Chapter 25: The Return of the Demon King
The place that the Devourer had set its sights on was a massive towering mountain.
The dark mountain presents an ancient mystery and heaviness, like a pillar that stretches the heavens and the earth, towering proudly on it.
At the top of the mountain there is no peak, but a flat land, and in the center of the huge and undulating flat land, there is a huge black hole, like a black dragon winding down, extending downward, I don't know its depth.
A desolate and mournful cry like a ghost of injustice kept wandering and wandering at the entrance of the cave.
Faintly, you can see that near the entrance of the cave, countless evil spirits are constantly rushing outward, trying to leave this black hole.
But for some reason, there seems to be some kind of power in the black hole that imprisons these evil spirits here.
No matter how much the evil spirits tried, it was always like a bottomless black quagmire, and once a creature entered it, it would never want to get out.
As soon as he reached the edge of the cavern, the Devouring Spirit felt a powerful pull from the darkness of the black hole, and tried to pull itself inside, and immediately his eyes flashed with horror.
It's just that the hesitation didn't stay on his face for long, and it was replaced by a resolute force.
He suddenly stepped out and leaped into the black hole in front of him.
In his opinion, the number of evil spirits imprisoned in this black hole is innumerable, which will become the most powerful guarantee for him to strengthen himself in the future.
As for whether he can come out of this black hole after entering it, and whether he will be sealed here forever like other evil spirits, he didn't even have any worries he should have.
Because in his opinion, as long as he becomes strong enough, these so-called seals will be like a void in front of him.
The moment he jumped into the black hole, a violent suction force sucked the Devouring Spirit frantically downward.
The world around them began to be swallowed up by darkness at a rapid pace.
Looking back at the light above me, I was getting farther and farther away from myself.
In the process of falling at an extremely fast speed, the Devouring Spirit also saw an extremely staggering number of evil spirits, just like himself, falling straight down by inertia.
At the same time, on the wall of this black hole, there is an extremely terrifying army of evil spirits, densely clinging to it, like evil spirits that have just been released from hell, and are climbing up viciously, trying to get out of this purgatory.
But it turned out that they were all failures.
No matter how many evil spirits climb up, the number of evil spirits that fall down is often much higher than the former.
I don't know how long it took to fall downward, until the light above me completely fell, and the Devouring Spirit slammed into a hard ground.
This is a lava ground formed by the cooling and solidification of fire magma, and under the hard dark black rock layer, there are still shining fiery red cracks, as if under this ground, there is a lava lake flowing violently, and it may erupt at any time.
Completely ignoring these things that he was not interested in, the Devouring Spirit got up and looked at the army of evil spirits in front of him, which had long been shrouded in fear, and his eyes suddenly showed an excited look of wolf entering the rabbit's nest.
He knew that his chance had come, and as long as he was given enough time, he was destined to complete a qualitative transformation in this place.
Domination of the necromancy is the foundation at which this devouring spirit can strengthen itself, and he can arm himself by constantly devouring other evil spirits and absorbing the power within these evil spirits.
In this strange black hole, the strength of the Devouring Spirit is certainly not the strongest, but he has a calmness and patience that other evil spirits do not have.
When the evil spirits that have fallen here begin to try to escape from this place, repeatedly to no avail, and panic, he is like a seasoned hunter, quietly lurking in the depths of the darkness, waiting for fear to defeat them one by one.
Fear, madness began to spread among the hordes of evil spirits, and the fragile spirits, therefore, became the most delicious prey of the devouring spirits.
This kind of boring hunting is boring for a hunter.
For a skilled hunter, it is an insult to kill a prey lying motionless on the ground, without the slightest ability to resist.
But as he felt his power growing, his body becoming more and more substantial, the Devouring Spirit repeated the process tirelessly.
In this boring and long time, the Devouring Spirit also discovered a miracle, that is, the evil spirit in this black hole seems to be in a state of saturation forever.
No matter how many hundreds, or even thousands, of evil spirits he devoured, the evil spirits in this space were still like ants on the screen, scurrying up and down, countless, as if this black hole was a natural evil spirit manufacturing factory.
I don't know how long this boring devouring process lasted, until one day, when the blood-colored soul prison in the chest of the devouring spirit emitted a dazzling blood-red light, he shouted his name loudly, announcing his return.
"Shadow Fiend!"
He gave himself such a name.
At this moment, his whole body already has a very obvious materialized body.
Streams of black qi that were close to materialization continued to evaporate from the surface of its body, like a poisonous miasma, making people retreat.
His aura became more aggressive, as his name suggested, giving the illusion of a demon king descending.
The only deficiency is that his lower body is still shrouded in a chaotic dark vortex, as if devouring evil spirits, but it has not been able to help his lower body to be perfectly transformed.
