Return Of The Demon

The steps were evenly tall, but quite wide. Some of the steps were empty, while some had people. The G.o.d of Death created it like this so that if someone later wanted to add their own legacies here, they could do so.

As he pa.s.sed over the G.o.ds whose statues stood in front of him, some familiar some unfamiliar, he was. .h.i.t by a feeling of melancholy. He quickly shook it off and continued on. As he went on he started to feel a pressure weigh down on him. It was extremely faint, and nothing his G.o.d sense couldn"t handle.

He walked past statues that looked like emperors, each one grand and imposing. He didn"t spare any of them a glance. As he climbed on, the pressure started increasing. Slowly beads of perspiration appeared on his forehead. Just as his mind started to feel the strain he stopped.

He stopped on the hundred and thirteenth step. In front of him stood the statue of a middle aged man. This statue was different. It did not have the feeling of veneration the statues in front had. Some of the hair of the middle aged man hung loosely on his face, partially blurring his sharp eyes. His cloak draped over his crouching shoulders hung loosely. Nothing about him seemed remarkable. Anyone who would reach here would simply walk past this statue. It wasn"t that this statue had no presence at all. It was that it had just enough presence that it didn"t seem out of place. It was almost as if it was designed so that one would overlook this statue of an unremarkable person who became a G.o.d by luck.

But Long Tian knew that the person was anything but. During his time, people would put their children to sleep saying that he would come if they were being bad. People would say his name in whispers, afraid to walk alone at night. He brought terror to the hearts of many. In the list people that they would not want to anger the most he ranked even higher than most t.i.tled G.o.ds.

For this was the king of the night. The only person to have killed a t.i.tled G.o.d while still in the G.o.d stage. The a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d, Xu Song.

The reason the a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d was famous was for the killing of the G.o.d of Storms. He sneaked into the residence of the G.o.d of Storms and a.s.sa.s.sinated him without any of his followers noticing, and then walked out before it was discovered.

Long Tian had no plans to train in the a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d"s a.s.sa.s.sination skill. There were two things that he wanted to learn from the a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d"s legacy. One was his disguise skill and second his movement skill.

The a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d"s movement skill was known for its mysteriousness. Even Long Tian"s father said that it was better than his own. Not only was it incredibly fast, it was also very useful at fighting at short distances. But the most impressive thing about the movement technique was its ability to hide in the shadows and also to move in and out of restricted environments.

And the disguise skill of the a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d was said to be so powerful that it could even fool t.i.tled G.o.ds. It was said that it was using this skill that the a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d infiltrated the G.o.d of Storms residence right under his nose.

The reason his statue was in the front was also related to his skills. The a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d was the scout for the alliance as only he had the skills to get close to the Devil Army without getting noticed. Thus by the time he reached the dao repository, there was not much time left, so he just chucked his legacy in without caring where it went.

Long Tian took a deep breath and touched the statue. He wondered what kind of test the a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d had put up. After all, just arriving here wasn"t enough to show that one was qualified to receive a legacy. Most G.o.ds were particular about who got their legacy. Thus they would put up tests to check if the person was worthy, or of a similar mind. Long Tian himself had spend more time setting up his test rather than his legacy itself.

Suddenly he found himself in a dimly lit room. In front of him was a chair. On the chair sat a familiar figure. The a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d.

"Finally someone came. You are the first one to enter here." The a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d said.

The moment he heard those words Long Tian was stunned. How was this possible. Sure the aura of the legacy was extremely inconspicuous, but the aura along with the look of the statue made it very suspicious. Even though not many people got the right to enter the dao repository, such an long time had pa.s.sed that someone should have noticed this. Where the brains of all these geniuses made of mud.

"You can just touch the ball in front of you to receive the legacy." The a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d continued.

"Huh? Isn"t there supposed to be a test?" Long Tian was confused.

The a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d laughed. "Finding this place is the test."

Long Tian immediately understood what happened. The a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d used his ability to make his legacy hard to find. But it was only with respect to the immortal sense. In front of his G.o.d sense, it may as well as have not been hidden. Also there should have been people who noticed the legacy before. But they would have been the most talented of the cultivators and would have continued on to end to find better legacies, ignoring the ones at the front. After all, if he hadn"t known the a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d, he too would have continued on to find a better legacy.

