Heart Demon / The End

The fact that the host of this body was foolish enough to reveal such important information to others angered it. So it didn't hesitate to seize control of One Iu's body, and under its prompting, this guy has already secretly killed many people to obtain spiritual energy.

After seizing control of the body, it placed a restriction within One Kyojun's body: revealing his affairs at Kamikakushi Mountain would result in his death. In this way, the guy would have to trade information for a chance to survive, thus hindering the Heavenly Mandate Holder for a while, all because of the life-or-death situation.

This incantation is extremely complex and requires a considerable amount of time to decipher, enough to buy it sufficient time. Once deciphered, another incantation will activate, killing One Kyojun and attacking the Heavenly Mandate Holder.

Therefore, it has nothing to worry about. It would be better to continue testing how many more tricks the Heavenly Mandate Holder might have up his sleeve on Yuria.

Thinking of this, the Heavenly Demon couldn't help but feel somewhat fortunate; it had encountered a fool who actually made Heavenly Dao Oath on a mortal, an oath that involved the mortal's life and death.

Once Yuria dies, the Heavenly Mandate Holder will be severely injured because of the Heavenly Dao Oath. At that time, the Heavenly Mandate Holder will not be far from death.

Therefore, it needs to be cautious and it would be best to use others to break the traps left by the Heavenly Mandate Holder on her, and then kill her completely.

In this way, it would be absolutely certain of killing the Heavenly Mandate Holder.

What did I do?

The Heavenly Demon merely smiled coldly. Following its thoughts, Okita Qishen once again drew a pistol from his waist and fired three shots, completely destroying the Straw Rope Doll.

"I just wanted him to kill you."

Do you really think it didn't have any ulterior motives?

Okita Qishen, this warehouse, the cars that drove here, and the cars that chased after them.

This warehouse itself was designed to conceal the tracking technique, and Okita Qishen was its blade, the blade used to end it all.

"You don't know yet, do you? You're so important to her."

Perhaps feeling that he was already invincible, the Heavenly Demon couldn't help but begin to mock.

"If you die, that Heavenly Mandate Holder will not live either. Heavenly Dao Oath are not things to be taken lightly; once made, they cannot be broken for a lifetime. For a mortal like you to make an oath, hahaha, how foolish! Then, please die!"

With the final shot, Yuria was no longer concerned; she simply listened blankly to the monster's words.

"Is I very important to Miko?" Yueyi Zilin Er'er 1 Shanlong Ba Wo

At that moment, an emotion welled up inside her. However, it was too late.

After all, she was going to die.

"Yes, it's very important."

Chapter 247 Inner Demons

"Heavenly Dao Oath requires the person making the vow to be sincere and never break their promise. Once the vow is broken, one will suffer the backlash of Heaven and Earth. That is what a vow is."

"So, you won't die, even if I do."

This is what the deity said to those she protected, in such a bleak situation that they were speechless.

Her eyes revealed no emotion, yet a complex array of feelings seemed to flash across them in an instant.

I didn't answer you because I didn't know if that feeling was love.

With a wave of his hand, both the gun and the man fell to the ground and disappeared into the floodwater.

So all that remained was the culprit behind it all, a monster who called himself the Heavenly Demon.

"I saw compassion in you, and so I loved you; this is something only someone like me can do."

"I am comforted by you, because you have changed so much, transformed from that tragic past you. But comfort is not love."

A dark purple mist gathered from her body, transforming into bizarre limbs—inhuman demonic organs.

"What exactly is love? That's a question I can't understand. All I know is that I've tried my best to connect you with me."

Her feet sank deep into the puddles, bringing her closer to her family.

Gods do not love people because they are selfless, and therefore only have universal love. And no matter how much Yotsuya Miko is said to be a being close to God, she is nothing more than a selfish person.

She will not share her own interests, will not love everyone equally, and will not forgive those who provoke her.

"Whether you hate it or like it, no matter how you view this matter, the Heavenly Dao Oath will forever intertwine our fates. If this can be called love."

Yotsuya Miko looked before her; it was a girl who had once been all alone.

