Rudra's brain flashed with many ideas almost instantly he picked up the mace and bam bam bam
he repeatedly bashed the mace on the face of Han Zu.
The bashed head of Han Zu was crushed to a pulp and he let go of the book.
Rudra slid down to the side of the coffin and sat on his knees,
"That was easy",
He flipped open the cultivation manual, it was a thick black manual with a Skull with four horns on its sides and top.
Opening the book the first page read
"Exiled Demon Sutra"
"Demonic cultivation, is it the only way remaining for me to cultivate again?", Rudra thought to himself.
"A Demonic Manual that was too demonic even for demons that they exiled it hmm what a bullshit"
"Everything is yours to take, you like something, take it, snatch it, devour it, make it yours, ho ho why didn't you name this manual Great Thief Manual"
After reading the for a while he realized the gist of the Exiled Demon Sutra,
"The Great Devouring Art" was the base technique in manual learning it would allow a person to devour various essence to build up one's essence, body, and soul.
"Devour blood, Devour the sun, the moon, the living the dead all of them make you stronger"
'Demon Body, Demon Spirit, Devil Soul techniques', these were some of the techniques with their description in the manual.
Various diagrams were showing how to cultivate Different Demonic Qi variants and the materials required to make certain pills which questionable effects, sketches and descriptions of species of beings of different Demonic World.
'A technique that allows me to grow wings and extra appendages also third eye heck ya'
'But what's up with the requirements for these techniques, fly with wings of Verdant Eagle, the Blood, and Horns of a Hell Bull for horns'
'Why can't I flip any more pages are these pages glued together or something', after some pages the manual pages were stuck together and he was not able to flip the page no matter what force he utilized.
'Maybe you need some minimum cultivation to flip the page'
"What is this locked content nonsense"
"So do I practice this manual or not?"
As Rudra was still in dilemma about whether to walk on the demonic path or not he felt a hand clamp his neck and trying to squeeze his life...
"Argh...."
He struggled to free himself from the choke but he could barely contend in strength being an old man and mortal one at that.
Han Zu was super pissed right now he couldn't believe he was bashed to till his teeth broke he was going to skin this old bastard alive he cursed he was choking him;
He was a cultivator of Core Formation Stage he had barely recovered after the good bashing our mc had given him, He was about to pop the head of mc to exact his vengeance, when suddenly the Lionheart in his body started going berserk then he realized that the heart was still alive and it contained a powerful soul.
'Fuck it is a soul attack' he thought as an intense pain raced through his soul.
The lionheart contained a soul he had been duped he couldn't help but curse himself for being so naive to think that it was so easy for him to get the body of Nether Lion, the cub was probably waiting for an unfortunate soul like him to sacrifice himself so that the Lion may take over his body.
His suspicions were confirmed when a massive Black Lion with Red Fiery Mane entered into his Spiritual Expanse.
"I'm gonna chop you up" Hua Zu roared as his soul charged at Lion soul, as both of them started the tussle for control of Hua Zu's body.
Rudra felt the choke on his neck lessen he quickly freed himself from the hands that were clamping him and sucked in a breath of air,
"Huff Huff....."
"I almost died there", the blood flowing into his brain calmed him a little but his heart was beating very fast he could hear his heart and his whole body was trembling.
"Bastard I'm gonna make you pay"
Rage made Rudra escape his dilemma, "Its a dog eat dog world and I'm gonna be the big dog of this yard"
Blood was on his mind he flipped through the manual once more and memorized the Greater Devouring Technique.
He stormed to the side of Hua Zu who was busy Fighting to preserve his soul.
Rudra pressed his hand on Hua's abdomen and activated the Great Devouring technique.