Chapter 337: Refining Demons in the Inner Landscape

This devilish fiend swirled with a layer of blood-light; his subordinates, Baigu Zhenren, Nine Purple Immortal Lady, Liushi Mifo, Mimo Jingang... were all evil demons who dominated their respective regions. Liushi Mifo was a reincarnated Living Buddha from the Datu Xueshan Si in the Mizang Yu, a Living Buddha of the Mimo lineage, a hundred times more formidable than the previous Dharma King. The Vajras and Bodhisattvas he commanded were Manjushri, Yanmo Zunzhe, Front-facing Manjushri, Back-facing Yanmo, Lion Lotus, and Nvshi Mohu.

Mimo Jingang was a Mizang expert who cultivated both demon and Buddha paths; he was a white savage from the Great Snow Mountain who studied Buddhism, rumored to have heard the Xue Shan Dash preach. He possessed the strength to tear tigers and leopards apart with his bare hands and was a Vajra of wrathful eyes. Later, he was enlightened by Mimo, practiced black witchcraft secret spells, and cursed countless living beings beneath the Great Snow Mountain to death, being worshipped as the Daxueshan Mijie Jingang. After practicing demonic arts, his abilities were no less than those of a God Immortal sect leader; there was even a Jingang Si in the Great Snow Mountain dedicated to worshipping him.

Those whose names were not listed were also long-standing evil demons, Earth Immortal-level fiends who had survived the five-hundred-year Calamity and were proficient in secret spells and Evil Arts, just like the previous Dharma King; otherwise, they would not have been gathered by this Longevity Sect Wanshou Emperor.

By comparison, under Xu Jia's seat today, apart from the few long-standing demon immortals and disciples he had recently subdued, most were still struggling in the Human Immortal realm. It is lamentable that the cultivation of the true path is difficult to shortcut, making the quality appear uneven. As the cultivation within the sect gradually improves in the future, those who first achieve Earth Immortal status will naturally hold a higher status than those who are still Human Immortals, and I fear it will be very divisive. I only hope that no one sees the gap as too wide and begins to understand demonic cultivation, feeling that it is the only path of upward mobility for ordinary people; that would truly be the collapse of Rites and music.

At that point, ordinary people would instead become the fodder for demonic cultivators, with no hope of ever getting ahead; for specifics, refer to the serfs of the Mizang Yu.

Only by using the method of making vows to restrain practitioners can things last longer, but whether anyone will still take these vows seriously if Xu Jia ascends in the future is another matter entirely.

Xu Jia decisively shot the third arrow, hitting the other shoulder. At this moment, his ears suddenly buzzed, as if mosquitoes and flies were circling them; this was also a backlash, but he could still endure it.

This bit of backlash was nothing; the head and two shoulders are where the Yang fire resides. When Xu Jia had just returned to life back then, he had devised a plan to borrow Yang fire to successfully restore his vitality.

Now that this fiend had his Yang fire extinguished by Xu Jia's three arrows, he was still flying and traversing the Dharma Realm when, the next moment, he looked up and fell, shouting: "What a vicious curse!"

Yet he decisively had his Primordial Spirit exit his body, abandoning his physical form, and instantly refined the flesh, turning it entirely into a blood-clump shape. The blood-clump connected to the Blood Lake Hell of the Dharma Realm, revealing a terrifying face in liquid form, still in extreme pain, and then the blood-light turned into a rainbow, his escape technique even more extreme.

Xu Jia sensed this, so he quickly shot the fourth arrow. The fourth arrow hit the chest, where the Shanzhong Qi Sea vortex is located. Whether in the Daoist or Esoteric traditions, this place is extremely important and also connects to the heart and lungs; it is the central pivot. Hitting this spot closes the Five Qi in the chest and causes one's Earth Immortal-level cultivation to regress.

That Yarrow figurine had already begun to seep blood, flowing outward; it was hideous and terrifying, the blood sticky as it moved toward Xu Jia's feet.

The basin-scene beside him also appeared calm, with much less turmoil.

The Six Ding and Six Jia guarding the altar could not block this blood plasma. Bi Fang Zhu Yan'er was very alert and shot into the sky, intending to intercept the fiend for Xu Jia.

Ao Jia from the South Sea and the big catfish Zidian Xian Wu'er from the East Sea also sensed it and followed to act as Protectors.

Ao Jia blocked the Nine Purple Immortal Lady, and Wu'er intercepted Mimo Jingang.

Zhu Yan'er wanted to intercept the old demon, but the old demon's blood-escape was extremely fast, and he only managed to intercept Liushi Mifo.

As for the other various demons and ghosts, they were dealt with by the many barbarian wild gods and disciples that Xu Jia had newly subdued on Luzon Island.

Only that Xue Mo descended with a Blood Lake incarnation, polluting the entire volcano, making it impossible for people to see the truth. They only sensed the volcano erupting, and what sprayed out was not magma, but streams of blood plasma. The blood plasma spread for eight hundred miles, turning into a blood river that entered the sea, polluting the living beings in the sea.

All the common people were even polluted into blood corpses.

A blood-colored throne emerged from the blood, and on the throne sat a blood-colored Ashura Wang, his eyes emitting red light as he roared: "Wicked beast, stop!"

Immediately, the sea of blood manifested countless Blood-Transforming Divine Blades to attack.

But Xu Jia still shot this arrow. As the arrow was shot, the straw figurine immediately ignited, bursting into countless blood flames; it seemed the remaining two arrows could not be shot.

Xu Jia felt that as this arrow was shot, the resulting backlash caused his heart to stop for a beat, and he himself almost lost his breath.

