The Great Demon God Returns

This time, Shi Hao was the one who gained the most.

Chen Yao had still underestimated the butterfly effect he had caused. Shi Hao had stirred things up ahead of schedule again, compressing his Cave Heavens into a single point.

Because Chen Yao had created a dantian Cave Heaven himself, Shi Hao had become deeply enthusiastic about compressing his Cave Heavens into his body.

This time, Shi Hao continued to brand the methods he had learned onto his Cave Heavens before compressing them into his body. Under the influence of the transformations of Yin-Yang within the Kunpeng Method, the Cave Heavens underwent a qualitative change after being compressed into his lower abdomen.

A divine disk appeared in his lower abdomen, with life and death revolving within it, deathly energy entwining with vitality. Then it burst out of his body, forming a Divine Ring of intertwined life and death around him. Its terrifying offensive power even warped the surrounding void slightly.

The Cycle of Life and Death, the embryonic form of the Wheel Sea. It appeared this early? Chen Yao clicked his tongue in amazement.

"So that's it. The birthplace of life, life and death intertwined, Yin-Yang opposed," Shi Hao murmured to himself.

Even double pupils couldn't block this thing, could they? Shi Yi hasn't fully mastered his double pupils yet, let alone surpassed them. If Shi Hao unleashed this move, even those ancient freaks in the Immortal Ancient remnants later on would probably be slaughtered like chickens... Cao Yusheng's transcendence of the Array Formation Realm was already no weaker than cultivating one or two strands of immortal qi. Shi Hao will only be stronger. With this move alone, he could slaughter a whole bunch of them even without immortal qi.

As Chen Yao pondered this, he lit a candle in his heart for Shi Yi, who would have to face Shi Hao in the future. Shi Hao was far stronger than in the original story. Shi Yi would probably die a very, very miserable death. The question was no longer whether he could injure Shi Hao, but how long he could hold out.

Fortunately, Shi Hao had yet to use his body as a seed, nor had he truly mastered the supreme mysteries of the Kunpeng Method and the Willow Deity Method. Otherwise, his Wheel Sea would have emerged outright. That might summon the Immortal-Slaying Guillotine, though, and Shi Hao could not withstand it as he was now.

Oh, crap. I need to turn Grand Luo Insight into a divine ability fast, or I might not be able to beat Shi Hao.

Deep within the Great Wilderness lay a Black Forest. Its trees were pitch-black from top to bottom, without even a single leaf, and it was as silent as death.

Just then, a sound came from within the ancient forest, and a one-armed figure staggered out.

The old man, finally free of his confinement, let out a mighty roar that shattered several nearby low mountains. The entire mountain range trembled.

"Hahahaha! I'm finally out! Damn you, Pixiu! Not only couldn't you destroy me, even Heaven failed to take me!" The one-armed figure was an old man. Though he was missing an arm, his aura was deep and powerful. His cultivation had already reached the Array Formation Realm.

He laughed heartily. Though he had endured years of hardship, trapped in the Deadly Expanse, he remained optimistic.

"Thirteen years have passed. My grandson must have grown up by now. He must have a heroic bearing unmatched in this world, just like me! Haha..."

He sat cross-legged in meditation, and the essence of heaven and earth surged toward him in a frenzy. Golden-Winged Rocs, Bian, and other creatures manifested around him, circling him. Though escaping had exacted an enormous price, he had survived his brush with death at last.

"Zi Ling was no worse than I was in my youth. By now, he should be able to shoot a Primordial Remnant dead with a single arrow, right? We can finally be reunited." He strode out toward the edge of the mountains, talking to himself. Clearly, he had been cooped up for far too long.

"Hao'er, your grandfather placed such high hopes on you back then. I even entered the Hundred Clans Battlefield and fought enemies from every side, just to obtain some pure blood for your baptism." As he spoke of this, affection filled the old man's face. He seemed to see his chubby, adorable, clever grandson once again. The little fellow had only been a few months old when he left.

"Something went wrong, and your grandfather met with disaster. I couldn't bring that pure blood back to you, but I found a divine pill for you here. It can make up for everything." The old man smiled happily, like a child.

"You're my grandson. You ought to be ridiculously strong. I imagine no one can bully you, right? More than ten years have passed. I've missed you so much, Zi Ling, and my precious grandson. I'm coming home." At this, he burst into hearty laughter, but tears finally welled in his eyes.

The Fifteenth Master strode onward, heading toward the swamp from back then while cursing that Bian.

"Sooner or later, I'll settle the score with you. So what if you've cultivated for eighty or a hundred years longer?"

After traveling for several days, the Fifteenth Master finally reached his destination. He slapped the mire aside and said in surprise, "Oh? It's actually still here."

The Fifteenth Master retrieved a jar of Precious Blood from deep within the swamp. Much of its divine essence had dissipated.

Then a lucky Dragon-Scaled Sparrow came along and provoked him.

