Dark Turmoil (Seeking Follow-up Reads)

In the winter of the year 10003 of the Ize Calendar, nearly two years after the Battle of the Firmament, a Saint Domain emerged from the Sinful Blood of the Southern Wilderness, shocking the world.

The Saint Domain called himself Rahula.

He established the Demon Realm, and all living beings hailed him as the Demon Lord!

From that moment on, the Demon Realm was born, and the era of dark turmoil descended.

Under the cover of night, Tiansheng Mountain.

As the stronghold of the Cooper Family, a Saint Domain clan renowned throughout the Southern Continent, Tiansheng Mountain occupied a vast expanse. Relying on the Saint Domain ancestor behind them, the Tiansheng Mountain estate was the height of luxury.

On the mountain, there were thousands of pavilions and elegant rooms, countless servants and beauties, and magic crystal chandeliers that shimmered with brilliant light, weaving together a display of pure opulence.

However, at this moment on Tiansheng Mountain, the Cooper Family disciples, who were usually arrogant and overbearing, looked nervous and uneasy, clutching their weapons as they stood in a vigilant standoff against a group of black-robed, ghostly figures.

"Hehehe..."

Looking down from the sky, thousands of sinister, black-robed ghostly figures surrounded Tiansheng Mountain, emitting terrifying and chilling laughter.

In front of the many ghosts, a cold man in black robes stepped through the void, his hands clasped behind his back, his expression indifferent as he gazed down at Tiansheng Mountain.

"Rahula!" In the sky, the Saint Domain ancestor of the Cooper Family looked at the cold man with a wary expression.

"What is your business at my Tiansheng Mountain?"

"I've come to take your life!"

Bang!

As the words fell, Rahula struck directly, reaching out with one hand toward the Cooper Family's Saint Domain ancestor.

Facing Rahula's assault, the Saint Domain ancestor pulled out a dark gold staff to block the blow and launched a counterattack against Rahula.

"Kill!"

Seeing that Rahula did not dodge or evade, intending to block his attack with a bare palm, a flash of ferocity appeared in the Saint Domain ancestor's eyes.

"Sinful blood is still sinful blood. Even if you were lucky enough to become a Saint Domain, you cannot hide your inherent stupidity. You think yourself peerless in the world, but you don't know the height of the heavens or the depth of the earth."

"Today, let me teach you a lesson!"

"Die!"

Clang!!!

The dark gold staff struck Rahula's palm, but the scene the Saint Domain ancestor had imagined did not occur.

Instead, it rang out with the sound of clashing metal.

Rahula closed his palm, gripping the staff.

"Such a formidable physique!"

"Oh no!" Sensing a surge of immense force, the Saint Domain ancestor's expression shifted, his face filled with panic as he tried to pull the staff back.

"You think you can contest strength with me? Are you worthy?"

A flicker of disdain crossed Rahula's eyes as he exerted force, violently snatching the dark gold staff away.

"Die!"

Rahula's gaze turned cold, and he swung the dark gold staff, carving a chilling arc through the air.

Bang!

The Saint Domain ancestor's head shattered like a watermelon.

Rahula waved his hand, and the Ten Thousand Soul Banner behind him spun, drawing the Saint Domain ancestor's soul into its depths.

"An... Ancestor!!!"

The battle at the Saint Domain level had been too swift.

It was only after the fight ended that the surrounding members of the Cooper Family reacted, letting out wails of disbelief.

Looking at the headless corpse of their ancestor and then at the towering, demonic flames of Rahula, the family head Bernd Cooper revealed a look of despair.

"Kill them all."

Looking at these ants, Rahula's expression remained indifferent.

The ten thousand ghosts marched through the night, and a brutal, inhumane massacre began on Tiansheng Mountain.

The Ten Thousand Soul Banner spun, and phantom souls poured into it continuously from all directions.

"You will die a horrible death, a horrible death!!!"

Before Bernd Cooper died, he stared fixedly at Rahula, his eyes filled with madness.

"Rahula, I will wait for you in the Underworld. As a member of the Southern Wilderness Sinful Blood, you dare to commit such a monstrous slaughter; the other Saint Domains will not let you go."

