1: The Demonic Summoning Sutra

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Li Ke’s consciousness broke free from the boundless darkness.

His entire body ached as if being gnawed by ants, and a chill permeated his limbs and bones.

He forced his eyes open, the light before him dim.

Filthy wooden fences, tall haystacks reeking of mildew, and a horse carcass on the ground not far away.

“Where… am I?”

The thought had just surfaced in his mind.

The next instant.

“Holy Radiance Empire… Charles Manor… stable servant…”

A fragmented memory, Li Ke a tide, flooded his Sea of Consciousness.

Li Ke frowned, enduring the stabbing pain in his brow, meticulously discerning every detail in the memory.

After a long while, he finally arrived at an absurd conclusion.

“I… Transmigrated again?”

Yes, this wasn't his first Transmigration.

His Soul originally came from a blue planet.

An accident caused him to Transmigrate to an incredibly cruel Cultivation world.

He was fortunate enough to join the great Demonic Path Sect, Yuan Demon Sect, becoming a low-ranking Demonic Cultivator.

After decades of struggle and countless brushes with death, he finally became a Demonic Path seed.

Today, he should have been comprehending a high-grade Legacy in the Sect’s Forbidden Ground.

He didn’t know what went wrong,

but he had Transmigrated again…

According to the residual memories in this body,

this was a world similar to medieval Europe.

The divine court was corrupt, nobles were extravagant, commoners lived in hardship, and slave trade was frequent…

“Another Hellish start…”

Li Ke gently exhaled a breath of turbid Qi, attempting to move his body.

A wave of intense weakness washed over him.

His body was stiff and cold, Li Ke a freshly deceased corpse, in an appallingly poor state.

If not for his profound mastery of Soul-searching and illusion techniques, which allowed him to discern that the memories in his Sea of Consciousness were not fake,

he would have thought he had been subjected to an illusion and thrown into a corpse-refining cave as raw material.

“Divine Soul severely damaged…”

“Fortunately, the Three Ethereal Souls and Seven Corporeal Spirits are still relatively intact.”

Li Ke sank his consciousness deep into his mind, meticulously examining his own condition.

Just then, he suddenly discovered!

In the deepest part of his Sea of Consciousness, there stood an ancient, weathered, colossal stone tablet!

The tablet was entirely black as ink, inscribed with countless twisted, complex, and incomprehensible mysterious patterns.

Merely gazing at it caused an uncontrollable tremor in his Soul.

“The demon-referencing tablet…”

Li Ke’s mind reeled, and a monstrous wave surged in his Sea of Consciousness!

This was the most mysterious Demonic Path Magic Treasure within the Yuan Demon Sect’s Forbidden Ground!

Legend had it that the tablet recorded all Demonic Path Legacies in the world: Cultivation Techniques, secret arts, Magic Treasures, Talismans… everything was there.

Whenever the Demonic Qi in the Heaven and Earth surged, sporadic inscriptions would appear on the tablet for Demonic Cultivators to comprehend.

Many Demonic Path magnates in the history of the Cultivation world had comprehended supreme Legacies from this tablet, soaring to great heights thereafter.

But now…

This legendary demon-referencing tablet,

how could it appear in his Sea of Consciousness?!

Li Ke suppressed the shock in his heart,

attempting to mobilize his weakened mental power,

and carefully, cautiously, touched the majestic stone tablet in his Sea of Consciousness.

“Buzz…”

An extremely faint, yet incredibly clear connection was instantly established!

In an instant!

An unimaginably vast torrent of information, Li Ke a bursting star river, surged down madly!

《Myriad Soul Banner Refinement General Outline》!

《Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Art》!

《Blood God Scripture》!

《Thousand Faces True Scripture》!

…

Countless names of Demonic Techniques and secret manuals, which only existed in legends and were enough to drive the entire Cultivation world into a frenzy, flashed rapidly before his “eyes” Li Ke meteors!

Any one of them, if leaked, would be enough to cause a catastrophe in the Cultivation world.

It would incite countless old monsters and top Sects to frantically snatch them at all costs!

And now…

They were all clearly imprinted on this 【canmo stele】!

As long as he expended mental power to “touch” the inscriptions, he could comprehend them without any hindrance!

“This…”

“Could I be the illegitimate child of the Demonic Path Origin?”

Li Ke’s mind was in turmoil,

but the will forged by over a decade of Demonic Path life quickly calmed him down.

He knew the principle of “biting off more than one can chew” all too well.

Moreover, the environment of this unfamiliar world seemed completely different from the Cultivation world.

The air was not filled with pure and rich Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

Instead, it was a type of chaotic energy particle he had never encountered before, also mixed with a strong Death Qi.

In this environment,

his original Cultivation Technique, 《Blood Fiend Demonic Technique, would probably not even be able to achieve the most basic Qi absorption into the body.

The most urgent task now was to quickly find a fundamental Cultivation Technique that could adapt to this environment and recover some strength.

Li Ke once again concentrated his mind,

and swept across the dark tablet body.

Wherever his mind passed, the tablet body lit up with dense, dark-gold patterns, wriggling Li Ke living things.