"I told you not to provoke me, or I'd eat you-ah, no, use you as a mount. Why don't you understand?"

The Dragon-Scaled Sparrow quickly admitted defeat. An Array Formation Realm expert was no weaker than a beast king. A wise bird knew which way the wind blew.

Many days later, the Fifteenth Master finally returned to the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital. He released the Dragon-Scaled Sparrow and swaggered into the city, frightening one of the soldiers guarding the gates so badly that the man fell flat on his backside.

"The Great Demon God is back! The imperial capital is going to be thrown into chaos!"

The Great Demon God, Shi Zhongtian, sat in the seat of honor with an utterly grim expression, looking down imperiously at the many clan elders below.

Beside him was the lion-like Fourth Grandfather. Because of the Stone Kingdom Ancestral Land, Shi Yi's faction had suffered heavy losses, and quite a few opportunistic factions had broken away. They could no longer blot out the sky with one hand as they had back then, and had failed to imprison the Fourth Grandfather.

By now, the Fifteenth Master had heard everything that had happened back then. Learning that Shi Hao's Supreme Bone had been dug out while he was still alive and transplanted into Shi Yi, he flew into a towering rage, looking like a demon god. "Ah! Hao'er!"

He reached out with a large hand and seized Shi Li.

"How many Life-Substitution Talismans do you have left? I'll let you use every last one!"

The Great Demon God struck with both hands, slapping every clan elder involved in the incident until their faces were covered in blood and all their teeth had fallen out. Then he stamped them into the ground one by one.

"Fourth Brother, keep going. What happened to Hao'er afterward? Did he pull through?" He sat down heavily and questioned the Fourth Grandfather.

The Fourth Grandfather finished recounting how Shi Ziling had wreaked havoc and killed the venomous woman, and how he had been forced to travel far away in search of the legendary ancestral land. Finally, he changed the subject and spoke of recent developments in the Stone Kingdom Ancestral Land.

"The Stone Kingdom Ancestral Land emerged before the New Year, and news began to spread. Hao'er is there. He survived, and the ancestral land even stood up for him, demanding the return of his Supreme Bone! The ancestral land is immensely powerful, and it has sacred medicine! That's probably how Hao'er survived! I met Hao'er privately in the Void God Realm some time ago. Even without his Supreme Bone, he's still an Innate Supreme. While making his way through the Void God Realm in recent years, he's even broken quite a few of Shi Yi's records!" The Fourth Grandfather was incredibly excited as he laid everything out before the Great Demon God.

"Hao'er is still alive! The Stone Kingdom Ancestral Land!" The Great Demon God rose to his feet in excitement, laughing wildly. "As expected of our Stone Kingdom Ancestral Land! Good! Wonderful! Hao'er is far stronger than that Shi Yi! So what if he lost his Supreme Bone? Being an Innate Supreme was never something a single bone could determine!"

"Fifteenth Brother, Hao'er is still alive. We can guarantee that even Zi Ling is perfectly well. Let bygones be bygones. In the future, we can personally go and bring Hao'er back to acknowledge his ancestry and return to..." Shi Li spoke indistinctly.

"Fuck your bullshit! Sit down!" The Great Demon God struck him with another palm, making Shi Li vomit great mouthfuls of blood. His leg bones shattered, and he sank to his knees on the ground.

"Utterly ridiculous! Just because Hao'er didn't die, everything can be forgotten? What kind of logic is that? If I dug out Shi Yi's double pupils and then saved his life, would that mean nothing had happened, that everything could be wiped away with a stroke of the brush? Fuck your granny's banana-shaped club!" Shi Zhongtian roared.

"I'm not an unreasonable man. Let me explain some reason to you now." Everyone felt that Shi Zhongtian had calmed down because Hao'er was still alive, and they breathed a sigh of relief. They never expected what came next. "Harming your own flesh and blood violates the rules of the Martial King Manor. Under clan law, all those directly involved, and even those who obstructed the enforcement of the law, are to be killed without mercy!"

"Fifteenth Brother! A matter this serious requires the Martial King to emerge from seclusion! Clan law shouldn't be enforced by you..." Shi Yuan shouted.

"The Martial King is a senile old fool! He could turn a blind eye even to something this serious! If he doesn't want to sit in that seat and take responsibility, he can get the hell off it! I wouldn't mind stripping him of his position myself! Right now, I am the law of the Martial King Manor. Who dares defy me?" Shi Zhongtian sneered and struck with his palm, killing one of the implicated clan elders outright.

"Fifteenth Brother, how could you even say such..."

"Our Martial King Manor has a grave problem. It's a serious illness, with glory only on the surface. It needs treatment!"

He unleashed streak after streak of radiance, killing until blood flowed like a river. Corpse after corpse fell to the ground. Even some of the opportunists directly involved back then were not spared.

"Stop! You've killed enough already. Don't go too far." Four ancestors descended.