My monster derivative skills are the orthodox ones

Chapter 374 The Pie in the Sky Painted by Brother Dao
“Our minds have been altered,” the chopping board suddenly said.

"Who is it?" The voice of the cleaver suddenly turned cold and sharp. "Why would he do this? How dare he?"

"Is it possible that the Demon Suppression Tower originally intended to refine you into a single entity, but failed in the end? That's why they had to come up with this method, letting you devour each other and eventually merge into the most powerful demonic energy?" Li Ye offered a possibility.

"Perhaps!" The cleaver paused for a moment, then said, "If what you say is true, I'm afraid there will still be a monster upheaval, a chaos where monsters devour each other. We might very well lose our minds again..."

“Once such a catastrophe occurs, all demonic energy will probably cease to exist,” said the chopping board. “Just now, I was even resentful that I hadn’t devoured the Yellow Wind Monster’s demonic energy.”

In ancient times, I wouldn't even glance at the monsters I killed. Someone has planted desire deep within our hearts..."

"It must be some saint seeking another breakthrough!" the cleaver sneered. "Those guys have gone mad in their pursuit of supreme power."

"Ten thousand years ago, we suddenly lost our minds, which was probably their doing as well," said the Chopping Board. "All demons have owners; if they hadn't lost their minds, what reason would they have to take us into the Demon-Suppressing Tower?"

"Brother Dao, who built the Demon-Suppressing Tower?" Li Ye asked.

"You can't say," said the cleaver. "Once you mention their names, they'll sense it. Your small frame can't withstand a single breath from them."

Gan!
Li Ye's eye twitched, and he felt the urge to curse again.

He hates these interconnected conspiracies the most. The world is so big, can't we just close our doors and live our lives properly?
Along the way, he has experienced many worlds and seemed to be in control of the whole situation, but compared to the methods of a saint who spans tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years and lures all civilizations into the trap, he is nothing!
Saints are the ones who truly achieved this, regarding all things as mere straw dogs!
Compared to those ruthless saints, he lacked so much.

With a sigh, Li Ye asked, "Brother Dao, after you absorbed the Yellow Wind Monster's demonic energy, did you feel any changes?"

“The core has grown a little,” said the cleaver.

"Have your attributes changed?" Li Ye asked. "The Yellow Wind Monster is good at controlling the wind. Do you have any additional wind-controlling attributes?"

"No," the cleaver said. "A demon's attributes are determined by the object it is attached to. I am a cleaver, and there is no way I could awaken the wind control attribute."

"What about devouring other weapons?" Li Ye pressed.

"I don't know then," said the cleaver.

"I can try it next time," Li Ye said, eager to give it a shot.

"Li Ye, are you planning to help the person behind the scenes absorb all the demonic energy?" the kitchen knife asked.

"No, I just want to do some experiments," Li Ye said. "It's not easy for one person to possess many demonic creatures. Combining many demonic creatures into one might have some miraculous effects."

“You’re still indirectly helping the person behind the scenes,” Cai Dao sighed. “You think this way, and so do others. Once everyone is manipulating monsters to devour each other, there will be fewer and fewer monsters in the end. The person behind the scenes might achieve their goal by simply instigating a major war.”

“Brother Dao, even if we don’t do this, we can’t stop all of this from happening,” Li Ye said. “The Linglong Pagoda and the Mountain and River Map were not taken into the Demon Suppression Pagoda. They have accumulated demonic energy for tens of thousands of years. Before, I thought they had escaped the pursuit of the Demon Suppression Pagoda.”

If what you say is true, then those demonic energies were probably deliberately released. The person behind it all wanted to artificially create a gap, because where there is a gap, there will be conflict...

When the catastrophe strikes, if the Map of Mountains and Rivers comes to devour you, what will you rely on to resist? The demonic energy you've accumulated in just a few short years?

The cleaver and the cutting board fell silent at the same time.

