In the skies of the Ye Clan, Ye Yuyan and Belphegor levitated in the air directly in front to one another. Belphegor smirked as dark green aura emanated from his childish body. The aura filled the air supplanting its position and slowly bearing down on Ye Yuyan's form.
"What can I say, I'm just too charismatic." Ye Yuyan joked as he met Belphegor's demonic eyes with a calm and unperturbed gaze. His body constantly emanated a wispy dark aura that was almost imperceptible.
"Then I'll just have to take it all!" Belphegor licked his lips with desire as a dark green aura of greed tried to wrap around Ye Yuyan but the smoke would push back on its advance.
Belphegor watched the energies clash with furrowed brows and keen attention. Belphegor expression turned ashen when suddenly!
BOOM!
Without warning, the wispy dark energy congealed into something corporeal and blasted out into a ball of darkness. The dark green energy was quick to respond as it metamorphosed into physical form and blasted into the darkness.
Suddenly the two energies crashed into one another and the two forces collided constantly pushing at one another when,
BOOM!
The energies from the clash shot out into two directions splitting the sky in half. Dark green Qi filled half the sky and smoky dark Qi filled the other half. The Qis turned the sky into a battleground with a single confrontation.
Amidst the battlefield of Qi, Ye Yuyan and Belphegor's forms calmly lingered as if unaffected by the massive destruction. Belphegor swiped his hand across the sky, pushing away the lingering smoky Qi around him when suddenly he felt his blood run backward.
He grabbed towards his mouth covering as he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. The black blood bled through his fingers dripping down his hand as he looked up to Ye Yuyan's smirking expression.
Through the remnants of blood in his mouth, Belphegor snickered: "With just this, you think you can absorb me? You'll just be my succulent feast."
"I was never so arrogant as to think I could absorb a Venerable Demon." Ye Yuyan laughed as he shook his head and reached into his robes.
From his robes, Ye Yuyan removed a clear tube with a stopper on the top. Inside of the tube was a strange white concoction that emanated a white light.
Belphegor felt his heart skip a beat as Ye Yuyan removed the clear tube, a powerful premonition appeared in his mind.
"That thing..." He tried to say but Ye Yuyan continued to speak.
"Come now... let's see who'll eat who." Ye Yuyan said as he grabbed the stopper and pulled it off.
As the stopper opened, a world of infinite white light erupted. The sky became illuminated as a celestial sized star formed from the white light. Every portion of the world bathed in white light as the gigantic star grew to usurp the sun and stars in the sky.
Inside of the star, Belphegor's form drifted in the white light surrounded by a dark green barrier. In the barrier, he sat in lotus form with his hands in two concentrative mudras. His eyebrows furrowed and his eyes rapidly moved as he tried to maintain the barrier.
Belphegor's eyes suddenly flashed open as he dispelled his mudras and stood up with the barrier still around him. He sent his perception out, scanning the light for Ye Yuyan.
When he realized he couldn't sense anything! White light obscured his senses entirely excluding the area around his barrier.
"What is this power?!?" Belphegor cursed angrily as he constantly released a dark green Qi to reinforce his barrier.
"Divine Qi of the Chaste Divine Body." A whisper said entering Belphegor's ears, Belphegor eyes scanned around rapidly looking for the source of the whisper.
Every second he was in the white light, his barrier would corrode faster and faster. This was because of Divine Qi, it was a Qi specialized in expelling foreign energies.
Energies like that of Immortals and Demons which are not native to this world. This was the Qi that Song Yue awakened after she sat on the Blood Throne. Ye Yuyan extracted it from her and refined it for himself.
"Feeling hot?" A voice echoed from the white light, Ye Yuyan's figure journeyed through the white light with a membrane of darkness surrounding his body. Over his head, a flame flickered in the wind dancing across the white skies.
"How is your demon power surviving here?!?" Belphegor gritted his teeth and asked, he constantly reinforced his barrier as Ye Yuyan slowly approached.
"How naïve." Ye Yuyan shook his head with contempt as the white flame flickered. The white cinders landed on his body instantly igniting him into a roaring white fire.
The flames engulfed Ye Yuyan's entire body and from the flames, a distorted and alien voice intoned: "You treat me as a human or demon but I am neither."
Inside of the white flames, Ye Yuyan's hands flickered as he put them straight out with his palms facing forward.
"I am a failed creation, a mistake made by the heavenly Dao." His eyes danced with white flames as they peered at Belphegor "I am neither human, demon, nor even immortal."
