Above the Great Dao

The thunderous voice was quite furious,"I won't eat it! I only eat virgins and children!"

"Whoosh—"

Daoist Yu let out a cry, flailing his arms and legs, flying out of the Fire Mansion, seemingly thrown out.

"You, True King, are not being righteous!"

Chen Shi suddenly turned around, only to see behind the central Divine Shrine, a gigantic fiery eye was fluctuating, shaking back and forth, left and right, seemingly extremely angry: "The previous True King invited me to this godforsaken place, offering me two hundred oxen and horses, three hundred death row prisoners, and nine hundred pigs and sheep. Plus a thousand barrels of fine wine! And you bring such a skinny little divine being to me!"

In the darkness, a thick index finger emerged, two or three zhangs in length, its skin rough and cracked, covered with calluses, the nail thick beyond normal proportion, with burn marks.

This index finger pointed in front of Chen Shi, a voice full of anger came from the darkness: "You little True King, how stingy you are!"

In the small temple, Scholar Zhu was stunned, leaping from the Divine Shrine, shouting: "Little Ten, hasn't this King Spiritual Official died? Shouldn't he resurrect and condense into a Divine Image in a dozen days?"

Chen Shi was also stunned. Every divine being he resurrected before needed to continuously gather the scattered extraordinary power in the world to gradually condense into a Divine Image.

But there was one exception.

That was Emperor Guan!

Emperor Guan did not undergo his Divine Enthronement but had already condensed a Divine Image!

Chen Shi concluded afterward that it was actually Li Tianqing possessed by Emperor Guan, transformed into the Red Horse Bandit, killing corrupt officials, punishing evil spirits, robbing the rich to help the poor. Many poor people in the countryside voluntarily worshipped this Red Horse Bandit, thus gathering incense and naturally resurrected him.

This is what's called the will of the people, casting a Golden Body.

But King Spiritual Official's situation was obviously not like that.

Chen Shi had just performed the Divine Enthronement, only offering one incense stick, and he resurrected. This was the first time he encountered such a situation.

This indicates that King Spiritual Official is either very strong or very weak. The incident back then did not kill him, so he might be very strong. Or maybe Chen Shi resurrected him with just one stick of incense, so he might be very weak.

As he thought of this, suddenly the voice in the darkness laughed: "Oh, you've brought offerings! And lots of them! Little True King, I reckoned you were stingy, but I didn't expect you to bring so many demons!"

Chen Shi was puzzled, turned around, and saw a strange figure running this way, already near the Seal.

The strange figure was entirely black, with a tall, thin body, and a large flower growing on its neck. Suddenly, the flower closed up, ready to bloom, with a human face emerging on the bud.

Then the flower bloomed, each petal spinning open, and astonishingly, each petal bore a human face.

The strange figure's body was extremely tall, probably several hundred zhangs, and Chen Shi looked up to see a sky full of faces looking down at him, blocking out the sky.

Encountering this gaze, magic thoughts surged in his heart, and he hurriedly activated the Sixth New Talisman, feeling thunderstorming within him, refining away the magic thoughts, calming down.

"The Demon Seed has emerged!"

As he thought of this, he suddenly felt an itch on his face, just as he was about to scratch it, he suddenly remembered the fate of the people in Fusheng Town and stopped himself.

Then, the back of his head also started itching, getting itchier, itching so much that he wanted to scratch it fiercely!

Chen Shi dared not move, and then felt his back, belly, legs, everywhere starting to itch. If he could scratch, it would surely be blissful!

He also felt an itch in his heart, as if a cat was living inside it, gently scratching him with its tail.

"Just a scratch, just a scratch..."

He desperately resisted the urge to scratch the itch, but Daoist Yu, who had just fallen to the ground, couldn't help it and scratched his face.

Daoist Yu's face suddenly transformed into hundreds of thin petals, gently unfolding and blooming, each petal was his face, as thin as paper.

"What happened to me?" his hundreds of voices overlapped.

Chen Shi's eye twitched, feeling his eyes starting to itch.

He blinked, and suddenly, things appeared double-doubled, many doubles.

"Little Dun, Little Dun!"

Chen Shi's voice trembled slightly, frozen in place, daring not to move, saying, "Look at my eyes!"

Little Dun flew out from the small temple behind his head, moved close to him, and exclaimed: "Your eyes..."

She slightly furrowed her brows, Chen Shi's eyes seemed to be composed of countless delicate petals layered upon one another.

She pouted, "Husband, let me blow on it for you!"