Countless pieces of information flowed through his mind at an astonishing speed.

【Nine Sons Ghost Mother Divine Demon Chapter】: Can differentiate flesh and blood, generate sub-bodies. As long as the Divine Soul is not extinguished, the Physical Body is immortal, possessing extremely powerful vitality…

【Eight-Armed Human Demon Incarnation Scripture】: A pure Dao of slaughter, plundering the vitality of all things to nourish oneself, ultimately transforming into an Eight-Armed Human Demon, slaughtering all heavens…

【White Bone Bodhisattva World-Destroying Heart Sutra】: Gathers the Power Of Faith, fear, and despair of all living beings, condenses White Bone Sacred Flame, burning all things and purifying Heaven and Earth…

【Baxia Carrying Heaven Art】: An supreme Body Cultivator Legacy of the Demonic Sect, relying on no external objects or energy, purely using the power of the Physical Body to move mountains and shift peaks, shattering the Void Realm…

…

These were all the most top-tier and core Legacies of the Demonic Path.

Just seeing their names made Li Ke, who was once a Demonic Path seed, feel a series of heart palpitations!

Suddenly,

Li Ke’s gaze stopped on a name.

【Summoning Demon Scripture】

“Demons do not come when summoned, they arrive because of me.”

Li Ke’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.

“This Cultivation Technique…”

He instantly retrieved some information from the depths of his memory.

In his previous life, he had seen fragments of this Cultivation Technique in a severely damaged ancient scroll.

It was said that even in the uninhibited ancient Demonic Path, it was a rare taboo, completely erased by the Heavenly Dao ten thousand years ago.

The specific circumstances were vague in the scroll.

“I didn’t expect such a Heavenly Dao taboo to still exist on the tablet.”

Li Ke withdrew his thoughts,

attempting to expend a faint trace of mental power,

to touch the three dark-gold ancient characters of 【Summoning Demon Scripture】 on the stone tablet.

The characters lit up slightly, giving a vague feedback.

【Summoning Demon Scripture】

The first innate Divine Ability is called 【Myriad Things Demonized】!

This Divine Ability can forcibly suppress, distort, and pollute any type of foreign energy,

no matter how chaotic, impure, or dead the energy is, it can transform it into the purest, most Origin Demonic Qi.

After reaching a high level of Cultivation, the place where the Cultivator resides for a long time will even transform into a “Demonic Land” suitable for Demonic Path survival!

Li Ke’s eyes immediately lit up!

Although many top-tier Legacies on the 【canmo stele】 could theoretically bypass the restrictions of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

For example, choosing 【White Bone Bodhisattva World-Destroying Heart Sutra】 to follow the path of Power Of Faith.

Or choosing 【Eight-Armed Human Demon Incarnation Scripture】 to directly plunder the vitality of all things.

Or even simply choosing 【Baxia Carrying Heaven Art】 to follow the path of pure Physical Body supremacy.

But in that case, at least half of the strange methods, Divine Abilities, and secret arts within the Demonic Path system would completely lose their effectiveness.

His countless accumulated combat experiences, treacherous methods, and life-saving trump cards from his previous life would also turn into nothing.

This was undoubtedly a huge loss.

And this 【Summoning Demon Scripture】 could infinitely transform into Demonic Qi! It was clearly the optimal solution at present!

“This is it!”

Li Ke no longer hesitated, pouring his Divine Soul power into the demon-referencing tablet.

…

The effect of the 【canmo stele】 was truly miraculous.

Countless mysteries, insights, and operational methods regarding the 【Summoning Demon Scripture】…

Were directly imprinted into the deepest part of his Divine Soul in a profound and mysterious way.

Allowing his understanding of this forbidden Demonic Technique to grow rapidly at an incredible speed!

However,

the consumption of his Divine Soul was also terrifying.

Li Ke only finished comprehending the most basic Qi Condensation chapter,

and already felt his Divine Soul was Li Ke a flickering candle in the wind, unable to sustain itself any longer.

Li Ke withdrew his mind,

and the 【Summoning Demon Scripture】 instinctively began to operate within his body.

A wisp of Qi slowly outlined and wove according to an abstruse trajectory.

Forming an extremely complex, profound, and strange pattern within his body, as if containing some primitive demonic nature.

In the air, those originally lifeless and chaotic energy particles began to surge wildly towards Li Ke’s body,

then slowly circulated along the mysterious pattern, transforming into wisps of black airflow, as fine as hair and incomparably pure.

This was precisely what Li Ke was extremely familiar with,

Demonic Qi!

…

(This book has no female lead, no romantic plot. The protagonist is solely focused on his career. During this time, he will gradually subdue various subordinates and use 【Dao Heart Demon Seed】 to control some innate Devil Heads. There will be female characters, but they will not affect the protagonist’s devotion to the Demonic Path.)

(The world-building of this book is quite complex, and the pacing is not that fast. The protagonist needs to Cultivate step by step, gradually uncover the truth of the world, and then transform it into a Demonic Land, becoming the Origin of the Demonic Path himself, engaging in a game of chess with old gods and ancient gods…)