Chapter 182: Rise of the Demon God

Listening to Lu Guangwei’s question, Jiang Xincheng was about to speak, but Lu Guangwei suddenly wore a bitter smile and apologized, “I’m sorry. I’m out of my mind. With my limbs broken and my body covered in wounds, I’m afraid I’ll never become strong again. As for building power, given how poorly I manage things, I probably couldn’t manage any big force anyway. How could I ever hope for revenge against the Fang family, the superpower of Nanhe Province? You can’t help me. No one can help me. Heh… Hah… Hehe… Hahaha…”

As he spoke, Lu Guangwei’s face twisted with hopelessness. He laughed until tears streamed down his face, laughed until he gasped for breath. Yet, the pain and sorrow within that laughter were unmistakable. It shook Jiang Xincheng to his core. Waves of guilt surged within him, solidifying his determination to help Lu Guangwei properly.

“I can help you!” Jiang Xincheng stated firmly, word by word, looking straight at Lu Guangwei.

Lu Guangwei froze, replying bitterly, “Don’t mock me. I’m already just a cripple. Who could possibly help me?”

Jiang Xincheng hesitated only briefly before deciding. “I have ten treasures. If you use them, not only will your limbs fully heal, but your body’s strength will also leap forward.” He resolved to use ten Mutated Yuan Crystal Golden Body Stones to help Lu Guangwei. This move was both to gain this exceptionally talented, supremely persevering prodigy and to soothe his own guilt. Only thirty Mutated Yuan Crystal Golden Body Stones remained on him now. The rest were either used or given away – five to Ma Qingshan in Xiangcheng, and ten soon to be given to Lu Guangwei.

Lu Guangwei stared at the dark stones in Jiang Xincheng’s hand, disbelieving. “You… you mean it?”

“You can try,” Jiang Xincheng smiled slightly, watching him.

A flicker of hope crossed Lu Guangwei’s face. Cautiously, he picked up one Mutated Yuan Crystal Golden Body Stone and began absorbing the strange energy within. Soon, a strange power flowed into him. Guiding it towards his arm, Lu Guangwei watched in shock as the foreign energy significantly fixed the damage.

This dark stone truly could fix his shattered limbs, letting him walk the path of cultivation once more.

Taking a deep breath, Lu Guangwei looked at the ten stones before him and bowed deeply to Jiang Xincheng. “This kindness, this favor… I cannot repay them. If you ever have any command in the future, Lu Guangwei will go through fire and water without a second thought. I swear it.”

Seeing Lu Guangwei’s absolute seriousness, Jiang Xincheng knew he had won the loyalty of the future strongest expert of the Shenxia Alliance, the unparalleled Chi You Demon God of this era. True to his word, deeply loyal – that was the Chi You Demon God. A reputation forged through time, known to all in his past life.

After such a long wait and the investment of ten treasures like the Mutated Yuan Crystals, Jiang Xincheng’s stakes were high. Yet, compared to gaining the loyalty of the Chi You Demon God, Lu Guangwei, these stakes seemed insignificant.

In his past life, the major superpowers would have gladly offered multiple Golden Body Stones, even ten colossal Yuan Crystal Mines, just to recruit Chi You Demon God Lu Guangwei. The value of the Shenxia Alliance’s strongest expert far exceeded ten large Yuan Crystal Mines. Lu Guangwei alone was worth an entire province of the Shenxia Alliance. That’s how immense Chi You Demon God Lu Guangwei’s value was.

Yet now, Jiang Xincheng had secured the allegiance of this figure, whom countless powerful figures desperately tried and failed to recruit in the past life, using merely ten Mutated Yuan Crystal Golden Body Stones. How could Jiang Xincheng not be wildly pleased?

Moreover, with his knowledge of Lu Guangwei’s entire past life, Jiang Xincheng knew this: If the chance of betrayal for Ma Qingshan of Xiangcheng was less than one in a hundred thousand, then the chance for Lu Guangwei was less than one in a million, perhaps less than one in ten million… almost impossible. As long as Jiang Xincheng did not betray him, Lu Guangwei would almost certainly never betray him. He was a truly loyal man who valued favors, a man of great wisdom hidden behind simplicity and extraordinary capability.

In his past life, Jiang Xincheng had only met him a few times, yet each time, Lu Guangwei’s presence was overwhelming. Heroic spirit piercing the heavens, genuine feeling moving an entire nation. However, his sense of loyalty was as renowned as his ruthlessness.

Due to the tragic deaths of his family and lover, Lu Guangwei of the past life often killed. He would eradicate entire families of wrongdoers, annihilating his enemy, the Fang family, down to the last person. None were spared, not the elders in their eighties and nineties, not the young children of mere years. He walked a path close to madness.

He was a controversial superpower. He could massacre relentlessly, yet save millions from disaster. He could be cruel, yet could also bring salvation. Had it not been for him in the later Battle of the Moon, the Shenxia Alliance would have faced utter defeat. The conflict could have spread to Earth, potentially leading to the alliance’s collapse. It was he who turned the tide and saved the Shenxia Alliance.

It was impossible to label him purely good or evil. The number he killed may not have been much fewer than those he saved. He was a paradoxical supreme powerhouse, a world overlord of dual nature – chaotic, both righteous and evil.

Now… he belonged to Jiang Xincheng!

Even with Jiang Xincheng’s composure and cunning, an overwhelming excitement gripped him. This was the figure he had looked up to, the one he had even once admired in his past life. Yet now, he was pledged to Jiang Xincheng. How could Jiang Xincheng not be wild with joy?

With Lu Guangwei’s aid this life, just how far could this Chi You Demon God reach? Who could even predict? Without the trauma of losing loved ones like in his past life, would this life’s Chi You Demon God still descend into city-wide slaughter and endless killing? This life’s Chi You Demon God Lu Guangwei would likely be more formidable, and more outstanding, than before.

Thinking this, Jiang Xincheng pulled a small booklet from his robes and placed it before Lu Guangwei. “This is a cultivation method. I found it by chance. I think it suits your physique. You should try it.”

This was the Chi You Profound God Scripture. This Origin Force Cultivation Method had been Lu Guangwei’s core technique in their past life, the very first Celestial Grade, Upper Tier Origin Force Cultivation Method globally, which he stumbled upon by accident during the Fang family’s experiments. The odds of Lu Guangwei obtaining it during those trials were reportedly less than one in a billion – a testament to his fantastic luck.

The Fang family’s supposed Origin Force Cultivation Method experiments were nothing but a flight of fancy by the researchers. The success rate was minimal, the death rate over 99%. Even when someone survived, the techniques gained were mostly low-grade. Yet countless trials accidentally forged Lu Guangwei, the supreme Demon God who later destroyed the Fang family.

Moreover, this Chi You Profound God Scripture was uniquely suited to Lu Guangwei’s physique. When Lu Guangwei was young, playing with fire burned the meridians in his left palm. After healing, those meridians took on a strange transformation. The Chi You Profound God Scripture required specific meridians in the palm, precisely those Lu Guangwei’s altered ones.

This unique meridian was why past-life Lu Guangwei survived the near-certain fatal experiment. It allowed him to barely cling to life and master the unrivaled Chi You Profound God Scripture.

It was a technique made specifically for Chi You Demon God Lu Guangwei, a divinely gifted scripture. In his past rise to power, this method played an immense role.