"Don't blow!" Chen Shi quickly stopped her.

If she were to blow, I'm afraid this eye would bloom like a flower!

"Hahaha!"

Suddenly, the earth shook violently, and the golden whip in front of the Fire Mansion also trembled endlessly, buzzing. Behind the Fire Mansion, the ground shook and a gigantic hand reached out, grabbing the golden whip; a red-haired, red-bearded god and demon slowly rose from within the mountain, with another hand still supporting the peak.

"Little True King, you are generous!"

Wang, the Spiritual Official, swung the twelve-layered pagoda-like golden whip, striking the monster's head which was like a flower, scattering petals everywhere.

The faces on the petals screamed in agony, and the head of the Daoist of Feathers, transformed into petals, also let out a piercing scream, as if sharing the pain.

Meanwhile, Chen Shi also felt severe pain in his right eye, so intense that his head cramped, and he crouched down, covering his eye.

"You are the most generous True King I've ever met!"

The red-haired god and demon pulled his body out from the mountain, forcefully pulling up his left arm, clutching a golden Wind Fire Wheel in his left hand, flames outside the wheel, a whirlwind within.

"Whoosh——"

The Wind Fire Wheel flew out of his hand, like a train rushing into the sky, swiftly slicing the monster's neck.

Wang, the Spiritual Official, laughed heartily, opened his mouth to inhale, extracting the Demon Soul from the monster's body, exclaiming, "Not bad taste!"

After the monster died, Chen Shi immediately felt the intense pain in his right eye vanish, and the head of the Daoist of Feathers, with its petal-like appearance, began to slowly merge, restoring its original form.

The monster was a Demon Seed, and after its death, the Demon Domain dissipated, and the various influences imposed on them also disappeared.

Meanwhile, at the foot of the mountain, many bizarre figures were rushing this way, Demon Qi surging skyward, twisting the sky around the peaks, exactly the Demon Flowers just now blooming, and from the flowers, Demon Seeds were born!

Their forms were all sorts of strange, some with fierce physical bodies and exposed bones, others slithering like centipedes, some creatures with radiant halos sprouting countless arms, some covered entirely in eyes, melting everything in their path.

These demons originally lacked physical bodies, but after the Yin Yang Two Realms merged, they invaded many creatures in the Mortal World, gaining physical bodies and beginning Demon Transformation!

Suddenly, the Wind Fire Wheel whistled as it spun, landing in the hands of Wang, the Spiritual Official.

This god and demon laughed heartily, charging down the mountain to meet the oncoming wave of Demon Seeds, the Wind Fire Wheel in his grasp cleaving off half the head of the opposing Demon Seed. He swung the golden whip, and in the sky, lightning was born, connected to the tip of the golden whip.

Wang, the Spiritual Official, brought down the whip, and Heavenly Thunder fell in torrents, instantly striking down the invading Demon Seeds.

He stomped his foot heavily, and the entire mountain shook violently, Earthly Divine Fire surged forth, igniting the many Demon Seeds.

Wang charged into the sea of fire, casting out the Wind Fire Wheel, which spun rapidly, severing heads as he advanced, waving the golden whip around, causing the sky to rain down lightning, piercing through the fire sea, smashing heads to pieces!

Scholar Zhu stared at this scene in a daze, suddenly saying, "This Wang, the Spiritual Official, has come in his True Body, hasn't he?"

Chen Shi shook his head, "Definitely not his True Body. The gods who crossed the ocean from the Huaxia Divine Continent during the True King Era, were only in their clones or incarnations. Only Stone Rock Lady came in her True Body."

Scholar Zhu murmured, "Even a mere clone is this powerful?"

As the Demon Domains collapsed, Little Dun was carefully examining Chen Shi's eye, when suddenly he turned to look into the distance, an expression of confusion appeared.

Chen Shi asked, "What are you looking at?"

Little Dun said, "Someone in the distance is watching us."

Chen Shi's heart stirred slightly, "Which direction?"

Little Dun raised his hand to point, without hesitation, Chen Shi summoned the Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler, activating the Circulation Fire Realm, with a whoosh, the Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler flew out, covering a hundred miles, accompanying Chen Shi's thought, the Iron Ruler swung, becoming incredibly massive, transforming into a towering black pillar, crashing down!

Scholar Zhu also flew out, standing in the air watching where the Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler was descending.

Just as the Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler was about to hit the ground, it suddenly halted, as if held up by someone, unable to smash down.

"We've been discovered. Let's leave." A voice said beneath the Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler.