Chapter 1 The Origin of the Great Demon

Ten thousand demons chanted prayers, and with the True Undivided Scripture receiving the power of a nation, it erupted with the power of deliverance. Countless vows draped over Ji Xiang, creating the "sole true demon" in the Sea of Bitterness at that moment.

This great demon had no name, born from the primordial chaos, appearing from the Great Floating Li, descending from the Jade Purity Heaven to the mortal realm.

A fierce and enormous shadow appeared upon Ji Xiang.

The world's demons sincerely prayed, believing that the origin of everything in this world was the creation of this nameless great demon.

It was far superior to the Five Heavens Demon Kings.

It was far stronger than the Eight Emperors Demon Kings.

The Thirty-two Demon Lords were its subordinates.

The Eighty Thousand Heavenly Demons were its descendants.

The Northern Emperor Devil-Subduing King was its junior.

"Turbid and chaotic origin, a great demon is born..."

"Primordial Heavenly Demon!"

At that time! The Primordial Heavenly Demon, in the turbid and chaotic world, in the Jade Purity Heaven, spoke the True Undivided Supreme Scripture for all the primordial demon hosts. He told the assembled demons, "I shall now enlighten your minds and bodies, and clearly proclaim the essential path. All demons who attain the Dao in the ten directions shall cultivate from this scripture!"

Om—

Demonic sounds and vows entered his body and ears!

The immortal souls battled Ji Xiang in the Sea of Bitterness, their immortal light and ancient Qi like torrential rain and hurricanes, sweeping across the sky and earth. After an unknown length of time, the vast vows gradually began to empower them.

It was as if mountains were descending, the sky was falling, and the essence of myriad heavens began to solidify. Incense began to dissipate, to the point that the state of the immortal souls finally underwent a severe change.

They could no longer command large amounts of heaven and earth essence, nor could they mobilize the power of heaven and earth in this Sea of Bitterness world. The art of the unity of heaven and man collapsed, and they retreated from the exquisite state of becoming one with heaven and earth, where all things were equal to them.

Their faces, which had been without any ripples, finally became somewhat distorted. The vows they carried, sealed since the Han Dynasty, were being rewritten by the True Undivided Scripture.

Dong—

As time passed, the first immortal soul to be rewritten appeared.

During this period, Ji Xiang's various divine forms appeared one by one, fighting the immortal souls, displaying all kinds of supreme techniques and great formations, trapping them, all to buy time.

The Four Saints of the North Pole, White-Faced True Warrior, the Four Great Celestial Venerables, the Divine Kings of the Ten Directions, the Thousand-Ray King Tathagata, the Black Emperor of the North, and even the Devil-Slaying General… He also used the Jade Book of the Center to summon from the Sea of Bitterness those gods he had obtained in the past but had not devoured, only using them as vanguards.

The True Gods of the Five Peaks took the lead, followed by the Great Awesome Virtue Vajra Terror, the Mountain Mother, Takemikazuchi, Hachiman Bodhisattva, the Thirty-six Great Yamatsumi, Tsukuyomi, Kuninotokotachi and other gods!

Boom, rumble, hundreds of divine generals and hundreds of immortal souls fought fiercely in this Sea of Bitterness for a full sixty days!

Sixty days of battle had exhausted the immortal souls in the Sea of Bitterness world. The Great Floating Li isolated the incense power in the Divine Platform, and the Sea of Bitterness world opened up a small world in the Great Floating Li, a double obstacle. Even if a true immortal were here, they would have been nearly exhausted, let alone the pre-Qin immortal souls without physical bodies.

Ji Xiang took a deep breath.

Rather, it was more terrifying that a group of souls could fight him, who was half a step into immortality, had refined the two demons of heaven and earth, and combined the power of a nation, for dozens of days, to the point that both sides were exhausted and their magic power was gone.

