The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 518 - 493: Born a Devil (1)

Chapter 518: Chapter 493: Born a Devil (1)

In the center of the Prayer Spirit Forbidden Land, a purple Demon Stone towered imposingly.

As long as it existed there, it could gradually transform any of the original forces of nature into the Demon Element Power most suitable for the Demon Clan.

Wherever it was located, a world would be transformed into a Demon Realm, be it quickly or slowly.

"Huff! Huff huff!"

Ships belonging to the Devil Scale Tribe sailed in from the direction of the Qian Tian Continent, arriving from the fragmented lands of the Third Realm.

Other ships carried members of the Ghost Clan as well as warriors from the Heaven Clan and the Flame Clan, migrating from this complete piece of land.

Since the Demon Stone known as the demon nest had taken root in the Prayer Spirit Forbidden Land, it meant that the presence of the Demon Clan was allowed.

The world where the Demon Stone sat, whether it was nature’s spiritual energy or Filth Alien Power, would all slowly undergo mutations.

Warriors who were not of the Demon Clan and who had not cultivated the Demon Spell would find it extremely difficult to survive in a world permeated with the Demon Element Power.

The Ghost Clan warriors, who originally ruled the Xuan You Continent, could only retreat helplessly.

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, two days had gone by.

The Great Demon God Hemo Tian, who oversaw the demon nest with his Demon Soul, had completed constructing the Array that would channel the Demon Fetus. As soon as the Demon Fetus regained consciousness, it would instantly cross the void and arrive deep within the demon nest.

Hemo Tian waited, and a host of Demon Clan and Demon Sect experts also waited silently.

Yet they could not wait for the Demon Fetus to show itself.

In one corner of the Prayer Spirit Forbidden Land, at a broken altar once used by the Yao Clan people in ancient times to worship the Fierce Sun,

Wu Yuan, the pride of the Demon Sect in this era, wielding the Purple Demon Eye and destined to take over the position of Sect Master of the Demon Sect in the future, leaned against the shattered altar.

His face was wooden as always, his eyes deep and calm.

His Spiritual Soul had left the demon nest, and the moment it returned to his flesh and blood body, he immediately joined forces with Dazzling Shadow of the Devil Scale Tribe to slay the cultivators native to the Demon Abyss Continent.

He slaughtered without mercy, just as he had callously killed his Sect mate Chen Lushi.

It was precisely because of his ruthlessness, because he had not hesitated at all, that he had managed to survive until now.

"You are different from the others."

Dazzling Shadow, covered in bright silver Scale Armor, appeared stealthily from the shadows like a sharp and cold blade.

"You did not fall into the Demon Tao; you remained clear-headed and spiritually intelligent from the beginning to the end. I’m very curious, why you could so decisively kill your own kin."

She had sensed something extraordinary about Wu Yuan from the beginning of the battle.

The Elders of the Demon Sect, Chen Xuanfeng and Qu Long, both at the pinnacle of the Immortal Realm, with their bodies, hearts, and Spiritual Souls emanating faint demonic intent, were engulfed in waves of evil thoughts and malice.

The other Protectors and Inner Sect Disciples of the Demon Sect were like Chen Xuanfeng and Qu Long as well.

She clearly knew what it meant.

Those people had been successfully beguiled and persuaded by the Outer World Demon Gods, swayed by grand promises, resulting in their inner evil thoughts and desires being amplified without limit.

Except for Xiang Shengwei, who had been directly possessed by Hemo Tian, the rest had willingly embraced demonhood, all hoping to obtain more powerful strength through the grand Demon Tao.

The Outer World Demon Gods showed them the grandeur of the Outer Star River and pointed out the path to becoming a demon.

—Indeed, the Demon Gods had precedents for helping other intelligent beings to cultivate their Demonic practices and become Demon Gods.

The Elders and Protectors of the Demon Sect had seen such possibilities and, wishing to achieve more in the vaster Star River, had been persuaded by the most skilled at seduction among the Demon Gods.

But Wu Yuan was different.

