The Ancestor of All Demons

Five Ghosts Heavenly King Shang Heyang and Green Robe Ancestor persuaded Elder Cang Xu to seek out Deng Yin.

Elder Cang Xu had a soft spot for these two "grandsons," listening to their hints and deceptions from left and right, he really ran to the Star Constellations Sea to find Deng Yin.

Deng Yin was surprisingly pleased to see this old man. In terms of cultivation years, the old man was even ahead of him, so it wouldn't be inappropriate to call him a senior.

However, Deng Yin, now the Blood God Lord and future Blood Demon Emperor, naturally wouldn't call anyone senior, instead referring to him as Fellow Daoist.

Elder Cang Xu's mind was unclear, responding illogically to various topics.

Deng Yin asked him, "The great calamity of heaven and earth is coming soon, what plans do you have for the future, Fellow Daoist?"

Elder Cang Xu replied, "I don't like to eat garlic, I don't have a physical body now, so I can't taste anything directly, it needs to be made fragrant, and I don't like garlic fragrance. Among the five pungent foods, I prefer chives. A few years ago, someone made five fragrant herbs for me, I prefer the ones made from chive seeds."

Deng Yin said, "In the future, if you come to me, help me complete this blood pool, and I will help you create another body, and then you'll be fine."

Elder Cang Xu replied, "It's not too late. As soon as these two grandsons said your place is good, I came. You're not starting the banquet yet, right? Not too late, not too late, I'll just collect some incense offering in a while."

Deng Yin didn't even bother asking the rest of his questions, first saying, let's forget it. He communicated with the two grandsons telepathically, asking Shang Heyang and Green Robe Ancestor, "Has this old man always been unable to speak normally?"

The two people were connected to Elder Cang Xu's mind, sensing it immediately. The old man intervened, saying, "What old man? There's no old man here, right? Little Deng, this won't do. How come there's an old man who can't talk normally? What's the use of coming?"

Seeing Shang Heyang and Green Robe Ancestor's constipated and embarrassed expressions, Deng Yin waved his hand, "Forget it, forget it, you rest here first, I have something to check outside."

Elder Cang Xu was still asking the two grandsons, "What's he going out for, is he calculating how much incense we should enjoy?"

Shang Heyang and Green Robe Ancestor used the practiced words they developed over the years to temporarily calm him down.

Before coming, they discussed that they didn't have much of a relationship with Deng Yin, and even had some grudges. If Deng Yin was still at the previous level, everyone in the Demon Path wasn't afraid of each other and didn't submit to each other. But since Deng Yin was going to become the Blood Demon Emperor in the future, they had to fawn a bit, hoping to get some benefits when the Demon Realm was divided in the future.

They figured that their future share of benefits wouldn't be much and still relied on Elder Cang Xu, at least they could get a piece of the sea.

But first, they needed to ease the relationship, so they took out a prepared Treasure Bead and handed it to Deng Yin.

The fist-sized bead shimmered with green light, surrounded by black aura.

Upon taking a look, Deng Yin saw it was the Primordial Spirit of Master Xiao Yue.

Back in the day, Master Xiao Yue was killed in the West Sea by Deng Bagua and others in joint efforts, and his Primordial Spirit was taken by the Fiery Fire Ancestor and others.

The Fiery Fire Ancestor forcefully extracted the contents of the "Nine Heavens Mysterious Scripture," cultivating the Emei Sect, Haha Ancestor, and Deng Yin's three family magic veins, and also obtained the Twelve Supreme Heaven Divine Slaughter Fiery Fire Banner, rapidly advancing in strength, becoming the top expert among the "West Pole Twelve Gods" at the time.

Unfortunately, before he could exhibit it, he was plotted against by Shi Feiyang, nearly obliterated his soul.

Later, the Fiery Fire Ancestor's Primordial Spirit got into the Demon Light behind Elder Cang Xu, and Master Xiao Yue's Primordial Spirit fell into their hands.

Since Master Xiao Yue was captured, he had been tormented and was about to scatter his soul, his mind not very clear.

Deng Yin almost forgot about this disciple. When Elder Cang Xu and the others came earlier, Deng Yin didn't think of it. But when he saw Master Xiao Yue's Primordial Spirit at this time, he suddenly remembered that he still had a disciple in their hands...

Being naturally cold-hearted, he was not very concerned about this matter and left with the Treasure Bead.

A hundred days later, his blood pool was finally completed. During this time, the roar of nine-headed lions echoed throughout Central Earth, but was blocked here, causing a large accumulation of sound waves here. The lion's roar grew louder, crashing into the altar city from all directions, shaking the city walls until they rumbled, with the protective demon light above constantly twisting and deforming.

The four city gates of the altar city were guarded by Red Corpse God Monarch, Elder Shi Pi, Jiulei God, and Red Lotus Demon, keeping the lion's roar and Giant Wood God's sutra chanting outside.

Inside the city was quiet, with only the cries and wails of unjust souls.

The blood pool was approximately a thousand zhang in diameter, shaped like a lotus, and over nine zhang deep at its deepest point.

Such a large pool couldn't be entirely filled with human and animal blood and flesh. It contained a large amount of evil qi drawn from the heavenly worlds, which merged with the blood to form demon blood evil fog, then absorbed the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, turning into small blood droplets, falling as blood rain. During this time, it underwent several incinerations of blood flames and transformations of water vapor to remove impurities, eventually filling the pool with bloody water.

