Chapter 51: Returns and Confirmation
Crimson Rainbow tore across the sky, ripping through the flowing clouds.
Nine Infant dragged his shattered body into South Heaven Gate. His eight heads drooped weakly, and the blasted dragon head was a bloody mess. Black blood mixed with brain matter dripped onto the Cloud Steps, eating into them with wisps of green smoke.
His demon body was a walking calamity, cleaving through the silence. Wherever he passed, the myriad demons prostrated themselves and trembled without end—not out of awe, but from the instinctive fear of a "dying ominous star"! He was walking disaster, an omen of destruction. The demons knelt not to submit, but because the apocalypse was nigh.
Amid heavy, disorderly footsteps, Nine Infant was already at the end of his strength. His body suddenly stumbled, and with the last of his power, he crashed through the beaded curtain and threw himself miserably into the secluded western side hall of Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
With a bang, he could no longer hold himself up and dropped to one knee. Demonic blood continuously gushed from his hideous wounds, quickly spreading across the ornate dark-gold floor tiles in a shocking, dark stain.
He curled up in the shadow of the Coiling Dragon Pillar. His remaining eight heads trembled violently, and broken hisses squeezed from his throat.
The pupils of the central human-faced head were unfocused. Beneath its scales, its demon veins looked as though they had been scorched by raging flames, covered in web-like dark-red cracks. The snake head on the left had broken fangs, venom mixed with blood foam dripping from its mouth. The eagle head on the right had charred, withered feathers and torn eyelids, revealing murky, bloodshot pupils. Most fatal of all was his demon core—cracks spread across its surface like fractures in