The Ancestor of All Demons

At the time when Shi Feiyang led the immortals to cross the tribulation, other factions were not idle either.

Deng Yin was injured by the Douluo True Decree and Jade Box Flying Saber at Emei Mountain, and later planned to find the Red Flower Princess, but couldn't locate her for a while.

The Princess of Stone God and the Red Flower Princess mutually repelled each other, secretly obstructing in every way possible.

Unable to find Deng Yin, and pressed for time, he prepared to start a large-scale slaughter, refining the Blood Sea. He indeed planned to fill the Sichuan Basin with blood and commence the first wave of sacrifices.

No matter where the Red Flower Princess was hiding, upon seeing such a large commotion, she would surely come forward to join them.

As they said, Xin Ru Nun indeed had a tacit understanding with them. One Buddha and one demon did not conflict in the slightest. Where the Buddha Light covered, the Demon Path retreated miles away; where the Demon Path roamed freely, the Buddha Light did not shine.

Master Fen Tuo and Master You Tan tried to stop them in every way and fought Deng Yin in two duels. Not only did they fail to win, but Yitian Cliff Dragon Elephant Temple was also blown up by Deng Yin, and even Yang Jin almost died at Deng Yin's hands, saved only by Bai Guyi's self-sacrifice.

Fortunately, at that time, the Son of the Green Emperor landed in Central Earth and went directly to Taishan to establish a sect.

The main area of the Central Plains is a Taiji Yin Yang fish pattern, with Taishan as the Yin fish's eye and the Sichuan Basin as the Yang fish's eye.

In terms of status, Taishan is the only place that can compete with the Ancestral Court Kunlun Mountain.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the area east of Taihang Mountain was still a vast ocean, with the Yellow River, the Mother River, depositing large amounts of silt to form land.

After that, the Yellow River continuously changed its course across the plains, swallowing Jishui, engulfing several lakes, and even diverted Huai into the sea... only Taishan could block the Yellow River, eternally securing the East.

Beneath Taishan is the connection to the Underworld, while above it upholds the righteous True Yang of heaven and earth, with emperors of past dynasties performing sacrifices to heaven here, thereby sealing the mountain.

From a geomancy perspective, the Shaoyang energy here is perfectly capable of restraining the Shaoyin energy in the southwestern basin.

The Giant Wood God directly exerted mana to move the Divine Wood Palace from the Great Wilderness Mountain Wuzhong Ridge atop Taishan, where they constructed an altar to first sacrifice to the Emperor of Heaven, then to the Green Emperor.

In the Miao Yan Palace of the Spiritual Space Immortal Realm, the Grand Saint of Nine Spirits received a premonition and roared, its voice like thunder spanning thousands of miles, transmitting from the Immortal Realm to the Human World, opening the passage under Taishan to the Underworld, causing time and space to distort and connect the Three Realms.

Taishan serves as East Mountain, corresponding to the Zhen Trigram, relating to the Jia Yi Wood of the East. The Giant Wood God cast spells, gathering a vast amount of eternal vitality.

Atop Taishan, he preached ten True Scriptures, and his voice, accompanied by the roar of nine lion heads, spread everywhere. All living beings on the Central Earth listened to the thunderous sounds, concentrating to hear the lion's voice, and in the lion's roar, there was the sound of a person preaching scriptures, shaking the heart, and directly penetrating the mind!

Deng Yin and others originally knew that the Son of the Green Emperor was a formidable opponent, but they assumed that since he couldn't drive away the Old Man of Kuzhu back then, his strength must be limited, and they didn't take him too seriously until they heard the Lion's Lei Yin, realizing the opponent was casting spells atop Taishan, and only then did they recognize the threat.

The Giant Wood God summoned all the free spirits and wandering ghosts in the world, every spiritual body, gathering them to Taishan, instructing them to listen and convert.

