A life of idleness in the world of demons

Chapter 65. Heaven and Earth Reversed, Black and White Reversed (5.0K words - Large Chapter)

Ning Xuan looked up at the ghastly white sun, his body tensing instinctively, because the blazing sun made him realize that he was in a dream, and that a new Heavenly Demon had descended.

During the day, that's when the Heavenly Demon arrives.

Although he hadn't expected to be caught up in the talisman-refining process at this moment, as it was all too sudden; and although he was also wondering why he hadn't experienced nighttime this time, as it was illogical, he still made all the necessary preparations.

In his nightmares, he had experienced the agony of being devoured alive many times and the pain of having his intestines ripped apart many times. What else did he have to fear?

What else could possibly frighten him?

After waiting for several breaths, there was still no movement.

After waiting a few more breaths, his expression shifted slightly, and he released his senses, but there was still no movement.

This is a vast, desolate village with numerous wooden houses, seemingly built from local materials—old trees felled from deep in the mountains. It must be a village isolated from the world.

Through some of the open doors, one can also see the Buddha statues and incense burners placed on the shrine.

The Buddha statues and incense burners were gilded. No matter how dilapidated the rest of the decorations in the house were, the gold on the Buddha statues was indispensable, and the craftsmanship was exquisite, not on the same level as the wooden house.

The customs here are clearly completely different from those in places like Wangyuefu and Ping'anfu.

The latter is not that there is no faith, but that the faith has not been popularized to every household, and that every household places faith above their own life.

Is this another world?

Is the world of incense offerings completely different from the world of dragon energy?
Therefore, the demons that come from the world of incense offerings are celestial demons, because they have invaded the world of dragon energy.

But now, he is standing on the land of the Incense World, so, could the Heavenly Demon come from the Dragon Qi World?
The power of the Heavenly Demon Talisman naturally disregards incense and golden statues.

Although he separated into a body of incense offerings, he was still observing his own soul.

Therefore, the Heavenly Demon Talisman still pulled him over and let him refine the talisman himself.

As many thoughts flashed through Ning Xuan's mind, before he could even examine the scene, he discovered that the pale, blazing sun in the sky had miraculously disappeared, replaced by a pitch-black moon.

The world changes in an instant.

The moon, like a bulging eyeball, hung in the sky, looking down.

'So fast.'

"Since I arrived here, only a dozen or so breaths have passed."

Ning Xuan had never experienced such a short transition between day and night.

It happened so fast that he only had time to complete a simple analysis before night fell.

And if he was right, the Heavenly Demon also arrived.

This time, the Heavenly Demon is an unprecedented type, unlike anything we've ever encountered before.

He didn't even know what it would be.
After all, he had always thought that the Dragon Qi World was the oppressed party.

He even used his transmigrator's imagination to think that his "Heavenly Demon Talisman" was given to him by the world's will of the Dragon Qi World in order to protect itself.

So what will he encounter now?
Whoosh whoosh! !

Ning Xuan pondered, but his movements were not slow. He flicked his fingers, sending three drops of essence blood to various places so that his clone could appear elsewhere for easy ambushes. Then he raised his hand and reached to his waist, drawing out the Ruyi Blade, the blade made from the staff of Zen Master Baiyue.

When he drew his Ruyi Blade, the entire sky turned purple, a dark, almost blackish purple.

He raised his head.

The sky is falling, dragging a comet tail that looks like seaweed and long hair as it falls.

He had seen this scene before.

Where?
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The golden incense flame surged forth, and the golden incense flame around Ning Xuan's body rapidly grew and expanded, reaching more than ten zhang in height. He raised his hands and pushed them up towards the falling sky.

brush!
The sky continued to fall.

His golden body did not block it in the slightest.

It's like brushing past each other in different times and spaces.

Ning Xuan remembered.

That day, that time, that moment, outside Shanyang Prefecture
This is Tianyouzi's Celestial Master Seal!
Could the person who came be Tian Youzi?
This abrupt contrast gave Ning Xuan a strange feeling.

The next instant.
Bang! !

The Celestial Master's Seal fell heavily upon him.

He was pinned to the ground by the pressure.

His power flowed throughout his body, but due to the suppression of his soul, it could only accumulate internally and could not be released externally.

