Vol 5 Chapter 42: Assassination Attempt

The Yin-Yang Demon Ancestor flew into a rage, determined to eliminate Lin Jing.

"Reactivate the Origin Realm teleportation array and deliver my decree to Sheng Kun!"

"Yes..."

Mo Lin lowered her head in fear, never expecting things to unfold this way.

Not long after.

The Yin-Yang Demon Ancestor gathered several ordinary Seeking the Way cultivators and reopened a passage to the Origin Realm.

Mo Lin had originally left the Origin Realm through the Heavenly Demon Physique. Though her cultivation had regressed, she remained at the Nascent Soul Transformation stage and could return.

Upon arrival, she rushed anxiously toward the Holy Son's location, equal parts frantic and terrified.

"Holy Son—"

Sheng Kun, who had been meditating amidst floating void rocks, frowned at his subordinate's abrupt intrusion.

"Back so soon?"

"What did our venerable master say?"

He found it strange—for something as significant as selecting a successor, he'd assumed the master would deliberate extensively with various factions. Yet barely any time had passed.

"Holy Son! Emergency report! Half a year ago, Demon Emperor Tianchou returned to the demon realm. Rumors say she wasn't injured abroad, and the ancestor confirmed she never took any disciples. That Mo Yu... is an impostor! Likely a Cultivation Alliance spy!!!" Mo Lin shouted excitedly, presenting the ancestor's decree.

BOOM!!!

The next instant, meteorites exploded throughout the void chamber as terrifying demonic energy erupted from Sheng Kun's body. His expression remained blank, yet Mo Lin felt an overwhelming pressure threatening to shatter heaven and earth.

"Is that so..." Sheng Kun spoke icily.

"The ancestor orders... the Holy Son must execute this impostor, strip his demonic bloodline... and return it to the demon city," Mo Lin whispered.

"Now that I think about it, I acted too hastily. Because Li Tianyi gained a powerful ally, I let my guard down completely against this so-called 'heir of Demon Emperor Tianchou'..."

"Mo Yu... you dared deceive me. Now... have you thought about how you want to die?"

Having just gifted Mo Yu the century-spanning Origin Source treasure and the spacetime banner artifact—both immensely valuable even to Yin-Yang Demon City—only to receive this shocking report, Sheng Kun could no longer contain his fury.

"I'll be right back."

His figure vanished instantly, tracing the mark he'd left on the artifact to hunt Mo Yu down.

Meanwhile, Mo Yu had just returned to Dragon Spine Snow Mountain, the territory he'd seized from the Snow God.

He had no particular requirements for cultivation sites—choosing this location solely for the Ice Soul Gu's feeding convenience.

Around the mountain, they'd previously set up multiple protective arrays for safer soul usurpation of the Slaughter Immortal Physique. These arrays now served to shield Mo Yu.

While Mo Yu specialized in assassination, Sheng Kun surpassed him in this art.

Just as Mo Yu began studying the spacetime banner, he suddenly sensed the arrays being breached at terrifying speeds—one layer, two layers, eight layers—shattered effortlessly as if nonexistent. A chill deeper than the mountain's frost shot through his mind.

"RUN!!"

His two external brains—the Ice Soul Gu and Spirit Mushroom—screamed in alarm. But the enraged Sheng Kun had already unleashed his full power.

This apex-level strength of the Origin Realm was beyond what ordinary cultivators could withstand.

BANG!!!

The void before Mo Yu exploded as a colossal finger projection stabbed toward him. In an instant, Mo Yu understood the gap between them.

"You—"

His perfected Slaughter Immortal Physique detonated instantly.

The invincible body obtained through soul usurpation crumbled within moments.

Fortunately, the array breach warning gave Mo Yu enough reaction time for his Heavenly Demon primordial spirit to evade the lethal strike.

The Ice Soul Gu and Spell Elemental fused with the fleeing primordial spirit, swallowing hard as they faced Sheng Kun's approach—realizing their cover might be blown.

Without fully restoring Mo Yu's memories, they forcibly controlled his spirit and fled.

As long as the mountain remains, firewood will never be scarce—losing a physical body meant little.

For Heavenly Demon cultivators, the primordial spirit held everything—bloodline essence, even the stolen Slaughter Immortal Physique's origin power.

They could always seize another body later.

The Ice Soul Gu immediately activated one of its copied artifacts from the main body—the randomly teleporting Celestial Palace Compass!

"Trying to escape?"

Seeing Mo Yu's spirit abandon its body, Sheng Kun snorted coldly and moved to intercept—when suddenly his expression changed drastically. A streak of starlight came crashing toward him from the heavens.

"Meteor Spirit Beast?!"

Confused why this entity would suddenly attack to aid Mo Yu's escape, Sheng Kun had no choice but to devote full attention to blocking the strike from this being whose foundations surpassed his own!

"Eh?" This unexpected assistance shocked the Ice Soul Gu and Spell Elemental. They'd doubted their chances against Sheng Kun, yet now had time for the Ice Soul Gu to spit silk threads and retrieve the banner artifact planted on the mountain before teleporting away!

"My timing seems impeccable."

The Meteor Spirit Beast chuckled at Sheng Kun—whose unstable cultivation fluctuated dangerously from emotional overexertion. Without needing to engineer an assassination opportunity, Sheng Kun now risked involuntary breakthrough to the Void Mystical Stage from failed cultivation control, which would expel him from the Origin Realm.

"Damn it!"

Sheng Kun's face darkened further. He even began suspecting Mo Yu wasn't a Cultivation Alliance spy, but rather the Meteor Spirit Beast's plant. Given how long this entity had existed in the Origin Realm, creating a fake demonic cultivator seemed plausible.

Regardless, Sheng Kun's mind was in turmoil. Mishandling this might brand him a traitor to Yin-Yang Demon City and burden his master greatly.

"Emotions controlled me again," he muttered bitterly. He should've pretended ignorance to lull Mo Yu into complacency before striking—not attacked recklessly in rage and allowed escape.

Before engaging the Meteor Spirit Beast, Sheng Kun issued a kill order against Mo Yu through the Holy Son Decree, mobilizing all Heavenly Demon Sect elites.

In primordial spirit form, Mo Yu was at his weakest—with less than 10% combat power. Even an ordinary Demon Star could eliminate him now.

"Meteor, clever move. I never imagined native Origin Realm spirits would extend their reach into Heavenly Demon Sect affairs..." Sheng Kun glared coldly at the stone figure while gripping his decree.

Meteor Spirit Beast: "Huh?"