Chapter 1139

Jiang Shang was not stingy.

Although only the Jin Dan in his hand, which had been refined with the true form of the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, could intercept the spiritual mercury in the void, he never refused if the young talents of the righteous path present had a request.

Moreover, no one had yet figured out how to use this thing.

So, even those who asked for some stopped after filling a bottle with spiritual mercury.

Everyone understood clearly that this spiritual mercury, which resembled mercury, was likely filling the entire Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum. There was no fear of not having a place to collect it, and if they wanted to enter the depths of the mausoleum, they would likely have to rely on those rivers of silver flowing throughout the mausoleum.

Monk Zhi Society grinned as he put away the large bottle of spiritual mercury, looking at the river of mercury reflected by the Jin Dan in the underworld river, and said: "This river is dark and gloomy, formed by the gathering of the Nine Heavens' qi of yin, darkness, death, extinction, resentment, filth, poison, demons, and evil. It seems to be that river from the legends of the Earth Immortal Realm!"

Pei Erke was suppressed by the Five-Colored Divine Light, his thoughts of reclaiming the true form of the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum cut off. At this moment, having lost the gaze left in his eyes by the Heavenly Star Gods, he could no longer cultivate the Heavenly Heart Demon Eye.

He did not give up, but instead seized the opportunity to continue on the path of refining the eye into a god, nurturing the god into a demon, and replacing the Heavenly Heart with his own heart.

In addition, after the true form of the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum was taken away, the injury to his left eye improved greatly. At this moment, he also restrained some of his essence and spirit, refining the pupils that were as numerous as the stars in the sky bit by bit.

Of course, the number of these heavenly stars was nearly infinite. Although he refined tens of millions of pupils in one breath, it was still just a drop in the ocean, and he could no longer hope for quick success...

The function of his Dharma eye had recovered somewhat, but he was stubbornly continuing on the path of the Heavenly Heart Demon Eye, never to return.

Others didn't know how to advise him, and even Li Zhong could only sigh secretly. That demonic nature was too deep; just by being tainted by a sliver, Pei Erke became very spirited, his Dao heart firm, and his demonic nature deep, possessing a bit of the demonic path's indomitable perseverance and the wisdom of a mastermind.

Hearing Monk Zhi Society's words at this moment, hundreds of his tens of millions of pupils, which he had opened, split off and looked in various directions.

For a time, his right eye drifted to the position of his temple. Most of the eyes were looking inward at himself, observing his own heart, refining his demonic thoughts bit by bit, while the other eyes observed the surroundings, paying attention to everyone's words.

It looked as if one eye was focused and deep in thought about himself, while the other eye was somewhat unfocused, drifting occasionally, which was very eerie.

At this moment, he spoke again: "Which river? Is it the one suppressed under the Six Heavenly Palaces of Luofeng in Fengdu Ghost City of Yizhou, or the one in the Yin-Sha Sea of the Western Extremity, suppressed by the Bone Demon City, or the one suppressed by one of the Thirty-Six Cave-Heavens of the Daoist sects? Or the one suppressed by the Pure Land Mount Luojia in the South Sea of the Buddhist path? Or the one in the East Sea?"

He grinned and laughed: "When the Nine Heavens invaded the Earth Immortal Realm in the past, the laws and Great Dao they manifested were this kind of underworld river."

"At that time, humans, ghosts, gods, and demons lived together in the Earth Immortal Realm. Ancient witchcraft simultaneously worshipped the Nine Heavens Demon Gods and the Heavenly Realm's various gods. Even whether they were closer to the Nine Heavens or the Heavenly Realm was hard to say. Didn't the Primordial Dao Ancestor pass down the Investiture of the Gods and the God-Beating Whip to start that great battle of the Investiture of the Gods just to cut off the Nine Heavens and drive away the various Demon Gods?"

"The Heavenly Zhou Divine Dynasty rose because of this, and eight million years later, they sealed the underworld rivers one by one, drove away the Nine Heavens Demon Gods, and let the Daoist sects replace the ancient witchcraft..."

