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#2348 - Face

“Huh? Who? Greed?”

The sealed demon seed sensed Fang Heng's power and seemed to gradually recover from its just-awakened state.

“You are…”

Fang Heng tried to sense the power of the demon seed, attempting to discern its identity.

“Ah, right, I remember now. It's ‘Jealousy,’ that despicable fellow. I'm going to take him down!”

“Boom!!!”

The power of Pride erupted once again!

Fang Heng's heart stirred. It was Pride!

He had heard that each initial demon seed possessed unique powers.

Pride was the strongest among them.

Similarly, the power of Pride was also the most difficult for a vessel to bear.

Previously, Fang Heng had discussed many things with Gu Qingzhu, Luo Xu, and others.

Based on the information they had gathered, there were two methods of demon seed inheritance.

The most primitive and ancient inheritance was the first: after the complete death of the previous demon seed, a new demon seed would be born 6 hours, 6 minutes, and 6 seconds after the complete demise of the previous one, known as the Eternal Cycle.

During the lifetime of the newly born demon seed, its power would not awaken if it was not interfered with.

In most cases, the demon seed would only be fully awakened within the body after being found by the inheritors of demons and the fanatical followers of various demon seeds, and after undergoing some kind of ritual.

In addition, there were also many rare and special cases of automatic awakening. In such situations, the demon seed itself did not possess any past memories related to the demon seed.

Afterward, the power of the demon seed would continuously develop and strengthen within the body, becoming an independent entity.

Fang Heng felt that he was in this state.

As for the second method, Fang Heng speculated that it was the method Xia Xi was trying on Gu Qingzhu: finding the inheritor of the demon seed in advance and controlling them. After extracting the power of the demon seed, it would be divided into a large number of parts, and then multiple individual vessels adapted to the demon seed's energy would be found, and a portion of the demon seed's power would be stored within their bodies.

The demon seed would subtly influence the vessels, and it would also continuously enhance their power, gradually increasing the vessels' adaptability to the demon seed.

For example, the Shadow Demon Rat was one of the vessels of ‘Sloth.’

Through this method, the vessels could control the power of the demon seed.

However, this method had a major problem.

Sometimes, the vessels could easily be influenced by the demon seed, completely controlled by the demon seed's original will, and the original demon seed and the chaotic memories of previous demon seeds would be partially revived, causing the vessels to completely lose themselves.

The method to determine whether a vessel has lost itself is very simple.

Although the vessels largely exhibited the corresponding demon seed's personality, they did not consider themselves to be the demon seed, did not identify as the demon seed, and did not possess the ancient memories of the demon seed.

However, the demon seed before him claimed to be Pride, which meant that it was likely completely controlled by the power of Pride.

“Heh, alright.” Fang Heng didn't argue much, but said, “I'm just curious, with your power, how did you end up in this state?”

“Jealousy, he ambushed me.”

Pride's tone carried a hint of anger.

“Boom!!”

The seal exploded again from the depths below, breaking through dozens of layers in an instant!

“Fang Heng…”

Dipper looked at the black mist that was continuously surging out of the ground, her eyes flashing with a hint of fear.

“It's okay, you retreat first, protect yourself, leave the rest to me!”

Dipper bit her lip and immediately retreated to a corner of the cave, fully releasing the power of the God Tree branch to protect herself and the two Soul Clan guards in the center.

Fang Heng released his mental power again, continuing to try to communicate with Pride, and said, “Alright, let's put it another way, I also have a great feud with Jealousy. When you deal with Jealousy, can you take me along the way?”

“Hahaha! No need!”

Pride laughed wildly, pushing its own power to the limit!

Forcibly breaking through the seal without regard for consumption!

“Bang! Bang bang!!”

The seals rapidly exploded layer by layer, until the entire seal was completely destroyed, and a thick, ink-like black mist instantly filled the entire cave.

Dipper and the two Soul Clan guards huddled in a corner of the cave, barely supporting themselves with the power of the God Tree branch, with a visible distance of no more than half a meter.

In a cloud of thick fog, a pitch-black figure stepped out from under the rolling, black mist-emitting earth.

The person was as thin as a rake, leaving only the outline of a skeleton, and the whole person was wrapped in a cloud of black mist, making it impossible to see his face.

Having escaped, the Pride vessel stood in place, breathing in the outside air, and slowly shifted its gaze to the few Tree Spirit Clan members in the corner.

Fang Heng stood in front of Dipper, blocking Pride's line of sight, “Pride, these few are my friends. It was they who led the way for me to find this place. The group of people who really sealed you are still blocking the outside.”

Saying that, Fang Heng nodded in the direction of the cave entrance.

Pride did not answer, but simply shifted its gaze away from Dipper and the others.

Swish!

Pride raised a hand.

The surrounding thick black mist instantly surged outwards!

…

Outside the sealed cave, the three Great Elders of the Tree Spirit Clan, including Senzo and Tamsangha, were waiting.

Eh?

Senzo suddenly noticed something and let out a soft exclamation.

The stone gate in front, which was sealed with layers upon layers of tree roots, showed a slight shaking, frequently flashing with different lights.

The three Great Elders looked at the entrance at the same time.

What's going on?

The seal seemed to be impacted from the inside.

“It's alright.” Senzo nodded and said, “It seems that Dipper is using the power of the holy artifact God Tree branch to suppress the gate. There's no need to panic, they can't break it.”

The crowd nodded in agreement and retreated to the side.

However, the shaking of the sealed entrance did not slowly stop as the elders had expected, but gradually accelerated, and the flashing speed of the entire seal even became faster and faster, giving people a faint feeling that it was about to explode.

“Something's not right.”

Tamsangha's expression changed slightly, and he said in a deep voice, “Come over and help!”

The three Great Elders immediately stepped forward and worked together to control the seal, making it operate stably.

Under the combined suppression of the three, the magic array temporarily stabilized for a moment.

Something's wrong!

Why is the impact of the seal's power getting bigger and bigger?

It's even faintly starting to become unsuppressible!

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Tamsangha's forehead.

“Chi!!!”

Suddenly, a gap was torn open on the seal.

Immediately afterward, an extremely thick black mist immediately溢出from the gap.

Not good!