CHAPTER 774: CHAPTER 649: CANG XU ELDER’S REVENGE

Five Ghosts Heavenly King Shang Heyang, known as the deputy leader of the Shushan World Children’s Group.

He appears as an eleven or twelve-year-old boy, but unlike the chief leader Li Jingxu, as well as the Golden Cicada and Shi Sheng, he is not as handsome and cute.

He is adorably unattractive, with an especially round face, like a full moon, thick black eyebrows, a big nose, and a large mouth.

His Eastern Demon Cult is renowned for cultivating Demon Fire, and he has his own secret technique, which penetrates the five organs internally and tempers the muscles and bones externally, causing his skin to appear bright red, as if he has just been steamed with hot water.

Compared to years past, Shang Heyang’s appearance hasn’t changed, with the addition of a string of White Bone Prayer Beads around his neck.

He originally refined the heads of five Sword Immortals with Dao Level into five White Bone Heart-locking Hammers. Over the years, he has harmed many Sword Immortals at West Pole Mountain, refining them into one hundred and eight, all shrunk to the size of eggs, strung together, and worn around his neck like a large string of Buddha Beads.

At this moment, Lie Baduo offers himself to the Demon, Cang Xu was originally the top Great Demon God in this world, gaining all the essence, spirit, and blood from Lie Baduo. Shang Heyang knew this was something he absolutely couldn’t deal with; even just being glanced at by the opponent made his hair stand on end...

Indeed, Lie Baduo has already cultivated the Undying Body, Cang Xu the Great Demon God, nearing an undying primordial spirit, combining to form an undying and undying body, capable of destroying heaven and earth!

He releases all the White Bone Heart-locking Hammers from around his neck, totaling one hundred and eight White Bone Skulls spinning upwards, growing to the size of a car wheel. These items are essentially a type of White Bone Demons, howling and emitting Demon Sound, spewing terrifying Demon Fire from their mouths and eye sockets towards Cang Xu.

Shang Heyang knows that his painstakingly cultivated mountain treasure over the years is no match for Cang Xu, only hoping to stall him long enough for a swift escape!

He transforms into a red Demon Light, quickly shooting towards the northwest, reaching three or four thousand miles in an instant.

Then he hears a reprimand behind him: "You scoundrel, where are you running?"

Frightened to the point of soul scattering, he doesn’t hesitate to expend essence blood, turning towards the southwest and accelerating with all his might, when suddenly a red Demon Light waterfall appears ahead.

That waterfall looks like a galaxy, countless points of red light pouring down rapidly from the Nine Heavens, blocking his path.

Shang Heyang sees clearly, understanding that each light point within is a wish power of a follower, manifested by Cang Xu with supreme magic...

Most of the followers’ wish power arises from greed and anger.

This one desires wealth, to become rich overnight; that one wishes their enemy a short life, to be run over by a car.

This one prays for academic success, an official rise; that one wishes their enemy’s ruin and total annihilation.

Only a few pray for their parents’ health and world peace.

Cang Xu extracts those negative wish powers, all belonging to Demon Heart and Demon Thought, laden with heavy resentment and rage, refining them into "Heavenly Demon Star Fire," forming this dazzlingly colorful waterfall.

Worse yet, when the individuals initially issued these demonic wishes, their souls were also collected by Cang Xu, refined into Demons, all trapped within this waterfall. Once enveloped, it’s like falling into the endless abyss of hell.

Shang Heyang urgently attempts to turn away, but the waterfall disperses horizontally, instantaneously saturating the space between the heaven and sea, enclosing tens of miles around, with red starlight swirling, making escape impossible.

In a flash of red light, Cang Xu appears in front of him, with one hundred and eight White Bone Skulls gnawing on his front and back, biting into the flesh, voraciously sucking blood.

Cang Xu’s eyes glowing red stare coldly at him.

This Five Ghosts Heavenly King, Eastern Demon Sect Master is terrified and trembling, "I... I... I..."

