Top-Tier Perception Starts From Basic Fist Techniques

The ministry was an unremarkable government office, and it looked very different from the other offices. There was no one running about the place. There was only a single watchman, and he wore the lazy, unroused look of a man who could not bring himself to care.

Nonetheless, the plaque above it with the words "Demon God Ministry" kept people at a respectful distance, and nobody went near it without reason. Everyone knew what filled the place—demons. The demons inside it might take themselves for men, but in the eyes of ordinary people, they were still demons.

As Lu Changsheng walked toward it, the watchman did not so much as raise his head.

"This is the restricted ground of the Demon God Ministry. No dwellers, stop there," he spoke in a flat tone.

Lu Changsheng glanced at him and saw it in that one look. The man was not a man but a demon, and no ordinary demon either. The demon aura on him was thick. He was a greater demon at the least. Putting a greater demon to guard the gate of the ministry's own grounds was out of the common practice indeed.

However, Lu Changsheng did not stop walking nor did he answer the greater demon. He simply carried on into the ministry as though the creature was not there.

"Insolence!" A sharp glint flickered across the greater demon's eyes. As slack as he looked, his senses were very sharp, and he had detected Lu Changsheng out while he was still a long way off.

He had felt no demon aura on him, though. If he was not a demon, he had to be a man. At best, he was nothing more than a martial artist who appeared to be full of vigor. Some trifling martial artist forcing his way into the Demon God Ministry? Did the man take him for an ornament?

The demon laughed coldly and lifted his hand, going straight for Lu Changsheng fast enough to blur. Dense hair sprouted all over that arm as it struck, with sharp claws pushing out of his fingers. It was a demonic transformation! He had transformed his arm and meant to pitch Lu Changsheng straight back out the way he had come.

Lu Changsheng shook his head and flicked a finger.

Swoosh!

A hard gust of wind came at the demon's face. A gust of wind was all that it was, and it struck his arm hard.

"Agh!" The demon yelled as his huge body went flying backward and fell hard on the ground. He could not believe what was happening. A martial artist had knocked him through the air with nothing but a gust of wind. How was that possible?

"Who are you?" The demon had evidently worked out that the visitor was no simple mortal, but Lu Changsheng paid him no attention and walked straight on into the ministry.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

He was barely inside before greater demons and demon kings came one after another to block his way. Their senses were all keen, and they knew exactly what had happened at the gate. Flicking a greater demon through the air with a single strike was well beyond anything an ordinary martial artist could do.

"Who are you to force your way into our Demon God Ministry? Give us your name, sir."

The aura on each of them was terrible, and massed together, their pressure blotted out the sky. Any man or demon alive would have felt his heart drop at it. However, Lu Changsheng looked entirely unmoved.

The guard at the gate came in after him, shamed by what had happened. He watched him warily all the same.

Suddenly, Lu Changsheng stopped walking, and the force came off him all at once.

Boom!

The terrible pressure of Fifth Growth broke loose in an instant, and it went through the massed auras of every greater demon and demon king there like a gale, scattering them through the air.

The sky seemed to turn red in a moment as a vast net that was the color of blood hung faintly over their heads, and it brought the demons beneath it a suffocation that was frightening to feel. The pressure was terrible. It was like standing in front of the demon god himself.

What kind of being was the demon god, though? He was the pillar that held the whole Jing Dynasty steady and stood at the very top of the whole world. How could the man in front of them carry pressure like that?

"Is that... a blood descendant's aura?"

"No, it's beyond anything so simple. No blood descendant carries an aura this terrible. If I'm guessing right, this is the Flesh and Blood Progenitor."

"The Flesh and Blood Progenitor? The monster they call the source of every blood descendant, the one who can kill demon kings?"

"It must be him..."

The demons had worked out roughly who he was. Outside of the Flesh and Blood Progenitor, who else could carry a pressure this terrible?

Lu Changsheng stood with his hands behind his back and spoke slowly. "Correct, I am the progenitor of the Temple of Flesh and Blood, and I have come today to see the demon god. Demon god, why not come out and meet me?"

His voice rolled through into the depths of the ministry and echoed on.

The demon kings were instantly furious.

"You dare!"

"How insolent! Is the demon god a man you can see whenever you please?"

"I would like to see what this Flesh and Blood Progenitor is actually capable of."

After all, just what was Lu Changsheng doing? It was nothing short of showing up right at their doorstep to pick a fight!

"Attack!"

The greater demons and the demon kings went at him without hesitation, each of them manifesting their demon body. The huge silhouette shut out the sun, pouring down terrible pressure over Lu Changsheng like a mountain dropping on a man's head.

Lu Changsheng's eyes went cold. "The demon god won't come out? Very well! Then, I will start killing inside the Demon God Ministry."

He had no more patience for talk. There had never been much friendliness between him and the demon god anyway, and he had genuinely arrived looking for a fight. If the demon god would not show himself, it didn't matter. He just needed to kill a few demon kings and the man would show himself sooner or later.

Against this many greater demons and demon kings, he did not let loose his Flesh and Blood true body. At Fifth Growth, there was incredible power held inside his flesh, and his true body was not needed for small fry like these. Besides, he had a better method.

"Go."

He swept a hand, and a great mass of flesh came away from his body on its own, turned into a rain of flesh and blood, and fell from overhead onto the greater demons and the demon kings.

Every drop of his flesh could convert an ordinary man into a blood descendant without effort. However, demons were another matter. His flesh could not convert a demon and instead went into violent conflict with a demon's flesh, which, under the right conditions, made it a frightening way to attack.

Plop, plop, plop!

Countless clusters of flesh came down on them, causing every greater demon and demon king there to start screaming.

"Agh... what is this?"

"What in the world is this thing?"

"My flesh is being devoured!"

One rain of blood coming down was all it took before the countless greater demons and demon kings went down, howling on the ground and trying to drive Lu Changsheng's flesh out of their bodies.

Too bad for them, it wouldn't be that easy. Had he been at Fourth Growth, they might have managed it, but he had already achieved Fifth Growth.

To an ordinary man, his flesh was a powerful tonic. Many people scrambled after any scrap of the progenitor's flesh they could get, but to a demon, it was a virulent poison that none could stand against.

Once it fastened onto a demon, the creature's state turned wretched past description, and not even a demon king could drive it off. At the end of it was a miserable death.

The greater demons and demon kings that the flesh had not touched backed away fast, with shock written all over their faces. They could hardly believe it. One move from the Flesh and Blood Progenitor had dozens of them howling on the ground with the fight gone out of them. How terrifying was a method like that!

"Flesh and Blood Progenitor. That is enough."

At last, a voice of great authority came out of the depths of the ministry, ringing clear in every ear present.

Li Zong, the demon god, had finally appeared.