Chapter 778: Shiyue Mojun 4
"...!!" Although he had already guessed as much in his heart, when Mo Li uttered the word "demon" with an incomparably heavy tone, Yun Che's heart and soul still shook violently.
Demon! Beings that existed in the ancient era, dominating the Chaos World alongside the ancient gods. Every aspect—power, life, soul—far surpassed humans... and all other living beings! They were transcendent existences!
But gods and demons had clearly been extinct for a million years!
The fallen gods had left behind scattered inheritances, while demons, according to what Mo Li had said earlier, had long since vanished without leaving a single trace.
"Mo Li... are you sure?" As Yun Che spoke, his heartbeat was essentially in a state of complete arrest. If what Mo Li said turned out to be true, then standing before him was a terrifying creature that should have been extinct for a million years, existing only in ancient legends!!
"Highly possible... The Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture he is currently using, though not powerful, is incomparably pure! It is worlds apart from what Fen Juechen used! Without a sufficiently pure demon body and demon soul, it would be impossible to perform such a pure demon art... And the Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture is itself a demon art that went extinct along with the ancient demon race!"
Every word Mo Li spoke was as heavy as a ten-thousand-ton boulder: "Fen Juechen, and the Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture of the Eternal Night Royal Clan, are most likely derived from it!"
Yun Che: "..."
"Who are you! To actually recognize this king's demon art!" Mo Li's words not only stunned Yun Che but also startled Shiyue Mojun. The dark demon energy rising from him subsided slightly, but the black light in his pupils blazed intensely.
"Hmph, ridiculous." Mo Li sneered coldly. "Is the Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture something so rare? On the Tian Xuan Continent, there are no less than tens of millions of people who can use the Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture!"
Mo Li's words were clearly a probe.
"Nonsense!" Shiyue Mojun's voice carried heavy anger. "The Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture is a unique demon art exclusive to my Eternal Night Demon Clan, and the only demon art remaining in this world! Besides this king, it is absolutely impossible for a second person to possess it!"
"Is that so? Since this demon art belongs only to you, then how do you explain this princess recognizing it at a glance and accurately calling out its name!" Mo Li said coldly.
Shiyue Mojun was briefly silent, then suddenly black mist surged from his body, and a violent aura exploded like a tsunami, forcing Yun Che back dozens of paces. But at the same time, Yun Che could clearly feel that this burst of anger from Shiyue Mojun did not seem to be directed at him.
"So that's it... So that's it!" Shiyue Mojun roared furiously: "It's that rebellious son... rebellious son!! Not only did he betray this king, but he also gave the supreme demon art of our clan to humans... Ah—ah!!! If I had known back then... I would have torn you into a thousand pieces... torn you into a thousand pieces!!!"
Boom! Boom! Boom!!
Shiyue Mojun's emotions were spiraling out of control, and his power was also running wild. The scattered dark profound energy chaotically impacted the surroundings, bringing with it deafening rumbles.
"What is he saying? His son?" Yun Che's eyes were cold and his entire being was on high alert. But he could not understand a single word of Shiyue Mojun's roaring.
Mo Li spoke slowly and deeply: "All the secrets he holds... we must find a way to make him spill everything! That a demon still exists in this world is by no means as simple as the word 'bizarre'! It is a shocking event capable of shaking the entire Chaos!"
"If he truly is a demon from the ancient demon race and one day recovers his strength... then he will bring a terrifying calamity upon the entire Chaos World!"
Yun Che's mind raced, and he said sternly: "Shiyue Mojun! I can tell you this: the 'Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture' we know comes from a sword called the 'Heavenly Sin Divine Sword'! Is that Heavenly Sin Divine Sword related to you?"
"Heavenly Sin Divine Sword?" Shiyue Mojun laughed in rage: "That is this king's Eternal Night Demonic Sword!!"
Eternal Night... Demonic Sword?
The Heavenly Sin Divine Sword was a name given by the Eternal Night Royal Clan, meant to warn later generations that those who used this sword were committing a heavenly sin! And Eternal Night Demonic Sword... that was its true name!?
"Then why was it on the Tian Xuan Continent? Did you deliberately leave it there?" Yun Che asked with narrowed brows. As he spoke, he quietly withdrew the profound energy he had been secretly gathering with all his might. Because he was performing weakly enough—weak enough to have no power to resist before him, essentially a dead man—Shiyue Mojun would be more likely to reveal more things.
Shiyue Mojun's anger had not yet subsided. It seemed the "rebellious son" he spoke of was his lifelong hatred, and the sounds he made were still uncontrollable roars: "Ten thousand years ago, this king finally broke free from the seal. Though not dead, his life source and soul source were both in a pitifully ruined state. Once touched by the light of the sun and moon, it would cause unbearable pain and accelerate his destruction, so he could only cower in this sunless place! To understand the changes in the outside world, this king threw the Eternal Night Demonic Sword out into that world! And sealed within the Eternal Night Demonic Sword was the demon soul of this king's rebellious son!
"This king originally thought that he would, as this king wished, tell this king everything he wanted to know. But that rebellious son—he actually cut off his soul connection with this king! He betrayed this king! He even passed on the Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture to lowly humans... Ah—ah!!!!"
"It's a pity that back then, this king personally destroyed his demon body and sealed his demon soul into the Eternal Night Demonic Sword, allowing him to follow this king and remain undying! Yet he betrayed this king! Rebellious son! Rebellious son!!!"
Shiyue Mojun's emotions grew more and more out of control, his furious roars almost tearing Yun Che's eardrums apart.
"...Mo Li, did you understand what he was saying?" Yun Che leaned against the wall behind him and asked in a low voice.
