A life of idleness in the world of demons

Chapter 85, Section 84: The Great Bodhisattva of the Black Heaven, the Twelfth Grade Lotus Yang Soul Body (8.1K words - Long chapter, please subscribe)
The snake's strength is biting, the scorpion's strength is hanging, and the spider's strength is entanglement. Before biting, it entangles you to keep you still, and after biting, it entangles you to drag you back.

The toad breathes and exhales, pushing people away with each exhale and concealing itself with each inhale; the centipede has a thousand hands, each hand wielding a hidden weapon, scattering celestial flowers; if you get close, it exhales and pushes you away, then shoots you dead with a hidden weapon; if you try your best to get closer, it inhales and blocks you again, then continues to shoot hidden weapons.

Among these, the Spider Force and the Toad Force are two points of connection. For example, the Toad Force can open a path for the Snake Force to bite; the Spider Force can entangle people back and forth, making the opponent play with them. This is just like the head and body's control over the limbs.

The Five Poisons Sect's five poisonous energies cover the limbs, body, and head, forming a unified whole.

It can be said that a bottle is filled with stones, and there is no more room to fill it.

A mountain range has reached its peak, and there is nowhere higher to go.

The Five Strengths are actually quite good; they represent a complete inheritance from an ancient sect.

Ning Xuan wasn't sure what to do, but he had to give it a try.

First, there are the two kinds of energy: the swallow's cry and the swallow's tail.

The swallow's cry is a burst of energy, and its tail is a cutting force.

One day, while out, he caught a mischievous black fish demon in the river near the expanded irrigation canal in the rice paddies, and began his experiment.
The black fish demon's magic is a special type of environmental magic. Once it enters the water, its strength and speed increase exponentially. However, it's the kind of magic that you can't learn unless you're from that race.

Therefore, Ning Xuan began to try to integrate the two forces of Swallow Cry and Swallow Tail into the Five Poisons Force.

A century has passed in the blink of an eye.

The black fish demon was quite resilient, while Ning Xuan's lifespan was extended by sixty years due to his breakthrough to the fourth rank.

Seeing that the black fish demon was dying, Ning Xuan came to it and decisively committed suicide, then began the second century.

He finally understood why "a key to cultivation lies in the second-grade energy meridians; how many you can reach in the first grade is roughly the same as how many you can reach in the future."

First, there's no connection. The power is a self-contained system, and there's nothing left to elaborate on. Unless the inheritance you initially received was an exceptionally powerful one, don't even think about it, because everything has already been deduced, leaving no room for you to add anything.

If it were really that easy to add names, the Five Poisons Sect should have been renamed long ago, such as the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, or Tenth Poisons Sect.

This is more difficult than building something from scratch, or from flat ground to a skyscraper.

He had high hopes beforehand, wanting to integrate many different forces, but now he realized that even if he only integrated one force, he would already be a great prodigy capable of establishing his own sect.

Secondly, even if you want to connect, you still need to open a hole in the already "closed" Yang Soul to connect this new power.

It’s difficult!
It’s difficult!
The second century has passed.

Ning Xuan sighed deeply.

It's truly as difficult as ascending to heaven.
He decisively began the third century.

In this third century, he came into the water and sank to the bottom of the river.

Sensing his approach, the black fish demon naturally launched an attack. With a flick of its tail, its pitch-black body shot towards him like a heavy artillery shell.

However, water is also a connecting element.

When Ning Xuan stood here, his spider energy had already spread to every direction.

The black fish demon had only been within a hundred feet of him when it lost control of its body. Its straight-shooting body tilted slightly and grazed past Ning Xuan's head. The black fish demon turned around and continued to shoot, but each time it would pass by Ning Xuan without ever touching him.

A ferocious look appeared in the black fish demon's eyes.

In contrast, the man in the water was completely lost in thought, his eyes gazing into the distance, muttering to himself: "The Spider Force can withstand the power of a snake's bite, and the power of a thousand hands. But it's most suitable for incorporating the swallow's cry; the power of the swallow's tail should be that of a snake's bite."

As he spoke, he raised his hand in a feint.

