Immortality: My cultivation Has No Bottleneck Chapter 796: 286: Demon Ancestor's Cunning Plot, the Holy Land Must Take Action (Seeking Monthly Tickets) _3

As individuals from both the Human Heavenly Talents and the Demon Clan’s Experts perished, their bodies instantly transformed into mummified husks, their flesh and blood essence entirely consumed by the Stone Coffin. The eerie red of the Stone Coffin intensified, becoming increasingly blood-hued.

Liang Sheng, concealed nearby, meticulously observed the Stone Coffin's current state. His thoughts drifted back to the Beast Swamp incident when the surface absorbed life force, causing the Stone Coffin to manifest. That harrowing experience, a brush with death, was the first time Liang Sheng truly felt terror, and he suspected it held the key to the Stone Coffin's secrets.

By this point, Hu Fei had already eliminated three Human Heavenly Talents. He let out a prolonged howl, a signal that ignited a frenzy among the other Demon Emperor Ancestors. Their relentless assault bolstered the demon race's morale. Fortunately, Zhou Shen had yet to engage, allowing the remaining Human Heavenly Talents to maintain a desperate defense. Even as the Human Heavenly Talents began to stir from their cultivation and launch counterattacks, the conflict remained deadlocked. Yet, this parity only amplified the carnage, for unbeknownst to the combatants, nearly half of both the Human Heavenly Talents and the demons had met their eternal demise. Both races suffered grievous casualties!

The Stone Coffin's space, bathed in a crimson glow, pulsed with an increasingly sinister, blood-red luminescence. Liang Sheng abruptly halted, convinced he'd detected a heartbeat. However, upon straining to listen again, silence prevailed. It seemed a mere auditory hallucination, yet the conviction of something amiss lingered.

In Liang Sheng's perception, the entire battlefield now assumed a more macabre visage.

…

The Holy Land.

Curiously, Zi Zai, the independent cultivator, had ceased his usual complaints. Instead, he was assisting Master Heavenly Fate and Master Heavenly Luck. These two masters were engrossed in scrutinizing the Zhou Family's bloodline, their astonishment growing with each passing moment, tinged with a creeping sense of dread.

Could the Zhou Family's lineage truly be of human origin?

Indeed!

Were they classified as belonging to the demon race?

No.

Yet, within the Zhou Family's bloodline lay the very foundation of the demon race, enabling the cultivation of demonic techniques. The scions of the Zhou family were, in essence, a hybrid of human and demon lineages.

Naturally, unlocking the complete secrets harbored within their bloodline necessitated a crucial key, the whereabouts of which remained entirely unknown to Master Heavenly Fate and Master Heavenly Luck. Nevertheless, they harbored a profound certainty that the existence of the Zhou Family bloodline was an elaborate conspiracy orchestrated by the demon race.

The situation surrounding the Zhou Family appeared akin to the demon race meticulously devouring human bloodlines, striving to manifest the ultimate form of the demon race. To be precise, this Zhou Family bloodline functioned as an experimental subject under the Demon Ancestor's command; though far from perfect, it had already yielded significant results.

Based on this deduction, they surmised that the Demon Ancestor's resurrection and subsequent possession of Zhou Shen within the Path of the Heavenly Talent might be motivated by far more complex reasons than initially apparent.

At that precise moment, a sudden flash of insight struck them. They turned their astonished gazes towards the spatial anomaly of the Stone Coffin, where turbulent energies surged, a potent confluence of human and demon Qi erupting forth.

Could it be…?

If the Demon Ancestor had premeditated the fusion of human Heavenly Talents with demonic bloodlines, would success in his grand design be achieved by the conclusion of the Path of the Heavenly Talent, thereby enabling him to usurp another's existence?

This chilling realization bolstered their conviction that the Demon Ancestor's resurrection indeed followed this trajectory. In other words, this Grand Competition of the Celestial Dynasty had veered off course the very instant Zhou Shen was possessed.

The heavens and earth had not intervened previously because this constituted merely a mingling of two races' bloodlines. In the eyes of the cosmic order, no distinction existed between a pure-blooded human and a hybrid-blooded human, explaining why the demon race was permitted to participate in the Grand Competition of the Celestial Dynasty.

Under these circumstances…

Wait!

A sudden thought struck Master Heavenly Fate and Master Heavenly Luck, causing them to exchange incredulous glances. Recalling the tumultuous period following the ancient cultivation era, certain peculiar occurrences documented then seemed to find a logical explanation. However, at that time, the Demon Ancestor had already fallen and was not resurrected as he was now; how, then, could he possibly have influenced the decisions of the human race?The more Master Heavenly Fate and Master Heavenly Luck pondered, the greater their dread grew, until finally, they managed to suppress these chaotic thoughts. Nonetheless, given these circumstances, they were resolute in preventing the Demon Ancestor's scheme from succeeding. Action was imperative!