Chapter 161 Jade Purity Heavenly Devil King

　　With his Dao heart severely regressing and on the verge of shattering, the consequences were not merely a decline in cultivation, but also a fall in realm and temperament. For a celestial, this was a severe punishment!

　　A fallen celestial, a cultivator banished from the celestial realm to the mortal realm due to the regression and subsequent shattering of their Dao heart—that was the meaning of this title!

　　Not good!

　　Chen Taichu used all his power. The thoughts in his heart could not be gathered, so he had no way to use his mind to contemplate the scriptures that stabilized his temperament. He could only chant aloud, his voice resounding throughout the Phoenix Mountain region.

　　But at this moment, Ji Xiang did something that made Chen Taichu's eyes widen in anger!

　　That power, which had abruptly interrupted all his spells, struck again!

　　Ji Xiang merely shook the firearm.

　　Celestial Retribution!

　　"Ugh!"

　　Chen Taichu's chanting was forcibly interrupted. His mind, which had been slightly stabilized, immediately shattered even more violently, and even his orifices spewed smoke, which Ji Xiang observed.

　　"Azure qi...although not much."

　　Ji Xiang's expression also became serious.

　　Peak Ascension Realm?

　　It didn't seem like it. In terms of strength, it didn't seem like it. Compared to the feeling Yuanmiao Dasheng gave him, it was much weaker...but at least he had touched that level.

　t quite qualify as a flying immortal, but he was indeed much stronger than this crippled immortal of his.

　　If he hadn't used escape techniques to get here and immediately used Celestial Retribution to interrupt his spells, causing him to suffer backlash, he would probably be the one being chased now.

　　The strategy given in the Inner Vision Divine Tablet was still useful.

　　Ji Xiang pondered.

　　When a celestial of this level cast spells, if their incantations were blocked, they could quickly switch to another spell. Moreover, even without using spells, the person in front of him was a genuine celestial realm expert with a physical body, unlike those pseudo-true immortals he had encountered in the past who had to rely on seizing bodies or descending with a semblance of their true form.

　　Even if this person didn't use magic power, merely the strength of his physical body was something he couldn't necessarily contend with. He wouldn't be beaten into a bloody mist in one blow, but it would only be a matter of enduring a few more punches.

　　Therefore, Ji Xiang felt even more so at this moment....

　　That going to Dingjia City to cause trouble was a very wise choice!

　　Although he temporarily lost his form and spirit, he gained the abilities of two immortal artifacts. This Celestial Retribution could forcibly interrupt other people's spellcasting, and even had a great effect on celestials. It was indeed very useful!

　　Naturally, the affected Chen Taichu was trying hard to prevent his condition from worsening. He stared fixedly at Ji Xiang and roared:

　　"You crippled immortal, I swear to tear you to pieces!"

　　"You've ruined our good deeds many times, why are you everywhere!"

　　Ji Xiang chuckled: "Why are you so stupid? Why I'm here, you should ask those celestial officials of Longevity Palace."

　　"I remember it clearly."

　　Chen Taichu was stunned.

　　Then he began to curse loudly!

　　He remembered.

　　The celestial officials of Longevity Palace, after failing to seize power in the Forbidden City, placed a curse on this crippled immortal to retaliate against him, equivalent to marking him, making it convenient for the many ghost immortals of Longevity Palace to find trouble with him at any time.

　　Moreover, there was also a content in this curse, that wherever Ji Xiang arrived, all kinds of killings would occur, equivalent to a degraded version of the Lone Star of Destruction.

　　But this matter, because the siege and killing of him in Gusu Ghost City failed, and also because they had to seize the Dharma realm of the Yin Mountain Sect, they did not seek trouble with him again.

　　But...

　　But!

　　"No, no!"

　　Chen Taichu's eyes were bloodshot. His Dao heart was shattering, and Ji Xiang was staring at him. Once he used the Heart Sutra, Ji Xiang would immediately interrupt him. This was simply driving him crazy!

　　If he was guilty, the heavens should send down lightning to strike him to death!

　　Instead of letting such a disgusting guy torment him!

　　"You, you've been marked by Longevity Palace, but, however...but...."

　　"Why, why didn't I receive their message before? Are they trying to harm me, or did they not find you?"

　　"You crippled immortal, aren't you mixed up with the Shangqing Sect, attacking the Biyou Palace Dharma Sect?"

　　Chen Taichu didn't understand why Ji Xiang, this marked guy, was hiding here, seemingly for some time, but the celestial officials of Longevity Palace were as blind as bats, not giving him any news at all?

　　"Oh? Is that so?"

　　Ji Xiang was also surprised.

　　Although when he was in the Forbidden City, Lao Zhang pasted the Jade Emperor's divine seat on the ceiling to block the detailed positioning of Longevity Palace, the vague mark still existed, able to roughly know his direction and place of stay.