Immediately afterwards, he felt the Heavenly Master Seal unleash a second layer of power, with a much heavier oppressive force, so heavy that it solidified all his power at this moment, preventing him from gaining any more. Both he and his golden body were as if they were tightly bound, unable to move. As for the essence blood he had previously distributed, it was now useless.

The next instant, he heard footsteps.

The footsteps had a "muddy" quality, like a weak person dragging their feet and walking "tap tap tap," but the person did not walk up to him, but instead quietly walked into a house in a local village.

creak
Snapped.

The door opened sharply and then slammed shut again.

The air returned to quiet.

But after Ning Xuan sensed that what was pressing down on him was indeed the Celestial Master's Seal, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. His previous idea that "the Heavenly Demon Talisman might be a product of the Dragon Qi World" was also disproven. Clearly, the "Heavenly Demon" in the "Heavenly Demon Talisman" changed according to his location, and what invaded from another world was the Heavenly Demon.

He was now fairly certain that the source of those footsteps was Tian Youzi.

After all, Tianyouzi had previously said he would lead people to attack this place.

However, none of the many demonic warriors appeared.

After a moment's recollection and some thought, Ning Xuan roughly understood.

If the Heavenly Demon has already arrived, one can freely refine the talisman; if the Heavenly Demon is about to arrive, it is very likely to be stronger than him. Otherwise, it will not be triggered.

Now, he has relaxed a little.

Because he understood the Celestial Master.

He had spent a lot of time with his elder brother, Chou Nu, and had also partnered with Yao Zhen Fairy many times, so he naturally understood the methods of the Celestial Master.

The Celestial Master himself was extremely weak.

Moreover, the use of the Celestial Master Seal requires energy. If you keep using it, you will keep consuming energy. There will eventually be a time when it is exhausted. Even if it is not exhausted, the Celestial Master will always need to sleep, right?
A sleeping Celestial Master cannot maintain the Celestial Master Seal.

He only needs to wait for the Celestial Master Seal to be slightly unbound before he draws his sword.

He could already sense the footsteps entering the house.

With just one strike, he could obliterate everything in that house!

Although it was a bit strange that he killed Yao Zhenxian's senior brother with one strike, it's normal for refining talismans.

He was also quite curious whether Tian Youzi had any secrets, since Qin Shanjun had clearly written in the secret letter he left him that "Zixia Temple" was actually "Zixia Demon Sect" and no one could join them.

If "Zixia Temple" is indeed "Zixia Demon Sect", then Tian Youzi was clearly a member of this demon sect.

He would soon find out whether Qin Shanjun was lying or not.

soon.

quickly
quickly
one day.
Ten days
A month
The Celestial Master's Seal was pressed down for a month, its power neither increased nor decreased.

In the nightmare world, one neither starves nor dies of thirst, so Ning Xuan remained in a suppressed posture. He was unable to speak or commit suicide.

An unimaginable sense of terror began to flash through his mind.

A year has passed quickly.

Ten years have passed quickly again.

If someone had asked Ning Xuan a long time ago, "If you were allowed to live but unable to move, completely bound and restrained, for ten or twenty years, or if you were allowed to die a quick and painless death, which would you choose?"
Ning Xuan would say, "Only children make such pointless choices."

But now, he is truly bound tightly, unable to move or speak.

Tianyouzi, who should have been sleeping, did not sleep at all during these ten years, or rather, he did sleep, but he maintained the power of the Celestial Master Seal in a strange way.

An intense, indescribable torment arose in Ning Xuan's heart.

This kind of pain is different from being devoured alive by a bear starting from the feet. This kind of pain is a pain of being unable to live or die. Those who have not experienced it can try to curl up and lock themselves in a cramped cage for half an hour, and perhaps they can understand a fraction of this pain.

But that's just a possibility, and only for half an hour.

Ning Xuan, however, had been locked up for ten years.

Ning Xuan never imagined things would turn out this way.

He cannot move.

He can't die.

The scenery around him remained unchanged.

He didn't know how much longer it would take.

He judged how much time had passed simply by counting the sunrises and sunsets, driven by sheer willpower. Twenty years.
Thirty years.
Fifty years.
Eighty-four years
Ning Xuan suddenly felt extremely weak, and a sense that his time was about to come surged up.

