Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 407 The Discipline of Calamity
Twenty years have passed.

On a star that had been transformed into an abyss plaza, countless cultivators emerged from various spatial portals and arrived at an incredibly vast market, either exchanging items or purchasing supplies from the various buildings within the plaza.

As Zhou Zun stepped out of the portal, before he could even recover from the dangerous mission, he overheard a conversation between some of his disciples.

Suddenly, Zhou Zun's expression changed.
"Isn't the fundamental law of the Demon Lord, the 'Demon Codex,' still a hundred years away from completion?"

How come it's happening so much earlier now? The future has changed; will I still be able to seize those opportunities later?

The more Zhou Zun thought about it, the gloomier his face became.

He knew that the biggest factor in changing the future was him.

He used information from the future to directly or indirectly provide the Demon Lord with a large amount of high-end resources, accelerating the forging of the "Demon Codex".

Before the "Demon Codex" was completed, the Abyss Temple had a large number of cultivation techniques from various systems, including Taoist, demonic, and Buddhist cultivation.

Once the "Demon Codex" is completed, other techniques, supernatural abilities, and spells not included in the codex will see a significant price increase within the Abyss Temple. Many disorganized inheritances will gradually disappear from the technique shops, because the Demon Lord wants his disciples to cultivate the "Demon Codex."

The "Demon Codex" is not bad. In the future, this cultivation method will be directly developed to the level of a celestial book. In the starry sky, apart from the Dao scriptures of the three Dao Ancestors, this cultivation method can be considered a second-level inheritance, not much different from the inheritance of many great sects and religions that have been passed down for hundreds of millions of years.

But that's the future. Right now, this "Demon Codex" has many loopholes. It's fine before the Nascent Soul stage, but if you break through to the Divine Transformation stage, all sorts of problems may arise. If you can solve those problems, that's fine, but if you can't, you'll most likely become a real demon.

As the Demon Lord completes the "Demon Codex," many demon disciples will rise rapidly and spread their slaughter to more star systems. Afterward, the disciples of other gods and immortals will form an alliance to besiege the demon disciples, making their already difficult situation even more dire.

Sure enough, after Zhou Zun returned to Tianlan Star...

The entire nation of Tianlan Star began to stir.

In recent years, the reputation of the Demon Lord on Tianlan Star has been approaching that of the three Dao Ancestors.

In some countries, the Demon Disciple is even the only option for job advancement.

Although the Dao Ancestor is powerful, to become his disciple, one must have a top-grade spiritual root, that is, a single spiritual root, as a basic requirement, and then undergo extensive testing.

The Demon Disciples are different. The Demon Lord recruits disciples indefinitely. Not to mention inferior spiritual roots like mixed five-elemental spiritual roots, even mortals, as long as they are deemed valuable, can have their spiritual roots modified by the Demon Temple to become Demon Disciples.

In particular, the Demon Lord also possesses the Heavenly Book inheritance, which has a very low lower limit while its upper limit is incredibly high.

Zhou Zun has been a disciple of the demon for fifty years and is already a well-known figure on Tianlan Star.

For the first thirty years, Zhou Zun remained at the Qi Refining stage, attracting countless covetous eyes.

However, relying on various treasures, he killed more than one Nascent Soul cultivator on Tianlan Star, and countless other cultivators below the Nascent Soul level.

After Zhou Zun acquired the Heavenly Book cultivation technique, he cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage in just twenty years, becoming the strongest person on the Blue Sky Star and basically eliminating all the powerful enemies on the planet.

Some cultivators who have accumulated enough knowledge will establish their own power, become immortals or gods on their own planets, start recruiting disciples, and then slowly venture into the starry sky.

Zhou Zun's accumulated knowledge is even comparable to that of some newly promoted True Immortals. He possesses countless supernatural powers and cultivation methods, and he also has methods to allow believers to traverse the starry sky and enter various special celestial phenomena.

It can be said that if he were to become a human immortal or a human god and recruit believers, he could quickly establish his own power and then strengthen his human destiny.

However, Zhou Zun currently has no intention of becoming a human immortal or a human god.

In the vast expanse of space, virtually no life-bearing planets are unclaimed.

The three Dao Ancestors allowed immortals and gods to spread their teachings freely, but this was only in name. In reality, the human populations on many inhabited planets were already assigned by the immortals and gods.

The reason why the Demon Lord can freely spread his teachings on these planets is that the celestial and divine forces in the starry sky know the location of the Demon Lord, but they cannot break in at all. On the contrary, many celestial and divine forces have had their fortunes collapsed by the Demon Lord.

If it weren't for the legacy sects left by the three Dao Ancestors on each planet, the surrounding star systems might have been monopolized by the Demon Lord.

In his previous life, Zhou Zun did not know how the Demon Lord was able to roam freely in the core area.

In this life, I've come to understand some things.

Perhaps the Demon Lord is a Nascent Soul cultivator, but he is protected by many powerful immortals and gods, especially those bloodthirsty Buddhist cultivators with unbelievably strong combat power who seem to be immortal.

The starry sky is like a hunting ground, where human fortune and destiny converge into a river, and small tributaries can hardly support it.

On the planet Tianlan, there are also native human immortals, but earth immortals who can travel to the starry sky are extremely rare in history.

If one's own strength is not strong enough, even if an abnormal space appears on Tianlan Star, the local immortals might not be qualified to let their disciples enter.

