But he wasn't willing to give away the Ten-avatar Skill voluntarily to Austin.
"Huh?"
Austin threatened with a cold hum.
The demon lord trembled in fear. It just hit him that he was now under the complete control of the demon imperator standing right before him.
If he couldn't boot-lick the demon imperator, his life would be on the line.
So, to save his life, the demon lord was finally forced to tell Austin how to practice the Ten-avatar Skill.
But on learning what the skill involved, Austin wasn't very impressed.
Honing the particular skills that he was interested in required one to have the demonic energy first.
As a human cultivator, Austin only had the vital energy in his body. How could he practice the demonic skill without demonic energy?
"Alas! I have been sleeping for all these years. Now, I only have the bones and an incomplete demonic spiritual soul. Where can I find the demonic energy required to practice the skill?"
Austin pretended to be upset, and calculated every word he said, to pry out more helpful information.
"Your Majesty!
It looks like you got your demonic spiritual soul seriously hurt.
Every one of the demon race is a product of hard work and discipline in the cultivation of various skills within their realm of power.
As long as your bones are still there, it is very easy for you to cultivate the demonic energy.
It's so easy that you just have to absorb the demonic energy you meet.
Your Majesty, you just absorbed my body, so you already have my demonic energy in your body right now,"
said the demon lord.
But he sounded very upset while he talked about this.
Now he deeply regretted his earlier decisions.
Had he known that there was a demon imperator inside the human boy, he would never have used the Body Invading Skill. It was surely a suicidal decision.
Now he was having a taste of his own medicine.
The demonic body that he had been cultivating for over centuries became the demon imperator's body all of a sudden.
"What? Are you saying that I already have demonic energy in my body as we speak?"
Austin couldn't wait to confirm using his spiritual sense.
Right away, he did a quick check on his body.
In a few moments of the scan, his face took on a weird look.
Between his own bones, he discovered a mysterious black energy substance with a
foul and dark aura.
No doubt, this was the demonic energy that
the demons cultivated as their equivalent of the vital energy of the human cultivators.
Both were derived from nature.
But just as the demon lord said, his spiritual soul had a special strong aura, far beyond the norm, even among fellow demons.
In Austin's case, the energy was even more spectacular, as the demon imperator that had broken into his Soul Sea was absorbed by the spiritual tree within, leaving only the aura of the demon.
That meant Austin's body was now partly of demonic essence.
In short, he was half a demon right now!
His memory flashed back to the day he went to the ruins of the Oracle Sect, where mistaken identity worked to his advantage when the demon king also took him for a demon imperator called Tybalt.
Now, when he realized this demon lord had also mistaken him for a demon imperator, it left him amused.
"So you mean that I already have the demonic energy in my body and I can practice the Ten-avatar Skill without a problem?"
Austin asked the demon lord. He just had to make sure. His tone was stone cold, threatening.
"Yes, Your Majesty. You can practice the Ten-avatar Skill freely now,"
the demon lord answered, dejection showing in his voice.
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