Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 804: Shiji, the Leader of the Demons
"Little demon?"

Chu Tai stared at Shi Ji and smiled, "The essence of heaven and earth condensed into shape, and it also obtained the Dao rhyme of creation and heaven repairing. If your background is called small, how many people in the world can be called great? If I am not mistaken, your Dao field should be built on some ancestral vein of the earth..."

Chu Tai looked around and said with a smile, "It's a very interesting layout. This place was supposed to be a place to suppress demons. The ancestral veins of the earth below suppressed the many evil demons created by the turbid energy of the earth. You were standing on it and were supposed to be the object of suppression, but by chance you absorbed the evil energy of the demons and transformed into a shape, making you the leader of all demons."

"As for the incarnation above, it should be your attempt to use the immortal way to transcend the constraints of this place. But obviously, you failed. Although the immortal way has made your magic power much purer, it cannot let you break free from the constraints of this place. The only benefit is probably that you can use this incarnation to go out for a walk?"

Chu Tai said this lightly, but it made Shiji, a stubborn person like a rock, break out in a cold sweat.

There are many immortals who know her background, and there are also many immortals who know that there is the ancestral vein of the earth beneath this place, but there are not many immortals who know that there are many demons hidden in the ancestral vein. Even fewer immortals can connect the three together and deduce the reason for their own birth.

Most importantly, Chu Tai could see the limitations of her incarnation at a glance, which was beyond Shi Ji's understanding. In her opinion, those who could do this were either ancient gods or several religious leaders.

She suppressed her fear and silently contacted the earth veins, saying respectfully, "Senior, you are very insightful and can see clearly what I am capable of."

"See clearly? If you really think I see clearly, you won't think of those little tricks!"

Chu Tai pressed down lightly with his fingers, and Shi Ji felt a sudden pressure on her body. The connection with the earth veins was also blocked, making it difficult to function.

But in contrast, Shiji was more sensitive to the demons in the earth veins, and in a trance he seemed to feel the connection between himself and the demons.

"It seems that you have not figured out the relationship between yourself, this leyline, and the demons below."

Chu Tai looked at the lines that gradually appeared on Shiji's face, and gently drew an illusory line with his fingers. The fairy light flowed on it, and he suppressed it steadily. Part of the light also followed her breath and flowed into the veins of the earth, suppressing all the demons one by one.

A lot of information gathered at Chu Tai's fingertips with the flow of fairy light and was absorbed by him. The cosmic light in his eyes changed, and he saw Shi Ji's past practice experience. Combining this information, he spoke very casually.

"It's normal to think about it. If you figure it out, you won't think about practicing Shangqing Immortal Method. Although this method is profound and all-encompassing, and can transform the left path into the mysterious door, it also pays attention to the mind when practicing. If you have the will, you can achieve immortal light in a hundred years. But if you are extreme, you can't achieve the right result even if you practice hard for a thousand years."

"Senior, do you know my problem? Is there a solution? As long as you can tell me, I am willing to do anything for you."

Shiji looked up at Chutai, with obvious surprise in her eyes.

She practiced hard for thousands of years, always wanting to know how to leave this area.

To this end, Shiji did not hesitate to join forces with Kunlun's Wuliang Immortal and secretly help him eliminate some of the people he wanted to kill.

It was also through the guidance of Wuliang Immortal that Shiji learned some of the Shangqing Immortal Techniques, was able to differentiate into different incarnations, and gained a little freedom.

It can be seen that while seeing the prosperity of the outside world allowed Shiji to vent some of her inner depression, it was also constantly stimulating her nerves.

She was unwilling to accept the fact that out of the 3,651 stones used to repair the sky, she was the only one abandoned by Nuwa.

After falling into the human world, one can only stay in this place surrounded by demons, and be disturbed by the evil spirit day and night.

Even the ancestral veins of the earth used the innate pure energy left to her by Nuwa to block the erosion of demonic energy. While trapping her in this land, it also polluted the innate pure energy, making her only a demon, not an immortal god.

Could this be her punishment for failing to complete her mission of repairing the sky?
Shiji had thought so in the past. She even wondered if she could suppress the demons and repair the earth veins peacefully and maybe one day she would be able to complete her merits and ascend to heaven.

But now she doesn't think so. She has learned from the Immortal Wuliang that the heavenly realm had long forgotten her.

For this, she made a fuss, went crazy, but finally accepted it all and understood that this is the way the world is.

