Hongdu broken land, northeast direction.
A thick cloud of smoke, as red as blood, with the roars of countless great monsters coming from within, spreading madly in all directions.
The blood cloud tightly wrapped a green mountain hundreds of feet high.
The big demon made of blood cloud, the demon king, followed the cave into the green mountain, found those wandering cultivators hiding in the dark, and then killed them one by one.
Deep in the smoke with a pungent smell of blood, there was a tall figure that looked like a demon, with messy hair dancing like blood-red lightning.
The surging blood-colored smoke was flowing out of his body. He was the creator of this massacre.
The great demon, the demon king, which he refined with blood clouds, was an alien with flesh and blood and vague intelligence, and could even use some of the secret blood techniques from his previous life.
Because of this, he, who was only at the Soul Wandering Realm, dared to covet this mountain where several Nirvana Realm cultivators were lurking.
"After this massacre, he will definitely be able to advance to the realm of nirvana."
Dozens of miles away, at the top of a bald mountain a thousand feet high.
The old man with the hooked nose looked at Dong Tianze with satisfaction and said, "Lü Qinghe, how is the Holy Son of our Blood Spirit Cult?"
"Can this boy really suppress the Phoenix Seal in his body?" Lu Qinghe was a little skeptical.
When Tian Feng was alive, he made thousands of demons in Purgatory submit to him, forcing the old Thunder Dragon to bide his time and quietly restrain his edge.
In Lu Qinghe's mind, Tianfeng possesses the ability to hunt gods alone in the outer galaxy.
Since the Phoenix Seal left by Tianfeng has been deeply implanted in Dong Tianze's body, turning him into a divine guard, the Phoenix Seal will grow with Dong Tianze.
The stronger Dong Tianze becomes, the stronger the restraint of the Phoenix Seal will be, which will make it impossible for Dong Tianze to get rid of it forever.
"When I saw him, the slavery of the Phoenix Seal had already been reduced a lot." The old man with the hooked nose was also a little puzzled, and explained: "That is to say, even without the Blood God Technique and my interference, this kid would be able to get rid of the Phoenix Seal's control sooner or later. I even feel that..."
"What?" Lu Qinghe asked curiously.
“I feel that he is also one of the recipients of the inheritance left by Tian Feng.” The old man chuckled and said, “If that is true, when he is promoted all the way to the Immortal Realm, we have great hope of gaining another True God.”
He looked towards the direction of Hongdu City, then glanced towards the east, and said, "The creation of a true god can never be infallible. Even someone as strong as Li Zhaotian could fail, so don't you think these two people in front of you are also doomed to fail?"
Lu Qinghe said: "It would be good if one could succeed."
"Dong Tianze, in your current state, you should thoroughly comprehend the Blood God Technique. When you reach the peak of the Immortal Realm and a divine position becomes vacant, the probability of him being promoted to a true god will definitely surpass the current two. What do you think?" the old man asked again.
Lu Qinghe weighed it and had to admit that he was right.
In terms of talent for cultivation, Dong Tianze is not inferior at all. He has also had a series of adventures, and his soul contains considerable divinity. He also obtained many secret blood techniques left by Tianfeng.
In this way, combined with the Blood God's magic, plus his already lone wolf-like cruelty and ferocity.
If a person like him really reaches the peak of the immortal realm, the probability of him becoming a god will naturally be much higher than that of other evil cultivators.
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Hongdu City.
While everyone was arguing excitedly with the city lord Shang Xiuchun, Pang Jian secretly looked at the suspicious people one by one.
But it is still impossible to determine who is the person who wants to use Hongdu City and these nearly a thousand independent cultivators to become a true god.
"Found it, it will be difficult to kill him."
"But there is a way to disrupt his path to becoming a god."
The source demon secretly suggested, "The evil cultivators are killing people everywhere, making the people in the city lose hope. Their fear, despair, and depression are growing day by day. If the oppression brought by this extreme environment continues, the various helpless forces they generate will continue to nourish him."
"And you, just need to let these independent cultivators see hope, make them full of confidence in the future, and no longer be so confused and fearful."
"The power he can gain will be reduced accordingly, and his progress towards becoming a True God will be forced to stop."
"In short, despair here can give birth to an evil god, and hope can extinguish his fire of godhood."
He listened to the source demon's secret instructions and searched every corner of the city.
"Little brother."
A man shouted softly at the corner of the street.
He waved his hand, motioning Pang Jian to come closer.
His pair of gloomy eyes were clearly looking at Pang Jian, but they seemed to have no focus, giving people a sense of emptiness.
The man was not young, wearing a gray linen shirt and straw sandals that exposed his toes. His toenails were covered in black dirt, and he looked like a beggar.
Pang Jian had previously released his qi and blood and scanned him with his spiritual sense, but he didn't see anything special about him, so he didn't take it seriously.
His proactive greeting made Pang Jian feel strange, so he moved closer as he was told.
"Old man, what do you want to call me for?" Pang Jian stopped and asked.
"sit."
The man casually pointed to the empty space opposite him. His eyes, which were filled with twilight, gradually shone with a little light. He said, "Everyone in the city is in panic and despair. How come you are not afraid at all? Little brother, aren't you afraid of death? Don't you know that you will die here too?"
Pang Jian was surprised and obediently sat down at the position he pointed out.
But secretly said: "Source Demon, can you see through the good and evil in this person's heart and his thoughts?"
"I'll try."
The source demon quietly exerts its strength.
A spiritual magnetic field that was difficult for ordinary people to detect was released from the blue cloth for a moment, and then suddenly converged.
“I can’t tell.” The source demon in the small world in the sword also showed surprise for the first time and said, “His thoughts are as empty as his eyes and aura. His soul… Eh!”
"His soul seems to be out of his body!"
The source demon screamed in shock.
"That thing you're carrying is quite interesting." The man's empty eyes fell on the Source Demon Sword wrapped in a blue cloth in Pang Jian's hand, and he smiled and said, "Little brother, you seem to be looking for something?"
At this time, Pang Jian's scalp was tingling and his hair was standing on end.
He was very suspicious that the person in front of him who had no soul resided in him mentioned by the Source Demon was the peak evil cultivator who was hiding in the city and trying to ascend to a true god with nearly a thousand casual cultivators.
Pang Jian looked him straight in the eyes and said as if he was facing a formidable enemy: "I am looking for an evil cultivator who is trying to ascend to the level of a true god!"
“Whoosh!”
The man's pair of empty and boundless eyes sucked in Pang Jian's two consciousnesses and brought them into a strange place where there was only nothingness.
This strange place has no sky above and no ground below, it is vast and empty.
Unlike that foreign land of eternal darkness, this place is not dark, nor is it eerie and cold.
"I'm looking for him, too."
The old man's voice rang out in this void, as if only here could he speak freely: "You are holding the Origin Demon Sword, and you are Pang Jian of the Sword Tower. You can't control the disaster in Hongdu Shattered Land."
"I heard that you can shrink into the earth, so you should just keep shrinking."
"Don't show your head again, and don't worry about anything in the Broken Land. Just save your own life."
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(End of this chapter)