Why are all of us who transmigrated at the same time demons?

He tried to suppress his discomfort by relying on his profound cultivation, but Loran would not give him the chance.

Take advantage of his illness and kill him!

Loran seized the opportunity, lunged forward, and the Five Emperors' Divine Eyes quickly spotted Ji Yongli's weakness, unleashing a full-force Taiyin Great Handprint that crashed down.

The Taiyin Divine Force, transformed from the Sun and Moon Profound Qi, combined with the unparalleled power of the Five Emperors Great Demon God Body, shattered Ji Yongli's skull with the force of a miracle.

The child may not understand magic, but the child is very strong!

This time, Ji Yongli, a master craftsman over three hundred years old, was ambushed and killed by Luo Lan, a young man who lacked martial ethics.

Loran carried Ji Yongli's blood-soaked corpse and smiled with satisfaction. Now, he had both Waterborne Seeds in his possession.

"So what if I'm a Celestial Being? My Five Emperors Great Demon God Body can be considered a legacy of ancient civilization. Who's inferior to whom?"

Chapter 100 Urban Life: Purple Mansion Dao Nature

"Dragon in the Spring" is a Daoist species that is both opposite to and complementary to "Mysterious Jade Ice," representing the yin and yang aspects of water.

Originally, with only the "Mysterious Jade Ice" Dao Seed, there were still many things that Loran couldn't understand. But with the contrast and comparison of the "Dragon in the Spring," many questions were easily resolved.

In Loran's view, the so-called Dao Seed is very similar in nature to the Relic. It is the condensation of "Dao Nature" after flesh and spirit are completely integrated. It is like the product of the body of some extremely powerful being being burned, purified and compressed by a series of extremely advanced technologies. It can be said that the "Dao Fruit" of this being has been extracted from its body.

If, according to the records of the Nine Heavenly Clans, these Dao Seeds originated from the laboratories of ancient human civilizations, then the truth is perhaps that ancient human civilizations hunted down one or more extremely powerful extraordinary individuals and used advanced technology to process their bodies into Dao Seeds.

What kind of beings did these ancient people hunt? Ancient gods? Aliens? Otherworldly monsters?

Considering the meridian system in the human body today, which is full of artificial traces and has great defects, Loran had a bold guess.

Could it be that the meridians we have today are not a product of natural evolution, but rather artificially created by an ancient civilization?

These meridians are likely just the initial product of a super-large-scale bioengineering project in ancient human civilization, and subsequent upgrades and maintenance were probably interrupted due to the destruction of the ancient civilization.

Therefore, the first grade is the normal upper limit of the meridian system now. It wasn't until Loran arrived and repaired it with great wisdom that subsequent upgrade projects were able to keep up.

The reason why so-called magical power is a level stronger than the Yuan Gang, which is the ultimate form of true qi, is precisely because magical power has an additional layer of so-called "Dao nature," which is the fundamental reason why Yuan Gang undergoes a qualitative change.

The "Dao nature" of the power of the transformation between celestial beings and humans comes from the Dao seed, and what Loran needs to do now is to study what this wisp of "Dao nature" is and how it is generated.

Loran, with the mindset of a demon, speculated about others. He could plant demonic seeds in others, so how could he be sure that these "Taoist seeds" weren't even more hidden demonic seeds? Like how Death God Loran directly devoured the fragments of the Spirit King, Urban Loran only felt that he had been too reckless at the time. Although it didn't seem to have caused any terrible consequences, he still had to take it as a warning.

Now, the resources that Loran can mobilize are even more terrifying. He has turned the two Celestial Ancestors of the Ji Clan into puppets. Beings below the Celestial level cannot see through the nature of the puppets. Therefore, by controlling the Celestial Ancestors of the Ji Clan, Loran controls the entire Ji Clan's resources.

The most advanced laboratories, the largest team of research assistants, and the most abundant research funding can all be put into place at the command of the Ji family's Celestial Ancestor.

This wisp of "Taoist nature" is difficult to reconstruct in essence using current research methods, but it can be deduced that the closest thing to it in the human body is the mysterious upper dantian.

The upper dantian, also known as the "spirit dwelling", "mud pill palace", "mysterious pass", "ancestral aperture" and "purple palace", is the place for refining the spirit. In the practice of alchemy, after the refinement of essence into qi and the refinement of qi into spirit are completed, one can go out of the dantian to complete the "refining the spirit and returning to emptiness".

The so-called "emptiness" does not refer to absolute emptiness, but rather to the original state of the universe that transcends the constraints of matter and is one with the "Dao". Therefore, after "refining the spirit to return to emptiness", one can "refine emptiness and unite with the Dao". Thus, it is not unreasonable that the upper dantian, which is the main place for "refining the spirit to return to emptiness", is the place in the human body closest to the so-called "Dao nature".

