Chapter 754: Ancient Demon Technique

"What happened then? Where did the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword and the Evil Infant's Wheel of Myriad Tribulations go?" Yun Che asked.

Jasmine slowly shook her head. "I don't know. The Heretic God was the last god to fall. He might know the ultimate whereabouts of the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword and the Evil Infant's Wheel of Myriad Tribulations, but they weren't mentioned at all in the memory fragments he left behind. Perhaps, in his final moments, he hid them away... hid them in a place that future generations could never find, to prevent these two sources of divine extinction from bringing disaster upon the entire primordial chaos once more."

"But what about the Primordial Azure Dragon saying its daughter was sealed within the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword? And it even asked me to find the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword if possible." Yun Che frowned, recalling the words the Dragon God had spoken to him back in the Death Soul Ocean... it was practically a plea.

"How would I know?" Jasmine slightly pursed her lips. "Whether it's the memories I inherited or the records of the ancient gods, the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword is rarely mentioned. As for you finding it... ha, in my opinion, it's completely baseless."

"From the extinction of the gods until now, not much time has passed—only a mere million years. In these million years, countless beings and races have never given up searching for the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword. Even if the gods perished, the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword couldn't possibly disappear... there's simply nothing in this world that could destroy it. Yet, for an entire million years, no one has ever found a trace of the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword, not even the slightest hint."

"Even today, countless people are still trying to find the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword. And among those who know its name, not a single one doesn't desire to possess it. As for the matter of the Dragon God's daughter being sealed within it, I've never heard any similar rumors before. Perhaps, you and I are the only two in this world who know about it... though it's utterly meaningless."

"What about... the Evil Infant's Wheel of Myriad Tribulations?" Yun Che asked.

"That instrument of ultimate evil and wickedness, although possessing world-destroying power, cannot be destroyed or disappear, just like the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword. But no one would ever try to find it. Hmph, let alone expending effort to search for it, even if it were to suddenly appear before someone, they would avoid it like the plague. Because wielding its power would first send oneself into an inescapable hell!"

Jasmine's voice was somewhat cold and stern, seemingly influenced by some of the memories she inherited, giving her a strong aversion and fear towards the Evil Infant's Wheel of Myriad Tribulations. "In the million years since the destruction of the gods, the Evil Infant's Wheel of Myriad Tribulations has also completely vanished, never appearing. But it must be hidden somewhere in the primordial chaos. And after a million years... the power that fell dormant after it destroyed the gods must have certainly reawakened."

"What about the third-ranked Primordial Seal of Life and Death? Has it also not been found for an entire million years?" Yun Che asked eagerly. The Primordial Seal of Life and Death... was the only way he currently knew of to save the Little Demon Empress.

"Of course!" Jasmine replied without the slightest hesitation. "The few scattered records about the Primordial Seal of Life and Death mention that it originally belonged to 'Lishuo,' the only female Creation God among the Three Creation Gods. With the Primordial Seal of Life and Death, she would have possessed eternal lifespan if nothing went wrong, never perishing or aging even to this day. However, during the fierce battle between gods and devils, she met her end surrounded by several demon monarchs. The Primordial Seal of Life and Death thus fell into the devils' hands, and the gods were never able to reclaim it, not even until the very end when the devils brought out the Evil Infant's Wheel of Myriad Tribulations."

"Therefore, the Primordial Seal of Life and Death should have fallen into an unknown corner of the primordial chaos with the demise of the devils. In these million years, the number of people who yearned to obtain the Primordial Seal of Life and Death was certainly no less than those who wanted the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword. Because obtaining the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword grants unparalleled power, but obtaining the Primordial Seal of Life and Death grants eternal life, as long as one isn't killed."

"And if one were to obtain both of them simultaneously..." Jasmine's eyes narrowed slightly. "Then one would truly become the eternal master of the primordial chaos."

"However, as I also said, there's a possibility that the Primordial Seal of Life and Death has already been found. After all, to gain its eternal power, one simply needs to wear it. It's incredibly easy to hide, and whoever obtains it would go to great lengths to conceal it, absolutely unwilling to let anyone know of its existence... not even their closest relatives."

Yun Che was silent for a long time, then took a sharp breath and asked, almost gritting his teeth, "But what does any of what you've said have to do with Fen Juechen!?"

"Of course it does!" Jasmine cast him a sideways glance, her expression becoming stern and solemn. "The profound art he uses, called the 'Eternal Night Illusory Devil Tome,' is clearly... a devil art of the ancient devils!"