The first strike is like a snake's bite; once it bites, it snaps again, shattering the prey. After it's shattered, it senses the opponent still has strength left, so it hangs with its scorpion tail in mid-air, followed by the slicing force of a swallow's tail spinning around.

The four forces are linked together, and each force contains the dual power of the technique and the movement of flesh and blood.

But his ideas were wonderful, yet he couldn't possibly achieve them.

It has the form, but nowhere to put it.

The energy channels in his body have been completely transformed. Where is there any room left to release the energy channels of Yanming and Yanwei?
As he pondered, he casually unleashed his power.

The river he plunged into boiled directly because of his force, occasionally surging up waves several meters high.

Whirlpools formed in the river.

The silt in the riverbed was all stirred up, the river water became turbid, and the sand and stones inside even contained force, flying around like knives.

knock.
Bang bang bang! !

Click, click, click!!
The black fish demon wanted to attack again, but it was bumped a few times by the sand and stones at the edge, which made it lose its temper and courage. It hurriedly found an opportunity to climb ashore, away from the river, and slipped away.

Ning Xuan ignored it completely; he was completely immersed in his own world, acting like a madman.

"The only way is to continue building up the energy channels."

"A bottle filled with pebbles can still be filled with sand, and even if it's full of sand, it can still be filled with water."

"Although the Five Poison Meridians cover the whole body, I can try to set up smaller meridians within these meridians."

"Double strength meridians".

Having found a possible direction, Ning Xuan immediately began to try it out.

He first chose Yanming Bengjin.

Thirty years later
Ning Xuan was overjoyed.

"It's done! As long as the structure of the Yanming Meridian is made smaller and more refined, it really can exist."

He looked up at the sky and laughed heartily.

He could clearly feel the presence of six different energy channels throughout his body.

Five of them cover the entire body, and one is hidden beneath these five forces.

He has already tried it on a small scale.

no problem.

"Let's give it a try!"

Ning Xuan prepared his formation and began to unleash his powerful energy.

Still no problem.

He seized the opportunity and quickly integrated the sixth meridian into his Yang Soul Body.

One month later.
boom!
First came a loud bang, followed by an endless series of crackling sounds, as if a thousand-mile-long dam had collapsed in an instant.

With these fine explosions, Ning Xuan saw his flesh and blood cracking inch by inch. His internal flesh and blood began to be destroyed due to a "mistake". At this time, even his bones were exploding, not to mention his internal organs.

He got it.

His sixth meridian has a problem.

This problem can be suppressed when it's just about internal strength because of his cultivation level. But once this internal strength is raised to the level of a fourth-grade Yang Soul Body, all the minor errors that were not apparent before will be magnified infinitely, to the point of going into qi deviation and bringing about one's own destruction.

The fourth century.

Ning Xuan sat for a long time.

He has completely forgotten himself.

What his eyes saw and what his mouth said were all about his energy.

"Since the sixth meridian can be successfully inscribed, it means that it is feasible, and there can still be minor meridians under the major meridians."

"The problem is that when these minor energy channels become the Yang Soul Body and merge together, they will explode due to disharmony."

He thought for a while.

"If that's the case, what if I don't connect the minor energy channels throughout my body, but only connect them to one major energy channel, thus creating a separate cycle, a whole? Would that be feasible?"

decades later
Bang! !

Ning Xuan's leg exploded.

He sat on the mud of the nightmare world with only his upper body remaining, but he felt no pain; instead, he wore a look of madness.

“It’s different this time! This time the explosion wasn’t due to incoordination, but because of my structural deficiencies. The force is only three. The Five Poisons Sect’s Yang Soul Body also says that to forge a Yang Soul Body, you need at least three forces.”

"Again!"

The fifth century.

decades later
Ning Xuan held his hands up to the sky, his face beaming with joy.

He became.

The small energy channels of the Swallow's Cry Energy and Swallow's Tail Energy were integrated into the Snake Energy, forming a separate small energy channel outside the large channel, but the effect was not weakened.

Hmm. Actually, there's a little bit too.

That is, he can only use his legs to unleash the power of the Seven Forces in a row; other parts of his body cannot connect with these two forces.

In other words, his legs are the strongest right now.

