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I decided to use devil as a term to classify them as they're using dense Yin natured energy due to the environment. Pure Chakra is an energy from the Otsustsuki. Further explanations will be revealed later.
Devil energy is different from Chakra energy. I might misplace the two so bear with me for some time.
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Shun appeared to be calm but in his sea of consciousness, a terrifying storm was currently happening. His state of mind wasn't really as he portrayed it to be on the outside.
He took lives. As a sensor, he felt the fires of their lives extinguish in his hands. Truly, he knew this was the only path to follow. This place wouldn't be kind to him so he had no reason to be kind to others, but at that moment of their death, he felt a weird intent bore into his being.
His chakra wasn't just pristine gold as it was before, it had gained a tiny of red, although unnoticeable, he still felt his chakra became darker in colour.
Shaking his head, he exited his consciousness with a renewed resolve. Whoever wants to kill me would be killed without mercy.
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The Blackstone Valley was the power governing this particular island. Its authority and power were naturally immense.
Inside the valley, the Blackstone King was the supreme sovereign. There were also four lords under him.
Under the four lords, they each have seven generals as subordinates, making it a total of twenty-eight. They were the controllers of the valley on the surface. And under each general, each and every one of them commands a powerful regiment. These regiments were known as the Blackstone Army.
Hence, there weren't too many core disciples in the Blackstone Valley. The vast majority of members are soldiers of the Blackstone Army. Their main purpose was to use their tyrannical force to subdue those who didn't want to submit.
During the journey to the Blackstone Valley, he already understood the main situation of the organisation from the two disciples.
The four lords were king-level characters but maintained the title of lord as a form of respect to the Blackstone King. In addition to the most powerful Blackstone King, the five of them were the governors of this island.
As for the twenty-eight devil generals under the four devil lords, their cultivation bases were at the peak of chakra sea. In addition, according to the two disciples, all of them were characters who had already glimpsed the gate leading to the chakra king realm. If not, it would be impossible for them to seize the position of a devil general, controlling many disciples and a regiment of troops.
In the Blackstone Valley, all resources had to be fought for and seized. Strength was everything. They used conflict to birth more experts.
In the central regions of this island, there was an impossibly vast palace, exuding majesticness. This place was the palace of the Blackstone King.
In the four directions of this palace, there were other smaller palaces of different styles. These four other palaces were none other than the residences for the four lords.
The Flower Lord was the only female out of the four, and she was in charge of the Eastern Palace.
There were seven generals under her and one of the generals was named Lia. She was one of the characters with the most authority in the Eastern Palace, ranking among the top seven.
Lia was a general at the peak of chakra sea and has already glismped the gate leading to the devil-king realm.
Yu, who was killed by Shun, was none other than her subordinate. Hence, he was brought here to the palace where Lia was in.
Standing below the stairway, Shun inclined his head to stare at the devil's palace above it. He was musing in his heart that devil cultivators seemed to emphasize more on prestige. Similar to the sects in cultivation worlds.
Just this palace alone was of this style. By building a stairway to lead up to one's palace, that palace symbolized authority and might.
Although Shun had not met any king-level characters before and devil-foundation characters had no way to attract his interest, at this moment, he could already sense how rigid order was in this organisation
Only experts could stand tall. This was the same even for experts of the highest tier.
If one wanted to climb up the ladder, one can only kill the other party, replacing their position.
Naturally, Shun wouldn't be so foolish as to directly ascend the stairs at this moment and storm into the palace to kill the general Lia.
Leaving aside the fact that Lia's strength was unknown to him, even if he knew, in the palace there would surely be other powerful experts in the palace as she had sovereignty there.
She could directly command them to kill Shun. For provoking her prestige and authority, she could order them to kill everyone simply because she was already standing in that position.
The valley was truly a brutal place of cruelty. Now, you may stand in this position, but this didn't mean you would stand here forever. You have to constantly be wary of people around her who would act against her. Once they found your weakness and an opportunity, they would kill you to replace you.
This undoubtedly caused countless storms of blood. But at the same time, those who could sit stably at their positions at the end, their strengths were naturally extremely overwhelming.
It was said that Lia has already been sitting in this position for thirty plus years. Now, she would only be stronger than before and there was no longer anyone who would dare to challenge her authority. For those who did so before, all of them had already become bones buried in the ground of the devil's palace.
"Shan begs an audience with devil general madam." A disciple beside Shun spoke. There were other guards stationed above the stairway, and were Lia's forces. Shun discovered that these guards were all above the sixth-level of chakra sea. From this, one could see that this organisation had no lack of experts.
But in reality, only a rare few would be able to become disciples of the organisation. A majority of them were merely ordinary troops in the army.
There was no reply from above, but the two beside Shun continued standing there respectfully. After a long time, a cold female voice rang out, "Who is this person?"
"He is the one who killed Yu and replaced her position," Shan spoke.
Although she was clad in simple clothing, it did nothing to mask her grace. Her eyes were extremely cold, and seemed as though they could penetrate through one's heart.