The Green Emperor passed down a total of ten Scriptures, and the Giant Wood God preached these ten Scriptures simultaneously. When he spoke, different people heard different content.

For instance, those born with a fiery temperament, prone to anger and quick to argue after just a few words, heard scriptures that dissipated anger.

Some, born with lustful tendencies, unable to avert their eyes at handsome men and beautiful women, indulged in fantasies whether there was something to do or not, heard scriptures that dissolved greed.

The Eastern Qinghua Great Emperor, the Taiyin Savior Heavenly Venerate, a total of ten Heavenly Venerate's incarnations, expounded the ten True Scriptures. No matter what ailment or hardship was drawn, there was a scripture suitable to target the issue.

The Giant Wood God preached for several months, attracting all the free spirits and wandering ghosts from the entire Central Earth Continent, along with the spirits of various gods and demons, to Taishan's base.

These spirits and demon ghosts, after listening, those with great fortune could ascend step by step, with some reaching the top of Taishan to worship before the Son of the Green Emperor at Qingmu Palace.

The Giant Wood God set up a True Yang Jade Liquid Pool in front of Qingmu Palace, filled with liquid formed by the vitality of the Eastern Wood Element.

He instructed the ghosts to bathe in the pool, instantly gaining pure and flawless bodies.

After they emerged and worshipped again, they were allowed into the Divine Wood Palace to listen to the teachings before the Giant Wood God.

Creating physical bodies for spiritual entities was something Shi Feiyang had done in his time, except he did it using the Five Elements Essence to mold for people.

It was modeled after the Grand Master of Extreme Bliss who gathered the Five Elements Essence to form the external avatar of a child.

To construct an avatar like the Grand Master of Extreme Bliss, it required a lot of effort and energy. Shi Feiyang at the time made a simplified version which could only last a short time.

In comparison, the Giant Wood God's method was far more advanced. The Green Emperor, born of the Eastern Wood Element Essence, embodied the concept of endless growth. Not only does all life rely on it for growth, but the growth of the universe also depends on this vitality.

Thus, while others could not directly bestow spirits with corporeal forms, he could.

Many longstanding fierce ghosts and resentful spirits, due to their heavy grievances, couldn't even go to reincarnate willingly. Yet, upon entering his True Yang Jade Liquid Pool, they could wash away their grievances and directly obtain a body.

There were also those Demons, ownerless Divine Demons, who ravaged the world. Upon hearing thunder, they thought a tribulation was coming and hurriedly hid to avoid it.

But soon they heard someone preaching in the thunder, which attracted them over, and upon entering the pool, they washed away their grudges, received vitality, transformed their spiritual bodies, and regained flesh.

Furthermore, even those whose souls were scattered after an explosion, leaving only lingering remnants floating between heaven and earth—some in the northern permafrost, some in the underwater hot springs of the South Sea—no matter how far apart they were, unless in different worlds or imprisoned by some Magical Treasure, were drawn in, drifting as long as one thought turned, asking for salvation from the Heavenly Venerate of Rescuing the Suffering, they too could enter the True Yang Jade Liquid Pool, gather their remnants and reshape their divine bodies. After spending a hundred days listening to scriptures before the Divine Wood Palace, they would understand the scripture that suited them, and could once again enter the pool to regain their flesh.

Deng Yin had already started a blood ritual in Shu, constructing Blood Demon Altars in eighteen locations, slaughtering the living in eighteen counties to create eighteen small Blood Lakes.

They cast the Blood Demon Great Method to create illusions, attracting people and animals around, including all sorts of monsters, ghosts, gods, and demons, to automatically head into the Blood Lakes.

Some children simply wanted to swim, some elderly saw a market distributing supplies in the lake, some young people saw it as a palace treasury...

After entering the lake, those with bodies found them quickly dissolved, leaving only pale white skeletons sinking to the lake bottom, while their primordial spirits were trapped in the Blood Lake, unable to escape.

