Chapter 564: Thousand-Eyed Evil Spirit, Outer Realm Heavenly Demon

With a thought, Qian Chen met it head-on.

The Life-Bound Sword Embryo in his sea of consciousness shook with a hum. As the five-colored thunder light of Water, Metal, Wood, Fire, and Earth circulated, streaks of sword qi were unleashed. The thunder condensed into sword light, shuttling endlessly beside Qian Chen like flowing light.

Thunder Law and Sword Embryo, condensed into one.

The Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon sensed the terrifying threat from Qian Chen, and its thousands of eyes turned one after another, looking toward Qian Chen.

Accompanied by those countless gazes, an aura of destruction, slaughter, blood, and terror pressed down on Qian Chen.

But Qian Chen only gave a cold smile. The Sword Embryo shook, and he slashed away this aura.

Ancient sword cultivators did not form cores, did not penetrate laws, did not cultivate divine abilities, and did not contemplate primordial spirits. They only sensed sword intent, forged a Life-Bound Sword Embryo, and tied their entire life to the sword.

Initially, sword cultivators were the favorite prey of Nine Heavens demons and Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, but as countless sword cultivators followed one after another, opening up the Sword Dao, they ultimately forged this purest path. A single Sword Embryo could slash even gods and demons...

After the Sword Dao reached great success, let alone a monster that just looked a bit strange, even if the Heavenly Demon Crown Prince came, he wouldn't be able to offend this single Sword Embryo of a sword cultivator!

Although Qian Chen's path was not as pure as the ancient sword cultivators, the sharpness in his heart that could slash through all laws was not the least bit inferior to a pure sword cultivator.

The Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon sensed this sharpness that could slash through everything. Its thousands of eyes trembled along with their stalks, emitting a shrill sound that pierced straight into the soul like countless steel needles.

It stared at Qian Chen with its thousands of eyes, and the evil light within them gathered and shot straight over. Qian Chen withdrew the thunder sword light surrounding him, letting this evil light envelop him. Instantly, boundless evil thoughts of slaughter, blood, destruction, and desire emerged from his mind, almost drowning Qian Chen's own thoughts.

"So that's how it is..."

Qian Chen's true self-thought guarded the spiritual embryo, facing the waves of evil thoughts, remaining unmoved.

"Every eye of this evil demon can emit the Great Soul-Seizing Evil Light, invading the spiritual platform of cultivators with those filthy and evil thoughts, causing living beings to be seized by them."

"This kind of evil demon specializes in the method of spiritual sense. Its life-bound divine ability, the Great Soul-Seizing Evil Light, is quite exquisite. Every time it invades a living being, it can assimilate their soul, then refine it with the Great Soul-Seizing Evil Light, turning it into an evil eye to swallow into its own body. In this way, the soul-seizing divine ability becomes increasingly terrifying!"

"This demon has so many eyes; it must have refined at least thousands of Profound Sea creatures!"

The soul-seizing evil light continuously stirred up evil thoughts, turning into surging, distracting, yin-demon thoughts, as if it wanted to drown Qian Chen's spiritual platform.

But a spirit pearl hung high in Qian Chen's soul. Under the spirit pearl, those countless evil thoughts, even though the faint light emitted by the spirit pearl was like a thin sheet of paper, no matter how they impacted, they could not touch his soul in the slightest.

As the head of the Supreme Three Treasures, even if the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon King came, he wouldn't dare to offend it. How could a mere Profound Sea demon from the lower realm invade it?

This demon's entire set of divine abilities was completely restrained by Qian Chen's essence.

Even if it seized the souls of hundreds of thousands of living beings, and then luckily, through immense fortune, gathered those countless independent, messy, and unbearable evil eye thoughts into one place, condensed a true self-consciousness, and advanced to the Primordial Spirit stage, it would still be firmly restrained by Qian Chen. At most, it could only turn and flee, relying on a higher-level escape technique to survive.

Who let this demon have no second skill, relying entirely on the Soul-Seizing Evil Light to be a demon?

The group of Nascent Souls also used various means, slashing and killing the sea monsters and demons that surrounded them. As top-tier overseas Nascent Soul cultivators, they still had spare energy when facing these demons and all noticed Qian Chen's side.

