The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 509 - 484 Original Demon_1

Chapter 509: Chapter 484 Original Demon_1

In the Sword Tower, shaped like a nine-story pavilion,

nature’s spiritual energy no longer converged within, and the clouds that represented a seat of Godhood had long since dissipated and vanished.

At that moment, Pu Zhaotian, who had been unconscious for quite a while, suddenly and faintly awoke on the first floor of the Sword Tower.

A fat and a skinny old man dressed in blue, and the woman referred to as Mrs. Feng, all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw his eyes open.

"What happened?"

"What’s going on?"

"Why did you voluntarily give up that seat of Godhood?"

The three Spirits of Divine Sword asked together.

They knew Pu Zhaotian well, and had witnessed the entire process of him striving to reach True Godhood; they had watched as the clouds symbolizing a seat of Godhood were about to be fused with by Pu Zhaotian.

But Pu Zhaotian had suddenly given up on his own.

After such prolonged and arduous effort, and having prepared for so long, to give up just as he was about to ascend to True God was something none of the three could accept.

The Sword Tower urgently needed a Sword God to appear, and the Purgatory Human Tribe also needed him to ascend to True Godhood.

At such a critical moment for the Human Race, the emergence of a new Sword God held immense significance.

They racked their brains but still could not comprehend why Pu Zhaotian did it.

Pu Zhaotian, who had fallen in status, woke up with a groggy mind and asked, "Is there anything unusual in the Demon Abyss Continent?"

"I heard that there was a problem with that Outer Demon Stone, and the entire Continent has been sealed by a mysterious Demon Array," answered the fat elder.

"As I suspected."

Pu Zhaotian took out the Sword Command, answering inquiries from all sides, and also saw the message from Pang Jian: "Shifu, are you alright?"

A bitter smile crossed his lips as he replied, "I’m not dead, so I’m alright."

He paid attention to the words of concern from Chen Weihuang and Hu, as well as the messages from Yao Junhong, Guanghe, and others. He was surprised to see that even Jiang Ran had left a message inquiring about his condition.

"It seems you know how to share a common hatred."

He laughed wryly and through the Sword Light Symbol designated for core members of the Sword Tower, he learned of the startling changes in the Demon Abyss Continent.

After a moment of contemplation, he finally answered the questions of the three Spirits of Divine Sword: "I was confident I could ascend to True God seamlessly; you must have seen it, I was about to succeed."

The three Sword Spirits nodded gently.

"I sensed an evil will quietly emerging from the Demon Abyss Continent. This will make even my heart tremble with unease. It seemed to have locked onto me, and it had set its sights on me a long time ago."

"It only surfaced when I was on the verge of successfully ascending to True God."

"My intuition tells me that as soon as I become a new True God, it will instantly merge with my Spiritual Soul to achieve some purpose."

"And I knew that when I had just ascended to True Godhood, I would probably be unable to prevent it."

"Neither you three nor the Arrays of this Sword Tower would be able to restrict it from possessing me."

Pu Zhaotian revealed the terrifying truth.

After listening to his account, the three Spirits of Divine Sword were shocked beyond words, unable to fathom that Pu Zhaotian would voluntarily give up ascending to True Godhood for the reason that some foreign entity desired to possess him.

"The anomaly in the Demon Abyss Continent happened just before my ascension to True God; there must be a demon behind it," Pu Zhaotian frowned and said, "It seemed to have been waiting all this time, waiting for me to ascend to True Godhood, and it only wanted me."

"The moment I ascended to True Godhood, at the very instant of Divine Enthronement, that’s when it would devour me."

Chills climbed up Pu Zhaotian’s spine as he asked, "Since the anomaly has occurred in the Demon Abyss Continent, naturally, True Gods will descend. So, who’s currently over there?"

"Li Wang, Liu Fu, Li Yuanli, and Dong Shangqing," Mrs. Feng answered.

"It’s good that Li Wang has gone," Pu Zhaotian nodded, then communicated directly with Li Wang, who was above the Demon Abyss Continent, using a Secret Skill.

"What? Pang Jian is also on the Demon Abyss Continent?"

"He is still the Realm God of this generation!"

