I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 289 The Root of Demons (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Jiang Yi entered the Immortal Ferry from her room, set up the Five Elements Copper Coin Array in the open space in front of the Inheritance Hall to seal herself inside, and raised her hand to summon the Yaoling Sword.

The moment Jiang Yi obtained the Yaoling Sword, his expression twisted violently, a strange red mole appeared between his brows, and a black and red demonic aura emanated from his body.

Her eyes were bloodshot, and she tried to shake the Yaoling Sword, but it remained stuck to her palm and wouldn't come off.

She unleashed streaks of sword light, which crashed against the walls of the Five Elements Copper Coin Array, creating a deafening roar that caused the sea of ​​sword energy to surge and roar, gathering from all directions and plunging the world into darkness.

"Jiang Yi! You think you can destroy me with the Sword Slave Soul Contract? Wait until I devour the Yaoling Sword Spirit..."

Before she could finish speaking, crimson flames suddenly erupted from the Yaoling Sword, and the firelight wrapped around her wrist like chains, causing the red mole between her eyebrows to fade away inch by inch as it burned.

Yaoling Sword: () Who do you want to devour?!
In the blink of an eye, Jiang Yi's lazy smile returned to normal.

"Save your energy, sword slave."

"Who are you cursing!" Jiang Yi's eyes changed.

"Whoever responds will be insulted." Jiang Yi's lips curled into a smile.

"you……"

Jiang Yi's expressions changed repeatedly, giving off a strong sense of schizophrenia.

"Yao Ling held her down and asked me to look at the memories in her demon seed."

Zheng——

The sword rang out, sending ripples through the air, and Jiang Yi's eyes suddenly lost their luster.

As the Sword Master, Jiang Yi doesn't need to reach the Golden Core stage in cultivation to freely probe the Sword Slave's memories with his divine sense.

……

Jiang Yi's divine sense sank into a thick darkness, which was completely different from probing a normal person's memories.

At first it was very quiet, like being immersed in cold ink, but soon, rustling sounds came from all directions.

Greedy murmurs writhed against her earlobe, jealous roars tore at her nerves, and delusional cries of laughter and tears came and went, each sound carrying a sharp, corrosive force, scraping against her consciousness.

"kill him……"

"Why not me...?"

"Not enough, still not enough..."

The darkness began to twist and surge, transforming into blurry human faces with open mouths but no facial features, only inhuman howls emanating from their dark throats.

The sounds intertwined in layers, forming an eerie buzzing sound, like millions of bees and insects flapping their wings inside the skull.

Jiang Yi's calm heart was stirred up by a storm, and she felt her breathing become rapid and uncontrollable.

Anger, fear, resentment... these emotions that should not belong to her grew wildly.

She clenched her fists, trying to calm herself, but heard her own heartbeat being assimilated by the darkness, gradually turning into a sticky, wriggling sound.

Suddenly, all sound stopped.

In the absolute silence, a chilling coldness seeped from her back.

There's something behind me!

The moment Jiang Yi turned around, the darkness was torn apart by two scarlet lights.

A pair of enormous eyes, wide open to the extreme, stretched across the void of darkness, staring at her, thick blood seeping from the whites of their eyes.

Jiang Yi saw countless versions of herself reflected in those eerie, scarlet pupils.

The woman who choked Luo Qingsi, the woman who stood by and watched her junior sister die, the woman who plunged a sword into her mother's heart, the woman who laughed maniacally while stepping on Hong Li's corpse...

The most terrifying thing is that every "she" has a satisfied smile on her lips.

This isn't the demon's memory; it's her own dark side, her inner demons!

Cold sweat slid down her forehead. Jiang Yi closed her eyes to calm herself. When she opened them again, her consciousness had already been pulled out of the demon's demonic seed.

Before Jiang Yi could speak, her eyes suddenly twisted.

"Hahaha, you won't get anything useful out of me."

"roll!"

Jiang Yi repelled the demon and regained control of her body. The Yaoling Sword hummed in her hand, radiating astonishing heat. Jiang Yi quickly softened her tone and gently stroked the Yaoling Sword. "I wasn't cursing you, I was cursing that sword slave. Don't be angry, don't be angry, let's not stoop to that sword slave's level."

Zheng!
The Yaoling Sword emitted a crisp, clear sound.

"Alright, go have fun. I'll definitely call you when there's a fight."

Jiang Yi released his grip, and the Yaoling Sword transformed into a crimson rainbow, crashing through the sea of ​​sword energy in the sky before returning to Sword Tomb Mountain to 'recharge'.

As part of the atmosphere group, the sword-wielding clouds that brought the gloomy weather grumbled and scattered, bringing sunshine back to Jiang Yi.

"Actually, it's not like we didn't find anything at all."

Jiang Yi sniffed as she walked towards the bamboo fence courtyard, lost in thought.

