Wang Xiaohai emerged into a vast ruin, surrounded by shattered buildings and overgrown weeds. He could smell the stench of decaying animal carcasses, a sign that there was air on the floating island. He stepped back and looked around. It felt like an island floating in the starry sky. He continued walking forward for several hundred meters until he reached a massive palace gate. Behind it lay a largely collapsed palace.
"ah--"
A scream broke the silence, causing the dust in the cracks of the wall to fall.
Wang Xiaohai ran towards the direction where the sound came from——
In the center of the palace, a glowing formation emanated. Mysterious, indistinguishable symbols floated in the air, each one as translucent as jade and agate. Rays of energy shot out from the symbols, entangling and binding a struggling six-winged demon in the center. The energy rays emitted blazing flames, constantly burning the demon. Wounds burned across his body, but they quickly healed under the demon's powerful resilience.
"Who are you?" Wang Xiaohai asked as he approached.
The six-winged demon ceased its struggle, and the energy flames emitted by the mysterious symbols instantly vanished. It seemed these mysterious symbols, combined with the formation, formed a cage, imprisoning the demon within.
"Haha, after eight million years, someone finally comes to keep me company!" The demon's appearance is no different from that of an ordinary person, except that its wings are black and there is a scar-like magic pattern on its face.
"Why are you locked up here?" Wang Xiaohai continued to ask.
"Why? Ask your true God!" the six-winged demon shouted angrily.
"What happened to the true God?" Wang Xiaohai asked curiously.
"Aren't you an angel?" The six-winged demon looked at Wang Xiaohai sideways, as if he was using some secret technique to see through him.
"I, sort of." Wang Xiaohai was not lying. He could be said to be an angel, or a devil.
"You are very young."
"Yes, I'm not eighteen."
"An eighteen-year-old angel?" The six-winged demon didn't see through Wang Xiaohai's strength. A mist swirled in his demonic pupils. "Yes, why can't I see through you? Aren't you just an ordinary angel? Since you're a young kid, you naturally don't know the dirty past of your True God."
"Don't keep talking about us True Gods. You make me sound like one of His minions," Wang Xiaohai said. "I don't even know the True God, yet you're so foolish as to lump us together. Don't you demons have brains? I get it. You came to attack the Divine Star Region, got captured by the True God, and then were imprisoned here."
"You are wrong. It's not me who came to attack the Star Domain of God. It's the true god of your Star Domain who sneaked into the place where our Demon God lives, trying to steal the secret book. Unexpectedly, the secret book was restricted, and the Demon God knew about it as soon as he touched it. Then, when the Demon God knocked him down in the territory, he fled in a hurry. I intercepted him for a few seconds on the way, and he was hit by the Demon God again. In anger and shame, he took me back to the Star Domain of God, intending to imprison and torture me to death." The six-winged demon struggled excitedly for a few times, and energy lines reappeared, constantly burning his body. He screamed and dared not move again.
"If I were you, I would rather die after being tortured like this for millions of years!" Wang Xiaohai said, "What makes you persist?"
"I don't accept it! I am the most promising demon in the Demon Realm. It only took me two hundred thousand years to become a six-winged demon. I was appreciated by the Demon God and lived near the Demon God's territory. I was taught martial arts by the Demon God himself. I am the demon with the greatest chance of becoming the second Demon God." The six-winged demon roared, "I won't accept it. I want revenge! I want to escape! I want to kill the mortals and angels in the Star Domain of God!" He didn't dare to say the real God because he knew he couldn't win.
"Then you'll stay here forever and be tortured until you die," Wang Xiaohai said. "You have too strong a murderous intent!"
"If you were tortured for eight million years, your murderous intent would only be stronger than mine!" said the six-winged demon. "As for torture, your true gods aren't much better off. Hit by the Demon God's Soul-Devouring Sword Style, they suffer the backlash of their souls every year. Unless their souls are higher than the Demon God's, they will suffer this pain until they die! I'm guessing—he won't be appearing in the God Star Region anytime soon?"
Wang Xiaohai was shocked. The true God of the Star Domain of God had indeed not appeared in front of the world for a long time. Could it be that as the demon said, he had suffered a serious injury and was recovering?
"What secret book does the True God want to steal from you demons?" Wang Xiaohai asked.
"Do you want to know? I'm not afraid to tell you. The secret is called Demonic Absorption and Assimilation." The six-winged demon said, "Do you want to learn it?"
"You know it too, what's the use of this secret book?" Wang Xiaohai asked curiously.
"It can increase your strength. If you kill an opponent of the same realm, you can absorb their energy and turn it into your own energy." The six-winged demon said, "This is one of the supreme methods for us demons to increase our strength. Only the Demon God and the core leaders know it."
"So magical?" Wang Xiaohai asked suspiciously, "Since you know such a powerful secret technique, why don't you hand it over to the True God in exchange for your freedom? Are you a man of integrity?"
"Guard is bullshit! It's useless to us demons. The second I was imprisoned, I offered to use mystical magic to buy my freedom." The six-winged demon said, "But I was deceived by your true god."
"Has the true god obtained your secret technique?" Wang Xiaohai and the six-winged demon were talking across the formation.
"Of course he got it. He swore to let me out after he got the secret technique. He did let me out of the formation, but only for a second, and then he took me back. He said that this didn't count as breaking his oath." The six-winged demon said, "But I swore to give him the real secret technique, and I didn't give him a fake one. Although it's real, it's just incomplete. There's a part missing. Even if it wasn't missing, he wouldn't be able to cultivate the secret technique of my demon clan because he doesn't have the power of a demon!"
Wang Xiaohai thought that the two cunning guys were plotting against each other.
"Can you tell me the secret method? The complete and flawless secret method?" Wang Xiaohai asked the six-winged demon, "If I help you get it out of the formation."
"It's no use getting me out. This floating island is an ancillary dimension, a secondary dimension separated from the Gubo Galaxy. It's like a spatial cage. Once you're in, you can't get out, including you!" The six-winged demon laughed heartily. "Eighteen-year-old angel boy is going to die with me. How happy! You're so young, you must be a genius rarely seen in the God Star Domain for ten thousand years!"
"It's okay, I can break the space wall and escape from this auxiliary space." Wang Xiaohai was not worried.
"You? Breaking through the spatial wall at eighteen, perhaps you could open a spatial rift as thick as your arm and then throw your hand into the hyperspace turbulence." The six-winged demon seemed to have heard the world's funniest joke. "Even if I could open a massive spatial rift, I wouldn't dare enter. Without a supercomputer to calculate the channels and exits, you'd either die in the spatial turbulence or get lost. Without calculating that fleeting exit point, you'd be like shooting an arrow at a mosquito leg a few planets away. The chances of success are incredibly low."
"Fortunately, I brought a super quantum computer with me." Wang Xiaohai took out the Fender and waved it in front of the six-winged demon.
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