Dongxuan Spiritual Realm

Chapter 31 The Inner Demon Gains Spiritual Energy

Only a few months in the mountains, but a thousand years in the world.

In the blink of an eye, Yang Qisheng had spent more than two years in Longgao Mountain.

He successfully completed the foundation-building process, perfected his cultivation to the Great Zhoutian realm, and also refined the Five Elements Sword Qi.

Xuanmen sword energy, the combined practice of the five elements is much more difficult than practicing any one of them alone. It requires the simultaneous practice of the five kinds of essence, according to the time and place, following the changes of mutual generation and restraint, and practicing in turns to maintain the balance of the five elements.

If you practice only one sword energy, it will take three years, and if you practice all five elements together, it will take at least twenty to thirty years!
Thanks to the experience of the demonic calamity in Wutou Mountain, Yang Qisheng first refined the Five Elements Sword Qi in the demonic realm. Now he can go back and refine it with twice the result with half the effort.

In addition, he used the residual power of his master's Dongxuan spiritual realm to kill the inner demon, which was also an important reason why he was able to cultivate smoothly without any danger and without any bottlenecks.

Ever since the inner demon was killed, it has been a puppet statue, placed by Yang Qisheng on the table in the bedroom.

Ever since he entered the realm of small Zhoutian, the inner demon puppet has "come alive"!

That day, when Yang Qisheng finished his meditation and opened his eyes, he saw a girl in white standing in front of him, looking at him with resentment and grievance in her eyes.

Yang Qisheng was startled. Seeing that his inner demon had come back to life, he hurriedly made hand gestures and cast a spell, releasing the magical golden talisman to seal the other party again.

Seeing him act like this, the other party said quietly, "You can't seal me. Originally, you were in the 'River Cart Realm', your body isolated from the heaven and earth. Now that you've entered the 'Cycle Realm', you've begun to absorb spiritual energy from the heaven and earth. I can also absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and moon."

Yang Qisheng didn't expect that as his realm broke through, this inner demon also changed.

He clearly remembered the scene in the devil's realm when the devil caused the earth to crack and released millions of stone tablets!
He carefully concentrated his mind and communicated with the consciousness of Mingyi Zhenren in his mind.

Mingyi Zhenren told him, "Don't worry. She's merely the product of your demonic thoughts and feelings. Her thoughts are illusory, but her spirit is ethereal and insubstantial, unable to raise even a speck of dust. All of her magical powers are present within her consciousness. But you must be careful not to deprive her of her Yuan Qi. If she does, she'll be able to influence the real world."

Yang Qisheng breathed a sigh of relief. "She said she could absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the essence of the sun and moon. Does that mean she can obtain 'Original Qi' from heaven and earth without me?"

"Yes," Mingyi Zhenren said affirmatively, "but the speed is very slow, slower than the speed at which ordinary spirits and ghosts absorb spiritual energy. What you need to worry about is not being influenced by her mentally, because she is very good at bewitching people."

Yang Qisheng completely put his mind at ease. At this moment, Heishan Xiaoqian was not even as powerful as an ordinary red-clothed ghost, so she was not to be feared.

"Sir." Heishan Xiaoqian came closer, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, revealing a beautiful smile. "Who are you communicating with? You're saying I'm not even as good as an ordinary red-clothed ghost?"

Yang Qisheng was startled and after asking Mingyi Zhenren, he found out that this guy was his inner demon. Theoretically, his thoughts were the same as his, and he could sense whatever he was thinking!
He hurriedly asked Mingyi Zhenren for advice on how to deal with it. Mingyi Zhenren told him, "The inner demons of ordinary people are all in the hearts of practitioners, and they are inseparable. It's a rare opportunity like yours to slay the inner demons, which is rare even in a thousand years. There is no ready-made method for it, but the Lingbao Five Talismans Sutra contains the skills to concentrate the mind, and the Lingbao Saving People Sutra contains the methods to save all people, gods, demons and ghosts. We can combine them and see if we can create a new method."

With the help of Mingyi Zhenren, Yang Qisheng spent more than ten days and finally figured out a way to control his inner demons.

