The Ancestor of All Demons

The Emei Sect members were divided into three groups, each searching for the Red Flower Princess in different places.

Among them, Li Yingqiong led four people searching around the Hebei area.

The Red Flower Princess, adept at scheming, created a decoy, hiding in a household in Tianjin as a divine witch, casting spells and telling fortunes in the bustling market.

The Emei Sect also excelled in predicting the Heavenly Number, ranking among the top in the Shushan World at deducing Heaven's Secret.

The original book is titled "Shushan Swordsmen," primarily focusing on the Emei Sect, followed by the Qingcheng Sect.

Li Yingqiong and her group had captured the Red Flower Princess in this area and searched meticulously between cities and villages.

Even without external force, they would find the Red Flower Princess' decoy in Tianjin within days, at most a month, find her in the Imperial Palace.

This day, Li Yingqiong's group was searching in the marketplace when a child of about eight or nine years old, with a tiger-like face, unexpectedly walked towards them, giving them a familiar feeling.

The boy walked straight up to them: "Fellow Daoists, are you looking for a witch?"

The five were discussing a once-abandoned place where some immortals and mortals still traded. The boy's presence surprised them, and they scrutinized him carefully, unable to see through: "Which sect are you from, and why do you know we are searching for someone?"

The boy was Shi Feiyang, casting a spell from afar, temporarily occupying his consciousness to speak with the five from the Emei Sect.

"You need not know who I am. I know where the witch is. Please follow me, fellow Daoists."

As the boy turned and walked away, Li Yingqiong's group could only follow.

The boy hopped and skipped, weaving through streets and alleys, finally stopping in front of a household, pointing inside with his hand: "The witch's decoy is in there."

After speaking, the boy's consciousness snapped back as Shi Feiyang's intent dissipated. He had been idly watching there, took a stroll, and brought Li Yingqiong over. During this time, his awareness was fragmented, as if in a daze, but he paid little mind, returning to play with his friends, feeling lighter on his feet, and stronger.

Shi Feiyang did not use the boy for nothing; with his intent, he remotely infused a wisp of Immortal Energy, washing his muscles and bone, allowing him an illness-free and long life, possibly over a hundred years, with increased strength and agility, sharper senses, built muscles and mind, even though the Dharma Decline Era prevented further cultivation, he could still become outstanding among men.

Li Yingqiong's group recognized this as the work of a formidable elder. With Heavenly Immortal-level capabilities, undergoing muscle and bone cleansing would usually require effort; achieving it by remote influence over just one year and a short walk was impossible.

Yu Yingnan speculated who this elder could be, while Zhou Qingyun pointed inside the courtyard: "Indeed, there's Demonic Qi!"

At this time, a long queue formed at the courtyard gate, with many old men and women waiting to have matters resolved by the "Immortal" inside. They had no money, and she asked for none, just accepting chickens, ducks, meat, eggs, or some cloth as rewards, which she would later distribute to the poor neighborhood.

"The Immortal is truly a deity incarnate, here to ward off calamity!" The people in line praised her achievements incessantly.

To avoid unnecessary trouble, Li Yingqiong's group, with Yu Yingnan and Shen Ruolan jointly, unleashed a vast Taiqing Immortal Light, teleporting unrelated people and the "Immortal's" family out, making them momentarily blinded before finding themselves at the edge of Tianjin's primal forest.

In the courtyard, only a nodding "Immortal" remained, shocked by their methods, quickly waving to release overwhelming Demon Light towards Li Yingqiong's group.

Such Demon Light against others would plunge them into the Demon Realm, but with Heavenly Immortal cultivation and Yang God mastery, Li Yingqiong's group was immune to illusions. Yu Yingnan and Ziling dispelled it with Taiqing Immortal Technique, as Li Yingqiong unleashed the Purple Ying Sword, slashing directly.

The Red Flower Princess, having previously fought against Li Yingqiong and her group, initially held the host bodies as "hostages" with their Divine Soul and Physical Body.

However, Li Yingqiong disregarded the hostages' lives, slaying them along with their captors.

Li Yingqiong knew that facing such a versatile witch required abandoning scruples; hesitation would allow her to cause more havoc. She struck directly, planning posthumous redemption of the hostages, consolidating souls, and sending them to good families for reincarnation.

Back when Master Chang Mei, wielding the Purple and Blue Double Swords, entered the Stone God Palace, the then-accomplished Palace Master met the Purple Ying Sword three times, healing instantly without harm.

Afterward, the Qingcheng Sect ancestors Tian Dou and Ming He collected the Primordial Magnetic Evil Qi from Spiritual Jade Peak, refined it into the Purple and Blue Double Swords, rendering them impervious to Magnetic True Qi's pull, and capable of slaying cultivators' Primordial Spirits, with Demon Path demons at no match.

Not to say the Red Flower Princess had yet to reach the then Stone God Palace Master's level. Even if she did, she wouldn't dare confront the Purple Ying Sword directly now.

She let out a roar, her Primordial Spirit flew away from its corporeal body, transforming into a red light flying southward.

Li Yingqiong and the others naturally wouldn't let her escape, controlling their swords from behind, pursuing relentlessly, and then they unleashed Taiyin Divine Thunder. The golden light and thunder resounded through the sky and earth, even the Forbidden City in the capital could hear it clearly.

