Azure Heaven Saber
Chapter 1261 - 1261 79 The Demons Seek Help

Chapter 1261: Chapter 79: The Demons Seek Help Chapter 1261: Chapter 79: The Demons Seek Help The Abyssal Master suddenly opened the grand hall’s doors, his body shrouded in a white mist that shot out in strands like threads.

He was issuing a summoning.

Soundlessly, it spread out.

In but a moment, from all directions, dozens of white lights flew in and prostrated themselves at his feet.

Those who came were the thirty-six Evil Spirits.

The Purple Emperor looked far and wide to see that these thirty-six Evil Spirits, each approximately the size of an ordinary small dog, weighed at most around seven to eight pounds.

But compared to the average Evil Spirit resembling the size of bacteria, this was already gigantic.

And this size and strength represented the upper limit of what the Abyssal Master could currently control.

He sent these Evil Spirits out to devour, and they could only devour up to this extent before they had to stop following the control commands.

For if they continued to devour and grow, his absolute control over them would become unstable.

One false move, and he could inadvertently create a threat to himself.

Therefore, the Abyssal Master was extremely cautious with his use of these Evil Spirits and ordinarily would not resort to deploying them.

“Lift your heads,”

He commanded.

The thirty-six Evil Spirits lifted their heads simultaneously, their demeanor as submissive as can be, indistinguishable from domesticated dogs.

“Surrender a strand of your soul.”

Without any hesitation, the thirty-six Evil Spirits simultaneously released a stream of white smoke from the tops of their heads, which the Abyssal Master caught in his hand.

He then immediately began to operate using one of the strands as a medium.

First, he imprinted a magical seal on the strand of the soul, then proceeded to curse it, applied a spiral seal, issued instructions, and performed a sealing, imposing restrictions.

After completing these operations, he waved his hand and said, “Go devour ten Abyssal beasts.”

The newly formed Evil Spirit that was in front of him immediately turned and rushed away with a roar.

The Purple Emperor watched from the side, full of bewilderment and unable to comprehend what was happening. Although he saw the entire process with his own eyes, he still couldn’t understand it.

Then he saw each of the seals the Abyssal Master had placed light up one by one, and in a brief period, the ten slots were filled.

Clearly, ten beasts had been devoured.

Immediately after, the Abyssal Master took action again, issuing a command for the return.

But to his surprise, the Evil Spirit that had been sent out didn’t return.

Suddenly, the ten slots burst with a ‘puff’ and dissipated into wisps of white smoke, vanishing into nothingness.

“Nefarious obstruction!”

The Abyssal Master let out an angry hum, his body zipping out like a bolt of lightning, disappearing with a flash.

In a few breaths’ time, he returned, with a strand of white smoke struggling and swirling in his palm.

It was the very Evil Spirit he had ordered to devour ten Abyssal beasts, now captured and brought back.

It appeared to be desperately struggling and pleading for mercy.

The Abyssal Master closed his palm, and a puff of black smoke appeared. The Evil Spirit had turned to ash, leaving behind only a tiny, shining black pearl on the ground,

Hmm, about… six millimeters.

Holding this clear black pearl, the Abyssal Master couldn’t help but sigh, “I just relaxed a bit, hoping to enhance their strength so they could go out and be of use to me on Anping Continent… But who would have thought that they’d start to disobey so quickly. Should this be considered an expected outcome, something within reason?”

“The Evil Spirit that I sent out, instead of stopping after devouring the ten Abyssal beasts I commanded, continued to feed. And when I ordered it to come back, it continued to devour and even tried to escape. By the time I caught it, it had already devoured over twenty additional Abyssal beasts!”

“…”

The Purple Emperor couldn’t help but feel speechless for a good while. He truly hadn’t expected that Evil Spirits would be so hard to manage.

They had just been born into this world, and immediately they rebelled against their master.

The sigh of the Abyssal Master was filled with indescribable depression and an ineffable sense of desolation.

“Lord Purple Emperor, now that you have seen it with your own eyes, you must understand where the problem lies, right?”

“Constrained by the barrier’s limits, there is no possibility for me to leave in the short term, whereas the strength of the Evil Spirits that can cross over to Anping Continent is too weak. They are eradicated within the Zichen Lake boundary before they can even spread. Although there is an immense base of trillions of Evil Spirits out there, strictly speaking, they really have no attacking power, only the possibility of being wiped out bit by bit.”

“If I were to go out, I could indeed exterminate Anping Continent in a short amount of time, but… I simply can’t leave!”

“In such a difficult situation, the best course of action is to let these fellows assault Anping through devouring, try to establish a bridgehead. As long as we can open a passage between Zichen Lake and the outside world, that would be good. Of course… if we could also destroy Heaven’s Path seals along with it, that would be even better.”

“But all of these plans hinge on one thing: they must obey.”

The Abyssal Master spoke with a headache, “As it is now, they do not follow commands and cannot be released. Otherwise, they’d go out and devour until they become more powerful than I am now. By the time I can leave, I’d be nothing but a supplement for them to swallow… To use a term from your human world, would that be ‘laboring in vain for others’ benefit?'”

The Purple Emperor’s face turned sweatily awkward.

He truly hadn’t foreseen such a scenario.

But upon further thought, he realized it actually made sense.

The Evil Spirits under the control of the Abyssal Master were a group of seemingly obsequious rebels!

Rebels, indeed!

The sort who would ultimately turn on you, couldn’t you be constantly anxious?

And each one was able to overpower their master, so dangerous that releasing them was unthinkable.

Putting himself in the Abyssal Master’s shoes, the Purple Emperor genuinely felt that the Abyssal Master’s life was rather tragic, with not a single confidant to trust.