Versatile Mage: Undying Fire

Chapter 154 Red Devil
Osaka is brightly lit and there are many pedestrians on the streets.

The drunk young man was swearing and yelling something, and the friends around him seemed a little embarrassed. They were just a group of drunk young people.

The reason they drank was for a young man who had been heartbroken, the same young man who was still cursing.

"Hahaha, what's so great about a mere woman? There are so many beautiful women here, you can just reach out and get one, right?" the drunk young man said, staggering.

"a ha ha ha."

"Ah, yes, yes."

His friends around him echoed his words. Although they didn't think he could find a good woman, they didn't want to say anything hurtful since he had just broken up.

The drunk young man was still cursing when a woman with a great figure wearing a black tights walked past him.

Normally, the drunk young man would not dare to talk to such a woman, but now, in his drunken state, he extended his hand.

"Get out." Mochizuki Chisaki, who was wearing a tight-fitting dress, said, with a strange light flashing in her expressionless eyes.

Under normal circumstances, the drunk young man would definitely be able to detect that something was wrong with Mochizuki Chixun, but now he was so drunk that he couldn't judge at all. He just felt humiliated. Why did he use such a tone?

The drunk young man stretched out his hand towards Mochizuki Chisaki's chest.

Mochizuki Chixun's face turned cold, and then a ghost tree rushed out of the ground. The ghost tree was as thick as an arm.

Guimu suddenly knocked the young man away.

The people around were quiet for a while, then screamed and rushed to escape from Mochizuki Chisaki.

The young man who was blown away fell heavily in the middle of the road. Then a large truck drove over and the truck driver noticed someone and hurriedly turned the steering wheel.

Although he reacted quickly, he was still a step too late. The truck's tire had already pressed on one of the young man's legs, and a scream resounded through the sky in an instant.

People stopped to watch.

"Mage?"

"Even if she's a wizard, she can't just attack people randomly, right? Tell the Inquisition quickly, they'll come and control her."

"How dare the evil wizard cause trouble here?"

"Get out!!!" Mochizuki Chixun roared. Her eyes fell on the men and women in front of her, and anger suddenly appeared.

"You are just a bunch of bugs. You are not worthy of being protected by us mages. You deserve to die. If it weren't for you, so many mages wouldn't have died..."

The plants in a flower bed not far from Mochizuki Chixun began to wither rapidly.

There are ghost trees that take root in the ground and then arch up the floor.

The image of a ghostly wood demon was reflected on the glass of the building.

People were so frightened that they abandoned their cars and fled.

Soon the place was blocked by vehicles.

Mochizuki Chishun raised her hand and the ghost trees broke out of the ground one after another. They poured out madly from the cracks, the soil in the garden, and the gaps between the bricks.

“Oh my God…!” A woman looked at Mochizuki Chisaki in a daze.

"Have you had enough fun?" At this time, a young man emerged from the shadows, with a spirited black wolf beside him.

"You really didn't leave, do you want to keep the pearl for yourself?" Mochizuki Chixun said with an expression as if she had known this a long time ago.

The young man, Lin Ran, said calmly: "You are almost turning into a demon now, hand over the bead quickly."

"Dream on!!!" Mochizuki Chixun growled and then controlled Guimu to attack Lin Ran. Her attack was sharp and neat. She was determined to kill without any mercy.

What a violent woman! Lin Ran sighed and patted Dark Wolf on the head and said, "Whether you can get the bead depends on you."

The dark wolf growled and rushed out.

The dark curtain fell, this is the power of the Dark Wolf.

Lin Ran stood in the darkness and looked at Mochizuki Qianxun and Dark Canglang.

"Dark?"

"The sky was originally dark, it was light, and the light disappeared!"

"A demon? Or maybe a wizard?"

The Dark Wolf was worthy of being the king of darkness. It easily suppressed Mochizuki Chixun, and no matter how she struggled, she was firmly controlled by it.

The Dark Wolf snatched the bead from Mochizuki Chixun's hand and swallowed it without hesitation.

Mochizuki Chisaki also stopped moving. She stood on the ground in a daze. She knew what she had done, but why did this happen?
At this time, Lin Ran walked up to Mochizuki Qianxun, then reached out and patted Mochizuki Qianxun on the shoulder and said, "It's because of the beads. Your eldest brother might have been infected and turned into a demon a long time ago. Maybe even his soul has changed. Don't worry, no one died."