　　But he didn't expect that these celestial officials, it seemed that when he lost his form and spirit some time ago, they were unable to capture his position?

　　"Could it be because my form and spirit were lost?"

　　Ji Xiang thought secretly to himself, feeling quite enlightened.

　　Form and spirit were things that existed, a manifestation in the world.

　　Guan Zhong of the pre-Qin period spoke of it, mentioning that: At the birth of a mortal, Heaven produces their essence, and Earth produces their form, combining these to make a person.

　　Xunzi of the pre-Qin period also said, "When the form is complete, the spirit is born."

　　Without the existence of form and spirit, the body was just an empty shell. Even if the soul was attached to it, it was difficult to drive this body, because it was not possible to determine whether this body was a human or some other animal.

　　However, when a soul was attached to a body for a long time, the appearance of this body would gradually become the same as the appearance of the soul.

　　And incense gods, without their form and spirit, were unable to manifest in front of believers, lacking the medium of manifestation.

　　Mortals had the art of inviting gods, and when a god possessed a mortal, the mortal would have the image of the god, and could also exert a part of the god's power.

　　Therefore, if the form and spirit were not unified with the physical body, even if there was a powerful force, it would be difficult to fully exert it. In the end, the form and spirit were the appearance by which all things could manifest in the world.

　　Ji Xiang's own *Central Jade Book*, from the hand of Yuan Huang, was an orthodox immortal scripture, and its power was to create a tangible body for intangible things.

　　If cultivated to a high level, it could even turn a stone into the shape of a fish, but the fish itself was still a stone, a thing without a soul, only changing its external manifested appearance.

　　"No wonder it is said that the art of transformation is a superior method to avoid many calamities."

　　"The art of transformation is to change one's external appearance, making it difficult for calamities to find me!"

　　"When Nurhaci came to Beijing to pay tribute in Shuntian Prefecture, the Kongchang Decree he used was a kind of transformation magic. I vaguely remember that the blank divine tablet showed that he could use this magic to escape the pursuit of calamities, while using the *Great Emperor Nine Yin Sutra* could invalidate transformation magic below the middle level."

　　"Then, in this way, this mark of Longevity Palace is actually a sign of calamity, and I only need to change my form and spirit with the art of transformation to escape their mark."

　　Ji Xiang suddenly understood.

　　Of course, he had only obtained a part of the *Central Jade Book*, and had not fully learned it. He had no way to change a fixed form and spirit, and could only create an external image for incense and primordial qi, which were originally intangible.

　　And the most powerful transformation magic that Ji Xiang thought of was the clue to a divine power he obtained after getting the essence of all beings in Gusu Ghost City, namely, Fetal Transformation!

　　"The soul-refining ghosts of the underworld are failed products of practicing fetal transformation. They failed to cultivate this divine power, lost their form and spirit, but gained the strange ability to take the form and spirit of others for their own use."

　　Ji Xiang understood many things here.

　　He even found a clever way to avoid the mark of Longevity Palace.

　　However, with Chen Taichu's stern roar, the other party's Dao heart was completely shattered.

　　Under Ji Xiang's watchful gaze, he had no way to use the Heart Sutra, and his thoughts could not be gathered in one place.

　　The thoughts of a person in the Ascension Realm are equivalent to the wishes of the people.

　　If the wishes of the people are gathered, it is a very powerful force.

　　But if they are scattered, each thought has its own ideas.

　　They are like a rabble, like swarms of moths, rushing into the flames can make the flames stronger, but if they scatter, they will only get countless moth powder.

　　Crack!

　　Although the shattering of the Dao heart was like an auditory hallucination, Chen Taichu seemed to really hear the sound of glass breaking.

　　The heart is as clear as colored glass, which is only a metaphor, but celestials often think of themselves in this way when contemplating themselves.

　　The shattering of a celestial's Dao heart meant that his realm had completely regressed, and he was no longer a Taiyi Scattered Number.

　　Thousands of years of painstaking cultivation were all in vain in one day!

　　He was stronger than pure Yang, but weaker than the celestial ranks, and no longer had the power of the Ascension Realm!

　　At the same time, countless mortal wishes came one after another, like silk threads, like iron chains, tightly entwining him!

　　"Fallen immortal, I have become a fallen immortal! No way to return to heaven!"

　　"Is this...a sin determined by the Heavenly Law!"

　　At this moment, Chen Taichu suddenly looked at the sky, instead of looking at Ji Xiang.

　　He seemed to see something that should not exist.

　　And those mortal wishes on him were the 1,300 good deeds he had done, for which he had received kindness. Even though the 1,300 people he had favored had disappeared with the passage of time, their wishes existed in the mountains, rivers, and heavens. Some people even erected temples for him and offered spirit tablets.

　　For him now, these were iron chains tightly binding him. If he could not get rid of these wishes, he would not be able to return to heaven!

