I Possess a Scroll of Demon-Subduing Records

Betraying the immortal realm is a very serious crime, and without an equivalent threat, the Queen Mother of the West could not have been coerced.

Therefore, to control the Queen Mother of the West, it is necessary to put her in a life-or-death crisis.

If you don't follow their orders, you'll only face death.

However, their strength was insufficient to suppress the Queen Mother of the West, not to mention the King Father of the East.

Then there's only one way: uncover the secrets of the Queen Mother of the West, or use some means to force her to betray the celestial realm.

If no loopholes can be found in the Queen Mother of the West, then start with the King Father of the East.

The two sisters plotted for a long time, until dawn, and finalized many details before they parted ways.

Meanwhile, while Wang Shuxi and Lin Yi were plotting, Lin Yi was frantically typing away.

As for the food problem in the Chang'an area, Lin Yi followed the plan in his book. A timely rain fell, and all things recovered. The crops in the fields quickly returned to their pre-disaster state, and even became more vigorous.

The one who completed the task of bringing rain was Lingling, who held the power to nourish all things with water.

After production resumed, Xiao Yue also issued a statement of guilt as requested by Lin Yi.

Although they did not openly rebel against Heaven, it was tantamount to directly raising a flag.

This treatise on guilt thus became the catalyst for the escalation of the war.

After the decree of punishment was proclaimed to the world, the Great Celestial Venerable issued several decrees to the mortal realm, ordering Xihe to speed up her pace and concentrate her forces to defeat Xiao Yue.

Urged on by the Great Celestial Venerable, Xihe had no choice but to intensify her offensive, but Xiao Yue's side was equally unstoppable.

Moreover, Jiang Linglong stopped acting altogether and took the initiative to send troops to support Xiao Yue.

Originally, given Xihe's configuration, there wouldn't have been any problem with one side fighting two sides. However, since the commander-in-chief is a traitor, the fiercer the battle, the more severe the casualties will be.

Time flies like an arrow, and autumn is here again in the blink of an eye.

Over the past few months, dozens of battles, large and small, have broken out in the human world. This batch of immortals and gods who descended to the mortal realm, along with the previous batch, have basically all been wiped out.

Before she knew it, Xihe had reached the point where she had no one left to rely on.

At this point, internal strife began.

In the previous battle, Xihe arranged for Wangshu to be the vanguard to launch a surprise attack and lure the enemy, while she led the main force to set up an ambush, and the two saints also supported one side of the battle.

As a result, Xihe was intercepted by Jiang Linglong, while Wangshu fought to the death without seeing any reinforcements, causing many immortals and gods to lose their lives.

After a debriefing meeting, both sides criticized each other and argued fiercely, each expressing their intention to impeach the other.

The Great Celestial Venerable was furious when he learned that the two groups of immortals and gods who had descended to the mortal realm had been wiped out. With their current strength, they were capable of conquering the Demon Realm, but after fighting in the mortal realm for almost a year, they had made no progress whatsoever.

This is outrageous!

In a fit of anger, the Great Celestial Venerable dismissed Xihe from her position as commander-in-chief and put the Queen Mother of the West in her place, while also dispatching a third batch of reinforcements.

The Queen Mother of the West didn't want to be the commander-in-chief; she just wanted to slack off. After all, her opponent was suspected to be her daughter and son-in-law. Although Lin Yi never appeared afterward, the Queen Mother of the West was certain that he was behind it all.

She didn't want to be the commander-in-chief because she didn't want to see them on the battlefield.

But the Great Celestial Venerable did not give her a chance to refuse. He directly issued a decree, bestowed upon her magical artifacts, and increased her reinforcements.

Left with no other choice, the Queen Mother of the West had to accept her fate.

Little did she know that all of this was part of Xihe and Wangshu's plan.

The two sisters worked together and the results were quite remarkable.

They not only sacrificed their teammates' lives, but also dragged the Queen Mother of the West down with them.

If the Queen Mother of the West makes a mistake while serving as the commander-in-chief, and is then falsely accused of colluding with the human faction, she will either have to return to the celestial realm for interrogation, or obediently defect to the human world.

This is a long-term plan, and they are not in a hurry.

After taking control of the immortals and gods, the Queen Mother of the West temporarily suspended the war, and the human world once again entered a rare period of peace.

Lin Yi, meanwhile, hid in the shadows and began to take stock of his gains from being the sixth person in the past year.

He never killed an enemy head-on, but he benefited from every assist he received.

Not only the main body rubs against it, but the clones do too.

Wherever there is war, there is Lin Yi's clone.

Over the course of the year, countless immortals perished due to the machinations of both sides.

There are dozens of skilled ones, and thousands of less skilled ones as well.

Lin Yi's cultivation has accumulated to several billion, but unfortunately, it's of little use to him now.

Even simulated battles have lost their meaning.

Below the Great Celestial Venerable, he is invincible.

He has never seen the Great Celestial Venerable, so he cannot simulate him.

In addition to his abundant gains in Taoist cultivation, Lin Yi also made outstanding achievements in other areas that year.

Within the Demon-Slaying Manual, many of the Great Dao Trees, similar to skill books, have been illuminated by Lin Yi. Moreover, as Lin Yi quietly seizes more and more Great Daos, these Great Daos are also merging with each other.

For example, the Yang Thunder, Yin Thunder, and Five Elements Thunder controlled by Lin Yi, when combined, merge into one thunder.

