The Demon King, reborn in Japan as a monk

However, Ishihara Akane still ignored them and went to Yuanfei's place. While waiting for the one-month deadline to arrive so that he could complete the Book of Life and Death, he began to digest the gains from his trip to the Nine Abyss Divine Realm.

Various magical treasures were sorted out, various cultivation techniques were categorized, and materials were divided into categories. The parts that would be used immediately were selected, and together with the various star-related array diagrams obtained from the Star Path, the power of the Chaos Bell was strengthened.

He digested the Ancestral Divine Mountain, refined the Bodhi Tree, and comprehended the Ten Evil Path Fruits as well as the Longevity Path Fruit.

For a moment, Ishihara Akane even felt a little like there wasn't enough time.

Fortunately, it was only a small amount, and since he had a future primordial spirit, he was extremely good at deduction and analysis, so when he actually started to operate, it was not as chaotic as he had initially thought.

However, it's true that I have less time to fool around with women.

However, as I said before, at his level, such things have long become dispensable, so he naturally wouldn't take them to heart and could focus on doing his own thing.

……

A few days later, with the help of his future primordial spirit, Shi Yuanzhang finally understood the method of condensing the ten Dao Fruits of the heretical path, as well as the true meaning of the inheritance techniques of the lineages they represented. With the ability to recreate Dao Fruits at any time, he no longer hesitated and immediately began to fuse the ten Dao Fruits together.

Soul-Devouring Dao Fruit, Blood God Dao Fruit, Heavenly Evil Dao Fruit, Everlasting Hatred Dao Fruit, Vengeful Dao Fruit, Sky-Splitting Dao Fruit, Mad Heart Dao Fruit, Profound Dao Fruit, Heavenly Demon Dao Fruit, Reverse Demon Dao Fruit.

As one Dao Fruit after another fused together, something like an embryo was also formed during the fusion process. It pulsated, with the sound of a heartbeat, and rapidly grew, expanding into a cocoon-like flesh and blood embryo. Then the embryo contracted, gradually condensing into a sinister being that seemed to be the source of all evil in the world. It stood quietly in the void, its face, filled with cunning, treachery, evil, resentment and other sinister emotions, revealing a vicious smile.

Moreover, they were extremely impolite, launching an attack on Ishihara Akira and the nearby Motohime as soon as they appeared.

"Drink!" Upon seeing this, Ishihara Sho chuckled and instantly revealed his true nature as a demon, manifesting his demonic form. While swallowing the move that could now be called the Ancient Demon of Original Sin—the Six Treasures Immortal Thief—he pointed at the Ancient Demon of Original Sin with his other hand, and seven strangely shaped demonic beasts shot out from Ishihara Sho's body like seven black lights, hurtling towards the Ancient Demon of Original Sin.

The Ancient Demon of Original Sin instinctively tried to dodge, but as a clear and melodious bell rang, the Ancient Demon of Original Sin was once again frozen in mid-air, struck by seven beams of black light that merged into its body.

But that wasn't the end of it. Immediately afterwards, Ishihara Sho also transformed into a beam of black light and entered the body of the Ancient Demon of Original Sin.

Chapter 544 True Demon

Heavenly Demon, Reborn as a Monk in Japan

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After a long time, as the Ancient Demon of Original Sin's body and skin writhed, the Ancient Demon of Original Sin finally transformed into the appearance of Ishihara Sho.

His hands formed various hand seals, eventually creating an indescribable mudra that conveyed a sense of perfection. With a solemn expression, he proclaimed, "Above and below heaven, I alone am supreme!"

Then, countless streams of black primordial energy emerged, a large mass gathering at Ishihara Sho's feet, transforming into a black lotus platform to support his body. The rest transformed into other colorful flowers, like the celestial flowers that appear when immortals preach in mythology, appearing on either side of Ishihara Sho's body and above his head, as if surrounding him, highlighting his godlike and holy appearance at this moment...

If we don't pay attention to the various evil thoughts that involuntarily arise when we look at something...

"What's going on with you?" After a while, Yuanfei finally calmed down thanks to her cultivation and the secret techniques in the newly acquired Earth Incense Scroll. She looked at Ishihara Akane, who was witnessing a scene straight out of a legend, and asked in confusion.

"I have achieved my goal." Ishihara Shō dispelled the strange phenomena surrounding him and withdrew the fluctuations that could influence people's hearts. He stepped forward and smiled at Yuanfei, "From now on, you can call me the Demon, the True Demon!"

