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Chapter 430 Devouring and Proliferating
As the saying goes, choose the lesser of two evils.

There is also a saying that goes, even if the meat is rotten, it should be rotten in the pot at home.

It's like a multiple-choice question.

Which would you choose: chocolate that tastes like shit or shit that tastes like chocolate?

If you have to choose, I believe no one would choose the latter, because no matter how you dress it up, it's essentially a piece of crap.

It's totally not as good as the one next door. Although the taste is earth-shattering, it's at least cocoa beans in essence.

This is the same situation Jiang Lin is facing now.

In order to eradicate the dark sea that fills the entire human world, Jiang Lin thought of fighting poison with poison.

As we all know, the biggest danger of the Six-Hole Heavenly Demon is that its devouring instinct has no upper limit at all. The key is that it is not like the Pixiu that only eats and does not defecate.

Instead, it has an unreasonable transformation talent that can use all the resources it devours to multiply new Six Cave Heavenly Demons.

This is a snowball mechanism. The more the Six-Hole Sky Demon eats, the bigger it gets, and the bigger it gets, the more it eats.

Until the whole world is devoured, the whole world is transformed into a pure world belonging to the devil, the devil's energy permeates every corner of the world, and it becomes the paradise of the Six Caves Heavenly Demon.

Although this result is absolutely unacceptable to the world, it is the general situation.

Now in the three extremely dark realms, except for the heavenly realm, the human world and the underworld are completely dead silent.

Dead silence means the absence of any vitality, and although the Six Caves Demon is equally strange and evil, there are at least living things in the demon world.

In fact, this is also Jiang Lin's mentality of giving up.

Anyway, the situation is already like this. No matter how much trouble I cause, it won't get any worse.

This actually gave Jiang Lin more room to maneuver.

Then the six sky demons came out in full force.

But the problem is that although the Six Cave Demons are evil, the black substance that comes from Yin Tianzun's desire is even more evil.

The Six-Hole Sky Demon can devour many things, but it is obvious that the level of the dark matter exceeds the Six-Hole Sky Demon's diet.

However, who made the Six-Hole Sky Demon now a lackey of the Black Law, and they are highly bound in terms of cause and effect.

The Black Law Mage has an order from the Nine Springs of Fengdu, which is also closely related to the cause and effect of the Six Caverns Heavenly Demon.

Among the black law wizards, there is an outlier named Jiang Lin, who not only possesses the magical power to reverse yin and yang, but also has unreasonable restraint on Yin Tianzun’s desires.

Thus, a strange chemical reaction occurred.

Jiang Lin issued an order through Fengdu Jiuquan to bestow some of his own Qi on the Six Cavern Heavenly Demons. In this way, the Six Cavern Heavenly Demons had a natural restraint against the dark matter.

This was somewhat unreasonable. After all, that was Jiang Lin's unique aura. Even if it could be bestowed on the initial 600,000 demons through the Fengdu Jiuquan Order, it was simply a pipe dream to swallow the dark sea with just these 600,000 demons.

But with the existence of inverted yin and yang, nothing is a problem.

Cause and effect are confused and concepts are reversed.

Therefore, the blessing given by Jiang Lin changed from "blessing for the 600,000 heavenly demons in front of him" to "blessing for the six cave heavenly demons."

Whether it is what is in front of us or what has multiplied after swallowing the black matter, it will have this characteristic.

The necessary conditions for a snowball effect are met.

This is also the reason why Jiang Lin dared to release all restrictions of the Six Caves Heavenly Demon.

Because the blessing given by Jiang Lin can also be regarded as a restriction in another sense.

If not for this, even Jiang Lin would not dare to release the restrictions set by the old man for the Six Caves Demon.

Don’t think that the Six Cave Heavenly Demons are as obedient as dogs under the restrictions. If they were released completely without any restrictions, God knows how many Six Cave Heavenly Demons would still be obedient.

Loyalty is a false concept for the Six Caves Demon.

These things have no real loyalty, they only obey stronger forces.

And under the blessing of the inverted yin and yang, as long as Jiang Lin wanted, all the six cave demons would have their most fundamental spirituality destroyed in the confusion of cause and effect, and turn into mindless walking corpses, without even instincts, and just meaningless shells.

For the six-hole demons, this is definitely a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads.

Therefore, even after Jiang Lin gave the order, in just half an hour, the original 600,000 Six-Hole Heavenly Demons had reached an extremely terrifying number.

Jiang Lin just took a glance and felt his heart tingling.

The pitch-black matter was almost endless, providing the Six Caverns Demons with the best breeding ground.

The Six-Hole Sky Demon would multiply almost every five minutes. The newly born Six-Hole Sky Demon would instinctively begin to devour and multiply almost at the moment of birth, still multiplying once every five minutes, and then repeat the cycle over and over again.

Thus, with a base number of 600,000, in just half an hour, the number of Six-Hole Heavenly Demons reached a terrifying number of more than 2 billion.

Even though most of them are the lowest level six-hole demons, they are still terrifying enough.

