If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1079 Royal Funeral
She chatted with the Bee Taoist for a while about the secrets of the Ten Great Poisonous Insects of the Western Wilderness. His avatar had already selected Blood Lotus Young Bees and delivered them to her.

The Bee Taoist withdrew his thoughts from both his physical and spiritual realms, leaving behind ten puppets and a brood of five hundred Blood Lotus larvae, thus completing the ransom payment.

Xiaoyu kept her promise and released the Bee Taoist from the dream.

“Bee Taoist, you were interrogated by me once, so you didn’t get a get-out-of-jail-free card.”

If I ever catch you committing crimes or disregarding human life again, I will kill you if you deserve it.

The Bee Taoist tentatively asked, "Can this humble Taoist still help the Dragon Court? This humble Taoist is about to undergo the Great Tribulation of Nine-Nine, and needs the fortune of humanity to avert disaster and resolve difficulties."

"Go ahead and help whoever you want, it doesn't matter. But helping Longting doesn't mean you have no bottom line and are 'unethical'," Xiaoyu said.

The Bee Taoist nodded, then drifted away, disappearing into the dream dimension in the blink of an eye.

Xiaoyu left the dream dimension, but did not immediately leave the Yelang Kingdom.

Previously, she absorbed the primordial power from the remnant skull of the demon god in a dream, while her physical body remained in the mortal realm.

She could actually enter the dream dimension with both her physical body and soul, just like Bee Taoist.

However, leaving the physical body outside the dream dimension can serve as an "anchor point" to prevent the soul from getting lost and unable to find its way home.

In fact, the reason why Bee Taoist lost his way after being attacked by the evil spirit was because his soul and body fell into the dream dimension together.

Previously, Xiaoyu had only used her divine soul to absorb the essence of the Demon God's remains.

Once the soul returns to the physical body, it will take time to fully digest the massive amount of demonic essence.

She roughly estimated that the original source of the Demon Eye was previously 1 unit, but now it has increased to at least 500 units.

With a five-hundred-fold increase, her demonic eyes were almost bursting from the sheer volume of primordial energy.

His two eyeballs couldn't be controlled, constantly emitting a captivating and eerie light.

However, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.

The most direct benefit, besides the surge in spiritual power, is the tenfold or even hundredfold increase in the "Demon Eye Technique".

The Demon Eye Technique originally had three forms: the Otherworldly Form, the God-Stealing Form, and the Ghost Realm Form.

Previously, in the "Strange Object Chapter," he packaged his own martial arts essence as a "strange object" and used it to penetrate the enemy's mind through the eyes of others.

There are quantity limits, and there is also the risk that the idea will be destroyed.

You can only fire one object at a time to deal with one enemy.

Adding foreign objects would be too much for her mental capacity to handle, and the objects would also lose their "firmness" and might fall apart.

Now, she feels she can wipe out a large group of enemies with just a glance.

An ordinary martial artist could easily take down three to five hundred people with a single glance.

Even a true immortal could take down thirty to fifty people with a single glance.

Of course, this is on the premise that the "destructive divine intent" she packaged into the foreign object can actually find and restrain the opponent's weakness.

If the "sword intent" that constitutes the foreign object cannot kill the enemy, but is instead destroyed by the enemy in a battle of wits, then that foreign object must be completely destroyed.

But there was a fragment of her soul within that foreign object.

Her soul and thoughts were destroyed, leaving a small piece of her soul missing. She suffered severe damage on the spot, at a great cost.

Now, the source of the Demon Eye is incredibly powerful, and it can forcibly absorb the thoughts within the foreign object from the other person's eyes (mind) before those thoughts are destroyed.

Well, before, I could only withdraw my thoughts when the other party died, but now I can release them at any time and withdraw them at will.

It basically solved the biggest flaw in the "Foreign Object Chapter".

The second chapter, "Seizing the God," also underwent a strange qualitative change.

In the past, Xiaoyu could only use "Soul Stealing" to create inner demons in others' hearts, using these demons to destroy the enemy's mind and thus seize their soul power. This continued until the soul power was completely drained, causing the soul to utterly dissipate.

Later, he received the "Purification of the Body and the Mantra of the Clear Understanding of Karmic Forms" from the Tathagata Buddha, transmitted by Bodhisattva Huaguang.

