Yang Chao

"Boom."

An earth-shattering explosion suddenly sounded, accompanied by young man's crazed egotistical laughter, which, at the moment broke the quietness above the sky of Yang imperial capital.

" Hahahahahaha......., I am going to kill the three of you and absorbed your nascent elemental souls to increase my demonic soul, those puny mortals soul didn't amount much, killing them was just a waste of time, even so, I won't let them off after I'm done with you three, after all, a nutrient is still a nutrient."

Up in the night sky, three people encircled a cold-looking young man with long, flowing black hair. The figure of the young man stood ramrod straight like a spear on a towering tree up in the sky, he looked very handsome. His eyes gave off the pressure of coldness and indifference. However, the most noticeable thing about his eyes was his green, demonic eyes, that made him looked very uncanny. He was hovering in the night sky looking at three men encircled him, from the looked of it, they all have broken through the Saint rank already because only a saint rank expert was capable of flying in the sky aside from avian beast. As the young's man hair flowed in the air, his eyes were radiating an unimaginable killing intent.

As for the three men encircled the cold-looking youth, they appeared to be around forty or fifty years old. Their complexions were very pale. The one who appeared to be the oldest had a large tall frame with a ferocious face despite his body being bathed in blood from head to toe, his eyes were filled with a battle intent with his long sword in his right hand. In contrast, the youngest looking one had a skinny frame, his facial feature resembled that of an eagle with a sharp looking mouth. He was injured as well, however, his injuries weren't as bad as the oldest looking one. As for the last one, he had a dark beard with thick eyebrows and a large intent eyes. in his right hand was a golden lance at the ready. He seemed to be the strongest of the bunch. They wore the same kind of clothing and armor as if they were part of the same influence or power.

" Yang Chao, you are a despicable human being. How dare you forsaken your own race for the sake of power? Not only you slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent mortals for your demonic rituals including your own parents, you even destroyed the illusionary barrier that protected us from the otherworldly beings." Yelled the middle-aged man while pointing the golden lance in his right hand toward Yang Chao with hatred and unwillingness his eyes. Despite the darkness of the night, they still were able to see each other and fought vigorously because the darkness was nothing of a saint warrior, they had saint energy condensed in their eyes, allowing them to see everything clear as the day.

The middle-aged man was Feng Ze, the current emperor or ruler of the Nine Seas Alliance. Ten years ago, after they explored and looted the powerful expert cave mansion that was in Draica which was at that time the capital of the Shen State, they have found many treasures, weapon and cultivation resources. In a month time, their cultivation had skyrocketed as well. They have broken through the Saint rank in legend and have a long lifespan of a 1000 years. They were like gods in their own domain. Even though they all went on and found their own empire and fought against one another for territories, it wasn't a life and death situation. They knew the dangers of outside, so they just stayed in their own domain cultivating peaceful and increasing their strength so when the day comes, they can defend themselves against the otherworldly beings. None of them wanted to submit to the others after broken through the Saint rank, however, that doesn't mean they won't be united when their homeland was in danger.

Furthermore, they were privy to many secrets which were not made public after exploring that powerful expert's cave mansion and one of them was a powerful Ancient demon lord's soul that was seal inside the cave mansion. According to a diary they have found inside, the expert who built that cave mansion named was Chu Feng, and he was a Saint Ruler expert just a step away from forming his half-godship and break through the demi-god rank. however, before he could take that step, his homeland was invaded by a group of powerful otherworldy beings. Some of them called themselves Heavenly demons race. The most powerful one of them had the strength comparable to a peak saint ruler and his subordinated referred to him as the Demon Lord. Aside from them, there were also other races such as Giants and others.

As the most powerful expert at that time, Chu Feng clashed against the Demon Lord in order to preserve his homeland as well as his fellow humans. After a fierce battle, Chu Feng had managed to kill the Demon Lord. However, Chu Feng had underestimated the resilience of the Demon Lord. As he was dying, the demon lord managed to preserve a portion of his life essence and soul into a small amulet by using a secret method. The injured Chu Feng, in order to prevent the demon lord's subordinates from acquiring the amulet, went to an island far away today known as an archaic continent and sealed it into an underground cave that he built.

Because the other heavenly demons could trace the amulet through some special method, Chu Feng used his last remaining power to cast an illusionary barrier over the island preventing them from ever finding this place as well as the amulet. He was already badly injured and was dying already so he couldn't fight against the remaining demons to preserve his mainland, so he stayed inside the cave guarding the amulet until the day he died, he also left a diary about the event of 5000 years ago. He didn't know the reason behind this large-scale invasions however, he still plead in his dairy to whomever human that found this underground cave to continue the fight and not let the otherworldly beings to completely take over this world because, from his point of view as well as his experience, the sacred mainland wasn't a simple low-level plane and it contained a deep secret to the point where all those other races where fighting over it. Also, he begged to whoever found this cave to not use the amulet or bind it with their blood as the Demon Lord will take over his or her body. Because the amulet couldn't be destroyed, it's best if they can keep it deep in the cave.