When killing his own people, he was even more ruthless and merciless than those Protectors and Disciples who had fallen into demonhood, yet he maintained his own spiritual intelligence.

"Huff!"

Wu Yuan, who was in the late stages of the Soul Wandering Realm and seeking to advance to the Extinction Realm, presented his Divine Soul in response to Dazzling Shadow’s inquiry.

The first appearance of his Divine Soul was in the shape of his physical body.

On the forehead of this Divine Soul, which resembled his physical form, there was a clear and deep mark, a ghastly purple lotus platform with bone spikes.

This was the unique demonic mark of the Great Demon God Hemo Tian.

Wu Yuan then brought out the Purple Demon Eye, from which the shadow of Hemo Tian’s deity had disappeared.

With his own Divine Soul floating above his head and his face expressionless, he said, "At that time, I could no longer suppress the will of the Great Demon God. I had to willingly become a demon, or else I would be possessed by an Outer World Demon God."

"Quite the choice, wasn’t it?"

He quietly looked towards Dazzling Shadow.

Dazzling Shadow paused, the bright silver Scale Armor covering her beautiful face suddenly vanished, and she stared deeply at Wu Yuan for a moment before nodding slightly, "Indeed, quite the choice."

"I was willing to fall into the Demon Tao, yet the Great Demon God still distrusted me and planted a demonic mark," Wu Yuan stated calmly, narrating what had happened to him: "Actually, He should have believed me."

"I, Wu Yuan, am the innate demon of the Human Race."

"It was the Original Demon Lord who chose me and let me cultivate the Demon Stone Spell. He saw early on that I had no feelings for this world, for the Alien Tribes and Demon Race of the Fifth Realm, or for our own Human Race, and that I had no sense of belonging."

"Even if there was no external force driving me, no threats or inducements from Him, Hemo Tian, I, Wu Yuan, was still destined to become a demon."

"His actions were purely superfluous."

"Whoosh!"

The Divine Soul of Wu Yuan, in human form, suddenly transformed into a purple Demon Stone and quietly disappeared into his mind.

Even though every word and action of his could be thoroughly understood by the Great Demon God Hemo Tian, he still dared to say Hemo Tian was being redundant.

Having said that, he closed his eyes and ignored the puzzled Dazzling Shadow, and in front of Dazzling Shadow’s face, he began to attempt to ascend to the Extinction Realm.

The Demon Sect and the Human Race went their separate ways, the demon shadow figure in Purple Demon Eye was extracted, and the Spiritual Soul was even imprinted with a demon mark by He Motian; he seemed to be indifferent about it all.

As he had said, he was a natural-born demon— the demon among men.

Because the Original Demon noticed this about him, he was the one chosen from among many in the human world, allowed to practice the Demon Stone Spell.

As ruthless and heartless as Dazzling Shadow was, even she would hesitate and struggle to kill her own Devil Scale Tribe clanspeople, and would feel pain and discomfort afterward.

But Wu Yuan wouldn’t.

In his view, slaying Great Cultivators of other sects in the Demon Abyss Continent, or even killing fellow sect members within his own Demon Sect, was no different than slaughtering chickens and dogs.

...

Panshi Fragment Land, Cloud Wilderness.

Pang Jian caressed the bronze plaque named "Purgatory Gate," his feet positioned beside the Origin Demon Sword now sheathed, while a recently constructed Ghost Altar stood by his side.

He had just tossed a paper with a question into it.

While awaiting Dong Tianze’s response, a wisp of his Divine Sense effortlessly entered the gate, and he saw the fist-sized Demon Pearl within it.

This dark greenish-black Demon Pearl was a solid crystalline formation, containing an immense amount of Demon Element Power.

He felt that the Demon Element Power contained within the equally colored Demon Sea below his Dantian Fragment Land paled in comparison to this dark greenish-black Demon Pearl.

"This object..."

As the thought arose, the dark greenish-black Demon Pearl quietly flew out from the bronze plaque.

On the surface of the Demon Pearl, clusters of demon scripts suddenly emerged, with many intricate and profound patterns appearing one after another.