Originally, Qian Chen stated that he would deal with the Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon, and the various Nascent Souls were not surprised. After all, thunder methods had always been the most restraining to evil spirits. Qian Chen's mastery of the Five Thunders Great Divine Ability made breaking the evil light in the Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon's eyes as easy as turning over his hand. Let alone one demon, even if there were eight or ten, it wouldn't be a problem for Qian Chen to slash them.

Unexpectedly, facing the Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon's full-power Great Soul-Seizing Evil Light, Qian Chen actually withdrew his thunder magic power, stood motionless, and let the evil light hit him.

Feng Yangzi was instantly shocked, even thinking in his heart that Qian Chen might have been secretly controlled by some Nascent Soul in Luo Zhen, and now wanted to use this opportunity to get rid of him!

True Person Yun He casually emitted a pale purple smoke, enveloping ten miles. The smoke drifted, easily dissolving the dozens of demons within. He looked back at Qian Chen's direction, and the same doubt was in his heart.

He intended to cast a magic treasure to test him, but saw Qian Chen's complexion was rosy, and there was even a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. Standing under the soul-seizing evil light, he seemed to have no feeling at all. Only then did he put away the wisp of green smoke in his sleeve and praised, "Fellow Daoist Qian has great ability!"

Qian Chen smiled back and nodded slightly.

Above his spiritual embryo, a wisp of sword intent was awe-inspiring. He led those infinite distracting thoughts onto his Life-Bound Sword Embryo, infecting the Sword Embryo, and then used that wisp of sword intent to slash away those various distracting thoughts.

This was also a layer of kung fu for sword cultivator beginners. When refining the Sword Embryo, one would hold the sword and enter meditation, then induce all kinds of thoughts to grow, and slash them with a wisp of sword intent. Until one eliminated distracting thoughts, firmed the true self, understood the distinction between sword and self, and forged the true self into a heart sword...

Outside of this sword, there was nothing that could not be slashed!

This layer of kung fu was a sharp weapon for sword cultivators to fight against inner demons. Except for the heart sword, everything else was distracting thoughts.

Human thoughts were hard to distinguish between internal and external. Many thoughts were hard to tell if they came from the true heart or were influenced by external objects! Once the heart sword was forged, the thoughts infected by the demonic path were as distinct as friend and foe. With one slash of the heart sword, they could be eliminated.

Of course, if this layer of kung fu was flawed, and many impure thoughts were mixed into the true heart, the heart sword forged would be impure. Not only would the sword light be hard to become sharp, but it would also become a weakness in character, inviting tribulation.

Therefore, in this tribulation, sword cultivators must slash emotions and eliminate desires, and the most taboo thing was to move the nature and give birth to emotions!

Qian Chen's essence was an Innate Spirit Treasure, equivalent to a divine being, so distracting thoughts were hard to grow, and thoughts were hard to shake his true self. He could not cultivate this level at all. Now, seeing that this demon could pollute a cultivator's spiritual embryo and plant distracting thoughts, he had a temporary idea to let this demon emit evil demonic light to help him cultivate.

He saw that between the sword intent slashing the distracting thoughts, a sharpness gradually grew. But Qian Chen only used it to touch the demonic nature in his heart slightly, and saw the Sword Embryo tremble slightly, as if facing great fear!

"Sure enough, it doesn't work! That terrifying demonic thought in my essence doesn't seem to originate from external influence. It is completely one with me, and I can't slash it out with the sword cultivator's heart sword at all!"

"It seems this demonic thought really originates from the Dao Dust Pearl!"

"As the head of the Supreme Three Treasures, full of Dao qi, the most supreme and precious Immortal Dao treasure, within such a grand and upright thing, it actually hides such a terrifying demonic nature. Could it be that the guy Supreme, in order to merge with the Dao, slashed out all his own distracting thoughts and stuffed them into me!"

"Is there anyone who pits their own golden finger grandfather like this?"

At this moment, Qian Chen gave birth to infinite resentment. What Immortal Dao treasure, it was clearly a Demonic Dao treasure, pitting him, this grandfather, to death!

