Chapter 100: Demonic Path Secrets, the God of Licking the Dao!

Black Sun Heaven recently suffered a calamity, was stabbed from behind, being reclusive is also normal.

The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord said leisurely, "Don't worry, with his ability to adjust his mindset, he will surely recover someday."

"Sigh." The Demon Lord said, feeling emotional, "This era, without that guy running around, occasionally causing a big news, calm as a dead pool, really makes people uncomfortable."

"Aren't there zombie conflicts and heaven-human struggles?" Yuanshi laughed, "How did it become peaceful? Isn't it still quite lively?"

"Lively is lively, but the operation isn't flashy enough." Great Freedom Heaven shook his head, "Although this era's average strength surpasses the previous epoch, fighting is more brutal, but in terms of strategic maneuvering, it ultimately isn't as stimulating as the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation or the Demon-Dao Tribulation—you never know what reversal the situation will take in the next moment!"

"Nowadays, actors are still those actors, but they can't regain the feeling of the past."

"That's because, back then, we used up all the clever tricks we could think of..." Yuanshi said calmly, "If this epoch repeats itself naturally, aesthetic fatigue will set in."

"No no no... I think these aren't the key." Great Freedom Heaven denied, "The real key is that some main actors are slacking off too much, making it seem like I'm just going through the motions, playing a bit part, not professional, not focused."

"Just getting by—like that Black Sun Heaven, how long has it been without any bubbles?"

"Sigh!"

"During his absence... I miss him."

The Demon Lord raised his head to gaze at the sky, his face showing sorrow and distress.

"Do you really miss him?" Yuanshi's expression turned strange, "If you truly consider him a friend, then don't accept the merit from the Creation Demon Lord."

"Who stands behind the Creation Demon Lord? You're not unaware... this blatant malicious targeting, you're pushing Black Sun Heaven into a fire pit."

"And you still call that friendship!"

"Hehe." The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord laughed, being blamed by Yuanshi, he felt no shame or guilt, "I also need to make a living!"

"My patron behind me is having a tough time these days, I can only rely on myself here... moreover, selling out friends, mutual slaughter, isn't that exactly what we demonic path people should do?"

The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord spoke confidently and convincingly.

He's a practitioner of the demonic path!

These days, how many successful demonic path practitioners don't shout about destroying the world?

He's just selling out a teammate, what's there to make a fuss about?

Moreover...

"You also took money from the Creation Demon Lord, doesn't your conscience hurt?" He glanced sideways at Yuanshi, "Everyone knows what's going on, just don't hide it."

"Moreover, behind this..."

The two Demon Lords exchanged glances for a moment, then laughed loudly, extremely delighted.

"Hehe... haha!"

Afterward, they dropped the topic and turned to other matters.

What is tacit understanding?

This is it!

However, just as they were chatting enthusiastically and happily—

"Boom!"

A terrifying aura surged from the void, shaking the great dao order of this heaven and earth, causing the sky to collapse, the earth to split, the world to shatter!

"Hmm?"

The two Demon Lords frowned, made no move, and all the destruction was reversed, returning to its previous intact state.

But, this wasn't over.

"Ah!"

In a daze, it seemed as if the most ancient demon god was roaring, bellowing, his voice filled with boundless hatred, wanting to shatter past, present, and future!

Supreme powerhouse!

"Clang clang clang!"

Accompanying the roar was the sound of chains clashing, extremely piercing.

The two combined vividly depict in the minds of any hearing beings this scene—

An ancient, terrifying demon god, imprisoned, bound, suppressed throughout the ages, never to see daylight!

"Here it comes again."

The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord remained calm, "Recently he seems quite active?"

"After all, he saw an opportunity." Yuanshi smiled, "With no master of the human dao, it's a perfect time to stir up trouble—maybe he'll run out."

"We'd better pay attention to that." The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord said, "Otherwise, if problems arise, we'll have a headache."

"If something goes wrong, we'll end up taking the blame... that won't do!"

"Rest assured." Yuanshi said calmly, "The Supreme Heavenly Demon Lord is stationed there recently, so there will surely be no mistakes."

It seemed like an affirmation of his words.

Soon, a supreme ancient vicissitude aura flowed, smoothing out all anomalies, calming the turmoil, letting this heaven and earth return to tranquility and harmony.

——The prisoners pondering escape and acting on it were suppressed by the guards, continuing their past trajectory.

