People in the Qin Dynasty, entertained during the Warring States period

But Ehuang's next words made him hesitate.

"After I help you refine the evil soul of Emperor Zhuanxu inside you, give me that stone tablet."

Cao Ze asked cautiously, "What does Senior Ehuang need that stone slab for?"

According to what Ehuang said before, even if Ehuang doesn't help him refine the evil soul in his body now, he will be able to refine the evil soul in his body on his own after he breaks through to the Celestial Realm.

Ehuang said solemnly, "Just in case something unexpected happens."

Cao Ze asked in surprise, "What accident?"

"For the past two days, I've had a feeling of unease. Although my current strength is only at the limit of the Celestial Realm, I was once a female immortal who stepped into the ranks of gods and immortals. My intuition tells me that the matter of the Demon God is probably not so simple."

After Ehuang finished speaking, she waved her hand and summoned seven bronze treasure boxes.

These seven bronze treasure boxes are the very ones rumored to contain the secrets of the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon.

"Back then, the Goddess of the Nine Heavens sealed the entire world in order to completely destroy the demon god Chi You and his demon army."

Cao Ze asked with suspicion, "Wasn't the demon god Chi You already killed by the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden and the Yellow Emperor? Why go through all this trouble?"

Ehuang sighed softly, "You did not experience the ancient wars, so you do not know how terrifying the demon god Chiyou was."

"The Yellow Emperor was no match for the demon god Chi You back then. If it weren't for the help of the Goddess of the Nine Heavens, this world would probably have been destroyed long ago."

Cao Ze couldn't help but ask the question that had been nagging at him.

"As far as I know, the legendary Chi You Sword was forged for Chi You by the Goddess of the Nine Heavens using fallen stars. In other words, the Goddess of the Nine Heavens was fully capable of killing Chi You, so why did she have to seal the entire world as the price?"

"And what happened to the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden in the end?"

Ehuang gave Cao Ze a deep look.

"I didn't expect you to know so much, that you knew the Chi You Sword was forged by the Goddess of the Nine Heavens using fallen stars."

"Do you know what the body of the demon god Chi You is?"

Cao Ze's heart skipped a beat.

Ehuang continued, "It was a fallen star. Back then, that fallen star fell from the sky and almost mutated the entire world."

“Floods raged, the earth cracked, and hundreds of millions of lives were corrupted by demons, turning them into a demonic army that was neither human nor ghost.”

"At that time, Chi You's strength far surpassed that of immortals and gods. He could be said to be the strongest person besides the Goddess of the Nine Heavens."

Ehuang began to recount ancient tales in a soft, melancholic voice.

Through Ehuang's description, Cao Ze was able to glimpse a corner of ancient times.

It turns out that after the fallen star fell from the sky, the Goddess of the Nine Heavens risked her life to stop it in order to protect the world.

If it weren't for the intervention of the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden, this world would have long since vanished in ancient times.

However, as a result, the Goddess of the Nine Heavens suffered a severe injury and was powerless to help the billions of demonized beings in the world.

It should be known that among these billions of demonized beings, there are also immortals and gods. Moreover, for unknown reasons, these demonized beings devour each other and become even stronger, with the strongest among them being only slightly weaker than her.

Therefore, the Goddess of the Nine Heavens had to take a risk and refine the core of a fallen star to create the most powerful weapon of war in the world, which she named Chi You.

He also forged a peerless sword for Chi You using fallen stars, the Chi You Sword.

He hoped that the weapons of war he had created could quell this turmoil and disaster.

Chi You lived up to expectations, using the powerful energy contained in the fallen star and the power of creation and destruction to almost wipe out all the mutated demon army.

But what the Goddess of the Nine Heavens did not expect was that while Chi You was slaying the demon army, he was also absorbing the demonic energy within them.

Therefore, even though the Goddess of the Nine Heavens refined the fallen star, Chi You was still corrupted and demonized, giving birth to intelligence, fostering ambition, and becoming increasingly brutal.

The Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden, having recovered from her injuries, tried to stop Chi You, but it was too late.

In order to rule the heavens and the earth, the demon god Chiyou created eighty-one bronze giants, intending to enslave all living beings.

The Goddess of the Nine Heavens had no choice but to gather the remaining immortals and gods to wage war against the demon god Chi You, thus beginning the curtain on the fall of the ancient gods.

In the end, the Goddess of the Nine Heavens defeated the demon god Chi You with great difficulty and destroyed the eighty-one bronze giants of the demon god Chi You.

However, at that time, the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden and the few remaining immortals and gods were either seriously injured or in a deep sleep, and they were unable to completely eliminate the demon god Chi You. They could only seal him away and use the power of time to make him disappear into the river of time.

In order to restore the world's vitality, the Goddess of the Nine Heavens selected a young man from among the surviving beings, who later became the Yellow Emperor. She taught him various abilities and ordered him to annihilate the remaining demon army and Chi You's subordinates.

After hearing this, Cao Ze was deeply disturbed.

If we follow what Ehuang said...

In other words, the demon god currently sealed within the ancient Loulan Kingdom is very likely the body of the demon god Chi You, created by the Goddess of the Nine Heavens using fallen stars.