Belphegor veins bulged on his forehead and he roared at Ye Yuyan: "Then what the hell are you?!?"
Ye Yuyan coldly smirked as the flames danced off his body and engulfed the entire sky. The white flame flickered across the skies heading into the high heavens and touching on the golden firmament. The sky-high flames engulfed Belphegor barrier in one fell swoop.
"Ahhhh!" Belphegor's blood-curdling screams echoed from within the flames. The entire world melted within the flames turning it into a world of flickering white lights and sky-high flames. It was as if they were standing on the sun!
Ye Yuyan's left and right eye shone with black and white lights that infinitely circled one another, from their revolutions worlds would be born and die in an instant. This was the highest heavenly principle condensed into its true form.
"Goodbye, Belphegor." Ye Yuyan chuckled as he disappeared into the white flames.
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In the upper limits of the atmosphere, Ye Yuyan's body sat meditatively with his eyebrows furrowed. When suddenly his eyes flashed open, a black light lingered in his left eye and a white one in his right eye.
Around his body was a wispy black shroud that constantly generated, without the use of his Qi. Inside of his body, powerful bioelectricity shot through his meridians into the crystals throughout his acupoints, passively boosting his physical strength.
Ye Yuyan looked down from the top of the world and saw the blood city. The blood city was merely it's a description, its true name is Origin Soul City.
Ancient cultivators once thought Blood was the origin of the soul, they later proved this wrong. But this thought never fully disappeared and we still consider blood the origin of the soul. Ye Yuyan slowly stood up and turned his body upside down, he then suddenly stomped down on the air shooting forward.
BOOM!
He burst through the sound barrier, descending from the stratosphere at supersonic speeds. His body remained unfettered as the friction and gravitational forces bombarded him.
Ye Yuyan's body came crashing down into the Origin Soul City, crashing right in the center of the city. His tumultuous crash sent shock waves throughout the city, the merchants near his impact point all turned their attention towards the crash.
Ye Yuyan contained the force at the last second, making only a small crater where he landed. Ash and debris flew into the air, obscuring Ye Yuyan in sand and dust. An oily fat man in a turban looked on in shock as a black-robed figure emerged from amidst the ashes.
"Sir... I mean Sage Red Lotus!!!" The oily man exclaimed with shock as he scanned over Ye Yuyan's body.
"Human King, Qushji..." Ye Yuyan smiled vibrantly and said to the turban-wearing man.
"Have you finally done, are you reclaiming the throne?" Qushji asked excitedly as he left his merchant's table to approach Ye Yuyan.
On his table were various blood congealment and replenishment herbs, it was the same table that Maven, Song Yue, and Alister saw when they first entered the blood city.
Ye Yuyan shook his head and replied: "Not yet Qushji..." Ye Yuyan turned his attention to the shrine in front of him. It was a decrepit old shrine with cracked stone steps and rotting wood frame.
The only redeeming factor was the doors which magnificent spiraling dragons around its frame. It was strange such a shrine would be at the center of the center right below the Blood Heritage Palace.
At that moment, a cacophony of lights shone from various parts of the city. Five beams of light converged behind Ye Yuyan at that moment. The lights manifested into five figures, the first was cloaked in the moonlight, the second in a white flame, and the third is a black and red blood Qi.
The other two stood separate from the first three, a white immortal light wrapped the first of the two and the second was stained red Qi. These figures were Maven, Song Yue, and Alister respectively. The other two were the Human and Immortal Supreme Elders.
Maven and the other put their hands over their chests and bowed toward Ye Yuyan. Ye Yuyan glanced back at them for a moment and turned back and looked over the shrine.
Ye Yuyan walked forward and climbed the steps of the shrine. At the top of the steps he suddenly stopped and said: "Qushji, I'll do it this time. I'll finally kill him, even if he is an immortal."
Qushji gritted his teeth and looked at the ground before replying: "I know, there's no one that can stop you this time."
Ye Yuyan didn't look back instead he placed a hand on the doors, pushing them open slowly. The dragons on the door came to life and roared into the heavens. Light shot into the old shrine for the first time in thousands of years.
Ye Yuyan walked into the shrine looking around at the designed frame, inside of the shrine was a small stick of incense in an incense vase. Ye Yuyan sat in front of the vase and crossed his legs over, behind him the gates of the shrine closed, turning everything dark at once.
