American Comics: Tales of Cultivator

Chapter 168: Summoning Demons (One more chapter, I'll get it done right away, clarifying the buildup from the previous two chapters)

On the nodes of the hexagram array, peeled, pale frogs were placed one by one. Their pale white foot webbings, stained with blood, occasionally twitched.

In the center of the hexagram array, a black thug with a nose ring knelt on the stone slab, trembling all over as he suppressed his fear.

"Sir! Summoning demons with black magic is a forbidden technique, and I've never used it before. What if a powerful demon is summoned..."

Hei Mu Mingliang looked at the magic array before her. With a bitter expression, she stiffly stared at the man in front of her.

She hadn't expected that Tang Song's purpose in having her "invited" over was to summon demons!

One should know that black magic for summoning demons is a forbidden technique even among Black Wizards.

She had only seen it in the black magic scroll left by her mother and had never tried it once.

"Go ahead and do it! It doesn't matter if you fail, I have plenty of materials and people here!"

Tang Song stood to the side, leaning on his cane. He raised his gaze, signaling Hei Mu Mingliang to proceed with the technique.

Having tasted the sweetness, he craved more; this was Boss Tang's current state. The benefits brought by the Ghoul White Bone Banner devouring a large number of demons were self-evident.

As for the Hell Dimension, a place of terror that everyone avoided, Tang Song now vaguely felt it was a Blessed Land for himself.

Hei Mu Mingliang looked at Tang Song's resolute attitude. Unable to refuse, she could only hold up her crystal ball and walk to the side of the hexagram magic array.

Following the method her mother taught, she chanted the awkward sorcery incantation! As Hei Mu Mingliang muttered, the crystal ball in her hand emitted a dark gleam... Her spell was like a key, seemingly matching a certain special frequency of the hexagram array, and the hexagram array also began to emit a gleam.

In an unknown dimension of Hell, the landscape was no longer filled with lava and seas of fire.

Caverns resembling The Hive were spread throughout the entire dimension. Huge glowing mosses flickered with fluorescence in the Underground Lair.

Some multi-headed demons resembling lizards moved through the Underground Lair, devouring and fighting each other.

These lizard demons, the large ones were over ten meters in size, while the small ones were only a few centimeters long, looking like geckos moving through cracks in the Ground.

These Caverns varied in size. Large ones could accommodate lizard demons over ten meters tall fighting inside, while small ones could only hold lesser demons the size of geckos.

The stronger the lizard demon, the more heads it had and the larger the Cave it occupied. In a Cave four to five meters wide, some two-headed and three-headed lizard demons climbed on various parts of the rock walls, hiding in the dark spots behind the glowing moss. From time to time, they would suddenly spit out venom and extend their long tongues, launching a surprise attack.

A strong three-headed lizard demon was dragging a slightly smaller demon with its tongue, planning to drag it back to its Cave to slowly enjoy.

Its three heads suddenly looked in one direction simultaneously. Without the slightest hesitation, it directly abandoned the prey it had caught.

Its four claws quickly climbed the rock wall, pouncing towards one side of the Cave.

This demon pounced to a corner of the Cave and happened to see a hexagram array emitting flickering faint light on the hard glowing moss.

Without the slightest hesitation, the three-headed lizard demon directly pounced towards the shining hexagram array.

Poof! As soon as the lizard demon came into contact with the hexagram array, the two seemed to have a chemical reaction. Several nodes of the hexagram array simultaneously burst forth with a strong light, enveloping the lizard demon.

The lizard demon's four to five meter sized body directly turned into a wisp of black smoke, drilling into the crack opened by the hexagram array. "Roar!"

Opening a dimension crack as thin as a hair seemed to have consumed all the strength of the hexagram array.

Several lizard demons who had just arrived, smelling the scent, watched with their own eyes as this hexagram array shattered into a piece of light and shadow before them... The angry lizard demons looked at each other with their heads and immediately began fighting amongst themselves!

"A sweet smell, it's the smell of a soul!"

The lizard demon, transformed into a wisp of black smoke, traveled through the dimension crack opened by the hexagram array, smelling the increasingly close fragrance.

Its three heads, three consciousnesses, let out roars of desire!

Tang Manor, Lake Heart Pavilion, at the nodes of the hexagram array emitting a gleam, the legs of over a dozen peeled frogs simultaneously twitched upwards, seemingly pulling something.

Through the crystal ball in her hand, Hei Mu Mingliang could feel a powerful strength coming from the hexagram array.

While chanting the spell, she cast a pleading gaze towards Tang Song.

Tang Song leaned on his cane, his divine sense touching the hexagram array, exploring the operating principle of this black magic, while also sensing the intensity of the energy fluctuation emanating from the hexagram array.

"Continue!"

Facing the pleading gaze of the Black Wizard Hei Mu Mingliang, Tang Song calmly said to her. Behind him, lines of golden light lit up on the Bixi Tablet Inscription.

Hei Mu Mingliang had no choice, so she could only continue chanting the spell to summon demons.

