The fusion of Yang Hong and his negative counterpart was unstoppable, an inherent flaw in the design of the Five Directions Seal.
This was why the immortal sects periodically reinforced the seal with individuals possessing strong souls.
Furthermore, the individuals used to reinforce the seal absolutely could not cultivate.
Otherwise, the negative soul could have relied on the merits of the positive soul to rapidly advance its cultivation, a prime example being its complete suppression of Yang Hong's dark giant.
Moreover, the negative soul's cultivation speed was clearly faster than that of the primary positive soul.
Fortunately, Yang Hong had the system, with his cultivation directly at the million-year Nascent Soul stage, and he had experienced various wonders, allowing him to suppress the negative Yang Hong.
"Holy crap! Why do I keep thinking about killing people? The most outrageous thing is that this negative soul's greatest obsession is to sleep with Du Gu Jialuo and then torment her!"
"So terrifying~ I feel the urge now.
No, no!"
"Cleansing Spell!
Lingbao Tianzun, calm my form; disciple's soul and spirit, within the five viscera of Xuanming.
Azure Dragon and White Tiger, a grand procession; Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise, guard my truth."
Yang Hong felt that by invoking the Cleansing Spell, he summoned the power of the Four Spirits again, followed by the Eight Great Divine Spells, the *Du Ren Jing*, *Xin Jing*, *Jingang Jing*, and various Daoist and Buddhist scriptures recited incessantly.
A faint golden light slowly emanated outwards from Yang Hong as the center, and under the guidance of the chanting and the golden light, the souls and the demonic beasts that had broken through the cages within the Five Directions Seal continuously gathered here.
Unknowingly, the golden light covered the sealed space spanning ninety million li.
Yang Hong's body was already covered in a thick layer of dust.
The dim, sealed space gradually ceased to be dim, becoming increasingly clear.
First, the faint demonic energy was completely purified, followed by the Yin and resentment energies.
The entire space, apart from normal celestial spiritual energy and demonic energy, had all other negative energies purified.
"Crack~ crack~ crack~~"
At a certain moment, the cages that had sealed the demonic beasts simultaneously crumbled, and the trapped demonic beasts walked out, approaching Yang Hong,
and began to prostrate themselves before him.
Dazzling golden light of merit erupted from Yang Hong's body, illuminating the entire sealed space.
In the sealed space, where life had been extinguished, flowers, grass, and trees broke through the earth and, under the illumination of the golden light of merit, grew rapidly.
*Pop~*
The sound of a ripe fruit falling to the ground woke Yang Hong, who was chanting scriptures.
The chanting abruptly ceased.
"Heh heh~ I've been tricked by the Heavenly Dao."
Upon opening his eyes, Yang Hong smiled bitterly and sighed.
Although Yang Hong had been continuously chanting scriptures, after the resentment of this world was purified, the negative emotions in his soul were also purified.
At that time, he had already regained a rough clarity, but under an indescribable intuition, he found himself unable to stop chanting the scriptures, continuing to recite them.
The eruption of golden light of merit was due to his unconscious completion of the *Dao De Jing*, whose memories were incomplete, causing the Heavenly Dao to rejoice and merit to erupt.
"Now I understand why I felt a palpitation on Ren Dao Island.
If I hadn't entered the Demon Sealing Secret Realm and then been teleported back, this fully grown negative soul would have escaped.
At that time, the entire Five Directions Seal would have disintegrated, and the resulting chain reaction would have been enough to annihilate more than half of the beings on Tai Yuan Continent."
It turned out that when Yang Hong appeared, the negative soul was already deciphering the seal and was about to breach it.
If Yang Hong had returned even a day later, the seal would have been damaged, or even collapsed!
And within this sealed space were hundreds of billions of souls, with over a hundred million souls at the seventh tier or higher!
These souls were more than half of the souls generated on Tai Yuan Continent over the past four hundred years, all of them having been attracted by the Five Directions Seal.
Inside were also over a million living demonic beasts, the weakest of which were at the sixth-tier Demon King stage!
Once this force was released from the seal, the consequences would be earth-shattering.
The Heavenly Dao discovered the problem here and used the power of causality to lure Yang Hong back.
"This Heavenly Dao is quite a cheat!"
Yang Hong was almost in tears.
Yang Hong: Sixth Prince of the Great Sui Dynasty. (Severely Injured)
Daily灌顶 (Guàndǐng - bestowal of spiritual power/cultivation) times: 12/12
Lifespan: 55/2000 (100)
Cultivation: Million-year Magic Power (Nascent Soul Stage): Strength 200 jin, Divine Sense 9 li)
Cultivation Techniques: Top-tier Breathing Technique 400 layers, Super-tier Body Forging Technique 3 layers
Martial Skills: Earnest Punch, Casual Blade, Earnest Sword
Spells: Sweet Dew Spell (Mastered), Pudu Demonic Sound (Proficient)...
Intent: Fist Intent: Fearless Heroism, Protection (Gray)
Sword Intent: Gentle Breeze
Special Ability: Soul Strengthening
Yang Hong's divine sense, after purifying one sealed space at a time, not only did not increase but was severely wounded, dropping directly from 18,000 li to 9 li.
His Sea of Consciousness had not shrunk, but its radiance was dim and its flow slow.
The Protection Intent could no longer be used due to insufficient divine sense.
"This is a classic case of wanting the horse to run but not letting it eat!"
"I should leave this cursed place quickly,
lest the Heavenly Dao conjures up more trouble."
Yang Hong then quietly got up and flew towards the loophole in the seal controlled by the negative soul.
His cautious movements still alerted some demonic beasts.
To be precise, they were demons, but within the sealed space, transforming required a large amount of magic power, so they had not undergone transformation.
A turtle demon looked at a large black dog and said.
"Old Qilin, this human is too strange, should we keep him?"
The large black dog looked up at Yang Hong, then at the sky that resembled early morning, and looked down.
"Forget it, this kid saved us, so we shouldn't repay kindness with enmity."
"But it seems he can get out. Don't you want to get out, Old Qilin?"
The turtle asked unwillingly.
"I want to get out, but I'll consider it after my cultivation recovers.
If we go out now, even if you and I were once ninth-tier Demon Emperors, a fifth-tier Nascent Soul cultivator could kill us and stew us.
Are we going out to die?"
Wisdom and madness flickered simultaneously in the black dog's eyes. He wasn't cowardly, he just didn't want to die.
"Alright, we won't go out for now. The celestial spiritual energy in this sealed space is slowly recovering. Once it reaches a certain level, it will be enough for us to cultivate."
"Mmm~ But I'll have to tell those brats later not to mess around. If they accidentally create more offspring, the spiritual energy won't be enough."
"Okay, I'll pass on the message."
...
The temptation to leave quickly was unknown to Yang Hong. These demons, after over four hundred years of sealing, had their magic power nearly drained, making them mere paper tigers.
As long as he was willing, he could slaughter the entire sealed space by himself.
However, after fusing with the negative soul and undergoing purification, some of his memories and intelligence had become inaccurate, leading him to leave the secret realm in a hurry, fearing being besieged by millions of sixth-tier and above demons.
As for the seal that was incredibly difficult for the negative soul and the demons, he stepped out with a single, light stride, without pressure or obstruction.
It was only when he tried to return to the sealed space that he couldn't find the portal, as if the Heavenly Dao had deliberately closed it.
"This is the [Lotus Pond]?
I've returned to the [Deaf Ear Pavilion]?
I've returned directly to the Great Sui Dynasty?"
Yang Hong jumped up with surprise and joy.
This was also his home, after more than twenty years away, he had finally returned.
Yang Hong's eyes welled up with tears.