Long Tian closed his eyes and touched the ball. Suddenly the entire legacy started travelling through his soul into his sea of consciousness. Long Tian felt as if he was being ripped apart. A moment later he opened his eyes to find himself back in his sea of conciseness. In front of him a small black dagger was floating.

He was stunned. The a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d had transferred his entire legacy. When Long Tian had set up his legacy, he had set it up in a way that depending on how one did during his test, differing levels of the legacy would be given. But the a.s.sa.s.sin G.o.d only had one test and then he simply transferred his entire legacy over.

Long Tian looked around. The pool of energy was still there. He closed his eyes and continued to practice the Infinitude Heavenly Thought technique. Soon a second tendril became visible, and then a third. After the third tendril came into being, Long Tian stopped. The pool of energy had become a puddle by now. It was not enough to condense even a tenth of the fourth tendril.

He also knew that it was necessary to let some of the energy go. The probability that the amount of energy that was in the pill was the exact amount needed to wake him up was infinitesimal.

So Long Tian let the rest of the strength of the pill go. Then he slowly opened his eyes.

The first thing he saw was a beautiful middle aged woman sitting in front of him with worried eyes. Behind her stood a middle aged man with a similar look in his eyes.

Long Tian had no idea what to say in this situation.

"Are you okay." His mother asked.

"Yeah" he replied.

All three of them just looked at each other awkwardly. His parents were afraid to ask whether the medicine worked, and he did not know how to approach them.

With a worried look his mother took his face in her hands. "Are you okay?"

Long Tian looked around. He did not know what to say. He put a smile on his face and said, "I am sorry for worrying you for so long mom. Its all okay now."

The bodies of the two trembled. Suddenly the middle aged woman leaped towards him and wrapped her hands around him, pulled him into a tight hug. He could only hear her sobs as she hugged him with her head on his shoulders. The middle aged man started laughing uproariously while tears started falling from his eyes without him noticing.

"Mom, I can"t breathe", Long Tian said.

Xiao Mei quickly let him go. "Are you okay? Did I hurt you?" She asked.

But before Long Tian could reply, they felt a wave pa.s.s through the room. They looked towards Bai Mu. He was floating in the middle of the room with his eyes closed. Above him stood a second transparent Bai Mu. This Bai Mu was sitting in a meditative stance and was slowly fading in and out.

The moment he saw this Long Tian understood what was happening. His father was breaking through to the dao step. As they watched, the flicking speed of his father"s nascent soul became faster and faster, until it suddenly collapsed.

The nascent soul started collapsing into a single point. As it collapsed, a small,spinning, spherical seed came into view. It slowly slowed its spinning and came to a stop. The moment it stopped, one could see mysterious spots etched into it. The ball turned grey in color before a grey fog appeared around it, enveloping and hiding it.

The moment he saw this, Long Tian was stunned. Depending of the Dao used to achieve a breakthrough, there would be differences in the dao seed, as well as ones strength in the dao step. The Dao that his father used to breakthrough seemed to be the Dao of Endlessness, a Great Dao. Even though it was weaker than Lont Tian"s Dao of Destruction, which was one of the four most powerful Daos, it was still strong enough to rank in the top twenty.

Suddenly a beam rose from the fog surrounding the dao seed into the sky. As they watched the sky became covered in clouds. It seemed to go on endlessly. This was the phenomena that arises when someone breaks into the dao seed realm with a great dao. Of course the phenomenon would differ depending on the Dao.

After a while the sky calmed, and the dao seed entered his fathers body.

As he stood there watching his father with dried tears and his hands being crushed by his mother, it all felt surreal to him. He could feel their love, and Long Tian could feel that he also love them. These feeling came from his soul who lived with them for fourteen years.

Long Tian lived in a different age. All his family, friends and even his enemies had all died. All of a sudden he felt very lonely. As if he was the only one in the entire universe. As if he had no place in this world.

"Long Tian lived a great life. He reached the highest stage of cultivation. He died along with the Devil Emperor, saving the universe in the process. He even died and reincarnated. All that remains are his memories."

"Let him die."

"From now on there is only Bai Yun."