Chapter 335: Nail-Head Seven Arrows

Xu Jia prayed for three days; it was not that he had not made proper preparations, as the materials for the Nail-Head Seven Arrows had all been collected.

The grass puppet woven from yarrow used for divination, the small arrows made from the hundred-year locust wood from the grave mound, the soul banner made from the hundred-year willow by the pond, the small bow made from lightning-struck wood, and the five-colored paper people and paper horses used to sacrifice to the Five Directions Ghost Emperors and the various Heavenly Demon Kings.

These were all "external objects"; to truly land the curse, one must further damage their Daoist Practice, fortune, and innate lifespan.

If it succeeds, one kills a thousand enemies while suffering eight hundred in self-damage; if it fails, one suffers a thousand in self-damage, or even dies from the backlash.

Xu Jia originally did not wish to use this left-leaning technique to curse and suppress him, as he walked the righteous path and had just obtained the Innate Precious Sword.

However, the Innate Precious Sword is a fierce and violent weapon; it is "Weiji" (not yet completed) and has not been fully refined, so it hurts the wielder before it hurts others; one must not move such a divine artifact lightly.

Nevertheless, this cursing technique is also for when all else fails.

Fortunately, after three days, Xu Jia's sincerity was felt, and he once again received the gaze of the Lingbao Heavenly Venerable. For such an existence, a mere gaze carries immense power, as if the Ancestor had descended to the altar in person.

In an instant, the Lingbao Register within Xu Jia's body underwent a change, evolving the various registers of the God Immortal Realm: the first was the Lingbao Divine Immortal Register, the second was the Lingbao Six Jia Register—corresponding to the Six Jia Yang Spirit Register—and the third was the Lingbao Ascension Three Realms Register.

Once these three registers finished transforming, there was no further movement.

This God Immortal Register is easy to understand; it is a register of Daoist Practice, the same as the previous Human Immortal Register and Earth Immortal Register. It assists in the cultivation of the God Immortal Realm, can increase cultivation speed tenfold or even hundredfold, and is a register of Heavenly Dao authority, allowing one to borrow the register to comprehend realms and understand principles.

The Six Jia Register is also easy to understand; it is for summoning the divine power of the Three Days Six Jia Protectors to serve as protection.

But this Ascension Three Realms Register has a different meaning; it is the so-called "Ascension Edict."

It can bypass the Desire Realm and Form Realm to descend directly into the Formless Realm to cultivate.

However, it cannot protect the physical body; it can only protect the Yang Spirit.

The emphasis of the Edict is on "Edict," which is the command of a superior.

Proper cultivation, on the other hand, is "receiving guidance for ascension"—one goes oneself, and those above receive and guide; there is a certain distinction between the two.

Although ascending on one's own seems better, if one has the Edict of a great being with Divine Ability, then going up is generally not bad. After all, one has connections behind them; even if they lack a portion of physical body cultivation, the Shangjie possesses its own precious items to reshape the Dao body, much like Nezha's Lotus Root Incarnation.

Xu Jia thought to himself: "Could it be that the Heavenly Venerable sees that my merit and practice have reached the level, and is summoning me to ascend? Does he not want me to interfere in these worldly affairs?"

But thinking carefully, he has established a sect and a Dao Kingdom, so that shouldn't be it? He then changed his train of thought and pondered carefully; this was not asking him to ascend directly, but giving him a "Houshenfu" (protective talisman) to address his worry about being mistreated after ascending...

Since he is not afraid of being mistreated, the meaning is naturally: "Go ahead and do it, don't worry about their messy backers; you also have a backer, what is the point of being timid?"

Although the will of Heaven is hard to fathom, one must choose one, and Xu Jia chose one that allowed his mood to ease.

Thus, he bowed and thanked the Heavenly Venerable and began the ritual. The willow banner swayed, stirring the yin wind of the Dharma Realm. That strand of blood-colored hair, which Xu Jia had kept well, was also wrapped around the yarrow puppet.

Xu Jia chanted the incantation, but a black post appeared in his hand. This object was the "Ghost Immortal Dao Fruit" obtained by Xu Jia after cultivating the Lushan Five Prisons Great Method to perfection. It is also known as a summons, but it also goes by the name "Yama Post." By keeping one's own summons, one can remove their name from the Netherworld Death Registry; this is a prerequisite for ascending to the Shangjie, otherwise, if the Death Registry is not cleared, one cannot transfer into the Immortal Register.

However, this object can also be sent out; by erasing one's own name and writing another's, it becomes a top-tier cursed object, though it also damages one's own virtue.