He managed to keep Heishan Xiaoqian by his side and exclude her from his body. Anyone who tried to influence his mind would be burned by the Samadhi True Fire and suffer unbearable pain.

After several attempts, she finally learned her lesson: "From now on, I will serve you as a slave. Please be kind to me and reward me with some Yuan Qi so that I can do things for you."

As she spoke, she stuck out her tongue, which in a blink of an eye was more than two feet long and dripping with blood. She stretched it to Yang Qisheng's feet and licked the soles of his feet.

Yang Qisheng almost jumped out of the bed and quickly retracted his foot.

Heishan Xiaoqian retracted her tongue and said, "I am just a formless spirit now, unable to touch you. Please reward me with some Yuan Qi, so I can warm your bed and cuddle your feet."

Yang Qisheng made a hand gesture with his right hand, and Samadhi True Fire appeared at his fingertips.

Heishan Xiaoqian screamed, covered her face with her sleeves, and flew backwards to a place three meters away from Yang Qisheng. The maximum distance she could be away from Yang Qisheng now was three meters.

"Sir, please forgive me. I will never dare to do that again!"

Yang Qisheng then withdrew his spell, telling her to stop disturbing him. However, this inner demon, born from the human heart, was lively and energetic, unable to calm down for a moment. Confined to a circle with Yang Qisheng as the center and a radius of three meters, she had nothing to do. Even if she didn't disturb Yang Qisheng, she would find something to do herself, either circling him three times clockwise and three times counterclockwise, or staring fixedly at one spot, muttering to herself, "Back then, I was king in hell, the lord of the City of the Dead, with a hundred thousand ghost soldiers under my command. How majestic..."

As long as she didn't actively interfere with Yang Qisheng's practice, Yang Qisheng would ignore her and practice on his own, instead using this inner demon as a whetstone for his own state of mind.

Despite being constantly disturbed by his inner demons for twelve hours every day, Yang Qisheng cultivated his mind to a level of clarity and purity, like a flawless bright moon. His kung fu was a hundred times more powerful than that cultivated in a quiet environment!
Black Mountain Xiaoqian has a physical form but no substance. Originally, only Yang Qisheng could see her. Even Ye Yunqiao was unaware of her existence.

But ever since Yang Qisheng entered the Zhoutian realm, every time she interacted with the heaven and earth with spiritual energy, there would always be a trace of it that escaped and was captured by her. She worked very hard to absorb spiritual energy from the heaven and earth, and over time, she gradually began to reveal her physical form. When Ye Yunqiao first saw her, he was very frightened, thinking that he had encountered a female ghost. If she had not been careful and abstained from killing, she would have directly released the sharp sword energy to kill the ghost and the evil!
Yang Qisheng briefly explained the matter of Heishan Xiaoqian and explained that it was his own inner demon. Only then did Ye Yunqiao feel relieved.

Heishan Xiaoqian saw an opportunity in Ye Yunqiao, and took advantage of the situation where Yang Qisheng and Ye Yunqiao were next to each other, and went through the wall to find Ye Yunqiao.

At first, she just chatted with Ye Yunqiao, chatting about her own affairs, asking about his situation. When she heard that his stepmother abused him, she shared his hatred and cursed his stepmother as a demon, saying that she would definitely die a miserable death. When she heard that his brother Ye Xueqiao was missing, she gently comforted him, saying that his brother was definitely fine, that he must have been taken away by an immortal, and that he would become a sword immortal like him in the future and ride a five-colored flying sword to reunite with him.

Over time, the man and the demon became familiar with each other. When Ye Yunqiao was practicing, she would sometimes come to help. Whenever Ye Yunqiao had some thoughts or fantasies, she would enter Ye Yunqiao's consciousness and remind him loudly: "Keep quiet! Don't let your thoughts wander! Lock up your mind and collect your thoughts!" and pull Ye Yunqiao back from the illusion.

If she had caught up with Ye Yunqiao when he was using the "Duren Sutra" to save the clam spirit's soul, she would have taken the initiative to help. She would have learned the sutra, read it to the clam spirit, and helped explain it, comforting the clam spirit and asking it to stop holding a grudge against Ye Yunqiao: "He has already realized his mistakes and is trying to make amends. If you continue to hate him, it will only hinder your future achievements. If you let go of your hatred for him and dissipate your resentment, he will send you to reincarnation. Wouldn't that be better? It is your own hatred that is hindering your achievements now!"

