Chapter 365: The God-Slaying Spearhead, the Fierce Aura of Mozu Luohou

"Let's leave that for later!"

Fang Longye let out a breath, his fingertips tapping rhythmically on the desk, producing a crisp, echoing sound. Since, in the eyes of the world, trading away this Heavenly Demon Soul-Hooking Rope via his Golden Finger was equivalent to destroying it completely, there was no need to rush to deal with it.

He would just put it away for now. When his strength advanced further and he prepared to elevate his own origin to that of a Xiantian Shengsheng, he could use it to conduct an experiment.

He wanted to see what level of heavenly punishment he would face for completely destroying an Innate Spiritual Treasure. Do not blame him for being cautious; it was just that in his plans, the Innate Spiritual Treasure he would choose to smelt at that time would not be so simple. Shaking his head, Fang Longye reined in his thoughts and proceeded to handle the good things at hand.

He flipped his palm and took out a broken spearhead. It looked to be only the size of a palm, neither gold nor jade, neither copper nor iron.

It shimmered with a color of Chaos. The spear tip was intact, but the section below was full of cracks, and even the cross-section was very uneven. It was roughly equivalent to two-thirds of a complete spearhead.

This spearhead was none other than a part of the Innate Supreme Treasure God-Slaying Spear that had fallen off when it suffered a calamity in the past.

Although it was only the spearhead of the God-Slaying Spear, it still possessed an essence that transcended Innate Spiritual Treasures, carrying an indescribable profundity.

The spearhead was broken and looked unremarkable, but in reality, it contained a destructive Aura so vast it filled the heavens and earth, lurking within like volcanic magma.

A light, deeper than darkness, flowed within it, contracting and expanding, expanding and contracting, as if breathing, containing some sort of wondrous pattern.

"I wonder, what is this spearhead considered now? Does it still belong to the Innate Supreme Treasure God-Slaying Spear? Or is it..."

It has already become an Innate Spiritual Treasure in its own right.

Fang Longye muttered to himself.

An Innate Supreme Treasure is not the same as an Innate Spiritual Treasure; a single character's difference is a world of disparity.

For example, when broken, an Innate Supreme Treasure, besides being able to re-gather and recover due to its indestructible Xiantian nature, also has the possibility of shattering and decomposing into several Innate Spiritual Treasures.

Therefore, he could not be sure what the situation was with this God-Slaying Spear head now.

After all,

When he obtained this spearhead from Minghe Laozu before, it was right in the middle of the wedding procession.

How could he have found the time to investigate this treasure? After stroking it for a while, Fang Longye discovered that he could not probe too deeply relying solely on his divine abilities; he could not obtain the specific situation inside this spearhead.

He had no choice but to mobilize his own power, thousands of rays of light entering inch by inch, as if carving and engraving, cautiously beginning to refine this spearhead.

As the refining deepened and his divine sense permeated within, he saw that the interior was full of terrifying and profound destructive energy, manifesting infinite mysteries and containing various rules and principles of destruction.

This power of destruction was profound to the extreme and was not mere destruction.

It was the source of destruction, the vitality of gestation, the very Chaos Green Lotus that gestated the giant god Pangu during the countless years of Chaos, and the lotus stem that supported the source of creation.

The myriad worlds and all things in the universe are born in creation and end in destruction.

He seemed to see,

Streams of the most primordial destructive power, like angry dragons, shuttling through the myriad worlds, continuous and unending. Worlds were constantly being born, and worlds were constantly collapsing and being destroyed...

Birth is for the sake of manifesting destruction; destruction is for the sake of accumulating even more magnificent creation.

Fang Longye's mind gradually sank into the rolling Great Dao contained within the God-Slaying Spear head.

His whole being, like a sponge, was continuously comprehending the principles of destruction and creation.

But gradually, amidst the endless destruction and creation, traces of Demon energy began to appear.

These traces of Demon energy, like ink dropped into clear water, instantly stained everything.