"Demon? Is it the demon mentioned in Buddhist scriptures, the one equal to the Buddha?" Consort Yuan paused for a moment, then asked again to confirm.

“Yes.” Shi Yuanzhang stepped forward, put his arm around Yuanfei’s waist, and led her to the jade bed next to him.

Thanks to the Ancient Demon of Original Sin, which was synthesized by combining the ten evil Dao Fruits, Ishihara Sho finally used the existence of the Ancient Demon of Original Sin to integrate his own seven sins and combine them with his own Heavenly Demon essence, so that he could once again improve his life essence in terms of demons. He evolved from the Heavenly Demon, a high-ranking branch of demons, into a true demon, which is the true demon that he just told Yuanfei.

Having established their own path and cultivation route, they can now confidently and boldly strive to become Yang Gods, or even Celestial Immortals, transcending the world to face all the dangers of the future.

"Doesn't that mean you've now become the representative of the demonic path in the world?" Yuan Fei asked in astonishment after hearing Ishihara Sho's brief introduction.

"You could say that, but personally, I feel I'm more like the embodiment of the demonic ideals pursued by those in the demonic and evil paths, rather than the kind of demonic representative that people generally understand," Ishihara Akira pondered for a moment before correcting him.

"That's about right. Anyway, you've become even more powerful now, which is for sure," Consort Yuan waved her hand dismissively and laughed.

"Passing through eight tribulations is a piece of cake for me now, and I can handle nine tribulations with ease. As for whether I can achieve Yang Godhood at the last moment, that depends on the specific circumstances," Ishihara Akira replied with a smile.

If possible, then there's nothing to say, since his main purpose in coming to this world is to achieve Yang God status. However, he is not a native of the Yang God world, and his Heavenly Soul is still outside. Achieving Yang God status may not be much easier for him than for the natives of this world.

However, he also made a contingency plan for his situation. If he really couldn't achieve the Yang God status, then he planned to go to the Tomb of the Hundred Schools of Thought, the Land of Origin, and forcibly transform his primordial spirit into a fully Yang one by seizing the remaining thoughts of the Yang God there. He would also take the opportunity to thoroughly plunder the inheritance of the Yang God world and complete his plan to transcend and become a Celestial Immortal.

As for the issue of the Heavenly Soul, that can naturally be dealt with after leaving this world and returning to reality.

Anyway, a little more time won't make a difference.

As for other things, it's about truly elevating the Chaos Bell to the level of the King of Divine Artifacts, and also elevating the Seven Treasures Tree to a similar level—the Seven Treasures Tree is relatively simple; it's almost there after merging with the Bodhi Tree. As for the rest, it's entirely up to time and opportunity, which the Yang God World cannot provide.

So after dealing with the Ten Great Dao Fruits and the Ancient Demon of Original Sin, Ishihara Sho devoted most of his energy to dealing with the Bodhi Tree, and put the remaining small part of his energy into analyzing the Longevity Dao Fruit.

With only a sliver of energy left, he kept an eye on the outside world, waiting for feedback on various personnel information and intelligence.

……

After some time, with the assistance of his future primordial spirit, Ishihara Akane finished analyzing the Longevity Dao Fruit and began to analyze the various Great Dao inheritances, Longevity Daoist, and Kong's cultivation techniques and insights contained within it...

Moreover, not long afterward, Shi Yuanzhang sensed that the people with the tokens bearing his specially left spatial coordinate imprints, which he had previously asked Bai Ziyue and now Yuan Fei to help take to various gathering points and garrisons throughout the Yuan Tu Kingdom, had stopped. He then understood that these people had all arrived at their designated locations throughout the Yuan Tu Kingdom.

Without further hesitation, he directly separated the corresponding number of thoughts from the tokens, allowing the thoughts to be transmitted to each token using the method of tearing space. He flew into the air, released his divine soul perception, and used the methods of the Heavenly Demon to collect the divine soul thoughts, emotions, and desires of the residents and garrison in various places, and sent them back to Ishihara Sho's main body as soon as possible, where they were refined into the Book of Life and Death.

Then, as usual, Ishihara Sho searched for information about Prince Zhou on it...

Unfortunately, uu still showed no reaction whatsoever when reading.

"It seems that Crown Prince Zhou is not within the territory of Yuan Tu Kingdom either," Shi Yuanzhang sighed with some disappointment.

"In that case, we can only use the method of measurement."