The "God-Stealing Chapter" adds a section on Buddhist karma and cause-and-effect cultivation, allowing one to see the evil karma and cause-and-effect on an enemy, and to determine the number of gods to steal based on their karmic debts. Xiaoyu had studied "Karma Acupuncture" in depth, but after entering the Divine Continent, she dared not use "Demon Eye God-Stealing" casually to seize the divine soul power of others.

I haven't tried it, and I don't know how effective the modified version will be.

At this moment, the Demon Eye's essence is a hundredfold enhanced, and its ability to create inner demons also undergoes a transformation.

She felt she could use her demonic powers to turn her enemies into her puppet avatars.

For example, right now, Xiaoyu's eyes flashed with a ghostly light as he scanned the ten "living puppet" queen bees left behind by the Bee Taoist.

The queen bee's compound eyes then flashed with the same eerie light, and ten foreign objects were implanted deeply into their minds through the compound eyes.

Then, through the method of "demonic thought seizing the mind," the foreign object takes root and sprouts in their minds, growing into a "tree of inner demons."

This demonic tree grew strong and quickly filled the queen bee's heart.

Once, the Beekeeper removed a piece from the Queen Bee's complete mind—the piece that represented rationality.

Then, using one's own thoughts as a piecing board, one can piece them together in the gaps, thereby gaining control over the queen bee's soul and body, and refining them into an external body.

Now, the Bee Taoist retracted his thoughts, and a gap appeared in the complete puzzle.

Xiaoyu implanted demonic thoughts into the Queen Bee's mind. These demonic thoughts not only filled the void that represented reason, but also corrupted the other mental "pieces".

The compound eyes of the ten queen bees gleamed with an eerie light, and their bodies were surrounded by a faint aura of demonic energy.

Gradually, their appearance began to change, transforming from bee-like insects into dark-skinned humanoids.

Then, she transformed from a dark-skinned humanoid into a white-skinned Xiaoyu.

His appearance was eight or nine parts similar to Xiaoyu's. He had no trace of immortal energy, and even his demonic energy was very faint. Only his demonic flames were raging, and a demonic cloud with a radius of ten feet was shrouded above his head, as if an ancient demon god had descended to earth.

Xiaoyu carefully sensed and tried to control them, and gradually came to understand.

They are not her external bodies.

When she senses and manipulates them, she feels no sense of them being her own.

They are not her; they are merely living puppets possessed and controlled by her demonic thoughts.

The Way of the Bee Taoist can be used as a reference for learning. However, it does not mean that her Way must be exactly the same as his.

Xiaoyu doesn't need to refine them into external bodies.

She also doesn't need to have the queen bee mate with a "human scholar" to produce a demon bee with human blood.

Even if they were to revert to their ferocious and wicked Western Wilderness forms, she could use the "Demon Eye Technique" to plant demonic thoughts in their minds.

They can remain rational, yet they will obey her commands.

As for the backlash
Demonic thoughts controlling the mind can indeed have a backlash.

But she used her Purple Mansion technique to directly neutralize the deadly poison from the queen bee's stinger, so what was there to be afraid of?

The third chapter of "The Great Magic Eye Technique," titled "The Ghost Realm of the Magic Eye," also features a change that Xiaoyu has not yet fully understood.

The purgatory she had created in her own demonic eye (the crevice between the window to the soul and the heart) became even more stable and profound.

Purgatory is stable and powerful, representing the ability to suppress even stronger souls.

Purgatory is deep
It was so deep it seemed to connect to a crack in the underworld.

Yes, the "artificial hell" in Xiaoyu's eyes is connected to the spacetime rift in the real underworld.

She herself didn't know how deep hell was in the Demon's Eye, or how far it could extend.

Finally, Xiaoyu created the fourth move of the "Magic Eye Technique," the "Dream Demon Chapter."

The "Dream Demon Chapter" essentially incorporates the "Dream God Technique" into the Demon Eye Technique.

The "Dream God Technique" was created because Xiaoyu imitated the intestinal worm, which was merely a follower of the Rotten Demon Eye.

Now that Xiaoyu's Demon Eye has strengthened, the power of the "Dream God Technique" has also increased accordingly.

