Deng Chanyu and Yun Xiao looked at each other, both feeling that the situation was a bit absurd.
They pieced together the truth through hints and guesses.
After resolving the issue with the Prime Deity Demon, Huanglong Zhenren left Kunlun Mountain, claiming to go to the East Sea to gather herbs, but in reality, he had his eyes set on the demons who had escaped from Deng Chanyu's grasp and were deemed by Shangqing to have a glimmer of hope for life.
These monsters are heavily demonic but also maintain sufficient reason and have their own social structure. Huanglong Zhenren wanted to study them to see if the incantations that keep them rational could be applied to the eight evil dragon spirits of his own.
The research wasn't even conducted for two days when they encountered the Xieyuan, who had come to the East Sea with his gang to kill dragons.
If you're talking about alchemy, refining weapons, or discussing the profound mysteries of the Tao, then Chi You is undoubtedly clueless. However, when it comes to fighting, even if you're a whole level higher in cultivation, you might not be able to defeat him.
Before the other eighty-one brothers of Chi You's family even had a chance to join the fight, Huanglong Zhenren was already chopped three times. Panicked and with no other options, he stumbled upon an unexpected secret underwater passage. Unknown to him, he managed to escape and finally ended up in the Floating Peaks country.
The people here were very kind and helped him with medical treatment, providing a place for him to recuperate.
Chi You's Tige Brave was filled with too much terrifying aura, and after being tormented by the Great Path Poison of the Prime Deity Demon, Huanglong Zhenren's body was already weak. After being invaded by the aura, it took a year to recover to normalcy.
Zhonghuangzi was on good terms with Guangchengzi, but Huanglong's relationship with Zhonghuangzi was just average. He had befriended Rongcheng Gong, another Golden Deity master from the Floating Peaks country.
From the description, it seems that Rongcheng Gong might also be a member of the "Twelve Stomachs," a group as famous as Zhonghuangzi.
Huanglong Zhenren seems to have something important to take care of, and there are also personal matters for Deng Chanyu and the others to deal with.
After a brief exchange of pleasantries, they parted ways at the market.
Deng Chanyu used a magic similar to "the vastness of the sleeve" to stash all the purchased items inside her sleeve. Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, she quickly turned into a dark alley.
Walking to the end of the alley, Yun Xiao raised his hand and set up a dream array: "Let's do this quickly, right here."
Deng Chanyu agreed happily: "Okay, mine is quite large, so bear with me for a moment."
She took out the Broken Immortal Sword, cut her palm, and the demonic blood floated in mid-air as if to flee. However, it was blocked by the dream array, struggling left and right but unable to break free.
"This drop of blood has already been demonized. You take it in, and then I'll come in."
Yun Xiao nodded. She also cut her palm and used the dream array to compress it from all sides, finally forcing the drop of blood to flow into her palm.
Deng Chanyu used a spell that she had researched for many years but seldom applied.
"The Spell of Turning the Heart into a Facing Body!" (Chapter 691, Controlling the Green Turtle)
Even though they had a very close relationship, she couldn't let Yun Xiao release her own essence and allow her to freely enter and exit the inner world. This involved the problem of Sage-level cultivation techniques; she couldn't see the Upper Clear School's profound methods of the Jade Gate School, nor could Yun Xiao see hers.
To avoid this minefield, her method was to let Yun Xiao absorb a drop of her own blood, after which she would entrust her consciousness to this drop of blood, serving as a temporary resting place. Then, she would help Yun Xiao draw out her inner demon.
As Deng Chanyu took her position, Yun Xiao silently operated the Upper Clear School cultivation method, attempting to take a tiny step forward from the countless years of the "Cut One Corpse" realm.
She had many ideas about cutting the second corpse but they all hit a dead end.
The inner demon seems to have seen through Yun Xiao's weakness. Every time she tries to take a step forward, the inner demon appears to block her path.
The inner demon is quite cunning. It always causes trouble when Yun Xiao is at her weakest and most disordered, leaving her feeling caught off guard and repeatedly failing.
Now, not only can she not cut the second corpse, but she can't even find the path to it.
The inner demon has given her quite a hard time. Deng Chanyu has extensive experience in dealing with the inner demon and has come up with this method to turn it from passive to active.
First, draw out the inner demon and strike it with a sword. After that, the path will be much easier to walk on.
At this moment, Yun Xiao's consciousness was fully contained within a non-substantial, non-real, exclusively hers spiritual world, waiting for Deng Chanyu to act.
Just for this drop of blood, Yun Xiao considers Deng Chanyu to be a bit "big" now.
With the Hengmeng Purple Qi, with two incarnations, and having been honed so many times by the inner demon, Deng Chanyu's heart state cultivation is far higher than her body realm.
Many times stronger than Yun Xiao.
In the spiritual world of Yun Xiao, she was fiercely guarding her mind palace. At only a size like a normal person's, Deng Chanyu's consciousness penetrated Yun Xiao's spiritual world through the blood, here appearing as a huge, black sun.
"I'm here. This process of using external force to guide the inner demon is quite tyrannical, and it hurts a bit. Just bear with me."
"Um."
The dark sun gradually twisted, finally transforming into a giant, pitch black as ink. It was barely possible to make out Deng Chanyu's features.
She brandished the Broken Immortal Sword within her spiritual realm, countless waves of demonic aura turning into dark clouds that completely enveloped Yun Xiao's spiritual platform.
The external demon and Yun Xiao's own demon merged together, causing the "poisonous sore" to be ignited. Her inner demon had no choice but to emerge prematurely.
"Sister, please spare my life. I am your blood sister! Look at me, I am Bixiao!"
"Big sister, I'll never be mischievous again, okay? Please spare me."
"Yun Xiao! You are so hypocritical! We are sisters, does that mean the hundred million years of emotions we shared were all false?!"
The cries of Qiong Xiao and Bi Xiao echoed in Yun Xiao's heart, as she saw another version of herself. This alternate Yun Xiao was cold-faced and casually erased the consciousness of the two sisters, turning them into her avatars. Qiong Xiao became a ghastly corpse, while Bi Xiao became her own dead form.
The two sisters, who had been together for a billion years, vanished completely, leaving only their shells. Even so, the Yun Xiao controlled by the inner demon laughed cruelly. The three white clouds of yesteryear that shared the same roots and origin were now completely merged together, and Yun Xiao would no longer need to clean up her sisters' messes.
Everything of yours is mine! With the original kind corpse, I can completely attain the title of Supreme Transcendent Golden Immortal!
Zhao Gongming fell to his knees, defeated by her sword. Emei Mountain turned into a sea of fire, and even the main hall of Bianyouti left a deep, bottomless sword mark.
Yun Xiao transcended and ultimately achieved the enlightenment of the Supreme Mixed Great Buddha, but she felt confused. She could no longer find relatives to share her joy of achieving enlightenment.
"Boom!" A loud explosion, this Yun Xiao chose to end it herself.
It seemed to be Deng Chanyu's voice, or perhaps it was the inner demon's voice that whispered in her ear: "Do you regret it?"
Yun Xiao asked herself, and she wasn't very regretful; she enjoyed the exhilaration of being the sole ruler, unmatched in all the world. In the real chaos, she felt too stifled.
"I don't regret it."
"Okay, let's try it again. Just bear with it, this time it will hurt even more. Alright, add one more thing, everyone has demons within them. Understanding the demons and overcoming them is what a Daoist should do."