Jiang Lin didn’t know how many Six-Hole Heavenly Demons were wreaking havoc in the Pure Yang Three Realms and the Underworld at that time, but judging from the speed at which the Six-Hole Heavenly Demons were multiplying at this moment, it seemed that the Black Law’s record that this thing had the ability to destroy the Three Realms was not empty talk.

Only such a terrifying ability of proliferation, devouring and penetration would alarm the Great Celestial Venerable to personally order the Emperor Ziwei, the head of the Four Imperial Gods, to go all out.

Jiang Lin watched quietly.

Now, on the dark sea, as far as the eye can see, there are densely packed six-hole demons, like locusts, wantonly absorbing the black matter to expand their own population.

Two billion is not a large number in the almost boundless dark ocean.

But in just five minutes, two billion became four billion, then eighty, one hundred and sixty, three hundred and two...

An hour later, the sea level of the dark sea began to drop significantly.

And the rate of decline is gradually increasing.

Jiang Lin nodded with satisfaction and looked at the countless Six Cave Heavenly Demons.

"Master, if the number is too large, should we..."

Feng Lixiao stood behind Jiang Lin, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

It is also a Six-Hole Heavenly Demon, and it should be happy to see its clan grow to an incredible level.

However, as a loyal servant who shares the same fate with Jiang Lin, Feng Lixiao was worried that the Master might not be able to control such a huge clan of the Six Caverns Heavenly Demons in the end.

Generally, the Six Caverns Demons have no concept of loyalty, but at the same time, the Six Caverns Demons have a character rooted in the deepest part of their spirituality: selfishness.

Feng Lixiao hugged Jiang Lin's thigh. Strictly speaking, he was no longer a pure Six-Hole Heavenly Demon. What the Six-Hole Heavenly Demon clan was like had nothing to do with him. He only needed to care about the Master's thoughts.

In this case, it will of course consider the issue from Jiang Lin's perspective.

Hearing this, Jiang Lin shook his head slightly and said, "It's okay."

This is only temporary.

Of course Jiang Lin would not have any feelings towards the Six Caves Demon. This thing was not a good thing.

Having just swallowed less than one hundred thousand or even one millionth of the dark sea, the number of the Six Cave Heavenly Demons has expanded to a terrifying level.

But this is definitely not something that can last forever.

Jiang Lin had already prepared and dealt with this.

Hearing the Master say this, Feng Lixiao calmed down and no longer worried about this issue.

However, it did not follow its peers to devour the dark substance.

Although devouring and then multiplying is the instinct of the Six Caves Demon, Feng Lixiao feels that he has a more important task.

Jiang Lin didn't bother with Feng Lixiao, but instead set his sights on each of the Six Cave Heavenly Demons.

He was somewhat interested in the origin and background of the Six-Hole Demon.

You know, not everything can devour Yin Tianzun's desire and even turn it into something for his own use.

Although Jiang Lin provided crucial assistance, the problem was that without Jiang Lin's support, even the lowest-level Six-Hole Demon would take a long time to be completely corroded even if it was completely immersed in the dark sea. This was assuming that the Six-Hole Demon did not run away or avoid and resisted.

Yes, the six-hole demons were able to struggle out of the pitch-black substance, which was completely possible. Based on this, if a six-hole demon king like Feng Lixiao was comparable to a Daluo celestial being, he could basically ignore the erosion of the pitch-black sea.

In other words, it is a process that is destined to be extremely long.

Therefore, even without Jiang Lin's blessing, the black substance itself did not pose much of a threat to the Six Caves Demon. At most, it was not on the menu.

This is exaggerated and horrifying enough.

What is dark matter?
It is the manifestation of Yin Tianzun's desire and the most original follower of the Heavenly Emperor.

Although it is evil and treacherous, its supreme status cannot be ignored.

And in a sense, the Six Caves Heavenly Demon can actually be evenly matched with this level of power.

So what is the background of the Six Caves Demon?
Jiang Lin had some vague guesses about this. Although he was not very sure, it was basically right.

Yin Tianzun is a point of extreme yin in the yang. What needs to be done is to curb the spread of this point of extreme yin, otherwise there will be the current consequence.

The Great Heavenly Venerable is a point of extreme yang within yin. All he needs to do is to stick to himself and release things in a limited way.

However, if you stick to something for too long, it will mean stagnation, stagnation will bring sedimentation, sedimentation will bring decay, which is an inevitable natural change.

So, is there a possibility that the birth of the Six-Hole Heavenly Demon is related to the Great Heavenly Venerable?

It represents the rotten side of the Great Heavenly Venerable's roots, and is also the inevitable result of natural changes and development.

However, compared to Yin Tianzun's turbid desires that could get out of control once the dam broke, the corruption that was born from the extreme yang of Arrogant Tianzun was at most a side effect.

This can also explain why the status of the Six-Hole Sky Demon is slightly lower than that of the black matter.

But in essence, the Six Caverns Demon and the black matter both originated from the Emperor of Heaven.

The three realms of Yin and Yang are mirror images of each other. The two Heavenly Emperors seem to be completely different, but in fact they come from the same source. Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two.

The two Heavenly Emperors, I'm afraid that's the second one.