Now that it was done, Ning Xuan killed the black fish demon and returned to reality.

Nightmares are all fleeting and ethereal, becoming a memory that has already ended, like a past dream. Although long and lonely, it will fade away once you wake up. Otherwise, Ning Xuan, who had experienced all sorts of hellish nightmares, would have gone mad long ago.

When he woke up, he was still the same person.

A hundred years in a dream will not diminish a single day of reality.

into the night.

Lu Xuezhi's lower abdomen was swollen, and Ning Xuan hugged her from behind, gently stroking her lower abdomen.

Since she became pregnant, General Lu has never mentioned fighting or killing again.

She loved to hold Ning Xuan's hand and press it against her swollen belly, feeling the little life growing inside, a gentle smile on her face.

Even if pregnancy prevents couples from practicing together, there is still a unique pleasure in intimacy.

afterwards
Lu Xuezhi asked, "What have you been doing at the blacksmith's shop lately?"

Ning Xuan said, "Comprehend the fourth grade."

Lu Xuezhi was silent for a while, then said worriedly, "If you can practice, then practice; if you can't, then slow down. Your cultivation speed is too fast. I... I'm worried that you'll get into trouble. You must have used a demon core, which is why you're so fast, but don't go any faster. Third rank is already very strong, that's enough. Let's take it slow."

Ning Xuan laughed and said, "How can you defeat that Heavenly Martial King without training? Isn't this your mission?"

Lu Xuezhi said, "Then I'm canceling this mission. I don't want you to defeat him. What does it matter to us what he does? Let him be the Heavenly Martial King, and we'll be ourselves."

Ning Xuan laughed and said, "A general who has resigned due to illness and is waiting for orders in the field?"

Lu Xuezhi said, "How strange."

Ning Xuan said, "There are many strange and wonderful things in the world."

Lu Xuezhi touched her lower abdomen and said, "After this child came into my life, all those thoughts disappeared. I don't want you to fight to the death. It's already good enough that our family can be together."

Ning Xuan asked, "Where is His Majesty's blood-written edict?"

Lu Xuezhi turned over and hugged him tightly, saying, "I don't know, I'm very scared. Because a strange thought that I've never had before is slowly growing in my mind."

Ning Xuan asked, "What strange thought?"

Lu Xuezhi said, "I feel that the child in my womb and you beside me are perhaps more important than His Majesty's empire. I don't want you to take any more risks."

Ning Xuan embraced her, smoothing her long, ink-black hair, and commented, "That's not surprising."

The loneliness cultivated in nightmares was gradually compensated for by family affection, filling the possible gaps in one's heart.

Isn't home always like this?

This is not only your safe haven, but also your reason to strive.

The two closed their eyes and remained silent in the darkness.

The cicadas chirp noisily in the summer, and frogs croak in the distant rice paddies. Even sleeping on a neatly woven bamboo mat for a long time will leave marks on your skin. You can hear each other's breaths in your ears, and there is a little life forming in your lower abdomen, a little life with countless ties to you.

Suddenly, Lu Xuezhi spoke again.

She spoke casually, saying whatever came to mind.

"By the way, our mother said that the Kushi Temple is quite effective. When she was young, she went there to pray for a good marriage and that's how she met our father."

Seeing your dissolute and unworthy behavior, she prayed for you every year, hoping you wouldn't be a failure. As a result, you soared to great heights at the age of sixteen, achieving great success.

She knew you were slaying demons and monsters everywhere, facing immense danger, so she went to pray for you every month, hoping you would be safe and sound. But…

As she spoke, Lu Xuezhi laughed, "In the end, we rolled around in the whirlpool of the desert, but came back unscathed."

Ning Xuan said, "Isn't the Buddhist shrine at home enough? She burns incense and copies scriptures every day."

“Mother says it’s not enough.” Lu Xuezhi lay in her husband’s arms and said, “She said that my elder brother has been working hard day and night as the prefect, and you have suffered internal injuries and retired to the wild, all because she has been praying in the Buddhist shrine at home during this time. It didn’t work, and this is Buddha’s punishment for her lack of piety.”