The core of the "Nightmare Chapter" is to use the power of the Mystic Eye to blur the boundary between reality and dreams.

She can build dreams in the dream dimension, and now she can also build dreams in the human world.

She can build bridges in the dream dimension, and now she can build bridges in the human world, traversing the dream dimension and traveling thousands of miles away.

Xiaoyu wasn't sure if this realm counted as the final chapter of the "Dream God Technique," "God of Dreams." She only felt that breaking the boundary between reality and dreams, and manipulating reality at will, was extremely sinister.

Therefore, it is called "Dream Demon" rather than "Dream God".

In the following days, Xiaoyu continued to refine the ten Queen Bee Demon Servants.

Although they were imbued with inner demons and became her puppets, Xiaoyu was not entirely satisfied with their appearance.

It's not about appearance or ugliness.

Their venomous bee or human form doesn't quite match Xiaoyu's assessment of their function.

They are like poisonous stings that wound from the shadows; the smaller and more hidden the better.

How can you attack someone from the shadows when there's a perfectly healthy person standing right there?

Xiao Yu used the Earthly Fiend Transformation method of the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts to refine them into another form.

Just like how she transformed clothes that had gained popularity from her own fame into a different style.

The first chapter of "Eight-Nine Arcane Arts" contains "Nine Changes." Once the Nine Changes are mastered, Monkey King can turn his golden cudgel into a Gatling gun.

Xiaoyu used the ten Queen Bee Demon Servants as weapons, intending to solidify them into the form of "living braces".

Uh, that's right, not needles or knives, but braces.

The "dog tooth brace" used on Xiaoqiang.

It is placed on its teeth so that when it bites, it injects the stinger into the enemy's body.

This has three major advantages.

First of all, Xiaoqiang is not very capable, but he is elusive and very suitable for ambushes, and he often succeeds in doing so.

Wearing braces guarantees a 100% hit rate for the last needle.

She wouldn't have shot out flying needles, and as a result, the enemy easily dodged them. Now, when Bee Taoist shoots her with his tail needle, she can easily avoid it.

No matter how strong the tail needle is, it's useless if it can't hit the target!

Secondly, Xiaoqiang can help break the armor with the tail needle.

The queen bee's stinger is very powerful, but its weakness is also quite obvious: it is deadly upon contact with blood and difficult to penetrate armor.

The tail needle is only highly toxic; it is not indestructible or unstoppable.

It can melt the immortal bones of immortals, which are more durable than most magical artifacts and armor.

But the armor could block the needle at the back.

If the enemy is wearing a celestial robe of celestial quality, completely concealing themselves, then even if the needle at the back of the tail hits the target, it cannot penetrate the defense and will still be useless.

Only when it penetrates flesh, draws blood, or strikes the soul can the tail needle exert its miraculous effect.

Xiao Qiang, with its sharp teeth and biting prowess, could injure even a "Ten Fiends of the West" like the Golden Eagle King, but it couldn't kill a powerful human immortal.

It can penetrate defenses, but its damage output is insufficient.

If the cockroach had a queen bee's teeth, it would first use its own teeth to tear apart the enemy's defenses, creating a wound that wouldn't be fatal or affect the enemy's fighting ability.

But the next instant, the needle was injected into the wound, and the enemy died instantly.

So, the last benefit is that Xiaoqiang finally found a job.

Well, this dog is loyal enough, but not capable enough; it hasn't been able to help its owner much.

Xiaoyu doesn't mind having a pet, but it's quite embarrassed and has been quite depressed lately.

With the queen bee braces, it can finally fight alongside its owner!

On this day, Xiaoyu was explaining the secret technique of "Earthly Fiend Transformation Composite Armor" to Xiaoqiang when Uncle Dawa suddenly came looking for them.

After leaving the dream dimension, Xiaoyu still occupied the City God's Office, making Uncle Dawa run errands for her, collecting poisonous insects, poisons, and exotic flowers and herbs unique to the witch tribe.

Back in Tianmen Town, Xiaoyu was already searching for a poison that could bring down a demon immortal.

Never found it.

Having arrived in Yelang and obtained the "Five Poisons Secret Manual" from the Bee Taoist, she felt it would be a waste not to collect some local specialties to take back with her.