Pei Erke laughed excitedly as he spoke: "That's it! My eyes are not yet complete. Apart from the Heavenly Star Gods, the Heavenly Star Dharma Eye also has the boundless darkness beyond the sun, moon, and stars. It is precisely in the extreme darkness that my eyes can capture the stars. Refining the stars is only the initial realm; refining that boundless darkness into them is the higher level. Now that the stars are hidden, it is difficult to do so, but there is still a great opportunity hidden in the boundless darkness!"

"The darkness behind the stars is not the void, nor is it chaos; it should be the Nine Heavens. The root of all darkness lies in the Nine Heavens... Apart from the eyes of the Heavenly Star Gods, I should also be able to refine the eyes of the Nine Heavens Demon Gods!"

He laughed neurotically and stared blankly at that underworld river: "It's a pity that the underworld river here is too clean! Strange, why isn't there a sliver of the filthy darkness of the Nine Heavens?"

The true disciple of the Taihua Zhenyue Palace looked at him with a complex expression and shook his head: "You are truly crazy!"

"The Heavenly Court's various Star Gods used you to monitor the Earth Immortal Realm. Even if there was... but after all, they are of the righteous god class and have the heart to cut off karma; they won't harm you. And the demonic nature of the stars you live in your eyes, although eerie, also originated from yourself. Now you want to hook up with the Nine Heavens Demon Gods? Isn't this seeking skin from a tiger? Once you take that step, I'm afraid you will be doomed forever..."

"What do you know?"

Pei Erke sneered: "From the moment Li Zhong enlightened me, I knew that I had already cut off the righteous path. He pointed out the handiwork left by the Heavenly Court's Star Gods in my eyes, and then there was suspicion. The Heavenly Court's various gods hold the title of righteous gods, so naturally, they have to maintain some appearances. Exposed pawns are destined to be discarded. My eyes had no future at that time, and the gaze they left behind was the thing that cut off the karma between them and me."

"That was originally my thing, the reward for being used for so many years..."

"Now that the gaze has been taken away, they are even happier to see it."

"After all, having left that gaze, after I entered the demonic path, it was also a stain. My Heavenly Star Dharma Eye is called a supernatural power, but in reality, it is 'communicating with gods,' which is the most orthodox path of the Divine Path. Li Zhong pointing this out cut off my orthodox path of the Divine Path."

"The path of righteous gods is about belief—believing and serving. Relying on this eye, I could have ascended to the Heavenly Court and attained a righteous fruit. But now it's gone; ever since he pointed out that joint, it was already gone!"

"After being robbed of the final gift, my path was already dead. Apart from the demonic path, what other path can I take?" Pei Erke laughed: "I can only walk the most essential path—the Heavenly Demon seizing the Dao, or using the Divine to control the Demonic. The Heavenly Star Gods will never use my eyes to look at the Earth Immortal Realm again; they have too many means to monitor the Earth Immortal Realm and don't lack me."

"But the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum let me know that they still have demands and still have things they want to see."

"Just like this time, as long as they can't help but borrow my eyes to look, there will be gods in my eyes. By using the 'Great Method of Refining All Demons Internally, Seeking All Gods Externally, and Communicating with Heaven and Earth through the Heavenly Heart Demon Eye' that I have realized, I will refine those gods into the gods in my eyes, and my demon eye will advance another level."

"As long as there is one opportunity like the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, I can fully recover my cultivation. If there are a few more times, my Dao practice will naturally advance by leaps and bounds!"

"Understand?"

"The demon eye I want to cultivate is not about magic power or various mysteries, but about attention. As long as the gods and demons borrow my eyes to take a look, and their attention is projected by one point, I will become stronger by one point. This is the true Great Dao of communicating with gods, the orthodox method of cultivating gods in ancient witchcraft. Isn't so-called cultivating gods and communicating with gods about gaining the favor and attention of gods?"

"The previous methods of fawning, pleasing, and offering gifts to gain the attention of gods are all too backward!"

"Not only do I not have to offer sacrifices and gifts to the gods, but I also have to make the gods give me gifts instead, giving me Dao practice and magic power..."

