A Demon's Journey

Erica was a woman with a rather courageous and strong personality. She wouldn't think for a second before choosing an option that would risk her life. She was ready to give up her life if it meant that her sect and her daughter would be safe.

Her sect and her daughter were her weaknesses that Azaroth took complete advantage of. However, Azaroth had overlooked that these two things were her greatest strength. They were the source of her conviction.

To protect them, she was ready to do anything. Thus, she was ready to take the risk to protect her sect and her daughter from the King. When weighing the risks, she felt that the threat she felt from the King was much greater than Azaroth.

Thus, she began to create countermeasures in case the contract takes effect when she mentions Azaroth to the King's envoys. She created files and also implanted some of her memories within a few objects that described just how dangerous Azaroth was.

The next Sect Master would look at these objects and then make his decision over how he could save the sect from Azaroth. Erica was terrified of Azaroth because she had seen how he destroyed the Night Mountain Sect in cold blood. What terrified her, even more, was that Azaroth used her and her Black Lake Sect to achieve his objective and there was nothing she could do.

Around this time, Azaroth was in the Sacred Ice Aurora Valley Sect's location. Zena and the two Frozen Spirit Foxes also followed him to that location. Azaroth laid down all his subordinates and prepared to create a gigantic lake.

Other than Tiana, all his subordinates had regained their consciousness. However, their bodies had yet to recover properly. Now that their spirits had already recovered, he had achieved his objective. It was time for their bodies to recover quickly as well.

The Frigid Ice Demon Lake. This was the name of the lake that Azaroth was creating. For an ordinary person, entering this lake would be nothing more than signing a death contract. Only these women who cultivated the Sacred Ice Sovereign Manifestation technique could dare to step into this lake.

This lake water was going to strengthen their physique and help them in their recovery. It would also be greatly beneficial to their cultivation. The tough part was to keep it empowered. This was why there weren't many kinds of lakes like this even in the top sects of the Glerian Kingdom.

However, Azaroth had already thought of a solution. When he was roaming around, he had found a source of Ice Vein. Deep inside the earth, there was a source of pure Ice Vein that released the elemental energy of pure Ice.

It was very natural for this kind of Ice Vein to exist here. The last time Azaroth was here, he had gained a general idea of its location and knew that it existed. This time, Azaroth managed to figure out its exact location.

After he found this Ice Vein, he also connected all the formations of the Sacred Ice Aurora Valley Sect with this Ice Vein. The power released by an Ice Vein was akin to the full-powered attack of a Demon Emperor at all times.

This Ice Vein could easily empower the high-level barriers that Azaroth was planning to leave here so that Tiana and her subordinates would remain safe. Even if they activated their barrier, it would take them hundreds of years to exhaust all energy of the Ice Vein.

At the very least, even the Sovereign of this Kingdom would be unable to break through this barrier. To have a chance of breaking through this barrier, he'd have to summon some Gods. And Azaroth really doubted that the Glerian Kingdom had even one God-Ranked Expert, much less numerous.

It was for this reason that a Kingdom or a Great Sect would first find a location that held a Spiritual Vein that possessed the power of Heaven and Earth. A Vein from where they could receive a constant flow of energy without doing anything.

The Frigid Ice Demon Lake was soon created. The deeper a warrior went, the colder it was. The bottom half of this lake was merely ice. This Ice wasn't normal. It was much heavier than water and anyone who touched this ice would be frozen.

Naturally, the exception was that if someone gained insight into the Ice Laws, they could touch it and hope to survive. The others would definitely die. Even Azaroth couldn't touch the Ice at the bottom. He would need to cut off his hand to prevent his entire body from being frozen.

This was not an ideal scenario. Thus, he created another formation. No, this formation was more like a barrier that prevented anyone from approaching the Ice. If there were some fool who still wanted to approach that Ice, he was on his own then.

Anyway, Azaroth picked up Tiana's body and placed her in that lake. Soon, Tiana sank within the lake. She sank to a certain depth since the barrier was preventing her from submerging any deeper.

Tiana's cultivation techniques were working automatically, and her soul and body were regaining their strength. Azaroth used this method because she had remained unconscious for too long.

By his estimate, she should have at least regained her consciousness by now. However, she remained unconscious and even Azaroth was getting a bit doubtful whether it was a good decision to not assist her in recovering from her Spiritual Injuries.

Was he late and she would always remain in this coma? Azaroth stopped thinking so deeply and focused on the situation at hand. He got started and began to connect all the formations with the Ice Vein.

Meanwhile, the situation at the Sinyalian Kingdom and the Glerian Kingdom's border was heating up once again. This time, it was the Sinyalian Kingdom's forces who were planning an attack.

The Sinyalian Kingdom's forces knew that the Glerian Kingdom's forces won't easily fall into their traps next time. They would be prepared with countermeasures. And fighting so close to their encampment would make them suffer disastrous losses.

Thus, Roman and a few other strategists were considering fighting near the Glerian Kingdom's encampment. Naturally, this plan had its good points and bad points. The good point was that the Sinyalian Kingdom's encampment would remain safe. However, the cons were that the reinforcements of the Glerian Kingdom's forces would come very quickly. If they didn't attack with a sizeable force, they would be the ones to lose.

Noah and his subordinates continued to train hard. Among them, there was one individual who couldn't help but remain silent. From his expression, it was clear he was feeling rather melancholic.

This warrior was William. He had been feeling melancholic ever since he witnessed Noah's battle against Roman. He had noticed that Roman possessed the Gold Element. And what shocked him was that Roman had managed to fight an equal battle against Noah for so long.

William also realized that Noah had never used any techniques against him. The battle between Noah and William would always result in Noah's victory. If Noah ever used his sword techniques, it won't even be a battle, but a straight slaughter.

However, that day, William had witnessed Noah utilizing multiple techniques against Roman and still Roman could fight an equal battle against Noah. This made William realize that he was lacking something crucial.

He had a feeling that he should be capable of all that as well. In fact, he should be even stronger than Roman since he possessed twin variant elements. However, that wasn't the case.

He had a feeling that he wouldn't last more than 3 exchanges against Roman.

At this moment, William also recalled Azaroth's words. These words Azaroth had spoken to William during their last meeting.

"A genius can never grow under another genius. Keep these words in mind, William."

It was now William was understanding what Azaroth meant. He realized that he couldn't grow any more under Noah's leadership.. He had to leave.