Chapter 432: Gaining another mystical skill (1/2)

GDK 432 – Gaining another mystical skill

After the elite metal zomple and the little skeleton were sent back to the netherworld, Han Shuo immediately left Mount Silk and returned to Brettel City.

This time when he returned to Brettel City, Han Shuo did not say much nor did he find out more about Brettel City’s situation. He only went to look for a few people in charge and talked with them for a while, explaining that he was about to train for a period of time.

While Han Shuo wasn’t around, Jack and the others had managed Brettel City excellently. Brettel City grew more prosperous with each passing day and everything was developing smoothly. After the twelve mystical demons surveyed the situation, Han Shuo understood that he simply didn’t need to not worry about the situation in Brettel City.

Now that Lawrence was on the verge of gaining authority over Lancelot Empire, Han Shuo believed that given his relationship with Lawrence, Lawrence definitely wouldn’t treat Han Shuo’s subordinates in Brettel City shabbily. Han Shuo knew his importance to Lawrence from Sabakas and Karel’s words. This was precisely why he would feel at ease to train in seclusion.

Once he ensured everything was in place, Han Shuo entered the secret room within his mansion in Brettel City and used the teleportation array to go to the Cemetery of Death.

The Cemetery of Death was filled with dense deathly aura throughout the year and was as dark and dusky as before. Han Shuo headed directly to the location where he had buried the elite earth zombie and discovered that under the nourishment from the place of extreme earth, the concaved chest of the elite earth zombie no longer looked that unsightly. It seemed that the place of extreme earth, which had nurtured the elite earth zombie, was indeed extremely effective in healing its injuries.

As soon as he entered the Cemetery of Death, Han Shuo immediately connected with dark dragon Gilbert. From Gilbert’s calm messages, it seemed that there currently shouldn’t be any situation within the Valley of Sunshine that Gilbert couldn’t handle. Hence, Han Shuo told Gilbert that he would be spending a long time to train.

Han Shuo was currently in the separate demon realm of the nine levels of demonic magic. Whether he could break into the carnal realm would depend on whether he could assimilate the enormous amount of energy within his body and if he could comprehend the frame of mind needed for the carnal realm.

As demonic practitioners paid more attention to forging the physical body, their lifespan was much longer than swordsmen and magi of this world. Even for Han Shuo who was in the separate demon realm, as long as he wasn’t killed or suffered from cultivation deviation, he could easily live for a few hundred years.

Perhaps it was precisely because time was of abundance to demonic practitioners, that they would spend a lot of time during each seclusion. The duration of seclusion differed based on one’s realm. Demonic practitioners of higher realms would require longer periods of time of training in seclusion.

Han Shuo had planned to stay in seclusion for an extended duration this time. After he had arranged all worldly matters properly, he then truly entered the so-called state of seclusion by demonic practitioners.

He sat cross-legged on the ground covered with white bones within the Cemetery of Death. Han Shuo settled his mind down, dispelling the miscellaneous thoughts from his brain. He could feel the frightening killing intent that filled every part of his body, rapidly revolving the demonic yuan energy within his body and directing the enormous amount of energy within his body toward the demon infant.

This was a process that used quite a lot of time and energy. Fortunately, Han Shuo had an astonishing endurance and would persevere once he set his mind on something. From the moment Han Sho sat cross-legged on the ground, he no longer moved, simply focused on the thought of completely assimilating the enormous killing intent within his body, entering the deepest layer of meditation.

The Cemetery of Death was indeed a good location for training. With the existence of the barrier, there was simply no one who could discover its existence. As there was no other person within the Cemetery of Death, it was absolutely silent, which was extremely suitable for a demonic practitioner like Han Shuo.

When Han Shuo began to train without any stray thoughts, time already had no meaning to him. Han Shuo’s consciousness gradually became empty, without any thoughts. It was to the extent that he even forgot his own existence, as though everything had stilled, including his own consciousness.

A demonic practitioner had two types of entering demonhood, classified as active and passive. The active form of entering demonhood was like what happened a few days ago, where the demonic practitioner would sink into a crazed massacre. During that period, the demonic practitioner’s heart would only contain the primal desire to kill ruthlessly, possessing the madness to destroy everything. The demonic practitioner in that state would have absolutely no idea what he or she was doing, and also not be able to feel pain. One’s strength would indeed be more frightening than usual.

However, this active form of demonhood was extremely dangerous for a demonic practitioner. With a single slip, the demonic practitioner would permanently fall into demonhood, never regaining his consciousness and becoming the purest killing machine.

Previously when Han Shuo entered that state, he had a brief moment of soberness prior to entering demonhood. Due to the hatred buried deep in his heart, he had identified sacred knight Blount as his target. Furthermore, the previous time Han Shuo entered demonhood was purely due to him being unable to control the energy within the Demonslayer Edge while attending to the killing intent within his body at the same time.

When the energy that caused Han Shuo to enter demonhood was released through Han Shuo’s crazed attacks, the energy that didn’t originate from Han Shuo’s body disappeared permanently, allowing Han Shuo to gradually regain his consciousness.

If the previous time he entered demonhood wasn’t caused by external energy, but was instead due to some kind of stimulation which caused his consciousness to enter demonhood and the demon infant to have the intention of slaughter, he wouldn’t have been able to recover so easily.

In contrast to the harmful active demonhood, the passive type of demonhood was a state that demonic practitioners were most willing to enter. The self-forgetting state of demonhood would allow a demonic practitioner to not have any stray thoughts and was extremely beneficial to a demonic practitioner’s training.

However, this type of demonhood was extremely hard to enter. Some demonic practitioner would never enter such a state in their entire life while other innately talented demonic practitioners would enter it many times at fortuitous moments. These people would usually become formidable characters of the demonic path. They were extremely skillful, had high perseverance and possessed great knowledge.

In Han Shuo’s case, this wasn’t the first time he entered demonhood. For an unknown reason, he had once again entered this mysterious state. It was as though the whole world including himself had been discarded from his mind, leaving his consciousness totally empty.

Han Shuo no longer had any concept of time. He just sat cross-legged in the Cemetery of Death in a selfless state, while a snake-like strand of black electricity circled across his body as a frightening aura emanated from his body.

Thick blood-red fog flowed out from his pores and curled around Han Shuo. The fog was then inhaled by Han Shuo through his nose into his body, forming a cycle.

After an unknown amount of time, Han Shuo was awakened by a wave of crisp pitter-patter noises. When he came to his senses, he suddenly felt that the demon infant in his body had become a vortex, continuously revolving at high speed, releasing strands of energy into his limbs, bones, and meridians.