I manage female characters in all the heavens.

Theoretically, once the binding of the Soul Rings is complete, it cannot be unbound even if it is removed or destroyed; it can only be unbound when the bound object dies.

However, if Yue Lingshan were to take the ring back to the world of Swordsman, and use the world's barrier to sever the connection, this would be a more thorough break than the death of the bound person, thus naturally breaking the bond without wasting any usage attempts.

Nie Yan's mission is over, and both the power and the ring should be retrieved.

She still has a use for the Soul Rings.

Nie Yan was taken aback, glanced down at the Crimson God Ring on his hand, and immediately understood.

So... this power was lent to him by the other party, and the vessel for it was this ring?

He was silent for a moment, then smiled with relief, took the Crimson God Ring off his finger, and handed it back to Yue Lingshan.

"Thank you."

He said softly.

"You're welcome." Yue Lingshan took the ring, turned around, and disappeared into the dimensional portal.

As the dimensional gate closed, the vast true energy rapidly dissipated from Nie Yan's body, as if it had never existed.

Nie Yan felt a sudden emptiness in his body. Although he had expected it, he still couldn't help but feel a little lost.

However, he also understood that this power did not belong to him.

Having these few months is already an incredible stroke of luck.

"Father, you can't rest yet," Nie Xiaoqian said. "The matters here in the palace still need your help to clean up the mess."

Nie Yan glanced at the devastated palace, then at the scattered human skins on the ground, and finally sighed and nodded.

"What...what kind of things are these..."

He turned around, dragging his weary body, and slowly walked out of the palace to gather people to handle the aftermath as the only remaining high-ranking official in the court.

This was obviously a very difficult task, since almost all the civil and military officials of the Changming Dynasty had died, and he had to handle everything.

However, if he does well, he can also accumulate a lot of authority in the process, consolidate all the power of the Changming Dynasty, and then whether to change the dynasty, establish a new ruler, or something else, it will all be up to him.

Watching Nie Yan's figure disappear outside the palace gate, "Nie Xiaoqian" finally withdrew her gaze, looked at the box in her hand, and a glint of light flashed in her eyes.

Next-

We should study the legacy of the Golden Buddha Temple carefully. Hopefully, the Lotus Dao Foundation is advanced enough to last longer before reaching its limit.

She leaped into the air, stepping on a flying sword, transforming into a streak of light that soared into the sky and disappeared into the horizon.

three days later.

Inside the secret chamber of the Heavenly Demon Palace.

Nie Xiaoqian sat cross-legged on the futon, with the golden alms bowl she had taken from Pudu Cihang floating in front of her.

At this moment, the golden alms bowl was emitting a soft Buddhist light, illuminating the entire secret chamber.

She herself was enveloped in a faint golden light, which complemented the glow of the alms bowl.

She slowly opened her eyes, a hint of satisfaction flashing in them.

"The Golden Light Universal Salvation Sutra... is indeed profound."

Over the past three days, she has carefully studied the entire heritage of Jinfo Temple, gaining a deep understanding of its techniques, methods, and crafting techniques.

It must be said that the lineage of Jinfo Temple is indeed far superior to the "Jade Elixir Record" of the Danyang School.

The Golden Light Universal Salvation Sutra not only contains methods for cultivating magical power, but also a secret technique for tempering the physical body and condensing Buddha light with magical power.

According to the cultivation manual, if one can cultivate the Golden Light Universal Salvation Sutra to perfection and completely integrate the condensed Buddha light into one's own flesh and blood, one can fundamentally elevate one's life level and cultivate the body of an Arhat.

Arhats are beings in Buddhist teachings equivalent to immortals.

In other words, the Golden Light Salvation Sutra can also cultivate an immortal body, achieving the effect of a flawless physical body capable of bearing magical power!

This made Nie Xiaoqian very happy. In this way, in addition to devouring living corpses to strengthen her physical body, she had a new way to obtain an immortal body!