Seeing that both my sister-in-law and I are pregnant, Mother is determined to take us to the Kushi Zen Temple in Wangyue Prefecture, not only to pray for the two children, but also for you and my elder brother.

Ning Xuan asked, "Do you want to go?"

Lu Xuezhi said, "Since I became pregnant with this child, I have been with my mother and sister-in-law every day. I have never lived like this before. It's great, and I like it very much."

Besides, my elder brother is the prefect of Wangyue Prefecture. Although things are a bit chaotic now due to the influx of refugees from Leizhou, he will definitely keep a close eye on the Kushi Zen Temple that Mother is about to visit, so it is unlikely that anything will go wrong.

Even if problems arise... Hmph hmph hmph hmph

She clenched her small fist in the darkness and said, "Have you forgotten who your wife is?"

Ning Xuan understood.

My wife also wants to go.

He didn't say anything discouraging, but smiled and nodded, saying, "That's fine too."

Lu Xuezhi said, "We'll go tomorrow, we'll go early and come back late, you can go about your business."

Ning Xuan said, "Okay."

Early the next morning.
Ning Xuan did not go far.

He watched as the carriage carrying his mother, sister-in-law, and his own woman drove away from the Ning residence, then followed. He managed to arrive at Wangyue Residence half an hour early and went to Kushi Zen Temple.

Incense smoke curls gently in the Kushi Zen Temple, creating a peaceful atmosphere, and worshippers come in droves.

Perhaps because the Ning family was coming today, "Ugly Slave" Ning Gang had already made arrangements. Under the shade of a tree next to the Kushi Zen Temple, a Celestial Master and a Taoist boy were sitting.

Armored soldiers were patrolling the surrounding streets.

Ning Gang originally wanted to clear out all the people, but his mother wouldn't allow it, saying that the Bodhisattva wouldn't protect him if he did, so Ning Gang had no choice but to give up.

At this moment, Ning Xuan naturally wanted to take a look.

The old abbot of the Zen temple hasn't changed; he's still the same abbot as Ning Xuan in Wangyue Prefecture, and his Dharma name is "Cihai".

His appearance was kind and gentle, and his movements were slow and deliberate, yet every action exuded a Zen-like quality, giving people a sense of extreme seriousness and piety.

At this moment, Cihai was sitting upright in the Mahavira Hall, striking the wooden fish while quietly reciting scriptures.

No one approached him; he was a secluded paradise.

Pilgrims who come here will consciously quiet down, silently burn incense, and pray for blessings. However, they are always stopped when they try to give money for incense. Although the novices are unwilling, it is the abbot's requirement, so they have no choice but to accept it.

Kushi Zen Monastery lives up to its name.

The monks inside lived a very austere life. They ate vegetarian food, and their noodle soup was so simple that there wasn't even a trace of lard in it.

The temple was able to sustain itself largely because it made incense and the abbot was skilled in calligraphy, earning a little money from incense and scriptures.
The temple's renovation was funded by local wealthy merchants and the prefect.

Even so, Abbot Cihai would not flatter him in the slightest, nor would he accept any extra money, as if the money would be too hot to handle.

It is this kind of piety that makes Kushi Zen Monastery so famous.

If it were a magnificent and imposing temple filled with pot-bellied, fat-headed monks, Madam Ning would simply mutter "vulgar things" and then refuse to come.

Upon arriving, Ning Xuan, without saying a word, found a bush next to the Great Buddha Hall, threw out the Light Barrier Bell to block out sight and sound, and then directly summoned the [Fragrance Stealing Rat] Heavenly Demon Talisman and activated the Fragrance Stealing Technique.

The art of stealing incense involves stealing the kind of incense that can kill people and be condensed into a golden body.

There is no demonic aura in this incense, and even the Taoist priest cannot detect it.
But once such incense appears, it will only appear alongside demons.

This tiny scent-stealing mouse possesses a surprisingly sophisticated art of stealing fragrance.

for a long time
Ning Xuan saw a wisp of incense smoke drifting from afar, slowly wrapping around his fingertips, then seeping into his body and becoming part of his golden form.

His pupils contracted in surprise, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

With a flick of his finger, the incense smoke dissipated; with a tilt of his head and a gust of wind, a fierce storm arose.

