Ascension to Demonhood Successful!

"Swallow it, then focus your mind and release the strongest emotion you feel right now!"

Lu Li crouched down, took out the [Corrupted Essence], and held it out before Liu Wenjian:

"No matter what you see during this process, do not change the emotion in your heart."

"Remember, you have only one goal: survive!"

"Alright..." Liu Wenjian coughed up a mouthful of blood, and a final resolve appeared in his gradually unfocusing eyes!

He did not reach out to take it.

Instead, he directly used his mouth to swallow the [Corrupted Essence] from Lu Li's hand.

The thing was dark green, like a lump of dough that had been mixed with too much water and left sitting for far too long until it grew moldy.

Liu Wenjian had thought it would taste awful.

Yet when it slid down his throat, it was not nearly as disgusting as he had imagined.

If anything, it carried a trace of refreshing clarity.

It was as though all meaning in the world had vanished.

The burdens that had weighed upon his shoulders over the past year and a half all fell away.

A free and unrestrained feeling enveloped his entire body, and even his soul seemed to drift toward bliss.

His mind grew sluggish, unable to think.

Yet Liu Wenjian still remembered Lu Li's instructions. He remembered what he had to do.

Emotion.

His strongest emotion right now!

He began to recall.

He recalled the useless wretch he had been before meeting Lu Li, the humiliating moments when others bullied him and he could only greet them with a smile.

Rage erupted from the depths of his heart!

Liu Wenjian found it and clutched it tightly!

He remembered.

It was precisely because of the anger buried deep in his heart that, after Lu Li