The Human Demon's Wrath

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Over the churning waves of the sea, a thousand peach blossoms seemed to bloom. Red blood and white brain matter mingled, splattering across the sky.

The Human Demon, Ge Qian, radiated demonic might that shook the world. That petrified arm stretched across the heavens, and the stone fist directly pierced through the skull of the middle-aged beauty!

A Celestial Realm envoy—thus was her head shattered into ten thousand peach blossoms. Ge Qian paid no heed to her status, overbearing and unrivaled in his arrogance.

"Ah..."

The headless corpse in the sky trembled violently. The middle-aged beauty's divine soul emerged, letting out a piercing shriek.

"Ge Qian! You dare wound me? Do you want to start a war with the Celestial Realm?!"

Ge Qian only responded with a cold snort. With one step, he rose from the little boat on the sea to the high heavens and said chillingly, "You speak wrongly. I am not wounding you—I am killing you."

"Boom!"

Two beams of yellow light shot from Ge Qian's eyes, like twin golden rainbows streaking toward the divine soul and the corpse in the sky.

"You...!"

At this moment, the middle-aged beauty was truly terrified. She knew Ge Qian was not just intimidating her—he genuinely intended to annihilate her.

"Dong! Dong!"

The two golden rainbows were nearly demonic in their sharpness, unbreakable and unstoppable. That divine soul struggled and dodged a thousand times, but in the end, one divine rainbow pierced straight through it.

"Sss!"

Like snow branded by a red-hot iron, that divine soul was pierced through, leaving a gaping, transparent hole in its chest.

"Crack!"

At the same time, the other golden rainbow instantly struck the nearby corpse, shattering it into pieces.

Two beams of golden light from Ge Qian's eyes—such fearful divine might! Even the four Otherworld Ancestral Gods beside him were profoundly shaken.

"Rumble!"

This Celestial Realm envoy's divine soul surged like a sea, her divine power fluctuations rolling across thirty thousand li. She scattered into myriad streams like waves, fleeing in all directions to preserve a single thread of consciousness.

But the Human Demon, Ge Qian, was too powerful. That petrified left arm expanded instantly, surging across thirty thousand li, like a grand mountain range or a ten-thousand-li Great Wall blocking off the sea, sealing heaven and earth. The hazy radiance it emitted completely imprisoned this place.

"Boom!"

Heaven and earth shook. The middle-aged beauty charged madly, trying to break the confinement of a Stone-Man level powerhouse. But heaven and earth were like a prison—impossible to shatter.

"Rumble!"

The Human Demon descended. His hair danced like demonic dragons, his gaze sharp as two bolts of lightning. One great petrified hand smashed down directly.

"Ah..."

The middle-aged beauty screamed in agony as her ten million incarnations all manifested at once.

But that great hand in the sky did not reach for the divine souls scattering in all directions. It merely pressed down fiercely in the center of that void.

"Crrrrack!"

Every one of the middle-aged beauty's ten million avatars cracked and split in that instant, shattered from a distance by the pressure of that petrified hand in the sky.

"You cannot kill me! Otherwise the Celestial Realm will..." The middle-aged beauty shrieked in despair.

No one is unafraid of death, least of all such an inglorious end.

"Hmph!"

The middle-aged beauty's scream was cut short by a cold snort. The petrified hand swept across the sky, engulfing all the shattered souls, clenching them firmly in its grasp.

"You cannot kill me..."

"Enough. I said I will kill you, and no one can change fate for you." Ge Qian's voice was cold and merciless, chilling to the bone. He continued, "You have reminded me of something in the past. I am deeply displeased. Therefore, you must die."

"Ah!" The middle-aged beauty's soul struggled and roared.

"Boom!"

Ge Qian crushed the shattered souls in his hand with a single squeeze! Absolutely ruthless, without a moment's hesitation.

"Rumble!"

A blinding golden light blazed up from that petrified hand, like a sacred flame of pure gold burning fiercely. He was refining the middle-aged woman's final consciousness, determined to make a Ancestral God-level powerhouse utterly vanish in smoke and ash.

"My lord, you must not do this!" The four Otherworld Ancestral Gods, though trembling with fear, forced themselves to rush forward, anxiously trying to dissuade the Human Demon.

"Shua!"

Ge Qian swept his gaze over them coldly and said, his voice like ice, "Are the four of you trying to stop me?"

"We dare not." Fear chilled their hearts; they hardly dared to meet Ge Qian's eyes, but still voiced their concern. "If you kill her, it may trigger a war between the two realms."

At this moment, Ge Qian was a true demon in every sense of the word, utterly different from his usual melancholic, despondent, ethereal demeanor. His disheveled hair whipped wildly like a thousand demon arms dancing. His eyes had no pupils—pitch-black and hollow—like two terrifying black holes, deep and fathomless.

"She reminded me of something from the past. I am displeased." These words were spoken plainly, yet they sent chills of terror through the four Otherworld Ancestral Gods.