Pei Erke was now in a state of complete enlightenment: "You all are mired in vulgar views and cannot see through the essence of cultivation, but I have already realized it! I have surpassed you all too much. What can wasting my eyes twice do to me? The essence of my Heavenly Star Dharma Eye is the Divine Path Dharma Eye that allows various gods and demons to observe the world, all living things, and various mysteries and secrets through my eyes..."

The sliver of world-shaking wisdom stained in his mind stirred, and endless insights rolled in: "Do you understand what 'Heavenly Realm live-streaming' and 'Gods and Demons rewarding attention economy' are!"

"All gods and demons, focus your attention on me. I'm live-streaming the next Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum for you all!"

"Is there anyone who remembers the Qin Qin Shi Huang of the Immortal Qin, who was arrogant and conquered the world? He is buried in the depths of this mausoleum. I just live-streamed a glimpse of the general appearance of the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum to the old buddies in the Heavenly Court. Now the streamer is being beaten like a dog by a group of ant-like juniors. The streamer has fallen! Old buddies in the Heavenly Court, don't leave. Now I'm connecting you to the Nine Heavens platform. Let's all get crazy together..."

"Quick!"

Pei Erke shouted excitedly: "Li Ant, perform that thing for everyone again—the Six-Character True Incantation inherited from the Heavenly Court's Luo Tian, and that prototype of the Great Supernatural Power—the History of Time! And what did the other ant-like junior refine when he took my eyes to refine a pill? Did everyone see it?"

Pei Erke clamored loudly. The people beside him only half-understood, but they only saw the stars in his eyes opening their eyes one by one.

"Is it really effective?" Li Xiuzuan was dumbfounded. How could this person just not decline?

Is his luck really that sturdy?

Feeling the speed at which he refined the infinite stars in his eyes increase a hundredfold, Pei Erke became even more determined in his Dao heart and demonic thoughts. He looked up to the sky and laughed: "So that's how it is, so that's how it is. The ultimate goal of this path is to become the eyes of gods and demons, to see the information they want to see. The life and death of the Qin Qin Shi Huang, the great secrets of the Immortal Qin, all secrets, all concealment—as long as I see them and attract the attention of the gods and demons of the countless realms, then I will become stronger, and the harder it will be for me to die!"

Li Xiuzuan watched Pei Erke going crazy there, suddenly feeling a bit lost, and looked at his uncle Li Zhong behind him.

The white deer beside his uncle was nodding its head vigorously, looking like 'I think highly of you, a talent for the demonic path.'

The white deer commented sharply: "I never thought this Pei Er would have such potential. Originally, it was just an aristocratic family in the Earth Immortal Realm that was becoming increasingly boring, and his Dharma eye was nothing more than that. But after being enlightened by world-shaking wisdom, he actually had such a transformation, realizing a live-streaming method unprecedented in history. Truly a rare talent for my demonic path, a rare talent!"

Li Xiuzuan asked in a low voice: "Uncle, won't he really succeed?"

Li Zhong sighed: "This person is indeed somewhat extraordinary. The Earth Immortal Realm is truly full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers! Any young talent who has cultivated a First-Rank Jin Dan has immense potential. The demonic path he has realized is indeed correct, and its foundation and principles are quite novel. Originally, after being defeated by you, his luck had dissipated, but after several sudden enlightenments, he actually has the momentum of a hidden dragon emerging from the gate and soaring into the sky. If he really walks this path to the end, his future will be boundless. Perhaps he is a brand-new Dao seed!"

Li Xiuzuan gritted his teeth so hard they were about to break upon hearing this.

The white deer glanced at him and sneered: "The Luo Tian Six-Character Incantation was taught by the Master, a supernatural power with even greater prospects. But you are far worse than Pei Er and ultimately failed to realize a new path from it. Sigh! It's a case of casting pearls before swine in your hands!"

Li Zhong comforted him instead: "Although there is a possibility of condensing a new Dao seed, I think he is mostly destined to die without a burial place."

"To break through the demon eye, one must attract the attention of gods and demons. The more one wants to attract the attention of gods and demons, the more one must dig into the great secrets of the countless realms of the cosmos. But some secrets can kill. I don't think he will reach the Dao seed step before he dies sooner or later from seeing too much."

