Chapter 749 - 743: Return of the Demon Lord

In a lake as dark as ink, the body of the Demon Lord kept writhing with a special rhythm.

Amid this unique frequency of wriggling, a palm-sized slit opened on the back of the Demon Lord.

Under that peculiar undulation, the palm-sized slit gradually widened.

Slowly, something black emerged from the slit.

It was hair.

Beneath the strands of hair, there was a human head.

As time passed, the peculiar undulating frequency accelerated.

A whole person was squeezed out from the body.

This person, squeezed out, was indeed the Demon Lord.

However, this Demon Lord appeared significantly younger than before.

This Demon Lord looked about seventeen or eighteen years old.

Clearly, this was a youthful version of the Demon Lord.

Though the Demon Lord appeared much younger, his strength had not diminished and remained at Tier One.

The Demon Lord leapt suddenly into the air, and in the next second, appeared on the shore.

At this time, only the previous skin of the Demon Lord floated on the pitch-black lake surface.

This was exactly like the Celestial Demon Transformation Technique, akin to shedding the skin, thereby achieving rebirth.

Every nine years, he sheds his skin once.

After nine cycles of shedding, the power of causality completely dissipates.

Currently, the Demon Lord had only shed once, and the power of causality within had yet to completely dissipate.

But at least, within the next nine years, he need not worry about the power of causality.

"Hahaha!" By the lakeside, the Demon Lord could not help but laugh heartily: "Lin Yuan! Lin Yuan!"

"I should thank you. If it weren’t for the battle in the Returning Ruins Arena, I wouldn’t have ventured this deep, discovering the Celestial Demon Transformation Technique."

The Demon Lord was very pleased, as he had gained threefold benefits this time.

The first benefit was naturally finding a way to resolve the power of causality, temporarily suppressing it.

The second benefit was that despite suffering severe injuries in the Returning Ruins Arena, almost on the brink of death, he had fully recovered after cultivating the Celestial Demon Transformation Technique.

The third benefit was that the Demon Lord had become much younger, now in peak form.

The Demon Lord thought to himself, this time, fortune truly smiled upon me.

Having dispelled the power of causality, the Demon Lord did not linger long in the Returning Ruins.

He intended to meet with the Buddha and Wa Huang, to flaunt in front of them properly.

Back then, when the power of causality entangled him, the Buddha and Wa Huang despised him immensely.

Now that the Demon Lord had turned things around, he naturally wanted to mock the two of them.

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Wa Huang’s Palace.

After returning from the Returning Ruins, the Demon Lord first went to his own Great Demon God Palace and then to the Buddha’s Great Burial Heaven Temple.

But, on both occasions, he found them empty.

Even though both the Great Burial Heaven Temple and the Great Demon God Palace had been partially burned.

The Demon Lord believed that his disciples should at least have rebuilt the Great Demon God Palace based on its ruins, no matter what.

At a minimum, there should be a place for his disciples to stay.

The Void Race relied on the remaining ruins in the void to supplement their energy.

The Demon Lord’s disciples also needed to replenish their inner energy.

If they didn’t rebuild the Great Demon God Palace, they wouldn’t even have a place to rest.

They would have to, just like the Void Race, restore energy within the ruins of the void.

"Could it be that all my disciples went wandering in the void?" A thought rose in the Demon Lord’s mind.

But that’s not right!

After being entangled by causality, the Demon Lord entrusted his disciples to the Buddha’s care.

Logically, even if the Great Demon God Palace hadn’t been rebuilt, they should still be with the Buddha.

And with this thought in mind, the Demon Lord went to the Great Burial Heaven Temple again.

However, he found neither his disciples nor even the monks under the Buddha’s seat!

In the huge Celestial Burial Temple, not a single monk was present.

"What happened? Could it be that the Yin Celestial Son attacked the void and captured them?" The Demon Lord thought.

The Demon Lord would rather believe the Yin Celestial Son invaded the void than accept that Wa Huang had taken in all his people.

This shows that the Demon Lord and Wa Huang certainly didn’t get along.

In fact, currently, the people from the Great Demon God Palace and the Great Burial Heaven Temple were all at Wa Huang’s Palace.

As more and more of the Void Race arrived at the Returning Ruins and entered the Returning Ruins Arena.

The disciples of Wa Huang, the Demon Lord, and the Buddha, were increasingly forced into the Returning Ruins Arena.

For the convenience of consulting these disciples, tracking returns, and counting deaths, Wa Huang gathered everyone at Wa Huang’s Palace.

After all, it’s easier to manage when everyone is in one place.

To this, the Buddha naturally had no objections, he even stayed at Wa Huang’s Palace himself, using it as their command center.

It’s just that when they made this decision, the Demon Lord was still within the Returning Ruins, and they couldn’t reach him.

Fortunately, the Demon Lord wasn’t completely ignorant.

After consecutively visiting the Celestial Burial Temple and the Great Demon God Palace and finding no one, he eventually thought of Wa Huang’s Palace.

"Yes!"

"Wa Huang’s Palace, I should first see what’s going on." With this thought, the Demon Lord headed straight to Wa Huang’s Palace.

Upon arriving at Wa Huang’s Palace, the Demon Lord couldn’t help but heave a sigh of relief.

Because he saw that Wa Huang’s Palace was overcrowded, and he recognized many of his Great Demon God Palace disciples.

And among the crowd, those monks with shiny bald heads were undoubtedly from the Great Burial Heaven Temple.

"So everyone is at Wa Huang’s Palace?"

"No wonder the Great Demon God Palace and the Great Burial Heaven Temple were empty." Thinking of this, the Demon Lord muttered softly: "They’ve joined forces, are they planning something big?"

The Demon Lord didn’t realize that the union wasn’t about some grand plan but because of the Returning Ruins Arena.

In essence, it was all due to the Demon Lord himself.

The Demon Lord was the first to discover the Returning Ruins Arena, and it was because he insisted on fighting Lin Yuan there that sparked this chain of events.

It was precisely after the Demon Lord challenged Lin Yuan that Lin Yuan shared this method with the Void Race.

One could say that this wave of the Void Race’s counterattack was entirely thanks to the Demon Lord!

The Demon Lord could never have expected that discovering the Returning Ruins Arena would backfire so dramatically.

The Demon Lord was eager to know what grand actions the Buddha and Wa Huang had in store.

With his causality power suppressed and his peak condition restored, it was the perfect time for achievement.

With this in mind, the Demon Lord heedlessly unleashed his Divine Thought, roaming throughout Wa Huang’s Palace.

Soon, he found the Buddha and Wa Huang engaged in conversation.

As the Demon Lord’s Divine Thought brazenly enveloped Wa Huang’s Palace, both the Buddha and Wa Huang also

sensed the presence of the Demon Lord.

The trio hadn’t met face to face, yet it felt as though their eyes met across the distance.