Chapter One Hundred and Thirteen: The Scroll
Volume One: The Nature of the Devil Never Changes
Arc: The Great Guerrilla War
Mo Sheng took the scroll from Scarlet King and began reading it.
"Hah… it truly is written in the language of the Immortal Dimensions."
Yu Ru Meng appeared between Scarlet King and Mo Sheng, glanced at the scroll, and asked:
"What is written in the scroll?"
Scarlet King replied:
"What is written is:
From the Lord of the Western Dragons, Antares,
to the Great Emperor Tie Xue Huang
and the Great Empress Fa Hui Ling.
I have discovered two talented disciples,
and I suggest that you accept them into your sect.
The first is called Thomas Andre,
and the second is called Christopher Reed."
When the Saintess of Darkness heard the emperors' names, she thought:
(Tie Xue Huang? The Iron-Blood Emperor? Fa Hui Ling? The Heavenly Empress of Cosmic Manipulation?)
Mo Sheng sighed while looking at Scarlet King.
"Hah… I assume you know the Great Iron-Blood Emperor? And Antares too. I have heard some rumors that he once had some connection to you."
Scarlet King answered while looking into the void between universes, one hand behind his back:
"Yes, I know them… and half of the rumors are true. I helped Antares once in exchange for the Immortal Dragon Fang, to forge the Dragon Fang Sword."
Mo Sheng spoke lightly, with a faint laugh:
"Do you mean this?"
A spacetime gate opened, and from it emerged a long blade with red scales along its hilt, and something close to a single eye staring from the center of the handle. The grip was black, wrapped in black gauze.
Scarlet King looked at it with no interest, his gaze cold.
"Where did you get it?"
Mo Sheng replied simply:
"Got it? And why should I tell you?"
Scarlet King gestured dismissively with his hand.
"Fine. I am not interested anyway. Now give me my weapon."
Mo Sheng moved the blade at terrifying speed, spinning it around his hand and making it whirl through the air as he thought:
(What an extraordinary blade.)
He handed the blade to Scarlet King.
Scarlet King took the blade and said:
"Hegemon's Touch."
The blade rose into the air and stood upright. Scarlet King then took out the daggers and used Hegemon's Touch on them as well, making them float beside the blade.
Scarlet King thought:
(I have a heavenly technique called the Eleven Heavenly Weapons Fusion Technique. It can merge up to eleven weapons together, producing a fused weapon that possesses almost all the abilities of the merged weapons.)
Scarlet King spoke calmly:
"System, display the stats."
The system interface appeared before him.
[Master's Strength Stats]
[Title: Devil of Rebirth]
[Cultivation Level: Qi Condensation Realm — First Level]
[Qi: 322,722 / 675,654]
[Health: 157,536 / 645,365]
[Strength: 572]
[Vitality: 432]
[Speed: 465]
[Durability: 674]
[Senses: 376]
[Intelligence: Meaningless]
[Evolution: No clear limits]
[Power Level within the current dimension's standard: Mid-High]
[Recorded Transformations: 2]
[First Transformation: Titan King]
[Effect: +150 Strength / +200 Durability / -40 Speed]
[Note: Increases direct combat ability, but reduces movement flexibility.]
[Second Transformation: Black Hole]
[Effect: +120 Strength / +120 Durability / -30 Speed / -100 Senses]
[Note: Increases devouring ability and physical pressure, but weakens external sensory perception.]
[Warning]
[Possessing more than one transformational body inside the main body causes cultivation speed to decrease and impurity burden to increase.]
[Note]
[Using abilities consumes qi.]
Lin Yuan spoke from behind as he read the stats:
"The system looks like the games we had on Earth."
Scarlet King replied coldly:
"This is called simplified design, not a game. Writing strength in numbers is better than explaining destructive capability on a cosmic or dimensional level every time."
Lin Yuan went silent for a moment, then asked:
"Then what are Mo Sheng's stats at full strength, since he is a Demonic Marshal?"
The system screen appeared.
[Name: Mo Sheng]
[Title: Great Demon King]
[Cultivation Level: Demonic Marshal — First Level]
[Qi: 11,027,366,281,821 / Full]
[Health: 12,882,286,292,222 / Full]
[Strength: 1,100,728,822]
[Vitality: 929,378,250]
[Speed: 933,278,320]
[Durability: 1,090,262,832]
[Senses: 718,628,230]
[Intelligence: ???]
[Evolution: ???]
[Note]
[A direct confrontation is completely illogical.]
Scarlet King looked at Mo Sheng and asked:
"Do you know Thomas and Christopher?"
Mo Sheng fell silent for a moment, thinking before he answered:
"Yes, I know them. Thomas Andre is a specialist and expert in physical strength. His body is overwhelmingly powerful, to the point that he endured one attack from the Great Iron-Blood Emperor and came out almost unharmed."
"As for Christopher Reed, he is one of the strongest comprehensive manipulators of everything. I do not mean intelligence, but control and manipulation as a power. He possesses comprehensive control and manipulation over anything he can manipulate, such as spatial manipulation, matter manipulation, layer manipulation, intelligence manipulation, durability manipulation, strength manipulation, existence and nothingness manipulation… comprehensive manipulation."
"But he is physically, mentally, and spiritually weak. That makes him easy to deal with as long as you have enough speed to avoid his manipulation ability. Do you know them as well?"
Scarlet King replied while a black hole with an accretion disk appeared above his head. The same devilish smile appeared on the black hole's face, with pointed, sharp, long teeth.
"Yes, I know them. In that life, I entered into a direct clash with the Iron-Blood Emperor when I infiltrated his sect to spy. Thomas appeared, and I tried to strike him, but he was not even scratched."
The system screen appeared:
[Recovering and absorbing qi due to the black hole]
The black hole began absorbing the qi and energy around him, while the dagger and blade circled around each other.
Scarlet King continued:
"And their famous names are Thomas and Christopher. But their true names are Huang Tian Ba, which is Thomas, and Ling Mo Chi, which is Christopher."
Mo Sheng was shocked and said:
"I did not expect them to have hidden names. I thought their current names were their true ones."
Mo Sheng asked Scarlet King clearly, his voice filled with seriousness:
"What are you planning, Scarlet King?"
Scarlet King replied, placing both hands behind his back:
"I plan to ascend to the Second Dimension as quickly as possible."
Mo Sheng felt a hidden message and energy pierce into his mind.
"Very well. The Great Ancestor told us to return now. We will meet again in the future, Scarlet King."
Then he added:
"But before I leave…"
Mo Sheng placed his finger on Scarlet King's forehead, and Scarlet King felt a strange aura enter his body.
"Is this… the Dimension-Rending Technique?"
Mo Sheng laughed as he turned to leave.
"Yes, that is it. It can only be used once. Use it when you try to ascend to the Second Dimension."