Chapter 447: A General

At this moment, in front of the Demon Burial Stone Platform, the surviving experts of the major demon sects all stared at the stone platform that was a hundred zhang high and built with five-colored jade.

The stone platform was mottled and dilapidated, yet it still contained a vast divinity. In front of the old demon lord who was in charge of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Dao, a golden slip was still floating, engraved with the clerical script of the Immortal Qin, emitting an ancient and mysterious aura.

On the seal of the golden slip were engraved three ancient talisman scripts—"Book of Conferring Exposition"!

"Fu Fu Lao Mo Fu! Are those fierce spirits that suddenly appeared your doing?"

The old demon lord of the Corpse-Driving Sect asked sternly. His stature was unusually tall, about a zhang, and his skeleton was also thick and thin. His hair was slightly naturally curly, and his skin color was dark, as if dyed with charcoal. Now he was standing straight under the stone platform, his legs not bending.

Just looking at his skin, although it was as black as charcoal, it revealed a jade color from the inside out, faintly emitting an aura of longevity and immortality.

This is a sign that the technique of Taiyin Refining Form has reached a very high realm.

The technique of Taiyin Refining Form is a mysterious Daoist method for the Xuan Sect to transform the old body, going a step further in the corpse-dissection immortal method. This method is to cultivate the Yin Spirit, then use the three souls to nourish the bones and the seven spirits to guard the flesh. A trace of true spirit is always clear, letting the muscles rot, the blood sink and the veins disperse, and the withered bones turn to ash. Afterward, the Yin Spirit is entrusted to the outside, or cultivated by borrowing the shell of a magic treasure, or entering the divine path by receiving a divine talisman, or the spirit is dispersed into the spiritual aperture, or reincarnated to break through the mystery of the womb.

In short, it is to borrow the qi mechanism of one yang dispersing after the body and bones turn to ash, to sprout a point of pure yang qi, and after experiencing several tribulations, return to the physical body with a Yin Spirit carrying a point of pure yang.

Recovering blood and nourishing flesh, generating saliva and forming liquid, using the point of pure yang in the Yin Spirit to conceive the physical body, and stepping into the Yang Spirit realm at the moment of spirit and flesh merging.

It is a mysterious Daoist method that achieves something close to a corpse-dissection immortal.

The old demon lord of the Corpse-Driving Sect was clearly one who had cultivated the Taiyin Refining Form technique to a very high realm.

Although his body still carried a trace of death qi and had not completely transformed, he had the Taiyi guarding the corpse in his Niwan Palace, the three souls nourishing the bones, the seven spirits guarding the flesh, and the fetal spirit recording qi, continuing the vitality endlessly.

This realm, which is close to the Buddhist immortal golden body and the demonic path's indestructible demon body, is already the body of a Taiyin True Demon. If it weren't for the fact that his refining method was not the righteous path and there was always yin-turbid qi that couldn't be faded, he would not be inferior to Xie An's realm.

Anyone with this characteristic in their body is almost a Yang Spirit venerable!

Therefore, the old demon lord of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Dao did not dare to ignore this demon's questioning, only saying in a deep voice: "Old Ghost Duan, your refining of the skeleton went wrong before. If it weren't for the Demon Lord making a move to save you, degreeing you into that strange Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Heaven to cultivate for two jiazi, and us sacrificing dozens of divine demons, gathering a bit of vitality from this place on this Demon Burial Stone Platform to re-gather vitality for your corpse..."

"How could you have your current realm? A blessing in disguise, refining the 'Taiyin Refining Form Book' that no one in your Corpse-Driving Sect has refined for thousands of years?"

The old demon lord of the Corpse-Driving Sect pondered slightly and nodded: "The Demon Lord's great kindness, I am ashamed to accept it!"

"But the last time we sacrificed to the Demon Lord, the Demon Lord didn't appear. Clearly, it is you Yu Yu Jiuyou Dao who are playing tricks..."

Fu Fu Lao Mo Fu felt aggrieved in his heart!

Yet they had bitter words they could not speak; in the Nine Heavens Demon Realm, the strong preyed upon the weak. Their branch had long ago lost the backing of their founding master. Hundreds of years ago, through the Sima family's mediation, they had secretly made contact with the remnant soul of the Demon Lord within this cave-heaven. They had been overjoyed and had surrendered heart and soul—how could they have had any schemes left?

