Emperor of the Human Way Chapter 14

The upper yard disciples of the Sword Sect had only one opportunity each month to enter the demon ruins, hence out of the thousands of disciples in the upper yard, close to a thousand were presently surrounded inside the demon ruins. The upper yard disciples also had it coming. All along they’d been treating the demon ruins as a training ground, and although sometimes a disciple could accidentally meet his end inside, nothing major ever happened. Because of that the Sword Sect’s Qi Refining Warriors didn’t pay a lot of attention to the demon ruins.

Upper yard disciple entering the demon ruins to acquire experience was something that couldn’t be more common. No one had expected that things could shockingly take such a turnaround for the worse right now. The upper yard disciples became the preys, and the demon ruins’ demon clans became the chasers, hunting the Sword Sect disciples!

Inside the hundred li wide area, close to a thousand upper yard disciples ran back and forth as they tried to escape. Some organized themselves in groups to try and resist the demons, some dodged and hid everywhere they could. Wave after wave of demons swept back and forth searching for those upper yard disciples.

No one could tell how many disciples were captured, their hands and feet tied to poles with no power to struggle. They were like pigs as two demons lifted the pole on their shoulder and carried it to the depths of the demon ruins, sent who knew where.

Quite a few disciples were also killed in the struggle!

Dozen thousands of demons flocked forth, spreading all over the hundred li wide area, and gradually narrowed the upper yard disciples’ area of activity.

"In ancient times humans were weak, they were like two-footed sheep in front of our demon races, they were only sacrifices and domestic animals! The livestock used as ritual sacrifices by our demon races were all human!"

A great many demons were loudly laughing as they swept over the area, their weird laughter upsetting the confidence of those upper yard disciples still daring to resist.

"Let’s ties those humans on poles and roast them over the fire in great rows, smear roast spice and oil on them!"

"Stab them with knives, fill our basins full of human blood and offer it to the spirits of heaven and earth, the spirits of our ancestors. Let the ancestors’ spirits have a taste of the delicious human blood!"

"Those lowly animals actually dared to rebel and repress us, it’s time to let those animals know who’s the real master of heaven and earth!"

Zhong Yue, Tian Lanyue, He Chengchuan and the rest stayed together. They repeatedly encountered groups of demons. Out of the hundred people there were only less than twenty left now, the rest had been captured in the chaos of the fighting, or even killed. The dozen or so people left were also battered and exhausted, their bodies covered in wounds big or small. Even the strongest among them, Zhong Yue, Tian Lanyue, and He Chengchuan weren’t feeling well and were almost killed by evolved demons during the several battles they went through.

Zhong Yue had thrown the demon skeleton away during the battle, because it was too heavy and he couldn’t fight efficiently while carrying it. He only kept the demon’s two forearms and used the two big sickle blades s.h.i.+ning with metallic glint as weapons.

Those two dark iron sickles were eight feet long, longer than a man’s height. Although they weren’t soul weapons, they weren’t at all inferior when it came to sharpness. Infused with Zhong Yue’s soul the dark iron sickle blades came and went like the wind, each slash cutting demon flesh with almost no resistance!

But there were really too many demons here. Moreover evolved demons were present in hackle-raising numbers now, when it was so difficult to find the trail of even one before. There was an evolved demon out of a hundred demons, almost!

Even Zhong Yue narrowly escaped certain death several times fighting against evolved demons. He’d already killed a mutant aberration before, but aberrations were the lowest level of demon inside the demon ruins. Their status were inferior even compared to spider demons. Evolved demons from other races were much stronger than the mutant aberration!

Some evolved demons had feathers made of metal essence that possessed extreme sharpness, some had spider silk of matchless tenacity that could only be cut after a dozen slashes from the dark iron sickle blades. Some had skeletons growing outside of their body, skeletons made of metal that protected the body like an incomparably thick armor. Each had their own specialty but they were all incredibly powerful.

Through those battles, He Chengchuan and the rest of the disciples also witnessed Zhong Yue’s valiant daring and intrepidness. The Surging Thunder Sword became incomparably sharp in his hands, killing people if people obstructed him and killing demons if demons barred his way!

