The Story Never Ends

Along with the information, a lot of changes started happening inside his body. His silver-colored spiritual energy gathered inside his Dantian and formed a small bead. This slowly turned brown and released a pure devilish aura.

The aura became stronger and stronger which couldn't be contained inside. Thus, it began spreading outside and even affected the surroundings around him. 

"This.."

"How could he let out a devilish aura? But why does it seem to be of better quality than mine?" Aiden was shocked when he saw this. His devil essence had already reached a higher state when he had reached the Devil King Stage. But now he saw a kid far weaker than him releasing such a pure devil essence.

"Is he a devil? Or someone planted a seed inside him?" Confusion could be seen on his face as he was sure that this person was human based on the fact that he had already scanned him with his Divine Sense previously. Yet, this phenomenon made him question it. So, he didn't attack him straight away and wanted to see what would happen later on. 

"Is this a Devil Seed?" Davion was in deep thought. The Devil Soul Art required someone's devil essence just to get started. However, it seems like his panel had replaced it with his spiritual essence.

"Now, will my soul also get formed?" According to this art, you would be able to form a soul way before reaching the Nascent Soul Stage and it happened as he had thought.

From the bead, a baby phantom emerged out having a childish face with a pair of horns on its head. Not only that, it had two wings and a tail on its back. The face was similar to Davion and was closing its eyes right now. Suddenly the eyes opened and it looked left and right.

"It seems like I've become a soul." Indeed, this phantom was Davion.

"Maybe I can come out of the body too?" Davion tried to move forward but found that he couldn't.

"Is it because my soul is too weak?" He knew that once one reached the Nascent Soul Stage then they had to cultivate their soul. At the early stage of the Nascent Soul State, they would have a tiny soul just like him. Then they would cultivate it and it would slowly grow. At the peak stage of the Nascent Soul Stage, the soul would have already grown up to become similar to their main body. 

While he was thinking, a huge amount of spiritual energy came out of nowhere and poured inside the bead. As a result, it began growing and the same goes for his soul too.

Outside, Aiden was again trying to scan him by using his Divine Sense but found that he couldn't sense anything inside him as a terrifying devilish aura suddenly came out of him.

"This aura…" he looked solemn.

"It has already reached the Nascent Soul Stage." Like him, the ground started quaking and everything around him trembled.

"This is not a good thing. It's still becoming stronger. Maybe I should attack and end this once and for all. I can't make mistakes like previously." He made up his mind and was about to attack when he became shocked by what he saw.

"Ahhh…"

Davion cried out and his body started to enlarge. Heaps of muscles grew on his body and in a few seconds, he had at least become 12 feet tall. Similarly like his soul, horns, wings, and a long tail emerged from his body. Nonetheless, the transformation still didn't stop there as many bone spikes popped out from his back. They were about 6 feet long.

"Interesting." a hoarse voice came out of his mouth.

"Not only did my soul grow up to become like this but my body too. This power is really horrifying…" he murmured while feeling the power coursing in his veins.

"Eh!" He suddenly noticed that Aiden who was above him had already made his move. A big sphere filled with devilish energy was coming in his direction.

"Hehe, a sneak attack?" Davion laughed and opened up his mouth. He swallowed it and gazed at Aiden who was in the air.

"Who are you actually?" Aiden asked. He felt that this kid should not be underestimated now as he even swallowed his devil essence this easily. He might even fall here with his main body if he became careless. 

"Davion, an inner court disciple from the Thunderbolt Sect." Davion introduced himself.

"Humph, do you think that I would believe that?" Aiden felt that he was being fooled.

"Whatever. Let's fight." Davion was itching to see how powerful he was.

"It seems like I can only know about it after beating you up." Aiden also went to his devil form.

He was of the same size and looked similar to Davion but didn't have those bones coming out from his back. Maybe it was due to Davion being a human originally?

He then dived down with tremendous speed. 

"Good." Davion flapped his wings and flew straight towards him.

When both of them reached mid-air, they punched at each other.

"Bang"

Their fists collided and a huge shockwave was produced. During the first exchange, nobody had the advantage and knew how strong the other party was. So, they became serious and began exchanging blows after blows.

"Bang..Bang…" 

The two of them fought in the air and only their afterimages could be seen as they were too fast. Although they were high up in the ground, the ground below had already caved in and the trees had already been uprooted due to the shockwaves. 

A few minutes later, they backed some distance away from each other in the air and caught their breath.

"It looks like I got a slight advantage," Aiden said.

"Indeed. You are quite strong." Davion nodded and glanced at his right hand. Red-colored blood was dripping from it.

"Since you know it then why bother to fight? The emperor will surely be interested in your talent. Why don't you join us?" Aiden asked. Even though he was really angry with him, he knew that it would be terrifyingly difficult to take him down. This was also the reason why the stronger cultivators barely fought with each other.

"The emperor? Is he the one who sent you all to invade our territory?" Davion asked.

"Yes," Aiden replied.

"Do you know why?" Davion wanted to know the reason.

"I don't know," Aiden shook his head.

"Is that how you show your sincerity?" Davion didn't believe him.

"Humph, I don't think even the emperor knows about it as it should be related to the Heavenly Demon Sect," Aiden told him what he knew.

"Is that so?" Davion felt nervous thinking of the Heavenly Demon Sect. He still remembered that cloaked man who had created a big commotion in the Sect Selection Ceremony. Especially how he created a crack in space.

"So, have you made up your mind?" Aiden asked.

"Nope." Davion would never agree to that. Who knew if he wanted to bring him to the emperor for doing an experiment on him?

"You are foolish." Aiden scoffed and took out an axe from his spirit ring.

The axe was carved with various runes and seemed to be a middle-grade devil artifact. 

Davion who saw this suddenly exclaimed, "Eh! Maybe I can use a devil artifact now?" 

He took out the broken blade and started pouring his devil essence inside it.

Aiden laughed when he saw this weapon, "Haha, do you want to fight me with this broken weapon?"

But his laughter suddenly came to a stop as he found that the space around him had been locked and he couldn't move.

"Damn, what is this artifact?" Beads of sweat could be seen on his face.

Davion also had the same reaction as him. "Don't tell me this is a higher-grade devil artifact?"

He then looked at Aiden and asked, "Are you scared?"

"No" As one of the devil kings, how could he admit this?

"Hehe," Davion smiled and was about to swing his blade when Aiden started yelling, "Stop…"

But how could he let the free experience escape from his hands? So, he slashed it in his direction.

Aiden immediately closed his eyes and accepted his fate. He couldn't believe that this person even had such a powerful artifact. He was really curious to know more about him but it seems like it was never going to happen.

After a few seconds, he found that nothing had happened. So, when he opened his eyes, he became furious with what he saw.

The blade in Davion's hand had crumbled and broke into pieces.

"How?" Davion became speechless.

"Don't tell me it couldn't handle my devil essence as this artifact was already broken from the start," He sighed.

"F**k you" 

Davion heard a voice coming from Aiden and saw that he was charging towards him with his axe. He seemed to be completely mad.

"Shit.." Davion pulled out one of the bones from his back and used it to block the axe.