Demon Core Becomes a Demon

Granny Liu paced back and forth hurriedly in front of the Snake Ancestor's Hall, with all the snake Demon Cultivator prostrating themselves behind her.

The old woman looked at the gloomy night sky, a lingering sense of unease settling in her heart.

The Second Young Lady Ji Lingruo been in seclusion at the Serpent Ancestor Palace for over a month, breaking through to the Condensing Water Realm, and has yet to emerge. Even if she is exceptional, she shouldn't be this exceptional. There is no record in history of anyone being able to remain in seclusion at the Condensing Water Realm for so long.

Tonight, her heart was restless. She tossed and turned in her cave abode, unable to close her eyes peacefully. Following the guidance of the hidden worry in her heart, she arrived at the gate of the Serpent Ancestor Hall Ji Lingruo was in seclusion, only to find that the Serpent Ancestor Hall was indeed in trouble.

This ancient and solemn palace is actually on the verge of collapse!

Earthquakes are a very common occurrence in the Eastern Ying Continent, yet those kneeling on the ground felt no tremors at all, which could only mean that there was a problem inside the Serpent Ancestor's Palace. This most important building of the serpent race had never collapsed in thousands of years, so this incident at the Serpent Ancestor's Palace drew the utmost attention from all the serpent demons.

"Elder Liu! What do we do now? The Second Young Lady is still inside!" a beautiful snake clan elder asked anxiously.

Elder Liu was also at a loss. She didn't know if the shaking of the Serpent Ancestor Hall was related to the Second Young Lady's seclusion, which was why she was hesitant.

On the one hand, she did not want to disrupt the Second Young Lady's long period of seclusion. She and her clansmen had all witnessed the purity of the Second Young Lady's Demon Core and the high level of her cultivation talent. If she damaged the Second Young Lady's foundation, she would be held responsible!

On the one hand, she couldn't just watch the Serpent Ancestor Temple collapse like this. The inheritance method in the Serpent Ancestor Temple was very important, but the most important thing was the Snake Blood Pool. That was the key to how their Serpent Clan had been able to survive to this day despite having no male members. As the most senior elder in the clan, she absolutely could not sit idly by and watch the clan's bloodline be severed!

She hesitated. With the clan chief absent, this enormous burden now rested solely on her shoulders.

If she were the clan leader, she would surely choose to save her own sister... But could she be so willful?

With nearly a thousand beautiful young women behind her, all hoping she would make a decision soon, Granny Liu steeled her heart and finally placed her hand on the trembling, massive stone door.

But just then, a shrill female groan came from the Serpent Ancestor's Palace.

Granny Liu was so frightened that her eyebrows shot up. She instinctively turned around to look, only to find that all the snake demons were staring at her.

An even more piercing scream rang out, and Granny Liu was certain that it was her own Second Young Lady's scream!

Without further hesitation, she immediately conjured emerald light in her hands, preparing to forcefully break down the gate of the Serpent Ancestor's Palace.

However, this attack only stirred up ripples of profound Mystic Qi on the gate of the Serpent Ancestor Hall. The elders exchanged glances and made their decision.

They all took a step forward, gathering their strength to blast towards the gate of the Serpent Ancestor's Palace.

The heavy gate finally began to loosen, and with the swaying of the Serpent Ancestor Palace itself, a sliver of light could be seen inside.

Granny Liu quickly moved closer and looked into it, and her pupils widened instantly!

She quickly stepped back and shouted, "Break down the door!"

The anxiety in his voice instantly infected everyone present. Facing this sacred gate, they showed no mercy and smashed it to pieces in a moment.

The breaking of the gate also heralded the collapse of the entire Snake Ancestor Temple. The nine snake pillars, each coiled with a giant python, snapped inch by inch, and this thousand-year-old building was about to crumble with lightning speed.

"Everyone step back! I'm going to bring Miss back!" Granny Liu shouted, then stomped her feet heavily and stepped into the crumbling hall.

The lights flickered, and the crimson blood in the pool seemed to boil. The enormous snake head atop it was as if it were alive, ferocious and terrifying, as if it wanted to swallow the girl in front of it whole.

Fortunately, the snake's head was also gradually disintegrating, with the old stone skin peeling off, just like a snake's skin being shed.

Granny Liu seemed to sense something in the Unseen, as if some connection in her bloodline had been completely severed.

In the Snake Blood Pool, the graceful young girl was curled up and writhing in the bloody water, clutching her abdomen tightly, her face contorted in pain, like a woman about to give birth.

Granny Liu didn't stop, and with a wave of her hand, she cleared away the falling stones for her young mistress.

She glanced at the snake blood leaking from the precious Snake Blood Pool, her face showing reluctance and regret, but she was powerless to stop it.

She had to get the young lady out of the Serpent Ancestor's Palace before it completely collapsed!

The Serpent Ancestor Temple was covered by several Formation Techniques and supported by numerous Law Artifact inside, so even the strongest earthquake could not destroy this vital building. But it still collapsed tonight, which shows that the collapse of this building was simply irreversible.

