Bone Taoist

Chapter 692 Inner Demon
The sky was tens of thousands of feet high, and the deep red color seemed to fill the air like blood.

The twelve-petal lotus throne swayed in the clouds in the sky. It seemed so close yet so far away.

Ye Zang's power radiated out, and he soared a thousand feet in one step, escaping in the blood-like cloud. The lotus seat in the distance became more and more dazzling, and the red light that permeated it was as bright as the sun. Ye Zang felt that he could not even open his spiritual eyes.

He sensed an extremely powerful spiritual force emanating from the Hedao pattern on the lotus seat.

For cultivators who have perfected their Nascent Soul stage, the Hedao pattern on the lotus seat has generally also been perfected.

By sitting cross-legged on the lotus platform and utilizing the Taoist technique of leaving the body, one can travel around the earth and search for the entrance to the realm of Taixu. This is the most critical step in entering the realm of harmony with the Tao.

Some people cannot step into that gate throughout their entire lives, while others suddenly realize it and become one with their souls.

"It has been countless years since its death, but the power of the soul radiating from this lotus seat is still so terrifying that it has caused the surrounding space to be distorted and folded..."

Ye Zang looked around with his Dharma Eye and found that the spatial boundaries in the sky were extremely chaotic.

A place that seems only one step away often requires Ye Zang to fly thousands of miles to reach it, creating chaos and disorder.

So he simply sat cross-legged in the sky and observed carefully with his Dharma eyes.

It took Ye Zang seven days to deduce this path.

His eyes sparkled, his feet took chaotic steps, the space around him seemed to flow like a vast river or lake, and his ears were filled with the sound of whistling wind.

Half a day later, the swaying twelve-petal lotus throne was within reach!
The sky was filled with petals of the third-grade lotus on the uppermost layer. Each petal was thousands of feet long when unfolded, blocking out the sky and the sun.

The lotus platform inside is even more vast and boundless, emitting astonishing blood energy all the time.

The Hedao patterns in the lotus seat are crisscrossed and mysterious, and the crisscrossing seems to outline a path leading to the Taixu realm.

"The Immortal travels through the heavens and the earth. It only takes a thought for the Yuanshen to go to Taixu. By observing the Hedao patterns on the lotus seat here, the gains are no less than staying in the Hedao secret treasure..."

But Ye Zang was very puzzled. It had been more than half a year, so why hadn't there been a single cultivator who had reached the Perfect Nascent Soul stage coming here to seek for opportunities?

Such a twelve-layer lotus throne of a real person is hanging in the sky.

Immediately, Ye Zang became more alert. Perhaps there was some danger lurking there. He did not ask other cultivators about the lotus seat in advance. He flew up on a whim.

Thinking of this, Ye Zang carefully stepped into the lotus seat filled with bright red clouds.

There was a faint sound by my ear, like the howling of a ghost. I didn't know where it came from and where it disappeared.

Ye Zang's expression immediately tensed up.

The spiritual orifice on his forehead opened, and his soul flew around in the lotus seat. He spent an hour carefully observing every place here.

"What was that noise just now? It didn't sound like a ghost, nor did it sound like a demon."

Of course, they are not creatures from the ancient clan. Ye Zang is most familiar with the breath of those creatures. If they appear, he will definitely notice them at the first moment.

"If there is any residual soul left on the lotus seat of the real person, with his spiritual awareness and ability when he was alive, if he wanted to lie dormant, I would not be able to detect his existence at all."

Ye Zang thought to himself.

He was very cautious. This place was filled with the laws of the Hedao pattern. If he could comprehend it with peace of mind, he would surely gain something.

But the strange atmosphere made Ye Zang unable to relax.

As he thought about it, he immediately shook his sleeves and more than a dozen Bagua formation plates flew out. Ye Zang circled his fingers and used the acupoint-pressing method to place the formation plates around his body one by one.

After setting up more than a dozen soul-protecting formations to cover his soul, Ye Zang tried to calm down. He used his spiritual consciousness to observe those Dao-harming patterns and silently recited the spell to leave the body.

"The dark heart returns to Taixu, and the heaven and earth share the same life..."

Half an hour later, Ye Zang's mind sank into a state of nothingness.

The power of the soul distorted the space above, gradually forming the bipolar shape of the moon and the sun. His own soul was also splitting into three souls and seven spirits.

Three main souls and seven ghost souls unfolded.

In an instant, ten of Ye Zang's soul and Dharma bodies appeared in the lotus seat.

These primordial spirits and Dharma bodies are very easy to identify. The three main souls of heaven, earth and life that emit a faint bright light like the sun, while the seven ghost souls are cold and sneaky.

The Demon Lord's "Taiyin and Taiyang Out-of-Body Method" is very exquisite. It uses the dual poles of yin and yang of heaven and earth to cultivate the primordial spirit. This is a method of cultivation that is very consistent with the way of heaven.

