Wei Daoren felt an unparalleled demonic nature erupting from Chen Shi's body and immediately shouted, "Top Scholar Chen, you're being controlled by the demon blade, you've lost your mind. Don't resist, I'll help you suppress the heart demon!"
He activated the Exalted Jade Emperor Heart Seal Scripture, and behind him, amidst infinite immortal light, the Jade Emperor's projection formed the Earthly Fiend Seal. With a single stamp, celestial light cascaded down from the heavens, sweeping away the seventy-two types of baleful qi within Chen Shi's body, helping him suppress the heart demon.
However, as this seal struck, Chen Shi stood unmoving within the flood of celestial light. The demonic nature within him grew stronger and stronger. Suddenly, he roared, "I ask you, was it you who split open my skull and took the Innate Dao Embryo?"
Wei Daoren's heart shook violently. The Exalted Jade Emperor Heart Seal Scripture was one of the few supreme techniques passed down by Despair Slope capable of suppressing heart demons.
This technique had never failed. Even when facing Demon Seeds or demon gods, a single stamp would cause their demonic nature to melt away like snow, becoming docile and obedient. He had used this technique to subdue countless demons and heinous criminals, forcing them to surrender.
Especially the Earthly Fiend Seal, which divided demonic nature into seventy-two types of baleful qi. With one stamp, all seventy-two types of baleful qi within the recipient would vanish like smoke!
Yet Chen Shi, taking this seal head-on, did not repent. Instead, his demonic nature burned even hotter!
This was a situation he had never encountered before.
Either Chen Shi's demonic nature wasn't among the seventy-two types of baleful qi, or his demonic nature was too powerful, exceeding the refinement capabilities of the Exalted Jade Emperor Heart Seal Scripture!
"He's a born demon lord!"
Wei Daoren immediately formed another seal, called the Three Talents Seal, and shouted, "Chen Shi, don't let the demonic nature control your mind! Once you fall into demonhood, you'll slaughter countless innocents! Work with me, and we'll definitely subdue this demonic nature!"
The Jade Emperor behind Wei Daoren made a flower-picking gesture with his hand, and struck out with the seal.
The Three Talents Seal connected heaven, earth, and humanity. Through heaven nourishing all things, earth nurturing all life, and the compassionate heart that pities all beings, it awakened divinity from within demonic nature, thus saving those who had fallen into the demonic path.
This seal shook Chen Shi's demonic nature, but following the Three Talents Seal came the Heavenly Steeds Seal!
The Earthly Fiend Seal and Three Talents Seal were for refining demons and saving people, while the Heavenly Steeds Seal was a combat technique, an immortal seal for breaking demons.
With this seal, thirty-six layers of demon-subduing power all slammed into Chen Shi's chest!
Wei Daoren showed a hint of joy, which then turned into a look of shock.
Behind Chen Shi, the Blood Sea Hell roared as it tilted, spun, and expanded. In an instant, it transformed into a vast blood sea spanning thousands of miles, hanging upside down from the sky!
The blood sea was like a massive vortex, rumbling as it rotated in the sky, completely dissipating the force of Wei Daoren's attack!
This blood sea wasn't parallel to the ground but tilted, giving off an intense sense of oppression.
The evil immortal Fei Zichong and the head of another ancient immortal floated above the blood sea. The blood energy of these two half-immortals was completely absorbed by the Blood Sea Hell, and even their souls were seized, becoming prisoners within the Blood Sea Hell!
After the Blood Sea Hell rotated a few cycles, all thirty-six layers of the Heavenly Steeds Seal's demon-breaking power were completely neutralized!
Wei Daoren's heart trembled as he looked at Chen Shi's face.
Back then, Chen Shi was only nine years old, with a childish face, but already full of knowledge, having learned from who knows where. That Chen Shi was like a little adult, but still couldn't hide his innocence. His knowledge was vast, but his understanding of worldly affairs was far behind that of an ordinary adult. He was just pretending to be mature.
