Chapter 1099: Ancient God Netherflame, Power Originating from the Ancient God

While Vivian was hunting demons.

Yang Fan, as Mr. Ghost, quietly appeared in the icy and snowy southern regions of the Carmenia Federation.

At this moment, night had just fallen, and the sky began to sprinkle sparse snowflakes.

He stood quietly on a small hill, watching over a dozen southern escapees.

The so-called “southern escapees” are those who attempt to flee Carmenia, heading south until they reach the territory of the Azik Alliance.

Ever since Carmenia became the Demon Realm, the entire federation transformed overnight into a country with strict hierarchical ranks.

Millions of civilians could become sacrifices at any moment, naturally wishing to leave the federation.

However, this escape route can be described as fraught with thorns.

Because demons are not fools; how could they watch human sacrifices escape en masse?

The federation quickly issued a decree, declaring any act of fleeing the federation as treason.

The military deployed a large number of drones along the border, patrolling the area day and night, greatly increasing the efficiency of capture.

A large number of southern escapees were arrested by the army, with only a few successfully reaching the Azik Alliance.

It is entirely conceivable that those arrested escapees would face a miserable fate.

Due to the low success rate and high risk, fewer people attempted to flee.

Yet, there were always bold Carmenians unwilling to be penned by demons, so some kept trying.

The sudden invasion of the Azik Alliance by Carmenians was partially related to stopping the escapees.

Later on.

The Great Xia used communications black technology to begin punishing Carmenia, initiating long-term electromagnetic suppression.

The federation was powerless against the information dominance of Great Xia; all domestic base stations either collapsed or were damaged, regressing communications technology by decades.

The drones of the federation military were subject to intense suppression; navigation systems and control systems were all incapacitated, turning into scrap metal.

With the absence of drone patrols and the federation being fiercely engaged in battle with the Azik Federation, they couldn’t focus on catching escapees, leading to numerous border loopholes, and the number of escapees increased again.

At this moment.

The group of escapees Yang Fan encountered was planning to take advantage of this opportunity to flee to the Azik Alliance.

There were no elderly among them, only two children, and the rest were healthy adult men and women.

For safety reasons, they all hid during the day in concealed spots, traveling only at night.

Everyone donned a piece of white cloth for camouflage, making them hard to spot in the snow.

Yang Fan gazed from afar at the two children with faces flushed red from the cold, sighing to himself: “Well, let’s help them out.”

The little girl among the two children resembled Little Trish, the girl he lived with for over half a year under the alias Jack, so he rarely felt a twinge of compassion.

Through observing the star formation, he had already foreseen the tragic end of this group.

In half an hour, a border defense squad affiliated with the federation military would block these escapees.

The border squad did terrible things to the escapees: among them, six women were violated repeatedly, two children were beaten to death, and four men were tortured to death.

It’s hard to imagine these acts being perpetrated by a nation’s soldiers against their own civilians.

This happened because many federation soldiers nowadays used something called “Loyalty Serum,” which dramatically altered their personalities.

They became cold and ruthless, handling their kind cruelly, while blindly obeying orders from demons.

Yang Fan could sense the Loyalty Serum slightly contaminating the soldiers’ souls, yet not affecting their intelligence.

By relying on the Loyalty Emblem system and Loyalty Serum, demons firmly controlled a violent class of over thirty million people, thereby governing a vast country with a population of hundreds of millions.

After all, having guns means having power; without controlling the violent machinery, there’s no path to resistance but death.

The Carmenia Federation’s transformation from a capitalist state into a demon realm’s “large-scale societal experiment” truly opened his eyes.

It’s clear that demons accumulated extensive experience from destroying countless civilization worlds.

This led Yang Fan to ponder deeper on the path of the demon.

The essence of demons is indeed heterogeneity and loss of control, the pollution from Loyalty Serum represents heterogeneity, and the collective downfall of a nation signifies loss of control.

Yet loss of control is not absolute chaos or complete collapse.

This loss of control maintained an eerie balance; without external interference, and if demons did not resort to excessive blood sacrifices, the federation could possibly sustain for several hundred years without collapsing.

Yang Fan vaguely felt this aspect was crucial to the path of the demon.

At this moment.

His thoughts stirred slightly, and a phantom gray flame appeared out of thin air before him.

This flame did not feel powerful, yet its rank was unimaginably high, even beyond the reach of a Venerable.

It had a name alone that sounded extraordinary—Ancient God Nether Flame.

As the creator of the Primordial World, anything related to the Ancient Gods was undoubtedly beyond imagination.

Upon suddenly realizing the principle that “time and space must adhere to a balance,” he immediately noticed a subtle change in the Ancient God Nether Flame.

Yang Fan carefully sensed for a while, then smiled satisfactorily: “The Ancient God Nether Flame seems to have become slightly more substantial; it seems my judgment was correct, loss of control is not absolute loss of control, otherwise it would lead to self-destruction.”

The origin of the Ancient God Nether Flame was purely accidental.

This matter must be traced back to earlier events.

At that time, his identity as Mr. Ghost was just beginning to gain fame worldwide, unlike now, where “dominating the globe” is considered an understatement.

Back then, the Carmenia superpower user organization Mount of Gods dispatched a team of superpower users carrying a deceitful artifact named “Destructive Tiger Skull,” specifically to hunt him down.