"The sun and the moon appear, and the yin and yang are connected..."

Gradually, the three main souls sat cross-legged on the anode, while the ghost souls returned to the cathode.

Ye Zang's soul gathered into one again, and in an instant, he saw the illusory Taixu Gate again, wandering in the sky full of fairy mist, and hiding in the breath.

Ye Zang's soul sank into practice.

Time passed by quickly, and roughly three days had passed.

A strange situation occurred inside the twelve-level lotus throne.

The blood-colored mist was like a big river, rippling slightly and dispersing. The sky was filled with whistling winds, as if it was pushed by the hand of a giant, but no one could see who did it. The space there was just distorted and disordered.

It was like something had broken in.

Ye Zang suddenly felt a chill all over his body, and his soul suddenly opened his eyes.

The next second, a creature shaped like an evil ghost appeared in front of him from the void. This creature looked extremely weird and strange. It had no flesh body and its entire body was made up of blood mist. Only a pair of gray-brown eyes were exposed, staring at Ye Zang with bloodshot eyes.

"What the hell!"

Ye Zang felt his whole body covered with goosebumps.

In an instant, he came to his senses extremely quickly, and his soul instantly fell from the lotus seat in the sky and returned to his physical body.

Ye Zang's physical body opened his eyes and gasped for breath.

The scene just now was like a nightmare. Ye Zang felt that his memory of the days he spent in the lotus seat was a little fuzzy, as if it was real and false, and he didn't know what was going on.

He frowned slightly and paused for half an hour before he began to recall everything that had just happened.

"That thing seems to be visible only to the soul, and it cannot appear in the outside world. Could it be a creature from the Grand Void Realm?"

Ye Zang seemed to be thinking.

The Taixu world constructed by divine consciousness where the Hedao monks stayed was very strange. To a certain extent, that place was boundless.

The so-called Taixu is just a dream.

The Taixu Realm itself was evolved from the consciousness of countless ancient immortals, and its initial appearance was also very strange. Legend has it that during the early years of the ancient immortal realm, the immortal realm was very vast and boundless, and only a few ancient creatures achieved enlightenment and ascended.

When a true immortal was bored, he had a big dream. He dreamed that he had been reincarnated for several lifetimes. He didn't know whether it was true or not. He searched everywhere for the people and things from those lifetimes, but could not find them.

The deeper his obsession became, the more his consciousness would wander around the world every night when he fell asleep, gradually evolving into an illusory dreamland of consciousness.

That was the prototype of the Taixu Realm. Afterwards, over endless years, the consciousness of countless immortal cultivators went there, expanding the Taixu Realm and eventually constructing the most peculiar place between heaven and earth, the Taixu Illusion Realm.

"It's like a dream, illusory, and that's my inner demon!"

Ye Zang's eyes twitched and he suddenly realized something.

Thinking of this, he immediately called the two male disciples who had brought him to Linyuan City and asked them about the Lotus Seat in the sky.

When these two heard that Ye Zang's soul had been wandering there for a few days, their eyes widened.

"Mr. Murong, please don't go there again!" the male disciple said immediately.

"You were able to escape, you really had a narrow escape. That was the lotus seat that the real person used to enter the Great Illusionary Realm before his death. It has been floating here for endless years. I heard that the Dao-combining patterns inside have merged with the God-Demon Rift Valley, and can evolve the consciousness of the demons on their own, reflecting the inner demons of the cultivators. Once you let your guard down, you may even be possessed by the souls of those demons!"

"The devil's soul?" Ye Zang raised his eyebrows.

“I heard from Senior Sister Jiang and fellow Taoists from Dayan Heavenly Palace that many cultivators went there in the past six months. Their souls were taken away and they became vessels of the devil. Their lives are worse than death.” The male disciple said with a frown.

"I understand." Ye Zang thought for a moment.

"Fellow Daoist Murong, Senior Sister Jiang sent a message back yesterday saying that Chu Qianchao from the Buried Immortal Sea is in the southwestern ruins. The aristocratic disciples from Qiandao Pavilion and Chongyang Lake are probably also there. It won't be easy to get rid of them. You should wait for some time." The male disciple paused and said.

"I'm not in a hurry." Ye Zang shook his head and smiled.

Then, he asked, "I heard that the fruit forest of the Blood God Tree that we went to last time had a divine fruit that could make a person's Nascent Soul perfect. I wonder how the situation there has been these days?"

When Ye Zang asked this, he was still more concerned about the creatures of the ancient clan. They were not like Qianhuangjian, who seemed to have just extended their hands and eyes to the God and Demon Rift not long ago and could not completely influence the world.

Before that, perhaps we can take targeted measures to completely eliminate the source of the unrest here.

