Fang Yuan was dead, he soon found himself standing as a shadow in a wierd place. Due to his past life's achievements in soul path he could maintain his consciousness for some time. The other reason was... the spell.
[The dead gods have responded to your sacrifice]
[The dead daemons have responded to your sacrifice]
[One daemon did not respond to your sacrifice]
Fang Yuan could not see anything, nor could he hear anything except the spell's ethereal voice. Soon he found himself standing in ruins of a platform with the roof half broken; he was fully healed. The spell continued
[You have been rewarded eternal life.]
Fang Yuan's face remained expressionless. His chiselled face did not show a hint of surprise.
[Do you want to accept eternal life?]
Fang Yuan calmly evaluated the situation; He knew that the gods have died, but they still have lineages. Eternal life as a lineage is nearly impossible. However he doubted that eternal life existed in this world, there were various gods thus their will was not absolute. A simple sacrifice would not suffice for eternal life anyways.
Achieving eternal life is defiance of heaven! It is against fate and laws of the world!
Something like that could never be achieved easily.
"no. I do not accept 'eternal life'. "
Fang Yuan was suddenly assaulted with intense pain, as if his very being was torn apart and rebuilt. His soul was ripped apart and joined; his shadow danced wildly
Fang Yuan gritted and endured the inhuman pain, he could hear footsteps behind him. His seven orifices bleeded; the ground was coloured red as his white hair danced.
Multiple footsteps stopped as he heard sounds of intense fighting.
***
18 men and women started running towards the ruins as soon as they heard the alert of their fellow monk.
"That demon had to attack right before we were going to ambush him!"
Till the time they reached the monk they found his dead body; his chest was pierced.
"Essence exhaustion?!" A woman with a disgustingly disfigured face exclaimed.
"Did the demon pass the trial?"
"No point thinking about it now! The demon has left a blood trail — Follow it!"
The group ran using the demonic blood trail as a guide. The demon was in the temple, standing straight like a spear, they could only see his back and white hair.
"Did the demon fight that wrath!?"
"Did it defeat it?"
The group was astonished with the demon's strength, it had grown again! Before they could surveil the surroundings they were attacked by an invincible, soundless and soulless beast. The wraith was seemingly protecting the demon. While it was unreasonably strong their flawless teamwork and unique aspects were overpowering it; however, the situation did not seem good.
They were suffering injuries and felt their soul essence depleting; even if the demon was not fighting they felt extremely vulnerable. The demon could finish them off when they were at their weakest!
Of course, Fang Yuan was quite weak to finish awakened warriors off. He was lucky when fighting the monk — who used his aspect to send Fang Yuan in a trial suffering from essence exhaustion as a result. Fang Yuan was uninformed, if he knew that the twenty warriors were awakened he would have ran. His guess was completely reasonable as it took around twenty of such warriors to bring a single demon down.
However at that moment the group made a plan so formidable, anyone would fall if targeted by it. It had a success rate of 100%!