The Ancestor of All Demons

Shi Feiyang used the Heavenly Treasure Mirror to hold Chiyou's primordial spirit, and then used the Dragon Pearl to penetrate and dismantle the remaining soul fragments and memory fragments within.

The Yuanyun Ball could reveal everything that happened within a cycle of creation, perfectly matching the Heavenly Treasure Mirror's divine numbers with a cycle being 129,600 rotations, the mirror light spun, reflecting infinite and various scenes inside.

The human mind is intricate, capable of producing countless thoughts in an instant.

Ordinary minds are coarse, unable to internally observe and reflect, and the thoughts they perceive are actually composed of many subtle thoughts.

For instance, when ordinary people watch a movie, a character performs an action, which in reality passes through many frames, yet the ordinary person only sees the action without the ability to clearly perceive each frame.

Thus, ordinary people can only observe coarser thoughts, while vast numbers of subtle thoughts go unnoticed, as if they never happened, though they are still recorded in the brain like memory fragments.

Great cultivators have fine internal observation; they are aware of each thought clearly, able not only to see their thoughts but also those of others.

A thousand miles away, when a thought arises there, it resonates here.

A person can have hundreds of thousands, even billions of thoughts in a day, living a lifetime means even more thoughts.

Cultivators generally need to cultivate the mind, so they have fewer thoughts later in life, but over the years many thoughts accumulate.

Chiyou had merged with the primordial spirits of numerous cultivators, losing many memory fragments completely. The vast amount he integrated makes the task of sorting and separating them by individual an unfathomably complex endeavor.

Relying on the Heavenly Mirror and Chaos Dragon Pearl, Shi Feiyang accomplished it in merely the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

The Heavenly Treasure Mirror rotated 360 cycles, and all memories were extracted.

That day, Chiyou's primordial spirit was shattered into pieces by the Returning God Sound, all turned into strands of primordial spirits, Shi Feiyang had long decided to offer salvation, giving them a chance to survive when free, now correctly identifying which belonged to whom, reassembling those of the same person's and separating the rest.

In the end, he assembled over 1,300 primordial spirits, some had lost memory completely, making it impossible to recover, while some souls were incomplete, acting foolishly.

However, quite a few remained intact.

He then took out the spiritual medicine for soul stabilizing and concentrating, using his own profound Pure Yang Immortal Qi to vaporize it, sending it out to envelop these divine souls, to restore their three souls and seven spirits.

This took another three days.

Over a thousand primordial spirits bowed in reverence: "Thank you, True Monarch, for bringing us back to life, your great kindness and virtue will forever remain in our hearts."

Only Chiyou did not bow. His primordial spirit was split into three, later merged into one, and cruelly refined into the Sovereign Demon God of the Heavenly Demon Immortal Slaying Sword. After the sword was broken, he fled in disarray, continuously merging with many divine souls, eventually being shattered again by the Returning God Sound.

Although repaired by Shi Feiyang, he lost over ninety percent of his memories, completely missing those of his battles with the Yellow Emperor and with Shi Feiyang thereafter.

He glared at Shi Feiyang, subconsciously feeling he was an enemy, yet also feeling a strange familial bond with this young boy.

This individual is regarded as one of the "Three Ancestors of the Human Race"—Shi Feiyang didn't want to be overly harsh, so he asked: "I will have the Yu Country's citizens build a palace and a temple for you, letting you receive the incense fire wish power of millions. However, you must serve as Yu Country's guardian deity, the war god. Henceforth, whenever the Daoist soldiers embark to battle, they will first worship you, and you must protect the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain and safeguard billions of citizens. Are you willing?"

Though most of Chiyou's memories were lost, his inherent bravery and love for battle remained. Upon hearing Shi Feiyang's offer to become the war god, he was delighted: "I am willing!"

Shi Feiyang summoned Lin Han inside, issued an order to Yuan Hua, instructing him to pick an auspicious site on a mountain south of the East Great Road to build Chiyou Palace and War God Temple. Chiyou's primordial spirit would be enshrined there, and rituals would be conducted throughout the year.

Apart from Chiyou, the others' statuses weren't as high.

The main figure among them was the Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor. Having once voluntarily united as a human-demon and merging with Chiyou's primordial spirit to a heavy extent, upon being separated and reconsolidated, he lost a significant amount of memory, hardly recalling who Shi Feiyang was, or that he was once the Wutai Sect's hierarch.

But he did remember one person—Xu Feiniang.

His first words were: "Dare I ask the True Monarch, do you know a female fairy named Xu Feiniang?"

The Wutai Sect had entirely relocated to the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, found in the south of the Western Continent, newly identifying a place with five peaks together, still calling it Wutai Mountain.

Shi Feiyang ordered Qiu Yuan to escort Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor's primordial spirit to Sect Leader Situ Ping.

Situ Ping was instructing disciples on refining Five Elements Essence Qi when Qiu Yuan arrived, returning the primordial spirit, promptly leading it to meet Xu Feiniang.

Xu Feiniang had also once experienced soul scattering, being reborn after recollecting her soul, and losing a considerable amount of memory, yet she still remembered the Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor.

Their journey through wind and rain spanned centuries, initially facing opposition from disciples, then engaging in repeated swordfights, at last suffering from soul scattering, now, finally being together.