However, it was worth it. The fiend, who had just shouted for him to stop, disintegrated into blood water the next moment. That blood water condensed again, but its aura had dropped by more than half; the Five Qi were not gathered, the Three Flowers had dispersed, and it had completely fallen out of the God Immortal Realm.

Those nine hundred and ninety-nine Blood Lake Primordial Spirits could no longer have a backbone and began to fight among themselves for the leading position.

Blood flowed from the corner of Xu Jia's mouth as he walked out of the circle protected by the Six Ding and Six Jia. His aura was still stable in the God Immortal Realm; this was the merit of the Spirit Immortal Register method, which prevented Xu Jia's cultivation from regressing or reversing. Although he had lost some Daoist Practice and fortune, and the five arrows had cost him sixty years of Yang Lifespan, and his face showed some fatigue, he had not instantly turned gray-haired. Only his temples had whitened a bit, making him look quite like those high immortals in immortal-hero dramas.

"You deserve to die."

The Long Life Sect Leader revealed a blood-colored dragon robe, with nine blood dragons circling him, separating himself from the other Primordial Spirits: "I have nine hundred and ninety-nine lives, you only have one. So what if you have knocked me down from my realm? The blood sea has already unfolded; as long as the blood sea does not dry up, my life will not end."

Xu Jia laughed, opened his mouth, and a streak of green light flew out from within his body, carrying killing intent, and hovered above his head.

It was the Weiji Immortal Sword he had refined earlier. This sword was ominous; Xu Jia had forged it with compassion, yet it had absorbed the killing intent of Heaven, the killing intent of Earth, the killing intent of Man, and the combined killing intent of Heaven and Man. Within the Three Talents and Four Symbols, the killing intent was infinite.

As soon as this sword appeared, it first wounded Xu Jia's brow, a line of blood appearing there like a Heavenly Eye. Only after obtaining the blood from his brow could this sword be controlled by Xu Jia.

"That's not difficult; isn't it enough if the blood sea dries up?"

Xu Jia slashed with the sword: "Planting Golden Lotuses in the Blood Sea!"

Streaks of Sword Qi transformed into the shape of lotus flowers, attacking those Blood Lake Primordial Spirits. For a time, three thousand sword lotuses, like rotating gears, crushed each other, the sword energy rampaging and intersecting.

None of those Blood Lake Primordial Spirits could contend with this Sword Qi. This sword was forged from the wishes of all living beings; the hearts of the people are the heart of Heaven, hence it can be called the Heavenly Heart Sword Lotus.

Those Primordial Spirits were wiped out one by one, and the blood sea dried up layer by layer. The Xue Mo was not willing to wait for death, but used the Blood Demon Possession Art, releasing many invisible Blood Shadows that pounced toward Xu Jia.

These Blood Shadows were the famous Blood God Child.

When a Blood God Child pounces on a living creature, the creature will have its blood Qi sucked dry; when it pounces on plants, the plants will lose their vitality and wither directly.

It was not just the Xue Mo's true self that transformed into Blood Shadows; those Primordial Spirits also split into Blood Shadows to escape the fate of being wiped out by the sword lotuses.

How could Xu Jia let him slaughter the people of Luzon Island: "Continuous as if existing, use it without exhaustion, this is called the root of Heaven and Earth."

Instantly, the Inner Landscape connected with the External Scene, and in an instant, the world changed; the entire Luzon Island was transferred into the Yuyu Blessed Land within his belly.

Of course, this Dharma Realm scene was not the material world; Xu Jia's belly could not contain this material world.

Xu Jia was also betting that this fiend was not Sun Wukong, who had the ability to cause trouble in the liver and shake the intestines and stomach.

This blood sea corresponds to the female womb; having a period every month is the Red Dragon Tide.

Xu Jia is not a woman and is not compatible with the blood sea; otherwise, he would be a hermaphrodite.

But that does not hinder the refining of demons within the body.

The Tiangang Great Sage in the kidney pivot first led the heavenly soldiers transformed from the righteous Qi of the camp guards to come and subdue the demon; this represents the human body's immune system.

Immediately after, the Spleen Lord, Heart Lord, and Lung Lord, these three, appeared together.

The Jiujiang Shuidi and others are good at treating water-related illnesses, and the blood sea is of this type. Following the various acupoints of the Belt Vessel, he summoned generals together, and there were eight hundred thousand Heavenly River water troops who came to assist.

Next was the Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun, refined from Azure Yang Qi, who came forward and said: "Blood Lake Hell, pull out the suffering and save the dead, one cannot but ferry them!"

Those three thousand sword lotuses immediately gave birth to green Qi, transforming into three thousand green lotuses.

The fiend was greatly shocked: "What kind of evil art is this? Swallowing people into your belly to refine them, calling it universal salvation—how is this any different from eating people? I am a demon, but aren't you a demon too? Of all the sufferings in the world, only your belly is paradise; is your method of salvation to eat everyone into your belly?"

Xu Jia did not speak with him. Within the Inner Landscape, he still held the Immortal Sword with his mind, slashing away all delusions and demonic thoughts; both external demons and internal demons could not escape this sword.

The Wisdom Light rose, and those hidden demons had nowhere to hide and could not conceal their tracks.

Those Blood God Children, divided into thousands, could not find a host, or the host was Xu Jia, but they had broken through the Inner Landscape and could not harm his true body.

"I have the Mandate of Heaven! I am the Emperor of Great Heng! I am the descendant of the Yellow Heaven, the bloodline of the Heavenly Emperor; you cannot treat me like this!"

He revealed this information.

A relative of the Heavenly Emperor?

Xu Jia's mind wavered for a moment.

(End of this chapter)