He slowly opened his eyes and gave a faint glance at the Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon in front of him. He watched its thousands of eyes all over its body almost bulging out of their sockets, staring at Qian Chen with immense effort, bloodshot eyes crawling all over the eyeballs, but Qian Chen still felt that the endless surging distracting thoughts had weakened by three points.

Qian Chen reached out his finger, and thousands of thunderbolts merged at his fingertip into an incomparably sharp sword qi. As he pointed out, it pierced toward the Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon.

The sword light stopped at the pupil of the demon's largest main eye, less than a hair's breadth from the iris.

That astonishing sharpness almost penetrated the eyeball, and the destructive aura of thunder surged wantonly, revealing a terrifying aura. That was a wisp of demonic nature that Qian Chen had just revealed when he slashed toward his own demonic nature with a sword, causing the demonic thoughts to move...

The demon's thousands of eyeballs trembled. That chaotic madness, equivalent to every eyeball having an independent consciousness, was suddenly completely unified for the first time, even making this Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon almost take the most important transformation for their race!

Thousands of eyes began to merge rapidly. The evil light emitted from the eyes suddenly condensed, having a hint of the charm of a Great Divine Ability, and the evil thoughts induced became even more terrifying, even having the trend of demonizing a Core Formation True Person with a single thought. But for the sword intent that Qian Chen was constantly honing, it just barely kept up with the pace of the sword intent's upgrade.

Qian Chen stood in the soul-seizing evil light, his complexion slightly revealing a hint of satisfaction, as if he felt that this level of force was comfortable.

But the soul-seizing evil light ultimately had a limit. Without becoming a Primordial Spirit, this Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon could never touch the edge of a Great Divine Ability no matter what. When the eyeballs all over its body merged into dozens of incomparably huge eyes, each the size of a person, it had already reached the limit.

At this time, the distracting thoughts that Qian Chen used to hone his sword intent gradually couldn't keep up. He opened his eyes with some dissatisfaction, let go of the demonic nature in his heart, and glared at the Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon!

That Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon, which did not live up to its name, let out a shrill scream and was actually scared crazy!

Its massive eyeballs instantly became chaotic. Dozens of eyes entangled into a ball, constantly colliding and merging, but it was always a line short.

This race of demons had a path to promotion. Swallowing thousands of souls made one a Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon, with chaotic and crazy consciousness, having only the desire to prey. If one was lucky enough to swallow a powerful living soul as a main eye to barely suppress the consciousness of other chaotic eyeballs, one could be promoted to a Ten-Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon, equivalent to a cultivator's Primordial Spirit stage.

At this time, this demon would consciously pick food, specifically merging powerful souls to pave the way for achieving the Primordial Spirit.

When powerful to the extreme, there were even demons with hundreds of thousands or millions of eyes roaming in the Outer Realm Void, until one day one was born with unimaginable miracles, merging all chaotic consciousness, achieving a true self, and giving birth to spiritual wisdom, then one could prove the Primordial Spirit Heavenly Demon!

Now this one had only merged thousands of eyes in the Profound Sea, and was still far from a Ten-Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon, yet it already had signs of merging all eyes and swallowing all chaotic consciousness!

This violated the path of their race, so there were signs of madness. Of course, there was also the reason for being scared crazy by Qian Chen's demonic nature!

All the eyes of that Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon mixed into a ball, like a blood ball. A sound that was incomparably chaotic, incomparably crazy, like a flute without any rhythm, and stupid to the extreme, spread from the main eye of this blood-eyed evil demon. It trembled and let out a scream that was sharp to the extreme.

The scream swept across, affecting the demons and sea beasts within a radius of dozens of miles. On the spot, ninety percent of the eyeballs bulged, and then in the scream, they rapidly congested and exploded.

From the blood holes after the eyeballs exploded, brain matter like paste flowed out.

They were actually crushed in their brains and extinguished in their souls by this sharp howl!

Feng Yangzi was dumbfounded, and the other few Nascent Souls were even worse. They all looked toward that direction, scratching their heads and unable to understand what Qian Chen had done to that demon? It was actually forced into a state of self-destruction!