Pu Zhaotian, who had been listless, suddenly sat upright, angrily saying, "If you can’t enter, you shouldn’t have arranged for him to go to the Demon Abyss! What is the level of his cultivation?"

"Even if he is the new Realm God, he only possesses cultivation at the Extinction Realm. The evil that breeds within the Demon Abyss is so terrifying that even I am frightened and uneasy, to the point where I was forced to give up the position of a True God!"

No sooner had the words fallen than the heavily injured Pu Zhaotian produced a pill, swallowed it, and then rode away on his sword.

...

At this moment, in the Demon Abyss Continent, Li Wang, wielding his Spiritual Soul, was taking control of the Demon Subduing Stone Niche, sweeping through the headquarters of the Demon Sect.

Ying Yue, on the other hand, was taking the opportunity to gather the two moons he had released into nature, purifying her body and soul with the refined essence of the moon, preparing to completely annihilate Pang Jian once she was ready.

Next to the Demon Stone, Pang Jian had already grasped the Origin Demon Sword and saw the scene within the small world inside the sword.

"He is the Original Demon."

The Source Demon, condensed into a skinny man of the Ghost Demon Clan, stood in the form of a shadow above that secret realm filled with surging flames, gazing at the greenish-purple infant below and said, "And I..."

With long greenish-purple hair and a handsome appearance, the Source Demon had a form nearly identical to the Human Race.

His face showed an expression of profound complexity as he said, "And I am just one of the nine Demon Souls that split off from Him. Demon Souls like me fell into the newborn bodies of nine Outer Demon Tribes, and all of them successfully advanced to become Demon Gods."

"We were unaware of each other. Even after becoming Demon Gods, we didn’t know our origins, unaware that we were merely forms embodied from His Demon Soul."

"He is the Main Soul, while we nine are Sub-souls. Our existence is solely to perfect Him, to merge into Him one by one before He ascends to Sovereignty, thus enhancing His chances of success."

The handsome Source Demon smiled bitterly, with eyes filled with pain and uncertainty, suddenly unsure of the purpose of his existence.

Initially, He wanted to regain His memories, to take vengeance against those Great Demon Gods like He Motian.

He always believed that those Great Demon Gods were the ones hindering His ascension.

Now He had come to a sudden realization; what prevented Him from becoming a Great Demon God was the Original Demon Himself.

He was just a Sub-soul of the Original Demon, and sooner or later, He was to merge into the Original Demon.

The other Great Demon Gods knew that He was only a part of the Original Demon and also knew that there were nine such beings just like Him.

It was just that He was more prominent than the others.

Great Demon Gods like He Motian were all waiting for the Original Demon to conceive a Demon Fetus, waiting for it to emerge from the designated Purgatory World.

Once the Demon Fetus was born and gradually grew in strength, Sub-souls like Him would be assimilated one by one.

He couldn’t escape this predetermined destiny, and neither could the other eight who had ascended to Demon Gods; they would each merge into the Demon Fetus, one by one, from different Outer Demon Domains.

The Demon Fetus needed balance, requiring nine Demon Gods of equal standing rather than one excessively powerful Great Demon God.

Therefore, He couldn’t smoothly ascend to become a Great Demon God.

As a Sub-soul split from the Original Demon, the instigator was Himself, and He couldn’t escape the destined fate after all. He would ultimately merge into the Original Demon as He grew more powerful.

So, what could He, who possessed an independent consciousness and was stronger than the other Sub-souls, do?

Resist Himself?

Only when the Original Demon was complete, merging all nine into one, could He qualify for contending for the title of the Fifth Sovereign.

Being reborn as the Sovereign of All Demons is the joint hope and longing of all Demon Gods and Great Demon Gods.

So many Demon Gods and Great Demon Gods had already strived and schemed for countless years.

As a crucial part of that grand plan, was He to oppose this magnificent act?

The Source Demon couldn’t find an answer.

Unable to resist the inevitability of this event internally, after taking the Demon Fetus out of the demon nest, He too didn’t know where to go.

As a tumultuous wave rose within his heart, Pang Jian, shocked by the Source Demon’s words, seeing His anguish, suddenly asked, "Since you are Him and He is also you, then as the Sub-soul, could you become the Main Soul?"

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