Chapter 227: Deadly Battle in the North!

Gu Jiangming did not voice the conjectures in his heart; in reality, at this moment, Gu Jiangming also carried a sense of hesitation within him.

At the end of the Heavenly Human Era, he was indeed called the Red Lotus Demon Venerable.

Yet only Gu Jiangming himself knew that the reason the myriad spirits of the human world called him the Demon Venerable back then was merely because his methods were ruthless, and he only used killing to stop killing when dealing with the myriad races, and thus he was called a demon.

Especially after Gu Jiangming fought several battles and killed until even Heaven and Earth Enlightenment felt terrified, this title became increasingly widespread.

But whether it was Gu Jiangming or the myriad spirits of the Heavenly Human Era, they all treated the "demon" in Gu Jiangming's Red Lotus Demon Venerable title as nothing more than an inconsequential label.

The only thing about Gu Jiangming, this Red Lotus Demon Venerable, that could be linked to demons was likely his Karma fire.

Yet Gu Jiangming could never have imagined that his own son, Gu Nianmo, would actually inherit and even carry forward the concept of the demon in this era, in this world.

If one were to say there were no demons in this world before this, then after Gu Nianmo, demons would exist in this world for all eternity.

No matter how time changes, no matter how Heaven and Earth shift, as long as there are living beings, demons will be an existence equal to immortals.

"Nian Mo, thinking of demons..."

"Is it a coincidence?"

Gu Jiangming stood alone in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, looking at the sky, his expression filled with entanglement and helplessness.

Gu Jiangming watched the affairs of the human world with cold eyes from Leping County, but the Beidi at this moment had completely turned into a massive meat grinder.

Only when the old Celestial Master arrived in Beidi with many powerhouses of the Human Race did he truly realize, realize just how terrifying the chasm was between his own Quasi-Supreme status and a true Supreme!

Even though Ye Ming was not a true Supreme, but merely possessed the power of a Supreme through a clever method, Ye Ming, who had already transformed into a demonic monstrosity, was in some sense connected to the Demon Dao.

And the greatest characteristic of the true Supreme Realm is that the Great Dao does not perish, and the Supreme does not die! Even though Ye Ming had completely lost his reason, and even though Ye Ming could not exert more than one or two tenths of his own methods, his realm was there; he did not need to do anything extra, he only needed pure brute force to strike the old Celestial Master until blood sprayed across the sky time and time again.

Especially when the old Celestial Master and the many powerhouses of the Human Race stepped onto the battlefield, they realized that within the black clouds spreading for millions of miles, there was not only the demonic monstrosity Ye Ming, but also many powerhouses from the various tribes of the Northern Border.

Yet, just like Ye Ming, these powerhouses of the Enlightened Deity realm had basically been completely eroded by demonic Qi; some still possessed two or three parts of their sanity, but after a moment, they would again turn into mad demons.

The number of powerhouses from the various tribes across the entire Northern Border was not at all inferior to the Human Race. In the era of gods, it was as difficult as ascending to heaven to achieve the Supreme Realm, but to ascend to the realm of Enlightened Deity, one only needed a vacancy in the Dao Principles of Heaven and Earth.

Over a thousand Enlightened Deities were fighting endlessly in this Beidi, and the central battlefield was naturally the old Celestial Master and the demonic monstrosity Ye Ming.

It must be said that Longhu Mountain has been passed down for over a hundred thousand years, and its foundation is profound; whether it was the old, worn Daoist robe on the old Celestial Master, or the dim long sword in the old Celestial Master's hand, both were supreme treasures rarely found in the world.

It was precisely by relying on such supreme treasures that the old Celestial Master could barely hold on with the assistance of several other human emperors.

And outside the main battlefield, one Enlightened Deity of the Human Race after another bled across the firmament; those Northern Border Enlightened Deities who had fallen into the demon path knew no pain and no fear; they were merely eroded and controlled by the demonic monstrosity Ye Ming.

In their eyes, there was only thick madness, and only the obsession to turn Heaven and Earth into Motu.

But the Enlightened Deities of the Human Race were different; they felt pain, and they felt fear.

This battle began abruptly, but as time passed bit by bit, the momentum of the Human Race was constantly falling! "Where are the sword immortals of Shushan?"

"Have they not arrived yet?"

At this time, the old Celestial Master no longer had his usual immortal demeanor; his seemingly aged body actually possessed infinite strength, with mountains being mere playthings in his hands and rivers being mere whips. Above the old Celestial Master's head, the Great Dao manifested visions, and as those Dao Principles permeated, they dispelled the erosion of demonic Qi time and time again.

"The situation in the Southern Border also encountered trouble; those sword immortals from Shushan only just resolved it not long ago."

"Given the distance between the Southern Kingdom and Beidi, it will take at least ten more days for the Shushan sword immortals to arrive!"

"And that is not counting the time they need to concurrently practice the Chaotianque Cultivation Method!"

A figure dressed as an emperor held the Human Emperor Bell; as the Human Emperor Bell struck time and again, it emitted an infinite, great sound. As the great sound spread, mountains and rivers inverted, Heaven and Earth overturned, and the sun and moon shook.

This figure dressed as an emperor was the Qian Emperor of the Human Race, or rather, the previous Qian Emperor of the Human Race.

Everyone could see that this Qian Emperor was already on the verge of Dao-transformation, but the Human Race was suffering a calamity; at such a time, even if he would undergo Dao-transformation after a single battle, this Qian Emperor had to walk out of his place of seclusion.

And his strength was also formidable; with a Dao Body that had reached minor completion, added to holding the Human Emperor Bell, his strength was almost not inferior to an ordinary Second Realm Quasi-Supreme.

The reason the old Celestial Master was able to block the footsteps of the demonic monstrosity Ye Ming was largely due to this Qian Emperor.

"Chaotianque..."

"Chaotianque!"

There was a trace of unwillingness in the old Celestial Master's eyes; at this moment, the old Celestial Master knew that there were still hidden powerhouses among the Human Race.

Even that hidden existence should be extremely close to a Supreme, or perhaps was simply a Supreme.

Only after this battle to block the demons began did the old Celestial Master understand the importance of the Chaotianque Cultivation Method.

At the beginning of the battle, those practitioners among the human gods who had not practiced the Chaotianque Cultivation Method would be eroded by the demonic Qi carried by Ye Ming in almost less than a few hours.

And the human gods who were eroded by demonic Qi would also turn into their opponents.

At the start of the war, at least a hundred human gods were eroded into human demons, subsequently increasing Ye Ming's power for nothing.

Even though the Human Race realized it belatedly, those human gods who had fallen into the demon path appeared to be beyond saving!

"The appearance of Chaotianque is actually quite suspicious; we can all perceive that Chaotianque and the demonic Qi on Ye Ming seem to be mutually reinforcing and restraining."

"Perhaps the one who spread Chaotianque is not a hidden powerhouse of the Human Race?"

"Looking back at the sixty thousand years of history, apart from the Shushan Dao Venerable, I have almost never heard of anyone in any era who broke the shackles and reached an existence close to the Supreme Realm!"

"If Chaotianque was built by a powerhouse of the Human Race, I would not resent them."

"If the person behind the scenes of Chaotianque and the person behind Ye Ming's transformation into his current state are the same person, that is the most despairing thing for me!"

The Qian Emperor constantly burned his blood and Qi, driving the Human Emperor Bell time and again, attempting to wear down Ye Ming's Great Dao.

Even though he was covered in blood, the Qian Emperor's words still made the old Celestial Master unable to help but fall silent.

(End of chapter)