After all, while it's not impossible to make calculations out of thin air, it's obviously impossible to compare the accuracy of the results obtained from calculations with clues. So, unless there's absolutely no other way, Ishihara Akira doesn't want to use this kind of luck-based approach.

However, since Xia Lei is coming soon, if they don't want to miss this opportunity to complete the nine tribulations of lightning and try to become Yang God, then they can't wait until the autumn lightning arrives to finish everything in one go next time—such as refining the lightning pool, strengthening the Chaos Bell, undergoing tribulation, and incubating the divine stone spirit embryo.

So after putting away the Book of Life and Death, Ishihara Akira decisively stopped everything he was doing and concentrated all his energy on using his Destiny Calculation, Temptation, Future Spirit, I Ching, Zi Wei Dou Shu, and Da Liu Ren to deduce the whereabouts of Prince Zhou...

Soon after, a scene of green mountains and clear waters came into Ishihara Sho's view. A middle-aged man with a rather domineering appearance was standing on the top of a mountain peak, with his hands behind his back, looking at Daqian with eyes full of sinister and cunning.

Clearly, he harbors some deep-seated hatred towards the Great Qian Dynasty!

Thus, the identity of this person can be guessed. He is a descendant of the last emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which was destroyed by the founding emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty. He is the Crown Prince Zhou that Shi Yuanzhang is looking for!

Afterwards, Ishihara Akira divined the location of the mountains and rivers, and then, relying on a mysterious causal connection, tore through space and rushed towards the location of Prince Zhou.

Chapter 545 Wishes Fulfilled

Heavenly Demon, Reborn as a Monk in Japan

After much searching and deduction, Ishihara Akira finally located the location of Prince Zhou himself.

At this moment, he was cultivating in his cave dwelling and never expected that someone would come to his door, especially without disturbing the magic array outside his cave dwelling. So when he saw Ishihara Sho standing in front of him, his expression was extremely astonished.

Before he could retaliate, Prince Zhou fell into Ishihara's hands as Ishihara manipulated the Seven Treasures Tree.

There was no way around it; the difference in their cultivation levels was simply too great, equivalent to the difference of five tribulations. Furthermore, Shi Yuanzhang had now become a true demon, possessing an extremely high level of power. In terms of cultivation level, magical power, and various states, he was completely overwhelming. Therefore, even though the Seven Treasures Tree had not yet been refined into the prototype of the King of Divine Artifacts, it was still beyond the ability of Prince Zhou to resist.

Then, without further ado, Shi Yuanzhang released the bewildered Zhou Taizi back into the water. Before he could react, he unleashed the Heaven-Shattering Earth-Shattering Technique, using demonic methods to extract secrets from Zhou Taizi's mind—such as the whereabouts of the Great Zhou Emperor and the Great Zhou's inherited cultivation techniques.

Unfortunately, the Great Zhou Emperor was very cautious and did not even reveal the location of his hiding place to his descendants. He only provided a method to summon the Great Zhou Emperor. However, this was enough, as it saved Ishihara Akira from having to expend energy figuring out his location. So, after interrogating the Third Prince, Ishihara Akira decisively entered the Third Prince's body and took control of him.

Then, Ishihara Akira had the Crown Prince of Zhou summon the Great Zhou Emperor...

……

After a while, accompanied by a ripple in space, the Great Zhou Emperor, who was sitting upright on the magic weapon Avici Throne and still maintained his status and dignity even after becoming a stray dog, appeared out of the void.

"What do you want?" The Great Zhou Emperor first cautiously scanned the surrounding mountains and rivers with his divine soul power. After confirming that there were no problems, he slowly controlled the Avici Throne to descend, hovering about five meters above the Third Prince. He asked with a cold expression.

However, no sooner had he finished speaking than a melodious bell rang out abruptly.

"when!"

Subsequently, the powerful spatial confinement force and the power of time-space cessation acted upon the Great Zhou Emperor who was manipulating the Avici Throne.

"The power of time and space, the Supreme Dao, the Dream Divine Mechanism?" The Great Zhou Emperor, whose body was instantly frozen and whose thoughts could barely function, said with a drastic change in expression.

But no one answered his question.

What surprised him most was that his descendant, Crown Prince Zhou, suddenly reached out and grabbed him. A feeling as if he had been grabbed by time and space suddenly descended upon him. When the Great Ancestor of Zhou was trying to break through what he thought was the Supreme Dao magic, it directly affected him, forcibly pulling him down from the Avici Throne.

Then another sound rang out, and the Great Zhou Emperor felt the scene around him instantly change. He went from the beautiful scenery of the world to a magnificent and sacred place where countless Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats were chanting scriptures.

