Da Zaojun

"Are those who tend the fire and control the flames really that skilled?"

The large black bird transformed into the appearance of a warrior with a bird's head and a human body, but its expression was indifferent.

He was originally a phoenix from heaven, but the phoenix possesses five virtues and is most influenced by the order of the Three Realms and Six Paths.

With the order broken, not only did his status plummet, but he also attracted calamity energy into his body, ultimately losing his mind and falling into the demonic path, becoming a demon in the secret realm.

Later, someone broke into the secret realm and was eaten by him, which restored his intelligence and allowed him to leave the secret realm.

At first, he wanted to learn "Phoenix Crying on Mount Qi" and re-establish his Five Virtues, but he was plagued by disasters. He originally wanted to help the human race, but as soon as he entered the city, disasters befell him.

Ultimately, he transformed all the people of the city into demons, and from this he realized that the Phoenix Path was no longer viable.

As the saying goes, "Phoenix, oh phoenix, what a decline in virtue!"

Nothing more than that.

However, he quickly changed his mindset and soon occupied several more cities, even wanting to take over Hongzhou City.

Every time a city is occupied, the people are all transformed into demons. Their inner desires devour their true selves, turning the greedy, selfish, and tyrannical into different kinds of demons.

Humanity and human nature will never be restored.

The Five Virtues of the Phoenix are a benchmark of morality, and all those who uphold them are virtuous.

After this demon fell into depravity, the Five Virtues transformed into the Five Turbidities, and its inherent power was called the [Five Turbidities Evil World].

It is the Demon Lord's ability to transform the Three Realms that allows him to continuously corrupt the earth with demonic energy, nourish evil, and give birth to demons.

"Your Majesty, if you want to annex Hongzhou Prefecture and advance to the fifth rank, you must confront that cultivator."

The Five Evil Gods flattered, "Our Demon Path is even more ancient and has a history of ruling the Heavenly Court. Even if we lost our positions and were no longer the main figures of Heaven and Earth and were banished to the Demon Path, we still had ten Demon Lords, comparable to the achievements of the Thirty-Three Heavenly Emperors."

"Now that chaos has descended and demons are running rampant, if you can corrupt all living beings with your demonic power, you will surely become the eleventh Demon Lord, and may even have a chance to become the Demon Lord of the Three Realms!"

"That cultivator, although only at the seventh rank, once he takes over Hongzhou Prefecture, he may be able to rise to the fifth rank by taking advantage of the human destiny of Hongzhou."

"Now, in Hongzhou City, the old prefect has exhausted his luck and lifespan. Only the general and the city god of Hongzhou are left to hold on. The siege can be broken if it is prolonged."

"This human cultivator has already reached the seventh rank in a short period of time, and has even set up laws in Taichang County to ban demons. If you had acted sooner, you might not have been able to let this person grow up."

Hei Luan sneered: "In Taichang County, there is that person's Daoist temple. The Xiaoyao Mountain Cave Heaven has been opened, but it still locks up the dragon. Some time ago, I saw a flash of sword light, followed by wind and rain, which was a sign of the dragon's demise."

"Why don't you go yourself? I remember you fled from over there in a panic."

Wutong Shen chuckled. Some time ago, he had left a contingency plan in Cangzhong, intending to use a plague to exterminate the population. Unexpectedly, there were two demons in Taichang, a dragon and a tiger, both of whom possessed the aura of royalty and destiny. He also faintly sensed a powerful aura of Buddhism, which is why he came from Taichang City to Jianxin County.

I never expected there would be a Xiaoyao Mountain.

However, when the world around Xiaoyao Mountain underwent a great change, it was closed off for a period of time. By using the power of the cave heaven, it avoided some of the upheavals in the world. At the same time, the inside and outside were switched, so it is normal that he did not notice it.

Unexpectedly, even amidst the fierce competition, the Buddhist sect had such a cunning backup plan: the city god, who was actually a demon of the Rakshasa, was able to break through the encirclement and carve out a bloody path. "Your Majesty, haven't I come to pledge my allegiance to you? Your Five Turbid World, combined with my Five Animals and Five Paths, one as the master and one as the assistant, can open up the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons! The Fruit of Ten Thousand Demons, to ascend to the supreme position."

"Hehehe." Black Phoenix sneered, immediately abandoning the matter of the Five Paths Evil God's instigation, and said to the other demons under its seat, "Who among you is willing to try his methods?"

Beneath him gathered demons from several surrounding counties, and even city gods, local deities, and ancestral spirits from various ancestral halls that he had personally corrupted...

For example, the royal zombies at the Prince's Tomb, the evil goddess of the Imperial Maiden Temple, and the 48,000-jin bronze Buddha statue at the Bronze Buddha Temple were all tainted by his evil influence.

The rest included a black python spirit, which was a demon formed from the ropes and cables of boats on Poyang Lake.

The River General of the Gan River is the great river-patrolling deity of the Gan River's water system.

The Tree Demon Granny of Beilan Temple.

The essence of the earth veins of Golden Rooster Mountain, the spirit of the Golden Rooster Earth, is a pure golden hen with several chicks... However, it was subdued by this former phoenix and transformed from a blessed earth spirit into a demon of the demonic path.

Including the Five Evil Gods, they were all at the seventh rank, equivalent to great demons who had formed the Golden Core.

There were more than two counts of eighth-rank demons, several hundred ninth-rank demons, and a total of seventy to eighty thousand unranked demons. However, it would take time to transform humans into demons, so seventy to eighty thousand people were raised up, and when they gave birth to spirit children, a few were fed to these old demons and evil gods. The rest were basically used to worship evil Buddhas and evil gods every day, providing them with thoughts of fear as a source of terrifying faith.

These counties, with a population of at least four or five hundred thousand, are now reduced to these few. If it weren't for the Black Phoenix constructing the Demon Blood Pool, which uses demonic energy to continuously transform humans into half-demons and half-demons, and later completely into demons, thus increasing his destiny in the demonic path.

These short-sighted ordinary demons will probably devour the human race to extinction.

Even so, the common people were treated like animals, with only young women who could bear children remaining, and some strong men who were either half-grown or about to reach adulthood.

The rest, the middle-aged and the elderly, were all eaten up.

Among them were even several officials who voluntarily defected, transformed into demons, and came up with the idea.

Just like the tiger demon and pig demon that Song Wuji encountered before, they wanted to raise humans as if they were pigs or chickens.

……

"Your Majesty! Let this humble monk test his abilities!"

The bronze Buddha statue is described as resembling a smiling Maitreya, but it exudes a sinister and ruthless aura. Its entire body is made of bronze, and it holds a bag and a gold ingot in its hand.

He was a bronze Buddha statue cast by a prince who intended to rebel and privately mint copper coins to deceive others. His entire body contains 48,000 catties of copper, which, if converted into copper coins, would be worth 120 million coins.

Copper is money, and money is copper. Under the Buddhist temple's "abundant wealth" policy, this copper Buddha, though in the form of Maitreya, is practicing the Buddhist path of the God of Wealth.

When the chaos caused by demons first arose, the people could buy their lives by donating money to the donation box. However, the donation started as one copper coin a day, then increased to two coins, then five coins, and so on... becoming increasingly greedy... Ultimately, the people were required to exchange their blood, their flesh, and their lives for money...

In the end, Hei Luan was subdued and became one of his generals, all for the purpose of collecting all the copper coins and advancing further.

(End of this chapter)