Even though Fang Longye saw that things were not right and quickly stopped the refining process, withdrawing his mind, his consciousness was still tainted by these wisps of Demon energy.

He saw his entire sea of consciousness covered by a layer of haze, like a black ribbon hanging in the void, or like a canopy of heaven, obscuring everything.

Yet, these wisps of Demon energy possessed an incomparable power of infection, constantly assimilating the power that originally belonged to him and growing stronger.

"Heh, heh, heh—"

A burst of sinister laughter arose.

Countless figures rushed out from the Demon energy that had been infected and grown to an unimaginable scale, like a dance of Heavenly Demons, the sound of strange laughter washing over everything.

Demon energy permeated, black smoke rolled, and these Heavenly Demons transformed into countless images in his sea of consciousness—men and women, old and young—enacting the Great Thousand World.

The male images were countless, with sword-like brows and star-like eyes, noses like hanging gallbladders, handsome and extraordinary, full of masculine energy, performing all kinds of masculine beauty.

The female images were mostly peerless enchantresses, charming and full of allure, intoxicating the mind.

The old were kind-faced, the young were lively and cute.

There were also scenes of the heavens, some filled with tender affection, some with cruel slaughter, some with sorrowful wailing, some happy or worried, some shocked or angry—the seven emotions and six desires, the cycle of life and death...

Everything in the world appeared one by one, making one want to escape, or indulge, or resent, or yearn, or fear, or be angry...

Once a mortal heart arises, ten thousand thoughts emerge; even a Saint carries the word "human," possessing the seven emotions and six desires.

Therefore, between heaven and earth, there is the Great Dao flourishing, and there is also the Heavenly Demon destroying the world; as the Dao rises one foot, the Demon rises ten.

"The primordial Demon energy of Mozu Luohou?"

No, to be precise, it should be the traces of the Great Dao left by Mozu Luohou in the God-Slaying Spear.

"I was wondering, why was that Minghe Laozu so generous to me?" Fang Longye suddenly realized.

Before, he had been a bit puzzled.

One must know that whether it is an Innate Spiritual Treasure or an Innate Supreme Treasure, they are inherently immortal and indestructible. As long as the innate indestructible spiritual light inside is not damaged, it will not truly be destroyed.

Even if it suffers the heaviest of blows, even if its origin is exhausted, even if it is shattered and scattered across the heavens, there will eventually come a day when it can recover as before.

Even if the God-Slaying Spear, as an Innate Supreme Treasure, might decompose into several Innate Spiritual Treasures after shattering, it could still be synthesized into one—it just requires a greater price and effort compared to the former. In other words, don't look at Minghe Laozu as just giving him a spearhead; in reality, he had placed the entire God-Slaying Spear in front of him.

Well, to be precise,

He had given him the opportunity to collect the entire God-Slaying Spear and placed it before him.

The God-Slaying Spear! An Innate Supreme Treasure—Minghe Laozu gave it away just like that! That was too generous! Now he finally understood,

Minghe Laozu was not being generous; he simply could not do anything about this Innate Supreme Treasure. Or rather, he could not do anything about the traces of the Great Dao left by Luo Hou within it.

Even if it was just a spearhead.

Think of Lu Ya from before; how many epochs had passed since the fall of Donghuang Taiyi? He still had no way to remove the Dao seal traces left by Donghuang Taiyi on that branch of the Fusang tree.

And what kind of figure was Mozu Luohou? A being who once contended with Hongjun, and whose previous life was a Chaos Demon God who obstructed Pangu—how could he be inferior to Donghuang Taiyi?

The Chaos Bell was refined by Donghuang Taiyi into the Donghuang Bell; clearly, it was a treasure of Pangu's creation of the world, yet under destiny, it belonged forever to the Golden Crows. A treasure like the God-Slaying Spear, under Luo Hou's refining, was likely unusable by anyone other than Luo Hou himself. "My fault—" Fang Longye shook his head inwardly, "My fault for being blinded by the reputation of the God-Slaying Spear, not thinking too much, and forgetting that this is a Demon treasure!"

