Chapter 566 The End (Two Chapters Combined)
Everyone was baffled by his actions.
But soon, as Chunyangzi's self-awareness fell into slumber, they also understood the thoughts of the Prison King Lingguan, who actually intended to use the power of the Refining Void Heavenly Tribulation to temporarily suppress the Ancient Demon of Life.
It should be noted that due to the existence of the rules of immortals, these ancient demon bodies can only exert the power of the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, but their essence is extremely high.
After forcibly unleashing the power of the Void Refinement stage, they were suppressed back down, and each of them was immortal and indestructible. Even the rules of immortals could only suppress them and could not kill them. Among them, the Ancient Demon of Life was the best in the path of immortality.
Even immortals couldn't do anything to him, let alone cultivators from the lower realms. The only solution was to reseal him, but the difficulty of that was obvious and almost impossible.
Neither the Prison King Lingguan nor Wang Yu really wanted to see the Ancient Demon, but what could they do now that things had come to this?
Seeing Chunyangzi being thrown into the void array set up by the Prison King Lingguan, who actually replaced him and became the controller of the array.
In just a few breaths, he freed himself from his cage.
The Prison King Lingguan glanced coldly at everyone present, his fighting spirit completely gone, and said in a cold voice.
"Perhaps you obtained a great deal of secret information from the Immortal Black Stele, which led you to plan what happened today, but there is one thing... that you would never have imagined."
Venerable Taixu could not hide his anger.
Just as he was about to attack, he was grabbed by the Demon Lord of Refining Heaven. He said in a deep voice, "What exactly do you intend to do?"
"Me? You should ask yourselves what you want to do."
The prison king suddenly burst into laughter.
The young and handsome features suddenly turned ferocious, and he almost shouted: "Although the ancient demon is strong, it is just a shell that acts on instinct. How could it possibly wipe out the entire cultivation world and cause the lineage to break down!"
"Although I will not gain anything from today's events and will be punished, you... will be trapped in this cage forever if you cannot kill me."
"When the Dao-Merging powerhouse wielding the Heavenly Decree descends from the Celestial Palace, your generation will come to an end, hahahahahaha!!!"
That's all.
The figure of the Prison King Spirit Official was swallowed by the void, choosing to escape. Wang Yu was preoccupied with the other party's words and did not notice.
They let the other party get away.
The concept of what lies beyond the world and what lies behind the spatial rift are not actually the same thing. According to the "World Theory", the outermost layer of each world has a thin film similar to a bubble.
This thing has many names, such as boundary membrane, boundary wall, end of the world, etc. It can be called whatever it is called. The Prison King Spirit Official comes from the void outside the world.
Further inwards lies the Chaos Layer.
There is a saying: Before heaven and earth were created, everything was chaos, and the world came from chaos.
Therefore, the evolution of chaos can give rise to heaven and earth.
This chaotic layer is the insurmountable abyss at the edge of the world. Further in is the spatial layer, which supports the normal unfolding of the entire world and can be seen as the canvas behind the canvas.
Without it, the canvas would be difficult to unfold and would become wrinkled and crumpled. It is one of the fundamental supports of the world, which is called space!
Behind the space that Wang Yu and others tore apart was a deep darkness, devoid of light and spirit, where only void beasts could survive.
By traversing the darkness and exploring the boundaries, one can find chaos.
However, the spatial layer is upside down and has no direction, making it almost impossible to determine direction. Therefore, the number of cultivators who have truly found the chaotic layer throughout history is no more than a handful.
The fact that the Prison King and the Spirit Official can come and go freely means that they must have mastered the secret method of traversing various realms from the Celestial Palace. They can leave whenever they want, and there is no possibility of catching up with them.
Such flexibility allows for both advancement and retreat.
Killing this fiend is no easier than circumventing the rules of immortals. The matter has already occurred, and Wang Yu looked at the Refining Heaven Demon Lord and the others with a strange expression.
But he discovered that the other person was also looking at him.
No way, before devising such a meticulous plan, didn't you think about limiting the equivalent movement ability? Even when he learned about the teleportation technique at the Nascent Soul stage, he would specifically learn the Heavenly Lock secret technique to limit it.
That's why he can kill them all with ease, and it's hard for any Nascent Soul cultivator to escape from him.
As several pairs of eyes met, the Demon Lord of Refining Heaven seemed to see through his thoughts and explained somewhat awkwardly.
"If the Town-Suppressing Turtle were alive, it would be the key to the victory of the Prison King Spirit Official in solidifying space. In addition, the Sword Tomb is also a backup plan."