"The Heavenly Sin Divine Sword is the Eternal Night Demonic Sword he speaks of, and within it is sealed the soul of a demon!" Mo Li said in a deep voice. "But that sword is nothing to worry about. Even the Eternal Night Royal Clan could easily seal it; its power is already weak and feeble. By now, even if the demon soul inside hasn't dissipated, it is on the verge of annihilation. But this Shiyue Mojun... why is he still alive? And living until now!"
"This planet was created by the Evil God! And he says he was sealed for a million years—it is highly likely he was sealed by the Evil God! Since the Evil God had the power to seal him for so long, why didn't he just kill him back then? He also just said that by sealing his son's demon soul into his sword, he could be as undying as he is... What is going on?!"
A living demon—this matter carried an unimaginable weight and horror for ordinary people.
Mo Li's voice once again echoed through the Slay Moon Demon Cave: "Shiyue Mojun! You keep calling yourself the Eternal Night Demon Clan, and you've repeatedly claimed to have been sealed for a million years—are you trying to tell us that you are an ancient demon god? Ha, what a joke! Both the gods and demons went extinct a million years ago—this is common knowledge known even to three-year-old children across the entire Chaos Space. Every word you speak is utterly foolish!"
"This king's demon body is not something for you lowly humans to question!" Shiyue Mojun roared. "The gods fell and the demons perished. Half of my Eternal Night Demon Clan died at the hands of the gods, and the other half perished from the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel! Only this king survived! But that damned Evil God—he was clearly struck by the 'Myriad Tribulations of Oblivion' from the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel, yet he continued to live for so long, and used all his remaining power to seal this king in this lowly place!!"
"...It is just as you said—he was sealed by the Evil God," Yun Che said in a low voice.
Mo Li: "..."
"This king was sealed for a million years... a full million years!" Shiyue Mojun continued to roar, as if venting the fury triggered by the "rebellious son": "That damned seal eroded this king's demon body and demon soul with every breath! This king originally thought he would perish body and soul within the Evil God's seal, but unexpectedly, ten thousand years ago, the seal's power finally ran out. Not only did it allow this king to retain a wisp of life source and soul source, it also gave this king freedom again!"
"..." Shiyue Mojun's words sparked a flicker of doubt in Yun Che's mind. Normally speaking, upon escaping a seal, one would "regain freedom and retain a wisp of life source and soul source." But what he said was: "allowed this king to retain a wisp of life source and soul source, and also gave this king freedom again."
This phrasing seemed to imply that he was not free before being sealed?
However, this doubt only flashed through Yun Che's mind for an instant, as it could very well be just a slip of the tongue from Shiyue Mojun.
"Then the Evil God could never have imagined that his painstaking seal still couldn't kill this king... while he himself has been dead for a million years, hahahaha!!" Shiyue Mojun's rage began to turn into wild laughter. "Heaven favors this king, favors my Eternal Night Demon Clan!"
"The Evil God sealed this king in this unbelievably low-level world, surely so that even if this king broke the seal one day, he could never recover his ruined demon body and demon soul, leaving him only to wait for death! But he never dreamed—never in his wildest dreams—that those foolish, lowly humans would build a perfect barrier for this king! Not only does it completely block out the light of sun and moon, but it also prevents these precious demon energies from dissipating, allowing them to be used entirely by this king! Even more miraculous, this place actually nurtured a Netherworld Brahma Flower... absorbing demon energy to restore life source, and devouring Netherworld Brahma Flowers can restore soul source. Everything, everything, is heaven aiding my Eternal Night Demon Clan to once again descend upon the world!!"
"!!!!" This time, Yun Che truly understood.
Shiyue Mojun... a demon sealed here by the Evil God with his final power before his fall! The seal failed ten thousand years ago, allowing Shiyue Mojun to break free. But at the same time, he was on the verge of death from the million-year erosion of the seal, and even after breaking free, he would eventually perish.
But as luck would have it, not long after he broke free, he was discovered by the ancestors of the Supreme Sea Palace, who erected a barrier... and in doing so, created an excellent restoration ground for him!
Moreover, due to the accumulation of dark power within, a Netherworld Brahma Flower was nurtured!
The Supreme Sea Palace had intended to seal off the terrifying demon energy and the Shiyue Mojun within... but they had inadvertently saved him!
On the other hand, had this barrier not existed, that terrifying demon energy from an unknown source would have spread across the Tian Xuan Continent, with consequences too dire to imagine.
As Mo Li said, compared to Shiyue Mojun, the thing that continuously released demon energy was far more terrifying!
Mo Li said coldly: "Back then, even the Evil God perished from the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel. Why were you the only one who survived? And sealing you for a million years was far more difficult than killing you outright. Why did the Evil God choose to expend all his power to seal you instead of simply killing you?"
"Heh," Shiyue Mojun laughed darkly. By now, his anger had begun to subside. "Because the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel could not kill this king, and the Evil God could not kill this king either!!"
"Why could it not kill you?" Mo Li pressed aggressively. "The Eternal Night Demon Clan was not the top-level clan among the ancient demons! And even if you are the king of the Eternal Night Demon Clan, you are not the most supreme demon! Even the Creation God, Jie Tian Mo Di, and other gods and demons at the highest level have all perished... why is it that only you did not die!"
Boom!
Shiyue Mojun did not answer. As his anger and emotions calmed, the dark power on his body surged once more. The ice-cold, piercing aura once again locked onto Yun Che. As he stepped forward, the entire Slay Moon Demon Cave trembled violently: "Since you want to know so badly, go ask that damned Evil God in death! Lowly human, if you had been mistakenly sealed here, this king would not have bothered to act—you would have been devoured by the demon energy here on your own. But you actually dared to covet this king's Netherworld Brahma Flower... then enjoy the cruelest death this king bestows upon you!!"