In a damp ancient forest located in the east, there were three hundred men of the righteous clans. Chasing after one guy. A man with deep black hair, pale skin, and red eyes. That was Su Chen.
He's been fighting for days on end. He hasn't gotten any rest or food. They have been chasing him ever since he killed one of the young masters of the Bai clan. He ran deeper in the forest; all you can hear is the infamous name of the Mad Demon.
"Catch the heretic!" one man screamed out.
While another said,
"Evil demon Inheritor!"
Su Chen ran deeper into the demon forest. His qi was almost depleted. He grabbed on to a branch and swung off it. Landing on another branch.
"They say I'm a demon for wanting immortality," he said. Aiming for another branch to step on.
The forest was surrounded by the righteous clans. Su Chen leaped up from a tree branch. Landing on the grass, he looked around. He was surrounded on each side; his left hand went to his waist, taking out a long black sword.
A man with gray hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. Stepped out. His qi was at the Soul Formation realm. His blue qi was so intense it made his own allies shake in fear.
"Mad demon, you ate, killed, and betrayed. For the sake of something an evil mad demon like yourself will never get." The man said.
Su Chen didn't bother to listen; he knew he couldn't win. He was only in the Nascent Soul realm. He tugged at his black sword. His bright red qi flowed up.
He jumped upwards into the sky. Slicing off 20 men in one go. Their blood poured on the floor; their bodies remained still. Then falling.
"Grand elder, what do we do?" someone called out.
Another said,
"This evil wicked being has no shame!"
Su Chen looked up. The Great Elder was still staying still. He leaped towards the man. His sword dyed in red qi. Before aiming it forward. The man stood still looking at Su Chen. Before raising his hand.
Whoosh
A huge lightning bolt formed in the sky. Before a ball of lightning hit Su Chen. The forest was completely destroyed, fire spreading around the trees. Su Chen lay there, his body completely broken. His arm was dislocated; his legs were twisted to an unnatural degree.
The man walked towards him. He bent towards Su Chen before cutting off his head with his hand.
'So, this is how my life ends,' Su Chen thought. 'I was known as the strongest in the mortal realm; I was known as the heavenly demon before ascending to the upper realm,' Su Chen thought.
'All I wanted was to achieve immortality,' he wheezed.
Suddenly something attached itself to his soul. He didn't think much about it, since he was going to die anyway. Drifting off into darkness.
Gasp
"What is this?" he screamed.
'I was sure I died; I definitely died in the upper world!' he thought. Sweat dripped from his head.
He then touched his neck. His head was still attached perfectly. He walked up to a mirror. His fragile pale skin, jet black hair, red eyes, and lean skinny build.
"Wh-why do I look sixteen again?" He screamed out, his hands grabbing his hair.
He surveyed the room. The room was much fancier than his old estate in the upper realm. He was one hundred percent sure he had regressed into the past. He didn't start practicing martial arts or even qi refinement until he was in his late twenties.
But now, he is sixteen. The ideal age to practice qi refinement. He sat down in a cross-legged pose and closed his eyes. He was in the body refinement realm. He began envisioning a bright, bloody ocean. A faint mist of qi entered his body.
"What? Why is my body absorbing all the qi this fast?"
A glow of red light flowed through his meridians, entering his middle Dantian.
The Qi entering his body felt otherworldly; this wasn't how his old body was before regression. He wondered if it was due to that strange thing that attached itself to his soul.
His dantian swelled with power as he guided the refined qi through his meridians.
The golden red glowed; his body resonated with power. He felt a breakthrough entering the body refinement peak.
Black spore-like things came from his body; it smelled like a mix of musk and cow dung. He stood up.
'This is mad; I broke through body refinement, immediately reaching the body refinement peak!'
He looked at his body; it was more lean than skinny now. He left his room; there was a long hallway. This was the demon cult's medicinal building. He was rushed here due to an assassination attempt.
The person who tried to assassinate him later was killed by him when he became the heavenly demon. As he walked by, the building was filled with demonic art. The floorboards were ancient and cracked. The walls were dirty and ragged.
He reached the front yard. No one came to see him off, because he was an illegitimate child born from a concubine. His father despised him, and he wasn't allowed to train until he reached the age of 20. But now it is different.
After experiencing the upper realm. Where people can fly and use godlike powers. He wasn't scared of anyone in the demonic cult or the mortal realm.