Born with immortal seed

Chapter 574

"You betrayed the Heavenly River Sword Sect and sided with the demon race?"

Bai Zichen pulled out the dagger, which was clearly carved from a finger bone and had now turned a ghastly white.

The abdominal wound was festering and bloody, with a dark sheen spreading out in concentric circles, accompanied by a crisp tearing sound, completely suppressing the five-crystal light.

The dagger turned into bone dust and scattered in the wind, having exhausted its power in this strike and completed its mission.

Tang Yuan's words were not untrue. Not only did he apply poison to the fifth-tier demon lord's sac, but even the dagger was forged from the finger bone of a Nascent Soul demon.

It's another secret treasure that can only be used once, and its instantaneous burst of power is probably even greater than that of a Heavenly Treasure.

"Haha, I am a descendant of the demon race, how could I betray you! As long as I can kill you, Rotten Axe Mountain will help me purify my bloodline and bestow upon me supreme spiritual medicine to advance to the Nascent Soul stage... The cultivation world will belong to the demon race in the future, this is the inevitable trend!"

Tang Yuan laughed triumphantly, even though the demon race had repeatedly assured him that no one could dodge this attack.

He also took pills beforehand to ensure that he would not show any murderous intent and give anyone a clue.

Even if one can get close enough to ambush a powerful swordsman, it is still a dangerous act no less perilous than venturing into a dragon's den or a tiger's lair, with a nine-out-of-ten chance of death and unimaginable mental pressure.

Fortunately, it seems to have been successful so far, as the other party appears too surprised to launch a counterattack.

"If I had known that you also cultivated body tempering, your physical strength would be no worse than that of a fourth-level body cultivator. This dagger is specifically designed to counter body cultivators, so there's no need to even think about trying to tough it out."

Clearly, someone had investigated Bai Zichen thoroughly and devised a plan against him; Tang Yuan was merely an executor.

Seeing that Bai Zichen was unable to move and the black light had spread to his chest, he took out a bone whistle and blew it hard. The piercing sound could be heard hundreds of miles away.

Several streams of demonic energy suddenly rose into the sky. The first to arrive was a middle-aged man with an arrogant face and deep-set eyes. The most striking feature was his colorful, dazzling hair.

"The demonic power of that colorful phoenix at the late Nascent Soul stage?"

Bai Zichen's expression remained unchanged as he coldly stared at the other party.

"Northern Swordsman, I have long admired your name... We went to great lengths to eliminate you. If it weren't for the Dragon Lord's repeated instructions, we wouldn't have been willing to use the Netherworld God Dagger on you."

Cai Feng wore a fake smile, her skin stiff.

The next moment, powerful demons rushed in from all directions, including two familiar faces.

The two who came from the east were a burly man wearing a short skirt made of animal skin and carrying an iron rod on his shoulder. He was none other than the old demon of Black Mountain, the White Ape.

After leaving Black Mountain for Rotten Axe Mountain, they are now all mid-grade fourth rank.

As a demon, her cultivation speed is almost on par with Bai Zichen's, which is beyond description.

The young man beside him had a slender body, a snake's tongue flicking out of his mouth, and vertically oriented, emerald-green pupils in his eyes.

Like Cai Feng, this fourth-tier superior demon race looks very much like the Devouring Serpent from Rotten Ke Mountain.

From the south, a short, stout, dark-faced cultivator revealed his true form as soon as he landed. A giant squid monster appeared, spitting out several mouthfuls of ink to envelop itself. Its tentacles swayed, bringing the entire area under its control.

It's so obvious, there's no need to guess, it's a high-grade fourth-tier Black Darkness Squid from the Shattered Star Abyss in the outer sea.

Since the great demon whale, the leader of Shattered Star Abyss, died at the hands of the three great lords of September, Baoxuan Daoist, and Kong Bai, its status among the demon races of the outer seas plummeted instantly.

The Black-Eyed Demon Squid is already the most powerful demon in the Shattered Star Abyss, but compared to the Dragon Lord and the Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Xuan Turtle, it is far inferior in both strength and seniority.

That's why they took the initiative to join this operation launched by Xingxiu Sea, saying they wanted to kill a human cultivator who had offended both the Dragon Lord and Ancestor Ao.

To the west, an old man with wrinkled skin and white hair walked slowly, leaning on a cane.

It was the Qingqiu Dead Sea Demon who traded the Demon Saint Pearl with Bai Zichen in the Southern Region.

Unexpectedly, this matter involved the three major demon clans in the world, all of whom were powerful individuals capable of completely transforming into human form and concealing their demonic aura.

They traveled thousands of miles to set up a trap and lured him into it.

They even went so far as to plant an undercover agent to render him incapable of fighting with a secret treasure, making it a foolproof plan.

"Five top-tier demons, what a grand display! The Dragon Lord truly thinks highly of me!"

Four fourth-tier high-grade cultivators and one fourth-tier mid-grade cultivator whose actual combat strength is likely among the top in the demon realm—such a lineup dared not confront a mid-Nascent Soul sword cultivator head-on, and instead had to set up traps and launch a sneak attack.

