Chapter 22 Devil Subduing Chapter

【Devil Subduing Chapter (Second Level): Kill ten Huang Ting level or higher demons to advance to the third level!】

【Your sensitivity to the changing opportunities between heaven and earth has become more acute.】

【Devil Subduing Chapter (Second Level): You can use the Celestial Devil Codex!】

【Celestial Devil Codex: When encountering any demon or monster that does not belong to the ninety outer paths or the one hundred and eighty demon heads, you can record them in the Celestial Devil Codex by subduing them.】

【When a new demon head is brought into the Celestial Devil Codex, all test-the-dao demons in the world, as well as all cultivators above the Xiantian realm, will learn the name of this demon and master the methods to deal with it!】

【If the strength of the subdued demon head already exceeds the Xiantian realm at birth, only those in the Chunyang realm, and immortals or higher, will know its name and the corresponding method of subduing it.】

【When a new demon head enters the Celestial Devil Codex, your sense of oppression towards all known demons and monsters doubles. Demons and monsters will instinctively feel a certain fear towards you, and this fear will prevent them from concentrating.】

In Ji Xiang's hand, demonic energy condensed, transforming into a virtual black leather book, which flipped open with a rustling sound, recording the names and subduing methods of the one hundred and eighty types of demon heads known in the world!

Moreover, after the one hundred and eighty types, two more types of demon heads emerged!

Refining Form Ghost, Test-the-Dao False Demon!

【Refining Form Ghost: The one hundred and eighty-first type of demon head, its ghost (devil) unheard of in the previous world. This ghost gathers qi to take shape. It appears without an external form, but can refine human forms and spirits, until it obtains flesh and blood, and eventually replaces them... Subduing method, suppress it with Bi's eyes... bombard it with thunder magic... use the Wang Lingguan incantation...】

【Test-the-Dao False Demon: The one hundred and eighty-second type of demon head, its demon unheard of in the previous world. This demon can falsely replace a test-the-dao demon head, giving people false trials, causing cultivators to abandon the Heavenly Dao and degenerate into demons and monsters... Subduing method, use a real test-the-dao demon head to drive it away... destroy it with the Yuanshi Tianzun Demon Subduing Mantra...】

Between heaven and earth, in the emptiness, a tremendous roar suddenly resounded! Ji Xiang's mind went blank in an instant. At this moment, he delved into an extremely high and unknowable place. Although it was only for an instant, he gained tremendous insights!

In the purple-gold elixir, with the aid of this tremendous insight, strands of red silk began to appear!

Qi transforming into red clouds is the characteristic of the highest fruition in Taoist cultivation!

Although these strands of red silk only appeared for a moment, and in very small quantities.

Moreover, they quickly disappeared, so the tremendous boost brought about by these red threads also vanished in an instant.

"This is... Could this be... the power of the Great Dao?"

This time, Ji Xiang clearly sensed the call of the Great Dao. As a Yuqing Heaven cultivator, he was more sensitive to the Dao. Although he had never seen it or comprehended it, this first time, he could sense the calls like those of his parents and ancestors, summoning him, resonating with him, even his entire body seemed to be transforming into azure qi!

The power of the nation was churning, responding with joy. Without a doubt, it was the most powerful and easiest-to-access Great Dao in the mortal realm!

The Great Dao of Dynasty!

If he could grasp the state of comprehending the Great Dao, maintaining the state of being surrounded by red silk at all times… then Ji Xiang estimated that even in his current state, he could fight a complete Ascendant realm cultivator!

The true immortal realm not only brings about an increase in power, but also an influence on the world!

Therefore, once one falls from the immortal realm, this influence suddenly disappears, or descends into the world in an incomplete state, and this influence on the world also vanishes without a trace. This influence… the difference between mortal and immortal lies in this!

At the same time!

Changes immediately occurred!

"Ugh! What's going on? Someone has invaded my mind!"

Deep within the Forbidden City of Yingtian Prefecture, the Prince of Lu suddenly clutched his forehead. Just a moment ago, a piece of knowledge that did not belong to him appeared in his mind. The names of the Refining Form Ghost and the Test-the-Dao False Demon, as well as the methods to subdue them, appeared in his will!

"Not good, an immortal has sneaked in here!"

The Prince of Lu did not know how this had happened. The only thing he could think of was that a Celestial Heart realm cultivator had tampered with some of his knowledge, but there were no Celestial Heart realm cultivators in the mortal world, so it could only be an agent of the immortal realm who had appeared.

"The wills of the people, gather!"

As soon as the Prince of Lu had this thought, countless wills from all over Yingtian Prefecture converged towards him.

Of course, no one would worship him, this prince, after all, the news that the Wanli Emperor was going to seize his family's wealth had already spread to Yingtian.

It was said that the order given was to immediately throw the Prince of Lu into the Fengyang Grand Courtyard after capturing him, and if he had cultivation, to immediately abolish it.

After all, the Prince of Lu knew that he had already left his fiefdom, and according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty princes, running away from his fiefdom without the emperor's permission was equivalent to treason!