"Also, have you considered one possibility?" Li Ye continued.

"What?" asked the kitchen knife.

“The mastermind behind this may want to deal with more than just demonic energy,” Li Ye said.

"What else?" asked the kitchen knife.

“All the gods and immortals,” Li Ye said, “In the cataclysm ten thousand years ago, countless gods and immortals perished. And in the previous world, the Mountain and River Map devoured the Olympian gods…” Cai Dao exclaimed in astonishment, “What exactly are they trying to do? Gather the power of all living beings for one person? This is a demonic method!”

“I have another question,” Li Ye said.

"Speak," said the cleaver.

"Brother Dao, if, I mean if you absorbed all the demonic energy, what do you think you would become in the end? A huge mass of demonic energy?" Li Ye asked.

"I don't know," said the kitchen knife.

"Is it possible for it to be a complete Law Body?" Li Ye asked. "Derivative techniques are all fragments of Laws. It's very possible that by gathering all the demonic energy, it can become a complete Law Body."

"So, what do you want to do?" the kitchen knife asked.

“I don’t want to think about anything, I just want to protect myself,” Li Ye said. “If it’s really as we guessed, I can’t bear such a huge karmic burden, and I can’t save the world. I just want to live peacefully.”

“It’s impossible now,” said the cleaver. “If demonic energy, when gathered together, forms a complete body of law, then your current method will ultimately only turn you into a body of law yourself.”

Li Ye was stunned.

“You are consciously enriching your understanding of marriage, life, music, and even space,” the chopping board said. “Only you could perfect these great principles for countless years.”

But now, you can seize derivative techniques from others. It probably won't be long before you complete the integration of the Great Dao even before a sage does.

"If you are not part of the sage's plan, then your existence will eventually threaten their plans, and they will definitely get rid of you as soon as possible."

The cleaver said, "If you are part of the sage's plan, then everything you are doing now will likely end up benefiting the sage. Given your personality, you will absolutely not be willing to give everything to others, and you will fight to the death."

“So, if our guess comes true, you will eventually have to fight the mastermind behind the scenes,” the chopping board said. “Li Ye, if you are someone like Liao Zhong, you probably will never come into contact with a higher level in your life.”

But you're not like that. People who are too outstanding, no matter where they hide, will eventually become the center of a vortex. The moment you destroyed the Olympian gods and took their powers, you had already embarked on a path of no return.

Li Ye swallowed hard.

"Unless you give up everything you have now," the cleaver said, "but are you willing to do that?"

"Even if you're willing, you've already offended the Eternal Emperor and the Greek gods. If you give up, what will you use to deal with them?" the chopping board said.

The cleaver and cutting board worked in tandem, quickly helping Li Ye to sort things out.

Li Ye took a deep breath and said loudly, "Since we can't give up, let's fight all the way. Who cares about any underhanded dealings? Anyone who tries to mess with me should be prepared to be skinned alive. I don't believe that the mastermind behind the scenes can really control everything."

“That’s more like it!” the cleaver laughed. “Let’s make a huge fuss. Back then, Pangu used me to split the barriers of the universe and create the Great Universe Era. Why can’t you create your own era? Perhaps, when you chose me in the dark, your future was already destined.”

Both are just empty promises, but the one made by the kitchen knife guy sounds so much better!
Li Ye didn't entirely believe what the kitchen knife said.

After all, the so-called implanted mind is just a hypothesis it put forward, and he is just making up stories based on its hypothesis.

His aim was to gain the trust of the kitchen knife and ultimately achieve his goal.

He always needs to improve his strength to help himself survive in the chaotic world, but it's better to have two demons who think they've been tricked and are secretly cooperating with him than two demons who are tripping him up!

Who knows what kind of conspiracy is behind this?
Living in the present moment is the most important thing.

Li Ye smiled and said, "Don't try to provoke me. I know what to do. You're right, I will never let anyone bully me, no matter what."

(End of this chapter)