At that time, many people had come to Xinxiang County. Experts from various great clans, all bringing a child, rushed to Xinxiang County. Pairs of hopeful yet cruel eyes fell on this child.
This small county town was filled with undercurrents. Any cultivator could sense this oppressive atmosphere. But Chen Shi hadn't noticed it back then. He must have been well-taught by Chen Tang and Wu Qingyu, kind to others, and always ready to help.
Wei Daoren still remembered how, back then, men and women, young and old, gathered around him, flattering him for passing the Xiucai exam and obtaining the Innate Dao Embryo. Then they brought out various cultivation techniques to test him, claiming they didn't understand and thus came to consult the Child Prodigy.
Chen Shi didn't suspect a thing. He seriously analyzed these techniques. None of them could stump him. After reading them once, he could answer their questions and even innovate, pointing out the flaws in these techniques, astonishing everyone.
Chen Shi would also play with those children, very happily, never imagining that these children would be the ones to transplant his Innate Dao Embryo.
That Chen Shi, back then, how innocent and carefree he was.
Fourteen years had passed. Now, Chen Shi appeared to be fourteen or fifteen years old. There was already some fuzz on his lips, and his height was comparable to an adult, though he was a bit thin.
But the innocence of those days was gone, replaced by boundless killing intent!
Wei Daoren suddenly laughed and said, "Chen Shi, I still prefer you from back then..."
Before he could finish, the blade light had already risen.
The sixth move of the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade: Sun Illuminates a Thousand Rivers!
Before Wei Daoren's eyes, blade light surged like countless great rivers flowing, intertwining and crisscrossing.
A single drop of water in those great rivers was a blade light. Thousands of blade lights formed a wave, and thousands of waves formed a long river. This move was called Sun Illuminates a Thousand Rivers. As Chen Shi's long blade swept out, thousands of long rivers surged and rushed toward Wei Daoren!
"Chen Shi, just because you got a demon blade from the Divine Continent, you think you can defeat the immortal techniques of Despair Slope? Dream on!"
Wei Daoren flew backward, his body crashing backward and merging with the Jade Emperor's projection in the Lingxiao Hall.
This blood sea wasn't parallel to the ground but tilted, giving off an intense sense of oppression.
The seal techniques in this technique were a complete system, divided into four types: Demon-Refining, Demon-Dispelling, Demon-Breaking, and Demon-Exterminating. The Three Talents Seal and Earthly Fiend Seal belonged to the Demon-Refining type. The Heavenly Steeds Seal and Celestial Light Seal belonged to the Demon-Breaking type. The Ecliptic Seal and Nine Soul Seal belonged to the Demon-Dispelling type. The Sin-Exterminating Seal and Flame-Searing Seal belonged to the Demon-Exterminating type.
He was like a thousand-armed being, using various seals to counter the entwining of countless great rivers, shouting, "Even back then, the True King couldn't defeat the immortal techniques of Despair Slope!"
Those long rivers collapsed and disintegrated under his various seals. They couldn't even get close before being broken.
The blade qi was scattered, the demonic qi was refined, and the demonic nature was broken!
All he had to do was punch through these long rivers to reach Chen Shi's side and kill him with the Demon-Exterminating seals!
Back when he was still a young eunuch, following the True King's first entry into Despair Slope, he was shocked by Despair Slope's power, feeling that it was impossible to resist, and feeling a sense of longing.
From then on, Despair Slope was the only sacred place in his heart.
Later, he finally got his wish and entered Despair Slope, becoming a Celestial Way Walker of Despair Slope.
A Celestial Way Walker was someone who acted on behalf of heaven.
As a Celestial Way Walker, his sole duty was to make the True God the only deity worthy of worship. Anyone who didn't believe in the True God was a heretic.
All foreign temples, all statues and paintings of foreign gods, had to be destroyed!
All foreign scriptures, lists, divine languages, and even talismans, records, and seals, all had to be burned!
