Path of the Tyrant King

A few hours later, a few of the people in the tavern awoke. Old Lan's body swayed as he struggled to stand up from his nap. He looked around and noticed others struggling to stand up. He stood there dazed until the doors to the inn flew open.

A strange demonic black gas flooded into the inn. Old Lan felt his body tense up and start trembling in fear. He was barely able to stand as two cyan vertical slit eyes gazed at him. He felt as if he was in a frozen abyss.

"This aura…. hiss." A voice hissed as the face of a fat horned man appeared. His oily grimy face lit up with a hideous toothy smile as he walked up to Old Lan. Each of his steps made Old Lan tremble increasingly.

"You what happened here?" The Fat man said as Old Lan felt to the ground before him.

"Lo...Lo…. Lord Gulan! Oh, please forgive me, Young Master Li Nan was kidnapped by an exorcist." Old Lan begged as he kowtowed before Gulan.

"An Exorcist? Then what is this aura?" Gulan asked as he scrutinized Old Lan. He could feel a lingering sense of a terrifying entity that passed through here.

"I...I... I don't know, sir. Please just let me go!" Old Lan begged as tears flooded down his eyes. The surrounding inn patrons saw his loud sobs and begging.

"Hmph, you helped this man. Did you think I would let you off?" Lord Gulan rebuked as he grabbed Old Lan's head with one arm and raised him by the head.

"Give a chance sir, please!" Old Lan sobbed as his body was raised.

"At least in death, you will make yourself useful." Lord Gulan chuckled as his hand became a blue-furred gigantic claw. The fur of the hand stabbed into Old Lan's brain then his body started twitching and convulsing.

"ARGHHHH!" Old Lan screamed in agony as the other villagers watched in fear. A few ran out of the inn in a hurry.

Lord Gulan's eyes went into the back of his head and all that was left was the white of his eyes; and a strange demonic glint. The fur retracted from Old Lan's body which slumped onto the ground headless.

"Hmph, it seems your death was deserved. But that name Ye Yuyan…. why does that name feel familiar?" Lord Gulan muttered under his breath as he stared at Old Lan's corpse. Around him, the villagers edged back all filled with fear.

Lord Gulan dropped Old Lan's bloody headless corpse onto the ground. Then the corpse started to shake extremely fast.

A black essence emerged from Old Lan's body and formed into 2 shadowy cloaked figures. They looked exactly like the guards for Li Nan but their bloodlust was hidden.

"Find him!" Lord Gulan coldly instructed the two cloaked figures nodded and disappeared. By this point, the villagers had already fled to their homes.

Lord Gulan who was alone in the inn walked up to the second floor. Then he entered Ye Yuyan's room on the desk was a rolled-up scroll.

Lord Gulan reached out and levitated the scroll towards him then he slowly unfurled the scroll up. He stared at the scroll and saw an intricately carved spell circle that was centered on his face.

"Damn it, he's definitely an exorcist, his highness promised to keep them away. He could screw up the offering ritual for tonight. What can I do…...?" Lord Gulan said as he furled the scroll back up and angrily slammed on the desk.

"I have to contact the demon, I need more Cloaks of Hell; and Fiend energy." Lord Gulan mumbled as he left the inn.

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At that moment, Li Nan's body had just hit the cold ground in the forest. They were inside a small cave along the mountain. Ye Yuyan was coldly looking over at Li Nan's asleep body.

As Li Nan inhaled, a large amount of green energy would gather near him. When he exhaled it would be pushed away, and it would disappear.

"To think that old man got a human with a Special Physique. It may be low grade, but any Fiend would easily trade for it. He most likely has been trading his son's blood essence for power from this fiend." Ye Yuyan analyzed as his eyes saw through the mysteries behind Li Nan.

"I felt strong demonic energy coming from this place with good reason. I can't stay too long, I need to wrap up matters soon." Ye Yuyan said dreadfully as he thought about his pressing matters.

Ye Yuyan walked over to Li Nan and created a myriad of high-speed hand seals. Each of the seals landed on top of Li Nan's body. They would create an intricate set of lines and symbols along his body.

