Chapter 372: Divine Light Shines, Demon Heart Sinks! Zodiacs Gather, Year

The Three Corpses are the great calamity of becoming an immortal, the true demon of the Great Dao.

After Zhang Fan combined his spirit, he became the 【Three Corpses Disaster】. His Nascent Soul became extremely special, refining the 【God-Demon Holy Embryo】 and sealing the 【Three Corpses Reflecting Fate】. The two methods were combined, yet it made him realize some mysteries.

If one says that thoughts are the beginning calamity of cultivation, then the Three Corpses are the final calamity of cultivation.

The Nascent Soul is clear, life and nature become empty, and in the end, it is difficult to fulfill one in ten thousand.

Not to mention, between beginning and end, the Nascent Soul still has many disasters, reversing yin and yang, confusing cultivation, and finally reaching a place of eternal calamity, with no chance of progress to become an immortal.

This hidden between beginning and end, the countless disasters born from the Nascent Soul, is the demon.

The demon of God and Demon.

Comprehending 【Three Corpses Reflecting Fate】, Zhang Fan instead had a new understanding of the 【God-Demon Holy Embryo】.

What is the God-Demon Holy Embryo?

God is the mystery of heaven and earth, seizing it to return to the innate.

Demon is the disaster of cultivation, crossing it to produce creation.

The deeper the mystery, the greater the disaster; the greater the disaster, the greater the creation.

These two are like yin and yang, like calamity and fate, like life and death, close to existence and non-existence, two sides of one body, existing together and depending on each other.

Seizing the mystery, returning to the innate, crossing the disaster, bearing the creation—that is to transcend beyond gods and demons, becoming the 【Holy Embryo】.

Cultivating to this point, the 【God-Demon Holy Embryo】 can be considered truly completed.

"The Nascent Soul is innate, descending into the muddy red dust, and there are disasters..." Zhang Fan whispered.

The Three Corpses are the biggest disease in the Nascent Soul.

However, besides this, everyone's Nascent Soul hides many, many disasters, invisible and untouchable.

It is as if there are countless bacteria hidden in this red dust. Once the Nascent Soul descends into the red dust, it will be infected, giving birth to many disasters.

Those "bacteria" and "disasters" hidden in the Nascent Soul are the demon.

Boom—

Black fire raged, turning into endless fog, entangled into a sea of fire.

Luo Sen walked leisurely, his body incomparably powerful, withering and flourishing in an instant, life and death together. That newly born body seemed to never be harmed again—

That is the balance of life and death reached; not a fraction can be reduced, not a fraction can be increased, not a fraction can be damaged, not a fraction can be harmed.

"Jia-Birth, Gui-Death... Luo Sen, you have not yet truly mastered this method." Zhang Fan whispered in a solemn voice.

If it were truly mastered, one would transcend beyond life and death—no life, no death, no death, no life—how could there be any balance of life and death?

Such a scene is not something mortals can imagine or understand.

"Zhang Fan, you cannot kill me, so the outcome of this battle is already decided!" Luo Sen said in a deep voice.

He cannot break Zhang Fan's 【Divine Demon Sacred Fetus】, but Zhang Fan also cannot kill him. Within the cycle of life and death, he can exhaust Zhang Fan to death.

Just as Luo Sen said, life and death are his home field.

"This is the true usage of the Divine Demon Sacred Fetus!"

Zhang Fan whispered leisurely. His soul-aspect soared into the sky, black and white Qi swirling. Suddenly, a brilliant white light flared, like the sun hanging in the sky.

Instantly, within Luoying Mountain, wherever the white light shone, every soul-aspect had nowhere to hide and was within Zhang Fan's observation.

"This is..."

At this moment, everyone's expression changed. They only felt as if the soul-aspect at their spiritual platform was being shrouded, peered at, and connected to by an invisible force...

That kind of power is innate and irresistible, like a god looking down upon the human world, and like a soul-aspect turning against the law.

"Divine Illumination!"

Luo Sen's gaze sank abruptly. In an instant, his soul-aspect was as if exposed in broad daylight—the laws of heaven were manifest, brilliant like a Dharma eye, eerie like an inescapable god or demon—and there were no more secrets to speak of.

He knew that the Divine Demon Sacred Fetus is the supreme method of the soul-aspect. Once this path is achieved, the soul-aspect returns to its innate state, becoming unimaginably powerful, and all soul-aspects have nowhere to hide before it.

"Zhang Fan, even if your soul-aspect is vast, I cycle through life and death; you still cannot kill me." Luo Sen said in a deep voice.