"Very good, very good." The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord nodded, looking satisfied, "The Demon Ancestor has returned to his place, which couldn't be better."

After satisfaction came wistfulness, "Alas... why can't the Demon Ancestor ever understand our good intentions?"

"We're doing this for his own good!"

"A cultivator should forsake everything but the Dao, having nothing else in mind... all things of the Honghuang heaven and earth are like fleeting illusions."

"Always wanting to go out and claim kingship and hegemony—how could that work?"

"The Demon Ancestor certainly has great talent and strategy, unmatched in wisdom... but this has already deviated from the righteous path, taken a wrong turn!"

"As a Destroyer Demon Ancestor, one must have the bearing of a controller of the Destroyed Great Dao."

"To help the Demon Ancestor return to the righteous path, for his own good, to assist and urge him in cultivation, we Demon Lords have truly exhausted our thoughts and efforts."

"Alas... we've had it so hard!"

The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord sighed, pulled a handkerchief from his sleeve, dabbed his eyes, as if wiping away nonexistent tears.

"Yeah, we've had it rough!" the Primordial Demon Lord also sniffed, putting on a sorrowful look, "To help the Demon Ancestor increase his cultivation, to fulfill his grand ambition—'the Dao rises one foot, the demon rises ten zhang,' to one day possess the power to destroy Honghuang, we've really racked our brains, thinking up countless feasible and infeasible schemes."

"Only then did we have the present perfect plan, to forge Honghuang's ultimate destroyer."

"Filled with fervent passion, loyal to the core… but who could know? Who could understand?"

The Primordial Demon Lord shouted loudly, his voice filled with the grievance of being misunderstood.

"We gave our all, rescuing the Demon Ancestor from Hongjun's hands, and, relying on the Black Sun Heavenly Demon Lord's strategy, forcibly seized the crucial authority from the Heavenly Dao—thus we can continue the demon lineage's fortune, boost the Demon Ancestor's cultivation, and even promote Honghuang's development… three birds with one stone!"

"Yet the Demon Ancestor fails to comprehend us… treating his subjects like weeds and enemies!"

"But it doesn't matter… our loyalty can be witnessed by the heavens, shown by the sun and moon; after countless ages, the Demon Ancestor will come to understand."

"Exactly!" the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord firmly believed, "Although what we're doing for the Demon Ancestor now is dirty and arduous… after immeasurable time, he will acknowledge our merits."

"Knowing the work of bearing the janitor's duty, whether for him or for Honghuang, is so beneficial."

"Being a useful demon, fulfilling one's demonic worth, is happiness, is beauty!"

The two demon lords echoed each other, as if speaking to the opposite side, yet also as if speaking for someone to hear.

"Drink!"

The suppressed apparition struggled to reappear, its faint howls filled with hatred and anguish.

The Primordial Demon Lord ignored it, saying to the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord: "Exactly!"

"The Great Derivation fifty, Heavenly Dao forty-nine, leaving a sliver of life's variable."

"With a variable, it means anything is possible, the world has room to rise, beings have the chance to transcend."

"But before this variable, although it's dubbed 'life's chance,' it doesn't mean it will only play a good role."

"The Dao knows no good or evil, no right or wrong; only the human mind discerns."

"Used well, it becomes good; used ill, it becomes evil."

"Such are beings, such is the world… whatever develops may grasp the variable, surpass the ordinary, and undergo mutation."

"Pangu opened heaven and earth, establishing this forty-nine and one principle; his original intent was good, placing hope that the world and beings could undergo benign mutation, turning the impossible into possible, walking the path of eternity and transcendence." The Primordial lamented, "Unfortunately, most of the time benign mutation is rare; mostly it mutates toward the bad."

"Like some beings who failed to achieve immortality yet hoped for eternity… they actually got that result, but became zombies that don't enter reincarnation and wander outside the three realms… hey!"

"Some worlds that should have sunk into oblivion after destruction… but seized a chance of life from the impossible, revived in the strangest way, becoming a toxic tumor of time."

"These are all aberrations!"

"They need correction!"

"Right." the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord nodded, "Those beings' self-destructive instincts, the errors that arise in the operation of the laws… to the supreme Dao, they're actually irrelevant."

"The birth and death of the universe is the Dao's manifestation; why should we care?"

"If Honghuang perishes, it perishes; if all beings die, they die… birth and death, death and rebirth, are all the Dao's evolution."