Qian Chen saw that the Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon was about to self-destruct, only then did he slightly retract his demonic nature, and with a finger carrying the Blood Eye magic of the No-Eye Sect, he pointed at the demon that was trembling violently all over.

At such a close distance, if this demon self-destructed, he would also be in trouble, okay?

At this time, his demonic thoughts slightly revealed, and through the magic power of refining the blood eye, they passed to this demon. Instantly, a Great Soul-Seizing Evil Light that had the prototype of a Great Divine Ability shot out from the demon's eyes, continuing to give pressure to the sword intent that Qian Chen was honing. But soon, under the manipulation of the Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon, this evil light shot toward the Profound Sea, piercing straight into the ten-thousand-foot sea abyss.

About the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, dozens of demons of the same kind suddenly rushed out from the sea surface.

Those demons with nearly ten thousand eyes, or at least hundreds, were enveloped by the Great Soul-Seizing Evil Light. The eyeballs on their bodies detached and flew toward the Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon, which was left with only a ball of chaotic blood, and were instantly swallowed and merged.

At this time, the flesh and blood suddenly contracted, and finally chaos differentiated, black and white distinct.

An eye about the size of a basketball floated in place, opened its mouth toward Qian Chen and said, "Lord Demon Ancestor..."

Qian Chen's complexion changed instantly. The thunder sword qi hanging on its pupil instantly revealed, and the Life-Bound Sword Embryo, carrying the sword intent that was constantly honed and revealed incomparable sharpness, pierced through that eye.

Instantly, it slashed its true self to death!

"You know too much!"

Qian Chen said coldly in his heart. His sword intent locked onto everyone here in the dark, and a bit of killing intent was hidden in his heart.

True Person Yun He frowned slightly and suddenly turned back to ask, "What did that demon just say?"

Feng Yangzi was also very puzzled and said, "It seems to be Nine Heavens Demon Language! This demon language is incomparably chaotic and extremely hard to understand. The more one wants to understand it, the easier it is to be eroded by demonic nature. Although I have dabbled in it, the demon language spoken by that demon was extremely powerful. I only deciphered the first two sounds; it seems to have the meaning of supreme and great!"

True Person Yun He pondered for a moment and warned everyone, "This demon language contains infinite demonic thoughts and seems to be able to sense the Nine Heavens. It should be the last trap set by this demon, which is why Fellow Daoist Qian decisively acted before it could finish speaking. Fellow Daoists, you must not study it!"

Qian Chen reached out to summon the remains of the one-eyed demon, and with a touch of magic power, refined it into an eyeball the size of a thumb, like jade and glaze, hanging in his palm.

Slightly urging it, there was a feeling of manipulation as one wished, just like a magic treasure, and even more agile than a magic treasure, like the kind of god or demon refined by the Demonic Dao.

Within that demon eye, there was even a wisp of Great Soul-Seizing Evil Light slightly revealed, as if Qian Chen could seize the souls of all living beings within a radius of ten miles with a slight thought.

Qian Chen backhanded and grasped the demon eye, not letting the strange phenomenon on it be seen by other Nascent Soul True Persons, and muttered in his heart, "Another Great Divine Ability?"

"How much effort did I spend to cultivate the Five-Colored Divine Light, master the Five Thunders, and reverse Yin and Yang? How much effort did I spend? I didn't expect that just by having my demonic nature slightly flare up, I would coincidentally cultivate a Demonic Dao Great Divine Ability! Are Great Divine Abilities so worthless? Bah! This Evil Eye race even said that one must cultivate into a Heavenly Demon to achieve a Great Divine Ability! Who are you lying to?"

Qian Chen felt disdain in his heart. Even the inheritance of the life-bound divine ability had fakes. This Evil Eye race was truly worthy of being Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.

This time refining the demon eye, Qian Chen already knew the origin of this Evil Eye race.

This demon was a descendant of a Demon Lord Evil Eye Master from a destroyed Great World!

In that world, I don't know which demon completely entered the demonic path, or which demonic weapon achieved a spirit treasure, or which Demonic Dao sect's spell went wrong, giving birth to the first Evil Eye Heavenly Demon.

