Chapter 63 Demonic Energy You are hiding something from me.
Just when the young Fox King was about to lose his patience and was about to use force to knock the jade doll unconscious and take it away, Chu Sheng and Ya Ge came back.
"Hey, you brought Fang Yuan back?" Chu Sheng glanced at him in surprise, reaching out to pat the jade doll on the head. "That's amazing, doll! Senior Sister is really getting more and more confident in you!"
"Fang Yuan seems to have some problems with his brain, but it doesn't matter. I think he will remember it after some time."
Yuwawa rubbed Chusheng's hand obediently, "Otherwise, Senior Sister, you can beat him up!"
Ya Ge, who was originally observing the fox demon with great interest, couldn't help but look at the innocent expression of the jade doll again after hearing this.
After spending such a long time together, Ya Ge has fully mastered the method of interpreting the jade doll's micro-expressions... Looking at her current expression, it turns out that what she said this time is serious!
Whose first reaction after finding a sect disciple is to beat him up? This kid's train of thought is simply poisonous!
"Well, that's a good idea." Chu Sheng nodded in agreement seriously, and ignored the fox demon's expression of resistance, reaching out and touching his head equally.
"Fang Yuan, after all, it was you who disobeyed and left the sect first. You deserve to be beaten, right?"
"First of all, my name is not Fang Yuan..." The fox demon shuddered when his head was touched, and he couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"Secondly, whoever ran away casually, I stayed in the mountains the whole time! I'm a fox demon, you recognized the wrong person!"
"I didn't admit my mistake, because Fang Yuan is the fox demon." Jade Baby nodded seriously. "I found you but you still don't admit it, and you even tried to escape. Your crime is even more serious."
"Who agreed to let you talk to yourself here? You are such a hateful woman!"
"Well, Shengsheng, is this the little junior brother who got lost that you mentioned?" Ya Ge also wanted to touch the fox's tail, but considering that the child might get angry, she had to give up regretfully.
"Does the demon race have something like the Ten-fold Tonic Pill? I remember you said before that the child was still in the Foundation Establishment Stage when he left."
"That's not the case. After all, Fang Yuan has been practicing in human form. It's normal that he is slower than when he was practicing in demon form."
Chu Sheng beckoned and retracted the veil, and put the heavy iron sword back on his back in front of the fox demon's stunned expression.
"You, you, you..." The fox demon was almost unable to speak clearly. "Aren't you afraid that I will run away!"
"It's okay, run." Ya Ge leaned over and poked the fox demon's soft face, laughing softly. "Let's see who runs faster, you or our Shengsheng's sword~"
"Zhuzhu runs fast too?" Jade Baby tilted her head and naturally took his hand. "Want to try it?"
"……you!"
The noisy background did not affect Chu Sheng's secret sorting out of the relevant information he had collected so far. The experience of following the divination provided by Zixiao to come to Luoyi City and meet Wang Ze successfully allowed Chu Sheng to confirm several things.
First, the demonic riots in recent years have not only caused problems for the demon race, but also caused heavy losses to the demon cultivators. However, for some unknown reason, the truth has not been known to the vast majority of people.
Secondly, the "Heavenly Demonic Qi" that Fairy Langhuan mentioned, which will only appear when a demon cultivator has cultivated to the extreme, is the same thing as the strange demonic black evil that the jade doll forced out of the monster's body during this period.
Third...
Zongshan opened his eyes as if he sensed something.
[Sheng'er?]
Chu Sheng silently watched him and the slowly swaying lotus in the spiritual palace, and finally sighed softly.
"Master." Chu Sheng's soul gently touched Zong Shan's outstretched and open palm, but brought up a seemingly unrelated topic.
"After Yunzhongjun and Yanjun ascended to heaven, did you get in touch with them again?"
“Yes,” Zongshan said, his long, snow-white, smooth hair flowing down his back like a river.
[The Jile Sect is the Taoist lineage left by the Nightmare Lord, and the Zhongnan Dao Sect is the Taoist lineage left by the Cloud Lord. In the past, when they issued orders to the Taoist lineages in the lower realms, I was able to communicate with them briefly.]
One of the only two Mahayana masters in the sect is on good terms with a demon cultivator who has already ascended... No wonder compared to other sects, the Hehuan Sect's attitude towards demon cultivators is so ambiguous and vague. It turns out that the root of the problem lies here!
"I'm confused, Master, could you please explain it to me?" Chu Sheng said. "Ancient texts say that upon ascending to the higher realms, spiritual energy is transformed into higher-level immortal power. But what about demonic energy?"
"You've always been very perceptive." Zongshan didn't deny her suspicions. "Demon Qi is indeed a power only possessed by the demons of the higher realms..."
Chu Sheng didn't expect that the ups and downs in the world of cultivation in recent years were caused by a hidden hand from the upper realm, but she wanted to know much more than that.
In the distant past, when the goddess and the god were active on the continent, there was no distinction between immortals and demons. The power in their bodies was more like the sum of chaos and haze, which did not affect their ability to exert their power to destroy the world.
Ever since the God Lord suppressed Ji Yuan, the demon race was born in the world of cultivation. However, there was clearly no demonic energy in the God Lord's power, let alone the demon race derived from her power.
Is the existence of demonic energy in the bodies of demons related to alien demons or to the demon cultivators from the upper realm?
