Chapter 757: The Supreme Demon-Consciousness Blood-Refining Blade

The blood mist had already been stirred. Foul blood continuously seeped from the winding, tortuous yellow mud cave walls, as if the entire cavern were inside the body of a rotting Great Demon.

Over a hundred disciples of the Demonic Path transformed into demon lords and gathered together. A sliver of demon-consciousness in the depths of their hearts suddenly awakened, manifesting as a skull wrapped in deep black mist.

Within, the old demon's divine sense from the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demonic Path gazed at the roiling blood mist, two points of blood-red flame igniting in its eye sockets.

Those blood flames were formed by the convergence of the *manas* consciousness of these hundreds of Demonic Path disciples. The old demon used its own cultivated Supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo-Consciousness to govern them—a profound Demonic Path technique that surpassed the Daoist sect's External Incarnation and Second Primordial Spirit.

The Yu Yu Jiuyou Demonic Path had countless branches. The old demon's lineage was a tradition derived from the demon-consciousness of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Zangshan Laozu, emphasizing the planting of demon-consciousness and the subjugation of the demonic heart.

When a disciple first entered the sect, the master would plant a demon-consciousness within them. From then on, all manner of external desires and the five senses—eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body—would gradually be twisted at the old demon's whim. In a single thought, the master could make a disciple perceive fragrance as stench, taste sweetness as blood, make the distinction between truth and illusion in their eyes impossible, and turn the various pleasures of the body into unceasing torture, until the twisted demonic nature seeped from the five senses deep into their consciousness.

After eroding the six senses, the disciple's original nature would be mostly lost, almost refined into a type of demon lord.

Fortunately, this distortion and erosion were gradual. At the very beginning of entry, only the tongue-consciousness was eroded, merely reversing the five flavors.

The tongue-consciousness was relatively dull, dominated by the nose-consciousness. Initially, the new disciple would only have strange dietary habits, consuming sour, spicy, or foul foods. Such flavors gradually spread, even adding many origins to the recipes of the Divine Lands. But once they reached the nose-consciousness barrier, many Demonic Path disciples would have their two senses twisted by the old demon, causing their dietary habits to change drastically.

Many Demonic Path disciples would fall in love with bloody, foul flesh or raw, fresh blood-food, frequently gnawing on living creatures and eating people alive.

Fortunately, the Yu Yu Jiuyou was, after all, an orthodox Demonic Path. All of this was merely to temper the disciples and select the top-tier demonic materials.

Amidst these various distortions and the conflict of violating their own fundamental consciousness, Demonic Path disciples had to grasp a single original heart, use that heart to subjugate their consciousness, and then use consciousness as a foundation to capture the five senses externally. Finally, they would conversely refine the demon-consciousness planted by the old demon, tempering their own five senses into a Supreme Supreme Tian Mo. They could then externally infect and transform all living beings, equivalent to the Daoist sect's formation of a First-Rank Golden Core.

Only then could they become true disciples of this lineage.

If they could not pass this barrier, they would be refined by the old demon into such demon lords, their five senses and consciousness falling entirely into the hands of others, becoming the old demon's retainers, pets, resources, magic treasures, or even raw materials for refining techniques.

But the Demonic Path is easy to enter, yet true disciples are rare.

Thus, from top to bottom in the old demon's sect, ninety-nine percent were demon lords, controlled by others. The one or two true disciples would either manipulate these junior brothers and sisters to fight enemies, use them to refine magic treasures, or even use them to refine some of the sect's most powerful spells.

However, the strangeness and eccentricity of the Demonic Path did not end there. Even those disciples refined into demon lords could have unimaginable fortunes.

This was because the fundamental demon-consciousness planted by this lineage came from the Yu Yu Jiuyou Dao Zangshan Laozu. In other words, these disciples were all part of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Dao Zangshan Laozu's *alaya* consciousness. Even if they cultivated a self-demonic heart and grasped their consciousness, refining their five senses downward, they were merely demon lords capable of controlling their own consciousness.

They still had to bear the *manas* consciousness instilled in them by the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Zangshan Laozu through the *alaya* consciousness!

Consciousness uses the five senses as a foundation, sensing the world externally to think and summarize into cognition, while the *manas* consciousness uses the eighth consciousness—the *alaya* consciousness—as its object of perception for deliberation. Thus, the true disciples of the Demon-Consciousness Sect had two foundations of consciousness: one side experienced the various aspects of the mortal world, the colors and appearances of the five senses, and formed love, hate, and enmity with their own roots of desire, planting various obsessions in their consciousness to temper a demonic heart.

