Chapter 843 - 837: The Demon Lord’s Return, the Buddha’s Crisis

"Why haven’t any organs with special abilities grown on my tentacles?"

After noticing the difference between himself and the other Chaos Star Beasts, the Demon Lord muttered under his breath.

He couldn’t quite understand why he was different from the other Chaos Star Beasts.

Unfortunately, Father God Luo Hou had already perished and could no longer give him the right answer.

Just then, the Demon Lord sensed a familiar aura approaching.

He followed the aura with his gaze, and saw—

Eyes, noses, ears, mouths, hearts, livers, spleens, lungs...

Countless organs drifted past those Chaos Star Beasts and floated over; one could see that the Chaos Star Beasts were drooling over these organs.

However, these Chaos Star Beasts did not dare to move an inch.

Because those organs carried the aura of the new Father God.

The new Father God was, of course, the Demon Lord.

These organs were precisely the ones the Demon Lord had scattered using the Celestial Demon Dissolving Technique.

"Organs!"

"These are all my organs!"

The Demon Lord murmured to himself; he finally understood where that sense of familiarity came from.

At this moment, an instinct welled up in the Demon Lord’s heart.

"Devour!"

"Devour!"

"Devour!"

His instincts were driving him to devour all of these organs.

The Demon Lord had a hunch: as long as he swallowed these organs, his tentacles would change and gain abilities similar to those of the other Chaos Star Beasts.

Even though eating himself was more than a little nauseating.

But for the sake of great power, no matter how much physical disgust he felt, the Demon Lord could overcome it.

Without the slightest hesitation, the Demon Lord’s tentacles wrapped around his own organs and stuffed them into his mouth.

As countless organs were shoved into his mouth, a strange power of flesh and blood surged toward the Demon Lord’s tentacles.

At this moment, the Demon Lord’s countless tentacles began to change at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Eyes, mouths, noses, ears, hearts, livers, spleens, lungs grew on those tentacles...

Even bones and hair...

The Demon Lord’s tentacles were not the same as those of the other Chaos Star Beasts.

The other Chaos Star Beasts’ tentacles were all single organs.

But on the Demon Lord’s tentacles, all sorts of organs grew, a chaotic mess.

Yet it was precisely this chaotic jumble of organs that granted the Demon Lord incomparably powerful strength.

At this moment, the Demon Lord was the strongest Chaos Star Beast.

"Father God!"

"Father God!"

"Father God!"

Once the Demon Lord fully evolved into his complete form, those Chaos Star Beasts knelt to him in that same strange posture they had once used to bow to Father God Luo Hou, thereby expressing their submission.

At this moment, the Demon Lord had already recovered his Tier One strength.

Moreover, the Demon Lord felt an unprecedented power.

Right now, he was the strongest Tier One Powerhouse; no other Tier One would be stronger than him.

Looking at the Chaos Star Beasts kneeling on the ground in submission, the Demon Lord knew very clearly in his heart.

He wanted to behead the Buddha, the Yin Celestial Son, and the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins, seize the Void and Heaven and Earth, and destroy Returning Ruins.

Relying on himself alone as a single Tier One was absolutely not enough.

The most urgent matter now was still to nurture a few Tier One Chaos Star Beasts.

However, cultivating Tier One Chaos Star Beasts required countless flesh and blood, and blood essence.

But given the current situation, where was the Demon Lord supposed to find endless flesh, blood, and blood essence?

Right now, the Demon Lord was utterly at a loss.

At this moment, a sudden inspiration struck the Demon Lord; he had an idea.

The Buddha!

The Buddha’s fleshly body—wasn’t that the best possible sacrifice?

Back then, the Buddha had used him as a sacrifice; now, for him to use the Buddha as a sacrifice was only natural, wasn’t it?

Kill the Buddha first, use the Buddha’s flesh and blood as offerings to cultivate a few Tier One Chaos Star Beasts, and only then go looking for trouble with the Yin Celestial Son and the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins?

Once this thought took shape in his heart, the Demon Lord could no longer hold himself back.

...

...

In the Void.

The Buddha was cradling that pitch-black door, drifting through the Void.

At this moment, the Buddha had no idea what was happening inside the space within the black door.

He was treating this pitch-black door as a treasure, little knowing that it would become the thing that would cost him his life.

"It’s already been eighty-one days; why hasn’t a Tier One Chaos Star Beast come out yet?"

"Could it be that the Demon Lord’s flesh is really that hard to digest?" the Buddha muttered.

"Clang!"

"Clang, clang!"

Just as this thought surfaced in the Buddha’s mind, the two panels of the pitch-black door suddenly shook violently.

As if something inside was about to come out.

"A Tier One Chaos Star Beast."

"It’s coming out, it’s coming out!"

"I did it!"

"I, Lord Buddha, have done it!"

The Buddha threw back his head and howled, shouting in triumphant glee.

He hastily set the pitch-black door upright in the Void, wanting to let the Chaos Star Beast inside emerge.

In the Buddha’s estimation, the Demon Lord’s flesh should at the very least be able to nurture two Tier One Chaos Star Beasts.

Two Tier One Chaos Star Beasts, plus the Buddha himself, would be more than enough to deal with the Yin Celestial Son and the Heavenly Emperor of Returning Ruins.

Three against two; the advantage was his.

The Buddha set the pitch-black door upright in the Void, and a crack opened between the two panels.

As the crack opened, a surging aura poured out from within.

When the Buddha sensed this aura, a sudden prickling numbness crawled over his scalp.

In the depths of his subconscious, it was as if a voice were shouting.

"Run!"

"Run! Run!"

The Buddha didn’t know why such a voice would arise in his subconscious.

But no matter what, there was absolutely no way the Buddha would run.

He had schemed so painstakingly, had even gone so far as to use the Demon Lord as a sacrifice, all to wait for this very day.

Now that the Chaos Star Beast he had cultivated was about to be born, there was no way he would run.

The pitch-black door slowly opened, until both panels were fully thrown wide.

At that moment, writhing tentacles emerged one after another from within.

After the tentacles came that massive skull.

The skull was so huge it was practically being force-squeezed out of the pitch-black door.

"A skull?"

"And the organs on its tentacles are all over the place?"

"This Chaos Star Beast seems different from the ones before!" Seeing this peculiar Chaos Star Beast, the Buddha felt a ripple of unease.

After crawling out from the pitch-black door, the Demon Lord did not immediately strike at the Buddha.

He had become this monstrous thing entirely thanks to the Buddha.

So the Demon Lord wanted to see whether, in this current form, the Buddha could still recognize him.

The Buddha looked up at this gigantic Chaos Star Beast.

He kept feeling that this Chaos Star Beast in front of him was somewhat familiar, yet he simply couldn’t recall.

With a skull for a head and no face to see, it was only natural the Buddha couldn’t place him.

Since he couldn’t remember, the Buddha simply stopped trying.

The Buddha said to the Demon Lord, "Chaos Star Beast, you ate my sacrifice to gain the strength you have now."

"I now order you to go to the Underworld and kill the Yin Celestial Son."