After learning of the tragedy she had suffered, a vow grew from within her, blossomed, and took root in Miko's heart.

"This is what I wanted to convey to you."

"I've finished speaking. Now it's your choice. But before that—"

The demonic cultivator, now fully transformed, turned around, giving the girl behind him ample time to think.

When he looked at the Heavenly Demon, his eyes turned cold and hostile.

"Let me take you down first."

"... Kill me?"

A grim expression appeared on the host's face as it stood frozen, watching helplessly as what unfolded before it. It wasn't that it possessed any grace; rather, the dozens of bizarre, fleshy nails suspended high in the air forced it to remain obediently in place.

Upon seeing these flesh-and-blood nails and feeling the familiar power emanating from them, the demon was horrified, causing it to miss its best opportunity to act.

"Who are you to Zhang Qiudao?"

It missed its chance to escape, and it could no longer resist the fleshy spikes that bound it.

If these nails are indeed called Soul Splitting Flesh Crushing Nail.

"Um?"

The Heavenly Demon spoke, but this time the language was not the language of this world, but the language of the Xuanhui Realm.

The moment the name was called, Yotsuya Miko paused in her act of unleashing Soul Splitting Flesh Crushing Nail, a hint of surprise in her expression.

"Do you know Zhang Qiudao, the Myriad Transformation Devil Venerable?"

"Hehe."

The Heavenly Demon did not answer her question, but only sneered, his thoughts filled with indescribable complexity.

"He's dead? Well, you probably only received a bit of that guy's inheritance. Soul Splitting Flesh Crushing Nail, I never thought I'd still see this technique. And the mutation on your body, is that the Heavenly Devil False Body True Understanding?"

As soon as she finished speaking, a few unpleasant thoughts inexplicably arose in Yotsuya Miko's mind, but she still remained calm.

"So what if it is? So what if it isn't?"

She manipulated the Soul Splitting Flesh Crushing Nail to gradually approach the monster's body. Judging from her Spiritual Sense, the monster was not very powerful.

"I see... I see... I see."

Although Yotsuya Miko did not express her opinion, the demon had already figured it out. It looked at Yotsuya Miko again, then glanced at Yuria behind her, and recalling its previous discoveries, it finally sorted out an answer from its chaotic thoughts.

The answer only it knows.

"A bizarre world, bizarre people and things, so that's how it is. Was this all part of your scheme?" Zhang Qiudao.

It grinned, as if it had gone mad or been possessed, and burst into unrestrained laughter.

"Hahaha, as expected of you, as expected of the Heavenly Mandate Holder of the Xuanhui Realm. However... I won't let you achieve your plan so easily!"

Looking at the crazed monster, Yotsuya Miko frowned. Although she wanted to pry information about Zhang Qiudao out of this monster, the unexpected complications would only cause trouble, and... the formation was also nearing its limit.

Without hesitation, she unleashed the Soul Splitting Flesh Crushing Nail, which swiftly pierced the monster's body, obliterating its flesh in an instant.

"Dead?"

Surprisingly smoothly, a surge of energy within his Spiritual Sense was rapidly increasing, reaching the Core Formation realm in a mere instant.

The aura was right in front of her, in the area attacked by those Soul Splitting Flesh Crushing Nail.

"If I remember correctly, you should also know a magic technique."

A chilling, ghostly voice rang out from where One Iu's physical body had originally been, and then echoed throughout the warehouse.

"Its name is the Heavenly Devil Corpse Unraveling Great Method."

The rain was still falling, and Yotsuya Miko's gaze turned serious as her Spiritual Sense finally locked onto the specific location.

Without hesitation, a spell exploded in front of her.

The Demonic Footwork surged backward with tremendous force, and even in this situation, she didn't forget to pull Yuria behind her.

"What a coincidence, I also know this technique. Can you guess why I know how to use it?"

This spell yielded no results. Gazing at the solidified black-armored monster before her, Yotsuya Miko finally recognized its true form.

"Inner demons"

In the Xuanhui Realm, they are also known as "Dao Demon." This type of celestial demon is most adept at using human techniques to attack people and harming them with human desires. They are the most difficult type of extraterrestrial demons to deal with.