The other side was the various cognitions externally infected by the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Zangshan Laozu, containing unimaginable divine powers, magic, and the Great Dao of the Demonic Path.

The wisdom contained in the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Zangshan Laozu's *alaya* consciousness was equivalent to the Demonic Path itself. A single thought was a formidable divine power, containing unimaginable spells. Daoist disciples had to painstakingly comprehend the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, and the old bald monks of the Buddhist sect had to bitterly cultivate the True Suchness. The fortune of these Demonic Path disciples was a thousand times greater than theirs; instead, it was the Demonic Path's true essence of Yu Yu Jiuyou demon-consciousness that was chasing them.

However, once completely infected by the Yu Yu Jiuyou Great Dao, with their original heart sinking into the Great Dao, they would also transform into a single thought of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Zangshan Laozu.

When the Demon Zangshan Laozu slept in the depths of the Yu Yu Jiuyou, there was no telling how many thoughts, like this, had experienced the love, hate, and enmity of the human world, the various attachments of the self, and comprehended the Demonic Path based on countless different consciousnesses. And this comprehension was spread out by the *alaya* consciousness, transforming into the Demonic Path chasing people.

Therefore, the image of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Zangshan Laozu was that of a Demon God with a thousand hands, a thousand eyes, and a thousand heads.

The thousand eyes represented its countless demon-consciousnesses, using billions of Dharma eyes and countless consciousnesses to observe the countless realms of the cosmos.

Thus, the true disciples of the Demon-Consciousness Sect used consciousness as a foundation to govern the five senses, experiencing the various aspects of the human world, constantly tempering a demonic heart to resist the various external infections of the Demonic Path chased by the Yu Yu Jiuyou *alaya* consciousness. Divine powers and spells were never cultivated but were attained. The spells and Dao-attainment that wandering Daoist cultivators painstakingly sought were always considered too many by the Demonic Path. Sometimes, through a momentary lapse, they would comprehend some exquisite spell, and then the Demon Zangshan Laozu would transmit the Dao-attainment, which they would attain without cultivation. Conversely, they had to use various obsessions to constantly twist the true meaning within, modifying the spells until they were unrecognizable, only then being able to bitterly resist the demonic infection.

These twisted spells would then become a unique perspective for cognizing the world, transforming into the wisdom of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Zangshan Laozu.

At some unknown time, these wisdoms would again transform into a thought of the Demon Zangshan Laozu, evolving into earth-shattering divine powers to bestow upon the sect...

This terror of constantly being chased by divine powers and Dao-attainment was like supreme demonic fire constantly burning and refining. Only when a true disciple of the Demonic Path could, one day, comprehend the fundamental difference between the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Zangshan Laozu's consciousness and their own original heart from this torment, transcend the eight consciousnesses, and cultivate the most profound ninth consciousness—the *amala* consciousness—which could not be infected by anyone, could they truly be liberated and become an existence at the Primordial Spirit level of the Demon-Consciousness Sect.

Which was the current achievement of the Yu Yu Jiuyou old demon...

And those disciples refined into demon lords were even more miserable.

Their five senses and consciousness were refined by the true disciples of the Demon-Consciousness Sect, while their *alaya* consciousness and *manas* consciousness were infected by the Demon Zangshan Laozu. They could only retain a sliver of self-consciousness amidst the two grinding them like millstones.

And then hope that one day, they could comprehend the true self from this boundless purgatory, grasp the *amala* consciousness, and subjugate the external demons to attain the Dao.

When the old demon released these demon lords, others only thought this was an eccentric hobby of the Demonic Path.

In any case, the Demonic Path viewed disciples as resources, harsh and tyrannical, which was not surprising. But it could at any time use the five senses of these refined demon lords to twist their consciousness and transform it into its own supreme demon-consciousness, almost like a divine incarnation.

Moreover, this incarnation used a sliver of Supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo-Consciousness as its core, governing the consciousness of over a hundred disciples, yet it would not erase their self. Instead, it turned the wisdom, cognition, obsessions, and thinking of the sect's disciples into its own. Except for that one eternal, unchanging *amala* Supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo-Consciousness, its thoughts and ideas were completely different from its own. No matter what kind of spell was used, it could not use this body to harm its true self or spy on its secrets.

In the skull transformed by the old demon, two points of scarlet light suddenly transformed into two hundred and sixty blood-red eyes.

Each pair of these blood-red eyes was transformed from the *manas* consciousness of those demon lords, containing the Demonic Path wisdom passed down by the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Zangshan Laozu. At this moment, they transformed into individual thoughts, combining in an extremely profound way, instantly transforming into an incredible Demonic Path divine power.

