Recruit demons to become heroes, hunt demons to become gods

Chapter 294 Skillfully Overcoming the Nine Yang Tribulation, Demonic Art Shocks the World

Dou Eqing's expression was more solemn than ever before. He clearly felt that the power of this tribulation far exceeded that of nine hundred years ago. The Ziwei Immortal Mansion could no longer completely block its senses. If he stayed any longer, he would have to consider undergoing the Nine Yang Tribulation here!
The Purple Star Immortal Abode, this self-contained fairyland, is now facing an unprecedented challenge.

The phantom of the nine suns of destruction hung high in the sky above the immortal mansion. Although it was not as solid and terrifying as the outside world, the pressure of the tribulation it emitted still caused this space to tremble violently. The spiritual mist dissipated, the spiritual springs flowed backward, and the distant palaces and pavilions groaned under the unbearable pressure.

"Form the formation! Refine the Soul Evil Armor, return the Five Elements to their origin!"

Dou Eqing roared, and his voice clearly reached the ears of the four women and Feng Qiniang amidst the booming chaos.

Although Feng Qiniang was a newcomer, her cultivation at the peak of the early Mahayana stage and her inexplicable trust in Dou Eqing made her cooperate without hesitation.

The five figures instantly took their positions according to the mysterious directions.

Liu Shuhuang resides in the central position, drawing upon the imperial dragon energy; Shui Xianrong guards the northern Xuanpin position; Youyingyue guards the southern Illusionary Desire position; Ye Na serves the western Honey Pot position; and Feng Qiniang, relying on her Swift Wind Law, firmly sits in the eastern Xun Wind position.

Dou Eqing, as the core of the formation, unleashed the full power of his Six Yang Sacred Body, providing a vast and inexhaustible source of supreme Yang energy.

Om-!
The Soul Refining Evil Armor reappeared, but this time it did not merge into a single demon god. Instead, it transformed into five sets of pitch-black armor covering various parts of the body with interconnected patterns. These armors were attached to the five women, temporarily connecting their aura, soul, and cultivation into a perfect whole. The armors then formed a cycle with Dou Eqing's Six Yang Origin.

Just as they were preparing to face the Nine Yang Tribulation, the first level of Inner Fire Burning Source descended!
An invisible Dao Source Heart Fire was born from the void, directly scorching Dou Eqing, the core of the array.

He groaned, and golden light surged from his body. His six Yang Wheels spun wildly, forcibly refining the burning pain that originated from his very source.

The five women shared some of the pressure through the Soul Refining Evil Armor, but they still felt a burning pain in their souls and their meridians felt like they were being branded.

The second layer of external fire body forging followed immediately!

The sunlight from the celestial palace cast down countless golden threads of fire, like chains from a furnace of heaven and earth, coiling and strangling as they came.

The five women shouted in unison, their power converging through the evil armor.

"Mystic Ice Barrier!" Shui Xianrong held up her hands to the sky, and an extremely cold barrier instantly solidified.

"Imperial Protection!" Liu Shuhuang's phoenix robe billowed, and a golden dragon phantom coiled around her, bestowing its blessing.

"Illusory Desire and Bewilderment!" The shadowy moon's figure shifted, weakening the fire threads' lock.

"Honey Pot Glow!" Yena activated the essence of her Dao, and the pink glow attempted to neutralize the blazing flames.

"The wind of Xun flows!" Feng Qiniang guided the power of the wind, deflecting some of the fire threads.

Dou Eqing then unleashed a punch, the overwhelming power of the Supreme Yang Fist shattering most of the fire threads in front of him.

With their combined efforts, they barely managed to hold them off.

Before they could even rejoice, the third tribulation—the Yin-Yang Reversal—struck down!

The Tribulation of the Supreme Yang triggered the remaining Supreme Yin evil energy within the Immortal Mansion, transforming it into a chaotic torrent of gray-black energy that crashed against the great formation from all directions.

The Yin and Yang energies collided and exploded wildly outside the formation. Each impact caused the five women's blood and qi to surge, and the Soul Refining Evil Armor hummed and cracks appeared.