Upon hearing this, Venerable Taixu's face turned sorrowful.
"Jianhe is in the Sword Tomb. At the critical moment, he was able to lock the Prison King Lingguan into the Sword Tomb. Just now, Junior Brother Chunyang... In short, it was my fault."
Seeing this, Wang Yu shook his head inwardly.
Although he had long guessed that the chances of winning this time were slim, he did not expect that due to a moment of carelessness, he would let the Prison King Lingguan escape.
As for the final trump card that will decide the outcome.
Neither of them said anything more.
The reason why the two peak Nascent Soul cultivators explained to him was related to what was to come: how to deal with the words of the Prison King Spirit Official, and how to deal with the Ancient Demon of Life.
Wang Yu stood amidst the demonic clouds, looking at the ancient demon suppressed by both the heavenly tribulation and the array, and at Chunyangzi, who was about to be completely annihilated in the heavenly tribulation.
For some reason, I suddenly felt an urge to go and rescue them.
Just as he was becoming increasingly engrossed in watching and was starting to get restless,
"Fellow Daoist Wang, Fellow Daoist Wang..."
Several calls roused him from his strange state.
Wang Yu felt a cold sweat break out all over his body.
How could he be lost in thought in such a dangerous place? Completely ignoring the outside world, his eyes seemingly fixed only on the Ancient Demon of Life, this is almost impossible for a Nascent Soul cultivator.
What on earth happened?
Before he could think it through, he saw that the many Nascent Soul cultivators gathered for this battle had arrived in the demonic cloud. The four peak experts were divided into two groups and stood facing each other.
The one who called him was the Azure Dragon Demon Lord.
What do you think of what I just said?
"Um?"
Wang Yu traced back his consciousness and realized that he had passively received a lot of information through his five senses, which was exactly what the cultivators had just discussed.
Taixu: "I must first go to the Blood Abyss to rescue Fuling and Miaozhen. I will leave the matter of the Ancient Demon to you all."
Azure Dragon roared, "You hypocrite! Do you think we can handle the Ancient Demon? When you and Lian Tian released him, why didn't you think about how to deal with him?"
"The Heavenly Demon Lord said calmly."
"Perhaps we would already be dead by then, and it wouldn't matter whether we dealt with the ancient demon or not. But now the situation has changed, and this plan is like shooting ourselves in the foot."
The White Tiger Demon Lord quickly pulled back the Azure Dragon, who was once again enraged by the Three Corpse Gods, and asked succinctly, "What do you all think the thief meant by that?"
The topic was diverted, and no one wanted to think about the ancient mystery.
Chi Tian continued.
"What else could it be but a charade? I don't believe him."
Chitian, Chitian, you truly live up to your reputation.
He would call it the most intellectually stimulating episode.
As expected, Chi Tian, who uttered these words, was mocked; it was none other than the Yellow Spring Demon Lord.
He sneered and said, "That spirit official regards us as ants. Do you think you would deliberately deceive ants? In my opinion, it is not unfounded. Historically, the chaos of the ancient demons was resolved by the immortals of the lower realm, who are the Dao-merging powerhouses he mentioned. After that, they would face the problem of the interruption of their lineage."
"Historical records show that the ancient demons were bloodthirsty, and the heavy losses suffered by cultivators were all caused by the ancient demons. This also included the hegemonic forces of those eras, who were almost always the first to be wiped out."
"And the ancient demon's body probably hadn't developed a new consciousness yet. Do you think wild beasts in the mountains and forests, which hunt by instinct, would kill and eat all the prey in the mountains and forests?"
Huang Quan's words make sense.
Chi Tian, however, was unconvinced.
"If it was truly done by a mortal immortal from the lower realm, why is there no record of it on the black stele? According to your logic, when a Dao-merging power descends to the lower realm, wouldn't we all be doomed? How could the black stele have survived? This is a complete paradox."
The characteristics of the Immortal Black Stele make it an excellent carrier for information to be preserved across eternity. Just because a Nascent Soul cultivator cannot destroy it does not mean that a Dao Integration cultivator cannot destroy it.
Chi Tian's words make sense.
But if you really think that way, wouldn't you be corrupted by Chi Tian's low-intelligence aura and turn into a little fool yourself?
Lian Tian suddenly spoke.
"If it were the true self, I would not care about the resistance of the ants, but I would conceal the fact that I slaughtered the ants, so that they would continue to yearn for and long for the true self."
"It's not because of strength, but because of scheming and saving face."
A single word awakens one from a dream.
The cultivators present suddenly realized, "Yes... Throughout history, no one has ever succeeded in this. If the secrets of the prison are recorded on the black stele, the cultivators of the Immortal Palace will not care at all."