The Red Flower Princess hiding in the Forbidden City was speaking to a mirror at that moment.

Within the copper mirror, a mass of chaos churning, continuously voicing, was Shi Feiyang: "You have seen it too; I can easily find all your avatars."

The Red Flower Princess bit her lip, saying hatefully: "So what!"

Shi Feiyang said: "I guided Li Yingqiong to destroy a nearby avatar of yours first. You use that avatar as a decoy, wait till they find and eliminate it, then cast spells to make them believe there's nothing else nearby before searching elsewhere for your true body. That's wishful thinking. Emei Sect's Taiqing Immortal Technique is so powerful, even without me, they could quickly find you. With my guidance, they will arrive in no time. I will help them capture you together, bring you to Emei Mountain, and trap you in the Liangyi Dust Formation to completely refine and annihilate you."

The Red Flower Princess's voice was low: "What exactly do you want?"

Shi Feiyang laughed: "I've long heard of the great name of the Blood God Scripture and intend to experience it for myself. The first volume I've seen, but due to interference from your old father, I couldn't refine the second volume back then. Now I want to ponder over it once more. You should know, the world is vast, but there is no place for you to hide. Only I can protect you completely, and for your father's sake, I won't eliminate you."

"You won't kill me? Hmph!" The Red Flower Princess evidently didn't believe it. Her father had already stopped caring for her, and she didn't think Shi Feiyang would give her father much face.

"Of course, if I wanted to kill you, I would have done it back then and wouldn't have sent you to Master Zun Sheng. I initially thought, given his big reputation, he could use Buddhist Law to convert you, take you to practice Buddhism and recite scriptures, but to my surprise, that old monk passed away carefreely..."

The Red Flower Princess pondered without responding.

Shi Feiyang said: "You must come to Outer Heaven Divine Mountain to seek refuge with me immediately; otherwise, I'll let the killing star of the Emei Sect find you and take you back to Emei Mountain."

The Red Flower Princess suddenly let out a cold laugh, pointed a finger, and a layer of red light covered the surface of the copper mirror, then condensed into fresh blood, smearing bloody across the mirror's surface, blocking Shi Feiyang's spell.

Then she fled with her Primordial Spirit, flying out of the flower room, preparing to leave the Forbidden City and escape elsewhere.

Coincidentally, Emperor Zhu Yitai was leading the ministers for the morning session, sitting on the dragon throne by the steps, listening to the ministers reporting disasters across the lands, when he suddenly looked up to see a wave of demonic qi pass over the Imperial Palace heading southwest. He exclaimed, "Monster!" and pointed a finger, releasing a flying sword to chase and slash.

If it were any other flying sword, the Red Flower Princess wouldn't care. Not to mention she could easily snatch the opponent's flying sword, even if she were cut in half, she could immediately reconnect without any harm.

But surprisingly, the young emperor's sword was precisely Mo Long Immortal Sword belonging to Daoist Baiqin, Gongye Huang.

In the original story, during the founding ceremony of the Emei sect's Immortal Mansion when the gathered immortals came to celebrate, Deng Yin had just emerged from Star Constellations Sea, sneaked into the Immortal Mansion, prepared to attack each immortal one by one, and although the immortals attacked him together, only Gongye Huang's Immortal Sword could cut him in half, leaving him unable to reconnect for a short time.

The Red Flower Princess's Dao level and mana were inferior to Deng Yin from the original, pursued by Mo Long Immortal Sword from behind, the black light streaked across the sky and immediately sliced her in half.

This witch's Primordial Spirit was cut, pained beyond endurance, and let out an angry screech.

Her body split into two sections couldn't immediately reconnect. She angrily glared at the emperor below, transforming the two halves into blood light charging straight at the emperor in front of the Imperial Palace.

The young emperor, in his past life, was an extremely capable Earth Immortal. Even though his Nascent Soul had suffered damage, he was cured with Spiritual Medicine. After reincarnation, through diligent cultivation, his Daoist Technique had become extraordinary. His left hand formed a seal, summoning a divine dragon to protect him; his right hand controlled the sword, continuing to fiercely slice the advancing blood light.

Among the ministers, several were cultivators practicing Immortal Law. Seeing this, they raised their hands to unleash thunder, booming with lightning bolts, bombarding the blood light with frantic explosions.

The Red Flower Princess was anxious in her heart, not fearing the attacks of the emperor and his ministers. The main concern was that this could easily draw Li Yingqiong and the others over. Luckily, her avatar had already drawn Li Yingqiong toward the southeast direction at great speed, by now, already over ten thousand miles away.

Her best choice now was to ignore everything and flee quickly.

However, demons have heavy wrath, hating the young emperor for causing her harm, determined to kill him.

She even thought that if she could possess the young emperor, Li Yingqiong wouldn't dare use the Purple Ying Sword to slay even the mortal emperor!

She executed her demon skill transformations, two streaks of Blood Qi surged among the divine dragon, Immortal Sword, and thunder, attracting everyone's attention. Her true form, however, went invisible, stealthily descended, reaching the steps, before lunging again at the young emperor.