Chapter 279.3: Sixth Growth at Last! Blood Rebirth, Ten Thousand Transformations, Immortal and Imperishable! (III)

Lu Changsheng spoke suddenly. "Liu Feng, gather the blood descendants."

"Huh?" Liu Feng was a little puzzled. "Lord Progenitor, are we going to..."

Lu Changsheng's voice was calm, but beneath it rang with sheer dominance. "We're going to the Demon Progenitor Hall. If the demon race's Demon Progenitor hasn't woken, then we eliminate him! If he has, we'll have ourselves a proper fight."

Liu Feng was trembling from head to toe. "This is... a counterattack on the demon race?"

He was excited! So excited he could barely hold it in. A counterattack against the demon race? Previously, he had never even dared to think about it. Liu Feng was not the only one, either. Which blood descendant would dare? They were talking about the demon nation where blood descendants could do no more than cling to life.

Who would dare dream of striking back? Yet now, the progenitor was saying that they would do exactly that!

Lu Changsheng stood with his hands clasped behind his back, and his voice came out light, brimming with confidence and dominance. "This isn't really a counterattack. I only want to see what the Demon Progenitor is worth.

If he can't even take a single blow, I'll wipe out the demon race while I'm at it!"

There was one more thing Lu Changsheng left unsaid. If the Demon Progenitor turned out to be reasonably strong, he would simply wait a few more months. By then, the power of his true body would be projected into the world, and he could wipe out the entire demon race all the same!

Before long, Liu Feng had gathered a few hundred blood descendants. Every one of them had been hiding out among the hills and forests. However, with the progenitor taking action himself, they no longer cared about staying hidden. Toward the progenitor, every blood descendant held blind faith!

Lu Changsheng made no effort to hide his movements. He outright led those several hundred people in a great, sweeping procession toward the Demon Progenitor Hall. A commotion that large naturally reached the demon race long before.

Strangely, though, the demons made no attempt at all to intercept Lu Changsheng and the blood descendants. There was not so much as a single obstacle, and the road lay open all the way. It left Lu Changsheng more and more certain that the demon race was waiting for him!

The blood descendants soon reached the Demon Progenitor Hall. Lu Changsheng swept his consciousness across it and at once sensed no fewer than a dozen ancient demons inside. It was clear that the ancient demons had all gathered in one place.

Lu Changsheng's voice thundered across the sky. "All of you ancient demons, crawl out here and meet your deaths!"

Roar!

One after another, the ancient demons' true forms swiftly manifested and flew out of the Demon Progenitor Hall into the sky. A dozen-odd ancient demons faced Lu Changsheng across the distance.

On the surface, Lu Changsheng looked badly outmatched. With only a few hundred ordinary blood descendants, how could he hope to take on more than a dozen ancient demons? Their terrifying presence blotted out the sky and bore straight down on the blood descendants.

Among them was the "old acquaintance" of Lu Changsheng's, the ancient demon Taozun!

Taozun stepped forward and spoke, his voice echoing through the sky. "Flesh and Blood Progenitor, you actually dared to come to the Demon Progenitor Hall?"

"And what if I did?" Lu Changsheng answered lightly. "Tell the Demon Progenitor to show himself quickly. If he doesn't show himself today, I'll kill every one of you and destroy the Demon Progenitor Hall while I'm at it."

With that, the ancient demons flew into a towering rage.

"How arrogant!"

"What insolence! How dare you talk so big?"

"I'll swallow you alive..."

Each and every one of them was furious. Never before had anyone dared act so brazenly in front of them.

Lu Changsheng's gaze went cold. "So the Demon Progenitor hasn't woken up yet? In that case, the rest of you can go die."

He had only been testing them a moment ago, but upon realizing that the Demon Progenitor was still asleep, he had no wish to waste more words. With his only match still asleep, were these ancient demons alone supposed to stop him?

Today, he would let the slaughter begin!

Rumble!

Lu Changsheng raised his palm, and a gigantic hand vast enough to blot out the sun instantly appeared in the sky. The hand was deeply eerie. As it came down, some invisible force seemed to lock onto the dozen-odd great demons all at once. To make matters worse, the terrifying pressure was like a mountain crashing down on them, making these ancient demons feel suffocated.

Only then did the ancient demons discover, to their horror, that under such dreadful pressure, even resisting was a luxury beyond their reach. Not one thought of resistance could so much as rise in their hearts. They had only felt such terrifying might once before, and that was from the Demon Progenitor!

The dozen-odd ancient demons might as well have been facing their Demon Progenitor. All they could do was watch in terror as the giant hand in the sky came down.

"No..."

"Progenitor, save us..."

Fear had seized every one of the ancient demons. Beneath that pressure, each of them could smell death. It seemed that once this palm landed, they truly would die!

Bam!

At last, the palm came down. Without the slightest power to resist, the dozen-odd ancient demons burst apart beneath it and were reduced to a single mass of pulped flesh. Looking at the mere lump of pulp, Lu Changsheng simply opened his mouth and inhaled.

At once, the pulp that had been a dozen ancient demons came streaming toward his gaping mouth. Once Lu Changsheng swallowed the ancient demons' flesh, they would be dead for real.

Just then, a cold, hoarse voice rang out from inside the Demon Progenitor Hall.

"Halt! You have impressive techniques indeed!"

With that voice, everything in the sky seemed to solidify. All motion stopped, as though some invisible power had taken hold of space itself.

Lu Changsheng suddenly spoke. "Spoken Law! So the so-called Demon Progenitor has already reached this level?"

Everything around him had frozen, though that did not include him. The mass of ancient demon flesh hung motionless in the sky while the blood descendants behind Lu Changsheng had stopped moving. Even the wind had gone still. There were only two things that could still move and that was Lu Changsheng and a black-robed figure slowly walking out of the Demon Progenitor Hall into the sky.

It was the Demon Progenitor! The Demon Progenitor had finally shown himself!

There was no earth-shaking demonic power, not even a terrifying demon's true form. What Lu Changsheng saw looked like nothing more than an ordinary old man. Who would have thought it? This perfectly ordinary old man was the Demon Progenitor!

In Lu Changsheng's eyes, the Demon Progenitor seemed even more unusual than that. He seemed faintly merged with this world into one, yet at the same time he seemed to be constantly struggling to break away from it, unwilling to be fused with it.

Is he trying to break free of the world's binding? Lu Changsheng thought to himself.

He knew from the Secret World Pavilion that some beings of certain secret worlds were born of the world itself and fused with it as one from birth. Every move such beings made carried the force of the world behind it, and their words were made law. They held power terrifying beyond measure.

However, truthfully, that was also a binding. Since they were fused with the world, those supreme beings could never hope to advance a single step further, much less escape the world's hold. They were unlike the martial artists and immortal cultivators of the Immortal Martial World, who could leave it freely for other secret worlds.

Lu Changsheng spoke up abruptly. "Demon Progenitor, or should I say, Heavenly Demon. You were born of this world. If I'm not mistaken, the demon race is life that you created, isn't it?"

"Correct. The demon race is life I created, made in the pattern of my own."

Lu Changsheng asked again, "Then what about the human race?"

"The human race... Honestly, the human race was born naturally between heaven and earth. That's exactly why I have been studying them, to see how humans could come into being from heaven and earth on their own. I never understood it before. Now that I've seen you, however, I think I may understand..."

A strange gleam flashed in the Demon Progenitor's eyes. "If I'm not mistaken, you are not a being of this world, are you?"

The moment the words left him, the air seemed to freeze solid. The Demon Progenitor fixed his eyes on Lu Changsheng, not letting the smallest detail escape him.