The immortal souls were brave and fierce, and in the ordinary immortal path, their power was almost unstoppable. Even a flying immortal would be torn to pieces by them in a few moments. If they also had the blessing of a nation's fortune, then they would truly have the power to turn the world upside down, and he would be no match, and would be exhausted to death.

Boom rumble...

Thunder roared in the heavens and earth, and the power of the Jade Book of the Center had also reached its limit. After all, this powerful immortal scripture written by the Yuan Emperor was only a "part" of another higher-level immortal scripture. The strength of the heavenly gods it fabricated had an upper limit. Even in the Sea of Bitterness, it could absorb the Qi of the Sea of Bitterness and revive indefinitely, but the Sea of Bitterness world itself could not withstand such a long and fierce immortal battle.

Now there were faint signs of collapse.

The divine kingdom had not yet become small, but there were signs of destruction, but the result was not a loss.

Ji Xiang sat cross-legged on the Sea of Bitterness, his essence, Qi, and spirit all dissipated, as if his soul would leave his body and his flesh would turn to dust in the next moment. If it were not for the fact that the natural marrow of heaven and earth had been born in his body, this body would have been broken long ago and could no longer be used.

"If I wanted to deliver them rather than eliminate them, the Devil-Slaying General would have been enough to tear apart several immortal souls, but the general's form and spirit cannot be permanently stationed, and there are too many immortal souls here."

In contrast, on the other side of the Sea of Bitterness, the immortal souls sat blankly on the Sea of Bitterness with disheveled images. Each immortal soul seemed to have turned into a wooden sculpture, and the incense power in their bodies was completely replaced by demonic vows. This power completely transformed them.

However, the mark left by Emperor Wu of Han could not disappear. Although the True Undivided Scripture was used to control them, this control was unstable and incomplete. That kind of brand originated from the depths of their immortal souls, and was the reason and source of their birth. To erase this mark, one had to reach the Heavenly Heart realm, or ask other Heavenly Heart experts to come forward and reverse cause and effect.

Boom—

Although the power of the hundred immortal souls had been exhausted, their existence itself was equivalent to the personification of "immortal power." The collapsing Sea of Bitterness world was repairing at an extremely fast speed, and with the transformation of the True Undivided Scripture, the hundred immortal souls began to venerate Ji Xiang as their divine master, and began to utter prayers.

This power of prayer was not on the same level as the chanting of the ten thousand lost demons!

A hundred immortals simultaneously venerating another person who has set foot in the immortal realm as their divine master is like establishing a heavenly court in the sky, enabling the immortals to work for this person. It is just like the Eastern Duke ruling the male immortals in the world, and the Western Queen Mother governing the female immortals in the world, becoming a synonym for a certain "immortal existence."

"Primordial Devil King, born within the Hongdong, flying in the sky of primordial azure..."

The vows of the immortal souls were absorbed into the True Undivided Scripture, and at this moment, the shadow on Ji Xiang's body became even larger, and unlike the previous ferocity, the ferocity gradually dissipated, turning into a more ancient and peaceful Qi.

At the beginning of the world, if there was such a demon king, then when it was born, there was no good or evil, no right or wrong. Up, down, left, right, the universe had not yet been opened, and in the chaos, the ancestor of the gods had just been born. It comprehends the original power of the world, and is also the incarnation of this power. With this power as the cornerstone of a path of practice, it gives birth to all kinds of heavenly demons and flies among the heavens.

Until it was subdued by the Primordial Heavenly Lord and listed as a divine host, using demonic power to examine the world's cultivators.

All kinds of thoughts spontaneously emerged in Ji Xiang's mind. This was the power of the True Undivided Scripture, using powerful vows to change a certain state of something in the world, including the book holder himself.

"This book was born by imitating the Christian method. The doctrines advocated by Christ are all reflected in this immortal scripture. Powerful vows can even fabricate the past out of thin air, and create corresponding legends and spells for this god."

Ji Xiang felt that kind of "ancient meaning" that had been added to his body. This was precisely the blessing that the hundred subdued and controlled immortal souls and the ten thousand lost demons had given him.