Especially since it was an Innate Supreme Treasure once wielded by Mozu Luohou, how could there not be residual Great Dao imprints inside, even if it was just a spear tip? Of course, this was also because Minghe Laozu gave him this spear tip, and he had assumed Minghe Laozu had long since handled it!

Who would have thought, he just gave it to him like that~

Fang Longye, however, did not know that this act by Minghe Laozu was purely treating this God-Slaying Spear as a hot potato and tossing it to him.

In fact, contrary to his guess,

it was not that Minghe Laozu could do nothing about the God-Slaying Spear, this Demon treasure; as long as he paid a certain price, Minghe Laozu could still take down this Innate Supreme Treasure.

He even knew clearly about the other parts of the God-Slaying Spear after it broke, and could easily take them into his hands to gather the scattered parts.

But doing so would only startle the snake and attract the attention of Luohou from some unknown, dark place, which for him could be said to be a loss outweighing the gain~ Therefore,

for so many years, Minghe Laozu had only collected the spear tip after the God-Slaying Spear broke and sealed it away to prevent the God-Slaying Spear from becoming whole again.

As for the rest, he didn't care~ And now, giving this spear tip to Fang Longye, besides the fact that this thing was just a chicken rib to him, there was also the intention of diverting the disaster.

However, the disaster was not diverted toward Fang Longye, but toward the power behind him—that is, Xihuang, whom Minghe Laozu was certain stood behind him.

As long as Fang Longye wanted to obtain the God-Slaying Spear, this Innate Supreme Treasure, he would sooner or later have to face Luohou.

With Xihuang's ability to transcend Honghuang, Mozu Luohou was nothing much. Even if he didn't succeed, it would be good to let Luohou lose an Innate Supreme Treasure.

He, Minghe, dared not take this thing; a little fellow carrying the legacy of Xihuang taking one of his, Luohou's, Innate Supreme Treasures shouldn't be a big deal, right~

……

Fang Longye naturally did not know the specific thoughts of Minghe Laozu, and he could not spare the time to think about the deep meaning behind Minghe Laozu giving him this God-Slaying Spear Tip.

At this moment, his sea of consciousness had already devolved into a demonic land resembling purgatory.

Demonic Qi surged, evolving into countless Heavenly Demons, Blood Demons, Lust Demons, Heart Demons, Evil Demons, Demonic Spirits……

Like maggots on rotting bones, they circled around him, surging and slaughtering~

Some had blood-red eyes, grinning hideously, clinging tightly to him, opening their sharp maws, their interlocking teeth like ten thousand standing steel blades.

The entire giant mouth was like a mountain of blades, clanging incessantly, and from time to time, when he couldn't respond in time, they would fiercely bite off a piece and swallow it whole.

Others had eyes like silk, revealing tender affection, bewitching all living things; every inch of their skin carried this charm, reaching straight to the heart~ Whether you loved men or women, or even loved lifeless objects, paper figures, or even the ethereal Great Dao, all appeared in one's heart at this moment, making one sink into it.

Although it was only his primordial spirit in the sea of consciousness, at his current level, the physical body, primordial spirit, and even the mind no longer had clear boundaries as they once did.

These scenes of various struggles, seemingly illusory, were actually real; every bit of damage would act upon his body.

In essence, it was those wisps of Demonic Qi that had invaded, seizing his own existence in the world~

It was only because he was now a Taiyi True Immortal that his True Spirit could be entrusted to the Dao Source Sea.

Furthermore, what was infecting him was only a tiny, infinitesimal wisp that had spilled out from the original Demonic Qi contained within the God-Slaying Spear Tip~ The deepest, most terrifying parts were still staying inside the God-Slaying Spear Tip! Compared to the Dao imprints left behind by Mozu Luohou, it was even less worth mentioning.