The wind and sand were raging, blinding all the pilgrims.

The Celestial Master under the tree immediately looked up and examined the main hall, but found nothing unusual, nor did he detect any demonic aura.

The young Taoist priest beside him said, "What a refreshing breeze!"

The Celestial Master said, "Be vigilant."

The young Taoist's eyes lit up. "I heard that the legendary General Lu will also be coming. What could it be about? I heard that General Lu is pregnant."

The Celestial Master closed his eyes and sat cross-legged, no longer listening to his gossip.

And at this very moment.
Inside the main hall, while the wooden fish was being struck and scriptures were being recited, Cihai opened his old eyes.

The light barrier bell enveloped him and Ning Xuan.

Furthermore, because the area around Cihai was largely empty, no one outside noticed anything unusual.

Ci Hai looked at Ning Xuan and calmly asked, "Benefactor, what brings you here?"

Ning Xuan squinted at him.

There was not a trace of demonic aura about this old abbot.

But if there's a problem with the incense offerings, then he's very likely to have a problem as well.

Ning Xuan did not answer, but instead sneered, raised his hand and channeled his energy, sending the force directly towards Ci Hai.

"die!!"

He shouted that he was going to die, but the force in his fist was only that of a first-grade martial artist.

He could send and receive as he pleased, just like that day in front of the mountain path when the other party lifted up a landscape scroll, and the water fell exactly at his feet, not a bit more or less.

Even as his fist was in mid-air, the old abbot remained calm.

But just as the fist was about to arrive, the old abbot's compassionate and calm gaze shattered instantly, turning into a ferocious and mocking expression with the speed of a dramatic change. He leaped up rapidly, and the withered old hand that had been striking the wooden fish in his robe suddenly grew stronger, thicker, and hairier, transforming into a bear's paw with sharp claws, which swung towards Ning Xuan's fist.

Bang!
Ning Xuan instantly increased his strength.

*Click.* *Bang bang bang!*

It was as if an explosive fire dragon had sprung into the bear's claws, starting from its fists, then its arms, its body, its internal organs, and finally its feet; the fire dragon surged and exploded along the way.
Cihai sat down instantly.

He had no choice but to sit there, because with just one punch, his body had exploded inside. The only reason he could still sit was because Ning Xuan had left him a little bit of life.

Looking at it now
Where is Cihai now?
Abbot Xiong, striking the wooden fish, worshipping the Buddha statue, dressed in a kasaya and impersonating a human.

A soft white animal hair was slipping off its body and drifting down.

Upon seeing the white beast fur, Abbot Xiong disregarded his injuries and impending death, and rushed forward to protect it.

Ning Xuan squatted down, brushed aside the bear's paw, but didn't touch the white fur. Instead, he gently blew on it.

White animal fur flew up and rose from between Abbot Xiong's arms.

Abbot Xiong's eyes followed the flying beast hair.

Ning Xuan laughed and said, "I would throw it into the latrine. You lost it and made it suffer such humiliation."

He didn't know what the white animal fur was.

He also had a lot of questions.

He was even afraid that Abbot Xiong had been here for a long time, and that he might have been lying in wait before he was even a general.

But he didn't ask any of them.

He simply said this with a despicable, mocking laugh, stabbing Abbot Xiong in the very spot he cared about most.

"Please don't, please."

Abbot Xiong was on the verge of death, yet he was still begging for a single white animal hair.

Ning Xuan felt a little relieved.

The bear demon didn't recognize him.

That means the bear demon must have arrived recently, otherwise, it would be impossible for it not to recognize him.

He sat down cross-legged and made a gesture that the bear demon couldn't understand at all.

He grasped the wooden fish, tapped it with a devout expression, and then said, "I also believe in Buddhism."

Bear Demon: ? ? ?
Ning Xuan said, "But there is no true Buddha in this world, so how can I have faith?"

The bear demon said, "You just haven't encountered it yet!"

Ning Xuan put down the wooden fish, brushed the white beast fur off, mentally calculated the arrival time of his mother and the others, and said, "I'll give you half an incense stick's time to convince me. Don't waste our time with empty talk."