With each hand seal, the lines would elongate along his body. After doing 1000 hand seals Ye Yuyan suddenly clasped his hands together and released a low shout.

"Hah!" As he shouted, Li Nan's body started to convulse in pain. The symbols and lines along his body seemed to peel off and levitated in front of Ye Yuyan.

Li Nan's eyes flashed open as he started to scream without reserve.

"ARGHHHH!!!" He yelled at the top of his lungs but the symbols kept peeling. They seemed to have a green tint to them although it was unnoticeable.

After all the symbols and lines peeled off, Li Nan's screams died down. Then his breathing stopped, and soon after he was completely dead.

"Recombine!" Ye Yuyan shouted as the symbols and lines swirled around into a vortex. The vortex started to slowly recombine until it was the size of Ye Yuyan's palm. The black almost completely disappeared, it seemed to be a vortex of green energy.

"Such a small amount of essence…. this physique is rather weak. His contractor could only have moved up a rank using this. The fiend can't be over mid-ranked, making Gulan not too powerful…." Ye Yuyan analyzed as he fiddled with the natural energy in his palm.

A Fiend would avoid using physique essence as that was a power of humans. They risk contaminating their growth and any mid-ranked fiend can ultimately become high ranked making physique essence unnecessary. Only low ranked Fiends take such desperate measures to upgrade themselves.

"The world has many paths to power. But to combine paths without careful consideration that would be a dangerous move."

He took out another scroll and placed his palm and the physique energy on it. The scroll seemed to burn on a picture it looked like an azure tree stub, but there seemed to be primordial quality to the tree stub. He put the scroll away, as he then looked outside the cave.

Standing there were two Hell Cloaked Shadow Warriors. They stared Ye Yuyan down as he put the scroll away.

"That was rather fast, Gulan should be contacting this Fiend by now." Ye Yuyan said as his eyes shined with anticipation.

"Grrrr!" The Hell Warriors growled as the sprung at Ye Yuyan. He smirked as made his hand into a fist, as the hell soldiers entered the cave. A huge amount of seals flew around them and they shot out onto their skin exploding their bodies into shadow mist.

"What a weak distraction by now he should be setting up a summoning ritual." Ye Yuyan's eyes landed on the village and he could see it from the cave. He could hear a multitude of screams, he knew exactly what it was.

"Blood, mortal blood as it pools; a Fiendish desire of the soul. Let it flow into lakes, into rivers, and into oceans." Ye Yuyan chanted with a fiendish smirk. He could see from his position, a strange blood-red spell circle surround the village.

A few villagers tried to escape the city but they would be cut down by Hell Warriors. Their black cloaks seemed to be tinged with the embers of black flames. Whenever they slashed, a villager's blood would be burned away. The Hell Warriors would get larger and their embers will grow.

"Hehehe, yes good, grow just keep growing." Ye Yuyan's started to laugh as a strange aura came from his body. It was a powerful demonic bloodlust that warped the world around him. His eyes became red blood moons as they watched the slaughter in the village.

Gulan was standing inside his tower as he was drawing in blood a spell circle. A strange shadowy figure was developing as the circle was getting increasingly completed.

"Fiend Lord IIlathar, hear my call; a visitor from another land. One that threatens us all, please grant me power; so that he may fall." Gulan chanted as the shadow materialized and a blue horned beast seemed to jump out at him.

His body started to convulse and increase in size. His entire frame became immensely large, and even the tower broke apart as it was unable to accommodate him. Soon he was a gigantic 100-meter beast.

The entire village went silent, every hut, shack, and every home was completely desolate. The flickering of black flames, contrasted with the flowing blood. A full moon illuminated the carnage as a massive blue furred beastman roared into the skies.

"ARGGGGH!!!" The yellow beating eyes of the beastman turned towards the mountain. It landed on Ye Yuyan's form and his blood red eyes met the gaze of the beastman.

Ye Yuyan reached into his robe and removed a black dagger. He held his dagger like a sword and pointed it towards the blue demon. His red eyes seemed filled with aggression as they stared down the demon.

"Come!" Ye Yuyan laughed as a runic pattern flashed on his dagger.