"Ancient... devils?" Yun Che's heart skipped a beat. "Aren't the ancient devils already extinct?"

"That's precisely why I was so shocked when Fen Juechen unleashed his source energy after being provoked by you," Jasmine said, her brows furrowed.

Yun Che twitched his brows, tentatively asking, "Could it be... that he obtained some inheritance from the ancient devils? If gods could leave behind soul and bloodline inheritances back then, and devils exist on the same level as gods, shouldn't they also be able to leave inheritances?"

"No!" Jasmine shook her head. "Although both devils and gods possess divine-level power, their souls and source energy attributes are not the same; in fact, they are contrary! Before perishing, gods, unwilling to simply vanish, transformed their final power and souls into spirit forms. These spirit forms then guarded their divine blood and will, thereby passing on their bloodline and power, barely continuing their existence in the primordial chaos. These lingering spirit forms and divine blood, due to their extremely high power level, are very difficult to naturally extinguish and are even, to some extent, attuned to and protected by the energy of heaven and earth."

"But devils are entirely different! Their power attribute is contrary to the pure energy of heaven and earth; most devils even fear light. Even if devils were to leave behind spirit forms or devil blood inheritances, they would quickly dissipate and disappear due to the repulsion from the energy of heaven and earth. Let alone a million years, it would be extremely difficult for them to persist for even a few thousand years. After the end of the Age of Gods, a large number of divine inheritances were found, giving rise to the new 'God Realm.' Devil inheritances did indeed appear for a short time after the gods and devils perished, but each inheritance would be completely purified by the power of heaven and earth within a few dozen generations. After merely thirty thousand years, devil inheritances vanished completely, and have not appeared again in the nearly million years since."

Yun Che was speechless.

"Now, the power of the ancient devils, which has been missing for a million years and is almost forgotten even in the God Realm, has appeared in a human in this lower plane. It's simply too abnormal." Jasmine's brows furrowed tighter and tighter. Her understanding and comprehension of the concepts of gods and devils, of ancient races and powers, far surpassed Yun Che's. The shock Fen Juechen's dark profound energy inflicted upon Jasmine was something Yun Che simply couldn't comprehend.

"Since the power of the ancient devils has been gone for so long, how were you able to recognize it?" Yun Che asked after thinking for a moment.

Jasmine replied without changing her expression, "When I inherited the power within me, I also inherited some memory fragments from an ancient god. These memories happened to contain the type of dark profound energy — or rather, dark devil art — that Fen Juechen uses. So, when he activated it, I immediately recognized it. This devil art is called the 'Eternal Night Illusory Devil Tome,' and it is the devil art of a high-ranking devil race among the ancient devils, the 'Eternal Night Devil Race.' To use this devil art, one must possess corresponding devil blood or a devil soul... just as your 'Great Way of the Buddha' requires Phoenix blood as an ignition to activate."

"This means that Fen Juechen, who possesses the 'Eternal Night Illusory Devil Tome,' also inherited the devil blood or devil soul of the 'Eternal Night Devil Race'!"

"Devil blood or a devil soul that hasn't vanished for an entire million years!"

"This..." The more Yun Che listened, the more bizarre it sounded, to the point where he felt it was something beyond his current level of comprehension. Fen Juechen's drastic changes in just a few years must have had an incredibly unusual reason behind them... he never expected it to be this unusual.

Just listening to Jasmine's description made him feel dizzy.

Yun Che recalled Jasmine's previous reaction and asked, deep in thought, "Since you already read Fen Juechen's memories just now, you must have a rough idea of how he acquired his power, right?"

"I do know, and it's far more interesting than any way I could have imagined," Jasmine said, her small face expressionless. "His devil art and power both came from... his father."

"Father?" Yun Che's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief. "Impossible! I killed his father, Fen Duanhun, with my own hands; he couldn't possibly still be alive. Even if he wasn't dead, Fen Duanhun's profound strength was only at the Sky Profound Realm. There's no way he could have..."

"I never said the 'his father' I referred to was Fen Duanhun!" Jasmine's expression was quite playful.

Yun Che's expression instantly became strange, and he whispered, "Could it be that Fen Juechen isn't Fen Duanhun's son? Was Fen Duanhun cuckolded?"

"Fen Duanhun is indeed Fen Juechen's biological father. But Fen Juechen has another father... who is also his biological father."

Yun Che: "What?!" His face was blank with confusion.

"Two men... can... also have offspring?" Yun Che's voice trembled slightly, and he swallowed hard.