The bear demon said, "I worship the Secret Pearl Black Heaven Bodhisattva, who is a great Bodhisattva who serves as an attendant and has the potential to become a Buddha in the future."

If you join my sect, you should be able to directly qualify to compete for the position of a disciple of a Bodhisattva.

"You are a native of this place, and the Bodhisattva is currently considering selecting some strong individuals from among the natives. You wouldn't normally have this opportunity even if you wanted it!"

Ning Xuan asked, "Then how can I compete for the position of a disciple under a Bodhisattva?"

The bear demon looked at the white beast fur and said, "This is a token of the Black Heaven Bodhisattva of Secret Pearl, and it is also a treasure. It contains the power of the Mysterious Hidden Fox. A single hair can be attached to the body to hide the demonic aura and change at will, so that it can travel in the human world and spread the word."

"If you simply perform meritorious deeds for the Bodhisattva and attract more believers, then in the future, you will not only become a disciple of the Bodhisattva, but you may even have the opportunity to appear beside the great Bodhisattva statue and share in the incense offerings."

Ning Xuan understood.

The white animal fur was the same as the incense and treasures he had seen before, but it looked like it was disposable.

However, his rank is very high.

Seeing that he was quiet, the bear demon thought he had been persuaded and pressed on while the iron was hot: "I know you either want to make a name for yourself or you want to protect this land."

But I'm telling you, it's useless.

Leizhou Post Station is open, and our demon race is arriving in droves. Even if you kill me, many more demons will come; you can't control them all.

"Why not take refuge in the Buddha and join me in worshipping the Great Bodhisattva Guru Rinpoche? In this way, not only can you attain enlightenment, but you can also bring the protection of this great Bodhisattva to all living beings."

"Then how do you recruit believers?"

“Burning incense and praying before the statue of the Great Bodhisattva, and listening to the recitation of the Black Heaven Sutra which is imbued with the power of the Great Bodhisattva, only the more people there are, the less effective it is. If it is just one person, they can be converted to my religion in a short time.”

Ning Xuan showed interest and continued to ask questions.

The bear demon was desperately trying to win him over, as if bringing in a powerful believer for the Great Bodhisattva would be a great achievement.

Seeing that half an incense stick's time had passed, Ning Xuan dealt with the bear demon, spent some time dealing with it, and then took out a small bodhisattva statue hidden behind the Buddha statue.

Wearing a dark red hood that obscures her face, she sits cross-legged on a lotus platform, her hands clasped together with her fingers forming lotus petals, displaying a mysterious and dignified appearance.

As the bear demon died, a scripture on the table suddenly began to fade and disappear.

Ning Xuan roughly understood the origin of this bear demon.

As refugees poured in, he used his refugee status to come to the Kushi Zen Temple, killed Cihai, impersonated Cihai with a bodhisattva token, then placed the bodhisattva statue inside the Buddha statue, and then recited the "Krishna Sutra" there, trying to subtly and quietly lead the local people to become believers.

However, the sutra and the Bodhisattva image seem to be different.

The statues of Bodhisattvas are purely for accumulating incense offerings; the scriptures are the core.

Worshipping Buddha and listening to sutras can make one a believer.

Ning Xuan had only just begun to learn about this.

In the next instant, he directly summoned the [Mysterious Hidden Fox] Heavenly Demon Talisman, transformed himself into the appearance of Cihai, sat down in front of the wooden fish, and then removed the light barrier bell.

The novice monk hadn't noticed that the abbot was nowhere to be seen, and had only assumed that he had left a little while ago.

Da da da.
Ning Xuan quietly tapped the wooden fish.

After a while, it suddenly became quiet outside, and three women walked into the main hall.

Ning Xuan continued striking the wooden fish.

A novice monk came over to remind them: "Abbot, a distinguished guest from the Ning family has arrived."

Ning Xuan remained unmoved, as if he had already settled completely, and continued to strike the wooden fish at a leisurely pace.

The manager hurriedly stepped forward to take over the "business" and began to entertain the three women, leading them to burn incense, worship Buddha, and pray.

After the three women left, Ning Xuan found another old monk named Cijue at the Kushi Zen Temple and transferred the position of abbot to him, saying that he needed to travel around.