"But the ignorant human Dao, which embodies the collective will of all sentient beings, seeking survival, is unwilling… for self-preservation, for the world's eternal endurance, it is acting!"

"But this isn't easy…" the demon lord sighed, "Even if the Heavenly Dao grasps the big direction, using the authority of the three thousand Great Luo's heavenly will, not sparing the cost of exhausting Hongjun, to maintain a stable balanced development on a certain framework, yet small procedural errors, the 'viruses' in heaven and earth, keep cropping up."

"Our demon Dao thus emerged, becoming the most direct and violent antivirus tool… destroying the Demon Ancestor Rahu the Great, slaughtering the Demon Ancestor Minghe, are its greatest pillars."

"Minghe controls karmic force, a fiery red lotus, two killing swords, busily sanctioning beings with fervent self-destructive intent who act on it… he is active in every slaughter calamity."

"Rahu the Great masters destruction, which is even more crucial."

"Constantly clearing and deleting redundant data and even viruses from those software components in the great system of heaven and earth, thoroughly pulverizing them… so the system can run smoothly."

"If one day the system encounters an irremovable virus, we can even format the system, or directly violently dismantle it into parts, starting over from scratch, reassembling, restarting, reprogramming and designing the system software anew!"

"This is supreme merit!" the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord moved, "But obtaining this merit is somewhat troublesome… who let Pangu's opened universe be so vast?"

"Boundless universes, endless elements, infinite ages… even though a Great Luo possesses boundless spacetime eternal freedom, bearing this burden is no easy task, nearly an eternal suppression."

"But being able to destroy these aberration viruses, how much does it help the elevation of the Destruction Dao?"

"Although saying it out loud isn't pleasant, likening us to a trash can or garbage processor… but having practical benefit in hand is what matters most."

The demon lord pressed his palms together, utterly devout, "Such benefit to the Dao's cultivation greatly aids the Demon Ancestor the Great, and thus our demon Dao can have deep fortune and an eternal inheritance…"

"Rahu the Great's revival hasn't been long; for now he can't feel our loyalty, can't see how this benefits him… but it doesn't matter, the days ahead are long."

"The Great One will have a day when he understands…"

"Roar!"

The roar in the void seemed a bit louder.

But in the end, it still returned to silence.

…

The secrecy of the demon Dao is unknown to the world.

Although this faction's existence often involves doing evil, piling up slaughter, in the Dragon-Phoenix era its demonic flames covered the sky, unrivaled.

But the deepest inner workings surpass the imagination of many.

It also surpasses Fengxi's imagination.

Now he, gazing at the nearly severed River of Time, at the battlefield remnants where Great Luos contended, feels lingering trepidation, with many reflections and relief.

Reflection, because a Great Luo fell so easily, shows this age is hard to navigate… what of a Great Luo? What of the heavenly will?

Not picking a side leads to a miserable end!

Having just ascended the world's pinnacle, barely able to play a game of chess, he was directly seized by someone who smashed the chessboard, killing him; from the peak he fell to dust, sinking into immeasurable Great Calamities… one word describes it—tragic!

Relief, because he had long since joined a side, being a member of the Wu Clan, bearing a heavy mission, so he need not worry about such a predicament.

Fengxi's gaze deepened a bit, his sealed lips pressed tight, 'Looks like from now on I should praise Houtu the Great more, let her be in a good mood, stamp my approval, obtain the permit to become a Great Luo of the Dao…'

'No, can't say it's currying favor… otherwise I'd become a flattering sycophant.'

'It should be said that I profoundly comprehend Houtu the Great's thinking, advance proactively, a loyal spirit shining forth, exercising subjective initiative…'

This isn't sucking up; it's thinking for the leader, worrying about what the leader worries about.

Thinking this, Fengxi stored the insights from observing and verifying the Dao in his heart, then immediately sat down, took out paper and brush, and began writing attentively.

Self-criticism letter!

Exhausting wisdom, using the most splendid phrasing, he wrote his most sincere attitude of admitting fault at this moment; one should not suspect the high-level leadership of petty misconduct—Houtu the Great forever possesses noble virtue, his lofty integrity serving as a model for all beings in the world...

In this process, Fengxi removed the cloth strip from his forehead, causing the miniature Houtu to shine brightly, enabling him to know his current actions.

Nowadays, being a 'loyal subject' isn't easy—only loyalty that is known has meaning!

(End of chapter)