"You will die too, you will die too, I will wait for you in the Underworld..."

Squelch—

A pale hand pierced through Bernd Cooper's chest, gripped his still-beating heart, and crushed it in one go.

"How noisy!"

Rahula's expression was cold and grim. Behind him, the Ten Thousand Soul Banner spun, directly extracting the soul from Bernd Cooper's corpse.

"Once I become a god, I will naturally take you to the Underworld. Why the need for you to wait?"

After a long while, the commotion on Tiansheng Mountain gradually subsided.

Inside a dilapidated pavilion amidst the ruins, Rahula sat cross-legged on the ground.

His clothes billowed, his flesh and blood pulsed rhythmically, and with every breath, visible elemental energy from the world surged into his body.

Under the scouring of these elements, Rahula's body, which was already comparable to a Saint Domain magical beast, grew even more exaggerated in strength, gradually approaching the level of a divine beast from the Saint Domain era.

"As expected, I must hunt Saint Domain experts."

"I spent over a year hunting in the Southern Wilderness just to raise my physical strength from a level nine warrior to the Saint Domain, yet now, by killing a single Saint Domain expert, my physical talent has made another breakthrough."

"My talent for the Death Law has also been greatly enhanced, and my speed of comprehension has increased significantly. If it originally would have taken thousands of years of cultivation to reach the limit of the Saint Domain, now two or three hundred years will suffice. My talent is no longer inferior to the likes of the War God or Hise from the original work..."

"It is no exaggeration to say I have the potential to become a god!"

"However, this is not enough. It is far from enough. A few hundred years is too long; I only care about the present."

Rahula looked beyond Tiansheng Mountain; he needed more fellow Daoists.

The silver talent [Behind Me Are Thousands of Fellow Daoists] could strengthen all of Rahula's talents to the limit of a silver-tier talent.

Theoretically, as long as Rahula had enough fellow Daoists, this talent would be incredibly terrifying, possessing absolutely no weaknesses.

With his talent strengthened to the limit, he could become a Lowgod in one year, a Midgod in ten years, and a Highgod in a hundred years.

With his combat power strengthened to the limit, Rahula could use the Death Law to boost his combat power by an additional ten times.

With his physique strengthened to the limit, the strength of Rahula's divine clone could rival a Highgod artifact.

With his spirit strengthened to the limit, the intensity of Rahula's spiritual power would be no weaker than that of a dual-element soul mutant.

Coupled with the buffs the Ten Thousand Soul Banner provided in battle, if Rahula were to fully mature, even Xiao Yan and Lynn combined would not be his match.

Furthermore, since [Behind Me Are Thousands of Fellow Daoists] was an upgradeable talent that could continue to grow, this clone of Rahula was undoubtedly the top priority for Lynn's attention—an absolute main combat clone!

On November 27th, 10003 of the Azeron calendar, the Demon Lord Rahula descended upon Tiansheng Mountain. The Cooper Family, a Saint Domain family, was annihilated; of the over ten thousand members of the clan, not a single one escaped.

Over the next three months, Rahula struck several times. He first wiped out seven major Saint Domain families, staining the Southern Continent red with blood, then slew five major Saint Domain magical beasts and slaughtered all the magical beasts in the Taiping Mountain Range, shocking the entire Azeron Continent.

In a mountain forest.

"ROAR!!"

The Saint Domain dragon let out a roar of unwillingness before completely losing its life force.

Rahula collected its soul, feeling his talent grow stronger once again, his expression indifferent.

"The Southern Continent has been unified. Aside from this stupid dragon, the remaining Saint Domain experts have either fled into the South Sea or sought refuge with the Church of Darkness."

"There are countless Saint Domain ascetics in the South Sea; there might even be hidden Saint Domain limits there. Moreover, it is too close to the Plane Overseer Roger. Entering the South Sea to hunt is not a good choice."

"My next target shall be the Church of Darkness."

Whoosh!

Rahula's figure vanished from the spot.

The two great churches were never short on the souls of Saint Domain angels, and Rahula would certainly not pass up such top-tier dungeons.