With her continuous help, Ye Yunqiao became more and more grateful to her, and gradually gave her a lot of Yuan Qi.

Yang Qisheng didn't know about this at first, but when he found that the figure of this demon was becoming clearer and clearer, and he began to be able to perform some small spells, such as controlling the tea set to pour water and wash cups through the air, he was surprised and cast a spell to interrogate her. Only then did he know what she had been planning for this period of time, and he told Ye Yunqiao not to give her Yuan Qi anymore.

Ye Yunqiao was a man who knew how to repay a favor: "Whether she was a ghost or a demon, she didn't harm me and even helped me a lot several times. If it were up to me, I might as well use the 'Lingbao Sutra to save people' to convert her as well..."

Yang Qisheng looked at him with a strange look in his eyes. "You're not infatuated with her because of her beauty, are you? She's the product of my inner demon. She doesn't differentiate between male and female. If she wants, she can transform into one hundred and twenty genders, not just male and female. She's also formless and invisible. Her current appearance is just a transformation. She can also transform into extremely terrifying forms."

"I know. I know everything you said, but so what? After all, she helped me a lot."

Yang Qisheng took a deep breath, exhaled, and said with a smile: "Brother, you are really kind and compassionate now. You can even feel compassion for this kind of inner demon. It is really commendable."

Since he couldn't stop Ye Yunqiao from giving her Yuan Qi, Yang Qisheng tried to stay three meters away from Ye Yunqiao and not give them any chance to come into contact.

Heishan Xiaoqian's face was full of resentment again. She flew around Yang Qisheng and kept muttering, but Yang Qisheng just turned a deaf ear to her.

On weekdays, in addition to practicing in the cave, the two brothers would occasionally go outside to practice sword fighting.

Yang Qisheng practiced all five elements, while Ye Yunqiao specialized in one. At the beginning, Ye Yunqiao had to hold back his energy.

His sharp sword energy was extremely sharp. When Yang Qisheng's five-colored sword energy stabbed at him side by side, he could cut off all five sword energies with a casual stroke of his hand.

At a normal speed, if Yang Qisheng could practice the Lingbao Five Elements Sword Qi to perfection, Ye Yunqiao should be able to complete the furnace setting and refining of the evil spirit. When the Five Elements Sword Qi faced the Sharp Light Sword Evil, the latter would just lightly draw and all five swords would be cut off.

However, Yang Qisheng's progress was so fast that after only a year and a half, Ye Yunqiao could no longer cut off Yang Qisheng's gold-attributed sword energy. After another half a year, he couldn't even cut off the earth-attributed one!

At this time, Yang Qisheng's advantage of having all five elements was brought into play. According to the Five Elements' generation and restraint, he used fire to overcome metal, and used the Fire Court Sword Qi to fight against Ye Yunqiao's Sharp Sword Qi. Ye Yunqiao did not dare to let the two sword energies come into contact for a long time, so he could only move away as soon as they touched, and began to show off his sword skills more and more.

Later, Yang Qisheng stopped using the Fire Court Sword Qi and only used the other four attributes. Gradually, he was able to suppress Ye Yunqiao again. He then collected the Mysterious Ming Sword Qi and only used three types, and later reduced it to two and one respectively.

Here, both of them were practicing sword fighting in the valley with their sharp sword energy. A total of twenty sharp white sword beams were shooting back and forth, slashing at each other, which was extremely beautiful.

Suddenly, a sword light flew from the sky, red and black.

Yang Qisheng and Ye Yunqiao both realized that they were from the same sect, so they quickly stopped and watched.

The sword energy instantly reached the top of the valley and did not descend, remaining suspended in mid-air. The sword light spread to the left and right, revealing a young man in blue. He looked down at him and asked, "Are you disciples of Uncle Mingyi? I am Xue Yan, a disciple of Master Dayou of Taiyi Palace. I have been ordered by my master to deliver a letter. Please go in and inform him!"

(End of this chapter)