But if we expose their massacre of native monks...
That's like "smearing" them, and it must be wiped out!
The disciples of the Demonic Sect all know to call themselves the Holy Sect. Even those from the Upper Realm, despite their stronger cultivation, still care about their reputation. No one can escape this characteristic.
"So what should we do now?"
Chi Tian trusted his sect leader's judgment completely, so he didn't refute it at all and directly asked what to do.
Huang Quan couldn't help but grimac at the sight.
This lackey is truly unworthy of being a divine being.
Annihilation was imminent. The ancient demons of life nearby could not handle it, and the descent of Dao-merging cultivators to the mortal realm was an even greater disaster that they could not resist. No one present could escape.
Even the old Taoist Taixu stopped talking about rescuing Fuling and Miaozhen, and instead stood aside, waiting for the conversation to end.
By pooling our resources, we might have a glimmer of hope.
A long silence followed.
The Demon Lord of Refining Heaven sighed.
"There is only a glimmer of hope if we force our way through the boundary. The Chaos Pivot Warship in my possession may be able to lead us to the Chaos Layer of the Ice Prison Realm. Whether we can break through the boundary safely depends on fate."
This was a fallback plan he had made when he formulated the plan.
But it also requires risking your life.
The terror of chaos is such that even the hardest spiritual metal in the world, if thrown into it, will be worn away in no time, and may even return to its origin, repeating the chaos.
With two mountains looming overhead, if they didn't run, they'd be facing retribution.
He then pointed to the Heavenly Tribulation Path.
"Chunyangzi can hold on for at most half an hour. After that, it is unknown how long it will take for the Ancient Demon of Life to break free from the suppression of the void array."
"Therefore, we must act quickly. If it is a fixed date, we will meet in Icefield City outside the Endless Icefield in half a month. I will wait for you all until the hour of Yin (3-5 AM). If you are late, we will not wait for you."
As for the Ancient Demon of Life, half an hour is enough for them to escape this place. This demon can go wherever it wants, and they can't control it even if they want to.
However, the character of Venerable Taixu is quite unattractive.
Because this is... the gate of the Sword Sect!
"You're just leaving like that?"
Let's recount the details of this battle.
The Sword Sect suffered heavy losses. Two early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators were captured by the Blood Demon Palace Master and taken to the Blood Abyss, their fates unknown. Two Supreme Elders and his junior brother all perished tragically.
Although Chunyangzi had not yet breathed his last, he was completely unprepared for the Refining Void Heavenly Tribulation and even lacked self-awareness. His defeat and death under the lightning was already a foregone conclusion.
No one could save them, while the demonic path was completely unharmed. How could the old Taoist Taixu bear this? After the ancient demon broke the seal, he was now being forced to abandon his ancestral legacy.
This is in contrast to those righteous sects he had abandoned.
What's the difference?
Nothing could be changed, and things only got worse, leaving only the two early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, Haoran Sword Master and Jianhe Venerable, whose strength had plummeted to rock bottom.
But everyone knows what the Demonic Path is.
Betrayal is commonplace, let alone the mere act of crossing the river and then destroying the bridge—what wouldn't they dare to do? Besides, the Chaotic Pivot Battleship is currently in the hands of the Demonic Path Leader.
They need him to survive!
Therefore.
The Demon Lord of Refining Heaven did not directly answer the old Taoist Taixu's question, but instead said to himself, "Half a month is enough for you to prepare. Farewell!"
The old Taoist priest tightened his grip on his sword, but in the end, he still couldn't unleash the sword of his will.
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After half a cup of tea, only one person and three demons remained on the demonic cloud.
After sorting through the information about the Poisonous Flood Dragon, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Wang Yu, we returned to the scene from before.
"Fellow Daoist Wang, what do you think of what you just said?"
Upon hearing the old monster's question, Wang Yu's eyes darted around.
He changed the subject and talked about other things.
"With the demon race observing the entire grand spectacle, they must have prepared a backup plan."
"The Azure Dragon Demon Lord laughed."
"I can't hide it from you, fellow Daoist. I have indeed made preparations, but they are all methods of killing and have no effect on the current situation. As for what Lian Tian said, I feel that something is not quite right."
Such a statement caused Wang Yu's mind to waver slightly.
He couldn't help but look at Chunyangzi under the thick thunderclouds. To be honest, the appearance of the Void Refining Tribulation in the Ice Prison Realm was already far beyond his expectations.
This shows that the Nascent Soul stage is not the limit that the Ice Prison Realm can accommodate.