The snake demon women outside looked at the decay of the Snake Ancestor's Palace with expressions of pity and confusion, and some even wept.

With a few loud rumbling sounds, the magnificent Serpent Ancestor Temple was reduced to ruins in the blink of an eye.

The elders at the front all gasped in shock, but thankfully the Second Young Lady's screams continued unabated.

As the thick smoke and dust dissipated, Granny Liu appeared in the women's sight, carrying Ji Lingruo in her arms.

Most of the snake demons secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but a small number of old-fashioned snake elders looked at the ruins behind Granny Liu with heartbreaking grief and sighed:

"Heaven is going to destroy my Demon Race!"

The collapse of the Snake Ancestor Temple indicates that the Snake Blood Pool, upon which the snake clan depends for reproduction, has also been completely buried. The snake blood, which has been carefully preserved for thousands of years, will be contaminated by dust and seep into the earth.

And their snake clan will be completely wiped out in this generation.

The women also sighed upon hearing this. Although they all knew that the Serpent Ancestor Palace would not collapse for no reason, and that saving people was all they could do, they still felt confused and worried about the future of the Serpent Clan.

If a race is destined to perish, then no matter how powerful it is, it will only be a fleeting moment. So what is the point of their struggle?

But an even more agonizing scream shattered the silence of dawn, and the women then noticed the reason why the Second Young Lady, who had been carried out of the smoke, was screaming so horribly.

Her belly was surprisingly protruding!

She's pregnant!

"Quickly prepare a clean room!" Granny Liu shouted anxiously.

The snake clan does indeed rely on the blood of the snake ancestor to continue its lineage, but it is by no means that one can become pregnant simply by drinking snake blood.

To achieve the goal of passing on offspring and protect the safety of the conceived, one must first meet the age requirement, secondly be in good health, and thirdly be in a stable period of cultivation. Finally, one must undergo various rituals and practice top-secret special Cultivation Method to guide snake blood in order to conceive.

All of the above steps are indispensable; this is the ironclad rule by which the snake clan uses snake blood to perpetuate their lineage.

Ji Lingruo clearly could not meet all the above requirements, and the snake clan elders would never agree to let her get pregnant. Even if she was a peerless genius on the verge of death, the rules passed down by the snake clan would not allow these sisters to regard their own kind as tools for procreation.

Furthermore, the serpent race's Secret Method conception, like the human race's normal conception, requires a ten-month pregnancy. Based on this, could it be that the Second Young Lady was already pregnant before those ten months?

She didn't even return to the snake clan at that time. How did she manage that?

Could it be...?

The atmosphere outside the secret chamber was oppressive, with the elders putting pressure on the silent Granny Liu. From the moment she escorted the Second Young Lady into the chamber, the old woman had been frowning and sighing incessantly; she must know something.

Granny Liu glanced at the clansmen, sighed, and finally decided to stop hiding it and revealed the relationship between Ji Lingruo and You Su.

The women were shocked to hear this, only then realizing who was behind the Second Young Lady's pregnancy—it was none other than the Second Young Lady's senior brother, the second disciple of the Lotus Sword Venerable!

Many snake demons immediately began to curse and swear at the cunning Demon Race boy, even going so far as to accuse the Lotus Sword Venerable of plotting against her, which was why she dared to defy the world and take a Demon Race girl as her disciple.

As the verbal attacks against You Su intensified, the screams from inside the secret room grew even more agonizing, like a young girl in agony defending her lover. Those outside, unable to bear it, had to restrain themselves somewhat.

The tragedy that befell the previous clan chief has now befallen her daughter. The women feel only sorrow and blame Granny Liu for her excessive indulgence.

Granny Liu could only groan and lament, filled with regret.

My young lady is at the peak of her cultivation, and although she has received a lot of help from You Su, how could she have become pregnant at such a young age?

But she also found it strange and illogical. When her young mistress returned to the clan for meditation and seclusion, her stomach was clearly flat. How could it have become so bloated after only a month?

Just as the atmosphere grew increasingly oppressive, the door to the secret chamber jingled open, and the elderly midwife wiped the sweat from her brow, her expression more complex than any the women had ever seen before.

"Auntie! Is it a boy or a girl?!"

The midwife merely glared at the elder who had asked the question, as if to say, "Does this even need to be asked?"

The women chattered incessantly with questions, but Granny Liu stepped forward and inquired with concern, "How is the Second Young Lady?!"

The midwife sighed, "The situation is relatively stable."

"Since mother and daughter are safe, why do you still look so worried?" an elder behind him asked with a puzzled expression.

Whenever a new child is born into the clan, this midwife is always overjoyed to welcome the newborn's arrival, but she has never been as conflicted as she is today.

The midwife simply shook her head. "I've delivered babies my whole life, and this is the first time I've ever seen anything like this..."

"What is it?" Granny Liu asked immediately.

"That child wasn't born to the young lady at all!" The midwife's tone suggested she was beginning to doubt her entire life's experience in childbirth.

"What?!" the women exclaimed in astonishment.