Moreover, while using the Surging Thunder Sword Zhong Yue infused his soul inside the dark iron sickle blades and carved demons into pieces. It was even somewhat more tyrannical than Tian Lanyue with her own soul-infused soul weapon, and raised quite a few eyebrows.

But the situation now was really treacherous. There were more and more evolved demons, and no matter how high Zhong Yue’s strength was he didn’t have many ways of exploiting it. He was no match for those evolved demons. So the other disciples were only surprised for a moment, but they were more worried about their situation.

"If no one comes out of the demon ruins, the higher ups in the Sword Sect will certainly notice something wrong and will come check the situation."

Tian Lanyue encouraged the crowd: "We only need to persist for two or three days, then Qi Refining Warriors will surely come and suppress this rebellion."

"Two or three days? I’m afraid we can’t persist that long."

He Chengchuan exposed a bitter smile and raised his head to the sky. Flocks and flocks of eagle demons were patrolling the air, traveling back and forth, searching for upper yard disciples with their penetrating eagle eyes. He said: "Sister apprentice Ting, there are more and more demons here, the evolved demons are also becoming more and more, we’ll be lucky if we can persist for even two hours."

A female disciple sighed: "It’d be great if someone could escape from the demon ruins and warn the two sect elders outside."

Zhong Yue’s eyes narrowed and he secretly entered visualization, his soul going inside his sea of consciousness: "Xin Huo, do you have a way to escape outside?"

"There are too many low level demons here, with the strength of you guys you have absolutely no chance of escaping."

Little Xin Huo was very frank and said: "On top of that I can sense the atmosphere from Qi Refining warriors of the demon races. Although it’s all small fries, but they’re still way too powerful for you guys. I can also feel there’s still some secret inside these demon ruins, there’s a faint ancient atmosphere leaking out, it’s very somber and evil…"

"Demon Qi Refining warriors?"

Zhong Yue couldn’t repress his shudder. How powerful were Qi Refining warriors, if you were to compare one to a upper yard disciple you could say that one was in the sky and one was on the ground below. Demon Qi Refining warriors shockingly appeared in these demon ruins, the situation seemed extremely bad!

"On top of demon Qi Refining warriors there’s a gloomy and evil ancient aura? Could it really be even stronger than the demon Qi Refining warriors?"

"It’s way much stronger than those demon clan Qi Refining warriors, but it seems those ancient auras are being suppressed, and they seem to be dead already or sunken into deep sleep. They’re only leaking out a trace of their aura."

Little Xin Huo carefully induced his senses and said: "I can sense those demon Qi Refining warriors are preparing a great sacrifice to awaken those ancient auras. If they really woke them up then it’s going to become great fun, they definitely could make the country b.u.mpkins Qi Refining warriors of the Sword Sect fall into chaos! Young man of the f.u.xi G.o.d race, if you hand the control of your body over to me, I can actually lead you out of this place, but you alone. This way though I’ll be exposed, we’ll have to kill our way out of the Sword Sect and wander together to the end of the world."

This small flame was becoming excited: "My strength now isn’t what it used to be and I still haven’t found a suitable Soul Flame inheritor. There are still many strong existences who could block me in the Sword Sect, so when we rush out I’m planning on igniting all the G.o.d demon souls suppressed under the Sword Sect! Those G.o.d demon souls are many times stronger than those ancient auras in the demon ruins, they can ma.s.sacre the Sword Sect for sure, then we’ll be able to escape…"

"It’s definitely not reliable to hand over control of my body to Xin Huo!"

Zhong Yue shook off this dangerous notion. Xin Huo this guy was a hundred times more dangerous than those demon clans!

"Zhong boy, later if you’re going to get yourself killed I’ll act no matter what!" Xin Huo yelled inside his sea of consciousness.

Zhong Yue carefully thought for a moment, and he suddenly had an idea. He said quietly: "Sister apprentice Ting, fellow apprentice He, next time when we meet demons let’s resist only a little then let them capture us. I have a plan and maybe we can have an opportunity to escape!"