"Thousand-Illusion Demon Eye... give me the power to see through this place!"

Those two hundred blood-red gazes swept in all directions, suddenly merging into a single blood-red eye. From over two hundred perspectives, through over a hundred consciousnesses, it swept through the surroundings, and then suddenly merged into an indescribable, profound perspective, taking everything into its view.

The Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Zangshan Laozu had a thousand eyes and a thousand hands. Almost all the divine powers and spells of the Demon-Consciousness Sect could be transformed into a demon eye, and the abilities of these various demon eyes were completely different. Their profoundness was something even the three Daoist sects greatly feared.

This Thousand-Illusion Demon Eye was a demon eye refining method that used a thousand types of illusion techniques to pierce through reality.

"Fortunately, the Zangshan Laozu did not refine these Blood-Refining Strange Gu into blood eyes using the Yu Yu Jiuyou Great Law. This place is actually transformed from the physical body of a Great Demon at the Dao Lord level who specialized in the physical body! For an existence of this level, the physical body can already survive in the Sea of Blood. The blood gu transformed from its life's filth is definitely not something I can subjugate."

"The Heavenly Dog devours the sun and moon. Could this cave really be transformed from the skeletal remains of the Heavenly Dog?"

"Didn't that existence fall along with the Ten Thousand Demon Divine Court? The twelve earthly branches enfeoffed by the Five-Colored Divine Court were all aliens, and most of them betrayed it during the darkest era, being enfeoffed as Great Sages by the Ten Thousand Demon Divine Court. The period when the Ten Thousand Demon Divine Court collapsed was extremely terrifying. It is rumored that it hides the fundamental secret of the birth of our Demonic Path. After the Supreme One opened the New Heaven, everything was covered up, and only fragments of words were passed down as myths."

"Could this Great Sage Xu Dog really have gnawed half of the Earth Immortal Realm's primordial sun and moon back then?"

"No wonder the Immortal Han's plan came to nothing, and the Dew-Bearing Plate was almost certainly destined to be destroyed! After the New Heaven was opened, everything from the Old Heaven was not tolerated by the New Heaven. Although the spiritual treasures refined using the remains of the Old Heaven's sun and moon had all their seals re-created, but heh heh... after all, they contained a sliver of the Old Heaven's Great Dao. How could they be tolerated today?"

"But it's strange. After the New Heaven, the sun and moon of the Earth Immortal Realm were broken once more. This secret... hiss hiss... these hidden secrets are mixed together with the taboos of the Old Heaven. I'm afraid even those who experienced it personally cannot distinguish them. No wonder in the records of our Demonic Path, some have seen the Heavenly Dog swallow the sun and moon, while others say the Heavenly Emperor transformed the sun and moon into nine suns and twelve moons, and the Yi Emperor shot down eight suns and eleven moons. Is that Yi Emperor different from the Hou Yi who colluded with the traitor of the Guanghan Palace?"

"The chaotic and complex parts of it, heh heh, I'm afraid even the Heavenly Emperor's Langhuan Pavilion does not have a clear record of the truth."

"History is the most terrifying taboo!"

"Especially the history of the Earth Immortal Realm..."

The old demon shook its head. It had intended to use its Supreme Demon-Consciousness to subjugate these Blood-Refining Strange Gu and refine them into a Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blood-Refining Ancient Shendao, hiding it here to prepare to ambush the fellow Daoists beside it. But the partial truth it had probed at this moment made it know that it could not grasp this ghostly thing.

The physical body of a Dao Lord Great Sage transformed into gu—I'm afraid it still contained a portion of the Dao Lord's Dao-fruit. Whoever touched it would die. If the Demonic Path couldn't afford to provoke it, it could only hide.

The Yu Yu Jiuyou old demon let out a strange, cackling laugh: "However, the Zangshan Laozu can add another surprise for you!"

After speaking, it split the possessed skull in half. Those dozens of demon lords were thrown into the blood mist. At the final moment of being devoured, they all transformed into blood eyes. The *manas* consciousness within the blood eyes manifested, beginning to guide the boundless wisdom of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Zangshan Laozu.

The old demon transformed the wisdom of this portion of disciples into the seed of the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blood-Refining Ancient Shendao and threw it into the blood mist. Then, it guided the Demon Zangshan Laozu's wisdom, letting it use the consciousness of these dozens of Demonic Path disciples as a foundation and the boundless Sea of Blood transformed from the Dao Lord's physical body as irrigation, guiding the growth of the Demon Zangshan Laozu's wisdom.