"The young lady's belly was terribly swollen, but there was no sign of it going down. I was so anxious that I took the liberty of using my Mystic Qi to probe into the young lady's body to observe the condition of the child, only to discover that it was not a snake infant at all! It was a Demon Core that had transformed into human form!"

Upon hearing this, the noisy room outside the secret chamber fell silent instantly; everyone was so shocked that they forgot to breathe.

The idea of Demon Core transforming into a demon is unheard of!

Granny Liu staggered, rubbed her aching temples, and asked again:

"So, Miss gave birth to her own 'Demon Core'?!"

"It wasn't childbirth!" The midwife still found it unbelievable when she recalled the scene. "It was vomiting!"

She continued, "Suddenly, the young lady's stomach deflated, and then she rolled over and vomited out the Demon Core! As soon as the Demon Core hit the ground, it transformed into a lifelike baby!"

Granny Liu felt as if every word she heard was assaulting her understanding. She took a deep breath and said solemnly, "Nothing that happened tonight is to be told! Whoever is here, keep this to yourself! Otherwise, you'll be hanged!"

Hanging was the most terrifying punishment of the snake demon clan; all who heard of it gasped in horror and fell silent.

The midwife shook her head upon hearing this, stepped aside, and glanced back at the scene inside the secret chamber, still unable to hide her shock:

"The rest of you can come in and see for yourselves... The others shouldn't come in yet, let the young lady rest in peace."

Granny Liu had been impatient for a long time. She turned around and gave the women present a warning look, then immediately bowed and stepped through the door of the secret room.

As soon as Fang entered, she saw a scene that utterly shocked her—

A chubby, adorable baby girl was lying on the headboard, neither crying nor fussing. She was even using a blanket to wipe the sweat from the forehead of the unconscious young lady!

"Mother! Mother!"

The baby girl called out in a sweet voice to the young woman who had gone through so much hardship to 'give birth' to her...

The elders, unable to resist their curiosity, peeked inside and witnessed this horrifying scene. A profound question simultaneously arose in their minds—

Is this a child prodigy, or the reincarnation of the Serpent Ancestor?

Or is it a freak, or a scourge of the snake race?

On April 29th, 5104 May Day the Divine Mountain Calendar, all cultivators across the Five Continents will remember this day, for from this day forward, the fate of the Five Continents will be completely rewritten.

The three Evil God, hidden in the Unknown Land, have finally revealed their fangs, with the first to appear being the Lord of Flesh and Blood, who is capable of crushing everything.

By the time the Great God sensed Him, He was already on the shore of the South Sea, about to land. Relying on a special evil spirit, He and His people would fly across the Central Continent, bringing endless calamities.

However, His actions, which were beyond the expectations of the sacred mountain, did not achieve remarkable results, because the greatest magician in the world— the Venerable Tian Shu— stood in His way.

This cultivator, who is likely the longest-lived cultivator in all five continents, demonstrated his pinnacle of mastery in the Technique Method. Spatial Technique Method, which existed only in theory, became a reality in his hands.

He transformed into a black sun in the night sky, a space through which nothing, including light, could pass.

His life-sacrificing Technique Method failed to kill the Lord of Flesh and Blood, but it did halt His advance. Subsequent cultivators filled in, completely perfecting the South China Sea's defenses. After several unsuccessful attempts, the Lord of Flesh and Blood actually led his troops back into the dark sea.

However, the dark tentacles surrounding that black sun still made some people doubt the great achievements of the Venerable Tian Shu.

However, as more information emerged, these people's opinions became increasingly credible.

That so-called True Immortal Zhengyang was not a good person at all. He had been corrupted by Evil Demon during his hundreds of years of solitary cultivation overseas. After all, there were no Divine Radiance Stone on the immortal islands overseas.

The true purpose of the True Immortal Zhengyang in holding this trial was to gather the most outstanding talents from the Five Continents and make them collectively become the followers of the Evil Demon, thereby achieving the goal of completely eliminating the human cultivators. That's why so many young talents died on that island, and the so-called teleportation talisman was a joke. Fortunately, a small number of people escaped and preserved a spark of future for the Five Continents.

But there is an even more important figure in this trial— You Su, a disciple of Lotus Peak of the Xuanxiao Sect.

He was actually the biggest culprit who caused cultivators to become followers of Evil Demon.

This lurking Evil Demon in the human world terrified everyone, and more secrets about You Su were revealed.

He killed the Evil Cultivator city lord, who was far more powerful than himself, in the city where he was born; that was the key event that allowed him to obtain a ticket to the Xuanxiao Sect.

In many cases of demonic possession, people have claimed to have seen this boy.

One of the Cultivation Method he practiced was the Sun Yang Sword Nurturing Art...

The prevailing opinion was that he was an accomplice of the True Immortal Zhengyang, and people searched for the body of this unforgivable criminal, but they couldn't find it even after searching the entire South China Sea.

The storm in the South China Sea may appear to have subsided, but it hasn't truly disappeared; it has simply moved elsewhere.

And the first place it appeared was Lotus Peak of the Xuanxiao Sect...