In years past, it was precisely because of this sentence that Ge Qian had once unleashed a massacre on a rainy night, rivers of blood flowing, a million corpses strewn across the land—a sight that made even Otherworld Ancestral Gods tremble.

"But..." The four tried to speak further, but when they saw those hollow eyes, they shuddered and fell silent.

"Rumble!"

In that moment, the golden sacred flame in Ge Qian's petrified hand soared into the sky, illuminating the Nine Provinces and revealing his fearsome demonic visage. The Human Demon opened his mouth wide—a demonic maw that swallowed heaven and sun—and devoured the golden sacred flame and the divine soul in his hand. Even the dark clouds from all directions converged and poured into his mouth. Ge Qian's hair danced wildly, his eyes hollow—an absolute demon king!

Thus was an Ancestral God devoured alive!

"You will regret this..." Those were the final screams of the Celestial Realm envoy, echoing through the sky for a long time before fading.

A cold dread rose in the hearts of the four Otherworld Ancestral Gods. A Celestial Realm envoy, a Ancestral God-level powerhouse, had been devoured alive. The Human Demon was truly terrifying.

"Alas..."

Ge Qian sighed. The air of a demon king gradually receded, and soon he was once again a somewhat melancholic, despondent middle-aged man. With a trace of loss and confusion, he gazed up at the sky and murmured to himself, "Where is my hope? When will my darkness break into dawn?"

The four Otherworld Ancestral Gods felt a wave of terror wash over them, a chill from head to toe. According to legend, the Human Demon was most dangerous in this state. They shot into the sky and fled.

From the horizon, Xiao Chen witnessed all of this. The terror of the Human Demon, Ge Qian, was truly astonishing—deep and unfathomable.

At that moment, the Human Demon turned around abruptly, his hollow eyes fixed on Xiao Chen's direction.

He revealed a cruel smile. With a boom, he shattered the space around him, exposing Xiao Chen's figure. At the same time, a token materialized, attempting to fly away, but Ge Qian sealed it in place with his peerless divine power.

"I knew you hadn't completely perished. Now, vanish utterly!"

The Human Demon reached out mercilessly with his stone hand toward the token, also enveloping Xiao Chen.

"No!" A terrified cry came from within the token—the voice of the Celestial Realm envoy.

But the great hand had already sealed heaven and earth, completely covering this area. The token could not break free.

"Rumble!" Xiao Chen activated the Divine Diagram, forcibly breaking the seal and soaring into the sky. The token, seizing a chance at life, fled desperately right behind him.

"Trying to leave? Impossible!"

Ge Qian's icy voice rang out. His stone arm swelled, reaching for the token and Xiao Chen. In that instant, a wisp of consciousness was forcibly extracted from the token and flew rapidly toward the Human Demon's hand.

"Ah, no!" Although the Celestial Realm envoy screamed in terror, she could not change her fate. She knew her end had come and let out one final, desperate roar: "You who wield the War Sword, take my token! It will lead you to the Celestial Realm. Change your own destiny, and do not forget to avenge me!"

Her voice cut off abruptly as the Human Demon snatched her into his hand and swallowed her whole!

The token, as if alive, suddenly accelerated to an impossible speed and shot toward Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen seized it in one hand. He shattered the void, fleeing through spatial passageways.

"Alas..." The Human Demon sighed softly behind him. Then, with a boom, he smashed the void, forcibly shaking Xiao Chen out of the spatial passage.

"Old friends meet—why rush to leave? Let us talk a while, shall we?"

Ge Qian, melancholy and despondent, had already reseated himself on the little boat on the sea.

"I have nothing to discuss with you!" Xiao Chen faced this seeming quiet, despondent middle-aged man with utmost caution. This was a true, living demon king. Even wielding the War Sword and the Divine Diagram, he felt deeply uneasy.

"Why is that?" Ge Qian gazed despondently at the sky and muttered to himself, "Am I abandoned by heaven and spurned by all the world?"

"What do you want?" Xiao Chen swept his gaze coldly over the Human Demon.

"I want nothing. I only wish to speak with someone. I do not wish to kill at this moment." The Human Demon stared fixedly at the sea, lost in thought. No one would doubt his words, nor his strength.

"Have you repaired my divine city?" Suddenly, Ge Qian looked up, fixing his gaze on Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen wanted to question him, but as the words reached his lips, he seemed to recall something and swallowed them back, replying coldly, "Not yet."

"Then you had better hurry. Otherwise, I am prepared to bathe the Nine Provinces in blood at any time, to sweep across the Four Worlds." Ge Qian lowered his head, gazing at his own palms, a look of confusion on his face. "Alas... more killing. It has been many years since I last saw seas of blood and mountains of bone..."

This terrifying demon king, capable of contending with Stone Men, now appeared in such a state—all the more chilling to behold.

"Ge Qian, you were born of the Nine Provinces. Why did you betray to the Otherworld and slaughter the living beings of the Nine Provinces and the Four Worlds?!"

"Abandoned by heaven, forsaken by the world." Ge Qian's expression was numb. "I had no other path to choose."