In terms of the level of the cultivation techniques themselves, the Golden Light Universal Salvation Scripture is several levels stronger than the Jade Liquid Elixir Record, and the Lotus Dao Foundation, which serves as the basis for cultivation, is far more powerful than the Heavenly Jade Dao Foundation.

If the magical power capacity of the Heavenly Qiong Dao Foundation is one, then the magical power capacity of the Lotus Dao Foundation is ten, a huge difference!

Moreover, the Lotus Dao Foundation far surpasses the Heavenly Jade Dao Foundation in terms of the speed of accumulating magical power and the smoothness of manipulating magical power.

However, the conditions for condensing the Lotus Dao Foundation are also extremely demanding, requiring Lotus Merit Liquid as a carrier, just as Heavenly Jade Liquid is to the Heavenly Jade Dao Foundation.

The core ingredient of Lotus Merit Liquid is the lotus seed of the Heavenly Heart Lotus.

This is an extremely rare natural treasure, which has the power to bring the dead back to life and heal the wounded. It is said that it was completely extinct hundreds of years ago.

Lotus seeds need to be soaked in the pure water of Tianchi for forty-nine days, and then refined using special methods for eighty-one days before there is a certain probability of successfully refining the Lotus Merit Liquid.

According to records from Jinfo Temple, the Heavenly Heart Lotus mostly grows in sacred Buddhist sites and blessed lands.

But in this era where resentment pervades heaven and earth and spiritual energy is cut off, the Heavenly Heart Lotus has long since disappeared, and the Heavenly Pool has long been polluted into a dark spring, no longer possessing its former efficacy.

"Heavenly Heart Lotus... Heavenly Pool Pure Water... There's nowhere to get it."

She frowned and fell into deep thought.

Although she obtained the complete method for refining Lotus Merit Elixir, she lacked key ingredients; even a skilled cook cannot make a meal without rice.

The last portion of lotus merit liquid left by Jinfo Temple was used by Pudu Cihang to condense his own lotus foundation, which enabled him to cultivate a body of Buddhist Buddhist power.

"Could it be... that we have to dig out the lotus foundation within Pudu Cihang's body for use?"

The thought flashed through her mind.

The Dao Foundation of this world is a physical object that does not dissipate with the death of its owner. Theoretically, it can be directly excavated and reused.

If it could be extracted from the corpse and refined back into Lotus Merit Liquid...

Although it's somewhat unhygienic, it's not unacceptable.

By the way, let's see if we can devour the demonic body of Pudu Cihang.

She took immediate action.

She took the two halves of the centipede corpse out of the box, sat down cross-legged, and began to absorb the essence from the huge centipede corpse and search for the lotus foundation.

As it continued to devour, the centipede's corpse grew smaller and smaller.

Suddenly, an extremely pure golden Buddhist light emanated from the wound on the left side of the centipede's abdomen.

With a wave of her hand, Nie Xiaoqian used suction to tear open the centipede's wound, and a perfectly round pill the size of a longan, crystal clear and decorated with golden lotus patterns, flew out and landed in her hand.

It is the lotus foundation of the path of universal salvation.

Within the foundation of the Dao, one can vaguely see the figure of a monk sitting cross-legged; that is the remnant soul of the Bodhisattva of Compassion.

He suddenly opened his eyes and roared at "Nie Xiaoqian," while his lotus foundation trembled violently, as if it wanted to self-destruct.

"Nie Xiaoqian" smiled slightly, used magic to extract the remnant soul of Pudu Cihang, and refined a small section of the centipede corpse into the shape of a human, stuffing the remnant soul inside, and also burying the lotus Dao foundation into its abdomen.

Since it was originally part of its own body, the remnant soul of Pudu Cihang immediately merged with this body, just like creating a split body from limbs, and autonomously formed the human form that Pudu Cihang had previously taken.

