In the past, there was a cultivator who severed the path to immortality by forcibly assimilating boundless evil energy in order to achieve rapid advancement.
However, he was instead bewitched by the boundless evil energy, manipulated by it, and forced to leave the world and wander the sea of realms.
Such evil cultivators are called "human demons," and they can even defeat immortals!
There is a passage in the lineage of the Mountain Ancestor that reads as follows.
However, this account is very vague and is not the original tradition of Buzhou Mountain, but rather something added by later generations.
After the ancient Buzhou Mountain collapsed, some cultivators still survived on some of the remaining remains until later, when they were completely wiped out by some unknown catastrophe.
That description was added by later cultivators, and it vaguely reveals that the twisted monsters in the Boundary Sea are also related to humans and demons.
This information flashed through Shan Zu's mind. He never expected that the human demon would appear before his eyes.
He even witnessed the birth of a human demon!
"Capable of reversing the fate of immortals..."
The Mountain Ancestor stared intently at Ning Qi, the last paragraph of text replaying in his mind.
His expression changed abruptly, and he was unable to calm down.
The Mountain Ancestor even felt a little regretful. Why did he force Ning Qi to become a demon?
Ahead, Ning Qi stood amidst the turbulent currents of the Boundary Sea, his body enveloped in a swirling vortex of Yin and Yang energies.
Inside the Yin-Yang diagram, two fish, one bright and one dark, chase each other head to tail, as if they are playing and competing.
Originally, in this Yin-Yang Daoist diagram, which evolved from the various powers that Ning Qi comprehended, the two swimming fish were presented in distinct black and white.
The two are mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining, evolving into all the myriad paths in the world, and even spontaneously giving rise to wisps of immortal aura.
The spontaneous generation of immortal aura indicates that Ning Qi's cultivation level, according to the conventional cultivation system, has reached the limit of the Dao Integration Realm.
He has already stood before the Immortal Gate. If he continues to hone his skills, he will be able to summon the Immortal Gate with his immortal aura. Once he gains the Immortal Gate's approval, he can ascend to immortality in one step.
However, now, a strange change has occurred in these two magical fish.
As Ning Qi crushed that wisp of boundless evil energy and merged it into the Yin-Yang Dao Diagram, the immortal aura that naturally arose within it was actually squeezed into the black fish's body.
In an instant, the black fish swung its tail, causing the yin-yang diagram to spin faster as it chased after the celestial energy and crashed head-on into it.
The celestial aura had nowhere to escape, and it transformed into two twinkling stars, adorning the blackfish's eyes. Instantly, the blackfish seemed to come alive.
The boundless evil energy was drawn into the white fish's side, and the white fish leaped up and swallowed it whole.
Boundless evil energy twisted and struggled within the white fish's body, unwilling to be absorbed, and desperately tried to drill outwards.
The white fish rotates its body, forcefully swallows the food, and eventually absorbs it.
Strands of black light flew from its body toward its head, adding a touch of liveliness to its white body.
The yang fish has yin eyes, and the yin fish has yang eyes; such is the wonder of creation.
The two fish continued to chase and play, giving the original Yin-Yang diagram a special Daoist charm and spirituality!
Ning Qi was taken aback as he sensed the changes in the Yin-Yang diagram.
Because in his original idea, he wanted the immortal energy to flow into the white fish and the boundless evil energy to flow into the black fish.
But the two French fish spontaneously leaped, changing everything.
Immortal energy and boundless evil energy intertwined, and a special power was transmitted into Ning Qi's body through the Dao diagram.
Ning Qi felt that all the powers within his body had completely merged into one at this moment, achieving a strange balance.
His heart was calm and undisturbed, neither sad nor happy, as if he had entered a profound state of enlightenment.
Ning Qi raised his eyes and looked towards the distant Mountain Ancestor.
He was indeed weaker than the Mountain Ancestor in terms of power when they clashed palms before, but now...
Their eyes met, their gazes locked, their energies locked in a fierce confrontation.
"you……"
The mountain ancestor was deeply shocked and didn't know what to say.
The demonic possession he had imagined did not happen to Ning Qi, which relieved him.
If Ning Qi were to truly transform into a demon and be controlled by evil energy, and given that this place is also a turbulent sea, what terrifying things might happen? Even the Mountain Ancestor dared not imagine.
But compared to becoming a demon, Ning Qi's failure to become a human-demon was even more terrifying to the Mountain Ancestor.
He had already experienced the terrifying power of that boundless evil energy once. If he hadn't already become an immortal, the Mountain Ancestor felt that if he were in the Dao Integration Realm, he would definitely have been transformed by it.