Ye Yuyan held his hand palm up, and suddenly a white flame manifested in the palm of his hand. He put the small flickering flame on the incense igniting it. On Ye Yuyan's glabella, the red lotus mark shone releasing a shadowy essence.
The essence coalesced in front of Ye Yuyan according to a heavenly principle until it turned into a black scroll! This was the power of Ye Yuyan's third lotus leaf, during his heavenly tribulation he used the power of 3000 Daos to refine his minor Dao of calligraphy into a Dao of heavenly secrets!
Ye Yuyan reached into his robe removing a calligraphy pen, he reached out and dipped his pen into the incense flame. Instantly the calligraphy pen ignited with a white flame turning into coagulation of white flames.
Amidst the flickering white light of the incense flame and the natural darkness of the room, Ye Yuyan wrote on the shadowy scroll with the blazing pen. His beautiful strokes lingered on the scroll as white streaks as they formed into nomological inscriptions.
Ye Yuyan wrote his deepest reflections and they read:
"The light of the past brings all matters to bare
The darkness of the future leaves but an uncertain taste
The turmoil of the present is where light and dark meet in fate
and fate is the determinator of all of man's things
Light and Dark are Illuminator and Concealer of fate"
With the completion of his poem, Ye Yuyan reached out with his pointer finger and thumb. With a swift motion, he gripped the incense flame and let it go out.
The flickering flame disappeared and darkness engulfed Ye Yuyan and the room. Immense darkness particles and Qi seethed with excitement within the darkness, this sight was unseen by anybody.
Outside of the shrine, Song Yue and Co sat outside guarding the shrine. Around them, the citizens continued their trades but in a reserved a quiet manner. Most of the citizens there came to gather information and to see what all the experts were there for.
Song Yue's eyes flashed open from meditation when suddenly a powerful dark Qi shot out from the shrine. The dark Qi stained the sky of the Blood City, turning the entire world black. Song Yue looked on with shock as the sky darkened and the moon and stars became apparent.
The citizens in the area stopped what they were doing as if called by something and they all rushed over to the shrine. Tens of thousands of blood disciples and higher emerged all lining the streets and areas around the shrine.
The disciples stood behind the six experts giving them a few meters of space. In this space, a white-robed old man stood up when the dark Qi emerged.
"He's ascended, the new Demon Lord...." The Immortal Supreme Elder mumbled with shock as he stared at the shrine.
"What did he do?" Song Yue titled her head and asked the supreme elder.
"He's fused the Demon Root, Black Sea, and His cultivation as one. When he emerges next, he'll become a true demon." The Human Supreme Elder replied as the Immortal Supreme Elder concentrated on the shrine.
At that moment, the shrine gates suddenly flew open. Maven, Alister, and Qushji suddenly awoke as they felt an immensely horrifying Qi. A primordial fear emerged in the heart of all the onlookers as the monstrous Qi filled every crevice in the area.
"This Qi... it's mind-boggling!" Maven stuttered to say as the immense Qi felt like it was choking him.
A pair of dark predator eyes opened inside the darkness of the shrine, one look and everyone felt as if their souls had left.
The lower level disciples and warriors instantly fainted from the oppressive. Almost everyone else except Qushji stared out into space with a blank expression.
'He's done it... he's really done it!' Qushji yelled constantly in his heart, as a dark-robed figure stepped out of the shrine.
Darkness wrapped around his body like a mother's embrace, his long black hair flowed down his back fusing perfectly into his robes, and the centerpiece of it all was his gloomy eyes that were darker than the deepest trench.
Ye Yuyan stood calmly at the top of the shrine looking down on his thousands of subjects. He raised his right hand releasing his control over them and suddenly their blank expressions turned lively again.
"Wait what..." Song Yue mumbled with confusion as she stared at Ye Yuyan's sudden appearance.
"Kneel." Ye Yuyan coldly intoned with a sonorous bellow that echoed throughout the city. Every citizen in the area instantly bowed down toward Ye Yuyan. Qushji was fastest falling his knees even the Elders of the factions joined him in worship.
Alister and Maven were soon after leaving only Song Yue hesitating, but Ye Yuyan merely glanced towards her and suddenly she felt her soul leaving once again. She instantly fell to her knees with her eyes glancing down in fear.
Ye Yuyan put his palm out releasing an untold amount of darkness particles into the world and with a cold demonic voice he said:
"Let it be known, in all major and minor planes. My name is Ye Yuyan and I am the Demon Lord of the Blood Sect!"