Although Cijue found it strange, Ning Xuan transferred the item quickly and disappeared even faster, vanishing in the blink of an eye.
When Ning Xuan returned to Xinghe County, the three women had also just returned and were discussing the scene of today's prayer ceremony.

Yunyi was quite angry.

"When the abbot saw us arrive, he didn't even get up to say a word."

The old woman said, "That's a true high monk. Only when a temple with such a high monk is there will your prayers be answered. You and the baby in Xuezhi's belly will definitely be fine and grow up strong."

Lu Xuezhi said, "I told Ning Xuan about this last night, and he was actually quite worried. I don't know if he secretly followed us today."

The old woman laughed and said, "Then you've been following along for nothing. Everything went smoothly today, so your prayers will surely come true."

Ning Xuan watched the three women laughing happily from a distance and smiled faintly.

However, his thoughts suddenly drifted away.

Firstly, he couldn't even recognize the token of the Black Heaven Bodhisattva, so he had to talk to his wife tonight and tell them to stay home as much as possible. At least he could use the Fragrance Stealing Technique to test her from time to time while she was at home.
Secondly, some of the bear demon's words, especially the sentence "The Leizhou post station is open, and our demon race is coming in droves. Even if you kill me, many more demons will come. You can't control them all."

Leizhou and Hanzhou are adjacent to each other.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have transferred Yao Zhenxian and Chao Yinzi there as soon as something happened in Leizhou.

'Very well, I was just worried about not having enough different kinds of demons. Starting tomorrow, I'll go around capturing them, which will also help me cultivate my internal energy channels.'

Blink of an eye
Half a year has passed.

For the past six months, Ning Xuan has been capturing demons, searching for suitable internal energy, and cultivating in the nightmare world, trying to maximize his chances of building internal energy channels.

Although only half a year had passed in the outside world, Ning Xuan felt as if he had spent eighteen hundred years in a nightmare.

Eighteen hundred years later, he finally succeeded in building his own energy channels.

A construction that reaches its ultimate form.

Thirteen Strength Link.

It takes "snake strength" as its core.

The outer chain has five major energies, while the inner chain has nine minor energies.

As for building upon other forces as the core, that won't work.

Ning Xuan attempted to build his internal energy channels using "Centipede Force" as the core, but ultimately a conflict arose during the accumulation of power, causing him to explode and die.

The 95th percentile is the most stable and the ultimate goal he can achieve.

This also means that his strongest point is his legs.

At this moment, Ning Xuan had completed the formation of the "Ninety-Five-Three Strengths" energy meridian.

He returned to the blacksmith's shop and began to carefully construct his Yang Soul Body.

Because of his experience over those 1,800 years, his cultivation was now progressing extremely smoothly.

In the blink of an eye.

Another month has passed.

The heat waves in the blacksmith's shop formed giant pythons that began to slither, coil, and whirl.

Ning Xuan stood up and spat out a breath.

This time, the spider was gone; instead, he spat out a child.

The child grew taller with the wind, standing behind him, but still looked young and had not yet fully developed.

Ning Xuan felt a sense of familiarity upon looking at the child, but upon closer inspection, he realized that the child looked almost exactly like him when he was one or two years old, except that without a mortal body, he appeared even more perfect and flawless.

The child has twelve white-gold petals on his forehead, resembling a twelve-petaled red lotus formed by flame patterns.

'It seems that the increase in the number of energy meridians has not only made my Yang Soul Body stronger, but has also brought about a qualitative change in it.'

'I'm no longer a spider; I've become myself.'

This change caught Ning Xuan somewhat off guard.

However, he finally completed the construction of his Yang Soul Body.

He continued to sense this yang soul body.

As the yang energy flowed, he felt a sense of oneness with nature.

In this state, he can go without food or water, but his lifespan will still gradually decrease.

Winter Night
Deep winter night
The house was brightly lit, but outside it was bitterly cold and increasingly dangerous.

Just then, a loud cry broke the silence of the night.

Ning Xuan realized the sound was coming from his own house.

He smiled; it seemed that his and his elder brother's roles would be reversed among the younger generation.

(End of this chapter)