"However, this Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum trip is a great opportunity."

"The Immortal Qin has already collapsed. There are too many gods and demons who want to know if the Qin Qin Shi Huang is dead. It is one of the greatest secrets of the countless realms of the cosmos! Look, he just mentioned it, and many Star Gods' gazes have turned over. He has successfully upgraded himself from a one-time tool that was abandoned to a useful public pawn that can be abandoned at any time."

"A lone pawn entering the hinterland—he has brought himself to life!"

Li Xiuzuan said sourly: "So what? In the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, there are countless mighty figures who can crush him. With a pair of eyes shared by the Heavenly Star Gods, he will die without a burial place sooner or later!"

Li Zhong glanced at him and said in a strange tone: "Do you know that compared to him, the possibility of you all dying is even greater?"

Li Xiuzuan was startled in his heart.

Only then did he hear Li Zhong say faintly: "He at least has those gods and demons who want to see the secrets of the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum to protect him. You all who are by his side have no one to protect you. If the monsters and ghosts in the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, or the remnants of the Immortal Qin, want to eliminate the secrets... who will suffer first?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the people beside him were shocked first!

That's right!

There are countless things in the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum that can crush them at will. The first to be unlucky must be them...

Monk Zhi Society said in a panic: "No, this is a plague god; we must quickly invite him to leave!"

Li Zhong shook his head in his heart, not optimistic that they could invite this plague god to leave, because the world-shaking wisdom that Pei Er suddenly realized came from his brother Qian Chen, and the sect master behind the scenes of the Louguan Dao was also Qian Chen. It was equivalent to saying that the backer behind all of them and the mastermind behind Pei Erke's transformation were the same person.

It was very clear that through Pei Erke's eyes, the gods and demons of the countless realms had also entered the game...

And it was Qian Chen, the chess player, who did it on purpose.

How could they get rid of this? Just endure it!

Pei Erke stumbled, the stars in his eyes reviving by half, and suddenly tore through Cui Dan's Five-Colored Divine Light. After coming out, he just sneered coldly, ignoring all the previous things, and didn't even go to snatch the Jin Dan hidden in the true form of the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, but instead walked toward the Louguan Dao's Supreme Stone Tablet with his eyes.

"Everyone, take a look! This is the Louguan Dao Stone Tablet that sent us here. It is inscribed with 'Supreme Louguan, Suppressing 【Something】,' so it is also known as the Supreme Stone Tablet."

"It hides profound methods within, possibly a foreshadowing left by the Louguan Dao in the very early days. This tablet can even trigger the phantom of the Immortal Han's Dew-Catching Disk, so it should have been built after the Immortal Han's Emperor Wu. I don't know who struck it into the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, claiming to suppress the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, but in my opinion..."

Pei Erke used his Dharma eye to observe the Supreme Stone Tablet. This tablet stood on a black barren hill, surrounded by endless bone hills.

Opposite it was the endless underworld river, and in the underworld river stood the gate forged from ten thousand dragon bones.

Behind it seemed to connect to the Nine Heavens!

At this moment, the stars in his eyes suddenly bloomed with brilliance. In that instant, countless star pupils focused on the stone tablet, and several star pupils suddenly expanded, filling Pei Erke's eyeballs.

At this moment, a divine light suddenly shrouded toward the Supreme Stone Tablet.

On the stone tablet, a chaotic-colored spiritual bead flashed and disappeared, and the entire stone tablet turned illusory, but the divine light swept toward the black barren hill below.

Pei Erke covered his eyes, feeling the pupil power that surged from his eyes inexplicably and continuously. His Dharma eye improved by a level inexplicably, possessing a sliver of a remnant that could see through truth and illusion, close to the Buddhist path's Heavenly Eye Knowledge.

"It's here, it's here!" Pei Erke was ecstatic in his heart. The rewards from the big brothers have arrived!

The moment the Heavenly Eye Knowledge swept across the stone tablet, the Supreme Stone Tablet turned into a phantom and was passed through, but the huge black barren hill beneath their feet—which was a head taller than the surrounding three-thousand-zhang-high bone hills and covered in inexplicably hard black rock—trembled slightly. The black stone quality suddenly revealed golden light—this incomparably smooth black hill had countless golden lights spreading downward.

