The Birth Of The Unrivaled Ruler

4.

"It has begun..." Yao Chen murmured, staring in the direction where Shi Yin was.

"Forgive me..." Turning his body around, Yao Chen walked out of the Shi clan with bold, resolute steps.

He cared about nothing. Until he reached the halfway point.

"He-help me..."

"Hahaha! This is what happens when you reject the young master's wishes?!"

The Giant Demons had begun their slaughter. Without a shred of mercy, they started killing, absorbing the blood, and draining the life aura of every single member of the Shi clan.

The sound of battle erupted. Yet, throughout his journey, Yao Chen's presence did not interest the demons at all.

"Kill him..."

"Tsk! Killing trash won't raise my cultivation... I'd better choose someone else to absorb!"

Not a single one of the Giant Demons was interested. They passed by Yao Chen as if they didn't even see him.

However...

Thud!

Yao Chen’s steps came to a halt. He looked down at a teenage girl, her body covered in blood, right in front of him.

"Ma-master Chen, please help me... Yo-you are Mistress Yin's servant... Why are you just standing there doing nothing to save the Shi clan members?!"

Silently, Yao Chen gazed at his surroundings. His eyes grew cold, until the trauma he had buried for so long suddenly surged back to life.

"Arrghhh!" Yao Chen’s mind fell into utter chaos.

Every single memory of the Yao clan's massacre flashed through his mind. The teenage girl before him began to tremble in sheer terror.

"S-servant of the eldest mistress, what is wrong with you?!"

Yao Chen tried to calm his mind. But everything was a mess, as if a voice inside his head was whispering:

"Do not become a God... Become a Demon... The fact that you survived is not without reason. There is only one purpose... REVENGE!" Both of Yao Chen’s eyes turned blood-red on their own.

"Whahaha?!" Yao Chen laughed maniacally.

He finally touched his own forehead. The seals on the memories he had intentionally buried deep within his mind shattered entirely.

Crack!

"Heavenly Demon Emperor Technique?!"

A massive inheritance—all of the Demon techniques—flooded into his mind. Yao Chen then looked back toward the residence of the Shi clan.

"This destruction was caused by me... And what you said is true... I must take responsibility!" Yao Chen supported the girl, helping her stand upright.

"Take action? Hahaha! Aren't you the servant favored by Mistress Yin? Perfect, I will offer your body as a tribute to the young master!"

The demon lunged forward, his body moving like a blurred shadow. Yet, Yao Chen calmly shifted his body just a fraction. The demon warrior, who had completely underestimated Yao Chen, struck nothing but empty air.

BANG!

Splat!

However, something utterly shocking happened. Yao Chen’s hand drove straight through the demon's stomach.

"Y-you..."

"Just a minor demon. Your meridian orb belongs to me now..."

Crack!

Yao Chen ripped out the meridian orb, causing the demon to collapse and momentarily lose consciousness.

Staring at the meridian orb with an incredibly sharp gaze, Yao Chen immediately touched his own forehead.

"Ancient God Blood... ABSORB!"

Swoosh!

His body vibrated violently. For a brief moment, he felt the sensation of his body overflowing with energy. But what shocked the demon warriors was something else entirely.

"H-how can he use the meridian orb of the Giant Demon clan?! Our cultivation path is deviant! There's no way he should be able to use it!"

"D-damn it, this servant..."

Yao Chen closed his eyes. Taking a deep breath, he exhaled slowly.

In an instant, his cultivation broke through, rising to the level of a Demon Warrior.

"Three-Star Soul Dao Foundation!"

BOOM!

"D-damn it, the assimilation was successful..."

Yao Chen began to glare at the demon warriors. Within the span of a single breath, he vanished and reappeared right before them, instantly absorbing the cultivation of the demons to raise his own.

"Whahahahaha!"

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Fifteen minutes later, right inside the meeting hall of the Shi clan...

"Patriarch of the Shi clan... I am sorry. Not destroying the Shi clan would bring shame upon the Giant Demon clan once a powerful cultivator hears of this marriage rejection... The destruction of the Shi clan must still happen..."

Shi Yu, already heavily wounded, fell silent. He looked at all the clan elders, whose conditions were just as dreadful as his.

"H-how can this be... Can we not negotiate anymore?" Shi Yu tried to defuse the situation.

"Negotiate? What a pity... Our clan's forces have already slaughtered the Shi clan... Is this still something that can be negotiated?" Huang Li felt no remorse whatsoever.

Shi Yu's knees shook violently. But a moment later, Shi Yin—who had regained consciousness and was being held hostage by several elders—was brought into the hall, drawing everyone's eyes toward her.

"Yin'er, if you hadn't rejected Huang Li's marriage proposal, this destruction would have never happened! Now, how are you going to take responsibility?!"

"Yin'er, you have truly destroyed all of our hopes!"

"Even I, as your own father, am deeply disappointed..."

Shi Yin paid no attention to any of their words. She searched for Yao Chen's whereabouts, until before long...

"Where is Yao Chen?!" Shi Yin shouted.

"We are on the brink of destruction, and you still have the mind to look for him?!" Shi Yu barked in anger.

"D-damn it... Has your brain been washed so completely that your mind is always on Yao Chen?!"

"Shi Yin, rest assured... My warriors will bring him here shortly... And on this very day, that servant you fancy will watch us get married right before his eyes!" Huang Li smiled sinisterly.

"Y-young master... But why has not a single one of our demon warriors returned to report? This is very strange..." one of the elders holding Shi Yin noted, looking slightly bewildered.

"True... Destroying the Shi clan shouldn't take this long..." Huang Li muttered, deep in thought.

Amidst the confusion, an answer finally came.

"HUANG LI... COME OUT... AREN'T YOU LOOKING FOR WHERE YOUR SUBORDINATES ARE?" A highly familiar voice echoed into the Shi clan's meeting hall.

Instantly, the faces of Shi Yin and everyone inside the hall contorted in absolute shock.

"Th-this voice..."

Everyone rushed out of the hall, staring up at the sky. There, Yao Chen was hovering in mid-air with the help of his Qin wings, glaring sharply down at everyone.

"Th-this is..." An even greater shock awaited them.

A mountain of skeletal remains belonging to the Giant Demons lay piled beneath Yao Chen's feet. The elders of the Demon clan, realizing the scale of the defeat, immediately looked at Huang Li.

"Who is he? How can a demon kill fellow demons? Young master, it seems that young man's intentions are foul. Let me kill him!"

"H-how could he..." Huang Li didn't answer; his mind simply could not accept reality.

Meanwhile, Yao Chen casually formed a hand seal.

"Soul Chains..."

Swoosh! Swoosh!

The sky suddenly trembled. Accpanied by the tremor, dozens of formation arrays manifested in the heavens, firing thousands of golden-black chains that streaked toward Shi Yin, snatching her body and pulling her straight into Yao Chen's embrace.

Everyone was still frozen by the spectacle, but Shi Yin's voice broke the collective daze.

"A-aren't you supposed to be completely unable to cultivate?!"