Therefore, the key to cultivating magical power lies in refining the spirit and opening the mysterious gate and ancestral aperture.

Loran didn't experiment recklessly on himself. As one of the Nine Clans of Celestial Beings, the Ji Clan had no shortage of martial arts resources. If the Ji Clan really exerted its power, even a first-rank martial artist, as long as they weren't under the command of the Celestial Beings, could be captured and used as resources.

In Ji's experiment, a fourth-rank martial artist was firmly bound to the experimental table by various instruments, unable to move. His key acupoints were sealed by talismans, and even the junior grandmaster's proud external energy could not be released.

"Purple Mansion Expansion Experiment, Seventy-Sixth Time, Begin!"

At Loran's command, nine steel needles were driven into the brain of the fourth-rank martial artist, aimed three inches inside between his eyebrows.

Loran infused his divine blood into the device. Under the control of the divine blood particles, the martial artist's internal energy began to operate autonomously, beyond his control. Loran replenished the opponent's true energy at all times. At the same time, the nine steel needles began to assist the divine blood particles in releasing energy pulses that mimicked the fluctuations of the Dao Seed.

"ah.....!!!!"

The test subject tried to let out a shrill scream, but was unable to do so because his mouth and tongue were sealed. He could only bulge his eyes and turn red in the face, which was quite terrifying.

Loran ignored the test subject's pain; he could feel it.

The divine blood particles he injected into the experimental subjects were equivalent to his clones. By placing his mental energy on them, Loran could accurately grasp any subtle changes in the experimental subjects.

Those divine blood particles detected a fluctuation in a mysterious dimensional spacetime expansion, as if entering a higher dimension and approaching a greater being.

The test subject's head exploded like a watermelon, a mess of red and white flesh and brain matter.

"Clean the lab bench. We'll begin the next experiment in two hours."

With the cold command issued, the laboratory's self-cleaning system began replacing the obsolete experimental subjects and cleaning the workbenches in preparation for the next experiment.

Loran wore a hint of joy on his face; he had gradually begun to grasp that almost ineffable, subtle realm.

.........

Loran sat cross-legged in the core pavilion of Mirror Lake, meditating with his eyes closed.

Through numerous experiments, Loran has come to understand that the so-called "Dao nature" is not something that can be cultivated, but rather something that is guided. What a cultivator must do is to open up a mysterious dimensional space-time with the upper dantian as the core, and guide the arrival of this wisp of "Dao nature".

Because this dimension of spacetime is based on the upper dantian, it was named "Purple Mansion" by Loran.

This process presents many challenges, primarily two:

First, regarding how to open the "Purple Mansion," Loran referenced the mysteries of the Celestial Being's body and the Dao Seed, and grasped the key through numerous experiments. The existence of the Dao Seed is equivalent to artificially implanting an external "Purple Mansion" into the Celestial Being's body. The Celestial Being's transformation power is guided by the "Dao Nature," which entirely consumes the existing "Dao Nature" within the Dao Seed.

Furthermore, opening up the Purple Mansion requires a large amount of high-quality Qi as a source of power, and those experimental subjects relied on Loran's supplementation to meet the basic requirements for opening up the Purple Mansion. Since the Celestials have an implanted "Purple Mansion" and do not need to open it themselves, they do not have such abnormal requirements for Qi.

Secondly, there is a very well-hidden but crucial point of life and death: the creation and refinement of the "Purple Mansion" is not something that can be achieved overnight. Loran did not realize this at first, until he examined the scrapped experiments and was shocked to find that the physical structures of the experimental subjects had all changed to varying degrees.

The closer the experimental subjects got to successfully opening their Purple Palace, the more significant the changes in their body structure became.

Loran called this phenomenon "the interaction between heaven and man." The wisp of "Taoist nature" did not descend instantly, but slowly approached and descended during the process of opening the "Purple Palace." During this process, the body structure seemed to be constantly adjusting.

This process is both passive and active. Passive means that the continuous approach to the "Tao" will inevitably lead to changes in the body's structure. Active means that people can and must actively intervene in this process.

In the process of opening the "Purple Palace" to receive the "Dao Nature", the body's structure becomes extremely easy to change, and the "Dao Nature" will also play the role of a guide in this process, saving the practitioner a lot of hard work. This is a perfect opportunity to make up for the body's shortcomings.

