Born with immortal seed

Chapter 764 The Exiled True Demon
The difficulty in combining the three swords lies in the fact that the three Azure Emperor Longevity Swords are independent entities, and it is not simply a matter of stacking them together to seamlessly connect the Sword of Time.

To achieve the same effect as practicing in the sea of ​​consciousness, one needs not only a profound understanding of the essence of the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword, but also the strong support of one's own True Meaning of Time.

Through countless demonstrations in his mind's eye space, Bai Zichen continuously fine-tuned the details, and was now able to achieve over 90% certainty in a perfect state, successfully combining the swords.

"There is a difference between a demonstration of the Sea of ​​Consciousness and a real-life demonstration; we must not be careless in the future..."

The unique nature of the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword prevented Bai Zichen from verifying it; no other supernatural power would have encountered this problem.

Fortunately, he did have a backup plan.

"The Radiant Cave Heaven, open!"

Behind Bai Zichen, a majestic cave appeared, seamlessly integrated into the real world.

Because his own cave dwelling contained the Shaohua Grass and the Shaohua Stone, both rare spiritual objects that could not be found in the cultivation world, he was named Shaohua.

Unlike other grotto-heavens of the Nascent Soul stage, the main function of the Shaohua Grotto-heaven may not be in direct combat, but rather in utilizing the different speeds of time passage.

Once the celestial land of cosmic light is formed, it will be able to free him from the long and tedious ascetic practice.

Furthermore, the growth cycle of rare herbs, which can take tens of thousands of years, will no longer be so unattainable.

However, it can still provide the true meaning of time in crucial moments.

All the mountains and rivers in Shaohua Cave Heaven simultaneously let out a hissing sound, and every spiritual vein roared.

Amidst the earth-shaking tremors, strands of true meaning of time rose and gathered towards the sky.

"This River of Time... how come it bears the shadow of the Great Dao River instead of merely summoning a projection in the past? What great thing has the master done that I don't know about!"

Bai Taotao knelt on the ground, panting heavily and greedily, her eyes glazed over.

As the incarnation of the Twilight Peach, it was born favored by heaven and earth, and has an absolute advantage on the path represented by the innate spiritual root.

Based on past records, there shouldn't be any bottlenecks in cultivation before reaching the Void Refinement stage.

It is only because of the Great Dao that it both succeeded and failed.

Because innate spiritual roots give one a head start, they can also become a constraint.

Once you reach the upper limit of your innate spiritual root, it becomes virtually impossible to go any further.

Bai Taotao possesses the Great Dao of Longevity, which not only allows her to cultivate at an extraordinary speed, but also makes her virtually unmatched among those of the same level.

Its supernatural powers can be continuously exerted, draining one's lifespan; who can withstand that?

Once it encounters a force that can restrain it, such as the dominant force of time, it loses all power to resist.

It is precisely because of this that it is most sensitive to the passage of time, and can distinguish even the slightest difference.

At the peak where the sacred beast's blood essence crystal was placed, a phantom of a blue dragon seemed to be summoned as well.

High in the sky, it merges with the true meaning of time, swirling and rushing into the river of time in the real world. With the blessing of the power of the cave, the brand-new Azure Emperor Longevity Sword finally takes shape.

With a sweep of blue light, everything in its path froze, the scene standing still.

It struck the ancient demon Asura directly, rendering him in a state of semi-real and semi-illusory.

Any defensive measures are futile and should be ignored.

"If even this cannot be eradicated, then let me be banished to the river of time, to keep company with the passing years, and to forever enjoy solitude!"

The combined power of the three swords, the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword, can instantly erase a thousand years of lifespan, with no possibility of immunity.

Such profound essence of time would easily be defeated by any amount of resistance from the power of the Great Dao or the blocking of treasures of time.

However, in Bai Zichen's perception, he still hadn't reached the Ancient Demon's killing threshold and was able to easily survive the sword strike.

The lifespan of an Asura True Demon is terrifying.

His heart skipped a beat, but thankfully he had a backup plan. The flowing river of time behind him surged forward, engulfing the ancient demon.

As the waves crashed over, the ancient demon, towering ten thousand feet tall, plunged directly into the long river. The demonic blade fought desperately to resist, but it seemed so powerless in the face of the calm river water.

The water's surface, rising and falling only a few inches, already contains unimaginable power, making any supernatural ability fragile and vulnerable before it.

Especially considering that the Asura Ancient Demon was essentially a True Demon of the Void Refinement Realm, yet it was still completely crushed, like an infant with no power to fight back, it further demonstrates the terrifying power of the River of Time.

Time flowed swiftly by, and the ancient demon had vanished without a trace, leaving only Bai Zichen standing in the same spot.

"That was close. Although this method is powerful, it can put oneself in danger. We should be more cautious in using it in the future."

Bai Zichen let out a long breath; he had been quite flustered the moment the three swords failed to combine.

