Chapter 469: Ancient Illusion
The abyss of the universe, the primeval demon realm.
The devil is born from the heart, and the master is madness, calamity, and chaos.
This is the definition of demon in the Daozang.
But is the devil really like this?
If the demons were really so crazy, I am afraid that they would have already destroyed themselves before they destroyed the world, let alone give birth to the Ten Thousand Demon Race.
It must be admitted that demons are really not good kinds, demagoguery and losing their minds are their forte, this is their survival instinct.
Just like the demon clan, bloodthirstiness is also the instinct of the demon clan, such as the silver fox Bai Wuyan killed.
However, Bai Wuya himself is a person who values love and righteousness.
Most of the demons are unable to master their own jade hope instincts, and such demons are indeed of no benefit to sentient beings, and should be exterminated.
However, there are also some demons, they are not lost by Yuwang, they will think about Yuwang itself, think about the mysterious location in the depths of the universe, and the value of their existence.
Such demons are the true masters of the Ancient Demon Realm, and it is precisely because of their existence that the Ancient Demon Realm has not self-destructed.
Indulging in jade hope will only bring calamity and chaos to the demons, and they will never be able to become the true masters, because their own pattern is doomed to do nothing.
However, even those demons who have learned to think rationally cannot wash away their sins, because their hands have long been stained with blood in the endless years of their growth.
So, the demons became a people who were forever cursed.
The Ancient Demon Realm was destroyed by the Heavenly Dao once, and the entire continent was shattered, and the space was in chaos. All the demons were slaughtered and exterminated by the Heavenly Dao, the earth was torn apart into countless abyssal cracks by the Heavenly Dao sword qi, the mountains collapsed, and all living beings withered, a dead silence, like a doomsday ruin.
Countless millennia later, the scars left by the Heavenly Dao to the primeval demon realm were smoothed out by time, and the continent was once again shrouded in demonic intent, and some low-level demons began to crawl out of the abyssal rift and began to build their homes.
The evolution of all things is from the lowest to the highest, and the demons are no exception.
The survival of the original demons was extremely difficult, because there would often be starry sky beasts from the void of the universe who came here in search of food. The low-level demons are not the opponents of the starry sky giant beasts at all, they are hiding and hiding, and there is not one out of ten.
Even so, the demons still did not give up their control of this continent.
After countless years, the demons finally gained a firm foothold on this continent, and at the same time began to divide their respective forces, the weak and the strong, and opened the prosperity of the primeval demons in the flames of war.
Today, the Ancient Demon Realm has given birth to an unknown number of demon lords, each of whom is similar to the Dao Ancestor in the Dao Gate.
However, the Phantom Demon Clan, which had once become one of the twelve strongest demon clans in the Ancient Demon Realm, had never given birth to a new demon lord of its own.
The reason is that the Lord of the Ancient Illusion Demon has fallen in the human world, and the bloodline belonging to the Demon Lord has also been lost in the human world.
The Phantom Demon Clan without a Demon Lord was oppressed and humiliated in the Ancient Demon Realm, and was often reduced to the rations of other Demon Clans.
Even if they already have the strength to transform into humans, they don't dare to transform into humans. Because after turning into humans, their fate will be even more tragic, especially the female illusions with beautiful human shapes. However, even if they don't transform into humans, there will be other demons who will forcibly force them to manifest their Chéng Rén form for them to vent their beastly desires.
Over the long years, the Phantom Clan endured humiliation and struggled to survive.
If it weren't for the extreme survivability of the primeval illusions, they would have been extinct long ago.
In such a difficult survival situation, they still remember their identity, and they are unwilling to accept the support of other demons, let alone succumb to being the slaves of other demons.
They are a clan of illusion demons, and their demon lord once served as the primeval demon king, and he has dominated the entire primeval demon realm more than once.
The land of the Phantom Demon Clan, the underground demon temple.
Today is the day when the Phantom Demon Clan holds a sacrificial ceremony for the awakening of the Demon Lord's bloodline.
Although the living conditions of the Phantom Clan are extremely miserable, they have never given up on finding the lost honor.
Every hundred years, the most talented clansmen of the clan will be selected to secretly try to awaken the bloodline of the demon lord in the underground demon hall, but unfortunately it never succeeds.
The price of failure to awaken is the death of the body and soul, and the phantom clan has no idea how many talented clansmen have been sacrificed.
It is precisely because of this that the awakening ceremony will be changed from once every ten years to once every hundred years.
First, I don't want any more outstanding clansmen to die in this ritual and preserve the elite for the Phantom Demon Clan, and secondly, the once-in-a-century awakening ceremony can select clansmen who are more powerful and more talented, and improve the chance of success.
Participating in the awakening ceremony today is a young illusion named Shao Chen.
As early as many years ago, Shao Chen had already transformed into a human, and after turning into a human, they had been staying in the underground demon hall to practice, carrying the hope of the phantom demon clan.
Although the illusion itself is hideous and ugly, the human form they have transformed is extremely beautiful.
Shaochen looked extremely handsome, his skin was as white as blood because he had not seen light all year round, and his eyes were extraordinarily bright, like sparkling gems.