Before coming, Bai Zichen had already imagined that the crisis of the Tianhe Sword Sect was a trap set by the demon race to lure him into it.

But I never expected so many powerful demons to arrive at once.

"The men who came to kill me have all arrived, and they're all here?"

Bai Zichen coughed violently, as if he were coughing up his lungs, and his mouth was full of the taste of blood.

But the light in his eyes grew brighter, like two stubborn candlelights in the darkness.

"What, you still don't think that's enough? To die at the hands of us demons is something you should be proud of!"

The Devouring Serpent stepped forward, opened its blood-red maw, which had grown to the size of a house, and was about to swallow Bai Zichen whole.

"Bluster! What human geniuses? We've had enough of them; they're all a bunch of good-for-nothings!"

The other four demons watched quietly, showing their trust in the Netherworld God's Dagger. How could a Nascent Soul cultivator possibly withstand the true meaning of the Demon Lord's Great Dao?

No matter how incredibly strong the opponent is, they cannot defy this principle.

"Blow it up!"

Bai Zichen looked at the ever-growing giant mouth in his line of sight, let out a loud shout, and his entire body exploded with blood and flesh, causing the Devouring Serpent to bite empty air.

The little white nascent soul, whose physical body no longer existed, showed no panic. It clapped its two tender white hands, and in an instant, a brand new body was generated, exactly the same as before.

Its aura and imposing presence were the same as in its prime, but the black light on its chest was gone, disappearing along with its previous physical body.

"An indestructible body?"

Old Man Hu's cloudy eyes lit up with interest. He hadn't expected that simply repaying a favor to the Dragon Lord would lead to meeting such an interesting cultivator.

"No, even an immortal body cannot reunite its physical form without any change in aura. This is another kind of divine ability that is somewhat similar to rebirth through blood, which exempts the Demon Lord from the true meaning of the Great Dao and allows him to rejoin the battle."

Old Hu braced himself with his cane, ready to join the battle.

Based on his extensive experience, he sensed something was amiss and gave a shout, ready to have everyone take action at once.

Since the Dragon Lord organized such a team and bestowed upon him the Underworld God Dagger, it is clear that in its eyes Bai Zichen deserves such serious treatment.

However, the several powerful demons who had never dealt with him before still held him in contempt and did not take this sword cultivator, who was not even a Great True Monarch, seriously.

Even so, it was too late.

The clear sky above was suddenly enveloped by the boundless starry sky, stretching as far as the eye could see.

All he could see were a few stars as big as the sun, pressing down on his head.

The other demons lost contact with each other, and their attempts to communicate via telepathy went unanswered.

"Is this a sword formation?"

Old Hu squinted and waved his cane to knock down several sword lights that flew towards him. He could already tell that this was not an ordinary formation but a legendary sword formation.

Although the legacy of the Qingqiu Dead Sea is not as long-standing as that of the Daode Sect, it still has a clear record of the development of swordsmanship from the end of ancient times to the present, making it easy to distinguish between sword formations and ordinary formations.

"This person can actually set up a sword formation all by himself? Is he a remnant of the Taibai Sword Sect, or another lucky one like Taibai Sword Lord who obtained the method of controlling flying swords through some means?"

Old Hu looked solemn. Only a very few demons knew what the Taibai Sword Sect meant to them, and it was one of them.

The cane protected him completely, while he moved his feet subtly, keeping his eyes on all directions, trying to reunite with the other great demons.

"Sword formations are vicious; all of them are known for their destructive power. Let's find an opportunity to break out of the sword formation and observe first."

Old Hu didn't think he could withstand the power of the sword formation, but he believed that as long as he was patient, breaking through the formation wouldn't be difficult.

With five powerful demons falling into the formation at the same time, the strain on the sword formation was immense, far beyond what a mid-stage Nascent Soul sword cultivator could bear.

……

"Good heavens, he used himself as bait and almost got himself killed!"

Bai Zichen was still shaken. As expected of a secret treasure forged from the finger bone and venom of a fifth-order demon lord, his true essence was completely suppressed.

His proud Five-Crystal Glass Body was instantly shattered, and it wasn't until the Hundred-Poison Jade Scale Bone took effect that the poison was neutralized.

However, the wound inflicted by the Netherworld Dagger remained and could not heal. The intense pain reached the depths of his consciousness, causing him to continue to weaken, leaving him with only 50% of his full strength.

He made a clean decision without wasting his true energy to heal his wounds, and simply self-destructed his body.

To end it all once and for all, to cut ties cleanly.

Then, at the cost of extracting the true bone from the Undying Cave, he instantly bleeds back to life and is resurrected at full strength.

Although the price of losing the Immortal Bone of the Undying Cave and being unable to condense this Immortal Bone within a hundred years is the loss of the true bone, it is still worthwhile.

With strong enemies all around, there's no need to research the most cost-effective tactics.

We must proceed from reality, eliminate hidden dangers as quickly as possible, and bring the battle into a situation where we are in control in order to find a chance to win.

Five demons with the strength of a Great True Monarch would be a force to be reckoned with in any corner of the cultivation world.