[The Nightmare Lord is a cultivator from the remote abyss of the deep forest and swamp.]
In the spiritual palace, Zongshan was unaware of Chu Sheng's scattered thoughts at the moment, but he slowly and leisurely told the story of the past that he knew.
Everyone in the world of cultivation knows that thanks to the existence of the Canglang Mountains, the continent of cultivation has been protected from the invasion of the violent climate of the Jiyuan, which has led to the stable and peaceful development of the Fourteen Continents.
However, the originally ordinary land between the Canglang Mountains, the Baiwan Mountains and the Jiyuan has gradually become a river network swamp due to the erosion of black rain over the years, and the Youlin Daze got its name from this.
Just like the ecology of the Fourteen Continents, the lands of the deep forests and swamps were once inhabited by creatures going about their daily lives. However, as the environment they relied on for survival deteriorated, these creatures, left with nowhere to hide, were forced to find their own way out...
It is no longer known who was the first to do this, but when the creatures in the Fourteen Continents discovered this, the demons in the Million Mountains were the first to notice something unusual.
The creatures that emerged from the dark forests and swamps possessed a power that was different from all the existences in the world of cultivation.
They called the power that exuded an ominous aura "demon energy".
“Master, according to my understanding, although there is a difference between spiritual energy and demonic energy among cultivators, the essence of power should not be too different.” Chu Sheng said.
"Isn't this the reason why Lord Nightmare was able to ascend together with Lord Cloud?"
[Speaking of that time, perhaps this was indeed true.] Zongshan shook his head, his fingers gently stroking the single black lotus among the golden lotuses, which bore the demonic Black Evil, his tone somewhat complicated.
[However, after ascending, Yunzhongjun and Yanjun entrusted me with a letter to tell me that the upper realm is not what we initially thought.]
There is a clear distinction between black and white. Only pure cultivators can gain the recognition of Tao, step into the Emperor Stage to prove their Tao and ascend to heaven. However, pure cultivators cannot accept the mixing of other existences.
Tao is unique, pure, without impurities, irreplaceable, and unquestionable orthodoxy.
The chosen ones in the upper realm are not much nobler than those in the lower realm. The struggle for the orthodoxy is a struggle for life and death, and every dispute represents the decline of a certain orthodoxy.
After ascending to heaven, Yun Zhongjun and Yanjun, who were the best of the best, were involuntarily drawn into the endless struggle in the upper realm.
[Life in the upper realm is not what I want, so I have never been willing to ascend...] Zongshan withdrew his hand from touching the lotus and looked calmly into Chu Sheng's soul.
Time can dilute many things, including angry and uncontrollable emotions, overly deep love and hate, and memories that you once thought you would never forget.
Many years after Chu Sheng and Zong Shan parted ways unhappily over the matter of inheriting the Wuqing Dao, Zong Shan can now finally tell Chu Sheng the whole story and is no longer unilaterally cut off by his own disciples.
Perhaps this is a good development, Zongshan thought.
But Chu Sheng just calmly skipped over his last words and simply grasped the key points that he was most concerned about.
"Master means that the riots of the alien demons, the unusual movements of the demon race, and the abnormal behavior of the demon cultivators all stem from the struggles in the upper realms - that's why he asked me to contact Uncle Si Chun before."
Chu Sheng sorted out his thoughts.
"Every sect has elders who are able to ascend to the upper realms. Therefore, the person who knows the most about the affairs of the upper realms within the sect can only be the sect master who is qualified to receive the fate letter issued by the upper realm, or the like, such as the supreme elder."
[That’s right.] Zongshan nodded calmly.
[This isn't a problem you can handle. This heavy burden naturally needs to be shouldered by those who deserve it. Otherwise, wouldn't all those years of cultivation by those old ghosts have been in vain?]
"Then the various clan leaders have been trying to solve this problem for so many years, and not only has the situation not improved, it seems to be getting worse."
Chu Sheng simply and roughly grabbed the black lotus and spoke calmly before changing the subject.
"You are still hiding something from me, Master."
Zongshan looked up in surprise, as if he didn't quite understand why Chu Sheng said that, but Chu Sheng, who already had his own ideas, was not prepared to listen to his explanation.
Language, expressions, and actions can all be deceiving, or the person involved may truly believe that he or she is not lying but is simply concealing some information.
Through the experience of returning to the sect last time, Chu Sheng has deeply understood this point.
Perhaps for Yun Mengzi, he did not feel that he had hidden anything from Chu Sheng.
But Zongshan never told Chu Sheng about the same path from the beginning, and decided the girl's future on his own. Isn't this depriving Chu Sheng of the right to choose?
Or because I'm too weak.
Chu Sheng's soul left the spiritual palace and her consciousness returned to reality.
Facing the subconscious gazes of several people, the girl who had unknowingly become the leader turned her gaze to the inspection team's base stationed in the distance.
"You guys go find a place to stay first. I'll go look for someone at the Supervisory Team's headquarters."
Ling Fengzhi, will you be in Luoyi City?
Amid the sound of shaking chains, the tall and graceful man and his companions slowly stood in front of the dying swordsman.
"...How pitiful, Junior Brother."
The man stretched out his hand and tapped the sword cultivator's cheek with the inky black sword, his tone rising slightly in a frivolous tone.
"Why is he in such a mess?"
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