Otherwise, he would have long since completely fallen into the demonic path, becoming a puppet of Luohou's demonic way, and his entire being would have ceased to exist.

Unlike now, where he was slowly gaining the upper hand in the struggle against these wisps of Demonic Qi.

One could see him sitting cross-legged on a Green Lotus exhaling the aura of Chaos, with the Mysterious Spirit Escape Armor, Yu Emperor Cauldron, and Yu Emperor Stele, among other Merit Spiritual Treasures, above his head.

Every Merit Spiritual Treasure shone with golden light, like a sun, illuminating all directions.

One could hear rolling thunderous sounds, booming and rumbling, Boom—! Boundless Mysterious Yellow Merit Golden Light was scattered incessantly, falling throughout the entire space of the sea of consciousness.

It began to constantly recover lost ground~ The space, which was originally filled with rampaging Demonic Qi, piercing through and shuttling back and forth across the vast and boundless sea of consciousness, now seemed to boil like hot water~

Countless wails came, and one after another, mysterious incantations appeared, and then the hideous and terrifying Heavenly Demon illusions began to change.

Under the illumination of the Merit Golden Light, the Demonic Qi on each of the demons began to be stripped away and dissolved one by one, turning back into his own power.

In the end, the sea of consciousness, which had fallen into a purgatory of demonic land, was as if cleansed of all impurities, turning back into a pure land of the Immortal Realm~ Golden Flowers and beaded curtains scattered everywhere, with mountain peaks, pavilions, Langya water pavilions, Blessed Lands, and Grotto-Heavens—all sorts of marvelous scenes filled the entire sea of consciousness.

Only a few wisps of Demonic Qi, a thousand times thinner than a strand of hair, remained, struggling and crashing under the suppression of the various Merit Spiritual Treasures, like maggots on rotting bones.

They wanted to break free from the restraints at every moment.

"It's unimaginable!"

Looking at these few wisps of black Demonic Qi, thinner than a strand of hair, Fang Longye felt an inexplicable emotion in his heart.

It was just a wisp of original Demonic Qi, so tiny and almost invisible, yet it had forced him to go all out just to barely suppress it.

He truly didn't know what kind of power that Mozu Luohou himself must possess~ After a moment of reflection, Fang Longye's heart stirred, and an ancient stone gate appeared in his sea of consciousness.

The gate was towering, majestic and grand, with ten thousand auspicious clouds, a thousand rays of auspicious energy, ten thousand paths of rosy light, rainbows spanning across, pearls spraying and jade splashing, and flowing, brilliant colors.

It was none other than the Dragon Clan treasure temporarily entrusted to him by Yinglong Laozu—the Dragon Gate.

After this supreme treasure appeared, the gate immediately opened wide, generating a massive suction force that swallowed this wisp of Mozu Luohou's original Demonic Qi.

Very quickly, it was worn away by seven or eight tenths.

It was just that although these original Demonic Qi were only a few wisps, their essence was extremely high, surpassing everything, and the other Spirit Treasures in his hands could do nothing about them.

He had no choice but to bring out the supreme treasure, the 'Dragon Gate'~

……

Inside the hall, Fang Longye opened his eyes, deep as an ancient well, without a ripple, and looked at the God-Slaying Spear Tip in his hand, carefully sealing and putting it away.

"I thought I could harvest an Innate Spiritual Treasure, or use this to smelt the Panlong Spear! What a pity, now I can see it but can't eat it~"

Fang Longye muttered to himself, his tone faint.

However, although his initial plan had fallen through, he did not feel much annoyance~

It was just that his own strength was insufficient! He couldn't blame others~ Moreover, it was not as if he had no gains.

Although his contact with the essence of this God-Slaying Spear Tip had only been for a short while, it had still given him no small amount of insight.

It could be said that he benefited greatly~

(End of chapter)