Grasping Evil

Chapter 1: A Primordial Dream (Chastity, Yin-Yang Lock)

In the primeval void a billion years ago, in the stellar river comprising myriad galaxies, basked under the light of the stars, a giant lay deep in sleep. Dressed in a majestic purple robe, every breath of his resulted in the destruction and birth of countless stars.

On the body of the giant lay countless continents, mountains, rivers, ancient cities, and immortal domains. Countless immortals whose size paled even to those of ants kneeled on the floor and kowtowed, creating a harmonious sound reminiscent to the chiming of the morning bell, as they prayed earnestly to the void.

"We implore the Immortal Emperor to awaken, head for the Supreme Heaven, and preach the dao to the billion god domains…"

"Wait, let me sleep for a while longer. I've dreamt of an interesting fellow… Ning Fan, is it…"

…

And in the blink of an eye, a billion years passed.

Four Heavens Nine Domains, the Immortal Domain of Rain, Yue Country, Drifting Dream Mountain, Harmonious Pleasure Sect.

The Harmonious Pleasure Sect consisted of only female cultivators, and the cultivation technique that they cultivated was vile and deplorable.

Outside the Harmonious Union Hall, several young ladies walked out stark naked. Their posture was extremely bizarre, and if one were to take a closer look, one could see a translucent fluid flowing down their thighs, dripping slowly onto the floor.

A stream of crimson blood marked their pale legs. It used to represent their chastity, but they threw it away as though it was of no concern whatsoever.

"From today onward, we will be official members of the demonic sect…"

The faces of the young ladies were flushed, and a slight moan escaped from their mouths. It was as if losing their chastity was not sorrowful but something to rejoice over instead.

Leaving the Harmonious Union Hall, they returned back to their rooms to rest. But still, countless feminine moans of pleasure continued to echo from the hall as though a tide crashing into the surroundings.

A black Buddha idol stood in the hall.

A copper lamp lit the area with a slightly desolate radiance. Several young ladies were currently seated by the foot of the black Buddha in the hall, pleasuring a young man.

A young lady with hair styled in a double bun fed her tiny nipples into the mouth of the young man. Her face was flushed with excitement, and her eyes were glazed with pleasure,

Another lady with an unkempt hair rode on top of the young man, maneuvering his lower body.

Another young lady dressed in just her innerwear licked the young man's toes skillfully, slowly moving up his body.

These young ladies had outstanding appearances. Yet, despite being waited upon by these young ladies, the young man didn't seem to feel the slightest pleasure from it.

All that could be seen in his eyes were numbness and desolation.

As a cauldron, he was sold by his clan to the demoness of the Harmonious Pleasure Sect to serve as a hustler.

His lower body had already turned numb. Within just a single day, he had been patronized by nearly a hundred young ladies, and half of them were even virgins.

"Are my white buns delicious…"

The young lady with a two buns hairstyle drew her nipple out from the young man's mouth and asked coldly.

"Disgusting! Why don't you all just kill me!" The young man yelled furiously.

"Hmph, how dare a mere cauldron whose only purpose is for us to procure yang to complement our yin talk back to me!"

Cold killing intent flashed across the eyes of the young lady with a two buns hairstyle. The gentleness from before had disappeared without a trace. Pah, she sent a forceful slap toward that young man, causing a trail of blood to stream down his lips.

After which, she reverted back to a sympathetic look, and holding up the young man's face, she asked with a seemingly concerned expression, "My little nemesis, are you in pain?"

"If you don't kill me, one day, I'm going to slaughter the entire Harmonious Pleasure Sect!" The young man didn't possess the slightest cultivation, but that didn't hinder the immense hatred from boiling in his eyes.

"Hahaha! To think that a brat like you could speak such arrogant words. Fine, I shall see how you'll destroy our Harmonious Pleasure Sect. However, there has never been a cauldron which could survive three days of patronizing. Your yang essence has already been sapped dry, and perhaps, you might not even survive past tonight… Come, let me give you a kiss…"

The young lady with two buns held the young man's face up and kissed him. Her skillful tongue licked the trail of blood off the edges of the young man's lips.