Moreover, she will definitely raise blood lotus bees next.

Blood Lotus Bees don't eat just any nectar; to raise them, you need very high-grade spiritual flowers and herbs.

Uncle Dawa also helped with obtaining seeds and seedlings of exotic flowers and plants.

Xiao Yu herself also needed time to digest the enormous demonic essence she had just obtained, so she was delayed in Yelang Kingdom for a few days.

"Grand Tutor Yu, the Empress Dowager of Zhao from Great Qin is looking for you." Uncle Dawa's expression and tone were somewhat strange.

Xiao Yu's eyes flashed, and she asked, "Has Empress Dowager Zhao arrived?"

That's a rather strange question.

She was in the Yelang Kingdom. How could Empress Dowager Zhao have found her here?

Uncle Dawa looked surprised and suspicious. "The Grand Tutor already knows about the changes in Xianyang?"

Xiaoyu said calmly, "I foresaw today's changes several months ago."

Uncle Dawa was both shocked and awe-inspiring, and his expression became even more respectful. He said, "The one who came to the City God's Office was not Empress Dowager Zhao herself, but a judge from the underworld named 'Zhao Han'."

Then he hurriedly added, "Grand Tutor, you are wise. I have never revealed any trace of you. Even the judges of the underworld do not know how they found you."

"Let Judge Zhao in," Xiao Yu said.

During her time in Yelang Kingdom, she had already made quite a few moves, including letting Bee Taoist go free.

The Bee Taoist knew she was in Yelang Kingdom, and all the Qi cultivators at Tianzhu Peak in Daze Township knew it too.

If so many people already know this, what kind of secret is it?
Moreover, the other party was a judge from the underworld.

If Yama (the King of Hell) deems it necessary, no matter where she is hiding, he can ask Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Di Ting (a spirit medium) for help to find her.

"Master Yu, Empress Dowager Zhao has passed away. Are you aware of this?"

Judge Zhao was dressed like a prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, mainly in black and red, wearing a crown that reached the sky, a wide robe with long sleeves, and an official seal.

After entering, he simply bowed slightly and got straight to the point.

Xiaoyu asked, "I just found out, what happened?"

Judge Zhao looked at her strangely and reminded her, "You are the Celestial Master of the Great Qin Dynasty, or even the Grand Tutor in reality. Now that the Empress Dowager has passed away, aren't you worried?"

"What does it matter to you whether I'm in a hurry or not? Just say what you want to say," Xiaoyu said bluntly.

A flash of anger crossed Judge Zhao's eyes as he said in a deep voice, "First of all, Empress Dowager Zhao is wailing that she wants to see you."

She was hanged, and died with her eyes wide open, roaring in the underworld, hoping you will uphold justice for her.

In addition, according to the old customs of the underworld, if a human emperor dies, his affairs after his death shall be handled by the Grand Tutor of the reigning dynasty in consultation with the judges of the underworld.

Although Empress Dowager Zhao was not the emperor, she ruled as regent for ten years, so she cannot be considered an ordinary empress dowager.

"You'll have to come up with the idea of ​​what to do with her."

Finally, he couldn't help but say with sarcasm and resentment, "Even setting aside the old customs of the underworld, just considering the rites of the Great Qin Dynasty, the funeral of the emperor should be presided over by you, the Grand Tutor. Yet you hide in this desolate land, living a very comfortable life."

Xiao Yu straightened her face and shouted, "Where did you see me enjoying myself?"

"If it weren't for official business, why would I, the Grand Tutor, have come to this godforsaken, desolate place?"

Judge Zhao wanted to loudly mock: You came to Yelang to interrogate the Bee Taoist's secret techniques, but now that you have the immortal techniques, you are still collecting poisonous insects and exotic flowers in Yelang.

Almost everyone in the Chinese immortal circle knows about this!
However, Yu Fengxian is indeed infamous and should not be provoked.

He held back, only saying in a muffled voice, "I am here on the orders of the King of Hell to inform you to handle the funeral arrangements for Empress Dowager Zhao. Master Yu, do you want to go back?"

"Oh, let's go!"

Before leaving, Xiaoyu called Uncle Dawa over and instructed him to continue collecting poisonous insects and rare species for her.

(End of this chapter)