"Allowing Yu to go back was because she wanted to upgrade her level by one level. Who would have thought that she was so useless and was killed? But in any case, since there's someone replacing her, the strength of this man should be above her." Lia didn't attach too much importance to the death of Yu. Her cold eyes glanced at Shun as she asked, "How's your combat prowess?"
"There should be no problem for me to kill eighth-level chakra sea characters." Shun replied.
"Okay, you can be a devil guard under me first." Lia didn't have any objections with regard to Shun replacing Yu. In any case in this palace, as a general, her words were law here.
Nobody could refute them. This was a simple logic of the organisation - strength was everything.
Even if she wanted Shun to be a slave, Shun would have to do so.
The path here was extremely cruel, if one wanted to survive longer, they might even need to mask their own talent or those stronger than them might kill them, not wanting to give them a chance to grow.
"General, this man originated from the outside realms, he isn't a devil," Shan spoke. This caused Lia, who was already preparing to leave, to tremble a little. She turned back and glance at Shun but in just an instant, her countenance returned to normal. She then calmly spoke, "Several days ago, an outside realm expert arrived at the Northern Palace and it's said that his combat prowess is extremely powerful, able to fight equally with peak-level chakra sea. To think that today, an Otsustsuki realm martial artist would also become my subordinate."
After saying that, she continued, "Come on up. From today onwards, you should first familiarize yourself with the rules."
Shun frowned when he heard her words earlier. The Northern Palace also had an outside realm visitor.
Such coincidence, could it be that the other party was from the real outside realm? If it was either Hinami, Ria or Kaguya, he would have noticed by now.
They passed through the dimensional gate together, and although it was highly possible that all of them appeared in different places, the places they were sent to might not be that far apart. There was a possibility that there would be others on this same island as well.
And just like that, Shun simply became a knight under Lia.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Although Shun was proud, he wasn't extremely arrogant. Since he came to the Myriad Islands, he should adapt to everything here. If he didn't, he would die in this place sooner rather than later.
Hence, even if some of his duties required him to stand outside the palace as a guard, Shun just accepted them.
It was just that his eyes would occasionally gleam with light as he stared at the devil palace, revealing his ambition. Since he has entered the Blackstone Valley, he naturally needed to acquire a high position here or there would be no meaning to it.
Becoming a general was the next thing he had to do.
Today, Shun was guarding the palace. He saw two experts entering the palace and a moment later, the sound of intense combat rang out. The guards beside him were already familiar to such a scene. Clearly, this had happened many times before.
"Not bad. As my guards, if you all aid me in the ranking battles this time around, and if I can rise up the ranks, I will heavily reward all of you." Lia's voice rang out from within. Shun's eyes flashed, he has heard of the ranking battles before with regards to the Blackstone Valley.
Within the valley, the twenty-eight generals under the four lords all had rankings.
The foremost one's ranking is, the more authority that person would have. In addition, they would also be able to acquire unique rewards from the devil king.
Lia was currently ranked ninth out of the twenty-eight generals.
An instant later, Lia tossed out two bodies as she stepped out. Right now, she was wearing black-colored tight-fitting clothes, further accentuating her fiery figure. Her entire being exuded a heroic air, tender, beautiful and filled with grace. Shun couldn't help but to take a few more glances at her.
"BOOM!" Abruptly, a cold aura gushed forth towards Shun. A guard beside Lia frowned as his eyes gleamed with a terrifying devil light, coldly staring at Shun as he spoke. "Dig your eyes out."
Shun's eyes flickered in shock as he stared at the man who spoke. This person had a cultivation base equivalent to the ninth-level of chakra sea and exuded a powerful and majestic aura.
"Why?" Shun counter-asked.
"How can our general be a character that can be profaned by your eyes? You actually still dare to ask why? Go dig out your own eyes and slice off your tongue." That expert spoke, his words extremely tyrannical.
Shun did indeed cast additional glances at Lia's body. But with just a few additional glances, this man wanted him to dig out his own eyes?
When devil practitioners do things, they truly gave no quarters, doing whatever they wanted to do.
Lia's footsteps also halted. She glanced ahead, and didn't say anything. It was like what just happened had nothing to do with her.
"I only have admiration in my heart towards our general, how could I profane her? As for you, who the hell you think you are? Do you even have the qualifications to ask me to dig my eyes out?" Shun's voice grew cold.
"RUMBLE!" A terrifying black devil might instantly erupted. The black light gradually congealed into a terrifying black saber of darkness.
The other party didn't say anything more and directly slashed out with the darkness saber, wanting to cleave apart space. He aimed the strike towards Shun and if this strike struck, Shun would definitely be split into two.
To devil experts, killing was just as ordinary and insignificant as this. Such brutality was everywhere on the Myriad Islands.
Shun's gaze turned cold. His aura instantly erupted forth as well. Layers of chakra light circulated around his body forming an armour, as Runic characters floated around him. As the saber cleaved down, the saber of darkness actually was shattered due to his defense.
However, this didn't affect the emotions of the attacker. An even stronger burst of devil might burst forth and this time around, there was an actual devil saber in his hands as he slashed out with it. The incomparably sharp edge of the saber cleaved apart the layers of light, wanting to execute Shun instantly!