After the blood pool was successfully refined, throwing a person into it to dissolve into blood, the pool's water would not increase. Even if you scooped the blood water out ladle by ladle, it would not decrease unless some spell was cast to alter it.

On the first day the pool was opened, Deng Yin ascended the Dharma Platform: "Now that the blood pool has been refined, let everyone see the power of the blood pool as recorded in my 'Blood God Scripture,' capable of nurturing a Blood Demon!"

He held the Treasure Bead given to him by Shang Heyang, burned a Talisman, and then crushed the bead. Inside, Master Xiao Yue's soul was already disintegrated, with the Three Souls and Seven Spirits about to scatter and fly away, but Deng Yin covered them with a mass of Demon Light and cast them into the blood pool.

He performed spells on the platform, and the pool water began bubbling. After a while, a person was formed within it.

A fair and clean middle-aged monk, it was precisely Master Xiao Yue!

In just a short moment, Master Xiao Yue's divine soul not only reassembled, restoring to its entirety, but he also gained a new flesh body directly in the blood pool.

He flew to the front of the platform, knelt down on both knees, and kowtowed upwards: "Disciple thanks Master for reconstructing me, wishing Master a long life without end."

Deng Yin laughed heartily and introduced to everyone, "This is the first disciple I took in years ago."

Then he said to Master Xiao Yue, "I have bestowed a new body upon you; now demonstrate to everyone, show what marvelous traits this new Blood God Avatar possesses."

Master Xiao Yue stood up, expanded his body, and instantly transformed into a blood-colored figure flying in the air. Suddenly, he swooped down in front of an Independent Immortal to the east, scaring that person into a shiver, nearly falling backward.

Originally, Master Xiao Yue's Mana had been cultivated to a very high realm. This time, obtaining a new body in the blood pool, though different from before, possessed a distinct and clever utility.

He acutely sensed that this person harbored doubts about his master's Technique Divine Power and was not entirely confident in the future Blood Demon World. Thus, he instantly appeared before this person, feinting an attack. Before the other could react, he "whoosh" darted to another Loose Cultivator who also harbored doubts.

Repeating this several times, he finally returned to the front of the Dharma Platform.

Those present were all masters from both the demon and devil paths, with extraordinary vision and insight. They all saw how weak the divine soul of Master Xiao Yue was earlier. With their Mana, any could have easily eradicated him, yet in the blink of an eye, he became so powerful again, proving that the blood pool indeed possessed unbelievable wonders, and the 'Blood God Scripture' deserved the title of the Demon Path's first holy scripture!

Thus, everyone started praising with a multitude of flattering words, lavishly complimenting the 'Blood God Scripture,' praising Deng Yin, and expressing belief that the future Demon Realm would undoubtedly be achieved.

Deng Yin smiled on the Dharma Platform and said, "Since everyone agrees on the goodness of this blood pool, please all go down to the pool for a walk."

"Ah?" Everyone was dumbfounded, "We haven't lost our physical bodies, so there's no need to go down, right?"

Deng Yin still wore a smile, without speaking, while the Sha God Child beside him sternly rebuked, "You bunch of foolish pig-dogs! The Emperor plans to demonize the entire world, and by then, the space-time of this world will undergo qualitative change. Your current bodies are filthy and cumbersome, how can you follow the Emperor into the emerging Demon Realm? During the world's demonization, you will turn to dust! You must experience the blood pool and become an avatar of the Blood God's son, then you can smoothly enter the Demon Realm in the future."

Thereupon, the True Master of Chibi objected, "Sha God Fellow Daoist, does this mean no one is exempt, and you'll also have to enter the blood pool for a walk?"

Sha God Child sneered, "Since I cultivated the Heavenly Secret Demon Great Technique, the true tradition of the Demon Sect, I have long cultivated my Lifebound Divine Demon to the realm of a Demon God. I can ascend to the Demon Realm by my own effort and thus can naturally enter the future Blood Demon World. Why would I act like you stupid pigs and clumsy cattle? If not for the Emperor's mercy, you would be allowed to turn to dust, who would want to bother managing you!"

This group of people exchanged glances, having mingled in the ways of both evil and demons for many years, deeply aware of the deep embedded within this system. There are always unimaginable things happening, beyond typical capabilities.

They felt certain that the blood pool was no good. Once they entered, perhaps they would gain some benefits, increasing some Technique Divine Power, but likely they would be completely controlled by Deng Yin thereafter, becoming his slaves, and never able to gain freedom again.

Why did they practice evil techniques? Wasn't it to be free from law and precepts' constraint, to do whatever they pleased?

If, after cultivating, they bore so many side effects and still ended with a living overlord suppressing them, wouldn't all their evil and demonic skills have been practiced in vain?

But they had already boarded the pirate ship, and there was no getting off it now.

Not to mention how powerful Deng Yin, Sha God Child, and Princess of Stone God were, even if very powerful, they also had numbers and could disperse collectively.

Crucially, they were within Deng Yin's Blood Demon Altar City, guarded at the four gates by some longstanding old demons, each over a thousand years old. Any of them could annihilate a large swath of them.

If they tried to charge out now, they'd surely meet the fate of being slaughtered right at the gates, their primordial spirits then thrown into the blood pool...

Stretching your neck is still a knife, pulling it back is also a knife!

Seeing the situation clearly, the Real Master of Chibi, fearing to incur disfavor from Deng Yin and the others, immediately switched expressions, and laughed heartily, "Good, good, good, I believe in the Emperor's infinite power! I am willing to be the first to enter the blood pool and enjoy the Emperor's grace!"