If Jiang Lin's guess is correct, then the layout of the Six Caves Demon devouring the black matter, which was now promoted by him, is essentially equivalent to the Great Heavenly Venerable copying Yin Heavenly Venerable's hometown.

Jiang Lin's expression suddenly became a little strange.

Because a childish, babyish voice suddenly emerged from within his sea of ​​consciousness.

"Papa... chew... lobe... chew... dry dripping wine..."

Very good, the unscrupulous Great Lord has started hiring child labor again, and it is Jiang Lin’s unborn daughter who is in the future.

It sounded like the good daughter was eating when her black-hearted grandfather pulled her out to work.

It seems that my guess is probably correct.

This wave, this wave is about fighting evil with evil.

Hmm... or maybe it's called fighting evil with hunger?

Jiang Lin glanced at the six-hole demons who seemed to be never satisfied, and silently corrected his statement in his heart.

At the same time, this can also be regarded as the Great Heavenly Venerable giving Jiang Lin motivation.

The future is not static. The good daughter who communicated with the Great Celestial Master and passed on the message from the future to the present Jiang Lin is just a more eye-catching one among thousands of futures.

If Jiang Lin and Da Tianzun failed, and Yin Tianzun's desire devoured the two worlds and even affected the chaos, then no matter what the future was, it would always be just the future.

Only if you succeed can the future have a chance to become the present.

"Ugh……"

Jiang Lin sighed and muttered, "Even if it's for my daughter, there can't be any mistakes this time..."

It’s easier said than done.
Jiang Lin ordered Feng Lixiao to keep an eye on the progress of the Six Cavern Heavenly Demons and report any situation immediately through the Fengdu Jiuquan Order.

And he himself moved and came to the sea of ​​stars beyond the sky.

In the center of the sea of ​​stars, which is also the topmost layer of the entire sea of ​​stars, the Three Enclosures of the Sky are quietly suspended.

In Shangyuan Taiwei, a magnificent palace has been standing since some time ago.

On the plaque of the palace, there were three big characters written in a font that Jiang Lin had never seen before, but he could understand its meaning at a glance.

'Taiwei Palace'

This is a word, but it is not just a word. To be precise, it is the recognition of the results of the changes in the world by the Way of Heaven.

In other words, it is an extension of Jiang Lin's honorable title of "Shangyuan Taiwei Emperor".

Since he is the emperor, he should have his own palace.

This was a natural thing, but it was just that Heaven was doing it for Jiang Lin.

This is not special treatment. The Lingxiao Palace and the Wanxing Temple in the Three Pure Yang Realms are similar existences.

To put it bluntly, this is the office given by God...

Walking into the Taiwei Palace, Jiang Lin was suddenly stunned.

Because the layout of this palace is basically the same as the Wanxing Palace of Ziwei Emperor.

Even the ninety-nine levels of star stairs at the end of the hall are so similar to the Ten Thousand Stars Throne high above them.

Very good, and I don’t have to find the way.

The corner of Jiang Lin's mouth twitched. Should we say that Heaven is thrifty, or should we say that Heaven is uncreative?
But should we use the same template to death?
Jiang Lin complained silently in his heart, then he moved and sat on the Ten Thousand Stars Throne.

Once upon a time, the old man urged me to sit on the Ten Thousand Stars Throne of the Emperor Ziwei.

"Old man, you don't need to urge me now. I, your disciple, now have my own Ten Thousand Stars Throne."

Jiang Lin muttered something with a smile and closed his eyes.

His spiritual consciousness spread across the entire sea of ​​stars in an instant. This was not Jiang Lin’s strength, but a blessing from his status.

As the leader of Wanxing Sect and the master of all things in this world, Jiang Lin naturally has the authority that matches his status.

It can be said that Jiang Lin now is another Emperor Ziwei.

The starlight from the sea of ​​stars was collected by Jiang Lin.

Because the dark sea now, because of the devouring of the Six Cavern Sky Demon, can no longer threaten the boundary barrier of the heaven.

The sea of ​​stars, which gathered the starlight, further enhanced its energy.

It also gave Jiang Lin greater support.

With the help of this blessing from the Heavenly Dao, Jiang Lin was able to perceive his own condition more clearly.

sublimation.

That’s right, Jiang Lin’s sublimation has not stopped and is still continuing.

After clearing out the dark matter in the heavens by building the Sea of ​​Stars, Jiang Lin, with the favor of Heaven, directly sublimated his cultivation to the level of the Four Imperials.

And now, as the dark sea of ​​the human world began to be further swallowed up, Jiang Lin, who caused this change, naturally attracted the attention and favor of the Heavenly Dao again.

So the sublimation began again.

Without the sudden surge of sublimation when cleaning up the heaven, the efficiency of the Six Caves Sky Demon in devouring the dark matter is still not as efficient as the efficiency of starlight in annihilating the dark sea of ​​​​the heaven.

Of course, it also has something to do with the fact that the human world is bigger than the heavenly world.

All in all, Jiang Lin's sublimation at this time was proceeding slowly.

This also gave Jiang Lin a rare opportunity.

An opportunity to further understand the Heavenly Dao through its eyes at this moment...

(End of this chapter)