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With Shin's Battle Genius Talent, the Demon constantly improved and evolved during the entire battle. It was getting used to its new vessel while wielding and merging the two energies under its command were becoming second nature to it.
Although it was still far from being perfect and unable to reach the ideal state of the said Worldly Origin, its power was becoming infinitely close to it.
This Demon in front of him was someone with an insanely high growth potential due to Shin's talent.
Samuel knew that it would be a great disaster if they let something like 'this' roam freely. There would be someone much scarier than the notorious 'Great Demon', who always created chaos wherever he went – or even the 'Heavenly Demon' himself, who could scare the World Government.
Samuel had left Bernard's body for David and the others to take care of so that he could focus on dealing with this demon.
He could subdue it quite easily if he wanted, but he could not do anything rash as this could also risk harming Shin. The 'Seed of Hatred' had already taken over the body, which would put Shin at risk once it was cornered and decided to commit suicide.
Unless there was a decently powerful Mentalist around to put Shin to sleep and seal the 'seed' once again, then they had to leave this 'demon' on a rampage.
But they could not wait that long either since the 'Seed of Hatred' could also consume Shin's consciousness as he was put in slumber after the takeover. Unless Shin fought against it, this situation was very dangerous for him, especially when Shin had lost his mind in his rage earlier.
Of course, Samuel was unaware that there was another 'consciousness' living within Shin's mind that could handle that problem.
Speaking of him, Uno was currently cursing Shin, who just went to sleep after his trauma was reawakened by the scene of Bernard dying.
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Bang! Bang! Bang!
Uno kept on dodging as a series of attacks from the gigantic demonic monster that just broke free from its seal. It was the embodiment of the 'Seed of Hatred' within Shin's Sea of Consciousness.
There were still some golden chains wrapped around its limbs and other parts of its body, slightly restricting its movements, and somewhat stopping it from moving forward.
Behind Uno, Shin was floating in the air, unconscious. He was protecting the latter, as the Seed of Hatred was trying to reach them.
"Tsk! Why do I always have to clean up the mess? If you sleep there for as long as before, then we will be in deep trouble," he mumbled as he glared at the See of Hatred fiercely.
He then turned to the side and looked over his shoulder. Looking at Shin, he clicked his tongue before cursing once again. "You better don't use the same trick this time and run away again, or else your father will have to 'fix' you again."
After that, he turned to the Seed of Hatred once again before conjuring a pair of swords for each of his hands. This place was their domain, so everything was under their control.
Hu~!
Regulating his breaking, two types of Internal Qi surrounded his body; one being silver-white while the other was pitch-black. They were the Sacred Qi and Demonic Qi present within Shin's body. Stay connected through mvl
With some adjustments of his mind, the Qi surrounding him looked like a pair of raging flames fighting against one another suddenly thinned out and formed a layer over his body with an alternating color.
They also spread toward his swords and formed a layer of Qi on them, enhancing their sharpness and hardness. This greatly showed how good his control over the energies that he harnessed.
If any Sword Practitioner saw this, then they would be crazy as it was a sign that someone was approaching the ranks of Swordmaster already. In their terms, this was a perfect control over Sword Qi. With that kind of coating over his swords, his battle prowess reached another level.
But that was not the end as he still had other cards in his arsenal.
The next one was his version of the Natural State. It was a state that perfectly matched his talents and battle style.
'Natural State: True Equinox'
It was the counterpart that Shin had been using until he recently achieved it.
But this one was much perfect and more powerful than what Shin had as Uno had combined the two special states that Professor Plum had created to complement his 'Yin-Yang Martial Arts and Swordsmanship', the 'Black Origin Threshold' and 'White Dawn Boundary'.
Uno was not successful at totally combining, but he created something that was not that far from the ideal state that they were supposed to have. One was meant for an aggressive and fiery offensive while the other was entering a state of absolute tranquility.
An aggressive heart and a calm mind; aggressive as fire but as calm as water.
Compared to Jan Mateo, his people were not doing that well. Most of them were on the losing end in their respective battle. But since they were Demonic Partitioners, killing them would be a great challenge given that they could constantly heal themselves. So long as they had enough Demonic Powers within them, they would be able to continue fighting.
Well, aside from a single person.
The Demon General who was fighting Old Ryong was now losing an arm after the old man had cut it off.
He could not regrow his severed limb with his Demonic Powers as Old Ryong's powers were preventing him from healing it. That power was like a parasite that was constantly consuming his Demonic Powers whenever he tried to heal his wounds.
This was one of the abilities that Old Ryong had developed after fighting against Demonic Practitioners in the past, which also made him a notorious enemy of those people.
His Demonic Powers made use of the Demonic Powers of the others, weakening them while strengthening himself.
But in exchange for seriously injuring that Demon General, Old Ryong had risked worsening his wounds.
Jan Mateo also had his methods when fighting Demonic Practitioners, especially when he hunted down those that could be his nutrients. The wounds that he could inflict on other Demonic Practitioners were as serious as what Old Ryong could and tricky to handle.
Boom!
As the battle on this side escalated further, a powerful demonic aura exploded in the distance.
Everyone halted in their tracks and paused the battles as they could sense how powerful that demonic aura was.
As Demonic Practitioners, Jan Mateo, his people, and Old Ryong knew what this meant. A Demon was born!
And given the powerful aura that it was released, they knew that it was someone that could stand at the highest point within their 'hierarchy'.
It was someone more powerful than Jan Mateo himself when he first became a 'Demon'. The same for Old Ryong as well as the current leaders of the Demonic Sects and organizations related to them.
At the very least, it was as strong as a certain person.
As that person flashed through their minds, they could not help but speak out loud. "The Heavenly Demon!"
They all turned in the direction where the demonic aura was coming from and saw that the sky had turned dark as if night befell in that place.
They could not see the column of demonic aura that appeared in that place, but they could at least tell that it had reached the sky given the phenomenon that they were seeing.
Jan Mateo suddenly became excited when he saw that. "I finally found you, my meal!"
He glanced at Nathan before smirking. He turned and was about to issue a command to head over to the place where the demonic aura was coming from when something unexpected happened.
While everyone where looking at the source of the demonic aura, a huge spatial fracture appeared in the sky.
It blocked their line of sight as it appeared right between them and the place where the new 'Demon' was born.
Their attention was quickly attracted to that spatial tear, sensing an overwhelming power coming from it. This power instantly overridden the demonic aura released by the newly born demon, making them extremely cautious.
Then they saw an extremely handsome man walking out of that spatial tear while wearing a set of black Taoist robes with golden and crimson embroideries designing its edges.
An intense shiver quickly ran down the spine of everyone as they saw him and almost simultaneously shouted after recognizing him.
"Heavenly Demon!"
This time, their tones carried a deep fear as they stared at the man, who calmly looked at them with his hands crossed behind him.
He smirked when he saw their reactions before staring straight at Jan Mateo and said. "Since you did not heed my warning, I guess I will be taking your life this time."
His tone was calm and collected but his words carried an air of authority as if he was standing on the top of the world.
With his appearance, time seemed to have stopped while the world listened to his words.
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