58 Ascension of the Demon Lord Double Chapter (2/2)

”Sir... I mean Sage Red Lotus!!!” The oily man exclaimed with shock as he scanned over Ye Yuyan's body.

”Human King, Qushji...” Ye Yuyan smiled vibrantly and said to the turban-wearing man.

”Have you finally done, are you reclaiming the throne?” Qushji asked excitedly as he left his merchant's table to approach Ye Yuyan.

On his table were various blood congealment and replenishment herbs, it was the same table that Maven, Song Yue, and Alister saw when they first entered the blood city.

Ye Yuyan shook his head and replied: ”Not yet Qushji...” Ye Yuyan turned his attention to the shrine in front of him. It was a decrepit old shrine with cracked stone steps and rotting wood frame.

The only redeeming factor was the doors which magnificent spiraling dragons around its frame. It was strange such a shrine would be at the center of the center right below the Blood Heritage Palace.

At that moment, a cacophony of lights shone from various parts of the city. Five beams of light converged behind Ye Yuyan at that moment. The lights manifested into five figures, the first was cloaked in the moonlight, the second in a white flame, and the third is a black and red blood Qi.

The other two stood separate from the first three, a white immortal light wrapped the first of the two and the second was stained red Qi. These figures were Maven, Song Yue, and Alister respectively. The other two were the Human and Immortal Supreme Elders.

Maven and the other put their hands over their chests and bowed toward Ye Yuyan. Ye Yuyan glanced back at them for a moment and turned back and looked over the shrine.

Ye Yuyan walked forward and climbed the steps of the shrine. At the top of the steps he suddenly stopped and said: ”Qushji, I'll do it this time. I'll finally kill him, even if he is an immortal.”

Qushji gritted his teeth and looked at the ground before replying: ”I know, there's no one that can stop you this time.”

Ye Yuyan didn't look back instead he placed a hand on the doors, pushing them open slowly. The dragons on the door came to life and roared into the heavens. Light shot into the old shrine for the first time in thousands of years.

Ye Yuyan walked into the shrine looking around at the designed frame, inside of the shrine was a small stick of incense in an incense vase. Ye Yuyan sat in front of the vase and crossed his legs over, behind him the gates of the shrine closed, turning everything dark at once.

Ye Yuyan held his hand palm up, and suddenly a white flame manifested in the palm of his hand. He put the small flickering flame on the incense igniting it. On Ye Yuyan's glabella, the red lotus mark shone releasing a shadowy essence.

The essence coalesced in front of Ye Yuyan according to a heavenly principle until it turned into a black scroll! This was the power of Ye Yuyan's third lotus leaf, during his heavenly tribulation he used the power of 3000 Daos to refine his minor Dao of calligraphy into a Dao of heavenly secrets!

Ye Yuyan reached into his robe removing a calligraphy pen, he reached out and dipped his pen into the incense flame. Instantly the calligraphy pen ignited with a white flame turning into coagulation of white flames.

Amidst the flickering white light of the incense flame and the natural darkness of the room, Ye Yuyan wrote on the shadowy scroll with the blazing pen. His beautiful strokes lingered on the scroll as white streaks as they formed into nomological inscriptions.

Ye Yuyan wrote his deepest reflections and they read:

”The light of the past brings all matters to bare

The darkness of the future leaves but an uncertain taste

The turmoil of the present is where light and dark meet in fate

and fate is the determinator of all of man's things

Light and Dark are Illuminator and Concealer of fate”

With the completion of his poem, Ye Yuyan reached out with his pointer finger and thumb. With a swift motion, he gripped the incense flame and let it go out.

The flickering flame disappeared and darkness engulfed Ye Yuyan and the room. Immense darkness particles and Qi seethed with excitement within the darkness, this sight was unseen by anybody.

Outside of the shrine, Song Yue and Co sat outside guarding the shrine. Around them, the citizens continued their trades but in a reserved a quiet manner. Most of the citizens there came to gather information and to see what all the experts were there for.

Song Yue's eyes flashed open from meditation when suddenly a powerful dark Qi shot out from the shrine. The dark Qi stained the sky of the Blood City, turning the entire world black. Song Yue looked on with shock as the sky darkened and the moon and stars became apparent.

The citizens in the area stopped what they were doing as if called by something and they all rushed over to the shrine. Tens of thousands of blood disciples and higher emerged all lining the streets and areas around the shrine.

The disciples stood behind the six experts giving them a few meters of space. In this space, a white-robed old man stood up when the dark Qi emerged.

”He's ascended, the new Demon Lord....” The Immortal Supreme Elder mumbled with shock as he stared at the shrine.

”What did he do?” Song Yue titled her head and asked the supreme elder.

”He's fused the Demon Root, Black Sea, and His cultivation as one. When he emerges next, he'll become a true demon.” The Human Supreme Elder replied as the Immortal Supreme Elder concentrated on the shrine.

At that moment, the shrine gates suddenly flew open. Maven, Alister, and Qushji suddenly awoke as they felt an immensely horrifying Qi. A primordial fear emerged in the heart of all the onlookers as the monstrous Qi filled every crevice in the area.

”This Qi... it's mind-boggling!” Maven stuttered to say as the immense Qi felt like it was choking him.

A pair of dark predator eyes opened inside the darkness of the shrine, one look and everyone felt as if their souls had left.

The lower level disciples and warriors instantly fainted from the oppressive. Almost everyone else except Qushji stared out into space with a blank expression.

'He's done it... he's really done it!' Qushji yelled constantly in his heart, as a dark-robed figure stepped out of the shrine.

Darkness wrapped around his body like a mother's embrace, his long black hair flowed down his back fusing perfectly into his robes, and the centerpiece of it all was his gloomy eyes that were darker than the deepest trench.

Ye Yuyan stood calmly at the top of the shrine looking down on his thousands of subjects. He raised his right hand releasing his control over them and suddenly their blank expressions turned lively again.

”Wait what...” Song Yue mumbled with confusion as she stared at Ye Yuyan's sudden appearance.

”Kneel.” Ye Yuyan coldly intoned with a sonorous bellow that echoed throughout the city. Every citizen in the area instantly bowed down toward Ye Yuyan. Qushji was fastest falling his knees even the Elders of the factions joined him in worship.

Alister and Maven were soon after leaving only Song Yue hesitating, but Ye Yuyan merely glanced towards her and suddenly she felt her soul leaving once again. She instantly fell to her knees with her eyes glancing down in fear.

Ye Yuyan put his palm out releasing an untold amount of darkness particles into the world and with a cold demonic voice he said:

”Let it be known, in all major and minor planes. My name is Ye Yuyan and I am the Demon Lord of the Blood Sect!”