"You're Zhang Qiudao's test subject, aren't you?"

Yotsuya Miko stared at it coldly. In the past, she would have run away without hesitation upon seeing this inner demon.

"He's just a demon he once kept; I don't need to investigate him further."

After retreating, she left the warehouse and entered the heavy rain.

The rain never stops, the rain never stops, and that's the source of her confidence.

"Perfect, I can relearn the Heavenly Devil False Body True Understanding."

End of Chapter 248

The rain has lessened.

Many people in the country noticed this phenomenon: the heavy rain seemed to be about to stop, gradually lessening and settling at a moderate level, falling sparsely.

The remaining signal and power allowed televisions and mobile phones to function normally. People then received good news: the typhoon was moving away from land.

However, for their own safety, these people remained at home, silently waiting for the rain to completely stop.

At Kamikakushi Mountain, the rain continued to be torrential, and even intensified.

It could no longer be called a heavy rain, but rather a river pouring down from the sky onto the ground.

The raindrops that fell to the ground did not scatter, but instead coalesced into strange shapes, resembling swords, spears, arrows, and even various creatures. They transformed into these shapes and then swiftly pounced on a dark monster in the heavy rain.

Beneath the monster's feet, flowing water formed shackles, hindering its movement.

"Useless thing!"

The inner demon merely snorted coldly, then stomped its feet off the ground, breaking free of its shackles. Its long, narrow claws slashed at the rain-created creatures, and with an invisible blade, these things split in two, their forms shifting and returning to the ground.

Just as the Heavenly Demon was doing this, a figure suddenly appeared in the heavy rain and swung a claw at its back.

"Clang!"

This move was blocked; one claw blocked the other, and after a brief moment of resistance, the other claw suddenly lashed out, poised to strike the attacker. However, in the end, it had to once again block another attack in front of itself.

It was a creature of flesh and blood, a bizarre and deformed nail. It held it tightly with its other claw, preventing it from piercing its chest.

However, shortly after it was grasped, the flesh-and-blood nail suddenly burst open, causing it to crumble.

Once the explosive force dissipated, the attacker had vanished without a trace.

"You want it? Yue--Yi W Phosphorus Willow Fluttering Instrument Er Yu U to stall me for time?"

The inner demon grinned. The Heavenly Devil Corpse Unraveling Great Method it used was not without side effects; otherwise, it would have used such a technique that could rapidly improve its cultivation level long ago.

The cultivators of the Xuanhui Realm who use the Heavenly Devil Corpse Unraveling Great Method simply allow a Heavenly Demon to possess their bodies, while the Heavenly Demon using this Heavenly Devil Corpse Unraveling Great Method is essentially burning its own True Spirit.

The Heavenly Demons are not immortal; they are merely True Spirit that do not belong to any particular world. Therefore, True Spirit are extremely difficult to subdue in any world.

This is one of the important reasons why it was able to survive Zhang Qiudao's attack. As for the other reason, it is because it is very strong.

However, it is now almost entirely destroyed, and its True Spirit has become extremely weak. If it is killed a few more times without being replenished, there will be absolutely no chance of saving it.

Even so, it still had to burn and sacrifice its own True Spirit to seize power. Because this Heavenly Mandate Holder was related to Zhang Qiudao.

"Then let me see whether your formation is more powerful, or whether my True Spirit can hold out until I kill you!"

The Heavenly Devil Corpse Unraveling Great Method was activated once more. Yotsuya Miko Spiritual Sense, whose form was obscured by the rain, sensed the monster's renewed strength. In a short time, this creature had already reached the late stage of Core Formation, just one step away from achieving it.

"Snap."

Her eyes widened, and the moment the crisp sound reached her ears, she unhesitatingly mobilized the last remaining power of the formation.

Suddenly, several bolts of lightning as thick as an arm flashed across the dim sky. These terrifying lightning beasts pounced greedily and swiftly towards the inner demon, surging into the monster's body the moment a cracking sound rang out.

"Boom--!"

This was no ordinary lightning; it was Yang Thunder.