No wonder Christ liked to preach everywhere. The more people who preached, the more powerful this "new Christ" who appeared out of thin air hundreds of years ago would become. Missionaries brought Christ to the East, and in order to cater to the local culture, they borrowed the names of the supreme gods in local legends, "Lord of Heaven" and "昊天上帝 (Hao Tian Shang Di)", to descend upon the Eastern Land. Therefore, when a large number of believers in "Lord of Heaven" and "昊天上帝 (Hao Tian Shang Di)" appeared in the East, the new Christ would also acquire the power of Lord of Heaven and 上帝 (Shang Di).

One god in the world, all-knowing and all-powerful!

Thus!

Ji Xiang rested and recuperated, returned to the Great Floating Li Land from the Sea of Bitterness world, and opened the Heavenly Gate from the Great Floating Li Land, returning to the Divine Platform Dharma Realm.

Those incense offerings had lost the immortal souls that could maintain them, and remained in front of those bronze and iron statues. In the center of the divine platform, the gilded bamboo slips had disappeared, which meant that the Kunlun Path could not be opened for Ji Xiang, and perhaps it would be difficult for people to find it again.

Ji Xiang took out the fragments of the Dew-Collecting Plate and placed them on the hands of one of the bronze figures holding up the sky. In an instant, the stars of the outer world were reflected in this Dharma Realm, and were extremely clear and bright. The stars in the four directions were arranged in their positions, the Three Enclosures and Four Symbols surrounded the heavens, and among them, the stars all performed their duties.

Ji Xiang looked carefully and found that the stars in the sky had been pulled closer. Only then could he see clearly that in this world, the stars were not stars at all, but the outlines of powerful Dharma Realms!

"The stars in the myriad heavens are the Dharma Realms of the heavens!"

"Are the Dharma Realms manifested by relying on the stars, or do the myriad worlds exist within the stars?"

Ji Xiang was greatly shocked, and learned the astronomical path of this world.

Dozens of stars descended and condensed in the fragments of the Dew-Collecting Plate. Originally, it was just the essence of the stars, but in the Dew-Collecting Plate, it gradually turned into solar essence, and its condensation speed was more than a thousand times faster than the outside world!

Ji Xiang stayed on the Divine Platform for a day and a night.

The solar essence that would take a hundred years to condense outside was already lying in the fragments of the Dew-Collecting Plate!

"Communicating with the heavens, condensing the essence of the sun, no wonder those immortal souls are so powerful and do not dissipate for thousands of years. This is not only because they have stepped into the immortal realm and are eternally listed as heavenly gods, but each of them may have taken solar essence in their lifetime!"

"But why is such a powerful Divine Platform abandoned and not used? Emperor Wu of Han had this treasure, and he kept it for his own use to create an immortal army. Why seal it up and leave it to future generations?"

"Is it just because the threshold for cultivation in the immortal path was extremely high at that time, and ordinary people could not bear the essence of the sun?"

The essence of the sun is violent. Ordinary cultivators, if they are not qualified enough, will spontaneously combust and explode if they rashly take it. Therefore, most cultivators can only take the essence of the moon in their lifetime.

And the immortal path is difficult to cultivate, and the threshold is extremely high. It takes several years just to get started, let alone cultivate to the level of ascending to immortality, but Ji Xiang felt that this was not the fundamental reason why the Divine Platform was sealed.

Emperor Wu of Han loved immortals, which was known to both ancient and modern people. According to legend, after Emperor Wu of Han died, the Western Queen Mother came to guide him, so Emperor Wu, who failed to ascend to immortality during his lifetime, became an immortal after death.

"Could it be that this Divine Platform was left for his own resurrection? Corpse liberation? This is also impossible. Since he can create hundreds of immortal souls to survive in the world, these hundreds of immortals, even if they are given empowerment, and Emperor Wu is given marrow washing day and night, and he is piled up with divine materials and immortal medicines desperately, he can be piled up into an immortal, why bother with a corpse liberation ceremony."

