Chapter 1 The Descent of the Heavenly Demons

Within the Demon Suppression Domain, eighty thousand phantom images of Heavenly Demons began to descend. The demonic energy around Ji Xiang surged, with the Heavenly Demon Qi enveloping the Earthly Demon Qi, all of which poured into his body!

The Solar Refinement Form eliminated pure Yin. Heaven was Yang and Earth was Yin. Vast Yin energy entered his body, alleviating the pain of the Solar Refinement Form. However, because Ji Xiang had consumed too much extra Qi in this period, the pain of the Solar Refinement Form was almost non-existent.

If this continued, the three hundred days of Solar Refinement Form would be as easy as eating and drinking. If that was the case... Ji Xiang thought to himself, although this idea was a bit bold, if there was ever a good time, there was no better opportunity than now.

Shorten the time of the Solar Refinement Form with the Seven Treasure Yellow Lotus!

When he first fell into the Yellow Springs, Dizang Wang had muttered to himself, saying that using some treasures of the Buddhist sect could shorten the days of the Solar Refinement Form. Of course, this was not very accurate, because no matter what realm one ascended from, the twelve years in the Yellow Court to enter the pre-heaven realm could not be achieved overnight. Although taking immortal pills compressed these twelve years into thirty-six days, they were integrated into the total three hundred days of the Solar Refinement Form.

And if some Buddhist treasures were used, the fixed number of these thirty-six days could be shortened to eighteen days!

But similarly, in this case, within these eighteen days of the Solar Refinement Form, the refiner would suffer immense pain and be in danger of dying!

And this kind of Buddhist treasure was something like the Seven Treasure Yellow Lotus.

Ji Xiang opened his palm, and a yellow seven-leaf lotus flower appeared, emitting a soft halo, carrying a strong Buddhist nature.

"My Solar Refinement Form was obtained by taking a Second Transformation Immortal Pill. In the process of refinement, a huge amount of Yin Qi is needed to neutralize it, just like a fire needs a lot of firewood. Although I have already consumed the huge Yin Qi of the Eastern Yellow Springs, it is still not enough."

"Now, the demonic energy on this Conquering Heaven Demon King, although mixed and filthy, as long as it is refined, its Yin nature can greatly supplement the power of the Solar Refinement Form, and perhaps there will be unexpected improvements."

Regarding the time of the Solar Refinement Form, Lu Wang's subordinate had said that ordinary ascenders could only withstand a hundred days at their limit, and those with outstanding talents could withstand three hundred days. The further the time went, the greater the power of the Solar Refinement Form became, and this was only the state of refining to pure Yang!

He was taking an immortal pill, so he didn't need to take the leap of ascension at the final moment. As long as the Solar Refinement Form ended, he would become immortal on the spot!

It was precisely because the Solar Refinement Form was too painful that entering the pure Yang realm was so difficult. To enter pure Yang, one had to persist for at least a hundred days, and those who persisted for three hundred days were qualified to ascend.

The demonic energy around Ji Xiang surged. The Heavenly Demon Qi was like a furnace, and the Earthly Demon Qi was being refined. Ji Xiang stood motionless on the spot. Just as he was about to take the Seven Treasure Yellow Lotus, he suddenly felt something, as if he had been discovered by someone.

"Speaking of which, this is Kyoto, Hōnen-ji is in Kyoto, and Heian Shrine is also like that. I summoned the great demon under Hōnen-ji and destroyed Heian Shrine. Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the others should know about it, right?"

"But what if they know? I heard that it takes at least seven days for that old thing Xu Fu to recover. Now it's only been a day or two. With his personality, after discovering that my magic power has recovered, he would definitely not dare to show his head and seek death. As for Toyotomi Hideyoshi... he doesn't want to be hanged from a tree branch before ascending, right?"

So, now his whereabouts had been discovered, but the other party had not yet taken the next step?

The demonic energy surged, and the refinement of the Earthly Demon Qi entered a grand middle stage. Ji Xiang temporarily ignored the matter of being discovered. At this time, all the acupoints in his body shone brightly. The Earthly Demon Qi was constantly refined and supplemented into the Heavenly Demon Qi, and with the supplementation, the Heavenly Demon Qi also began to change.