The Harmonious Pleasure Sect, a demonic sect comsisting of only female cultivators, practiced a cultivation technique that required them to sap the yang energy of men. As such, all orthodox sects held them in disdain.

In truth, they were not pleasuring that young man. Instead, they were slowly torturing him to death.

The moon slowly rose up the night sky, and the final batch of young ladies finally returned back to their room to rest. All that was left in the Harmonious Union Hall was the exhausted young man.

His white skin was filled with the kiss marks of the demoness, and his long hair was stained with their bodily fluids.

With his yang energy nearly sapped dry, his life was hinging on an edge. Even so, the hatred in his eyes didn't subside in the least. But deep within his eyes, a sliver of worry could be seen.

"I wonder if Little Brother Gu is fine. He must have been sold to the demonic sect by the traitors as well…"

The young man's name was Ning Fan, the son of a servant of Hai Ning's Ning Clan. He was sold by a traitor of the Ning Clan to the demonic sect.

He had a younger brother called Ning Gu, and he suffered the same fate as well.

This was a world filled with cultivators, a world where the strong preyed on the weak. Even if one was a lady, as long as one possessed unparalleled cultivation, one could also easily humiliate a man!

"Damn it, damn it, damn it!"

Ning Fan gritted his teeth in anger. He had always treated others kindly, and he never dreamt that he would end up in such a state.

"I swear that I will escape from Harmonious Pleasure Sect and join an immortal sect to exact vengeance on them!"

He tried to struggle to his feet, but his fingers were devoid of the slightest strength. Lest has to be said of his lower body—after being ridden on those young ladies countless times, his body felt so numb that he could hardly move.

The gates to the Harmonious Union Hall weren't locked. In fact, the demoness didn't even bother tying Ning Fan up. They didn't think that Ning Fan would have the strength to escape from Harmonious Union Hall.

In fact, they didn't even think that Ning Fan could survive beyond tonight.

As the saying goes, 'the hardest favors to accept are those coming from a beauty'. After being patronized by more than a hundred demoness, Ning Fan's vitality was already drained, and he was already standing at death's door.

"If I were to die… Little Brother Gu, you must live on and exact vengeance for me!"

He closed his eyes in despair as his breathing slowly faded.

The night was silent, and only the call of the cicada could be vaguely heard beyond the Harmonious Union Hall. Ning Fan knew that this was the cicada's call for a mate. However, just the thought of it sent a surge of repulsion through him.

And just when he thought he was about to die, 'jiya', the gates to the Harmonious Union Hall opened.

A thirteen-year-old white-robed young lady sneaked into the hall with some buns in her embrace.

"Despite your young age, you wish to humiliate me as well? Hmph, to think that even the seed of evil could be sowed in a person as young as you. If you have the guts, why don't you just kill me!"

Ning Fan glared at the white-robed lady with rage burning in his eyes.

"Big brother, I… I'm not here to 'play' with you…" The young lady said with a quivering voice. Upon seeing Ning Fan's naked body, she quickly turned her scarlet face away.

"Hmph, you think that you can play with me too? HAHAHA, HAHAHAHA! Cough cough cough…" Ning Fan laughed in agony, but due to his weakness, he started coughing instead.

The young lady hurriedly rushed over, placed the buns on the floor, and carefully patted Ning Fan's chest so as to alleviate his pain.

"I won't thank you for this!" Ning Fan sneered.

"I… I'm really not here to play with him… Big brother, I was also captured by those 'malevolent aunts'… My big brother was used as a cauldron and died three years ago… In view of my young age, they chose to spare me. But soon, I'll be forced to break out of my chastity through a cauldron and join the demonic sect…

When the young lady spoke of her deceased elder brother, tears began streaming down her face and pattered on the floor. Her face carried an innocence that formed a stark contrast with against the vileness of those demonesses. Ning Fan's heart immediately melted, and he instinctively believed the young lady's words.

Big brother, you have to live on. You must! You can't die…" The young lady said sorrowfully. Somehow, the image of her elder brother overlapped with Ning Fan, and it felt as though the tragedy she underwent three years ago was replaying before her once more.