If this Demon Lord really is the remnant soul of the ancient Candle Dragon, this kind of god, even if he entered the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Dao, is essentially better than the pure demon path ancestors in the sect.

It is a thigh that is hard to find through the ages.

If they can save the Demon Lord's rebirth, these old demon lords all have the hope of achieving Supreme Supreme Tian Mo. By then, even if they are degree-ed by the Demon Lord and become subordinate gods, they have the hope of longevity. But he is wholeheartedly defecting, yet there are several Nascent Soul Heavenly Demons in the Yu Yu Jiuyou Dao. If one or two of them have some small thoughts, he doesn't dare to ask, and he doesn't dare to say!

Fu Fu Lao Mo Fu said solemnly: "Brother Yuan! You are the master of this place. You should know a thing or two about why these fierce spirits are provoked!"

In the darkness, on the stone platform, sat a two-headed baboon.

One of its heads had a green face and fangs, extremely fierce, and its body was vaguely covered with some green hair. Its hands were crimson, and its muscles were knotted. Its physical body sat on the stone platform, suffering from the invasion of countless demonic sounds gathered by the abyss, yet it was hard to wear down even a single hair of it. Clearly, its physical body had already reached the extreme of strength, even surpassing the old demon lord of the Corpse-Driving Sect.

But its other head was withered and thin, like an ordinary monkey, and now it was closing its eyes.

Hearing Fu Fu Lao Mo Fu's doubt, the green-faced, fanged head was full of hideousness and suddenly stood up. Endless baleful qi surged in its eyes, forcing the several demon lords under the stone platform to take a small step back.

That terrifying aura made everyone feel awe-struck.

But after the thin, monkey-like head opened its eyes, this vast and terrifying baleful qi was suddenly suppressed by an invisible force. The eyes of that thin head were pure gold, emitting a cold and ruthless divinity.

"They are all my companions..."

The withered head said in a low voice: "Ten thousand years ago, this place suffered a great tribulation, and they all died."

"Our God Lord betrayed us! That day, the gods fell together, and we were all invaded by the darkness of the Yu Yu Jiuyou, killing everything in front of us, destroying everything we possessed... Finally, the gods' corpses were piled up like mountains. All the gods who survived were filled with darkness, fear, despair, and cruelty in their hearts."

"At that moment, our divine light was gone, and those who survived all became demons!"

Fu Fu Lao Mo Fu looked at its dull, pure golden eyes, and his heart trembled.

All the evil gods had become demons, except for this monkey!

It slashed out its demonic nature, turning it into the hideous head on the right, retained its divinity, and suppressed its own demonic nature bit by bit over the ten thousand years of time, only then being able to sit clearly on the Demon Burial Stone Platform.

Fu Fu Lao Mo Fu still remembered that when the demonic path and the Sima family joined forces to explore the abyss and found the Demon Burial Stone Platform.

After a fool angered this old monkey on the stone platform, what kind of killing tribulation followed...

This monkey had been guarding the Demon Burial Stone Platform since ancient times and was the most powerful one among the many evil gods appearing around the nine stone platforms. It turned all the resentment, anger, hatred, and despair of ten thousand years ago into chains, locking itself here, bearing everything.

That time, its fierce ape head, which was as fierce as a demon, angrily slaughtered 70% of the demonic path's experts before this divine head opened its eyes, suppressed the other half of the ferocity, and negotiated cooperation with them.

Fu Fu Lao Mo Fu could never forget that shocking scene. Compared to the violent ape head, he feared this indifferent, god-like divine head even more.

"These fierce spirits, since they were transformed by Brother Yuan's companions, we don't want to cause them any damage."

"But fierce spirits appear and have killed many of us. I wonder if Brother Yuan has any way to restrain them?"

Fu Fu Lao Mo Fu said in a deep voice.

"Damage?"

The golden-eyed ape head looked at the crowd and said calmly: "Just relying on you, you are not worthy of damaging them. Not to mention that the God Lord is secretly protecting their corpses... Haha! Perhaps it is guilt!"