This proves that his earlier guess was true. The essence of the Ice Prison Realm is far beyond what ordinary worlds can compare to. Otherwise, how could it imprison an ancient demon who had almost reached the level of a "half-immortal"?
Even the fact that consciousness and body are separated and controlled is enough to demonstrate the extraordinary nature of this realm.
But at this moment, he was more concerned about the influence of the Ancient Demon of Life on him. Through external awakening, he had realized just how dangerous it was to rashly devour the Ancient Demon's finger to break through to the next realm.
He thought he had solved the problem of demonic contamination, but it had already begun to affect his personality and daily behavior.
The thought of the large quantity of meticulously refined health-preserving elixir in the Sea Heart Ring sent chills down Wang Yu's spine, and he almost immediately postponed all his plans.
Eight placement slots, four operating techniques.
The other four should be placed simultaneously with the [Demon-Crossing Mantra], a secret method for subduing demons, which must be mastered as soon as possible.
Only then can one have the mind to think about what the Azure Dragon Demon Lord said.
therefore.
The silence lasted much longer than usual.
Seeing that the cunning and shrewd person in his eyes had no reaction, the Azure Dragon Demon Lord couldn't help but remind him.
"The Refining Heaven Demon Sect's obsession with the Ancient Demons of Life began in the early days of its establishment. Not long after the first Refining Heaven Demon Lord founded the sect, he launched a war against the Sword Sect."
That's... the suspicious point.
The time span is long enough to extend back ten thousand years, which is actually the ancestor of the current Heavenly Demon Lord, a third-generation Divine Transformation Person, enough to span an entire era.
Wang Yu smiled sheepishly.
"I was a little distracted just now, please continue, Senior Azure Dragon."
"..."
The other party sighed helplessly.
Unfortunately, all human cultivators have blood feuds with the demon race. Only Wang Yu, this newly risen Venerable, has never been known to slaughter demons, and even has a harmonious relationship with the demons of the ancestral land.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have bothered to remind him!
"To directly break through the boundary and cross the boundary, that warship is indeed indispensable. What I just said actually added a lot of credibility points to that kid, the Heavenly Demon Lord."
"It makes people overlook the many treacherous things he has done, but I have lived a long time and know his background best. He never prepares any backup plans."
"Once you start a scheme, there are only two outcomes: success or death! He has experienced many conspiracies and schemes to get to where he is today, yet he has still managed to cultivate to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. Do you understand, Fellow Daoist Wang?"
Wang Yu seemed to be deep in thought.
After focusing all his attention on this matter, Wang Yu suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he said...
"Senior, the chaotic energy can cause all things to return to their origin and recreate chaos. It can also be regarded as a kind of refining. The world power that the Dao of Refining Heaven ultimately evolves into."
"It is also a kind of energy with extremely high essence, almost omnipotent. Do you think he is deceiving the Nascent Soul Venerable to go to his death, and then gathering the chaos formed from the human body?"
"This defective product should not be able to compare with the true chaotic energy, but it still has the potential to be manipulated and utilized."
Qinglong was also taken aback by this guess.
But his understanding of the Heavenly Refining Technique far surpassed that of Wang Yu, and he quickly gleaned some insights from it.
"Hahaha, I know what he's planning."
Why are you laughing, senior?
"Refining Heaven, Refining Heaven, isn't there a famous saying in their Demonic Sect... Have you heard of it?"
"Refining Gu, refining people, and even refining the heavens?"
"good."
The Azure Dragon Demon Lord's turbid eyes gleamed with wisdom as he stroked his beard.
"The ultimate goal of the Path of Refining Heaven is to refine a world. Then let me ask you, where does a world come from?"
"Coming from chaos...?"
Wang Yu suddenly realized.
The so-called Dao of Refining Heaven is actually the Dao of Chaos. It's just that this great power is too strong, and even a Nascent Soul cultivator cannot control it.
Therefore, the next level of the Heavenly Refining Path emerged.
By cultivating this path, one can likely safely traverse the spatial layers and reach the chaotic layer without needing any secret techniques.
How to utilize this group of Nascent Soul cultivators is up to the Demon Lord of Refining Heaven. Don't forget his original intention: to break free of the Ice Prison Cage. Essentially, it's because these peak experts are unwilling to stop on their path of cultivation.
And this is an act of resistance, a defying act against nature.
If he could break through to the Void Refinement stage and greatly extend his lifespan, he might be able to lie low again, accumulate strength, and wait for the day when the wind rises.
If the initial goal of the Heavenly Demon Lord was to break through to the Void Refinement Realm, then failing to defeat the Prison King Spirit Official was already part of his calculations.