Dark greenish-black Demon Light spread out, and right under his eyelids, it began to transform the nature’s spiritual energy of Cloud Wilderness, turning Cloud Wilderness into a Demon Realm filled with Demon Element Power.

"Pang Jian!"

The Source Demon cried out in shock, and the Demon Soul instantly flew out from the small world within the sword.

The scabbard refined by Li Jie, with its twelve array structures inside, suddenly became a joke.

"Whoosh!"

The Source Demon entered the fist-sized Demon Pearl, and the process of transforming the surrounding nature’s spiritual energy was immediately halted by He.

He, in the handsome form of the Ghost Demon Clan prince, floated inside the Demon Pearl.

Pang Jian outside could only glimpse a fleeting shadow and could not see Him within the deep, greenish-black Demon Pearl.

"Demon Element Power, how did it get condensed into a pearl?" Pang Jian wondered aloud.

"That copper plaque you have, what kind of earth-shattering object is it?" the Source Demon spoke from within the Demon Pearl, its demon sound filled with dread and fear: "Pure Demon Element Power can indeed become demon crystals when condensed to the utmost, but it shouldn’t hold so many Demon Path Truths or be imprinted with laws pondered by Outer World Demon Gods."

Pang Jian was startled, "Then what is it about?"

"That copper plaque on you, while absorbing Demon Element Power, also refined and absorbed the Sky-covering Demon Array that shielded the Demon Abyss Continent. Put simply, this Demon Pearl is a miniaturized Sky-covering Demon Array that contains vast and pure Demon Element Power."

The Source Demon’s voice suddenly became excited.

"Let me ponder over this Demon Pearl for a while, to discern the marvels of these demon script laws. Once I have an epiphany, I will then teach you and tell you the true essence of the divine skills comprehended by the Demon Gods."

He was not shy, directly dragging the Demon Pearl into the Origin Demon Sword.

"Pang Jian, that copper plaque you have that can even refine and assimilate demon arrays must be a world-shaking treasure; you need to handle it with care," the Source Demon advised earnestly.

Nodding lightly, Pang Jian immersed his consciousness in the Dantian Fragment Land.

Below, the nebulous and vast Demon Element Power condensed into a dark greenish-black sea, separated by a gap of space from the Fragment Land above it.

"Original Demon Fusion Spell."

He pondered the mysteries of this spell, silently recalling the scenes of his battle with the Demon Fetus in the small world within the sword, trying to tap into those profound quantities of Demon Element Power.

The still Demon Element Power gradually began to ripple with wavelets, just like the ripples once raised in the Spiritual Sea.

"Below is a dark greenish-black sea, with Fragment Land above it, and above that, the Star River. The scene inside my Dantian is becoming more and more similar to the structure of Purgatory, strange..."

Suddenly, he recalled a phrase.

"The true path of all beings in this realm lies below the fifth layer, in the darkness below the darkness!"

This sentence left in the language of ancient demons, inscribed at the heart of the Frost Giant Dragon, had been deliberately misinterpreted by the Ghost Clan’s Zimo, dubbing it as the God and Demon Origin Academy.

Below the fifth layer of Purgatory lies only the most extreme darkness, only dead silence and nothingness, leading one to despair.

Without wearing the "Purgatory Gate," he could directly face the land of despair below the Fifth Realm; the current Demon Fetus must also be experiencing that endless void of dead silence.

The way out for all beings is not through the vast Star River beyond the Heaven Forbidden, but further down in the darkness?

Pang Jian did not believe in the sparse words left by the ancient demons.

"Huff!"

Suddenly, Dong Tianze’s figure emerged from the Ghost Altar.

He was in a valley full of blooming flowers, beside a babbling brook, and standing next to him was a young girl, poised and graceful.

The moment he saw the girl, Pang Jian’s gaze instantly froze; he no longer spared Dong Tianze a glance. His whole being was enraptured by the girl.

...

ps: Wishing everyone a happy National Day, may you enjoy family reunions, and during the double monthly ticket period, this middle-aged uncle getting up at six in the morning to write asks for your monthly ticket, haha~~