He tries casting to recall the White Bone Skulls, but to no avail. The demons are already trapped on Cang Xu’s body by a special Demon Path Secret Method, unable to escape.

"Kneel!" Cang Xu commands with overwhelming authority.

Shang Heyang is one of the primary culprits responsible for killing and refining Cang Xu into a Divine Demon, being the chief initiator and executor. The main scheme for training Cang Xu was orchestrated by him and Zongdonar, thus he knows well how much Cang Xu hates him, and how strong Cang Xu is.

He finally kneels down, "Cang, Cang Xu senior, junior... meant no harm... junior realizes the mistake... junior..."

"Do you want to become like him?" Cang Xu grabs a White Bone Skull from his body, the skull struggles like a small bird, spraying Demonic Flame, biting his hand, but unable to escape.

"No... no desire to..." Shang Heyang knows how miserable it is for those cultivators refined into White Bone Heart-locking Hammers, and he is certain Cang Xu would make him suffer even more.

He kowtows to Cang Xu, "Senior knows the heaviness of junior’s sins, apologized to senior, now sincerely repents, earnestly pleading for a chance to reform..."

"You want to reform? Very well, then you’ll be my grandson from now on."

Cang Xu originally had an eccentric and stubborn nature, possessing a sect attitude worse than the Great Wilderness Elders and was the weakest among the Cosmic Six Strange, struggling through three heavenly tribulations.

Being killed, repeatedly tormented in soul refinement, then absorbing vast amounts of wish power daily, countless divine thoughts and wills flooded into his mind.

To cultivate the Divine Dao, the safest way is for Daoists to attain the "Seeing Dao" level, ensuring they aren’t affected by the emotions of the billions of followers whether greedy or angry, sad or happy, the worse their disposition, the more they are affected.

When an ordinary person is invaded by another’s Divine Thought, it often results in a split personality. If invaded by many, they soon won’t know which is their true self.

Being flooded with the Divine Thoughts of billions, which mostly arise from greed and anger as Demon Thoughts, even a Sword Immortal with years of cultivation would struggle and easily fall into the Demon Path.

Cang Xu Elder clearly hasn’t reached the level of "Seeing Dao" and can’t maintain a pure heart. Over the years, he’s been heavily influenced, his mind is beginning to malfunction, and his intellect is a chaotic mess.

This time, after merging with Lie Baduo’s Primordial Spirit, he has become increasingly disoriented by demon possession, having an immeasurable number of memory fragments and unclear consciousness wishes in his head... He can’t discern which is his true self, nor can he distinguish right from wrong.

He harbors deep resentment towards Shang Heyang and others, though the source of this resentment has become blurred.

It means he has forgotten why he hates these twelve people, only knowing that he should hate them.

He wants Shang Heyang to be his grandson, calling him grandpa.

Shang Heyang only hopes that he won’t seek revenge and torture him, calling grandpa wouldn’t cost him anything. Considering the generations and years of cultivation, calling Cang Xu Elder grandpa isn’t a loss at all.

He kowtows and calls grandpa, showing a slight smile on Cang Xu Elder’s face.

Just as Shang Heyang breathes a sigh of relief, Cang Xu Elder’s expression suddenly turns icy cold: "As a grandson, you colluded with outsiders to bully and humiliate your grandpa, rebellious and unfilial, truly a grave sin!"

He reaches out a hand, his five fingers extend long, forming a wheel-sized Demon Claw, reaching out towards Shang Heyang.

Shang Heyang is greatly shocked, hastily releasing a Demon Blade spitting fire to slash at the Demon Claw, simultaneously merging into a Demon Light and flying away, this time directly heading downward, intending to dive into the sea.

However, he soon finds himself unable to move, with his Demon Blade caught in Cang Xu Elder’s hand, though it’s lodged in his left shoulder, then he catches from afar again.

Below, acres of seawater suddenly turn red, surging upward like blood plasma, quickly forming a huge Demon Claw, reaching up to seize Shang Heyang.