He deliberately went to the Asura Ancient Demon, but his killing move failed, and he ended up walking into a trap.

If this were to happen, it would become a laughing stock in the cultivation world for all eternity.

The final transformation of the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword had already appeared in the sea of ​​consciousness, but since there was no target, its true effect was not so intuitive.

Instead of killing the target directly, he was banished into the river of time, left to do whatever he wanted within it.

Even someone like Bai Zichen, who wields the Great Dao of Time, cannot stay there for long, let alone cultivators who are not on this Great Dao.

It seems that even cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage, let alone those at the Void Refinement stage, would find it difficult to resist the power of the River of Time.

Even if one is not directly washed away to death by the true meaning of time, it is almost impossible to leave the river of time unless one can break the boundary of the river of the Great Dao.

Ultimately, the only outcome is to move forward or backward along the river of time, to wither and die, or to return to the starting point.

However, for a cultivator at the Void Refinement stage, the process of activating the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword and exiling it to the River of Time would be enough to kill Bai Zichen ten times over.

There are other ways to escape being banished to the river of time.

Therefore, it is wrong to think that you are invincible just because you have this great supernatural power.

Regardless, Bai Zichen's trip went very smoothly, and he tested the Azure Emperor's Longevity Sword at its strongest.

Having also dealt with the ancient demon Asura, neither he nor the cultivation world had any further worries.

It allows you to comfortably deal with those lurking demons and monsters in the shadows.

"It's only a few years left. If we don't act now, we'll be exposed. I hope I don't have to wait too long..."

Bai Zichen waved his sleeve, and the demonic energy in the valley vanished instantly.

Unfortunately, the ancient demon Asura was banished to the river of time and was not killed directly, so he did not obtain any spoils of war.

Most importantly, the Heavenly Dao will certainly reward such true demons who can cause devastating destruction to the human world.

The gifts of merit will be much more generous than the previous two.

I had originally thought that with this harvest, I could forge a merit sword.

Now, it's all gone.

With a flicker, he returned to Shaohua Cave Heaven, and the Ten Thousand Evil Mountains returned to peace.

Outsiders would never imagine that a great battle that could influence the entire cultivation world had just ended here.

There was no protracted, earth-shattering battle; the outcome was decided in just a few swift moves.

……

Countless starry skies, countless worlds, countless dimensions.

In the deepest part of a world shrouded in darkness, slaughter, and bloodshed, a demon god stands.

His feet were like two towering peaks reaching the sky.

Its head is already beyond the heavens, expressionless as it surveys the entire Demon Realm, facing all external enemies as a guardian.

The two demonic eyes were like the two brightest stars in the sky, hanging eternally at the top.

A single blink brings about the shift of yin and yang, and the changing of the four seasons.

Every moment, countless Asura demons are born from this demon god and rise from his acupoints.

From a distance, they look like a string of black ants crawling onto the ground.

In the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, these newly born Asura demons awoke and had grown into young adults.

Guided by adult Asura demons in the vicinity, they bowed three times and nine times to the demon god before leaving their ancestral land.

In just a short time, at least tens of thousands of Asura demons were born.

In the constant killing and bloodshed, they will die and grow rapidly.

It is possible that only a hundred people will live to adulthood, but all of them will have a Nascent Soul realm as a foundation, and the time required will not exceed a hundred years.

From these people, the Divine Transformation Demon Clan and the Void Refinement Demon Clan were born.

Suddenly, the demon shuddered and slowly turned its head.

This caused countless Asura demons on his body to fall to the ground, killing most of them instantly, and a bolt of lightning struck down from the sky.

The demon god has long lost its own emotions; it is an aggregate of billions of demons, so this situation should not have occurred.

“One of the lower realm's avatars suddenly lost contact; it was a permanent disappearance, not suppression or sealing…”

The demon's head turned to face forward, and it was remarkably similar to the ancient Asura demon in the human realm, as if it had been molded from the same template.

"Even a divine treasure from the heavens couldn't erase my divided spirit. What power could possibly do that..."

The Asura Demon God's true form is a fully integrated body, while the strength of his divided spirits is uncertain, fluctuating according to the size of his demonic body.

But the essence remains the same. Even if the demonic body is destroyed and the soul is purified, the wisp of origin that transforms into a demon god's avatar can never be dissipated.

At most, they will be suppressed after exhausting their power, for tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years.

One day, the demonic energy will be able to be reunited, and the true demonic body of Asura will be restored.

The Asura Demon God has cast thousands upon thousands of fragments of his spirit into countless lower realms, waiting to see which one will grow up and ascend to the Heavenly Demon Realm.

Then it will assimilate into its clones, adding power to the original body.

It's no wonder the Demon God was shaken by the sudden loss of contact with one of his wisps of spirit.

It had little effect on his power; it was just incomprehensible and defied common sense.

"It's that lower realm again, the one that has decimated countless elite members of our race... It can even completely obliterate my avatar. Could that absurd legend from back then be true?"