Yang Fan easily eliminated these “delivered to door” Carmenians, using the Soul Stealing Wisp to destroy the deceitful artifact, acquiring an unexpected supernatural power.

Namely—Source of the Curse of the Ancient Gods (Nether Spring).

The essence of the deceitful artifact was actually the scattered law power of a fallen Ancient God, deeply integrated with various items throughout the Primordial World.

This is the process of the birth of the Deceitful Artifact.

The parent body of the Destructive Tiger Skull is a Fallen Ancient God, reverently called “Nether Spring”.

This mass, Source of the Curse of the Ancient Gods, has been preserved within the Supreme Treasure until Yang Fan began researching the Blood Sacrifice Secret Techniques in the “Qing yang Book”.

When he mastered dozens of Blood Sacrifice Secret Techniques, he remotely transformed Vivian into a Demon and orchestrated a demon war in Carmenia.

This demon officially appeared in front of the world, and Great Xia took the opportunity to overturn the table and ousted Carmenia from the seat of dominance in one fell swoop.

From that moment, Yang Fan suddenly discovered that this mass, Source of the Curse of the Ancient Gods, underwent an extremely subtle change.

He cautiously studied this power, or rather the Power of the Nether Spring, and was incredibly amazed to find that it seemed to particularly resonate with Demon Power.

Even more unbelievably, since he started interacting with the Power of the Nether Spring, his research on Demon Blood Sacrifice Secret Techniques progressed at a tremendous pace.

Until the day before yesterday, Yang Fan performed a Secret Technique from the Qing yang Book.

From the aura of the Power of the Nether Spring, he successfully separated a wisp of energy.

Honestly, this was an extremely dangerous action.

If not for the Fallen Ancient God Nether Spring, if not for the Jade Cicada’s ability to devour the Power of the Ancient Gods and thus effectively prevent erosion, he would absolutely not have done this.

Yang Fan fused the Power of the Nether Spring with a small fragment of a soul and obtained this wisp of Ancient God Nether Flame.

Afterwards, he found that his mastery of the Demon Way had made a huge leap.

Many very difficult Blood Sacrifice Secret Techniques, like the Knight Level Nether Soul Sacrifice, he could master effortlessly.

He realized that the Ancient God Nether Spring must have been a Demon Ancient God, though he didn’t know the reasons for its fall.

Ten minutes passed.

Yang Fan looked in another direction.

As expected, the border defense squad discovered traces left by the southward escapees during their patrol.

These were deliberately left traces.

Because one of the members of the escape group was, in reality, a Federation official embedded as an undercover agent within this group of escapees.

Yang Fan did not intend to personally handle the Federation soldiers, but planned to use another method.

He reached out and made a virtual grasp.

The Ancient God Nether Flame fluctuated.

A faint phantom appeared out of thin air in front of him, and from the blurred features of the phantom, it was clear that it was the undercover agent in the southward escape group.

This is a very high-end demon secret technique—Soul Nether Mirror.

Simply put, it uses Demon Power as a “mirror” to reflect the target’s soul in the mirror.

The reflected target would often find it difficult to detect, even if they had reached the Knight Level in strength, unless their soul possessed extraordinary sensitivity.

Yang Fan looked sideways at the Ancient God Nether Flame and raised a finger to point at it.

A gray dot of light separated from the Nether Flame, hit the Soul Nether Mirror in an instant, and vanished within it.

Soon after.

A show began.

The border soldiers, following the traces, split into two groups to block the southward escapees from both the front and back.

“Bang! Bang!”

The moment gunshots came from two directions.

More than a dozen southward escapees fell into deep terror, and two small children hugged their mother in fear, shivering all over.

Because they all knew, once caught, they would become terrifying blood sacrifice offerings.

The leader of the group glanced at the two children and made a firm decision: “Let’s split into two groups and lead these damn Federation dogs away. Lilian and Sofia, take the children in another direction. Perhaps you might still have a chance to escape.”

At this life-and-death moment, the group leader decided to leave the last hope of survival to the two children.

Just then.

A sudden change occurred.

“Ah~”

The undercover agent suddenly cried out in pain and fell to the ground, writhing.

His body quickly began to change, with his mouth protruding forward, a short horn emerging from his forehead, and patches of gray-white scales growing on his skin.

In the span of a breath.

The undercover agent completely transformed.

He, or now it, no longer looked human but more like a hunting dog.

The southward escapees were stunned at the sudden transformation of their companion.

The leader immediately raised the gun in his hand, pointing it at the scale-covered hunting dog.

“Wow~”

A little girl even burst into tears from fright.

Elsewhere.

Yang Fan watched this scene from a distance, a slight smile at the corner of his mouth: “The White Flame Race is best at cultivating ‘Unicorn Demon Dogs’. Since the Saint Heir is about to arrive, I might as well muddy the waters even further.”

The Red Flame Race, occupying the Carmenia Federation, does not cultivate Unicorn Demon Dogs. This is a specialty of the White Flame Race.

Transforming from humanoid to non-humanoid involves not only changes in form but also deep transformations of the soul.

The “Qing yang Book” records the methods for the Blood Sacrifice of Demon Dogs, but it’s somewhat vague and missing key sections.

Yang Fan, having comprehended the Ancient God Nether Flame, effortlessly deduced and completed the missing Secret Technique, mastering the Blood Sacrifice of Demon Dogs with ease.