This secret was only known by the eight of them that explored the cave at that time, the head of the four great clans as well as the old ancestor of each clan. They all swore an oath not no disclose this information about the amulet as well as use it in any circumstances. under a chance of a coincidence, the current crown prince of the Yang Empire had found out about the amulet and used it five years ago without them knowing. None of them knew that the amulet had disappeared except for the Qin Emperor. The underground cave mansion was under the jurisdiction of the Qin empire as they were the most powerful forces and the cave was in their capital as well, but who would have thought that cunning Yang Imperial crown prince had managed to steal the amulet under the nose of the Qin Emperor and that old foggy kept it under wraps while looking for the culprit silently.

Unfortunately for them, not only the Yang Empire's crown prince had fused with the amulet, he even swallowed the demon lord's soul and the devil had already entered his heart and was fusing with him day by day. by the time they noticed it, the crown prince had already completed his demonization through a demonic cult and became a full-fledged demon rather than a half-breed demon through some special method by sacrificing more than a hundred thousands of human's souls.

" Old man don't compare me with those low-level race such as the human race. Hahaha, I've already completed my demonization from now on I am a full-fledged demon and I will inherit the throne of the Demon Lord and rule all those demons in this land as I inherited his

power and memory, I will do what he wasn't able to do and rule this sacred mainland." Answered Yang Chao while laughing like a maniac.

" you must be joking you stinking brat, just because you were able to fuse with the amulet while completely retained your memory intact doesn't mean you have completely fused with the demon lord soul, you don't even know how cunning and evil this so-called Demon Lord is. From what we know, he might even be playing with you by letting you think you are in control, not to mention you won't be able to leave this place alive. your power is comparable a middle stage saint master while I already broke through the late stage saint rank and I have also two early saint master with me, this place will be your burying ground tonight." voiced Feng Ze while pounced toward Yang Chao in the sky with his golden lance.

The golden lance was a saint rank weapon that he had found within the underground cave mansion, and its power was frightening. the golden lance was emanating a golden light all around it. Feng Ze was a powerful warrior with a fire attribute after broken through the saint rank, all of his fire battle qi had transformed into saint true energy with the fire attribute as well, however this fire type of energy was a tier higher than his previous fire battle qi. it was hotter and more powerful.

" Stubborn old man, don't think that I don't know that you are trying to stall for time so that the old foggy from the Qin empire can catch up. But don't worry, after I killed you the three of you and absorbed your nascent elemental souls, I will have enough power to deal with that old foggy. Now let me show you the true power of the future demon lord." Said Yang Chao as his eyes flashed with a massive killing intent.

He suddenly waved his right hand, a black sickle made of black energy materialized in his hand. at the same time, a devilishly demonic energy turned into a fog and wrapped around yang Chao's body forming a ferocious devilish back armor. even his face was covered with this black energy forming a mask, revealing only his cold and bloodthirsty eyes. with his long hair flowing behind him, he took one step while still the air and charged toward Feng Ze. he moved like lightning as he rushed toward Feng Ze in the sky. the pitch black sickle in his hand was like a spirit of the night that had just unfolded its sharp claws while bringing an oppressive and irritable aura along with it.

The golden lance clashed with the pitch black sickle.

Bang!

A heaven-shattering sound echoed in the area as well as an explosion causing by the saint true energy with contained a heat aura and the demonic energy. the explosion seemed to have rocked the heavens and had even caused a large tremor below. it was as if the earth was collapsing.

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As I was running toward the city gate of the Yang Imperial capital, I could clearly see the earth-shaking battle up in the sky and could even felt the tremor in my position. seeing how powerful those people fighting in the sky were, a powerful sense of crisis appeared within my heart. Also, my dragon blood was boiling with excitement as well, I didn't stop and stepped forth. As I got the closer city gate, I suddenly stopped. In front of the city was a huge white dragon, seeing this dragon laying down in front of the city gate as if it was preventing anyone from entering the city, all the hatred that had accumulated in my heart from the past years flared up and my body was emanating a boundless killing intent, because this dragon wasn't a stranger to me. In fact, I have been looking for that dragon for a long time because it was none other than the white frost dragon that had killed my parents a few years ago. I knew that the Yang empire had a dragon as a guardian beast, but I've never imagined that it was the same white frost dragon. Even though its appearance had changed a little and became more powerful, I still recognized those eyes that use to give me nightmares whenever I thought about them.