At this moment, he had only one emotion left.

That is... finally, I'm free.

He slowly closed his eyes and sank into boundless darkness.

next moment.

Ning Xuan looked up at the pale white sun and felt his body regain its freedom.

He stretched out his five fingers, swung his arms, and jumped around on the ground.

He felt extremely happy about something as simple as "being proactive" and something that everyone could enjoy.

He couldn't help but cry tears of happiness.

Two streams of hot tears rolled down her cheeks and flowed into her mouth, tasting salty.

He was suppressed by the Celestial Master's Seal for eighty-four years, which caused him to collapse time and time again. But no matter how much he collapsed, he was still suppressed and could not move.

Now, no one understands as deeply as he does how wonderful it is to be "active." He even begins to reflect on whether he has missed out on many such moments of happiness in his daily life.

Shouldn't he get up early to watch the sunrise, observe the world's transformation from stillness to movement, and then go to the bustling city to experience the vibrant atmosphere, the hustle and bustle of life, and the energetic spirit?
Shouldn't we go to the sunset to feel the world transition from movement to stillness, to feel the tranquility and peace of life, to sit quietly in one place, let go of everything, listen to the wind chimes on the eaves, smell the fragrance of the distant mountains, and then, in the scorched red sunset, slowly feel ourselves sinking into darkness, as if our souls were being buried in a grave?

Should he take marriage seriously? Should he choose to have children like his parents did, and then enjoy that special kind of family affection amidst the noise and commotion of his children every day?

Have he been overlooking these simplest forms of happiness all along?

At that moment, a line of blood-red words slowly flashed before Ning Xuan's eyes.

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This reminded him that he was still having a nightmare.

A wave of intense fear washed over me.

He would rather be devoured bit by bit by a bear, starting from his feet, than be suppressed for eighty-four years!

So, he scanned the surrounding houses, moved swiftly, and leaped onto the tallest house. Standing on the thatched roof under the pale light, his whole body was taut to the extreme.

He remembered hearing "footsteps" the instant after he was suppressed by the Celestial Master's Seal, which meant that the place where Tianyouzi descended was not too far from him.

Since Tian Youzi had suppressed him, it was impossible for him to be in a hurry to get to his vicinity in the "next instant." Even if Tian Youzi used the Earth Escape technique, it was very likely that he only used it once, which would be within a few miles of him.

Ning Xuan vowed that as long as he sensed Tian Youzi appearing, he would unleash a powerful strike.

This strike will kill either Tian Youzi or him.

He will not hesitate for a moment.

Unable to kill Tianyouzi, he committed suicide.

He absolutely did not want to endure that inhuman, even hellish, pain again.

It takes several breaths for the Celestial Master's Seal to descend.
A few breaths determine life and death; that's enough.

Just then, the sky turned a deep purple-black, like seaweed rising above the earth, billowing strange, thick smoke.

Ning Xuan saw the person not far away.

The middle-aged man with a purplish face and a goatee, though he had never stepped out of the palanquin, was none other than Tian Youzi!
Ning Xuan drew his sword.

The Ruyi Blade multiplied into a thousand, with a thousand cold rays following closely behind. One of them shot towards Tian Youzi, and at the same time, Ning Xuan also took a step, rushing towards Tian Youzi as well.

Whoosh!
Snapped!
Two sounds rang out, one after the other.

The fragments of the Ruyi Blade pierced through Tianyouzi, causing him to explode like a mosquito being crushed.

How could a mortal body withstand Ning Xuan's attack? The force spread outwards, shattering the bones and internal organs, even cracking and exploding the skull.

Ning Xuan also appeared where Tian Youzi was. When he appeared, the wave of blood and flesh that Tian Youzi had exploded was coming towards him, but it was separated by the slight ripples of his energy, leaving two bloody trails several feet long on the ground on either side of him.

With Tianyouzi's death, the falling sky underwent changes—unbelievable changes.

The purple color disappeared.

The sky was now just black.

pitch black.

A dark and eerie darkness.

The blackness continued to fall, pressing down.