Instantly, a blade light surged in the blood mist, evolving into something incredible in an instant, swelling countless times, deeply tearing open the yellow mud cave walls for dozens of miles.

The blood mist gushing from the yellow mud walls suddenly became countless times denser. The original mist almost liquefied into liquid. The roiling blood waves, a river of blood formed by countless insects—countless incredible lives that devoured, bred, and grew upon each other—surged, spreading toward both sides of the cave.

That blade light roiled in the Sea of Blood, absorbing the boundless blood water, gradually growing horns, just like a demonic dragon.

Driven by the last sliver of the old demon's demon-consciousness, it drilled directly out of the yellow mud cave.

The tailless fox drove the skull and sprinted. Inside the skull, a group of little white dogs huddled together in terror, emitting humble, miserable cries.

The trembling barking was immediately terminated by a fierce kick from the fox girl's leg.

Feeling the fierce aura behind her that was countless times more terrifying, Tushan Qingqing gritted her silver teeth and shouted: "Those damned Yu family members, what exactly did they provoke? When we passed by just now, we should have sacrificed them all to the Demon Zangshan Laozu!"

"The disaster they caused, yet it's me who has to take the blame! Plague-ridden... how come we couldn't fly past the Yu family even after sacrificing the Saint Bone? Can they run that fast riding dogs?"

"Saintess!"

A leopard head with fur patterns said cautiously: "There are several forks in the middle. Did we take the wrong path?"

"If you had crawled the wrong way out of your mother's womb when you were born, I still wouldn't take the wrong path..." the fox girl scolded: "Do you think I sacrificed a tail just to block those blood gu? I was performing the Spirit Fox Divination Technique to find a way of survival for you idiots."

"The moment I saw those ghostly things, I knew this place was terrifying to death!" the fox girl grumbled: "This cave is most likely the most terrifying one among so many. Based on my intuition, there is more than one path leading to the Return to Ruins in this Ten Thousand God Cave. But that kid sitting on the lotus flower deliberately pointed out this one, letting people steal the Lunar Silver Soul from inside. He definitely has ill intentions!"

"This path is likely the most dangerous one inside..."

As she spoke, the fox girl herself became suspicious: "Strange, that kid from the Louguan Dao shouldn't have intended to lead us here at the beginning. After all, their Daoist sect members are of the same branch; they couldn't possibly pit their own people, right? But why did he lead us all in at the end?"

"And all the Primordial Spirit True Immortals are outside the cave. What's the use of pitting us?"

Just as she was thinking, the fox girl was suddenly terrified by the faint blade qi behind her, her fur standing on end.

Tushan Qingqing jumped: "It's even more terrifying. Nine deaths and one life has become ten deaths and no life. Fortunately, I calculated the path to the Return to Ruins! But if we just rush in like this, we will definitely die. Let's go find those people from the Daoist sect first! Their vitality is the heaviest. Although the tribulation qi is also heavy, we can't care about that now! Keep these little dogs well; there is also a part of vitality in them..."

"Accelerate!"

Tushan Qingqing opened her mouth and spat out a strand of her natal fox fire, making the huge skull accelerate by another thirty percent.

Outside the yellow mud cave, Dan Chenzi frowned slightly and glanced at Qian Chen, muttering in his heart: "Strange, why does this junior nephew look so wrong? He was energetic just a moment ago! Now he's drowsy here. Could it be that he fell into someone's trap?"

Xu Fu had also been secretly calculating Qian Chen's fate, only to find it chaotic and full of difficulties, as if covered by a spiritual treasure. Xu Fu knew this should be the Louguan Dao's inherited supreme treasure, the Dao Dust Bead. But he really couldn't feel at ease without knowing this person's background clearly.

But suddenly, three leaves fell from the empty mulberry tree in front of him.

"Hmm?"

Xu Fu suddenly looked up and picked up a leaf, only to see it covered in insect bites, riddled with holes. Xu Fu opened an eye between his brows to look, and there seemed to be a blood light lying on the leaf, with brows and eyes, looking exactly like a silkworm.

He pinched his fingers and calculated: "Blood-Refining Strange Gu? How could this thing be here?"

"That's right! It's not strange for the decaying body of the Heavenly Dog Great Sage to breed such fierce things... No, someone is playing tricks!"

The eye between Xu Fu's brows, along with his own two eyes, all had double pupils rotating. A total of six pupils rotated and emitted three divine lights, falling onto the mulberry leaf. The blood silkworm suddenly transformed into a blood-red blade light and bloomed.

