Corrupt Creations

"Alright. I'll meet you tomorrow at this place so we can head back to the sect." Seth said as he started to go back to Meiyi's house. 

"Tomorrow? We have to go back now or we won't make it in time." Valic said a bit unhappy. 

"When will the Lion's Pride Golden Palace visit our Clan?" 

"In about eight to nine days. But It will take us at least a whole week to get to our destination and we will have to do some preparations after we get there." Valic replied. 

"Valic, why would I need to do any of those preparations? That is not my concern, but yours. If you say that we can't get there in less than a week, then you're insulting my strength. So, make sure to wait for me here, at this same time tomorrow." Seth left without waiting for Valic's reply. His authority as the young master of their sect could not be questioned by a servant of Valic's status. 

The only thing that held Seth back the last time he stole Tao Zhong from his hands, is the feeling of apprehension he has towards his master. For that, he needed to be careful when making his moves, because there were some things, he could never let his master find out. 

Valic stood stranded there, while silently observing Seth figure until he vanished from his sight. He could do nothing about it. Inwardly, he decided to use his full speed when travelling, in order to leave Seth behind and taunt his lack of strength. Valic was a Mana Perception peak-stage realm cultivator, while inside his head, Seth was still at the Mana Perception middle-stage realm, the realm of power Seth was the last time he saw him. He did not know Seth was already at the Mana Control realm and could decimate him with a thought now. 

Seth was eager to go back, but he didn't dare to show it in front of Valic, that is one of the reasons he postponed the travel to a day after. There was another reason too. Seth needed to explain some things to Meiyi before going, or else he wouldn't be able to go with peace of mind. 

Seth came back and saw that Meiyi had already finished her training. The first thing he did, was to create a barrier around the house, using his own Mana. No one from the entire sect, could actually trespass that barrier. 

"Good afternoon Meiyi." 

"Seth, good afternoon. Did you go somewhere?" 

"Well, I had to leave for a bit. Meiyi, there is something important that I need to tell you. I'll have to travel back to the Demon Territory, so I'll leave for some days." 

"Demon territory?" Meiyi forgot he was a half-devil and probably had a life and a family at that side. 

"Yes, do you want to know a bit about my circumstances at that side?" Seth asked while lightly smiling. 

"Do you mean at the Demon Territory? Please, tell me!" Meiyi got excited to hear about his story. She wasn't a narrow-minded person that judged a demon or devil because of his race, so she expected to hear a story about his parents or how was his family structure. But she would soon find out that his background was really fierce. 

"Haha, I will certainly tell you, but before that, I want you to lay on my lap. That is my condition for telling you, my story." 

"I can't believe you're trying to take advantage of me even on this kind of situation." Meiyi looked at Seth baffled and saw how he was patting his lap for her to come and lay there. He kept smiling at her and she knew she would have no choice but to give in to his demands, if she wanted to hear about his past. 

Meiyi laid on Seth's lap and started to enjoy his caress on her beautiful and purple hair. She inwardly made a note to ask him to do this again for her in the future. Her thoughts took a hundred and eighty degrees turn, after experiencing that. 

"Hm... Where do I start? Let me first tell you some things about the Demon Territory. That piece of land is really huge, just like the human territory, it houses a lot of strong people and powerful organizations. If I were to say the main difference between both territories, is that there is only one ruler on the demon territory, the Demonic Shadow Royal Clan. Below that clan, there are three really powerful clans that support the Demonic Shadow Royal Clan. They are the Undead Clan, Pure Blood Clan and the Shapeshifters Clan. There used to be one more, but they just vanished from the surface of the Demon Territory." 

"A clan vanished? How is that even possible?" Meiyi asked while still enjoying Seth's caress. 

"Well, it's a long story. But it is said that they died protecting the former Royal Devil Empress." Seth told her the tale people usually tell others, however, he knew it was all a bullshit. He witnessed them with his own eyes. 

"Those three clans are very, very close of what the humans call Higher Grounds around here. They are just slightly weaker than them. However, the Demonic Shadow Royal Clan could be considered to be as strong as a Higher Ground, if not stronger than them, since it concentrates the power and resources of most of the important parts inside the Demon Territory. If it were twenty years before, then it would certainly be the strongest among all Higher Grounds, because there were three Mana Sovereign cultivators within their ranks. Unfortunately, the former Royal Devil Empress and one of her husbands died around that date, leaving behind her other husband to manage the Demonic Shadow Royal Clan alone." 

Seth paused a bit as he was about to start telling where he was located inside all this mess. 

"Meiyi, look at this first." Seth raised his hand and concentrated a bit of Qi on his palms. After some seconds he willed for the Qi to transform into Mana and the almost transparent white colored energy, changed to a light blue colored energy. 

Meiyi observed that light blue energy, that seemed to be at least hundred times stronger than her own Qi energy and inside her head, there was only a single explanation for that. 

"Is that Mana?" 

Meiyi asked while almost not believing what her own eyes were seeing. You could fit an entire egg inside her mouth right now. 

"Exactly. Meiyi, tell me. Where is the only place that a youth of eighteen years old, could have enough resources to reach the Mana realms?" 

"On a Higher Ground?" 

"Yes. I am the Young Master of the Demonic Shadow Royal Clan. The only possible inheritor of the title "Demon Emperor" and the only direct disciple of the current Demon Emperor." 

Meiyi first response when hearing this would be 'Are you joking with me?', if she had never seen his Qi turning into Mana. Now, she could only silently stare towards him in deep shock. 

"Does that mean you're one of the three Male Prodigies? The Eternal Shadow?" Meiyi's mouth opened up even more, now even a big potato could fit inside. 

Just like the Female Beauties, there was a ranking for the males. However, it wasn't only based on appearance, but on their age and power as well. This was a ranking made by some eccentric females and they considered all the attributes to actually develop the ranking. There were no top or bottom position, since they considered those males as gods. 

There was an elf male called Elidyr Luberus, from one of the Nature Roots. Nature Roots, was the title conferred on the most powerful elvish families that served the Elf Queen. He was a Mana Perception initial-stage realm cultivator at the age of thirty. His title was Golden Archer and it was directly associated with his skills and hair color. 

The human male was from the Lion's Pride Golden Palace. His name was Qiao Bao and he was twenty-nine years old Mana Perception initial-stage realm cultivator. His talent was a bit better than Elidyr Luberus, but his appearance was a bit rougher. Those women who liked overly muscular males, would find him very attractive. He had the title of Lion Knight. 

The demonic male was the mysterious one of that rank, since he was the one, people had the least amount of information. They didn't know his name or precise age; they just knew he was a Mana Perception initial-stage realm cultivator with a very handsome appearance and a bit younger than the others. They said that women would be attracted towards his abyss-like eyes and raven hairs, because the unknow was fearful but attractive. His title was the most eye catching, the Eternal Shadow. 

"Eternal Shadow? Haha what is that?" Seth didn't even know he had a title. 

"Don't you know that people call you, the Eternal Shadow? A mysterious man that hides in the shadows. They even say women would be attracted towards you, because you are handsome and mysterious..." Meiyi's voice started loud and finished low, because she noticed that the description was fit. It's just that she has never seen his shadows at all. 

"Can you please show me your darkness abilities?" Her eyes sparkled since she has ever wanted to see those kinds of skills. 

"Hahaha, of course." Seth was finding all this very amusing.