The murmured Buddhist scriptures lingered in the void, seemingly penetrating the very soul. No matter how the Great Zhou Emperor resisted, he could not stop the influence of the scriptures on him.

Gradually, the face of the Great Zhou Emperor became peaceful, and his aura rapidly declined.

Clearly, they were influenced and 'converted' by Buddhist scriptures...

Then, Shi Yuanzhang emerged from the body of the Third Prince, casually killing him and purifying his thoughts with a soul vortex. He then retracted the Avici Throne from mid-air and began to fabricate the Great Zhou Emperor's artifact once more.

It has to be said that the saying "a slight difference in strength is boundless" is perfectly applicable to Ishihara Sho now! Because of his attainment of True Demon status, all his methods have undergone a qualitative change. Although the spell is still the same, its power is much stronger than before.

Not to mention his original, demonic methods, even without Yun Xiangxiang's assistance, Shi Yuanzhang can easily influence the consciousness and thinking of experts at the Six Tribulations Ghost Immortal level.

For example, right now, Shi Yuanzhang easily suppressed the Great Zhou Emperor and used the power of the Buddha Kingdom in his palm to convert him into a believer. Then, by using the Heaven-Changing Earth-Shattering Technique and the Heavenly Demon Method, the Great Zhou Emperor quickly followed in the footsteps of the Third Prince and became a yes-man, doing whatever Shi Yuanzhang told him to do.

So, with the cooperation of the Great Zhou Emperor, Shi Yuanzhang easily took all of his wealth, then squeezed out the Great Zhou Emperor's remaining power, killed him, and refined his pure divine soul power for storage.

With this, Ishihara Sho's small goal was achieved, and he could begin the next plan—refining the Thunder Pool to elevate the Chaos Bell to the level of the King of Divine Artifacts.

Immediately, Ishihara Sho returned to the Empress's cave, gave a greeting, and then entered the manifested inner world of chaos. He used materials and, following the array diagrams of the Great Thunder Pool and the Eternal Thunder Pool, began to refine the source of power for the Chaos Bell on the Dark Star.

……

With sufficient materials, a clear array diagram, and no one to disturb you, creating a Thunder Pool is not a difficult task, at least not as difficult as creating a Chaos Bell embryo.

So it didn't take long for Ishihara Sho to refine the two Thunder Pools. Then, he activated the magic array on them, and the crackling sound of lightning immediately spread throughout the square Thunder Element Pool and the sphere-like Eternal Thunder Pool. Then, bolts of lightning shot out, and one after another, bolts of lightning began to appear in the Thunder Pools. They were refined by the magic array, turned into energy, and absorbed and stored by the Thunder Pools.

At this point, the conditions for the Chaos Bell to become the king of artifacts are met, and it can be strengthened in all aspects.

Therefore, Shi Yuanzhang did not hesitate and immediately integrated the various righteous and evil magic treasures he had collected during his trip to the Nine Abyss Divine Realm into the Chaos Bell, the two Thunder Pools, and the veins that began to spread throughout the Chaos Bell along with the Thunder Pools—that is, the magic arrays—transforming into the purest essence of primordial energy, strengthening the essence of the Chaos Bell and improving its quality.

However, although there are many of these things, in terms of quality, they are far inferior to the Everlasting Regret Demon Palace, the Ancestral God Mountain, and the Sky City obtained from the Great Zhou Emperor. However, because these three are of such high quality, they need to be dealt with later.

Another issue is that Ishihara Sho hasn't decided whether or not to melt down Mount Zujin as well...

The reason is quite simple. When fighting against the White Bone Scholar, Blood Shadow, and Tianxiezi, Ishihara Sho realized the potential drawbacks of relying on a single magic weapon. Although this was related to the fact that the Chaos Bell had not been fully mastered at that time and could not unleash its full power and multiple functions, his future enemies were not insignificant figures like the White Bone Scholar, Blood Shadow, and Tianxiezi!

Instead, they are gods and immortals from myths and legends. Who knows what methods and magical treasures they possess?

If there really is something that can counter the Chaos Bell he created and restrain the Seven Treasures Tree he created, wouldn't he have to hold back then?

So after thinking about it for a long time, Ishihara Sho decided that Changhen Palace and Sky City could be merged, as for Ancestral God Mountain...

It can be left to be refined into Mount Sumeru, or Emerald Peak, or even a replica of the Heaven-Turning Seal.

Anyway, it can be used as his trump card.