Over the past hundred years, Shao Chen has completed countless challenges and become the youngest and most dazzling genius among his clan.
It is rare that the Phantom Demon Clan has not produced such an excellent young genius, and even the Great Elder who has presided over five awakening ceremonies thinks that Shao Chen has the most hope of awakening the Demon Lord bloodline.
Although Shao Chen spent almost all of his life in the Demon Palace, he knew all the tragic encounters of his clansmen on the ground.
At first, he was extremely angry, but he also knew that anger without strength could not change anything.
Therefore, he turned his grief and anger into strength, suppressed the instinctive jade hope of the illusion, and practiced penance in the demon temple for decades. Even when his sister was humiliated to death by the snake demon clan, he never left the demon temple.
Some people say that he is ruthless, but no one knows how much pain he has to endure in order to suppress his broken state of mind.
Today is the day he proves himself, and he has the confidence that he will awaken to success.
The ceremony was ready, and Shao Chen, who carried the hopes of the whole clan, slowly walked towards the altar.
At this moment, everyone's hearts in the Demon Hall collapsed.
The hands of the Great Elder of the Illusion Demon kept shaking, and the other elders also stared at Shao Chen.
The young Phantom Demon Saint Xiaolu's lips were tightly pursed, and she had already been bitten out of her snow-white teeth, and round beads of blood appeared.
Like Shao Chen, the saint's life was almost spent in the Demon Temple.
However, there were few words between the two, and the mission they carried was so heavy that the love between them was all silent.
Watching her sweetheart walk step by step towards the altar that had taken an unknown number of lives, Xiaolu's heart ached.
But even so, she finally held back the thousand words that came out of her heart.
Because she was afraid that Shaochen would be distracted.
To awaken the bloodline of the demon lord, you must use the purest demon heart to comprehend the inheritance of the demon lord.
Once the demon heart has a concern, it is difficult to succeed.
The price of failure is death.
Finally, Shao Chen, who was barefoot wholesale, ascended the altar and stood in the center of the Awakening Ritual Circle.
He turned around slowly, his bright eyes swept over the bodies of the clansmen in the Ten Thousand Demon Palace, his expression was peaceful and peaceful.
In the end, his eyes were fixed on Xiaolu. Although he didn't say a word, he clearly had a thousand words in his eyes.
She turned decisively, her shoulders twitching.
The moment I turned around, the tears had already burst into the sea.
The summoning ceremony began, and the black demonic flames around the ritual began to burn violently, burning more and more, and soon the flames were like a tide, engulfing Shao Chen's figure.
Shao Chen endured the pain of burning his body with demonic flames, and frantically realized and deduced the most powerful exercises belonging to the demon clan in the demonic flames, and there were many demon shadows.
The Demon Shadow can resist the incineration power of the Demon Flame and protect Shao Chen's true body.
If he could be immortal before the flames were extinguished, the Phantom Demon Clan would give birth to a new Demon Lord.
And if the Demon Shadow was burned out by the Demon Flame in advance, Shao Chen would be directly extinguished into ashes, and there would be no trace of divine thought left.
Time is passing slowly, and every second is extremely tormenting.
The powerful Shaochen could summon a tenfold demon shadow, which had now been incinerated eightfold, but the demonic flame showed no sign of extinguishing it.
Finally, the ninth demon shadow that had been struggling to support was also burned by the demon flames, and Shao Chen summoned the last demon shadow.
However, the Demon Flame was still burning so wildly, and soon his tenth Demon Shadow was on the verge of collapse.
At this time, countless people began to cry in their hearts, and countless people asked why.
The new illusion demon only knows the method of awakening the ritual, but no one knows how many heavy demon shadows are needed to awaken the demon lord's bloodline. Therefore, they could only try again and again, from the first time someone could summon a shadow of the Shadow.
Shao Chen's ability to summon a tenfold demon shadow was something that no one in the Phantom Demon Clan had ever done. If even he fails, will the illusion really give birth to his own demon master?
Finally, Shao Chen's tenth demon shadow was about to be burned out by the demonic flames, and his people began to let out painful groans.
The demon flame burns the body, and no matter how forbearant it is, it will not be able to bear it.
The demon shadow burned out, and Shao Chen's screams of pain were as terrible as a knife, cutting at the demon heart of the holy maiden Xiaolu one by one.
The demon also has affection, seeing that her sweetheart is about to be destroyed and her soul is destroyed, the holy woman suddenly pounces on the altar, like a moth to a fire.
When the Phantom Elders wanted to intercept it, it was too late.
Looking at the two figures who were obsessed with each other in the demonic flames, the Great Elder had tears on his face.
Shaochen failed, and the holy woman went with him. Two of the best young men have brought the most devastating blow to the Phantom Clan.
However, just as the Demon Flame was about to burn the two of them to ashes, a dark void vortex exuding endless pure demonic intent suddenly appeared above the altar.
As soon as the Dark Void Vortex took shape, it immediately began to frantically devour the demonic flames on the altar.
A moment later, the demonic flames were all swallowed up by the Dark Void Vortex!