Ji Xiang could not explore the reason for this, but these statues of golden bronze immortals could not be kept. With the idea that if he did not take the benefits this time, he would not be able to take them next time, he waved his sleeves, and the treasure light of the Great Void appeared, swallowing all these golden figures and storing them.

With the isolation of the treasure light of the Great Void, instead of being placed in the Sea of Bitterness world, the risk of those immortal souls returning to the statues and losing control was eliminated.

And this Divine Platform was really too huge. This Dharma Realm was also called the Divine Platform Dharma Realm, which meant that this divine platform was the foundation of the Dharma Realm and a part of it. It was difficult for Ji Xiang to move it away, so he had to give up this idea.

With a thought, the immortal souls in the Sea of Bitterness world opened a passage for Ji Xiang to leave.

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Returning to Mount Tai Hell, the Azure Cloud Goddess had disappeared, but the power of Mount Tai seemed to be much stronger. After all, she had also gained great benefits in this incident.

Sensing the appearance of Ji Xiang's aura, the Azure Cloud Goddess in the Mount Tai Mansion opened her eyes and appeared in front of Ji Xiang in the next moment, even somewhat impatiently asking:

"Real Person… did you really embark on the Kunlun Path where Emperor Wu of Han met the 昊天上帝 (Hao Tian Shang Di)?"

This sentence made Ji Xiang feel very strange:

"What do you mean? I didn't go to the Kunlun Path."

The Azure Cloud Goddess was immediately puzzled. Ji Xiang was also curious when he saw this: "Could it be that you didn't hear the voice of the jade slip at the beginning?"

"Voice? What voice?"

The Azure Cloud Goddess really hadn't heard it. Ji Xiang couldn't help but take a deep look at her, shook his head, and seeing that the Azure Cloud Goddess still looked puzzled, Ji Xiang explained:

"Where is there any Kunlun Path! Those who are not descendants of the Liu family will hardly witness the path of the Heavenly Emperor, let alone go there with jade slips! That's why I was trapped in a Dharma Realm before and almost lost my life!"

Hearing this, the Azure Cloud Goddess couldn't help but be stunned, and then she understood:

"This is the measure that Emperor Wu of Han set up to prevent his secret letters from being obtained by outsiders, right? In that case, perhaps the reason why I didn't hear that voice is because I am not a descendant of the Han Dynasty."

"But this is strange, why did it only trap you, but not me? I thought you had really obtained the power of the 昊天上帝 (Hao Tian Shang Di)."

She couldn't figure out this matter, and Ji Xiang would not reveal it. He casually found a reason to prevaricate it, so the two were about to separate. The Azure Cloud Goddess thanked Ji Xiang for dealing with the problem below the hell for her, and now she had also been promoted with divine power, obtaining the power of a god and a ghost who managed Mount Tai in ancient times. This way, at least she could guarantee that the eighth level of hell and above would no longer be replaced by the underworld.

As for the matter here, she had also reported it to the imperial court, but she heard that the Celestial Master declined, saying that he could not come.

As soon as Ji Xiang heard that the Celestial Master was shirking responsibility, he became vigilant.

It seemed that something had happened. The incarnation that Old Zhang had sent to Bozhou was probably meeting that golden Heavenly Heart realm expert.

When immortals encounter the Heavenly Heart realm, there is no way to resist at all. The Celestial Master was probably injured again. This was also unavoidable.

"In that case, that's good, I originally wanted to go to Shangqing first."

The combat power of the Outer Mountain and River was lacking. Celestial Master Ge and Qin Nüxiu had their own purposes. Judging from the current situation, his cheap sister did not know where she had gone to dig graves again. If he wanted to find a stable combat power, was there anyone better than the Jade Maiden in the True Spirit Rank Chart?

The matter he had promised back then had also been completed. Li Hua Qian Dai's pure Yang body was enough for this ancient immortal to recover!