Chapter 100: First Steps into the Demonic Path (Part Twelve)

Su Chen's heart sank.
Clearly, a ruthless figure like Zhou Hao wouldn't easily trust others.
One Soul Guide was far from enough.
He had seen records of the Slave Seal Pill in the scriptures of the Central Continent's Pill God Palace.
It was an incredibly vicious pill.
After ingestion, one's mind would gradually be controlled, submitting to the holder of the main seal.
The way to break it...
"You... are unwilling to submit to me?"
Zhou Hao narrowed his eyes, his tall figure like a god or a demon, his imposing aura overwhelming.
Su Chen took the Slave Seal Pill and swallowed it: "This disciple is naturally willing to submit to the Holy Lord."
Seeing Su Chen swallow the Slave Seal Pill, Zhou Hao withdrew his killing intent and said calmly, "Now you are my man, and I need your cooperation to wipe out those ancient remnants of the race."
Su Chen nodded.
Leaving the Devouring Sun Palace, Su Chen was in a very bad mood.
A Holy Lord who could rise from the ashes of the Devouring Sun Holy Land was undoubtedly a formidable figure, far more troublesome than any opponent he had ever encountered before—cautious, ruthless, and possessing extremely high cultivation.
Zhou Hao actually possessed the Slave Seal Pill, such a vicious elixir.
He had to refine an antidote before his mental state could no longer suppress the effects of the Slave Seal Pill!
Even though Zhou Hao was a formidable figure,
he had overlooked one point.
Su Chen was not just Zhou Chen who had lived for twenty years.
He was an ancient monster who had lived for thousands of years.
For someone with an ordinary mind and will, the Slave Seal Pill might subtly enslave them within three to five months.
Su Chen, however, had been tempered through countless reincarnations, his mind and will as firm as steel forged through a thousand hammer blows.
How could he so easily submit to another?
Su Chen admired Zhou Hao, but at the same time, a chilling killing intent filled his heart.
He was determined to kill this terrifying enemy!
Two tigers on one mountain, how can they coexist?
...
Several days later
Outside the Devouring Sun Holy Land
Su Chen met Zhou Yi.
Zhou Yi saw a familiar person.
Zhou Hao!
"Zhou Chen, you actually betrayed us!"
"You will die a horrible death!"
Zhou Yi wanted to escape, but how could he possibly escape from Zhou Hao, a peak Saint Realm expert?
Not long after, turmoil erupted within the Devouring Sun Holy Land, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of elders and disciples. Su Chen's master, Venerable Red Sun, was naturally among them. The remnants of the ancient clans within the Devouring Sun Holy Land were all wiped out.
Su Chen transformed into a true disciple of the Holy Lord, a true disciple of the Holy Land's lineage.
To Su Chen's surprise, Zhou Hao was incredibly generous to him, showering him with countless resources, causing Su Chen's cultivation to advance rapidly. In just thirty years, he surged from the third level of the Void Realm to the peak of the Void Realm.
Just as he was about to break through to the Nirvana Realm, Zhou Hao summoned Su Chen, instructing him to eliminate the heirs of numerous powerful forces in the Northern Region.
"This old bastard... wants to incite conflict between the two regions, hoping to break through to the Saint King realm during the chaos of a great war that devastates the land and disrupts the natural order!"
Su Chen finally understood why Zhou Hao had kept him alive.
He wanted to use him as a pawn on his path to advancement!
Su Chen lowered his head, his face expressionless, like a puppet blindly following orders, and nodded in agreement.
This scene greatly pleased Zhou Hao.
Ever since witnessing Su Chen's Primordial Gluttonous Body, Zhou Hao had harbored a plan... The Saint Realm had held him back for far too long. He wanted to break through to Saint King, but the Western Regions couldn't support his breakthrough. As long as the aged Saint King remained alive, he couldn't advance.
But how could Zhou Hao tolerate such a solution?
Only by wreaking havoc and harnessing the power of the masses could he advance further.
Su Chen was merely a pawn in his hands.
Su Chen left the Sun-Swallowing Palace and headed to the Northern Region.
This was also a rare opportunity to find the antidote for the Slave Seal Pill.
Within the Northern Region,
powerful forces stood side by side. Su Chen's seventh incarnation was the patriarch of a fallen Saint Clan in the Northern Region, and he was intimately familiar with the Northern Region's power structure.
Unfortunately, the Ancient Clan had declined. Since the battle between Su Chen and Lin Zhan, the entire Ancient Clan had been wiped out, its members almost entirely killed or wounded. Those who managed to escape were wanted by the War God Palace.
With the ancient clans annihilated, the entire Northern Region's powers sat on the sidelines, and even those forces allied with the ancient clans offered not a single helping hand.
Now, Su Chen showed no mercy in slaughtering their descendants.
Within a ruin.
Su Chen entered. The ancient ruins were stained with blood, countless prodigies had met untimely deaths.
The methods used were simulated by Su Chen's aura as the ultimate techniques of various major powers in the Western Regions. Anyone would likely believe that these people had been slaughtered by an elite squad of prodigies from the Western Regions.
The items within the ruins also fell into Su Chen's hands.
This matter shocked the Northern Region, but the various powers of the Northern Region naturally wouldn't easily believe that the Western Regions were responsible, and they all searched for the mastermind.
Time passed quickly, ten years went by.
Never the Northern Region's powers, even those with saintly abilities, could find the mastermind.
On the contrary, the number of dead prodigies increased, and their actions became increasingly covert, only traces of the Western Regions remaining.
This incident unsettled the Northern Region. Many powerful figures traveled to the Western Region demanding an explanation. The Western Region, of course, denied everything and refused to provide any explanation. The conflict between the Northwest and the West had raged for hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps even longer. The Northern Region had suffered countless casualties among its prodigies, disrupting its power structure. Wasn't this a golden opportunity for the Western Region to catch up with and replace the Northern Region?
Gradually, the Western Region also saw a surge in the deaths of its prodigies.
The sects within the Western Region were mostly malevolent, and they immediately concluded that the Northern Region was responsible, seeking an excuse to disrupt the Western Region's power structure. How could the holy lands, sects, and races of the Western Region tolerate this?
They immediately launched an even fiercer counterattack, and this covert war lasted for thirty years.
Su Chen gazed at the pill before him and let out a long sigh.
For a century, he had been shuttling between the Western and Northern Regions. Countless prodigies had died at his hands, and several times, even Saint-level experts had attacked, but he had managed to escape death using his sacred artifacts.
He had devoured far too many prodigies and powerful figures. To plunder the antidote for the Slave Seal Pill, countless lineages had perished at his hands. He single-handedly stirred up the world's destiny.
Su Chen swallowed the antidote for the Slave Seal Pill. While the Slave Seal Pill was difficult to refine, how could it possibly be a challenge for a master alchemist with one foot in the Saint-grade realm?
"Not enough... To incite a war between the powerful beings of two realms, kill Zhou Hao, and obtain the antidote for the Soul Guide, I need to kill at least one more heavyweight!"
Although Su Chen had neutralized the effects of the Slave Seal Pill, he hadn't forgotten the Soul Guide of the Devouring Sun Holy Land within his mind... The method of controlling the Soul Guide was held by successive Holy Lords; otherwise, he would never have escaped the fate of being controlled by Zhou Hao's life and death.
Unless he could incarnate in the next life.
Su Chen was naturally unwilling to die like this.
Soon, Su Chen chose a target.
The current generation's divine body prodigy of White Cloud City in the Northern Region
Lin Xiuyuan!
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