Volume One: The Nature of the Devil Never Changes
Arc: The Great Guerrilla War
Because of the Zombie Transformation Body Physique, Man Hu was able to resist the black hole's terrifying gravity, which possessed a mass equal to multiple universes. And with his speed, many times faster than light, he managed to pull away from it.
But Scarlet King…
His body was on the verge of collapse from the continuous pressure of his fight with Man Hu. He could not resist the black hole's gravity, and he was forcefully pulled inside.
Inside the black hole, the darkness was Holghiya.
There was nothing but darkness.
Scarlet King fell into that deep abyss, his body bleeding as every part of him was crushed by the black hole's gravity. He thought:
(Looks like I am going to die again?… Hah, ridiculous.)
Suddenly, Scarlet King's heart beat powerfully, making him think in surprise:
(The beginning of obtaining the Heart of Perseverance? One of the manifestations of acquired concepts?)
Suddenly, there was a barrier. The deeper Scarlet King entered the black hole, the tighter the barrier became, crushing his body.
But this time, the thing that reacted with the black hole was the Evolution Stone.
It was the natural reaction of a stone on the verge of being crushed and destroyed.
Scarlet King spoke as his body was being compressed:
"I have no choice. I will use the Law of Heaven-Devouring Battle."
Scarlet King opened his hands, but the technique did not work.
Scarlet King thought:
(Damn it… I cannot use the technique because I only possess it spiritually!)
There was no time to think.
Scarlet King was crushed. His bones were ground down, his veins tore apart, and he began coughing blood. The space became so tight that his ribcage shattered.
But because Scarlet King had attempted to use the Law of Heaven-Devouring Battle, the Evolution Stone reacted with the technique.
This made Scarlet King wonder:
(Wait… can I merge the Heaven-Devouring technique with… the Evolution Stone?!)
Scarlet King did not think for long. He began merging the Evolution Stone with the Heaven-Devouring technique inside him.
Suddenly, a powerful light burst out and covered the darkness.
Outside…
Man Hu stood there, looking around and thinking:
(There is no trace of that bastard… Looks like he died.)
Yu Ru Meng and Mo Sheng looked on in surprise, but Yu Ru Meng smiled coldly.
"Hah, looks like he died. Well, he was not worthy of me from the start if he was that weak."
She thought:
(Scarlet King… you had better survive.)
Mo Sheng moved quickly, raising his voice:
"I will go help him!"
He thought:
(If I help him, the relationship between us will improve, and perhaps he will trust me. That way, I will gain the Devil of Rebirth more firmly on my side!)
Before Mo Sheng could draw his sword and cut the black hole apart…
the black hole began shrinking, until it became no larger than one meter and eighty centimeters in height. The pressure of the black hole disappeared.
Mo Sheng descended and stood before the black hole in shock, asking:
"What the hell happened?"
From afar, Man Hu shouted:
"Hey, you! What are you doing here?"
Mo Sheng looked at Man Hu with a cold gaze that made Man Hu shudder, making him feel as though red death itself were looking at him.
Man Hu fell silent and did not speak. He only continued staring.
Suddenly, a voice came from inside the black hole:
"Mo Sheng, do not worry. I am fine."
Mo Sheng was shocked when he heard Scarlet King's voice.
"You are inside the black hole?!"
Scarlet King replied as the black hole moved. It was a black sphere, and on its surface appeared…
a smile of extreme evil and coldness.
A sharp, pointed, wide devil's smile.
"I am the black hole."
"But now… let me deal with that fool."
Scarlet King moved at high speed and appeared in front of Man Hu.
Man Hu was shocked and struck Scarlet King, but the attack was devoured along with Man Hu's red arm.
The black hole's mouth opened completely. It was gigantic, swelling until its size became twice that of Man Hu.
Man Hu moved, but the hole devoured him.
Inside the black hole, Man Hu floated in the void.
But…
his body began to be crushed.
The Zombie Transformation Body Physique resisted the crushing fiercely, but then he heard:
"Law of Heaven-Devouring Battle."
Man Hu was deeply shocked, and terror appeared on his face.
"The existentially forbidden Law of Heaven-Devouring Battle?!"
Suddenly, Man Hu's body began shrinking. His blood, energy, and everything inside him were being absorbed and pulled away.
He became a body without a soul.
Then a body without skin.
Then a body without flesh.
Then a body without bone.
And after that…
nothing.
Outside, Mo Sheng stood watching the black hole flying in the air.
Mist appeared around the black hole. Then Scarlet King emerged from the mist in his adult form.
Immediately, he sat on the ground and began cultivating, because he was about to break through to a new realm.
Scarlet King thought:
(The reason for my rapid growth is that I rely on many external sources. Now, after this new transformation, if I use it, I will try to devour everything, but I will only obtain a quarter of the absorbed energy, along with many impurities. That is why I need a lot of cultivation and an impurity purification technique.)
(Also, the negative side is that my cultivation speed will become slower, because I have more than two cultivation bodies inside one body, and they all share everything.)
Mo Sheng stood at a distance.
When the Saintess of Darkness and Yu Ru Meng descended beside him, Mo Sheng stopped them.
"He is breaking through…"
A powerful aura began emerging from Scarlet King.
It was ominous and forceful…
violet-blue.
Scarlet King began coughing blood, because his main body was almost ruined, and now he was suffering the pressure of the breakthrough.
But his heart began beating harder…
and harder…
and harder…
until the sound of Scarlet King's heart became clear to Mo Sheng and everyone present.
Mo Sheng said:
"By the heavens… soon, he will possess the Heart of Perseverance."
Yu Ru Meng looked on with admiration, while the Saintess of Darkness looked on with curiosity. She was the shortest among everyone present.
Suddenly, everyone's thoughts were interrupted as an electric lightning aura erupted from Scarlet King, announcing his breakthrough.
The system appeared before him:
"Congratulations, my lord, on breaking through to the first level of the Qi Condensation Realm… You are now at the second Absolute Level."
Scarlet King thought:
(There are twenty-two Absolute Levels in the mortal dimensions. The first realm of the First Dimension and the final realm of the Sixth Dimension are the only ones that do not possess a new Absolute Level.)
(They are twenty-two levels, divided across twenty-two realms. That is why there is an overwhelming superiority between Qi Condensation and Qi Refinement, because you are dealing with the second Absolute Level. The same applies to the higher realms, where a higher Absolute is used.)
He continued thinking as he felt his bones and veins regenerating:
(Unfortunately, I failed to steal the Zombie Transformation Body Physique from Man Hu. This will put me in a weak position against Thomas Andre, Antares, and Christopher Reed in hell.)
(But I gained a new transformation, and that is a good thing.)
He looked at Mo Sheng and asked:
"Mo Sheng, what are you doing here? I expected you to have gone to the demonic dimensions."
Inside Scarlet King's body…
a black sphere appeared.
This was the Black Hole Transformation.
Beside it was the sphere of the Titan King Transformation.
The two revolved around the Evolution Stone.