Since the emergence of the demonic tide in the North Sea, many people have engaged in the practice of searching for souls among demons, including high-level cultivators at the Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages.

However, they found nothing at all. Instead, their minds were invaded by demonic thoughts, causing them to lose their composure and be attacked by inner demons.

Even more serious cases involve individuals being corrupted by demonic thoughts on the spot, leading to qi deviation and direct demonic transformation.

In the end, no one did that anymore; they just killed them.

Combining the experiences of those who came before with the information the Heart-Piercing Mirror had previously given her, Jiang Yi suddenly felt...

The 'demon' is not an independent entity, but an aggregate of negative emotions, obsessions, and evil deeds of the human race.

It is not composed of a single evil thought, but rather seems to be a product that has accumulated over time as the cultivation civilization has developed.

That is, the sum of disorder, chaos, and depravity.

Ancient Qi cultivators had to sever the three corpses, while Buddhist practitioners had to eliminate the five poisons of greed, anger, ignorance, pride, and doubt.

These are all ways to strip away a person's dark side and negative emotions, including the process of slaying inner demons that cultivators undergo in their practice.

Where did these excluded Three Corpses, Five Poisons, and Inner Demons go?

What if they had never truly vanished into the world?
Jiang Yi stood by the spirit field, watching a group of leaf-eared rabbits collect all their droppings and pile them up in one place.

“The inner demons of a single cultivator are like a drop of water in the ocean, insignificant. But if the evil thoughts of hundreds of millions of cultivators, after millions of years of separation, are drawn together and eventually flow into the depths of the North Sea by the laws of heaven and earth, will they accumulate over the years and form a ‘sea of ​​karmic obstacles for all living beings’?”

"When this negative energy density exceeds the critical point, a 'demon seed' condenses in the sea of ​​karma, a concrete manifestation of the collective dark side of humanity, like a deformed order born from disorder."

Jiang Yi nodded slightly, feeling that her deduction was quite reliable, after all, she had some knowledge from her previous life in her mind.

To some extent, the principle here seems to be related to 'entropy increase and entropy decrease', but it's too complicated. She wasn't in this field in her previous life and didn't understand it, so she won't go into details.

In short, let's continue following this line of reasoning.

When demonic thoughts invade a cultivator, they forcibly reverse the orderly flow of the cultivator's spiritual power, dragging them into chaos and madness.

This process is similar to 'pouring filth into a clear spring,' where the distorted order in the sea of ​​karma reconstructs the cultivator's own order and assimilates it. However, the cultivator cannot withstand it, and in the end, their soul collapses, leaving only their body to become demonized and turn into a demon.

Ultimately, the devil is the shadow cast by the human heart upon the heavens and earth.

As long as practitioners retain the seven emotions and six desires, the sea of ​​karmic obstacles will never dry up.

To put it more bluntly, Beihai is a large-scale landfill in the Northern Xuan cultivation world. Over time, the garbage piles up and produce biogas. Every demonic tide is probably caused by the landfill releasing biogas, otherwise it would have exploded.

We may have reached the tipping point of explosion. Over the past century, the frequency of demonic tides has been increasing.

"What role does the tortoise-snake mythical beast, also known as Xuanwu, play in this?"

Jiang Yi scratched his head, and then a lightbulb went off in his head!
"Waste incinerator!"

Snapped!
He slammed his fist into his palm, and the case was solved!
Under the laws of Heaven, all things have their own way of balancing. If it is indeed the laws of Heaven that cause these negative energies to flow into the depths of the North Sea, then the rules of Heaven must naturally have a way to resolve it.

The mythical beast Xuanwu is a northern mythical beast and one of the four spirits of heaven and earth. Perhaps its duty is not only to guard the northern land, but also to resolve these negative energies.

Then, in order to ascend to immortality, the nine ancient emperors joined forces and were killed by Xuanwu, resulting in no one burning the garbage.

Finally, the landfill exploded!
It's possible that different divine beasts guard the southeast, west, and north sides of the Mountain and Sea Realm. As long as these divine beasts function properly, the three continents of the East, South Wilderness, and West Spirit have never experienced demonic tides or chaos.

"So, I'm actually the villain, and the Dream Immortal Sect, who diligently rescued Xuanwu, are the righteous ones?"

Jiang Yi slapped her forehead. That's not right either!
The demons of the Dream Immortal Sect didn't want to unseal Xuanwu to eliminate the 'garbage dump,' but rather to pollute everyone with the demonic energy within it, turning the 'clear spring' of the cultivation world into a 'filth' in a latrine.

The Xuanwu that was slaughtered by the Nine Emperors probably had its 'pure spring' part drained long ago, leaving only a large amount of 'filth'.

Nine Emperors, it is truly a blessing for Beixuan to have such outstanding individuals as you!
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　No backlog of chapters! Extra chapter!
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