This demon was a Primordial Spirit-level Heavenly Demon as soon as it was born, and began to ravage that world.

After tens of thousands of years of fighting between righteousness and evil, it finally made that demon turn all the living beings of a world into evil eyes and merge them, proving the Demon Lord!

At the moment of proving the Demon Lord, in order to avoid the overly chaotic consciousness destroying the true self, that Evil Eye Demon Lord threw away most of its own evil eyes, leaving only one main eye.

And those thrown-away evil eyes became the seeds of this demon race, roaming in the countless realms of the cosmos. When they encountered living beings, they would invade their consciousness with the Great Soul-Seizing Evil Light, refine them into evil eyes, and swallow them. Although most of the evil eyes were extinguished in the void, some lucky evil eyes swallowed living beings and gradually grew up.

The more living beings this kind of demon swallowed, if it couldn't suppress its own chaotic consciousness, it would split into several smaller demons, so it also multiplied.

Gradually, it became a kind of Outer Realm Heavenly Demon in the void realms!

"It seems that beneath this Chaotic Star Sea, the bottomless Return to Ruins indeed connects to the countless realms of the cosmos, which allowed the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons to mix in!"

"You must know that most worlds have fetal membranes, and it is difficult for Outer Realm Heavenly Demons to invade without tearing through the heaven and earth fetal membranes. But in this Profound Sea, even the Evil Eye race can survive. This Return to Ruins is becoming less and less simple!"

"And in the consciousness of this demon, the invasion of Outer Realm Heavenly Demons is often a terrifying disaster for many worlds! In the inheritance of the Great Soul-Seizing Evil Light Great Divine Ability, there are scenes of at least dozens of worlds being destroyed. But when they arrived at the Earth Immortal Realm, these Outer Realm Heavenly Demons only survived in the Profound Sea and had no intention of invading at all. Is it because the Earth Immortal Realm is one of the countless realms with a deep foundation, or is there something mysterious about this Chaotic Star Sea?"

"Or is it that there is something mysterious about the Return to Ruins?"

Qian Chen couldn't help but ponder secretly, always feeling that the water here was getting deeper and deeper!

Outer Realm Heavenly Demons were not peaceful aquatic products, but a kind of living being shaped by the destructive side of the Demonic Dao, often destroying a world and swallowing all living beings. But in the Profound Sea, they didn't even destroy the local ecological chain.

And there was the ancient giant Kun. Qian Chen couldn't afford to keep that thing. The overseas region was vast, cultivators were scarce, and resources were abundant, yet the Dragon Palace didn't keep those purebred giant Kuns. It could be seen how harsh the survival of such living beings was.

It had to be the ancient era when the primordial qi was extremely abundant for such giant beasts to multiply.

Now they survived in the Profound Sea, and Qian Chen felt that although the primordial qi of the Chaotic Star Sea was abundant, it hadn't reached the level of the ancient period of the Earth Immortal Realm, comparable to the Heavenly Realm.

Thinking about it this way, the water of the Profound Sea was becoming even deeper!

That evil eye's demonic light stirred the ten-thousand-foot sea abyss, summoning all the demons within a radius of ten thousand miles, but there were only dozens of them, barely enough to make up the foundation for promotion to a Ten-Thousand-Eyed Evil Demon.

And whether it was the sea monsters and demons lured, or the spiritual sense scanning, the living beings in the sea were not affected, as if they had perfectly integrated into the local ecological circle. Qian Chen even felt that the tentacle monster that spat out the blood arrow before, and even the other demonic objects lured by the pill bait, should also be some kind of Outer Realm Heavenly Demon.

So how terrifying is the Profound Sea to be able to assimilate these invading species that ravage the void realms? ===== CHAPTER 565 =====

Whether they were sea monsters and demons lured in, or creatures in the sea that showed no reaction even when scanned by spiritual sense, they seemed to have perfectly integrated into the local ecosystem. Qian Chen even felt that the tentacle monster that had spat out a blood arrow earlier, and even other demonic creatures lured by the pill bait, should also be some kind of extraterrestrial Tian Mo.

So, just how terrifying is the Profound Sea to be able to assimilate these invasive species that ravage the Void Realm Sea?