The Demonic World I designed
Chapter 1251 - 1249: Ancient Ghost King

Chapter 1251: Chapter 1249: Ancient Ghost King

What is this thing?

Ali quickly stepped back, a chilling sense of terror surged in her heart, a fear she had never experienced before, even when facing other monsters.

Actually, players do fear monsters, but they still hold a shred of hope inside, knowing that they can reincarnate, come back again. Perhaps the memory would be lost upon return, but this time she clearly felt that if this monster caught her, there would be no second chance.

This thing..... something’s wrong!

"So... it’s me?"

At this moment, Shen Er was emitting a terrifying black aura, but his face showed an extremely painful expression, muttering: "It’s me...."

Yes, it seems like I’ve indeed forgotten what happened back then.

Many believed that I cultivated the Shen Family’s supreme secret technique: Ghost King Arm, but in reality, it was not so...

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The Shen Family’s candidate competition is extremely harsh. From the beginning of the elections, each branch selects the best seeds to cultivate secret techniques, and Shen Family’s secret techniques often carry a high risk. Successfully inheriting it makes one the prestigious Shen Family’s legitimate son, elevating the family’s status, enjoying a plethora of resources from Shen Family.

If unable to successfully inherit, the outcome is likely a tragically gruesome death.

This immense temptation drives each branch to ruthlessly send their best children to take risks.

Shen Er was one of them.

In the original family, he was ranked second. His elder brother was stable and excellent, the family’s heir by default. He himself was gloomy since childhood, possessing great talent in techniques. However, not suitable to be the family’s heir, a decision by the elders determined that the elder brother should inherit the family business, while he came to Shen Family’s main hall, striving for a future for the family.

His branch was a remote one, enjoying few resources daily, making it hard to produce excellent offspring; he was considered the most talented in the family, yet among the extensive Shen Family descendants, at most, he was just mediocre.

From the first day at the main hall, he knew he would inevitably be eliminated, and he also knew the repercussions of elimination. The Old Ancestor Shen is a cruel person, and even if your aptitude is inadequate, he would force you to cultivate for technique success, resulting in the death of those unfit.

Moreover, Shen Family’s elimination process, akin to refining gu, lets those who successfully inherit techniques duel, activating potential within life and death; this is the real reason behind the high mortality rate.

Thus, selecting a technique is a critical decision.

The technique you choose must foremost possess strong combat power, otherwise, even if mastered, if the final trial’s intensity isn’t high enough, you’ll still die at someone else’s hands; but the stronger the technique, the harder to learn. If you fail to learn, you don’t even get the chance to participate in the final duel.

This greatly tests your grasp level; Shen Family encourages descendants to choose high-difficulty techniques, benefiting the top geniuses the most. Shen Er knew if he chose a mediocre technique, he would likely lose to others, hence after three days of selection, he chose an ancient secret technique.

[Ghost King Arm] A legendary technique with extremely high costs, failing turns oneself into a Ghost Person, becoming a man-eating Evil Ghost, utterly terrifying. Over countless years, only one person from Shen Family mastered this method, even that one later due to technique backlash became a man-eating Evil Spirit in Jiangnan, consuming thousands, finally exterminated by the ancestor at a huge cost.

However, the explanation also said, once mastered, almost invincible in the same phase.

Shen Er was attracted by this line, since choosing a mediocre technique also meant death, why not choose one that fights best?

Even if I don’t manage to master it, at least I wouldn’t die at someone else’s hands.

Thus, he ultimately chose this method.

The hardest initial step of this method is being transmitted by the family using secret techniques to the Path of Yin Yang’s Ghost King Altar, facing the Ancient Ghost King’s judgment. If this stage isn’t passed, there would be direct consumption by Evil Spirits of the Path of Yin Yang. It’s said this stage in history has eliminated over a hundred Shen Family descendants.

Shen Er remembers the experience of Ghost King Altar vividly.

Innumerable Evil Spirits waiting outside, countless pairs of hungry eyes glaring at his flesh full of malice. He didn’t even know how he walked into the Ghost King Altar.

Many said the second Shen Family brother was steady due to facing numerous Evil Spirits at the mere age of ten.....

After successfully cultivating Ghost King Arm, he became a nightmare for many Shen Family offspring at the time, executing decisively every trial, every death at his hands was exceptionally tragic, gaining significant fame for Ghost King Arm.

He became the second Shen Family legitimate son to perfectly master Ghost King Arm, also one of the legitimate sons the ancestor cherished the most.

Few knew that actually, Shen Family’s Ghost King Arm was essentially an incomplete Cultivation Technique. The Shen Family person back then got an incomplete technique as well, yet he wasn’t; what he held was the Ghost King’s True Form. It was then that he suddenly realized the Old Ancestor Shen seemed to avoid him deliberately or unintentionally.

Long ago, he harbored a suspicion, is the one inside his body really the Ancient Ghost King?

"You... what exactly are you?"

In a daze, Shen Er felt his consciousness being completely consumed, realizing early on that the creature inside him never bore good intentions, but as he grew increasingly strong alongside Chen Qing, his confidence grew, and his sense of crisis weakened.

The last time he dared to activate Ghost King’s True Form, convinced that even if he lost control, Chen Qing’s return could solve everything.

But now it appears, it’s not the case.

This guy didn’t act last time, waiting for the chance, waiting for Ali to be isolated!

This guy... is the culprit causing chaos in Jiangnan, causing all the chaos, it’s a monster that even Chen Qing fears immensely, it’s not a Ghost King, but the top-tier Heavenly Demon lurking on the Path of Yin Yang!

"Insignificant human, your cognition is inadequate to understand my existence, even if explained you wouldn’t comprehend."

A deep voice carried a teasing tone: "You, Shen Family people, including that Chen Qing, everything you did was part of the calculations. You think you changed fate, unaware fate was long predestined. Your existence is nothing but a part of our historical progress, everything... is under control."

"So powerful, yet needs sneaking around?" Shen Er coldly mocked and ridiculed.

"Don’t use such clumsy provocations; humans, your pitiful self-esteem is insignificant in our eyes. Everything’s for the greater good, for our continuation. Humanity must become slaves; humans are unfit to be world rulers, for you possess the greatest creativity but also the most terrifying destructive power. The world can’t land in your hands; you can only unleash your talents under shackles, that’s the world’s fortune."

"Sleep now, you won’t want to see what’s coming next. We’ve coexisted for many years; this last shred of dignity, I shall preserve it for you..."

Shen Er: "...."