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Chapter 8 - A Dark Undercurrent part 2

Han Huo looked at the throne that had blood flowing towards it. Han Huo began to trace it as he looked at the floor after a moment he saw the blood flowing out of Yin Qu's body causing it to shrivel smaller and smaller. "So this was a siphoning trap meant to restore you and bring you back to life."

"Yes unfortunately his blood was quite disgusting very close to spoiling but it was enough to bring me back from the brink of death as well as return me to some of my power." said Redfang as he stood up and descended down the steps. "Truthfully, I can tell from here that your blood would be quite delicious. However... you would be far more useful to me alive. So I will only offer this once"

Redfang extended his pale hand as he looked at Han Huo's eyes. "You can join me and I'll make all your dreams come true. I will even solve the issues of your body as well as give you that sun clan girl. All you have to do is follow me." said Redfang Han Huo returned the gaze and looked into his red eyes that held such confidence as though he knew his offer was going to be accepted.

Han Huo sighed shaking his head. "No I'm sure you heard that I'm a very strong hardliner that doesn't tolerate demons or those of the fell families."

A smile appeared on Redfang as withdrew his hand and placed it behind his back. "Its unfortnate but there will always be some one who can replace you. I can even train these two to be as strong as you." said Redfang as he turned around and returned to take a seat on his throne "Well, anyways this has dragged on for far to long. Even though I do have to admit that it was entertaining."

Redfang rested his cheek on his right hand as his eyes stared at Han Huo with a growing chill in their depths. "Since you did amuse me some I will let you know something as a token of my gratitude," said Redfang as he withdrew his gaze from Han Huo and begun to stare in the far distance. "The siphoning trap is quite unique due to part that there are three level. Each level represents something I need that has been severely damaged."

"Blood, my bloodline and life force had been almost compeletly drained. So I took the blood from the prisoners that you so willing sacrificed to restore my life force and I used that disgusting old thing to restore my strength even though it wasn't all the way it was enough. Next was the body which I drained from Han Xin and Jiang Fei when they died." said Redfang as he looked down at his hands flexing his fingers with a satisfied expression.

"Now we are at the third level which is the more complicated of the three. It's not because your soul is weak or anything its more along the lines that I would've had rather had you by my side. In that way I would use Pang Yuan's soul instead." said Redfang pausing for a moment to take in a breath of air. "I try to treat my subordinates well and try not to use them in my plots however I was gonna make an exception for you."

Redfang stood up and began walking toward Han Huo. "Since your still alive though this will work better as your soul is stronger when your alive. It will make my recovery far faster. Now I do admit that I only have ten percent of my original strength but I'm still at the level of a Dusk Demon King which is equivalent to your Saint Emperor realm," said Redfang stopping ten meters in front of Han Huo.

Redfang stretched his hand in front of him as a crimson one sided saber appeared in front of him. The blade itself was little over a meter long and had a width of two fingers. Its handle was about twenty centimeters long encrusted with rubies. The grip had red wiring and its pommel had a double sided blade approximately 5 centimeters long.

Redfang looked at Han Huo, "This will be over quick." Redfang slashed from Han Huo's right solider to the left of his waist so fast that the attack had already connected before Han Huo could react. Han Huo flew across the room and was slammed so heavily against a pillar that it collapsed under the sheer pressure.

Han Huo felt all the bones in his body break as he hit the ground. Han Huo coughed up massive amounts of blood and organs as he tried to get back on his feet. Sadly, all the strength Han Huo had earlier had already left his body. Han Huo looked at Redfang anger blazing in his eyes

"Just from your eyes I could tell you would have made a great an ally. Its to bad that you didn't chose to side with me,' sighed Redfang as he put away his saber. A look of concentration appeared as he began to slowly put his hands together forming a seal. Soon Redfang had man dozens of seals upon completion of the last one. Redfang looking rather pale flicked his finger sending all the seals flying into Han Huo.

Once all the seals had disappeared into Han Huo a black chain suddenly appeared and wrapped itself around Han Huo binding and gagging him. "Maybe with your wounds this is unnecessary. However its still a precaution of mine so it will have to do. I can't have you interrupting this next part at all," said Redfang as he walked to Han Huo. Bending over he pulled Han Huo's Spatial bracelet of his arm. Inspecting the silver bracelet with curiosity written on his face. "I'll check the contents of this later."

Redfang returned back to his throne he began to breath heavily. "Master, is everything ok?" said Lin Youyi as kneel

"Yes I'm fine. I just haven't fully recovered yet so any casual movements takes a heavy toll," said Redfang while rub his chest with a grimace expression. "Make sure he doesn't bleed out. The soul is the most important part. With out it I will still wither away."

"Understood." said both Di Yunzhong and Lin Youyi. Di Yunzhong walked over to Han Huo he flipped his hand and a red pouch appeared. "Haha, Han Huo I'm not going to lie but seeing you lying there all weak makes me realize that revenge is ever so sweet no matter who does the job for me." said Di Yunzhong as he opened the pouch and threw grey powder on Han Huo.

The wounds on Han Huo stopped bleed however they did not close. Instead they began to turn a a bright red as if on fire. Han Huo almost let out a groan of pain but instead he bit down even harder on the chains and continued looking at Redfang who was now meditating on his throne. Di Yunzhong snorted amusingly as he turned around to stand on the left of Redfang.

Time dragged on and very soon two hours passed. Redfang slowly opened his eyes and looked at Han Huo. "I do hate keeping guests waiting so you have my apology for doing such a rude thing." said Redfang as he stood up he began walking toward the center of the room. "Now lets begin."