Mochizuki Chiaki understood why her elder brother was imprisoned. If he was infected by the beads, he would have to be imprisoned.

At this time, the Dark Wolf slowly returned to the summoning plane.

"Where are the beads?" Mochizuki Chixun asked

"It was eaten by the Dark Wolf, and it is probably impossible to get it back." Lin Ran said. The power of this bead should be able to help the Dark Wolf advance to the monarch. Naturally, he would not return this thing to Mochizuki Qianxun.

After a while, Wangyue Mingjian arrived. He brought a group of mages and surrounded Lin Ran and Wangyue Qianxun.

Wangyue Mingjian had a very unpleasant expression on his face. He looked at the two and said, "Follow us."

……

In the room, Mochizuki Chixun was kneeling on the wooden floor, her black hair hanging down, her head buried, like a girl who did something wrong but was not afraid of being punished. Lin Ran sat on the floor and looked at the layout of the place.

Wangyue Mingjian had his back to the two of them, and now he looked quiet and solemn.

"Qianxun, you really disappoint me." said Mochizuki Mingjian.

"I know I was wrong." Mochizuki Chixun said.

"Even if you knew that Tsuruta was in Toshogaku, you should have made things clear first. If you act rashly like this, even if everything is really as you saw and thought, you will only make things more complicated." Mochizuki Mingjian said.

"I don't know who to ask. Even Tsuruta is imprisoned in Toshukaku..." Mochizuki Chisaki said with her head down.

"Do you still choose to believe him now?" said the old man with the famous sword.

Mochizuki Qianxun glanced at Lin Ran and fell silent.

"I didn't dare to take it, so I let the Dark Wolf take it. I didn't expect it to be eaten by it. I'm really sorry." Lin Ran said.

Neither Mochizuki Mingjian nor Mochizuki Chixun said anything.

"Humans have souls. When a mage practices, he is cultivating his soul. The stronger the soul, the stronger the mage is. However, everyone's soul is not pure. The entire Dongshou Pavilion is shrouded in a curse formation. The formation will absorb the souls of evil mages, but it cannot eliminate the resentment, evil, greed, hatred, killing, anger, and desire in the souls of evil mages... and there is also a dark formation in Dongshou Pavilion. In this dark environment, these originally fragmented regrets will grow and become the bead you see now." said Wangyue Mingjian.

Lin Ran listened silently without saying anything.

"Fortunately, you stopped Qianxun in time, otherwise a new Red Devil would have descended here." said Mochizuki Mingjian.

Lin Ran knows that the Red Devil is related to the death of Lingling's father. He will tell Lingling this information later.

"The reason why this thing is called the Red Devil is because its soul is different from most creatures in soul form. It is dark red in color, and all creatures that are parasitized and controlled by it will have a dark red evil mark on their souls after death!" said Wangyue Mingjian.

Mochizuki Chixun on the side also nodded at this time. When she attacked passers-by, her eyes could directly see their souls. After these people were parasitized by her plants, their souls were also branded with an evil dark red color, as if they had signed a terrible contract with the devil!
Dark red soul mark!!!
Lin Ran touched his chin.

Whether it is the soul of a living thing or an evil spirit, demon, or ghost, once it dies, it will appear blue or cyan.

Lin Ran remembered that Leng Qing had talked to him and Mo Fan about Lingling's father, among which there was a dark red soul. Of course, the vampire Nie Dong was also dark red.

"Did a red devil escape from your Dongshou Pavilion before!!!" Lin Ran said.

Wangyue Mingjian's body trembled slightly, and then he looked at Lin Ran in some surprise.

The expression on Mochizuki Mingjian's face was very stiff, and his dark brown eyes seemed to be shaking violently because of his fear of the past.

"You...how do you know all this?" Wangyue Mingjian stared at Lin Ran closely.

The previous generation of Red Devil can be said to be Mochizuki Mingjian’s lifelong nightmare. Even after so many years, Mochizuki Mingjian would often be frightened awake at night.

