Just a Useful Pawn in the Stain Sect

Chapter 925: Chapter 920: The Celestial Demon Is Disturbed by the Heart Demon Instead

”Oh no!!!”

At this moment, the Primordial Celestial Demon had no spare capacity to think about how his whereabouts had been leaked. All his thoughts coalesced into a single urge: ”Run!”

However, it was already too late. The moment he turned around, a familiar sensation washed over him. His own body was infinitely shrinking, while Lü Yang’s figure infinitely expanded.

This time, situated in the Void Sea of Light, Lü Yang did not need to restrain his Mighty Power. His unparalleled Dharma Body stretched its limbs to the fullest, towering between heaven and earth. Its sheer scale surpassed even the Ten Thousand Martial Realm below, and the intense qi trace of such a high Position left the Primordial Celestial Demon nearly breathless.

He simply lowered his eyelids. That head, rivaling an Outer Realm in size, slowly bowed. Eyes like the sun and moon burst with Divine Light, piercing through the layered Sea of Light to lock onto the Primordial Celestial Demon.

In the next second, Lü Yang slowly raised his palm. Behind him, the [Fruit of Divine-Empyrean Thunder] emerged. Brilliant golden lightning shot out in all directions, ultimately forming a magnificent halo of light behind his back.

Boundless Mighty Power fully reinforced this single palm strike. The palm tore through the Sea of Light, surging with thunderbolts and lightning fire. It blotted out the sky and sun, casting a shadow of death downward that completely enveloped the Primordial Celestial Demon.

”RUMBLE!”

Thunder Sounds echoed through the heavens, deafening and resounding. One must know that this was inherently a method to suppress Heart Demons, not to mention that the Primordial Celestial Demon’s current state was already at its lowest ebb! Under these circumstances, whenever he tried to turn invisible, the booming Thunder Sounds would immediately jolt him back into a tangible form. Whenever he attempted to split into clones to escape, the moment he separated a fraction of himself, the lightning would instantly respond to his intent, striking the clone dead on the spot. In the end, it was completely useless, serving only to drain his strength in vain.

”I can’t escape!”

It wasn’t until the palm lines became as clearly visible as overlapping mountain ranges that the Primordial Celestial Demon finally realized he was doomed to face this Tribulation. Would the Bhagavat save him? This thought flashed through his mind subconsciously, but he gritted his teeth and rejected it. It was impossible. Falling to this state only proved his lack of capability. He was not a useful pawn, and since he was not useful, he could only be discarded!

Me? A discarded pawn?

The Primordial Celestial Demon’s eyes instantly turned bloodshot. Even though he was a Heart Demon himself, at this moment, he felt as if he had ironically birthed a Demon Thought of his own. Memories of the past resurfaced once again. He was the Primordial Celestial Demon, yet the Primordial Celestial Demon was nothing more than the result of the Bhagavat’s manipulation. What was his true self? Who did his origins trace back to?

The answer was very simple: ”[Ang Xiao]!”

Before becoming the Primordial Celestial Demon, he was the Heart Demon of the Dragon and Snake Coiling Shadow Bodhisattva... So, why did the Dragon and Snake Coiling Shadow Bodhisattva suddenly birth a Heart Demon?

On one hand, it was certainly because the Bhagavat deliberately severed the Bodhisattva’s Unity, intentionally inducing its birth. However, on the other hand, it was also because the Dragon and Snake Coiling Shadow Bodhisattva truly harbored an obsession. Right after being parasitized by [Ang Xiao], he suddenly realized that he was nothing more than a pawn. First used by [Ang Xiao], then used by the Bhagavat, he had never truly been the master of his own fate, until he was ultimately cast aside like worn-out shoes by both sides.

To this day, the Primordial Celestial Demon had not forgotten the words the Dragon and Snake Coiling Shadow Bodhisattva said to him the moment he was born: ”That’s wonderful. You are not a puppet... unlike me, a discarded pawn.”