Ning Qi, however, remained conscious, further enhanced by the Dao diagram manifesting around him...
The Mountain Ancestor was shocked to find that his sharp immortal eyes could no longer see through Ning Qi.
"Didn't you say my strength level couldn't match yours? Let's try again now?"
Ning Qi smiled, revealing his teeth, and clenched his fist.
He moved swiftly and instantly teleported in front of the Mountain Ancestor.
"Take this palm strike, the Myriad Manifestations Hand!"
In an instant, all things in the world seemed to emerge from chaos, and all spirits roared, their cries like thunder.
Ning Qi struck the Mountain Ancestor with a palm strike.
The Mountain Ancestor regained his senses and struck out with his own palm.
"Severing Immortal Lotus Palm!"
The two palms collided, almost identical to the previous scene.
The turbulent currents of the border sea are clouded with dark clouds, yet they are even more expansive than before.
Endless lightning bolts surged through the dark clouds, each capable of killing a Dao Integration Realm cultivator.
Rumble!
The thunder continued for a long time, and finally, both figures were simultaneously repelled by the other.
Between the two, the dark clouds were gradually swallowed up by the turbulent currents of the Boundary Sea, as if nothing had ever happened.
Let's look at the two of them again.
The Mountain Ancestor's hands trembled slightly, and he felt his immortal body go numb.
He looked at Ning Qi across from him. Ning Qi flexed his wrists as if nothing had happened, staring intently at him with a hint of excitement in his eyes.
"How is this possible?"
The Mountain Ancestor thought to himself in disbelief.
He received a baptism from the immortal sect, and both his spiritual power and physical body were greatly enhanced.
It can be said that after becoming an immortal, life is completely different from before.
However, he was actually struck by a Dao Integration cultivator and his immortal body went numb, while the other party was completely unaffected!
"Again!"
Ning Qi let out a low shout, and the Yin-Yang diagram swirled, connecting with the turbulent currents of the Boundary Sea, automatically injecting a large amount of energy into his body.
Without stopping, he charged towards the Mountain Ancestor again.
The Mountain Ancestor felt his immortal power being increasingly depleted, and he had no words to express his suffering.
He can't keep dragging this out any longer, otherwise he won't be able to handle what happens next.
Although the Mountain Ancestor opened the gate to immortality and obtained an immortal body, this was not yet a true success.
Ever since he received the inheritance of Buzhou Mountain, the mountain ancestor has been plotting to become an immortal.
His plan included becoming the ancestor of a realm, utilizing the Sea Ancestor, instigating a war in the spirit realm, and sacrificing both realms.
All of this was part of his plan, but the plan was not yet complete.
After completing everything above, he can become an immortal. After becoming an immortal, he still has to deal with some extremely troublesome things.
This is because his inheritance of Mount Buzhou is incomplete, and summoning the remnants of Mount Buzhou will trigger some unpredictable events, and he will also have to cross the Boundary Sea!
Thinking of this, Shan Zu felt quite anxious; he really couldn't afford to waste any more time.
The Mountain Ancestor's gaze swept over Ning Qi, and he said coldly:
"It's all because of your appearance that all my plans have been disrupted. You must pay the price for this."
Upon hearing this, Ning Qi almost laughed out of anger.
What do you mean by saying that because he disrupted the plan, everything has to go according to the mountain ancestor's idea?
These high and mighty guys always have a kind of compulsive disorder that makes everything in the world have to revolve around them, and they'll blame others if anything goes slightly off.
"Further discussion is pointless."
A sword suddenly flew out from beside Ning Qi, and he grabbed the hilt.
Ning Qi ran his left hand over the blade; he hadn't used a physical sword in a long time.
With a sword in hand, Ning Qi exuded the focused aura unique to sword cultivators.
"One sword can shatter all laws!"
With a single sword strike, a vast expanse of sword energy, as boundless as a rainbow, instantly pierced through the turbulent currents of the Boundary Sea and slashed towards the opponent's Mountain Ancestor.
The Mountain Ancestor frowned. He had originally planned to use his immortal hand to capture the sword energy, but at the last moment, he had a sudden inspiration and actually shifted his body to avoid the sword light.
The sword energy swept across the boundary sea, instantly tearing apart countless turbulent vortexes.
The power of this sword strike was so great that even a spirit realm being in front of it would be easily pierced through; its sharpness was extreme.
The Mountain Ancestor's eyelids twitched, and he couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he hadn't used his immortal body to receive the sword strike.
After Ning Qi merged with the boundless evil energy, his attacks underwent a qualitative change, becoming so powerful that even he had to avoid its edge.