The most fierce, pure, great, and rigid Heavenly Demon Qi, the most evil, filthy, resentful, and lowly Earthly Demon Qi, Heaven and Earth united to return to Taiji.

Even the nature of the Golden Core Great Dao had changed to a certain extent. Ji Xiang's own purple-gold core was covered with a layer of blurred Qi. His whole body breathed with the heavens and the earth. The breathing produced wind, and the sound was like thunder. The meridians appeared on the flesh in blood-red, like the distribution of rivers.

In Taoist cultivation, it is believed that there are gods in the human body, the body is like heaven and earth, which can give birth to the sun, moon, and stars. Before the creation of the world, the clear Qi and the turbid Qi were mixed together. The so-called union of heaven and earth returned to Taiji, and Taiji was just the last state before the creation of the world.

The Heavenly Demon Qi on Ji Xiang's body was changing, evolving towards a more ancient state. At this time, the blank divine tablet in his body began to vibrate. Immediately afterwards, the Treasure Light of the Great Void was actually activated by it. A finger-sized thing fell out of Ji Xiang's sleeve, and it grew larger upon landing, turning into a treasure pot. The Treasure Light of the Great Void spurted out a divine weapon, which was actually the Ama-no-Sakahoko spear obtained from the Yellow Springs!

The blank divine tablet controlled the Heaven-Penetrating Bright Smoke, wrapped around the Ama-no-Sakahoko spear. The power of this divine weapon was also temporarily suppressed. And it was at this moment of suppression that the change occurred!

With Ji Xiang as the center, the power of the Solar Refinement Form began to expand. Due to the mutation of the Heavenly Demon Qi, the refinement from inside the body affected the outside, and the spearhead of this Ama-no-Sakahoko spear, when it came into contact with the Heavenly Demon Qi, actually began to be refined!

The divine weapon slowly melted. From within the Ama-no-Sakahoko spear, strange white dust continuously flew out, accompanied by wisps of ancient chaotic Qi!

"It's being refined!"

Ji Xiang was aware of the movements of the blank divine tablet, but because he was refining the Earthly Demon Qi, he did not take action to stop it. Moreover, this blank divine seat never did anything meaningless. As long as it took action itself, there would inevitably be a great harvest.

Sure enough, this time it was another heavyweight harvest!

"The timing is just right, thank you."

Ji Xiang knew what these dusts were. That was the introduction he had seen in the text of the blank divine tablet when he obtained the Ama-no-Sakahoko spear before. What was written at that time was that this spear was a divine weapon made of Taisu Dust (Primordial Silk Dust) in ancient times, indestructible, but if a method of refining could be found to melt it, then the two types of "primordial substances" from the beginning of the world, Taisu Dust and Chaotic Qi, could be obtained!

One-third of the Ama-no-Sakahoko spear was refined. The Taisu Dust and Chaotic Qi entered his body. Ji Xiang only absorbed a little bit, and suddenly felt a strange feeling.

That feeling was like a body that was already full and abundant suddenly becoming empty again, and this emptiness was not caused by being drained of power, but because the water tank that was full of water was replaced, and suddenly became a water pool.

The upper limit of what could be contained had become higher!

The flesh body seemed to have really turned into a galaxy, and the power emitted by the Solar Refinement Form was like a star in the center of the galaxy.

And it was not just that.

Although there was only a little bit of Taisu Dust, Ji Xiang could feel the rhythm in his body. Those Yuan Qi that he had swallowed from Xu Fu's hands and integrated into himself had formed whirlpools in various parts of his body, and extremely powerful forces began to be born from the center of those whirlpools!

And Chaotic Qi was like a combustion improver. The Heavenly Demon Qi became more and more turbulent, the Earthly Demon Qi was refined away more quickly, and the mutation produced by the Heavenly Demon Qi was also getting faster and faster!

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Two pairs of footsteps stopped not far from Hōnen-ji. The two swordsmen carrying Ama-no-Habakiri and Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi had finally found Ji Xiang's location.

"Demon... such a great demonic energy!"

Miyamoto Musashi, still in the form of a young man, looked at the demonic energy rising from Hōnen-ji like a pillar of clouds, and could not help but reveal an extremely shocked expression.

He originally thought that the opponent was weakened, and that killing him would shake the world, but now it seemed that it was not so simple!