Chapter 415: The Venerable One of the Demon Realm

"Hehe! This old man is just a petty person! What can you do about it?"

Lu Yuhou was somewhat regretful that his strike had missed, but he considered himself a Great Cultivator of the Nascent Soul Stage and did not take Wei Shang seriously at all! Furthermore, at this time, Taixu Palace had long since lost its reputation, making him even more unscrupulous!

"If you are sensible, just leave on your own! The things here belong to me! In return for you helping me break the Restriction, this old man won't make things difficult for you!"

Staring coldly at Wei Shang, Lu Yuhou spoke as if he were addressing a junior! At this moment, Wei Shang was so angry he couldn't say a word; his luck had been terrible lately, even drinking cold water made his teeth ache! He glared hatefully at Lu Yuhou and suddenly squeezed a sentence out through his teeth!

"Lu Yuhou, do you think you can take these things from right in front of me? Even if it means mutual destruction, I will kill you!"

"Kill me? Haha! Did I hear that right, Wei Shang! In the eyes of others, you are the Palace Master of Taixu Palace, but in the eyes of me, Lu Yuhou, you are just a piece of trash!"

As if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, Lu Yuhou laughed wildly. His laughter echoed endlessly throughout the cave, and some of the loose earth and rocks were shaken down by it! Reaching out to take an object from the stone table, he gave it a light shake in front of Wei Shang, and Lu Yuhou continued:

"I've taken it! What can you do to me?"

Looking at the object in Lu Yuhou's hand, Wei Shang's eyes were almost splitting. The other party was relying on his status as a Great Cultivator to show absolutely no regard for him, and was even flaunting the items from the Cave Abode right before his eyes! Even with all of Wei Shang's patience, he could no longer control himself!

"You are courting death!"

With a low roar, Wei Shang opened his mouth wide and spat out a beam of green light. As the radiance dissipated, Lu Yuhou finally saw clearly what it was! It turned out to be a small axe half a foot in size! It was entirely green, and the blade occupied almost half of its total length!

"Heaven Opening Axe! I didn't expect the Sacrificial Heaven Four-Piece Set to actually be in your hands!"

Lu Yuhou's gaze at the small axe was clearly filled with great surprise! His eyes were full of longing!

"Hmph! If it weren't for my unfilial son, who sold the 'Heaven Splitting Scissors' cheaply to Zhang Nuo, even if you, Lu Yuhou, are a Great Cultivator, you would absolutely not be walking out of here today!"

The Sacrificial Heaven Four-Piece Set was a set of four Magic Treasures that had long circulated on the Xianhuan Continent, namely the 'Measuring Heaven Ruler', 'Heaven Splitting Scissors', 'Heaven Opening Axe', and 'Heaven Breaking Hammer'! When the four Magic Treasures were gathered together, they would possess unexpected power! Although Zhang Nuo had the 'Measuring Heaven Ruler' and 'Heaven Splitting Scissors' in his hands, he had no idea about this secret! Let alone the specific method of using them!

Just as Wei Shang said, if Wei Juren had not been killed by Zhang Nuo, and the Magic Treasure 'Heaven Splitting Scissors' in his hand had not fallen into Zhang Nuo's possession, Wei Shang could have made Lu Yuhou go through a great deal of trouble today with just these two Magic Treasures alone!

"Hehe! It's just a pity that this Heaven Breaking Four-Piece Set must be used together to unleash its true power. You only having the 'Heaven Opening Axe' is equivalent to an ordinary Magic Treasure to me!"

As he spoke, Lu Yuhou looked relaxed. He gently wiped the dust off the object in his hand and looked closely; it appeared to be an umbrella! It looked extremely dilapidated! But since it was an item from the First Immortal Mountain, he believed it was definitely not an ordinary object!

Wei Shang watched Lu Yuhou playing with the treasure in his hand without even glancing at him. Furious, he reached out and grabbed the 'Heaven Opening Axe' in front of him, pouring the Spirit Power within his body into the axe blade! He raised the small axe high and swung it down at Lu Yuhou with great speed!

A blade shadow several zhang in size slashed down wildly toward Lu Yuhou. Wherever the blade passed, the void rippled like water, as if the axe were being swung underwater!

A moment ago, Lu Yuhou was still looking down at the small umbrella in his hand, but the next moment, he fiercely injected Spirit Power into the umbrella and raised his hand to cast the dilapidated small umbrella out!

"Boom!"

After a muffled, thunderous sound, the entire Cave Abode trembled. The seemingly unremarkable small umbrella had actually taken the blow of the 'Heaven Opening Axe' head-on!

Wei Shang retreated several steps in shock, his eyes filled with astonishment. He knew exactly how powerful the 'Heaven Opening Axe' was; a tattered little umbrella had actually blocked the attack with ease!

Lu Yuhou's heart, however, was filled with wild joy! It seemed he was right to want to swallow the Magic Treasures here alone. If even a broken umbrella was this powerful, one could imagine the others!

With a wave of his hand toward the small umbrella in mid-air, it flashed with light and flew back into his hand.

"Good stuff! Hehe! Truly good stuff!"

Deliberately putting on an appearance of cherishing it, Lu Yuhou praised it incessantly! Hearing this, Wei Shang's anger burned even hotter! The treasures here should have had a share for him, yet this petty person Lu Yuhou wanted to keep them all for himself!

Just at this moment, Lu Yuhou discovered a mechanism on the handle of the small umbrella, which he assumed was for opening it. In order to make Wei Shang even angrier and throw his mind into chaos, Lu Yuhou reached out and pressed the mechanism on the handle!