Redfang arrived in the at in floor which had a painting of four demons facing each other with weapons drawn. Redfang spread his arms out as if welcoming an old friend. After a moments pass a silent click broke the silence in the air followed by a reverberating bang that shook the ear drums causing them to hurt.

More clicking soon sounded as the painting on the floor soon began to rotate until the demons were in their opposite directions. The floor then split open as a platform took its place, it continued until it was five meters in the air. On each side of the platform were two posts that had cuffs. On each post were runes that glowed a light blue color.

Redfang waved his hand toward Han Huo which caused him to fly in Redfang's direction. Redfang slowly wrapped his fingers around his throat until he had a firm grim. Redfang jumped on top of the platform and began strapping Han Huo's arms into each post.

Redfang jumped off the pillar and formed a seal. The seal grew brighter as he poured more yuan qi into until it finally shined as bright as the stars. Redfang looked at the seal with a smile on his pale face. Nodding his head in satisfaction he threw it in the platform. The whole platform began to grow brighter while the seals on the posts went dull as black straps rose from them.

The black straps circled the platform for a moment before piercing through Han Huo. Strange scence happened as no blood or any kind of addtional wound appeared on Han Huo. Instead the straps turned transparent passing straight through his body. Han Huo's body sagged and turned a deathly pale. The transparent end of the straps began to bind something in mid-air getting tighter and tighter until final a white light began to take human form.

If one looked closely they could looked exactly Han Huo. The straps had separated Han Huo's soul from his body and where the straps had pierced a silver liquid had formed dropping onto the platform. As each drop hit the platform it caused it to hum more violently and as each drop left Han Huo it caused his body to fade.

Days passed and soon all that remained of Han Huo's soul body was half his torso and his head. Han Huo was suffering unimaginable pain however not a single sound escaped his lips nor did he take his eyes off Redfang.

"You should be proud of the fact that you have not cried out yet. At the same time you should be even prouder that you will be apart of me helping me to accomplice something amazing." said Redfang as he examined the platform. "Two more days."

Two days passed slowly this time all that remained of Han Huo was his black eye and white like the moon iris. Redfang smiled revealing his trade mark red fangs that looked like rubies. "A new age for us demons will arise, we will no longer flee from our enemies a grand new age will rise from it and I will be a god for all demons, humans and monsters alike," said Redfang first quietly in a whisper and slowly increasing in volume and excitement until he was shouting as if trying to tell the heavens that it was going to happen and there was nothing they could do to stop it.

Finally Han Huo's eye to faded completely and the silver liquid dripped from it making it look as if he was crying. It hovered for a moment before it began its decent onto the platform. However, halfway down it stopped causing Redfang's eyes narrowed in confusion.

Suddenly Redfang began to feel something trying to break into the pocket world. Redfang looked toward the direction it was coming from and began to spread his perception toward it. Before he could get half way a sound that sounded like broken glass rang though out the world. Redfang withdrew his perception as a bright golden light pierced through and wrapped itself around the silver liquid that was once Han Huo.

A soft snapping sound occurred and the silver liquid vanished in its place appeared a woman with long braided golden hair in a golden robe. Her face was hidden by a veil only showing piercing blue eyes that looked like they could see into someone's very soul. When she looked at Redfang it caused the very little soul that he had left to hurt terribly.

Despite the pain Redfang roared out in anger when he saw the last drop vanish completely. Pulling out his saber once again he lashed out with everything he had ignoring the increase in pain that it caused him. A gigantic red attack raced toward the gold haired woman instantly appearing in front of her.

The gold hair woman caught the attack in her fingers laughter entering into her eyes. She squeezed gently crushing the attack near effortlessly. She surveyed the room quickly before turning around and vanishing completely from the area.

Redfang appeared right where she had disappeared in an attempt to deliver a strike but was to late. He stretched out his perception trying to find her, no matter how hard he searched he could not find a single trace of her. Redfang roared again as he lashed out over and over again in blind rage destroying more then half the room.

Minutes passed before Redfang finally managed to calm down.Di Yunzhong and Lin Youyi hurriedly ran over."My Lord, are you alright?" said DI Yunzhong worry evident on his face. After all should Redfang die then the Di family would send Di Yunzhong to the afterlife to serve Redfang for all eternity due to his failure.

"I'm not okay. I'm so weak I couldn't even buy time for my arrays to work. I need to desperately recover, guard me for your life does depend on it. In fact, if wasn't for me drawing support from the arrays I wouldn't have been strong enough to subdue Han Huo especially if he had been at full strength" said Redfang as he began coughing blood.

Time slowly flew by as day after day came and went. Five days went by before Redfang opened his eyes. When he did he looked at his hand and began to open and close it slowly. After giving a satifaed nod he waved his hand as a white orb flew toward the platform. This orb took the form of Pang Yuan.

"My lord please don't do this their must be another way!" cried Pang Yuan as tears slid down his face.

"There was another way but it flew out of this world. The very second that woman entered. Now be quiet or I will make its a hundred times more painful," said Redfang unsympathetically as he closed his eyes once again.

"My lord I hate to disturb you while you meditate but our deadline has passed and we can no longer delay," said Lin Youyi as she bowed deeply not daring to look at Redfang.

"Take Han Huo's body and use it as a mask to start revolts. Since I can't use him to aid me or use his soul to heal him. Well then I'll destroy his reputation that he had built up and make sure that history sees him as a worse villain then me. After all I am a piety person who holds grudges."said Redfang rage evident in voice. "Also make sure that Sun girl is still on board their can be no screw ups this time."

"Yes, sir" replied Di Yunzhong and Lin Youyi, both of them turned around and vanished from their spot.

"Who are you? Why did you have to interfere?" thought Redfang as he looked at the whole that the woman had made in the roof.