"This seal couldn't suppress it, but it bears the mark of a person who has been dead for a long time. Just erase his mark."
Fan Mingzhu frowned and said, "How could a mere Foundation Establishment Level 3 cultivator like me break the mark of a powerful being like him?"
“You don’t need to break it,” Tianjun said in a relaxed tone. “The mark has existed for eight hundred years, and its spiritual power has long been exhausted. The only reason it can still exist is because the Divine Cauldron Sect uses a spirit-gathering array and rare and precious materials to support it. Just cut off its spiritual energy supply, and in less than three days, the mark’s spiritual power will be insufficient.”
Three days? Her father would need at least seven days to return from killing Shi Xuan in Qingshui City. She could wait that long.
Under the accusation of the Heavenly Army, Fan Mingzhu cut off the supply of spiritual energy to the seal. Three days later, the seal began to show signs of instability, and dark energy began to emerge from it.
Fan Mingzhu was somewhat panicked and asked, "This thing is causing quite a commotion; it might alarm the elders in the sect."
"Don't worry, just do as I say!"
The black mist grew larger and larger, and finally, after a day and a night, the sealed object broke free from the seal.
It had been sealed for eight hundred years, expending a great deal of power, and now it had used all its strength to break free of the seal, emerging quite weak.
Taking advantage of the moment, Fan Mingzhu stored the black bead in the ring where Tianjun was located. Then she quickly restored the scene to its original state and left the illusion array.
"There's been unusual activity in the forbidden area behind the mountain!" the sect's elder on duty reported.
Another elder seemed to sense something as well. He released his divine sense to feel it carefully for a moment and said, "It seems to have only lasted for a moment, and now it has returned to calm."
Neither of them noticed anything else amiss, but just to be on the safe side, they went to the back of the mountain together to check.
Before the cliff on the back mountain, the sect leader's daughter, Fan Mingzhu, was practicing her fireball technique alone. The small fireballs she released hit the cliff, causing pieces of rock to fall and making quite a commotion.
The elder on duty frowned. How could this forbidden area in the back mountain be destroyed at will?
"Why are you in this forbidden area?" the elder on duty asked seriously.
Fan Mingzhu stared with innocent eyes, looking somewhat bewildered at the two elders who had come over, and said, "I haven't been able to calm my mind lately, so I begged my father to allow me to cultivate in seclusion on the back mountain for a few days." As she spoke, she took out the token given to her by Fan Hongde and showed it to the two elders.
The two elders looked at her and thought to themselves that the sect leader really spoiled his child. How could a child be allowed to freely enter and leave such a forbidden area in the back mountain? It seemed that the strange behavior just now must have been caused by her cultivation in the back mountain. They should persuade her to leave.
Have you seen anyone else enter this forbidden area in the back mountains?
Fan Mingzhu shook her head and replied, "No."
The elder on duty looked around and assumed she had accidentally wandered into this forbidden area. He turned to Fan Mingzhu and said, "The southern half of the back mountain can be used as a cultivation ground, but this cliff is not. You should leave quickly. And don't come to this forbidden area to cultivate again; it's too dangerous."
Fan Mingzhu nodded obediently and immediately withdrew her hand, walking towards the outside of the forbidden area.
The two elders nodded in agreement. Although she had made a mistake, as the daughter of the sect leader, she was able to listen to others' advice and was not willful or unreasonable, so she was a good child.
They checked the illusion array and found it to be intact, so they were relieved and left the forbidden area.
After leaving the forbidden area, Fan Mingzhu, as if he had listened to the elder's words, turned around and headed to the southern part of the back mountain. Only after finding a secluded place did she breathe a sigh of relief.
She couldn't help but feel nervous in front of the two elders.
Tianjun seemed very pleased and said, "Now is the best time for you to absorb this demonic seed. Just take it out and swallow it."
"A demon seed?" Fan Mingzhu was taken aback. She hadn't expected that the treasure Tianjun was talking about was a demon seed.
Although I don't know exactly what the Demon Seed is used for, the word itself sounds evil.
“Exactly,” Tianjun patiently explained, “This is the key to resolving the backlash from your spiritual root. Once you swallow it, you will be able to fully absorb its power, and from then on, you can disregard the laws of heaven and become a person truly free from the shackles of your spiritual root. In the face of the demonic seed, spiritual roots are nothing but trifles!”
Fan Mingzhu seemed to realize at this moment that what Tianjun meant by abandoning the Heavenly Dao and cultivating another path was entering the demonic path. But now that things had come to this, she had agreed and taken out the demonic seed. It was too late to go back on her word.
The thought that becoming a demon would free her from the damned backlash of her spiritual root made her less resistant to it.
Now, she only worries about one thing: "If I cultivate the demonic path, the righteous path will not tolerate me. How can I prevent people from knowing that I am a demonic cultivator?"
"Don't worry, I have the ability to do this!" Tianjun laughed heartily when he saw that she had no aversion to demonic cultivators at all. "As long as you keep me with you, I can help you conceal this demonic energy and make you no different from ordinary cultivators!"
Fan Mingzhu pursed her lips. As long as she cultivated this demonic path, she could immediately escape the suffering of spiritual root backlash, greatly increase her cultivation, and obtain the demonic seed that all demonic cultivators dreamed of. In addition, the Heavenly Army could help her conceal her identity, so this matter could be said to be entirely beneficial to her.
Tianjun urged, "We need to hurry and subdue the demon before it recovers its power. Otherwise, with your strength, I'm afraid it will be difficult to tame the demon."
Fan Mingzhu's eyes flickered, and she made up her mind. She took out the demon seed, which was still in a weakened state, and swallowed it in one gulp.
The demonic seed was untamable, and Fan Mingzhu immediately felt as if her entire body was being torn apart. Her face turned bluish-black, her features twisted together, making her look exceptionally ferocious.
Tianjun continued speaking to her, "Hold on! If you don't win this battle against the demonic seed today, you will be devoured by it. Do you want to be devoured? Once you get through this, the world will be yours to roam freely!"
Fan Mingzhu listened. She was sustained by a surge of hatred, hating the injustice of Heaven, hating the cultivators of the six sects in the Western Region of Qian Yuan, hating Shi Xuan for all his actions... In the agony of being entangled with the demonic seed, Fan Mingzhu thought: Although she was in a sorry state today, Shi Xuan might have already been killed by her father.
She suddenly felt a pang of regret. If she had known this would happen, she wouldn't have let Fan Hongde risk being discovered and having his reputation ruined to kill Shi Xuan. She could have grown stronger and killed Shi Xuan herself, letting her know that even without the mercy of Heaven, she could still completely defeat her!
Driven by hatred, Fan Mingzhu gritted her teeth and endured the battle with the demonic seed. When she came to her senses, the demonic seed, which was in a weakened state, had already been completely absorbed into her body.
At this moment, Fan Mingzhu's eyes were bloodshot, her face was deathly pale, her long hair was blowing in the wind, and her strength surged.
He surged from the third level of Foundation Establishment to the fourth level in a flash, and then to the fifth level a moment later. He didn't stop there; he continued to climb.
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