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Chapter 578 - 578 313 Resolve Shadow Demon (4000)_2

Chapter 578: 313 Resolve Shadow Demon (4000)_2 Chapter 578: 313 Resolve Shadow Demon (4000)_2 The rhythmic and regular sound of breathing carried a unique magic power. It gradually calmed the previously restless and unsettled expressions of everyone, replacing them with sleep-like tranquility.

Time bit by bit passed.

Some Senior levels were the first to experience the effects of the Breathing Method, their bodies generating heat, sweating profusely. Their faces reddened as though baked by bright flames, veins bulging on their foreheads. They seemed ferocious with their distorted appearances. But their expressions were oddly enjoying.

Their eyebrows drooped, the corners of their eyes relaxed, and their eyelids trembled.

It was as if the person was indulged in it and couldn’t pull themselves out.

Casio gave a faint smile. After ordinary humans experienced the cultivation of Demon Seeds for the first time, their will found it hard to resist the desire to cultivate for the second time.

Every cultivation session could increase their strength, but it would also make the Demon Seed stronger and deepen its connection with Casio.

The bond grew tighter until it was inseparable.

Most of the Antiques and Assassination Departments of the Black Spade “A” Organization had been taken down, leaving only two department heads. This did not matter as he could come up with some excuse to meet them.

As for the two leaders of the Black Spade “A” Organization, they had always been elusive, and it was almost certain he could not make an appointment with them. But after gaining control over all the Senior levels of the four departments, Casio could directly go to their headquarters. The Big King and Little King would inevitably come out to meet him.

At that time, he would allow them to voluntarily accept his “gift”.

This task would take about a week.

Casio intended to control the Black Spade “A” organization not because he was interested in their assassin force but their Antiques Department. The mundane assassins were fairly useless to him, and even those with burst secret techniques were not significant. However, the channel through which the Black Spade “A” organization acquired antiques and its extensive intelligence connections were valuable. It also saved Casio the trouble of establishing his organization.

If there was something ready at hand, then he would use it, saving time and energy.

The Black Spade “A” Organization was merely the first step in Casio’s plan. Next came the new humans, Sand Dust Organization, Shadowless Organization, the Black Mechanism and so on. How could he become a competent puppet master without a vast ambition?

“Thump, thump, thump…”

Gently tapping the top of the table with his fingers, Casio drained the last sip of red wine from the glass and slowly turned his gaze to the left.

“White Bird, find an excuse to meet with Jazz. He’s getting old, probably won’t last much longer. When the time comes, give him a Secret Martial Art seed. Consider it charity.”

At his command, White Bird silently nodded.

Casio then looked to the right, “You find some excuse to summon Spade Q. There should be no problem in it. After all, it’s an opportunity. You’ve experienced that lucid feeling of getting stronger. This will be a precious opportunity to touch the supernatural path. Whether the benefits outweigh the disadvantages or the other way round, who knows until tried…” he smiled, then gave further instructions.

“When Spade J and Spade Q have joined us, we can use the name of the Antiques and Assassination departments to call out the senior levels of the other two departments to discuss a plan. Keep the process simple and don’t complicate matters… ”

“If you can’t handle this small matter, well…”

Casio wiped his mouth with a clean white napkin and slowly stood up.

He casually tossed it aside, turned around and left. The five people left beside the table were silently lost in their thoughts. The environment became unusually quiet. Only the sound of the slowly opening and closing front door creaked.

Lastly, a reminder from outside came.

“Don’t forget to eat some high-calorie food right away. Cultivation consumes a lot of energy from your body, don’t starve yourself to death…”

When the Senior levels came back to their senses, they lowered their heads to look at the luxurious dining table. The various delicacies were in a complete mess, dozens of carefully prepared dishes seemed as if swept clean by a tornado.

They dully lifted their heads and were immediately at a loss for words.

The food was all gone, so what would they eat?!

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At ten o’clock in the evening, in a room on the right side of the manor house.

The lights were not turned on. Pale moonlight streamed in through the window at an angle, casting a layer of white frost on the ground. A figure sat cross-legged, his body enveloped in a dark fog.

Casio slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a long breath.

The Demon Seed is not infinite; it is formed by refining the pure qi of the Demon Idol. Theoretically, it’s akin to cutting off a part of one’s own body. Thus, Casio couldn’t possibly provide a Demon Seed for all of his subordinates. He could only select the important ones, or those who showed talent.

Therefore, the gift he previously mentioned in the rectangular dining room was not nonsensical. Ordinary subordinates are not yet eligible to receive the Demon Seed. For now, they could only cultivate the lethal combat skills which Casio was trying to create. How could an opportunity to visibly and rapidly enhance one’s abilities not be considered a gift?

The sadness is not in being a beast of burden but in not even having the qualifications to be used as such. Hence, Casio had to work harder to cultivate secret martial arts of the Demon Idol and condense more Demon Seeds, striving to give everyone the chance to be beasts of burden.

The moonlight was hazy. He slowly rose from the carpet, his gaze sweeping across the shadow on the ground. He smiled, a cunning look on his face.

It might have been an illusion.

The shadow slanting towards the room seemed to wriggle a little, stretching out longer, as if it wanted to shrink back into the darkness of the room.

A little further from the golden-haired figure.

“Shadow Demon…” Casio muttered under his breath.

Since the wake of his retrospective ability, this unique dark creature had been entangling him. It was, perhaps, the driving force behind Casio’s quest for strength, because there was a fifty percent chance of being killed and replaced by the Shadow Demon if he slowed down.

From the first to the fourth retrospection, he had experienced three instances of Demon shadow manifestation. If not for his peculiar retrospective abilities, he might have perished among the one-in-eight survival odds. In fact, the Shadow Demon was pushing Casio forward.

All this time, he was never really careless. Because there is always a chance of failure in retrospection, and the failed power cannot be brought back. In such a case, Casio would have to fight the Shadow Demon for his life.

But now, a subtle opportunity had emerged.

He created the secret martial art of the Demon Idol in his fourth retrospection, transforming and evolving his physical body, gradually moving towards the ultimate dark form.

Moreover, the secret martial art of the Demon Idol possessed an overbearing ability. It could deplete and absorb the life fields of other dark creatures through its life field, creating life vibration energy that enhanced cultivation realm. In effect, it was a nemesis of dark creatures. In the course of battle, there was no exotic species that it couldn’t absorb.

The Shadow Demon, naturally, fell in this category too.

Although the Shadow Demon had already parasitized Casio, it didn’t mean it was immune. On the contrary, this was akin to walking into a trap, like throwing itself into Casio’s embrace.

No different from a bull rushing headlong into a fire.

In fact, ever since he had disposed of the fighter Peacock, he had been contemplating whether he should deal with the Shadow Demon. After researching for most of the day, Casio had pretty much understood the situation.

Firstly, the Shadow Demon possibly posed no threat to him anymore. Its replication manifestation had a limit; it was just that Casio was not stronger than it at the time, so he didn’t reach that limit. That’s why it appeared as though the Shadow Demon could replicate rules.

Casio had already examined the strength of the Shadow Demon’s life field through the Demon Idol’s life field. Any dark creature has a fixed fundamental strength in its life field. The particular Shadow Demon inhabiting his body could replicate up to the peak of a pugilist, but once it reached a phase where it could produce qi, its high-level life essence was hard to replicate.

Lord Fengxiang