"Are you not afraid of eternal infamy, of being branded on the pillar of shame?" Xiao Chen's voice sharpened. "Your sins fill the heavens, too numerous to record in bamboo. Can your heart truly find peace?"

"Alas... life is vast and boundless, and fate leaves me no choice." Having said this, the Human Demon stood up and said calmly, "Our ways differ; we cannot work together. It seems that today I will have to make a move after all."

At that moment, the token in Xiao Chen's hand seemed to come alive. Suddenly, it blazed with brilliant light, and with a flash of divine radiance, Xiao Chen vanished from the spot along with the token.

"You wish to go to the Celestial Realm? But can you truly go?" The Human Demon, Ge Qian, took a single step and appeared ten thousand li away. With a boom, he cut off the heavenly path!

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The Overwhelming Might of the Demon Ge Qian

Cultural / Xianxia Notes

This chapter showcases the immense power disparity between a peak Half-Ancestor (or even Ancestral God-level) being like Ren Mo Ge Qian and ordinary cultivators. Ge Qian's ability to kill an Ancestral God-level Celestial Envoy with such ease demonstrates the terrifying scale of power in the World of Immortality's upper realms. His petrified arm is a hallmark of the "Stone Man" path — a cultivation route that transforms the body into an indestructible substance, granting near-invincible physical prowess. The token given by the dying envoy is a common trope in xianxia: a last resort artifact that can transport the protagonist to a higher realm or serve as a key to hidden knowledge. The "Celestial Realm" (天界) is a higher plane of existence, distinct from the four worlds of Martial, Qi, Curse, and Soul, likely the source of the Supreme Ancestral Gods. Ge Qian's melancholic persona — a powerful being who laments his own fate even as he commits atrocities — is a classic tragic villain archetype in Chinese mythology, reminiscent of figures like the Overlord of Chu.

Chapter Overview

This chapter opens with the brutal execution of a Celestial Envoy at the hands of Ren Mo Ge Qian, a demon whose power eclipses even Ancestral Gods. The scene is one of raw, primal violence — a petrified arm shattering a divine being with contemptuous ease, followed by the consumption of her soul. This act serves not only to display Ge Qian's terrifying might but also to establish the high stakes of the conflict between worlds. Amid the carnage, Xiao Chen observes from the shadows, carrying the fragmented will of the fallen envoy in a token that promises a path to the Celestial Realm. The chapter then pivots to a tense confrontation between Xiao Chen and Ge Qian, where the demon speaks with melancholic menace, threatening to drown the Nine Provinces in blood if his demands are not met. The tone is one of tragic grandeur and imminent despair, painting Ge Qian as a figure of immense power and deep sorrow.

Key Plot Points

The chapter's central event is the killing of a female Ancestral God-level Celestial Envoy by Ren Mo Ge Qian. Ge Qian uses his petrified left arm to punch through her skull, then unleashes golden rays from his eyes that pierce her soul and shatter her body. Despite her attempts to escape by dividing her divine consciousness into thousands of strands, Ge Qian's petrified arm expands to seal the heavens, trapping her. He then gathers her shattered soul into his stone hand and devours it whole, extinguishing all trace of her existence. Four Otherworld Ancestral Gods witness this but dare not intervene, instead fleeing in terror when Ge Qian shows signs of his melancholic state — a state that legend says precedes his most brutal massacres.

Xiao Chen, who had been hiding using the formation diagram, is exposed when Ge Qian destroys the space around him. The token given by the dying envoy attempts to flee but is seized by Ge Qian. Xiao Chen manages to break free using the formation diagram and grabs the token, but Ge Qian intercepts his escape by shattering the spatial passage. Their conversation reveals Ge Qian's demand that Xiao Chen repair the "divine city" (神城) quickly, under threat of unleashing genocide on the Nine Provinces and the four worlds. Xiao Chen denounces Ge Qian as a traitor to his own homeland, but Ge Qian responds with a phrase dripping with tragic self-justification: "Abandoned by heaven, forsaken by the world." He admits he had no choice. The chapter ends with the token activating, attempting to teleport Xiao Chen to the Celestial Realm, but Ge Qian steps across ten thousand li to cut off the path, leaving Xiao Chen's fate uncertain.

Reading Guide

The chapter ends on a sharp cliffhanger: the token's teleportation is cut off by Ge Qian, but whether Xiao Chen escapes, is captured, or manages to activate the token at the last second remains unclear. The mystery of Ge Qian's past and his connection to the Nine Provinces deepens — why did such a powerful being betray his own world? What is the "divine city" he demands repaired? Readers should watch for Ge Qian's backstory possibly being revealed in the next chapters, and for the token's role as a potential game-changer. The token may lead Xiao Chen to the Celestial Realm, where he could find allies or ancient power to counter the Otherworld's invasion. Meanwhile, Ge Qian's threat to massacre the Nine Provinces raises the stakes, promising an imminent crisis if his demands are not met. The confrontation also hints at a deeper bond between Ge Qian and the stone man path, possibly linking to Xiao Chen's own cultivation.