Chapter 0012 – I’ll Dance the Twelfth Dance – Absolute Return

I practiced the “Flying Sword Technique” day after day.

Although I have already cultivated this sword technique, to a great extent, but with a young body, to perform it, it has a different feeling.

No wonder, people say that the way of martial arts never ends.

In addition to practicing the “Flying Sword Technique”, I also practiced the “Extension of Qi” secret technique that my father had taught me, and tried to balance my internal power with my external power.

And so, I kept practicing and improving.

……

On the ninety-seventh day of entering the Little Heavenly Cave, I finally gained complete control over the medicinal power of the Demon Essence Pill, and my secret art of “Qi Extension” was further refined, as I was able to release more than ten channels of true qi at the same time, which was not as good as my father’s “Spider’s Web”, but it was still considered to be a notable progress. I can release more than ten channels of true qi at the same time.

“That’s enough, that’s it.”

The remaining three days I spent getting in shape and thinking about the future.

On the hundredth day, I pushed away from the monolith.

“Rumble ……”

The stone door to the outside world, opened.

“Ah, fresh air! Pesachan, I don’t ever want to see you again!”

I stretched and walked out of the little sky cave.

A guard from the Heavenly Demon Temple is waiting for me at the entrance of the cave.

“Second Prince!”

His eyes widened in surprise when he saw me.

“What are you so surprised about?”

“Lord Sect Leader ordered that after you come out, he would immediately take you to the Heavenly Demon Hall, but I didn’t think that you would come out so quickly. Lord Sect Leader said that it would take you at least a hundred days, before you could come out.”

“How long have you been waiting here?”

“Just today.”

It seems that my father thought that I would be out between one hundred and two hundred days.

That is, what he said about me.

It’s not bad!

And, he didn’t feel that I would die in the little heavenly cave.

Perhaps, he didn’t put me in the little heavenly cave to punish me, but to reward me.

I followed that guard and headed towards the Heavenly Demon Hall.

……

I arrived at the Heavenly Demon Hall, and my father, was waiting for me in the main hall.

I walked slowly along the red carpet toward my father’s throne.

That carpet, known as the “Blood Road”, can only be reached by stepping on the blood of countless people.

Father, how much blood did he see before he finally took that seat?

And how much blood will he have to shed to keep that position?

“Exactly one hundred days.” Father said.

I wish I could tell him that I passed all the trials in just one day.

But I held my tongue and I smiled and said, “I tried, but I still couldn’t break your record.”

“Did you split that iron ball?”

“Splintered, I didn’t rush, I followed your hints and found the gap. And, in the last vision, I did not rest.”

I saw, at the corner of my father’s mouth, a small smile.

It wasn’t a taunt or a sneer, but a heartfelt joy.

That smile, however, was fleeting, as if it were a mirage.

“It seems that you’re not too stupid.”

“That’s for sure, and don’t look, whose son I am.”

In my previous life, I had always thought that my father was a cold and heartless man who enjoyed, the two of us, brothers, killing each other for the title of Sect Leader.

But now, I understand that he only had to make this choice for the sake of the future of the Heavenly Demon God Sect.

“What do you want from me?”

Instead of answering my question directly, my father called for a man.

That person, was the Chief Military Counselor of the Heavenly Demon God Sect, Sima Ming.

“Sergeant Sima, long time no see.”

“Second Duke, you actually came out of the Little Heavenly Cave after only a hundred days, that’s really something.”

Sima Ming, not only was the Chief Military Counselor, he was also the head of the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect’s intelligence organization, the Tongtian Pavilion, he held the entire Heavenly Demon Divine Sect’s intelligence network, and was deeply trusted by his father.

“I was just in there, getting punished for a hundred days.”

“Is it a punishment, or a reward?”

Sima Ming, smiled meaningfully.

“Perhaps, His Holiness, originally intended to punish you, but in the end, it turned into a reward.”

“Hahaha ……”

Sima Ming laughed, and so did I.

“Today, I’m looking for the Second Prince because I want to discuss a matter with you.” Sima Ming said.

How dare you seek my advice on matters within the Church?

And, still, when I just came out of the little sky cave?

This was something that would never have been possible before.

In the past, father always left things within the sect, to his brother, and even if his brother wasn’t within the sect, he would still send someone, to pass on the news to his brother.

I looked to my father, and I knew that this was what he meant.

“Go ahead.”

“A few days ago, we received a whistle-blowing letter saying that within the Demon Army, there is corruption.”

The Devil Army, the elite force of the Heavenly Demon Divine Sect, and their members, all of them, were ruthless.

“Oh?”

I secretly screamed in my heart because, I knew that the commander of the demon army, was the Blood Sky Blade Demon’s own brother.

How come it’s the Blood Heavenly Sword Demon again?

“Last year, we received a similar letter of report, and the Yellow Springs Pavilion, had sent someone to investigate.”

The Yellow Springs Pavilion, the law enforcement agency of the Heavenly Demon Sect, specializes in investigating cases of traitors and corruption.

They have a lot of power and no one likes them, but everyone is afraid of them.

“But that investigation, failed, no one was willing to testify, and, the commissioner who was sent to investigate, was killed. The demon army that killed him, also committed suicide.”

This matter, I also have the impression that, at that time, everyone felt that it was within the Demon Army, that someone was deliberately obstructing the investigation, but no evidence was found.

In the end, the matter, it was left unsettled.

Now, there are reports of corruption in the Demon Army.

“We hope that the Second Prince, will act as commissioner on this occasion and investigate the matter thoroughly.”

What can I say?

I knew that this was a test, an extremely dangerous test.

The Demon Army, the elite force of the Heavenly Demon Sect of God, would be punished with capital punishment if anyone was found to be corrupt.

Those who are corrupt will surely try to cover up their crimes, and they will not show me mercy just because I am the son of a heavenly devil.

Moreover, the Blood Heavenly Blade Demon, has already warned me to stay away from him, yet I’m now going to investigate his brother, isn’t that, asking for death?

“You are, in fact, trying to push me into the fire.”

“That’s right, this mission, is very dangerous, you could, at any time, lose your life.” Sima Ming said.

I looked over at my father, who looked at me with an expressionless face.

“Didn’t you say that you wanted to take control of them and keep them in line?” Father said suddenly.

That’s, what I said when I was hunting.

“That is, something I will do when I become a godfather.”

“Are you, now, afraid?”

“No …… you say that, I rather, want to go even more ……”

Father, why did you send me, to the Little Sky Cave?

Is it to give face to the Blood Heavenly Sword Demon?

Or to test me?