That was right. He was different. Independent from Unity, vying for the [Tribulation], he had a chance to achieve the Dao. He was not the puppet of any Master of Dao, much less a discarded pawn!

A Heart Demon was born within the Primordial Celestial Demon’s body, yet it rapidly fused with him, allowing him to recover some of his condition. Boundless Demonic Qi erupted from within him, then completely ignited. It guarded his solitary true consciousness, transforming into a faint strand of Profound Light that desperately fled outward.

He had to escape!

A Heart Demon was inherently an obsession. It not only wanted to escape the descending palm but also to escape the fate of becoming a discarded pawn. Even if it meant death, it would die trying! It was born for this very reason. Even if it died, it should perish for this cause!

”As long as I escape this palm strike, I can enter the Void Land. Even if only a single Demon Thought remains of me, I won’t die, and I won’t become a discarded pawn!” the Primordial Celestial Demon roared furiously in his heart.

The Profound Light continued to flee outward, while the majority of his demonic body was abandoned. At this moment, it astonishingly transformed into a mountain-sized giant, pushing its hands upward to support the heavens.

”RUMBLE!”

In an instant, a visible storm spread out from Lü Yang’s descending palm. Even the aftershocks instantly cleared away the Gang Clouds outside the Ten Thousand Martial Realm. Such a phenomenon naturally triggered unrest among all living beings in the realm. Countless people raised their heads, looking up at the mutated sky with terror on their faces.

”What’s going on?”

”By the Life Stars... has the sky split apart?”

”Is that... a hand!?”

”Hurry! Run!”

For a moment, the entire Ten Thousand Martial Realm was in turmoil. Countless people ran around in a blind panic, only to realize they had nowhere to hide, ultimately standing there in a daze. However, as the palm drew closer and closer, someone finally noticed what appeared to be a black giant beneath it. The giant was desperately pressing its hands against the palm, seemingly trying to reverse the Fall of Heaven and stop the palm from descending. Seeing this, an unknown number of people immediately lowered their heads and began to kowtow on the spot.

At the same time, the Ten Thousand Martial Realm seemed to sense that something was wrong. Instantly, one Life Star after another lit up. The [Imperial Decree] Fruit belonging to the Ten Thousand Martial Realm actually began to respond to the Primordial Celestial Demon, allowing him a moment to catch his breath.

”Such a thing is actually happening?” The Primordial Celestial Demon was instantly filled with wild joy in his heart. He felt that at this moment, he was not fighting alone—the Mighty Power from the Ten Thousand Martial Realm was supporting him.

”Hold it up!”

”Detonate!”

The Primordial Celestial Demon did not hesitate to detonate ninety-nine percent of his demonic body on the spot. Coupled with the support of the Ten Thousand Martial Realm, he attempted to pry the descending palm up even the slightest bit.

However, Lü Yang’s palm remained completely unfazed.

”BOOM!”

Accompanied by a loud explosion, all of the Primordial Celestial Demon’s thoughts were instantly wiped clean. Beneath his spiritual perception, all that entered his sight was an endless, boundless expanse. In a daze, he seemed to see an abyss. Even though the abyss of the fate of becoming a discarded pawn was right before his eyes, he was powerless to resist. He could only watch helplessly as he fell into it, until he was thoroughly submerged.

The palm fell!

The hand, flowing with thunder and fire, crashed into the Ten Thousand Martial Realm just like that. It gouged into the earth, ultimately smashing out a bottomless, palm-shaped sinkhole by brute force.

Yet this was still not the end.

”[Cataclysm Launcher]!”

Lü Yang changed the phenomenon. His descending palm stretched out its five fingers, then slowly formed a Daoist Hand Seal. Immediately after, a layer of gray light covered the original fleshly palm. In the blink of an eye, the flesh and blood of the hand turned into rocks, while the blood beneath its skin turned into mountain springs. Its palm lines transformed into overlapping mountain ranges. Amidst rumbling sounds, it integrated with the entire Ten Thousand Martial Realm, appearing seamlessly natural, as if it had stood tall within this Outer Realm from the very beginning.