If you find yourself in a passive position, you could very well be surrounded and attacked, and then you'll have to do everything you can to find a chance to escape.

While all the great demons were still in shock, Bai Zichen decisively activated the Star River Formation, pulling all five great demons into the formation.

In any case, the Star River Sword Formation excels at group battles, and there is essentially no difference between facing one enemy and ten enemies.

The operating principle of the sword formation will not change; it will rise and fall like stars and celestial bodies.

However, the evolved sword light will be divided into five parts. If the original lethality is to be maintained, the speed of true essence injection must be increased.

Enveloped by the five great demons, Bai Zichen sat down cross-legged. Little Bai's nascent soul jumped out, bit its finger, and sprayed its life essence onto the Supreme Pure and Subtle Sword Box.

The twelve stars lit up simultaneously, and a beam of sword light shone down on the ground, while also incorporating the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Sword Technique.

The celestial phenomena, accompanied by the sword light, presented different scenes, making it difficult for each great demon to move an inch.

Even if a powerful demon tries to break through, the sword light guides it, making it wander around like a lost fly.

Almost all the powerful demons were intimidated by the imposing aura of the sword formation and were suddenly plunged into an unfamiliar environment, so they took very cautious measures.

Even if they sensed the demonic energy nearby, they couldn't rashly approach and make contact.

In this environment, everyone is thinking of first enduring the first few rounds of attacks, observing carefully, and then launching a counterattack.

Only the white ape immediately revealed its true form, roaring to the sky as it stretched its iron rod infinitely long and smashed it towards a star.

boom!
With a loud crash, the iron rod flew through the air, the stars swayed back and forth, and then there was silence for a while.

"A top-grade spiritual treasure that only has weight?"

Bai Zichen's heart skipped a beat. The white ape rolled on the ground without showing any signs of injury, which only fueled its anger. It leaped up a hundred feet and brought its staff down again.

This time he had time to react, replacing the lightning star with it and taking the blow.

The immense force of thousands upon thousands of strikes was contained within the staff, making it several times more powerful than the previous attack. If it were a third-tier flying sword manifesting stars, it might very well have been punched through by the white ape's staff in just a few blows.

He understood how the Great True Monarch of the Jin Yue Sect was killed by it with a single blow, and even his Nascent Soul couldn't escape.

This power can no longer be explained by innate divine strength; it can only be said that the Great Dao he comprehended complements it, creating an effect that is almost like proving the Dao through force.

On the star formed by the Ziwei Thunder Sword, countless lightning bolts were startled by the iron rod, resulting in a magnificent thunderstorm.

Iron Rod, following the white ape, flew for who knows how many miles before lying on the ground, panting heavily, its fur charred black in many places.

The only unlucky one was Tang Yuan. As cannon fodder used to complete the mission, once the task was accomplished, no one cared about him, and he was directly pierced through by dozens of sword lights.

He died without even uttering a sound.

"To abandon humanity for demonic ways and betray one's sect is an unforgivable crime!"

If Tang Yuan had simply left the Tianhe Sword Sect discreetly and joined the demon race as a half-demon, Bai Zichen wouldn't have been so furious.

But Tang Fei clearly brought him back to the sect, and instead of discriminating against him because of his demon bloodline, he treated him like a son or nephew.

Instead of being grateful, they wanted to bring in the demon race and harm the Tianhe Sword Sect, which crossed Bai Zichen's bottom line.

Two storage bags and a storage jade bottle fell from Tang Yuan's body, which he put away first.

"It's better to break one finger than to injure all ten... By exploiting the information gap, I'll make the great demons think that I'm backed by the sword formation and can only proceed slowly, unable to launch a sudden attack to lull them into a false sense of security. When the time is right, all twelve stars will move together, and we must kill one of the demons to break the deadlock."

Bai Zichen flicked his finger, manipulating the arrangement of the twelve stars, causing the celestial phenomena in the sky to change accordingly.

……

Great Zhou Dynasty, Heavenly Punishment Peak.

The clouds of calamity pressed down, and the heavenly lightning had already connected with the mountaintop, with countless golden lightning bolts flying around, sending out bursts of dazzling light.

The Heavenly Tribulation of Nascent Soul and the Heavenly Tribulation of Infant Transformation are somewhat similar, but the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation is vastly different.

The endless thunderbolts make one wonder if any living being can truly pass such a test.

After retreating a thousand miles, Yu Ziliang and the others felt a sense of oppression in their hearts, with thunder and constant rumbling in their ears.

"The inner demon test is not difficult for the Great True Lord of Hongfa. Master has long said that when it comes to firmness of mind and sincerity in pursuing the Dao, even he is not as good as the Great True Lord of Hongfa."

Yu Ziliang tried to comfort his fellow disciples, but his words were so outrageous that the atmosphere in the room almost froze.

"The tribulation of Nascent Soul can last from several hours to several days, and my senior brother's has been going on for three whole days..."

The Nascent Soul cultivator on Heavenly Punishment Peak paced back and forth, completely losing his composure.

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