Chapter 226: The Reincarnated Demon Emperor

Tao Ming took with him all cultivators above the Spirit Transformation stage; the two beside him and the many Nascent Soul cultivators were left behind by him.

The Nascent Soul cultivators of the Lower Realm stared at one another, unaware of what had happened, and they all turned their gaze to the middle-aged man nearby, sensing that he was at the Nascent Soul Great Perfection stage, while the young man was naturally at the Nascent Soul early stage.

The aura emitted by that Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivator was in no way inferior to that of a Spirit Transformation elder.

Cao Jinzhou was the name of that Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivator; having received the news the moment Tao Ming left, he naturally would not tell them the truth when he saw the gazes of those Nascent Soul cultivators.

He merely smiled lightly and said, "Everyone! How shall we proceed?"

………

Xichui! Barren Land!

This place is devoid of human habitation year-round, with no signs of life, and cultivators rarely come here.

One day, at a certain spot in the barren land, specks of golden light suddenly appeared in the heavens and earth; immediately, the space near the golden light surged like water ripples.

When the golden light reached its peak, more than a dozen figures appeared within it.

After Tao Ming appeared, he gazed at the yellowish-brown earth before him, slightly surprised, for this place not only lacked spiritual energy but also lacked vitality.

"Is this where the demon is sealed?"

"Replying to the Envoy, according to the records, it is indeed in this region, but we are not certain either, for after the ancient war much information has been lost; over hundreds of thousands of years, the seas have turned to fields, and we dare not be certain."

Tao Ming nodded, said no more, and directly took out a five-sided purple metal formation disk from his storage bracelet, pricked his fingertip, dropped a drop of blood into the disk's center, then infused his own spiritual power, silently chanting the incantation.

Hum!

As his chanting continued to ring out, the Demon-Sealing Disk he had brought from the Spirit Realm was activated by him; within the disk lay a drop of blood of the Demon Emperor Mo Ye, and once activated it could sense the Demon Emperor's position within a million li.

Everyone silently stared at the floating Demon-Sealing Disk in the air, discovering that it went from still to suddenly spinning, while the disk's body burst forth with purple light.

Under everyone's gaze, the Demon-Sealing Disk swiftly moved westward; Tao Ming took a step and quickly kept up. The other Spirit Transformation cultivators naturally did not dare lag, each employing evasion techniques to follow.

Their faces showed excitement; having cultivated in this realm for so many years, they never imagined that their world still sealed the head of a Mahayana-stage cultivator.

The Demon-Sealing Disk's speed was great; in just a few breaths it had crossed over a thousand li, and it continued moving deeper.

After half an hour, the Demon-Sealing Disk appeared at the easternmost point of the barren land, which adjoined the sea; it hovered silently over a clear patch of ground, a purple light pillar as thick as an arm extending downward.

The Tao Ming who had followed wore a solemn expression; he again formed hand seals, shooting out strands of spiritual power, his chant shifting, the Demon-Sealing Disk trembled slightly, then suddenly began to expand.

At the same time, Tao Ming again took out five crystals containing a rich Dao aura from his storage bracelet.

The moment he produced them, a vigorous life force suddenly sprang up within a ten-li radius around him.

Several of the Spirit Transformation cultivators behind him could not help but greedily inhale a few breaths, discovering that their aging bodies actually regained a hint of vitality.

Zhao Tianlei, the actual helm of the Hundred Nations Alliance and a mid-stage Spirit Transformation cultivator, could not help but ask, "May I ask, Envoy, is what you hold in your hand the legendary Spirit Crystal containing Dao aura?"

Tao Ming smiled faintly and said, "Although Dao Crystals are precious, they cannot compare to even one ten-thousandth of these five crystals I hold; above the second-tier crystals, which you call Dao Crystals, there are Source Crystals that contain a trace of Dao origin, usable only by Unity-stage seniors, extraordinarily precious; for this descent to the Lower Realm, to prevent mishaps, the Human Emperor granted me five Source Crystals to serve as the formation source of the Demon-Sealing Disk."

As he spoke, Tao Ming formed seals; after ten breaths, the purple Demon-Suppressing Disk had expanded to a size of ten li.