Treason it is!

The Prince of Lu thought to himself, he was planning to rebel anyway, and that incompetent imperial brother of his couldn't do anything to him, with just those useless underlings of his. If Old Zhang hadn't been guarding the gates of the capital back then, he would have killed him long ago.

At the same time, his own strength was only half a step away from ascension. His Yang spirit incarnation alone could transform into eighty-four thousand. Even if the Ming court's Nascent Soul realm Heavenly Generals searched until they died, they would not be able to find his true body, and finding an incarnation would also be a death sentence.

The collection of wills does not require directly chanting the name of the true body. Even if it is a disguise or a transformed divine body, as long as it has a certain connection with the main body, it can receive the wills of the people's prayers.

And such a vast amount of wills has countless wonderful uses like blooming flowers.

"The wills of the people can exert influence on others."

The Prince of Lu used the wills of the people to influence himself, gradually diluting the strange knowledge in his mind.

All the soldiers of the Thirty-Six卫 of Yingtian Prefecture were influenced by the wills of the people, and now even if they saw demons, they would not panic, let alone be afraid.

Next, at the Ascension to Immortality Assembly, this even greater number of wills will influence all the people in Yingtian Prefecture.

Making them willing to be eaten by demons.

Making the demons eat happily and with beaming faces, unaware that their death is approaching.

Allowing himself to ascend to immortality.

Causing them to continue singing ascension songs for him.

The power of the nation in the Forbidden City fluctuated.

It did not intend to crush the Prince of Lu.

Because he was a member of the Zhu family.

He was a prince formally conferred by the Ming court.

At this time, it was not just him.

Qin Nvxiu in the painted boat also sensed this change.

And Zhang Celestial Master of the Forbidden City in Shuntian Prefecture.

Ge Xuan Celestial Master near Maoshan.

Chen Taichu, who was recuperating in a secret place.

And three other unknown immortals.

In that instant, Ji Xiang also sensed the existence of all the immortals!

The Celestial Devil Codex registering demon heads, those who first knew everything in it were precisely these immortals in the mortal world!

Next was the Chunyang realm, then the Refining Spirit realm, the Xiantian realm....

From near to far.

Although the Prince of Lu was not an immortal, he possessed an extremely large amount of the wills of the people, and its base far surpassed other immortals, so he was also the first to know.

The cultivators in Yingtian Prefecture, no matter which sect they belonged to, all covered their heads at the same time. The sudden appearance of this knowledge plunged them into a brief panic. Although this was a demon subduing technique, its source was unclear.

Due to this strange event, some cultivators who had grudges against each other believed that their opponents had set a trap for them, or a curse-like spell, so shortly after the Celestial Devil Codex was registered, a cultivator fight broke out in a certain location in Yingtian Prefecture!

However, due to the existence of the Thirty-Six卫 of Yingtian, the cultivators did not dare to be too blatant, and the conflict was controlled within a very small range, without daring to affect mortals.

"The mortal realm, just the awakened... immortals... there are so many?"

Immortals cannot be nameless. After becoming an immortal, they will inevitably be sensed, while the Chunyang realm is not so easy to find. Ji Xiang could not sense the existence of the Chunyang realm, or even those cultivators who were only half a step away from ascension, but he could clearly sense those who had already reached the immortal realm. Counting himself, there were eight people in total.

Aside from what Ge Celestial Master called the corpse-liberated and unawakened ones, those who are now awake are eight Ascendant realm cultivators.

This may not be much for the Inner Mountain and Rivers, after all, the immortals in the mortal realm are either listed immortals, corpse-liberated immortals, or remnants and exiled immortals.

But for the mortal world's Outer Mountain and Rivers, which lack Ascendant realm cultivators, immortals are existences who crush mortal cultivators from the level of life.

The Celestial Devil Codex in his hand did not reveal more outer path demon heads. Ji Xiang thought of the myriad people's demonic thoughts that he had created earlier. It seemed that as long as they were not given a name, although this thing was comparable to a great demon, it did not have a name, and therefore there was no such thing as a true descent into the world, so it was not judged as a demon.

In the end, even if demonic thoughts are given a form, it has not yet truly completed its self-transformation, and has not become any kind of demon, whether within or outside the world, but is merely an aggregation of countless desires and malice.

At the same time, changes were still happening!

In many areas near Yingtian Prefecture, whether they were demon kings, demon heads, or ghosts, they all knew the names of the two newly appeared types of demon heads, but as demons themselves, they only knew the names and would not be told the methods to subdue them.

At the same time, a young Taoist in a soap-colored robe also appeared in their minds. This person only had a back view, but it caused them to feel a certain amount of fear.

Starting from Yingtian Prefecture and spreading outwards.

.......

The powerful demons among mortals, as long as they were demons and monsters among the ninety outer paths and one hundred and eighty-two types of demon heads, all had Ji Xiang's back view appear in their minds, bringing them an instinctive fear!

