386: Chapter 386 Devouring Two Qi, the Second Divine Power

The door of the Reverse Demon Tower was still the same old way.

Dense runes were carved on the pitch-black door surface, and an aura of antiquity seeped out from the gap of the door.

Chu Sheng stood in front of the door, raised his hand, and knocked on the door, as if knocking on an acquaintance's home.

The door did not open, but a faint golden light leaked from the door gap, as if sizing him up.

It was as if it was identifying his aura, and then a voice that sounded like it had been rusted for many years came from inside the door...

"Those who enter the tower must offer their most precious thing."

Chu Sheng let out a chuckle, then raised his hand with his palm facing upward, and the Devilish Qi of Infatuation surged out from his palm.

That aura was not violent, nor could it even be considered thick, but the moment it appeared—

The runes on the door surface flashed violently as if scalded, and the golden light in the door gap suddenly contracted, as if hit head-on by something.

"Open your eyes wide and look closely, is this qualified enough?"

As his voice fell, he raised his foot and kicked hard against the door surface.

The door let out a muffled loud sound, like a hoarse cry from a suddenly awakened beast.

The runes on the door surface flashed violently a few times, as if wanting to close again, but that Devilish Qi of Infatuation had already penetrated deep into the door gap, jamming the rotation of the door.

Creak, creak, creak...

The door slowly opened inward, and then opened completely.

Chu Sheng stepped inside.

Behind him, Yu Rumeng stood outside the tower, hesitated for a moment, and still followed.

After all, although he was not very polite to her, he was still her benefactor.

Her steps were very light, as if she was afraid of startling something.

Chu Sheng did not look back at her, nor did he chase her away.

He merely divided a wisp of divine sense, silently paying attention to her safety.

He walked all the way up.

The first floor was that pile of messy junk, the second floor was an illusion array, and the third floor was a labyrinth-like terrain; all of them were passed through by him with familiar ease.

The Restriction inside the tower seemed to sense his aura, and some tried to activate.

But as soon as the Devilish Qi emerged, it was casually slapped apart by him, like someone who had just wanted to reach out to stop others being pressed back down.

When he reached the eighth floor, he stopped.

The scene on the eighth floor had not changed much from when he came last time.

Greed's golden Devilish Qi and Gluttony's black devouring power were still entangling, biting, and waxing and waning against each other.

They were like two beasts that had been fighting in the same cage for thousands of years; neither could swallow the other, nor could either be completely suppressed by the other.

But the moment he stepped into the range of the eighth floor, the two forces tearing at each other paused simultaneously.

It was as if they simultaneously sensed the aura of the Ancestral Demon Body on him.

That aura caused them to briefly stop fighting each other and instead surge toward him at the same time.

The golden and black lights intertwined, like two beasts that originally bit each other discovering a larger prey, deciding to put aside their fight for the moment and deal with this intruder first.

Chu Sheng stood in place, neither retreating nor dodging.

He looked at the two strands of Devilish Qi surging toward him, quickly running through his current state in his mind.

The last time he came, his Cultivation was only at Spirit Nurturing, and facing these two strands of Devilish Qi, he could only walk around them, ultimately benefiting that arrogant thing.

Arrogance later devoured the Devilish Qi of Greed and Gluttony, his strength soaring, breaking through all the way to a Divine Ability.

This time, he was already at Tongxuan, holding the four swords of zhuxian in his hands and possessing the Ancestral Demon Body on his body.

Facing these residual forces that had been intertwined for thousands of years, he completely had no need to take a detour anymore.

He raised his right hand, and the Devilish Qi of Infatuation surged out from his palm, forming a barrier that enveloped him within it.

The word of infatuation, when subdivided, had five branches: delusion, falsehood, persistence, confusion, and illusion.

And Arrogance belonged to the category of falsehood, being a variant of the branch of infatuation.

Greed, Gluttony, and Lust belonged to Greed.

Demanding outward, possessing, and thirsting for satisfaction.

Fury and Envy belonged to wrath.

Rejecting outward, hating, and being hostile.

And the infatuation he was currently Cultivating was the root, the soil of Greed and wrath.

He pressed the Devilish Qi of Infatuation toward the two surging strands of Devilish Qi.

In the process of approaching him, the gold and black colors seemed to encounter some kind of barrier that was difficult to cross, and their speed slowed down significantly.

Greed's golden Devilish Qi solidified in the air, as if hesitating whether to continue forward.

Gluttony's black devouring power also lingered at the edge of that barrier, as if repeatedly confirming the thickness of that barrier.

Chu Sheng felt that the Devilish Qi in his body was resonating with them.

The Devilish Qi of Infatuation could indeed suppress them, but the effect was not as thorough as he had imagined.

After all, both of these forces belonged to the category of Greed, while his infatuation started Cultivating from the branch of lust, and its Foundation did not completely overlap with the roots of Greed and Gluttony.

But it was also enough.

He increased the output of the Devilish Qi of Infatuation, pushing back the golden and black Devilish Qi that were slowly creeping and trying to bypass the barrier to approach him bit by bit.

Those two forces surged, intertwined, and revolved in front of him, as if trapped in a gradually narrowing net.

He was not in a hurry to completely gather them up, but first stabilized the current situation.

After confirming that they truly could not break free, he began to retract them bit by bit.

The melting golden and black Devilish Qi followed the guidance of the Devilish Qi of Infatuation, slowly surging into his Dantian.

He felt that his Cultivation was slowly climbing, and the Bottleneck of the Early Stage of Tongxuan was loosening layer by layer.

"This feels simply too good..."

When the last wisp of golden Devilish Qi was completely absorbed by him, his aura suddenly spiked by a notch.

Middle Stage of Tongxuan.

That newly born power surged and receded within his body, and then stabilized, like a newly widened river channel re-adapting to the new water flow.

He lowered his head to glance at his palm; the Devilish Qi of Infatuation in his palm was even more solid than before.

A nearly unnoticeable radiance flowed at the edges, like an extremely delicate film slowly covering the original lines.

He closed his eyes, feeling the spinning small sphere in his Dantian, which seemed to show signs of splitting.

One was about to turn into two right away.

He recognized the prototype within it; that was the seed of the second Divine Ability naturally taking shape.

It seemed related to the essence of the first Divine Ability, but extended another new structure from that Foundation.

The combination of devouring and bewitchment.

Chu Sheng opened his eyes and spat out two words: "Infatuation Hell."

Just as he wanted to carefully feel the outline of this new Divine Ability, his peripheral vision suddenly captured a figure.

That figure was cowering behind a stone pillar at the edge of the eighth floor, peeking stealthily.

Chu Sheng's gaze fell on that shadow, and his movements stopped.

"Wait." He said.

That figure stiffened for a moment, as if being called to a halt.