The demonic sect strictly forbade cauldrons from being fed, but this young lady, despite the threat of being punished, gave her stolen buns to Ning Fan.

She was truly a kind person.

"I also don't wish to die. I want to exact vengeance. I want to save my younger brother…" Ning Fan smiled bitterly.

"Big brother, eat some bun. You won't die once you're full… Y-you have been sapped dry by them so you need nourishment… It's a pity that I don't possess a spirit root and am unable to cultivate. Otherwise, I would surely capture a pheasant to prepare a broth for you…"

"Silly lass, since you're abled, you should try to escape instead… You should live a normal life after escaping from the demonic sect… This isn't where you belong, this place is too foul for someone like you. Cough cough cough…" Knowing that death was lying right before him, Ning Fan was devoid of desires anymore. He was glad that at least before his final moments, there was actually someone who cared for him, allowing to feel the final sliver of the warmth of humanity.

He was already contented. But this kind young lady shouldn't die here.

"They have planted a seed of poison into me. Without an antidote, I won't be able to escape… Big brother, say no more. You should eat instead. Come, let me feed you…"

Ning Fan's breathing slowly grew difficult, and no matter what, he found himself unable to swallow the bun.

"You… should leave…" Knowing that he was on the verge of death, he pushed the young lady away. He didn't wish for her innocence to be corrupted by the sight of his death.

"Big brother…" The young lady's heart ached. She could also tell that Ning Fan was on the verge of death. Every single cauldron ended up in the same state as the current Ning Fan right before breathing their last.

Back then, her elder brother also had such an expression on his face.

"You… hurry up and go!" Ning Fan gritted his teeth as he chased her out. The aura of death shrouded around him, and his body was already slowly turning cold.

"Big brother… I'll be leaving then… I picked up this jade lock from the mountain. If you were to keep it on you, you won't feel cold anymore…" The young lady took out a jade lock from her embrace and placed it into Ning Fan's hands. It was still warm from her body temperature.

Sighing deeply, she wiped her tears and left the hall.

"What… is your… name…" Ning Fan's consciousness slowly faded.

"M-my name is Zhi He…"

The young lady couldn't bear to turn her head around. Speaking these few words silently, she quickly ran away from the Harmonious Union Hall, as though escaping from something.

Big brother ended up dying as well. One day, my turn would come. We are all pitiful souls abandoned by the world.

Ning Fan's breathing slowly vanished, and before losing the final sliver of his consciousness, only one sensation remained in him—his body was no longer icy-cold. A sliver of warmth had sprouted within it.

Somehow—perhaps a hallucination—the jade lock in his hands felt equally warm as well.

He had a very short dream.

In the dream, he was floating in a dark void. Erected before him was a tomb forged of flames. There were words on the flames, but due to its flickering, he couldn't make it out clearly.

But in an instant, he felt warmth returning to his body.

That young lady known as Zhi He didn't lie to him. This ancient jade lock indeed possessed the quality to warm one.

Ning Fan didn't realize that at the moment before he fainted, the female bodily fluid and male yang essence had come into contact with the jade locket, causing the jade locket to emit a faint, red glow.

His disappeared vitality gradually recovered.

An ancient and profound sutra sounded from the jade lock.

"Treasure of the Cryptic Yin Domain—Yin-Yang Lock. Heaven as one's wife, earth as one's concubine, and all life as cauldrons. The essence of yin and yang, the union of two, dual cultivation…"

That voice echoed in Ning Fan's head for a very long time. And this was the day that the demonic title of Ning gongzi first appeared in history!

Supreme Heaven (大罗天)

To go in depth with this, I'll have to talk about Taoism (or daoism) first.

In the religion, standing at the top of all of the deities are the Three Pure Ones, Yuanshi Tianzun (The Primordial Supreme God), Lingbao Tianzun (The Supreme God of Divinity), and Daode Tianzun (The Supreme God of Virtue).

The Supreme Heaven, also known as the Three Pure Heavens, is the oldest and highest order of the Thirty-Six Heavens. It is where the Three Pure Ones dwell.

This story has too many revised version that I've no idea which one to take.