The Asura Demon God slowly returned to his upright form, and then issued a divine decree among the demons.

The Earthly Immortal Realm's secret agents were instructed to closely monitor ascended cultivators, especially those from the world that had produced the Yuan Tu World-Destroying Demon Sword. Any such cultivators were to be reported to the Demon God upon their appearance.

……

The Arhat with the green lamp, riding on the Buddha's light, arrived in the Southern Region.

Even when they were still far from the Ten Thousand Evil Mountains, they found a palm leaf and held it in their hand, making themselves almost invisible.

"That ancient demon has remained silent for three whole years. Could it be that he's truly afraid of that person and doesn't dare to make a move...? A true demon from the upper realm, so cowardly, I really don't know how his fearsome reputation from ancient times came about!"

The Green Lamp Arhat muttered to himself, thinking that if he could, he wouldn't want to face the Time True Lord directly.

Ideally, the Sword Lord of Time and the Ancient Demon Asura should fight a fierce battle until they are both severely injured and die, after which he should use magic to steal their luck and change their fate.

But since the ancient demon wasn't up to par, he had to take matters into his own hands.

The poisoning was getting worse and had spread to half of his body, with the bone already exposed at the initial site.

Any medicine that claims to promote tissue regeneration and heal wounds will not work after taking it; instead, it will provide nutrients to the toxins and accelerate their formation.

At most ten years, when the toxins have spread throughout his body, that will be the time when the monk with the green lamp dies.

To survive, he had no choice but to risk everything.

The palm leaf in his hand is a secret treasure of the Kassapa school, a personal treasure left behind by the previous incarnation of the Buddha Ratnavali, and is the most precious thing besides relics.

It just so happens that the Green Lamp Arhat and that Buddha practiced the same methods, so he could be commanded at will.

In addition to all Buddhist supernatural powers being upgraded by one level, the person holding the palm leaf can also conceal their form and avoid being discovered.

This kind of invisibility is quite different from invisibility in the traditional sense.

It doesn't block divine sense or change the light; it directly allows the holder to leave this world.

The true body resides in the Buddha's realm, its gaze remains fixed in one place, yet it can continuously move.

As long as the Buddha's teachings are not activated, this state can be maintained, and even the transformation spirit can be deceived.

The Arhat with the Green Lamp held a position second only to the Buddha Ratnavali in the Kassapa school. He used an excuse to lend out the palm-leaf Buddhist treasure for this very purpose.

After walking for several days through the Ten Thousand Evils Mountain, they arrived at the center and prepared to take action.

He took out a Heaven-Illuminating Seal, a Myriad Demon Pot, and a True Demon Talisman, all of which exuded the purest True Demon Qi, clearly originating from the Heavenly Demon Realm.

The three items were thrown out, and a Thunder Bamboo Sword was inserted into the center. The three streams of true demonic energy intertwined and directly dyed the Thunder Bamboo Sword black.

"It is said that this will attract the ancient demon Asura, and it will relentlessly pursue the owner of the Thunder Bamboo Sword until death... This is a method that cultivators discovered in ancient times when they were dealing with the ancient demon, and they used it to lure him into an ambush."

After doing all this, the Green Lamp Arhat quickly retreated, intending to leave the Ten Thousand Evils Mountain.

"I wonder if repeating the same approach will work!"

The three True Demon Treasures were found in the Kasyapa Sect's treasury; they were spoils of war from True Demons slain in the past.

That Thunder Bamboo Sword was something that the Green Lamp Arhat had gone to great lengths to acquire.

It is said that the Sword of Time was bestowed upon a disciple of the sect, but that disciple unfortunately died in battle, and the flying sword was lost to the outside world.

A third-tier flying sword cost the Green Lamp Arhat the price of a top-grade spiritual treasure.

By doing this, the Asura Ancient Demon will be lured out and will then track it down based on the aura emanating from the Thunder Bamboo Sword.

The Sword Lord of Time is a swordsmith, and no matter how much time has passed, the aura emanating from him will never dissipate.

"Even if he hides, it doesn't matter. The ancient demon will follow the aura on the Thunder Bamboo Sword and return to its original homeland... At that time, neither Rotten Axe Mountain nor the Black Mountain Sect will be able to escape. Let's see if he can still hold back from showing himself!"

Throughout all of this, the Green Lamp Arhat remained in stealth mode.

Simply arranging the True Demon Treasure and Thunder Bamboo Sword in their proper positions, without activating Buddhist teachings, will prevent them from falling out of the Buddhist realm.

If the Kasyapa Sect becomes the master of this world and expands the Ruyi Buddhist Kingdom to the entire region, then the strength of all Buddhist cultivators will undergo earth-shattering changes.

In cases like the Green Lamp Arhat, one could even hide in the Buddhist realm and launch attacks from afar without being attacked by cultivators outside.

(End of this chapter)