Whoosh whoosh—!

Tusks spewed out turbid clouds, and a pair of fierce eyes emerged from the darkness!

In the western part of the earth, a huge purple demon mountain with a flat top stood between heaven and earth, with towering clouds and mist concealing it.

Deep in the mountain, there was a valley, but the valley was located on the top of the mountain. In the valley, there was a huge stone tablet with the three characters "Zhang Daoling" written in blood, and a demon immortal roared angrily here!

"It can actually invade my mind! What power is this, what feeling is this, this is the red light outside the Three Pure Heavens, this is the color that can only be born from the Nine Revolution Immortal Pill, you... are you an envoy sent by the Heavenly Dao!"

"Soap robe! Good... I've remembered you...."

......

In the easternmost part of the sea, in Fusang, Japan, within a magnificent Tenshukaku, Ji Xiang's shadow also appeared in Xu Fu's heart. Compared to others, Xu Fu certainly knew Ji Xiang.

"The demon king of Yuqing Heaven, he shouldn't have affected my abilities... able to enter and exit Dafoli freely, and even fight the Qi Luck Dragon... past and future cannot find this person, is he the opportunity to break the lock on the sky, or is he the demon lord who brings trials to the world's cultivators?"

"Need to gather more Qi Luck....."

Next to Xu Fu, a Shinto priest was reporting his work to him, saying that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was now very anxious because the war in Korea had fallen into a stalemate again. From the moment the Ming court sent reinforcements, the originally advancing front line had stopped.

"No need to worry..."

"This battle will surely be defeated."

Xu Fu smiled: "It is enough to be able to eat up the Qi Luck of Korea. Continuing to fight will gain us more, while they will lose more. This battle is not about the gains and losses of one city or one place."

"However, these words must wait until Mr. Hideyoshi fully admits defeat before we can tell him."

"Because only by defeat can we proceed to the next step of the plan."

.......

Changbai Mountain realm.

The immortals also sensed the appearance of demonic thoughts. They were all transformed from goblins or demons, and attained the Dao by enjoying the incense of the world, but in the end, most of them did not belong to the ranks of righteous gods, nor did they belong to the folk gods recognized by the Ming court.

They did not have the Ming court's conferral, so there were other Inner Mountain and Rivers heavenly palaces that made deals with them to help them condense special divine positions.

"I saw a person."

The immortals of Changbai Mountain saw a Taoist in a soap-colored robe, but compared to those demons, what they saw was much more blurred, and the sense of oppression they felt was also very weak. When they saw the soap-colored robe, they felt a slight indescribable discomfort in their hearts.

Within the realm of Changbai Mountain, a black shadow, namely the Kaitian Hongsheng Emperor, the most powerful of the Changbai immortals, sensed Ji Xiang's existence, but could not know his name. He was not far from ascension either.

.......

In a village, all the villagers who had become White Lotus Sect believers were offering incense, and the blood-robed man, Zhou Sheng, with a child named Shen Kui, saw in his heart that familiar but long-known soap-colored robe.

"That remnant immortal... Strange, how could he suddenly affect me?"

"I originally planned to kill him after controlling all the White Lotus Sects nearby, but it's only been two months, how could he... have recovered his strength?"

"Then my plan will fall through... I can't deal with an immortal realm cultivator if he has recovered his strength now."

"How many copies of the people's wills have been gathered? To directly knock a flying high-handed expert down from the mortal world, and even influence and replace his wisdom, this bit of the people's wills is not enough."

Zhou Sheng looked at the dull Shen Kui and suggested:

"Shen Kui, I don't know if you saw him."

"But that's the one who killed your father."

"If you see him, remember his clothes and face."

"If you kill him, the dragon energy on your body will become even more intense, right? The Qi Luck blessing of the immortal level is added to the future emperor, I will train you well."

Shen Kui raised his head and said woodenly:

"I saw him, I remembered him."

His body released a glistening brilliance, showing five colors.

"Five-colored immortal bones, the result of taking the Five Revolution Immortal Pill, looks pretty good, you have a bit of the aura of an exiled immortal."

Zhou Sheng whistled.

He was very satisfied with this work created by the Eternal Life Heavenly Palace.

"Speaking of which, this place isn't far from Wudang Mountain."

"Should we slaughter the mountain to shock everyone? The death of a few Chunyang realm cultivators should shake the world, right?"

.......

In the southeast, Thunder King and other Dharma teaching god masters also sensed Ji Xiang's existence. Although they had not seen the soap-colored robe, they had learned about it from Guanyin Dharma Master in Dingjia City!

This made them very angry!

Qingzhu Guanyin had once used spells to reverse seek Ji Xiang's existence, but the result was nothing. Now, he did not expect that the other party would dare to actively exert influence on them!

Did he really think that the Southeast Dharma teachings were easy to bully!

But anger was anger. The other party's sudden display of this hand still made the several Southeast god masters feel uncertain about the meaning expressed in it.

"Is the imperial court knocking on us?"