Endless Systems
Chapter 108

After Liu Shan healed Xiao Lin, he moved out of the dragon pavilion. The footsteps did not stop leading him to go walking inside his lonely Liliang academy. He who used to see every street in the academy was filled with people with friendly and bright smiles was now gone.

The incident from the Liliang academy tournament was too hard-hitting for their fears to feel threatened every time they wanted to step foot out of the house.

Liu Shan could understand that. He himself had felt how powerful those demons were with his own two hands. Therefore his ambition to find out about the existence and mysteries of those demons became even higher.

“(System, can you find out a little about the demon clan?)”

[ Command received. Start of data processing - ]

While waiting for information from the system, Liu Shan was thrown into his own mind.

“(Devil clan. In accordance with the words of elder Khan and brother Yao, if they should have been musnak since hundreds of years ago. But, Daolao's whereabouts made that statement into a question)”

His encounter with the demons was not the first time with Ming Xiao. But with the young master of the Lian family, namely Lian Ping. When Liu Shan fought him, he remembered that Lian Ping had briefly used a demon cultivation pill to increase his strength.

Although he was able to win, but the energy of Ki type ‘Yin’ released at that time felt quite similar to the strength of Ki belonging to Ming Xiao.

“(What do you do, Ming Xiao who gave the demon pill to Lian Ping?)”

A thought appeared inside his head. Liu Shan attempted to contact every piece of the puzzle that was being spread. And when the contents of his head were complicated by it, suddenly the system notification surprised him.

Ting!

[Data processing has been completed ]

[ Disruption system ]

[Cannot find specific data ]

Stunned silent with both eyes wide open as if in disbelief. The system Liu Shan thought was perfect and like a cheat code was unable to gather information about the demon clan.

“(Disturbance? What is this?)”

The system has never been like this. Liu Shan knew that well. Then, the system that could not find the data from the demon clan actually made his suspicions increase.

The only explanation he could get inside his head was simply because that system could only be able to process the data that was inside that world right now. Unlike hundreds of years ago, because the demons have been almost extinct for a long time. Therefore, he did not get much information in it.

However, when he was silent in confusion, Liu Shan could only scratch his head as he continued walking. Before long, a voice came from inside the head.

“(Try to find something?)”

Liu Shan's footsteps came to a halt as he opened his eyes wide. The voice that came was Xuan Wudan speaking to him.

“Xuan Wudan.”

“(Yes, it's me)”

“What's up? Lately you've been talking to me all the time.”

“(I'm just checking on you. The arrival of the demons yesterday at Liliang academy made me restless to the point of not being able to sleep)”

“(Son, don't try. You're not the one who can joke, so it won't be funny)”

Liu Shan fell silent as he turned his gaze away. He simply held the back of his neck as he continued walking towards the academy's garden.

“Then, why? You can't come talking like this if there's nothing.”

“(It's about the demon clan. I know you're looking for information about them, and I can help you with that)”

His footsteps stopped in the garden. Liu Shan's eyes opened wide at Xuan Wudan's words.

“You know?!” sahut Liu Shan's.

“(Of course I know. Who do you think is in the fight against the demon clan if we are not the 4 cardinal gods?)”

“Despite of that, what do you know?”

Xuan Wudan clucked in annoyance at hearing how Liu Shan felt indifferent to his contribution to the war against the demon clan. However, he put that aside by quickly taking a deep breath.

Then,

“(Devil clan has a ‘iblis’ in it. And this ‘iblis’ is a being with pure Ki Yin energy flowing inside the body. Pure evil that goes on at night. The name of that ‘iblis’ is Zhong Kui)”

Zhong Kui's. That name was the strongest demon figure of the demon clan. His strength that shook the land of cultivators to the point of having to make the four wind-eye gods intervene to fight him. But, Xuan Wudan himself admitted that the strength of the four gods alone was not enough to defeat him. He was able to split the mountain with a single blow and slaughter the depleted 500 cultivators from the mainland.

The only way for them to put Zhong Kui in a losing position was simply to seal it. However, the sealing was done with all four different techniques.4 different seals were broken into 4 major countries in the world.

Land of the wind, Feng of the East. Land of fire, Huo from the South. The land of water, Shui of the East and the land of the land, Tu of the North. The four seals are guarded by the four countries like a treasure curse.

“(His power is so great, even us gods alone cannot kill him. Inevitably can only scatter his strength into four parts, as well as seal his original body)”

Xuan Wudan's explanation made Liu Shan speechless to hear it. He knew how powerful Xuan Wudan was, even he had already fought him head-on. If Xuan Wudan alone said he was not strong enough to fight a single demon, then it could not be imagined how terrifying the terror that Zhong Kui brought into the world was.

However, in the middle of his explanation it was Liu Shan feeling a little awkward. He was reminded of the existence of Ming Xiao and Daolao which was still a mystery.

“Wait, it's about the demon clan and Zhong Kui. What about Daolao? Why would a pure demon still be able to roam around in this world if you had already sealed them all?” ask Liu Shan.

“(To be honest, we cannot defeat all demons. Our strength of the four gods has also remained limited, so fighting Zhong Kui alone has greatly drained almost all of Ki's life essence and energy. This made the remains of the Demon clans manage to escape)”

The previous thought was completely answered. The demons repelled the gods until they were still able to escape and roam around in this world.

“(It turns out so. It was likely why they had only moved now because their bodies were also in a bad state after the war against the four gods. So it takes a long time to recover all of Ki's energy to the maximum point)Lu Shan's inner”.

When Liu Shan was silent in his mind, Xuan Wudan replied again.

“(Son, be careful with Daolao. He's not just any demon you can face in this kind of situation. He was a direct subordinate who obtained blood from Zhong Kui)”

“Getting blood? You mean-!”

“(Yes. Among the demons, there were 5 strongest generals serving Zhong Kui. They are named, 5 Demons of Destruction)”