A sense of shame welled up in Shanzu's heart, but he quickly suppressed it.
The change in the immortal's heart made the mountain ancestor even more vigilant.
If he continues to entangle with Ning Qi, he fears he won't even be able to maintain his immortal heart.
Immortal cultivators are extremely rare, even among billions of cultivators.
Even if there is success, it is not without setbacks.
Doubting oneself leads to the loss of one's immortal heart; the events recorded in the inheritance of Buzhou Mountain flashed through the Mountain Ancestor's mind.
His ethereal eyes, opening and closing, reflected Ning Qi's image.
"Six Paths Immortal Wheel!"
"The mountain ancestor said softly."
The pure, ethereal radiance emanating from him gradually became hazy.
The ethereal energy intertwined, forming six indistinct celestial wheels in a hazy mist.
Each of the celestial wheels is like a small world, surrounding the Mountain Ancestor in the center and revolving around it.
"May your soul return!"
As the Mountain Ancestor uttered a Dharma word, countless ghostly souls instantly flew out of his body, roaring as they fell into the six immortal wheels.
Ning Qi's expression changed upon seeing this.
He had seen those ghosts more than once; they were the cultivators who had been sacrificed by the Mountain Ancestor.
Even after they die, their souls are still held captive by the Mountain Ancestor and can be used at will.
Although the Mountain Ancestor has become an immortal, how can he be called an immortal if he uses such methods?
Inside the Six Paths Immortal Wheel, countless ghostly souls faced the Mountain Ancestor and knelt in worship.
While worshipping, their souls emitted wisps of soul power, which flowed into the Six Paths Immortal Wheel, making it even more powerful.
With the Mountain Ancestor in the center, his imposing immortal body became somewhat hazy, which only accentuated his extraordinary and otherworldly appearance.
"Sink into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, Ning Qi!"
The Mountain Ancestor slowly pointed a finger at Ning Qi.
Using this move seemed to have exhausted all his strength, and a fine layer of sweat appeared on his face.
In an instant, the Six Paths Immortal Wheel detached from his immortal body, like six worlds connected together, or like a wheel of wind and fire, crashing towards Ning Qi.
The farther it moves from the mountain ancestor, the faster it moves and the larger it becomes.
It swept across the turbulent waters of the border sea, which instantly calmed down, becoming as still as a lake without a ripple in the breeze.
Ning Qi looked at the Six Paths Immortal Wheel and knew that this was probably the Mountain Ancestor's strongest divine power.
The yin-yang symbol rotated on his body, and the turbulent vortex of the boundary sea behind him also squeezed out a large amount of boundary sea energy and poured it into the yin-yang diagram.
"Not enough!"
Ning Qi blinked, and in the next instant, his eyelids and pupils turned gold.
He retrieved the golden drop of water from the Enlightenment Tree in the True Martial Spirit Realm.
The water droplets were formed from the faith of all living beings and were extremely precious, but Ning Qi did not hesitate to integrate them into his body at this moment.
Ahead, the Six Paths Immortal Wheel rolled in, releasing unparalleled pressure, enough to destroy the world and reshape the cycle of reincarnation.
However, Ning Qi stood suspended in the turbulent currents of the Boundary Sea, his Yin-Yang robes fluttering in the wind.
He held a spirit sword, which turned golden.
The next second, Ning Qi swung his sword and thrust it towards the Six Paths Immortal Wheel.
"Boundless Yin-Yang Sword!"
Suddenly, the Yin-Yang Dao Diagram surrounding Ning Qi flew out with the sword light and crashed into the Six Paths Immortal Wheel.
Yin and Yang swirled, and in the blink of an eye, it grew to the same size as the Six Paths Immortal Wheel.
The Six Paths Immortal Wheel resembles six enormous millstones, within which countless ghostly spirits utter mournful howls.
Within the Yin-Yang Dao Diagram, life and death flow, and it contains the faith power of all living beings. In addition to the two colors of Yin and Yang, the dividing line in the middle suddenly turned into pure gold.
When the two collided, the entire Boundary Sea seemed to quiet down.
The greatest sound is silent, the greatest form is formless.
All that could be seen was the pitch-black Boundary Sea, where day and night alternated in turn.
Ning Qi and Shan Zu both exerted all their strength, pouring their power into their supernatural abilities.
Gradually, the turbulent currents in the boundary sea around them were all calmed down. Even the turbulent currents in the boundary sea where Ning Qi had previously laid out array patterns were smoothed out, and the array patterns all disappeared.
Whoosh!
A figure moved with lightning speed, tearing through the chaos of Yin and Yang, as if even time and space were slowed down by half a beat.