Competing in soul-aspect, he certainly could not compete with Zhang Fan, but he had already entered the realm of life-death balance—instant death is life, instant life is death—so he had no fear.

"Luo Sen, you should have heard a saying." Zhang Fan's expression was calm as he shouted in a deep voice.

"What saying?"

"The Dao rises one foot, the demon rises ten!"

Boom—

As soon as the words fell, the black and white Qi boiled again, a vast expanse of black pressing down, rising to traverse the heavens and earth.

"Demonic Heart Abyss Sink!"

Hum—

A pitch-black darkness like night, as if thick ink, seeped out from Zhang Fan's soul-aspect, covering the sky and earth, raging in all directions. The terrifying pressure made everyone's expressions turn pale with fright.

At this moment, their soul-aspects were all exposed under 【Divine Illumination】, with nowhere to hide. That pitch-black darkness like thick ink descended once more, making them feel deep fear and despair.

That touch of pitch-black darkness was like an abyss, as if it wanted to bury and extinguish everything.

Even if one has cultivated for a thousand years, one would still be buried in this realm.

That is the calamity of cultivation.

That is the final destination of the soul-aspect.

"Between god and demon... between god and demon... has his Divine Demon Sacred Fetus reached completion?" Meng Qiwu roared in her heart.

She knew Zhang Fan had cultivated the 【Divine Demon Sacred Fetus】, and she also knew he was trapped in the calamity of the Great Night Without Light, having not yet fully escaped the calamity.

But even if Zhang Fan had escaped the calamity, he had only passed through the 【Great Night Without Light】 once. Could a one-calamity Divine Demon Sacred Fetus have such power?

This was simply unimaginable.

His method, his Dao, seemed different from the past, vastly different from his predecessors.

"White within black is the elixir mother, demons hidden within gods transform into the sacred fetus!"

Boom—

The pitch-black darkness descended like an abyss, covering the area shrouded in thick fog, nearly a thousand meters in radius, completely submerging Luo Sen's body.

He stood rooted to the spot as if he had grown roots, but his soul-aspect could not help but leave his brow's spiritual platform, falling into that pitch-black abyss.

"Zhang Fan..." Luo Sen's soul-aspect jumped, as if falling into a quagmire, uncontrollably sinking toward the depths of the pitch-black abyss.

This feeling was like the Great Night Without Light, making his soul-aspect become dim and heavy.

"There are many demonic calamities on the path of cultivation..." Zhang Fan whispered coldly.

The so-called demon is the disaster and illness within the soul-aspect.

Illnesses can be large or small; they can make you live, they can make you die, and they can make you wish you were dead.

Since Luo Sen cultivates Jia-Birth and Gui-Death, with life and death being impermanent and uncertain, then let him sink completely—sink into this pitch-black abyss, as if banished, returning to the final place of the soul-aspect.

This is the true terror of the Divine Demon Sacred Fetus.

Divine Illumination, Demonic Heart Abyss Sink!!!

"Luo Sen, he actually cannot withstand the Divine Demon Sacred Fetus?"

In the distance, the crowd was astonished, not daring to approach the area shrouded in pitch-black darkness at all.

For all cultivators, that area was an absolute abyss, an absolute burial ground. Once approached, the soul-aspect would be destroyed in an instant.

"The nine great elixir methods each have their specialties. The Divine Demon Sacred Fetus gathers the essence of the soul-aspect path; among all the methods in the world, none surpasses it." Wang Qingyi's expression was solemn.

Unless Luo Sen takes 【Jia-Birth and Gui-Death】 a step further, reaching the stillness of life and death, returning to one, and jumping out of the uncertainty of life and death, it is difficult to break this method.

"The world's most ferocious is truly the world's most ferocious..." Meng Qiwu sighed in her heart, boundless fear rising for Zhang Fan.

Thinking back, in Toad Treasure Mountain, she could still rely on Mount Zhongnan's Azure Feather treasure to fight Zhang Fan back and forth, but now, only a month later, she feared she could not even withstand three moves.

Boom—

Where the pitch-black darkness shrouded, Luo Sen's soul-aspect suddenly went still, with no trace of vitality left, dead and silent, unable to turn back.

"As expected of Jia-Birth and Gui-Death; entering this dead end, he actually still has the strength to resist."

"He wants to seek life within death, but I fear that person will not give him any chance!"

"A soul-aspect dead end; I fear that person will not give him that glimmer of life."