The situation for other Nascent Soul cultivators will be extremely dangerous.
As for what role the Ancient Demon of Life plays in all of this, due to insufficient information, it is difficult to deduce at the moment, and even guessing is unlikely to lead to the right conclusion.
In conclusion.
The purpose of the war between good and evil was actually to lure the Sword Sect into disobeying their ancestors' orders and successfully releasing the Ancient Demon of Life. This demonstrates the cunning and scheming abilities of the Refining Heaven Sect.
That's quite terrifying.
Meanwhile, the Earthly Fiend Demon Lord remained silent, which aroused Wang Yu's suspicions.
A long silence followed.
"Now that things have come to this, senior, do you have a way to avoid the calamity from the upper realm?"
Since things have already developed to this point...
Rashly preventing the other Nascent Soul cultivators from gathering and disrupting the Demon Lord of Refining Heaven's plans will only make them enemies in the eyes of these powerful individuals who have abandoned everything.
after all.
They've given up everything and are ready to risk everything. Now you're telling them it's all a lie, a conspiracy, a trap? Nobody will believe it, and nobody wants to believe it.
This is because it is the last hope.
How weighty it is!
Therefore, Wang Yu abandoned the idea of disrupting the Heaven Refining Plan and directly inquired about the method to avoid the calamity.
"This matter is both simple and difficult."
The Azure Dragon Demon Lord extended three fingers.
Three solutions.
"First, find a secret realm unknown to anyone and hide there using the tortoise breathing technique. Dao cultivators have limited energy to search the entire realm and deal with the ancient demon calamity. They should have a 60% chance of surviving."
"Secondly, after the arrival of a Dao-merging cultivator, one can possess a mortal body, abandon one's own cultivation, and eke out a living in the mortal world, waiting for the calamity to pass before ascending the path of immortality again. This method only changes the primordial spirit, and the chance of survival is over 70%, but one is prone to suffering from human calamities."
"Third, come to the Ancient Beast Ancestor Mountain. This is the place where the Beast God inherited his legacy. It has existed since ancient times and cultivators who have reached the Dao Integration stage will not destroy it at will. There are places of protection left by the Beast God within, with a survival rate as high as 90%."
None of the three methods sound very good.
Moreover, the sanctuary on the Ancient Beast Ancestor God Mountain is none other than the consciousness space inside that bronze sculpture. It is indeed mysterious, but the number of people who can hide there is limited.
If Wang Yu were all alone, he would also seek refuge along with him.
But he still has beauties, friends, confidants, and fellow Daoists such as Yu Tangtang, Xiao Chan'er, Jin Miaoshan, Yan Ling, and Yin Gui, and is no longer the penniless person he once was.
Once a person has ties to their heart, they will have more concerns and worries, and it will be difficult for them to have a carefree mind.
But if one were to attain immortality, having neither friends, nor lovers, nor children, spending one's days in a cave drinking morning dew, basking in the warm sun, and watching the world change and the clouds drift by, would be of little interest.
The complexity of emotions is fundamental to what makes us human.
Should he rashly abandon it? He was unwilling to do so either!
——Back to the main topic.
"Even if the ancient demon breaks free, it will take time for it to cause enough destruction to be noticed by the Celestial Palace. Conservatively speaking, it will take at least several years of free time."
"That spirit official certainly wouldn't dare to report it rashly. He would only pretend it was a momentary oversight or secretly seek help from his sect. But the Ice Prison Realm will become extremely dangerous in the next few years. Fellow Daoist, please be careful. I hope we will meet again someday."
Since Wang Yu was unwilling to seek refuge with him.
The Azure Dragon Demon Lord said no more. After giving some instructions, he returned to the ancestral land of the demon race in the Northern Broken Realm Mountains with the Poisonous Flood Dragon. At this time, there was no need to care about the prohibition of the human race's venerable one.
They just flirted around and didn't have time to cause them any trouble.
in this way.
The once vast Sword Sect was now left with only Wang Yu. He glanced back at Chunyangzi, who was about to be reduced to ashes, and then sensed the power of the Refining Void Thunder Tribulation.
He shook his head, about to leave.
"Young friend, please wait a moment."
The one who came was none other than Venerable Taixu, who had returned after leaving.
"senior."
Wang Yu lowered his head slightly, wondering what Taixu wanted to see him about this time.
Still getting used to it... Japanese 8 is so hard.
Moreover, this part of the plot required repeated consideration, and I spent an entire afternoon writing only six thousand words. I might as well just combine it into one chapter and publish it. Sorry.
(End of this chapter)
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