If one merely allows the body to passively change with the "Dao nature," when the "Purple Mansion" is truly opened and the "Dao nature" descends, the body may not be able to adjust to an ideal state for a cultivator, and it will be difficult to make up for it afterward. Moreover, if one does not actively adjust, it may even increase the danger and failure rate of opening the "Purple Mansion," as evidenced by the deformed and exploded heads of those experimental subjects.

Looking at it this way, it's quite similar to the saying in "The Supreme Being" that when one advances from the Nine Apertures to the Outer Realm, there is "no regrets at the Mysterious Pass".

"Golden Crow and Jade Rabbit Spread Divine Qi" - This is a martial arts technique originally developed by Loran and customized for himself. It is divided into three parts: "Foundation Building", "Circulation of Qi", and "Divine Power".

Before becoming a fourth-rank minor grandmaster, he made preliminary deductions of the two chapters "Foundation Building" and "Circulation of Qi," and cultivated a unique external force—the Sun and Moon Mysterious Force.

After advancing in martial arts and gaining a wealth of new knowledge, the "Divine Powers" chapter was perfected. When advancing to the second-grade Spiritual Gang realm, the Sun and Moon Profound Gang transformed into the Sun Spiritual Gang and the Moon Spiritual Gang, and combined the Sun and Moon to advance to the Primordial Divine Gang, achieving the first-grade Primordial Gang realm.

Finally, when transforming himself through technological means and shaping the Five Emperors Great Demon God Body, it was also based on the Hunyuan Divine Qi. The Hunyuan Divine Qi can freely evolve the five elements, yin and yang, and divine and demonic energies, which is most suitable for the Five Emperors Great Demon God Body, which is both demon and god and has all five elements and four symbols. The "Golden Crow and Jade Rabbit Evolving Divine Qi" was also adjusted to the "Three Realms Demon King Golden Chapter".

Loran confidently declared that this "Golden Chapter of the Demon King of the Three Realms" was the number one martial arts technique in the world, and that even the martial arts inheritances of the Nine Heavenly Clans could not compare to it.

Now, this "Golden Chapter of the Demon King of the Three Realms" has been supplemented after a long time, with the addition of the "Purple Mansion Chapter".

Loran adjusted his mind and body to their limits and began to work on opening up his Purple Mansion.

To open up the Purple Mansion, one must grasp the subtle and profound mysteries of the innate. The so-called innate is close to the Dao. Therefore, between ordinary Yuan Gang and magical power, there is a transitional state that can be called "innate true Qi". This process requires temporarily breaking free from the constraints of the mortal body, thus getting close to the Dao.

"My heart is as clear as the bright moon in the sky, and my nature is as still as a cold pool."

"Be mindful at all times, and never let yourself be oblivious to your true self."

Loran gathered all his true energy and vital energy in his middle dantian until his spirit and energy settled, and his true energy began to sprout, like a newborn child breathing.

Then, one's spirit enters the Purple Palace and Niwan, in a state of stillness and tranquility, free from all thoughts. From this state of forgetfulness arises a state of samadhi, gradually entering the chaotic void, where one perceives the wondrous existence within the true emptiness.

Loran sensed this "Tao," this incomparably great and formless mystery. However, Loran did not intend to draw upon this "Tao," for he was ultimately not a guest of this universe, and he already had other ideas.

Following his usual method of entering the "Heaven of Others," he continuously elevated his spirit upwards, and soon he sensed another "Taoist nature" that was both strangely familiar and intimate, yet somewhat superior to the "Taoist nature" of this universe.

Guide! Guide! Guide!

When Loran sensed this "Taoist nature," three thunderous shouts of "Taoist Hell" and "Demon Hell" resounded in his heart.

Without further hesitation, Loran smoothly guided this "Dao nature," or rather, "divine nature" and "demonic nature," into the Purple Mansion. Instantly, the vast purple energy within the Purple Mansion, which had originally stretched for eight hundred miles, transformed into pure and profound free demonic energy, and the Purple Mansion also transformed into a small "Heaven of Free Transformation."

Loran sat quietly on the futon, taking advantage of the opening of her Purple Mansion to adjust her Five Emperors Great Demon God Body. Her originally perfect and beautiful body now had many flaws that needed to be remedied in time.

The unrestrained demonic energy within the Purple Mansion began to merge with the innate true energy, transforming into a higher level of celestial magic power.

The foundation of the Way is about to be laid!

Chapter 101 Urban Adventure: The Celestial Master's Urban Journey

"Master is being too cautious. What could possibly threaten me in a small place like Jiangcheng?"

A young man dressed in a Taoist robe embroidered with intricate seven-colored patterns stepped off the train, ignoring the curious and inquisitive gazes of those around him.