Doing good deeds and accumulating virtue is a joke. Everyone is doing it for themselves. Instead of praying for others' favor, you might as well find a way to climb up on your own.

So, she began to practice magic. She wanted to devour the ancestral veins of the earth, devour all the demons, become a demon lord, and live freely in the human world.

Therefore, the surprise and desire that Shiji showed to Chutai were real, but what she said was false.

She just wanted to take this opportunity to hide it from Chu Tai and ensure her survival.

Chu Tai saw clearly what Shi Ji was thinking, but he didn't care. After all, he was not a good person, and he didn't intend to give this female cultivator who had fallen into the evil way a chance to survive.

The Donghuang Bell emerged and shook gently. Ripples invisible to the naked eye appeared and quickly enveloped the entire Skull Mountain, causing the stone reefs in front of and outside the mountain to stagnate.

“Although I’m still a little embarrassed, your identity is indeed very suitable for me now. The Heaven-Repairing Stone is formed by the condensation of the essence of heaven and earth, and it is covered by the ancestral veins of the earth. Even people with a slightly higher cultivation than me will not be able to see the problem. The most important thing is that you have this powerful destiny…”

As he spoke, an octagonal glass lamp appeared in Chu Tai's palm.

Shiji's pupils contracted as she practiced her profound skills to the extreme, and a look of horror appeared on her face. She felt the threat of death.

The destiny that belonged to her began to gather in the dark, pushing her cultivation to a further level and driving her power to climb upward little by little.

But this progress is still too slow. Under the Donghuang Bell, they have no ability to resist at all.

At most, Shiji could barely speak: "Yuxu Palace Lantern, you are from Kunlun! I have an alliance with your eldest brother Wuliang Xianweng, and I am a friend of your Kunlun! No, no, don't..."

Chu Tai blew a breath at the Kunlun Golden Lamp, and the Qingwei Taishi Divine Fire fell down and turned into a fire net that enveloped Shiji.

Nine phantoms of divine dragons emerged, catering to a certain destiny in her future, and instantly reducing her luck, which had been surging again, to the extreme.

The Donghuang Bell shook again, suppressing the many changes around it. At the same time, the power of the Tao Fruit of [Inversion] manifested, disrupting the fate of Chu Tai and Shi Ji. The moment it was refined back to the original Sky-Buying Stone, it replaced her luck.

Many past events belonging to Shiji began to converge towards Chu Tai, trying to cover up his past and turn him into Shiji.

But Chu Tai just needed her identity and did not intend to really become her. The power of [Inversion] Tao Fruit manifested again, and after distorting the gathered information, he extracted Shiji's memory as information for him to understand this world.

At the same time, Kun Dao, who was standing at the entrance of the cave, first turned into stone, then gradually returned to normal, and slowly walked into the cave. Chu Tai in the White Bone Cave was playing with a purple sky-repairing stone, on which there were streams of Xuanhuang essence flowing, and on the outermost edge was the Qingwei Taishi Divine Fire.

The divine fire continued to burn, extracting strands of spiritual charm from the Sky-Burn Stone bit by bit.

Chu Tai had seen this thing in Shiji's memory. It was a natural treasure unique to this world. Almost all living things had it in their bodies. It was said to be something that Nuwa gave to the gods when she created them.

"Nuwa created all the gods. The past of this world is really interesting."

Chu Tai looked at Ling Yun in front of him, and kept reading Shi Ji's past, confirming that this world was barren in the beginning.

Until Nuwa appeared, she created all things with her supreme divine power and embellished the barren earth.

And created the gods to maintain order in all things while he slept.

According to the information Shiji obtained from Kunlun, the so-called gods were nothing more than the existence of Nuwa to protect all things in the world.

At the beginning, the gods fulfilled their duties very well. Based on the work of Nuwa, they perfected the heaven and earth and created living beings. But as time went by, the gods gradually discovered that their lifespan was not infinite.

Every 129,600 years, the gods would face a disaster of exhausting their lifespan, which they called a catastrophe.

In order to deal with the disaster, the gods thought of many ways, and finally they found that the spiritual energy existing in all things could prolong their lifespan.

In order to obtain the spiritual charm, the gods made various attempts. They created countless lives and added a lot of fun to the world, but many creatures were slaughtered by the gods in the process, just to extract the spiritual charm.

During this period, all living beings created all things in order to make instruments that could better carry the spiritual charm.

The bloody atmosphere filled the space between heaven and earth. Although it barely prolonged the lifespan of the gods, the order had already begun to tilt.