"It is just that when they were alive, what kind of powerful figures were they?"

"If you had come ten thousand years earlier, you wouldn't have entered our eyes at all!"

"The reason they woke up is that someone was playing the zither in the upper layer of the abyss. The zither sound cooperated with the demonic sounds here, awakening the darkness of the Yu Yu Jiuyou and reproducing the moment the great tribulation descended ten thousand years ago."

"What!" Fu Fu Lao Mo Fu raised his head in shock: "The fierce spirits waking up is actually someone manipulating it in secret?"

"A very clever method!"

"He used the zither sound to stimulate the darkness of the Yu Yu Jiuyou, making the Yu Yu Jiuyou laws hide in the zither sound, shrouding this place, reproducing the moment the great tribulation descended ten thousand years ago, causing the long-sealed bones to wake up and the remnant souls that fell into the darkness to return... If you cannot stop him, when the daylight passes and the darkness of the Yu Yu Jiuyou descends, the great tribulation of ten thousand years ago will reappear. If you ask me..."

"By then, none of you will survive!"

The divine head tilted its head to listen to the silent zither sound, its expression seeming to have a trace of nostalgia, and said in a low voice.

Fu Fu Lao Mo Fu stood up suddenly, took a step forward, clenched his fists, and pursued: "Where is the person playing the zither now?"

The divine head tilted slightly and said calmly: "Listen... following this zither sound, can't you find him?"

Fu Fu Lao Mo Fu waved his sleeve, turned his head, and shouted sternly to the people of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Dao: "Did you hear that? Why don't you send people to find him?"

"Yes!" Little Ji Zhen and the others cupped their hands and said.

Before leaving, Little Ji Zhen glanced back intentionally or unintentionally, hearing the divine head of the two-headed baboon on the stone platform finally say: "With the help of the Golden Book of Conferring Exposition, you can urge the power of the stone platform, gather the wishes of all living beings, and perform the act of conferring gods!"

"But the stone platform is already dilapidated, and the wishes accumulated by the God Lord have long been exhausted. Restarting the conferring ritual consumes a lot, and the stone platform has already been demonized... If you try to confer gods, you can only confer demon gods..."

"... With the help of the power of the Yu Yu Jiuyou..."

"... In this way, at least hundreds of thousands of people must be blood-sacrificed!"

"I'll say a number, one million people... Your Sima family must at least..."

"A general's success is built on ten thousand bones!"

"The Qin Tian Jian said that if I want to achieve the Dao, I will inevitably bring about a shocking tribulation, and the Great Jin will flow with blood like a river... I don't want him to say it, I want to say it! My life is up to me, not heaven! Blood flowing like a river, it may not be the blood of our own people..."

Little Ji Zhen finally took a deep look at the towering stone platform, turned around and said: "Go and invite the junior brother who cultivates that demonic sound technique, and invite the true transmissions of the Corpse-Driving Sect, Eyeless Sect, Heart Buddha Temple, and Impermanence Sect to take action, and follow the zither sound with us to surround and kill that person!"

After saying that, Little Ji Zhen walked toward a secret cave nearby. He looked back and ordered: "I am going to take the Soul-Burial Bell that the seniors worked together to refine to collect demonic sounds, which will facilitate the investigation of the origin of the demonic sound. You wait here!"

"Yes, senior brother!"

Little Ji Zhen turned into demonic light and escaped into the depths of this place, backhanded a string of restrictions, and opened a stone door.

He turned into a phantom and escaped into the door, carefully closed the restrictions, and then summoned a Faceless Divine Demon, sealing his memories of this period of time into the divine demon.

His face was normal, but Little Ji Zhen was very uneasy in his heart: "So the Sima clan is helping Sima Yan impact the Nascent Soul by using this Demon Burial Stone Platform and the blood sacrifice method to perform the conferring ritual! There are even people hiding in the dark besides these eight demon sects!"

"Being able to move the darkness of the Yu Yu Jiuyou with zither sounds, this person must be a demon lord... But the old demons in the sect haven't taken action, which shows that his cultivation is not high!"

"This person's intentions are unpredictable, we must be vigilant over there!" ===== CHAPTER 448 =====