If it were just a bronze giant, there would be no need for the ninth son of the dragon, the Pixiu, to guard the seal and continuously reinforce it.

Cao Ze asked, "Where did the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden and the remaining gods go afterward?"

Ehuang looked confused and said, "I don't know."

Cao Ze was quite taken aback and couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you one of the surviving gods from back then?"

Ehuang nodded.

"You're right, I was indeed one of the surviving gods at that time. However, I later fell into a deep sleep due to the severity of my injuries."

To avoid perishing in my slumber, I had to undergo Nirvana. After Nirvana, I will lose my memories for a period of time. And it is during that time that the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden and the gods ceased to exist in this world.

Cao Ze took a deep breath and decided not to press the matter further, fearing his fragile heart couldn't take it.

"Are you planning to break the Azure Dragon Seal left behind by the Goddess of the Nine Heavens?"

Ehuang nodded: "If the demon god of war sealed within Loulan breaks free, we will have no other choice."

Cao Ze expressed his understanding.

It should be noted that the demon god Chi You was created from fallen stars, and most of his power was in his body.

Once activated and out of control, even the fully-formed Ehuang might not be able to withstand it.

"Is it only a bronze box and a stone tablet needed to break the seal left by the Goddess of the Nine Heavens?"

Ehuang shook her head.

"We also need the bloodline of the Yellow Emperor, as well as the Yellow Stone Heavenly Book."

Cao Ze said with a wry smile, "It seems it really is fate."

The Moon Goddess and Yan Fei are of the Yellow Emperor's bloodline, and Chu Nan Gong possesses the Yellow Stone Heavenly Book.

To be honest, he had no objection to breaking the seal set by the Goddess of the Nine Heavens.

Although the Azure Dragon Seal of the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden protected this world, it also severed the path of almost all cultivators.

If the seal is not broken, the limit he can reach in his lifetime is probably only the limit of the Celestial Realm, and he will have no chance of becoming an immortal or god.

Ehuang looked at Cao Ze with a strange expression in her eyes.

It's really too much of a coincidence.

Could Cao Ze be the person chosen by the Goddess of the Nine Heavens?

With this thought in mind, Ehuang said, "I will now help you refine Emperor Zhuanxu's evil soul. If nothing unexpected happens, you will gain a lot of divinity, and breaking through to the Grandmaster level will not be difficult."

Cao Ze laughed and said, "It seems I'm quite lucky."

After engaging in dual cultivation with the Marquis last night, his strength improved once again, and he was only a hair's breadth away from reaching the peak of the Grandmaster realm.

Therefore, if Emperor Zhuanxu's evil soul truly possessed a great deal of divinity, which is what Ehuang referred to as high-level spiritual energy, his probability of breaking through to the Grandmaster level was almost 100%.

Little River Cart.

The first hurdle is getting on the three carriages.

This is also the beginning of a cultivator's first encounter with inner alchemy cultivation, the first of the three levels!

Those who cultivate themselves must hear the Great Dao, understand the principles of the rise and fall of heaven and earth, and the cycles of the sun and moon, so as to harmonize yin and yang, gather and disperse water and fire, and then gather medicine to add fire, add mercury and remove lead, so as to pass the Lesser River Chariot Gate.

The phrases "gathering herbs and adding fire," "adding mercury and removing lead," suggest that cultivators not only need to understand the Great Dao, but also need to rely on external forces to refine themselves as elixirs.

The process is quite complex and requires extremely refined energy. And in the universe, there is no such energy as spiritual energy, and divinity is the purest element within spiritual energy.

With Ehuang's help, Cao Ze quickly found the evil spirit sealed within his body by the stone slab.

In his perception, the evil spirits were formless and shapeless, yet they truly existed.

"Though the body is dead, the spirit lives on; your soul will become a heroic ghost..."

Under Ehuang's soft chanting, the evil spirit quickly melted away like winter snow, retaining only its purest divinity.

"It can be absorbed now."

Upon hearing Ehuang's words, Cao Ze did not hesitate. He began to absorb the divinity that Ehuang had left in his body.

After an unknown amount of time, when Cao Ze opened his eyes again, lightning flashed in the void and light shone in the dark room.

A powerful aura emanated from Cao Ze.

"I've finally succeeded, Daoist Master!"

Cao Ze couldn't help but let out a long howl.

By absorbing and refining the divinity within the evil soul, he not only broke through the Lesser River Chariot barrier and became a Grandmaster, but also directly stepped into the peak of the Grandmaster realm.

In other words, he is now no weaker than Donghuang Taiyi in his prime.

This was truly an unexpected delight!

"Get ready, let's go."

"Ehuang said calmly."

Cao Ze nodded, his gaze lingering on the direction of the Western Regions.

I wonder how the Hu sisters are doing now.

But no matter what, he had to find a way to bring the child back first.

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Chapter 550 Zhao Ji is six months pregnant

Since Jing Ni was already more than three months pregnant with her second child, Cao Ze firmly insisted that Jing Ni stay in the mansion to rest and recuperate, and arranged for the women, including Hei Bai Shao Siming, to take care of her.