It's just that he doesn't care at all, because at this moment, he has already felt the transcendent power in his body that the king has returned.
The Shadow Demon began to try to break the seal of the black hole, but strangely, with his strength far beyond all the evil spirits here, he still couldn't break through the black hole's confinement.
After several more unsuccessful attempts, Shadow Fiend finally became angry.
But the anger did not wipe out his calmness.
He began to change his mind, looking for other breakthroughs in the black hole.
The Shadow Demon frantically pounded the walls of the cave around him, and the entire space was suddenly shaken by a dull sound like a piledriver.
But the result was strikingly consistent.
In the end, Shadow Fiend blasted all his anger towards the bottom of the black hole, the hard black and red magma surface.
Unexpectedly, the surface layer of the magma was easily shredded, revealing the lava lake flowing below.
The fragmentation of the Earth's surface layer seems to have completely disrupted some delicate balance that keeps the black hole stable.
The black hole began to tremble violently, and even the originally comfortable magma lake below instantly surged violently like boiling water.
The temperature, in the surging jump of the magma lake, is rapidly climbing upward.
The hot magma, like the waves in a hurricane, mercilessly slapped against the cave wall, raising a magma turbulence dozens of feet high, mercilessly engulfing the army of evil spirits that crawled all over the cave wall.
In front of the destructive power of nature, how could these evil spirits have the power to fight back, and the evil spirits that were relatively close to the bottom of the cave were instantly swept away by the magma waves.
The silent imprisonment of the black hole has long exhausted the minds of these evil spirits, and as soon as such a drastic change occurred, the entire black hole completely exploded.
The monstrous howls and screams reached the sky and shocked the sky.
With a wave of his giant arm, the Shadow Demon struck down all the evil spirits that were running in his way in front of him, and then leaned down towards the magma lake at the bottom of the cave.
He didn't panic, but seemed extremely calm.
Because in his opinion, if the other regions of the black hole are still unable to be breached, then perhaps this magma lake is the only breakthrough to break through the confinement.
Although in the eyes of others, rushing into a lava lake is no different from suicide.
The churning of the magma caused the temperature in the entire space to rise to an extremely terrifying level.
The kind of oppression brought about by the high temperature emptied all the evil spirits within a range of tens of feet at the bottom of the cave.
The Shadow Demon was the only one, still standing in the incomparably distorted space that was steaming by the high temperature, and there was no sign of retreating.
At a certain moment, the Shadow Demon was amazed to see that in the fiery red magma lake, there seemed to be a huge strange transparent crystal soaking in it.
In the reddish crystals that had been burned by the magma, he also saw that there seemed to be a huddled figure inside.
Curiosity made the Shadow Demon forget the doubts in his heart, and he plunged headlong into the hot magma under the dull gaze of the countless evil spirit armies, and leaned towards the crystal.
The hot magma instantly burned the body of the Shadow Demon into smoke, and it seemed that even the powerful flesh formed by devouring the evil spirits could not resist the terrifying erosion of the magma.
However, Shadow Fiend didn't seem to care at all, as if as long as he managed to reach the crystal, no matter how big the sacrifice was, it would be worth it.
When Shadow Fiend's arm touched the crystal, his body was corroded by hot lava.
However, the moment his palm touched the surface of the crystal, a shocking wave of powerful energy instantly poured out of the crystal, magically separating all the surrounding magma, making the crystal and the shadow demon in an absolutely independent space.
The Shadow Demon didn't bother to pay any attention to this, because at this moment, all his attention was drawn to the dark shadow in the crystal in front of him.
The Shadow Demon originally thought that the black shadow that was sleeping, or that it was sealed in the crystal, should be a dead thing, but just now, he clearly saw that the black shadow actually moved.
Although the amplitude is not very large, it is still detected by the Shadow Fiend.
After a slight shock, the Shadow Fiend's palm began to exert force, trying to break through the crystalline layer and touch the dark shadow inside.
But at the moment when the Shadow Demon's palm was forced, a wave of incomparably arrogant power rushed out of the crystal again, like a flood beast.
The surrounding magma tide, which had long been divided, was once again squeezed by this shock wave, and continued to climb up the wall of the black hole.
The evil spirits that clinged to the cave wall hundreds of feet high could not escape the engulfment of the magma, and the wails resounded throughout the black hole again.
The shadow demon below was not shaken away by this powerful force at all, but its arm was firmly attached to the surface of the crystal, unable to move.
After the Shadow Demon twitched a few times to no avail, he could only look at the black shadow that was still sealed in the crystalline body in horror.
Although the black shadow curled up silently like this, even on him, he couldn't feel a trace of life.
But it is this silent silence that drives people crazy the most.
"Since you're here, then become my heartfelt slave!"