As more and more living beings merged into the Blood Lake, its water level kept rising, and its area expanded larger and larger.

According to their plan, continually creating new Blood Lakes, then making the Blood Lakes grow bigger, finally connecting them all into a vast Blood Sea.

Yet at this moment, the Lion Roar thundered across the Central Earth Continent, naturally reaching here too.

The Grand Saint of Nine Spirits possessed extraordinary power, and although he was also an anomaly, he actually had the strength of a Golden Immortal Level. An ordinary Heavenly Immortal dueling with him could be swallowed in one gulp, his nine great mouths swallow nine at a time. His roar could shake open the passage between the Yin and Yang realms, even breaching the Eighteen Layers of Hell, and a small Grotto Heaven like the Red Lotus World would break apart and crumble from a single roar!

When the Lion Roar reached here, the eighteen Blood Lakes all cracked.

If it was already a fully formed Blood Sea, the nine-headed Lion's roar would not necessarily suffice, but Deng Yin's eighteen Blood Lakes were still small in scale, not yet fully formed.

The roars of the nine-headed Lion rolled in like thunder, astonishing miles away, and in booming vibrations, those eighteen Blood Lakes saw their blood water fly, scattering into blood qi. The demons and spirits originally bound within were now set free—all restraints shaken open—with the thunderous sound also carrying the teachings of the Ten Directions Heavenly Venerate Rescuing the Suffering as declared by the Giant Wood God.

Upon hearing them, these spiritual bodies, if they harbored even a thought of yearning, they would be guided by vitality, flying directly to Taishan, listening to the scriptures at the mountain's foot, understanding layer by layer, finally reaching the Jade Liquid Pool at the mountain's peak for a bath. They wash away evil thoughts and sinister intentions from their minds and resentment and infernal remnants from their divine bodies, emerging anew from the pool...

Deng Yin and his followers had exerted great effort, finally succeeding in creating eighteen Blood Lakes, as if planting seeds of a Blood Sea, hoping for them to grow quickly. But before their expansion could even form a placenta, they were shattered by the Lion's roar, and all collected souls and Demon spirits prepared to be refined into the Blood God's offspring were also seized!

Deng Yin deliberated with the Princess of Stone God and improved the Blood Lake creation method, reconstructing altars, and even specially killing hundreds of boys and girls as sacrifices, offering them to the Heavenly Gods and Demons, summoning the Heavenly Demons to descend and act as Protectors for the altars, then rebuilt the Blood Lakes.

This time, with Heavenly Demons guarding the Dharma Platform, although the nine-headed Lion's roar was incredibly distressing, and the platform shook violently, it ultimately didn't break apart as before, and the Blood Lakes could be defended.

But within that Lion Roar was the scripture of the Heavenly Venerate Rescuing the Suffering.

The simple Lion's roar or the recitation sound of the Giant Wood God alone would not affect these Heavenly Demons.

However, when the two combined, it was different—even though they couldn't shatter the altar in a short time, after some period, maybe three or five days, or more than ten days, those Heavenly Demons would be severely shaken, moments of silence inspiring them to yearn for the Eastern Miao Yan Changle World created by the Green Emperor, and they straightforwardly left the altar, rushing to Taishan!

These Heavenly Demons had accepted Deng Yin's sacrificial offerings, and in principle, having taken the sacrifice, they were bound to perform their service. There was a blood covenant between them, which restricted them from easily leaving.

But the nine-headed Lion's roar had long scattered the blood covenant, allowing these Heavenly Demons not only to leave, but also to take the sacrificial offerings from Deng Yin—those boys and girls—with them. Without their protection, the Blood Lakes were soon shattered, and the newly slain ghosts and resentful spirits followed the Heavenly Demons to Taishan.

Watching his altar and Blood Lakes, painstakingly built a second time, break once more, his collected souls flying away, Deng Yin gnashed his teeth, wishing to curse loudly!

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