The mulberry leaf fell!

Xu Fu retracted his right hand and tucked it into his sleeve.

The index finger in his sleeve slowly twisted a trace of bloodstain. Slowly, the wound on it closed silently and disappeared.

Xu Fu's eyes were deep, and there seemed to be calculations in his heart.

At this moment, among the many Primordial Spirit True Immortals outside the yellow mud cave, no one else noticed anything. Only Qian Chen, who was constantly nodding and dozing at the cave entrance, opened his eyes slightly. His eyes were equally deep, without a trace of white. Dan Chenzi, who secretly saw this scene, felt his heart jump and hurriedly turned his back.

"Is this possessed by something? Junior Nephew Qian definitely provoked some dirty thing..."

Inside the yellow mud cave, the Sea of Blood roiled, stretching for dozens of miles. In the long river formed by blood gu, a demonic dragon shook its head and wagged its tail, swimming toward the cave entrance. Only at the moment the Sea of Blood surged toward the cave entrance did a terrifying, extreme evil aura flash and vanish.

At that moment, all the Primordial Spirit True Immortals outside the cave were shocked!

The golden wheel of merit behind Master Zhutanmo emitted golden light, shining toward the yellow mud cave entrance. But for some reason, wherever the golden light passed, it seemed to force all the darkness to that one place. In the end, it became so dense that the golden light couldn't dissolve it at all. Qian Chen just melted and disappeared into the darkness like this.

This change was not caused by Master Zhutanmo. Seeing the meaningful gazes cast from around him, Master Zhutanmo had bitterness he couldn't speak of and could only sacrifice his golden bowl.

In the darkness, a blood light bloomed, like a demonic dragon.

The incredible changes within it caused the faces of several Primordial Spirit True Immortals to change drastically, as if countless Heavenly Demons had merged, as if a group of demons had merged into a god, as if everything was melting in the blade light. More than one person exclaimed: "Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blood-Refining Ancient Shendao!"

An old woman from the Guanghan Palace first had her face turn pale. Seeing the golden bowl in Master Zhutanmo's hand covering the cave entrance, the gods on the Penglai Starship also waved their hands and sprinkled a net of lightning. Xie Anshi and Dan Chenzi attacked together to suppress that darkness, only then did she heave a sigh of relief.

Glancing at where Qian Chen was, she smiled and said: "There really is something strange in this yellow mud cave! That kid tricked our sect members into going in, but he himself was too close to the cave entrance and was slashed into pus and blood by a blade."

None of the many Primordial Spirit True Immortals took her words, but instead looked at the darkness over there with solemn expressions.

The dragon roar of the demonic dragon transformed by the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blood-Refining Ancient Shendao made Dragon King Ao Xuan break out in a cold sweat. All the old dragons had pale faces, feeling that the Dragon Dao they had cultivated all their lives was twisted by that sound.

Just by that dragon roar, the blade light transformed into an incredible demonic dragon in their eyes, seizing their true bodies and true forms, looking more like a true dragon than they did.

But that long dragon roar had only just begun, seizing the aura of that group of old dragons, and before it could transform into a second blade along this aura to slaughter all the dragon bodies that heard it, they heard a 'slap' sound.

The dragon roar was interrupted, transforming into a shrill, howling sound.

It was as aggrieved as a puppy that had been slapped, rolling far away quickly.

In the darkness, something revealed its true form in a situation where no one could see...

The old demon of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Dao only felt that the blade light it had slashed out instantly collapsed, eaten skin and bone by something. Even the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Zangshan Laozu's demon-consciousness was devoured completely. But the thing that ate its blade light immediately scrambled and fled back into the cave.

The howling it emitted was simply like a dog with its tail between its legs.

Immediately afterward... great terror descended!

"This blood mist, it's almost like it wants to drive us all into the cave. Drive us far away?"

Fox girl Tushan Qingqing pinched her nails: "That kid from the Louguan Dao lured us into such a dangerous place; nine times out of ten, he has ill intentions! But we are not an ordinary Daoist lineage. Even if this place isolates auras, with the abilities of Primordial Spirit True Immortals, the people outside can definitely guess roughly what happened here, right? When the time comes, how can he deal with the questioning of so many Primordial Spirit True Immortals?"

"And those people related to him were also driven in!"

"It couldn't be that it's more dangerous outside than here, and he's not dealing with us juniors, but the Primordial Spirit True Immortals outside!"

Thinking of this, Tushan Qingqing even laughed.

"How is this possible?"