The true name of the Longevity Sect's Wanshou Emperor is not hard to find; since he was the last emperor of the previous dynasty who drifted overseas to cultivate, it is naturally verifiable in historical records.

Although he has cultivated into a great demon of the God Immortal Realm and has certainly transferred out of the Human Register and into the Demon Register to become a True Demon, Xu Jia's curse is not ordinary; let alone a God Immortal, even a Heavenly Immortal would have to stumble a bit.

Xu Jia set up this formation, first summoning the Six Ding and Six Jia to protect his body; the Six Jia are in the sky, the Six Ding are in the ground, six yin and six yang, protecting the Dharma Realm.

He then pulled the lightning-struck wood small bow and shot the locust wood arrow, chanting the secret incantation for soul-snatching in the underworld; it cannot be spoken in human language, it must be spoken in ghost talk.

Suddenly, the Dharma Realm responded, yin winds swept through, and the gloom of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths seemed to gather here. The sky turned pitch black, the dark clouds were like a thick lid, and the sea winds and tides rose, as if a typhoon were forming.

The Longevity Sect's Wanshou Emperor, along with his dozens of demon ships, also sensed the wind and clouds rising. He looked up at the sky and felt it was strange.

The master of the White Bone Hall, Hundred Bone Daoist, frowned and said: "Your Majesty, just a moment ago there was no sign of this weather, and there were divine omens predicted before we set out. Even if there were some sea monsters or giants, Dragon Gods or water immortals, they would surely yield to our holy ships. This storm comes quite suspiciously."

Nine Purple Immortal Lady of the Coquettish Woman Hall also felt something was wrong. She was originally the empress of the Long Life Sect Leader, but after being abducted by a foreign tribe, she became the empress of the Three Generations Barbarian King's descendants and cultivated demon arts. Later, she was found by the Long Life Sect Leader and cultivated the Six Desires Demon Technique, reincarnating nine times, each time entering the Dao as a coquettish woman; hence the name Nine Purple Immortal Lady.

"Your Majesty, watch as I release three thousand Peach Blossom Demons to go and take a look."

Peach Blossom Demons are not true peach blossoms turned into demons; they are spirits refined from the souls of young men and women into peach trees. They need to be watered with the essence and blood of lewd men and women, are good at absorbing people's Original Yang and Original Yin from a distance, and can release Peach Blossom Miasma Qi, gathering and dispersing without form.

Although they cannot compare to the lewd Mirage Essence from before, refining three thousand Peach Blossom Demons can also set up a Daoist Military Official formation, which can defile the five qi in a person's chest, block a person's seven orifices and five senses, destroy an Arhat Golden Body, and wither Daoist bones and immortal roots.

"No need, this is the Divine Ability technique of that wicked demon Daoist." The Longevity Sect's Wanshou Emperor sneered: "If it were something else, like Thunder Law or Fire Method, grand and imposing, and cultivated to a profound level, I might fear him. But what he uses now is a demonic method, a side-door technique. I have roamed the Taixu and traveled through various realms, and I am proficient in all three—Buddhist, Daoist, and Demonic. Especially the Demonic path, which is the most convenient for quick success and most suitable for the Imperial path: using the world as fuel, collecting corpses and gathering evil, accumulating souls to refine banners, summoning demons and indulging desires, and spreading plagues."

After speaking, he produced a black mirror. The mirror did not reflect light and was pitch black inside. He reached into the mirror, like scooping the moon from the water, and descended upon Xu Jia's altar from the shadows, borrowing the power of yin demons and ghost gods to perform a gesture of suppression like the Tathagata's severed palm.

Before Xu Jia's altar, there was a water basin with black talisman paper boats floating on it. Under the water, several loaches were rolling about; the reason was that Xu Jia had thrown in some meat of a wicked Flood Dragon, and they were fighting over it. The loaches are fallen dragons; as they churned the river and sea, they caused the celestial phenomena over there to move violently, with surging waves.

Xu Jia also drew his bow and shot an arrow, connecting the threads and building the bridge, his killing intent fully revealed.

At this moment, a black hand suddenly emerged from the mirror image, trying to grab Xu Jia by the throat from within. Xu Jia immediately unleashed the Innate Weiji Immortal Sword, slashing out with one strike. The black hand dissipated, and blood fell, dripping into the basin, turning the entire basin of water black. However, he was no longer a mortal body; he was a demonic body, and even his blood had become True Demon blood.

A True Demon is a demon lord capable of demonizing the world, not comparable to those ordinary villains who suddenly go mad and laugh "hehehe." They have an immortal body, are good at Possession, possess an immortal body, do not fear being killed, cannot be killed by beheading, and can regenerate from a drop of blood.

(End of chapter)