However, the current Pudu Cihang has lost its strongest demonic form, and only retains its Buddhist cultivation within the lotus foundation, no longer what it once was.

"Why did you resurrect me?!" Pudu Cihang exclaimed in disbelief.

They killed me, but then resurrected me with my remnant soul, and even returned my Buddhist cultivation. What are they trying to do?

Without wasting words with him, Nie Xiaoqian immediately activated the method she had left in his body to seal him away.

The Lotus Foundation is certainly something to be obtained, but the Buddhist cultivation accumulated over hundreds of years by the Universal Salvation Compassionate Journey should not be wasted.

Even with her Buddhist cultivation, the Bodhisattva of Compassion could easily defeat many ancient demons, such as the Tree Demon Granny, whom "Nie Xiaoqian" was quite envious of.

However, the Absorption Technique cannot absorb magical power; it can only be obtained through other means.

She decided to wait a year until she could summon Yue Lingshan to obtain the refreshed Divine Soul Rings, then use them on Pudu Cihang to directly share his cultivation, and then seize the Lotus Dao Foundation and completely devour him.

This way, not only can we seize his cultivation, but we won't even need to refine the Lotus Merit Liquid again. We can directly use the foundation of Universal Salvation, saving a lot of effort and risk.

Ultimately, there is a risk of failure in refining the Lotus Dao Foundation into Lotus Merit Liquid, and the condensation of the Dao Foundation is not 100% successful. If you can avoid starting over, then don't start over.

A year later, deep in the underworld, in an endless darkness.

A pair of enormous, mountain-like eyes slowly opened.

He turned his gaze to the human world, and as far as the eye could see, a soaring aura of fortune, surrounded by endless faith, shone as brightly as the sun.

"...Such a person has actually appeared in the mortal world again..."

A deep voice echoed in the darkness, carrying an ancient, seemingly timeless majesty.

"Humanity has clearly declined and fortune has been lost, and the path of faith has completely collapsed. Where did she obtain such a vast amount of faith power?"

"If left to develop, once they realize the wonders of faith, they may also embark on the path to godhood and compete with me for the only remaining position of the underworld god."

Even he was shocked to see this thing when he woke up.

Those eyes narrowed slightly, trying to discern the laws governing the workings of the universe.

"The cause and effect are intertwined, destined to be enemies..."

Darkness surged, and a massive black mountain emerged from the shadows, its endless yin energy causing the entire underworld to tremble.

"Issue the order: send troops to the frontier."

The grand sound instantly resounded throughout the entire underworld, like a heavenly sound, causing countless ghosts to prostrate themselves on the ground.

The underworld is vast, with many ghost generals comparable to ancient demons, and even many powerful ghost kings who are no less powerful than Pudu Cihang.

But at this moment, they all prostrated themselves without hesitation, bowing and worshipping in the direction of Black Mountain, their eyes filled with fanaticism.

"By the command of the Supreme Saint of the Underworld, Lord of the Prison!"

The fragments of faith originated from countless ghosts and monsters, converged on Black Mountain, and flowed into a long river of faith that was as dazzling as a galaxy.

But he was not satisfied. Over the past tens of thousands of years, he had accumulated a great deal of faith little by little, but he was still far from being able to condense a divine position and completely take control of the underworld.

He could accumulate wealth slowly before, since no one was competing with him; it didn't matter whether it took ten thousand years or a hundred thousand years.

But things are different now. Suddenly, a human with an immense faith has appeared, a faith far greater than what he has accumulated over ten thousand years, enough to directly condense a godhood. He has no choice but to be anxious.

The boundless Yin energy suddenly surged, condensing into a black mountain much smaller than himself in front of the Yinming Supreme Prison Lord.

Because the Yinming Supreme Prison Lord's true form is too large and requires constant gathering and suppression of faith, he cannot act freely. Therefore, his daily activities are carried out through incarnations.

This incarnation has a famous name in the human world—the Black Mountain Demon!