Chapter 275.1: Lu Changsheng Cuts Down a Demon King! Upheaval in the Jing Dynasty as the Old Emperor Is Converted into a Blood Descendant! (I)

Oh? That aura... has a demon king come?

In the rear courtyard of the yamen, Lu Changsheng instantly felt the air change. With a consciousness like his, the terrible aura inside it registered immediately.

A demon king! That had to be a demon king.

His thoughts went to the Demon God Ministry. No wonder they had been so quiet for so long! It turned out that they had sent a demon king straight to Shanan Prefecture, and they weren't even trying to hide it. He was openly letting out his pressure in enemy territory, and only someone who did not fear the blood descendants would do that.

Alright, let's have a look at a real demon king!

Lu Changsheng rose, his figure blurred, and soon, he reached the front courtyard.

In the front courtyard, the demon king Gu Luo was pouring out his pressure without restraint. Something like a terrible field of force had formed around him, warping even the light. Most of the blood descendants could only surround the outer edge of it, unable to approach him at all.

Despite that, the temple guard force feared nothing. They were gathering together, ready to throw the net of flesh and blood over him.

Whoosh!

Just then, a figure appeared. It was one that was perfectly calm and apparently indifferent to the demon king's pressure. He walked one step at a time into the area it covered as though none of it touched him.

Seeing how little it affected Lu Changsheng, Gu Luo worked it out quickly enough.

"Oh? You're entirely unaffected by a demon king's pressure? Are you perhaps the Flesh and Blood Progenitor?"

The Flesh and Blood Progenitor, the founder of the Temple of Flesh and Blood, and the source of every blood descendant.

"Correct, I am the Flesh and Blood Progenitor. You would be the Demon God Ministry's demon king?" Lu Changsheng responded the way a man would talk while strolling through his own garden, entirely unconcerned with the pressure around him.

"I'm Gu Luo, a demon king of the Demon God Ministry." His tone suddenly became grave. Up till he met Lu Changsheng, he had assumed the Flesh and Blood Progenitor stood at the level of a greater demon at most. Now, he knew that he was badly mistaken.

A man who could stroll through a demon king's pressure was no mere greater demon. He seemed most likely to be a demon king himself, yet Gu Luo could feel clearly that the Flesh and Blood Progenitor was not a demon.

There was no demon aura on him at all, but seeing how he was able to withstand a demon king's aura, he was definitely not a human.

"Flesh and Blood Progenitor, you aren't a demon nor a man. What kind of monster are you?"

It was the thing he most wanted to know.

Lu Changsheng laughed. "Monster?"

Compared against immortal demons, which of them was the monster?

"You're not wrong to put it that way. Demons or humans, both are simply different kinds of lifeforms. What I am and what the blood descendants are is a new kind of lifeform. One that can stand against demons completely, and one tied closely with humanity. You can even consider it an evolution of humanity. I call them vampires."

"Vampires fear no sickness nor demons. Their strength has no limit, their lifespan runs long, and they can even train in the Flesh and Blood Martial Dao and rise by it.

"If every person in this world evolved into vampires, where would the demons' oppression be? Who would be left to end up as feed for them? The blood descendants I made will deliver all beings out of the sea of bitterness, and the merit in that is immeasurable..."

The words sent a jolt through Gu Luo, giving him a real shock. How ambitious! The man in front of him was truly ambitious. He meant to convert the entire human race of the world into blood descendants. Into vampires, rather.

In the end of it, the demons could genuinely be defeated. However, the human race would be gone as well. What would be left in the world would be blood descendants and nothing else.

"We've talked a great deal. Haven't you come here to kill me? Come, then! Kill me, and you can suppress every blood descendant or kill every one of them. Then the human race and the demon race would go back to the quiet you had before. You half-demons of the Demon God Ministry stay high above everyone, and the demons go on eating people. That suits your interests nicely, doesn't it?"

His voice grew colder as he ended his sentence.

"No! I am not a demon; I am a human!"

That angered Gu Luo. His body was a demon's, but the human nature in him was his own. In the end, he was a human.

"No matter what you say, I'll take you back to the ministry first to be studied carefully. The secret of how you convert ordinary people into blood descendants may be in you somewhere.

"If we find it, the human race might gain strength to match a true demon without being converted at all, and stand against the demons that way. Yes... That is how it will be."

Gu Luo seemed to have talked himself into it.

"Demon king true body!"

At once, a terrible pressure broke out of him, and he swelled violently. Three meters, six meters, ten meters. He grew larger and larger until he finally stopped at a little over ten meters, carrying the roof clean off the building as he went.

Furthermore, three heads and six arms had grown out of him, and a pitch-black light circled his whole body bulging with muscle. The force coming off him was terrible, and one look was enough to see how vicious the thing was.

Even Lu Changsheng could not say what sort of demon Gu Luo actually was. There were far too many kinds of them to count, and a good many demon bloodlines had mixed together, which created creatures of every strange kind. Three heads and six arms were nothing. Even eight or ten heads would not be surprising.

However, one thing was certain. Gu Luo was indeed a very strong opponent, and he wasn't an ordinary demon king. Even among demon kings, he would be at the top.

Lu Changsheng drew a deep breath. "An interesting opponent at last. A real demon king of this world..."

A demon king corresponded to Fourth Growth, which was at the Dao Foundation and Foundation Establishment stage. The Dao Foundation realm was when a cultivator could finally enter the hall properly after standing in the doorway. That was the same everywhere, even for demon kings.

Once a true demon reached that realm, it would become a different creature. It was more of a full transformation rather than just an evolution in strength. That was because a demon king could use demon sorcery, and their strength bounds forward in leaps when demon sorcery comes into play.

Huuum.

Lu Changsheng did not hesitate either. His own figure swelled larger and larger, though it was nowhere near the bulk of Gu Luo's. Regardless, he carried a force that was every bit as terrible, enough to stand against a demon king without difficulty.

That was only the beginning. He hadn't neglected his Martial Dao in this world. He had not simply copied the Extreme Martial Dao over wholesale from the previous world. By understanding the way true demons manifested their demon bodies, he had, after reaching Fourth Growth, finally worked out an entirely new ability, one belonging to the Flesh and Blood Martial Dao alone.

"Flesh and Blood true body!"

The strongest thing about his Flesh and Blood Martial Dao was the flesh itself. He could store flesh away on ordinary days and let the whole of it loose when he needed it. Out of that technique, he had created the Flesh and Blood true body. It let him pile flesh on without stopping, heaping it onto his body and raising his strength and defense fast.

Of course, piling on too much of it would make his agility suffer and possibly even completely immobilize him. However, that hardly mattered. If he had enough strength and defense, what did it cost to be slow? Besides, Lu Changsheng knew where to stop and would not swell himself to the point of being unable to take a step.

Huuum.

His fleshly body swelled at a speed the eye could follow. Flesh divided again and again, and he grew as it did. Three meters... Six meters... Ten meters... Thirteen meters... Seventeen meters.

In the span of a breath, he stood seventeen meters tall.

In fact, that height and that degree of strength were not yet his limit, but against the demon king Gu Luo, they were more than sufficient. Lu Changsheng at seventeen meters was a terrifying thing to look at. The force off him rolled out and swept across in every direction.

Even Gu Luo was shocked at the sight unfolding in front of him.

"How is it possible for anyone to have a technique like that? That aura of his..."

He gritted his teeth and attacked.