While they were still fighting the third tribulation, the fourth level of the Heart Demon Soul Devouring directly attacked everyone's soul and consciousness!
The strange power of inner demons ignored physical defenses and directly invaded the consciousness of the six people.

The most terrifying and regrettable scenes from the past are playing out in a frenzy.

"Your Majesty, Celestial Dynasty," Liu Shuhuang said, her face showing struggle.

"Master, the Judgment Hall." Shui Xianrong's eyes were dazed.

The atmosphere of "Han and Tang Dynasties: Old Stories" is chaotic and disordered.

"Master, please don't abandon Na Shi!" Ye Na Shi cried, tears streaming down her face.

“Family feud.” Feng Qiniang bit her lip until it bled.

Dou Eqing also saw Si Qianquan's charred figure and the scene of the entire clan's destruction...

He bit his tongue sharply, and his Six Yang Sacred Soul emitted a dazzling light, shouting, "Guard your spiritual platform! It's all an illusion!"

The six souls supported each other through the evil armor, barely managing to withstand the ravages of their inner demons.

They had just escaped the torment of their inner demons when the fifth level of karmic fire descended upon their soul sea!
Red lotus karmic fire surged from the soles of his feet, scorching away karmic debts and sins.

Dou Eqing committed the most heinous killings, and the flames of karma nearly engulfed him.

The five women were also engulfed in flames for participating in this battle.

Amidst screams, everyone's cultivation was rapidly depleted under the scorching heat of the karmic fire.

Dou Eqing frantically activated the "Demon Devouring Heavenly Art," but there were no demons to devour, so he could only endure them.

Although the five consecutive tribulations were weakened by the Ziwei Immortal Mansion and the six of them managed to withstand them with the help of the Soul Refining Evil Armor, the cost was extremely high.

Pfft!
Feng Qiniang was the first to give in, collapsing to her knees. The Soul Refining Evil Armor covering her body shattered inch by inch, revealing her charred skin, and her aura weakened to the extreme.

Next was Yena, who, in order to share more of Dou Eqing's karmic burden, almost burned away the essence of her Honey Pot Dao Body and fainted.

The Xuanbing armor on Shui Xianrong's body completely melted, and the Frost Dao Foundation was covered with cracks.

The myriad shadows of the Ghostly Moon dissipated, its spirit and soul severely damaged, its form becoming illusory.

Liu Shuhuang's nine-phoenix crown was dull and lifeless, her imperial dragon aura was weak, and blood kept spilling from the corner of her mouth.

Even Dou Eqing's body was cracked, golden blood was constantly seeping out, the rotation speed of his six Yang Wheels was greatly reduced, and their light was dim.

Meanwhile, in the celestial palace, the sixth layer of "Time Reversal" fluctuations had begun to gather, with power far exceeding that of the previous ones!

It can't go on like this!

Looking at the five women on the verge of destruction, Dou Eqing made a decision in an instant.

The Purple Star Immortal Abode can delay the tribulation, but it cannot truly eliminate it. Instead, its existence will drag the five women into a death trap.

Either send the five women out of the Ziwei Immortal Mansion, or Dou Eqing will leave.

If the five women return to the outside world and cannot receive effective treatment, their lives will also be in danger.

Therefore, Dou Eqing had only one choice.

"Stay here and heal your wounds!"

With a low roar, he used his last strength to send the five women into the "Three Lights Divine Water Pool" at the core of the Immortal Abode, which was filled with the divine light of the sun, moon, and stars.

The pool water possesses unparalleled healing properties and may be able to preserve their lives and spiritual foundation.

The next moment, he suddenly looked up at the increasingly clear sixth tribulation in the Immortal Mansion's sky, a madness and determination flashing in his eyes.

"Want to come find me? Then come!"

He swallowed a top-grade eighth-level healing elixir that Liu Huangshu had specially refined for him, forcibly suppressing the injuries in his body. He then transformed into a stream of light and took the initiative to rush out of the Ziwei Immortal Mansion!
The moment he left, the sense of tribulation within the immortal mansion suddenly weakened, and the condensed sixth tribulation blurred and dissipated, and the tremors of the immortal mansion gradually subsided.