Soon, a wisp of black smoke struggled and darted out from the glowing hexagram array.

The black smoke darted left and right within the hexagram array, seemingly wanting to rush out, but the hexagram array drawn with ruby powder formed a light screen, blocking it within the light barrier.

After circling for several weeks, the black smoke plunged into the center of the hexagram array, into the mouth of the black thug.

The thug tilted his head back in a posture that could almost break his neck. Rolling black smoke surged into his mouth.

As all the black smoke entered.

The thug stiffly stood up, opening his eyes which had turned pitch black, and glared at Hei Mu Mingliang.

"Wizard, state your request!" The thug, possessed by the demon, spoke with a hoarse voice.

In the innate memory of the three-headed lizard demon, this glowing magic array could only be lifted after completing the contract with the summoner.

This was the magic array's protection for the Black Wizard. Of course, once the magic array was lifted, the lizard demon wouldn't mind eating this human wizard as a little dessert.

Request? Hei Mu Mingliang, who didn't understand the concept of a demon contract, cast a pleading gaze towards Tang Song on the side.

"A soul, not a physical body?"

Tang Song examined the possessed thug within the hexagram array. Unlike the Black Wizard's method of summoning demons last time, the demon summoned by the magic array actually had no physical body, and there was only one head.

Following Hei Mu Mingliang's gaze, the three-headed lizard demon slowly turned its head and noticed Tang Song on the side.

"Human, state your request!"

The three-headed lizard demon, whose mind was originally only filled with slaughter, seemed to have gained clarity after devouring the thug's soul.

Perhaps this was the reason why demons relentlessly sought human souls.

Its pair of pitch black eyes, without any whites, looked at Tang Song. Its nostrils twitched, seemingly smelling the fragrance of Tang Song's soul.

"Look up, look above!"

Tang Song looked at the thug possessed by the demon and pointed above his head.

The demon raised its head upon hearing this, staring blankly at the golden bell above its head.

Before its three heads could figure out the human's intention in making them look at this bell.

Dong! The bell hammer struck the bell wall, and a huge sound enveloped it.

Its soul, like water in a sponge, was shaken out of the human husk by an invisible yet immense force.

"Ah!"

Amidst a painful wail, the thug opened his mouth wide, and the black smoke formed by the three-headed lizard demon escaped from his mouth.

Thump! The Gang thug whose soul had been devoured fell to the Ground. The black smoke flew and darted around within the hexagram array, trying to find an opening in the hexagram array.

Tang Song tapped his cane. A Ghoul White Bone Banner inserted around the hexagram array grew against the wind, instantly reaching over one person's height. The White Bone Banner Face directly submerged into the hexagram array.

The White Bone Banner seemed to have broken a certain barrier of the hexagram array. The black smoke formed by the three-headed lizard demon surged, about to dart outside the pavilion.

At this moment, the White Bone Banner Face was like water ripples on a calm Lake Surface, stirring up layers of ripples.

An interlocking pitch black chain extended from the rising ripples...

The chain extended into the hexagram array, wrapped around the black smoke, and a three-headed lizard demon with black scales appeared out of thin air within the chain.

The three-headed lizard demon's three heads spat venom, twisting its body frantically. Its strong, muscle-covered body straightened the black chain for a moment.

Sharp claws extended from its thick feet, gripping the Bluestone Slab Ground, but the immense strength emanating from the chain was slowly pulling it into the White Bone Banner...

Hei Mu Mingliang watched with wide eyes as the ferocious lizard demon was dragged into the White Bone Banner...

Immediately after, a bone-chilling chewing sound came from within the White Bone Banner.

Tang Song looked at the several deep claw marks left by the lizard demon on the Bluestone Slab Ground of the Lake Heart Pavilion and furrowed his eyebrows.

He raised his hand and beckoned. A White Bone Banner grew against the wind, reaching three meters wide and five to six meters long.

The Banner Body fell towards the Ground, and the White Bone Banner Face spread out in the center of the pavilion like a white cloth.

Tang Song controlled the restriction formation on the White Bone Banner. The fine white bones on the Banner Body formed a hexagram array pattern!

"Continue!"

With everything ready, Tang Song glanced at Hei Mu Mingliang! Hei Mu Mingliang looked at the White Bone Banner spread on the Ground with fear and said to Tang Song with some hesitation:

"Sir, each summon requires sacrificing a human soul, and drawing the hexagram array requires ruby powder. Yours..."

"Just try it and see if you can summon a demon. If not, I will redraw the hexagram array!" Tang Song waved his hand, signaling her to begin.

Two Big men wearing black suits and earpieces walked into the pavilion, seemingly completely ignoring the eerie atmosphere inside. They directly carried away the thug's corpse.

Hei Mu Mingliang had no choice, so she could only chant the spell towards this modified hexagram array.

What she didn't notice was that within the Ghost God Feast Painting inside the White Bone Banner, the patterns on the Chime Bells next to the feasting Ghost Gods were undergoing silent changes.

The attendant pattern on the Chime Bells seemed to be subtly changing towards her appearance.

(End of chapter)