Outside the train station, a row of black cars were parked, and a group of passengers were taking pictures like crazy. They were also very curious about which important person they were picking up with such a grand procession.

As the young man in the Taoist robe looked at the grand welcoming procession outside the station, a cold smile crept across his face.

He found a secluded spot, made a hand gesture, and his figure vanished from sight.

In the back seat of a luxury car in the center of the welcoming procession outside the train station, sat a lean, middle-aged man dressed casually but with a dignified air, and a young man in a black business suit and gold-rimmed glasses.

If someone familiar with the Jiangcheng government's top brass were here, they would immediately recognize that this person is Chen Zhongguo, the mayor of Jiangcheng, who is the highest authority in Jiangcheng on the surface, and the other person is Chen Zhongguo's secretary, Shi Shouxin.

The official motorcade had been waiting outside the train station for a long time, so long that it had begun to disrupt the normal flow of people at the station. Even so, the person the motorcade was waiting for was nowhere to be seen.

But this group belonged to the mayor, and the station staff dared not drive them away, so they were stuck there.

Shi Shouxin glanced at his watch, feeling a little anxious. He reminded Chen Zhongguo, who was resting with his eyes closed.

"Mayor, if you wait any longer, you will miss the next government work meeting."

Chen Zhongguo raised one eyelid, looked at Shi Shouxin, and said.

“If you decline, just tell Vice Mayor Wang to chair the meeting on my behalf.”

Shi Shouxin nodded in agreement at first, but then he cautiously asked a question.

“Mayor, if Vice Mayor Shen finds out that you canceled a work meeting because you were at the train station to pick up talent, he might use this as an excuse to slander you, which could be detrimental to you.”

Chen Zhongguo laughed upon hearing Shi Shouxin's words.

He leaned back in the car seat, closing his eyes to rest, and spoke.

"Shouxin, do you know who we're picking up here?"

Shi Shouxin said, "I think you mentioned him a few times, saying he was a Taoist priest?"

“Yes, he’s a Taoist priest.” Chen Zhongguo nodded. “A young Taoist priest with an extraordinary background.”

Shi Shouxin pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, looking somewhat incredulous.

"A Taoist priest of immense importance, could he be one of the young masters from one of the capital's most prestigious families who has become a Taoist priest?"

Chen Zhongguo shook his head: "Even the young masters of the few families in the capital may not be as distinguished as the one we are waiting for."

"Keep your word!" Chen Zhongguo looked at Shi Shouxin and smiled. "I have a question for you."

"As you ask, I will answer all your questions without reservation."

Chen Zhongguo crossed his arms, paused for a moment, and then spoke.

"Who do you think controls the East and even the entire world?"

Shi Shouxin tensed up; this question was a true test of his political stance. He thought about it carefully for a while and finally came to a conclusion.

"Is it in the hands of those top-tier families?"

Chen Zhongguo shook his head and explained.

"You're only half right. Since you're talking about top-tier families, let me ask you, what do you think defines a top-tier family?"

"The Zhao family of the capital has produced three prime ministers, and their students and former officials are all over the East. Their family businesses are countless. Is the Zhao family considered a top-tier aristocratic family?"

Shi Shouxin nodded in agreement: "I guess so?"

Instead of giving Shi Shouxin the answer, Chen Zhongguo gave another example.

"The Yu family of Tianfeng has a history of at least four hundred years. It has produced many talented people and is a behemoth that spans the political, business, and martial arts worlds. Do you think the Yu family can be considered a top-tier family?"

Shi Shouxin continued to nod; he genuinely believed that the Yu family was the top family in the Eastern Lands.

"One should marry a woman from the Yu family."

This saying is extremely popular among young officials like them who don't come from privileged backgrounds.

In their eyes, being associated with a top-tier noble family like the Yu family was an immense honor. Even marrying a woman from a collateral branch of the Yu family would be a major boost to one's career!

"The Sun family of Fu Nan is known for its medical skills. They have produced many famous doctors throughout the generations, and countless martial artists have benefited from their kindness. Their own lineage is over a thousand years old. Every member of the Sun family is sought after wherever they go. Even Xiong Fengshan, the legendary doctor who was once known as the 'Greater Jiangnan,' did not dare to be presumptuous in front of the Sun family. Do you think the Sun family can be considered a top-tier family?"

Shi Shouxin nodded in agreement. Due to the existence of martial artists in this world, the status of physicians, who are closely related to martial artists, is also extremely high. As a top family in the medical field, the Sun family can naturally be called a top family in the East.

Chen Zhongguo laughed, seemingly mocking Shi Shouxin for being too young and lacking in experience.