Seeing this, Tao Ming tossed the five Source Crystals upward, and each crystal came to rest at a corner of the Demon-Sealing Disk.

In an instant, the entire heaven and earth suddenly fell still, then a vast, extreme aura erupted from the Demon-Sealing Disk.

Zhao Tianlei, Zhong Peng, and the others had never felt such an aura before; for a moment they were suppressed and forced to kneel on the ground.

After a while, they rose to their feet, staring in shock at the enormous Demon-Sealing Disk.

At this moment, Tao Ming said, "The Demon-Sealing Disk now possesses a trace of the Human Emperor's might; with it we can handle any situation. Everyone, come with me down to take a look!"

Several cultivators from the Spirit Realm exchanged glances and together entered the enlarged purple light pillar.

Tao Ming smiled faintly; although these Spirit Transformation cultivators posed no problem, it was still better to follow him just in case, for under the Human Emperor's might he could calmly cope with any changes.

The purple light pillar is a passageway; once everyone entered it, Tao Ming formed hand seals, and their bodies swiftly descended, a speed that even Spirit Transformation cultivators found somewhat dizzying for a moment.

The purple light pillar on the Demon-Sealing Disk extended downward to an unknown depth; Tao Ming and the others continued falling, surrounded by darkness all around. After a full half hour, their bodies suddenly felt emptiness, as if they had entered a void, pitch black all around, except beneath their feet where a grand, astonishing formation shone with light.

From that formation extended nine chains, their ends unknown where they led.

The entire formation was directly enveloped by rich, astonishing spiritual energy; the spiritual energy at its very center had even crystallized, clearly forming, after compression, a supreme-grade spirit stone rare in the Lower Realm.

Tao Ming, clad in battle armor, remained focused and vigilant; after so many years, no one knows the Demon Emperor Mo Ye's current condition, and even with the Demon-Sealing Disk watching, he remained cautious.

Just as Tao Ming's party arrived at the space where the demon was sealed, in the alliance headquarters, a cave dwelling...

Guan Yi had originally been talking with the returning Song He and others, when suddenly his expression shifted; his eyes slightly closed, and the mark he had placed in the sealing ground sensed that someone had intruded into that space.

"Tsk tsk, truly diligent! But do you think I'm going to run away? Hahaha!"

Suddenly, an evil-sounding laugh echoed in Guan Yi's heart.

"Too bad, in the Spirit Realm humans cannot possess bodies; otherwise, this Emperor would not have exterminated the source of the demonic path!"

Guan Yi suddenly said in his heart.

Indeed, Guan Yi is precisely the human clone that Mo Ye painstakingly crafted; perhaps in the future it could be called the main body.

For this clone, he had secretly plotted for many years, using the Demon-Sealing Grand Formation to exterminate the demonic path source of a split-off Primordial Spirit of his, all of this taking place quietly under the Night Soul Clan.

Originally he would have had no chance, but the greedy Night Soul Clan kept opening a thread of the formation to siphon his origin, eventually allowing him, a thousand years ago, to find a slight breach in the formation's operation, to release that thread of Primordial Spirit, be reborn; a hundred years ago he was born, then embarked on the cultivation path, finally regaining his memory at the Foundation Establishment stage.

"Brother Guan? What's wrong, any urgent matter?"

Jin Fu, Song He, and the others, seeing Daoist Guan suddenly close his eyes and fall silent, all asked aloud.

Guan Yi suddenly opened his eyes, looking at this bunch of fools, inwardly sneering, "You are exactly the credentials I need; you have dug up so many demon-suppressing stones, and if I recommend you, plus this body's talent, you will surely be favored by the people of the Spirit Realm."

Thus he could enter the vast Spirit Realm and resume cultivation; this time he would discard his demonic body and cultivate as a human.

But there is one point he must note: before entering the Spirit Transformation stage, he must not enter the sight of the human upper echelons, for even if he exterminated the demon race's source and, aided by the formation, condensed a thread of human aura, underwent reincarnation, evading the Spirit Realm's rule against possessing humans, there remains a hidden danger: before reaching Spirit Transformation, it is easy for human experts to spot the flaw.