Before they even reached the ground, a chilling wind was blowing across the earth, and strange, ambiguous sounds, like laughter or weeping, seemed to emanate from the sky.

Ning Xuan looked up and saw that black smoke suddenly billowed out from under the great seal that was suppressing the seal, which was no longer known as the "Celestial Master's Seal".

The black smoke, like the tentacles of a deep-sea monster, emerged from under the "Celestial Master Seal" and rushed towards Ning Xuan.

It's a familiar scene again!
That was the scene when I first entered Blackwater Village.

And this black smoke is the human-headed demon, a human-headed demon that devours human bodies, seizes human bodies, and then inflates human bodies.

Even though Ning Xuan had experienced countless storms and hellish pain, he couldn't help but curse, "Damn it."

Then, recalling what he saw in the world of incense offerings when he first arrived:
A black iceberg, much smaller than the Frozen Hell, surrounded by four monks with furrowed brows and closed eyes chanting scriptures, as if maintaining some kind of formation.
This doesn't look like an invasion at all.

This is clearly resistance against invasion!

The invaders were none other than the Dragon Qi World he inhabited, and the icy hell there was slowly encroaching upon the Incense World!

He quickly came to a conclusion.

Bullshit, this icy hell.

This is a classic case of "the thief crying 'stop thief!'"

The Purple Cloud Demon Sect created this Frozen Hell and then directly blamed it on the demons, since the demons were the ones who did all the dirty work anyway.

Thus, the seemingly illogical events of Baiyue Zen Master and other demons appearing around the Frozen Hell yet failing to maintain it, and General Qin dispatching elite imperial guards to assist the Celestial Master in suppressing the Frozen Hell, all suddenly became explainable.

The demons, including Zen Master Baiyue, dared not linger near the Frozen Hell.
General Qin genuinely wanted to solve the problem of the Frozen Hell.
The original fragrant rats, ghostly goats, and other minor demons were probably controlled, thus confirming the fact that "the Frozen Hell is full of demons," leaving no room for doubt.

Let's make another reasonable inference.

Tian Youzi was from the Zixia Temple in the imperial capital and had been influenced by dragon energy, hence his Celestial Master Seal was a normal purple.

But Tian Youzi is just a shell.

The purple hue applied to this body is merely a facade to conceal the true blackness, the true power.

Ning Xuan looked up.

One after another, wisps of black smoke resembling "human heads" struck his body, emitting strange screams before turning to ashes and disappearing.

Then, the sky above him underwent a new change.

He finally understood another function of "dragon energy".

That is “cohesion”, that is the “outer shell”.

The Zixia Demon Sect does not truly cultivate "Dragon Qi," but "Dragon Qi" does indeed exist. The Zixia Demon Sect uses "Dragon Qi" to condense its many terrifying powers together, forming something that looks like the Celestial Master's Seal.

Now, Tianyouzi's physical form has been destroyed, and the dragon energy has dissipated.

The "Celestial Master's Seal" collapsed, revealing its true form.

They were dark, inky figures, swallowing everything up. The entire village seemed to be decaying, withering, and moldy, with the trees rotting rapidly, the mountains weathering away quickly, and everything becoming ancient.
Ning Xuan had already swung his sword before those humanoid figures fell.

But all his power was wasted.

This feeling was similar to the "frozen ghosts imbued with dragon energy" he encountered when he first went to the Frozen Hell, but these humanoids were far stronger than the "frozen ghosts".

As expected, those enormous frozen corpses were still from the Purple Cloud Demon Sect.

But at this moment, Ning Xuan felt that the word "demon" in Zixia Demon Sect might not be so accurate.

This should be the Purple Cloud Ghost Sect.

In the blink of an eye, the dark humanoid figure had already landed.
Ning Xuan felt that he was bound.

There are fewer and fewer parts of his body that he can move.

Just then, he suddenly noticed a subtle and unusual sound.

creak
Snapped.

A door quietly opened and then quietly closed.

Ning Xuan's pupils constricted, and in the next instant, he mustered all his strength and chose to commit suicide while he could still move.

boom!
A muffled thunderous sound.

He bled from all seven orifices and passed away in a cross-legged position.

Ning Xuan looked up at the pale white sun.

[Part 3 of 11]
(End of this chapter)