　　Because the 1,300 good deeds of the past were established by the Dao heart of the past. Now that the Dao heart was broken, what was done could not be undone. If he wanted to re-condense his Dao heart, he would have to do 1,300 good deeds again. But unlike normal cultivators, a fallen immortal who fell after his Dao heart was broken, when he re-did 1,300 good deeds, his form and spirit would gradually be assimilated by the power of the mortal world.

　　They would become weaker and weaker, and most fallen immortals would not be able to hold on until the end, and would lose their existence in the mortal world.

　　"So it is...so it is."

　　Chen Taichu looked a little horrified.

　　Although Ji Xiang didn't know what he saw, or what he understood.

　　But this did not prevent Ji Xiang from engaging in his own pretense activity.

　　Sometimes, to get information, it is not necessary to show weakness, but to show that you know more than him!

　　"Interesting, it seems you already understand why I'm here."

　　"With your little Longevity Palace, can you still interfere with the will of heaven and earth?"

　　Ji Xiang casually said some nonsense to highlight that his trip was in accordance with the will of heaven and earth.

　　Unexpectedly, Chen Taichu said:

　　"Heavenly rules, Heavenly Laws...can be bypassed but cannot be avoided."

　　"You appeared here, so this is really Biao Shanhe's warning to me!"

　　"What I have done, creating these artificial trial demons, has touched the inverse scales of the Great Dao. I don't know who set the Heavenly Laws. I don't know who sent you to this world."

　　"But I have broken the rules of trial, I thought I had mastered the means of inverting going against heaven and following heaven, but I didn't expect that the initial behavior was already going against heaven."

　　"I did not bypass the Heavenly Laws, so I also produced a calamity."

　　"So...damn it! So in Biao Shanhe, immortals will also enter calamity! Why is this! Shouldn't the calamity of the Ascension Realm be the final calamity? Why do immortals still have the calamity of Dao heart regression!"

　　"You...are not an immortal!"

　　Chen Taichu pointed at Ji Xiang, at this time blood actually seeped out of his mouth for no reason.

　　Ji Xiang was greatly surprised.

　　Chen Taichu was burning with anger: "You are also someone else's proxy."

　　"The person who formulated the Heavenly Laws must be above the Heavenly Heart Realm."

　　"Fortunately, I was originally a Taiyi Scattered Number, only half a step away from the peak of Ascension, even if I am now reduced to a fallen immortal, I still retain some ability to peek into the secrets of heaven...Which Hunyuan are you the proxy of?!"

　　"You Jade Purity Heavenly Devil King!"

　　Plant what cause, and in the end, you will bear what fruit. This is originally a saying of Buddhism, but things like retribution are indeed caused by karmic reincarnation. In the dark, behavior and calamity correspond and are produced.

　　This is also one of the sources of tribulation.

　　Chen Taichu's heart was full of depression.

　　Ji Xiang's mouth was open, also cooperatively continuing to pretend:

　　"You....actually know that I cultivate devils."

　　It's just, where did the title of Jade Purity Heavenly Devil King come from?

　　Chen Taichu seemed to see something terrible.

　　Heavenly Laws, Heavenly Rules, there really are things like law documents in Biao Shanhe?

　　At this time, Chen Taichu spoke again:

　　"I thought above the Five Heavens Eight Emperors Devil King, there was only the Northern Emperor Eliminating Devil King, but I didn't expect there was you, this Devil King of the Jade Purity Heaven. I haven't heard of your name among the Twelve Cultivators of Jade Purity."

　　"Some Heavenly Emperors have hidden names, being able to correctly say their hidden names can unleash their divine power."

　　"You....are you also a recluse after the Twelve Cultivators of Jade Purity?"

　　"But you, this Devil King, cultivate the Trial Devil Magic, so it is extremely dangerous, because although you will no longer undergo tribulation, your existence itself will bring great calamities to others. I am only the first to enter tribulation, but there is more than one person in this world who wants to compete for the Great Dao."

　　"So, when the era of immortals descending comes in the future, the immortals of the world will regard you as a great enemy in their eyes and encircle and suppress you, because if you do not die, they will always have calamity upon them! When that era comes, and you completely expose the Heavenly Devil Magic..."

　　"You will be jointly strangled by the Four Heavenly Hearts!"

　　"This time you came to Qiantang, it is a calamity, but the person who should be in calamity is me!"

　　"Unfortunately, the Heavenly Luck Pill seems to be unable to be refined. The era of immortals descending will have to be delayed."

　　"Hehe, you want to be this Trial Devil King...then it depends on whether you have the life to live to the new era!"

　　"The great change unseen in two thousand years is coming!"

　　Ji Xiang learned important information from his words.

　　Sure enough, in order to seek the power of the Great Dao.

　　Li Shanhe is trying to merge with Biao Shanhe!

　　At that time, this will become a true immortal world!

　　There will be no space for the people of the human world to survive!