Soon the full picture of the hill emerged. The underworld river on both sides split the endless void, and towering, heaven-reaching giant pillars of branches split the sea from the underworld river.

Two huge, peerless dragon horns, resembling heaven-supporting divine pillars, separated the underworld river.

The black barren hill beneath their feet was actually just a scale between two dragon horns. Now, countless undulating golden hills crashed through the countless bone barren hills, shattering the entire earth in an instant and floating up. The golden hills, which could not be seen to the end, only revealed the winding dragon body in Pei Erke's eyes.

That long dragon body even coiled around the entire Immortal Qin Dragon-Slaughtering Ancient Battlefield.

A sliver of the golden true dragon's aura was like it had come from ancient times, incomparably sacred, its light even tearing apart the entire underworld river.

Pei Erke opened his mouth wide, the pupils in his eyes dense and expanding crazily. Countless Star Gods descended with a sliver of their gaze, and one eye that occupied most of his eyeball corresponded to the Azure Dragon's Kang Mansion. The thought brought by its sliver of gaze echoed in Pei Erke's own demon heart, shattering countless demonic thoughts, and he blurted out: "Eight-Part Heavenly Dragon Broad-Dharma Bodhisattva!"

In that instant, the thoughts of the Star Gods collided crazily in Pei Erke's eyes.

"Wasn't he slaughtered by Shaoqing?"

"He was the world-lord of the Dragon-Kind Great World back then! A Bodhisattva personally conferred by the Buddhist path, a Dao Lord who achieved the fruit position of the Dragon Department. If he hadn't been plotted and killed by Shaoqing, the Immortal Qin wouldn't have collapsed so quickly in the Dragon-Kind Great World... It is said he died at the hands of the Ancestor of Jianmu!"

"Nonsense, with Jianmu's half-dead state, how could he kill him? It was the Shaoqing Sword emerging from the void, piercing his head with one sword!"

"That was a Dao Lord Bodhisattva! And the Buddhist path just accepted it?"

"Then you go and reason with Shaoqing? Do you really think the Lingbao Dao Ancestor is easy to talk to?"

"Let's get back to the point. Why would the Broad-Dharma Bodhisattva, who was slaughtered by Shaoqing, appear here? And be suppressed by the Louguan Dao's Supreme Stone Tablet?"

"The Louguan Dao's stone tablet is strange. Although it has appeared several times in history, there has never been a coherent clue. It's simply as if someone is using it to skip stones on the river of time, but every time it appears, it is extremely difficult to investigate. You know, this kind of past that flickers in and out of the timeline is the hardest to investigate!"

"No wonder the Louguan Dao's Supreme Stone Tablet could break through the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum and enter, and even open up a path! It turns out this stone tablet has a base, and even used the corpse of an ancient true dragon, a Buddhist Bodhisattva, to forge the base. No wonder it can locate itself here and protect this place!"

"The Louguan Dao's handiwork is extraordinary. They didn't just forge the base of the stone tablet, but also the key to the Ten Thousand Longmen..."

"That's right! The Broad-Dharma Bodhisattva is the master of the Dragon-Kind. He is precisely the key core most lacking in the gate forged by the Immortal Qin with ten thousand dragon bones. Back then, the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum was not yet completed, and the nine gates of the outermost palace walls were not yet built. The Louguan Dao used the Supreme Stone Tablet to control the corpse of Broad-Dharma, and even initially refined it into a base, not just to place the stone tablet, but also as a base for this Ten Thousand Longmen."

"In this way, the base forged from the Broad-Dharma Bodhisattva's corpse became the hub of the Ten Thousand Longmen, and the Louguan Stone Tablet could master the authority of this gate, arbitrarily opening any gate of the Qin Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum!"

Countless divine thoughts collided on Pei Erke's body, but he didn't care about those great secrets at all, just blindly reversing his demonic arts, refining the countless noisy and scattered gazes in his eyes into countless demons in an instant.

The Heavenly Heart Demon Eye was finally cultivated back a portion...