By retaining their status as disciples of the demons, they could use the power of the demon overlord to enter forbidden zones that were previously restricted by major sects and religions.

That's right. In the future, the Demon Lord will enter the core area and compete with many major sects and religions for the many rare and precious treasures in this starry sky.

The various opportunities in the core area are what Zhou Zun values ​​most.

Zhou Zun arrived at his company.

Seeing the logistics staff busy at their computers, either planning tasks for their teams or assigning tasks to new recruits, I nodded to myself.

Zhou Zun recruited a large number of mortals and demon disciples as his company's subordinates. The mortals were put in charge of logistics, while the demon disciples went to abnormal spaces that were time-consuming or yielded little reward. Arriving at his office, Zhou Zun looked at the two long lines of people downstairs and remained silent.

Since the Demon Lord recruited a large number of disciples, it seems that Tianlan Star is about to fall into chaos. According to the information he just saw on his way back to the office, a large number of demon disciples are now burning, killing and looting. Some experts predict that the means of production will be greatly reduced, and becoming disciples of immortals and gods will become the mainstream in the future.

Of course, even if no one farms, there probably won't be any famines on Sky Blue Star, because you only need a few points to get a lot of food from the gods and immortals.

Even though the death rate of Demon Disciples is the highest among Immortal Disciples, there are still many people who want to become Demon Disciples.

Especially for mortals, while other immortals and gods also have ways to generate spiritual roots after birth, none of them are as cost-effective as the Demon Lord's method.

In the various demon temples, mortals only need to pay a certain number of points to change their class.

The Demon Disciple starts with an initial score.

The initial points are not free; they are secured by mortgaging one's soul.

If you die without repaying your debts, your soul will be taken away by the Demon Temple.

The mortals of the Blue Star are willing to become disciples of demons not because they are not afraid of death, but because the birth of a large number of demon disciples in the future will inevitably lead to social unrest.

Rather than waiting until tragedy strikes and you are powerless to change it, it's better to take a chance.

Just then, Zhou Zun's assistant walked in.

"Boss, in the Demon Temple, the price of spiritual root modification has dropped significantly. The Demon Overlord has completed its fundamental law and has begun to officially expand its humanistic fortune."

Seeing that other professional recruitment agencies were starting to hire in large numbers, I discussed it with several other fleet captains and we also began training new recruits on a large scale.

“Well done. Next, the Demon Disciples will face an even more severe situation, and expanding the company’s ten fleets is of utmost urgency.”

"However, the matter of the Demon Lord seems to violate the rules of the three major Taoist sects. Could this be..."

"There's no need to worry. The three religions have only invested a portion of their power into the Great Thousand World, and most of that power is concentrated in the core area and the fight against the demon race."

Zhou Zun did not tell his assistant that even if the three religions wanted to deal with the Demon Lord, it would probably not be easy.

In the future, the Demon Lord entered the core area, and his style of doing things remained unchanged. Although he was sometimes attacked and his lair was destroyed, he was not punished by the three religions until his reincarnation.

Clearly, the power of the Demon Lord is not something that the three religions can easily subdue.

The assistant looked worried, but seeing Zhou Zun's confident demeanor, he didn't say anything more.

After the assistant gave a brief report, he left.

After activating the array in his office, Zhou Zun conjured a longsword radiating orange light with a flick of his wrist.
"I have finally obtained one of the Seven-Colored Swords, which are treasures that contain some of the Calamity Commandments."

In the Demon Temple, any rare treasures brought out by the disciples, imbued with the power of calamity, are virtually impossible to escape the temple's detection. Disciples who attempt to conceal them are almost always executed by the temple.

However, the most precious treasure in times of calamity is not among them.

Because the treasure of calamity has a connection even deeper than that of soul binding.

In the starry sky, the strongest disciples usually possess precious components and can utilize a portion of the Calamity Commandments.

Of course, if the complete Calamity Treasure were to appear, it would mean that even the gods and immortals would take action.

Although immortals and gods cannot make their disciples' treasures "fall," they can kill the disciples and let the treasures return to the starry sky.

Immortals and gods without sufficient power cannot protect the most precious treasures.

If I can collect the Seven-Colored Sword, I will have to give up my identity as a disciple of the demon.

After spending three months on Tianlan Star, Zhou Zun teleported back to Demon Square and then led a group of his company's combat team members into the portal.

On a shattered piece of land, hundreds of warships emerged from space.

At the same time, countless disciples of immortals and gods appeared on this land, some riding star fortresses, others flying boats, and still others riding spirit beasts.

All living beings that enter this space will receive information about calamities.

This information is the condition for the manifestation of the Calamity Treasure, the completion of some great feat, the slaying of a specific group of beings, or doing something insignificant.

Within the Calamity Space, obtaining supreme treasures requires not only strength but also "fate." If you are destined, you may learn about the fragments or even components of supreme treasures.

Zhou Zun obtained the materialized information of a rare treasure called "Shattered Jade". This treasure was considered a low-grade treasure and was not very valuable.

Subsequently, the orange longsword within Zhou Zun's body vibrated, and then a series of messages appeared in his mind, receiving the information conditions for the manifestation of over a hundred extraordinary treasures.

"This is troublesome. The most valuable thing in the shattered earth is the fragment of the supreme treasure, the Rift of Heaven. This time, despite shaking the Calamity Law, we were unable to access information about this."

Thinking it over, Zhou Zun contacted the other members of the fleet and asked them to pass on the information he had received.

(End of this chapter)