They had lost an abundance of memories and forgotten many grudges and hatred, leaving behind only a persistent thought—to be with one another.

Even Divine Camel Yi Xiu, upon seeing this, was greatly moved, sighing endlessly with Han Fairy.

Under the demonic sword of Chi You, many Sword Immortals were slain, several from the Emei Sect fell under this sword.

Drunken Taoist, Master Yuanyuan, Xu Yuantong and others' primordial spirits were inside the sword. At this moment, they were also restored and reborn, forgetting many things, though not as much as the Taiyin Hunyuan Ancestor had forgotten.

Both the older and younger generation of disciples repeatedly thanked the True Monarch for saving their lives, and Shi Feiyang asked if they were willing to return to the Emei Sect.

Drunken Taoist was puzzled, "What kind of sect is the Emei Sect?"

Master Yuanyuan said, "Emei Sect is the sect we joined in our previous life, but we don't know if our master is still there."

Xu Yuantong asked, "Who was our master again?"

Shi Feiyang wanted to send them back to the Emei Sect since they belonged there.

However, these people were unwilling to go back, kneeling down and pleading with Shi Feiyang to take them in: "We plead for the True Monarch's mercy, to save us completely, we are willing to convert and follow under the True Monarch's teachings..."

Shi Feiyang said, "You were originally from the Emei Sect, and back then, you were my enemies."

Drunken Taoist hastily said, "Since the True Monarch could selflessly exert himself to revive us enemies with spells, it shows the True Monarch's great compassion and rarity... Even though in our past lives we were from the Emei Sect, since we died under the True Monarch's sword, we..."

"No, no, you didn't die under my sword." Shi Feiyang explained the general situation at that time and spoke of matters concerning their Emei Sect and Master Chang Mei.

Master Yuanyuan said, "Since in my past life I had already abandoned the Dao for Buddhism, it proved that solely practicing the Daoist technique couldn't accomplish success. I then practiced Buddhist law. Since I encountered such a calamity, clearly Buddhist law is also inadequate, I plead for the True Monarch's mercy to accept us into his teachings..."

Shi Feiyang was momentarily speechless, as these people began the plea, the others also knelt down one after another, begging to be part of the True Monarch's teachings.

Shi Feiyang said, "I have already closed the doors; I won't accept any more disciples in the future."

Among them were people from the Emei Sect, the Kunlun Sect, and many other loose cultivators, including several renowned Sword Immortals.

Shi Feiyang sent messages to each of their families, asking them to take their people back.

The Emei Sect sent Yue Yun, but Master Yuanyuan and the others ignored him, their eyes filled with unfamiliarity, only saying that past fates had been severed, and they decided to follow under Yuan Yang True Monarch in this life.

They were all revived by Shi Feiyang's immortal energy, feeling an innate sense of kinship and safety when looking at Shi Feiyang.

Before Yue Yun came, he had received guidance from Qi Shuming and anticipated this possibility, discussing with Shi Feiyang whether they could accept them.

Shi Feiyang agreed, calling Shi Zhu over: "They have accumulated cultivation over many lifetimes, in this life they could all become accomplished, it's just a matter of time. Due to some variables, they ended up like this, but if they reincarnate once more, they will surely be diligent and quickly become Heavenly Immortals. Teach them well, having several Heavenly Immortal disciples in the future will also be your merit and Dao level."

Shi Zhu agreed, taking the seven from the Emei Sect to be sent for reincarnation.

Others were taken by "family members," and those unclaimed were directly handed over to One Light Master by Shi Feiyang, for him to arrange random reincarnations.

While managing these matters, the Giant Wood God and Deng Yin were incessantly soul searching, one restoring to human form, the other refining into a demon.

Deng Yin's blood pool had finally taken shape, able to stand firm without collapsing from a shout by the Grand Saint of Nine Spirits, and the primordial spirits inside couldn't escape, at most causing ripples on the pool's surface at this time.

Deng Yin continuously expanded the blood pool, gradually transforming the entire Star Constellations Sea into a blood pool, merging the many blood-water filled lakes into a total of 108,000 large and small, all filled with blood water.

He established the initial blood sacrificial altar city on the Star Constellations Sea, refining blood qi and practicing demon skills daily.

The Princess of Stone God saw he was holding back a fury and dared not provoke him.

Since the last time when she failed to capture the Red Flower Princess at the Forbidden City, upon returning, Deng Yin had been giving her the cold shoulder.

That day while the Princess of Stone God was gathering Pearl Blood Shells along the Star Constellations Sea, suddenly a blood light from a shell revealed Shi Feiyang's figure, smiling as he asked: "Do you want to know where the Red Flower Princess is?"

Of course the Princess of Stone God wanted to know: "Of course I want to know, but would you so easily tell me? Surely you would make me pay a considerable price."

Shi Feiyang laughed and said, "No need, no price required, I will directly tell you, the Red Flower Princess is in the Capital."

The Princess of Stone God was initially skeptical upon hearing this.

Shi Feiyang said, "Believe it or not, I have told you anyway, but there's something else I must say, I will soon tell Ah Yin this news as well."

The Stone God Palace Master was taken aback, "He now hates you to the bone, why would you tell him?"