn’t quite skillfully use two avatars of his that were just formed. Before he completely understood the secrets of his avatars, he would not separate the three souls from each other, lest there be any irreversible accident.

“Oh dang… almost forgot about that meeting Brakyah mentioned. I don’t even know how much time has passed. Hmm, I should go up and take a took.” The skeletal staff and the Demonslayer Edge turned into two streaks of light and simultaneously disappeared into Han Shuo’s body.

Given that Han Shuo’s strength had sharply increased at least ten fold, he no longer needed to pay any extra caution to Crosius. Han Shuo wasn’t at all worried that he might be late to the meeting. Those who possessed greater strength could absolutely make others wait. Such is the rule of the Abyss realm!