That’s right, a red devil did escape from their Dongshou Pavilion many years ago. Even now, the older generation of watchers dare not reveal even a single word of this matter!

But he would never have thought that a student from China actually knew clues about the Red Devil.

Mochizuki Chisaki was also a little surprised. She had personally experienced how terrifying this red devil was. What made her even more unbelievable was that this thing actually escaped from here. This was something terrifying to the bone! !
……

On the winding mountain road section of Xishan, there is a small road that vehicles cannot pass.

Wangyue Mingjian led Lin Ran and Wangyue Qianxun inside. There were sacrificial utensils and some flowers that had not completely withered. It was obvious that someone had come here to worship not long ago.

"At that time, I was just like you are now, reckless and did things without considering the consequences. The boring days in Dongshou Pavilion day after day made us very curious about anything new. When he found a condensed evil bead, he was so excited that he wanted to take it out." Wangyue Mingjian raised a pot of wine and slowly poured the liquor on the spirit tablet.

Lin Ran took a look and found a person's name engraved on the tablet.

"Yi Qiu?" Mochizuki Qianxun looked at the spirit tablet in a trance and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"Well, he is the biological father of your eldest brother Tsuruta, and he is also my best friend." Mochizuki Mingjian said.

Lin Ran listened silently.

"Chisaki's mother, Masako, was pursued by everyone in Soshukaku back then... uh, in your current words, she was a goddess. Tsuruta's father, Kazuaki, fought his way out of the siege and won her heart. Not long after, Tsuruta was born..." said Mochizuki Meiken.

Lin Ran didn't want to hear these things so he said, "Speak to the point."

Lingling cares a lot about Red Devil. Although she is very naughty, she is a rare good friend with a good IQ. Now that he has received news that he can help Lingling, he is naturally a little anxious.

"Well, it was like this. Yiqiu and I were the first to discover the Condensed Evil Pearl. Then I told Masako and Nobuko. Masako wanted to inform the people in the tribe, but Nobuko suggested that we refine the energy inside to improve our strength and stand out from the tribe. After that, we absorbed and stole its energy. Because it was divided equally among the four of us, no one noticed anything abnormal in a short period of time, and our cultivation also increased significantly. But later, Masako, Nobuko, and I suddenly changed our temperament. We took pleasure in killing monsters at first, and later even started to slaughter the prisoners imprisoned in Dongshou Pavilion..." said Mochizuki Mingjian.

"I've been affected." said Mochizuki Chisaki.

"Yes, we are getting deeper and deeper into trouble. Xinzi even suggested that we lock more prisoners in the East Guard Pavilion and let the Ninghua Evil Pearl absorb enough soul power to provide us with more powerful strength." The old man Mingjian seemed to not want to talk about the past.

During that time, he lost his mind and did a lot of things that he was afraid of now when he thought about them. That kind of cruelty and evil thoughts grew infinitely and became stronger and stronger, taking root deep in their hearts...

"How did you get away?" asked Mochizuki Chisaki.

"It was Yi Qiu. He was the most rational one among us. After he realized that the evil bead was actually the condensed resentment in the souls of all the prisoners, he began to stop us from continuing to practice with the condensed evil bead... Alas, we were completely lost at that time." Wangyue Mingjian sighed, as if expressing endless sadness and regret.

"You killed him?" Lin Ran said.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Mochizuki Qianxun glared at Lin Ran.

"In fact, we did that. Several of us planned to kill him together. We wanted to kill Yi Qiu who tried to stop us..." Mochizuki Mingjian's voice became extremely low, and he didn't even dare to look into Mochizuki Chixun's eyes.

"What... You killed Tsuruta's father, and my mother agreed?!" Mochizuki Chisaki couldn't help but exclaimed.

At that time, Ichiaki and Masako were husband and wife. In Chisaki Mochizuki's impression, her mother was the kindest and gentlest woman in the world. How could she do such a thing?
Mochizuki Mingjian knew that it was difficult for Mochizuki Chisaki to accept this fact, but he had to tell the truth: "In fact, this proposal was made by her... Oh, you don't need to have too many grudges against your mother, because she is more lost than us. I think you know that feeling."

Mochizuki Chixun recalled the feeling of attacking ordinary people before, and it certainly didn't feel like herself.

(End of this chapter)