In the Three Lights Divine Water Pool, the five unconscious women slowly floated in the miraculous water, their injuries beginning to heal extremely slowly.

As for the outside world, they had no way of knowing what kind of desperate situation Dou Eqing, who had single-handedly led away the Nine Yang Tribulation, would face. They could only furrow their brows in their unconsciousness, as if they could sense the weight and danger that departing figure carried.

Nine hundred years of living together in the Ziwei Immortal Mansion, and hundreds of years of intimate cultivation, have created an emotional bond between them and Dou Eqing that is comparable to that between Daoist couples.

But now, the only way they can help Dou Eqing is to heal their own injuries.

Dragging his tattered holy body, and with the Nine Yang Tribulation behind him solidified and fully unleashed, Dou Eqing charged headlong into the battlefield of the war between good and evil, a place that could provide him with a sliver of "supplies" and "shield"!
The real test of life and death has only just begun.

"go!"

He made a decisive move, using his divine sense to gather the White Tiger Demon-Slaying Blade beside him, transforming it into a purple streak of light and rushing out of the Purple Star Immortal Mansion.

Outside, hundreds of miles away from where they had originally taken refuge, was the heart of the fiercely contested battlefield between the righteous and demonic forces!

As soon as Dou Eqing arrived on the ground, he discovered the battle situation there. On a whim, he teleported to the core of the battle between the righteous and the demonic forces.

When he was only thirty miles away from the core of the battle, he clearly sensed more than ten beings with higher cultivation levels than him.

Fortunately, they were still in the Mahayana stage; otherwise, his next plan would not have been able to be implemented.

Above the sky, seven righteous cultivators in the late Mahayana stage joined forces to set up the "Big Dipper Immortal Slaying Formation," their brilliant starlight transforming into a massive light shield, desperately resisting the "Eight Desolate Purgatory Demon Formation" composed of eight demonic cultivators in the late Mahayana stage.

Demonic flames surged to the heavens, ghosts wailed and gods howled; the battle between the two sides had reached a fever pitch, the space within a radius of ten thousand miles was shattered, the laws were in chaos, and it resembled a scene of apocalypse.

Dou Eqing's appearance was like throwing a boulder into a boiling pot of oil!

He completely ignored the astonished gazes of both sides, and, controlling the Nine Yang Tribulation that was relentlessly pursuing him, as if dragging a destructive star field, he suddenly plunged headlong into the "Big Dipper Immortal Slaughtering Formation"!
"How dare you, thief!"

The old Taoist priest in purple robes who was in charge of the formation was shocked and furious, and hurriedly activated the formation to resist.

However, how could mortal formations withstand the destructive power of the Nine Yang Tribulation? The moment the golden light of the tribulation collided with the Big Dipper's starlight, the great formation's light shield twisted violently, groaning under the strain!

"boom--!"

As the Dao Tribulation erupted, the blazing white Dao Source Heart Fire connected along the array and instantly invaded the bodies of the seven righteous Dao Mahayana cultivators!
The seven people screamed in agony at the same time, feeling as if their dantian had fallen into a furnace, and the source of their magical power, which they had cultivated for thousands of years, was ignited and burned wildly!
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Dou Eqing briefly hid under the crumbling array, using it to absorb some of the tribulation's power. A fierce glint flashed in his eyes, and he unleashed the Devouring Demon Heavenly Art!
"Devouring heaven and earth, gathering primordial energy and returning to nothingness!"

A terrifying suction force erupted from his body. The seven righteous cultivators who were painfully resisting the burning of their hearts with their incomparably pure righteous cultivation, along with their ignited origins, were almost uncontrollably about to leave their bodies. They could only sacrifice a small portion of their origins to temporarily slow down Dou Eqing's absorption.

Thus, a small portion of their original essence transformed into seven torrents, which were forcibly devoured by Dou Eqing!
"You devil! You..."

