54 Demon Stars (1/2)

Inside of the Blood Palace, the darkness enveloping the halls started to fade away. The various green eyes closed as the slaughter Qi left their forms all shooting towards the gates. Maven and Song Yue stood on the blood steps as the dark wind past the body.

Near the throne was Alister, a dark green light slowly left his eyes as his consciousness returned. As the dark qi escaped, Maven and Song Yue felt their bodies lighten up as if a weight was lifted off their shoulders. Song Yue looked over at Alister's whose consciousness was being restored.

”Alister, he's gone now.” Song Yue laughed with a devious grin.

Maven dusted his body off as he got up and looked towards the gates of the palace. The palace doors flew open suddenly as the Qi escaped into the outside world.

”Ahhh! This qi what is it?!?” Maven's mouth opened wide with shock as an intense Qi rippled at the edge of his perception. He could feel an almost imperceptible gigantic being come into being outside of the palace.

Song Yue and Alister noticed Maven's shock and branched out their perceptions to the limit. Song Yue's eyes opened suddenly as she exclaimed: ”This qi...it's unimaginable! Who is generating such power?”

”It's Master...he's slain the demon.” Alister calmly intoned, Maven turned to look at Alister meeting his serious gaze and slightly nervous expression.

”Let's go see.” Song Yue said with a childish smile, she covered her smile with her hand as she levitated. Her body suddenly burst out flying through the air, with her childish laughs echoing.

Maven and Alister remained on the steps of the throne, Maven looked over at Alister who was staring at the ground and spoke to him: ”You needn't worry so much, the master knows your merit.”

Alister exhaled a slow sigh as he looked up from the ground and said back to him: ”That doesn't worry me. A primal emanation in control of the Demon Throne, what of the Human and Immortal Thrones?”

”I see...” Maven replied emotionlessly as he scanned over Alister's expression. Alister shook his head and said to Maven: ”Let's go greet the master.”

Alister surrounded himself with blood forces and burst into a red light shooting through the palace, Maven did the same turning into a cyan beam of light. The two beams shot through the palace reaching Song Yue in seconds.

The three beams of light shot through the palace gates, shooting into the real world. The three beams emerged as light motes and slowly coalesced into Song Yue, Maven, and Alister.

The moment Song Yue appeared she turned her gaze towards the sky and noticed that it was pitch black. This darkness was unlike the darkness of night, it was darker and almost sinister. The horrid darkness filled the entire heavens as if it was without an end.

”What is this?” She questioned as she looked around for the Qi she felt before. Suddenly a gigantic torrent of Qi washed over her and her companions. Song Yue's eyes dilated violently when suddenly:

BOOM!

”Arrrrgggg!” A heaven shattering roar filled her eyes with rattling as the echoes were heard throughout the world.

The death throes of the shout tore apart distant lands and homes in an instant. The darkness of the skies rippled violently as a dragon head with a jewel-encrusted diadem shot out from the darkness.

Six other heads shot out of the darkness all with diadem crowns, they writhed and danced sinisterly as its legs and abdomen departed from the dark. A red flame danced across its horrid body revealing a gigantic sky-devouring red dragon!

Shock waves transmitted throughout Song Yue's body as the dragon's majesty was fully revealed, its abominable Qi filled the sky with a dreadful and gloomy feeling that left the soul writhing in pain.

”What is that thing?!?!” Song Yue muttered as her body edged back taking a few hesitant steps. Maven walked up behind Song Yue and patted her back to console her before he spoke.

”It's the master, look at the top of the Crowned Head.” Maven then pointed towards the top of a frail head with a black nomological pattern across its scale. It unlike the other heads only had one eye, and it was an Eye of Heaven!

Sitting atop the head, was a young man dressed in black robes. He sat in lotus form with his eyes tightly shut, his hands were held in a Dhyana Mudra. Around him was a roiling current of darkness, the deep darkness filled his body with a demonic charm as it emanated into the skies.

”What is he doing?” Song Yue turned to Alister and asked. Alister glanced sideways at Song Yue and bit his lips in hesitation but he ultimately decided to speak.

”In the Demon Sect, there are two requirements to ascend the throne.” Alister gazed up at the sky as he spoke not bothering to face Song Yue.

He raised one finger and said: ”One is to absorb a fragment of the black sea.”

Alister then raised another finger making two and said: ”Two is to complete a demon root.”

”What does that do? What's the point of all that effort?” Song Yue shook her head doubtfully.