After the True King died back then, the Celestial True God's eyes lit up again, and the Western Ox New Continent was in ruins, waiting to be rebuilt. Despair Slope came out to cleanse the world of heretics. Wei Daoren did it even more thoroughly than the other Celestial Way Walkers of Despair Slope, because his faith in the Celestial True God was more fanatical than anyone else's!
He had an inexplicable hatred for those who revered foreign gods. He felt that these deities from the Divine Continent had misled the beings of the Western Ox New Continent. They were blasphemers, profaners, and all should be eliminated.
He wanted to destroy all foreign doctrines to show his unwavering loyalty to the Celestial True God.
The most powerful True King had fallen. The most glorious dynasty had collapsed. All the immortal techniques and scriptures the True King had brought were fragile, nothing compared to the supreme techniques of Despair Slope. They were backward, worthless!
These things should be burned, should be exterminated!
Over the years, he felt he had completely become a person of Despair Slope, more like an original inhabitant than the original inhabitants themselves!
Now, he would make Chen Shi understand how profound the techniques of Despair Slope were!
He would make Chen Shi understand that even if he wielded a demon blade from the ancestral Divine Continent and learned the blade techniques within, he was still no match for the techniques and divine abilities of Despair Slope!
He would not only destroy Chen Shi's demonic heart, demonic nature, and demonic qi, but also use the superior techniques and divine abilities of Despair Slope to destroy Chen Shi's physical body and soul!
His power grew stronger and stronger. In these ten thousand-plus years, although he had never truly been able to gain important status, never promoted from Celestial Way Walker to Celestial Way Immortal, he had trained hard over the years, and his cultivation base had become more and more profound.
Chen Shi cultivated the Blood Lake Sutra, refining one and a half immortals, with the Blood Sea Hell as his foundation. His power was indeed immensely thick. But Wei Daoren's ten thousand years of cultivation were absolutely no less!
In a short moment, he had broken most of the Sun Illuminates a Thousand Rivers move. Countless great rivers shattered, blade qi turned to dust, and blade light dimmed.
Wei Daoren drove straight in, aiming directly at Chen Shi!
He could kill Chen Shi once, and he could kill him a second time!
"Back then, I didn't destroy the corpse, giving you a chance to be reborn. But this time, you won't have that chance!"
He swept aside countless rivers of blade qi, his Jade Emperor's true form already prepared with the Sin-Exterminating Seal and Flame-Searing Seal, ready to exterminate the demon.
Just then, suddenly, a blazing sun rose from beneath the long rivers, illuminating a thousand rivers. The light reflected off the river surfaces and waves composed of countless blade lights. Wei Daoren only saw golden snakes dancing wildly before his eyes!
Sun Illuminating a Thousand Rivers. Golden snakes danced everywhere in front and behind him. It was no longer the bloody and demonic scene from before, but dazzlingly brilliant.
Compared to the previous five moves, this Sun Illuminates a Thousand Rivers move didn't look like a demonic blade technique at all. It seemed to have transcended, becoming more like an immortal technique, an immortal method!
This move appeared exquisitely beautiful, but it was extremely dangerous. The shimmering ripples reflected countless blade lights. Surrounded by a thousand rivers, the number of blade lights multiplied. How could there be fewer than a billion rays of light?
"Not good!"
Wei Daoren was greatly alarmed. He immediately changed his moves, activating the Demon-Dispelling seal technique. It was as if he had grown a thousand arms, sweeping away and refining the dancing blade lights on all sides.
Countless blade lights shattered in an instant. Even the rivers of blade qi were broken and severed by his seals.
However, Wei Daoren's heart suddenly sank. He immediately noticed that the fingers on his hands had been hit by blade light. The wounds weren't big, at most breaking the skin.
His heart pounded violently. He knew how terrifying the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade was. Breaking the skin could mean all his blood energy being drained!
Wei Daoren flew backward, his body crashing backward and merging with the Jade Emperor's projection in the Lofty Heavenly Hall.
More tiny wounds appeared on the backs of his hands. They weren't deep either, just barely breaking the skin!
