CHAPTER 386: CHAPTER 386: DEMON

The white-haired boy is a human, not a humanoid Secret Spirit, which is quite easy to differentiate.

However, humans under eighteen cannot enter the Secret Realm, let alone reach the Grotto Heaven Secret Realm.

This white-haired boy appears to be merely seven or eight years old.

Such a situation leaves only one possibility; unless he is a human born in the Grotto Heaven Secret Realm itself, that’s the only way he could be here.

Human cultivators can give birth within the Secret Realm, and long ago, humans were already giving birth in the Grotto Heaven Secret Realm.

Children born in the Secret Realm often have physical talents and abilities different from ordinary people; they may even be born with innate talents and levels from birth.

Children born in the Grotto Heaven Secret Realm are naturally at the Fourth Awakening level, which is incomparable to children born outside.

Initially, human cultivators who gave birth in the Secret Realm experienced very low survival rates for their children.

Eventually, some children survived, leading to the observation of this phenomenon.

At that time, humans thought they had discovered a new era of human evolution, allowing offspring to grow and evolve more quickly, unlike before when everything had to start anew.

Many people were willing to risk having stillbirths to give birth in the Secret Realm, desiring offspring with higher talents and levels at birth.

During that period, a trend where children born in the Secret Realm were considered noble emerged, these children bore two distinct characteristics.

Pure white hair, not the white of old age, but bright as snow.

Purple eyes, a beautiful violet color similar to violets.

All of these drove many people mad, desperately wanting a Secret Realm baby.

But within a few years, people discovered a terrifying fatal flaw in Secret Realm babies.

All Secret Realm babies, despite possessing normal human intelligence, had defects in their thoughts or brains.

Without exception, all Secret Realm babies were born wicked seeds.

The phrase "human nature is fundamentally evil" manifests vividly in Secret Realm babies.

Initially, they seemed like ordinary babies, appearing very cute, only with somewhat bad tempers.

As they aged, it gradually became evident that it wasn’t just bad temper, but harbored deep-seated evil thoughts, unchangeable.

They could even kill their own parents, lacking any human sense of right or wrong, willfully killing anyone who crossed their wishes or offended them, regardless of their previous kindness.

In the beginning, many parents did not believe Secret Realm babies were inherently evil, attempting to change them, but without exception, those people died miserably, mostly at the hands of Secret Realm babies.

Many thought they had altered a Secret Realm baby’s nature, but that was merely the baby’s disguise when aware of their own abilities’ inadequacies.

The issue with Secret Realm babies escalated, leading to Emperor Ancestor personally ordering their extermination.

Most Secret Realm babies were annihilated, but still, some parents, unwilling to part, fled to unknown regions within the Secret Realm with their babies.

Those individuals met tragic ends, but the Secret Realm babies survived, even forming their own factions.

Now, these Secret Realm-born babies are uniformly known as Demons.

Emperor Ancestor explicitly forbids all human cultivators from giving birth in the Secret Realm, yet some still take risks or, due to various reasons, have to give birth there, allowing Demons to persist.

Moreover, Demons can also reproduce, though the chance of reproduction is relatively low.

Chen Guan had heard about Demon factions within the Secret Realm, but never seen a real Demon; this was the first time he witnessed one personally.

White hair, purple eyes, skin so fair and delicate, beautiful like an angel, it’s hard to imagine such a human child could be a demonic existence.

The Demon child listened to Jin Taohua’s words, suddenly stood up, and charged at Chen Guan, with astounding speed, simultaneously revealing a hidden dagger in his hand, thrusting at Chen Guan with Sword Aura.

Blood Spirit itself has no level, but based on its own power and speed, as well as the degree of blood energy, Chen Guan estimated that he is now close to level 40.

Yet his speed wasn’t as fast as the Demon child, and more frighteningly, the Demon child even possesses the ability to fly.

When Chen Guan flew into the sky, the Demon child soared up directly, dagger in hand with a long Sword Aura, scattering thousands of sword lights, aiming to slay Chen Guan.

Jin Taohua watched Chen Guan and the Demon child fight with keen interest, wanting to see how Blood Spirits with Spiritual Wisdom differed in combat compared to ordinary Blood Spirits.

This was also Jin Taohua’s latest idea for a remedy, aiming to stimulate Chen Guan’s memories through combat.

After watching for a while, Jin Taohua noticed that Chen Guan’s combat indeed was more skillful than typical Blood Spirits’, akin to humans battling.

But lacking the Secret Skills, Secret Collections, and Grotto Heaven level abilities of human cultivators, he was completely not a match for the Demon child.

This is one of the drawbacks of Blood Spirits; they struggle to retain abilities from their past life, only some Blood Spirits retain abilities like Secret Skills or Secret Collections.

Chen Guan couldn’t use his previous Secret Skills; those skills were combined with the body, and without his previous body, they naturally couldn’t be used.

Thus, he could only use some techniques and rhythm to battle the Demon child, but these abilities evidently could hardly defeat this Demon child whose speed and power were not inferior.

The problem was that without that body, the vast primordial energy was also gone, now the blood energy in the body is far less robust than before, unable to constantly use Secret Skills in combat, had to conserve them.

Momentum changed on the Demon child, as if an invisible Demon God descended upon him, causing his full head of white hair to stand upright, eyes flashing with purple light, one hand striking out with immense power, transforming into a giant hand of dark light, descending rapidly.

Jin Taohua was ready to withdraw Chen Guan, but suddenly saw purple Qi surge from Chen Guan, unexpectedly striking out with purple Qi, clashing against the dark light emblem.

Boom! The collision of dark light and purple Qi shattered the dark light.

The Demon child vomited blood, falling from the sky.

"Purple Qi from the East... Isn’t this Mei Dongtian’s Secret Skill? Mei Dongtian has already been killed and refined into a Blood Spirit by me; could there still be someone in the world using Purple Qi from the East?" Jin Taohua thought of something, consciousness entering the Blood Spirit Banner to search, indeed finding Mei Dongtian’s transformed Blood Spirit missing.

"It truly is so; Mei Dongtian’s transformed Blood Spirit was devoured by No. 6, even acquiring Mei Dongtian’s secret skill Purple Qi from the East..." This discovery greatly excited Jin Taohua.

It’s generally difficult for Blood Spirits devouring other Blood Spirits to acquire the other’s Secret Skills, it’s nearly impossible.

No. 6 unexpectedly obtained Mei Dongtian Blood Spirit’s Secret Skill, possibly suggesting No. 6 still possesses the ability to refine other Blood Spirit Secret Skills.

Continuing to let No. 6 devour other Blood Spirits with Secret Skills, or those with Secret Collection abilities, might gather various capabilities in No. 6, crafting No. 6 into a super Blood Spirit.

Jin Taohua felt an impulsive urge to attempt it immediately, already contemplating which Blood Spirit Secret Skills would suit No. 6.

If No. 6 truly had such capabilities, she needed to consider how to create an invincible Blood Spirit.