Ning Qi held his sword to the Mountain Ancestor's throat and said coldly, "You've lost!"
The Mountain Ancestor's eyes widened suddenly, as if he could not believe what he was seeing.
"No... How could this Immortal Venerable lose to you? My Six Paths Immortal Wheel... Ah!"
Before the Mountain Ancestor could finish speaking, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of seven-colored immortal blood, and immediately became extremely weak. His burly immortal body shrank considerably, like a deflated balloon.
"My Six Paths Immortal Wheel Divine Power..."
The mountain ancestor trembled all over, pointing shakily at Ning Qi, still unwilling to believe that he would fail.
Ning Qi looked down at him and said:
"You shouldn't have used the souls of all living beings against me..."
"Why?" the Mountain Ancestor asked, bewildered.
"Because behind me are countless beings, whose pure faith is enough to purify those ghosts you command!"
The mountain ancestor's immortal eyes flickered, but seemed to dim considerably in an instant.
But the next second, a fierce look flashed across his face.
"If anyone's going to die, it'll be you who dies first!"
Suddenly, the Mountain Ancestor opened his mouth wide, and a black shadow flew out of his mouth, crashing into Ning Qi in front of him.
Ning Qi's free hand struck directly at the dark figure.
boom!
After the loud noise, Ning Qi remained motionless.
The dark shadow then slammed into Shan Zu in the opposite direction, sending him flying into the gradually recovering turbulent vortex.
The dark shadow descended, its gray-black energy transforming into a small mountain that suppressed the Mountain Ancestor beneath it.
It turned out that the dark figure was the remnant of Mount Buzhou that the Mountain Ancestor had swallowed. He spat it out again, intending to ambush Ning Qi. Little did he expect that Ning Qi seemed to be prepared.
The Mountain Ancestor's perfect immortal body suffered multiple fractures, and he no longer had the power to recover.
He revealed half of his immortal body, staring blankly at Ning Qi in the distance.
Ning Qi strolled closer.
"Why would the remnants of Mount Buzhou betray me?" the Mountain Ancestor asked, puzzled.
Ning Qi said calmly:
"Do you still remember that wisp of boundless evil energy that you cleaved apart with the Demon-Slaying Immortal Sword? I gave up suppressing it at the last moment, so it seemed to have disappeared, but it was actually just hiding."
"And the remnant of Mount Buzhou within you finds it a good place to reside."
The Mountain Ancestor was silent for a moment, but then continued to ask, "Why can you still control it?"
Ning Qi raised his right hand and took a look.
"Heh, this is all thanks to you. If you hadn't forced me to merge with the boundless evil energy, how would I have discovered that I could control the boundless evil energy at will?"
Upon hearing this, the Mountain Ancestor was so enraged that he spat out another mouthful of blood and coughed incessantly.
"Cough cough..."
He felt his vision blur and his immortal power was rapidly draining away.
Having been severely injured by Ning Qi, lost the thousands of souls connected to him, and been forced to reveal the remnants of Buzhou Mountain that had been bound to him with their lives, the Mountain Ancestor was weaker than ever before.
"I am not reconciled to this defeat of a mere mortal like you..."
"If you're not happy about it, get up. I'll make you unhappy a few more times."
The Mountain Ancestor coughed up several mouthfuls of immortal blood again, looking up at Ning Qi nearby.
Ning Qi's robes were destroyed by the impact, revealing his half-naked upper body.
The Mountain Ancestor saw that on the left side of Ning Qi's upper body, there were black patterns, like rising flames, branded on it.
On the upper right side, wisps of immortal cloud patterns clashed with the black flame patterns on the upper half of the body.
Suddenly, the mountain ancestor laughed, his pale face displaying an extremely eerie smile.
"Even if you defeat me, so what? You have severed your own path to immortality, and the immortal gate will never open for you."
Ning Qi looked down at the Dao patterns that had spontaneously appeared on his upper body.
He took a deep breath to calm his internal energy.
In an instant, all those Dao patterns disappeared again.
Ning Qi said indifferently, "Hmph, why should someone who aspires to become an immortal need someone else to open the gate to immortality for me? If I want to become an immortal, no one can stop me!"
Shanzu couldn't help but shudder.
"You are simply adorably naive. Since the establishment of the Immortal Realm, all those who wish to become immortals must pass through the Immortal Gate, even those from my Zhou Mountain lineage!"
Ning Qi was too lazy to continue the conversation and asked, "Are you done?"
With a swift movement, the sword fell, and a head flew off.
"You'll regret this. Even if you kill me, they'll still come after you, hahaha..." (End of Chapter)
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