Master of Strange Dao

"Eh, what is Qing Ziyu from Jinlan Mountain's Forbidden Land doing here?" Li Xingchen was somewhat surprised, "Your Majesty, should we stop him?"

Emperor Zhen looked at Yu Ziqing's demeanor, unhurried, not at all like someone who had lost his mind.

"No need, it's not your turn to go out yet, the big fish hasn't appeared."

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Yu Ziqing arrived before the jade wall, took a deep breath, and stepped inside.

As soon as his foot touched the ground, he immediately felt a surge of demonic qi around him. When he opened his eyes, he saw clouds of darkness gathering on the horizon, as if countless demons and evil entities were rolling within.

The pervasive alien power here was even stronger than that of Jinlan Mountain. Fortunately, he had never refined qi before.

The concentration of demonic qi here was too high, carrying a chaotic mixture of negative emotions, as if it had found a target, continuously seeping into Yu Ziqing's body.

Yu Ziqing took a long breath, inhaling a large amount of demonic qi, and his face seemed to be covered by a thin layer of black mist.

His Yin God kept its eyes closed, as it breathed in and out, swallowing the demonic qi, completely unaffected.

However, his physical body began to show changes. The skin gradually turned darker, cracking in places, forming natural devil patterns.

The negative emotions in his heart surged, and devil thoughts began to emerge.

Yet, as soon as the first strand of devil thought appeared, the closed-eyed Yin God smacked its lips in a sleepwalking manner, let out a slurping sound, and devoured the strand of devil thought.

"So this is what it feels like to become devilic?"

Yu Ziqing took another deep breath, his smile becoming somewhat exaggerated.

He had longed for this moment for a long time.

Among all the cultivators, the most widespread, and almost the strongest method of seed explosion was entering the devilic state.

The most typical blackening power, ten times stronger.

He almost desired it to death.

Unfortunately, his cultivation of the Hungry Ghost Dao prevented him from actively becoming devilic; he couldn't even produce a single devil thought.

Now, observing the vast chaotic demonic qi here, actively absorbing it to let his body passively become devilic, couldn't even make the formed strand of devil thought last beyond the blink of an eye.

Outside, he couldn't use this most widespread method of seed explosion at all.

As a result, the seed explosion methods he developed were merely ingesting large amounts of Jinlan's sedative, forcibly boosting inspiration, and overextending the power of the Hungry Ghost Dao.

Entering a devilic state was so useful; aside from the devil thoughts, it almost had no side effects.

Moreover, he didn't care about devil thoughts at all.

He even wanted to try and save a strand of devil thought from the mouth of the Yin God to see if he could cultivate it into a separate part or an incarnation in the future when he became stronger.

Unfortunately, the moment the devil thought appeared, it was already in the Yin God's mouth, and he couldn't retrieve it at all.

Now, he could only passively experience the devilic state in this special environment.

Feeling the constant surge of strength in his body, Yu Ziqing took out several jars.

These were made when he crafted filth buckets before, with Yang's help, to collect other forces.

They collected demonic qi, evil qi, toxic fire qi – he made quite a few of each as reserves.

Now they finally came into use.

Yu Ziqing took out all the magical treasures designed to collect demonic qi, swallowing the dense demonic qi surrounding them.

These would become his new method of seed explosion in the future.

"Haha..." Watching the demonic qi continuously pour into the magical treasures, Yu Ziqing couldn't help but laugh.

In the sky, the demons that were originally preparing to pounce stopped in their tracks.

They looked at the person on the ground, with ash-black skin and a body covered in devil patterns, actively absorbing demonic qi, laughing arrogantly.

After sniffing the air, they left with disgruntled expressions.

The aura on this person was even deeper than theirs when they entered a devilic state.

And this guy, dissatisfied with the amount of demonic qi, actually took out a whole bunch of magical treasures to collect demonic qi.

It's true, the longer one lives, the more absurd things one gets to see.

Yu Ziqing, feeling the nearly exploding strength, particularly wanted to crush a couple of demons to test, but unfortunately, those demons, after hearing his provocative laughter, turned and left.

Yu Ziqing looked afar, gazing towards the horizon, and he could see a scene gradually unfolding as if it were a scroll painting.

A painting of dense demonic mist and chaotic killing intent was overlaying the original barren, empty space.

It might take a while before the seal fully opened, restoring this place to its state over a hundred years ago.

When the jars he had brought were filled with demonic qi, Yu Ziqing floated into the air, surveyed the surrounding environment, cross-referenced it with the images on the metal book pages, and then chose a direction to fly towards.

He was headed to the place where two powerful Dao cultivators had last been.

Near the entrance.

After a while, Yu Ziqing arrived, looked at the ground covered in bones, and felt a little regretful.

He still held a sliver of hope that the two bigwigs were alive.

At this moment, there wasn't a single living person here, only at the very front, one skeleton sat with its hands forming a seal, and another stood upright.

The remaining bones were scattered all over the ground.

Presumably, back then, these two hadn't entered the Dao. They sacrificed their own lives and Dao to gain temporary power.

Then they sealed the entire Sorrow Cave Heaven, along with the devils, demons, severed limbs, and dead spirits inside, together with Heavenly Monarch Luoge's mausoleum.

According to Yu Ziqing's speculation, they didn't want the devils, demons, and severed limbs here to escape.

As for Heavenly Monarch Luoge's mausoleum, it was probably just something they did in passing; it wasn't their target.