However, an even stronger Nine Yang Tribulation followed immediately...

The old Taoist in purple robes had eyes that were about to burst. Before he could finish speaking, he and the other six people turned into ashes. Their cultivation became the first batch of nourishment for Dou Eqing to fight against the Dao Tribulation!
After devouring seven late-stage Mahayana cultivators, the immense energy instantly replenished his energy consumption and even made the seventh Yang Wheel more solid.

But before he could catch his breath, the second tribulation of "external fire tempering" which had been suppressed within his body suddenly erupted again!
At the same time, a "Great Sun Golden Flame" as thick as a mountain crashed down from the heavens!
Dou Eqing's figure flashed again, and he charged towards the "Eight Desolate Purgatory Demon Array" on the other side in the same manner!
"Well done! Swallow this thunder and fire for me!"

The mastermind behind the demon array, a red-haired demon lord, was not alarmed but rather delighted. He manipulated the demon array to transform into a gigantic maw that devoured the heavens, actively facing the golden flames of the great sun, intending to refine and absorb them.

However, he greatly underestimated the terror of the Nine Yang Tribulation!
The moment the golden flames of the great sun fell into the giant mouth of the demon array, the entire demon array was like an ice block thrown into a steel furnace, instantly vaporizing by more than half!

The eight demonic cultivators didn't even have time to scream before they were completely annihilated!
Their cause and effect of death were instantly absorbed and transformed into immeasurable merit by the immeasurable merit pearl in Dou Eqing's soul sea!
Dou Eqing, in a single thought, exchanged his immeasurable merits for high-grade Heavenly Origin Liquid.

In an instant, a drop of eighth-order Heavenly Origin Liquid, radiating seven-colored light and containing endless vitality and the power of creation, quietly condensed in his sea of ​​consciousness!

Dou Eqing was overjoyed, but dared not pause for a moment.

Like a calamity meteor, he darted wildly through the chaotic battlefield, constantly drawing the Nine Yang Tribulation towards areas where both righteous and demonic cultivators were concentrated, especially those areas that formed battle formations.

"What is that? Get out of the way!"

"Damn it! He's inviting heavenly calamity to harm people!"

"Let's join forces and kill him!"

After recovering from their initial shock, both the righteous and the demonic forces roared angrily, wanting to eliminate Dou Eqing, this scourge, first.

Several incredibly powerful magical artifacts and supernatural abilities bombarded him.

However, Dou Eqing did not confront them head-on. Instead, he used the "Phantom Escape Technique" and the short-distance spatial teleportation ability newly granted by the Ziwei Immortal Mansion to narrowly avoid attacks, always "gifting" the devastating power of the Dao Tribulation to his enemies.

Rumble!
Perhaps because it came to the outside world, the Nine Yang Tribulation seemed to start from scratch, except that the power of the first few tribulations was greatly reduced.

Then, the third level of "Yin-Yang Reversal" and the fourth level of "Heart Demon Soul Devouring" erupted one after another!
More Mahayana cultivators were caught up in it, either shattered by the conflicting Yin and Yang energies within their bodies, or succumbing to the illusions of their inner demons and destroying themselves.

Dou Eqing, however, seemed to have developed immunity, able to withstand every tribulation with ease.

The cultivation levels of both righteous and demonic cultivators, along with the massive merits generated from their deaths, all became resources and Heavenly Origin Liquid for Dou Eqing!

The battlefield was in complete chaos!
The original battle between good and evil turned into a three-way melee, with Dou Eqing and his Nine Yang Tribulation becoming the absolute protagonists and the source of disaster!

"Junior! Looking for death!"

Finally, the old monster at the Tribulation Transcending Realm was alerted!
A furious roar, like thunder from the heavens, and a giant claw covered in blue scales tore through the void, carrying the terrifying pressure of the early stage of the Tribulation Transcending Realm, fiercely grabbing at Dou Eqing!
This is a powerful demon who has been hiding for a long time! He came to a ninth-tier demonic sect to cultivate the Demonic Path Sect.

Dou Eqing was not alarmed but delighted, and charged towards the giant claw!

"Well done!"

He actually deliberately directed the fifth level of the "Karmic Fire Burning the Soul" tribulation towards that giant claw!

Caught off guard, the powerful demon was instantly entangled in the crimson lotus flames with his giant claws. He roared in pain and hurriedly retreated into the void, no longer daring to make a move.

Dou Eqing followed the same method, using the Dao Tribulation to frighten away two Transcending Tribulation Realm cultivators who were trying to make a move.

However, each level of the Nine Yang Tribulation is more terrifying than the last!
As the sixth "time reversal" descended, the spacetime rift opened above Dou Eqing's head, and fish-scale-like ripples appeared on the bluestone pavement.

His fingernails dug deep into his palms as he watched each stone slab beneath his feet reflect a different version of himself from different years—a young boy holding a blood-stained broken sword, a young cultivator kneeling in the snow digging for frozen spiritual herbs.

These fragments are gnawing at each other, and every interplay of light and shadow is tearing at his soul.

The sticky rain suddenly swept horizontally, and the icy water droplets shattered the knuckles of his right hand, which was forming a hand seal.

Dou Eqing's soul was almost pulled back to its initial, weakest moment and crushed;

The seventh level, "The Annihilation of All Laws," was imminent, with the dark purple demonic light leaking through the clouds of calamity. Meanwhile, the true essence that had surged within his meridians for millennia was like a river that had been drained, its exposed riverbed riddled with cracks.

The remaining protective barrier of the laws on his left hand barely grazed the twisted lightning, and his skin instantly emitted a murky smoke of charred flesh and blood.

As he staggered backward, he kicked and shattered half of the bluestone that was in the retrograde motion, and suddenly felt a phantom pain in his ankle, which had been bitten through by a demon dog when he was eight years old.

Countless dust of memories solidified into physical form in the vortex of time and space. Sharp, tooth-shaped black sand scraped against his primordial spirit, and more fragments of his childhood seeped into his internal organs through his pores—the frail body that once huddled in the woodshed coughing was now tearing apart his Vajra body, which had undergone eight hundred years of tribulation, from within.

From the depths of the tribulation clouds came a muffled thud as bones dislocated, and the last three inches of the heart-protecting mirror shattered into copper slag.

Dou Eqing barely managed to turn over in the turbulent flow of time and space. His earlobe brushed against a fragment that reflected the scene of his master's death, and dark red blood beads connected in the air to form a broken life line.

As the Demonic Light of Annihilation broke through the clouds and fell again, he suddenly opened his blood-stained mouth towards the billions of chaotic lightning bolts in the sky and, with the ferocity of a mortal fighting for his life, unleashed a white fist towards the heavens.

The seventh level of "annihilation of all laws" temporarily rendered his supernatural powers ineffective, and he was almost struck by a demonic light!
He swallowed the drop of eighth-order Heavenly Origin Liquid without hesitation!
The immense power of creation surged through his body in an instant, repairing all damage, replenishing all consumption, and even giving him a momentary clear understanding of the Great Dao of Yang, barely managing to withstand these two tribulations!
But the eighth level, "Void Exile," follows immediately!

His consciousness was stripped away and thrown into endless, cold, chaotic nothingness; eternal loneliness almost extinguished his true spirit!

The moment the forbidden void technique descended, ten bolts of lightning transformed into nine burning golden crows that swooped down, trapping Dou Eqing in the center of a cage interwoven with purple lightning.

Dou Eqing's pupils cracked open, unleashing crimson-gold primordial fire. Eight tangled, demonic dragon phantoms exploded from his spine, forcefully tearing through the lightning prison shackles.

"town!"

His roar stirred up a sea of ​​blood, his joints emitted an ancient sacrificial sound, and his right palm shattered the void, revealing a giant bronze stele.

The inscription on the stele bears the imprint of the destruction of stars in the early primordial era, with thousands of meteorite fragments crashing down amidst it.