"Click!"

A crisp metallic sound rang out! Then, with a 'whoosh', the dilapidated small umbrella opened. But something happened that Lu Yuhou never dreamed of!

As soon as the small umbrella opened, an incomparably pure Demonic Qi emanated from within. With a swirl, it wrapped Lu Yuhou's entire body inside it!

"What is this!"

Wrapped in layers of Demonic Qi, Lu Yuhou felt it was difficult to breathe. With his cultivation, mere Demonic Qi should not have been able to cause him any harm, but this Demonic Qi was extremely peculiar, as if it possessed some kind of immense power. With his cultivation as a Nascent Soul Stage Great Cultivator, he was actually unable to escape the range controlled by the Demonic Qi!

"Hehe! This Venerable One has finally come out! Finally come out! How many years! How many years! This is the day this Venerable One has been waiting for!"

A sharp voice filled with an evil aura suddenly came from the small umbrella. The sound made one's scalp tingle. Wei Shang, standing in the distance, felt his mind ripple and almost dropped the 'Heaven Opening Axe' in his hand to the ground; one could imagine how Lu Yuhou, located within the Demonic Qi beneath the small umbrella, felt!

"Wei... Fellow Daoist Wei! Quickly... quickly save me! I don't want the things in this Cave Abode anymore, they are all... yours!"

Trapped in the Demonic Qi, Lu Yuhou found that he couldn't use any of his supernatural powers at all. He gasped for air and pleaded with Wei Shang for help repeatedly; it didn't look like he was faking it!

At this moment, Wei Shang felt a sense of extreme vindication! Yet, facing this terrifying scene, he couldn't bring himself to be happy, his eyes fixed firmly on that dilapidated small umbrella!

"Save you! Hmph! You should feel honored to serve as a vessel for this Venerable One!"

That sharp voice rang out again. Then, as the small umbrella spun around, a flash of spiritual light suddenly erupted from the top of Lu Yuhou's head, and it opened completely. Immediately after, a green light flew out from within—it was his Nascent Soul!

As soon as the Nascent Soul appeared, its pair of small eyes were filled with terror. It had not released the Nascent Soul on its own, but had been forced to do so by the mysterious power within the small umbrella!

"You... what are you doing?"

The Nascent Soul's trembling little hands kept forming seals, trying to return to the main body, but after trying several methods, Lu Yuhou felt some despair. Under the pressure of the small umbrella's power, the Nascent Soul was unable to return to his own body!

"Hmph! Although the cultivation is a bit low, it is enough!"

A cold snort came from the small umbrella! Then it spoke in a tone that sounded extremely condescending. At this moment, a strange look flashed in Wei Shang's eyes. Lu Yuhou had reached the Nascent Soul Late Stage Great Perfection, a Great Cultivator with one foot into the Spirit Severing Stage, yet in the mouth of that mysterious person, his cultivation was actually too low! What kind of background did the other party have to be so arrogant!

After realizing this, cold sweat finally seeped out on Wei Shang's forehead! The only thing he could be certain of now was that the mysterious person in the small umbrella must have been a great power from the Xianhuan Continent of the past who had been sealed inside the umbrella! But today, this unlucky Lu Yuhou had released him!

Just as he was lost in his thoughts, he heard a shrill, miserable scream from the Nascent Soul beneath the small umbrella. Immediately after, inside the small umbrella, a jet-black Demonic Qi was slowly being injected into the body of Lu Yuhou's Nascent Soul!

As the Demonic Qi was injected, the color of the Nascent Soul also began to change, slowly turning from green to black! This time, Wei Shang was even more certain that the thing in the small umbrella was definitely a demonic entity! Because only by practicing Demonic Arts would the resulting Nascent Soul be entirely black!

Seeing this, Wei Shang hardly hesitated anymore. With a flash of his figure, he rushed toward the cave entrance! The mysterious figure in the small umbrella seemed to be at the most critical moment and paid no attention to Wei Shang, focusing on injecting the Demonic Qi into the Nascent Soul!

At the beginning, the Nascent Soul struggled for a while, but in the end, the Nascent Soul's little hands and feet hung down powerlessly, and its pair of small eyes were filled with nothing but Demonic Qi!

"Whoosh!"

One of the Nascent Soul's fingers suddenly moved, and then a sharp glint flashed in its vacant eyes. Its small mouth opened slightly, murmuring as if talking to itself:

"Not bad! It has retained the original cultivation of this body! This Venerable One can finally see the light of day again!"

As he spoke, the black Nascent Soul rushed into Lu Yuhou's body below and disappeared in the blink of an eye! A moment later, a large amount of Demonic Qi began to emanate from Lu Yuhou's body. Before long, the aura on his body had completely changed; he had actually become an out-and-out demonic cultivator!

Looking up at the small umbrella above, 'Lu Yuhou' beckoned with one hand and retrieved the small umbrella back into his hand!

"This Venerable One broke into the Human Realm from the Demon Realm, only to be trapped in this umbrella for tens of thousands of years! Once I have recuperated for a period of time, I will definitely go and take my revenge!"

As soon as he finished this sentence, 'Lu Yuhou's' eyes rolled slightly. He felt that something was wrong. The cultivators who had sealed him back then all had cultivation levels above the Spirit Severing Stage, but why were the cultivators appearing here only at the Nascent Soul Stage! Could it be that something had happened to the Xianhuan Continent after tens of thousands of years?