Tian Lanyue and the rest vaguely guessed his plan in a short moment. They looked at each other and silently nodded.

Zhong Yue took off the two eight feet long dark iron sickle blades from his back, and buried them underground.

Tian Lanyue was feeling a little uneasy and asked him quietly: "Brother apprentice Zhong, how far can you extend your mind power? Can it really…"

Zhong Yue shook his head and answered back with a hush: "Quiet! The demons are here!"

"There are humans here!"

Voices like the cry of ghosts and howl of wolves came. A group of spider demons discovered them and a few mother spiders said in great delight: "There’s some young bulls from the human race! Kill the small cows from the human race if they dare to resist, leave the little human bulls, we’ll have some fun!"

When He Chengchuan and the other male disciples heard this, their faces became incomparably pale. They resisted a little and were captured one by one. An evolved spider demon spit out spider silk and tied them solidly.

"Young human bulls…"

A mother demon tenderly caressed He Chengchuan’s cheek and smiled: "The thing I like to do the most is to eat small bulls during copulation!"

The evolved demon leading them warned them: "Don’t make troubles, the elders still need to use those guys’ blood for sacrifice to our ancestors!"

A dozen aberration demons with the lowest status came over, tied everyone onto poles and carried them to the depths of the demon ruins.

"Send them to the altar! Wait for the elders to come and offer those two-footed sheep as blood sacrifice, dedicating them to the ancestor of each of our demon races, and we’ll wake our ancestors’ spirit!"

A small aberration who acted like the leader of this small group of aberrations was overseeing them and saying excitedly: "We’re also going to awaken our demon races’ common ancestor, Celestial Elephant Old Mother!"

"Celestial Elephant Old Mother?"

On the poles, Tian Lanyue and the other disciples were shocked. Tian Lanyue said quietly: "That’s terrible, those guys actually want to wake the Celestial Elephant Old Mother…"

Zhong Yue was very curious and asked: "Senior sister apprentice, what’s a Celestial Elephant Old Mother?"

Before Tian Lanyue could answer, the small aberration leader laughed: "Hehe, Celestial Elephant Old Mother is the common ancestor of the Great Wilderness’ demon races, she’s a G.o.ddess of the demon clans! Celestial Old Mother’s first son is the first ancestor of the celestial elephant demons, her second son is the first ancestor of the eagle demons, her third son is the first ancestor of the fire demons… We aberration demons were the youngest son, our status is a little low, but it’s still way above the status of you humans. You humans are only livestock. Back then we different demon races all hunted you humans in the Great Wilderness. Especially little human cows, hehe, as soon as we caught them we stripped them clean…"

This small aberration demon rubbed Tian Lanyue’s cheek and laughed. "Hehe." The demons absolutely didn’t notice that behind them, at the place Zhong Yue and the rest had fought and been caught, the muddy soil suddenly split open and two big sickle blades leaped from under the ground. They flew close to the surface and tightly followed behind the group!

These several dozen aberration demons carried Zhong Yue and the others through the encirclement of the demons. The disciples secretly observed their surrounding and noticed that demons were become fewer and fewer on the way, while demon qi was rolling and soaring in the center of the demon ruins. It must have been the altar the aberration had mentioned.

"Die!"

Zhong Yue suddenly shouted explosively and the two eight feet long sickle blades suddenly jumped up. They started spinning in the air with a whistle and instantly cut their way from the tail of the small troop all the way to the front!

Puff Puff Puff!

Those demons carrying the poles suddenly found their head fly up to the sky carried by great geysers of demon blood. They all became headless corpses. Then the two sickle blades controlled by Zhong Yue’s mind power flew back and with a flash of blade light cut the small aberration leader into pieces!

Zhong Yue’s mind power gushed out from between his eyebrows, and the blades continuously hacked, cutting away the spider silk tying his hands and feet. He jumped up and controlled the blades as he cut off the spider silks tying Tian Lanyue and the rest of the disciples, shouting: "Let’s go immediately, maybe we have an opportunity to escape from the demon ruins!"