Chapter 646: Demon King (1/2)

Terror!

When Qi Hai saw that Lu Yun was about to combine the Demonic Sovereign Cauldron’s feet with its main body, unadulterated terror flashed through his eyes. Even his voice took on a strange inflection, as if it was going off pitch.

Stopping his movements, Lu Yun looked at the man.

“Three cauldron feet and one cauldron body… that still doesn’t make for the complete Demonic Sovereign Cauldron. I’m short a pair of handles,” he responded calmly. “What are you afraid of?”

All present looked at Qi Hai, who let out the breath he was holding when he saw Lu Yun stop.

“That damned fur seal!” He gnashed his teeth. “It did this on purpose! It deliberately placed the three feet within your reach! The Demonic Sovereign Cauldron is no immortal treasure! In the Primordial Era, the immortal court’s Celestial Master Ge slew a demon sovereign and refined his body into a great cauldron.

“But later on, the demon resurrected from the cauldron and became a horrifying existence, split between an object and a living spirit. In the end, Celestial Master Ge had no choice but to dismantle the cauldron. Thanks to that, he ultimately suppressed the demon’s true spirit.

“By making the cauldron whole again, you would bring the demon’s true spirit back to life. He could then summon the handles and fully return to life.”

A murderous glint flashed in the pill master’s eyes. His greatest desire right now was to rush to the West Sea and extinguish the fur seals to the last.

“Now that Celestial Master Ge is no more, there is no one in the world who can restrain this demon.” One thing Qi Hai left unsaid was that, if this demon were to come back to life, he’d be an even greater threat than the demon fetus beneath Mount Exalted.

“Is that so?” Lu Yun nodded. He’d already come in contact with a boundless, hair-raising demonic aura inside the cauldron’s main body. In fact, using that energy to strengthen himself could propel him to the realm of a void-ascended immortal.

But the energy found within was very pure, devoid of any thought or consciousness. He hadn’t sensed any true spirit or nascent spirit in them.

Qi Hai stayed silent, his eyes locked on Lu Yun. Nodding, the overlord of hell sent the cauldron feet into the netherworld with a wave of the hand.

……

Inside hell.

“Feet, main body?” Looking at the two parts of the Demonic Sovereign Cauldron in his hand, Lu Yun frowned slightly. “And what are you doing here?”  He turned around at the figure that’d appeared beside him—Qi Hai.

After the Sal Tree of Life and Death evolved into the Karmic Tree, Lu Yun now exercised absolute control over hell. In addition, the circle of light inside hell had grown to an unfathomable size—at least ten times bigger than in the past.

Therefore, it was almost impossible for Qi Hai to force his way into hell. If not for Lu Yun sensing his presence around the edges and granting entry, he wouldn’t have been able to come in.

“Believe me, I’m not fearmongering. It’s in your best interests not to combine the cauldron’s feet and main body.” Qi Hai’s voice was incomparably solemn. “Otherwise, this hell will have a new master!”

“Oh?” Lu Yun turned his head, his gaze piercing through multiple layers of space to search out the figure of Ge Long sitting at the edge of the abyss.

Ge Long met his gaze, but neither showed himself nor commented. He simply left everything in his master’s hands.

“This demon must have quite the identity. Who is he?” Lu Yun asked with a wide smile even as his fingers gently caressed the cauldron.

Blood drained from Qi Hai’s face. Lu Yun was nigh-unassailable inside hell, but in order to stop him from reassembling the cauldron, Qi Hai had visited with his true body.