Shang Heyang launches a flaming Flying Needle, but it’s futile, caught inside the massive Demon Claw below, then transforms into a large red mass of seawater enveloping Shang Heyang, rolling continuously, shrinking smaller and smaller, finally forming a red Demon Pearl the size of an egg, flying into Cang Xu Elder’s hand.

Cang Xu Elder catches the bead, crushing it with a squeeze.

Shang Heyang emerges from within, then releases Demon Flame from the Demon Fire Golden Banner towards Cang Xu Elder’s face, already seized by Cang Xu Elder, then he grabs Shang Heyang in hand and angrily shouts: "You rebellious, unfilial brat, actually wanting to kill your grandpa, truly despicable!"

First, he retrieves a set of Demon Needles, precisely those Shang Heyang had just launched, piercing them one by one into Shang Heyang’s body, starting from the top of his head, cheeks, back of the head, neck, along the chest, back, abdomen, waist, extending into the limbs, finally piercing even the palms and soles.

Those Demon Needles are forged from White Bone Refining, continuously spewing wisps of Demon Fire on the surface, sizzling with heat upon entering the flesh, burning the skin and meat to charred ruin, leaving Shang Heyang in unbearable agony.

"A grandson shouldn’t be unfilial; grandpa must punish you!"

Cang Xu Elder points a finger, and the Demon Fire on those Golden Needles changes from spewing to shooting, instantly forming a large fireball floating in the air, enveloping Shang Heyang and burning him fiercely.

Shang Heyang screams wildly under the flames, begging aloud for mercy: "Grandpa spare me! Grandpa spare me! Your grandson knows his mistake! He really knows his mistake!"

Cang Xu Elder coldly laughs, pulling out Shang Heyang’s Demon Blade from his left shoulder, swinging the blade to chop Shang Heyang into many pieces, continuing to burn them until they turn to ashes.

He collects these ashes in his palm, forces out his Essence Blood, mixes it evenly, then exhales a Demon Light.

Shang Heyang reappears within the Demon Light.

He possesses an Undying Body, inherently hard to kill, but after such an ordeal, Cang Xu Elder has deeply imprinted his Lifebound Demon with secret techniques.

Cang Xu Elder says: "I remember how many types of torture you once applied on me... Oh dear, I really can’t recall."

He taps his own head, "But these memories are just too many and too scattered, I can’t find them for the moment, but surely I’ll remember in time."

"Come, come, this is just the first type, later there are over seven hundred kinds I remember, let’s go through them one by one."

Shang Heyang crawls forward on his knees, clutching Cang Xu Elder’s thigh, crying uncontrollably: "Grandpa! My dear grandpa! Your grandson begs of you, spare me! Your grandson will be your servant... I swear by all Heavenly Gods, I shall never betray you! Please, dear grandpa, spare me..."

Cang Xu Elder sees him crying pitifully, and feels compassion, picking him up and pinching his chubby cheeks: "Good grandson, did you truly realize your mistake?"

"I truly realized my mistake." Shang Heyang hasn’t been held like this for hundreds of years. Although he looks like a child, inwardly he’s a Demon Master, who dares to hold him like this?

But now there’s no choice, Cang Xu Elder seems mentally unstable, and his power is frighteningly high, leaving him no chance to resist.

He knows his current power won’t let him escape from Cang Xu Elder; he needs to find other allies. He recalls the ongoing battle at West Pole Mountain, with formidable enemies invading, chaotic fighting, perhaps he can use this old demon’s hand against Shi Feiyang. If he can repel the intruders today, or even kill a few, he can use the Primordial Spirits of those Heavenly Immortals and Earth Immortals to refine treasure and compensate for his losses.

If he can temporarily stabilize Cang Xu Elder, he can later join forces with Poison Dragon Venerable, Fiery Fire Ancestor, and others to figure out how to overturn the situation, then rechain Cang Xu Elder like a dog to obey him.