He was like a supreme emperor walking out of the Supreme Lofty Heavenly Hall, displaying all the seals within the Exalted Jade Emperor Heart Seal Scripture.
Blade light like hairs cut through his clothes. Multiple thin scars appeared on his arms. His sleeves were sliced into strips by the fine blade light, flying off his arms.
Wei Daoren's heart leaped. Then he felt pain on his neck. Thin wounds appeared on his neck. Then on his face, chest, back, armpits, legs...
Wounds kept appearing all over his body, more and more, denser and denser!
Wei Daoren roared, mustering all his cultivation base. With one hand for Demon-Refining and the other for Demon-Dispelling, he desperately tried to charge out, attempting to break through the thousand-river encirclement.
His Exalted Jade Emperor Heart Seal Scripture was indeed profound and unfathomable. For a time, it managed to withstand the power of the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade. Although his blood energy was leaking, the speed wasn't fast.
"I still have a chance to turn the tables!"
He swept aside rivers of blade qi. But the rivers of blade qi ahead seemed endless. Every time he swept one aside, another one appeared. There was always a long river blocking his way.
Not only that, but above the river surface, the sun hung high in the sky. Where the sunlight shone, golden snakes danced wildly. More blade qi flew in from all directions, impossible to dodge, impossible to block!
Chen Shi's move, although born from the demon blade Blood-Transforming Divine Blade, had already approached the Dao!
"Whoosh——"
Countless cloth strips flew off Wei Daoren's body, leaving him nearly naked. Strands of hair on his head also broke off one after another, leaving him bald.
Blood dripped from his head, face, and body. Blood energy constantly flew out from him, as if his blood essence was evaporating.
He still struggled desperately, displaying the Jade Emperor Heart Seal with all his might.
But the blade wounds on his body grew more and more numerous, deeper and deeper. The rate of blood energy loss was also gradually accelerating.
"He wants to cut me into pieces!"
He finally became terrified and shouted, "Chen Shi, if you kill me, the Blood-Transforming Divine Blade will become even more powerful, its demonic nature even heavier! You won't escape being controlled by the demon blade. You'll definitely die under this blade too!"
Just then, Wei Daoren saw a flash of blood-colored blade light. Then darkness fell before his eyes.
He was blind.
He couldn't see where the blade light was, where the rivers were.
Panicking, he summoned his Primordial Spirit. His Primordial Spirit also had eyes that could see.
But then darkness also fell before his Primordial Spirit's eyes.
His Primordial Spirit was blind too.
Wei Daoren felt only darkness all around him. Blade light from Chen Shi could be anywhere. He could only pour out all his power, swinging wildly in all directions, unleashing everything he had learned from Despair Slope, hoping to blindly hit Chen Shi and save his own life.
But every single one of his strikes missed.
He was like a madman, striking out in all directions, fighting desperately for several hours.
Suddenly, he stopped. He tilted his head, listening carefully.
At some point, the whistling sound of the demon blade cutting through the air had stopped. The roaring and surging of the long rivers had also ceased. There were no more sharp clashing sounds of blade qi colliding.
At some point, everything was silent.
Frighteningly silent.
He could only hear his own ragged breathing and the sizzling sound of his blood energy evaporating from his body.
His cultivation base was too deep. Even so, he wouldn't die anytime soon.
Wei Daoren stretched out both arms, groping around him, and said with a flattering smile, "Chen Shi, I was wrong. Don't kill me."
Suddenly, both his hands were severed at the wrists.
Wei Daoren endured the sharp pain but still laughed, "Killing me won't do you any good. You'll be controlled by the demonic nature, backlashed by the demon blade. Spare me, and I'll help you suppress the demonic nature. I'll be your dog, okay..."
Suddenly, both his feet were severed. He stood on the stumps of his legs.
"Don't insult dogs." Chen Shi's voice came.
"Don't kill me!"
Wei Daoren began to sob, shouting, "I can betray the True King! I can betray Despair Slope too..."
Chen Shi swung his blade down, and his head flew off.
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