Redemption of a Born Demon

Brilliant, strange phenomena manifested around the five Sleepers present.

They were channeling their individual Divine Powers, trying to expel and extinguish the Black Flame clinging to their bodies.

But they failed. The Black Flame seemed to seep through every pore, feeding on their Divine Powers and burning even more fiercely.

The abnormalities on their bodies grew more pronounced. Their muscles bulged and their flesh proliferated, twisting them into increasingly inhuman forms.

The Earth Immortal Flesh and Blood was never their own power to begin with, and the Black Flame’s abilities completely countered it.

"It seems you cannot withstand the trial of the Black Flame. By borrowing a power that does not belong to you, you have sealed your doom for this day."

While the five Sleepers were struggling against the Black Flame, Yi Beidou had already fully recovered from the injuries he sustained from taking the combined blow of three of them.

He stood tall and proud, like a sharp sword piercing the heavens. Though the five Sleepers had taken on the forms of mythical monsters, their presence was now completely overshadowed by the aura erupting from this single, small human body.

Now, it was time for the harvest.

"Everyone, I’m leaving first. You’re on your own."

The Lady of the Three Yins barked, ignoring the Black Flame burning on her body as she turned to flee.

Meanwhile, the King of the Wheel of Reincarnation didn’t utter a sound. He executed a King’s Transformation and instantly fled in the opposite direction.

The Huaqing Immortal was in a much worse state. His Out-of-body Celestial Yang Spirit technique inherently exposed his Life Magnetic Field. The giant form was now almost completely covered in Black Flame, making it difficult for him to even return to his physical body. He had suffered the most damage of the five.

As for Lotus, he was already long gone.

He had the least amount of Earth Immortal Flesh and Blood fused into his body, making his Cultivation purer than the other four. As a result, he was the least affected by the Black Flame.

After sensing the true might of the Black Flame and witnessing the state of the others, he knew the situation was hopeless and had made a decisive retreat.

This Black Flame was crushing them as if it were an attack from a higher dimension. It was simply unbelievable—a power that should not exist in the mortal world.

’Although that young man’s words were arrogant, he was telling the truth.’

’If they couldn’t find a way to counter this Black Flame, then not a single Sleeper was qualified to stand before him anymore.’

"Those bastards!"

The East King glanced back to find himself completely alone. Those same allies who had just been making bold promises were now running faster than rabbits, a sight that made him burn with uncontrollable rage.

He wasn’t skilled at escaping to begin with, and the Black Flame’s effect on him was second only to its impact on the Huaqing Immortal.

After all, the Black Flame was a power born from a fusion with Penglai Power, sharing the same origin as the power the East King wielded. This common root only made its destructive effect on him all the more potent.

Now, not only had he lost the terrifying regenerative abilities of the Penglai Technique, but the Penglai Earth Immortal’s flesh and blood was constantly lashing back at him. Merely suppressing this internal revolt consumed nearly half of his focus.

Worse still, a cold, murderous gaze had already locked onto him.

Yi Beidou was walking toward him, one step at a time.

"I let you escape last time. You won’t have that chance again,"

Yi Beidou stated calmly.

For the first time in countless years, the East King truly felt the suffocating, trembling grip of fear.

The man approaching him was like an inescapable doom.

His life and the Cultivation he had amassed over thousands of years of dominating the human world were all about to be ended by this man’s hand.

"Young man, I’m willing to submit to you! I’ll do anything for you!"

"I know many secrets about the Penglai Immortal Mountain and the Penglai Earth Immortal! I can tell you everything!"

The East King’s voice trembled as he staggered backward. With the Earth Immortal Flesh and Blood turning against him, he didn’t even have a chance to stake it all on a final, desperate struggle.

For a Sleeper to make a last-ditch effort, they had to drastically activate the Earth Immortal Flesh and Blood—relying, in the end, on power that was not their own.

If he were to rely only on his own strength, even someone like Zhou Qingchen could likely defeat him.

"You are of no use to me. Your only fate is to be reduced to ash in this tribulation,"

Yi Beidou said flatly.

Jade Power coiled around his body as the Black Flame spread to engulf his entire palm.

The next moment.

BOOM!

A terrifying blast wave erupted as the palm, wreathed in Black Flame, pressed against the center of the East King’s brow.

His entire head exploded like a shattered watermelon, and his massive body crashed to the ground.

The East King—a Sleeper who had left behind countless legends in the annals of Donghua history, who had controlled Japan for nearly two thousand years, who had stood at the pinnacle of all living beings—lost everything, just like that.

THUMP-THUMP! THUMP-THUMP!

Freed from the control of the East King’s consciousness, the Earth Immortal Flesh and Blood within him seemed about to run completely rampant. The muscles on his now four-meter-tall body continued to swell, increasing his height and bulk. The limbs of the headless corpse twitched unceasingly, as if unskilled in this new form, yet rapidly growing accustomed to it.

It wouldn’t be long, he feared, before the instincts of the Earth Immortal Flesh and Blood familiarized themselves with this headless shell, allowing it to stand up once more and even move and attack on pure instinct.

The Earth Immortal Flesh and Blood would only return to a dormant state once the Biological Energy and nutrients the East King had accumulated in his body were completely exhausted.

This couldn’t help but remind Yi Beidou of a myth.

Xingtian Wuganqi.

However, since he was here, he would not allow such a thing to happen.

With a flick of his finger, streams of Black Flame shot like nails into the chest of the East King’s corpse. This was his modified Demon-Suppressing Seven-Star Needle.

The Black Flame-infused Seven-Star Needle quickly took effect within the corpse. On one hand, it suppressed the rampaging Earth Immortal Flesh and Blood; on the other, it used the Black Flame to burn away all mortal flesh and energy within the body, forcing the Earth Immortal Flesh and Blood into a state of dormancy.