Finally, when the lifespans of the first group of gods were drawing to an end, they could no longer bear the loss of power and turned their knives against their own kind.

With the fall of the first god and the rejuvenation of the first god who devoured his own kind, the world fell into complete chaos.

The gods who were originally responsible for harmonizing the rhythm of heaven and earth became the greatest disaster between heaven and earth. Many gods fell, and more gods took over. After their spiritual charm dissipated, some gods gradually fell into the mortal world. Some of them were devoured by other creatures, and some became the first "people".

It is unknown how long the war lasted, at least there is no specific record in the information known to Shiji, because she did not exist at the time, and the information given by Kunlun is also vague here.

Shiji only knew that the battle among the gods eventually led to the collapse of the sky and the breakdown of order, and Nuwa had to wake up early to repair the sky and stabilize order.

Shiji was created in this process. She was the extra piece among the 3,651 pieces.

The other Sky-Repairing Stones either became the foundation of the Heavenly Palace or served as the support of the sky, but she was the only one that fell into the human world.

But because of this, Shiji "saw" many secrets.

Through the information recorded on Shiji's body, Chu Tai saw that when the sky was being repaired, Nuwa cast a spell to kill or remove from her divine positions the gods who had devoured their own kind and the spirits of all things.

Among the demons suppressed under the ancestral veins of the earth, many are ancient gods who have lost their divine duties.

They wanted to get out all the time, but were suppressed in the earth veins by the innate pure energy contained in the stone.

In response, these ancient gods focused their obsession on Shiji, endowed her with powerful strength, enlightened her spirituality, and tried to get her to lead them away.

But those ancient gods obviously underestimated the magic ban left by Nuwa. When they began to shift their obsession, their spiritual charm flowed uncontrollably towards Shiji.

At the same time, their reason, wisdom and emotions are also dissipating uncontrollably, gradually transforming into evil demons controlled by power and instinct.

This is also why Chu Tai previously stated that Shiji had no idea about her connection with the earth veins and the demons.

To put it bluntly, Shiji is the embodiment of the obsessions of all demons in the earth veins. She is the destined leader of all demons. She herself is the target of suppression by the ancestral veins of the earth and its main body. How could she possibly get out of Skull Mountain?

At the same time, it was a big mistake for her to practice the Shangqing Immortal Method. For her, leaning towards the orthodox Shangqing Way would only allow her to purify and trace herself step by step, and at the same time, become more and more in line with the earth veins and the demons.

Only by practicing the rather rebellious method of the Shangqing lineage can one gradually become independent.

Of course, Shiji no longer has to think about these problems now. Having lost her obsession, she is just a piece of sky-repairing stone that stabilizes the earth veins and suppresses the demons.

As long as Chu Tai can ensure that there are no problems with the ground veins, leaving here will not be a big problem.

Of course, he doesn't want to leave here for the time being. Instead of going out, he plans to first figure out the method of cultivation in this world, so that it will be easier for him to find a way out later.

It was at this time that a ray of clear light emerged.

Chu Tai narrowed his eyes slightly. In Shiji's memory, this brilliance belonged to the Kunlun lineage, and the faint presence of elixir energy in it was a major characteristic of the Immortal Wuliang.

With a thought, Shiji's incarnation dressed as Kun Dao walked out of the cave, looked at Wuliang Xianweng who was slowly walking towards him and said, "Strange, the six little guys I injured earlier should not be from your Kunlun, and today is not the day for us to trade, what brought you, a busy man, to my place?"

"Shiji, you and I are old acquaintances, why do you have to be so hypocritical? I don't believe you don't know that the Duan family can be regarded as the descendants of my Kunlun lineage. This generation finally has a master who inherits the Wuding Feihuan, so naturally we want her to worship in my Kunlun Mountain Gate again. And my Kunlun lineage has always had the tradition of descending to the mortal world to catch monsters. When you saw the Wuding Feihuan, you should have known that I had sent someone to follow you secretly."

Chu Tai controlled Shiji's avatar and sneered, "You came down to earth to catch monsters, so are you planning to catch me, Immortal? Aren't you afraid that our communication will be exposed?"

"You are formed by the condensed essence of heaven and earth. How can I be qualified to refine you? I came to see you today because my boy found that someone seemed to be looking for you. I was a little curious and came to ask. By the way, I also brought the Green Lotus Golden Pill you need. There are thirty-six of them in total. Take a look."

As he spoke, Immortal Wuliang took out a jade bottle from his sleeve and handed it to Shiji's incarnation.

(End of this chapter)