Dou Eqing's third vertical eye split open on his forehead, and blood droplets shot out, transforming into a crimson qilin that surged through the air.

The two world-destroying forces collided and exploded into a yin-yang symbol, with thirty-three layers of sword energy bursting out from the void rift.

His demonic robe was slashed open with twenty-seven bloody gashes, but as the flesh rolled back, golden dragon breath gushed out from the wounds.

The sound that echoed between heaven and earth was the clanging of his bones colliding, with each fracture bursting forth with blazing white ancestral thunder.

The red mark between Dou Eqing's eyebrows finally collapsed completely, and the life essence he spat out condensed into a nine-zhang-tall Buddha phantom in the air.

As the Buddha's palm pressed down, ten thousand evil spirits and vengeful souls coiled around him, but the moment they touched his crown, they were stained into black-gold lotus flowers by the chaotic energy bursting from his seven orifices.

Just as that divine flame, powerful enough to incinerate the heavens, was about to engulf the entire arena, his left pupil suddenly turned as clear as ice.

The severed right arm fragments formed a fragmented Dao diagram in the void, and ancient witch runes rapidly grew on his skin.

A mighty dragon roar came from the depths of the void, tearing through the sky, and the originally scattered lightning actually condensed into a materialized ancient Yinglong.

As Dou Eqing fell, all 720 acupoints on his body simultaneously spewed out blood mist, turning into ashes in mid-air before even hitting the ground.

The chaotic vortex that appeared in the sky suddenly shrank to the tip of a needle, sucking all the remaining fragments of divine souls into the Primordial Abyss.

Just as his consciousness was about to fade away—"The Devouring Heaven Demon Art?!"

A female voice, filled with utter shock, excitement, and even a slight tremor, pierced through the endless void and resounded directly within his soul, which was on the verge of collapse!
Immediately afterwards, an irresistible, gentle yet boundless force forcibly tore through the void, pulling his consciousness back to reality and forming a black bubble shield that firmly protected him within.

The supreme yang Dao shadow formed by the ninth level "Dao Shadow Confrontation" crashed hard into the water bubble, but it only stirred up layers of ripples and could not break through!

Dou Eqing looked up blankly and saw a woman dressed in a black palace gown, with unparalleled beauty and an aura as deep as the ocean, standing not far from him. Her beautiful eyes were fixed on the unique aura fluctuations emanating from him as he circulated the "Devouring Demon Heavenly Art". Her eyes were filled with complex emotions, including reminiscence, sadness, and an almost obsessive excitement.

The battlefield had temporarily come to a standstill, and all the surviving cultivators, whether righteous or demonic, looked at the suddenly appearing woman with awe—Yang Yang, the current leader of the Sea Demon Sect and a peak Tribulation Transcending expert!

"Kuan Hai's Devouring Heaven Demon Art"

The voice of the Sect Leader Yang Yang carried a barely perceptible sob as she walked step by step toward Dou Eqing, completely ignoring the righteous cultivators who were eyeing her menacingly and the heavens that were still roaring but unable to unleash their tribulation. "Child...you...you are his successor?"

Dou Eqing was stunned, then instantly understood.

This sudden savior was actually due to the karma between his cultivation technique and Kuan Hai!

Yang Yang didn't give him a chance to explain. With a wave of her jade-like hand, a gentle force swept him and the remaining high-ranking members of the Hezong Sect who were watching from afar, and coldly swept her gaze across the entire scene:

"This man is protected by our Sea Demon Sect! Anyone who dares to touch him is an enemy of our Sea Demon Sect!"

Before the words were even finished, space distorted, and the group of people vanished.

All that remained was a devastated battlefield, heavy casualties on both the righteous and demonic sides, and the lingering power of the Nine Yang Calamity slowly dissipating in the sky as it lost its target.
Dou Eqing miraculously survived the Nine Yang Tribulation in this way, and was rescued by a demonic sect leader at the peak of the Tribulation Transcending stage, who treated him as a "family member".

But his true tribulations and opportunities seem to have only just begun.
(End of this chapter)