Lin Yi also gained control of the wind element, and the wind and thunder gathered together and merged into wood.

The three thousand Great Daos, belonging to the same series, can be merged into a higher-level Great Dao as long as the conditions are met.

Moreover, the more power he devours from the same lineage, the more he can sense who controls the other Great Daos.

For example, Lin Yi sensed the water element in Lingling and Lingyi, and the metal element in Xiwangmu...

There are also many deities that Lin Yi has never seen before, all of which point to the Immortal Realm.

It is clear that even though Lin Yi has killed many gods and immortals in the mortal realm, he still has a long way to go before he can defeat the Great Celestial Venerable.

Lin Yi's understanding was that as long as he unlocked most of the Great Dao authority, he could go toe-to-toe with the Great Celestial Venerable.

His perception was very clear. Taking the Great Dao of Wood as an example, the total amount of wood in the world is one. He owns one-quarter, the Azure Emperor of the East owns one-quarter, other living beings own one-quarter, and the remaining one-quarter is in the hands of the Great Celestial Venerable.

If he kills the Azure Emperor of the East, it will be equivalent to him possessing half of the Wood element, and even the Great Celestial Venerable will not be his match.

This is similar to a controlling stake; retail investors hold a constant one-quarter, while the remaining three-quarters are contested among major shareholders.

Different Great Daos are like different companies. Lin Yi doesn't need to have a higher level of mastery over every Great Dao than the Grand Celestial Venerable. As long as his total mastery is higher than the Grand Celestial Venerable's, he can win.

However, the Great Celestial Venerable might be a top-tier figure who has mastered all the Great Daos. Based on Lin Yi's calculations, he is currently only one-tenth away from defeating the Great Celestial Venerable.

Perhaps, if Lin Yi kills all the beings below the Great Celestial Venerable—the Three Pure Ones, the Four Emperors, the One Buddha, the Two Saints, the Five Emperors, the Six Venerables, and the Seven Fairy Maidens—he can achieve his goal.

But that's unrealistic. Putting aside everything else, he couldn't very well try to take away his wife's path.

And also the father-in-law and mother-in-law.

In addition, the Goddess of Mount Tai has helped him a lot, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva has a good relationship with him, and he doesn't have any deep hatred for Buddhism for the time being.

However, this means that surpassing the goal of the Great Celestial Venerable may be a long way off.

The war has been going on for a year, and at this rate it will take at least ten years.

Besides, unless the Great Celestial Venerable is a fool, he wouldn't send immortals down to the mortal realm indiscriminately. In addition, the Celestial Realm needs to fight against the Demon Realm and must reserve sufficient troops.

The stronger Lin Yi became, the more he realized the gap between himself and the Great Celestial Venerable.

What's frustrating isn't not finding a way to win, but finding a way to win and then being caught in a dilemma.

"Without seizing enough power, one cannot go to the Celestial Realm to face the Great Celestial Venerable directly."

Without going to the Immortal Realm, one cannot seize sufficient power; this is a bottleneck.

Lin Yi was so frustrated by this situation that he couldn't help but complain to himself.

He didn't hide it from Ah Qi, whom he always carried with him. He had imprisoned Ah Qi for a while before releasing her, and now he kept her by his side.

With nothing else to do, I cast a charm spell on her. Now, Ah Qi is acting strangely throughout Shanghai.

Hearing that Lin Yi had something to worry about, she also put her mind to Lin Yi's sake. After thinking for a long time, she suggested, "If you can seize power by killing people, why don't you go to the Demon Realm?"

The Great Celestial Venerable of the Celestial Realm may wield many powers, but there are certainly a few that are beyond his control.

Fate, reincarnation, and all control over the demon realm.

Lin Yi was stunned upon hearing this.

Good heavens, he really didn't expect to start from the demon realm.

To date, none of the authority he controls belongs to the Demon Realm.

The main reason also lies with Ah Qi.

Demons are immortal and indestructible; they cannot be killed. They can only gain power through cultivation, so they have no way to seize authority.

But Ah Qi's words revealed a fact: they were just like the immortals.

They also wielded power, but their power differed from that of the immortals.

Lin Yi never expected that seducing A Qi every day would have such an effect. If it were before, A Qi would never have taken the initiative to help him solve his problems, and even if she knew, she would never have said anything.

According to their agreement, they only needed to avoid harming each other, but they were not required to help each other.

But Ah Qi's advice tonight was a great help to Lin Yi.

"So here's the question: if demons are immortal, how can we kill them?"

"Of course..."

Ah Qi almost blurted it out, but the words were on the tip of her tongue when she suddenly stopped, her whole body trembling.

She looked at Lin Yi in shock and said, "You seduced me again?"

Ah Qi felt utterly humiliated. As a demon in his own heart, being seduced by someone else—there couldn't be a more humiliating situation than this.

Lin Yi does use charm on a regular basis, but he didn't today.

It's probably because I used the charm too many times, and the cumulative effect hasn't worn off yet.

But how could Lin Yi admit it? He smiled calmly and said, "I didn't seduce you. Is it possible that you've just fallen in love with me?"

"Impossible! Demons cannot love!"

Ah Qi immediately bristled and revealed another secret about the demon.

"Don't be so decisive. What if you're the most special one? Love exists in everything in the world; you just haven't noticed it yet."