Nine Nether Force... Heavenly Demon...
So the true source of this supreme martial art, treasured by Demon City City God Headquarters and ranked alongside the Celestial Master Mansion's Nine Heavens Force, was the Heavenly Demon who had once unleashed a bloodbath of staggering scale upon history.
The Heavenly Demon was no mere religious symbol.
In the sea of stars that Martial Cultivators gazed toward to sense Martial Force, one Martial Star glowed purple verging on red, steeped in endless slaughter. It was the mark of truth he had left behind.
He had entered the demonic path through martial arts, torn through the shackles of martial cultivation by force, and become the first Heavenly Demon.
The lineage of demonic cultivation flashed through Li Xiang's mind.
The Heavenly Demon Great Art, now the crowning treasure of the Heavenly Demon Divine Church, had been the life's work of that first Heavenly Demon.
His successors had taken that heretical road even further.
The Second-Generation Heavenly Demon, a dazzling genius, had entered the demonic path through Daoism. From within Daoism's system of purity and nonaction, he had carved out the dead-end path of Dao Heart Seed Demon, treating all things as vessels for cultivation.
The Third-Generation Heavenly Demon had been more deranged still. He had entered the demonic path through Buddhism, proclaimed himself "Lawless and Unrestrained," and tried to devour the Buddhist Order's spiritual attainments with demonic intent.
His actions had finally crossed the line for the great Dao Traditions of the world. Besieged by the strongest practitioners of every trade, he had fallen in a welter of blood.
Nine Nether Force was the purest—and most dangerous—martial crystallization the first Heavenly Demon had left behind during his transformation from Martial Cultivator to demon.
No wonder its first seven volumes alone contained such horrifying methods as