"Divine fruit?" The male disciple shook his head and sneered.

"In the past six months, many Taoists from Tianming and Dongsheng went there. It's good enough to come out alive. As for the so-called divine fruit, it's probably just a rumor. I don't know which bastard spread the news, causing countless people to jump into the fire pit." The male disciple's eyes were gloomy. Obviously, Longshou Mountain also lost a lot of people there.

The three of them chatted casually for a while.

Then they retreated and practiced in seclusion in the caves around Ye Zang.

Ye Zang discovered that the disciples of Longshou Mountain in Linyuan City seemed to be approaching him, as if they wanted to put him under house arrest here.

"It seems that my Candle Dragon Technique is quite tempting to Longshou Mountain, so they sent so many people to keep an eye on me..."

Ye Zang looked around with his Dharma eyes.

There are at least fifty people, and the broken formation of Linyuan City has also been activated, covering this place all the time.

"I have someone working for me, so I can have some free time here. Why should I run away now?"

Ye Zang had no intention of leaving for the time being. Instead, he calmly looked through the spiritual tablets given to him by the Inspirational Dharma King.

Outside the cave courtyard.

Every ten or twenty miles, there would be a Nascent Soul disciple from Longshou Mountain in charge. They were linked together, wrapping up Ye Zang's cave tightly, making it airtight.

If it were an ordinary cultivator, he would have difficulty taking even a single step, let alone escaping from here.

"That Mr. Murong, does he really have the Candle Dragon Technique?"

"Senior Sister Jiang fought with him and tested it herself, how could it be false?"

"If we can use it for Longshou Mountain, which other sect in the world can rival us?"

"The bishop has already sent many Nascent Soul disciples and elders here. We must bring this person back even if we have to force him."

"This matter is extremely important, don't let other sects know about it."

Several more disciples came from Linyuan City. The two men who brought Ye Zang went up immediately and whispered with their spiritual consciousness.

While Ye Zang was practicing and studying Taoist books here, it had nothing to do with him.

At this moment, there is a constant battle in the secret ancient city in the southwest, and the ground veins are shaking.

woohoo-

In the southwest, there is a huge ancient city that seems to be standing above the clouds on the top of the mountain. The spiritual energy inside is very rich, because there is a fine spiritual vein in the mountain that is emitting glow.

The next moment, a Taoist priest in the ancient city stepped out with the steps of a dragon and a tiger. This man was nine feet tall, with the aura of dragon and tiger ripples in his body, and he was full of murderous intent.

In his hand he was holding a bloody head.

This person was Chu Qianchao, the former chief disciple of the Jackdaw Divine Sect. When Ji Beilin sent the sect outside, Chu Qianchao was briefly called the chief disciple by the chief disciple.

However, with the rise of Shu Aohan and Ye Zang's victory in the Tianlao Forum, the position of this true senior brother became unstable. After he was defeated by Tan Tai Jing of Dayan Tiangong in the God and Demon Rift Valley, Chu Qianchao's reputation and power plummeted.

His personality has changed a lot now. He has become more decisive and ruthless.

"Chu Qianchao!"

Inside the ancient city, a man's angry shout was heard.

Immediately afterwards, sharp Bai Ying energy roared out, it was Zhang Tianlin!

One of the three true disciples of Dayan Heavenly Palace, he is now an elder-level figure in the Heavenly Palace. He, Wei Wuya and Tan Tai Jing were all conferred the title of Hedao elders of the Heavenly Palace and are very famous.

boom!
Zhang Tianlin's Taoist body turned into a stunning light, and his terrifying Bai Ying Gang body cut the sky in half. His Nascent Soul was now perfect, and his Bai Ying Gang body was also fully developed, like an indestructible blade, extremely terrifying.

Chu Qianchao's eyes were extremely gloomy.

His robe fluttered, and he covered his hand and pressed down. It was an extremely domineering seal of dragon and tiger that descended from the sky and enveloped the entire sky. It was as if the sky had collapsed, and the dragon and tiger energy was roaring in the sky.

bump!
Zhang Tianlin responded brazenly, turning into a huge sword that pierced the sky and slashed at him. He gritted his teeth and resisted. This was really surprising. The deafening sound resounded through the sky, and the ground veins were rumbling and shaking. The walls of the ancient city were shattered by the terrifying magic power of the two. You have to know that this is a wall made of black obsidian.

"Why are you so angry, Brother Zhang? You can kill my disciples of the Divine Sect, but I can't kill your Heavenly Palace monks?" Chu Qianchao sneered.

"Chu Qianchao, you are so cruel, how are you different from the devil in Jiuyuan?"

The monks were fighting, and Chu Qianchao's killing methods were too cruel. He ripped open the Dongsheng monks' stomachs and sometimes tortured them to death. This was the reason why Zhang Tianlin was angry.

(End of this chapter)